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Contributing to FreeBSD$FreeBSD$This article describes the different ways in which an
individual or organization may contribute to the FreeBSD
Project.JordanHubbardContributed by contributingSo you want to contribute to FreeBSD? That is great! FreeBSD
relies on the contributions of its user base
to survive. Your contributions are not only appreciated, they are
vital to FreeBSD's continued growth.Contrary to what some people might have you believe, you do
not need to be a hot-shot programmer or a close personal friend of
the FreeBSD core team to have your contributions accepted. A
large and growing number of international contributors, of greatly
varying ages and areas of technical expertise, develop FreeBSD.
There is always more work to be done than there are people
available to do it, and more help is always appreciated.The FreeBSD project is responsible for an entire operating
system environment, rather than just a kernel or a few scattered
utilities. As such, our TODO lists span a
very wide range of tasks: from documentation, beta testing and
presentation, to the system installer and highly specialized types
of kernel development. People of any skill level, in almost any
area, can almost certainly help the project.Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are
also encouraged to contact us. Do you need a special extension to
make your product work? You will find us receptive to your
requests, given that they are not too outlandish. Are you working
on a value-added product? Please let us know! We may be able to
work cooperatively on some aspect of it. The free software world
is challenging many existing assumptions about how software is
developed, sold, and maintained, and we urge you to at least give
it a second look.What Is NeededThe following list of tasks and sub-projects represents something of
an amalgam of the various core team TODO lists and
user requests we have collected over the last couple of months. Where
possible, tasks have been ranked by degree of urgency. If you are
interested in working on one of the tasks you see here, send mail to the
coordinator listed by clicking on their names. If no coordinator has
been appointed, maybe you would like to volunteer?Ongoing TasksMost of the tasks listed in the next sections require either a
considerable investment of time or an in-depth knowledge of the
FreeBSD kernel (or both). However, there are also many useful tasks
which are suitable for weekend hackers, or people without
programming skills.If you run FreeBSD-current and have a good Internet
connection, there is a machine current.FreeBSD.org which builds a full
release once a day — every now and again, try and install
the latest release from it and report any failures in the
process.Read the freebsd-bugs mailing list. There might be a
problem you can comment constructively on or with patches you
can test. Or you could even try to fix one of the problems
yourself.Read through the FAQ and Handbook periodically. If anything
is badly explained, out of date or even just completely wrong, let
us know. Even better, send us a fix (SGML is not difficult to
learn, but there is no objection to ASCII submissions).Help translate FreeBSD documentation into your native language
(if not already available) — just send an email to &a.doc;
asking if anyone is working on it. Note that you are not
committing yourself to translating every single FreeBSD document
by doing this — in fact, the documentation most in need of
translation is the installation instructions.
- Read the freebsd-questions mailing list and &ng.misc
+ Read the freebsd-questions mailing list and &ng.misc;
occasionally (or even regularly). It can be very satisfying to
share your expertise and help people solve their problems;
sometimes you may even learn something new yourself! These forums
can also be a source of ideas for things to work on.If you know of any bug fixes which have been successfully
applied to -current but have not been merged into -stable after a
decent interval (normally a couple of weeks), send the committer a
polite reminder.Move contributed software to src/contrib
in the source tree.Make sure code in src/contrib is up to
date.Build the source tree (or just part of it) with extra warnings
enabled and clean up the warnings.Fix warnings for ports which do deprecated things like
using gets() or including
malloc.h.If you have contributed any ports, send your patches back to
the original author (this will make your life easier when they
bring out the next version)Suggest further tasks for this list!Work through the PR Databaseproblem reports databaseThe FreeBSD PR
list shows all the current active problem reports and
requests for enhancement that have been submitted by FreeBSD users.
Look through the open PRs, and see if anything there takes your
interest. Some of these might be very simple tasks, that just need an
extra pair of eyes to look over them and confirm that the fix in the
PR is a good one. Others might be much more complex.Start with the PRs that have not been assigned to anyone else, but
if one them is assigned to someone else, but it looks like something
you can handle, email the person it is assigned to and ask if you can
work on it—they might already have a patch ready to be tested,
or further ideas that you can discuss with them.How to ContributeContributions to the system generally fall into one or more of the
following 6 categories:Bug Reports and General CommentaryAn idea or suggestion of general technical
interest should be mailed to the &a.hackers;. Likewise, people with
an interest in such things (and a tolerance for a
high volume of mail!) may subscribe to the
hackers mailing list by sending mail to &a.majordomo;. See The
FreeBSD Handbook for more information
about this and other mailing lists.If you find a bug or are submitting a specific change, please
report it using the &man.send-pr.1; program or its WEB-based
equivalent. Try to fill-in each field of the bug report.
Unless they exceed 65KB, include any patches directly in the report.
If the patch is suitable to be applied to the source tree put
[PATCH] in the synopsis of the report.
When including patches, do not use cut-and-paste
because cut-and-paste turns tabs into spaces and makes them unusable.
Consider compressing patches and using &man.uuencode.1; if they exceed
20KB. Upload very large submissions to ftp.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/.After filing a report, you should receive confirmation along with
a tracking number. Keep this tracking number so that you can update
us with details about the problem by sending mail to
bug-followup@FreeBSD.org. Use the number as the
message subject, e.g. "Re: kern/3377". Additional
information for any bug report should be submitted this way.If you do not receive confirmation in a timely fashion (3 days to
a week, depending on your email connection) or are, for some reason,
unable to use the &man.send-pr.1; command, then you may ask
someone to file it for you by sending mail to the &a.bugs;.See also this
article on how to write good problem reports.Changes to the Documentationdocumentation submissionsChanges to the documentation are overseen by the &a.doc;. Send
submissions and changes (even small ones are welcome!) using
send-pr as described in Bug Reports and General
Commentary.Changes to Existing Source CodeFreeBSD-currentAn addition or change to the existing source code is a somewhat
trickier affair and depends a lot on how far out of date you are with
the current state of the core FreeBSD development. There is a special
on-going release of FreeBSD known as FreeBSD-current
which is made available in a variety of ways for the convenience of
developers working actively on the system. See The
FreeBSD Handbook for more
information about getting and using FreeBSD-current.Working from older sources unfortunately means that your changes
may sometimes be too obsolete or too divergent for easy re-integration
into FreeBSD. Chances of this can be minimized somewhat by
subscribing to the &a.announce; and the &a.current; lists, where
discussions on the current state of the system take place.Assuming that you can manage to secure fairly up-to-date sources
to base your changes on, the next step is to produce a set of diffs to
send to the FreeBSD maintainers. This is done with the &man.diff.1;
command, with the context diff form
being preferred. For example:diff&prompt.user; diff -c oldfile newfile
or
&prompt.user; diff -c -r olddir newdir
would generate such a set of context diffs for the given source file
or directory hierarchy. See the man page for &man.diff.1; for more
details.Once you have a set of diffs (which you may test with the
&man.patch.1; command), you should submit them for inclusion with
FreeBSD. Use the &man.send-pr.1; program as described in Bug Reports and General Commentary.
Do not just send the diffs to the &a.hackers; or
they will get lost! We greatly appreciate your submission (this is a
volunteer project!); because we are busy, we may not be able to
address it immediately, but it will remain in the PR database until we
do. Indicate your submission by including [PATCH]
in the synopsis of the report.uuencodeIf you feel it appropriate (e.g. you have added, deleted, or
renamed files), bundle your changes into a tar file
and run the &man.uuencode.1; program on it. Shar archives are also
welcome.If your change is of a potentially sensitive nature, e.g. you are
unsure of copyright issues governing its further distribution or you
are simply not ready to release it without a tighter review first,
then you should send it to &a.core; directly rather than submitting it
with &man.send-pr.1;. The core mailing list reaches a much smaller
group of people who do much of the day-to-day work on FreeBSD. Note
that this group is also very busy and so you
should only send mail to them where it is truly necessary.Please refer to &man.intro.9; and &man.style.9; style for
some information on coding style. We would appreciate it if you
were at least aware of this information before submitting
code.New Code or Major Value-Added PackagesIn the case of a significant contribution of a large body
work, or the addition of an important new feature to FreeBSD, it
becomes almost always necessary to either send changes as uuencoded
tar files or upload them to a web or FTP site for other people to
access. If you do not have access to a web or FTP site, ask on an
appropriate FreeBSD mailing list for someone to host the changes for
you.When working with large amounts of code, the touchy subject of
copyrights also invariably comes up. Acceptable copyrights for code
included in FreeBSD are:BSD copyrightThe BSD copyright. This copyright is most preferred due to
its no strings attached nature and general
attractiveness to commercial enterprises. Far from discouraging
such commercial use, the FreeBSD Project actively encourages such
participation by commercial interests who might eventually be
inclined to invest something of their own into FreeBSD.GPLGNU General Public LicenseGNU General Public LicenseThe GNU General Public License, or GPL.
This license is not quite as popular with us due to the amount
of extra effort demanded of anyone using the code for
commercial purposes, but given the sheer quantity of GPL'd code
we currently require (compiler, assembler, text formatter, etc)
it would be silly to refuse additional contributions under this
license. Code under the GPL also goes into a different part of
the tree, that being /sys/gnu or
/usr/src/gnu, and is therefore easily
identifiable to anyone for whom the GPL presents a
problem.Contributions coming under any other type of copyright must be
carefully reviewed before their inclusion into FreeBSD will be
considered. Contributions for which particularly restrictive
commercial copyrights apply are generally rejected, though the authors
are always encouraged to make such changes available through their own
channels.To place a BSD-style copyright on your work, include
the following text at the very beginning of every source code file you
wish to protect, replacing the text between the %%
with the appropriate information.Copyright (c) %%proper_years_here%%
%%your_name_here%%, %%your_state%% %%your_zip%%.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer as
the first lines of this file unmodified.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY %%your_name_here%% ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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IN NO EVENT SHALL %%your_name_here%% BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
$Id$For your convenience, a copy of this text can be found in
/usr/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright.Money, Hardware or Internet AccessWe are always very happy to accept donations to further the cause
of the FreeBSD Project and, in a volunteer effort like ours, a little
can go a long way! Donations of hardware are also very important to
expanding our list of supported peripherals since we generally lack
the funds to buy such items ourselves.Donating FundsThe FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt
foundation established to further the goals of the FreeBSD
Project. As a 501(c)3 entity, the Foundation is generally
exempt from US federal income tax as well as Colorado
State income tax. Donations to a tax-exempt entity are
often deductible from taxable federal income.Donations may be sent in check form to:
The FreeBSD Foundation
7321 Brockway Dr.Boulder, CO80303USAThe FreeBSD Foundation is now able to accept donations
through the web with PayPal. To place a donation, please
visit the Foundation web
site.More information about the FreeBSD Foundation can be
found in The
FreeBSD Foundation -- an Introduction. To contact
the Foundation by email, write to
bod@FreeBSDFoundation.org.Donating HardwaredonationsDonations of hardware in any of the 3 following categories are
also gladly accepted by the FreeBSD Project:General purpose hardware such as disk drives, memory or
complete systems should be sent to the FreeBSD, Inc. address
listed in the donating funds
section.Hardware for which ongoing compliance testing is desired.
We are currently trying to put together a testing lab of all
components that FreeBSD supports so that proper regression
testing can be done with each new release. We are still lacking
many important pieces (network cards, motherboards, etc) and if
you would like to make such a donation, please contact &a.dg;
for information on which items are still required.Hardware currently unsupported by FreeBSD for which you
would like to see such support added. Please contact the
&a.core; before sending such items as we will need to find a
developer willing to take on the task before we can accept
delivery of new hardware.Donating Internet AccessWe can always use new mirror sites for FTP, WWW or
cvsup. If you would like to be such a mirror,
please contact the &a.hubs; for more information.
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Contributors to FreeBSD$FreeBSD$This article lists individuals and organizations who have
made a contribution to FreeBSD.Donors GalleryThe FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and would
like to publicly thank them here!Contributors to the central server
project:The following individuals and businesses made it possible for
the FreeBSD Project to build a new central server machine to
eventually replace freefall.FreeBSD.org
by donating the following items:
- &a.mbarkah and his employer, &a.mbarkah; and his employer, Hemisphere Online,
donated a Pentium Pro (P6) 200MHz CPUASA
Computers donated a Tyan 1662
motherboard.Joe McGuckin joe@via.net of ViaNet Communications donated
a Kingston ethernet controller.Jack O'Neill jack@diamond.xtalwind.net
donated an NCR 53C875 SCSI controller
card.Ulf Zimmermann ulf@Alameda.net of Alameda Networks donated
128MB of memory, a 4 Gb disk
drive and the case.Direct funding:The following individuals and businesses have generously
contributed direct funding to the project:Annelise Anderson
ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU&a.dillon;Blue Mountain
ArtsEpilogue Technology
Corporation&a.sef;Global Technology
Associates, IncDon Scott WildeGianmarco Giovannelli
gmarco@masternet.itJosef C. Grosch joeg@truenorth.orgRobert T. Morris&a.chuckr;Kenneth P. Stox ken@stox.sa.enteract.com of
Imaginary Landscape,
LLC.Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk dk@dog.farm.orgLaser5 of Japan
(a portion of the profits from sales of their various FreeBSD
CDROMs).Fuki Shuppan
Publishing Co. donated a portion of their profits from
Hajimete no FreeBSD (FreeBSD, Getting
started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86 projects.ASCII Corp.
donated a portion of their profits from several FreeBSD-related
books to the FreeBSD project.Yokogawa Electric
Corp has generously donated significant funding to the
FreeBSD project.BuffNETPacific
SolutionsSiemens AG
via Andre Albsmeier
andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.deChris Silva ras@interaccess.comHardware contributors:The following individuals and businesses have generously
contributed hardware for testing and device driver
development/support:BSDi for providing the Pentium P5-90 and
486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our
development work, to say nothing of the network access and other
donations of hardware resources.Compaq
donated 3 AlphaStation DS10s to the FreeBSD Project.
These machines are currently being used for toolchain
and release engineering work on the FreeBSD / Alpha
platform.TRW Financial Systems, Inc. provided 130 PCs, three 68 GB
file servers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an ATM switch for
debugging the diskless code.Dermot McDonnell donated the Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive
currently used in freefall.Chuck Robey chuckr@glue.umd.edu contributed
his floppy tape streamer for experimental work.Larry Altneu larry@ALR.COM, and &a.wilko;,
provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives in order to
improve the wt driver.Ernst Winter ewinter@lobo.muc.de contributed
a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This will hopefully
increase the pressure for rewriting the floppy disk driver.
Tekram
Technologies sent one each of their DC-390, DC-390U
and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter cards for
regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers with their cards.
They are also to be applauded for making driver sources for free
operating systems available from their FTP server ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/.Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a
Symbios Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books,
including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with Ultra-2
and LVD support, and the latest programming manual with
information on how to safely use the advanced features of the
latest Symbios SCSI chips. Thanks a lot!Christoph Kukulies kuku@FreeBSD.org donated
an FX120 12 speed Mitsumi CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver
development.Special contributors:BSDi (formerly Walnut Creek CDROM)
has donated almost more than we can say (see the History
section of the FreeBSD Handbook for more details).
In particular, we would like to thank them for the original
hardware used for freefall.FreeBSD.org, our primary
development machine, and for thud.FreeBSD.org, a testing and build
box. We are also indebted to them for funding various
contributors over the years and providing us with unrestricted
use of their T1 connection to the Internet.The interface
business GmbH, Dresden has been patiently supporting
&a.joerg; who has often preferred FreeBSD work over paid work, and
used to fall back to their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet
connection whenever his private connection became too slow or
flaky to work with it...Berkeley Software Design,
Inc. has contributed their DOS emulator code to the
remaining BSD world, which is used in the
doscmd command.The FreeBSD Core TeamThe FreeBSD core team constitutes the project's Board of
Directors, responsible for deciding the project's overall goals
and direction as well as managing specific
areas of the FreeBSD project landscape.(in alphabetical order by last name):&a.dg;&a.jkh;&a.grog;&a.imp;&a.dfr;&a.msmith;&a.rwatson;&a.peter;The FreeBSD DevelopersThese are the people who have commit privileges and do the
engineering work on the FreeBSD source tree. All core team members are
also developers.(in alphabetical order by last name):&a.akiyama;&a.jmas;&a.ambrisko;&a.will;&a.ugen;&a.toshi;&a.babkin;&a.dbaker;&a.jhb;&a.dmlb;&a.mike;&a.mbarkah;&a.rvb;&a.dougb;&a.tobez;&a.stb;&a.pb;&a.abial;&a.jb;&a.nbm;&a.mbr;&a.torstenb;&a.mb;&a.jmb;&a.wilko;&a.jake;&a.dburr;&a.adrian;&a.dwcjr;&a.charnier;&a.jon;&a.luoqi;&a.ache;&a.ejc;&a.kjc;&a.cjh;&a.cjc;&a.nik;&a.archie;&a.chris;&a.alc;&a.cracauer;&a.dec;&a.pds;&a.adam;&a.davidc;&a.ceri;&a.brooks;&a.bsd;&a.jwd;&a.pdeuskar;&a.dillon;&a.mdodd;&a.dd;&a.iedowse;&a.robert;&a.gad;&a.dufault;&a.uhclem;&a.tegge;&a.deischen;&a.eivind;&a.julian;&a.rse;&a.ue;&a.ru;&a.se;&a.bde;&a.jasone;&a.sef;&a.jedgar;&a.green;&a.fenner;&a.lioux;&a.jfieber;&a.jfitz;&a.petef;&a.scrappy;&a.lars;&a.dirk;&a.sf;&a.shige;&a.billf;&a.furuta;&a.gallatin;&a.patrick;&a.tg;&a.gibbs;&a.brandon;&a.gioria;&a.graichen;&a.cg;&a.rgrimes;&a.jmg;&a.znerd;&a.hanai;&a.roger;&a.mharo;&a.dannyboy;&a.thepish;&a.jhay;&a.sheldonh;&a.mikeh;&a.helbig;&a.ghelmer;&a.mux;&a.erich;&a.chm;&a.nhibma;&a.flathill;&a.orion;&a.pho;&a.horikawa;&a.hosokawa;&a.jeh;&a.hsu;&a.foxfair;&a.tom;&a.mph;&a.imura;&a.shin;&a.itojun;&a.iwasaki;&a.mjacob;&a.keith;&a.gj;&a.trevor;&a.phk;&a.tomsoft;&a.joe;&a.cokane;&a.kato;&a.kris;&a.keramida;&a.fjoe;&a.kiri;&a.andreas;&a.lkoeller;&a.motoyuki;&a.maxim;&a.jkoshy;&a.kuriyama;&a.alex;&a.chern;&a.reg;&a.netchild;&a.jlemon;&a.truckman;&a.pat;&a.ijliao;&a.lile;&a.clive;&a.kevlo;&a.scottl;&a.ade;&a.mwlucas;&a.jmacd;&a.smace;&a.bmah;&a.jmallett;&a.dwmalone;&a.nobutaka;&a.matusita;&a.mckay;&a.mckusick;&a.eric;&a.ken;&a.dinoex;&a.hm;&a.sanpei;&a.bmilekic;&a.mita;&a.non;&a.jim;&a.marcel;&a.amorita;&a.dan;&a.tmm;&a.amurai;&a.markm;&a.rich;&a.knu;&a.nakai;&a.max;&a.yoichi;&a.newton;&a.anders;&a.rnordier;&a.davidn;&a.obrien;&a.danny;&a.okazaki;&a.olgeni;&a.ljo;&a.onoe;&a.marko;&a.gpalmer;&a.fsmp;&a.smpatel;&a.cp;&a.wpaul;&a.mp;&a.alfred;&a.roam;&a.wes;&a.cpiazza;&a.pirzyk;&a.jdp;&a.bp;&a.rpratt;&a.steve;&a.mpp;&a.markp;&a.darrenr;&a.csgr;&a.greid;&a.mr;&a.arr;&a.martin;&a.benno;&a.luigi;&a.paul;&a.jeff;&a.roberto;&a.chuckr;&a.jesusr;&a.guido;&a.groudier;&a.dima;&a.ps;&a.sada;&a.hrs;&a.wsanchez;&a.nsayer;&a.sos;&a.wosch;&a.cy;&a.schweikh;&a.dick;&a.jseger;&a.gshapiro;&a.shiba;&a.tshiozak;&a.simokawa;&a.vanilla;&a.silby;&a.shafeeq;&a.demon;&a.jesper;&a.skv;&a.msmith;&a.ben;&a.nsouch;&a.des;&a.sobomax;&a.dcs;&a.brian;&a.mks;&a.stark;&a.murray;&a.sumikawa;&a.gsutter;&a.unfurl;&a.nyan;&a.tanimura;&a.taoka;&a.mtaylor;&a.dt;&a.mi;&a.yar;&a.cwt;&a.pst;&a.uch;&a.ume;&a.semenu;&a.rv;&a.hoek;&a.logo;&a.nectar;&a.jayanth;&a.wjv;&a.bean;&a.swallace;&a.ticso;&a.takawata;&a.naddy;&a.assar;&a.dwhite;&a.nate;&a.wollman;&a.keichii;&a.joerg;&a.kbyanc;&a.yokota;&a.andy;&a.zarzycki;&a.phantom;&a.jmz;The FreeBSD Documentation ProjectThe FreeBSD
Documentation Project is responsible for a number of different
services, each service being run by an individual and his
deputies (if any):Documentation Project Architect&a.nik;Handbook Editor&a.jim;FAQ Editor&a.faq;News Editor&a.jim;In the Press Editor&a.jkoshy;FreeBSD Really-Quick NewsLetter EditorChris Coleman chrisc@vmunix.comGallery Editor&a.phantom;Commercial Editornobody yet
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User Groups Editor&a.grog;FreeBSD Projects and Tasklist Editor&a.asmodai;FreeBSD Java Project&a.patrick;LinuxDoc to DocBook conversion&a.nik;Who is Responsible for WhatDocumentation
Project Manager&a.nik;CVSup Mirror Site Coordinator&a.jdp;Internationalization&a.ache;Postmaster&a.jmb;Release
Coordination&a.re; headed by &a.murray;Public Relations & Corporate Liaison&a.jkh;Security
Officers&a.security-officer; headed by &a.nectar;Source
Repository ManagersPrincipal: &a.peter;Assistants: &a.markm;, &a.joe;Website Management&a.www;Ports
Manager&a.portmgr;which includes:&a.ade;,&a.asami;,&a.kris;,&a.sobomax;,&a.steve;,&a.will;Standards&a.wollman;XFree86 Project, Inc. Liaison&a.rich;GNATS
Administrator&a.steve;Bugmeister&a.des;Core Team Alumnicore teamThe following people were members of the FreeBSD core team during
the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts in the
service of the FreeBSD project.In rough chronological order:
- &a.asami (1993 - 2001)
+ &a.asami; (1993 - 2001)
- &a.ache (1993 - 2000)
+ &a.ache; (1993 - 2000)
- &a.jmb (1993 - 2000)
+ &a.jmb; (1993 - 2000)
- &a.bde (1992 - 2000)
+ &a.bde; (1992 - 2000)
- &a.gibbs (1993 - 2000)
+ &a.gibbs; (1993 - 2000)
- &a.rich (1994 - 2000)
+ &a.rich; (1994 - 2000)
- &a.phk (1992 - 2000)
+ &a.phk; (1992 - 2000)
- &a.gpalmer (1993 - 2000)
+ &a.gpalmer; (1993 - 2000)
- &a.sos (1993 - 2000)
+ &a.sos; (1993 - 2000)
- &a.wollman (1993 - 2000)
+ &a.wollman; (1993 - 2000)
- &a.joerg (1995 - 2000)
+ &a.joerg; (1995 - 2000)
- &a.jdp (1997 - 2000)
+ &a.jdp; (1997 - 2000)
- &a.guido (1995 - 1999)
+ &a.guido; (1995 - 1999)John Dyson (1993 - 1998)
- &a.nate (1992 - 1996)
+ &a.nate; (1992 - 1996)
- &a.rgrimes (1992 - 1995)
+ &a.rgrimes; (1992 - 1995)Andreas Schulz (1992 - 1995)
- &a.csgr (1993 - 1995)
+ &a.csgr; (1993 - 1995)
- &a.paul (1992 - 1995)
+ &a.paul; (1992 - 1995)
- &a.smace (1993 - 1994)
+ &a.smace; (1993 - 1994)Andrew Moore (1993 - 1994)Christoph Robitschko (1993 - 1994)J. T. Conklin (1992 - 1993)Development Team Alumnidevelopment teamThe following people were members of the FreeBSD development team
during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past efforts
in the service of the FreeBSD project.In rough chronological order:&a.issei; (2000 - 2002)&a.asmodai; (1999 - 2001)
- &a.tedm (???? - 2000)
+ &a.tedm; (???? - 2000)
- &a.karl (???? - 2000)
+ &a.karl; (???? - 2000)Gary Clark II (1993 - 2000)James Raynard (???? - 2000)
- &a.jgreco (???? - 1999)
+ &a.jgreco; (???? - 1999)Andreas Schulz (???? - 1999)Jamil Weatherby (1997 - 1999)meganm (???? - 1998)John Dyson (???? - 1998)Amancio Hasty (1997 - 1998)Drew Derbyshire (1997 - 1998)Derived Software ContributorsThis software was originally derived from William F. Jolitz's 386BSD
release 0.1, though almost none of the original 386BSD specific code
remains. This software has been essentially re-implemented from the
4.4BSD-Lite release provided by the Computer Science Research Group
(CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley and associated academic
contributors.There are also portions of NetBSD and OpenBSD that have been
integrated into FreeBSD as well, and we would therefore like to thank
all the contributors to NetBSD and OpenBSD for their work.Additional FreeBSD Contributors(in alphabetical order by first name):ABURAYA Ryushirou rewsirow@ff.iij4u.or.jpAMAGAI Yoshiji amagai@nue.orgAaron Bornstein aaronb@j51.comAaron Smith aaron@mutex.orgAchim Patzner ap@noses.comAda T Lim ada@bsd.orgAdam Baran badam@mw.mil.plAdam Glass glass@postgres.berkeley.eduAdam Herzog adam@herzogdesigns.comAdam Kranzel adam@alameda.eduAdam McDougall mcdouga9@egr.msu.eduAdam Strohl troll@digitalspark.netAdam Weinberger monkey@crackula.comAdoal Xu adoal@iname.comAdrian Colley aecolley@ois.ieAdrian Hall ahall@mirapoint.comAdrian Mariano adrian@cam.cornell.eduAdrian Steinmann ast@marabu.chAdrian T. Filipi-Martin
atf3r@agate.cs.virginia.eduAjit Thyagarajan unknownAkira SAWADA unknownAkira Watanabe
akira@myaw.ei.meisei-u.ac.jpAkito Fujita fujita@zoo.ncl.omron.co.jpAlain Kalker
A.C.P.M.Kalker@student.utwente.nlAlan Bawden alan@curry.epilogue.comAlan Eldridge alane@geeksrus.netAlec Wolman wolman@cs.washington.eduAled Morris aledm@routers.co.ukAleksandr A Babaylov .@babolo.ruAlex G. Bulushev bag@demos.suAlex D. Chen
dhchen@Canvas.dorm7.nccu.edu.twAlex Le Heux alexlh@funk.orgAlex Kapranoff kappa@zombie.antar.bryansk.ruAlex Perel veers@disturbed.netAlex Semenyaka alex@rinet.ruAlex Varju varju@webct.comAlex Zepeda garbanzo@hooked.netAlexander B. Povolotsky tarkhil@mgt.msk.ruAlexander Gelfenbain mail@gelf.comAlexandre Peixoto
alexandref@tcoip.com.brAlexandre Snarskii snar@paranoia.ruAlexey V. Neyman alex.neyman@auriga.ruAlistair G. Crooks agc@uts.amdahl.comAllan Bowhill bowhill@bowhill.vservers.comAllan Saddi asaddi@philosophysw.comAllen Campbell allenc@verinet.comAmakawa Shuhei amakawa@hoh.t.u-tokyo.ac.jpAmancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.comAmir Farah amir@comtrol.comAmir Shalem amir@boom.org.ilAmy Baron amee@beer.orgThe Anarcat beaupran@iro.umontreal.caAnatoly A. Orehovsky tolik@mpeks.tomsk.suAnatoly Vorobey mellon@pobox.comAnders Andersson anders@codefactory.seAnders Thulin Anders.X.Thulin@telia.seAndras Olah olah@cs.utwente.nlAndre Albsmeier
Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.deAndre Goeree abgoeree@uwnet.nlAndre Oppermann andre@pipeline.chAndreas Haakh ah@alman.robin.deAndreas Kohout shanee@rabbit.augusta.deAndreas Lohr andreas@marvin.RoBIN.deAndreas Schulz unknownAndreas Wetzel mickey@deadline.snafu.deAndreas Wrede andreas@planix.comAndres Vega Garcia unknownAndrew Atrens atreand@statcan.caAndrew Boothman andrew@cream.orgAndrew Gillham gillham@andrews.eduAndrew Gordon andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.ukAndrew Herbert andrew@werple.apana.org.auAndrew J. Korty ajk@purdue.eduAndrew P. Lentvorski bsder@allcaps.orgAndrew L. Moore alm@mclink.comAndrew L. Neporada andrew@chg.ruAndrew McRae amcrae@cisco.comAndrew Stevenson andrew@ugh.net.auAndrew Timonin tim@pool1.convey.ruAndrew V. Stesin stesin@elvisti.kiev.uaAndrew Webster awebster@dataradio.comAndrey Novikov andrey@novikov.comAndrey Simonenko simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.uaAndrey Tchoritch andy@venus.sympad.netAndy Farkas andyf@speednet.com.auAndy Sparrow spadger@best.comAndy Valencia ajv@csd.mot.comAndy Whitcroft andy@sarc.city.ac.ukAngel Todorov todorov_bg@gmx.netAngelo Turetta ATuretta@stylo.itAnthony C. Chavez magus@xmission.comAnthony Yee-Hang Chan yeehang@netcom.comAnton N. Bruesov antonz@library.ntu-kpi.kiev.uaAnton Voronin anton@urc.ac.ruAntti Kaipila anttik@iki.fiarci vega@sophia.inria.frAre Bryne are.bryne@communique.noAri Suutari ari@suutari.iki.fiArindum Mukerji rmukerji@execpc.comArjan de Vet devet@IAEhv.nlArne Henrik Juul arnej@Lise.Unit.NOArun Sharma adsharma@sharmas.dhs.orgArnaud S. Launay asl@launay.orgAshley Penney ashp@unloved.orgAsk Bjoern Hansen ask@valueclick.comAtsushi Furuta furuta@sra.co.jpAtsushi Murai amurai@spec.co.jpAtushi Sakauchi sakauchi@yamame.toBakul Shah bvs@bitblocks.comBarry Bierbauch pivrnec@vszbr.czBarry Lustig barry@ictv.comBen Hutchinson benhutch@xfiles.org.ukBen Jackson unknownBen Walter bwalter@itachi.swcp.comBenjamin Lewis bhlewis@gte.netBerend de Boer berend@pobox.comBernd Rosauer br@schiele-ct.deBill Kish kish@osf.orgBill Trost trost@cloud.rain.comBlaz Zupan blaz@amis.netBob Van Valzah Bob@whitebarn.comBob Wilcox bob@obiwan.uucpBob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.comBoris Staeblow balu@dva.in-berlin.deBoyd Faulkner faulkner@mpd.tandem.comBoyd R. Faulkner faulkner@asgard.bga.comBrad Chapman chapmanb@arches.uga.eduBrad Hendrickse bradh@uunet.co.zaBrad Karp karp@eecs.harvard.eduBradley Dunn bradley@dunn.orgBrad Jones brad@kazrak.comBrandon Fosdick bfoz@glue.umd.eduBrandon Gillespie brandon@roguetrader.comBill Lloyd wlloyd@mpd.caBrent J. Nordquist bjn@visi.comBrett Lymn blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AUBrett Taylor
brett@peloton.runet.eduBrian Campbell brianc@pobox.comBrian Clapper bmc@willscreek.comBrian Cully shmit@kublai.comBrian Handy
handy@lambic.space.lockheed.comBrian Litzinger brian@MediaCity.comBrian McGovern bmcgover@cisco.comBrian Moore ziff@houdini.eecs.umich.eduBrian R. Haug haug@conterra.comBrian Tao taob@risc.orgBrion Moss brion@queeg.comBruce Albrecht bruce@zuhause.mn.orgBruce Gingery bgingery@gtcs.comBruce J. Keeler loodvrij@gridpoint.comBruce Murphy packrat@iinet.net.auBruce Walter walter@fortean.comCarey Jones mcj@acquiesce.orgCarl Fongheiser cmf@netins.netCarl Mascott cmascott@world.std.comCasper casper@acc.amCastor Fu castor@geocast.comChain Lee chain@110.netCharles Hannum mycroft@ai.mit.eduCharles Henrich henrich@msu.eduCharles Mott cmott@scientech.comCharles Owens owensc@enc.eduChet Ramey chet@odin.INS.CWRU.EduChia-liang Kao clkao@CirX.ORGChiharu Shibata chi@bd.mbn.or.jpChip Norkus unknownChris Csanady cc@tarsier.ca.sandia.govChris Dabrowski chris@vader.orgChris Dillon cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.usChris Shenton
cshenton@angst.it.hq.nasa.gov&a.cshumway;Chris Stenton jacs@gnome.co.ukChris Timmons skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.eduChris Torek torek@ee.lbl.govChristian Gusenbauer
cg@fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.atChristian Haury Christian.Haury@sagem.frChristoph P. Kukulies kuku@FreeBSD.orgChristoph Robitschko
chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.atChristoph Weber-Fahr
wefa@callcenter.systemhaus.netChristopher G. Demetriou
cgd@postgres.berkeley.eduChristopher N. Harrell cnh@ivmg.netChristopher Preston rbg@gayteenresource.orgChristopher T. Johnson
cjohnson@neunacht.netgsi.comChrisy Luke chrisy@flix.netChuck Hein chein@cisco.comCliff Rowley dozprompt@onsea.comColman Reilly careilly@tcd.ieConrad Sabatier conrads@home.comCoranth Gryphon gryphon@healer.comCornelis van der Laan
nils@guru.ims.uni-stuttgart.deCove Schneider cove@brazil.nbn.comCraig Leres leres@ee.lbl.govCraig Loomis unknownCraig Metz cmetz@inner.netCraig Spannring cts@internetcds.comCraig Struble cstruble@vt.eduCristian Ferretti cfs@riemann.mat.puc.clCurt Mayer curt@toad.comCyrille Lefevre clefevre@citeweb.netCyrus Rahman cr@jcmax.comDai Ishijima ishijima@tri.pref.osaka.jpDaisuke Watanabe NU7D-WTNB@asahi-net.or.jpDamian Hamill damian@cablenet.netDan Cross tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.eduDan Langille dan@freebsddiary.orgDan Lukes dan@obluda.czDan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.comDan Papasian bugg@bugg.strangled.netDan Piponi wmtop@tanelorn.demon.co.ukDan Walters hannibal@cyberstation.netDaniel Hagan
dhagan@acm.vt.eduDaniel O'Connor doconnor@gsoft.com.auDaniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.govDaniel Rock rock@cs.uni-sb.deDaniel W. McRobb dwm@caimis.comDanny Egen unknownDanny Howard dannyman@toldme.comDanny J. Zerkel dzerkel@phofarm.comDave Adkins adkin003@tc.umn.eduDave Andersen angio@aros.netDave Blizzard dblizzar@sprynet.comDave Bodenstab imdave@synet.netDave Burgess burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.milDave Chapeskie dchapes@ddm.on.caDave Cornejo dave@dogwood.comDave Edmondson davided@sco.comDave Glowacki dglo@ssec.wisc.eduDave Marquardt marquard@austin.ibm.comDave Tweten tweten@FreeBSD.orgDavid A. Adkins adkin003@tc.umn.eduDavid A. Bader dbader@eece.unm.eduDavid Borman dab@bsdi.comDavid Bremner bremner@unb.caDavid Dawes dawes@XFree86.orgDavid Filo unknownDavid Holland dholland@eecs.harvard.eduDavid Holloway daveh@gwythaint.tamis.comDavid Horwitt dhorwitt@ucsd.eduDavid Hovemeyer daveho@infocom.comDavid Jones dej@qpoint.torfree.netDavid Kelly dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.comDavid Kulp dkulp@neomorphic.comDavid L. Nugent davidn@blaze.net.auDavid Leonard d@scry.dstc.edu.auDavid Muir Sharnoff muir@idiom.comDavid S. Miller davem@jenolan.rutgers.eduDavid Sugar dyfet@gnu.orgDavid Wolfskill david@catwhisker.orgDavid Yeske dyeske@yahoo.comDean Gaudet dgaudet@arctic.orgDean Huxley dean@fsa.caDenis Fortin unknownDenis Shaposhnikov dsh@vlink.ruDennis Glatting
dennis.glatting@software-munitions.comDenton Gentry denny1@home.comder Mouse mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDUDerek Inksetter derek@saidev.comDI. Christian Gusenbauer
cg@scotty.edvz.uni-linz.ac.atDiane Bruce db@db.netDirk Keunecke dk@panda.rhein-main.deDirk Nehrling nerle@pdv.deDishanker Rajakulendren draj@oceanfree.netDmitry A. Yanko fm@astral.ntu-kpi.kiev.uaDmitry Karasik dmitry@karasik.eu.orgDmitry Khrustalev dima@xyzzy.machaon.ruDmitry Kohmanyuk dk@farm.orgDmitry Morozovsky marck@rinet.ruDom Mitchell dom@myrddin.demon.co.ukDomas Mituzas midom@dammit.ltDominik Brettnacher domi@saargate.deDominik Rothert dr@domix.deDon Croyle croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.usDonn Miller dmmiller@cvzoom.netDan Pelleg dpelleg+unison@cs.cmu.edu&a.whiteside;Don Morrison dmorrisn@u.washington.eduDon Yuniskis dgy@rtd.comDonald Maddox dmaddox@conterra.comDouglas Carmichael dcarmich@mcs.comDouglas Crosher dtc@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.auDrew Derbyshire ahd@kew.comDustin Sallings dustin@spy.netEckart "Isegrim" Hofmann
Isegrim@Wunder-Nett.orgEd Gold
vegold01@starbase.spd.louisville.eduEd Hudson elh@p5.spnet.comEdward Chuang edwardc@firebird.org.twEdward Wang edward@edcom.comEdwin Groothus edwin@mavetju.orgEdwin Mons e@ik.nuEge Rekk aagero@aage.priv.noEiji-usagi-MATSUmoto usagi@clave.gr.jpEike Bernhardt eike.bernhardt@gmx.deELISA Font ProjectElmar Bartel
bartel@informatik.tu-muenchen.deEoin Lawless eoin@maths.tcd.ieEric A. Griff eric@talesfromthereal.comEric Blood eblood@cs.unr.eduEric D. Futch efutch@nyct.netEric J. Haug ejh@slustl.slu.eduEric J. Schwertfeger eric@cybernut.comEric L. Hernes erich@lodgenet.comEric P. Scott eps@sirius.comEric Sprinkle eric@ennovatenetworks.comErich Stefan Boleyn erich@uruk.orgErich Zigler erich@tacni.netErik H. Bakke erikhb@bgnett.noErik E. Rantapaa rantapaa@math.umn.eduErik H. Moe ehm@cris.comErnst Winter ewinter@lobo.muc.deEspen Skoglund esk@ira.uka.deEugene M. Kim astralblue@usa.netEugene Radchenko genie@qsar.chem.msu.suEugeny Kuzakov CoreDumped@coredumped.null.ruEvan Champion evanc@synapse.netFanying Jen fanying@fynet.comFaried Nawaz fn@Hungry.COMFlemming Jacobsen fj@batmule.dkFong-Ching Liaw fong@juniper.netFrancis M J Hsieh mjshieh@life.nthu.edu.twFrancisco Reyes fjrm@yahoo.comFrank Bartels knarf@camelot.deFrank Chen Hsiung Chan
frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.twFrank Durda IV uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.orgFrank MacLachlan fpm@n2.netFrank Nobis fn@Radio-do.deFrank ten Wolde franky@pinewood.nlFrank van der Linden frank@fwi.uva.nlFrank Volf volf@oasis.IAEhv.nlFred Cawthorne fcawth@jjarray.umn.eduFred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.comFred Templin templin@erg.sri.comFrederick Earl Gray fgray@rice.eduFUJIMOTO Kensaku
fujimoto@oscar.elec.waseda.ac.jpFURUSAWA Kazuhisa
furusawa@com.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jpFuyuhiko Maruyama fuyuhik8@is.titech.ac.jp&a.stanislav;Gabor Kincses gabor@acm.orgGabor Zahemszky zgabor@CoDe.huGareth McCaughan gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.ukGary A. Browning gab10@griffcd.amdahl.comGary Howland gary@hotlava.comGary J. garyj@rks32.pcs.dec.comGary Kline kline@thought.orgGary W. Swearingen swear@aa.netGaspar Chilingarov nightmar@lemming.acc.amGea-Suan Lin gsl@tpts4.seed.net.twGene Raytsin pal@paladin7.netGeoff Rehmet csgr@alpha.ru.ac.zaGeorg Wagner georg.wagner@ubs.comGerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.atGianlorenzo Masini masini@uniroma3.itGianmarco Giovannelli
gmarco@giovannelli.itGil Kloepfer Jr. gil@limbic.ssdl.comGilad Rom rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.ilGiles Lean giles@nemeton.com.auGinga Kawaguti
ginga@amalthea.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jpGlen Foster gfoster@gfoster.comGlenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.netGodmar Back gback@facility.cs.utah.eduGoran Hammarback goran@astro.uu.seGord Matzigkeit gord@enci.ucalgary.caGordon Greeff gvg@uunet.co.zaGraham Wheeler gram@cdsec.comGreg A. Woods woods@zeus.leitch.comGreg Ansley gja@ansley.comGreg Lewis glewis@eyesbeyond.comGreg Robinson greg@rosevale.com.auGreg Troxel gdt@ir.bbn.comGreg Ungerer gerg@stallion.oz.auGregory Bond gnb@itga.com.auGregory D. Moncreaff
moncrg@bt340707.res.ray.comGuy Harris guy@netapp.comHAMADA Naoki hamada@astec.co.jpHammurabi Mendes hmendes_br@yahoo.comHannu Savolainen hannu@voxware.pp.fiHans Huebner hans@artcom.deHans Petter Bieker zerium@webindex.noHans Zuidam hans@brandinnovators.comHarlan Stenn Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.comHarold Barker hbarker@dsms.comHarry Newton harry_newton@telinco.co.ukHavard Eidnes
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.noHeath Nielson heath@cs.byu.eduHeikki Suonsivu hsu@cs.hut.fiHeiko W. Rupp unknownHelmut F. Wirth hfwirth@ping.atHenrik Vestergaard Draboel
hvd@terry.ping.dkHerb Peyerl hpeyerl@NetBSD.orgHideaki Ohmon ohmon@tom.sfc.keio.ac.jpHidekazu Kuroki hidekazu@cs.titech.ac.jpHideki Yamamoto hyama@acm.orgHideyuki Suzuki
hideyuki@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jpHirayama Issei iss@mail.wbs.ne.jpHiroaki Sakai sakai@miya.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jpHiroharu Tamaru tamaru@ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jpHironori Ikura hikura@kaisei.orgHiroshi Nishikawa nis@pluto.dti.ne.jpHiroya Tsubakimoto unknownHIYAMA Takeshi gibbon@cocoa.freemail.ne.jpHolger Lamm holger@eit.uni-kl.deHolger Veit Holger.Veit@gmd.deHolm Tiffe holm@geophysik.tu-freiberg.deHONDA Yasuhiro
honda@kashio.info.mie-u.ac.jpHorance Chou
horance@freedom.ie.cycu.edu.twHorihiro Kumagai kuma@jp.FreeBSD.orgHOSOBUCHI Noriyuki hoso@buchi.tama.or.jpHOTARU-YA hotaru@tail.netHr.Ladavac lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.atHubert Feyrer hubertf@NetBSD.ORGHugh F. Mahon hugh@nsmdserv.cnd.hp.comHugh Mahon h_mahon@fc.hp.comHung-Chi Chu hcchu@r350.ee.ntu.edu.twHye-Shik Chang perky@fallin.lvIan Holland ianh@tortuga.com.auIan Struble ian@broken.netIan Vaudrey i.vaudrey@bigfoot.comIgor Khasilev igor@jabber.paco.odessa.uaIgor Pokrovsky tiamat@telegraph.spb.ruIgor Roshchin str@giganda.komkon.orgIgor Serikov bt@turtle.pangeatech.comIgor Sviridov siac@ua.netIgor Vinokurov igor@zynaps.ruIkuo Nakagawa ikuo@isl.intec.co.jpIlia Chipitsine ilia@jane.cgu.chel.suIlya V. Komarov mur@lynx.ruIMAI Takeshi take-i@ceres.dti.ne.jpIMAMURA Tomoaki
tomoak-i@is.aist-nara.ac.jpItsuro Saito saito@miv.t.u-tokyo.ac.jpIWASHITA Yoji shuna@pop16.odn.ne.jpJ. Bryant jbryant@argus.flash.netJ. David Lowe lowe@saturn5.comJ. Han hjh@photino.comJ. Hawk jhawk@MIT.EDUJ.T. Conklin jtc@cygnus.comJack jack@zeus.xtalwind.netJacob Bohn Lorensen jacob@jblhome.ping.mkJagane D Sundar jagane@netcom.comJake Hamby jehamby@anobject.comJames Clark jjc@jclark.comJames D. Stewart jds@c4systm.comJames da Silva jds@cs.umd.eduJames Jegers jimj@miller.cs.uwm.eduJames Raynard
fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.ukJames T. Liu jtliu@phlebas.rockefeller.eduJamie Heckford jamie@jamiesdomain.co.ukJan Conard
charly@fachschaften.tu-muenchen.deJan Jungnickel Jan@Jungnickel.comJan Koum jkb@FreeBSD.orgJan L. Peterson jlp@flipdog.comJanick Taillandier
Janick.Taillandier@ratp.frJanusz Kokot janek@gaja.ipan.lublin.plJarle Greipsland jarle@idt.unit.noJason DiCioccio geniusj@ods.orgJason Garman init@risen.orgJason Harris jharris@widomaker.comJason R. Mastaler
jason-freebsd@mastaler.comJason Thorpe thorpej@NetBSD.orgJason Wright jason@OpenBSD.orgJason Young
doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.comJavier Martin Rueda jmrueda@diatel.upm.esJay Fenlason hack@datacube.comJay Krell jay.krell@cornell.eduJaye Mathisen mrcpu@cdsnet.netJean-Sebastien Roy js@jeannot.orgJean-Yves Lefort jylefort@brutele.beJeff Bartig jeffb@doit.wisc.eduJeff Brown jabrown@caida.orgJeff Forys jeff@forys.cranbury.nj.usJeff Kletsky Jeff@Wagsky.comJeff Palmer scorpio@drkshdw.orgJeffrey Evans evans@scnc.k12.mi.usJeffrey Wheat jeff@cetlink.netJeremy Allison jallison@whistle.comJeremy Chadwick yoshi@parodius.comJeremy Chatfield jdc@xinside.comJeremy Karlson karlj000@unbc.caJeremy Prior unknownJeremy Shaffner jeremy@external.orgJesse McConnell jesse@cylant.comJesse Rosenstock jmr@ugcs.caltech.eduJian-Da Li jdli@csie.nctu.edu.twJim Babb babb@FreeBSD.orgJim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.eduJim Bloom bloom@acm.orgJim Carroll jim@carroll.comJim Flowers jflowers@ezo.netJim Leppek jleppek@harris.comJim Lowe james@cs.uwm.eduJim Mattson jmattson@sonic.netJim Mercer jim@komodo.reptiles.orgJim Sloan odinn@atlantabiker.netJim Wilson wilson@moria.cygnus.comJimbo Bahooli
griffin@blackhole.iceworld.orgJin Guojun jin@george.lbl.govJoachim Kuebart kuebart@mathematik.uni-ulm.deJoao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@jonny.eng.brJochen Pohl jpo.drs@sni.deJoe "Marcus" Clarke marcus@marcuscom.comJoe Abley jabley@automagic.orgJoe Halpin joe.halpin@attbi.comJoe Jih-Shian Lu jslu@dns.ntu.edu.twJoe Orthoefer j_orthoefer@tia.netJoe Traister traister@mojozone.orgJoel Faedi Joel.Faedi@esial.u-nancy.frJoel Ray Holveck joelh@gnu.orgJoel Sutton jsutton@bbcon.com.auJordan DeLong fracture@allusion.netJoseph Scott joseph@randomnetworks.comJohan Granlund johan@granlund.nuJohan Karlsson k@numeri.campus.luth.seJohan Larsson johan@moon.campus.luth.seJohann Tonsing jtonsing@mikom.csir.co.zaJohannes 5 Joemann joemann@beefree.free.deJohannes Helander unknownJohannes Stille unknownJohn Beckett jbeckett@southern.eduJohn Beukema jbeukema@hk.super.netJohn Brezak unknownJohn Capo jc@irbs.comJohn F. Woods jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.comJohn Goerzen
jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.orgJohn Heidemann johnh@isi.eduJohn Hood cgull@owl.orgJohn Kohl unknownJohn Lind john@starfire.mn.orgJohn Mackin john@physiol.su.oz.auJohn Merryweather Cooper jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.netJohn P johnp@lodgenet.comJohn Perry perry@vishnu.alias.netJohn Preisler john@vapornet.comJohn Reynolds jjreynold@home.comJohn Rochester jr@cs.mun.caJohn Sadler john_sadler@alum.mit.eduJohn Saunders john@pacer.nlc.net.auJohn Wehle john@feith.comJohn Woods jfw@eddie.mit.eduJohny Mattsson lonewolf@flame.orgJon Morgan morgan@terminus.trailblazer.comJonathan Belson jon@witchspace.comJonathan H N Chin jc254@newton.cam.ac.ukJonathan Hanna
jh@pc-21490.bc.rogers.wave.caJonathan Pennington john@coastalgeology.orgJorge Goncalves j@bug.fe.up.ptJorge M. Goncalves ee96199@tom.fe.up.ptJos Backus jbackus@plex.nlJose Marques jose@nobody.orgJosef Grosch
jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.comJoseph Stein joes@wstein.comJosh Gilliam josh@quick.netJosh Tiefenbach josh@ican.netJostein Trondal jostein.trondal@sikkerhet.noJuergen Lock nox@jelal.hb.north.deJuha Inkari inkari@cc.hut.fiJukka A. Ukkonen jau@iki.fiJulian Assange proff@suburbia.netJulian Coleman j.d.coleman@ncl.ac.uk&a.jhs;Julian Jenkins kaveman@magna.com.auJunichi Satoh junichi@jp.FreeBSD.orgJunji SAKAI sakai@jp.FreeBSD.orgJunya WATANABE junya-w@remus.dti.ne.jpJustas justas@mbank.lvJustin Stanford jus@security.za.netK.Higashino a00303@cc.hc.keio.ac.jpKai Vorma vode@snakemail.hut.fiKaleb S. Keithley kaleb@ics.comKaneda Hiloshi vanitas@ma3.seikyou.ne.jpKang-ming Liu gugod@gugod.orgKapil Chowksey kchowksey@hss.hns.comKarl Denninger karl@mcs.comKarl Dietz Karl.Dietz@triplan.comKarl Lehenbauer karl@NeoSoft.comKATO Tsuguru tkato@prontomail.ne.jpKawanobe Koh kawanobe@st.rim.or.jpKees Jan Koster kjk1@ukc.ac.ukKeith Bostic bostic@bostic.comKeith E. Walker kew@icehouse.netKeith Moore unknownKeith Sklower unknownKen Hornstein unknownKen Key key@cs.utk.eduKen Mayer kmayer@freegate.comKenji Saito marukun@mx2.nisiq.netKenji Tomita tommyk@da2.so-net.or.jpKenneth Furge kenneth.furge@us.endress.comKenneth Monville desmo@bandwidth.orgKenneth R. Westerback krw@tcn.netKenneth Stailey kstailey@gnu.ai.mit.eduKent Talarico kent@shipwreck.tsoft.netKent Vander Velden graphix@iastate.eduKentaro Inagaki JBD01226@niftyserve.ne.jpKevin Bracey kbracey@art.acorn.co.ukKevin Day toasty@dragondata.comKevin Lahey kml@nas.nasa.govKevin Meltzer perlguy@perlguy.comKevin Street street@iname.comKevin Van Maren vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.eduKiller killer@prosalg.noKim Scarborough sluggo@unknown.nuKimura Fuyuki fuyuki@mj.0038.netKiril Mitev kiril@ideaglobal.comKiroh HARADA kiroh@kh.rim.or.jpKlaus Herrmann klaus.herrmann@gmx.netKlaus Klein kleink@layla.inka.deKlaus-J. Wolf Yanestra@t-online.deKoichi Sato copan@ppp.fastnet.or.jpKonrad Heuer kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.deKonstantin Chuguev Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.ukKostya Lukin lukin@okbmei.msk.suKouichi Hirabayashi kh@mogami-wire.co.jpKris Dow kris@vilnya.demon.co.ukKUNISHIMA Takeo kunishi@c.oka-pu.ac.jpKurt D. Zeilenga Kurt@Boolean.NETKurt Olsen kurto@tiny.mcs.usu.eduL. Jonas Olsson
ljo@ljo-slip.DIALIN.CWRU.EduLarry Altneu larry@ALR.COMLars Bernhardsson lab@fnurt.netLars Köller
Lars.Koeller@Uni-Bielefeld.DELaurence Lopez lopez@mv.mv.comLauri Watts lauri@kde.orgLee Cremeans lcremean@tidalwave.netLeo Kim leo@florida.sarang.netLeo Serebryakov lev@serebryakov.spb.ruLiang Tai-hwa
avatar@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.twLon Willett lon%softt.uucp@math.utah.eduLouis A. Mamakos louie@TransSys.COMLouis Mamakos loiue@TransSys.comLowell Gilbert lowell@world.std.comLucas James Lucas.James@ldjpc.apana.org.auLyndon Nerenberg lyndon@orthanc.ab.caM. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.EDUM.C. Wong unknownMagnus Enbom dot@tinto.campus.luth.seMahesh Neelakanta mahesh@gcomm.comMakoto WATANABE
watanabe@zlab.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jpMakoto YAMAKURA makoto@pinpott.spnet.ne.jpMalte Lance malte.lance@gmx.netManu Iyengar
iyengar@grunthos.pscwa.psca.comMarc Frajola marc@dev.comMarc Ramirez mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.eduMarc Slemko marcs@znep.comMarc van Kempen wmbfmk@urc.tue.nlMarc van Woerkom van.woerkom@netcologne.deMarcin Cieslak saper@system.plMark Andrews unknownMark Cammidge mark@gmtunx.ee.uct.ac.zaMark Diekhans markd@grizzly.comMark Huizer xaa@stack.nlMark J. Taylor mtaylor@cybernet.comMark Knight markk@knigma.orgMark Krentel krentel@rice.eduMark Mayo markm@vmunix.comMark Thompson thompson@tgsoft.comMark Tinguely tinguely@plains.nodak.eduMark Treacy unknownMark Valentine mark@thuvia.orgMarkus Holmberg saska@acc.umu.seMartin Birgmeier unknownMartin Blapp blapp@attic.chMartin Hinner mhi@linux.gyarab.czMartin Ibert mib@ppe.bb-data.deMartin Kammerhofer dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.atMartin Karlsson martin.karlsson@visit.seMartin Matuska matuska@wu-wien.ac.atMartin Minkus diskiller@cnbinc.comMartin Renters martin@tdc.on.caMartti Kuparinen
martti.kuparinen@ericsson.comMasachika ISHIZUKA
ishizuka@isis.min.ntt.jpMasahiro Sekiguchi
seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jpMasahiro TAKEMURA
mastake@msel.t.u-tokyo.ac.jpMasanobu Saitoh msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jpMasanori Kanaoka kana@saijo.mke.mei.co.jpMasanori Kiriake seiken@ARGV.ACMasatoshi TAMURA
tamrin@shinzan.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jpMats Lofkvist mal@algonet.seMatt Bartley mbartley@lear35.cytex.comMatt Heckaman matt@LUCIDA.QC.CAMatt Thomas matt@3am-software.comMatt White mwhite+@CMU.EDUMatthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COMMatthew Cashdollar mattc@rfcnet.comMatthew Emmerton root@gabby.gsicomp.on.caMatthew Flatt mflatt@cs.rice.eduMatthew Fuller fullermd@futuresouth.comMatthew Stein matt@bdd.netMatthew West mwest@uct.ac.zaMatthias Pfaller leo@dachau.marco.deMatthias Scheler tron@netbsd.orgMatthias Schündehütte
msch@snafu.deMattias Gronlund
Mattias.Gronlund@sa.erisoft.seMattias Pantzare pantzer@ludd.luth.seMaurice Castro
maurice@planet.serc.rmit.edu.auMax Euston meuston@jmrodgers.comMaxim Bolotin max@rsu.ruMicha Class
michael_class@hpbbse.bbn.hp.comMichael Alyn Miller malyn@strangeGizmo.comMichael Lyngbøl michael@lyngbol.dkMichael Butler imb@scgt.oz.auMichael Butschky butsch@computi.erols.comMichael Clay mclay@weareb.orgMichael Galassi nerd@percival.rain.comMichael Hancock michaelh@cet.co.jpMichael Hohmuth hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.deMichael Perlman canuck@caam.rice.eduMichael Petry petry@netwolf.NetMasters.comMichael Sardo jaeger16@yahoo.comMichael Searle searle@longacre.demon.co.ukMichael Schout mschout@gkg.netMichael Urban murban@tznet.comMichael Vasilenko acid@stu.cn.uaMichal Listos mcl@Amnesiac.123.orgMichal Pasternak doc@lublin.t1.plMichio Karl Jinbo
karl@marcer.nagaokaut.ac.jpMiguel Angel Sagreras
msagre@cactus.fi.uba.arMiguel Mendez flynn@energyhq.homeip.netMihoko Tanaka m_tonaka@pa.yokogawa.co.jpMika Nystrom mika@cs.caltech.eduMikael Hybsch micke@dynas.seMikael Karpberg
karpen@ocean.campus.luth.seMike Bristow mike@urgle.comMike Del repenting@hotmail.comMike Durian durian@plutotech.comMike Durkin mdurkin@tsoft.sf-bay.orgMike E. Matsnev mike@azog.cs.msu.suMike Evans mevans@candle.comMike Futerko mike@LITech.lviv.uaMike Grupenhoff kashmir@umiacs.umd.eduMike Harding mvh@ix.netcom.comMike Hibler mike@marker.cs.utah.eduMike Karels unknownMike McGaughey mmcg@cs.monash.edu.auMike Meyer mwm@mired.orgMike Mitchell mitchell@ref.tfs.comMike Murphy mrm@alpharel.comMike Peck mike@binghamton.eduMike Sherwood mike@fate.comMike Spengler mks@msc.eduMikhail A. Sokolov mishania@demos.suMing-I Hseh PA@FreeBSD.ee.Ntu.edu.TWMitsuru Yoshida mitsuru@riken.go.jpMonte Mitzelfelt monte@gonefishing.orgMorgan Davis root@io.cts.comMOROHOSHI Akihiko moro@race.u-tokyo.ac.jpMostyn Lewis mostyn@mrl.comMotomichi Matsuzaki mzaki@e-mail.ne.jpMotoyuki Kasahara m-kasahr@sra.co.jpN.G.Smith ngs@sesame.hensa.ac.ukNadav Eiron nadav@barcode.co.ilNAGAO Tadaaki nagao@cs.titech.ac.jpNAKAJI Hiroyuki
nakaji@tutrp.tut.ac.jpNAKAMURA Kazushi nkazushi@highway.or.jpNAKAMURA Motonori
motonori@econ.kyoto-u.ac.jpNAKATA, Maho chat95@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jpNanbor Wang nw1@cs.wustl.eduNaofumi Honda
honda@Kururu.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jpNaoki Hamada nao@tom-yam.or.jpNarvi narvi@haldjas.folklore.eeNathan Dorfman nathan@rtfm.netNeal Fachan kneel@ishiboo.comNiall Smart rotel@indigo.ieNicholas Esborn nick@netdot.netNick Barnes Nick.Barnes@pobox.comNick Handel nhandel@NeoSoft.comNick Hilliard nick@foobar.orgNick Johnson freebsd@spatula.netNick Williams njw@cs.city.ac.ukNickolay N. Dudorov nnd@itfs.nsk.suNIIMI Satoshi sa2c@and.or.jpNiklas Hallqvist niklas@filippa.appli.seNils M. Holm nmh@t3x.orgNisha Talagala nisha@cs.berkeley.eduNo Name adrian@virginia.eduNo Name alex@elvisti.kiev.uaNo Name anto@netscape.netNo Name bobson@egg.ics.nitch.ac.jpNo Name bovynf@awe.beNo Name burg@is.ge.comNo Name chris@gnome.co.ukNo Name colsen@usa.netNo Name coredump@nervosa.comNo Name dannyman@arh0300.urh.uiuc.eduNo Name davids@SECNET.COMNo Name derek@free.orgNo Name devet@adv.IAEhv.nlNo Name djv@bedford.netNo Name dvv@sprint.netNo Name enami@ba2.so-net.or.jpNo Name flash@eru.tubank.msk.suNo Name flash@hway.ruNo Name fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.eduNo Name frf@xocolatl.comNo Name gclarkii@netport.neosoft.comNo Name gordon@sheaky.lonestar.orgNo Name graaf@iae.nlNo Name greg@greg.rim.or.jpNo Name grossman@cygnus.comNo Name gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.deNo Name hfir@math.rochester.eduNo Name hnokubi@yyy.or.jpNo Name iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.auNo Name invis@visi.comNo Name ishisone@sra.co.jpNo Name iverson@lionheart.comNo Name jpt@magic.netNo Name junker@jazz.snu.ac.krNo Name k-sugyou@ccs.mt.nec.co.jpNo Name kenji@reseau.toyonaka.osaka.jpNo Name kfurge@worldnet.att.netNo Name lh@aus.orgNo Name lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ieNo Name mrgreen@mame.mu.oz.auNo Name nakagawa@jp.FreeBSD.orgNo Name ohki@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jpNo Name owaki@st.rim.or.jpNo Name pechter@shell.monmouth.comNo Name pete@pelican.pelican.comNo Name pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.eduNo Name risner@stdio.comNo Name roman@rpd.univ.kiev.uaNo Name root@ns2.redline.ruNo Name root@uglabgw.ug.cs.sunysb.eduNo Name stephen.ma@jtec.com.auNo Name sumii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jpNo Name takas-su@is.aist-nara.ac.jpNo Name tamone@eig.unige.chNo Name tjevans@raleigh.ibm.comNo Name tony-o@iij.ad.jp amurai@spec.co.jpNo Name torii@tcd.hitachi.co.jpNo Name uenami@imasy.or.jpNo Name uhlar@netlab.skNo Name vode@hut.fiNo Name wlloyd@mpd.caNo Name wlr@furball.wellsfargo.comNo Name wmbfmk@urc.tue.nlNo Name yamagata@nwgpc.kek.jpNo Name ziggy@ryan.orgNo Name ZW6T-KND@j.asahi-net.or.jpNobuhiro Yasutomi nobu@psrc.isac.co.jpNobuyuki Koganemaru
kogane@koganemaru.co.jpNOKUBI Hirotaka h-nokubi@yyy.or.jpNorio Suzuki nosuzuki@e-mail.ne.jpNoritaka Ishizumi graphite@jp.FreeBSD.orgNoriyuki Soda soda@sra.co.jpOddbjorn Steffensen oddbjorn@tricknology.orgOh Junseon hollywar@mail.holywar.netOlaf Wagner wagner@luthien.in-berlin.deOleg Semyonov os@altavista.netOleg Sharoiko os@rsu.ruOleg V. Volkov rover@lglobus.ruOlexander Kunytsa kunia@wolf.istc.kiev.uaOliver Braun obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.deOliver Breuninger ob@seicom.NETOliver Friedrichs oliver@secnet.comOliver Fromme
oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.deOliver Helmling
oliver.helmling@stud.uni-bayreuth.deOliver Laumann
net@informatik.uni-bremen.deOliver Lehmann
Kai_Allard_Liao@gmx.deOliver Oberdorf oly@world.std.comOlivier Tharan olive@oban.frmug.orgOlof Johansson offe@ludd.luth.seOsokin Sergey aka oZZ ozz@FreeBSD.org.ruPace Willisson pace@blitz.comPaco Rosich rosich@modico.eleinf.uv.esPalle Girgensohn girgen@partitur.seParag Patel parag@cgt.comPascal Pederiva pascal@zuo.dec.comPasvorn Boonmark boonmark@juniper.netPatrick Alken cosine@ellipse.mcs.drexel.eduPatrick Bihan-Faou patrick@mindstep.comPatrick Hausen unknownPatrick Seal patseal@hyperhost.netPaul Antonov apg@demos.suPaul F. Werkowski unknownPaul Fox pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.usPaul Koch koch@thehub.com.auPaul Kranenburg pk@NetBSD.orgPaul M. Lambert plambert@plambert.netPaul Mackerras paulus@cs.anu.edu.auPaul Popelka paulp@uts.amdahl.comPaul S. LaFollette, Jr. unknownPaul Sandys myj@nyct.netPaul T. Root proot@horton.iaces.comPaul Vixie paul@vix.comPaolo Flag flag@gufi.orgPaulo Menezes paulo@isr.uc.ptPaulo Menezes pm@dee.uc.ptPedro A M Vazquez vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BRPedro Giffuni giffunip@asme.orgPer Wigren wigren@home.sePete Bentley pete@demon.netPeter Childs pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.auPeter Cornelius pc@inr.fzk.dePeter Haight peterh@prognet.comPeter Jeremy peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.auPeter M. Chen pmchen@eecs.umich.eduPeter Much peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.orgPeter Olsson unknownPeter Philipp pjp@bsd-daemon.netPeter Stubbs PETERS@staidan.qld.edu.auPeter van Heusden pvh@wfeet.za.netPhil Maker pjm@cs.ntu.edu.auPhil Sutherland
philsuth@mycroft.dialix.oz.auPhil Taylor phil@zipmail.co.ukPhilip Musumeci philip@rmit.edu.auPhilippe Lefebvre nemesis@balistik.netPierre Y. Dampure pierre.dampure@k2c.co.ukPius Fischer pius@ienet.comPomegranate daver@flag.blackened.netPowerdog Industries
kevin.ruddy@powerdog.comPriit Järv priit@cc.ttu.eeR Joseph Wright rjoseph@mammalia.orgR. Kym HorsellRadoslav Vasilev rvasilev@uni-svishtov.bgRalf Friedl friedl@informatik.uni-kl.deRandal S. Masutani randal@comtest.comRandall Hopper rhh@ct.picker.comRandall W. Dean rwd@osf.orgRandy Bush rbush@bainbridge.verio.netRasmus Kaj kaj@Raditex.seReinier Bezuidenhout
rbezuide@mikom.csir.co.zaRemy Card Remy.Card@masi.ibp.frRicardas Cepas rch@richard.eu.orgRiccardo Veraldi veraldi@cs.unibo.itRich Wood rich@FreeBSD.org.ukRichard Henderson richard@atheist.tamu.eduRichard Hwang rhwang@bigpanda.comRichard Kiss richard@homemail.comRichard J Kuhns rjk@watson.grauel.comRichard M. Neswold
rneswold@enteract.comRichard Seaman, Jr. dick@tar.comRichard Stallman rms@gnu.ai.mit.eduRichard Straka straka@user1.inficad.comRichard Tobin richard@cogsci.ed.ac.ukRichard Wackerbarth rkw@Dataplex.NETRichard Winkel rich@math.missouri.eduRichard Wiwatowski rjwiwat@adelaide.on.netRick Macklem rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.caRick Macklin unknownRob Austein sra@epilogue.comRob Mallory rmallory@qualcomm.comRob Snow rsnow@txdirect.netRobert Crowe bob@speakez.comRobert D. Thrush rd@phoenix.aii.comRobert Eckardt
roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.deRobert P Ricci ricci@cs.utah.eduRobert Sanders rsanders@mindspring.comRobert Sexton robert@kudra.comRobert Shady rls@id.netRobert Swindells swindellsr@genrad.co.ukRobert Withrow witr@rwwa.comRobert Yoder unknownRobin Carey
robin@mailgate.dtc.rankxerox.co.ukRod Taylor rod@idiotswitch.orgRoger Hardiman roger@cs.strath.ac.ukRoland Jesse jesse@cs.uni-magdeburg.deRoman Shterenzon roman@xpert.comRon Bickers rbickers@intercenter.netRon Lenk rlenk@widget.xmission.comRonald Kuehn kuehn@rz.tu-clausthal.deRudolf Cejka cejkar@fit.vutbr.czRuslan Belkin rus@home2.UA.netRuslan Shevchenko rssh@cam.grad.kiev.uaRussell L. Carter rcarter@pinyon.orgRussell Vincent rv@groa.uct.ac.zaRyan Younce ryany@pobox.comRyuichiro IMURA imura@af.airnet.ne.jpSakai Hiroaki sakai@miya.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jpSakari Jalovaara sja@tekla.fiSam Hartman hartmans@mit.eduSamuel Lam skl@ScalableNetwork.comSamuel Tardieu sam@inf.enst.frSamuele Zannoli zannoli@cs.unibo.itSander Janssen janssen@rendo.dekooi.nlSander Vesik sander@haldjas.folklore.eeSandro Sigala ssigala@globalnet.itSANETO Takanori sanewo@strg.sony.co.jpSASAKI Shunsuke ele@pop17.odn.ne.jpSascha Blank blank@fox.uni-trier.deSascha Wildner swildner@channelz.GUN.deSatoh Junichi junichi@astec.co.jpSAWADA Mizuki miz@qb3.so-net.ne.jpScot Elliott scot@poptart.orgScot W. Hetzel hetzels@westbend.netScott A. Kenney saken@rmta.ml.orgScott A. Moberly smoberly@xavier.dyndns.orgScott Blachowicz
scott.blachowicz@seaslug.orgScott Burris scott@pita.cns.ucla.eduScott Hazen Mueller scott@zorch.sf-bay.orgScott Michel scottm@cs.ucla.eduScott Mitchel scott@uk.FreeBSD.orgScott Reynolds scott@clmqt.marquette.mi.usSebastian Strollo seb@erix.ericsson.seSerge V. Vakulenko vak@zebub.msk.suSergei Chechetkin csl@whale.sunbay.crimea.uaSergei S. Laskavy laskavy@pc759.cs.msu.suSergey Gershtein sg@mplik.ruSergey Kosyakov ks@itp.ac.ruSergey N. Vorokov serg@tmn.ruSergey Potapov sp@alkor.ruSergey Samoyloff gonza@techline.ruSergey Shkonda serg@bcs.zp.uaSergey V.Dorokhov svd@kbtelecom.nalnet.ruSergio Lenzi lenzi@bsi.com.brShaun Courtney shaun@emma.eng.uct.ac.zaShawn M. Carey smcarey@mailbox.syr.eduShell Hung shell@shellhung.orgShigio Yamaguchi shigio@tamacom.comShinya Esu esu@yk.rim.or.jpShinya FUJIE fujie@tk.elec.waseda.ac.jpShuichi Tanaka stanaka@bb.mbn.or.jpSimon simon@masi.ibp.frSimon Burge simonb@telstra.com.auSimon Dick simond@irrelevant.orgSimon J Gerraty sjg@melb.bull.oz.auSimon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.ukSimon Shapiro shimon@simon-shapiro.orgSin'ichiro MIYATANI siu@phaseone.co.jpSlaven Rezic eserte@cs.tu-berlin.deSoochon Radee slr@mitre.orgSoren Dayton csdayton@midway.uchicago.eduSoren Dossing sauber@netcom.comSoren S. Jorvang soren@wheel.dkStefan Bethke stb@hanse.deStefan Eggers seggers@semyam.dinoco.deStefan Moeding s.moeding@ndh.netStefan Petri unknownStefan `Sec` Zehl sec@42.orgSteinar Haug sthaug@nethelp.noStephane E. Potvin sepotvin@videotron.caStephane Legrand stephane@lituus.frStephen Clawson
sclawson@marker.cs.utah.eduStephen F. Combs combssf@salem.ge.comStephen Farrell stephen@farrell.orgStephen Hocking sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.auStephen J. Roznowski sjr@home.netStephen McKay syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.auStephen Melvin melvin@zytek.comSteve Bauer sbauer@rock.sdsmt.eduSteve Coltrin spcoltri@unm.eduSteve Deering unknownSteve Gerakines steve2@genesis.tiac.netSteve Gericke steveg@comtrol.comSteve Piette steve@simon.chi.il.USSteve Schwarz schwarz@alpharel.comSteven Enderle panic@subphase.deSteven G. Kargl
kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.eduSteven H. Samorodin samorodi@NUXI.comSteven McCanne mccanne@cs.berkeley.eduSteven Plite splite@purdue.eduSteven Wallace unknownStijn Hoop stijn@win.tue.nlStuart Henderson
stuart@internationalschool.co.ukSue Blake sue@welearn.com.auSugimoto Sadahiro ixtl@komaba.utmc.or.jpSUGIMURA Takashi sugimura@jp.FreeBSD.orgSugiura Shiro ssugiura@duo.co.jpSujal Patel smpatel@wam.umd.eduSungman Cho smcho@tsp.korea.ac.krSune Stjerneby stjerneby@usa.netSURANYI Peter
suranyip@jks.is.tsukuba.ac.jpSuzuki Yoshiaki
zensyo@ann.tama.kawasaki.jpSvein Skogen
tds@dmnshq.netSybolt de Boer bolt@xs4all.nlTadashi Kumano kumano@strl.nhk.or.jpTaguchi Takeshi taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jpTAKAHASHI Kaoru kaoru@kaisei.orgTakahiro Yugawa yugawa@orleans.rim.or.jpTakashi Mega mega@minz.orgTakashi Uozu j1594016@ed.kagu.sut.ac.jpTakayuki Ariga a00821@cc.hc.keio.ac.jpTakeru NAIKI naiki@bfd.es.hokudai.ac.jpTakeshi Amaike amaike@iri.co.jpTakeshi MUTOH mutoh@info.nara-k.ac.jpTakeshi Ohashi
ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jpTakeshi WATANABE
watanabe@crayon.earth.s.kobe-u.ac.jpTakuya SHIOZAKI
tshiozak@makino.ise.chuo-u.ac.jpTatoku Ogaito tacha@tera.fukui-med.ac.jpTatsuya Kudoh cdr@cosmonet.orgTed Buswell tbuswell@mediaone.netTed Faber faber@isi.eduTed Lemon mellon@isc.orgTerry Lambert terry@lambert.orgTerry Lee terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.eduTeruaki Ata PFA03027@nifty.ne.jpTetsuya Furukawa tetsuya@secom-sis.co.jpTheo de Raadt deraadt@OpenBSD.orgThomas thomas@mathematik.uni-Bremen.deThomas D. Dean tomdean@ix.netcom.comThomas David Rivers rivers@dignus.comThomas E. Zander rriggs@f113.hadiko.deThomas G. McWilliams tgm@netcom.comThomas Graichen
graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.deThomas König
Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.deThomas Ptacek unknownThomas Quinot thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.orgThomas A. Stephens tas@stephens.orgThomas Stromberg tstrombe@rtci.comThomas Valentino Crimi
tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.eduThomas Wintergerst thomas@lemur.nord.deÞórður Ívarsson
totii@est.isThierry Thomas tthomas@mail.dotcom.frTimothy Jensen toast@blackened.comTim J. Robbins tim@robbins.dropbear.id.auTim Kientzle kientzle@netcom.comTim Singletary
tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.govTim Wilkinson tim@sarc.city.ac.ukTimo J. Rinne tri@iki.fiTobias Reifenberger treif@mayn.deTodd Miller millert@openbsd.orgTom root@majestix.cmr.noTom tom@sdf.comTom Gray - DCA dcasba@rain.orgTom Jobbins tom@tom.tjTom Pusateri pusateri@juniper.netTom Rhodes darklogik@pittgoth.comTom Rush tarush@mindspring.comTom Samplonius tom@misery.sdf.comTomohiko Kurahashi
kura@melchior.q.t.u-tokyo.ac.jpTony Kimball alk@Think.COMTony Li tli@jnx.comTony Lynn wing@cc.nsysu.edu.twTony Maher tonym@biolateral.com.auTorbjorn Granlund tege@matematik.su.seToshihiko SHIMOKAWA toshi@tea.forus.or.jpToshihiro Kanda candy@kgc.co.jpToshiomi Moriki
Toshiomi.Moriki@ma1.seikyou.ne.jpTrefor S. trefor@flevel.co.ukTrenton Schulz twschulz@cord.eduTrevor Blackwell tlb@viaweb.comUdo Schweigert ust@cert.siemens.deUgo Paternostro paterno@dsi.unifi.itUlf Kieber kieber@sax.deUlli Linzen ulli@perceval.camelot.deURATA Shuichiro s-urata@nmit.tmg.nec.co.jpUwe Arndt arndt@mailhost.uni-koblenz.deUwe Pierau uwe.pierau@tu-clausthal.deVadim Belman voland@catpipe.netVadim Chekan vadim@gc.lviv.uaVadim Kolontsov vadim@tversu.ac.ruVadim Mikhailov mvp@braz.ruValentin Nechayev netch@lucky.netVan Jacobson van@ee.lbl.govVasily V. Grechishnikov
bazilio@ns1.ied-vorstu.ac.ruVasim Valejev vasim@uddias.diaspro.comVassili Tchersky vt@bsd-fr.orgVernon J. Schryver vjs@mica.denver.sgi.comVeselin Slavov vess@btc.netVic Abell abe@cc.purdue.eduVille Eerola ve@sci.fiVince Valenti vince@blue-box.netVincent Poy vince@venus.gaianet.netVincenzo Capuano
VCAPUANO@vmprofs.esoc.esa.deVirgil Champlin champlin@pa.dec.comVladimir A. Jakovenko
vovik@ntu-kpi.kiev.uaVladimir Kushnir kushn@mail.kar.netVladimir Savichev vlad@ariel.phys.wesleyan.eduVsevolod Lobko seva@alex-ua.comW. Gerald Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.netW. Richard Stevens rstevens@noao.eduWalt Howard howard@ee.utah.eduWalt M. Shandruk walt@erudition.netWarren Toomey wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.auWayne Scott wscott@ichips.intel.comWerner Griessl
werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.deWes Santee wsantee@wsantee.oz.netWietse Venema wietse@wzv.win.tue.nlWiljo Heinen wiljo@freeside.ki.open.deWillem Jan Withagen wjw@surf.IAE.nlWilliam Jolitz withheldWilliam Liao william@tale.netWojtek Pilorz
wpilorz@celebris.bdk.lublin.plWolfgang Helbig helbig@ba-stuttgart.deWolfgang Solfrank ws@tools.deWolfgang Stanglmeier wolf@FreeBSD.orgWu Ching-hong woju@FreeBSD.ee.Ntu.edu.TW&a.wylie;Yannis Kotsinos zookie@med.auth.grYarema yds@ingress.comYaroslav Terletsky ts@polynet.lviv.uaYasuhiro Fukama yasuf@big.or.jpYasuhito FUTATSUKI futatuki@fureai.or.jpYen-Ming Lee leeym@bsd.ce.ntu.edu.twYen-Shuo Su yssu@CCCA.NCTU.edu.twYin-Jieh Chen yinjieh@Crazyman.Dorm13.NCTU.edu.twYixin Jin yjin@rain.cs.ucla.eduYoichi Asai yatt@msc.biglobe.ne.jpYonatan Bokovza Yonatan@xpert.comYoshiaki Uchikawa yoshiaki@kt.rim.or.jpYoshihiko SARUMRU mistral@imasy.or.jpYoshihisa NAKAGAWA
y-nakaga@ccs.mt.nec.co.jpYoshikazu Goto gotoh@ae.anritsu.co.jpYoshimasa Ohnishi
ohnishi@isc.kyutech.ac.jpYoshishige Arai ryo2@on.rim.or.jpYuichi MATSUTAKA matutaka@osa.att.ne.jpYujiro MIYATA
miyata@bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jpYu-Shun Wang yushunwa@isi.eduYusuke Nawano azuki@azkey.orgYuu Yashiki s974123@cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jpYuuki SAWADA mami@whale.cc.muroran-it.ac.jpYuuichi Narahara aconitum@po.teleway.ne.jpYuval Yarom yval@cs.huji.ac.ilYves Fonk yves@cpcoup5.tn.tudelft.nlYves Fonk yves@dutncp8.tn.tudelft.nlZach Heilig zach@gaffaneys.comZach Zurflu zach@pabst.bendnet.comZahemszhky Gabor zgabor@code.huZhong Ming-Xun zmx@mail.CDPA.nsysu.edu.tw386BSD Patch Kit Patch Contributors(in alphabetical order by first name):Adam Glass glass@postgres.berkeley.eduAdrian Hall ahall@mirapoint.comAndrey A. Chernov ache@astral.msk.suAndrew Herbert andrew@werple.apana.org.auAndrew Moore alm@netcom.comAndy Valencia ajv@csd.mot.comjtk@netcom.comArne Henrik Juul arnej@Lise.Unit.NOBakul Shah bvs@bitblocks.comBarry Lustig barry@ictv.comBob Wilcox bob@obiwan.uucpBranko LankesterBrett Lymn blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AUCharles Hannum mycroft@ai.mit.eduChris G. Demetriou
cgd@postgres.berkeley.eduChris Torek torek@ee.lbl.govChristoph Robitschko
chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.atDaniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.govDave Burgess burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.milDave Rivers rivers@ponds.uucpDavid Dawes dawes@physics.su.OZ.AUDavid Greenman dg@Root.COMEric J. Haug ejh@slustl.slu.eduFelix Gaehtgens
felix@escape.vsse.in-berlin.deFrank Maclachlan fpm@crash.cts.comGary A. Browning gab10@griffcd.amdahl.comGary Howland gary@hotlava.comGeoff Rehmet csgr@alpha.ru.ac.zaGoran Hammarback goran@astro.uu.seGuido van Rooij guido@gvr.orgGuy Antony Halse guy@rucus.ru.ac.zaGuy Harris guy@auspex.comHavard Eidnes
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.noHerb Peyerl hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.caHolger Veit Holger.Veit@gmd.deIshii Masahiro, R. Kym HorsellJ.T. Conklin jtc@cygnus.comJagane D Sundar jagane@netcom.comJames Clark jjc@jclark.comJames Jegers jimj@miller.cs.uwm.eduJames W. DolterJames da Silva jds@cs.umd.edu et alJay Fenlason hack@datacube.comJim Wilson wilson@moria.cygnus.comJörg Lohse
lohse@tech7.informatik.uni-hamburg.deJörg Wunsch
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.deJohn DysonJohn Woods jfw@eddie.mit.eduJordan K. Hubbard jkh@whisker.hubbard.ieJulian Elischer julian@dialix.oz.auJulian Stacey jhs@FreeBSD.orgKarl Dietz Karl.Dietz@triplan.comKarl Lehenbauer karl@NeoSoft.comkarl@one.neosoft.comKeith Bostic bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDUKen HughesKent Talarico kent@shipwreck.tsoft.netKevin Lahey kml%rokkaku.UUCP@mathcs.emory.edukml@mosquito.cis.ufl.eduKonstantinos Konstantinidis kkonstan@duth.grMarc Frajola marc@dev.comMark Tinguely tinguely@plains.nodak.edutinguely@hookie.cs.ndsu.NoDak.eduMartin Renters martin@tdc.on.caMichael Clay mclay@weareb.orgMichael Galassi nerd@percival.rain.comMike Durkin mdurkin@tsoft.sf-bay.orgNaoki Hamada nao@tom-yam.or.jpNate Williams nate@bsd.coe.montana.eduNick Handel nhandel@NeoSoft.comnick@madhouse.neosoft.comPace Willisson pace@blitz.comPaul Kranenburg pk@cs.few.eur.nlPaul Mackerras paulus@cs.anu.edu.auPaul Popelka paulp@uts.amdahl.comPeter da Silva peter@NeoSoft.comPhil Sutherland
philsuth@mycroft.dialix.oz.auPoul-Henning Kamp phk@FreeBSD.orgRalf Friedl friedl@informatik.uni-kl.deRick Macklem root@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.caRobert D. Thrush rd@phoenix.aii.comRodney W. Grimes rgrimes@cdrom.comSascha Wildner swildner@channelz.GUN.deScott Burris scott@pita.cns.ucla.eduScott Reynolds scott@clmqt.marquette.mi.usSeamus Venasse svenasse@polaris.caSean Eric Fagan sef@kithrup.comSimon J Gerraty sjg@melb.bull.oz.ausjg@zen.void.oz.auStephen McKay syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.auTerry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.eduTerry Lee terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.eduTor Egge Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.noWarren Toomey wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.auWiljo Heinen wiljo@freeside.ki.open.deWilliam Jolitz withheldWolfgang Solfrank ws@tools.deWolfgang Stanglmeier wolf@dentaro.GUN.deYuval Yarom yval@cs.huji.ac.il
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Diskless X Server: a how to guideJerryKendalljerry@kcis.com28-December-19961996Jerry KendallWith the help of some friends on the FreeBSD-hackers list, I have
been able to create a diskless X terminal. The creation of the X
terminal required first creating a diskless system with minimal
utilities mounted via NFS. These same steps were used to create 2
separate diskless systems. The first is altair.example.com. A diskless X terminal that I
run on my old 386DX-40. It has a 340Meg hard disk but, I did not want
to change it. So, it boots from antares.example.com across a Ethernet. The second
system is a 486DX2-66. I setup a diskless FreeBSD (complete) that
uses no local disk. The server in that case is a Sun 670MP running
SunOS 4.1.3. The same setup configuration was needed for both.I am sure that there is stuff that needs to be added
to this. Please send me any comments.Creating the boot floppy (On the diskless system)Since the network boot loaders will not work with some of the TSR's
and such that MS-DOS uses, it is best to create a dedicated boot floppy
or, if you can, create an MS-DOS menu that will (via the
config.sys/autoexec.bat files)
ask what configuration to load when the system starts. The later is the
method that I use and it works great. My MS-DOS (6.x) menu is
below.config.sys[menu]
menuitem=normal, normal
menuitem=unix, unix
[normal]
....
normal config.sys stuff
...
[unix]autoexec.bat@ECHO OFF
goto %config%
:normal
...
normal autoexec.bat stuff
...
goto end
:unix
cd \netboot
nb8390.com
:endGetting the network boot programs (On the server)Compile the net-boot programs that are located in
/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot. You should read
the comments at the top of the Makefile. Adjust as
required. Make a backup of the original in case it gets foobar'd. When
the build is done, there should be 2 MS-DOS executables,
nb8390.com and nb3c509.com.
One of these two programs will be what you need to run on the diskless
server. It will load the kernel from the boot server. At this point,
put both programs on the MS-DOS boot floppy created earlier.Determine which program to run (On the diskless system)If you know the chipset that your Ethernet adapter uses, this is
easy. If you have the NS8390 chipset, or a NS8390 based chipset, use
nb8390.com. If you have a 3Com 509 based chipset,
use the nb3C509.com boot program. If you are not
sure which you have, try using one, if it says No adapter
found, try the other. Beyond that, you are pretty much on
your own.Booting across the networkBoot the diskless system with out any config.sys/autoexec.bat
files. Try running the boot program for your Ethernet adapter.My Ethernet adapter is running in WD8013 16bit mode so I run
nb8390.comC:>cd \netboot
-C:>nb8390
+C:>nb8390Boot from Network (Y/N) ?Y
BOOTP/TFTP/NFS bootstrap loader ESC for menu
Searching for adapter..
WD8013EBT base 0x0300, memory 0x000D8000, addr 00:40:01:43:26:66
Searching for server...At this point, my diskless system is trying to find a machine to act
as a boot server. Make note of the addr line above,
you will need this number later. Reset the diskless system and modify
your config.sys and
autoexec.bat files to do these steps automatically
for you. Perhaps in a menu. If you had to run
nb3c509.com instead of nb8390.com
the output is the same as above. If you got No adapter
found at the Searching for adapter...
message, verify that you did indeed set the compile time defines in the
Makefile correctly.Allowing systems to boot across the network (On the server)Make sure the /etc/inetd.conf file has entries
for tftp and bootps. Mine are listed below:tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd /tftpboot
#
# Additions by who ever you are
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/bootpd bootpd /etc/bootptabIf you have to change the /etc/inetd.conf file,
send a HUP signal to inetd. To do this, get the
process ID of inetd with ps -ax | grep inetd | grep -v
grep. Once you have it, send it a HUP signal. Do this by
kill -HUP <pid>. This will force inetd to
re-read its config file.Did you remember to note the addr line from the
output of the boot loader on the diskless system? Guess what, here is
where you need it.Add an entry to /etc/bootptab (maybe creating the
file). It should be laid out identical to this:altair:\
:ht=ether:\
:ha=004001432666:\
:sm=255.255.255.0:\
:hn:\
:ds=199.246.76.1:\
:ip=199.246.76.2:\
:gw=199.246.76.1:\
:vm=rfc1048:The lines are as follows:altairthe diskless systems name without the domain name.ht=etherthe hardware type of ethernet.ha=004001432666the hardware address (the number noted above).sm=255.255.255.0the subnet mask.hntells server to send client's hostname to the
client.ds=199.246.76.1tells the client who the domain server is.ip=199.246.76.2tells the client what its IP address is.gw=199.246.76.1tells the client what the default gateway is.vm=...just leave it there.Be sure to setup the IP addresses correctly, the addresses above
are my own.Create the directory /tftpboot on the server it will contain the
configuration files for the diskless systems that the server will serve.
These files will be named cfg.ip where ip is the IP
address of the diskless system. The config file for altair is
/tftpboot/cfg.199.246.76.2. The contents is:rootfs 199.246.76.1:/DiskLess/rootfs/altair
hostname altair.example.comThe line hostname altair.example.com simply tells
the diskless system what its fully qualified domain name is.The line rootfs
199.246.76.1:/DiskLess/rootfs/altair tells the diskless
system where its NFS mountable root filesystem is located.The NFS mounted root filesystem will be mounted read
only.The hierarchy for the diskless system can be re-mounted allowing
read-write operations if required.I use my spare 386DX-40 as a dedicated X terminal.The hierarchy for altair is:/
/bin
/etc
/tmp
/sbin
/dev
/dev/fd
/usr
/var
/var/runThe actual list of files is:-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 779984 Dec 11 23:44 ./kernel
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 299008 Dec 12 00:22 ./bin/sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 499 Dec 15 15:54 ./etc/rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1411 Dec 11 23:19 ./etc/ttys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 157 Dec 15 15:42 ./etc/hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1569 Dec 15 15:26 ./etc/XF86Config.altair
-r-x------ 1 bin bin 151552 Jun 10 1995 ./sbin/init
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 176128 Jun 10 1995 ./sbin/ifconfig
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 110592 Jun 10 1995 ./sbin/mount_nfs
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 135168 Jun 10 1995 ./sbin/reboot
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 73728 Dec 13 22:38 ./sbin/mount
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1992 Jun 10 1995 ./dev/MAKEDEV.local
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24419 Jun 10 1995 ./dev/MAKEDEVDo not forget to run MAKEDEV all in the
dev directory.My /etc/rc for altair
is:#!/bin/sh
#
PATH=/bin:/
export PATH
#
# configure the localhost
/sbin/ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1
#
# configure the ethernet card
/sbin/ifconfig ed0 199.246.76.2 netmask 0xffffff00
#
# mount the root filesystem via NFS
/sbin/mount antares:/DiskLess/rootfs/altair /
#
# mount the /usr filesystem via NFS
/sbin/mount antares:/DiskLess/usr /usr
#
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA -query antares -xf86config /etc/XF86Config.altair > /dev/null 2>&1
#
# Reboot after X exits
/sbin/reboot
#
# We blew up....
exit 1Any comments and all questions welcome.
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An MH PrimerMattMidboematt@garply.comv1.0, 16 January 1996This document contains an introduction to using MH on
FreeBSDIntroductionMH started back in 1977 at the RAND Corporation, where the
initial philosophies behind MH were developed. MH is not so much
a monolithic email program but a philosophy about how best to
develop tools for reading email. The MH developers have done a
great job adhering to the KISS principle: Keep It
Simple Stupid. Rather than have one large program for reading,
sending and handling email they have written specialized
programs for each part of your email life. One might liken MH to
the specialization that one finds in insects and nature. Each
tool in MH does one thing, and does it very well.Beyond just the various tools that one uses to handle their
email MH has done an excellent job keeping the configuration of
each of these tools consistent and uniform. In fact, if you are
not quite sure how something is supposed to work or what the
arguments for some command are supposed to be then you can
generally guess and be right. Each MH command is consistent
about how it handles reading the configuration files and how it
takes arguments on the command line. One useful thing to
remember is that you can always add a to
the command to have it display the options for that
command.The first thing that you need to do is to make sure that you
have installed the MH package on your FreeBSD machine. If you
installed from CDROM you should be able to execute the following
to load mh:
&prompt.root; pkg_add /cdrom/packages/mh-6.8.3.tgz
You will notice that it created a /usr/local/lib/mh
directory for you as well as adding several binaries to the
/usr/local/bin directory. If you would prefer to
compile it yourself then you can anonymous ftp it from ftp.ics.uci.edu or louie.udel.edu.This primer is not a full comprehensive explanation of how
MH works. This is just intended to get you started on the road
to happier, faster mail reading. You should read the man pages
for the various commands. Also you might want to read the comp.mail.mh newsgroup. Also
you can read the FAQ
for MH. The best resource for MH is the O'Reilly and
Associates book written by Jerry Peek.Reading MailThis section covers how to use inc,
show, scan, next,
prev, rmm, rmf, and
msgchk. One of the best things about MH is the
consistent interface between programs. A few things to keep in
mind when using these commands is how to specify message lists.
In the case of inc this does not really make any
sense but with commands like show it is useful to
know. A message list can consist of something like 23
20 16 which will act on messages 23, 20 and 16. This is
fairly simple but you can do more useful things like
23-30 which will act on all the messages between
23 and 30. You can also specify something like
cur:10 which will act on the current message and
the next 9 messages. The cur, last,
and first messages are special messages that refer
to the current, last or first message in the folder.inc, msgchk—read in your
new email or check itIf you just type in inc and hit
return you will be well on your way to getting
started with MH. The first time you run inc it
will setup your account to use all the MH defaults and ask you
about creating a Mail directory. If you have mail waiting to
be downloaded you will see something that looks like: 29 01/15 Doug White Re: Another Failed to boot problem<<On Mon, 15 J
30 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: FBSD 2.1<<> Do you want a library instead of
31 01/16 Bruce Evans Re: location of bad144 table<<>> >It would appea
32 01/16 "Jordan K. Hubbar Re: video is up<<> Anyway, mrouted won't run, ev
33 01/16 Michael Smith Re: FBSD 2.1<<Nate Williams stands accused of saThis is the same thing you will see from a
scan (see ). If you just run
inc with no arguments it will look on your
computer for email that is supposed to be coming to
you.A lot of people like to use POP for grabbing their email.
MH can do POP to grab your email. You will need to give
inc a few command line arguments.&prompt.user; inc -host mail.pop.org -user username -norpopThat tells inc to go to
mail.pop.org to download your email, and that
your username on their system is username. The
option tells inc to use
plain POP3 for downloading your email. MH has support for a
few different dialects of POP. More than likely you will never
ever need to use them though. While you can do more complex
things with inc such as audit files and scan format files this
will get you going.The msgchk command is used to get information
on whether or not you have new email. msgchk takes
the same and
options that inc takes.show, next and
prev—displaying and moving through
emailshow is to show a letter in your current
folder. Like inc, show is a fairly
straightforward command. If you just type show
and hit return then it displays the current
message. You can also give specific message numbers to
show:&prompt.user; show 32 45 56This would display message numbers 32, 45 and 56 right
after each other. Unless you change the default behavior
show basically just does a more on the
email message.next is used to move onto the next message and
prev will go to the previous message. Both
commands have an implied show command so that when
you go to the next message it automatically displays
it.scan—shows you a scan of your
messagesscan will display a brief listing of the
messages in your current folder. This is an example of what
the scan command will give you. 30+ 01/16 Jordan K. Hubbar Re: FBSD 2.1<<> Do you want a library instead of
31 01/16 Bruce Evans Re: location of bad144 table<<>> >It would appea
32 01/16 Jordan K. Hubbar Re: video is up<<> Anyway, mrouted won't run, ev
33 01/16 Michael Smith Re: FBSD 2.1<<Nate Williams stands accused of saLike just about everything in MH this display is very
configurable. This is the typical default display. It gives
you the message number, the date on the email, the sender, the
subject line, and a sentence fragment from the very beginning
of the email if it can fit it. The + means that
message is the current message, so if you do a
show it will display that message.One useful option for scan is the
option. This will list your messages
with the highest message number first and lowest message
number last. Another useful option with scan is to
have it read from a file. If you want to scan your incoming
mailbox on FreeBSD without having to inc it you
can do scan -file
/var/mail/username. This can be used
with any file that is in the mbox format.rmm and rmf—remove the
current message or folderrmm is used to remove a mail message. The
default is typically to not actually remove the message but to
rename the file to one that is ignored by the MH commands. You
will periodically need to go through and physically delete the
removed messages.The rmf command is used to remove folders.
This does not just rename the files but actually removes the
from the hard drive so you should be careful when you use this
command.A typical session of reading with MHThe first thing that you will want to do is
inc your new mail. So at a shell prompt just type
in inc and hit return.&prompt.user; inc
Incorporating new mail into inbox...
36+ 01/19 Stephen L. Lange Request...<<Please remove me as contact for pind
37 01/19 Matt Thomas Re: kern/950: Two PCI bridge chips fail (multipl
38 01/19 Amancio Hasty Jr Re: FreeBSD and VAT<<>>> Bill Fenner said: > In
&prompt.user;This shows you the new email that has been added to your
mailbox. So the next thing to do is show the email
and move around.&prompt.user; show
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:56:40 +0000
From: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com>
Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk
This is due to a typo in pcireg.h (to
which I am probably the guilty party).The rmm removed the current message and the
next command moved me on to the next message. Now
if I wanted to look at ten most recent messages so I could
read one of them here is what I would do:&prompt.user; scan last:10
26 01/16 maddy Re: Testing some stuff<<yeah, well, Trinity has
27 01/17 Automatic digest NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 16 Jan 1996 to 17 Jan 19
28 01/17 Evans A Criswell Re: Hey dude<<>From matt@tempest.garply.com Tue
29 01/16 Karl Heuer need configure/make volunteers<<The FSF is looki
30 01/18 Paul Stephanouk Re: [alt.religion.scientology] Raw Meat (humor)<
31 01/18 Bill Lenherr Re: Linux NIS Solaris<<--- On Thu, 18 Jan 1996 1
34 01/19 John Fieber Re: Stuff for the email section?<<On Fri, 19 Jan
35 01/19 support@foo.garpl [garply.com #1138] parlor<<Hello. This is the Ne
37+ 01/19 Matt Thomas Re: kern/950: Two PCI bridge chips fail (multipl
38 01/19 Amancio Hasty Jr Re: FreeBSD and VAT<<>>> Bill Fenner said: > In
&prompt.user;Then if I wanted to read message number 27 I would do a
show 27 and it would be displayed. As you can
probably tell from this sample session MH is pretty easy to
use and looking through emails and displaying them is fairly
intuitive and easy.Folders and Mail SearchingAnybody who gets lots of email definitely wants to be able
to prioritize, stamp, brief, de-brief, and number their emails
in a variety of different ways. MH can do this better than just
about anything. One thing that we have not really talked about is
the concept of folders. You have undoubtedly come across the
folders concept using other email programs. MH has folders too.
MH can even do sub-folders of a folder. One thing you should
keep in mind with MH is that when you ran inc for
the first time and it asked you if it could create a
Mail directory it began storing everything in that
directory. If you look at that directory you will find a
directory named inbox. The inbox
directory houses all of your incoming mail that has not been
thrown anywhere else.Whenever you create a new folder a new directory is going to
be created underneath your MH Mail directory, and
messages in that folder are going to be stored in that
directory. When new email comes in that new email is thrown
into your inbox directory with a file name that is
equivalent to the message number. So even if you did not have
any of the MH tools to read your email you could still use
standard Unix commands to munge around in those directories and
just more your files. It is this simplicity that really gives you
a lot of power with what you can do with your email.Just as you can use message lists like 23 16
42 with most MH commands there is a folder option you can
specify with just about every MH command. If you do a
scan +freebsd it will scan your freebsd
folder, and your current folder will be changed to
freebsd. If you do a show +freebsd 23 16
42, show is going to switch to your
freebsd folder and display messages 23, 16 and 42.
So remember that syntax. You
will need to make sure you use it to make commands process
different folders. Remember you default folder for mail is
inbox so doing a folder +inbox should
always get you back to your mail. Of course, in MH's infinite
flexibility this can be changed but most places have probably
left it as inbox.pick—search email that matches certain
criteriapick is one of the more complex commands in
the MH system. So you might want to read the
pick1 man
page for a more thorough understanding. At its simplest level
you can do something like&prompt.user; pick -search pci
15
42
55
56
57This will tell pick to look through every
single line in every message in your current folder and tell
you which message numbers it found the word pci
in. You can then show those messages and read them
if you wish or rmm them. You would have to specify
something like show 15 42 55-57 to display them
though. A slightly more useful thing to do is this:&prompt.user; pick -search pci -seq pick
5 hits
&prompt.user; show pickThis will show you the same messages you just did not have
to work as hard to do it. The option is
really an abbreviation of and
pick is just a sequence which contains the message
numbers that matched. You can use sequences with just about
any MH command. So you could have done an rmm pick
and all those messages would be removed instead. You sequence
can be named anything. If you run pick again it will overwrite
the old sequence if you use the same name.Doing a pick -search can be a bit more
time consuming than just searching for message from someone,
or to someone. So pick allows you to use the
following predefined search criteria:search based upon who the message is tosearch based on who is in the cc listsearch for who sent the messagesearch for emails with this subjectfind emails with a matching datsearch for any other component in the header. (i.e.
to find all emails with a certain
reply-to in the header)This allows you to do things like
&prompt.user; pick -to freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org -seq hackers
to get a list of all the email send to the FreeBSD hackers
mailing list. pick also allows you to group these
criteria in different ways using the following options:… …
- … &hellip
+ … … … …
These commands allow you to do things like&prompt.user; pick -to freebsd-hackers -or -cc freebsd-hackersThat will grab all the email in your inbox that was sent
to freebsd-hackers or cc'd to that list. The brace options
allow you to group search criteria together. This is sometimes
very necessary as in the following example&prompt.user; pick -lbrace -to freebsd-hackers -and
-not -cc freebsd-questions -rbrace -and -subject pciBasically this says pick (to freebsd-hackers and
not cc'd on freebsd-questions) and the subject is
pci. It should look through your folder and find
all messages sent to the freebsd-hackers list that are not cc'd
to the freebsd-questions list that contain something on pci in
the subject line. Ordinarily you might have to worry about
something called operator precedence. Remember in math how you
evaluate from left to right and you do multiplication and
division first and addition and subtraction second? MH has the
same type of rules for pick. It is fairly complex
so you might want to study the man page. This document is just
to help you get acquainted with MH.folder, folders,
refile—three useful programs for folder
maintenanceThere are three programs which are primarily just for
manipulating your folders. The folder program is
used to switch between folders, pack them, and list them. At
its simplest level you can do a folder
+newfolder and you will be switched into
newfolder. From there on out all your MH
commands like comp, repl,
scan, and show will act on that
newfolder folder.Sometimes when you are reading and deleting messages you
will develop holes in your folders. If you do a
scan you might just see messages 34, 35, 36, 43,
55, 56, 57, 80. If you do a folder -pack
this will renumber all your messages so that there are no
holes. It does not actually delete any messages though. So you
may need to periodically go through and physically delete
rmm'd messages.If you need statistics on your folders you can do a
folders or folder -all to list
all your folders, how many messages they have, what the
current message is in each one and so on. This line of stats
it displays for all your folders is the same one you get when
you change to a folder with folder +foldername. A
folders command looks like this: Folder # of messages ( range ); cur msg (other files)
announce has 1 message ( 1- 1).
drafts has no messages.
f-hackers has 43 messages ( 1- 43).
f-questions has 16 messages ( 1- 16).
inbox+ has 35 messages ( 1- 38); cur= 37.
lists has 8 messages ( 1- 8).
netfuture has 1 message ( 1- 1).
out has 31 messages ( 1- 31).
personal has 6 messages ( 1- 6).
todo has 58 messages ( 1- 58); cur= 1.
TOTAL= 199 messages in 13 folders.The refile command is what you use to move
messages between folders. When you do something like
refile 23 +netfuture message number 23 is moved
into the netfuture folder. You could also do
something like refile 23 +netfuture/latest which
would put message number 23 in a subfolder called
latest under the netfuture folder.
If you want to keep a message in the current folder and link
it you can do a refile -link 23 +netfuture
which would keep 23 in your current inbox but
also list in your netfuture folder. You are
probably beginning to realize some of the really powerful
things you can do with MH.Sending MailEmail is a two way street for most people so you want to be
able to send something back. The way MH handles sending mail can
be a bit difficult to follow at first, but it allows for
incredible flexibility. The first thing MH does is to copy a
components file into your outgoing email. A components file is
basically a skeleton email letter with stuff like the To: and
Subject: headers already in it. You are then sent into your
editor where you fill in the header information and then type
the body of your message below the dashed lines in the message.
Then to the whatnow program. When you are at the
What now? prompt you can tell it to
send, list, edit,
edit, push, and quit. Most
of these commands are self-explanatory. So the message sending
process involves copying a component file, editing your email,
and then telling the whatnow program what to do with
your email.comp, forw,
reply—compose, forward or reply to a message
to someoneThe comp program has a few useful command line
options. The most important one to know right now is the
option. When MH is installed the
default editor is usually a program called
prompter which comes with MH. It is not a very
exciting editor and basically just gets the job done. So when
you go to compose a message to someone you might want to use
comp -editor /usr/bin/vi or comp -editor
/usr/local/bin/pico instead. Once you have run
comp you are in your editor and you see
something that looks like this:To:
cc:
Subject:
--------You need to put the person you are sending the mail to
after the To: line. It works the same way for the
other headers also, so you would need to put your subject
after the Subject: line. Then you would just put
the body of your message after the dashed lines. It may seem a
bit simplistic since a lot of email programs have special
requesters that ask you for this information but there really
is no point to that. Plus this really gives you excellent
flexibility.To:freebsd-rave@FreeBSD.org
cc:
Subject:And on the 8th day God created the FreeBSD core team
--------
Wow this is an amazing operating system. Thanks!You can now save this message and exit your editor. You
will see the What now? prompt and you can type in
send or s and hit
return. Then the FreeBSD core team will receive
their just rewards. As I mentioned earlier you can also use
other commands, for example quit if you do not want
to send the message.The forw command is stunningly similar. The
big difference being that the message you are forwarding is
automatically included in the outgoing message. When you run
forw it will forward your current message. You can
always tell it to forward something else by doing something
like forw 23 and then message number 23 will be
put in your outgoing message instead of the current message.
Beyond those small differences forw functions
exactly the same as comp. You go through the exact
same message sending process.The repl command will reply to whatever your
current message is, unless you give it a different message to
reply to. repl will do its best to go ahead and
fill in some of the email headers already. So you will notice
that the To: header already has the address of the
recipient in there. Also the Subject: line will
already be filled in. You then go about the normal message
composition process and you are done. One useful command line
option to know here is the option. You
can use all, to, cc,
me after the option to have
repl automatically add the various addresses to
the cc list in the message. You have probably noticed that the
original message is not included. This is because most MH
setups are configured to do this from the start.components, and
replcomps—components files for
comp and replThe components file is usually in
/usr/local/lib/mh. You can copy that file
into your MH Mail directory and edit to contain what you want
it to contain. It is a fairly basic file. You have various
email headers at the top, a dashed line and then nothing. The
comp command just copies this
components file and then edits it. You can add
any kind of valid RFC822 header you want. For instance you
could have something like this in your components
file:To:
Fcc: out
Subject:
X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3
X-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/
-------MH would then copy this components file and throw you into
your editor. The components file is fairly
simple. If you wanted to have a signature on those messages
you would just put your signature in that
components file.The replcomps file is a bit more complex. The
default replcomps looks like this:%(lit)%(formataddr %<{reply-to}%?{from}%?{sender}%?{return-path}%>)\
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr To: )\n%>\
%(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(me))\
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>\
%<{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%>\
%<{subject}Subject: Re: %{subject}\n%>\
%<{date}In-reply-to: Your message of "\
%<(nodate{date})%{date}%|%(pretty{date})%>."%<{message-id}
%{message-id}%>\n%>\
--------It is in the same basic format as the
components file but it contains quite a few extra
formatting codes. The %(lit) command makes room
for the address. The %(formataddr is a function
that returns a proper email address. The next part is
%< which means if and the
{reply-to} means the reply-to field in the
original message. So that might be translated this way:%<if {reply-to} the original message has a reply-to
then give that to formataddr, %? else {from} take the
from address, %? else {sender} take the sender address, %?
else {return-path} take the return-path from the original
message, %> endif.As you can tell MH formatting can get rather involved. You
can probably decipher what most of the other functions and
variables mean. All of the information on writing these format
strings is in the MH-Format man page. The really nice thing is
that once you have built your customized
replcomps file you will not need to touch it again.
No other email program really gives you the power and
flexibility that MH gives you.
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Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating SystemsJayRichmondjayrich@sysc.com6 August 1996This document discusses how to make FreeBSD coexist nicely
with other popular operating systems such as Linux, MS-DOS,
OS/2, and Windows 95. Special thanks to: Annelise Anderson
andrsn@stanford.edu, Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com, and Jordan K. Hubbard
jkh@time.cdrom.comOverviewMost people can not fit these operating systems together
comfortably without having a larger hard disk, so special
information on large EIDE drives is included. Because there are
so many combinations of possible operating systems and hard disk
configurations, the section may be of the
most use to you. It contains descriptions of specific working
computer setups that use multiple operating systems.This document assumes that you have already made room on
your hard disk for an additional operating system. Any time you
repartition your hard drive, you run the risk of destroying the
data on the original partitions. However, if your hard drive is
completely occupied by DOS, you might find the FIPS utility
(included on the FreeBSD CDROM in the
\TOOLS directory or via ftp)
useful. It lets you repartition your hard disk without
destroying the data already on it. There is also a commercial
program available called Partition Magic, which lets you size
and delete partitions without consequence.Overview of Boot ManagersThese are just brief descriptions of some of the different
boot managers you may encounter. Depending on your computer
setup, you may find it useful to use more than one of them on
the same system.Boot EasyThis is the default boot manager used with FreeBSD.
It has the ability to boot most anything, including BSD,
OS/2 (HPFS), Windows 95 (FAT and FAT32), and Linux.
Partitions are selected with the function keys.OS/2 Boot ManagerThis will boot FAT, HPFS, FFS (FreeBSD), and EXT2
(Linux). It will also boot FAT32 partitions. Partitions
are selected using arrow keys. The OS/2 Boot Manager is
the only one to use its own separate partition, unlike the
others which use the master boot record (MBR). Therefore,
it must be installed below the 1024th cylinder to avoid
booting problems. It can boot Linux using LILO when it is
part of the boot sector, not the MBR. Go to Linux
HOWTOs on the World Wide Web for more
information on booting Linux with OS/2's boot
manager.OS-BSThis is an alternative to Boot Easy. It gives you more
control over the booting process, with the ability to set
the default partition to boot and the booting timeout.
The beta version of this programs allows you to boot by
selecting the OS with your arrow keys. It is included on
the FreeBSD CD in the \TOOLS
directory, and via ftp.LILO, or LInux LOaderThis is a limited boot manager. It will boot FreeBSD,
though some customization work is required in the LILO
configuration file.About FAT32FAT32 is the replacement to the FAT filesystem included in
Microsoft's OEM SR2 Beta release, which started replacing FAT
on computers pre-loaded with Windows 95 towards the
end of 1996. It converts the normal FAT file system and
allows you to use smaller cluster sizes for larger hard
drives. FAT32 also modifies the traditional FAT boot sector
and allocation table, making it incompatible with some boot
managers.A Typical InstallationLet's say I have two large EIDE hard drives, and I want to
install FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows 95 on them.Here is how I might do it using these hard disks:/dev/wd0 (first physical hard disk)/dev/wd1 (second hard disk)Both disks have 1416 cylinders.I boot from a MS-DOS or Windows 95 boot disk that
contains the FDISK.EXE utility and make a small
50 meg primary partition (35-40 for Windows 95, plus a
little breathing room) on the first disk. Also create a
larger partition on the second hard disk for my Windows
applications and data.I reboot and install Windows 95 (easier said than done)
on the C: partition.The next thing I do is install Linux. I am not sure
about all the distributions of Linux, but slackware includes
LILO (see ). When I am partitioning out
my hard disk with Linux fdisk, I would
put all of Linux on the first drive (maybe 300 megs for a
nice root partition and some swap space).After I install Linux, and are prompted about installing
LILO, make SURE that I install it on the boot sector of my
root Linux partition, not in the MBR (master boot
record).The remaining hard disk space can go to FreeBSD. I also
make sure that my FreeBSD root slice does not go beyond the
1024th cylinder. (The 1024th cylinder is 528 megs into the
disk with our hypothetical 720MB disks). I will use the
rest of the hard drive (about 270 megs) for the
/usr and / slices if I wish. The
rest of the second hard disk (size depends on the amount of
my Windows application/data partition that I created in step
1 can go to the /usr/src slice and swap
space.When viewed with the Windows 95 fdisk
utility, my hard drives should now look something like this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Display Partition Information
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume_Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 50 FAT** 7%
2 A Non-DOS (Linux) 300 43%
Total disk space is 696 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes)
Press Esc to continue
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Display Partition Information
Current fixed disk drive: 2
Partition Status Type Volume_Label Mbytes System Usage
D: 1 A PRI DOS 420 FAT** 60%
Total disk space is 696 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes)
Press Esc to continue
---------------------------------------------------------------------
** May say FAT16 or FAT32 if you are using the OEM SR2
update. See ).Install FreeBSD. I make sure to boot with my first hard
disk set at NORMAL in the BIOS. If it is not,
I will have the enter my true disk geometry at boot time (to
get this, boot Windows 95 and consult Microsoft Diagnostics
(MSD.EXE), or check your BIOS) with the
parameter hd0=1416,16,63 where
1416 is the number of cylinders on my hard
disk, 16 is the number of heads per track,
and 63 is the number of sectors per track on
the drive.When partitioning out the hard disk, I make sure to
install Boot Easy on the first disk. I do not worry about
the second disk, nothing is booting off of it.When I reboot, Boot Easy should recognize my three
bootable partitions as DOS (Windows 95), Linux, and BSD
(FreeBSD).Special ConsiderationsMost operating systems are very picky about where and how
they are placed on the hard disk. Windows 95 and DOS need to be
on the first primary partition on the first hard disk. OS/2 is
the exception. It can be installed on the first or second disk
in a primary or extended partition. If you are not sure, keep
the beginning of the bootable partitions below the 1024th
cylinder.If you install Windows 95 on an existing BSD system, it will
destroy the MBR, and you will have to reinstall your
previous boot manager. Boot Easy can be reinstalled by using
the BOOTINST.EXE utility included in the \TOOLS directory on the
CDROM, and via ftp.
You can also re-start the installation process and go to the
partition editor. From there, mark the FreeBSD partition as
bootable, select Boot Manager, and then type W to (W)rite out
the information to the MBR. You can now reboot, and Boot Easy
should then recognize Windows 95 as DOS.Please keep in mind that OS/2 can read FAT and HPFS
partitions, but not FFS (FreeBSD) or EXT2 (Linux) partitions.
Likewise, Windows 95 can only read and write to FAT and FAT32
(see ) partitions. FreeBSD can read most
file systems, but currently cannot read HPFS partitions. Linux
can read HPFS partitions, but can not write to them. Recent
versions of the Linux kernel (2.x) can read and write to Windows
95 VFAT partitions (VFAT is what gives Windows 95 long file
names - it is pretty much the same as FAT). Linux can read and
write to most file systems. Got that? I hope so.Examples(section needs work, please send your example to
jayrich@sysc.com).FreeBSD+Win95: If you installed FreeBSD after Windows 95,
you should see DOS on the Boot Easy menu. This is
Windows 95. If you installed Windows 95 after FreeBSD, read
above. As long as your hard disk does not
have 1024 cylinders you should not have a problem booting. If
one of your partitions goes beyond the 1024th cylinder however,
and you get messages like invalid system disk
under DOS (Windows 95) and FreeBSD will not boot, try looking
for a setting in your BIOS called > 1024 cylinder
support or NORMAL/LBA mode. DOS may need LBA
(Logical Block Addressing) in order to boot correctly. If the
idea of switching BIOS settings every time you boot up does not
appeal to you, you can boot FreeBSD through DOS via the
FBSDBOOT.EXE utility on the CD (It should find your
FreeBSD partition and boot it.)FreeBSD+OS/2+Win95: Nothing new here. OS/2's boot manger
can boot all of these operating systems, so that should not be a
problem.FreeBSD+Linux: You can also use Boot Easy to boot both
operating systems.FreeBSD+Linux+Win95: (see )Other Sources of HelpThere are many Linux
HOW-TOs that deal with multiple operating systems on
the same hard disk.The Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2
mini-HOWTO offers help on configuring the OS/2 boot
manager, and the Linux+FreeBSD
mini-HOWTO might be interesting as well. The Linux-HOWTO
is also helpful.The NT
Loader Hacking Guide provides good information on
multibooting Windows NT, '95, and DOS with other operating
systems.
]]>
And Hale Landis's How It Works document pack contains some
good info on all sorts of disk geometry and booting related
topics. You can find it at
ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/otherdocs/pc_systems/how_it_works/allhiw.zip.Finally, do not overlook FreeBSD's kernel documentation on
the booting procedure, available in the kernel source
distribution (it unpacks to file:/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.386BSD.Technical Details(Contributed by Randall Hopper,
rhh@ct.picker.com)This section attempts to give you enough basic information
about your hard disks and the disk booting process so that you
can troubleshoot most problems you might encounter when getting
set up to boot several operating systems. It starts in pretty
basic terms, so you may want to skim down in this section until
it begins to look unfamiliar and then start reading.Disk PrimerThree fundamental terms are used to describe the location
of data on your hard disk: Cylinders, Heads, and Sectors.
It is not particularly important to know what these terms
relate to except to know that, together, they identify where
data is physically on your disk.Your disk has a particular number of cylinders, number of
heads, and number of sectors per cylinder-head (a
cylinder-head also known nown as a track). Collectively this
information defines the physical disk geometry for your hard
disk. There are typically 512 bytes per sector, and 63
sectors per track, with the number of cylinders and heads
varying widely from disk to disk. Thus you can figure the
number of bytes of data that will fit on your own disk by
calculating:(# of cylinders) × (# heads) × (63
sectors/track) × (512 bytes/sect)For example, on my 1.6 Gig Western Digital AC31600 EIDE hard
disk, that is:(3148 cyl) × (16 heads) × (63
- sectors/track) × (512 bytes/sect)
+ sectors/track) × (512 bytes/sect)
which is 1,624,670,208 bytes, or around 1.6 Gig.You can find out the physical disk geometry (number of
cylinders, heads, and sectors/track counts) for your hard
disks using ATAID or other programs off the net. Your hard
disk probably came with this information as well. Be careful
though: if you are using BIOS LBA (see ), you can not use just any program to get
the physical geometry. This is because many programs (e.g.
MSD.EXE or FreeBSD fdisk) do not identify the
physical disk geometry; they instead report the
translated geometry (virtual numbers from using
LBA). Stay tuned for what that means.One other useful thing about these terms. Given 3
numbers—a cylinder number, a head number, and a
sector-within-track number—you identify a specific
absolute sector (a 512 byte block of data) on your disk.
Cylinders and Heads are numbered up from 0, and Sectors are
numbered up from 1.For those that are interested in more technical details,
information on disk geometry, boot sectors, BIOSes, etc. can
be found all over the net. Query Lycos, Yahoo, etc. for
boot sector or master boot record.
Among the useful info you will find are Hale Landis's
How It Works document pack. See the section for a few pointers to this
pack.Ok, enough terminology. We are talking about booting
here.The Booting ProcessOn the first sector of your disk (Cyl 0, Head 0, Sector 1)
lives the Master Boot Record (MBR). It contains a map of your
disk. It identifies up to 4 partitions, each of
which is a contiguous chunk of that disk. FreeBSD calls
partitions slices to avoid confusion with its
own partitions, but we will not do that here. Each partition can
contain its own operating system.Each partition entry in the MBR has a Partition
ID, a Start Cylinder/Head/Sector, and an
End Cylinder/Head/Sector. The Partition ID
tells what type of partition it is (what OS) and the Start/End
tells where it is. lists a
smattering of some common Partition IDs.
Partition IDsID (hex)Description01Primary DOS12 (12-bit FAT)04Primary DOS16 (16-bit FAT)05Extended DOS06Primary big DOS (> 32MB)0AOS/283Linux (EXT2FS)A5FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD (UFS)
Note that not all partitions are bootable (e.g. Extended
DOS). Some are—some are not. What makes a partition
bootable is the configuration of the Partition Boot
Sector that exists at the beginning of each
partition.When you configure your favorite boot manager, it looks up
the entries in the MBR partition tables of all your hard disks
and lets you name the entries in that list. Then when you
boot, the boot manager is invoked by special code in the
Master Boot Sector of the first probed hard disk on your
system. It looks at the MBR partition table entry
corresponding to the partition choice you made, uses the Start
Cylinder/Head/Sector information for that partition, loads up
the Partition Boot Sector for that partition, and gives it
control. That Boot Sector for the partition itself contains
enough information to start loading the operating system on
that partition.One thing we just brushed past that is important to know.
All of your hard disks have MBRs. However, the one that is
important is the one on the disk that is first probed by the
BIOS. If you have only IDE hard disks, its the first IDE disk
(e.g. primary disk on first controller). Similarly for SCSI
only systems. If you have both IDE and SCSI hard disks
though, the IDE disk is typically probed first by the BIOS, so
the first IDE disk is the first probed disk. The boot manager
you will install will be hooked into the MBR on this first
probed hard disk that we have just described.Booting Limitations and WarningsNow the interesting stuff that you need to watch out
for.The dreaded 1024 cylinder limit and how BIOS LBA helpsThe first part of the booting process is all done
through the BIOS, (if that is a new term to you, the BIOS is
a software chip on your system motherboard which provides
startup code for your computer). As such, this first part
of the process is subject to the limitations of the BIOS
interface.The BIOS interface used to read the hard disk during
this period (INT 13H, Subfunction 2) allocates 10 bits to
the Cylinder Number, 8 bits to the Head Number, and 6 bits
to the Sector Number. This restricts users of this
interface (i.e. boot managers hooked into your disk's MBR as
well as OS loaders hooked into the Boot Sectors) to the
following limits:1024 cylinders, max256 heads, max64 sectors/track, max (actually 63, 0
is not available)Now big hard disks have lots of cylinders but not a lot
of heads, so invariably with big hard disks the number of
cylinders is greater than 1024. Given this and the BIOS
interface as is, you can not boot off just anywhere on your
hard disk. The boot code (the boot manager and the OS
loader hooked into all bootable partitions' Boot Sectors)
has to reside below cylinder 1024. In fact, if your hard
disk is typical and has 16 heads, this equates to:1024 cyl/disk × 16 heads/disk × 63
sect/(cyl-head) × 512 bytes/sectorwhich is around the often-mentioned 528MB limit.This is where BIOS LBA (Logical Block Addressing) comes
in. BIOS LBA gives the user of the BIOS API calls access to
physical cylinders above 1024 though the BIOS interfaces by
redefining a cylinder. That is, it remaps your cylinders
and heads, making it appear through the BIOS as though the
disk has fewer cylinders and more heads than it actually
does. In other words, it takes advantage of the fact that
hard disks have relatively few heads and lots of cylinders
by shifting the balance between number of cylinders and
number of heads so that both numbers lie below the
above-mentioned limits (1024 cylinders, 256 heads).With BIOS LBA, the hard disk size limitation is
virtually removed (well, pushed up to 8 Gigabytes anyway).
If you have an LBA BIOS, you can put FreeBSD or any OS
anywhere you want and not hit the 1024 cylinder
limit.To use my 1.6 Gig Western Digital as an example again,
its physical geometry is:(3148 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 512
bytes/sector)However, my BIOS LBA remaps this to:(787 cyl, 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 512
bytes/sector)giving the same effective size disk, but with cylinder
and head counts within the BIOS API's range (Incidentally, I
have both Linux and FreeBSD existing on one of my hard disks
above the 1024th physical cylinder, and both operating
systems boot fine, thanks to BIOS LBA).Boot Managers and Disk AllocationAnother gotcha to watch out when installing boot
managers is allocating space for your boot manager. It is
best to be aware of this issue up front to save yourself
from having to reinstall one or more of your OSs.If you followed the discussion in about the Master Boot Sector (where the
MBR is), Partition Boot Sectors, and the booting process,
you may have been wondering just exactly where on your hard
disk that nifty boot manager is going to live. Well, some
boot managers are small enough to fit entirely within the
Master Boot Sector (Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 0) along with
the partition table. Others need a bit more room and
actually extend a few sectors past the Master Boot Sector in
the Cylinder 0 Head 0 track, since that is typically
free…typically.That is the catch. Some operating systems (FreeBSD
included) let you start their partitions right after the
Master Boot Sector at Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 2 if you
want. In fact, if you give FreeBSD's sysinstall a disk with
an empty chunk up front or the whole disk empty, that is
where it will start the FreeBSD partition by default (at least
it did when I fell into this trap). Then when you go to
install your boot manager, if it is one that occupies a few
extra sectors after the MBR, it will overwrite the front of
the first partition's data. In the case of FreeBSD, this
overwrites the disk label, and renders your FreeBSD
partition unbootable.The easy way to avoid this problem (and leave yourself
the flexibility to try different boot managers later) is
just to always leave the first full track on your disk
unallocated when you partition your disk. That is, leave
the space from Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 2 through Cylinder
0, Head 0, Sector 63 unallocated, and start your first
partition at Cylinder 0, Head 1, Sector 1. For what it is
worth, when you create a DOS partition at the front of your
disk, DOS leaves this space open by default (this is why
some boot managers assume it is free). So creating a DOS
partition up at the front of your disk avoids this problem
altogether. I like to do this myself, creating 1 Meg DOS
partition up front, because it also avoids my primary DOS
drive letters shifting later when I repartition.For reference, the following boot managers use the
Master Boot Sector to store their code and data:OS-BS 1.35Boot EasyLILOThese boot managers use a few additional sectors after
the Master Boot Sector:OS-BS 2.0 Beta 8 (sectors 2-5)OS/2's boot managerWhat if your machine will not boot?At some point when installing boot managers, you might
leave the MBR in a state such that your machine will not boot.
This is unlikely, but possible when re-FDISKing underneath
an already-installed boot manager.If you have a bootable DOS partition on your disk, you
can boot off a DOS floppy, and run:A:\> FDISK /MBRto put the original, simple DOS boot code back into the
system. You can then boot DOS (and DOS only) off the hard
drive. Alternatively, just re-run your boot manager
installation program off a bootable floppy.
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The Release Engineering of Third Party Packages'>
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FreeBSD Release EngineeringNovember 2001BSDCon EuropeMurrayStokelyI've been involved in the development of FreeBSD based products
since 1997 at Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDi, and now Wind River Systems.
FreeBSD 4.4 was the first official release of FreeBSD that I played
a significant part in.murray@FreeBSD.orghttp://www.FreeBSD.org/~murray$FreeBSD$This paper describes the approach used by the FreeBSD
release engineering team to make production quality releases
of the FreeBSD Operating System. It details the methodology
used for the release of FreeBSD 4.4 and describes the tools
available for those interested in producing customized FreeBSD
releases for corporate rollouts or commercial
productization.IntroductionThe development of FreeBSD is a very open process. FreeBSD is
comprised of contributions from thousands of people around the
world. The FreeBSD Project provides anonymous
CVS[1] access to the general public so that
others can have access to log messages, diffs (patches) between
development branches, and other productivity enhancements that
formal source code management provides. This has been a huge help
in attracting more talented developers to FreeBSD. However, I
think everyone would agree that chaos would soon manifest if write
access was opened up to everyone on the Internet. Therefore only
a select group of nearly 300 people are given write
access to the CVS repository. These
committers[6] are responsible for the bulk of
FreeBSD development. An elected core-team[7]
of very senior developers provides some level of direction over
the project.The rapid pace of FreeBSD development leaves little time
for polishing the development system into a production quality
release. To solve this dilemma, development continues on two
parallel tracks. The main development branch is the
HEAD or trunk of our CVS
tree, known as FreeBSD-CURRENT or
-CURRENT for short.A more stable branch is maintained, known as
FreeBSD-STABLE or -STABLE for short.
Both branches live in a master CVS repository in California and
are replicated via CVSup[2] to mirrors all over the
world. FreeBSD-CURRENT[8] is the bleeding-edge of
FreeBSD development where all new changes first enter the system.
FreeBSD-STABLE is the development branch from which major releases
are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and
with general assumption that they have first gone into
FreeBSD-CURRENT and have been thoroughly tested by our user
community.In the interim period between releases, nightly snapshots are
built automatically by the FreeBSD Project build machines and made
available for download from ftp://stable.FreeBSD.org/. The
widespread availability of binary release snapshots, and the
tendency of our user community to keep up with -STABLE development
with CVSup and makeworld[8] helps to keep
FreeBSD-STABLE in a very reliable condition even before the
quality assurance activities ramp up pending a major
release.Bug reports and feature requests are continuously submitted by
users throughout the release cycle. Problems reports are entered into our
GNATS[9] database
- through email, the &man.send-pr.1 application, or via the web
+ through email, the &man.send-pr.1; application, or via the web
interface provided at
In addition to the multitude of different technical mailing lists
about FreeBSD, the &a.qa; provides a forum for discussing the finer
points of release-polishing.To service our most conservative users, individual release
branches were introduced with FreeBSD 4.3.
These release branches are created shortly before a final release
is made. After the release goes out, only the most critical
security fixes and additions are merged onto the release branch.
In addition to source updates via CVS, binary patchkits are
available to keep systems on the RELENG_4_3
and RELENG_4_4 branches updated.Section 2 discusses the
different phases of the release engineering process leading up to
the actual system build and section
3 describes the actual build process. Section 4 describes how the base
release may be extended by third parties and section 5 details some of the
lessons learned through the release of FreeBSD 4.4. Finally,
section 6 presents future directions
of development.Release ProcessNew releases of FreeBSD are released from the -STABLE branch
at approximately four month intervals. The FreeBSD release
process begins to ramp up 45 days before the anticipated release
date when the release engineer sends an email to the development
mailing lists to remind developers that they only have 15 days to
integrate new changes before the code freeze. During this time,
many developers perform what have become know as MFC
sweeps. MFC stands for Merge
From CURRENT and it describes the process of merging a
tested change from our -CURRENT development branch to our -STABLE
branch.Code ReviewThirty days before the anticipated release, the source
repository enters a code slush. During this
time, all commits to the -STABLE branch must be approved by the
&a.re;. The kinds of changes that are allowed during this 15 day
period include:Bug fixes.Documentation updates.Security-related fixes of any kind.Minor changes to device drivers, such as adding new Device
IDs.Any additional change that the release engineering team feels
is justified, given the potential risk.After the first 15 days of the code slush, a
release candidate is released for
widespread testing and the code enters a code
freeze where it becomes much harder to justify new
changes to the system unless a serious bug-fix or security issue
is involved. During the code freeze, at least one release
candidate is released per week, until the final release is
ready. During the days leading to the final release, the
release engineering team is in constant communication with the
security-officer team, the documentation maintainers, and the
port maintainers, to ensure that all of the
different components required for a successful release are
available.Final Release ChecklistWhen several release candidates have been made available for
widespread testing and all major issues have been resolved, the
final release polishing can begin.Creating the Release BranchAs described in the introduction, the RELENG_X_Y release
branch is a relatively new addition to our release engineering
methodology. The first step in creating this branch is to
ensure that you are working with the newest version of the
RELENG_X sources that you want to branch
from./usr/src&prompt.root; cvs up -rRELENG_4 -P -dThe next step is to create a branch point
tag, so that diffs against the start of
the branch are easier with CVS:/usr/src&prompt.root; cvs rtag -rRELENG_4 RELENG_4_4_BP srcAnd then a new branch tag is created with:/usr/src&prompt.root; cvs rtag -b -rRELENG_4_4_BP RELENG_4_4 srcThe RELENG_* tags are
restricted for use by the CVS-meisters and release
engineers.A tag is CVS
vernacular for a label that identifies the source at a specific point
in time. By tagging the tree, we ensure that future release builders
will always be able to use the same source we used to create the
official FreeBSD Project releases.
&branches.ascii;
FreeBSD Development BranchesBumping up the Version NumberBefore the final release can be tagged, built, and
released, the following files need to be modified to reflect
the correct version of FreeBSD:doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
doc/share/sgml/freebsd.entsrc/Makefile.incsrc/UPDATINGsrc/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/mdoc.localsrc/release/Makefilesrc/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/release.dslsrc/release/doc/share/examples/Makefile.relnotesngsrc/release/doc/share/sgml/release.entsrc/sys/conf/newvers.shsrc/sys/sys/param.hwww/en/releases/*www/en/docs.sgmlThe release notes and errata files also need to be adjusted for the
new release (on the release branch) and truncated appropriately
(on the stable/current branch):src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml
Sysinstall should be updated to note
the number of available ports and the amount of disk space required
for the Ports Collection. This information is currently kept in
src/release/sysinstall/dist.c.Creating Release TagsWhen the final release is ready, the following command
will create the RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE
tag.
/usr/src&prompt.root; cvs rtag -rRELENG_4_4 RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE srcThe Documentation and Ports managers are responsible for
tagging the respective trees with the RELEASE_4_4_0
tag.Occasionally, a last minute fix may be required
after the final tags have been created.
In practice this isn't a problem, since CVS
allows tags to be manipulated with cvs
tag -d tagname filename.
It is very important that any last minute changes be tagged
appropriately as part of the release. FreeBSD releases must
always be reproduceable. Local hacks in the release
engineer's environment are not acceptable.Release BuildingFreeBSD releases can be built by anyone with a
fast machine and access to a source repository. (That should be
everyone, since we offer anonymous CVS! See The Handbook for
details.). The only special requirement is
that the vn (On -CURRENT, this
device has been replaced by the new md
memory disk driver .) device must be available. If the
device is not loaded into your kernel, then the kernel module
should be automatically loaded when &man.vnconfig.8; is executed
during the boot media creation phase. All of the tools necessary
to build a release are available from the CVS repository in
src/release. These tools aim to provide a
consistent way to build FreeBSD releases. A complete release can
actually be built with only a single command, including the
creation of ISO images suitable for burning to
CDROM, installation floppies, and an FTP install directory. This
command is aptly named make
release.make releaseTo successfully build a release, you must first populate
/usr/obj by running make
world or simply
make
buildworld. The release
target requires several variables be set properly to build a
release:CHROOTDIR - The directory to be used as the
chroot environment for the entire release build.BUILDNAME - The name of the release to be
built.CVSROOT - The location of a CVS Repository.
RELEASETAG - The CVS tag corresponding to the
release you would like to build.If you do not already have access to a local CVS
repository, then you may mirror one with CVSup.
The supplied supfile,
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile, is
a useful starting point for mirroring the CVS
repository.If RELEASETAG is omitted, then the
release will be built from the HEAD (a.k.a. -CURRENT) branch.
Releases built from this branch are normally referred to as
-CURRENT snapshots.There are many other variables available to customize the
release build. Most of these variables are documented at the
top of src/release/Makefile. The exact
command used to build the official FreeBSD 4.4 (x86) release
was:make release CHROOTDIR=/local3/release \
BUILDNAME=4.4-RELEASE \
CVSROOT=/host/cvs/usr/home/ncvs \
RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASEThe release Makefile can be broken down into several distinct
steps.Creation of a sanitized system environment in a separate
directory hierarchy with make
installworld.
Checkout from CVS of a clean version of the system source,
documentation, and ports into the release build hierarchy.Population of /etc and
/dev in the chrooted
environment.chroot into the release build hierarchy, to make it harder for
the outside environment to taint this build.make world
in the chrooted environment.Build of Kerberos-related binaries.Build GENERIC kernel.Creation of a staging directory tree where the binary
distributions will be built and packaged.Build and installation of the documentation toolchain needed to
convert the documentation source (SGML) into HTML and text documents
that will accompany the release.Build and installation of the actual documentation
(user manuals, tutorials, release notes, hardware compatibility lists,
and so on.)Build of the crunched binaries used for
installation floppies.Package up distribution tarballs of the binaries and sources.
Create the boot media and a fixit floppy.Create FTP installation hierarchy.(optionally) Create ISO images for
CDROM/DVD media.For more information about the release build infrastructure,
please see &man.release.7;.Building XFree86XFree86 is an important component for many desktop users.
The easiest way to build XFree86 is to use the
src/release/scripts/X11/build_x.sh script.
This script requires that XFree86 and Tcl/Tk already be
installed on the build host. After compiling the necessary X
servers, the script will package all of the files into tarballs
that &man.sysinstall.8; expects to find in the
XF86336 directory of the installation
media.It is important to remove any site-specific settings
from /etc/make.conf. For example, it would
be unwise to distribute binaries that were built on a system
with CPUTYPE set to a specific
processor.Contributed Software (ports)The FreeBSD Ports
collection is a collection of over &os.numports;
third-party software packages available for FreeBSD. The &a.portmgr;
is responsible for maintaining a consistent ports tree that can be used
to create the binary packages that accompany official FreeBSD
releases.The release engineering activities for our collection of
third-party packages is beyond the scope of this document. A
separate article, &art.re.pkgs;, covers this topic
in depth.Release ISOsStarting with FreeBSD 4.4, the FreeBSD Project decided to
release all four ISO images that were previously sold on the
BSDi/Wind River Systems/FreeBSD Mallofficial CDROM distributions. Each of the four
discs must contain a README.TXT file that
explains the contents of the disc, a
CDROM.INF file that provides meta-data for
the disc so that &man.sysinstall.8; can validate and use the
contents, and a filename.txt file that
provides a manifest for the disc. This
manifest can be created with a simple
command:/stage/cdrom&prompt.root; find . -type f | sed -e 's/\^.\///' | sort > filename.txtThe specific requirements of each CD are outlined below.Disc 1The first disc is almost completely created by
make
release. The only changes
that should be made to the disc1 directory are the addition of
a tools directory, XFree86, and as many popular
third party software packages as will fit on the disc. The
tools directory contains software that allow users to create
installation floppies from other operating systems. This disc
should be made bootable so that users of modern PCs do not
need to create installation floppy disks.If an alternate version of XFree86 is to be provided, then
&man.sysinstall.8; must be updated to reflect the new location
and installation instructions. The relevant code is contained
in src/release/sysinstall on -STABLE or
src/usr.sbin/sysinstall on
-CURRENT. Specifically, the files dist.c,
menus.c, and
config.c will need to be updated.Disc 2The second disc is also largely created by make
release. This disc contains a live
filesystem that can be used from &man.sysinstall.8; to
troubleshoot a FreeBSD installation. This disc should be
bootable and should also contain a compressed copy of the CVS
repository in the CVSROOT directory and
commercial software demos in the commerce
directory.Discs 3 and 4The remaining two discs contain additional software
packages for FreeBSD. The packages should be clustered so that
a package and all of its dependencies are
included on the same disc. More information about the
creation of these discs is provided in the &art.re.pkgs;
article.ExtensibilityAlthough FreeBSD forms a complete operating system, there is
nothing that forces you to use the system exactly as we have
packaged it up for distribution. We have tried to design the
system to be as extensible as possible so that it can serve as a
platform that other commercial products can be built on top
of. The only rule we have about this is that if you
are going to distribute FreeBSD with non-trivial changes, we
encourage you to document your enhancements! The FreeBSD community
can only help support users of the software we provide. We
certainly encourage innovation in the form of advanced
installation and administration tools, for example, but we can't
be expected to answer questions about it.Creating Customized Boot floppiesMany sites have complex requirements that may require
additional kernel modules or userland tools be added to the
installation floppies. The quick and dirty way
to accomplish this would be to modify the staging directory of
an existing make release build hierarchy:Apply patches or add additional files inside the chroot
release build directory.rm
${CHROOTDIR}/usr/obj/usr/src/release/release.[48]rebuild &man.sysinstall.8;, the kernel, or whatever
parts of the system your change affected.chroot ${CHROOTDIR} ./mk release.4
chroot ${CHROOTDIR} ./mk release.8
New release floppies will be located in
${CHROOTDIR}/R/stage/floppies.Alternatively, the
boot.flp make
target can be called, or the filesystem
creating script,
src/release/scripts/doFS.sh, may be invoked
directly.Local patches may also be supplied to the release build by
defining the LOCAL_PATCH variable in make
release.
Scripting sysinstallThe FreeBSD system installation and configuration tool,
- &man.sysinstall.8, can be scripted to provide automated installs
+ &man.sysinstall.8;, can be scripted to provide automated installs
for large sites. This functionality can be used in conjunction
with Intel's PXE[13] to bootstrap systems from the network, or
via custom boot floppies with a sysinstall script. An example
sysinstall script is available in the CVS tree as
src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg.Lessons Learned from FreeBSD 4.4The release engineering process for 4.4 formally began on
August 1st, 2001. After that date all commits to the
RELENG_4 branch of FreeBSD had to be explicitly
approved by the &a.re;. The first
release candidate for the x86 architecture was released on August
16, followed by 4 more release candidates leading up to the final
release on September 18th. The security officer was very involved
in the last week of the process as several security issues were
found in the earlier release candidates. A total of over
500 emails were sent to the &a.re; in
little over a month.Our user community has made it very clear that the security
and stability of a FreeBSD release should not be sacrificed for
any self-imposed deadlines or target release dates. The FreeBSD
Project has grown tremendously over its lifetime and the need for
standardized release engineering procedures has never been more
apparent. This will become even more important as FreeBSD is
ported to new platforms.Future DirectionsIt is imperative for our release engineering activities to
scale with our growing userbase. Along these lines we are working
very hard to document the procedures involved in producing FreeBSD
releases.Parallelism - Certain portions of the
release build are actually embarrassingly
parallel. Most of the tasks are very I/O intensive,
so multiple high-speed disk drives is actually important that
multiple processors in speeding up the make
release process. If multiple disks are used for
different hierarchies in the chroot
environment, then the CVS checkout of the ports and doc trees
can be happening simultaneously to the make
world on another disk. Using a
RAID solution (hardware or software) can
significantly decrease the overall build time.Cross-building releases - Building
IA-64 or Alpha release on x86 hardware? make
TARGET=ia64 release.
Regression Testing - We need better
automated correctness testing for FreeBSD.Installation Tools - Our installation
program has long since outlived its intended life span.
Several projects are under development to provide a more
advanced installation mechanism. One of the most promising is
the libh project[5] which aims to provided an intelligent new
package framework and GUI installation program.AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Jordan Hubbard for giving me the
opportunity to take some on some of the release engineering
responsibilities for FreeBSD 4.4 and also for all of his work
throughout the years making FreeBSD what it is today. Of course
the release wouldn't have been possible without all of the
release-related work done by &a.asami;, &a.steve;, &a.bmah;, &a.nik;,
&a.obrien;, &a.kris;, &a.jhb; and the rest of the FreeBSD development
community. I would also like to thank &a.rgrimes;, &a.phk;, and others
who worked on the release engineering tools in the very early days
of FreeBSD. This article was influenced by release engineering
documents from the CSRG[14], the NetBSD Project[11], and John
Baldwin's proposed release engineering process notes[12].References[1] CVS - Concurrent Versions System
[2] CVSup - The CVS-Optimized General Purpose Network File Distribution
System [3] [4] FreeBSD Ports Collection
[5] The libh Project
[6] FreeBSD Committers [7] FreeBSD Core-Team
[8] FreeBSD Handbook
[9] GNATS: The GNU Bug Tracking System
[10] FreeBSD PR Statistics
[11] NetBSD Developer Documentation: Release Engineering
[12] John Baldwin's FreeBSD Release Engineering Proposal
[13] PXE Jumpstart Guide
[14] Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and Keith Bostic:
The Release Engineering of 4.3BSD
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IPv6 InternalsIPv6/IPsec ImplementationContributed by &a.shin;, 5 March
2000.This section should explain IPv6 and IPsec related implementation
internals. These functionalities are derived from KAME projectIPv6ConformanceThe IPv6 related functions conforms, or tries to conform to
the latest set of IPv6 specifications. For future reference we list
some of the relevant documents below (NOTE: this
is not a complete list - this is too hard to maintain...).For details please refer to specific chapter in the document,
RFCs, man pages, or comments in the source code.Conformance tests have been performed on the KAME STABLE kit
at TAHI project. Results can be viewed at http://www.tahi.org/report/KAME/
. We also attended Univ. of New Hampshire IOL tests (http://www.iol.unh.edu/) in the
past, with our past snapshots.RFC1639: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records
(FOOBAR)RFC2428 is preferred over RFC1639. FTP clients will
first try RFC2428, then RFC1639 if failed.RFC1886: DNS Extensions to support IPv6RFC1933: Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and
RoutersIPv4 compatible address is not supported.automatic tunneling (described in 4.3 of this RFC) is not
supported.&man.gif.4; interface implements IPv[46]-over-IPv[46]
tunnel in a generic way, and it covers "configured tunnel"
described in the spec. See 23.5.1.5
in this document for details.RFC1981: Path MTU Discovery for IPv6RFC2080: RIPng for IPv6usr.sbin/route6d support this.RFC2292: Advanced Sockets API for IPv6For supported library functions/kernel APIs, see
sys/netinet6/ADVAPI.RFC2362: Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse
Mode (PIM-SM)RFC2362 defines packet formats for PIM-SM.
draft-ietf-pim-ipv6-01.txt is
written based on this.RFC2373: IPv6 Addressing Architecturesupports node required addresses, and conforms to
the scope requirement.RFC2374: An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address
Formatsupports 64-bit length of Interface ID.RFC2375: IPv6 Multicast Address AssignmentsUserland applications use the well-known addresses
assigned in the RFC.RFC2428: FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATsRFC2428 is preferred over RFC1639. FTP clients will
first try RFC2428, then RFC1639 if failed.RFC2460: IPv6 specificationRFC2461: Neighbor discovery for IPv6See 23.5.1.2
in this document for details.RFC2462: IPv6 Stateless Address AutoconfigurationSee 23.5.1.4 in this
document for details.RFC2463: ICMPv6 for IPv6 specificationSee 23.5.1.9 in this
document for details.RFC2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet
NetworksRFC2465: MIB for IPv6: Textual Conventions and General
GroupNecessary statistics are gathered by the kernel. Actual
IPv6 MIB support is provided as a patchkit for ucd-snmp.RFC2466: MIB for IPv6: ICMPv6 groupNecessary statistics are gathered by the kernel. Actual
IPv6 MIB support is provided as patchkit for ucd-snmp.RFC2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI
NetworksRFC2497: Transmission of IPv6 packet over ARCnet
NetworksRFC2553: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6IPv4 mapped address (3.7) and special behavior of IPv6
wildcard bind socket (3.8) are supported. See 23.5.1.12
in this document for details.RFC2675: IPv6 JumbogramsSee 23.5.1.7 in
this document for details.RFC2710: Multicast Listener Discovery for IPv6RFC2711: IPv6 router alert optiondraft-ietf-ipngwg-router-renum-08: Router
renumbering for IPv6draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-namelookups-02:
IPv6 Name Lookups Through ICMPdraft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-03:
IPv6 Name Lookups Through ICMPdraft-ietf-pim-ipv6-01.txt:
PIM for IPv6&man.pim6dd.8; implements dense mode. &man.pim6sd.8;
implements sparse mode.draft-itojun-ipv6-tcp-to-anycast-00:
Disconnecting TCP connection toward IPv6 anycast addressdraft-yamamoto-wideipv6-comm-model-00See 23.5.1.6 in this
document for details.draft-ietf-ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-00.txt
: An Extension of Format for IPv6 Scoped
AddressesNeighbor DiscoveryNeighbor Discovery is fairly stable. Currently Address
Resolution, Duplicated Address Detection, and Neighbor Unreachability
Detection are supported. In the near future we will be adding Proxy
Neighbor Advertisement support in the kernel and Unsolicited Neighbor
Advertisement transmission command as admin tool.If DAD fails, the address will be marked "duplicated" and
message will be generated to syslog (and usually to console). The
"duplicated" mark can be checked with &man.ifconfig.8;. It is
administrators' responsibility to check for and recover from DAD
failures. The behavior should be improved in the near future.Some of the network driver loops multicast packets back to itself,
even if instructed not to do so (especially in promiscuous mode).
In such cases DAD may fail, because DAD engine sees inbound NS packet
(actually from the node itself) and considers it as a sign of duplicate.
You may want to look at #if condition marked "heuristics" in
sys/netinet6/nd6_nbr.c:nd6_dad_timer() as workaround (note that the code
fragment in "heuristics" section is not spec conformant).Neighbor Discovery specification (RFC2461) does not talk about
neighbor cache handling in the following cases:when there was no neighbor cache entry, node
received unsolicited RS/NS/NA/redirect packet without
link-layer addressneighbor cache handling on medium without link-layer
address (we need a neighbor cache entry for IsRouter bit)For first case, we implemented workaround based on discussions
on IETF ipngwg mailing list. For more details, see the comments in
the source code and email thread started from (IPng 7155), dated
Feb 6 1999.IPv6 on-link determination rule (RFC2461) is quite different
from assumptions in BSD network code. At this moment, no on-link
determination rule is supported where default router list is empty
(RFC2461, section 5.2, last sentence in 2nd paragraph - note that
the spec misuse the word "host" and "node" in several places in
the section).To avoid possible DoS attacks and infinite loops, only 10
options on ND packet is accepted now. Therefore, if you have 20
prefix options attached to RA, only the first 10 prefixes will be
recognized. If this troubles you, please ask it on FREEBSD-CURRENT
mailing list and/or modify nd6_maxndopt in
sys/netinet6/nd6.c. If there are high demands
we may provide sysctl knob for the variable.Scope IndexIPv6 uses scoped addresses. Therefore, it is very important to
specify scope index (interface index for link-local address, or
site index for site-local address) with an IPv6 address. Without
scope index, scoped IPv6 address is ambiguous to the kernel, and
kernel will not be able to determine the outbound interface for a
packet.Ordinary userland applications should use advanced API
(RFC2292) to specify scope index, or interface index. For similar
purpose, sin6_scope_id member in sockaddr_in6 structure is defined
in RFC2553. However, the semantics for sin6_scope_id is rather vague.
If you care about portability of your application, we suggest you to
use advanced API rather than sin6_scope_id.In the kernel, an interface index for link-local scoped address is
embedded into 2nd 16bit-word (3rd and 4th byte) in IPv6 address. For
example, you may see something like:
fe80:1::200:f8ff:fe01:6317
in the routing table and interface address structure (struct
in6_ifaddr). The address above is a link-local unicast address
which belongs to a network interface whose interface identifier is 1.
The embedded index enables us to identify IPv6 link local
addresses over multiple interfaces effectively and with only a
little code change.Routing daemons and configuration programs, like &man.route6d.8;
and &man.ifconfig.8;, will need to manipulate the "embedded" scope
index. These programs use routing sockets and ioctls (like
SIOCGIFADDR_IN6) and the kernel API will return IPv6 addresses with
2nd 16bit-word filled in. The APIs are for manipulating kernel
internal structure. Programs that use these APIs have to be prepared
about differences in kernels anyway.When you specify scoped address to the command line, NEVER write
the embedded form (such as ff02:1::1 or fe80:2::fedc). This is not
supposed to work. Always use standard form, like ff02::1 or
fe80::fedc, with command line option for specifying interface (like
ping6 -I ne0 ff02::1). In general, if a command
does not have command line option to specify outgoing interface, that
command is not ready to accept scoped address. This may seem to be
opposite from IPv6's premise to support "dentist office" situation.
We believe that specifications need some improvements for this.Some of the userland tools support extended numeric IPv6 syntax,
as documented in
draft-ietf-ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-00.txt. You
can specify outgoing link, by using name of the outgoing interface
like "fe80::1%ne0". This way you will be able to specify link-local
scoped address without much trouble.To use this extension in your program, you will need to use
&man.getaddrinfo.3;, and &man.getnameinfo.3; with NI_WITHSCOPEID.
The implementation currently assumes 1-to-1 relationship between a
link and an interface, which is stronger than what specs say.Plug and PlayMost of the IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration is implemented
in the kernel. Neighbor Discovery functions are implemented in the
kernel as a whole. Router Advertisement (RA) input for hosts is
implemented in the kernel. Router Solicitation (RS) output for
endhosts, RS input for routers, and RA output for routers are
implemented in the userland.Assignment of link-local, and special addressesIPv6 link-local address is generated from IEEE802 address
(Ethernet MAC address). Each of interface is assigned an IPv6
link-local address automatically, when the interface becomes up
(IFF_UP). Also, direct route for the link-local address is added
to routing table.Here is an output of netstat command:Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
fe80:1::%ed0/64 link#1 UC ed0
fe80:2::%ep0/64 link#2 UC ep0Interfaces that has no IEEE802 address (pseudo interfaces
like tunnel interfaces, or ppp interfaces) will borrow IEEE802
address from other interfaces, such as Ethernet interfaces,
whenever possible. If there is no IEEE802 hardware attached,
last-resort pseudorandom value, which is from MD5(hostname), will
be used as source of link-local address. If it is not suitable
for your usage, you will need to configure the link-local address
manually.If an interface is not capable of handling IPv6 (such as
lack of multicast support), link-local address will not be
assigned to that interface. See section 2 for details.Each interface joins the solicited multicast address and the
link-local all-nodes multicast addresses (e.g. fe80::1:ff01:6317
and ff02::1, respectively, on the link the interface is attached).
In addition to a link-local address, the loopback address (::1)
will be assigned to the loopback interface. Also, ::1/128 and
ff01::/32 are automatically added to routing table, and loopback
interface joins node-local multicast group ff01::1.Stateless address autoconfiguration on hostsIn IPv6 specification, nodes are separated into two categories:
routers and hosts. Routers
forward packets addressed to others, hosts does not forward the
packets. net.inet6.ip6.forwarding defines whether this node is
router or host (router if it is 1, host if it is 0).When a host hears Router Advertisement from the router, a host
may autoconfigure itself by stateless address autoconfiguration.
This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv (host
autoconfigures itself if it is set to 1). By autoconfiguration,
network address prefix for the receiving interface (usually global
address prefix) is added. Default route is also configured.
Routers periodically generate Router Advertisement packets. To
request an adjacent router to generate RA packet, a host can
transmit Router Solicitation. To generate a RS packet at any time,
use the rtsol command. &man.rtsold.8; daemon is
also available. &man.rtsold.8; generates Router Solicitation whenever
necessary, and it works great for nomadic usage (notebooks/laptops).
If one wishes to ignore Router Advertisements, use sysctl to set
net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv to 0.To generate Router Advertisement from a router, use the
- &man.rtadvd.8 daemon.
+ &man.rtadvd.8; daemon.
Note that, IPv6 specification assumes the following items, and
nonconforming cases are left unspecified:Only hosts will listen to router advertisementsHosts have single network interface (except loopback)Therefore, this is unwise to enable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv
on routers, or multi-interface host. A misconfigured node can
behave strange (nonconforming configuration allowed for those who
would like to do some experiments).To summarize the sysctl knob: accept_rtadv forwarding role of the node
--- --- ---
0 0 host (to be manually configured)
0 1 router
1 0 autoconfigured host
(spec assumes that host has single
interface only, autoconfigured host
with multiple interface is
out-of-scope)
1 1 invalid, or experimental
(out-of-scope of spec)RFC2462 has validation rule against incoming RA prefix
information option, in 5.5.3 (e). This is to protect hosts from
malicious (or misconfigured) routers that advertise very short
prefix lifetime. There was an update from Jim Bound to ipngwg
mailing list (look for "(ipng 6712)" in the archive) and it is
implemented Jim's update.See 23.5.1.2 in
the document for relationship between DAD and
autoconfiguration.Generic tunnel interfaceGIF (Generic InterFace) is a pseudo interface for configured
tunnel. Details are described in &man.gif.4;. Currentlyv6 in v6v6 in v4v4 in v6v4 in v4are available. Use &man.gifconfig.8; to assign physical (outer)
source and destination address to gif interfaces. Configuration that
uses same address family for inner and outer IP header (v4 in v4, or
v6 in v6) is dangerous. It is very easy to configure interfaces and
routing tables to perform infinite level of tunneling.
Please be warned.gif can be configured to be ECN-friendly. See 23.5.4.5 for ECN-friendliness of
tunnels, and &man.gif.4; for how to configure.If you would like to configure an IPv4-in-IPv6 tunnel with gif
interface, read &man.gif.4; carefully. You will need to
remove IPv6 link-local address automatically assigned to the gif
interface.Source Address SelectionCurrent source selection rule is scope oriented (there are some
exceptions - see below). For a given destination, a source IPv6
address is selected by the following rule:If the source address is explicitly specified by
the user (e.g. via the advanced API), the specified address
is used.If there is an address assigned to the outgoing
interface (which is usually determined by looking up the
routing table) that has the same scope as the destination
address, the address is used.This is the most typical case.If there is no address that satisfies the above
condition, choose a global address assigned to one of
the interfaces on the sending node.If there is no address that satisfies the above condition,
and destination address is site local scope, choose a site local
address assigned to one of the interfaces on the sending node.
If there is no address that satisfies the above condition,
choose the address associated with the routing table entry for the
destination. This is the last resort, which may cause scope
violation.For instance, ::1 is selected for ff01::1,
fe80:1::200:f8ff:fe01:6317 for fe80:1::2a0:24ff:feab:839b (note
that embedded interface index - described in 23.5.1.3 - helps us
choose the right source address. Those embedded indices will not
be on the wire). If the outgoing interface has multiple address for
the scope, a source is selected longest match basis (rule 3). Suppose
3ffe:501:808:1:200:f8ff:fe01:6317 and 3ffe:2001:9:124:200:f8ff:fe01:6317
are given to the outgoing interface. 3ffe:501:808:1:200:f8ff:fe01:6317
is chosen as the source for the destination 3ffe:501:800::1.Note that the above rule is not documented in the IPv6 spec.
It is considered "up to implementation" item. There are some cases
where we do not use the above rule. One example is connected TCP
session, and we use the address kept in tcb as the source. Another
example is source address for Neighbor Advertisement. Under the spec
(RFC2461 7.2.2) NA's source should be the target address of the
corresponding NS's target. In this case we follow the spec rather
than the above longest-match rule.For new connections (when rule 1 does not apply), deprecated
addresses (addresses with preferred lifetime = 0) will not be chosen
as source address if other choices are available. If no other choices
are available, deprecated address will be used as a last resort. If
there are multiple choice of deprecated addresses, the above scope
rule will be used to choose from those deprecated addresses. If you
would like to prohibit the use of deprecated address for some reason,
configure net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated to 0. The issue related to
deprecated address is described in RFC2462 5.5.4 (NOTE: there is
some debate underway in IETF ipngwg on how to use "deprecated"
address).Jumbo PayloadThe Jumbo Payload hop-by-hop option is implemented and can
be used to send IPv6 packets with payloads longer than 65,535 octets.
But currently no physical interface whose MTU is more than 65,535 is
supported, so such payloads can be seen only on the loopback
interface (i.e. lo0).If you want to try jumbo payloads, you first have to reconfigure
the kernel so that the MTU of the loopback interface is more than
65,535 bytes; add the following to the kernel configuration file:
options "LARGE_LOMTU" #To test jumbo payload
and recompile the new kernel.Then you can test jumbo payloads by the &man.ping6.8; command
with -b and -s options. The -b option must be specified to enlarge
the size of the socket buffer and the -s option specifies the length
of the packet, which should be more than 65,535. For example,
type as follows:
&prompt.user; ping6 -b 70000 -s 68000 ::1The IPv6 specification requires that the Jumbo Payload option
must not be used in a packet that carries a fragment header. If
this condition is broken, an ICMPv6 Parameter Problem message must
be sent to the sender. specification is followed, but you cannot
usually see an ICMPv6 error caused by this requirement.When an IPv6 packet is received, the frame length is checked and
compared to the length specified in the payload length field of the
IPv6 header or in the value of the Jumbo Payload option, if any. If
the former is shorter than the latter, the packet is discarded and
statistics are incremented. You can see the statistics as output of
&man.netstat.8; command with `-s -p ip6' option: &prompt.user; netstat -s -p ip6
ip6:
(snip)
1 with data size < data lengthSo, kernel does not send an ICMPv6 error unless the erroneous
packet is an actual Jumbo Payload, that is, its packet size is more
than 65,535 bytes. As described above, currently no physical interface
with such a huge MTU is supported, so it rarely returns an
ICMPv6 error.TCP/UDP over jumbogram is not supported at this moment. This
is because we have no medium (other than loopback) to test this.
Contact us if you need this.IPsec does not work on jumbograms. This is due to some
specification twists in supporting AH with jumbograms (AH header
size influences payload length, and this makes it real hard to
authenticate inbound packet with jumbo payload option as well as AH).
There are fundamental issues in *BSD support for jumbograms.
We would like to address those, but we need more time to finalize
these. To name a few:mbuf pkthdr.len field is typed as "int" in 4.4BSD, so
it will not hold jumbogram with len > 2G on 32bit architecture
CPUs. If we would like to support jumbogram properly, the field
must be expanded to hold 4G + IPv6 header + link-layer header.
Therefore, it must be expanded to at least int64_t
(u_int32_t is NOT enough).We mistakingly use "int" to hold packet length in many
places. We need to convert them into larger integral type.
It needs a great care, as we may experience overflow during
packet length computation.We mistakingly check for ip6_plen field of IPv6 header
for packet payload length in various places. We should be
checking mbuf pkthdr.len instead. ip6_input() will perform
sanity check on jumbo payload option on input, and we can
safely use mbuf pkthdr.len afterwards.TCP code needs a careful update in bunch of places, of
course.Loop prevention in header processingIPv6 specification allows arbitrary number of extension headers
to be placed onto packets. If we implement IPv6 packet processing
code in the way BSD IPv4 code is implemented, kernel stack may
overflow due to long function call chain. sys/netinet6 code
is carefully designed to avoid kernel stack overflow. Because of
this, sys/netinet6 code defines its own protocol switch
structure, as "struct ip6protosw" (see
netinet6/ip6protosw.h). There is no such
update to IPv4 part (sys/netinet) for compatibility, but small
change is added to its pr_input() prototype. So "struct ipprotosw"
is also defined. Because of this, if you receive IPsec-over-IPv4
packet with massive number of IPsec headers, kernel stack may blow
up. IPsec-over-IPv6 is okay. (Off-course, for those all IPsec
headers to be processed, each such IPsec header must pass each
IPsec check. So an anonymous attacker will not be able to do such an
attack.)ICMPv6After RFC2463 was published, IETF ipngwg has decided to
disallow ICMPv6 error packet against ICMPv6 redirect, to prevent
ICMPv6 storm on a network medium. This is already implemented
into the kernel.ApplicationsFor userland programming, we support IPv6 socket API as
specified in RFC2553, RFC2292 and upcoming Internet drafts.TCP/UDP over IPv6 is available and quite stable. You can
enjoy &man.telnet.1;, &man.ftp.1;, &man.rlogin.1;, &man.rsh.1;,
- &man.ssh.1, etc. These applications are protocol independent.
+ &man.ssh.1;, etc. These applications are protocol independent.
That is, they automatically chooses IPv4 or IPv6 according to DNS.
Kernel InternalsWhile ip_forward() calls ip_output(), ip6_forward() directly
calls if_output() since routers must not divide IPv6 packets into
fragments.ICMPv6 should contain the original packet as long as possible
up to 1280. UDP6/IP6 port unreach, for instance, should contain
all extension headers and the *unchanged* UDP6 and IP6 headers.
So, all IP6 functions except TCP never convert network byte
order into host byte order, to save the original packet.tcp_input(), udp6_input() and icmp6_input() can not assume that
IP6 header is preceding the transport headers due to extension
headers. So, in6_cksum() was implemented to handle packets whose IP6
header and transport header is not continuous. TCP/IP6 nor UDP6/IP6
header structures do not exist for checksum calculation.To process IP6 header, extension headers and transport headers
easily, network drivers are now required to store packets in one
internal mbuf or one or more external mbufs. A typical old driver
prepares two internal mbufs for 96 - 204 bytes data, however, now
such packet data is stored in one external mbuf.netstat -s -p ip6 tells you whether or not
your driver conforms such requirement. In the following example,
"cce0" violates the requirement. (For more information, refer to
Section 2.)Mbuf statistics:
317 one mbuf
two or more mbuf::
lo0 = 8
cce0 = 10
3282 one ext mbuf
0 two or more ext mbuf
Each input function calls IP6_EXTHDR_CHECK in the beginning to
check if the region between IP6 and its header is continuous.
IP6_EXTHDR_CHECK calls m_pullup() only if the mbuf has M_LOOP flag,
that is, the packet comes from the loopback interface. m_pullup()
is never called for packets coming from physical network interfaces.
Both IP and IP6 reassemble functions never call m_pullup().IPv4 mapped address and IPv6 wildcard socketRFC2553 describes IPv4 mapped address (3.7) and special behavior
of IPv6 wildcard bind socket (3.8). The spec allows you to:Accept IPv4 connections by AF_INET6 wildcard bind
socket.Transmit IPv4 packet over AF_INET6 socket by using
special form of the address like ::ffff:10.1.1.1.but the spec itself is very complicated and does not specify
how the socket layer should behave. Here we call the former one
"listening side" and the latter one "initiating side", for
reference purposes.You can perform wildcard bind on both of the address families,
on the same port.The following table show the behavior of FreeBSD 4.x.listening side initiating side
(AF_INET6 wildcard (connection to ::ffff:10.1.1.1)
socket gets IPv4 conn.)
--- ---
FreeBSD 4.x configurable supported
default: enabled
The following sections will give you more details, and how you can
configure the behavior.Comments on listening side:It looks that RFC2553 talks too little on wildcard bind issue,
especially on the port space issue, failure mode and relationship
between AF_INET/INET6 wildcard bind. There can be several separate
interpretation for this RFC which conform to it but behaves differently.
So, to implement portable application you should assume nothing
about the behavior in the kernel. Using &man.getaddrinfo.3; is the
safest way. Port number space and wildcard bind issues were discussed
in detail on ipv6imp mailing list, in mid March 1999 and it looks
that there is no concrete consensus (means, up to implementers).
You may want to check the mailing list archives.If a server application would like to accept IPv4 and IPv6
connections, there will be two alternatives.One is using AF_INET and AF_INET6 socket (you will need two
sockets). Use &man.getaddrinfo.3; with AI_PASSIVE into ai_flags,
and &man.socket.2; and &man.bind.2; to all the addresses returned.
By opening multiple sockets, you can accept connections onto the
socket with proper address family. IPv4 connections will be
accepted by AF_INET socket, and IPv6 connections will be accepted
by AF_INET6 socket.Another way is using one AF_INET6 wildcard bind socket. Use
&man.getaddrinfo.3; with AI_PASSIVE into ai_flags and with
AF_INET6 into ai_family, and set the 1st argument hostname to
NULL. And &man.socket.2; and &man.bind.2; to the address returned.
(should be IPv6 unspecified addr). You can accept either of IPv4
and IPv6 packet via this one socket.To support only IPv6 traffic on AF_INET6 wildcard binded socket
portably, always check the peer address when a connection is made
toward AF_INET6 listening socket. If the address is IPv4 mapped
address, you may want to reject the connection. You can check the
condition by using IN6_IS_ADDR_V4MAPPED() macro.To resolve this issue more easily, there is system dependent
&man.setsockopt.2; option, IPV6_BINDV6ONLY, used like below. int on;
setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_BINDV6ONLY,
(char *)&on, sizeof (on)) < 0));
When this call succeed, then this socket only receive IPv6
packets.Comments on initiating side:Advise to application implementers: to implement a portable
IPv6 application (which works on multiple IPv6 kernels), we believe
that the following is the key to the success:NEVER hardcode AF_INET nor AF_INET6.Use &man.getaddrinfo.3; and &man.getnameinfo.3;
throughout the system. Never use gethostby*(), getaddrby*(),
inet_*() or getipnodeby*(). (To update existing applications
to be IPv6 aware easily, sometime getipnodeby*() will be
useful. But if possible, try to rewrite the code to use
&man.getaddrinfo.3; and &man.getnameinfo.3;.)If you would like to connect to destination, use
&man.getaddrinfo.3; and try all the destination returned,
like &man.telnet.1; does.Some of the IPv6 stack is shipped with buggy
&man.getaddrinfo.3;. Ship a minimal working version with
your application and use that as last resort.If you would like to use AF_INET6 socket for both IPv4 and
IPv6 outgoing connection, you will need to use &man.getipnodebyname.3;.
When you would like to update your existing application to be IPv6
aware with minimal effort, this approach might be chosen. But please
note that it is a temporal solution, because &man.getipnodebyname.3;
itself is not recommended as it does not handle scoped IPv6 addresses
at all. For IPv6 name resolution, &man.getaddrinfo.3; is the
preferred API. So you should rewrite your application to use
&man.getaddrinfo.3;, when you get the time to do it.When writing applications that make outgoing connections,
story goes much simpler if you treat AF_INET and AF_INET6 as totally
separate address family. {set,get}sockopt issue goes simpler,
DNS issue will be made simpler. We do not recommend you to rely
upon IPv4 mapped address.unified tcp and inpcb codeFreeBSD 4.x uses shared tcp code between IPv4 and IPv6
(from sys/netinet/tcp*) and separate udp4/6 code. It uses
unified inpcb structure.The platform can be configured to support IPv4 mapped address.
Kernel configuration is summarized as follows:By default, AF_INET6 socket will grab IPv4
connections in certain condition, and can initiate
connection to IPv4 destination embedded in IPv4 mapped
IPv6 address.You can disable it on entire system with sysctl like
below.sysctl net.inet6.ip6.mapped_addr=0listening sideEach socket can be configured to support special AF_INET6
wildcard bind (enabled by default). You can disable it on
each socket basis with &man.setsockopt.2; like below. int on;
setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_BINDV6ONLY,
(char *)&on, sizeof (on)) < 0));
Wildcard AF_INET6 socket grabs IPv4 connection if and only
if the following conditions are satisfied:there is no AF_INET socket that matches the IPv4
connectionthe AF_INET6 socket is configured to accept IPv4
traffic, i.e. getsockopt(IPV6_BINDV6ONLY) returns 0.There is no problem with open/close ordering.initiating sideFreeBSD 4.x supports outgoing connection to IPv4 mapped
address (::ffff:10.1.1.1), if the node is configured to support
IPv4 mapped address.sockaddr_storageWhen RFC2553 was about to be finalized, there was discussion on
how struct sockaddr_storage members are named. One proposal is to
prepend "__" to the members (like "__ss_len") as they should not be
touched. The other proposal was not to prepend it (like "ss_len")
as we need to touch those members directly. There was no clear
consensus on it.As a result, RFC2553 defines struct sockaddr_storage as
follows: struct sockaddr_storage {
u_char __ss_len; /* address length */
u_char __ss_family; /* address family */
/* and bunch of padding */
};
On the contrary, XNET draft defines as follows: struct sockaddr_storage {
u_char ss_len; /* address length */
u_char ss_family; /* address family */
/* and bunch of padding */
};
In December 1999, it was agreed that RFC2553bis should pick
the latter (XNET) definition.Current implementation conforms to XNET definition, based on
RFC2553bis discussion.If you look at multiple IPv6 implementations, you will be able
to see both definitions. As an userland programmer, the most
portable way of dealing with it is to:ensure ss_family and/or ss_len are available on the
platform, by using GNU autoconf,have -Dss_family=__ss_family to unify all occurrences
(including header file) into __ss_family, ornever touch __ss_family. cast to sockaddr * and use sa_family
like: struct sockaddr_storage ss;
family = ((struct sockaddr *)&ss)->sa_family
Network DriversNow following two items are required to be supported by standard
drivers:mbuf clustering requirement. In this stable release, we
changed MINCLSIZE into MHLEN+1 for all the operating systems
in order to make all the drivers behave as we expect.multicast. If &man.ifmcstat.8; yields no multicast group for
a interface, that interface has to be patched.If any of the drivers do not support the requirements, then
the drivers can not be used for IPv6 and/or IPsec communication. If
you find any problem with your card using IPv6/IPsec, then, please
report it to the &a.bugs;.(NOTE: In the past we required all PCMCIA drivers to have a
call to in6_ifattach(). We have no such requirement any more)TranslatorWe categorize IPv4/IPv6 translator into 4 types:Translator A --- It is used in the early
stage of transition to make it possible to establish a
connection from an IPv6 host in an IPv6 island to an IPv4 host
in the IPv4 ocean.Translator B --- It is used in the early
stage of transition to make it possible to establish a connection
from an IPv4 host in the IPv4 ocean to an IPv6 host in an
IPv6 island.Translator C --- It is used in the late
stage of transition to make it possible to establish a
connection from an IPv4 host in an IPv4 island to an IPv6 host
in the IPv6 ocean.Translator D --- It is used in the late
stage of transition to make it possible to establish a
connection from an IPv6 host in the IPv6 ocean to an IPv4 host
in an IPv4 island.TCP relay translator for category A is supported. This is called
"FAITH". We also provide IP header translator for category A.
(The latter is not yet put into FreeBSD 4.x yet.)FAITH TCP relay translatorFAITH system uses TCP relay daemon called &man.faithd.8; helped
by the kernel. FAITH will reserve an IPv6 address prefix, and relay
TCP connection toward that prefix to IPv4 destination.For example, if the reserved IPv6 prefix is
3ffe:0501:0200:ffff::, and the IPv6 destination for TCP connection
is 3ffe:0501:0200:ffff::163.221.202.12, the connection will be
relayed toward IPv4 destination 163.221.202.12. destination IPv4 node (163.221.202.12)
^
| IPv4 tcp toward 163.221.202.12
FAITH-relay dual stack node
^
| IPv6 TCP toward 3ffe:0501:0200:ffff::163.221.202.12
source IPv6 node
&man.faithd.8; must be invoked on FAITH-relay dual stack
node.For more details, consult
src/usr.sbin/faithd/READMEIPsecIPsec is mainly organized by three components.Policy ManagementKey ManagementAH and ESP handlingPolicy ManagementThe kernel implements experimental policy management code.
There are two way to manage security policy. One is to configure
per-socket policy using &man.setsockopt.2;. In this cases, policy
configuration is described in &man.ipsec.set.policy.3;. The other
is to configure kernel packet filter-based policy using PF_KEY
interface, via &man.setkey.8;.The policy entry is not re-ordered with its
indexes, so the order of entry when you add is very significant.Key ManagementThe key management code implemented in this kit (sys/netkey)
is a home-brew PFKEY v2 implementation. This conforms to RFC2367.
The home-brew IKE daemon, "racoon" is included in the
kit (kame/kame/racoon). Basically you will need to run racoon as
daemon, then setup a policy to require keys (like
ping -P 'out ipsec esp/transport//use').
The kernel will contact racoon daemon as necessary to exchange
keys.AH and ESP handlingIPsec module is implemented as "hooks" to the standard IPv4/IPv6
processing. When sending a packet, ip{,6}_output() checks if ESP/AH
processing is required by checking if a matching SPD (Security
Policy Database) is found. If ESP/AH is needed,
{esp,ah}{4,6}_output() will be called and mbuf will be updated
accordingly. When a packet is received, {esp,ah}4_input() will be
called based on protocol number, i.e. (*inetsw[proto])().
{esp,ah}4_input() will decrypt/check authenticity of the packet,
and strips off daisy-chained header and padding for ESP/AH. It is
safe to strip off the ESP/AH header on packet reception, since we
will never use the received packet in "as is" form.By using ESP/AH, TCP4/6 effective data segment size will be
affected by extra daisy-chained headers inserted by ESP/AH. Our
code takes care of the case.Basic crypto functions can be found in directory "sys/crypto".
ESP/AH transform are listed in {esp,ah}_core.c with wrapper functions.
If you wish to add some algorithm, add wrapper function in
{esp,ah}_core.c, and add your crypto algorithm code into
sys/crypto.Tunnel mode is partially supported in this release, with the
following restrictions:IPsec tunnel is not combined with GIF generic tunneling
interface. It needs a great care because we may create an
infinite loop between ip_output() and tunnelifp->if_output().
Opinion varies if it is better to unify them, or not.MTU and Don't Fragment bit (IPv4) considerations need more
checking, but basically works fine.Authentication model for AH tunnel must be revisited.
We will need to improve the policy management engine,
eventually.Conformance to RFCs and IDsThe IPsec code in the kernel conforms (or, tries to conform)
to the following standards:"old IPsec" specification documented in
rfc182[5-9].txt"new IPsec" specification documented in
rfc240[1-6].txt,
rfc241[01].txt, rfc2451.txt
and draft-mcdonald-simple-ipsec-api-01.txt
(draft expired, but you can take from
ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/internet-drafts/).
(NOTE: IKE specifications, rfc241[7-9].txt are
implemented in userland, as "racoon" IKE daemon)Currently supported algorithms are:old IPsec AHnull crypto checksum (no document, just for
debugging)keyed MD5 with 128bit crypto checksum
(rfc1828.txt)keyed SHA1 with 128bit crypto checksum
(no document)HMAC MD5 with 128bit crypto checksum
(rfc2085.txt)HMAC SHA1 with 128bit crypto checksum
(no document)old IPsec ESPnull encryption (no document, similar to
rfc2410.txt)DES-CBC mode (rfc1829.txt)new IPsec AHnull crypto checksum (no document,
just for debugging)keyed MD5 with 96bit crypto checksum
(no document)keyed SHA1 with 96bit crypto checksum
(no document)HMAC MD5 with 96bit crypto checksum
(rfc2403.txt)HMAC SHA1 with 96bit crypto checksum
(rfc2404.txt)new IPsec ESPnull encryption
(rfc2410.txt)DES-CBC with derived IV
(draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-des-derived-01.txt,
draft expired)DES-CBC with explicit IV
(rfc2405.txt)3DES-CBC with explicit IV
(rfc2451.txt)BLOWFISH CBC
(rfc2451.txt)CAST128 CBC
(rfc2451.txt)RC5 CBC
(rfc2451.txt)each of the above can be combined with:ESP authentication with HMAC-MD5(96bit)ESP authentication with HMAC-SHA1(96bit)The following algorithms are NOT supported:old IPsec AHHMAC MD5 with 128bit crypto checksum + 64bit
replay prevention (rfc2085.txt)keyed SHA1 with 160bit crypto checksum + 32bit padding
(rfc1852.txt)IPsec (in kernel) and IKE (in userland as "racoon") has been
tested at several interoperability test events, and it is known to
interoperate with many other implementations well. Also, current
IPsec implementation as quite wide coverage for IPsec crypto
algorithms documented in RFC (we cover algorithms without intellectual
property issues only).ECN consideration on IPsec tunnelsECN-friendly IPsec tunnel is supported as described in
draft-ipsec-ecn-00.txt.Normal IPsec tunnel is described in RFC2401. On encapsulation,
IPv4 TOS field (or, IPv6 traffic class field) will be copied from inner
IP header to outer IP header. On decapsulation outer IP header
will be simply dropped. The decapsulation rule is not compatible
with ECN, since ECN bit on the outer IP TOS/traffic class field will be
lost.To make IPsec tunnel ECN-friendly, we should modify encapsulation
and decapsulation procedure. This is described in
http://www.aciri.org/floyd/papers/draft-ipsec-ecn-00.txt,
chapter 3.IPsec tunnel implementation can give you three behaviors, by
setting net.inet.ipsec.ecn (or net.inet6.ipsec6.ecn) to some
value:RFC2401: no consideration for ECN (sysctl value -1)ECN forbidden (sysctl value 0)ECN allowed (sysctl value 1)Note that the behavior is configurable in per-node manner,
not per-SA manner (draft-ipsec-ecn-00 wants per-SA configuration,
but it looks too much for me).The behavior is summarized as follows (see source code for
more detail):
encapsulate decapsulate
--- ---
RFC2401 copy all TOS bits drop TOS bits on outer
from inner to outer. (use inner TOS bits as is)
ECN forbidden copy TOS bits except for ECN drop TOS bits on outer
(masked with 0xfc) from inner (use inner TOS bits as is)
to outer. set ECN bits to 0.
ECN allowed copy TOS bits except for ECN use inner TOS bits with some
CE (masked with 0xfe) from change. if outer ECN CE bit
inner to outer. is 1, enable ECN CE bit on
set ECN CE bit to 0. the inner.
General strategy for configuration is as follows:if both IPsec tunnel endpoint are capable of ECN-friendly
behavior, you should better configure both end to ECN allowed
(sysctl value 1).if the other end is very strict about TOS bit, use "RFC2401"
(sysctl value -1).in other cases, use "ECN forbidden" (sysctl value 0).The default behavior is "ECN forbidden" (sysctl value 0).For more information, please refer to:
http://www.aciri.org/floyd/papers/draft-ipsec-ecn-00.txt,
RFC2481 (Explicit Congestion Notification),
src/sys/netinet6/{ah,esp}_input.c(Thanks goes to Kenjiro Cho kjc@csl.sony.co.jp
for detailed analysis)InteroperabilityHere are (some of) platforms that KAME code have tested
IPsec/IKE interoperability in the past. Note that both ends may
have modified their implementation, so use the following list just
for reference purposes.Altiga, Ashley-laurent (vpcom.com), Data Fellows (F-Secure),
Ericsson ACC, FreeS/WAN, HITACHI, IBM AIX, IIJ, Intel,
Microsoft WinNT, NIST (linux IPsec + plutoplus), Netscreen, OpenBSD,
RedCreek, Routerware, SSH, Secure Computing, Soliton, Toshiba,
VPNet, Yamaha RT100i
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SocketsThis chapter was written by
&a.stanislav;SynopsisBSD sockets take interprocess
communications to a new level. It is no longer necessary for the
communicating processes to run on the same machine. They still
can, but they do not have to.Not only do these processes not have to run on the same
machine, they do not have to run under the same operating
system. Thanks to BSD sockets, your FreeBSD
software can smoothly cooperate with a program running on a
Macintosh, another one running on a Sun workstation, yet another
one running under Windows 2000, all connected with an
Ethernet-based local area network.But your software can equally well cooperate with processes
running in another building, or on another continent, inside a
submarine, or a space shuttle.It can also cooperate with processes that are not part of a
computer (at least not in the strict sense of the word), but of
such devices as printers, digital cameras, medical equipment.
Just about anything capable of digital communications.Networking and DiversityWe have already hinted on the diversity
of networking. Many different systems have to talk to each
other. And they have to speak the same language. They also have
to understand the same language the same
way.People often think that body language
is universal. But it is not. Back in my early teens, my father
took me to Bulgaria. We were sitting at a table in a park in
Sofia, when a vendor approached us trying to sell us some
roasted almonds.I had not learned much Bulgarian by then, so, instead of
saying no, I shook my head from side to side, the
universal body language for
no. The vendor quickly started serving us
some almonds.I then remembered I had been told that in Bulgaria shaking
your head sideways meant yes. Quickly, I
started nodding my head up and down. The vendor noticed, took
his almonds, and walked away. To an uninformed observer, I did
not change the body language: I continued using the language of
shaking and nodding my head. What changed was the
meaning of the body language. At first, the
vendor and I interpreted the same language as having completely
different meaning. I had to adjust my own interpretation of that
language so the vendor would understand.It is the same with computers: The same symbols may have
different, even outright opposite meaning. Therefore, for
two computers to understand each other, they must not only
agree on the same language, but on the
same interpretation of the language.
ProtocolsWhile various programming languages tend to have complex
syntax and use a number of multi-letter reserved words (which
makes them easy for the human programmer to understand), the
languages of data communications tend to be very terse. Instead
of multi-byte words, they often use individual
bits. There is a very convincing reason
for it: While data travels inside your
computer at speeds approaching the speed of light, it often
travels considerably slower between two computers.Because the languages used in data communications are so
terse, we usually refer to them as
protocols rather than languages.As data travels from one computer to another, it always uses
more than one protocol. These protocols are
layered. The data can be compared to the
inside of an onion: You have to peel off several layers of
skin to get to the data. This is best
illustrated with a picture:+----------------+
| Ethernet |
|+--------------+|
|| IP ||
||+------------+||
||| TCP |||
|||+----------+|||
|||| HTTP ||||
||||+--------+||||
||||| PNG |||||
|||||+------+|||||
|||||| Data ||||||
|||||+------+|||||
||||+--------+||||
|||+----------+|||
||+------------+||
|+--------------+|
+----------------+Protocol LayersIn this example, we are trying to get an image from a web
page we are connected to via an Ethernet.The image consists of raw data, which is simply a sequence
of RGB values that our software can process,
i.e., convert into an image and display on our monitor.Alas, our software has no way of knowing how the raw data is
organized: Is it a sequence of RGB values, or
a sequence of grayscale intensities, or perhaps of
CMYK encoded colors? Is the data represented
by 8-bit quanta, or are they 16 bits in size, or perhaps 4 bits?
How many rows and columns does the image consist of? Should
certain pixels be transparent?I think you get the picture...To inform our software how to handle the raw data, it is
encoded as a PNG file. It could be a
GIF, or a JPEG, but it is
a PNG.And PNG is a protocol.At this point, I can hear some of you yelling,
No, it is not! It is a file
format!Well, of course it is a file format. But from the
perspective of data communications, a file format is a protocol:
The file structure is a language, a terse
one at that, communicating to our process
how the data is organized. Ergo, it is a
protocol.Alas, if all we received was the PNG
file, our software would be facing a serious problem: How is it
supposed to know the data is representing an image, as opposed
to some text, or perhaps a sound, or what not? Secondly, how is
it supposed to know the image is in the PNG
format as opposed to GIF, or
JPEG, or some other image format?To obtain that information, we are using another protocol:
HTTP. This protocol can tell us exactly that
the data represents an image, and that it uses the
PNG protocol. It can also tell us some other
things, but let us stay focused on protocol layers here.
So, now we have some data wrapped in the PNG
protocol, wrapped in the HTTP protocol.
How did we get it from the server?By using TCP/IP over Ethernet, that is
how. Indeed, that is three more protocols. Instead of
continuing inside out, I am now going to talk about Ethernet,
simply because it is easier to explain the rest that way.Ethernet is an interesting system of connecting computers in
a local area network
(LAN). Each computer has a network
interface card (NIC), which has a
unique 48-bit ID called its
address. No two Ethernet
NICs in the world have the same address.
These NICs are all connected with each
other. Whenever one computer wants to communicate with another
in the same Ethernet LAN, it sends a message
over the network. Every NIC sees the
message. But as part of the Ethernet
protocol, the data contains the address of
the destination NIC (among other things). So,
only one of all the network interface cards will pay attention
to it, the rest will ignore it.But not all computers are connected to the same
network. Just because we have received the data over our
Ethernet does not mean it originated in our own local area
network. It could have come to us from some other network (which
may not even be Ethernet based) connected with our own network
via the Internet.All data is transfered over the Internet using
IP, which stands for Internet
Protocol. Its basic role is to let us know where in
the world the data has arrived from, and where it is supposed to
go to. It does not guarantee we will
receive the data, only that we will know where it came from
if we do receive it.Even if we do receive the data, IP does
not guarantee we will receive various chunks of data in the same
order the other computer has sent it to us. So, we can receive
the center of our image before we receive the upper left corner
and after the lower right, for example.It is TCP (Transmission Control
Protocol) that asks the sender to resend any lost
data and that places it all into the proper order.All in all, it took five different
protocols for one computer to communicate to another what an
image looks like. We received the data wrapped into the
PNG protocol, which was wrapped into the
HTTP protocol, which was wrapped into the
TCP protocol, which was wrapped into the
IP protocol, which was wrapped into the
Ethernet protocol.Oh, and by the way, there probably were several other
protocols involved somewhere on the way. For example, if our
LAN was connected to the Internet through a
dial-up call, it used the PPP protocol over
the modem which used one (or several) of the various modem
protocols, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...As a developer you should be asking by now,
How am I supposed to handle it
all?Luckily for you, you are not supposed
to handle it all. You are supposed to
handle some of it, but not all of it. Specifically, you need not
worry about the physical connection (in our case Ethernet and
possibly PPP, etc). Nor do you need to handle
the Internet Protocol, or the Transmission Control
Protocol.In other words, you do not have to do anything to receive
the data from the other computer. Well, you do have to
ask for it, but that is almost as simple as
opening a file.Once you have received the data, it is up to you to figure
out what to do with it. In our case, you would need to
understand the HTTP protocol and the
PNG file structure.To use an analogy, all the internetworking protocols become
a gray area: Not so much because we do not understand how it
works, but because we are no longer concerned about it. The
sockets interface takes care of this gray area for us:+----------------+
|xxxxEthernetxxxx|
|+--------------+|
||xxxxxxIPxxxxxx||
||+------------+||
|||xxxxxTCPxxxx|||
|||+----------+|||
|||| HTTP ||||
||||+--------+||||
||||| PNG |||||
|||||+------+|||||
|||||| Data ||||||
|||||+------+|||||
||||+--------+||||
|||+----------+|||
||+------------+||
|+--------------+|
+----------------+Sockets Covered Protocol LayersWe only need to understand any protocols that tell us how to
interpret the data, not how to
receive it from another process, nor how to
send it to another process.The Sockets ModelBSD sockets are built on the basic Unix
model: Everything is a file. In our
example, then, sockets would let us receive an HTTP
file, so to speak. It would then be up to us to
extract the PNG file
from it.
Because of the complexity of internetworking, we cannot just
use the open system call, or
the open() C function. Instead, we need to
take several steps to opening a socket.Once we do, however, we can start treating the
socket the same way we treat any
file descriptor: We can
read from it, write to
it, pipe it, and, eventually,
close it.Essential Socket FunctionsWhile FreeBSD offers different functions to work with
sockets, we only need four to
open a socket. And in some cases we only need
two.The Client-Server DifferenceTypically, one of the ends of a socket-based data
communication is a server, the other is a
client.The Common ElementssocketThe one function used by both, clients and servers, is
&man.socket.2;. It is declared this way:
int socket(int domain, int type, int protocol);
The return value is of the same type as that of
open, an integer. FreeBSD allocates
its value from the same pool as that of file handles.
That is what allows sockets to be treated the same way as
files.The domain argument tells the
system what protocol family you want
it to use. Many of them exist, some are vendor specific,
others are very common. They are declared in
sys/socket.h.Use PF_INET for
UDP, TCP and other
Internet protocols (IPv4).Five values are defined for the
type argument, again, in
sys/socket.h. All of them start with
SOCK_. The most
common one is SOCK_STREAM, which
tells the system you are asking for a reliable
stream delivery service (which is
TCP when used with
PF_INET).If you asked for SOCK_DGRAM, you
would be requesting a connectionless datagram
delivery service (in our case,
UDP).If you wanted to be in charge of the low-level
protocols (such as IP), or even network
interfaces (e.g., the Ethernet), you would need to specify
SOCK_RAW.Finally, the protocol argument
depends on the previous two arguments, and is not always
meaningful. In that case, use 0 for
its value.The Unconnected SocketNowhere, in the socket function
have we specified to what other system we should be
connected. Our newly created socket remains
unconnected.This is on purpose: To use a telephone analogy, we
have just attached a modem to the phone line. We have
neither told the modem to make a call, nor to answer if
the phone rings.sockaddrVarious functions of the sockets family expect the
address of (or pointer to, to use C terminology) a small
area of the memory. The various C declarations in the
sys/socket.h refer to it as
struct sockaddr. This structure is
declared in the same file:
/*
* Structure used by kernel to store most
* addresses.
*/
struct sockaddr {
u_char sa_len; /* total length */
sa_family_t sa_family; /* address family */
char sa_data[14]; /* actually longer; address value */
};
#define SOCK_MAXADDRLEN 255 /* longest possible addresses */
Please note the vagueness with
which the sa_data field is declared,
just as an array of 14 bytes, with
the comment hinting there can be more than
14 of them.This vagueness is quite deliberate. Sockets is a very
powerful interface. While most people perhaps think of it
as nothing more than the Internet interface—and most
applications probably use it for that
nowadays—sockets can be used for just about
any kind of interprocess
communications, of which the Internet (or, more precisely,
IP) is only one.The sys/socket.h refers to the
various types of protocols sockets will handle as
address families, and lists them
right before the definition of
sockaddr:
/*
* Address families.
*/
#define AF_UNSPEC 0 /* unspecified */
#define AF_LOCAL 1 /* local to host (pipes, portals) */
#define AF_UNIX AF_LOCAL /* backward compatibility */
#define AF_INET 2 /* internetwork: UDP, TCP, etc. */
#define AF_IMPLINK 3 /* arpanet imp addresses */
#define AF_PUP 4 /* pup protocols: e.g. BSP */
#define AF_CHAOS 5 /* mit CHAOS protocols */
#define AF_NS 6 /* XEROX NS protocols */
#define AF_ISO 7 /* ISO protocols */
#define AF_OSI AF_ISO
#define AF_ECMA 8 /* European computer manufacturers */
#define AF_DATAKIT 9 /* datakit protocols */
#define AF_CCITT 10 /* CCITT protocols, X.25 etc */
#define AF_SNA 11 /* IBM SNA */
#define AF_DECnet 12 /* DECnet */
#define AF_DLI 13 /* DEC Direct data link interface */
#define AF_LAT 14 /* LAT */
#define AF_HYLINK 15 /* NSC Hyperchannel */
#define AF_APPLETALK 16 /* Apple Talk */
#define AF_ROUTE 17 /* Internal Routing Protocol */
#define AF_LINK 18 /* Link layer interface */
#define pseudo_AF_XTP 19 /* eXpress Transfer Protocol (no AF) */
#define AF_COIP 20 /* connection-oriented IP, aka ST II */
#define AF_CNT 21 /* Computer Network Technology */
#define pseudo_AF_RTIP 22 /* Help Identify RTIP packets */
#define AF_IPX 23 /* Novell Internet Protocol */
#define AF_SIP 24 /* Simple Internet Protocol */
#define pseudo_AF_PIP 25 /* Help Identify PIP packets */
#define AF_ISDN 26 /* Integrated Services Digital Network*/
#define AF_E164 AF_ISDN /* CCITT E.164 recommendation */
#define pseudo_AF_KEY 27 /* Internal key-management function */
#define AF_INET6 28 /* IPv6 */
#define AF_NATM 29 /* native ATM access */
#define AF_ATM 30 /* ATM */
#define pseudo_AF_HDRCMPLT 31 /* Used by BPF to not rewrite headers
* in interface output routine
*/
#define AF_NETGRAPH 32 /* Netgraph sockets */
#define AF_MAX 33
The one used for IP is
AF_INET. It is a symbol for the constant
2.It is the address family listed
in the sa_family field of
sockaddr that decides how exactly the
vaguely named bytes of sa_data will be
used.Specifically, whenever the address
family is AF_INET, we can use
struct sockaddr_in found in
netinet/in.h, wherever
sockaddr is expected:
/*
* Socket address, internet style.
*/
struct sockaddr_in {
u_char sin_len;
u_char sin_family;
u_short sin_port;
struct in_addr sin_addr;
char sin_zero[8];
};
We can visualize its organization this way: 0 1 2 3
+--------+--------+-----------------+
0 | 0 | Family | Port |
+--------+--------+-----------------+
4 | IP Address |
+-----------------------------------+
8 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
12 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+sockaddr_inThe three important fields are
sin_family, which is byte 1 of the
structure, sin_port, a 16-bit value
found in bytes 2 and 3, and sin_addr, a
32-bit integer representation of the IP
address, stored in bytes 4-7.Now, let us try to fill it out. Let us assume we are
trying to write a client for the
daytime protocol, which simply states
that its server will write a text string representing the
current date and time to port 13. We want to use
TCP/IP, so we need to specify
AF_INET in the address family
field. AF_INET is defined as
2. Let us use the
IP address of 192.43.244.18, which is the time
server of US federal government (time.nist.gov). 0 1 2 3
+--------+--------+-----------------+
0 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
+-----------------+-----------------+
4 | 192.43.244.18 |
+-----------------------------------+
8 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
12 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+Specific example of sockaddr_inBy the way the sin_addr field is
declared as being of the struct in_addr
type, which is defined in
netinet/in.h:
/*
* Internet address (a structure for historical reasons)
*/
struct in_addr {
in_addr_t s_addr;
};
In addition, in_addr_t is a 32-bit
integer.The 192.43.244.18 is
just a convenient notation of expressing a 32-bit integer
by listing all of its 8-bit bytes, starting with the
most significant one.So far, we have viewed sockaddr as
an abstraction. Our computer does not store
short integers as a single 16-bit
entity, but as a sequence of 2 bytes. Similarly, it stores
32-bit integers as a sequence of 4 bytes.Suppose we coded something like this:
sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
sa.sin_port = 13;
sa.sin_addr.s_addr = (((((192 << 8) | 43) << 8) | 244) << 8) | 18;
What would the result look like?Well, that depends, of course. On a Pentium, or other
x86, based computer, it would look like this: 0 1 2 3
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
4 | 18 | 244 | 43 | 192 |
+-----------------------------------+
8 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
12 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+sockaddr_in on an Intel systemOn a different system, it might look like this:
0 1 2 3
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
4 | 192 | 43 | 244 | 18 |
+-----------------------------------+
8 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
12 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+sockaddr_in on an MSB systemAnd on a PDP it might look different yet. But the
above two are the most common ways in use today.Ordinarily, wanting to write portable code,
programmers pretend that these differences do not
exist. And they get away with it (except when they code in
assembly language). Alas, you cannot get away with it that
easily when coding for sockets.Why?Because when communicating with another computer, you
usually do not know whether it stores data most
significant byte (MSB) or
least significant byte
(LSB) first.You might be wondering, So, will
sockets not handle it for me?It will not.While that answer may surprise you at first, remember
that the general sockets interface only understands the
sa_len and sa_family
fields of the sockaddr structure. You
do not have to worry about the byte order there (of
course, on FreeBSD sa_family is only 1
byte anyway, but many other Unix systems do not have
sa_len and use 2 bytes for
sa_family, and expect the data in
whatever order is native to the computer).But the rest of the data is just
sa_data[14] as far as sockets
goes. Depending on the address
family, sockets just forwards that data to its
destination.Indeed, when we enter a port number, it is because we
want the other computer to know what service we are asking
for. And, when we are the server, we read the port number
so we know what service the other computer is expecting
from us. Either way, sockets only has to forward the port
number as data. It does not interpret it in any way.Similarly, we enter the IP address
to tell everyone on the way where to send our data
to. Sockets, again, only forwards it as data.That is why, we (the programmers,
not the sockets) have to distinguish
between the byte order used by our computer and a
conventional byte order to send the data in to the other
computer.We will call the byte order our computer uses the
host byte order, or just the
host order.There is a convention of sending the multi-byte data
over IP
MSB first. This,
we will refer to as the network byte
order, or simply the network
order.Now, if we compiled the above code for an Intel based
computer, our host byte order would
produce: 0 1 2 3
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
4 | 18 | 244 | 43 | 192 |
+-----------------------------------+
8 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
12 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+Host byte order on an Intel systemBut the network byte order
requires that we store the data MSB
first: 0 1 2 3
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
4 | 192 | 43 | 244 | 18 |
+-----------------------------------+
8 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
12 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+Network byte orderUnfortunately, our host order is
the exact opposite of the network
order.We have several ways of dealing with it. One would be
to reverse the values in our code:
sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
sa.sin_port = 13 << 8;
sa.sin_addr.s_addr = (((((18 << 8) | 244) << 8) | 43) << 8) | 192;
This will trick our compiler
into storing the data in the network byte
order. In some cases, this is exactly the way
to do it (e.g., when programming in assembly
language). In most cases, however, it can cause a
problem.Suppose, you wrote a sockets-based program in C. You
know it is going to run on a Pentium, so you enter all
your constants in reverse and force them to the
network byte order. It works
well.Then, some day, your trusted old Pentium becomes a
rusty old Pentium. You replace it with a system whose
host order is the same as the
network order. You need to recompile
all your software. All of your software continues to
perform well, except the one program you wrote.You have since forgotten that you had forced all of
your constants to the opposite of the host
order. You spend some quality time tearing out
your hair, calling the names of all gods you ever heard
of (and some you made up), hitting your monitor with a
nerf bat, and performing all the other traditional
ceremonies of trying to figure out why something that has
worked so well is suddenly not working at all.Eventually, you figure it out, say a couple of swear
words, and start rewriting your code.Luckily, you are not the first one to face the
problem. Someone else has created the &man.htons.3; and
&man.htonl.3; C functions to convert a
short and long
respectively from the host byte
order to the network byte
order, and the &man.ntohs.3; and &man.ntohl.3;
C functions to go the other way.On MSB-first
systems these functions do nothing. On
LSB-first systems
they convert values to the proper order.So, regardless of what system your software is
compiled on, your data will end up in the correct order
if you use these functions.Client FunctionsTypically, the client initiates the connection to the
server. The client knows which server it is about to call:
It knows its IP address, and it knows the
port the server resides at. It is akin
to you picking up the phone and dialing the number (the
address), then, after someone answers,
asking for the person in charge of wingdings (the
port).connectOnce a client has created a socket, it needs to
connect it to a specific port on a remote system. It uses
&man.connect.2;:
int connect(int s, const struct sockaddr *name, socklen_t namelen);
The s argument is the socket, i.e.,
the value returned by the socket
function. The name is a pointer to
sockaddr, the structure we have talked
about extensively. Finaly, namelen
informs the system how many bytes are in our
sockaddr structure.If connect is successful, it
returns 0. Otherwise it returns
-1 and stores the error code in
errno.There are many reasons why
connect may fail. For example, with
an attempt to an Internet connection, the
IP address may not exist, or it may be
down, or just too busy, or it may not have a server
listening at the specified port. Or it may outright
refuse any request for specific
code.Our First ClientWe now know enough to write a very simple client, one
that will get current time from 192.43.244.18 and print it to
stdout.
/*
* daytime.c
*
* Programmed by G. Adam Stanislav
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
int main() {
register int s;
register int bytes;
struct sockaddr_in sa;
char buffer[BUFSIZ+1];
if ((s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
perror("socket");
return 1;
}
bzero(&sa, sizeof sa);
sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
sa.sin_port = htons(13);
sa.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl((((((192 << 8) | 43) << 8) | 244) << 8) | 18);
if (connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof sa) < 0) {
perror("connect");
close(s);
return 2;
}
while ((bytes = read(s, buffer, BUFSIZ)) > 0)
write(1, buffer, bytes);
close(s);
return 0;
}
Go ahead, enter it in your editor, save it as
daytime.c, then compile and run
it:&prompt.user; cc -O3 -o daytime daytime.c
&prompt.user; ./daytime
52079 01-06-19 02:29:25 50 0 1 543.9 UTC(NIST) *
&prompt.user;In this case, the date was June 19, 2001, the time was
02:29:25 UTC. Naturally, your results
will vary.Server FunctionsThe typical server does not initiate the
connection. Instead, it waits for a client to call it and
request services. It does not know when the client will
call, nor how many clients will call. It may be just sitting
there, waiting patiently, one moment, The next moment, it
can find itself swamped with requests from a number of
clients, all calling in at the same time.The sockets interface offers three basic functions to
handle this.bindPorts are like extensions to a phone line: After you
dial a number, you dial the extension to get to a specific
person or department.There are 65535 IP ports, but a
server usually processes requests that come in on only one
of them. It is like telling the phone room operator that
we are now at work and available to answer the phone at a
specific extension. We use &man.bind.2; to tell sockets
which port we want to serve.
int bind(int s, const struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen);
Beside specifying the port in addr,
the server may include its IP
address. However, it can just use the symbolic constant
INADDR_ANY to indicate it will serve all
requests to the specified port regardless of what its
IP address is. This symbol, along with
several similar ones, is declared in
netinet/in.h
#define INADDR_ANY (u_int32_t)0x00000000
Suppose we were writing a server for the
daytime protocol over
TCP/IP. Recall that
it uses port 13. Our sockaddr_in
structure would look like this: 0 1 2 3
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
4 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
8 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+
12 | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+Example Server sockaddr_inlistenTo continue our office phone analogy, after you have
told the phone central operator what extension you will be
at, you now walk into your office, and make sure your own
phone is plugged in and the ringer is turned on. Plus, you
make sure your call waiting is activated, so you can hear
the phone ring even while you are talking to someone.The server ensures all of that with the &man.listen.2;
function.
int listen(int s, int backlog);
In here, the backlog variable tells
sockets how many incoming requests to accept while you are
busy processing the last request. In other words, it
determines the maximum size of the queue of pending
connections.acceptAfter you hear the phone ringing, you accept the call
by answering the call. You have now established a
connection with your client. This connection remains
active until either you or your client hang up.The server accepts the connection by using the
&man.accept.2; function.
int accept(int s, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t *addrlen);
Note that this time addrlen is a
pointer. This is necessary because in this case it is the
socket that fills out addr, the
sockaddr_in structure.The return value is an integer. Indeed, the
accept returns a new
socket. You will use this new socket to
communicate with the client.What happens to the old socket? It continues to listen
for more requests (remember the backlog
variable we passed to listen?) until
we close it.Now, the new socket is meant only for
communications. It is fully connected. We cannot pass it
to listen again, trying to accept
additional connections.Our First ServerOur first server will be somewhat more complex than
our first client was: Not only do we have more sockets
functions to use, but we need to write it as a
daemon.This is best achieved by creating a child
process after binding the port. The main
process then exits and returns control to the
shell (or whatever program
invoked it).The child calls listen, then
starts an endless loop, which accepts a connection, serves
it, and eventually closes its socket.
/*
* daytimed - a port 13 server
*
* Programmed by G. Adam Stanislav
* June 19, 2001
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#define BACKLOG 4
int main() {
register int s, c;
int b;
struct sockaddr_in sa;
time_t t;
struct tm *tm;
FILE *client;
if ((s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
perror("socket");
return 1;
}
bzero(&sa, sizeof sa);
sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
sa.sin_port = htons(13);
if (INADDR_ANY)
sa.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
if (bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof sa) < 0) {
perror("bind");
return 2;
}
switch (fork()) {
case -1:
perror("fork");
return 3;
break;
default:
close s;
return 0;
break;
case 0:
break;
}
listen(s, BACKLOG);
for (;;) {
b = sizeof sa;
if ((c = accept(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, &b)) < 0) {
perror("daytimed accept");
return 4;
}
if ((client = fdopen(c, "w")) == NULL) {
perror("daytimed fdopen");
return 5;
}
if ((t = time(NULL)) < 0) {
perror("daytimed time");
return 6;
}
tm = gmtime(&t);
fprintf(client, "%.4i-%.2i-%.2iT%.2i:%.2i:%.2iZ\n",
tm->tm_year + 1900,
tm->tm_mon + 1,
tm->tm_mday,
tm->tm_hour,
tm->tm_min,
tm->tm_sec);
fclose(client);
}
}
We start by creating a socket. Then we fill out the
sockaddr_in structure in
sa. Note the conditional use of
INADDR_ANY:
if (INADDR_ANY)
sa.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
Its value is 0. Since we have
just used bzero on the entire
structure, it would be redundant to set it to
0 again. But if we port our code to
some other system where INADDR_ANY is
perhaps not a zero, we need to assign it to
sa.sin_addr.s_addr. Most modern C
compilers are clever enough to notice that
INADDR_ANY is a constant. As long as it
is a zero, they will optimize the entire conditional
statement out of the code.After we have called bind
successfully, we are ready to become a
daemon: We use
fork to create a child process. In
both, the parent and the child, the s
variable is our socket. The parent process will not need
it, so it calls close, then it
returns 0 to inform its own parent it
had terminated successfully.Meanwhile, the child process continues working in the
background. It calls listen and sets
its backlog to 4. It does not need a
large value here because daytime is
not a protocol many clients request all the time, and
because it can process each request instantly anyway.Finally, the daemon starts an endless loop, which
performs the following steps: Call accept. It waits
here until a client contacts it. At that point, it
receives a new socket, c, which it
can use to communicate with this particular client.
It uses the C function
fdopen to turn the socket from a
low-level file descriptor to a
C-style FILE pointer. This will allow
the use of fprintf later on.
It checks the time, and prints it in the
ISO 8601 format
to the clientfile. It
then uses fclose to close the
file. That will automatically close the socket as well.
We can generalize this, and use
it as a model for many other servers:+-----------------+
| Create Socket |
+-----------------+
|
+-----------------+
| Bind Port | Daemon Process
+-----------------+
| +--------+
+-------------+-->| Init |
| | +--------+
+-----------------+ | |
| Exit | | +--------+
+-----------------+ | | Listen |
| +--------+
| |
| +--------+
| | Accept |
| +--------+
| |
| +--------+
| | Serve |
| +--------+
| |
| +--------+
| | Close |
|<--------+Sequential ServerThis flowchart is good for sequential
servers, i.e., servers that can serve one
client at a time, just as we were able to with our
daytime server. This is only possible
whenever there is no real conversation
going on between the client and the server: As soon as the
server detects a connection to the client, it sends out
some data and closes the connection. The entire operation
may take nanoseconds, and it is finished.The advantage of this flowchart is that, except for
the brief moment after the parent
forks and before it exits, there is
always only one process active: Our
server does not take up much memory and other system
resources.Note that we have added initialize
daemon in our flowchart. We did not need to
initialize our own daemon, but this is a good place in the
flow of the program to set up any
signal handlers, open any files we
may need, etc.Just about everything in the flow chart can be used
literally on many different servers. The
serve entry is the exception. We
think of it as a black
box, i.e., something you design
specifically for your own server, and just plug it
into the rest.Not all protocols are that simple. Many receive a
request from the client, reply to it, then receive another
request from the same client. Because of that, they do not
know in advance how long they will be serving the
client. Such servers usually start a new process for each
client. While the new process is serving its client, the
daemon can continue listening for more connections.Now, go ahead, save the above source code as
daytimed.c (it is customary to end
the names of daemons with the letter
d). After you have compiled it, try
running it:&prompt.user; ./daytimed
bind: Permission denied
&prompt.user;What happened here? As you will recall, the
daytime protocol uses port 13. But
all ports below 1024 are reserved to the superuser
(otherwise, anyone could start a daemon pretending to
serve a commonly used port, while causing a security
breach).Try again, this time as the superuser:&prompt.root; ./daytimed
&prompt.root;What... Nothing? Let us try again:&prompt.root; ./daytimed
bind: Address already in use
&prompt.root;Every port can only be bound by one program at a
time. Our first attempt was indeed successful: It started
the child daemon and returned quietly. It is still running
and will continue to run until you either kill it, or any
of its system calls fail, or you reboot the system.Fine, we know it is running in the background. But is
it working? How do we know it is a proper
daytime server? Simple:&prompt.user; telnet localhost 13
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
2001-06-19T21:04:42Z
Connection closed by foreign host.
&prompt.user;telnet tried the new
IPv6, and failed. It retried with
IPv4 and succeeded. The daemon
works.If you have access to another Unix system via
telnet, you can use it to test
accessing the server remotely. My computer does not have a
static IP address, so this is what I
did:&prompt.user; who
whizkid ttyp0 Jun 19 16:59 (216.127.220.143)
xxx ttyp1 Jun 19 16:06 (xx.xx.xx.xx)
&prompt.user; telnet 216.127.220.143 13
Trying 216.127.220.143...
Connected to r47.bfm.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
2001-06-19T21:31:11Z
Connection closed by foreign host.
&prompt.user;Again, it worked. Will it work using the domain name?
&prompt.user; telnet r47.bfm.org 13
Trying 216.127.220.143...
Connected to r47.bfm.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
2001-06-19T21:31:40Z
Connection closed by foreign host.
&prompt.user;By the way, telnet prints
the Connection closed by foreign host
message after our daemon has closed the socket. This shows
us that, indeed, using
fclose(client); in our code works as
advertised.Helper FunctionsFreeBSD C library contains many helper functions for sockets
programming. For example, in our sample client we hard coded
the time.nist.gov
IP address. But we do not always know the
IP address. Even if we do, our software is
more flexible if it allows the user to enter the
IP address, or even the domain name.
gethostbynameWhile there is no way to pass the domain name directly to
any of the sockets functions, the FreeBSD C library comes with
- the &man.gethostbyname.3 and &man.gethostbyname2.3 functions,
+ the &man.gethostbyname.3; and &man.gethostbyname2.3; functions,
declared in netdb.h.
struct hostent * gethostbyname(const char *name);
struct hostent * gethostbyname2(const char *name, int af);
Both return a pointer to the hostent
structure, with much information about the domain. For our
purposes, the h_addr_list[0] field of the
structure points at h_length bytes of the
correct address, already stored in the network byte
order.This allows us to create a much more flexible—and
much more useful—version of our
daytime program:
/*
* daytime.c
*
* Programmed by G. Adam Stanislav
* 19 June 2001
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
register int s;
register int bytes;
struct sockaddr_in sa;
struct hostent *he;
char buf[BUFSIZ+1];
char *host;
if ((s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
perror("socket");
return 1;
}
bzero(&sa, sizeof sa);
sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
sa.sin_port = htons(13);
host = (argc > 1) ? (char *)argv[1] : "time.nist.gov";
if ((he = gethostbyname(host)) == NULL) {
herror(host);
return 2;
}
bcopy(he->h_addr_list[0],&sa.sin_addr, he->h_length);
if (connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof sa) < 0) {
perror("connect");
return 3;
}
while ((bytes = read(s, buf, BUFSIZ)) > 0)
write(1, buf, bytes);
close(s);
return 0;
}
We now can type a domain name (or an IP
address, it works both ways) on the command line, and the
program will try to connect to its
daytime server. Otherwise, it will still
default to time.nist.gov. However, even in
this case we will use gethostbyname
rather than hard coding 192.43.244.18. That way, even if its
IP address changes in the future, we will
still find it.Since it takes virtually no time to get the time from your
local server, you could run daytime
twice in a row: First to get the time from time.nist.gov, the second time from
your own system. You can then compare the results and see how
exact your system clock is:&prompt.user; daytime ; daytime localhost
52080 01-06-20 04:02:33 50 0 0 390.2 UTC(NIST) *
2001-06-20T04:02:35Z
&prompt.user;As you can see, my system was two seconds ahead of the
NIST time.getservbynameSometimes you may not be sure what port a certain service
uses. The &man.getservbyname.3; function, also declared in
netdb.h comes in very handy in those
cases:
struct servent * getservbyname(const char *name, const char *proto);
The servent structure contains the
s_port, which contains the proper port,
already in network byte order.Had we not known the correct port for the
daytime service, we could have found it
this way:
struct servent *se;
...
if ((se = getservbyname("daytime", "tcp")) == NULL {
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot determine which port to use.\n");
return 7;
}
sa.sin_port = se->s_port;
You usually do know the port. But if you are developing a
new protocol, you may be testing it on an unofficial
port. Some day, you will register the protocol and its port
(if nowhere else, at least in your
/etc/services, which is where
getservbyname looks). Instead of
returning an error in the above code, you just use the
temporary port number. Once you have listed the protocol in
/etc/services, your software will find
its port without you having to rewrite the code.Concurrent ServersUnlike a sequential server, a concurrent
server has to be able to serve more than one client
at a time. For example, a chat server may
be serving a specific client for hours—it cannot wait till
it stops serving a client before it serves the next one.This requires a significant change in our flowchart:+-----------------+
| Create Socket |
+-----------------+
|
+-----------------+
| Bind Port | Daemon Process
+-----------------+
| +--------+
+-------------+-->| Init |
| | +--------+
+-----------------+ | |
| Exit | | +--------+
+-----------------+ | | Listen |
| +--------+
| |
| +--------+
| | Accept |
| +--------+
| | +------------------+
| +------>| Close Top Socket |
| | +------------------+
| +--------+ |
| | Close | +------------------+
| +--------+ | Serve |
| | +------------------+
|<--------+ |
+------------------+
| Close Acc Socket |
+--------+ +------------------+
| Signal | |
+--------+ +------------------+
| Exit |
+------------------+Concurrent ServerWe moved the serve from the
daemon process to its own server
process. However, because each child process inherits
all open files (and a socket is treated just like a file), the
new process inherits not only the accepted
handle, i.e., the socket returned by the
accept call, but also the top
socket, i.e., the one opened by the top process right
at the beginning.However, the server process does not
need this socket and should close it
immediately. Similarly, the daemon process
no longer needs the accepted socket, and
not only should, but mustclose it—otherwise, it will run out
of available file descriptors sooner or
later.After the server process is done
serving, it should close the accepted
socket. Instead of returning to
accept, it now exits.
Under Unix, a process does not really
exit. Instead, it
returns to its parent. Typically, a parent
process waits for its child process, and
obtains a return value. However, our daemon
process cannot simply stop and wait. That would
defeat the whole purpose of creating additional processes. But
if it never does wait, its children will
become zombies—no longer functional
but still roaming around.For that reason, the daemon process
needs to set signal handlers in its
initialize daemon phase. At least a
SIGCHLD signal has to be processed, so the
daemon can remove the zombie return values from the system and
release the system resources they are taking up.That is why our flowchart now contains a process
signals box, which is not connected to any other box.
By the way, many servers also process SIGHUP,
and typically interpret as the signal from the superuser that
they should reread their configuration files. This allows us to
change settings without having to kill and restart these
servers.
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JamesRaynardWritten by MurrayStokelyModifications for the Developer's Handbook by Programming ToolsSynopsisThis chapter is an introduction to using some of the
programming tools supplied with FreeBSD, although much of it
will be applicable to many other versions of Unix. It does
not attempt to describe coding in any
detail. Most of the chapter assumes little or no previous
programming knowledge, although it is hoped that most
programmers will find something of value in it.IntroductionFreeBSD offers an excellent development environment.
Compilers for C, C++, and Fortran and an assembler come with the
basic system, not to mention a Perl interpreter and classic Unix
tools such as sed and awk.
If that is not enough, there are many more compilers and
interpreters in the Ports collection. FreeBSD is very
compatible with standards such as POSIX and
ANSI C, as well with its own BSD heritage, so
it is possible to write applications that will compile and run
with little or no modification on a wide range of
platforms.However, all this power can be rather overwhelming at first
if you have never written programs on a Unix platform before.
This document aims to help you get up and running, without
getting too deeply into more advanced topics. The intention is
that this document should give you enough of the basics to be
able to make some sense of the documentation.Most of the document requires little or no knowledge of
programming, although it does assume a basic competence with
using Unix and a willingness to learn!Introduction to ProgrammingA program is a set of instructions that tell the computer to
do various things; sometimes the instruction it has to perform
depends on what happened when it performed a previous
instruction. This section gives an overview of the two main
ways in which you can give these instructions, or
commands as they are usually called. One way
uses an interpreter, the other a
compiler. As human languages are too
difficult for a computer to understand in an unambiguous way,
commands are usually written in one or other languages specially
designed for the purpose.InterpretersWith an interpreter, the language comes as an environment,
where you type in commands at a prompt and the environment
executes them for you. For more complicated programs, you can
type the commands into a file and get the interpreter to load
the file and execute the commands in it. If anything goes
wrong, many interpreters will drop you into a debugger to help
you track down the problem.The advantage of this is that you can see the results of
your commands immediately, and mistakes can be corrected
readily. The biggest disadvantage comes when you want to
share your programs with someone. They must have the same
interpreter, or you must have some way of giving it to them,
and they need to understand how to use it. Also users may not
appreciate being thrown into a debugger if they press the
wrong key! From a performance point of view, interpreters can
use up a lot of memory, and generally do not generate code as
efficiently as compilers.In my opinion, interpreted languages are the best way to
start if you have not done any programming before. This kind
of environment is typically found with languages like Lisp,
Smalltalk, Perl and Basic. It could also be argued that the
Unix shell (sh, csh) is itself an
interpreter, and many people do in fact write shell
scripts to help with various
housekeeping tasks on their machine. Indeed, part
of the original Unix philosophy was to provide lots of small
utility programs that could be linked together in shell
scripts to perform useful tasks.Interpreters available with FreeBSDHere is a list of interpreters that are available as
FreeBSD
packages, with a brief discussion of some of the
more popular interpreted languages.To get one of these packages, all you need to do is to
click on the hotlink for the package, then run&prompt.root; pkg_add package name>as root. Obviously, you will need to have a fully
functional FreeBSD 2.1.0 or later system for the package to
work!BASICShort for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code. Developed in the 1950s for teaching
University students to program and provided with every
self-respecting personal computer in the 1980s,
BASIC has been the first programming
language for many programmers. It is also the foundation
for Visual Basic.The Bywater
Basic Interpreter and the Phil
Cockroft's Basic Interpreter (formerly Rabbit
Basic) are available as FreeBSD
packages.LispA language that was developed in the late 1950s as
an alternative to the number-crunching
languages that were popular at the time. Instead of
being based on numbers, Lisp is based on lists; in fact
the name is short for List Processing.
Very popular in AI (Artificial Intelligence)
circles.Lisp is an extremely powerful and sophisticated
language, but can be rather large and unwieldy.FreeBSD has GNU
Common Lisp available as a package.PerlVery popular with system administrators for writing
scripts; also often used on World Wide Web servers for
writing CGI scripts.Perl is installed as /usr/bin/perl in the
FreeBSD base system.SchemeA dialect of Lisp that is rather more compact and
cleaner than Common Lisp. Popular in Universities as it
is simple enough to teach to undergraduates as a first
language, while it has a high enough level of
abstraction to be used in research work.FreeBSD has packages of the Elk
Scheme Interpreter, the MIT
Scheme Interpreter and the SCM
Scheme Interpreter.IconThe
Icon Programming Language.LogoBrian
Harvey's LOGO Interpreter.PythonThe
Python Object-Oriented Programming
LanguageCompilersCompilers are rather different. First of all, you write
your code in a file (or files) using an editor. You then run
the compiler and see if it accepts your program. If it did
not compile, grit your teeth and go back to the editor; if it
did compile and gave you a program, you can run it either at a
shell command prompt or in a debugger to see if it works
properly.
If you run it in the shell, you may get a core
dump.Obviously, this is not quite as direct as using an
interpreter. However it allows you to do a lot of things
which are very difficult or even impossible with an
interpreter, such as writing code which interacts closely with
the operating system—or even writing your own operating
system! It is also useful if you need to write very efficient
code, as the compiler can take its time and optimise the code,
which would not be acceptable in an interpreter. And
distributing a program written for a compiler is usually more
straightforward than one written for an interpreter—you
can just give them a copy of the executable, assuming they
have the same operating system as you.Compiled languages include Pascal, C and C++. C and C++
are rather unforgiving languages, and best suited to more
experienced programmers; Pascal, on the other hand, was
designed as an educational language, and is quite a good
language to start with. FreeBSD does not include Pascal
support in the base system, but the GNU Pascal Compiler (gpc)
is available in the ports collection.As the edit-compile-run-debug cycle is rather tedious when
using separate programs, many commercial compiler makers have
produced Integrated Development Environments
(IDEs for short). FreeBSD does not include
an IDE in the base system, but devel/kdevelop is
available in the ports tree and many use
Emacs for this purpose. Using
Emacs as an IDE is discussed in
.Compiling with ccThis section deals only with the GNU compiler for C and C++,
since that comes with the base FreeBSD system. It can be
invoked by either cc or gcc. The
details of producing a program with an interpreter vary
considerably between interpreters, and are usually well covered
in the documentation and on-line help for the
interpreter.Once you have written your masterpiece, the next step is to
convert it into something that will (hopefully!) run on FreeBSD.
This usually involves several steps, each of which is done by a
separate program.Pre-process your source code to remove comments and do
other tricks like expanding macros in C.Check the syntax of your code to see if you have obeyed
the rules of the language. If you have not, it will
complain!Convert the source code into assembly
language—this is very close to machine code, but still
understandable by humans. Allegedly.
To be strictly accurate, cc converts the
source code into its own, machine-independent
p-code instead of assembly language at
this stage.Convert the assembly language into machine
code—yep, we are talking bits and bytes, ones and
zeros here.Check that you have used things like functions and
global variables in a consistent way. For example, if you
have called a non-existent function, it will
complain.If you are trying to produce an executable from several
source code files, work out how to fit them all
together.Work out how to produce something that the system's
run-time loader will be able to load into memory and
run.Finally, write the executable on the file system.The word compiling is often used to refer to
just steps 1 to 4—the others are referred to as
linking. Sometimes step 1 is referred to as
pre-processing and steps 3-4 as
assembling.Fortunately, almost all this detail is hidden from you, as
cc is a front end that manages calling all these
programs with the right arguments for you; simply typing&prompt.user; cc foobar.cwill cause foobar.c to be compiled by all the
steps above. If you have more than one file to compile, just do
something like&prompt.user; cc foo.c bar.cNote that the syntax checking is just that—checking
the syntax. It will not check for any logical mistakes you may
have made, like putting the program into an infinite loop, or
using a bubble sort when you meant to use a binary
sort.
In case you did not know, a binary sort is an efficient
way of sorting things into order and a bubble sort
is not.There are lots and lots of options for cc, which
are all in the manual page. Here are a few of the most important
ones, with examples of how to use them.The output name of the file. If you do not use this
option, cc will produce an executable called
a.out.
The reasons for this are buried in the mists of
history.&prompt.user; cc foobar.cexecutable is a.out
&prompt.user; cc -o foobar foobar.cexecutable is foobarJust compile the file, do not link it. Useful for toy
programs where you just want to check the syntax, or if
you are using a Makefile.&prompt.user; cc -c foobar.cThis will produce an object file (not an
executable) called foobar.o. This
can be linked together with other object files into an
executable.Create a debug version of the executable. This makes
the compiler put information into the executable about
which line of which source file corresponds to which
function call. A debugger can use this information to show
the source code as you step through the program, which is
very useful; the disadvantage is that
all this extra information makes the program much bigger.
Normally, you compile with while you
are developing a program and then compile a release
version without when you are
satisfied it works properly.&prompt.user; cc -g foobar.cThis will produce a debug version of the
program.
Note, we did not use the flag
to specify the executable name, so we will get an
executable called a.out.
Producing a debug version called
foobar is left as an exercise for
the reader!Create an optimised version of the executable. The
compiler performs various clever tricks to try and produce
an executable that runs faster than normal. You can add a
number after the to specify a higher
level of optimisation, but this often exposes bugs in the
compiler's optimiser. For instance, the version of
cc that comes with the 2.1.0 release of
FreeBSD is known to produce bad code with the
option in some circumstances.Optimisation is usually only turned on when compiling
a release version.&prompt.user; cc -O -o foobar foobar.cThis will produce an optimised version of
foobar.The following three flags will force cc
to check that your code complies to the relevant international
standard, often referred to as the ANSI
standard, though strictly speaking it is an
ISO standard.Enable all the warnings which the authors of
cc believe are worthwhile. Despite the
name, it will not enable all the warnings
cc is capable of.Turn off most, but not all, of the
non-ANSI C features provided by
cc. Despite the name, it does not
guarantee strictly that your code will comply to the
standard.Turn off allcc's non-ANSI C
features.Without these flags, cc will allow you to
use some of its non-standard extensions to the standard. Some
of these are very useful, but will not work with other
compilers—in fact, one of the main aims of the standard is
to allow people to write code that will work with any compiler
on any system. This is known as portable
code.Generally, you should try to make your code as portable as
possible, as otherwise you may have to completely rewrite the
program later to get it to work somewhere else—and who
knows what you may be using in a few years time?&prompt.user; cc -Wall -ansi -pedantic -o foobar foobar.cThis will produce an executable foobar
after checking foobar.c for standard
compliance.Specify a function library to be used during when
linking.The most common example of this is when compiling a
program that uses some of the mathematical functions in C.
Unlike most other platforms, these are in a separate
library from the standard C one and you have to tell the
compiler to add it.The rule is that if the library is called
libsomething.a,
you give cc the argument
.
For example, the math library is
libm.a, so you give
cc the argument .
A common gotcha with the math library is
that it has to be the last library on the command
line.&prompt.user; cc -o foobar foobar.c -lmThis will link the math library functions into
foobar.If you are compiling C++ code, you need to add
, or if
you are using FreeBSD 2.2 or later, to the command line
argument to link the C++ library functions.
Alternatively, you can run c++ instead
of cc, which does this for you.
c++ can also be invoked as
g++ on FreeBSD.&prompt.user; cc -o foobar foobar.cc -lg++For FreeBSD 2.1.6 and earlier
&prompt.user; cc -o foobar foobar.cc -lstdc++For FreeBSD 2.2 and later
&prompt.user; c++ -o foobar foobar.ccEach of these will both produce an executable
foobar from the C++ source file
foobar.cc. Note that, on Unix
systems, C++ source files traditionally end in
.C, .cxx or
.cc, rather than the
MS-DOS style
.cpp (which was already used for
something else). gcc used to rely on
this to work out what kind of compiler to use on the
source file; however, this restriction no longer applies,
so you may now call your C++ files
.cpp with impunity!Common cc Queries and ProblemsI am trying to write a program which uses the
sin() function and I get an error
like this. What does it mean?/var/tmp/cc0143941.o: Undefined symbol `_sin' referenced from text segment
When using mathematical functions like
sin(), you have to tell
cc to link in the math library, like
so:&prompt.user; cc -o foobar foobar.c -lmAll right, I wrote this simple program to practice
using . All it does is raise 2.1 to
the power of 6.#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
float f;
f = pow(2.1, 6);
printf("2.1 ^ 6 = %f\n", f);
return 0;
}
and I compiled it as:&prompt.user; cc temp.c -lmlike you said I should, but I get this when I run
it:&prompt.user; ./a.out
2.1 ^ 6 = 1023.000000
This is not the right answer!
What is going on?When the compiler sees you call a function, it
checks if it has already seen a prototype for it. If it
has not, it assumes the function returns an
int, which is definitely not what you want
here.So how do I fix this?The prototypes for the mathematical functions are in
math.h. If you include this file,
the compiler will be able to find the prototype and it
will stop doing strange things to your
calculation!#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
...
After recompiling it as you did before, run
it:&prompt.user; ./a.out
2.1 ^ 6 = 85.766121
If you are using any of the mathematical functions,
always include
math.h and remember to link in the
math library.I compiled a file called
foobar.c and I cannot find an
executable called foobar. Where's
it gone?Remember, cc will call the
executable a.out unless you tell it
differently. Use the
option:&prompt.user; cc -o foobar foobar.cOK, I have an executable called
foobar, I can see it when I run
ls, but when I type in
foobar at the command prompt it tells
me there is no such file. Why can it not find
it?Unlike MS-DOS, Unix does not
look in the current directory when it is trying to find
out which executable you want it to run, unless you tell
it to. Either type ./foobar, which
means run the file called
foobar in the current
directory, or change your PATH
environment
variable so that it looks something likebin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
The dot at the end means look in the current
directory if it is not in any of the
others.I called my executable test,
but nothing happens when I run it. What is going
on?Most Unix systems have a program called
test in /usr/bin
and the shell is picking that one up before it gets to
checking the current directory. Either type:&prompt.user; ./testor choose a better name for your program!I compiled my program and it seemed to run all right
at first, then there was an error and it said something
about core dumped. What does that
mean?The name core dump dates back
to the very early days of Unix, when the machines used
core memory for storing data. Basically, if the program
failed under certain conditions, the system would write
the contents of core memory to disk in a file called
core, which the programmer could
then pore over to find out what went wrong.Fascinating stuff, but what I am supposed to do
now?Use gdb to analyse the core (see
).When my program dumped core, it said something about
a segmentation fault. What is
that?This basically means that your program tried to
perform some sort of illegal operation on memory; Unix
is designed to protect the operating system and other
programs from rogue programs.Common causes for this are:Trying to write to a NULL
pointer, egchar *foo = NULL;
strcpy(foo, "bang!");
Using a pointer that has not been initialised,
egchar *foo;
strcpy(foo, "bang!");
The pointer will have some random value that,
with luck, will point into an area of memory that
is not available to your program and the kernel will
kill your program before it can do any damage. If
you are unlucky, it will point somewhere inside your
own program and corrupt one of your data structures,
causing the program to fail mysteriously.Trying to access past the end of an array,
egint bar[20];
bar[27] = 6;
Trying to store something in read-only memory,
egchar *foo = "My string";
strcpy(foo, "bang!");
Unix compilers often put string literals like
"My string" into read-only areas
of memory.Doing naughty things with
malloc() and
free(), egchar bar[80];
free(bar);
orchar *foo = malloc(27);
free(foo);
free(foo);
Making one of these mistakes will not always lead to
an error, but they are always bad practice. Some
systems and compilers are more tolerant than others,
which is why programs that ran well on one system can
crash when you try them on an another.Sometimes when I get a core dump it says
bus error. It says in my Unix
book that this means a hardware problem, but the
computer still seems to be working. Is this
true?No, fortunately not (unless of course you really do
have a hardware problem…). This is usually
another way of saying that you accessed memory in a way
you should not have.This dumping core business sounds as though it could
be quite useful, if I can make it happen when I want to.
Can I do this, or do I have to wait until there is an
error?Yes, just go to another console or xterm, do&prompt.user; psto find out the process ID of your program, and
do&prompt.user; kill -ABRT pidwhere
pid is
the process ID you looked up.This is useful if your program has got stuck in an
infinite loop, for instance. If your program happens to
trap SIGABRT, there are several other
signals which have a similar effect.Alternatively, you can create a core dump from
inside your program, by calling the
abort() function. See the man page
of &man.abort.3; to learn more.If you want to create a core dump from outside your
program, but do not want the process to terminate, you
can use the gcore program. See the
- man page of &man.gcore.1 for more information.
+ man page of &man.gcore.1; for more information.
MakeWhat is make?When you are working on a simple program with only one or
two source files, typing in&prompt.user; cc file1.c file2.cis not too bad, but it quickly becomes very tedious when
there are several files—and it can take a while to
compile, too.One way to get around this is to use object files and only
recompile the source file if the source code has changed. So
we could have something like:
- &prompt.user; cc file1.o file2.o … file37.c &hellip
+ &prompt.user; cc file1.o file2.o … file37.c …if we had changed file37.c, but not any
of the others, since the last time we compiled. This may
speed up the compilation quite a bit, but does not solve the
typing problem.Or we could write a shell script to solve the typing
problem, but it would have to re-compile everything, making it
very inefficient on a large project.What happens if we have hundreds of source files lying
about? What if we are working in a team with other people who
forget to tell us when they have changed one of their source
files that we use?Perhaps we could put the two solutions together and write
something like a shell script that would contain some kind of
magic rule saying when a source file needs compiling. Now all
we need now is a program that can understand these rules, as
it is a bit too complicated for the shell.This program is called make. It reads
in a file, called a makefile, that
tells it how different files depend on each other, and works
out which files need to be re-compiled and which ones do not.
For example, a rule could say something like if
fromboz.o is older than
fromboz.c, that means someone must have
changed fromboz.c, so it needs to be
re-compiled. The makefile also has rules telling
make how to re-compile the source file,
making it a much more powerful tool.Makefiles are typically kept in the same directory as the
source they apply to, and can be called
makefile, Makefile
or MAKEFILE. Most programmers use the
name Makefile, as this puts it near the
top of a directory listing, where it can easily be
seen.
They do not use the MAKEFILE form
as block capitals are often used for documentation files
like README.Example of using makeHere is a very simple make file:foo: foo.c
cc -o foo foo.cIt consists of two lines, a dependency line and a creation
line.The dependency line here consists of the name of the
program (known as the target), followed
by a colon, then whitespace, then the name of the source file.
When make reads this line, it looks to see
if foo exists; if it exists, it compares
the time foo was last modified to the
time foo.c was last modified. If
foo does not exist, or is older than
foo.c, it then looks at the creation line
to find out what to do. In other words, this is the rule for
working out when foo.c needs to be
re-compiled.The creation line starts with a tab (press
the tab key) and then the command you would
type to create foo if you were doing it
at a command prompt. If foo is out of
date, or does not exist, make then executes
this command to create it. In other words, this is the rule
which tells make how to re-compile
foo.c.So, when you type make, it will
make sure that foo is up to date with
respect to your latest changes to foo.c.
This principle can be extended to
Makefiles with hundreds of
targets—in fact, on FreeBSD, it is possible to compile
the entire operating system just by typing make
world in the appropriate directory!Another useful property of makefiles is that the targets
do not have to be programs. For instance, we could have a make
file that looks like this:foo: foo.c
cc -o foo foo.c
install:
cp foo /home/meWe can tell make which target we want to make by
typing:&prompt.user; make targetmake will then only look at that target
and ignore any others. For example, if we type
make foo with the makefile above, make
will ignore the install target.If we just type make on its own,
make will always look at the first target and then stop
without looking at any others. So if we typed
make here, it will just go to the
foo target, re-compile
foo if necessary, and then stop without
going on to the install target.Notice that the install target does not
actually depend on anything! This means that the command on
the following line is always executed when we try to make that
target by typing make install. In this
case, it will copy foo into the user's
home directory. This is often used by application makefiles,
so that the application can be installed in the correct
directory when it has been correctly compiled.This is a slightly confusing subject to try and explain.
If you do not quite understand how make
works, the best thing to do is to write a simple program like
hello world and a make file like the one above
and experiment. Then progress to using more than one source
file, or having the source file include a header file. The
touch command is very useful here—it
changes the date on a file without you having to edit
it.Make and include-filesC code often starts with a list of files to include, for
example stdio.h. Some of these files are system-include
files, some of them are from the project you are now working
on:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "foo.h"
int main(....To make sure that this file is recompiled the moment
foo.h is changed, you have to add it in
your Makefile:foo: foo.c foo.hThe moment your project is getting bigger and you have
more and more own include-files to maintain, it will be a
pain to keep track of all include files and the files which
are depending on it. If you change an include-file but
forget to recompile all the files which are depending on
it, the results will be devastating. gcc
has an option to analyze your files and to produce a list
of include-files and their dependencies: .
If you add this to your Makefile:depend:
gcc -E -MM *.c > .dependand run make depend, the file
.depend will appear with a list of
object-files, C-files and the include-files:foo.o: foo.c foo.hIf you change foo.h, next time
you run make all files depending on
foo.h will be recompiled.Do not forget to run make depend each
time you add an include-file to one of your files.FreeBSD MakefilesMakefiles can be rather complicated to write. Fortunately,
BSD-based systems like FreeBSD come with some very powerful
ones as part of the system. One very good example of this is
the FreeBSD ports system. Here is the essential part of a
typical ports Makefile:MASTER_SITES= ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/
DISTFILES= scheme-microcode+dist-7.3-freebsd.tgz
.include <bsd.port.mk>Now, if we go to the directory for this port and type
make, the following happens:A check is made to see if the source code for this
port is already on the system.If it is not, an FTP connection to the URL in
MASTER_SITES is set up to download the
source.The checksum for the source is calculated and compared
it with one for a known, good, copy of the source. This
is to make sure that the source was not corrupted while in
transit.Any changes required to make the source work on
FreeBSD are applied—this is known as
patching.Any special configuration needed for the source is
done. (Many Unix program distributions try to work out
which version of Unix they are being compiled on and which
optional Unix features are present—this is where
they are given the information in the FreeBSD ports
scenario).The source code for the program is compiled. In
effect, we change to the directory where the source was
unpacked and do make—the
program's own make file has the necessary information to
build the program.We now have a compiled version of the program. If we
wish, we can test it now; when we feel confident about the
program, we can type make install.
This will cause the program and any supporting files it
needs to be copied into the correct location; an entry is
also made into a package database, so
that the port can easily be uninstalled later if we change
our mind about it.Now I think you will agree that is rather impressive for a
four line script!The secret lies in the last line, which tells
make to look in the system makefile called
bsd.port.mk. It is easy to overlook this
line, but this is where all the clever stuff comes
from—someone has written a makefile that tells
make to do all the things above (plus a
couple of other things I did not mention, including handling
any errors that may occur) and anyone can get access to that
just by putting a single line in their own make file!If you want to have a look at these system makefiles,
they are in /usr/share/mk, but it is
probably best to wait until you have had a bit of practice with
makefiles, as they are very complicated (and if you do look at
them, make sure you have a flask of strong coffee
handy!)More advanced uses of makeMake is a very powerful tool, and can
do much more than the simple example above shows.
Unfortunately, there are several different versions of
make, and they all differ considerably.
The best way to learn what they can do is probably to read the
documentation—hopefully this introduction will have
given you a base from which you can do this.The version of make that comes with FreeBSD is the
Berkeley make; there is a tutorial
for it in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make. To
view it, do&prompt.user; zmore paper.ascii.gzin that directory.Many applications in the ports use GNU
make, which has a very good set of
info pages. If you have installed any of these
ports, GNU make will automatically
have been installed as gmake. It is also
available as a port and package in its own right.To view the info pages for GNU
make, you will have to edit the
dir file in the
/usr/local/info directory to add an entry
for it. This involves adding a line like * Make: (make). The GNU Make utility.to the file. Once you have done this, you can type
info and then select
make from the menu (or in
Emacs, do C-h
i).DebuggingThe DebuggerThe debugger that comes with FreeBSD is called
gdb (GNU
debugger). You start it up by typing&prompt.user; gdb prognamealthough most people prefer to run it inside
Emacs. You can do this by:M-x gdb RET progname RETUsing a debugger allows you to run the program under more
controlled circumstances. Typically, you can step through the
program a line at a time, inspect the value of variables,
change them, tell the debugger to run up to a certain point
and then stop, and so on. You can even attach to a program
that is already running, or load a core file to investigate why
the program crashed. It is even possible to debug the kernel,
though that is a little trickier than the user applications
we will be discussing in this section.gdb has quite good on-line help, as
well as a set of info pages, so this section will concentrate
on a few of the basic commands.Finally, if you find its text-based command-prompt style
off-putting, there is a graphical front-end for it (xxgdb) in the ports
collection.This section is intended to be an introduction to using
gdb and does not cover specialised topics
such as debugging the kernel.Running a program in the debuggerYou will need to have compiled the program with the
option to get the most out of using
gdb. It will work without, but you will only
see the name of the function you are in, instead of the source
code. If you see a line like:… (no debugging symbols found) …when gdb starts up, you will know that
the program was not compiled with the
option.At the gdb prompt, type
break main. This will tell the
debugger to skip over the preliminary set-up code in the
program and start at the beginning of your code. Now type
run to start the program—it will
start at the beginning of the set-up code and then get stopped
by the debugger when it calls main().
(If you have ever wondered where main()
gets called from, now you know!).You can now step through the program, a line at a time, by
pressing n. If you get to a function call,
you can step into it by pressing s. Once
you are in a function call, you can return from stepping into a
function call by pressing f. You can also
use up and down to take
a quick look at the caller.Here is a simple example of how to spot a mistake in a
program with gdb. This is our program
(with a deliberate mistake):#include <stdio.h>
int bazz(int anint);
main() {
int i;
printf("This is my program\n");
bazz(i);
return 0;
}
int bazz(int anint) {
printf("You gave me %d\n", anint);
return anint;
}This program sets i to be
5 and passes it to a function
bazz() which prints out the number we
gave it.When we compile and run the program we get&prompt.user; cc -g -o temp temp.c
&prompt.user; ./temp
This is my program
anint = 4231That was not what we expected! Time to see what is going
on!&prompt.user; gdb temp
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.13 (i386-unknown-freebsd), Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(gdb) break mainSkip the set-up code
Breakpoint 1 at 0x160f: file temp.c, line 9. gdb puts breakpoint at main()
(gdb) runRun as far as main()
Starting program: /home/james/tmp/temp Program starts running
Breakpoint 1, main () at temp.c:9 gdb stops at main()
(gdb) nGo to next line
This is my program Program prints out
(gdb) sstep into bazz()
bazz (anint=4231) at temp.c:17 gdb displays stack frame
(gdb)Hang on a minute! How did anint get to be
4231? Did we not we set it to be
5 in main()? Let's
move up to main() and have a look.(gdb) upMove up call stack
#1 0x1625 in main () at temp.c:11 gdb displays stack frame
(gdb) p iShow us the value of i
$1 = 4231 gdb displays 4231Oh dear! Looking at the code, we forgot to initialise
i. We meant to put…
main() {
int i;
i = 5;
printf("This is my program\n");
-&hellip
+…but we left the i=5; line out. As we
did not initialise i, it had whatever number
happened to be in that area of memory when the program ran,
which in this case happened to be
4231.gdb displays the stack frame every
time we go into or out of a function, even if we are using
up and down to move
around the call stack. This shows the name of the function
and the values of its arguments, which helps us keep track
of where we are and what is going on. (The stack is a
storage area where the program stores information about the
arguments passed to functions and where to go when it
returns from a function call).Examining a core fileA core file is basically a file which contains the
complete state of the process when it crashed. In the
good old days, programmers had to print out hex
listings of core files and sweat over machine code manuals,
but now life is a bit easier. Incidentally, under FreeBSD and
other 4.4BSD systems, a core file is called
progname.core instead of just
core, to make it clearer which program a
core file belongs to.To examine a core file, start up gdb in
the usual way. Instead of typing break or
run, type(gdb) core progname.coreIf you are not in the same directory as the core file,
you will have to do dir
/path/to/core/file first.You should see something like this:&prompt.user; gdb a.out
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.13 (i386-unknown-freebsd), Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(gdb) core a.out.core
Core was generated by `a.out'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Cannot access memory at address 0x7020796d.
#0 0x164a in bazz (anint=0x5) at temp.c:17
(gdb)In this case, the program was called
a.out, so the core file is called
a.out.core. We can see that the program
crashed due to trying to access an area in memory that was not
available to it in a function called
bazz.Sometimes it is useful to be able to see how a function was
called, as the problem could have occurred a long way up the
call stack in a complex program. The bt
command causes gdb to print out a
back-trace of the call stack:(gdb) bt
#0 0x164a in bazz (anint=0x5) at temp.c:17
#1 0xefbfd888 in end ()
#2 0x162c in main () at temp.c:11
(gdb)The end() function is called when a
program crashes; in this case, the bazz()
function was called from main().Attaching to a running programOne of the neatest features about gdb
is that it can attach to a program that is already running. Of
course, that assumes you have sufficient permissions to do so.
A common problem is when you are stepping through a program
that forks, and you want to trace the child, but the debugger
will only let you trace the parent.What you do is start up another gdb,
use ps to find the process ID for the
child, and do(gdb) attach pidin gdb, and then debug as usual.That is all very well, you are probably
thinking, but by the time I have done that, the child
process will be over the hill and far away. Fear
not, gentle reader, here is how to do it (courtesy of the
gdb info pages):
- &hellip
+ …
if ((pid = fork()) < 0) /* _Always_ check this */
error();
else if (pid == 0) { /* child */
int PauseMode = 1;
while (PauseMode)
sleep(10); /* Wait until someone attaches to us */
- &hellip
+ …
} else { /* parent */
- &hellip
+ …Now all you have to do is attach to the child, set
PauseMode to 0, and wait
for the sleep() call to return!Using Emacs as a Development EnvironmentEmacsUnfortunately, Unix systems do nnot come with the kind of
everything-you-ever-wanted-and-lots-more-you-did-not-in-one-gigantic-package
integrated development environments that other systems
have.
Some powerful, free IDEs now exist, such as KDevelop
in the ports collection.
However, it is possible to set up your own environment. It
may not be as pretty, and it may not be quite as integrated,
but you can set it up the way you want it. And it is free.
And you have the source to it.The key to it all is Emacs. Now there are some people who
loathe it, but many who love it. If you are one of the former,
I am afraid this section will hold little of interest to you.
Also, you will need a fair amount of memory to run it—I would
recommend 8MB in text mode and 16MB in X as the bare minimum
to get reasonable performance.Emacs is basically a highly customisable
editor—indeed, it has been customised to the point where
it is more like an operating system than an editor! Many
developers and sysadmins do in fact spend practically all
their time working inside Emacs, leaving it only to log
out.It is impossible even to summarise everything Emacs can do
here, but here are some of the features of interest to
developers:Very powerful editor, allowing search-and-replace on
both strings and regular expressions (patterns), jumping
to start/end of block expression, etc, etc.Pull-down menus and online help.Language-dependent syntax highlighting and
indentation.Completely customisable.You can compile and debug programs within
Emacs.On a compilation error, you can jump to the offending
line of source code.Friendly-ish front-end to the info
program used for reading GNU hypertext documentation,
including the documentation on Emacs itself.Friendly front-end to gdb, allowing
you to look at the source code as you step through your
program.You can read Usenet news and mail while your program
is compiling.And doubtless many more that I have overlooked.Emacs can be installed on FreeBSD using the Emacs
port.Once it is installed, start it up and do C-h
t to read an Emacs tutorial—that means
hold down the control key, press
h, let go of the control
key, and then press t. (Alternatively, you
can you use the mouse to select Emacs
Tutorial from the Help
menu).Although Emacs does have menus, it is well worth learning
the key bindings, as it is much quicker when you are editing
something to press a couple of keys than to try and find the
mouse and then click on the right place. And, when you are
talking to seasoned Emacs users, you will find they often
casually throw around expressions like M-x
replace-s RET foo RET bar RET so it is
useful to know what they mean. And in any case, Emacs has far
too many useful functions for them to all fit on the menu
bars.Fortunately, it is quite easy to pick up the key-bindings,
as they are displayed next to the menu item. My advice is to
use the menu item for, say, opening a file until you
understand how it works and feel confident with it, then try
doing C-x C-f. When you are happy with that, move on to
another menu command.If you can not remember what a particular combination of
keys does, select Describe Key from
the Help menu and type it in—Emacs
will tell you what it does. You can also use the
Command Apropos menu item to find
out all the commands which contain a particular word in them,
with the key binding next to it.By the way, the expression above means hold down the
Meta key, press x, release
the Meta key, type
replace-s (short for
replace-string—another feature of
Emacs is that you can abbreviate commands), press the
return key, type foo
(the string you want replaced), press the
return key, type bar (the string you want to
replace foo with) and press
return again. Emacs will then do the
search-and-replace operation you have just requested.If you are wondering what on earth the
Meta key is, it is a special key that many
Unix workstations have. Unfortunately, PC's do not have one,
so it is usually the alt key (or if you are
unlucky, the escape key).Oh, and to get out of Emacs, do C-x C-c
(that means hold down the control key, press
x, press c and release the
control key). If you have any unsaved files
open, Emacs will ask you if you want to save them. (Ignore
the bit in the documentation where it says
C-z is the usual way to leave
Emacs—that leaves Emacs hanging around in the
background, and is only really useful if you are on a system
which does not have virtual terminals).Configuring EmacsEmacs does many wonderful things; some of them are built
in, some of them need to be configured.Instead of using a proprietary macro language for
configuration, Emacs uses a version of Lisp specially adapted
for editors, known as Emacs Lisp. This can be quite useful if
you want to go on and learn something like Common Lisp, as
it is considerably smaller than Common Lisp (although still
quite big!).The best way to learn Emacs Lisp is to download the Emacs
TutorialHowever, there is no need to actually know any Lisp to get
started with configuring Emacs, as I have included a sample
.emacs file, which should be enough to
get you started. Just copy it into your home directory and
restart Emacs if it is already running; it will read the
commands from the file and (hopefully) give you a useful basic
setup.A sample .emacs fileUnfortunately, there is far too much here to explain it in
detail; however there are one or two points worth
mentioning.Everything beginning with a ; is a comment
and is ignored by Emacs.In the first line, the
-*- Emacs-Lisp -*- is so that
we can edit the .emacs file itself
within Emacs and get all the fancy features for editing
Emacs Lisp. Emacs usually tries to guess this based on
the filename, and may not get it right for
.emacs.The tab key is bound to an
indentation function in some modes, so when you press the
tab key, it will indent the current line of code. If you
want to put a tab character in whatever
you are writing, hold the control key down
while you are pressing the tab key.This file supports syntax highlighting for C, C++,
Perl, Lisp and Scheme, by guessing the language from the
filename.Emacs already has a pre-defined function called
next-error. In a compilation output
window, this allows you to move from one compilation error
to the next by doing M-n; we define a
complementary function,
previous-error, that allows you to go
to a previous error by doing M-p. The
nicest feature of all is that C-c C-c
will open up the source file in which the error occurred
and jump to the appropriate line.We enable Emacs's ability to act as a server, so that
if you are doing something outside Emacs and you want to
edit a file, you can just type in&prompt.user; emacsclient filenameand then you can edit the file in your
Emacs!
Many Emacs users set their EDITOR
environment to
emacsclient so this happens every
time they need to edit a file.A sample .emacs file;; -*-Emacs-Lisp-*-
;; This file is designed to be re-evaled; use the variable first-time
;; to avoid any problems with this.
(defvar first-time t
"Flag signifying this is the first time that .emacs has been evaled")
;; Meta
(global-set-key "\M- " 'set-mark-command)
(global-set-key "\M-\C-h" 'backward-kill-word)
(global-set-key "\M-\C-r" 'query-replace)
(global-set-key "\M-r" 'replace-string)
(global-set-key "\M-g" 'goto-line)
(global-set-key "\M-h" 'help-command)
;; Function keys
(global-set-key [f1] 'manual-entry)
(global-set-key [f2] 'info)
(global-set-key [f3] 'repeat-complex-command)
(global-set-key [f4] 'advertised-undo)
(global-set-key [f5] 'eval-current-buffer)
(global-set-key [f6] 'buffer-menu)
(global-set-key [f7] 'other-window)
(global-set-key [f8] 'find-file)
(global-set-key [f9] 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key [f10] 'next-error)
(global-set-key [f11] 'compile)
(global-set-key [f12] 'grep)
(global-set-key [C-f1] 'compile)
(global-set-key [C-f2] 'grep)
(global-set-key [C-f3] 'next-error)
(global-set-key [C-f4] 'previous-error)
(global-set-key [C-f5] 'display-faces)
(global-set-key [C-f8] 'dired)
(global-set-key [C-f10] 'kill-compilation)
;; Keypad bindings
(global-set-key [up] "\C-p")
(global-set-key [down] "\C-n")
(global-set-key [left] "\C-b")
(global-set-key [right] "\C-f")
(global-set-key [home] "\C-a")
(global-set-key [end] "\C-e")
(global-set-key [prior] "\M-v")
(global-set-key [next] "\C-v")
(global-set-key [C-up] "\M-\C-b")
(global-set-key [C-down] "\M-\C-f")
(global-set-key [C-left] "\M-b")
(global-set-key [C-right] "\M-f")
(global-set-key [C-home] "\M-<")
(global-set-key [C-end] "\M->")
(global-set-key [C-prior] "\M-<")
(global-set-key [C-next] "\M->")
;; Mouse
(global-set-key [mouse-3] 'imenu)
;; Misc
(global-set-key [C-tab] "\C-q\t") ; Control tab quotes a tab.
(setq backup-by-copying-when-mismatch t)
;; Treat 'y' or <CR> as yes, 'n' as no.
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
(define-key query-replace-map [return] 'act)
(define-key query-replace-map [?\C-m] 'act)
;; Load packages
(require 'desktop)
(require 'tar-mode)
;; Pretty diff mode
(autoload 'ediff-buffers "ediff" "Intelligent Emacs interface to diff" t)
(autoload 'ediff-files "ediff" "Intelligent Emacs interface to diff" t)
(autoload 'ediff-files-remote "ediff"
"Intelligent Emacs interface to diff")
(if first-time
(setq auto-mode-alist
(append '(("\\.cpp$" . c++-mode)
("\\.hpp$" . c++-mode)
("\\.lsp$" . lisp-mode)
("\\.scm$" . scheme-mode)
("\\.pl$" . perl-mode)
) auto-mode-alist)))
;; Auto font lock mode
(defvar font-lock-auto-mode-list
(list 'c-mode 'c++-mode 'c++-c-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode 'lisp-mode 'perl-mode 'scheme-mode)
"List of modes to always start in font-lock-mode")
(defvar font-lock-mode-keyword-alist
'((c++-c-mode . c-font-lock-keywords)
(perl-mode . perl-font-lock-keywords))
"Associations between modes and keywords")
(defun font-lock-auto-mode-select ()
"Automatically select font-lock-mode if the current major mode is
in font-lock-auto-mode-list"
(if (memq major-mode font-lock-auto-mode-list)
(progn
(font-lock-mode t))
)
)
(global-set-key [M-f1] 'font-lock-fontify-buffer)
;; New dabbrev stuff
;(require 'new-dabbrev)
(setq dabbrev-always-check-other-buffers t)
(setq dabbrev-abbrev-char-regexp "\\sw\\|\\s_")
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook
'(lambda ()
(set (make-local-variable 'dabbrev-case-fold-search) nil)
(set (make-local-variable 'dabbrev-case-replace) nil)))
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook
'(lambda ()
(set (make-local-variable 'dabbrev-case-fold-search) nil)
(set (make-local-variable 'dabbrev-case-replace) nil)))
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook
'(lambda ()
(set (make-local-variable 'dabbrev-case-fold-search) t)
(set (make-local-variable 'dabbrev-case-replace) t)))
;; C++ and C mode...
(defun my-c++-mode-hook ()
(setq tab-width 4)
(define-key c++-mode-map "\C-m" 'reindent-then-newline-and-indent)
(define-key c++-mode-map "\C-ce" 'c-comment-edit)
(setq c++-auto-hungry-initial-state 'none)
(setq c++-delete-function 'backward-delete-char)
(setq c++-tab-always-indent t)
(setq c-indent-level 4)
(setq c-continued-statement-offset 4)
(setq c++-empty-arglist-indent 4))
(defun my-c-mode-hook ()
(setq tab-width 4)
(define-key c-mode-map "\C-m" 'reindent-then-newline-and-indent)
(define-key c-mode-map "\C-ce" 'c-comment-edit)
(setq c-auto-hungry-initial-state 'none)
(setq c-delete-function 'backward-delete-char)
(setq c-tab-always-indent t)
;; BSD-ish indentation style
(setq c-indent-level 4)
(setq c-continued-statement-offset 4)
(setq c-brace-offset -4)
(setq c-argdecl-indent 0)
(setq c-label-offset -4))
;; Perl mode
(defun my-perl-mode-hook ()
(setq tab-width 4)
(define-key c++-mode-map "\C-m" 'reindent-then-newline-and-indent)
(setq perl-indent-level 4)
(setq perl-continued-statement-offset 4))
;; Scheme mode...
(defun my-scheme-mode-hook ()
(define-key scheme-mode-map "\C-m" 'reindent-then-newline-and-indent))
;; Emacs-Lisp mode...
(defun my-lisp-mode-hook ()
(define-key lisp-mode-map "\C-m" 'reindent-then-newline-and-indent)
(define-key lisp-mode-map "\C-i" 'lisp-indent-line)
(define-key lisp-mode-map "\C-j" 'eval-print-last-sexp))
;; Add all of the hooks...
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'my-c++-mode-hook)
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'my-c-mode-hook)
(add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook 'my-scheme-mode-hook)
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'my-lisp-mode-hook)
(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook 'my-lisp-mode-hook)
(add-hook 'perl-mode-hook 'my-perl-mode-hook)
;; Complement to next-error
(defun previous-error (n)
"Visit previous compilation error message and corresponding source code."
(interactive "p")
(next-error (- n)))
;; Misc...
(transient-mark-mode 1)
(setq mark-even-if-inactive t)
(setq visible-bell nil)
(setq next-line-add-newlines nil)
(setq compile-command "make")
(setq suggest-key-bindings nil)
(put 'eval-expression 'disabled nil)
(put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil)
(put 'set-goal-column 'disabled nil)
;; Elisp archive searching
(autoload 'format-lisp-code-directory "lispdir" nil t)
(autoload 'lisp-dir-apropos "lispdir" nil t)
(autoload 'lisp-dir-retrieve "lispdir" nil t)
(autoload 'lisp-dir-verify "lispdir" nil t)
;; Font lock mode
(defun my-make-face (face colour &optional bold)
"Create a face from a colour and optionally make it bold"
(make-face face)
(copy-face 'default face)
(set-face-foreground face colour)
(if bold (make-face-bold face))
)
(if (eq window-system 'x)
(progn
(my-make-face 'blue "blue")
(my-make-face 'red "red")
(my-make-face 'green "dark green")
(setq font-lock-comment-face 'blue)
(setq font-lock-string-face 'bold)
(setq font-lock-type-face 'bold)
(setq font-lock-keyword-face 'bold)
(setq font-lock-function-name-face 'red)
(setq font-lock-doc-string-face 'green)
(add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'font-lock-auto-mode-select)
(setq baud-rate 1000000)
(global-set-key "\C-cmm" 'menu-bar-mode)
(global-set-key "\C-cms" 'scroll-bar-mode)
(global-set-key [backspace] 'backward-delete-char)
; (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
(standard-display-european t)
(load-library "iso-transl")))
;; X11 or PC using direct screen writes
(if window-system
(progn
;; (global-set-key [M-f1] 'hilit-repaint-command)
;; (global-set-key [M-f2] [?\C-u M-f1])
(setq hilit-mode-enable-list
'(not text-mode c-mode c++-mode emacs-lisp-mode lisp-mode
scheme-mode)
hilit-auto-highlight nil
hilit-auto-rehighlight 'visible
hilit-inhibit-hooks nil
hilit-inhibit-rebinding t)
(require 'hilit19)
(require 'paren))
(setq baud-rate 2400) ; For slow serial connections
)
;; TTY type terminal
(if (and (not window-system)
(not (equal system-type 'ms-dos)))
(progn
(if first-time
(progn
(keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?)
(keyboard-translate ?\C-? ?\C-h)))))
;; Under UNIX
(if (not (equal system-type 'ms-dos))
(progn
(if first-time
(server-start))))
;; Add any face changes here
(add-hook 'term-setup-hook 'my-term-setup-hook)
(defun my-term-setup-hook ()
(if (eq window-system 'pc)
(progn
;; (set-face-background 'default "red")
)))
;; Restore the "desktop" - do this as late as possible
(if first-time
(progn
(desktop-load-default)
(desktop-read)))
;; Indicate that this file has been read at least once
(setq first-time nil)
;; No need to debug anything now
(setq debug-on-error nil)
;; All done
(message "All done, %s%s" (user-login-name) ".")
Extending the Range of Languages Emacs UnderstandsNow, this is all very well if you only want to program in
the languages already catered for in the
.emacs file (C, C++, Perl, Lisp and
Scheme), but what happens if a new language called
whizbang comes out, full of exciting
features?The first thing to do is find out if whizbang comes with
any files that tell Emacs about the language. These usually
end in .el, short for Emacs
Lisp. For example, if whizbang is a FreeBSD port, we
can locate these files by doing&prompt.user; find /usr/ports/lang/whizbang -name "*.el" -printand install them by copying them into the Emacs site Lisp
directory. On FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE, this is
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp.So for example, if the output from the find command
was/usr/ports/lang/whizbang/work/misc/whizbang.elwe would do&prompt.root; cp /usr/ports/lang/whizbang/work/misc/whizbang.el /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lispNext, we need to decide what extension whizbang source
files have. Let's say for the sake of argument that they all
end in .wiz. We need to add an entry to
our .emacs file to make sure Emacs will
be able to use the information in
whizbang.el.Find the auto-mode-alist entry in
.emacs and add a line for whizbang, such
as:…
("\\.lsp$" . lisp-mode)
("\\.wiz$" . whizbang-mode)
("\\.scm$" . scheme-mode)
…This means that Emacs will automatically go into
whizbang-mode when you edit a file ending
in .wiz.Just below this, you will find the
font-lock-auto-mode-list entry. Add
whizbang-mode to it like so:;; Auto font lock mode
(defvar font-lock-auto-mode-list
(list 'c-mode 'c++-mode 'c++-c-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode 'whizbang-mode 'lisp-mode 'perl-mode 'scheme-mode)
"List of modes to always start in font-lock-mode")This means that Emacs will always enable
font-lock-mode (ie syntax highlighting)
when editing a .wiz file.And that is all that is needed. If there is anything else
you want done automatically when you open up a
.wiz file, you can add a
whizbang-mode hook (see
my-scheme-mode-hook for a simple example
that adds auto-indent).Further ReadingBrian Harvey and Matthew Wright
Simply Scheme
MIT 1994.
ISBN 0-262-08226-8Randall Schwartz
Learning Perl
O'Reilly 1993
ISBN 1-56592-042-2Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold Klaus Paul Horn
Lisp (3rd Edition)
Addison-Wesley 1989
ISBN 0-201-08319-1Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
The Unix Programming Environment
Prentice-Hall 1984
ISBN 0-13-937681-XBrian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
Prentice-Hall 1988
ISBN 0-13-110362-8Bjarne Stroustrup
The C++ Programming Language
Addison-Wesley 1991
ISBN 0-201-53992-6W. Richard Stevens
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
Addison-Wesley 1992
ISBN 0-201-56317-7W. Richard Stevens
Unix Network Programming
Prentice-Hall 1990
ISBN 0-13-949876-1
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Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X and 4.XThe FreeBSD Documentation Project$FreeBSD$19951996199719981999200020012002The FreeBSD Documentation Project
&bookinfo.legalnotice;
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X.
All entries are assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 2.0.5 and later,
unless otherwise noted. Any entries with a <XXX> are under
construction. If you are interested in helping with this project,
send email to the &a.doc;. The latest version of this
document is always available from the FreeBSD World Wide Web
server. It may also be downloaded as one large HTML file with HTTP or as plain text,
postscript, PDF, etc. from the FreeBSD FTP
server. You may also want to Search the
FAQ.IntroductionWelcome to the FreeBSD 2.X-4.X FAQ!As is usual with Usenet FAQs, this document aims to cover the
most frequently asked questions concerning the FreeBSD operating
system (and of course answer them!). Although originally intended
to reduce bandwidth and avoid the same old questions being asked
over and over again, FAQs have become recognized as valuable
information resources.Every effort has been made to make this FAQ as informative as
possible; if you have any suggestions as to how it may be improved,
please feel free to mail them to the &a.faq;.What is FreeBSD?Briefly, FreeBSD is a UN*X-like operating system for
the i386 and Alpha/AXP platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's
4.4BSD-Lite release, with some
4.4BSD-Lite2 enhancements. It is also based
indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's
Net/2 to the i386, known as
386BSD, though very little of the 386BSD
code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and
how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home
page.FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers,
researchers, computer professionals, students and home users
all over the world in their work, education and recreation.
See some of them in the FreeBSD
Gallery.For more detailed information on FreeBSD, please see the
FreeBSD
Handbook.What is the goal of the FreeBSD Project?The goal of the FreeBSD Project is to provide software
that may be used for any purpose and without strings attached.
Many of us have a significant investment in the code (and
project) and would certainly not mind a little financial
compensation now and then, but we are definitely not prepared
to insist on it. We believe that our first and foremost
mission is to provide code to any and all
comers, and for whatever purpose, so that the code gets the
widest possible use and provides the widest possible benefit.
This is, we believe, one of the most fundamental goals of Free
Software and one that we enthusiastically support.That code in our source tree which falls under the
GNU
General Public License (GPL) or GNU
Library General Public License (LGPL) comes with
slightly more strings attached, though at least on the
side of enforced access rather than the usual opposite.
Due to the additional complexities that can evolve in the
commercial use of GPL software, we do, however, endeavor
to replace such software with submissions under the more
relaxed
FreeBSD copyright whenever possible.Does the FreeBSD license have any restrictions?Yes. Those restrictions do not control how you use
the code, merely how you treat the FreeBSD Project itself.
If you have serious license concerns, read the actual
license. For the simply curious, the license can
be summarized like this.Do not claim that you wrote this.Do not sue us if it breaks.Can FreeBSD replace my current operating system?For most people, yes. But this question is not quite
that cut-and-dried.Most people do not actually use an operating system.
They use applications. The applications are what really
use the operating system. FreeBSD is designed to provide
a robust and full-featured environment for applications.
It supports a wide variety of web browsers, office suites,
email readers, graphics programs, programming
environments, network servers, and just about everything
else you might want. Most of these applications can be
managed through the Ports
Collection.If you need to use an application that is only
available on one operating system, you simply cannot
replace that operating system. Chances are there is a very
similar application on FreeBSD, however. If you want a
solid office or Internet server, a reliable workstation,
or just the ability to do your job without interruptions,
FreeBSD will almost certainly do everything you need.
Many computer users across the world, including both
novices and experienced UNIX administrators, use FreeBSD
as their only desktop operating system.If you are migrating to FreeBSD from some other UNIX
environment, you already know most of what you need to.
If your background is in graphic-driven operating systems
such as Windows and older versions of Mac OS, expect to
invest additional time learning the UNIX way of doing
things. This FAQ and the FreeBSD Handbook are
excellent places to start.Why is it called FreeBSD?It may be used free of charge, even by commercial
users.Full source for the operating system is freely
available, and the minimum possible restrictions have
been placed upon its use, distribution and incorporation
into other work (commercial or non-commercial).Anyone who has an improvement or bug fix is free
to submit their code and have it added to the source tree
(subject to one or two obvious provisions).It is worth pointing out that the word
free is being used in two ways here, one meaning
at no cost, the other meaning you can do
whatever you like. Apart from one or two things you
cannot do with the FreeBSD code, for
example pretending you wrote it, you really can do whatever you
like with it.What is the latest version of FreeBSD?Version &rel.current;
is the latest RELEASE version; it was
released in &rel.current.date;. This is also the latest
STABLE version.Briefly, -STABLE is aimed
at the ISP, corporate user, or any user who wants stability and a
low change count over the wizzy new features of the latest
-CURRENT snapshot. Releases can come
from either branch, but -CURRENT
should only be used if you are prepared for its increased volatility (relative to
-STABLE, that is).Releases are made every
few months. While many people stay more up-to-date with
the FreeBSD sources (see the questions on FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE) than that, doing so
is more of a commitment, as the sources are a moving
target.What is FreeBSD-CURRENT?FreeBSD-CURRENT
is the development version of the operating system, which
will in due course become 5.0-RELEASE. As such, it is
really only of interest to developers working on the
system and die-hard hobbyists. See the relevant
section in the handbook for details
on running -CURRENT.If you are not familiar with the operating system or are
not capable of identifying the difference between a real
problem and a temporary problem, you should not use
FreeBSD-CURRENT. This branch sometimes evolves quite quickly
and can be un-buildable for a number of days at a time.
People that use FreeBSD-CURRENT are expected to be able to
analyze any problems and only report them if they are deemed
to be mistakes rather than glitches. Questions
such as make world produces some error about
groups on the -CURRENT mailing list may be
treated with contempt.Every day, snapshot
releases are made based on the current state of the
-CURRENT and -STABLE branches. Nowadays, distributions of the
occasional snapshot are now being made available. The goals
behind each snapshot release are:To test the latest version of the installation
software.To give people who would like to run -CURRENT or
-STABLE but who do not have the time or bandwidth to
follow it on a day-to-day basis an easy way of
bootstrapping it onto their systems.To preserve a fixed reference point for the code in
question, just in case we break something really badly
later. (Although CVS normally prevents anything horrible
like this happening :)To ensure that any new features in need of testing
have the greatest possible number of potential
testers.No claims are made that any -CURRENT snapshot can be
considered production quality for any purpose.
If you want to run a stable and fully tested system, you will
have to stick to full releases, or use the -STABLE
snapshots.Snapshot releases are directly available from
ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ for 5.0-CURRENT
and
releng4.FreeBSD.org for 4-STABLE snapshots.
3-STABLE snapshots are not being produced at the time of
this writing (May 2000).Snapshots are generated, on the average, once a day for
all actively developed branches.What is the FreeBSD-STABLE concept?Back when FreeBSD 2.0.5 was released, we decided to
branch FreeBSD development into two parts. One branch was
named -STABLE,
with the intention that only well-tested bug fixes and
small incremental enhancements would be made to it (for
Internet Service Providers and other commercial
enterprises for whom sudden shifts or experimental
features are quite undesirable). The other branch was
-CURRENT,
which essentially has been one unbroken line leading
towards 5.0-RELEASE (and beyond) since 2.0 was
released. If a little ASCII art would help, this is how it
looks: 2.0
|
|
| [2.1-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 2.0.5 -> 2.1 -> 2.1.5 -> 2.1.6 -> 2.1.7.1 [2.1-STABLE ends]
| (Mar 1997)
|
|
| [2.2-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 2.2.1 -> 2.2.2-RELEASE -> 2.2.5 -> 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7 -> 2.2.8 [end]
| (Mar 1997) (Oct 97) (Apr 98) (Jul 98) (Dec 98)
|
|
3.0-SNAPs (started Q1 1997)
|
|
3.0-RELEASE (Oct 1998)
|
| [3.0-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 3.1-RELEASE (Feb 1999) -> 3.2 -> 3.3 -> 3.4 -> 3.5 -> 3.5.1
| (May 1999) (Sep 1999) (Dec 1999) (June 2000) (July 2000)
|
| [4.0-STABLE]
*BRANCH* 4.0 (Mar 2000) -> 4.1 -> 4.1.1 -> 4.2 -> 4.3 -> 4.4 -> ... future 4.x releases ...
|
| (July 2000) (Sep 2000) (Nov 2000)
\|/
+
[5.0-CURRENT continues]The 2.2-STABLE branch was retired with the release of 2.2.8.
The 3-STABLE branch has ended with the release of 3.5.1, the
final 3.X release. The only changes made to either of these
branches will be, for the most part, security-related bug
fixes.4-STABLE is the actively developed -STABLE branch.
The latest release on the 4-STABLE is
&rel.current;-RELEASE, which was released in
&rel.current.date;.The 5-CURRENT branch is slowly progressing toward
5.0-RELEASE and beyond. See What
is FreeBSD-CURRENT? for more information on this
branch.When are FreeBSD releases made?As a general principle, the FreeBSD core team only release
a new version of FreeBSD when they believe that there are
sufficient new features and/or bug fixes to justify one, and
are satisfied that these new developments have been tested
sufficiently to avoid compromising the stability of the
release. Release dates are generally announced well in
advance, so that the people working on the system know
when their projects need to be finished and tested.
Many users regard this caution as one of the best
things about FreeBSD, although
waiting for all the latest goodies to reach -STABLE
can be a little frustrating.Releases are made about every 4 months on average.For people who need or want a little more excitement,
binary snapshots are made every day as discussed above.Who is responsible for FreeBSD?The key decisions concerning the FreeBSD project, such
as the overall direction of the project and who is allowed
to add code to the source tree, are made by a core
team of 9 people. There is a much larger team of
more than 200 committers
who are authorized to make changes directly to the FreeBSD
source tree.However, most non-trivial changes are discussed in advance
in the mailing lists, and there
are no restrictions on who may take part in the
discussion.Where can I get FreeBSD?Every significant release of FreeBSD is available via
anonymous FTP from the
FreeBSD FTP site:For the current 3.X-STABLE release, 3.5.1-RELEASE, see
the 3.5.1-RELEASE directory.The current 4-STABLE release, &rel.current;-RELEASE can be
found in the &rel.current;-RELEASE directory.4.X
snapshots are usually made once a day.
5.0 Snapshot releases are made once a day for the
-CURRENT branch, these being
of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and
developers.Information about obtaining FreeBSD on CD, DVD, and other
media can be found in the
Handbook.How do I access the Problem Report database?The Problem Report database of all user change requests
may be queried (or submitted to) by using our web-based PR
submission
and
query
interfaces. The &man.send-pr.1; command can
also be used to submit problem reports and change requests via
electronic mail.Before submitting a problem report, please read Writing
FreeBSD Problem Reports, an article on how to write
good problem reports.How do I become a FreeBSD Web mirror?There are multiple ways to mirror the Web
pages.You can retrieve the formatted files from a
FreeBSD CVSup server using the application
net/cvsup. The file
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/www-supfile
contains an example CVSup configuration file for web
mirrors.
You can download the web site source code from any
FreeBSD FTP server using your favorite ftp mirror
tool. Keep in mind that you have to build these
sources before publishing them. Start mirroring at
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/www.What other sources of information are there?Please check the Documentation
list on the main FreeBSD web
site.Documentation and SupportWhat good books are there about FreeBSD?The project produces a wide range of documentation, available
from this link:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html.
In addition, the Bibliography at the end of this FAQ, and the
one in the Handbook reference other recommended books.Is the documentation available in other formats, such as plain
text (ASCII), or Postscript?Yes. The documentation is available in a number of
different formats and compression schemes on the FreeBSD
FTP site, in the /pub/FreeBSD/doc/
directory.The documentation is categorized in a number of different
ways. These include:The document's name, such as faq, or
handbook.The document's language and encoding. These are based on
the locale names you will find under
/usr/share/locale on your FreeBSD
system. The current languages and encodings that we have for
documentation are as follows:NameMeaningen_US.ISO8859-1US Englishde_DE.ISO8859-1Germanes_ES.ISO8859-1Spanishfr_FR.ISO8859-1Frenchja_JP.eucJPJapanese (EUC encoding)ru_RU.KOI8-RRussian (KOI8-R encoding)zh_TW.Big5Chinese (Big5 encoding)Some documents may not be available in all
languages.The document's format. We produce the documentation in a
number of different output formats to try and make it as
flexible as possible. The current formats are;FormatMeaninghtml-splitA collection of small, linked, HTML
files.htmlOne large HTML file containing the entire
documentpdbPalm Pilot database format, for use with the
iSilo
reader.pdfAdobe's Portable Document FormatpsPostscriptrtfMicrosoft's Rich Text FormatPage numbers are not automatically updated
when loading this format in to Word. Press
CTRLA,
CTRLEND,
F9 after loading the document, to
update the page numbers.txtPlain textThe compression and packaging scheme. There are three of
these currently in use.Where the format is html-split, the
files are bundled up using &man.tar.1;. The resulting
.tar file is then compressed using
the compression schemes detailed in the next point.All the other formats generate one file, called
book.format
(i.e., book.pdb,
book.html, and so on).These files are then compressed using three
compression schemes.SchemeDescriptionzipThe Zip format. If you want to uncompress
this on FreeBSD you will need to install the
archivers/unzip port
first.gzThe GNU Zip format. Use &man.gunzip.1; to
uncompress these files, which is part of
FreeBSD.bz2The BZip2 format. Less widespread than the
others, but generally gives smaller files.
Install the archivers/bzip2
port to uncompress these files.So the Postscript version of the Handbook, compressed
using BZip2 will be stored in a file called
book.ps.bz2 in the
handbook/ directory.The formatted documentation is also available as a
FreeBSD package, of which more later.After choosing the format and compression mechanism that you
want to download, you must then decide whether or not you want to
download the document as a FreeBSD
package.The advantage of downloading and installing the package is
that the documentation can then be managed using the normal
FreeBSD package management comments, such as &man.pkg.add.1; and
&man.pkg.delete.1;.If you decide to download and install the package then you
must know the filename to download. The documentation-as-packages
files are stored in a directory called
packages. Each package file looks like
document-name.lang.encoding.format.tgz.For example, the FAQ, in English, formatted as PDF, is in the
package called
faq.en_US.ISO8859-1.pdf.tgz.Knowing this, you can use the following command to install the
English PDF FAQ package.&prompt.root; pkg_add ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/packages/faq.en_US.ISO8859-1.pdf.tgzHaving done that, you can use &man.pkg.info.1; to determine
where the file has been installed.&prompt.root; pkg_info -f faq.en_US.ISO8859-1.pdf
Information for faq.en_US.ISO8859-1.pdf:
Packing list:
Package name: faq.en_US.ISO8859-1.pdf
CWD to /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
File: book.pdf
CWD to .
File: +COMMENT (ignored)
File: +DESC (ignored)As you can see, book.pdf will have been
installed in to
/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq.
If you do not want to use the packages then you will have to
download the compressed files yourself, uncompress them, and then
copy the appropriate documents in to place.For example, the split HTML version of the FAQ, compressed
using &man.gzip.1;, can be found in the
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html-split.tar.gz
file. To download and uncompress that file you would have to do
this.&prompt.root; fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html-split.tar.gz
&prompt.root; gzip -d book.html-split.tar.gz
&prompt.root; tar xvf book.html-split.tarYou will be left with a collection of
.html files. The main one is called
index.html, which will contain the table of
contents, introductory material, and links to the other parts of
the document. You can then copy or move these to their final
location as necessary.Where do I find info on the FreeBSD mailing lists?You can find full information in the Handbook
entry on mailing-lists.Where do I find the FreeBSD Y2K info?You can find full information in the FreeBSD Y2K
page.What FreeBSD news groups are available?You can find full information in the Handbook entry on
newsgroups.Are there FreeBSD IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
channels?Yes, most major IRC networks host a FreeBSD chat
channel:Channel #FreeBSD on
EFNet
is a FreeBSD forum, but do not go there for tech
support or to try and get folks there to help you avoid
the pain of reading man pages or doing your own research.
It is a chat channel, first and foremost, and topics there
are just as likely to involve sex, sports or nuclear
weapons as they are FreeBSD. You Have Been Warned!
Available at server irc.chat.org.Channel #FreeBSDhelp on
EFNet
is a channel dedicated to helping FreeBSD users. They
are much more sympathetic to questions then
#FreeBSD is.Channel #FreeBSD on
DALNET
is available at irc.dal.net in the
US and irc.eu.dal.net in Europe.Channel #FreeBSD on
UNDERNET
is available at us.undernet.org
in the US and eu.undernet.org in Europe.
Since it is a help channel, be prepared to read the
documents you are referred to.Channel #FreeBSD on HybNet. This channel
is a help channel. A list of servers
can be found on the HybNet web site.Each of these channels are distinct and are not
connected to each other. Their chat styles also differ,
so you may need to try each to find one suited to your
chat style. As with all types of IRC
traffic, if you are easily offended or cannot deal with
lots of young people (and more than a few older ones)
doing the verbal equivalent of jello wrestling, do not
even bother with it.Where can I get commercial FreeBSD training and support?DaemonNews provides commercial training and support for
FreeBSD. More information can be found at their
BSD Mall
site.The FreeBSD Mall provides commercial FreeBSD support.
You can get more information at their web site.Any other organizations providing training and support should
contact the project in order to be listed here.NikClaytonnik@FreeBSD.orgInstallationWhich file do I download to get FreeBSD?Prior to release 3.1, you only needed one floppy image to
install FreeBSD, namely floppies/boot.flp.
However, since release 3.1 the Project has added out-of-the-box
support for a wide variety of hardware, which takes up more
space. For 3.x and later you need two floppy images:
floppies/kernel.flp and
floppies/mfsroot.flp. These images need to
be copied onto floppies by tools like
fdimage or &man.dd.1;.If you need to download the distributions yourself (for a
DOS filesystem install, for instance), below are some
recommendations for distributions to grab:bin/manpages/compat*/doc/src/ssys.*Full instructions on this procedure and a little bit more
about installation issues in general can be found in the
Handbook entry on
installing FreeBSD.What do I do if the floppy images does not fit on a single
floppy?A 3.5 inch (1.44MB) floppy can accommodate 1474560 bytes
of data. The boot image is exactly 1474560 bytes in size.Common mistakes when preparing the boot floppy are:Not downloading the floppy image in
binary mode when using
FTP.Some FTP clients default their transfer mode to
ascii and attempt to change any
end-of-line characters received to match the conventions
used by the client's system. This will almost invariably
corrupt the boot image. Check the size of the downloaded
boot image: if it is not exactly that
on the server, then the download process is suspect.To workaround: type binary at the
FTP command prompt after getting connected to the server
and before starting the download of the image.Using the DOS copy command (or
equivalent GUI tool) to transfer the boot image to
floppy.Programs like copy will not work as
the boot image has been created to be booted into directly.
The image has the complete content of the floppy, track for
track, and is not meant to be placed on the floppy as a
regular file. You have to transfer it to the floppy
raw, using the low-level tools (e.g.
fdimage or rawrite)
described in the installation guide to
FreeBSD.Where are the instructions for installing FreeBSD?Installation instructions can be found in the
Handbook entry on installing FreeBSD.What do I need in order to run FreeBSD?You will need a 386 or better PC, with 5 MB or more of RAM
and at least 60 MB of hard disk space. It can run with a low
end MDA graphics card but to run X11R6, a VGA or better video
card is needed.See also
I have only 4 MB of RAM. Can I install FreeBSD?FreeBSD 2.1.7 was the last version of FreeBSD that
could be installed on a 4MB system. FreeBSD 2.2 and later
needs at least 5MB to install on a new system.All versions of FreeBSD will run
in 4MB of RAM, they just cannot run the installation
program in 4MB. You can add extra memory for the install
process, if you like, and then after the system is up and
running, go back to 4MB. Or you could swap your disk into
a system which has >4MB, install onto the disk and then
swap it back.FreeBSD 2.1.7 will not install with 640 kB base + 3 MB
extended memory. If your motherboard can remap some of the
lost memory out of the 640kB to 1MB region,
then you may still be able to get FreeBSD 2.1.7 up. Try
to go into your BIOS setup and look for a
remap option. Enable it. You may also
have to disable ROM shadowing. It may be easier to get 4
more MB just for the install. Build a custom kernel with
only the options you need and then remove the 4MB out.
You can also install 2.0.5 and then upgrade your system to
2.1.7 with the upgrade option of the 2.1.7
installation program.After the installation, if you build a custom kernel,
it will run in 4 MB. Someone has even successfully booted
with 2 MB, although the system was almost unusable.How can I make my own custom install floppy?Currently there is no way to just
make a custom install floppy. You have to cut a whole new
release, which will include your install floppy.To make a custom release, follow the instructions in the
Release
Engineering article.Can I have more than one operating system on my PC?Have a look at
the multi-OS page.Can Windows 95/98 co-exist with FreeBSD?Install Windows 95/98 first, after that FreeBSD.
FreeBSD's boot manager will then manage to boot Win95/98 and
FreeBSD. If you install Windows 95/98 second, it will boorishly
overwrite your boot manager without even asking. If that
happens, see the next section.Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager!
How do I get it back?You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in
one of three ways:Running DOS, go into the tools/ directory of your
FreeBSD distribution and look for
bootinst.exe. You run it like
so:...\TOOLS>bootinst.exe boot.binand the boot manager will be reinstalled.Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the
Custom installation menu item. Choose Partition. Select the
drive which used to contain your boot manager (likely the
first one) and when you come to the partition editor for
it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes)
select (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes,
and when you get the Boot Manager selection prompt, be
sure to select Boot Manager. This will
re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of the
installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as
normal.Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy (or CDROM) and choose the
Fixit menu item. Select either the Fixit
floppy or CDROM #2 (the live file system
option) as appropriate and enter the fixit shell. Then
execute the following command:Fixit#fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 bootdevicesubstituting bootdevice for
your real
boot device such as ad0 (first IDE
disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on
auxiliary controller), da0 (first
SCSI disk), etc.My A, T, or X series IBM Thinkpad locks up when I first
booted up my FreeBSD installation. How can I solve this?A bug in early revisions of IBM's BIOS on these machines
mistakenly identifies the FreeBSD partition as a potential FAT
suspend-to-disk partition. When the BIOS tries to parse the
FreeBSD partition it hangs.According to IBMIn an e-mail from Keith
Frechette
kfrechet@us.ibm.com., the
following model/BIOS release numbers incorporate the fix.ModelBIOS revisionT20IYET49WW or laterT21KZET22WW or laterA20pIVET62WW or laterA20mIWET54WW or laterA21pKYET27WW or laterA21mKXET24WW or laterA21eKUET30WWIt has been reported that later IBM BIOS revisions may have
reintroduced the bug. This message
from Jacques Vidrine to the &a.mobile; describes a procedure
which may work if your newer IBM laptop does not boot FreeBSD
properly, and you can upgrade or downgrade the BIOS..If you have an earlier BIOS, and upgrading is not an option a
workaround is to install FreeBSD, change the partition ID FreeBSD
uses, and install new boot blocks that can handle the different
partition ID.First, you will need to restore the machine to a state where
it can get through its self-test screen. Doing this requires
powering up the machine without letting it find a FreeBSD
partition on its primary disk. One way is to remove the hard disk
and temporarily move it to an older ThinkPad (such as a ThinkPad
600) or a desktop PC with an appropriate conversion cable. Once
it is there, you can delete the FreeBSD partition and move the hard
disk back. The ThinkPad should now be in a bootable state
again.With the machine functional again, you can use the workaround
procedure described here to get a working FreeBSD
installation.Download boot1 and
boot2 from http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bmah/ThinkPad/.
Put these files somewhere you will be able to retrieve them
later.Install FreeBSD as normal on to the ThinkPad.
Do not use Dangerously
Dedicated mode. Do not
reboot when the install has finished.Either switch to the Emergency Holographic
Shell (ALTF4) or start a
fixit shell.Use &man.fdisk.8; to change the FreeBSD partition ID from
165 to 166 (this is the
type used by OpenBSD).Bring the boot1 and
boot2 files to the local
filesystem.Use &man.disklabel.8; to write boot1
and boot2 to your FreeBSD slice.&prompt.root; disklabel -B -b boot1 -s boot2 ad0snn is the number of the slice
where you installed FreeBSD.Reboot. At the boot prompt you will be given the option
of booting OpenBSD. This will actually
boot FreeBSD.Getting this to work in the case where you want to dual boot
OpenBSD and FreeBSD on the same laptop is left as an exercise for
the reader.Can I install on a disk with bad blocks?Prior to 3.0, FreeBSD included a utility known as
bad144, which automatically remapped bad
blocks. Because modern IDE drives perform this function
themselves, bad144 has been removed from the
FreeBSD source tree. If you wish to install FreeBSD 3.0 or
later, we strongly suggest you purchase a newer disk drive. If
you do not wish to do this, you must run FreeBSD 2.x.If you are seeing bad block errors with a modern IDE
drive, chances are the drive is going to die very soon (the
drive's internal remapping functions are no longer sufficient
to fix the bad blocks, which means the disk is heavily
corrupted); we suggest you buy a new hard drive.If you have a SCSI drive with bad blocks, see
this answer.I have just upgraded from 3.X to 4.X, and my first boot
failed with bad sector table not
supportedFreeBSD 3.X and earlier supported
bad144, which automatically remapped
bad blocks. FreeBSD 4.X and later do not support this, as
modern IDE drives include this functionality. See this question for
more information.To fix this after an upgrade, you need to physically
place the drive in a working system and use
&man.disklabel.8; as discussed in the following
questions.How do I tell if a drive has bad144
information on it before I try to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0
and it fails?Use &man.disklabel.8; for this. disklabel -r
drive device will
give you the contents of your disk label. Look for a
flags field. If you see
flags: badsect, this drive is using
bad144. For example, the following drive has
bad144 enabled.:&prompt.root; disklabel -r wd0
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: wd0s1
label:
flags: badsect
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63How do I remove bad144 from my
pre-4.X system so I can upgrade safely?Use disklabel -e -rwd0 to edit the
disklabel in place. Just remove the word
badsect from the flags field, save, and
exit. The bad144 file will still take up some space on
your drive, but the disk itself will be usable.We still recommend you purchase a new disk if you have
a large number of bad blocks.Strange things happen when I boot the install floppy!
What is happening?If you are seeing things like the machine grinding to a halt
or spontaneously rebooting when you try to boot the install
floppy, here are three questions to ask yourself:-Did you use a new, freshly-formatted, error-free floppy
(preferably a brand-new one straight out of the box, as
opposed to the magazine cover disk that has been lying under
the bed for the last three years)?Did you download the floppy image in binary (or image)
mode? (do not be embarrassed, even the best of us have
accidentally downloaded a binary file in ASCII mode at
least once!)If you are using Windows95 or Win98 did you run
fdimage or rawrite in
pure DOS mode? These operating systems can interfere with programs that
write directly to hardware, which the disk creation program
does; even running it inside a DOS shell in the GUI can
cause this problem.There have also been reports of Netscape causing problems
when downloading the boot floppy, so it is probably best to use
a different FTP client if you can.I booted from my ATAPI CDROM, but the install program says no
CDROM is found. Where did it go?The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CDROM
drive. Many PCs now ship with the CDROM as the slave device on
the secondary IDE controller, with no master device on that
controller. This is illegal according to the ATAPI specification,
but Windows plays fast and loose with the specification, and the
BIOS ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to
see the CDROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD cannot see it to
complete the install.Reconfigure your system so that the CDROM is either the
master device on the IDE controller it is attached to, or make
sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller that also has a
master device.Why can I not install from tape?If you are installing 2.1.7R from tape, you must create
the tape using a tar blocksize of 10 (5120 bytes). The default
tar blocksize is 20 (10240 bytes), and tapes created using this
default size cannot be used to install 2.1.7R; with these
tapes, you will get an error that complains about the record
size being too big.Can I install on my laptop over PLIP (Parallel Line
IP)?Yes. Use a standard Laplink cable. If necessary, you
can check out the PLIP
section of the Handbook for details on parallel
port networking.If you are running FreeBSD 3.X or earlier, also look at
the Mobile
Computing page.Which geometry should I use for a disk drive?By the geometry of a disk, we mean
the number of cylinders, heads and sectors/track on a
disk. We will refer to this as C/H/S for
convenience. This is how the PC's BIOS works out which
area on a disk to read/write from.This causes a lot of confusion among new system
administrators. First of all, the
physical geometry of a SCSI drive is
totally irrelevant, as FreeBSD works in term of disk
blocks. In fact, there is no such thing as
the physical geometry, as the sector
density varies across the disk. What manufacturers claim
is the physical geometry is usually the
geometry that they have determined wastes the least
space. For IDE disks, FreeBSD does work in terms of C/H/S,
but all modern drives internally convert this into block
references.
All that matters is the logical
geometry. This is the answer that the BIOS gets when it
asks the drive what is your geometry? It
then uses this geometry to access the disk. As FreeBSD
uses the BIOS when booting, it is very important to get
this right. In particular, if you have more than one
operating system on a disk, they must all agree on the
geometry. Otherwise you will have serious problems
booting!For SCSI disks, the geometry to use depends on whether
extended translation support is turned on in your
controller (this is often referred to as support for
DOS disks >1GB or something similar). If it is
turned off, then use N
cylinders, 64 heads and 32 sectors/track, where
N is the capacity of the disk in
MB. For example, a 2GB disk should pretend to have 2048
cylinders, 64 heads and 32 sectors/track.If it is turned on (it is often
supplied this way to get around certain limitations in
MSDOS) and the disk capacity is more than 1GB, use M
cylinders, 63 sectors per track (not
64), and 255 heads, where 'M' is the disk capacity in MB
divided by 7.844238 (!). So our example 2GB drive would
have 261 cylinders, 63 sectors per track and 255
heads.If you are not sure about this, or FreeBSD fails to
detect the geometry correctly during installation, the
simplest way around this is usually to create a small DOS
partition on the disk. The BIOS should then detect the
correct geometry, and you can always remove the DOS
partition in the partition editor if you do not want to
keep it. You might want to leave it around for
programming network cards and the like, however.Alternatively, there is a freely available utility
distributed with FreeBSD called
pfdisk.exe. You can find it in the
tools subdirectory on the FreeBSD
CDROM or on the various FreeBSD FTP sites. This program
can be used to work out what geometry the other operating
systems on the disk are using. You can then enter this
geometry in the partition editor.Are there any restrictions on how I divide the disk up?Yes. You must make sure that your root partition is below
1024
cylinders so the BIOS can boot the kernel from it. (Note that
this is a limitation in the PC's BIOS, not FreeBSD).For a SCSI drive, this will normally imply that the root
partition will be in the first 1024MB (or in the first 4096MB
if extended translation is turned on - see previous question).
For IDE, the corresponding figure is 504MB.Is FreeBSD compatible with any disk managers?FreeBSD recognizes the Ontrack Disk Manager and makes
allowances for it. Other disk managers are not supported.If you just want to use the disk with FreeBSD you do not
need a disk manager. Just configure the disk for as much space
as the BIOS can deal with (usually 504 megabytes), and FreeBSD
should figure out how much space you really have. If you are
using an old disk with an MFM controller, you may need to
explicitly tell FreeBSD how many cylinders to use.If you want to use the disk with FreeBSD and another
operating system, you may be able to do without a disk manager:
just make sure the FreeBSD boot partition and the slice for
the other operating system are in the first 1024 cylinders. If
you are reasonably careful, a 20 megabyte boot partition should
be plenty.When I boot FreeBSD I get Missing Operating
System. What is happening?This is classically a case of FreeBSD and DOS or some other
OS conflicting over their ideas of disk geometry. You will have to reinstall
FreeBSD, but obeying the instructions given above will almost
always get you going.Why can I not get past the boot manager's F?
prompt?This is another symptom of the problem described in the
preceding question. Your BIOS geometry and FreeBSD geometry
settings do not agree! If your controller or BIOS supports
cylinder translation (often marked as >1GB drive
support), try toggling its setting and reinstalling
FreeBSD.Do I need to install the complete sources?In general, no. However, we would strongly recommend that
you install, at a minimum, the base source
kit, which includes several of the files mentioned here, and
the sys (kernel) source kit, which includes
sources for the kernel. There is nothing in the system which
requires the presence of the sources to operate, however,
except for the kernel-configuration program &man.config.8;.
With the exception of the kernel sources, our build structure
is set up so that you can read-only mount the sources from
elsewhere via NFS and still be able to make new binaries.
(Because of the kernel-source restriction, we recommend that
you not mount this on /usr/src directly,
but rather in some other location with appropriate symbolic
links to duplicate the top-level structure of the source
tree.)Having the sources on-line and knowing how to build a
system with them will make it much easier for you to upgrade
to future releases of FreeBSD.To actually select a subset of the sources, use the Custom
menu item when you are in the Distributions menu of the
system installation tool.Do I need to build a kernel?Building a new kernel was originally pretty much a required
step in a FreeBSD installation, but more recent releases have
benefited from the introduction of a much friendlier kernel
configuration tool. When at the FreeBSD boot prompt (boot:),
use the flag and you will be dropped into a
visual configuration screen which allows you to configure the
kernel's settings for most common ISA cards.It is still recommended that you eventually build a new
kernel containing just the drivers that you need, just to save a
bit of RAM, but it is no longer a strict requirement for most
systems.Should I use DES passwords, or MD5, and how do I specify
which form my users receive?The default password format on FreeBSD is to use
MD5-based passwords. These are believed to
be more secure than the traditional Unix password format, which
used a scheme based on the DES algorithm.
DES passwords are still available if you need to share your
password file with legacy operating systems which still use the
less secure password format (they are available if you choose
to install the crypto distribution in
sysinstall, or by installing the crypto sources if building
from source). Which password format to use for new passwords is
controlled by the passwd_format login capability
in /etc/login.conf, which takes values of
either des (if available) or md5.
See the &man.login.conf.5; manual page for more information about login
capabilities.Why does the boot floppy start, but hang at the
Probing Devices... screen?If you have a IDE Zip or Jaz drive installed, remove it
and try again. The boot floppy can get confused by the drives.
After the system is installed you can reconnect the drive.
Hopefully this will be fixed in a later release.Why do I get a panic: can't mount root
error when rebooting the system after installation?This error comes from confusion between the boot block's
and the kernel's understanding of the disk devices. The error
usually manifests on two-disk IDE systems, with the hard disks
arranged as the master or single device on separate IDE
controllers, with FreeBSD installed on the secondary IDE
controller. The boot blocks think the system is installed on
wd1 (the second BIOS disk) while the kernel assigns the first
disk on the secondary controller device wd2. After the device
probing, the kernel tries to mount what the boot blocks think
is the boot disk, wd1, while it is really wd2, and
fails.To fix the problem, do one of the following:For FreeBSD 3.3 and later, reboot the system and hit
Enter at the Booting kernel
in 10 seconds; hit [Enter] to interrupt prompt.
This will drop you into the boot loader.Then type
set root_disk_unit="disk_number"
. disk_number
will be 0 if FreeBSD is installed on
the master drive on the first IDE controller,
1 if it is installed on the slave on
the first IDE controller, 2 if it is
installed on the master of the second IDE controller, and
3 if it is installed on the slave of
the second IDE controller.Then type boot, and your system
should boot correctly.To make this change permanent (ie so you do not have to
do this every time you reboot or turn on your FreeBSD
machine), put the line
root_disk_unit="disk_number" in /boot/loader.conf.local
.If using FreeBSD 3.2 or earlier, at the Boot: prompt,
enter 1:wd(2,a)kernel and press Enter.
If the system starts, then run the command
echo "1:wd(2,a)kernel" > /boot.config
to make it the default boot string.Move the FreeBSD disk onto the primary IDE controller,
so the hard disks are consecutive.Rebuild
your kernel, modify the wd configuration lines to
read:controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0
# disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 # comment out this line
controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
disk wd1 at wdc1 drive 0 # change from wd2 to wd1
disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 1 # change from wd3 to wd2Install the new kernel. If you moved your disks and
wish to restore the previous configuration, replace the
disks in the desired configuration and reboot. Your
system should boot successfully.What are the limits for memory?For memory, the limit is 4 gigabytes. This configuration
has been tested, see wcarchive's
configuration for more details. If you plan to install
this much memory into a machine, you need to be careful. You will
probably want to use ECC memory and to reduce capacitive
loading use 9 chip memory modules versus 18 chip memory
modules.What are the limits for ffs filesystems?For ffs filesystems, the maximum theoretical limit is 8
terabytes (2G blocks), or 16TB for the default block size of
8K. In practice, there is a soft limit of 1 terabyte, but with
modifications filesystems with 4 terabytes are possible (and
exist).The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G
blocks (4TB) if the block size is 4K.
Maximum file sizesfs block size2.2.7-stable3.0-currentworksshould work4K4T-14T-14T-1>4T8K>32G8T-1>32G32T-116K>128G16T-1>128G32T-132K>512G32T-1>512G64T-164K>2048G64T-1>2048G128T-1
When the fs block size is 4K, triple indirect blocks work
and everything should be limited by the maximum fs block number
that can be represented using triple indirect blocks (approx.
1K^3 + 1K^2 + 1K), but everything is limited by a (wrong) limit
of 1G-1 on fs block numbers. The limit on fs block numbers
should be 2G-1. There are some bugs for fs block numbers near
2G-1, but such block numbers are unreachable when the fs block
size is 4K.For block sizes of 8K and larger, everything should be
limited by the 2G-1 limit on fs block numbers, but is actually
limited by the 1G-1 limit on fs block numbers, except under
-STABLE triple indirect blocks are unreachable, so the limit is
the maximum fs block number that can be represented using
double indirect blocks (approx. (blocksize/4)^2 +
(blocksize/4)), and under -CURRENT exceeding this limit may
cause problems. Using the correct limit of 2G-1 blocks does
cause problems.Why do I get an error message,
archsw.readin.failed after compiling
and booting a new kernel?You can boot by specifying the kernel directly at the second
stage, pressing any key when the | shows up before loader is
started. More specifically, you have upgraded the source for
your kernel, and installed a new kernel builtin from them
without making world. This is not
supported. Make world.How do I upgrade from 3.X -> 4.X?We strongly recommend that you use
binary snapshots to do this. 4-STABLE snapshots are available at
ftp://releng4.FreeBSD.org/.Because of the many changes between 3.X and 4-STABLE,
a direct upgrade from source will probably fail. A source
upgrade can be done, but only in stages. First, upgrade
to the latest 3-STABLE (RELENG_3).
Then upgrade to 4.1.1-RELEASE
(RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE). Finally,
upgrade to 4-STABLE (RELENG_4).If you wish to upgrade using source, please see the FreeBSD
Handbook for more information.Upgrading via source is never recommended for new
users, and upgrading from 3.X to 4.X is even less so; make sure
you have read the instructions carefully before attempting to
upgrade via source.What are these security profiles?A security profile is a set of configuration
options that attempts to achieve the desired ratio of security
to convenience by enabling and disabling certain programs and
other settings. For full details, see the Security
Profile section of the Handbook's post-install
chapter.Hardware compatibilityDoes FreeBSD support architectures other than the
x86?Yes. FreeBSD currently runs on both Intel x86 and
DEC (now Compaq) Alpha architectures. Interest has also
been expressed in a port of FreeBSD to the SPARC architecture,
join the &a.sparc; if you are interested in joining that project.
Most recent additions to the list of upcoming platforms are
IA-64 and PowerPC, join the &a.ia64; and/or the &a.ppc; for more
information. For general discussion on new architectures, join
the &a.platforms;.If your machine has a different architecture and you need
something right now, we suggest you look at NetBSD or OpenBSD.I want to get a piece of hardware for my FreeBSD
system. Which model/brand/type is best?This is discussed continually on the FreeBSD mailing
lists. Since hardware changes so quickly, however, we
expect this. We still strongly
recommend that you read through the
Hardware Notes
and search the mailing list
archives before asking about the latest and
greatest hardware. Chances are a discussion about the
type of hardware you are looking for took place just last
week.If you are looking for a laptop, check the
FreeBSD-mobile mailing list archives. Otherwise, you
probably want the archives for FreeBSD-questions, or
possibly a specific mailing list for a particular hardware
type.What kind of hard drives does FreeBSD support?FreeBSD supports EIDE and SCSI drives (with a compatible
controller; see the next section), and all drives using the
original Western Digital interface (MFM, RLL,
ESDI, and of course IDE). A few ESDI controllers that use
proprietary interfaces may not work: stick to WD1002/3/6/7
interfaces and clones.Which SCSI controllers are supported?See the complete list in the current Hardware Notes.Which CDROM drives are supported by FreeBSD?Any SCSI drive connected to a supported controller is
supported.The following proprietary CDROM interfaces are also
supported:Mitsumi LU002 (8bit), LU005 (16bit) and FX001D
(16bit 2x Speed).Sony CDU 31/33ASound Blaster Non-SCSI CDROMMatsushita/Panasonic CDROMATAPI compatible IDE CDROMsAll non-SCSI cards are known to be extremely slow compared
to SCSI drives, and some ATAPI CDROMs may not work.As of 2.2 the FreeBSD CDROM from the FreeBSD Mall supports
booting directly from the CD.Which CD-RW drives are supported by FreeBSD?FreeBSD supports any ATAPI-compatible IDE CD-R or CD-RW
drive. For FreeBSD versions 4.0 and later, see the man page for
&man.burncd.8;. For earlier FreeBSD versions, see the examples
in /usr/share/examples/atapi.FreeBSD also supports any SCSI CD-R or CD-RW drives.
Install and use the cdrecord command from the
ports or packages system, and make sure that you have the
pass device compiled in your
kernel.Does FreeBSD support ZIP drives?FreeBSD supports the SCSI ZIP drive out of the box, of
course. The ZIP drive can only be set to run at SCSI target IDs
5 or 6, but if your SCSI host adapter's BIOS supports it you
can even boot from it. It is not clear which host
adapters support booting from targets other than 0 or 1,
so you will have to consult your adapter's documentation
if you would like to use this feature.ATAPI (IDE) Zip drives are supported in FreeBSD 2.2.6 and
later releases.FreeBSD has contained support for Parallel Port Zip Drives
since version 3.0. If you are using a sufficiently up to date
version, then you should check that your kernel contains the
scbus0, da0,
ppbus0, and
vp0 drivers (the GENERIC kernel
contains everything except vp0). With
all these drivers present, the Parallel Port drive should be
available as /dev/da0s4. Disks can be
mounted using mount /dev/da0s4 /mnt OR (for
dos disks) mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt as
appropriate.Also check out the FAQ on removable
drives later in this chapter, and the note on
formattingin the Administration chapter.Does FreeBSD support JAZ, EZ and other removable
drives?Apart from the IDE version of the EZ drive, these are all
SCSI devices, so they should all look like SCSI disks to
FreeBSD, and the IDE EZ should look like an IDE drive.I am not sure how well FreeBSD supports
changing the media out while running. You will of course need
to dismount the drive before swapping media, and make sure that
any external units are powered on when you boot the system so
FreeBSD can see them.See this note on
formatting.Which multi-port serial cards are supported by
FreeBSD?There is a list of these in the Miscellaneous
devices section of the handbook.Some unnamed clone cards have also been known to work,
especially those that claim to be AST compatible.Check the &man.sio.4;
man page to get more information on configuring such cards.Does FreeBSD support my USB keyboard?USB device support was added to FreeBSD 3.1. However, it
is still in preliminary state and may not always work as of
version 3.2. If you want to experiment with the USB keyboard
support, follow the procedure described below.Use FreeBSD 3.2 or later.Add the following lines to your kernel configuration
file, and rebuild the kernel.device uhci
device ohci
device usb
device ukbd
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEVIn versions of FreeBSD before 4.0, use this
instead:controller uhci0
controller ohci0
controller usb0
controller ukbd0
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEVGo to the /dev directory and create
device nodes as follows:&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; ./MAKEDEV kbd0 kbd1Edit /etc/rc.conf and add the
following lines:usbd_enable="YES"
usbd_flags=""After the system is rebooted, the AT keyboard becomes
/dev/kbd0 and the USB keyboard becomes
/dev/kbd1, if both are connected to the
system. If there is the USB keyboard only, it will be
/dev/ukbd0.If you want to use the USB keyboard in the console, you
have to explicitly tell the console driver to use the existing
USB keyboard. This can be done by running the following
command as a part of system initialization.&prompt.root; kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/ttyv0 > /dev/nullNote that if the USB keyboard is the only keyboard, it is
accessed as /dev/kbd0, thus, the command
should look like:&prompt.root; kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/ttyv0 > /dev/null/etc/rc.i386 is a good place to add the
above command.Once this is done, the USB keyboard should work in the X
environment as well without any special settings.Hot-plugging and unplugging of the USB keyboard may not
work quite right yet. It is a good idea to connect the keyboard
before you start the system and leave it connected until the
system is shutdown to avoid troubles.See the &man.ukbd.4; man page for more information.I have an unusual bus mouse. How do I set it up?FreeBSD supports the bus mouse and the InPort bus mouse
from such manufactures as Microsoft, Logitech and ATI. The bus
device driver is compiled in the GENERIC kernel by default in
FreeBSD versions 2.X, but not included in version 3.0 or later.
If you are building a custom kernel with the bus mouse driver,
make sure to add the following line to the kernel config
fileIn FreeBSD 3.0 or before, add:device mse0 at isa? port 0x23c tty irq5 vector mseintrIn FreeBSD 3.X, the line should be:device mse0 at isa? port 0x23c tty irq5And in FreeBSD 4.X and later, the line should read:device mse0 at isa? port 0x23c irq5Bus mice usually comes with dedicated interface cards.
These cards may allow you to set the port address and the IRQ
number other than shown above. Refer to the manual of your
mouse and the &man.mse.4; man page for more information.How do I use my PS/2 (mouse port or
keyboard) mouse?If you are running a post-2.2.5 version of FreeBSD, the
necessary driver, psm, is included and
enabled in the kernel. The kernel should detect your PS/2 mouse
at boot time.If you are running a previous but relatively recent version
of FreeBSD (2.1.x or better) then you can simply enable it in
the kernel configuration menu at installation time, otherwise
later with at the boot:
prompt. It is disabled by default, so you will need to enable
it explicitly.If you are running an older version of FreeBSD then you will
have to add the following lines to your kernel configuration
file and compile a new kernel.In FreeBSD 3.0 or earlier, the line should be:device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintrIn FreeBSD 3.1 or later, the line should be:device psm0 at isa? tty irq 12In FreeBSD 4.0 or later, the line should be:device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12See the Handbook entry on
configuring the kernel if you have no experience with
building kernels.Once you have a kernel detecting
psm0 correctly at boot time, make sure
that an entry for psm0 exists in
/dev. You can do this by typing:&prompt.root; cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV psm0when logged in as root.Is it possible to make use of a mouse in any way outside
the X Window system?If you are using the default console driver, syscons, you
can use a mouse pointer in text consoles to cut & paste
text. Run the mouse daemon, moused, and turn on the mouse
pointer in the virtual console:&prompt.root; moused -p /dev/xxxx -t yyyy
&prompt.root; vidcontrol -m onWhere xxxx is the mouse device
name and yyyy is a protocol type for
the mouse. See the &man.moused.8; man page for supported
protocol types.You may wish to run the mouse daemon automatically when the
system starts. In version 2.2.1, set the following variables in
/etc/sysconfig.mousedtype="yyyy"
mousedport="xxxx"
mousedflags=""In versions 2.2.2 to 3.0, set the following variables in
/etc/rc.conf.moused_type="yyyy"
moused_port="xxxx"
moused_flags=""In 3.1 and later, assuming you have a PS/2 mouse, all you
need to is add moused_enable="YES" to
/etc/rc.conf.In addition, if you would like to be able to use the mouse
daemon on all virtual terminals instead of just console at
boot-time, add the following to
/etc/rc.conf.allscreens_flags="-m on"Staring from FreeBSD 2.2.6, the mouse daemon is capable of
determining the correct protocol type automatically unless the
mouse is a relatively old serial mouse model. Specify
auto the protocol to invoke automatic
detection.When the mouse daemon is running, access to the mouse
needs to be coordinated between the mouse daemon and other
programs such as the X Window. Refer to another section on this
issue.How do I cut and paste text with mouse in the text
console?Once you get the mouse daemon running (see
previous section), hold down the
button 1 (left button) and move the mouse to select a region of
text. Then, press the button 2 (middle button) or the button 3
(right button) to paste it at the text cursor.In versions 2.2.6 and later, pressing the button 2 will
paste the text. Pressing the button 3 will
extend the selected region of text. If your
mouse does not have the middle button, you may wish to emulate
it or remap buttons using moused options. See the
&man.moused.8; man page for details.Does FreeBSD support any USB mice?Preliminary USB device support was added to FreeBSD
3.1. It did not always work through early versions of
3.X. As of FreeBSD 4.0, USB devices should work out of
the box. If you want to experiment with the USB mouse
support under FreeBSD 3.X, follow the procedure described
below.Use FreeBSD 3.2 or later.Add the following lines to your kernel configuration
file, and rebuild the kernel.device uhci
device ohci
device usb
device umsIn versions of FreeBSD before 4.0, use this
instead:controller uhci0
controller ohci0
controller usb0
device ums0Go to the /dev directory and
create a device node as follows:&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; ./MAKEDEV ums0Edit /etc/rc.conf and add the
following lines:moused_enable="YES"
moused_type="auto"
moused_port="/dev/ums0"
moused_flags=""
usbd_enable="YES"
usbd_flags=""See the previous section
for more detailed discussion on moused.In order to use the USB mouse in the X session, edit
XF86Config. If you are using XFree86
3.3.2 or later, be sure to have the following lines in the
Pointer section:Device "/dev/sysmouse"
Protocol "Auto"If you are using earlier versions of XFree86, be sure to
have the following lines in the Pointer
section:Device "/dev/sysmouse"
Protocol "SysMouse"Refer to another section
on the mouse support in the X environment.Hot-plugging and unplugging of the USB mouse may not work
quite right yet. It is a good idea connect the mouse before you
start the system and leave it connected until the system is
shutdown to avoid trouble.My mouse has a fancy wheel and buttons. Can I use them in
FreeBSD?The answer is, unfortunately, It depends.
These mice with additional features require specialized driver
in most cases. Unless the mouse device driver or the user
program has specific support for the mouse, it will act just
like a standard two, or three button mouse.For the possible usage of wheels in the X Window
environment, refer to that
section.Why does my wheel-equipped PS/2 mouse cause my mouse cursor
to jump around the screen?The PS/2 mouse driver psm in FreeBSD versions 3.2 or
earlier has difficulty with some wheel mice, including Logitech
model M-S48 and its OEM siblings. Apply the following patch to
/sys/i386/isa/psm.c and rebuild the
kernel.Index: psm.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/CVS/src/sys/i386/isa/Attic/psm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.60.2.1
retrieving revision 1.60.2.2
diff -u -r1.60.2.1 -r1.60.2.2
--- psm.c 1999/06/03 12:41:13 1.60.2.1
+++ psm.c 1999/07/12 13:40:52 1.60.2.2
@@ -959,14 +959,28 @@
sc->mode.packetsize = vendortype[i].packetsize;
/* set mouse parameters */
+#if 0
+ /*
+ * A version of Logitech FirstMouse+ won't report wheel movement,
+ * if SET_DEFAULTS is sent... Don't use this command.
+ * This fix was found by Takashi Nishida.
+ */
i = send_aux_command(sc->kbdc, PSMC_SET_DEFAULTS);
if (verbose >= 2)
printf("psm%d: SET_DEFAULTS return code:%04x\n", unit, i);
+#endif
if (sc->config & PSM_CONFIG_RESOLUTION) {
sc->mode.resolution
= set_mouse_resolution(sc->kbdc,
- (sc->config & PSM_CONFIG_RESOLUTION) - 1);
+ (sc->config & PSM_CONFIG_RESOLUTION) - 1);
+ } else if (sc->mode.resolution >= 0) {
+ sc->mode.resolution
+ = set_mouse_resolution(sc->kbdc, sc->dflt_mode.resolution);
+ }
+ if (sc->mode.rate > 0) {
+ sc->mode.rate = set_mouse_sampling_rate(sc->kbdc, sc->dflt_mode.rate);
}
+ set_mouse_scaling(sc->kbdc, 1);
/* request a data packet and extract sync. bits */
if (get_mouse_status(sc->kbdc, stat, 1, 3) < 3) {Versions later than 3.2 should be all right.How do I use the mouse/trackball/touchpad on my
laptop?Please refer to the answer to
the previous question. Also check out the Mobile
Computing page.What types of tape drives are supported?FreeBSD supports SCSI and QIC-36 (with a QIC-02 interface).
This includes 8-mm (aka Exabyte) and DAT drives.Some of the early 8-mm drives are not quite compatible
with SCSI-2, and may not work well with FreeBSD.Does FreeBSD support tape changers?FreeBSD 2.2 supports SCSI changers using the
&man.ch.4;
device and the
&man.chio.1;
command. The details of how you actually control the changer
can be found in the
&man.chio.1;
man page.If you are not using AMANDA
or some other product that already understands changers,
remember that they only know how to move a tape from one
point to another, so you need to keep track of which slot a
tape is in, and which slot the tape currently in the drive
needs to go back to.Which sound cards are supported by FreeBSD?FreeBSD supports the SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro,
SoundBlaster 16, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, AdLib and Gravis
UltraSound sound cards. There is also limited support for
MPU-401 and compatible MIDI cards. Cards conforming to the
Microsoft Sound System specification are also supported through
the pcm driver.This is only for sound! This driver does not support
CDROMs, SCSI or joysticks on these cards, except for the
SoundBlaster. The SoundBlaster SCSI interface and some
non-SCSI CDROMs are supported, but you cannot boot off this
device.Workarounds for no sound from es1370 with pcm driver?You can run the following command every time the machine
booted up:&prompt.root; mixer pcm 100 vol 100 cd 100Which network cards does FreeBSD support?See the
Ethernet cards section of the handbook for a more
complete list.I do not have a math co-processor - is that bad?This will only affect 386/486SX/486SLC owners - other
machines will have one built into the CPU.In general this will not cause any problems, but there are
circumstances where you will take a hit, either in performance
or accuracy of the math emulation code (see the section on FP emulation). In particular, drawing
arcs in X will be VERY slow. It is highly recommended that you
buy a math co-processor; it is well worth it.Some math co-processors are better than others. It
pains us to say it, but nobody ever got fired for buying
Intel. Unless you are sure it works with FreeBSD, beware of
clones.What other devices does FreeBSD support?See the Handbook
for the list of other devices supported.Does FreeBSD support power management on my laptop?FreeBSD supports APM on certain machines. Please look in
the LINT kernel config file, searching for
the
APM
keyword. Further information can be found in &man.apm.4;.Why does my Micron system hang at boot time?Certain Micron motherboards have a non-conforming PCI BIOS
implementation that causes grief when FreeBSD boots because PCI
devices do not get configured at their reported addresses.Disable the Plug and Play Operating System
flag in the BIOS to work around this problem. More information
can be found at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html#micronWhy does FreeBSD not recognize my Adaptec SCSI
controller card?The newer AIC789x series Adaptec chips are supported under
the CAM SCSI framework which made its debut in 3.0. Patches
against 2.2-STABLE are in
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/cam/.
A CAM-enhanced boot floppy is available at
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~abial/cam-boot/.
In both cases read the README before beginning.Why is FreeBSD not finding my internal Plug & Play
modem?You will need to add the modem's PnP ID to the PnP ID
list in the serial driver. To enable Plug & Play support,
compile a new kernel with controller pnp0 in
the configuration file, then reboot the system. The kernel will
print the PnP IDs of all the devices it finds. Copy the PnP ID
from the modem to the table in
/sys/i386/isa/sio.c, at about line 2777.
Look for the string SUP1310 in the structure
siopnp_ids[] to find the table. Build the
kernel again, install, reboot, and your modem should be
found.You may have to manually configure the PnP devices using
the pnp command in the boot-time
configuration with a command likepnp 1 0 enable os irq0 3 drq0 0 port0 0x2f8to make the modem show.Does FreeBSD support software modems, such as
Winmodems?FreeBSD supports many software modems via add-on
software. The comms/ltmdm port adds
support for modems based on the very popular Lucent LT
chipset. The comms/mwavem port
supports the modem in IBM Thinkpad 600 and 700
laptops.You cannot install FreeBSD via a software modem; this
software must be installed after the OS is
installed.How do I get the boot: prompt to show on the serial
console?Build a kernel with
options COMCONSOLE.Create /boot.config and place
as the only text in the file.Unplug the keyboard from the system.See
/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial
for information.Why does my 3Com PCI network card not work with my Micron
computer?Certain Micron motherboards have a non-conforming PCI BIOS
implementation that does not configure PCI devices at the
addresses reported. This causes grief when FreeBSD
boots.To work around this problem, disable the
Plug and Play Operating System flag in the
BIOS.More information on this problem is available at URL:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html#micronDoes FreeBSD support Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)?SMP is supported in 3.0-STABLE and later releases only.
SMP is not enabled in the GENERIC kernel,
so you will have to recompile your kernel to enable SMP. Take a
look at /sys/i386/conf/LINT to figure out
what options to put in your kernel config file.The boot floppy hangs on a system with an ASUS K7V
motherboard. How do I fix this?Go in to the BIOS setup and disable the boot virus
protection.TroubleshootingWhat do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive?With SCSI drives, the drive should be capable of re-mapping
these automatically. However, many drives are shipped with
this feature disabled, for some mysterious reason...To enable this, you will need to edit the first device page
mode, which can be done on FreeBSD by giving the command
(as root)&prompt.root; scsi -f /dev/rsd0c -m 1 -e -P 3and changing the values of AWRE and ARRE from 0 to 1:-AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1
ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1The following paragraphs were submitted by Ted Mittelstaedt
tedm@toybox.placo.com:For IDE drives, any bad block is usually a sign of
potential trouble. All modern IDE drives come with internal
bad-block remapping turned on. All IDE hard drive manufacturers
today offer extensive warranties and will replace drives with
bad blocks on them.If you still want to attempt to rescue an IDE drive with
bad blocks, you can attempt to download the IDE drive
manufacturer's IDE diagnostic program, and run this against the
drive. Sometimes these programs can be set to force the drive
electronics to rescan the drive for bad blocks and lock them
out.For ESDI, RLL and MFM drives, bad blocks are a normal part
of the drive and are no sign of trouble, generally. With a PC,
the disk drive controller card and BIOS handle the task of
locking out bad sectors. This is fine for operating systems
like DOS that use BIOS code to access the disk. However,
FreeBSD's disk driver does not go through BIOS, therefore a
mechanism, bad144, exists that replaces this functionality.
bad144 only works with the wd driver (which means it is not
supported in FreeBSD 4.0), it is NOT able to be used with SCSI.
bad144 works by entering all bad sectors found into a special
file.One caveat with bad144 - the bad block special file is
placed on the last track of the disk. As this file may possibly
contain a listing for a bad sector that would occur near the
beginning of the disk, where the /kernel file might be located,
it therefore must be accessible to the bootstrap program that
uses BIOS calls to read the kernel file. This means that the
disk with bad144 used on it must not exceed 1024 cylinders, 16
heads, and 63 sectors. This places an effective limit of 500MB
on a disk that is mapped with bad144.To use bad144, simply set the Bad Block
scanning to ON in the FreeBSD fdisk screen during the initial
install. This works up through FreeBSD 2.2.7. The disk must
have less than 1024 cylinders. It is generally recommended that
the disk drive has been in operation for at least 4 hours prior
to this to allow for thermal expansion and track
wandering.If the disk has more than 1024 cylinders (such as a large
ESDI drive) the ESDI controller uses a special translation mode
to make it work under DOS. The wd driver understands about
these translation modes, IF you enter the
translated geometry with the set
geometry command in fdisk. You must also NOT use the
dangerously dedicated mode of creating the
FreeBSD partition, as this ignores the geometry. Also, even
though fdisk will use your overridden geometry, it still knows
the true size of the disk, and will attempt to create a too
large FreeBSD partition. If the disk geometry is changed to the
translated geometry, the partition MUST be manually created
with the number of blocks.A quick trick to use is to set up the large ESDI disk with
the ESDI controller, boot it with a DOS disk and format it with
a DOS partition. Then, boot the FreeBSD install and in the
fdisk screen, read off and write down the blocksize and block
numbers for the DOS partition. Then, reset the geometry to the
same that DOS uses, delete the DOS partition, and create a
cooperative FreeBSD partition using the
blocksize you recorded earlier. Then, set the partition
bootable and turn on bad block scanning. During the actual
install, bad144 will run first, before any filesystems are
created. (you can view this with an Alt-F2) If it has any
trouble creating the badsector file, you have set too large a
disk geometry - reboot the system and start all over again
(including repartitioning and reformatting with DOS).If remapping is enabled and you are seeing bad blocks,
consider replacing the drive. The bad blocks will only get
worse as time goes on.Why does FreeBSD not recognize my Bustek 742a EISA
SCSI controller?This info is specific to the 742a but may also cover
other Buslogic cards. (Bustek = Buslogic)There are 2 general versions of the 742a
card. They are hardware revisions A-G, and revisions H -
onwards. The revision letter is located after the Assembly
number on the edge of the card. The 742a has 2 ROM chips on it,
one is the BIOS chip and the other is the Firmware chip.
FreeBSD does not care what version of BIOS chip you have but it
does care about what version of firmware chip. Buslogic will
send upgrade ROMs out if you call their tech support dept. The
BIOS and Firmware chips are shipped as a matched pair. You must
have the most current Firmware ROM in your adapter card for
your hardware revision.The REV A-G cards can only accept BIOS/Firmware sets up to
2.41/2.21. The REV H- up cards can accept the most current
BIOS/Firmware sets of 4.70/3.37. The difference between the
firmware sets is that the 3.37 firmware supports round
robinThe Buslogic cards also have a serial number on them. If
you have a old hardware revision card you can call the Buslogic
RMA department and give them the serial number and attempt to
exchange the card for a newer hardware revision. If the card is
young enough they will do so.FreeBSD 2.1 only supports Firmware revisions 2.21 onward.
If you have a Firmware revision older than this your card will
not be recognized as a Buslogic card. It may be recognized as
an Adaptec 1540, however. The early Buslogic firmware contains
an AHA1540 emulation mode. This is not a good
thing for an EISA card, however.If you have an old hardware revision card and you obtain
the 2.21 firmware for it, you will need to check the position
of jumper W1 to B-C, the default is A-B.Why does FreeBSD not detect my HP Netserver's SCSI
controller?This is basically a known problem. The EISA on-board SCSI
controller in the HP Netserver machines occupies EISA slot
number 11, so all the true EISA slots are in
front of it. Alas, the address space for EISA slots >= 10
collides with the address space assigned to PCI, and FreeBSD's
auto-configuration currently cannot handle this situation very
well.So now, the best you can do is to pretend there is no
address range clash :), by bumping the kernel option
EISA_SLOTS to a value of 12. Configure and
compile a kernel, as described in the Handbook entry on
configuring the kernel.Of course, this does present you with a chicken-and-egg
problem when installing on such a machine. In order to work
around this problem, a special hack is available inside
UserConfig. Do not use the
visual interface, but the plain command-line
interface there. Simply typeeisa 12
quitat the prompt, and install your system as usual. While
it is recommended you compile and install a custom kernel
anyway.Hopefully, future versions will have a proper fix for
this problem.You cannot use a
dangerously dedicated disk
with an HP Netserver. See this
note for more info.What is going on with my CMD640 IDE controller?It is broken. It cannot handle commands on both channels
simultaneously.There is a workaround available now and it is enabled
automatically if your system uses this chip. For the details
refer to the manual page of the disk driver (man 4 wd).If you are already running FreeBSD 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 with a
CMD640 IDE controller and you want to use the second channel,
build a new kernel with options "CMD640"
enabled. This is the default for 2.2.5 and later.I keep seeing messages like
ed1: timeout. What do these messages
mean?This is usually caused by an interrupt conflict (e.g.,
two boards using the same IRQ). FreeBSD prior to 2.0.5R used to
be tolerant of this, and the network driver would still
function in the presence of IRQ conflicts. However, with 2.0.5R
and later, IRQ conflicts are no longer tolerated. Boot with the
-c option and change the ed0/de0/... entry to match your
board.If you are using the BNC connector on your network card,
you may also see device timeouts because of bad termination. To
check this, attach a terminator directly to the NIC (with no
cable) and see if the error messages go away.Some NE2000 compatible cards will give this error if there
is no link on the UTP port or if the cable is disconnected.Why did my 3COM 3C509 card stop working for no
apparent reason?This card has a bad habit of losing its configuration
information. Refresh your card's settings with the DOS
utility 3c5x9.exe.My parallel printer is ridiculously slow. What can I do?If the only problem is that the printer is terribly
slow, try changing your printer
port mode as discussed in the Printer
Setup section of the Handbook.Why do my programs occasionally die with
Signal 11 errors?Signal 11 errors are caused when your process has attempted
to access memory which the operating system has not granted it
access to. If something like this is happening at seemingly
random intervals then you need to start investigating things
very carefully.These problems can usually be attributed to either:If the problem is occurring only in a specific
application that you are developing yourself it is probably
a bug in your code.If it is a problem with part of the base FreeBSD system,
it may also be buggy code, but more often than not these
problems are found and fixed long before us general FAQ
readers get to use these bits of code (that is what -current
is for).In particular, a dead giveaway that this is not a FreeBSD
bug is if you see the problem when you are compiling a program,
but the activity that the compiler is carrying out changes
each time.For example, suppose you are running make
buildworld, and the compile fails while trying to
compile ls.c in to
ls.o. If you then run make
buildworld again, and the compile fails in the same
place then this is a broken build -- try updating your sources
and try again. If the compile fails elsewhere then this is
almost certainly hardware.What you should do:In the first case you can use a debugger e.g. gdb to find
the point in the program which is attempting to access a bogus
address and then fix it.In the second case you need to verify that it is not your
hardware at fault.Common causes of this include:Your hard disks might be overheating: Check the fans in
your case are still working, as your disk (and perhaps
other hardware might be overheating).The processor running is overheating: This might be
because the processor has been overclocked, or the fan on
the processor might have died. In either case you need to
ensure that you have hardware running at what it is
specified to run at, at least while trying to solve this
problem. i.e. Clock it back to the default settings.If you are overclocking then note that it is far cheaper
to have a slow system than a fried system that needs
replacing! Also the wider community is not often
sympathetic to problems on overclocked systems, whether you
believe it is safe or not.Dodgy memory: If you have multiple memory SIMMS/DIMMS
installed then pull them all out and try running the
machine with each SIMM or DIMM individually and narrow the
problem down to either the problematic DIMM/SIMM or perhaps
even a combination.Over-optimistic Motherboard settings: In your BIOS
settings, and some motherboard jumpers you have options to
set various timings, mostly the defaults will be
sufficient, but sometimes, setting the wait states on RAM
too low, or setting the RAM Speed: Turbo option, or
similar in the BIOS will cause strange behaviour. A
possible idea is to set to BIOS defaults, but it might be
worth noting down your settings first!Unclean or insufficient power to the motherboard. If you
have any unused I/O boards, hard disks, or CDROMs in your
system, try temporarily removing them or disconnecting the
power cable from them, to see if your power supply can
manage a smaller load. Or try another power supply,
preferably one with a little more power (for instance, if
your current power supply is rated at 250 Watts try one
rated at 300 Watts).You should also read the SIG11 FAQ (listed below) which has
excellent explanations of all these problems, albeit from a
Linux viewpoint. It also discusses how memory testing software
or hardware can still pass faulty memory.Finally, if none of this has helped it is possible that
you have just found a bug in FreeBSD, and you should follow the
instructions to send a problem report.There is an extensive FAQ on this at
the SIG11 problem FAQMy system crashes with either Fatal
trap 12: page fault in kernel mode, or
panic:, and spits out a
bunch of information. What should I do?The FreeBSD developers are very interested in these
errors, but need some more information than just the
error you see. Copy your full crash message. Then
consult the FAQ section on kernel panics,
build a debugging kernel, and get a backtrace. This
might sound difficult, but you do not need any
programming skills; you just have to follow the
instructions.Why does the screen go black and lose sync when I
boot?This is a known problem with the ATI Mach 64 video card.
The problem is that this card uses address
2e8, and the fourth serial port does too.
Due to a bug (feature?) in the &man.sio.4;
driver it will touch this port even if you do not have the
fourth serial port, and even if
you disable sio3 (the fourth port) which normally uses this
address.Until the bug has been fixed, you can use this
workaround:Enter at the boot prompt.
(This will put the kernel into configuration mode).Disable sio0,
sio1,
sio2 and
sio3 (all of them). This way
the sio driver does not get activated -> no
problems.Type exit to continue booting.If you want to be able to use your serial ports, you will
have to build a new kernel with the following modification: in
/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/sio.c find the one
occurrence of the string 0x2e8 and remove
that string and the preceding comma (keep the trailing comma).
Now follow the normal procedure of building a new
kernel.Even after applying these workarounds, you may still find
that the X Window System does not work properly. If this is the
case, make sure that the XFree86 version you are using is at
least XFree86 3.3.3 or higher. This version and upwards has
built-in support for the Mach64 cards and even a dedicated X
server for those cards.Why does FreeBSD only use 64 MB of RAM when my system has
128 MB of RAM installed?Due to the manner in which FreeBSD gets the memory size
from the BIOS, it can only detect 16 bits worth of Kbytes in
size (65535 Kbytes = 64MB) (or less... some BIOSes peg the
memory size to 16M). If you have more than 64MB, FreeBSD will
attempt to detect it; however, the attempt may fail.To work around this problem, you need to use the kernel
option specified below. There is a way to get complete memory
information from the BIOS, but we do not have room in the
bootblocks to do it. Someday when lack of room in the
bootblocks is fixed, we will use the extended BIOS functions to
get the full memory information...but for now we are stuck with
the kernel option.options "MAXMEM=n"Where n is your memory in
Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine, you would want to use
131072.Why does FreeBSD 2.0 panic with
kmem_map too small!?The message may also be
mb_map too small!The panic indicates that the system ran out of virtual
memory for network buffers (specifically, mbuf clusters). You
can increase the amount of VM available for mbuf clusters by
adding:options "NMBCLUSTERS=n"to your kernel config file, where
n is a number in the range 512-4096,
depending on the number of concurrent TCP connections you need
to support. I would recommend trying 2048 - this should get rid of
the panic completely. You can monitor the number of mbuf
clusters allocated/in use on the system with
netstat
-m (see &man.netstat.1;). The default value for NMBCLUSTERS is 512 +
MAXUSERS * 16.Why do I get the error /kernel: proc: table
is full?The FreeBSD kernel will only allow a certain number of
processes to exist at one time. The number is based on
the MAXUSERS option in the kernel
configuration. MAXUSERS also affects
various other in-kernel limits, such as network buffers
(see this
earlier question). If your machine is heavily loaded, you
probably want to increase MAXUSERS.
This will increase these other system limits in addition
to the maximum number of processes.After FreeBSD 4.4, MAXUSERS became
a tunable value that could be set with
kern.maxusers in
/boot/loader.conf. In earlier
versions of FreeBSD, you need to adjust
MAXUSERS in your kernel
configuration.If your machine is lightly loaded, and you are simply
running a very large number of processes, you can adjust
this with the kern.maxproc sysctl. If
these processes are being run by a single user, you will
also need to adjust kern.maxprocperuid
to be one less than your new
kern.maxproc value. (It must be at
least one less because one system program, &man.init.8;,
must always be running.)To make a sysctl permanent across reboots, set this in
/etc/sysctl.conf in recent versions
of FreeBSD, or /etc/rc.local in older
versions.Why do I get an error reading CMAP
busy when rebooting with a new
kernel?The logic that attempts to detect an out of date
/var/db/kvm_*.db files sometimes fails
and using a mismatched file can sometimes lead to panics.If this happens, reboot single-user and do:&prompt.root; rm /var/db/kvm_*.dbWhat does the message ahc0: brkadrint,
Illegal Host Access at seqaddr 0x0
mean?This is a conflict with an Ultrastor SCSI Host Adapter.During the boot process enter the kernel configuration
menu and disable
uha0,
which is causing the problem.When I boot my system, I get the error
ahc0: illegal cable configuration.
My cabling is correct. What is going on?Your motherboard lacks the external logic to support
automatic termination. Switch your SCSI BIOS to specify
the correct termination for your configuration rather
than automatic termination. The AIC7XXX driver cannot
determine if the external logic for cable detection (and
thus auto-termination) is available. The driver simply
assumes that this support must exist if the configuration
contained in the serial EEPROM is set to "automatic
termination". Without the external cable detection logic
the driver will often configure termination incorrectly,
which can compromise the reliability of the SCSI
bus.Why does Sendmail give me an error reading
mail loops back to
myself?This is answered in the sendmail FAQ as follows:- * I'm getting "Local configuration error" messages, such as:
553 relay.domain.net config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <user@domain.net>... Local configuration error
How can I solve this problem?
You have asked mail to the domain (e.g., domain.net) to be
forwarded to a specific host (in this case, relay.domain.net)
by using an MX record, but the relay machine does not recognize
itself as domain.net. Add domain.net to /etc/sendmail.cw
(if you are using FEATURE(use_cw_file)) or add "Cw domain.net"
to /etc/sendmail.cf.
The current version of the sendmail
FAQ is no longer maintained with the sendmail release.
It is however regularly posted to comp.mail.sendmail,
comp.mail.misc, comp.mail.smail, comp.answers, and news.answers. You can also
receive a copy via email by sending a message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the command
send usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq
as the body of the message.Why do full screen applications on remote machines
misbehave?The remote machine may be setting your terminal type
to something other than the cons25 terminal
type required by the FreeBSD console.There are a number of possible work-arounds for this
problem:After logging on to the remote machine, set your
TERM shell variable to ansi or
sco if the remote machine knows
about these terminal types.Use a VT100 emulator like
screen at the FreeBSD console.
screen offers you the ability
to run multiple concurrent sessions from one terminal,
and is a neat program in its own right. Each
screen window behaves like a
VT100 terminal, so the TERM variable at the remote end
should be set to vt100.Install the cons25 terminal
database entry on the remote machine. The way to do this
depends on the operating system on the remote machine.
The system administration manuals for the remote system
should be able to help you here.Fire up an X server at the FreeBSD end and login to
the remote machine using an X based terminal emulator
such as xterm or
rxvt. The TERM variable at the remote
host should be set to xterm or
vt100.Why does my machine print
calcru: negative time...?This can be caused by various hardware and/or software
ailments relating to interrupts. It may be due to bugs but can
also happen by nature of certain devices. Running TCP/IP over
the parallel port using a large MTU is one good way to provoke
this problem. Graphics accelerators can also get you here, in
which case you should check the interrupt setting of the card
first.A side effect of this problem are dying processes with the
message SIGXCPU exceeded cpu time limit.For FreeBSD 3.0 and later from Nov 29, 1998 forward: If the
problem cannot be fixed otherwise the solution is to set
this sysctl variable:&prompt.root; sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1This means a performance impact, but considering the cause
of this problem, you probably will not notice. If the problem
persists, keep the sysctl set to one and set the
NTIMECOUNTER option in your kernel to
increasingly large values. If by the time you have reached
NTIMECOUNTER=20 the problem is not solved,
interrupts are too hosed on your machine for reliable
time keeping.I see pcm0 not found or my sound card is
found as pcm1 but I have
device pcm0 in my kernel config file. What is
going on?This occurs in FreeBSD 3.x with PCI sound cards. The
pcm0 device is reserved exclusively for
ISA-based cards so, if you have a PCI card, then you will see
this error, and your card will appear as pcm1.
You cannot remove the warning by simply changing the
line in the kernel config file to device
pcm1 as this will result in
pcm1 being reserved for ISA cards and
your PCI card being found as pcm2 (along
with the warning pcm1 not found).
If you have a PCI sound card you will also have to make the
snd1 device rather than
snd0:&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; ./MAKEDEV snd1This situation does not arise in FreeBSD 4.x as a lot
of work has been done to make it more
PnP-centric and the
pcm0 device is no longer reserved
exclusively for ISA cardsWhy is my PnP card no longer found (or found as
unknown) since upgrading to FreeBSD 4.x?FreeBSD 4.x is now much more PnP-centric
and this has had the side effect of some PnP devices (e.g. sound
cards and internal modems) not working even though they worked
under FreeBSD 3.x.The reasons for this behaviour are explained by the following
e-mail, posted to the freebsd-questions mailing list by Peter
Wemm, in answer to a question about an internal modem that was
no longer found after an upgrade to FreeBSD 4.x (the comments
in [] have been added to clarify the
context.
The PNP bios preconfigured it [the modem] and left it
laying around in port space, so [in 3.x] the old-style ISA
probes found it there.Under 4.0, the ISA code is much more PnP-centric. It was
possible [in 3.x] for an ISA probe to find a
stray device and then for the PNP device id to
match and then fail due to resource conflicts. So, it
disables the programmable cards first so this double probing
cannot happen. It also means that it needs to know the PnP
id's for supported PnP hardware. Making this more user
tweakable is on the TODO list.
To get the device working again requires finding its PnP id
and adding it to the list that the ISA probes use to identify
PnP devices. This is obtained using &man.pnpinfo.8; to probe the
device, for example this is the output from &man.pnpinfo.8; for
an internal modem:&prompt.root; pnpinfo
Checking for Plug-n-Play devices...
Card assigned CSN #1
Vendor ID PMC2430 (0x3024a341), Serial Number 0xffffffff
PnP Version 1.0, Vendor Version 0
Device Description: Pace 56 Voice Internal Plug & Play Modem
Logical Device ID: PMC2430 0x3024a341 #0
Device supports I/O Range Check
TAG Start DF
I/O Range 0x3f8 .. 0x3f8, alignment 0x8, len 0x8
[16-bit addr]
IRQ: 4 - only one type (true/edge)[more TAG lines elided]TAG End DF
End Tag
Successfully got 31 resources, 1 logical fdevs
-- card select # 0x0001
CSN PMC2430 (0x3024a341), Serial Number 0xffffffff
Logical device #0
IO: 0x03e8 0x03e8 0x03e8 0x03e8 0x03e8 0x03e8 0x03e8 0x03e8
IRQ 5 0
DMA 4 0
IO range check 0x00 activate 0x01The information you require is in the
Vendor ID line at the start of the output. The
hexadecimal number in parentheses (0x3024a341 in this example)
is the PnP id and the string immediately before this (PMC2430)
is a unique ASCII id. This information needs adding to the file
/usr/src/sys/isa/sio.c.You should first make a backup of sio.c
just in case things go wrong. You will also need it to make the
patch to submit with your PR (you are going to submit a PR,
are you not?) then edit sio.c and search
for the linestatic struct isa_pnp_id sio_ids[] = {then scroll down to find the correct place to add the entry
for your device. The entries look like this, and are sorted on
the ASCII Vendor ID string which should be included in the
comment to the right of the line of code along with all (if it
will fit) or part of the Device Description
from the output of &man.pnpinfo.8;:{0x0f804f3f, NULL}, /* OZO800f - Zoom 2812 (56k Modem) */
{0x39804f3f, NULL}, /* OZO8039 - Zoom 56k flex */
{0x3024a341, NULL}, /* PMC2430 - Pace 56 Voice Internal Modem */
{0x1000eb49, NULL}, /* ROK0010 - Rockwell ? */
{0x5002734a, NULL}, /* RSS0250 - 5614Jx3(G) Internal Modem */Add the hexadecimal Vendor ID for your device in the
correct place, save the file, rebuild your kernel, and reboot.
Your device should now be found as an sio
device as it was under FreeBSD 3.xWhy do I get the error nlist failed when
running, for example, top or
systat?The problem is that the application you are trying to run is
looking for a specific kernel symbol, but, for whatever reason,
cannot find it; this error stems from one of two problems:Your kernel and userland are not synchronized (i.e., you
built a new kernel but did not do an
installworld, or vice versa), and
thus the symbol table is different from what the user
application thinks it is. If this is the case, simply
complete the upgrade process (see
/usr/src/UPDATING for the correct
sequence).You are not using /boot/loader to load
your kernel, but doing it directly from boot2 (see
&man.boot.8;). While there is nothing wrong with bypassing
/boot/loader, it generally does a better
job of making the kernel symbols available to user
applications.Why does it take so long to connect to my computer via
ssh or telnet?The symptom: there is a long delay between the time the TCP
connection is established and the time when the client software
asks for a password (or, in &man.telnet.1;'s case, when a login
prompt appears).The problem: more likely than not, the delay is caused by
the server software trying to resolve the client's IP address
into a hostname. Many servers, including the Telnet and SSH
servers that come with FreeBSD, do this in order to, among
other things, store the hostname in a log file for future
reference by the administrator.The remedy: if the problem occurs whenever you connect from
your computer (the client) to any server, the problem is with
the client; likewise, if the problem only occurs when someone
connects to your computer (the server) the problem is with the
server.If the problem is with the client, the only remedy is to
fix the DNS so the server can resolve it. If this is on a
local network, consider it a server problem and keep reading;
conversely, if this is on the global Internet, you will most
likely need to contact your ISP and ask them to fix it for
you.If the problem is with the server, and this is on a local
network, you need to configure the server to be able to resolve
address-to-hostname queries for your local address range. See
the &man.hosts.5; and &man.named.8; manual pages for more
information. If this is on the global Internet, the problem
may be that your server's resolver is not functioning
correctly. To check, try to look up another host--say,
www.yahoo.com. If it does not work, that is
your problem.What does stray IRQ mean?Stray IRQs are indications of hardware IRQ glitches,
mostly from hardware that removes its interrupt request in
the middle of the interrupt request acknowledge
cycle.One has three options for dealing with this:Live with the warnings. All except the first 5
per irq are suppressed anyway.Break the warnings by changing 5 to 0 in
isa_strayintr() so that all the
warnings are suppressed.Break the warnings by installing parallel port
hardware that uses irq 7 and the PPP driver for it (this
happens on most systems), and install an ide drive or
other hardware that uses irq 15 and a suitable driver
for it.Why does file: table is full show up
repeatedly in dmesg?
This error message indicates you have exhausted the number
of available file descriptors on your system. Please see
the kern.maxfiles
section of the Tuning
Kernel Limits section of the Handbook for a
discussion and solution.Why does the clock on my laptop keep incorrect time?Your laptop has two or more clocks, and FreeBSD has chosen to
use the wrong one.Run &man.dmesg.8;, and check for lines that contain
Timecounter. The last line printed is the one
that FreeBSD chose, and will almost certainly be
TSC.&prompt.root; dmesg | grep Timecounter
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 595573479 HzYou can confirm this by checking the
kern.timecounter.hardware
&man.sysctl.3;.&prompt.root; sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSCThe BIOS may modify the TSC clock—perhaps to change the
speed of the processor when running from batteries, or going in to
a power saving mode, but FreeBSD is unaware of these adjustments,
and appears to gain or lose time.In this example, the i8254 clock is also
available, and can be selected by writing its name to the
kern.timecounter.hardware
&man.sysctl.3;.&prompt.root; sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i8254Your laptop should now start keeping more accurate
time.To have this change automatically run at boot time, add the
following line to /etc/sysctl.conf.kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254Why does FreeBSD's boot loader display
Read error and stop after the BIOS
screen?FreeBSD's boot loader is incorrectly recognizing the hard
drive's geometry. This must be manually set within fdisk when
creating or modifying FreeBSD's slice.
The correct drive geometry values can be found within the
machine's BIOS. Look for the number of cylinders, heads and
sectors for the particular drive.
Within &man.sysinstall.8;'s fdisk, hit
G to set the drive geometry.A dialog will pop up requesting the number of cylinders, heads
and sectors. Type the numbers found from the BIOS separates by
forward slashes.
5000 cylinders, 250 sectors and 60 sectors would be entered as
5000/250/60Press enter to set the values, and hit
W to write the
new partition table to the drive.
Another operating system destroyed my Boot Manager. How do I
get it back?
Enter &man.sysinstall.8; and choose Configure,
then Fdisk. Select the disk the Boot Manager resided on
with the space key. Press
W to write changes to the drive. A prompt
will appear asking which boot loader to install. Select this,
and it will be restored.
What does the error swap_pager: indefinite
wait buffer: mean?This means that a process is trying to page memory to
disk, and the page attempt has hung trying to access the
disk for more than 20 seconds. It might be caused by bad
blocks on the disk drive, disk wiring, cables, or any
other disk I/O-related hardware. If the drive itself is
actually bad, you will also see disk errors in
/var/log/messages and in the output
of dmesg. Otherwise, check your cables
and connections.Commercial ApplicationsThis section is still very sparse, though we are hoping, of
course, that companies will add to it! :) The FreeBSD group has
no financial interest in any of the companies listed here but
simply lists them as a public service (and feels that commercial
interest in FreeBSD can have very positive effects on FreeBSD's
long-term viability). We encourage commercial software vendors to
send their entries here for inclusion. See the
Vendors page for a longer list.Where can I get an Office Suite for FreeBSD?The FreeBSD Mall
offers a FreeBSD native version of VistaSource
ApplixWare 5.ApplixWare is a rich full-featured, commercial
Office Suite for FreeBSD containing a word processor,
spreadsheet, presentation program, vector drawing
package, and other applications.
ApplixWare is offered as part of the FreeBSD Mall's BSD
Desktop Edition.The Linux version of StarOffice
works flawlessly on FreeBSD. The easiest way to
install the Linux version of StarOffice is through the
FreeBSD
Ports collection. Future versions of the
open-source OpenOffice
suite should work as well.Where can I get Motif for FreeBSD?The Open Group has released the source code to Motif 2.1.30.
You can install the open-motif package, or
compile it from ports. Refer to
the ports section of the
Handbook for more information on how to do this.
The Open Motif distribution only allows redistribution
if it is running on an
open source operating system.In addition, there are commercial distributions of the Motif
software available. These, however, are not for free, but their
license allows them to be used in closed-source software.
Contact Apps2go for the
least expensive ELF Motif 2.1.20 distribution for FreeBSD
(either i386 or Alpha).There are two distributions, the development
edition and the runtime edition (for
much less). These distributions includes:OSF/Motif manager, xmbind, panner, wsm.Development kit with uil, mrm, xm, xmcxx, include
and Imake files.Static and dynamic ELF libraries (for use with
FreeBSD 3.0 and above).Demonstration applets.Be sure to specify that you want the FreeBSD version of
Motif when ordering (do not forget to mention the architecture
you want too)! Versions for NetBSD and OpenBSD are also sold by
Apps2go. This is currently a FTP only
download.More info
Apps2go WWW pageorsales@apps2go.com or
support@apps2go.comorphone (817) 431 8775 or +1 817 431-8775Contact Metro Link
for an either ELF or a.out Motif 2.1 distribution for
FreeBSD.This distribution includes:OSF/Motif manager, xmbind, panner, wsm.Development kit with uil, mrm, xm, xmcxx, include
and Imake files.Static and dynamic libraries (specify ELF for use
with FreeBSD 3.0 and later; or a.out for use with FreeBSD
2.2.8 and earlier).Demonstration applets.Preformatted man pages.Be sure to specify that you want the FreeBSD version
of Motif when ordering! Versions for Linux are also sold by
Metro Link. This is available on either a
CDROM or for FTP download.Contact Xi Graphics for an
a.out Motif 2.0 distribution for FreeBSD.This distribution includes:OSF/Motif manager, xmbind, panner, wsm.Development kit with uil, mrm, xm, xmcxx, include
and Imake files.Static and dynamic libraries (for use with FreeBSD
2.2.8 and earlier).Demonstration applets.Preformatted man pages.Be sure to specify that you want the FreeBSD version
of Motif when ordering! Versions for BSDI and Linux are also
sold by Xi Graphics. This is currently a 4
diskette set... in the future this will change to a unified CD
distribution like their CDE.Where can I get CDE for FreeBSD?Xi Graphics used to sell CDE
for FreeBSD, but no longer do.KDE is an open
source X11 desktop which is similar to CDE in many respects.
You might also like the look and feel of xfce. KDE and xfce are both
in the ports
system.Are there any commercial high-performance X servers?Yes, Xi Graphics
and Metro Link
sell Accelerated-X product for FreeBSD and other Intel based
systems.The Metro Link offering is a high performance X Server
that offers easy configuration using the FreeBSD Package suite
of tools, support for multiple concurrent video boards and is
distributed in binary form only, in a convenient FTP download.
Not to mention the Metro Link offering is available at the very
reasonable price of $39. Metro Link also sells both ELF and a.out Motif for
FreeBSD (see above).More info
Metro Link WWW pageorsales@metrolink.com
or tech@metrolink.comorphone (954) 938-0283 or +1 954 938-0283The Xi Graphics offering is a high performance X Server
that offers easy configuration, support for multiple concurrent
video boards and is distributed in binary form only, in a
unified diskette distribution for FreeBSD and Linux. Xi
Graphics also offers a high performance X Server tailored for
laptop support.There is a free compatibility demo of
version 5.0 available.Xi Graphics also sells Motif and CDE for FreeBSD (see
above).More info
Xi Graphics WWW pageorsales@xig.com
or support@xig.comorphone (800) 946 7433 or +1 303 298-7478.Are there any Database systems for FreeBSD?Yes! See the
Commercial Vendors section of FreeBSD's Web site.Also see the
Databases section of the Ports collection.Can I run Oracle on FreeBSD?Yes. The following pages tell you exactly how to setup
Linux-Oracle on FreeBSD:
http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html
http://www.lf.net/lf/pi/oracle/install-linux-oracle-on-freebsdUser ApplicationsSo, where are all the user applications?Please take a look at
the ports
page for info on software packages ported to FreeBSD.
The list currently tops &os.numports; and is growing daily, so come back
to check often or subscribe to the
freebsd-announce mailing list for periodic updates on
new entries.Most ports should be available for the 2.2, 3.x and 4.x
branches, and many of them should work on 2.1.x systems as
well. Each time a FreeBSD release is made, a snapshot of the
ports tree at the time of release in also included in the
ports/ directory.We also support the concept of a package,
essentially no more than a gzipped binary distribution with a
little extra intelligence embedded in it for doing whatever
custom installation work is required. A package can be
installed and uninstalled again easily without having to know
the gory details of which files it includes.Use the package installation menu in
/stand/sysinstall (under the
post-configuration menu item) or invoke the
&man.pkg.add.1; command on the specific package
files you are interested in installing. Package files can
usually be identified by their .tgz suffix
and CDROM distribution people will have a
packages/All directory on their CD which
contains such files. They can also be downloaded over the net
for various versions of FreeBSD at the following
locations:for 2.2.8-RELEASE/2.2.8-STABLE
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-2.2.8/for 3.X-RELEASE/3.X-STABLE
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/for 4.X-RELEASE/4-STABLE
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/for 5.X-CURRENT
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-currentor your nearest local mirror site.Note that all ports may not be available as packages since
new ones are constantly being added. It is always a good idea
to check back periodically to see which packages are available
at the ftp.FreeBSD.org
master site.Where do I find libc.so.3.0?You are trying to run a package built on 2.2 and later on
a 2.1.x system. Please take a look at the previous section and
get the correct port/package for your system.Why do I get a message reading Error: can't find
libc.so.4.0?You accidently downloaded packages meant for 4.X and 5.X
systems and attempted to install them on your 2.X or 3.X
FreeBSD system. Please download the correct version of the
packages.Why does ghostscript give lots of errors with my
386/486SX?You do not have a math co-processor, right?
You will need to add the alternative math emulator to your
kernel; you do this by adding the following to your kernel
config file and it will be compiled in.options GPL_MATH_EMULATEYou will need to remove the
MATH_EMULATE option when you do
this.Why do SCO/iBCS2 applications bomb on
socksys? (FreeBSD 3.0 and older only).You first need to edit the
/etc/sysconfig (or
/etc/rc.conf, see &man.rc.conf.5;) file in the last section to change the
following variable to YES:# Set to YES if you want ibcs2 (SCO) emulation loaded at startup
ibcs2=NOIt will load the ibcs2 kernel module at startup.You will then need to set up /compat/ibcs2/dev to look
like:lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Oct 15 22:20 X0R@ -> /dev/null
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Oct 15 22:20 nfsd@ -> socksys
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 28 12:02 null
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Oct 15 22:20 socksys@ -> /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 41, 1 Oct 15 22:14 spxYou just need socksys to go to
/dev/null (see &man.null.4;)
to fake the open & close. The code in -CURRENT will handle
the rest. This is much cleaner than the way it was done before.
If you want the spx driver for a local
socket X connection, define SPX_HACK when
you compile the system.How do I configure INN (Internet News) for my machine?After installing the news/inn package or port, an excellent
place to start is Dave Barr's
INN Page where you will find the INN FAQ.What version of Microsoft FrontPage should I get?Use the Port, Luke! A pre-patched version of Apache,
apache13-fp, is available in the ports
tree.Does FreeBSD support Java?Yes. Please see
http://www.FreeBSD.org/java/.Why can I not build this port on my 3.X-STABLE machine?If you are running a FreeBSD version that lags
significantly behind -CURRENT or -STABLE, you may need a ports
upgrade kit from
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/. If you are up to date,
then someone might have committed a change to the port which
works for -CURRENT but which broke the port for -STABLE. Please
submit a bug report on this with the
&man.send-pr.1; command, since the ports
collection is supposed to work for both the -CURRENT and
-STABLE branches.Where do I find ld.so?a.out applications like Netscape Navigator require
a.out libraries. A version of FreeBSD built with ELF
libraries does not install them by default. You will get
complaints about not having
/usr/libexec/ld.so if this is the
case on your system. These libraries are available as an
add-on in the compat22 distribution. Use
&man.sysinstall.8; to install them. You can
also install them from the FreeBSD source code:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/lib/compat/compat22
&prompt.root; make install cleanIf you want to install the latest compat22 libraries
whenever you run make world, edit
/etc/make.conf to include
COMPAT22=YES. Old compatibility
libraries change rarely, if ever, so this is not generally
needed.Also see the ERRATAs for 3.1-RELEASE and
3.2-RELEASE.I updated the sources, now how do I update my installed
ports?FreeBSD does not include a port upgrading tool, but it
does have some tools to make the upgrade process somewhat
easier. You can also install additional tools to simplify
port handling.The &man.pkg.version.1; command can generate a script
that will update installed ports to the latest version in
the ports tree.&prompt.root; pkg_version > /tmp/myscriptThe output script must be edited by
hand before you use it. Current versions of
&man.pkg.version.1; force this by inserting an
&man.exit.1; at the beginning of the script.You should save the output of the script, as it will note
packages that depend on the one that has been updated. These
may or may not need to be updated as well. The usual case where
they need to be updated is that a shared library has changed
version numbers, so the ports that used that library need to be
rebuilt to use the new version.If you have the disk space, you can use the
portupgrade tool to automate all of
this. portupgrade includes various
tools to simplify package handling. It is available under
sysutils/portupgrade.
Since it is written in Ruby,
portupgrade is an unlikely candidate for
integration with the main FreeBSD tree. That should not
stop anyone from using it, however.
- If your system is up full time, the &man.periodic.8 system
+ If your system is up full time, the &man.periodic.8; system
can be used to generate a weekly list of ports that might need
updating by setting
weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES" in
/etc/periodic.conf.Why is /bin/sh so minimal? Why does
FreeBSD not use bash or another shell?Because POSIX says that there shall be such a shell.The more complicated answer: many people need to write shell
scripts which will be portable across many systems. That is why
POSIX specifies the shell and utility commands in great detail.
Most scripts are written in Bourne shell, and because several
important programming interfaces (&man.make.1;, &man.system.3;,
&man.popen.3;, and analogues in higher-level scripting
languages like Perl and Tcl) are specified to use the Bourne
shell to interpret commands. Because the Bourne shell is so
often and widely used, it is important for it to be quick to
start, be deterministic in its behavior, and have a small
memory footprint.The existing implementation is our best effort at meeting as
many of these requirements simultaneously as we can. In order to
keep /bin/sh small, we have not provided many
of the convenience features that other shells have. That is why the
Ports Collection includes more featureful shells like bash, scsh,
tcsh, and zsh. (You can compare for yourself the memory
utilization of all these shells by looking at the
VSZ and RSS columns in a ps
-u listing.)Why do Netscape and Opera take so long to
start?The usual answer is that DNS on your system is
misconfigured. Both Netscape and Opera perform DNS checks
when starting up. The browser will not appear on your
desktop until the program either gets a response or
determines that the system has no network
connection.Kernel ConfigurationI would like to customize my kernel. Is it difficult?Not at all! Check out the
kernel config section of the Handbook.We recommend that you make a dated snapshot of
your new /kernel called
/kernel.YYMMDD after you get it
working properly. Also back up your new
/modules directory to
/modules.YYMMDD. That way, if
you make a mistake the next time you play with your
configuration you can boot the backup kernel instead
of having to fall back to
kernel.GENERIC. This is
particularly important if you are now booting from a
controller that GENERIC does not support.My kernel compiles fail because
_hw_float is missing. How do I solve
this problem?Let me guess. You removed
npx0 (see &man.npx.4;)
from your kernel configuration file because you do not have a
math co-processor, right? Wrong! :-) The
npx0 is
MANDATORY. Even if you do not have a
mathematic co-processor, you must
include the npx0 device.Why is my kernel so big (over 10MB)?Chances are, you compiled your kernel in
debug mode. Kernels built in debug
mode contain many symbols that are used for debugging, thus
greatly increasing the size of the kernel. Note that if you
running a FreeBSD 3.0 or later system, there will be little
or no performance decrease from running a debug kernel,
and it is useful to keep one around in case of a system
panic.However, if you are running low on disk space, or
you simply do not want to run a debug kernel, make sure
that both of the following are true:You do not have a line in your kernel
configuration file that reads:makeoptions DEBUG=-gYou are not running &man.config.8; with
the option.Both of the above situations will cause your kernel to
be built in debug mode. As long as you make sure you follow
the steps above, you can build your kernel normally, and you
should notice a fairly large size decrease; most kernels
tend to be around 1.5MB to 2MB.Why do I get interrupt conflicts with multi-port serial
code?When I compile a kernel
with multi-port serial code, it tells me that only the first
port is probed and the rest skipped due to interrupt conflicts.
How do I fix this?The problem here is that
FreeBSD has code built-in to keep the kernel from getting
trashed due to hardware or software conflicts. The way to fix
this is to leave out the IRQ settings on all but one port. Here
is a example:#
# Multiport high-speed serial line - 16550 UARTS
#
device sio2 at isa? port 0x2a0 tty irq 5 flags 0x501 vector siointr
device sio3 at isa? port 0x2a8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
device sio4 at isa? port 0x2b0 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointrWhy does every kernel I try to build fail to compile, even
GENERIC?There are a number of possible causes for this problem.
They are, in no particular order:You are not using the new make
buildkernel and make
installkernel targets, and your source tree is
different from the one used to build the currently running
system (e.g., you are compiling 4.3-RELEASE on a 4.0-RELEASE
system). If you are attempting an upgrade, please read the
/usr/src/UPDATING file, paying
particular attention to the COMMON ITEMS
section at the end.You are using the new make
buildkernel and make
installkernel targets, but you failed to assert
the completion of the make buildworld
target. The make buildkernel target
relies on files generated by the make
buildworld target to complete its job
correctly.Even if you are trying to build FreeBSD-STABLE, it is possible that
you fetched the source tree at a time when it was either
being modified, or broken for other reasons; only releases
are absolutely guaranteed to be buildable, although FreeBSD-STABLE builds fine the
majority of the time. If you have not already done so, try
re-fetching the source tree and see if the problem goes
away. Try using a different server in case the one you are
using is having problems.Disks, Filesystems, and Boot LoadersHow can I add my new hard disk to my FreeBSD system?See the Disk Formatting Tutorial at
www.FreeBSD.org.How do I move my system over to my huge new disk?The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new
disk, then move the user data over. This is highly
recommended if you have been tracking -stable for more
than one release, or have updated a release instead of
installing a new one. You can install booteasy on both
disks with &man.boot0cfg.8;, and dual boot them until
you are happy with the new configuration. Skip the
next paragraph to find out how to move the data after
doing this.Should you decide not to do a fresh install, you
need to partition and label the new disk with either
/stand/sysinstall, or &man.fdisk.8;
and &man.disklabel.8;. You should also install booteasy
on both disks with &man.boot0cfg.8;, so that you can
dual boot to the old or new system after the copying
is done. See the
formatting-media article for details on this
process.Now you have the new disk set up, and are ready
to move the data. Unfortunately, you cannot just blindly
copy the data. Things like device files (in
/dev), flags, and links tend to
screw that up. You need to use tools that understand
these things, which means &man.dump.8;.
Although it is suggested that you move the data in single user
mode, it is not required.You should never use anything but &man.dump.8; and
&man.restore.8; to move the root file system. The
&man.tar.1; command may work - then again, it may not.
You should also use &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;
if you are moving a single partition to another empty
partition. The sequence of steps to use dump to move
a partitions data to a new partition is:newfs the new partition.mount it on a temporary mount point.cd to that directory.dump the old partition, piping output to the
new one.For example, if you are going to move root to
/dev/ad1s1a, with
/mnt as the temporary mount point,
it is:&prompt.root; newfs /dev/ad1s1a
&prompt.root; mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
&prompt.root; cd /mnt
&prompt.root; dump 0af - / | restore xf -Rearranging your partitions with dump takes a bit more
work. To merge a partition like /var
into its parent, create the new partition large enough
for both, move the parent partition as described above,
then move the child partition into the empty directory
that the first move created:&prompt.root; newfs /dev/ad1s1a
&prompt.root; mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
&prompt.root; cd /mnt
&prompt.root; dump 0af - / | restore xf -
&prompt.root; cd var
&prompt.root; dump 0af - /var | restore xf -To split a directory from its parent, say putting
/var on its own partition when it was not
before, create both partitions, then mount the child partition
on the appropriate directory in the temporary mount point, then
move the old single partition:&prompt.root; newfs /dev/ad1s1a
&prompt.root; newfs /dev/ad1s1d
&prompt.root; mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt
&prompt.root; mkdir /mnt/var
&prompt.root; mount /dev/ad1s1d /mnt/var
&prompt.root; cd /mnt
&prompt.root; dump 0af - / | restore xf -You might prefer &man.cpio.1;, &man.pax.1;,
&man.tar.1; to &man.dump.8; for user data. At the time of
this writing, these are known to lose file flag information,
so use them with caution.Will a dangerously dedicated disk endanger
my health?The installation procedure allows
you to chose two different methods in partitioning your
hard disk(s). The default way makes it compatible with other
operating systems on the same machine, by using fdisk table
entries (called slices in FreeBSD), with a
FreeBSD slice that employs partitions of its own. Optionally,
one can chose to install a boot-selector to switch between the
possible operating systems on the disk(s). The alternative uses
the entire disk for FreeBSD, and makes no attempt to be
compatible with other operating systems.So why it is called dangerous? A disk in
this mode does not contain what normal PC utilities would
consider a valid fdisk table. Depending on how well they have
been designed, they might complain at you once they are getting
in contact with such a disk, or even worse, they might damage
the BSD bootstrap without even asking or notifying you. In
addition, the dangerously dedicated disk's
layout is known to confuse many BIOSes, including those from
AWARD (e.g. as found in HP Netserver and Micronics systems as
well as many others) and Symbios/NCR (for the popular 53C8xx
range of SCSI controllers). This is not a complete list, there
are more. Symptoms of this confusion include the read
error message printed by the FreeBSD bootstrap when it
cannot find itself, as well as system lockups when
booting.Why have this mode at all then? It only saves a few kbytes
of disk space, and it can cause real problems for a new
installation. Dangerously dedicated mode's
origins lie in a desire to avoid one of the most common
problems plaguing new FreeBSD installers - matching the BIOS
geometry numbers for a disk to the disk
itself.Geometry is an outdated concept, but one
still at the heart of the PC's BIOS and its interaction with
disks. When the FreeBSD installer creates slices, it has to
record the location of these slices on the disk in a fashion
that corresponds with the way the BIOS expects to find them. If
it gets it wrong, you will not be able to boot.Dangerously dedicated mode tries to work
around this by making the problem simpler. In some cases, it
gets it right. But it is meant to be used as a last-ditch
alternative - there are better ways to solve the problem 99
times out of 100.So, how do you avoid the need for DD mode
when you are installing? Start by making a note of the geometry
that your BIOS claims to be using for your disks. You can
arrange to have the kernel print this as it boots by specifying
at the boot: prompt, or
using boot -v in the loader. Just before the
installer starts, the kernel will print a list of BIOS
geometries. Do not panic - wait for the installer to start and
then use scrollback to read the numbers. Typically the BIOS
disk units will be in the same order that FreeBSD lists your
disks, first IDE, then SCSI.When you are slicing up your disk, check that the disk
geometry displayed in the FDISK screen is correct (ie. it
matches the BIOS numbers); if it is wrong, use the
g key to fix it. You may have to do this if
there is absolutely nothing on the disk, or if the disk has been
moved from another system. Note that this is only an issue with
the disk that you are going to boot from; FreeBSD will sort
itself out just fine with any other disks you may have.Once you have got the BIOS and FreeBSD agreeing about the
geometry of the disk, your problems are almost guaranteed to be
over, and with no need for DD mode at all. If,
however, you are still greeted with the dreaded read
error message when you try to boot, it is time to cross
your fingers and go for it - there is nothing left to
lose.To return a dangerously dedicated disk
for normal PC use, there are basically two options. The first
is, you write enough NULL bytes over the MBR to make any
subsequent installation believe this to be a blank disk. You
can do this for example with&prompt.root; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0 count=15Alternatively, the undocumented DOS
featureC:\>fdisk /mbrwill to install a new master boot record as well, thus
clobbering the BSD bootstrap.Which partitions can safely use softupdates? I have
heard that softupdates on / can cause
problems.Short answer: you can usually use softupdates safely
on all partitions.Long answer: There used to be some concern over using
softupdates on the root partition. Softupdates has two
characteristics that caused this. First, a softupdates
partition has a small chance of losing data during a
system crash. (The partition will not be corrupted; the
data will simply be lost.) Also, softupdates can cause
temporary space shortages.When using softupdates, the kernel can take up to
thirty seconds to actually write changes to the physical
disk. If you delete a large file, the file still resides
on disk until the kernel actually performs the deletion.
This can cause a very simple race condition. Suppose you
delete one large file and immediately create another large
file. The first large file is not yet actually removed
from the physical disk, so the disk might not have enough
room for the second large file. You get an error that the
partition does not have enough space, although you know
perfectly well that you just released a large chunk of
space! When you try again mere seconds later, the file
creation works as you expect. This has left more than one
user scratching his head and doubting his sanity, the
FreeBSD filesystem, or both.If a system should crash after the kernel accepts a
chunk of data for writing to disk, but before that data is
actually written out, data could be lost or corrupted.
This risk is extremely small, but generally manageable.
Use of IDE write caching greatly increases this risk; it
is strongly recommended that you disable IDE write caching
when using softupdates.These issues affect all partitions using softupdates.
So, what does this mean for the root partition?Vital information on the root partition changes very
rarely. Files such as /kernel and
the contents of /etc only change
during system maintenance, or when users change their
passwords. If the system crashed during the
thirty-second window after such a change is made, it is
possible that data could be lost. This risk is negligible
for most applications, but you should be aware that it
exists. If your system cannot tolerate this much risk,
do not use softupdates on the root filesystem!/ is traditionally one of the
smallest partitions. By default, FreeBSD puts the
/tmp directory on
/. If you have a busy
/tmp, you might see intermittent
space problems. Symlinking /tmp to
/var/tmp will solve this
problem.What is inappropriate about my ccd?The symptom of this is:&prompt.root; ccdconfig -C
ccdconfig: ioctl (CCDIOCSET): /dev/ccd0c: Inappropriate file type or formatThis usually happens when you are trying to concatenate
the c partitions, which default to type
unused. The ccd driver requires the
underlying partition type to be FS_BSDFFS. Edit the disklabel
of the disks you are trying to concatenate and change the types
of partitions to 4.2BSD.Why can I not edit the disklabel on my ccd?The symptom of this is:&prompt.root; disklabel ccd0
(it prints something sensible here, so let us try to edit it)
&prompt.root; disklabel -e ccd0
(edit, save, quit)
disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: No disk label on disk;
use "disklabel -r" to install initial labelThis is because the disklabel returned by ccd is actually
a fake one that is not really on the disk.
You can solve this problem by writing it back explicitly,
as in:&prompt.root; disklabel ccd0 > /tmp/disklabel.tmp
&prompt.root; disklabel -Rr ccd0 /tmp/disklabel.tmp
&prompt.root; disklabel -e ccd0
(this will work now)Can I mount other foreign filesystems under FreeBSD?Digital UNIXUFS CDROMs can be mounted directly on FreeBSD.
Mounting disk partitions from Digital UNIX and other
systems that support UFS may be more complex, depending
on the details of the disk partitioning for the operating
system in question.LinuxAs of 2.2, FreeBSD supports ext2fs
partitions. See &man.mount.ext2fs.8; for more
information.NTA read-only NTFS driver exists for FreeBSD. For more
information, see this tutorial by Mark Ovens at
http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~mark/ntfs_install.html.
Any other information on this subject would be
appreciated.How do I mount a secondary DOS partition?The secondary DOS partitions are found after ALL the primary
partitions. For example, if you have an E
partition as the second DOS partition on the second SCSI drive,
you need to create the special files for slice 5
in /dev, then mount /dev/da1s5:&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV da1s5
&prompt.root; mount -t msdos /dev/da1s5 /dos/eIs there a cryptographic filesystem for &os;?Yes; see the security/cfs port.How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?This procedure is slightly different for 2.2.x and 3.x
(with the 3-stage boot) systems.The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your
native root FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/NT
partition. Assuming you name that file something like
c:\bootsect.bsd (inspired by
c:\bootsect.dos), you can then edit the
c:\boot.ini file to come up with something
like this:[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows NT"
C:\BOOTSECT.BSD="FreeBSD"
C:\="DOS"For 2.2.x systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT,
FreeBSD, or whatever have been installed into their respective
fdisk partitions on the same
disk. This example was tested on a system where DOS & NT
were on the first fdisk partition, and FreeBSD on the second.
FreeBSD was also set up to boot from its native partition, not
the disk's MBR.Mount a DOS-formatted floppy (if you have converted to NTFS)
or the FAT partition, under, say,
/mnt.&prompt.root; dd if=/dev/rda0a of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1Reboot into DOS or NT. NTFS users copy the
bootsect.bsd and/or the
bootsect.lnx file from the floppy to
C:\. Modify the attributes (permissions)
on boot.ini with:C:\>attrib -s -r c:\boot.iniEdit to add the appropriate entries from the example
boot.ini above, and restore the
attributes:C:\>attrib +s +r c:\boot.iniIf FreeBSD is booting from the MBR, restore it with the DOS
fdisk command after you reconfigure them to
boot from their native partitions.For FreeBSD 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat
simpler.If FreeBSD is installed on the same disk as the NT boot
partition simply copy /boot/boot1 to
C:\BOOTSECT.BSD However, if FreeBSD is
installed on a different disk /boot/boot1
will not work, /boot/boot0 is needed.
DO NOT SIMPLY COPY /boot/boot0
INSTEAD OF /boot/boot1, YOU WILL
OVERWRITE YOUR PARTITION TABLE AND RENDER YOUR COMPUTER
UN-BOOTABLE!/boot/boot0 needs to be installed using
sysinstall by selecting the FreeBSD boot manager on the
screen which asks if you wish to use a boot manager. This is
because /boot/boot0 has the partition
table area filled with NULL characters but sysinstall copies
the partition table before copying
/boot/boot0 to the MBR.When the FreeBSD boot manager runs it records the last
OS booted by setting the active flag on the partition table
entry for that OS and then writes the whole 512-bytes of itself
back to the MBR so if you just copy
/boot/boot0 to
C:\BOOTSECT.BSD then it writes an empty
partition table, with the active flag set on one entry, to the
MBR.How do I boot FreeBSD and Linux from LILO?If you have FreeBSD and Linux on the same disk, just follow
LILO's installation instructions for booting a non-Linux
operating system. Very briefly, these are:Boot Linux, and add the following lines to
/etc/lilo.conf:other=/dev/hda2
table=/dev/hda
label=FreeBSD(the above assumes that your FreeBSD slice is known to Linux
as /dev/hda2; tailor to suit your setup).
Then, run lilo as root and you should be
done.If FreeBSD resides on another disk, you need to add
loader=/boot/chain.b to the LILO entry.
For example:other=/dev/dab4
table=/dev/dab
loader=/boot/chain.b
label=FreeBSDIn some cases you may need to specify the BIOS drive number
to the FreeBSD boot loader to successfully boot off the second
disk. For example, if your FreeBSD SCSI disk is probed by BIOS
as BIOS disk 1, at the FreeBSD boot loader prompt you need to
specify:Boot: 1:da(0,a)/kernelOn FreeBSD 2.2.5 and later, you can configure
&man.boot.8;
to automatically do this for you at boot time.The
Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO is a good reference for
FreeBSD and Linux interoperability issues.How do I boot FreeBSD and Linux using BootEasy?Install LILO at the start of your Linux boot partition
instead of in the Master Boot Record. You can then boot LILO
from BootEasy.If you are running Windows-95 and Linux this is recommended
anyway, to make it simpler to get Linux booting again if you
should need to reinstall Windows95 (which is a Jealous
Operating System, and will bear no other Operating Systems in
the Master Boot Record).How do I change the boot prompt from ??? to
something more meaningful?You can not do that with the standard boot manager without
rewriting it. There are a number of other boot managers
in the sysutils ports category that
provide this functionality.I have a new removable drive, how do I use it?Whether it is a removable drive like a ZIP or an EZ drive
(or even a floppy, if you want to use it that way), or a new
hard disk, once it is installed and recognized by the system,
and you have your cartridge/floppy/whatever slotted in, things
are pretty much the same for all devices.(this section is based on
Mark Mayo's ZIP FAQ)If it is a ZIP drive or a floppy, you have already got a DOS
filesystem on it, you can use a command like this:&prompt.root; mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /floppyif it is a floppy, or this:&prompt.root; mount -t msdos /dev/da2s4 /zipfor a ZIP disk with the factory configuration.For other disks, see how they are laid out using
&man.fdisk.8; or
&man.sysinstall.8;.The rest of the examples will be for a ZIP drive on da2,
the third SCSI disk.Unless it is a floppy, or a removable you plan on sharing
with other people, it is probably a better idea to stick a BSD
file system on it. You will get long filename support, at least a
2X improvement in performance, and a lot more stability. First,
you need to redo the DOS-level partitions/filesystems. You can
either use &man.fdisk.8; or
/stand/sysinstall, or for a small drive
that you do not want to bother with multiple operating system
support on, just blow away the whole FAT partition table
(slices) and just use the BSD partitioning:&prompt.root; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda2 count=2
&prompt.root; disklabel -Brw da2 autoYou can use disklabel or
/stand/sysinstall to create multiple BSD
partitions. You will certainly want to do this if you are adding
swap space on a fixed disk, but it is probably irrelevant on a
removable drive like a ZIP.Finally, create a new file system, this one is on our ZIP
drive using the whole disk:&prompt.root; newfs /dev/rda2cand mount it:&prompt.root; mount /dev/da2c /zipand it is probably a good idea to add a line like this to
/etc/fstab (see &man.fstab.5;) so you can just type
mount /zip in the future:/dev/da2c /zip ffs rw,noauto 0 0Why do I get Incorrect super block when
mounting a CDROM?You have to tell &man.mount.8; the type of the device
that you want to mount. This is described in the Handbook section on
optical media, specifically the section Using Data
CDs.Why do I get Device not configured when
mounting a CDROM?This generally means that there is no CDROM in the
CDROM drive, or the drive is not visible on the
bus. Please see the Using Data
CDs section of the Handbook for a detailed
discussion of this issue.Why do all non-English characters in filenames show up as
? on my CDs when mounted in FreeBSD?Your CDROM probably uses the Joliet
extension for storing information about files and
directories. This is discussed in the Handbook chapter on
creating and
using CDROMs, specifically the section on Using Data
CDROMs.I burned a CD under FreeBSD and now I can not read it
under any other operating system. Why?You most likely burned a raw file to your CD, rather
than creating an ISO 9660 filesystem. Take a look at the
Handbook
chapter on creating CDROMs, particularly the
section on burning raw
data CDs.How can I create an image of a data CD?This is discussed in the Handbook section on duplicating
data CDs. For more on working with CDROMs, see the
Creating CDs
Section in the Storage chapter in the
Handbook.Why can I not mount an audio
CD?If you try to mount an audio CD, you will get an error
like cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid
argument. This is because
mount only works on filesystems. Audio
CDs do not have filesystems; they just have data. You
need a program that reads audio CDs, such as the
audio/xmcd port.How do I mount a multi-session CD?By default, &man.mount.8; will attempt to mount the
last data track (session) of a CD. If you would like to
load an earlier session, you must use the
command line argument. Please see
&man.mount.cd9660.8; for specific examples.How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and
other removable media?Ordinary users can be permitted to mount devices. Here is
how:As root set the sysctl variable
vfs.usermount to
1.&prompt.root; sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1As root assign the appropriate
permissions to the block device associated with the
removable media.For example, to allow users to mount the first floppy
drive, use:&prompt.root; chmod 666 /dev/fd0To allow users in the group
operator to mount the CDROM drive,
use:&prompt.root; chgrp operator /dev/cd0c
&prompt.root; chmod 640 /dev/cd0cFinally, add the line
vfs.usermount=1 to the file
/etc/sysctl.conf so that it is reset
at system boot time.All users can now mount the floppy
/dev/fd0 onto a directory that they
own:&prompt.user; mkdir ~/my-mount-point
&prompt.user; mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 ~/my-mount-pointUsers in group operator can now
mount the CDROM /dev/cd0c onto a
directory that they own:&prompt.user; mkdir ~/my-mount-point
&prompt.user; mount -t msdos /dev/cd0c ~/my-mount-pointUnmounting the device is simple:&prompt.user; umount ~/my-mount-point>Enabling vfs.usermount, however, has
negative security implications. A better way to access MSDOS
formatted media is to use the mtools package in the ports collection.The du and df
commands show different amounts of disk space available.
What is going on?You need to understand what du and
df really do. du
goes through the directory tree, measures how large each
file is, and presents the totals. df
just asks the filesystem how much space it has left. They
seem to be the same thing, but a file without a directory
entry will affect df but not
du.When a program is using a file, and you delete the
file, the file is not really removed from the filesystem
until the program stops using it. The file is immediately
deleted from the directory listing, however. You can see
this easily enough with a program such as
more. Assume you have a file large
enough that its presence affects the output of
du and df. (Since
disks can be so large today, this might be a
very large file!) If you delete this
file while using more on it,
more does not immediately choke and
complain that it cannot view the file. The entry is
simply removed from the directory so no other program or
user can access it. du shows that it
is gone — it has walked the directory tree and the file
is not listed. df shows that it is
still there, as the filesystem knows that
more is still using that space. Once
you end the more session,
du and df will
agree.Note that softupdates can delay the freeing of disk
space; you might need to wait up to 30 seconds for the
change to be visible!This situation is common on web servers. Many people
set up a FreeBSD web server and forget to rotate the log
files. The access log fills up /var.
The new administrator deletes the file, but the system
still complains that the partition is full. Stopping and
restarting the web server program would free the file,
allowing the system to release the disk space. To prevent
this from happening, set up &man.newsyslog.8;.How can I add more swap space?In the Configuration and
Tuning section of the Handbook, you will find a
section
describing how to do this.System AdministrationWhere are the system start-up configuration files?From 2.0.5R to 2.2.1R, the primary configuration file is
/etc/sysconfig. All the options are to be
specified in this file and other files such as
/etc/rc (see &man.rc.8;)
and /etc/netstart just include it.Look in the /etc/sysconfig file and
change the value to match your system. This file is filled with
comments to show what to put in there.In post-2.2.1 and 3.0, /etc/sysconfig
was renamed to a more self-describing &man.rc.conf.5;
file and the syntax cleaned up a bit in the process.
/etc/netstart was also renamed to
/etc/rc.network so that all files could be
copied with a
cp
/usr/src/etc/rc* /etc command.And, in 3.1 and later, /etc/rc.conf
has been moved to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
Do not edit this file! Instead, if there
is any entry in /etc/defaults/rc.conf that
you want to change, you should copy the line into
/etc/rc.conf and change it there.For example, if you wish to start named, the DNS server
included with FreeBSD in FreeBSD 3.1 or later, all you need to
do is:&prompt.root; echo named_enable="YES" >> /etc/rc.confTo start up local services in FreeBSD 3.1 or later, place
shell scripts in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d
directory. These shell scripts should be set executable, and
end with a .sh. In FreeBSD 3.0 and earlier releases, you should
edit the /etc/rc.local file.The /etc/rc.serial is for serial port
initialization (e.g. locking the port characteristics, and so
on.).The /etc/rc.i386 is for Intel-specifics
settings, such as iBCS2 emulation or the PC system console
configuration.How do I add a user easily?Use the &man.adduser.8;
command. For more complicated usage, the &man.pw.8;
command.To remove the user again, use the &man.rmuser.8;
command. Once again, &man.pw.8; will work as
well.Why do I keep getting messages like root: not
found after editing my crontab file?This is normally caused by editing the system crontab
(/etc/crontab) and then using
&man.crontab.1; to install it:&prompt.root; crontab /etc/crontabThis is not the correct way to do things. The system
crontab has a different format to the per-user crontabs
which &man.crontab.1; updates (the &man.crontab.5; manual
page explains the differences in more detail).If this is what you did, the extra crontab is simply a
copy of /etc/crontab in the wrong
format it. Delete it with the command:&prompt.root; crontab -rNext time, when you edit
/etc/crontab, you should not do
anything to inform &man.cron.8; of the changes, since it
will notice them automatically.If you want something to be run once per day, week, or
month, it is probably better to add shell scripts
/usr/local/etc/periodic, and let the
&man.periodic.8; command run from the system cron schedule
it with the other periodic system tasks.The actual reason for the error is that the system
crontab has an extra field, specifying which user to run the
command as. In the default system crontab provided with
FreeBSD, this is root for all entries.
When this crontab is used as the root
user's crontab (which is not the
same as the system crontab), &man.cron.8; assumes the string
root is the first word of the command to
execute, but no such command exists.Why do I get the error, you are not in the correct
group to su root when I try to su to root?This is a security feature. In order to su to
root (or any other account with superuser
privileges), you must be in the wheel
group. If this feature were not there, anybody with an account
on a system who also found out root's
password would be able to gain superuser level access to the
system. With this feature, this is not strictly true;
&man.su.1; will prevent them from even trying to enter the
password if they are not in wheel.To allow someone to su to root, simply
put them in the wheel group.I made a mistake in rc.conf,
or another startup file, and
now I cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only.
What should I do?When you get the prompt to enter the shell
pathname, simply press ENTER, and run
mount / to re-mount the root filesystem in
read/write mode. You may also need to run mount -a -t
ufs to mount the filesystem where your favourite
editor is defined. If your favourite editor is on a network
filesystem, you will need to either configure the network
manually before you can mount network filesystems, or use an
editor which resides on a local filesystem, such as
&man.ed.1;.If you intend to use a full screen editor such
as &man.vi.1; or &man.emacs.1;, you may also need to
run export TERM=cons25 so that these
editors can load the correct data from the &man.termcap.5;
database.Once you have performed these steps, you can edit
/etc/rc.conf as you usually would
to fix the syntax error. The error message displayed
immediately after the kernel boot messages should tell you
the number of the line in the file which is at fault.Why am I having trouble setting up my printer?Please have a look at the Handbook entry on printing. It
should cover most of your problem. See the
Handbook entry on printing.Some printers require a host-based driver to do any kind of
printing. These so-called WinPrinters are not
natively supported by FreeBSD. If your printer does not work
in DOS or Windows NT 4.0, it is probably a WinPrinter. Your
only hope of getting one of these to work is to check if the
print/pnm2ppa port supports it.How can I correct the keyboard mappings for my system?Please see the Handbook section on using
localization, specifically the section on console
setup.Why do I get messages like: unknown: <PNP0303>
can't assign resources on boot?The following is an excerpt from a post to the
freebsd-current mailing list.
&a.wollman;, 24 April 2001The can't assign resources messages
indicate that the devices are legacy ISA devices for which a
non-PnP-aware driver is compiled into the kernel. These
include devices such as keyboard controllers, the
programmable interrupt controller chip, and several other
bits of standard infrastructure. The resources cannot be
assigned because there is already a driver using those
addresses.
Why can I not get user quotas to work properly?Do not turn on quotas on /,Put the quota file on the file system that the quotas
are to be enforced on. ie:FilesystemQuota file/usr/usr/admin/quotas/home/home/admin/quotas……Does FreeBSD support System V IPC primitives?Yes, FreeBSD supports System V-style IPC. This includes
shared memory, messages and semaphores. You need to add the
following lines to your kernel config to enable them.options SYSVSHM # enable shared memory
options SYSVSEM # enable for semaphores
options SYSVMSG # enable for messagingIn FreeBSD 3.2 and later, these options are already
part of the GENERIC kernel, which
means they should already be compiled into your
system.Recompile and install your kernel.How do I use sendmail for mail delivery with UUCP?The sendmail configuration that ships with FreeBSD is
suited for sites that connect directly to the Internet.
Sites that wish to exchange their mail via UUCP must install
another sendmail configuration file.Tweaking /etc/sendmail.cf manually is
considered something for purists. Sendmail version 8 comes with
a new approach of generating config files via some
&man.m4.1;
preprocessing, where the actual hand-crafted configuration is
on a higher abstraction level. You should use the configuration
files under
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf.If you did not install your system with full sources,
the sendmail config stuff has been broken out into a separate
source distribution tarball just for you. Assuming you have got
your CDROM mounted, do:&prompt.root; cd /cdrom/src
&prompt.root; cat scontrib.?? | tar xzf - -C /usr/src contrib/sendmailDo not panic, this is only a few hundred kilobytes in size.
The file README in the
cf directory can serve as a basic
introduction to m4 configuration.For UUCP delivery, you are best advised to use the
mailertable feature. This constitutes a
database that sendmail can use to base its routing decision
upon.First, you have to create your .mc
file. The directory
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf is the
home of these files. Look around, there are already a few
examples. Assuming you have named your file
foo.mc, all you need to do in order to
convert it into a valid sendmail.cf
is:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf
&prompt.root; make foo.cf
&prompt.root; cp foo.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cfA typical .mc file might look
like:VERSIONID(`Your version number')
OSTYPE(bsd4.4)
FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)
FEATURE(nocanonify)
FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')
define(`UUCP_RELAY', your.uucp.relay)
define(`UUCP_MAX_SIZE', 200000)
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES')
MAILER(local)
MAILER(smtp)
MAILER(uucp)
Cw your.alias.host.name
Cw youruucpnodename.UUCPThe lines containing accept_unresolvable_domains,
nocanonify, and confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES features will prevent any usage
of the DNS during mail delivery. The
UUCP_RELAY clause is needed for bizarre
reasons, do not ask. Simply put an Internet hostname there that
is able to handle .UUCP pseudo-domain addresses; most likely,
you will enter the mail relay of your ISP there.Once you have got this, you need this file called
/etc/mail/mailertable. If have only
one link to the outside that is used for all your mails,
the following file will be enough:#
# makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable.db < /etc/mail/mailertable
. uucp-dom:your.uucp.relayA more complex example might look like this:#
# makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable.db < /etc/mail/mailertable
#
horus.interface-business.de uucp-dom:horus
.interface-business.de uucp-dom:if-bus
interface-business.de uucp-dom:if-bus
.heep.sax.de smtp8:%1
horus.UUCP uucp-dom:horus
if-bus.UUCP uucp-dom:if-bus
. uucp-dom:As you can see, this is part of a real-life file. The
first three lines handle special cases where domain-addressed
mail should not be sent out to the default route, but instead
to some UUCP neighbor in order to shortcut the
delivery path. The next line handles mail to the local Ethernet
domain that can be delivered using SMTP. Finally, the UUCP
neighbors are mentioned in the .UUCP pseudo-domain notation, to
allow for a uucp-neighbor
!recipient
override of the default rules. The last line is always a single
dot, matching everything else, with UUCP delivery to a UUCP
neighbor that serves as your universal mail gateway to the
world. All of the node names behind the
uucp-dom: keyword must be valid UUCP
neighbors, as you can verify using the command
uuname.As a reminder that this file needs to be converted into a
DBM database file before being usable, the command line to
accomplish this is best placed as a comment at the top of
the mailertable. You always have to execute this command
each time you change your mailertable.Final hint: if you are uncertain whether some particular
mail routing would work, remember the
option to sendmail. It starts sendmail in address
test mode; simply enter 3,0,
followed by the address you wish to test for the mail routing.
The last line tells you the used internal mail agent, the
destination host this agent will be called with, and the
(possibly translated) address. Leave this mode by typing
Control-D.&prompt.user; sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
>3,0 foo@example.com
canonify input: foo @ example . com
...
parse returns: $# uucp-dom $@ your.uucp.relay $: foo < @ example . com . >
>^DHow do I set up mail with a dialup connection to the
'net?If you have got a statically assigned IP number, you
should not need to adjust anything from the default. Set
your host name up as your assigned Internet name and
sendmail will do the rest.If you have got a dynamically assigned IP number and
use a dialup PPP connection to the Internet, you will
probably be given a mailbox on your ISPs mail server. Lets
assume your ISPs domain is myISP.com, and that your user
name is user. Lets also assume you
have called your machine bsd.home and that your ISP has told
you that you may use relay.myISP.com as a mail
relay.In order to retrieve mail from your mailbox, you will
need to install a retrieval
agent. Fetchmail is a good
choice as it supports many different protocols. Usually,
POP3 will be provided by your ISP. If you have chosen to
use user-PPP, you can automatically fetch your mail when a
connection to the 'net is established with the following
entry in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup:MYADDR:
!bg su user -c fetchmailIf you are using sendmail
(as shown below) to deliver mail to non-local accounts,
put the command !bg su user -c "sendmail -q"after the above shown entry. This forces
sendmail to process your
mailqueue as soon as the connection to the 'net is
established.I am assuming that you have an account for
user on bsd.home. In the home directory of
user on bsd.home, create a
.fetchmailrc file:poll myISP.com protocol pop3 fetchall pass MySecretThis file should not be readable by anyone except
user as it contains the password
MySecret.In order to send mail with the correct
from: header, you must tell
sendmail to use
user@myISP.com rather than
user@bsd.home. You may also wish to
tell sendmail to send all mail
via relay.myISP.com, allowing
quicker mail transmission.The following .mc file should
suffice:VERSIONID(`bsd.home.mc version 1.0')
OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl
FEATURE(nouucp)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
Cwlocalhost
Cwbsd.home
MASQUERADE_AS(`myISP.com')dnl
FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl
FEATURE(nodns)dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', `relay.myISP.com')
Dmbsd.home
define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`bsd.home')dnl
define(`confDELIVERY_MODE',`deferred')dnlRefer to the previous section for details of how to
turn this .mc file into a
sendmail.cf file. Also, do not
forget to restart sendmail
after updating sendmail.cf.What other mail-server software can I use, instead of
Sendmail?Sendmail is
the default mail-server software for FreeBSD, but you can
easily replace it with one of the other MTA (for instance,
an MTA installed from the ports).There are various alternative MTA's in the ports tree
already, with mail/exim,
mail/postfix, mail/qmail,
mail/zmailer, being some of the most popular
choices.Diversity is nice, and the fact that you have many
different mail-servers to chose from is considered a
good thing; therefore try to avoid
asking questions like Is Sendmail better than
Qmail? in the mailing lists. If you do feel like
asking, first check the mailing list archives. The
advantages and disadvantages of each and every one of the
available MTA's have already been discussed a few
times.I have forgotten the root password! What do I do?Do not Panic! Simply restart the system, type
boot -s at the Boot: prompt (just
-s for FreeBSD releases before 3.2) to
enter Single User mode. At the question about the shell to use,
hit ENTER. You will be dropped to a &prompt.root; prompt. Enter
mount -u / to remount your root filesystem
read/write, then run mount -a to remount all
the filesystems. Run passwd root to change
the root password then run &man.exit.1; to continue
booting.How do I keep Control-Alt-Delete from rebooting the
system?If you are using syscons (the default console driver)
in FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE or later,
build and install a new kernel with the lineoptions SC_DISABLE_REBOOTin the configuration file. If you use the PCVT console
driver in FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE or later, use the following
kernel configuration line instead:options PCVT_CTRL_ALT_DELFor older versions of FreeBSD, edit the keymap you are
using for the console and replace the boot
keywords with nop. The default keymap is
/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd. You
may have to instruct /etc/rc.conf to load
this keymap explicitly for the change to take effect. Of course
if you are using an alternate keymap for your country, you
should edit that one instead.How do I reformat DOS text files to Unix ones?Simply use this perl command:&prompt.user; perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g' file ...file is the file(s) to process. The modification is done
in-place, with the original file stored with a .bak
extension.Alternatively you can use the
&man.tr.1;
command:&prompt.user; tr -d '\r' < dos-text-file > unix-filedos-text-file is the file
containing DOS text while unix-file
will contain the converted output. This can be quite a bit
faster than using perl.How do I kill processes by name?Use &man.killall.1;.Why is su bugging me about not being in
root's ACL?The error comes from the Kerberos distributed
authentication system. The problem is not fatal but annoying.
You can either run su with the -K option, or uninstall
Kerberos as described in the next question.How do I uninstall Kerberos?To remove Kerberos from the system, reinstall the bin
distribution for the release you are running. If you have
the CDROM, you can mount the cd (we will assume on /cdrom)
and run&prompt.root; cd /cdrom/bin
&prompt.root; ./install.shAlternately, you can remove all "MAKE_KERBEROS"
options from /etc/make.conf and rebuild
world.How do I add pseudoterminals to the system?If you have lots of telnet, ssh, X, or screen users,
you will probably run out of pseudoterminals. Here is how to
add more:Build and install a new kernel with the linepseudo-device pty 256in the configuration file.Run the commands&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV pty{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}to make 256 device nodes for the new terminals.Edit /etc/ttys and add lines
for each of the 256 terminals. They should match the form
of the existing entries, i.e. they look likettyqc none networkThe order of the letter designations is
tty[pqrsPQRS][0-9a-v], using a
regular expression. Reboot the system with the new kernel and you are
ready to go.Why can I not create the snd0 device?There is no snd device. The name
is used as a shorthand for the various devices that make up the
FreeBSD sound driver, such as mixer,
sequencer, and
dsp.To create these devices you should&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV snd0How do I re-read /etc/rc.conf and re-start /etc/rc without
a reboot?Go into single user mode and then back to multi user
mode.On the console do:&prompt.root; shutdown now
(Note: without -r or -h)
&prompt.root; return
&prompt.root; exitWhat is a sandbox?Sandbox is a security term. It can mean
two things:A process which is placed inside a set of virtual
walls that are designed to prevent someone who breaks
into the process from being able to break into the wider
system.The process is said to be able to
play inside the walls. That is,
nothing the process does in regards to executing code is
supposed to be able to breech the walls so you do not
have to do a detailed audit of its code to be able to
say certain things about its security.The walls might be a userid, for example. This is
the definition used in the security and named man
pages.Take the ntalk service, for
example (see /etc/inetd.conf). This service used to run
as userid root. Now it runs as userid tty. The tty user
is a sandbox designed to make it more difficult for
someone who has successfully hacked into the system via
ntalk from being able to hack beyond that user id.A process which is placed inside a simulation of the
machine. This is more hard-core. Basically it means that
someone who is able to break into the process may believe
that he can break into the wider machine but is, in fact,
only breaking into a simulation of that machine and not
modifying any real data.The most common way to accomplish this is to build a
simulated environment in a subdirectory and then run the
processes in that directory chroot'd (i.e.
/ for that process is this
directory, not the real / of the
system).Another common use is to mount an underlying
filesystem read-only and then create a filesystem layer
on top of it that gives a process a seemingly writeable
view into that filesystem. The process may believe it is
able to write to those files, but only the process sees
the effects - other processes in the system do not,
necessarily.An attempt is made to make this sort of sandbox so
transparent that the user (or hacker) does not realize
that he is sitting in it.Unix implements two core sandboxes. One is at the
process level, and one is at the userid level.Every Unix process is completely firewalled off from every
other Unix process. One process cannot modify the address
space of another. This is unlike Windows where a process
can easily overwrite the address space of any other, leading
to a crash.A Unix process is owned by a particular userid. If the
userid is not the root user, it serves to firewall the process
off from processes owned by other users. The userid is also
used to firewall off on-disk data.What is securelevel?The securelevel is a security mechanism implemented in the
kernel. Basically, when the securelevel is positive, the
kernel restricts certain tasks; not even the superuser (i.e.,
root) is allowed to do them. At the time
of this writing, the securelevel mechanism is capable of, among
other things, limiting the ability to,unset certain file flags, such as
schg (the system immutable flag),write to kernel memory via
/dev/mem and
/dev/kmem,load kernel modules, andalter &man.ipfirewall.4; rules.To check the status of the securelevel on a running system,
simply execute the following command:&prompt.root; sysctl kern.securelevelThe output will contain the name of the &man.sysctl.8;
variable (in this case, kern.securelevel)
and a number. The latter is the current value of the
securelevel. If it is positive (i.e., greater than 0), at
least some of the securelevel's protections are enabled.You cannot lower the securelevel of a running system; being
able to do that would defeat its purpose. If you need to do a
task that requires that the securelevel be non-positive (e.g.,
an installworld or changing the date),
you will have to change the securelevel setting in
/etc/rc.conf (you want to look for the
kern_securelevel and
kern_securelevel_enable variables) and
reboot.For more information on securelevel and the specific things
all the levels do, please consult the &man.init.8; manual
page.Securelevel is not a silver bullet; it has many known
deficiencies. More often than not, it provides a false
sense of security.One of its biggest problems is that in order for it to
be at all effective, all files used in the boot process up
until the securelevel is set must be protected. If an
attacker can get the system to execute their code prior to
the securelevel being set (which happens quite late in the
boot process since some things the system must do at
start-up cannot be done at an elevated securelevel), its
protections are invalidated. While this task of protecting
all files used in the boot process is not technically
impossible, if it is achieved, system maintenance will
become a nightmare since one would have to take the system
down, at least to single-user mode, to modify a
configuration file.This point and others are often discussed on the
mailing lists, particularly freebsd-security. Please search
the archives here for an
extensive discussion. Some people are hopeful that
securelevel will soon go away in favor of a more
fine-grained mechanism, but things are still hazy in this
respect.Consider yourself warned.I tried to update my system to the latest -STABLE, but
got -RC or -BETA! What is going on?Short answer: it is just a name. RC stands for
Release Candidate. It signifies that a
release is imminent. In FreeBSD, -BETA is typically synonymous
with the code freeze before a release.Long answer: FreeBSD derives its releases from one of
two places. Major, dot-zero, releases, such as
3.0-RELEASE and 4.0-RELEASE, are branched from the head of
the development stream, commonly referred to as -CURRENT. Minor releases, such
as 3.1-RELEASE or 4.2-RELEASE, have been snapshots of the active
-STABLE branch. Starting with
4.3-RELEASE, each release also now has its own branch which can be
tracked by people requiring an extremely conservative rate
of development (typically only security advisories).When a release is about to be made, the branch from
which it will be derived from has to undergo a certain
process. Part of this process is a code freeze. When a
code freeze is initiated, the name of the branch is
changed to reflect that it is about to become a release.
For example, if the branch used to be called 4.0-STABLE,
its name will be changed to 4.1-BETA to signify the code
freeze and signify that extra pre-release testing should
be happening. Bug fixes can still be committed to be part
of the release. When the source code is in shape for the
release the name will be changed to 4.1-RC to signify that a
release is about to be made from it. Once in the RC stage,
only the most critical bugs found can be fixed.
Once the release, 4.1-RELEASE in this example, has been made,
the branch will be renamed to 4.1-STABLE.I tried to install a new kernel, and the chflags failed.
How do I get around this?Short answer: You are probably at security level
greater than 0. Reboot directly to single user mode to
install the kernel.Long answer: FreeBSD disallows changing system flags
at security levels greater than 0. You can check your
security level with the command:&prompt.root; sysctl kern.securelevelYou cannot lower the security level; you have to boot to
single mode to install the kernel, or change the security
level in /etc/rc.conf then reboot. See
the &man.init.8; man page for details on securelevel, and see
/etc/defaults/rc.conf and the
&man.rc.conf.5; man page for more information on
rc.conf.I cannot change the time on my system by more than one second!
How do I get around this?Short answer: You are probably at security level
greater than 1. Reboot directly to single user mode to
change the date.Long answer: FreeBSD disallows changing the time by
more that one second at security levels greater than 1. You
can check your security level with the command:&prompt.root; sysctl kern.securelevelYou cannot lower the security level; you have to boot
to single mode to change the date, or change the security
level in /etc/rc.conf then reboot. See
the &man.init.8; man page for details on securelevel, and
see /etc/defaults/rc.conf and the
&man.rc.conf.5; man page for more information on rc.conf.Why is rpc.statd using 256 megabytes of
memory?No, there is no memory leak, and it is not using 256 Mbytes
of memory. It simply likes to (i.e., always does) map an
obscene amount of memory into its address space for convenience.
There is nothing terribly wrong with this from a technical
standpoint; it just throws off things like &man.top.1; and
&man.ps.1;.&man.rpc.statd.8; maps its status file (resident on
/var) into its address space; to save
worrying about remapping it later when it needs to grow, it maps
it with a generous size. This is very evident from the source
code, where one can see that the length argument to &man.mmap.2;
is 0x10000000, or one sixteenth of the
address space on an IA32, or exactly 256MB.Why can I not unset the schg file
flag?You are running at an elevated (i.e., greater than 0)
securelevel. Lower the securelevel and try again. For more
information, see the FAQ entry on
securelevel and the &man.init.8; manual page.Why does SSH authentication through
.shosts not work by default in recent
versions of FreeBSD?The reason why .shosts
authentication does not work by default in more recent
versions of FreeBSD is because &man.ssh.1;
is not installed suid root by default. To
fix this, you can do one of the
following:As a permanent fix, set
ENABLE_SUID_SSH to true
in /etc/make.conf and rebuild ssh
(or run make world).As a temporary fix, change the mode on
/usr/bin/ssh to 4555
by running chmod 4755 /usr/bin/ssh as
root. Then add
ENABLE_SUID_SSH= true to
/etc/make.conf so the change takes
effect the next time make world is
run.What is vnlru?vnlru flushes and frees vnodes when
the system hits the kern.maxvnodes
limit. This kernel thread sits mostly idle, and only
activates if you have a huge amount of RAM and are
accessing tens of thousands of tiny files.The X Window System and Virtual ConsolesI want to run X, how do I go about it?The easiest way is to simply specify that you want to
run X during the installation process.Then read and follow the documentation on the
xf86config tool, which assists you in configuring
XFree86 for your particular graphics card/mouse/etc.You may also wish to investigate the Xaccel server.
See the section on Xi Graphics or
Metro Link for more details.I tried to run X, but I get an
KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)
error when I type startx. What do I do
now?Your system is running at a raised securelevel, is not
it? It is, indeed, impossible to start X at a raised
securelevel. To see why, look at the &man.init.8; man
page.So the question is what else you should do instead,
and you basically have two choices: set your securelevel
back down to zero (usually from /etc/rc.conf),
or run &man.xdm.1; at boot time (before the securelevel is
raised).See for more information about
running &man.xdm.1; at boot time.Why does my mouse not work with X?If you are using syscons (the default console driver),
you can configure FreeBSD to support a mouse pointer on each
virtual screen. In order to avoid conflicting with X, syscons
supports a virtual device called
/dev/sysmouse. All mouse events received
from the real mouse device are written to the sysmouse device
via moused. If you wish to use your mouse on one or more
virtual consoles, and use X, see
and set up
moused.Then edit /etc/XF86Config and make
sure you have the following lines.Section Pointer
Protocol "SysMouse"
Device "/dev/sysmouse"
.....The above example is for XFree86 3.3.2 or later. For
earlier versions, the Protocol should be
MouseSystems.Some people prefer to use /dev/mouse
under X. To make this work, /dev/mouse
should be linked to
/dev/sysmouse (see &man.sysmouse.4;):&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; rm -f mouse
&prompt.root; ln -s sysmouse mouseMy mouse has a fancy wheel. Can I use it in X?Yes. But you need to customize X client programs. See
Colas Nahaboo's web page
(http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/)
.If you want to use the imwheel
program, just follow these simple steps.Translate the Wheel EventsThe imwheel program
works by translating mouse button 4 and mouse button 5
events into key events. Thus, you have to get the
mouse driver to translate mouse wheel events to button
4 and 5 events. There are two ways of doing this, the
first way is to have &man.moused.8; do the
translation. The second way is for the X server
itself to do the event translation.Using &man.moused.8; to Translate Wheel
EventsTo have &man.moused.8; perform the event
translations, simply add to
the command line used to start &man.moused.8;.
For example, if you normally start &man.moused.8;
via moused -p /dev/psm0 you
would start it by entering moused -p
/dev/psm0 -z 4 instead. If you start
&man.moused.8; automatically during bootup via
/etc/rc.conf, you can simply
add to the
moused_flags variable in
/etc/rc.conf.You now need to tell X that you have a 5
button mouse. To do this, simply add the line
Buttons 5 to the
Pointer section of
/etc/XF86Config. For
example, you might have the following
Pointer section in
/etc/XF86Config.Pointer Section for Wheeled
Mouse in XFree86 3.3.x series XF86Config with moused
TranslationSection "Pointer"
Protocol "SysMouse"
Device "/dev/sysmouse"
Buttons 5
EndSectionInputDevice Section for Wheeled
Mouse in XFree86 4.x series XF86Config with X Server
TranslationSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection.emacs example for naive
page scrolling with Wheeled Mouse;; wheel mouse
(global-set-key [mouse-4] 'scroll-down)
(global-set-key [mouse-5] 'scroll-up)Using Your X Server to Translate the Wheel
EventsIf you are not running &man.moused.8;, or if
you do not want &man.moused.8; to translate your
wheel events, you can have the X server do the
event translation instead. This requires a couple
of modifications to your
/etc/XF86Config file. First,
you need to choose the proper protocol for your
mouse. Most wheeled mice use the
IntelliMouse protocol. However,
XFree86 does support other protocols, such as
MouseManPlusPS/2 for the Logitech
MouseMan+ mice. Once you have chosen the protocol
you will use, you need to add a
Protocol line to the
Pointer section.Secondly, you need to tell the X server to
remap wheel scroll events to mouse buttons 4 and
5. This is done with the
ZAxisMapping option.For example, if you are not using
&man.moused.8;, and you have an IntelliMouse
attached to the PS/2 mouse port you would use
the following in
/etc/XF86Config.Pointer Section for Wheeled
Mouse in XF86Config with X
Server TranslationSection "Pointer"
Protocol "IntelliMouse"
Device "/dev/psm0"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSectionInputDevice Section for Wheeled
Mouse in XFree86 4.x series XF86Config with X Server
TranslationSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection.emacs example for naive
page scrolling with Wheeled Mouse;; wheel mouse
(global-set-key [mouse-4] 'scroll-down)
(global-set-key [mouse-5] 'scroll-up)Install imwheelNext, install imwheel
from the Ports collection. It can be found in the
x11 category. This program will
map the wheel events from your mouse into keyboard
events. For example, it might send Page
Up to a program when you scroll the wheel
forwards. Imwheel uses a
configuration file to map the wheel events to
key presses so that it can send different keys to
different applications. The default
imwheel configuration file
is installed in
/usr/X11R6/etc/imwheelrc. You
can copy it to ~/.imwheelrc and
then edit it if you wish to customize
imwheel's configuration.
The format of the configuration file is documented in
&man.imwheel.1;.Configure Emacs to Work
with Imwheel
(optional)If you use emacs or
Xemacs, then you need to
add a small section to your
~/.emacs file. For
emacs, add the
following:Emacs Configuration
for Imwheel;;; For imwheel
(setq imwheel-scroll-interval 3)
(defun imwheel-scroll-down-some-lines ()
(interactive)
(scroll-down imwheel-scroll-interval))
(defun imwheel-scroll-up-some-lines ()
(interactive)
(scroll-up imwheel-scroll-interval))
(global-set-key [?\M-\C-\)] 'imwheel-scroll-up-some-lines)
(global-set-key [?\M-\C-\(] 'imwheel-scroll-down-some-lines)
;;; end imwheel sectionFor Xemacs, add the
following to your ~/.emacs file
instead:Xemacs Configuration
for Imwheel;;; For imwheel
(setq imwheel-scroll-interval 3)
(defun imwheel-scroll-down-some-lines ()
(interactive)
(scroll-down imwheel-scroll-interval))
(defun imwheel-scroll-up-some-lines ()
(interactive)
(scroll-up imwheel-scroll-interval))
(define-key global-map [(control meta \))] 'imwheel-scroll-up-some-lines)
(define-key global-map [(control meta \()] 'imwheel-scroll-down-some-lines)
;;; end imwheel sectionRun ImwheelYou can just type imwheel
in an xterm to start it up once it is installed. It
will background itself and take effect immediately.
If you want to always use
imwheel, simply add it to
your .xinitrc or
.xsession file. You can safely
ignore any warnings imwheel
displays about PID files. Those warnings only apply
to the Linux version of
imwheel.Why do X Window menus and dialog boxes not work right?Try turning off the Num Lock key.If your Num Lock key is on by default at boot-time, you
may add the following line in the Keyboard
section of the XF86Config file.# Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be
# required when using pre-R6 clients
ServerNumLockWhat is a virtual console and how do I make more?Virtual consoles, put simply, enable you to have several
simultaneous sessions on the same machine without doing anything
complicated like setting up a network or running X.When the system starts, it will display a login prompt on
the monitor after displaying all the boot messages. You can
then type in your login name and password and start working (or
playing!) on the first virtual console.At some point, you will probably wish to start another
session, perhaps to look at documentation for a program
you are running or to read your mail while waiting for an
FTP transfer to finish. Just do Alt-F2 (hold down the Alt
key and press the F2 key), and you will find a login prompt
waiting for you on the second virtual console!
When you want to go back to the original session, do
Alt-F1.The default FreeBSD installation has three virtual consoles
enabled (8 starting with 3.3-RELEASE), and Alt-F1, Alt-F2, and
Alt-F3 will switch between these virtual consoles.To enable more of them, edit
/etc/ttys (see &man.ttys.5;)
and add entries for ttyv4
to ttyvc after the comment on
Virtual terminals:# Edit the existing entry for ttyv3 in /etc/ttys and change
# "off" to "on".
ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv8 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secureUse as many or as few as you want. The more virtual
terminals you have, the more resources that are used; this
can be important if you have 8MB RAM or less. You may also
want to change the secure
to insecure.If you want to run an X server you
must leave at least one virtual
terminal unused (or turned off) for it to use. That is to
say that if you want to have a login prompt pop up for all
twelve of your Alt-function keys, you are out of luck - you
can only do this for eleven of them if you also want to run
an X server on the same machine.The easiest way to disable a console is by turning it off.
For example, if you had the full 12 terminal allocation
mentioned above and you wanted to run X, you would change
settings for virtual terminal 12 from:ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secureto:ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secureIf your keyboard has only ten function keys, you would
end up with:ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure(You could also just delete these lines.)Once you have edited
/etc/ttys, the next step is to make sure that you
have enough virtual terminal devices. The easiest way to do
this is:&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV vty12Next, the easiest (and cleanest) way to activate the
virtual consoles is to reboot. However, if you really do not
want to reboot, you can just shut down the X Window system
and execute (as root):&prompt.root; kill -HUP 1It is imperative that you completely shut down X Window if
it is running, before running this command. If you do not,
your system will probably appear to hang/lock up after
executing the kill command.How do I access the virtual consoles from X?Use CtrlAltFn to switch back to a virtual console.
CtrlAltF1 would return you to the first virtual console.Once you are back to a text console, you can then use
AltFn as normal to move between them.To return to the X session, you must switch to the virtual
console running X. If you invoked X from the command line, (e.g.,
using startx) then the X session will attach to
the next unused virtual console, not the text console from which
it was invoked. If you have eight active virtual terminals then X
will be running on the ninth, and you would use
AltF9 to return.How do I start XDM on boot?There are two schools of thought on how to start
xdm. One school starts xdm from
/etc/ttys (see &man.ttys.5;)
using the supplied example, while the other simply runs xdm
from
rc.local (see &man.rc.8;)
or from a X.sh script in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d. Both are equally
valid, and one may work in situations where the other does not.
In both cases the result is the same: X will pop up a graphical
login: prompt.The ttys method has the advantage of documenting which
vty X will start on and passing the responsibility of
restarting the X server on logout to init. The rc.local
method makes it easy to kill xdm if there is a problem
starting the X server.If loaded from rc.local, xdm should
be started without any arguments (i.e., as a daemon). xdm must
start AFTER getty runs, or else getty and xdm will conflict,
locking out the console. The best way around this is to have
the script sleep 10 seconds or so then launch xdm.If you are to start xdm from
/etc/ttys, there still is a chance of
conflict between xdm and
&man.getty.8;. One way to avoid this is to add the
vt number in the
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
file.:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt4The above example will direct the X server to run in
/dev/ttyv3. Note the number is offset by
one. The X server counts the vty from one, whereas the FreeBSD
kernel numbers the vty from zero.Why do I get Couldn't open console
when I run xconsole?If you start X
with
startx, the permissions on
/dev/console will
not get changed, resulting in
things like
xterm -C and
xconsole not working.This is because of the way console permissions are set
by default. On a multi-user system, one does not necessarily
want just any user to be able to write on the system console.
For users who are logging directly onto a machine with a VTY,
the &man.fbtab.5;
file exists to solve such problems.In a nutshell, make sure an uncommented line of the
form/dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/consoleis in
/etc/fbtab (see &man.fbtab.5;) and it will ensure that whomever logs in on
/dev/ttyv0 will own the console.Before, I was able to run XFree86 as a regular user. Why does
it now say that I must be root?All X servers need to be run as root in order to get direct
access to your video hardware. Older versions of XFree86
(<= 3.3.6) installed all bundled servers to be automatically
run as root (setuid to root). This is obviously a security
hazard because X servers are large, complicated programs.
Newer versions of XFree86 do not install the servers setuid to
root for just this reason.Obviously, running an X server as the root user is not
acceptable, nor a good idea security-wise. There are two ways
to be able to use X as a regular user. The first is to use
xdm or another display manager
(e.g., kdm); the second is to use the
Xwrapper.xdm is a daemon that handles graphical
logins. It is usually started at boot time, and is responsible
for authenticating users and starting their sessions; it is
essentially the graphical counterpart of
&man.getty.8; and &man.login.1;. For
more information on xdm see
the XFree86
documentation, and the the FAQ
entry on it.Xwrapper is the X server wrapper; it is
a small utility to enable one to manually run an X server while
maintaining reasonable safety. It performs some sanity checks
on the command line arguments given, and if they pass, runs the
appropriate X server. If you do not want to run a display
manger for whatever reason, this is for you. If you have
installed the complete ports collection, you can find the port in
/usr/ports/x11/wrapper.Why does my PS/2 mouse misbehave under X?Your mouse and the mouse driver may have somewhat become
out of synchronization.In versions 2.2.5 and earlier, switching away from X to a
virtual terminal and getting back to X again may make them
re-synchronized. If the problem occurs often, you may add the
following option in your kernel configuration file and
recompile it.options PSM_CHECKSYNCSee the section on building
a kernel if you have no experience with building
kernels.With this option, there should be less chance of
synchronization problem between the mouse and the driver.
If, however, you still see the problem, click any mouse
button while holding the mouse still to re-synchronize the
mouse and the driver.Note that unfortunately this option may not work with all
the systems and voids the tap feature of the
ALPS GlidePoint device attached to the PS/2 mouse port.In versions 2.2.6 and later, synchronization check is done
in a slightly better way and is standard in the PS/2 mouse
driver. It should even work with GlidePoint. (As the check code
has become a standard feature, PSM_CHECKSYNC option is not
available in these versions.) However, in rare case the driver
may erroneously report synchronization problem and you may see
the kernel message:psmintr: out of sync (xxxx != yyyy)and find your mouse does not seem to work properly.If this happens, disable the synchronization check code
by setting the driver flags for the PS/2 mouse driver to 0x100.
Enter UserConfig by giving the
option at the boot prompt:boot: -cThen, in the UserConfig command
line, type:UserConfig> flags psm0 0x100
UserConfig> quitWhy does my PS/2 mouse from MouseSystems not
work?There have been some reports that certain model of PS/2
mouse from MouseSystems works only if it is put into the
high resolution mode. Otherwise, the mouse
cursor may jump to the upper-left corner of the screen every
so often.Unfortunately there is no workaround for versions 2.0.X
and 2.1.X. In versions 2.2 through 2.2.5, apply the following
patch to /sys/i386/isa/psm.c and rebuild
the kernel. See the section on building a kernel if you have no
experience with building kernels.@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@
if (verbose >= 2)
log(LOG_DEBUG, "psm%d: SET_DEFAULTS return code:%04x\n",
unit, i);
+ set_mouse_resolution(sc->kbdc, PSMD_RES_HIGH);
+
#if 0
set_mouse_scaling(sc->kbdc); /* 1:1 scaling */
set_mouse_mode(sc->kbdc); /* stream mode */In versions 2.2.6 or later, specify the flags 0x04 to
the PS/2 mouse driver to put the mouse into the high
resolution mode. Enter UserConfig by
giving the option at the boot prompt:boot: -cThen, in the UserConfig command line,
type:UserConfig> flags psm0 0x04
UserConfig> quitSee the previous section for another possible cause of mouse
problems.When building an X app, imake cannot
find Imake.tmpl. Where is it?Imake.tmpl is part of the Imake package, a standard X
application building tool. Imake.tmpl, as well as several
header files that are required to build X apps, is contained
in the X prog distribution. You can install this from sysinstall
or manually from the X distribution files.An X app I am building depends on XFree86 3.3.x, but I
have XFree86 4.x installed. What should I do?To tell the port build to link to the XFree86 4.x libraries,
add the following to /etc/make.conf, (if you
do not have this file, create it):XFREE86_VERSION= 4How do I reverse the mouse buttons?Run the command
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" from your
.xinitrc or .xsession.How do I install a splash screen and where do I find
them?Just prior to the release of FreeBSD 3.1, a new feature
was added to allow the display of splash screens
during the boot messages. The splash screens currently must be
a 256 color bitmap (*.BMP) or ZSoft PCX
(*.PCX) file. In addition, they must have
a resolution of 320x200 or less to work on standard VGA
adapters. If you compile VESA support into your kernel, then
you can use larger bitmaps up to 1024x768. Note that VESA
support requires the VM86 kernel option to
be compiled into the kernel. The actual VESA support can either
be compiled directly into the kernel with the
VESA kernel config option or by loading the
VESA kld module during bootup.To use a splash screen, you need to modify the startup
files that control the boot process for FreeBSD. The files for
this changed prior to the release of FreeBSD 3.2, so there are
now two ways of loading a splash screen:FreeBSD 3.1The first step is to find a bitmap version of your
splash screen. Release 3.1 only supports Windows bitmap
splash screens. Once you have found your splash screen of
choice copy it to /boot/splash.bmp.
Next, you need to have a
/boot/loader.rc file that contains
the following lines:load kernel
load -t splash_image_data /boot/splash.bmp
load splash_bmp
autobootFreeBSD 3.2+In addition to adding support for PCX splash screens,
FreeBSD 3.2 includes a nicer way of configuring the boot
process. If you wish, you can use the method listed above
for FreeBSD 3.1. If you do and you want to use PCX,
replace splash_bmp with
splash_pcx. If, on the other hand, you
want to use the newer boot configuration, you need to
create a /boot/loader.rc file that
contains the following lines:include /boot/loader.4th
startand a /boot/loader.conf that
contains the following:splash_bmp_load="YES"
bitmap_load="YES"This assumes you are using
/boot/splash.bmp for your splash
screen. If you would rather use a PCX file, copy it to
/boot/splash.pcx, create a
/boot/loader.rc as instructed
above, and create a
/boot/loader.conf that
contains:splash_pcx_load="YES"
bitmap_load="YES"
bitmap_name="/boot/splash.pcx"Now all you need is a splash screen. For that you can
surf on over to the gallery at http://www.baldwin.cx/splash/.Can I use the Windows
keys on my keyboard in X?Yes. All you need to do is use &man.xmodmap.1; to define
what function you wish them to perform.Assuming all Windows keyboards are
standard then the keycodes for the 3 keys are115 - Windows key,
between the left-hand Ctrl and Alt keys116 - Windows key,
to the right of the Alt-Gr key117 - Menu key, to the left of the right-hand Ctrl keyTo have the left Windows
key print a comma, try this.&prompt.root; xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = comma"You will probably have to re-start your window manager
to see the result.To have the Windows
key-mappings enabled automatically every time you start X either
put the xmodmap commands in your
~/.xinitrc file or, preferably, create a file
~/.xmodmaprc and include the
xmodmap options, one per line, then add the
linexmodmap $HOME/.xmodmaprcto your ~/.xinitrc.For example, you could map the 3 keys top be F13, F14, and
F15, respectively. This would make it easy to map them to
useful functions within applications or your window
manager, as demonstrated further down.To do this put the following in
~/.xmodmaprc.keycode 115 = F13
keycode 116 = F14
keycode 117 = F15If you use fvwm2, for example, you
could map the keys
so that F13 iconifies (or de-iconifies) the window the cursor
is in, F14 brings the window the cursor is in to the front or,
if it is already at the front, pushes it to the back, and F15
pops up the main Workplace (application) menu even if the
cursor is not on the desktop, which is useful if you do not have
any part of the desktop visible (and the logo on the key
matches its functionality).The following entries in
~/.fvwmrc implement the
aforementioned setup:Key F13 FTIWS A Iconify
Key F14 FTIWS A RaiseLower
Key F15 A A Menu Workplace NopHow can I get 3D hardware acceleration for
OpenGL?The availability of 3D acceleration depends on the
version of XFree86 you are using and the type of video chip
you have. If you have an NVIDIA chip, check out the
FreeBSD NVIDIA
Driver Initiative page, which discusses 3D
acceleration for NVIDIA chips using XFree86-4. For other
cards with XFree86-4, including the Matrox G200/G400, ATI
Rage 128/Radeon, and 3dfx Voodoo 3, 4, 5, and Banshee,
information on hardware acceleration is available on the
XFree86-4
Direct Rendering on FreeBSD page. Users of
XFree86 version 3.3 can use the Utah-GLX port found in
graphics/utah-glx to get limited accelerated
OpenGL on the Matrox Gx00, ATI Rage Pro, SiS 6326, i810,
Savage, and older NVIDIA chips.NetworkingWhere can I get information on
diskless booting?Diskless booting means that the FreeBSD
box is booted over a network, and reads the necessary files
from a server instead of its hard disk. For full details,
please read the
Handbook entry on diskless bootingCan a FreeBSD box be used as a dedicated network
router?Yes. Please see the Handbook entry on advanced
networking, specifically the section on routing
and gateways.Can I connect my Win95 box to the Internet via
FreeBSD?Typically, people who ask this question have two PC's
at home, one with FreeBSD and one with Win95; the idea is to
use the FreeBSD box to connect to the Internet and then be able
to access the Internet from the Windows95 box through the
FreeBSD box. This is really just a special case of the previous
question.... and the answer is yes! In FreeBSD
3.x, user-mode &man.ppp.8; contains a option. If
you run &man.ppp.8; with the ,
set gateway_enable to
YES in /etc/rc.conf,
and configure your Windows machine correctly, this should work
fine.More detailed information about setting this up can be
found in the
Pedantic PPP Primer by Steve Sims.If you are using kernel-mode PPP, or have an Ethernet
connection to the Internet, you will have to use
&man.natd.8;. Please look at the
natd section of this FAQ.Does FreeBSD support SLIP and PPP?Yes. See the manual pages for &man.slattach.8;,
&man.sliplogin.8;, &man.ppp.8;, and &man.pppd.8;. &man.ppp.8;
and &man.pppd.8; provide support for both incoming and outgoing
connections, while &man.sliplogin.8; deals exclusively with
incoming connections, and &man.slattach.8; deals exclusively
with outgoing connections.For more information on how to use these, please see the
Handbook chapter on
PPP and SLIP.If you only have access to the Internet through a
shell account, you may want to have a look
at the net/slirp package. It can provide you
with (limited) access to services such as ftp and http
direct from your local machine.Does FreeBSD support NAT or Masquerading?If you have a local subnet (one or more local machines),
but have been allocated only a single IP number from your
Internet provider (or even if you receive a dynamic IP number),
you may want to look at the &man.natd.8;
program. &man.natd.8; allows you to connect an
entire subnet to the Internet using only a single IP
number.The &man.ppp.8;
program has similar functionality built in via
the switch. The
alias library (&man.libalias.3;) is used in both cases.How do I connect two FreeBSD systems over a parallel line
using PLIP?Please see the PLIP
section of the Handbook.Why can I not create a /dev/ed0
device?Because they aren't necessary. In the Berkeley
networking framework, network interfaces are only directly
accessible by kernel code. Please see the
/etc/rc.network file and the manual
pages for the various network programs mentioned there for
more information. If this leaves you totally confused,
then you should pick up a book describing network
administration on another BSD-related operating system;
with few significant exceptions, administering networking
on FreeBSD is basically the same as on SunOS 4.0 or
Ultrix.How can I set up Ethernet aliases?If the alias is on the same subnet as an address
already configured on the interface, then add
netmask 0xffffffff to your
&man.ifconfig.8; command-line, as in the following:&prompt.root; ifconfig ed0 alias 192.0.2.2 netmask 0xffffffffOtherwise, just specify the network address and
netmask as usual:&prompt.root; ifconfig ed0 alias 172.16.141.5 netmask 0xffffff00How do I get my 3C503 to use the other network
port?If you want to use the other ports, you will have to specify
an additional parameter on the
&man.ifconfig.8; command line. The default port is
link0. To use the AUI port instead of the
BNC one, use link2. These flags should be
specified using the ifconfig_* variables in
/etc/rc.conf (see &man.rc.conf.5;).Why am I having trouble with NFS and FreeBSD?Certain PC network cards are better than others (to put
it mildly) and can sometimes cause problems with network
intensive applications like NFS.See
the Handbook entry on NFS for more information on
this topic.Why can I not NFS-mount from a Linux box?Some versions of the Linux NFS code only accept mount
requests from a privileged port; try&prompt.root; mount -o -P linuxbox:/blah /mntWhy can I not NFS-mount from a Sun box?Sun workstations running SunOS 4.X only accept mount
requests from a privileged port; try&prompt.root; mount -o -P sunbox:/blah /mntWhy does mountd keep telling me it
can't change attributes and that I have a
bad exports list on my FreeBSD NFS
server?The most frequent problem is not understanding the
correct format of /etc/exports.
Please review &man.exports.5; and the NFS entry in the
Handbook, especially the section on configuring
NFS.Why am I having problems talking PPP to NeXTStep
machines?Try disabling the TCP extensions in
/etc/rc.conf (see &man.rc.conf.5;) by changing the following variable to
NO:tcp_extensions=NOXylogic's Annex boxes are also broken in this regard and
you must use the above change to connect thru them.How do I enable IP multicast support?Multicast host operations are fully supported in FreeBSD
2.0 and later by default. If you want your box to run as a
multicast router, you will need to recompile your kernel with
the MROUTING option and run
&man.mrouted.8;. FreeBSD 2.2 and later will start
&man.mrouted.8; at boot time if the flag
mrouted_enable is set to
"YES" in
/etc/rc.conf.MBONE tools are available in their own ports category,
mbone. If you are looking for the conference tools
vic and vat,
look there!Which network cards are based on the DEC PCI
chipset?Here is a list compiled by Glen Foster
gfoster@driver.nsta.org,
with some more modern additions:
Network cards based on the DEC PCI chipsetVendorModelASUSPCI-L101-TBAcctonENI1203CogentEM960PCICompexENET32-PCID-LinkDE-530DaynaDP1203, DP2100DECDE435, DE450DanpexEN-9400P3JCISCondor JC1260LinksysEtherPCIMylexLNP101SMCEtherPower 10/100 (Model 9332)SMCEtherPower (Model 8432)TopWareTE-3500PZnyx (2.2.x)ZX312, ZX314, ZX342, ZX345, ZX346, ZX348Znyx (3.x)ZX345Q, ZX346Q, ZX348Q, ZX412Q, ZX414, ZX442, ZX444,
ZX474, ZX478, ZX212, ZX214 (10mbps/hd)
Why do I have to use the FQDN for hosts on my
site?You will probably find that the host is actually in a
different domain; for example, if you are in foo.example.org and
you wish to reach a host called mumble in the
example.org domain, you will
have to refer to it by the fully-qualified domain name, mumble.example.org, instead of just
mumble.Traditionally, this was allowed by BSD BIND resolvers.
However the current version of
bind (see &man.named.8;)
that ships with FreeBSD no longer provides default
abbreviations for non-fully qualified domain names other than
the domain you are in. So an unqualified host
mumble must either be found as mumble.foo.example.org, or it will be searched
for in the root domain.This is different from the previous behavior, where the
search continued across
mumble.example.org, and
mumble.edu. Have a look at
RFC 1535 for why this was considered bad practice, or even a
security hole.As a good workaround, you can place the linesearch foo.example.org example.orginstead of the previousdomain foo.example.orginto your
/etc/resolv.conf file (see &man.resolv.conf.5;). However, make sure that the
search order does not go beyond the boundary between
local and public administration, as RFC 1535 calls
it.Why do I get an error, Permission denied,
for all networking operations?If you have compiled your kernel with the
IPFIREWALL option, you need to be aware
that the default policy as of 2.1.7R (this actually changed
during 2.1-STABLE development) is to deny all packets that are
not explicitly allowed.If you had unintentionally misconfigured your system for
firewalling, you can restore network operability by typing
the following while logged in as root:&prompt.root; ipfw add 65534 allow all from any to anyYou can also set firewall_type="open"
in /etc/rc.conf.For further information on configuring a FreeBSD firewall,
see the
Handbook section.How much overhead does IPFW incur?Please see the Handbook's Firewalls
section, specifically the section on IPFW
Overhead & Optimization.Why is my ipfwfwd rule
to redirect a service to another machine not working?Possibly because you want to do network address translation
(NAT) and not just forward packets. A fwd rule
does exactly what it says; it forwards packets. It does not
actually change the data inside the packet. Say we have a rule
like:01000 fwd 10.0.0.1 from any to foo 21When a packet with a destination address of
foo arrives at the machine with this
rule, the packet is forwarded to
10.0.0.1, but it still has the
destination address of foo! The
destination address of the packet is not
changed to 10.0.0.1. Most machines
would probably drop a packet that they receive with a
destination address that is not their own. Therefore, using a
fwd rule does not often work the way the user
expects. This behavior is a feature and not a bug.See the FAQ about
redirecting services, the &man.natd.8; manual, or one of
the several port redirecting utilities in the ports collection for a correct way to do
this.How can I redirect service requests from one machine to
another?You can redirect FTP (and other service) request with
the socket package, available in the ports
tree in category sysutils. Simply replace the
service's command line to call socket instead, like so:ftp stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/bin/socket socket ftp.example.comftpwhere ftp.example.com and
ftp are the host and port to
redirect to, respectively.Where can I get a bandwidth management tool?There are three bandwidth management tools available for
FreeBSD. &man.dummynet.4; is integrated into FreeBSD (or more
specifically, &man.ipfw.4;); ALTQ
is available for free; Bandwidth Manager from Emerging Technologies is a
commercial product.Why do I get /dev/bpf0: device not
configured?You are running a program that requires the Berkeley
Packet Filter (&man.bpf.4;), but it's not in your kernel.
Add this to your kernel config file and build a new
kernel:pseudo-device bpf # Berkeley Packet FilterAfter rebooting, create the device node. This can be
accomplished by going to the /dev
directory and running:&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV bpf0Please see the Handbook entry
on device nodes for more information on creating
devices.How do I mount a disk from a Windows machine that is on my
network, like smbmount in Linux?Use the SMBFS toolset. It
includes a set of kernel modifications and a set of
userland programs. The programs and information are
available as net/smbfs in the ports
collection, or in the base system as of 4.5-RELEASE and
later.What are these messages about icmp-response
bandwidth limit 300/200 pps in my log
files?This is the kernel telling you that some activity is
provoking it to send more ICMP or TCP reset (RST)
responses than it thinks it should. ICMP responses are
often generated as a result of attempted connections to
unused UDP ports. TCP resets are generated as a result of
attempted connections to unopened TCP ports. Among
others, these are the kinds of activities which may cause
these messages:Brute-force denial of service (DoS) attacks (as
opposed to single-packet attacks which exploit a
specific vulnerability).Port scans which attempt to connect to a large
number of ports (as opposed to only trying a few
well-known ports).The first number in the message tells you how many
packets the kernel would have sent if the limit was not in
place, and the second number tells you the limit. You can
control the limit using the
net.inet.icmp.icmplim sysctl variable
like this, where 300 is the limit in
packets per second:&prompt.root; sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.icmplim=300If you do not want to see messages about this in your
log files, but you still want the kernel to do response
limiting, you can use the
net.inet.icmp.icmplim_output sysctl
variable to disable the output like this:&prompt.root; sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.icmplim_output=0Finally, if you want to disable response limiting, you
can set the net.inet.icmp.icmplim
sysctl variable (see above for an example) to
0. Disabling response limiting is
discouraged for the reasons listed above.What are these arp: unknown hardware
address format error messages?This means that some device on your local Ethernet is
using a MAC address in a format that FreeBSD does not
recognize. This is probably caused by someone
experimenting with an Ethernet card somewhere else on the
network. You will see this most commonly on cable modem
networks. It is harmless, and should not affect the
performance of your FreeBSD machine.SecurityBIND (named) is listening on port 53 and
some other high-numbered port. What is going on?FreeBSD 3.0 and later use a version of BIND
that uses a random high-numbered port for outgoing queries. If
you want to use port 53 for outgoing queries, either to get
past a firewall or to make yourself feel better, you can try
the following in
/etc/namedb/named.conf:options {
query-source address * port 53;
};You can replace the * with a single IP
address if you want to tighten things further.Congratulations, by the way. It is good practice to read
your &man.sockstat.1; output and notice odd
things!Sendmail is listening on port 587 as well as the
standard port 25! What is going on?Recent versions of Sendmail support a
mail submission feature that runs over port 587. This is
not yet widely supported, but is growing in
popularity.What is this UID 0 toor account? Have I
been compromised?Do not worry. toor is an
alternative superuser account (toor is root
spelt backwards). Previously it was created when the
&man.bash.1; shell was installed but now it is created by
default. It is intended to be used with a non-standard shell so
you do not have to change root's default
shell. This is important as shells which are not part of the
base distribution (for example a shell installed from ports or
packages) are likely be to be installed in
/usr/local/bin which, by default, resides
on a different filesystem. If root's shell
is located in /usr/local/bin and
/usr (or whatever filesystem contains
/usr/local/bin) is not mounted for some
reason, root will not be able to log in to
fix a problem (although if you reboot into single user mode
you will be prompted for the path to a shell).Some people use toor for
day-to-day root tasks with a non-standard shell, leaving
root, with a standard shell, for
single user mode or emergencies. By default you cannot log
in using toor as it does not have a
password, so log in as root and set a password for
toor if you want to use it.Why is suidperl not working
properly?For security reasons, suidperl is
installed without the suid bit by default. The system
administrator can enable suid behavior with the following
command.&prompt.root; chmod u+s /usr/bin/suidperlIf you want suidperl to be built
suid during upgrades from source, edit
/etc/make.conf and add
ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true before you run
make buildworld.PPPI cannot make &man.ppp.8; work. What am I doing wrong?You should first read the
&man.ppp.8;
man page and the
PPP section of the handbook. Enable logging with
the commandset log Phase Chat Connect Carrier lcp ipcp ccp commandThis command may be typed at the
&man.ppp.8; command prompt or it may be
entered in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
configuration file (the start of the
default section is the best
place to put it). Make sure that
/etc/syslog.conf (see &man.syslog.conf.5;) contains the lines!ppp
*.* /var/log/ppp.logand that the file /var/log/ppp.log
exists. You can now find out a lot about what is going on
from the log file. Do not worry if it does not all make sense.
If you need to get help from someone, it may make sense to
them.If your version of &man.ppp.8; does not understand the
set log command, you should download the
latest version. It will build on FreeBSD version
2.1.5 and higher.Why does &man.ppp.8; hang when I run it?This is usually because your hostname will not resolve.
The best way to fix this is to make sure that
/etc/hosts is consulted by your
resolver first by editing /etc/host.conf
and putting the hosts line first. Then,
simply put an entry in /etc/hosts for
your local machine. If you have no local network, change your
localhost line:127.0.0.1 foo.bar.com foo localhostOtherwise, simply add another entry for your host.
Consult the relevant man pages for more details.You should be able to successfully
ping -c1 `hostname` when you are done.Why will &man.ppp.8; not dial in -auto
mode?First, check that you have got a default route. By running
netstat -rn (see &man.netstat.1;), you should see two entries like this:Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 10.0.0.2 UGSc 0 0 tun0
10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 UH 0 0 tun0This is assuming that you have used the addresses from the
handbook, the man page or from the ppp.conf.sample file.
If you do not have a default route, it may be because you are
running an old version of &man.ppp.8;
that does not understand the word HISADDR
in the ppp.conf file. If your version of
&man.ppp.8; is from before FreeBSD
2.2.5, change theadd 0 0 HISADDRline to one sayingadd 0 0 10.0.0.2Another reason for the default route line being missing
is that you have mistakenly set up a default router in your
/etc/rc.conf (see &man.rc.conf.5;) file (this file was called
/etc/sysconfig prior to release 2.2.2),
and you have omitted the line sayingdelete ALLfrom ppp.conf. If this is the case,
go back to the
Final system configuration section of the
handbook.What does No route to host mean?This error is usually due to a missingMYADDR:
delete ALL
add 0 0 HISADDRsection in your /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup
file. This is only necessary if you have a dynamic IP address
or do not know the address of your gateway. If you are using
interactive mode, you can type the following after entering
packet mode (packet mode is
indicated by the capitalized PPP in the
prompt):delete ALL
add 0 0 HISADDRRefer to the
PPP and Dynamic IP addresses section of the handbook
for further details.Why does my connection drop after about 3 minutes?The default PPP timeout is 3 minutes. This can be
adjusted with the lineset timeout NNNwhere NNN is the number of
seconds of inactivity before the connection is closed. If
NNN is zero, the connection is never
closed due to a timeout. It is possible to put this command in
the ppp.conf file, or to type it at the
prompt in interactive mode. It is also possible to adjust it on
the fly while the line is active by connecting to
ppps server socket using
&man.telnet.1; or &man.pppctl.8;.
Refer to the
&man.ppp.8; man
page for further details.Why does my connection drop under heavy load?If you have Link Quality Reporting (LQR) configured,
it is possible that too many LQR packets are lost between
your machine and the peer. Ppp deduces that the line must
therefore be bad, and disconnects. Prior to FreeBSD version
2.2.5, LQR was enabled by default. It is now disabled by
default. LQR can be disabled with the linedisable lqrWhy does my connection drop after a random amount of
time?Sometimes, on a noisy phone line or even on a line with
call waiting enabled, your modem may hang up because it
thinks (incorrectly) that it lost carrier.There is a setting on most modems for determining how
tolerant it should be to temporary losses of carrier. On a
USR Sportster for example, this is measured by the S10
register in tenths of a second. To make your modem more
forgiving, you could add the following send-expect sequence
to your dial string:set dial "...... ATS10=10 OK ......"Refer to your modem manual for details.Why does my connection hang after a random amount of
time?Many people experience hung connections with no apparent
explanation. The first thing to establish is which side of
the link is hung.If you are using an external modem, you can simply try
using &man.ping.8; to see if the
TD light is flashing when you transmit data.
If it flashes (and the RD light does not),
the problem is with the remote end. If TD
does not flash, the problem is local. With an internal modem,
you will need to use the set server command in
your ppp.conf file. When the hang occurs,
connect to &man.ppp.8; using &man.pppctl.8;. If your network connection
suddenly revives (PPP was revived due to the activity on the
diagnostic socket) or if you cannot connect (assuming the
set socket command succeeded at startup
time), the problem is local. If you can connect and things are
still hung, enable local async logging with set log
local async and use &man.ping.8; from
another window or terminal to make use of the link. The async
logging will show you the data being transmitted and received
on the link. If data is going out and not coming back, the
problem is remote.Having established whether the problem is local or remote,
you now have two possibilities:The remote end is not responding. What can I do?There is very little you can do about this. Most ISPs
will refuse to help if you are not running a Microsoft OS.
You can enable lqr in your
ppp.conf file, allowing &man.ppp.8; to detect
the remote failure and hang up, but this detection is
relatively slow and therefore not that useful. You may want to
avoid telling your ISP that you are running user-PPP...First, try disabling all local compression by adding the
following to your configuration:disable pred1 deflate deflate24 protocomp acfcomp shortseq vj
deny pred1 deflate deflate24 protocomp acfcomp shortseq vjThen reconnect to ensure that this makes no difference.
If things improve or if the problem is solved completely,
determine which setting makes the difference through trial
and error. This will provide good ammunition when you contact
your ISP (although it may make it apparent that you are not
running a Microsoft product).Before contacting your ISP, enable async logging locally
and wait until the connection hangs again. This may use up
quite a bit of disk space. The last data read from the port
may be of interest. It is usually ascii data, and may even
describe the problem
(Memory fault, core dumped?).If your ISP is helpful, they should be able to enable
logging on their end, then when the next link drop occurs,
they may be able to tell you why their side is having a
problem. Feel free to send the details to &a.brian;, or
even to ask your ISP to contact me directly.&man.ppp.8; has hung. What can I do?Your best bet here is to rebuild &man.ppp.8; by adding
CFLAGS+=-g and STRIP=
to the end of the Makefile, then doing a
make clean && make && make
install. When &man.ppp.8; hangs, find the &man.ppp.8; process id
with ps ajxww | fgrep ppp and run
gdb ppp PID.
From the gdb prompt, you can then use bt
to get a stack trace.Send the results to brian@Awfulhak.org.Why does nothing happen after the Login OK!
message?Prior to FreeBSD version 2.2.5, once the link was
established, &man.ppp.8;
would wait for the peer to initiate the Line Control Protocol
(LCP). Many ISPs will not initiate negotiations and expect
the client to do so. To force
&man.ppp.8; to initiate the LCP, use the
following line:set openmode activeIt usually does no
harm if both sides initiate negotiation, so openmode is now
active by default. However, the next section explains when
it does do some harm.I keep seeing errors about magic being the same. What does
it mean?Occasionally, just after connecting, you may see messages
in the log that say magic is the same.
Sometimes, these messages are harmless, and sometimes one side
or the other exits. Most PPP implementations cannot survive
this problem, and even if the link seems to come up, you will see
repeated configure requests and configure acknowledgments in
the log file until &man.ppp.8; eventually gives up and closes the
connection.This normally happens on server machines with slow disks
that are spawning a getty on the port, and executing &man.ppp.8; from
a login script or program after login. I have also heard reports
of it happening consistently when using slirp. The reason is
that in the time taken between &man.getty.8; exiting and &man.ppp.8; starting,
the client-side &man.ppp.8; starts sending Line Control Protocol (LCP)
packets. Because ECHO is still switched on for the port on
the server, the client &man.ppp.8; sees these packets
reflect back.One part of the LCP negotiation is to establish a magic
number for each side of the link so that
reflections can be detected. The protocol says
that when the peer tries to negotiate the same magic number, a
NAK should be sent and a new magic number should be chosen.
During the period that the server port has ECHO turned on, the
client &man.ppp.8; sends LCP packets, sees the same magic in the
reflected packet and NAKs it. It also sees the NAK reflect
(which also means &man.ppp.8; must change its magic). This produces a
potentially enormous number of magic number changes, all of
which are happily piling into the server's tty buffer. As soon
as &man.ppp.8; starts on the server, it is flooded with magic number
changes and almost immediately decides it has tried enough to
negotiate LCP and gives up. Meanwhile, the client, who no
longer sees the reflections, becomes happy just in time to see
a hangup from the server.This can be avoided by allowing the peer to start
negotiating with the following line in your ppp.conf
file:set openmode passiveThis tells &man.ppp.8; to wait for the server to initiate LCP
negotiations. Some servers however may never initiate
negotiations. If this is the case, you can do something
like:set openmode active 3This tells &man.ppp.8; to be passive for 3 seconds, and then to
start sending LCP requests. If the peer starts sending
requests during this period, &man.ppp.8; will immediately respond
rather than waiting for the full 3 second period.LCP negotiations continue until the connection is
closed. What is wrong?There is currently an implementation mis-feature in
&man.ppp.8; where it does not associate
LCP, CCP & IPCP responses with their original requests. As
a result, if one PPP
implementation is more than 6 seconds slower than the other
side, the other side will send two additional LCP configuration
requests. This is fatal.Consider two implementations,
A and
B. A starts
sending LCP requests immediately after connecting and
B takes 7 seconds to start. When
B starts, A
has sent 3 LCP REQs. We are assuming the line has ECHO switched
off, otherwise we would see magic number problems as described in
the previous section. B sends a
REQ, then an ACK to the first of
A's REQs. This results in
A entering the OPENED
state and sending and ACK (the first) back to
B. In the meantime,
B sends back two more ACKs in response to
the two additional REQs sent by A
before B started up.
B then receives the first ACK from
A and enters the
OPENED state.
A receives the second ACK from
B and goes back to the
REQ-SENT state, sending another (forth) REQ
as per the RFC. It then receives the third ACK and enters the
OPENED state. In the meantime,
B receives the forth REQ from
A, resulting in it reverting to the
ACK-SENT state and sending
another (second) REQ and (forth) ACK as per the RFC.
A gets the REQ, goes into
REQ-SENT and sends another REQ. It
immediately receives the following ACK and enters
OPENED.This goes on until one side figures out that they are
getting nowhere and gives up.The best way to avoid this is to configure one side to be
passive - that is, make one side
wait for the other to start negotiating. This can be done
with theset openmode passivecommand. Care should be taken with this option. You
should also use theset stopped Ncommand to limit the amount of time that
&man.ppp.8; waits for the peer to begin
negotiations. Alternatively, theset openmode active Ncommand (where N is the
number of seconds to wait before starting negotiations) can be
used. Check the manual page for details.Why does &man.ppp.8; lock up shortly after connection?Prior to version 2.2.5 of FreeBSD, it was possible that
your link was disabled shortly after connection due to
&man.ppp.8; mis-handling Predictor1
compression negotiation. This would only happen if both sides
tried to negotiate different Compression Control Protocols
(CCP). This problem is now corrected, but if you are still
running an old version of &man.ppp.8;
the problem can be circumvented with the linedisable pred1Why does &man.ppp.8; lock up when I shell out to test it?When you execute the shell or
! command, &man.ppp.8; executes a
shell (or if you have passed any arguments,
&man.ppp.8; will execute those arguments). Ppp will
wait for the command to complete before continuing. If you
attempt to use the PPP link while running the command, the link
will appear to have frozen. This is because
&man.ppp.8; is waiting for the command to
complete.If you wish to execute commands like this, use the
!bg command instead. This will execute
the given command in the background, and &man.ppp.8; can continue to
service the link.Why does &man.ppp.8; over a null-modem cable never exit?There is no way for &man.ppp.8; to
automatically determine that a direct connection has been
dropped. This is due to the lines that are used in a
null-modem serial cable. When using this sort of connection,
LQR should always be enabled with the lineenable lqrLQR is accepted by default if negotiated by the peer.Why does &man.ppp.8; dial for no reason in -auto mode?If &man.ppp.8; is dialing
unexpectedly, you must determine the cause, and set up Dial
filters (dfilters) to prevent such dialing.To determine the cause, use the following line:set log +tcp/ipThis will log all traffic through the connection. The
next time the line comes up unexpectedly, you will see the
reason logged with a convenient timestamp next to it.You can now disable dialing under these circumstances.
Usually, this sort of problem arises due to DNS lookups. To
prevent DNS lookups from establishing a connection (this will
not prevent
&man.ppp.8; from passing the packets
through an established connection), use the following:set dfilter 1 deny udp src eq 53
set dfilter 2 deny udp dst eq 53
set dfilter 3 permit 0/0 0/0This is not always suitable, as it will effectively break
your demand-dial capabilities - most programs will need a DNS
lookup before doing any other network related things.In the DNS case, you should try to determine what is
actually trying to resolve a host name. A lot of the time,
&man.sendmail.8; is the culprit. You should make sure that
you tell sendmail not to do any DNS lookups in its
configuration file. See the section on
Mail Configuration for details
on how to create your own configuration file and what should
go into it. You may also want to add the following line to
your .mc file:define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `d')dnlThis will make sendmail queue everything until the queue
is run (usually, sendmail is invoked with
, telling it to run the queue every
30 minutes) or until a sendmail -q is done
(perhaps from your ppp.linkup file).What do these CCP errors mean?I keep seeing the following errors in my log file:CCP: CcpSendConfigReq
CCP: Received Terminate Ack (1) state = Req-Sent (6)This is because &man.ppp.8; is trying to negotiate Predictor1
compression, and the peer does not want to negotiate any
compression at all. The messages are harmless, but if you
wish to remove them, you can disable Predictor1 compression
locally too:disable pred1Why does &man.ppp.8; lock up during file transfers with IO
errors?Under FreeBSD 2.2.2 and before, there was a bug in the
tun driver that prevents incoming packets of a size larger
than the tun interface's MTU size. Receipt of a packet
greater than the MTU size results in an IO error being logged
via syslogd.The PPP specification says that an MRU of 1500 should
always be accepted as a minimum,
despite any LCP negotiations, therefore it is possible that
should you decrease the MTU to less than 1500, your ISP will
transmit packets of 1500 regardless, and you will tickle this
non-feature - locking up your link.The problem can be circumvented by never setting an MTU of
less than 1500 under FreeBSD 2.2.2 or before.Why does &man.ppp.8; not log my connection speed?In order to log all lines of your modem
conversation, you must enable the
following:set log +connectThis will make &man.ppp.8; log
everything up until the last requested expect
string.If you wish to see your connect speed and are using PAP
or CHAP (and therefore do not have anything to
chat after the CONNECT in the dial script - no
set login script), you must make sure that
you instruct &man.ppp.8; to expect the whole CONNECT
line, something like this:set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 4 \
\"\" ATZ OK-ATZ-OK ATDT\\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT \\c \\n"Here, we get our CONNECT, send nothing, then expect a
line-feed, forcing &man.ppp.8; to read
the whole CONNECT response.Why does &man.ppp.8; ignore the \ character
in my chat script?Ppp parses each line in your config files so that it can
interpret strings such as
set phone "123 456 789" correctly (and
realize that the number is actually only
one argument. In order to specify a
" character, you must escape it
using a backslash (\).When the chat interpreter parses each argument, it
re-interprets the argument in order to find any special
escape sequences such as \P or
\T (see the man page). As a result of this
double-parsing, you must remember to use the correct number of
escapes.If you wish to actually send a \
character to (say) your modem, you would need something
like:set dial "\"\" ATZ OK-ATZ-OK AT\\\\X OK"resulting in the following sequence:ATZ
OK
AT\X
OKorset phone 1234567
set dial "\"\" ATZ OK ATDT\\T"resulting in the following sequence:ATZ
OK
ATDT1234567Why does &man.ppp.8; get a seg-fault, but I see no
ppp.core file?Ppp (or any other program for that matter) should never
dump core. Because &man.ppp.8; runs with an effective user id of 0,
the operating system will not write &man.ppp.8;'s core image to disk
before terminating it. If, however &man.ppp.8;
is actually terminating due to a
segmentation violation or some other signal that normally
causes core to be dumped, and
you are sure you are using the latest version (see the start of
this section), then you should do the following:&prompt.user; tar xfz ppp-*.src.tar.gz
&prompt.user; cd ppp*/ppp
&prompt.user; echo STRIP= >>Makefile
&prompt.user; echo CFLAGS+=-g >>Makefile
&prompt.user; make clean all
&prompt.user; su
&prompt.root; make install
&prompt.root; chmod 555 /usr/sbin/pppYou will now have a debuggable version of &man.ppp.8; installed.
You will have to be root to run &man.ppp.8; as all of its privileges
have been revoked. When you start &man.ppp.8;, take a careful note
of what your current directory was at the time.Now, if and when &man.ppp.8; receives the segmentation violation,
it will dump a core file called ppp.core. You should then do
the following:&prompt.user; su
&prompt.root; gdb /usr/sbin/ppp ppp.core(gdb)bt
.....
(gdb)f 0
....
(gdb)i args
....
(gdb)l
.....All of this information should be given alongside your
question, making it possible to diagnose the problem.If you are familiar with gdb, you may wish to find out some
other bits and pieces such as what actually caused the dump and
the addresses & values of the relevant variables.Why does the process that forces a dial in auto mode never
connect?This was a known problem with
&man.ppp.8; set up to negotiate a
dynamic local IP number with the peer in auto mode. It is
fixed in the latest version - search the man page for
iface.The problem was that when that initial program calls
&man.connect.2;, the IP number of the tun interface is assigned
to the socket endpoint. The kernel creates the first outgoing
packet and writes it to the tun device.
&man.ppp.8; then reads the packet and
establishes a connection. If, as a result of
&man.ppp.8;'s dynamic IP assignment, the
interface address is changed, the original socket endpoint will
be invalid. Any subsequent packets sent to the peer will
usually be dropped. Even if they are not, any responses will
not route back to the originating machine as the IP number is
no longer owned by that machine.There are several theoretical ways to approach this
problem. It would be nicest if the peer would re-assign the
same IP number if possible :-)
The current version of &man.ppp.8; does
this, but most other implementations do not.The easiest method from our side would be to never change
the tun interface IP number, but instead to change all outgoing
packets so that the source IP number is changed from the
interface IP to the negotiated IP on the fly. This is
essentially what the iface-alias option in
the latest version of &man.ppp.8; is
doing (with the help of
&man.libalias.3; and &man.ppp.8;'s switch) -
it is maintaining all previous interface addresses and NATing
them to the last negotiated address.Another alternative (and probably the most reliable) would
be to implement a system call that changes all bound sockets
from one IP to another. &man.ppp.8; would
use this call to modify the sockets of all existing programs
when a new IP number is negotiated. The same system call could
be used by dhcp clients when they are forced to re-bind() their
sockets.Yet another possibility is to allow an interface to be
brought up without an IP number. Outgoing packets would be
given an IP number of 255.255.255.255 up until the first
SIOCAIFADDR ioctl is done. This would result in fully binding
the socket. It would be up to &man.ppp.8;
to change the source IP number, but only if it is set to
255.255.255.255, and only the IP number and IP checksum would
need to change. This, however is a bit of a hack as the kernel
would be sending bad packets to an improperly configured
interface, on the assumption that some other mechanism is
capable of fixing things retrospectively.Why do most games not work with the -nat switch?The reason games and the like do not work when libalias
is in use is that the machine on the outside will try to open a
connection or send (unsolicited) UDP packets to the machine on
the inside. The NAT software does not know that it should send
these packets to the interior machine.To make things work, make sure that the only thing
running is the software that you are having problems with, then
either run tcpdump on the tun interface of the gateway or
enable &man.ppp.8; tcp/ip logging (set log +tcp/ip)
on the gateway.When you start the offending software, you should see
packets passing through the gateway machine. When something
comes back from the outside, it will be dropped (that is the
problem). Note the port number of these packets then shut down
the offending software. Do this a few times to see if the port
numbers are consistent. If they are, then the following line in
the relevant section of /etc/ppp/ppp.conf will make the
software functional:nat port protointernalmachine:portportwhere proto is either
tcp or udp,
internalmachine is the machine that
you want the packets to be sent to and
port is the destination port number
of the packets.You will not be able to use the software on other machines
without changing the above command, and running the software
on two internal machines at the same time is out of the question
- after all, the outside world is seeing your entire internal
network as being just a single machine.If the port numbers are not consistent, there are three
more options:Submit support in
libalias. Examples of special cases can be found
in /usr/src/lib/libalias/alias_*.c
(alias_ftp.c is a good prototype). This
usually involves reading certain recognised outgoing packets,
identifying the instruction that tells the outside machine to
initiate a connection back to the internal machine on a
specific (random) port and setting up a route in
the alias table so that the subsequent packets know where to
go.This is the most difficult solution, but it is the best
and will make the software work with multiple machines.Use a proxy. The
application may support socks5 for example, or (as in the
cvsup case) may have a passive
option that avoids ever requesting that the peer open
connections back to the local machine.Redirect everything to
the internal machine using nat addr. This
is the sledge-hammer approach.Has anybody made a list of useful port numbers?Not yet, but this is intended to grow into such a list
(if any interest is shown). In each example,
internal should be replaced with
the IP number of the machine playing the game.Asheron's Callnat port udp
internal
:65000 65000Manually change the port number within the game to
65000. If you have got a number of machines that you wish
to play on assign a unique port number for each (i.e.
65001, 65002, etc) and add a nat port
line for each one.Half Lifenat port udp
internal:27005
27015PCAnywhere 8.0nat port udp
internal:5632
5632nat port tcp
internal:5631
5631Quakenat port udp
internal:6112
6112Alternatively, you may want to take a look at
www.battle.net for Quake proxy support.Quake 2nat port udp
internal:27901
27910nat port udp
internal:60021
60021nat port udp
internal:60040
60040Red Alertnat port udp
internal:8675
8675nat port udp
internal:5009
5009What are FCS errors?FCS stands for Frame
Check
Sequence. Each PPP packet
has a checksum attached to ensure that the data being
received is the data being sent. If the FCS of an incoming
packet is incorrect, the packet is dropped and the HDLC FCS
count is increased. The HDLC error values can be displayed
using the show hdlc command.If your link is bad (or if your serial driver is dropping
packets), you will see the occasional FCS error. This is not
usually worth worrying about although it does slow down the
compression protocols substantially. If you have an external
modem, make sure your cable is properly shielded from
interference - this may eradicate the problem.If your link freezes as soon as you have connected and you
see a large number of FCS errors, this may be because your link
is not 8 bit clean. Make sure your modem is not using software
flow control (XON/XOFF). If your datalink
must use software flow control, use the
command set accmap 0x000a0000 to tell
&man.ppp.8; to escape the ^Q and
^S characters.Another reason for seeing too many FCS errors may be that
the remote end has stopped talking PPP. You
may want to enable async logging at this
point to determine if the incoming data is actually a login or
shell prompt. If you have a shell prompt at the remote end,
it is possible to terminate &man.ppp.8; without dropping the line by
using the close lcp command (a following
term command will reconnect you to the shell
on the remote machine.If nothing in your log file indicates why the link might
have been terminated, you should ask the remote administrator
(your ISP?) why the session was terminated.Why do MacOS and Windows 98 connections freeze when
running PPPoE on the gateway?Thanks to Michael Wozniak
mwozniak@netcom.ca for figuring this out and
Dan Flemming danflemming@mac.com for the Mac
solution:This is due to what is called a Black Hole
router. MacOS and Windows 98 (and maybe other Microsoft OSs)
send TCP packets with a requested segment size too big to fit
into a PPPoE frame (MTU is 1500 by default for Ethernet)
and have the do not
fragment bit set (default of TCP) and the Telco router
is not sending ICMP must fragment back to the
www site you are trying to load. (Alternatively, the router is
sending the ICMP packet correctly, but the firewall at the www
site is dropping it.) When the www server is sending
you frames that do not fit into the PPPoE pipe the Telco router
drops them on the floor and your page does not load (some
pages/graphics do as they are smaller than a MSS.) This seems
to be the default of most Telco PPPoE configurations (if only
they knew how to program a router... sigh...)One fix is to use regedit on your 95/98 boxes to add the
following registry entry...HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTrans\0000\MaxMTUIt should be a string with a value 1436, as
some ADSL routers are reported to be unable to deal with packets
larger than this. This registry key has been changed to
Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ID for adapter\MTU
in Windows 2000 and becomes a DWORD.Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base documents Q158474
- Windows TCPIP Registry Entries and Q120642
- TCPIP & NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows
NT for more information on changing Windows MTU to
work with a NAT router.Another regedit possibility under Windows 2000 is to
set the
Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ID for
adapter\EnablePMTUBHDetect DWORD
to 1 as mentioned in the Microsoft document 120642
mentioned above.Unfortunately, MacOS does not provide an interface for
changing TCP/IP settings. However, there is commercial software
available, such as OTAdvancedTuner (OT for OpenTransport, the
MacOS TCP/IP stack) by Sustainable Softworks,
that will allow users to customize TCP/IP settings. MacOS NAT
users should select ip_interface_MTU from
the drop-down menu, enter 1450 instead of
1500 in the box, click the box next to
Save as Auto Configure, and click
Make Active.The latest version of &man.ppp.8;
(2.3 or greater) has an enable tcpmssfixup
command that will automatically adjust the MSS to an appropriate
value. This facility is enabled by default. If you are stuck
with an older version of &man.ppp.8;, you
may want to look at the tcpmssd
port.None of this helps - I am desperate! What can I do?If all else fails, send as much information as you can,
including your config files, how you are starting
&man.ppp.8;, the relevant parts of your
log file and the output of the netstat -rn
command (before and after connecting) to the &a.questions; or
the
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc news group, and someone
should point you in the right direction.Serial CommunicationsThis section answers common questions about serial
communications with FreeBSD. PPP and SLIP are covered in the
section.How do I tell if FreeBSD found my serial ports?As the FreeBSD kernel boots, it will probe for the serial
ports in your system for which the kernel was configured.
You can either watch your system closely for the messages it
prints or run the command&prompt.user; dmesg | grep sioafter your system is up and running.Here is some example output from the above command:sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550AThis shows two serial ports. The first is on irq 4, is
using port address 0x3f8, and has a
16550A-type UART chip. The second uses the same kind of chip
but is on irq 3 and is at port address 0x2f8.
Internal modem cards are treated just like serial ports---except
that they always have a modem attached to the
port.The GENERIC kernel includes support
for two serial ports using the same irq and port address
settings in the above example. If these settings are not
right for your system, or if you have added modem cards or have
more serial ports than your kernel is configured for, just
reconfigure your kernel. See section
about building a kernel for
more details.How do I tell if FreeBSD found my modem cards?Refer to the answer to the previous question.I just upgraded to 2.0.5 and my
tty0X
are missing! How do I solve this problem?Do not worry, they have been merged with the
ttydX devices. You will have to change
any old configuration files you have, though.How do I access the serial ports on FreeBSD?The third serial port,
sio2
(see &man.sio.4;, known as COM3 in DOS), is on /dev/cuaa2
for dial-out devices, and on /dev/ttyd2
for dial-in devices. What is the difference between these two
classes of devices?You use ttydX for dial-ins. When
opening /dev/ttydX in blocking mode, a
process will wait for the corresponding
cuaaX device to become inactive, and then
wait for the carrier detect line to go active. When you open
the cuaaX device, it makes sure the serial
port is not already in use by the ttydX
device. If the port is available, it steals it
from the ttydX device. Also, the
cuaaX device does not care about carrier
detect. With this scheme and an auto-answer modem, you can have
remote users log in and you can still dial out with the same
modem and the system will take care of all the
conflicts.How do I enable support for a multiport serial
card?Again, the section on kernel configuration provides
information about configuring your kernel. For a multiport
serial card, place an &man.sio.4; line
for each serial port on the card in the kernel configuration
file. But place the irq and vector specifiers on only one of
the entries. All of the ports on the card should share one irq.
For consistency, use the last serial port to specify the irq.
Also, specify the COM_MULTIPORT
option.The following example is for an AST 4-port serial card on
irq 7:options "COM_MULTIPORT"
device sio4 at isa? port 0x2a0 tty flags 0x781
device sio5 at isa? port 0x2a8 tty flags 0x781
device sio6 at isa? port 0x2b0 tty flags 0x781
device sio7 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x781 irq 7 vector siointrThe flags indicate that the master port has minor number 7
(0x700), diagnostics enabled during probe
(0x080), and all the ports share an irq
(0x001).Can FreeBSD handle multiport serial cards sharing
irqs?Not yet. You will have to use a different irq for each
card.Can I set the default serial parameters for a
port?The ttydX (or
cuaaX) device is the regular device
you will want to open for your applications. When a process
opens the device, it will have a default set of terminal I/O
settings. You can see these settings with the command&prompt.root; stty -a -f /dev/ttyd1When you change the settings to this device, the settings
are in effect until the device is closed. When it is reopened,
it goes back to the default set. To make changes to the
default set, you can open and adjust the settings of the
initial state device. For example, to turn on
CLOCAL mode, 8 bits, and
XON/XOFF flow control by default for
ttyd5, do:&prompt.root; stty -f /dev/ttyid5 clocal cs8 ixon ixoffA good place to do this is in
/etc/rc.serial. Now, an application will
have these settings by default when it opens
ttyd5. It can still change these settings
to its liking, though.You can also prevent certain settings from being changed
by an application by making adjustments to the
lock state device. For example, to lock the
speed of ttyd5 to 57600 bps, do&prompt.root; stty -f /dev/ttyld5 57600Now, an application that opens ttyd5
and tries to change the speed of the port will be stuck with
57600 bps.Naturally, you should make the initial state and lock state
devices writable only by root. The
&man.MAKEDEV.8;
script does NOT do this when it creates the
device entries.How can I enable dialup logins on my modem?So you want to become an Internet service provider, eh?
First, you will need one or more modems that can auto-answer.
Your modem will need to assert carrier-detect when it detects a
carrier and not assert it all the time. It will need to hang up
the phone and reset itself when the data terminal ready
(DTR) line goes from on to off. It should
probably use RTS/CTS flow control or no
local flow control at all. Finally, it must use a constant
speed between the computer and itself, but (to be nice to your
callers) it should negotiate a speed between itself and the
remote modem.For many Hayes command-set--compatible modems, this
command will make these settings and store them in
nonvolatile memory:AT &C1 &D3 &K3 &Q6 S0=1 &WSee the section on sending AT
commands below for information on how to make these
settings without resorting to an MS-DOS terminal program.Next, make an entry in
/etc/ttys (see &man.ttys.5;) for the modem. This file lists all the ports
on which the operating system will await logins. Add a line
that looks something like this:ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" dialup on insecureThis line indicates that the second serial port
(/dev/ttyd1) has a modem connected
running at 57600 bps and no parity
(std.57600, which comes from the file
/etc/gettytab, see &man.gettytab.5;).
The terminal type for this port is dialup.
The port is on and is
insecure---meaning root logins on the port
are not allowed. For dialin ports like this one, use the
ttydX entry.It is common practice to use dialup as
the terminal type. Many users set up in their .profile or
.login files a prompt for the actual terminal type if the
starting type is dialup. The example shows the port as
insecure. To become root on this port, you have to login as a
regular user, then &man.su.1; to become
root. If you use secure
then root can login in directly.After making modifications to
/etc/ttys, you need to send a hangup or
HUP signal to the
&man.init.8; process:&prompt.root; kill -HUP 1This forces the &man.init.8; process to reread
/etc/ttys. The init process will then start getty
processes on all on ports. You can find
out if logins are available for your port by typing&prompt.user; ps -ax | grep '[t]tyd1'You should see something like:747 ?? I 0:00.04 /usr/libexec/getty std.57600 ttyd1How can I connect a dumb terminal to my FreeBSD
box?If you are using another computer as a terminal into your
FreeBSD system, get a null modem cable to go between the two
serial ports. If you are using an actual terminal, see its
accompanying instructions.Then, modify
/etc/ttys (see &man.ttys.5;), like above. For example, if you are
hooking up a WYSE-50 terminal to the fifth serial port,
use an entry like this:ttyd4 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" wyse50 on secureThis example shows that the port on
/dev/ttyd4 has a wyse50 terminal
connected at 38400 bps with no parity
(std.38400 from
/etc/gettytab, see &man.gettytab.5;) and root logins are
allowed (secure).Why can I not run tip or
cu?On your system, the programs &man.tip.1;
and &man.cu.1;
are probably executable only by
uucp
and group dialer. You can use the group
dialer to control who has access to your
modem or remote systems. Just add yourself to group
dialer.Alternatively, you can let everyone on your system
run &man.tip.1; and &man.cu.1; by
typing:&prompt.root; chmod 4511 /usr/bin/cu
&prompt.root; chmod 4511 /usr/bin/tipMy stock Hayes modem is not supported---what
can I do?Actually, the man page for &man.tip.1; is
out of date. There is a generic Hayes dialer already built in.
Just use at=hayes in your
/etc/remote (see &man.remote.5;) file.The Hayes driver is not smart enough to recognize some of
the advanced features of newer modems---messages like
BUSY, NO DIALTONE, or
CONNECT 115200 will just confuse it. You
should turn those messages off when you use &man.tip.1;
(using ATX0&W).Also, the dial timeout for &man.tip.1; is 60
seconds. Your modem should use something less, or else tip
will think there is a communication problem. Try
ATS7=45&W.Actually, as shipped &man.tip.1; does not yet
support it fully. The solution is to edit the file
tipconf.h in the directory
/usr/src/usr.bin/tip/tip. Obviously you
need the source distribution to do this.Edit the line #define HAYES 0
to #define HAYES 1. Then
make and make install.
Everything works nicely after that.How am I expected to enter these AT commands?Make what is called a direct entry in your
/etc/remote file (see &man.remote.5;). For example, if your modem is hooked
up to the first serial port, /dev/cuaa0,
then put in the following line:cuaa0:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#19200:pa=noneUse the highest bps rate your modem supports in the br
capability. Then, type
tip cuaa0 (see &man.tip.1;)
and you will be connected to your modem.If there is no /dev/cuaa0 on your
system, do this:&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV cuaa0Or use cu as root with the following command:&prompt.root; cu -lline -sspeedwith line being the serial port (e.g.
/dev/cuaa0) and speed being the speed
(e.g.57600). When you are done entering
the AT commands hit ~. to exit.Why does the <@> sign for the pn
capability not work?The <@> sign in the phone number
capability tells tip to look in
/etc/phones for a phone number. But the
<@> sign is also a special character
in capability files like /etc/remote.
Escape it with a backslash:pn=\@How can I dial a phone number on the command
line?Put what is called a generic entry in your
/etc/remote file (see &man.remote.5;). For example:tip115200|Dial any phone number at 115200 bps:\
:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#115200:at=hayes:pa=none:du:
tip57600|Dial any phone number at 57600 bps:\
:dv=/dev/cuaa0:br#57600:at=hayes:pa=none:du:Then you can do something like tip -115200
5551234. If you prefer &man.cu.1;
over
&man.tip.1;, use a generic cu entry:cu115200|Use cu to dial any number at 115200bps:\
:dv=/dev/cuaa1:br#57600:at=hayes:pa=none:du:and type cu 5551234 -s 115200.Do I have to type in the bps rate every time I do
that?Put in an entry for tip1200 or
cu1200, but go ahead and use whatever bps
rate is appropriate with the br capability.
&man.tip.1;
thinks a good default is 1200 bps which is why it looks for
a tip1200 entry. You do not have to use 1200
bps, though.How can I more easily access a number of hosts through a
terminal server?Rather than waiting until you are connected and typing
CONNECT host
each time, use tip's cm capability. For
example, these entries in
/etc/remote (see &man.remote.5;):pain|pain.deep13.com|Forrester's machine:\
:cm=CONNECT pain\n:tc=deep13:
muffin|muffin.deep13.com|Frank's machine:\
:cm=CONNECT muffin\n:tc=deep13:
deep13:Gizmonics Institute terminal server:\
:dv=/dev/cuaa2:br#38400:at=hayes:du:pa=none:pn=5551234:will let you type tip pain or
tip muffin to connect to the hosts
pain or muffin; and
tip deep13 to get to the terminal
server.Can tip try more than one line for each site?This is often a problem where a university has several
modem lines and several thousand students trying to use
them...Make an entry for your university in
/etc/remote (see &man.remote.5;) and use <\@> for
the pn capability:big-university:\
:pn=\@:tc=dialout
dialout:\
:dv=/dev/cuaa3:br#9600:at=courier:du:pa=none:Then, list the phone numbers for the university in
/etc/phones (see &man.phones.5;):big-university 5551111
big-university 5551112
big-university 5551113
big-university 5551114&man.tip.1;
will try each one in the listed order, then give
up. If you want to keep retrying, run &man.tip.1;
in a while loop.Why do I have to hit CTRL+P twice to send CTRL+P
once?CTRL+P is the default force character,
used to tell &man.tip.1;
that the next character is literal data. You can set the
force character to any other character with the
~s escape, which means set a
variable.Type ~sforce=single-char
followed by a newline.
single-char is any single character.
If you leave out single-char,
then the force character is the nul character, which you can
get by typing CTRL+2 or CTRL+SPACE. A pretty good value for
single-char is SHIFT+CTRL+6, which
I have seen only used on some terminal servers.You can have the force character be whatever you want by
specifying the following in your
$HOME/.tiprc file:force=single-charWhy is everything I type suddenly in UPPER CASE?You must have pressed CTRL+A, &man.tip.1;
raise character, specially
designed for people with broken caps-lock keys. Use
~s as above and set the variable
raisechar to something reasonable. In fact,
you can set it to the same as the force character, if you
never expect to use either of these features.Here is a sample .tiprc file perfect for Emacs users who
need to type CTRL+2 and CTRL+A a lot:force=^^
raisechar=^^The ^^ is SHIFT+CTRL+6.How can I do file transfers with
tip?If you are talking to another Unix system, you can send
and receive files with ~p (put) and
~t (take). These commands run
&man.cat.1; and
&man.echo.1; on the remote system to accept and send files.
The syntax is:~p <local-file> [<remote-file>]
~t <remote-file> [<local-file>]There is no error checking, so you probably should use
another protocol, like zmodem.How can I run zmodem with
tip?First, install one of the zmodem programs from the
ports collection (such as one of the two from the comms
category, lrzsz or
rzsz.To receive files, start the sending program on the
remote end. Then, press enter and type
~C rz (or ~C lrz if you
installed lrzsz) to begin
receiving them locally.To send files, start the receiving program on the remote
end. Then, press enter and type
~C sz files
(or ~C lsz files)
to send them to the remote system.Why does FreeBSD not find my serial ports, even
when the settings are correct?Motherboards and cards with Acer UARTs do not probe
properly under the FreeBSD sio probe. Obtain a patch from
www.lemis.com to fix your problem.Miscellaneous QuestionsFreeBSD uses far more swap space than Linux. Why?FreeBSD only appears to use more swap than Linux. In
actual fact, it does not. The main difference between FreeBSD
and Linux in this regard is that FreeBSD will proactively move
entirely idle, unused pages of main memory into swap in order
to make more main memory available for active use. Linux tends
to only move pages to swap as a last resort. The perceived
heavier use of swap is balanced by the more efficient use of
main memory.Note that while FreeBSD is proactive in this regard, it
does not arbitrarily decide to swap pages when the system is
truly idle. Thus you will not find your system all paged
out when you get up in the morning after leaving it idle
overnight.Why does top show very little free memory even
when I have very few programs running?The simple answer is that free memory is wasted
memory. Any memory that your programs do not actively
allocate is used within the FreeBSD kernel as disk
cache. The values shown by &man.top.1; labeled as
Inact, Cache, and
Buf are all cached data at different
aging levels. This cached data means the system does
not have to access a slow disk again for data it has
accessed recently, thus increasing overall performance.
In general, a low value shown for Free
memory in &man.top.1; is good, provided it is not
very low.Why use (what are) a.out and ELF executable
formats?To understand why FreeBSD uses the
ELF format, you must first know a little
about the 3 currently dominant executable
formats for Unix:Prior to FreeBSD 3.x, FreeBSD used the a.out
format.&man.a.out.5;The oldest and classic Unix object
format. It uses a short and compact header with a magic
number at the beginning that is often used to
characterize the format (see
&man.a.out.5; for more details). It contains three
loaded segments: .text, .data, and .bss plus a symbol
table and a string table.COFFThe SVR3 object format. The header now comprises
a section table, so you can have more than just .text,
.data, and .bss sections.ELFThe successor to COFF, featuring
Multiple sections and 32-bit or 64-bit possible values.
One major drawback: ELF was also
designed with the assumption that there would be only
one ABI per system architecture. That assumption is
actually quite incorrect, and not even in the
commercial SYSV world (which has at least three ABIs:
SVR4, Solaris, SCO) does it hold true.FreeBSD tries to work around this problem somewhat
by providing a utility for branding
a known ELF executable with
information about the ABI it is compliant with. See the
man page for &man.brandelf.1;
for more information.FreeBSD comes from the classic camp and has
traditionally used the &man.a.out.5;
format, a technology tried and proven through
many generations of BSD releases. Though it has also been
possible for some time to build and run native
ELF binaries (and kernels) on a FreeBSD
system, FreeBSD initially resisted the push to
switch to ELF as the default format. Why?
Well, when the Linux camp made their painful transition to
ELF, it was not so much to flee the
a.out executable format as it was their
inflexible jump-table based shared library mechanism, which
made the construction of shared libraries very difficult for
vendors and developers alike. Since the ELF
tools available offered a solution to the shared library
problem and were generally seen as the way
forward anyway, the migration cost was accepted as
necessary and the transition made.In FreeBSD's case, our shared library mechanism is based
more closely on Sun's SunOS-style
shared library mechanism and, as such, is very easy to use.
However, starting with 3.0, FreeBSD officially supports
ELF binaries as the default format. Even
though the a.out executable format has
served us well, the GNU people, who author the compiler tools
we use, have dropped support for the a.out
format. This has forced us to maintain a divergent version of
the compiler and linker, and has kept us from reaping the
benefits of the latest GNU development efforts. Also the
demands of ISO-C++, notably constructors and destructors, has
also led to native ELF support in future
FreeBSD releases.Yes, but why are there so many different formats?Back in the dim, dark past, there was simple hardware.
This simple hardware supported a simple, small system. a.out
was completely adequate for the job of representing binaries on
this simple system (a PDP-11). As people ported Unix from this
simple system, they retained the a.out format because it was
sufficient for the early ports of Unix to architectures like
the Motorola 68k, VAXen, etc.Then some bright hardware engineer decided that if he
could force software to do some sleazy tricks, then he would be
able to shave a few gates off the design and allow his CPU core
to run faster. While it was made to work with this new kind of
hardware (known these days as RISC), a.out
was ill-suited for this hardware, so many formats were
developed to get to a better performance from this hardware
than the limited, simple a.out format
could offer. Things like COFF,
ECOFF, and a few obscure others were
invented and their limitations explored before things seemed to
settle on ELF.In addition, program sizes were getting huge and disks
(and physical memory) were still relatively small so the
concept of a shared library was born. The VM system also became
more sophisticated. While each one of these advancements was
done using the a.out format, its
usefulness was stretched more and more with each new feature.
In addition, people wanted to dynamically load things at run
time, or to junk parts of their program after the init code had
run to save in core memory and/or swap space. Languages became
more sophisticated and people wanted code called before main
automatically. Lots of hacks were done to the
a.out format to allow all of these things
to happen, and they basically worked for a time. In time,
a.out was not up to handling all these
problems without an ever increasing overhead in code and
complexity. While ELF solved many of these
problems, it would be painful to switch from the system that
basically worked. So ELF had to wait until
it was more painful to remain with a.out
than it was to migrate to ELF.However, as time passed, the build tools that FreeBSD
derived their build tools from (the assembler and loader
especially) evolved in two parallel trees. The FreeBSD tree
added shared libraries and fixed some bugs. The GNU folks that
originally write these programs rewrote them and added simpler
support for building cross compilers, plugging in different
formats at will, etc. Since many people wanted to build cross
compilers targeting FreeBSD, they were out of luck since the
older sources that FreeBSD had for as and ld were not up to the
task. The new gnu tools chain (binutils) does support cross
compiling, ELF, shared libraries, C++
extensions, etc. In addition, many vendors are releasing
ELF binaries, and it is a good thing for
FreeBSD to run them. And if it is running
ELF binaries, why bother having
a.out any more? It is a tired old horse
that has proven useful for a long time, but it is time to turn
him out to pasture for his long, faithful years of
service.ELF is more expressive than a.out and
will allow more extensibility in the base system. The
ELF tools are better maintained, and offer
cross compilation support, which is important to many people.
ELF may be a little slower than a.out, but
trying to measure it can be difficult. There are also numerous
details that are different between the two in how they map
pages, handle init code, etc. None of these are very important,
but they are differences. In time support for
a.out will be moved out of the GENERIC
kernel, and eventually removed from the kernel once the need to
run legacy a.out programs is past.Why will chmod not change the permissions on symlinks?Symlinks do not have permissions, and by default,
&man.chmod.1; will not follow symlinks to change the
permissions on the target file. So if you have a file,
foo, and a symlink to that file,
bar, then this command will always
succeed.&prompt.user; chmod g-w barHowever, the permissions on foo will
not have changed.You have to use either or
together with the
option to make this work. See the
&man.chmod.1; and &man.symlink.7;
man pages for more info.The option does a
RECURSIVE
&man.chmod.1;. Be careful about
specifying directories or symlinks to directories to
&man.chmod.1;. If you want to
change the permissions of a directory referenced by a
symlink, use &man.chmod.1;
without any options and follow the symlink
with a trailing slash (/). For
example, if foo is a symlink to
directory bar, and you want to change
the permissions of foo (actually
bar), you would do something
like:&prompt.user; chmod 555 foo/With the trailing slash, &man.chmod.1;
will follow the symlink,
foo, to change the permissions of the
directory, bar.Why are login names restricted to 8 characters or less
in FreeBSD 2.2.X and earlier?You would think it would be easy enough to change
UT_NAMESIZE and rebuild the whole world,
and everything would just work. Unfortunately there are often
scads of applications and utilities (including system tools)
that have hard-coded small numbers (not always
8 or 9, but oddball ones
like 15 and 20) in
structures and buffers. Not only will this get you log files
which are trashed (due to variable-length records getting
written when fixed records were expected), but it can break
Suns NIS clients and potentially cause other problems in
interacting with other Unix systems.In FreeBSD 3.0 and later, the maximum name length has
been increased to 16 characters and those various utilities
with hard-coded name sizes have been found and fixed. The fact
that this touched so many areas of the system is why, in fact,
the change was not made until 3.0.If you are absolutely confident in your ability to find
and fix these sorts of problems for yourself when and if they
pop up, you can increase the login name length in earlier
releases by editing /usr/include/utmp.h and changing
UT_NAMESIZE accordingly. You must also update MAXLOGNAME in
/usr/include/sys/param.h to match the UT_NAMESIZE change.
Finally, if you build from sources, do not forget that
/usr/include is updated each time! Change the appropriate files
in /usr/src/.. instead.Can I run DOS binaries under FreeBSD?Yes, starting with version 3.0 you can using BSDI's
doscmd DOS emulation which has
been integrated and enhanced. Send mail to the &a.emulation;
if you are interested in joining this ongoing effort!For pre-3.0 systems, there is a neat utility called
pcemu in the ports collection which emulates an 8088
and enough BIOS services to run DOS text mode applications.
It requires the X Window System (provided as XFree86).What do I need to do to translate a FreeBSD document into
my native language?See the
Translation FAQ in the FreeBSD Documentation Project
Primer.Why does my email to any address at FreeBSD.org bounce?The FreeBSD.org mail system rejects mail that is
either misconfigured or is potential spam. Your mail
might bounce for one of the following reasons:The email is being sent from a known spam
domain or IP block.The FreeBSD mail servers reject email from known
spam sources. If you have service through a company
or domain who generates or relays spam, please switch
to a service provider who does not.The body of the email only contains HTML.Mail should be sent in plain text only. Please
configure your mail user agent to send plain
text.The mailer at FreeBSD.org cannot resolve the IP
address of the connecting host back to a symbolic
name.Working reverse DNS is a standard requirement for
accepting mail from a host. Set up reverse DNS for
your mail server's IP address. Many home services
(DSL, cable, dialup, etc.) will not give you this
option. In this case, relay your email through your
service provider's mail server.Where can I find a free FreeBSD account?While FreeBSD does not provide open access to any of their
servers, others do provide open access Unix systems. The
charge varies and limited services may be available.Arbornet,
Inc, also known as M-Net, has been providing open
access to Unix systems since 1983. Starting on an Altos
running System III, the site switched to BSD/OS in 1991. In
June of 2000, the site switched again to FreeBSD. M-Net can be
accessed via telnet and SSH and provides basic access to the
entire FreeBSD software suite. However, network access is
limited to members and patrons who donate to the system, which
is run as a non-profit organization. M-Net also provides an
bulletin board system and interactive chat.Grex provides a
site very similar to M-Net including the same bulletin board
and interactive chat software. However, the machine is a Sun
4M and is running SunOSWhat is sup, and how do I use
it?
SUP stands for Software Update Protocol, and was
developed by CMU for keeping their development trees in sync.
We used it to keep remote sites in sync with our central
development sources.SUP is not bandwidth friendly, and has been retired.
The current recommended method to keep your sources up to
date is
CVSupWhat is the cute little red guy's name?He does not have one, and is just called the BSD
daemon. If you insist upon using a name, call him
beastie. Note that beastie
is pronounced BSD.You can learn more about the BSD daemon on his home
page.Can I use the BSD daemon image?Perhaps. The BSD daemon is copyrighted by Marshall
Kirk McKusick. You will want to check his Statement
on the Use of the BSD Daemon Figure for detailed
usage terms.In summary, you are free to use the image in a tasteful
manner, for personal use, so long as appropriate credit is
given. If you want to use him commercially, you must
contact Kirk McKusick. More details are available on the
BSD
Daemon's home page.Do you have any BSD daemon images I could use?You will find eps and Xfig drawings under
/usr/share/examples/BSD_daemon/.What does MFC mean?MFC is an acronym for Merged From -CURRENT.
It is used in the CVS logs to denote when a change was
migrated from the CURRENT to the STABLE branches.What does BSD mean?It stands for something in a secret language that only
members can know. It does not translate literally but its ok
to tell you that BSD's translation is something between,
Formula-1 Racing Team, Penguins are
tasty snacks, and We have a better sense of
humor than Linux. :-)Seriously, BSD is an acronym for Berkeley
Software Distribution, which is the name the
Berkeley CSRG (Computer Systems Research
Group) chose for their Unix distribution way back when.What is a repo-copy?A repo-copy (which is a short form of repository
copy) refers to the direct copying of files within
the CVS repository.Without a repo-copy, if a file needed to be copied or
moved to another place in the repository, the committer would
run cvs add to put the file in its new
location, and then cvs rm on the old file
if the old copy was being removed.The disadvantage of this method is that the history
(i.e. the entries in the CVS logs) of the file would not be
copied to the new location. As the FreeBSD Project considers
this history very useful, a repository copy is often used
instead. This is a process where one of the repository meisters
will copy the files directly within the repository, rather than
using the &man.cvs.1; program.Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?The really, really short answer is that you should not.
The somewhat longer answer is that just because you are
capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop
others from building one just because you do not like the
color they plan to paint it. This is a metaphor indicating
that you need not argue about every little feature just
because you know enough to do so. Some people have
commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is
inversely proportional to the complexity of the
change.The longer and more complete answer is that after a very
long argument about whether &man.sleep.1; should take
fractional second arguments, &a.phk; posted a long
message entitled A bike
shed (any colour will do) on greener grass....
The appropriate portions of that message are quoted
below.
&a.phk; on freebsd-hackers, October
2, 1999What is it about this bike shed? Some
of you have asked me.It is a long story, or rather it is an old story, but
it is quite short actually. C. Northcote Parkinson wrote
a book in the early 1960s, called Parkinson's
Law, which contains a lot of insight into the
dynamics of management.[snip a bit of commentary on the book]In the specific example involving the bike shed, the
other vital component is an atomic power-plant, I guess
that illustrates the age of the book.Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of
directors and get approval for building a multi-million or
even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to
build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless
discussions.Parkinson explains that this is because an atomic
plant is so vast, so expensive and so complicated that
people cannot grasp it, and rather than try, they fall
back on the assumption that somebody else checked all the
details before it got this far. Richard P. Feynmann
gives a couple of interesting, and very much to the point,
examples relating to Los Alamos in his books.A bike shed on the other hand. Anyone can build one
of those over a weekend, and still have time to watch the
game on TV. So no matter how well prepared, no matter how
reasonable you are with your proposal, somebody will seize
the chance to show that he is doing his job, that he is
paying attention, that he is
here.In Denmark we call it setting your
fingerprint. It is about personal pride and
prestige, it is about being able to point somewhere and
say There! I did that.
It is a strong trait in politicians, but present in most
people given the chance. Just think about footsteps in
wet cement.
The FreeBSD FunniesHow cool is FreeBSD?Q. Has anyone done any temperature testing while
running FreeBSD? I know Linux runs cooler than DOS, but have
never seen a mention of FreeBSD. It seems to run really
hot.A. No, but we have done numerous taste tests on
blindfolded volunteers who have also had 250 micrograms of
LSD-25 administered beforehand. 35% of the volunteers said that
FreeBSD tasted sort of orange, whereas Linux tasted like purple
haze. Neither group mentioned any significant variances in
temperature. We eventually had to throw the
results of this survey out entirely anyway when we found that
too many volunteers were wandering out of the room during the
tests, thus skewing the results. We think most of the volunteers
are at Apple now, working on their new scratch and
sniff GUI. It is a funny old business we are in!Seriously, both FreeBSD and Linux use the
HLT (halt) instruction when the system is
idle thus lowering its energy consumption and therefore the
heat it generates. Also if you have APM (advanced power
management) configured, then FreeBSD can also put the CPU into
a low power mode.Who is scratching in my memory banks??Q. Is there anything odd that FreeBSD
does when compiling the kernel which would cause the memory to
make a scratchy sound? When compiling (and for a brief moment
after recognizing the floppy drive upon startup, as well), a
strange scratchy sound emanates from what appears to be the
memory banks.A. Yes! You will see frequent references to
daemons in the BSD documentation, and what most
people do not know is that this refers to genuine, non-corporeal
entities that now possess your computer. The scratchy sound
coming from your memory is actually high-pitched whispering
exchanged among the daemons as they best decide how to deal
with various system administration tasks.If the noise gets to you, a good
fdisk /mbr from DOS will get rid of them,
but do not be surprised if they react adversely and try to stop
you. In fact, if at any point during the exercise you hear the
satanic voice of Bill Gates coming from the built-in speaker,
take off running and do not ever look back! Freed from the
counterbalancing influence of the BSD daemons, the twin demons
of DOS and Windows are often able to re-assert total control
over your machine to the eternal damnation of your soul.
Now that you know, given a choice you would probably prefer to get
used to the scratchy noises, no?How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a
lightbulb?One thousand, one hundred and seventy-two:Twenty-three to complain to -CURRENT about the lights
being out;Four to claim that it is a configuration problem, and
that such matters really belong on -questions;Three to submit PRs about it, one of which is misfiled
under doc and consists only of "it's dark";One to commit an untested lightbulb which breaks
buildworld, then back it out five minutes later;Eight to flame the PR originators for not including
patches in their PRs;Five to complain about buildworld being broken;Thirty-one to answer that it works for them, and they
must have cvsupped at a bad time;One to post a patch for a new lightbulb to -hackers;One to complain that he had patches for this three years
ago, but when he sent them to -CURRENT they were just ignored,
and he has had bad experiences with the PR system; besides,
the proposed new lightbulb is non-reflexive;Thirty-seven to scream that lightbulbs do not belong in
the base system, that committers have no right to do things
like this without consulting the Community, and WHAT IS
-CORE DOING ABOUT IT!?Two hundred to complain about the color of the bicycle
shed;Three to point out that the patch breaks &man.style.9;;Seventeen to complain that the proposed new lightbulb is
under GPL;Five hundred and eighty-six to engage in a flame war
about the comparative advantages of the GPL, the BSD
license, the MIT license, the NPL, and the personal hygiene
of unnamed FSF founders;Seven to move various portions of the thread to -chat
and -advocacy;One to commit the suggested lightbulb, even though it
shines dimmer than the old one;Two to back it out with a furious flame of a commit
message, arguing that FreeBSD is better off in the dark than
with a dim lightbulb;Forty-six to argue vociferously about the backing out
of the dim lightbulb and demanding a statement from
-core;Eleven to request a smaller lightbulb so it will fit
their Tamagotchi if we ever decide to port FreeBSD to that
platform;Seventy-three to complain about the SNR on -hackers and
-chat and unsubscribe in protest;Thirteen to post "unsubscribe", "How do I unsubscribe?",
or "Please remove me from the list", followed by the usual
footer;One to commit a working lightbulb while everybody is too
busy flaming everybody else to notice;Thirty-one to point out that the new lightbulb would shine
0.364% brighter if compiled with TenDRA (although it will have
to be reshaped into a cube), and that FreeBSD should therefore
switch to TenDRA instead of EGCS;One to complain that the new lightbulb lacks
fairings;Nine (including the PR originators) to ask
"what is MFC?";Fifty-seven to complain about the lights being out two
weeks after the bulb has been changed.&a.nik; adds:I was laughing quite hard at
this.And then I thought,
"Hang on, shouldn't there be '1 to document it.' in that list somewhere?"And then I was enlightened :-)Where does data written to /dev/null
go?It goes into a special data sink in the CPU where it
is converted to heat which is vented through the heatsink
/ fan assembly. This is why CPU cooling is increasingly
important; as people get used to faster processors, they
become careless with their data and more and more of it
ends up in /dev/null, overheating
their CPUs. If you delete /dev/null
(which effectively disables the CPU data sink) your CPU
may run cooler but your system will quickly become
constipated with all that excess data and start to behave
erratically. If you have a fast network connection you
can cool down your CPU by reading data out of
/dev/random and sending it off
somewhere; however you run the risk of overheating your
network connection and / or angering
your ISP, as most of the data will end up getting
converted to heat by their equipment, but they generally
have good cooling, so if you do not overdo it you should be
OK.Paul Robinson adds:There are other methods. As every good sysadmin knows,
it is part of standard practise to send data to the screen
of interesting variety to keep all the pixies that make up
your picture happy. Screen pixies (commonly mis-typed or
re-named as 'pixels') are categorised by the type of hat
they wear (red, green or blue) and will hide or appear
(thereby showing the colour of their hat) whenever they
receive a little piece of food. Video cards turn data into
pixie-food, and then send them to the pixies - the more
expensive the card, the better the food, so the better
behaved the pixies are. They also need constant simulation
- this is why screen savers exist.To take your suggestions further, you could just throw
the random data to console, thereby letting the pixies
consume it. This causes no heat to be produced at all,
keeps the pixies happy and gets rid of your data quite
quickly, even if it does make things look a bit messy on
your screen.Incidentally, as an ex-admin of a large ISP who
experienced many problems attempting to maintain a stable
temperature in a server room, I would strongly discourage
people sending the data they do not want out to the
network. The fairies who do the packet switching and
routing get annoyed by it as well.Advanced TopicsHow can I learn more about FreeBSD's internals?At this time, there is no book on FreeBSD-specific OS
internals. Much general UNIX knowledge is directly
applicable to FreeBSD, however. Additionally, there are
BSD-specific books that are still relevant.For a list, please check the Handbook's Operating
System Internals Bibliography.How can I contribute to FreeBSD?Please see the article on Contributing
to FreeBSD for specific advice on how to do this.
Assistance is more than welcome!What are SNAPs and RELEASEs?There are currently three active/semi-active branches
in the FreeBSD
CVS Repository (the RELENG_2 branch is probably
only changed twice a year, which is why there are only three
active branches of development):RELENG_2_2 AKA
2.2-STABLERELENG_3 AKA
3.X-STABLERELENG_4 AKA
4-STABLEHEAD AKA
-CURRENT AKA
5.0-CURRENTHEAD is not an actual branch tag,
like the other two; it is simply a symbolic constant for
the current, non-branched development
stream which we simply refer to as
-CURRENT.Right now, -CURRENT is the 5.0 development
stream and the 4-STABLE branch,
RELENG_4, forked off from
-CURRENT in Mar 2000.The 2.2-STABLE branch,
RELENG_2_2, departed -CURRENT in November
1996, and has pretty much been retired.How do I make my own custom release?Please see the
Release Engineering article.Why does make world clobber my existing
installed binaries?Yes, this is the general idea; as its name might suggest,
make world rebuilds every system binary from
scratch, so you can be certain of having a clean and consistent
environment at the end (which is why it takes so long).If the environment variable DESTDIR
is defined while running make world or
make install, the newly-created binaries
will be deposited in a directory tree identical to the
installed one, rooted at ${DESTDIR}.
Some random combination of shared libraries modifications and
program rebuilds can cause this to fail in make
world however.Why does my system say (bus speed
defaulted) when it boots?The Adaptec 1542 SCSI host adapters allow the user to
configure their bus access speed in software. Previous versions
of the 1542 driver tried to determine the fastest usable speed
and set the adapter to that. We found that this breaks some
users' systems, so you now have to define the
TUNE_1542 kernel configuration option in order
to have this take place. Using it on those systems where it
works may make your disks run faster, but on those systems
where it does not, your data could be corrupted.Can I follow current with limited Internet access?Yes, you can do this without
downloading the whole source tree by using the CTM facility.How did you split the distribution into 240k files?Newer BSD based systems have a
option to split that allows them to split files on arbitrary
byte boundaries.Here is an example from
/usr/src/Makefile.bin-tarball:
(cd ${DISTDIR}; \
tar cf - . \
gzip --no-name -9 -c | \
split -b 240640 - \
${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)I have written a kernel extension, who do I send it
to?Please take a look at the article on Contributing
to FreeBSD to learn how to submit code.And thanks for the thought!How are Plug N Play ISA cards detected and
initialized?By: Frank Durda IV
uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.orgIn a nutshell, there a few I/O ports that all of the
PnP boards respond to when the host asks if anyone is out
there. So when the PnP probe routine starts, he asks if there
are any PnP boards present, and all the PnP boards respond with
their model # to a I/O read of the same port, so the probe
routine gets a wired-OR yes to that question. At
least one bit will be on in that reply. Then the probe code is
able to cause boards with board model IDs (assigned by
Microsoft/Intel) lower than X to go off-line. It
then looks to see if any boards are still responding to the
query. If the answer was 0, then there are
no boards with IDs above X. Now probe asks if there are any
boards below X. If so, probe knows there are
boards with a model numbers below X. Probe then asks for boards
greater than X-(limit/4) to go off-line. If repeats the query.
By repeating this semi-binary search of IDs-in-range enough
times, the probing code will eventually identify all PnP boards
present in a given machine with a number of iterations that is
much lower than what 2^64 would take.The IDs are two 32-bit fields (hence 2ˆ64) + 8 bit
checksum. The first 32 bits are a vendor identifier. They never
come out and say it, but it appears to be assumed that
different types of boards from the same vendor could have
different 32-bit vendor ids. The idea of needing 32 bits just
for unique manufacturers is a bit excessive.The lower 32 bits are a serial #, Ethernet address,
something that makes this one board unique. The vendor must
never produce a second board that has the same lower 32 bits
unless the upper 32 bits are also different. So you can have
multiple boards of the same type in the machine and the full 64
bits will still be unique.The 32 bit groups can never be all zero. This allows the
wired-OR to show non-zero bits during the initial binary
search.Once the system has identified all the board IDs present,
it will reactivate each board, one at a time (via the same I/O
ports), and find out what resources the given board needs, what
interrupt choices are available, etc. A scan is made over all
the boards to collect this information.This info is then combined with info from any ECU files
on the hard disk or wired into the MLB BIOS. The ECU and BIOS
PnP support for hardware on the MLB is usually synthetic, and
the peripherals do not really do genuine PnP. However by
examining the BIOS info plus the ECU info, the probe routines
can cause the devices that are PnP to avoid those devices the
probe code cannot relocate.Then the PnP devices are visited once more and given
their I/O, DMA, IRQ and Memory-map address assignments. The
devices will then appear at those locations and remain there
until the next reboot, although there is nothing that says you
cannot move them around whenever you want.There is a lot of oversimplification above, but you
should get the general idea.Microsoft took over some of the primary printer status
ports to do PnP, on the logic that no boards decoded those
addresses for the opposing I/O cycles. I found a genuine IBM
printer board that did decode writes of the status port during
the early PnP proposal review period, but MS said
tough. So they do a write to the printer status
port for setting addresses, plus that use that address +
0x800, and a third I/O port for reading that
can be located anywhere between 0x200 and
0x3ff.Can you assign a major number for a device driver I have
written?This depends on whether or not you plan on making the
driver publicly available. If you do, then please send us a
copy of the driver source code, plus the appropriate
modifications to files.i386, a
sample configuration file entry, and the appropriate
&man.MAKEDEV.8;
code to create any special files your device uses. If you do
not, or are unable to because of licensing restrictions, then
character major number 32 and block major number 8 have been
reserved specifically for this purpose; please use them. In any
case, we would appreciate hearing about your driver on
&a.hackers;.What about alternative layout policies for
directories?In answer to the question of alternative layout policies
for directories, the scheme that is currently in use is
unchanged from what I wrote in 1983. I wrote that policy for
the original fast filesystem, and never revisited it. It works
well at keeping cylinder groups from filling up. As several of
you have noted, it works poorly for find. Most filesystems are
created from archives that were created by a depth first search
(aka ftw). These directories end up being striped across the
cylinder groups thus creating a worst possible scenario for
future depth first searches. If one knew the total number of
directories to be created, the solution would be to create
(total / fs_ncg) per cylinder group before moving on.
Obviously, one would have to create some heuristic to guess at
this number. Even using a small fixed number like say 10 would
make an order of magnitude improvement. To differentiate
restores from normal operation (when the current algorithm is
probably more sensible), you could use the clustering of up to
10 if they were all done within a ten second window. Anyway, my
conclusion is that this is an area ripe for
experimentation.Kirk McKusick, September 1998How can I make the most of the data I see when my kernel
panics?[This section was extracted from a mail
written by &a.wpaul; on the freebsd-current
mailing list by &a.des;, who
fixed a few typos and added the bracketed comments]
From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: the fs fun never stops
To: Ben Rosengart
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:22:50 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: current@FreeBSD.orgBen Rosengart posted the following
panic message]> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address = 0x40
> fault code = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf014a7e5
^^^^^^^^^^
> stack pointer = 0x10:0xf4ed6f24
> frame pointer = 0x10:0xf4ed6f28
> code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process = 80 (mount)
> interrupt mask =
> trap number = 12
> panic: page fault[When] you see a message like this, it is not enough to just
reproduce it and send it in. The instruction pointer value that
I highlighted up there is important; unfortunately, it is also
configuration dependent. In other words, the value varies
depending on the exact kernel image that you are using. If
you are using a GENERIC kernel image from one of the snapshots,
then it is possible for somebody else to track down the
offending function, but if you are running a custom kernel then
only you can tell us where the fault
occurred.What you should do is this:Write down the instruction pointer value. Note that
the 0x8: part at the beginning is not
significant in this case: it is the
0xf0xxxxxx part that we want.When the system reboots, do the following:
&prompt.user; nm -n /kernel.that.caused.the.panic | grep f0xxxxxx
where f0xxxxxx is the instruction
pointer value. The odds are you will not get an exact
match since the symbols in the kernel symbol table are
for the entry points of functions and the instruction
pointer address will be somewhere inside a function, not
at the start. If you do not get an exact match, omit the
last digit from the instruction pointer value and try
again, i.e.:
&prompt.user; nm -n /kernel.that.caused.the.panic | grep f0xxxxx
If that does not yield any results, chop off another
digit. Repeat until you get some sort of output. The
result will be a possible list of functions which caused
the panic. This is a less than exact mechanism for
tracking down the point of failure, but it is better than
nothing.I see people constantly show panic messages like this
but rarely do I see someone take the time to match up the
instruction pointer with a function in the kernel symbol
table.The best way to track down the cause of a panic is by
capturing a crash dump, then using
&man.gdb.1; to generate a stack trace on the
crash dump.In any case, the method I normally use is this:Set up a kernel config file, optionally adding
options DDB if you think you need
the kernel debugger for something. (I use this mainly
for setting breakpoints if I suspect an infinite loop
condition of some kind.)Use config -g
KERNELCONFIG to set
up the build directory.cd /sys/compile/
KERNELCONFIG; make
Wait for kernel to finish compiling.make installrebootThe &man.make.1; process will have built two kernels.
kernel and
kernel.debug. kernel
was installed as /kernel, while
kernel.debug can be used as the source of
debugging symbols for &man.gdb.1;.To make sure you capture a crash dump, you need edit
/etc/rc.conf and set
dumpdev to point to your swap
partition. This will cause the &man.rc.8; scripts
to use the &man.dumpon.8; command to enable crash
dumps. You can also run &man.dumpon.8; manually.
After a panic, the crash dump can be recovered using
&man.savecore.8;; if
dumpdev is set in
/etc/rc.conf, the &man.rc.8;
scripts will run &man.savecore.8; automatically
and put the crash dump in
/var/crash.FreeBSD crash dumps are usually the same size as the
physical RAM size of your machine. That is, if you have
64MB of RAM, you will get a 64MB crash dump. Therefore you
must make sure there is enough space in
/var/crash to hold the dump.
Alternatively, you run &man.savecore.8;
manually and have it recover the crash dump to another
directory where you have more room. It is possible to limit
the size of the crash dump by using options
MAXMEM=(foo) to set the amount of memory the
kernel will use to something a little more sensible. For
example, if you have 128MB of RAM, you can limit the
kernel's memory usage to 16MB so that your crash dump size
will be 16MB instead of 128MB.Once you have recovered the crash dump, you can get a
stack trace with &man.gdb.1; as follows:&prompt.user; gdb -k /sys/compile/KERNELCONFIG/kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0(gdb)whereNote that there may be several screens worth of
information; ideally you should use
&man.script.1; to capture all of them. Using the
unstripped kernel image with all the debug symbols should show
the exact line of kernel source code where the panic occurred.
Usually you have to read the stack trace from the bottom up in
order to trace the exact sequence of events that lead to the
crash. You can also use &man.gdb.1; to print out
the contents of various variables or structures in order to
examine the system state at the time of the crash.Now, if you are really insane and have a second computer,
you can also configure &man.gdb.1; to do remote
debugging such that you can use &man.gdb.1; on
one system to debug the kernel on another system, including
setting breakpoints, single-stepping through the kernel code,
just like you can do with a normal user-mode program. I have not
played with this yet as I do not often have the chance to set up
two machines side by side for debugging purposes.[Bill adds: "I forgot to mention one thing: if
you have DDB enabled and the kernel drops into the debugger,
you can force a panic (and a crash dump) just by typing 'panic'
at the ddb prompt. It may stop in the debugger again during the
panic phase. If it does, type 'continue' and it will finish the
crash dump." -ed]Why has dlsym() stopped working for ELF executables?The ELF toolchain does not, by default, make the symbols
defined in an executable visible to the dynamic linker.
Consequently dlsym() searches on handles
obtained from calls to dlopen(NULL,
flags) will fail to find such symbols.If you want to search, using dlsym(),
for symbols present in the main executable of a process, you
need to link the executable using the
option to the
ELF
linker (&man.ld.1;).How can I increase or reduce the kernel address space?By default, the kernel address space is 256 MB on
FreeBSD 3.x and 1 GB on FreeBSD 4.x. If you run a
network-intensive server (e.g. a large FTP or HTTP server),
you might find that 256 MB is not enough.So how do you increase the address space? There are two
aspects to this. First, you need to tell the kernel to reserve
a larger portion of the address space for itself. Second, since
the kernel is loaded at the top of the address space, you need
to lower the load address so it does not bump its head against
the ceiling.The first goal is achieved by increasing the value of
NKPDE in
src/sys/i386/include/pmap.h. Here is what
it looks like for a 1 GB address space:#ifndef NKPDE
#ifdef SMP
#define NKPDE 254 /* addressable number of page tables/pde's */
#else
#define NKPDE 255 /* addressable number of page tables/pde's */
#endif /* SMP */
#endifTo find the correct value of NKPDE,
divide the desired address space size (in megabytes) by four,
then subtract one for UP and two for SMP.To achieve the second goal, you need to compute the
correct load address: simply subtract the address space size
(in bytes) from 0x100100000; the result is 0xc0100000 for a 1
GB address space. Set LOAD_ADDRESS in
src/sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 to that
value; then set the location counter in the beginning of the
section listing in
src/sys/i386/conf/kernel.script to the
same value, as follows:OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386", "elf32-i386")
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
ENTRY(btext)
SEARCH_DIR(/usr/lib); SEARCH_DIR(/usr/obj/elf/home/src/tmp/usr/i386-unknown-freebsdelf/lib);
SECTIONS
{
/* Read-only sections, merged into text segment: */
. = 0xc0100000 + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
.interp : { *(.interp) }Then reconfig and rebuild your kernel. You will probably
have problems with &man.ps.1;
&man.top.1; and the like; make
world should take care of it (or a manual rebuild of
libkvm,
&man.ps.1; and &man.top.1;
after copying the patched pmap.h to
/usr/include/vm/.NOTE: the size of the kernel address space must be a
multiple of four megabytes.[&a.dg; adds: I think the kernel address space
needs to be a power of two, but I am not certain about that. The
old(er) boot code used to monkey with the high order address bits
and I think expected at least 256MB
granularity.]Acknowledgments
FreeBSD Core TeamIf you see a problem with this FAQ, or wish to submit an
entry, please mail the &a.faq;. We appreciate your feedback,
and cannot make this a better FAQ without your help!
&a.jkh;Occasional fits of FAQ-reshuffling and updating.&a.dwhite;Services above and beyond the call of duty on
freebsd-questions&a.joerg;Services above and beyond the call of duty on
Usenet&a.wollman;Networking and formattingJim LoweMulticast information&a.pds;FreeBSD FAQ typing machine slaveyThe FreeBSD TeamKvetching, moaning, submitting dataAnd to any others we have forgotten, apologies and heartfelt
thanks!
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SGML PrimerThe majority of FDP documentation is written in applications of
SGML. This chapter explains exactly what that means, how to read
and understand the source to the documentation, and the sort of SGML
tricks you will see used in the documentation.Portions of this section were inspired by Mark Galassi's Get Going With DocBook.OverviewWay back when, electronic text was simple to deal with. Admittedly,
you had to know which character set your document was written in (ASCII,
EBCDIC, or one of a number of others) but that was about it. Text was
text, and what you saw really was what you got. No frills, no
formatting, no intelligence.Inevitably, this was not enough. Once you have text in a
machine-usable format, you expect machines to be able to use it and
manipulate it intelligently. You would like to indicate that certain
phrases should be emphasised, or added to a glossary, or be hyperlinks.
You might want filenames to be shown in a typewriter style
font for viewing on screen, but as italics when printed,
or any of a myriad of other options for presentation.It was once hoped that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would make this
easy. Your computer would read in the document and automatically
identify key phrases, filenames, text that the reader should type in,
examples, and more. Unfortunately, real life has not happened quite
like that, and our computers require some assistance before they can
meaningfully process our text.More precisely, they need help identifying what is what. You or I
can look at
To remove /tmp/foo use &man.rm.1;.&prompt.user; rm /tmp/foo
and easily see which parts are filenames, which are commands to be typed
in, which parts are references to manual pages, and so on. But the
computer processing the document cannot. For this we need
markup.Markup is commonly used to describe adding
value or increasing cost. The term takes on both
these meanings when applied to text. Markup is additional text included
in the document, distinguished from the document's content in some way,
so that programs that process the document can read the markup and use
it when making decisions about the document. Editors can hide the
markup from the user, so the user is not distracted by it.The extra information stored in the markup adds
value to the document. Adding the markup to the document
must typically be done by a person—after all, if computers could
recognise the text sufficiently well to add the markup then there would
be no need to add it in the first place. This increases the
cost (i.e., the effort required) to create the
document.The previous example is actually represented in this document like
this;To remove /tmp/foo use &man.rm.1;.
&prompt.user; rm /tmp/foo]]>As you can see, the markup is clearly separate from the
content.Obviously, if you are going to use markup you need to define what
your markup means, and how it should be interpreted. You will need a
markup language that you can follow when marking up your
documents.Of course, one markup language might not be enough. A markup
language for technical documentation has very different requirements
than a markup language that was to be used for cookery recipes. This,
in turn, would be very different from a markup language used to describe
poetry. What you really need is a first language that you use to write
these other markup languages. A meta markup
language.This is exactly what the Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML)
is. Many markup languages have been written in SGML, including the two
most used by the FDP, HTML and DocBook.Each language definition is more properly called a Document Type
Definition (DTD). The DTD specifies the name of the elements that can
be used, what order they appear in (and whether some markup can be used
inside other markup) and related information. A DTD is sometimes
referred to as an application of SGML.A DTD is a complete
specification of all the elements that are allowed to appear, the order
in which they should appear, which elements are mandatory, which are
optional, and so forth. This makes it possible to write an SGML
parser which reads in both the DTD and a document
which claims to conform to the DTD. The parser can then confirm whether
or not all the elements required by the DTD are in the document in the
right order, and whether there are any errors in the markup. This is
normally referred to as validating the document.This processing simply confirms that the choice of elements, their
ordering, and so on, conforms to that listed in the DTD. It does
not check that you have used
appropriate markup for the content. If you were
to try and mark up all the filenames in your document as function
names, the parser would not flag this as an error (assuming, of
course, that your DTD defines elements for filenames and functions,
and that they are allowed to appear in the same place).It is likely that most of your contributions to the Documentation
Project will consist of content marked up in either HTML or DocBook,
rather than alterations to the DTDs. For this reason this book will
not touch on how to write a DTD.Elements, tags, and attributesAll the DTDs written in SGML share certain characteristics. This is
hardly surprising, as the philosophy behind SGML will inevitably show
through. One of the most obvious manifestations of this philosophy is
that of content and
elements.Your documentation (whether it is a single web page, or a lengthy
book) is considered to consist of content. This content is then divided
(and further subdivided) into elements. The purpose of adding markup is
to name and identify the boundaries of these elements for further
processing.For example, consider a typical book. At the very top level, the
book is itself an element. This book element obviously
contains chapters, which can be considered to be elements in their own
right. Each chapter will contain more elements, such as paragraphs,
quotations, and footnotes. Each paragraph might contain further
elements, identifying content that was direct speech, or the name of a
character in the story.You might like to think of this as chunking content.
At the very top level you have one chunk, the book. Look a little
deeper, and you have more chunks, the individual chapters. These are
chunked further into paragraphs, footnotes, character names, and so
on.Notice how you can make this differentiation between different
elements of the content without resorting to any SGML terms. It really
is surprisingly straightforward. You could do this with a highlighter
pen and a printout of the book, using different colours to indicate
different chunks of content.Of course, we do not have an electronic highlighter pen, so we need
some other way of indicating which element each piece of content belongs
to. In languages written in SGML (HTML, DocBook, et al) this is done by
means of tags.A tag is used to identify where a particular element starts, and
where the element ends. The tag is not part of the element
itself. Because each DTD was normally written to mark up
specific types of information, each one will recognise different
elements, and will therefore have different names for the tags.For an element called element-name the
start tag will normally look like
<element-name>. The
corresponding closing tag for this element is
</element-name>.Using an element (start and end tags)HTML has an element for indicating that the content enclosed by
the element is a paragraph, called p. This
element has both start and end tags.This is a paragraph. It starts with the start tag for
the 'p' element, and it will end with the end tag for the 'p'
element.
This is another paragraph. But this one is much shorter.
]]>
Not all elements require an end tag. Some elements have no content.
For example, in HTML you can indicate that you want a horizontal line to
appear in the document. Obviously, this line has no content, so just
the start tag is required for this element.Using an element (start tag only)HTML has an element for indicating a horizontal rule, called
hr. This element does not wrap content, so only
has a start tag.This is a paragraph.
This is another paragraph. A horizontal rule separates this
from the previous paragraph.
]]>If it is not obvious by now, elements can contain other elements.
In the book example earlier, the book element contained all the chapter
elements, which in turn contained all the paragraph elements, and so
on.Elements within elements; emThis is a simple paragraph where some
of the words have been emphasised.]]>The DTD will specify the rules detailing which elements can contain
other elements, and exactly what they can contain.People often confuse the terms tags and elements, and use the
terms as if they were interchangeable. They are not.An element is a conceptual part of your document. An element has
a defined start and end. The tags mark where the element starts and
end.When this document (or anyone else knowledgeable about SGML) refers
to the <p> tag they mean the literal text
consisting of the three characters <,
p, and >. But the phrase
the <p> element refers to the whole
element.This distinction is very subtle. But keep it
in mind.Elements can have attributes. An attribute has a name and a value,
and is used for adding extra information to the element. This might be
information that indicates how the content should be rendered, or might
be something that uniquely identifies that occurrence of the element, or
it might be something else.An element's attributes are written inside the
start tag for that element, and take the form
attribute-name="attribute-value".In sufficiently recent versions of HTML, the p
element has an attribute called align, which suggests
an alignment (justification) for the paragraph to the program displaying
the HTML.The align attribute can take one of four defined
values, left, center,
right and justify. If the
attribute is not specified then the default is
left.Using an element with an attributeThe inclusion of the align attribute
on this paragraph was superfluous, since the default is left.
This may appear in the center.
]]>Some attributes will only take specific values, such as
left or justify. Others will
allow you to enter anything you want. If you need to include quotes
(") within an attribute then use single quotes around
the attribute value.Single quotes around attributesI am on the right!]]>Sometimes you do not need to use quotes around attribute values at
all. However, the rules for doing this are subtle, and it is far
simpler just to always quote your attribute
values.The information on attributes, elements, and tags is stored
in SGML catalogs. The various Documentation Project tools use
these catalog files to validate your work. The tools in
textproc/docproj include a variety of SGML catalog
files. The FreeBSD Documentation Project includes its own set
of catalog files. Your tools need to know about both sorts of
catalog files.For you to do…In order to run the examples in this document you will need to
install some software on your system and ensure that an environment
variable is set correctly.Download and install textproc/docproj
from the FreeBSD ports system. This is a
meta-port that should download and install
all of the programs and supporting files that are used by the
Documentation Project.Add lines to your shell startup files to set
SGML_CATALOG_FILES. (If you are not working
on the English version of the documentation, you will want
to substitute the correct directory for your
language.).profile, for &man.sh.1; and
&man.bash.1; usersSGML_ROOT=/usr/local/share/sgml
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=${SGML_ROOT}/jade/catalog
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=${SGML_ROOT}/iso8879/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=${SGML_ROOT}/html/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=${SGML_ROOT}/docbook/4.1/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/doc/share/sgml/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
export SGML_CATALOG_FILES.login, for &man.csh.1; and
&man.tcsh.1; userssetenv SGML_ROOT /usr/local/share/sgml
setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES ${SGML_ROOT}/jade/catalog
setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES ${SGML_ROOT}/iso8879/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES ${SGML_ROOT}/html/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES ${SGML_ROOT}/docbook/4.1/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES /usr/doc/share/sgml/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES
setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILESThen either log out, and log back in again, or run those
commands from the command line to set the variable values.Create example.sgml, and enter the
following text;An example HTML file
This is a paragraph containing some text.
This paragraph contains some more text.
This paragraph might be right-justified.
]]>Try and validate this file using an SGML parser.Part of textproc/docproj is the
&man.nsgmls.1; validating
parser. Normally, &man.nsgmls.1; reads in a document
marked up according to an SGML DTD and returns a copy of the
document's Element Structure Information Set (ESIS, but that is
not important right now).However, when &man.nsgmls.1; is given the
parameter, &man.nsgmls.1; will suppress its normal output, and
just print error messages. This makes it a useful way to check to
see if your document is valid or not.Use &man.nsgmls.1; to check that your document is
valid;&prompt.user; nsgmls -s example.sgmlAs you will see, &man.nsgmls.1; returns without displaying any
output. This means that your document validated
successfully.See what happens when required elements are omitted. Try
removing the title and
/title tags, and re-run the validation.&prompt.user; nsgmls -s example.sgml
nsgmls:example.sgml:5:4:E: character data is not allowed here
nsgmls:example.sgml:6:8:E: end tag for "HEAD" which is not finishedThe error output from &man.nsgmls.1; is organised into
colon-separated groups, or columns.ColumnMeaning1The name of the program generating the error. This
will always be nsgmls.2The name of the file that contains the error.3Line number where the error appears.4Column number where the error appears.5A one letter code indicating the nature of the
message. I indicates an informational
message, W is for warnings, and
E is for errorsIt is not always the fifth column either.
nsgmls -sv displays
nsgmls:I: SP version "1.3"
(depending on the installed version). As you can see,
this is an informational message., and X is for
cross-references. As you can see, these messages are
errors.6The text of the error message.Simply omitting the title tags has
generated 2 different errors.The first error indicates that content (in this case,
characters, rather than the start tag for an element) has occurred
where the SGML parser was expecting something else. In this case,
the parser was expecting to see one of the start tags for elements
that are valid inside head (such as
title).The second error is because head elements
must contain a title
element. Because it does not &man.nsgmls.1; considers that the
element has not been properly finished. However, the closing tag
indicates that the element has been closed before it has been
finished.Put the title element back in.The DOCTYPE declarationThe beginning of each document that you write must specify the name
of the DTD that the document conforms to. This is so that SGML parsers
can determine the DTD and ensure that the document does conform to
it.This information is generally expressed on one line, in the DOCTYPE
declaration.A typical declaration for a document written to conform with version
4.0 of the HTML DTD looks like this;]]>That line contains a number of different components.<!Is the indicator that indicates that this
is an SGML declaration. This line is declaring the document type.
DOCTYPEShows that this is an SGML declaration for the document
type.htmlNames the first element that
will appear in the document.PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"Lists the Formal Public Identifier (FPI)Formal Public Identifier
for the DTD that this
document conforms to. Your SGML parser will use this to find the
correct DTD when processing this document.PUBLIC is not a part of the FPI, but
indicates to the SGML processor how to find the DTD referenced in
the FPI. Other ways of telling the SGML parser how to find the
DTD are shown later.>Returns to the document.Formal Public Identifiers (FPIs)Formal Public IdentifierYou do not need to know this, but it is useful background, and
might help you debug problems when your SGML processor can not locate
the DTD you are using.FPIs must follow a specific syntax. This syntax is as
follows;"Owner//KeywordDescription//Language"OwnerThis indicates the owner of the FPI.If this string starts with ISO then this is an
ISO owned FPI. For example, the FPI "ISO
8879:1986//ENTITIES Greek Symbols//EN" lists
ISO 8879:1986 as being the owner for the set
of entities for Greek symbols. ISO 8879:1986 is the ISO number
for the SGML standard.Otherwise, this string will either look like
-//Owner or
+//Owner (notice
the only difference is the leading + or
-).If the string starts with - then the
owner information is unregistered, with a +
it identifies it as being registered.ISO 9070:1991 defines how registered names are generated; it
might be derived from the number of an ISO publication, an ISBN
code, or an organisation code assigned according to ISO 6523.
In addition, a registration authority could be created in order
to assign registered names. The ISO council delegated this to
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).Because the FreeBSD Project has not been registered the
owner string is -//FreeBSD. And as you can
see, the W3C are not a registered owner either.KeywordThere are several keywords that indicate the type of
information in the file. Some of the most common keywords are
DTD, ELEMENT,
ENTITIES, and TEXT.
DTD is used only for DTD files,
ELEMENT is usually used for DTD fragments
that contain only entity or element declarations.
TEXT is used for SGML content (text and
tags).DescriptionAny description you want to supply for the contents of this
file. This may include version numbers or any short text that
is meaningful to you and unique for the SGML system.LanguageThis is an ISO two-character code that identifies the native
language for the file. EN is used for
English.catalog filesIf you use the syntax above and try and process this document
using an SGML processor, the processor will need to have some way of
turning the FPI into the name of the file on your computer that
contains the DTD.In order to do this it can use a catalog file. A catalog file
(typically called catalog) contains lines that
map FPIs to filenames. For example, if the catalog file contained
the line;PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "4.0/strict.dtd"The SGML processor would know to look up the DTD from
strict.dtd in the 4.0
subdirectory of whichever directory held the
catalog file that contained that line.Look at the contents of
/usr/local/share/sgml/html/catalog. This is
the catalog file for the HTML DTDs that will have been installed as
part of the textproc/docproj port.SGML_CATALOG_FILESIn order to locate a catalog file, your
SGML processor will need to know where to look. Many of them
feature command line parameters for specifying the path to one or
more catalogs.In addition, you can set SGML_CATALOG_FILES to
point to the files. This environment variable should consist of a
colon-separated list of catalog files (including their full
path).Typically, you will want to include the following files;/usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/4.1/catalog/usr/local/share/sgml/html/catalog/usr/local/share/sgml/iso8879/catalog/usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catalogYou should already have done
this.Alternatives to FPIsInstead of using an FPI to indicate the DTD that the document
conforms to (and therefore, which file on the system contains the DTD)
you can explicitly specify the name of the file.The syntax for this is slightly different:]]>The SYSTEM keyword indicates that the SGML
processor should locate the DTD in a system specific fashion. This
typically (but not always) means the DTD will be provided as a
filename.Using FPIs is preferred for reasons of portability. You do not
want to have to ship a copy of the DTD around with your document, and
if you used the SYSTEM identifier then everyone
would need to keep their DTDs in the same place.Escaping back to SGMLEarlier in this primer I said that SGML is only used when writing a
DTD. This is not strictly true. There is certain SGML syntax that you
will want to be able to use within your documents. For example,
comments can be included in your document, and will be ignored by the
parser. Comments are entered using SGML syntax. Other uses for SGML
syntax in your document will be shown later too.Obviously, you need some way of indicating to the SGML processor
that the following content is not elements within the document, but is
SGML that the parser should act upon.These sections are marked by <! ... > in
your document. Everything between these delimiters is SGML syntax as
you might find within a DTD.As you may just have realised, the DOCTYPE declaration
is an example of SGML syntax that you need to include in your
document…CommentsComments are an SGML construction, and are normally only valid
inside a DTD. However, as
shows, it is possible to use SGML syntax within your document.The delimiter for SGML comments is the string
--. The first occurrence of this string
opens a comment, and the second closes it.SGML generic comment<!-- test comment -->
]]>Use 2 dashesThere is a problem with producing the Postscript and PDF versions
of this document. The above example probably shows just one hyphen
symbol, - after the <! and
before the >.You must use two -,
not one. The Postscript and PDF versions have
translated the two - in the original to a longer,
more professional em-dash, and broken this
example in the process.The HTML, plain text, and RTF versions of this document are not
affected.
]]>
If you have used HTML before you may have been shown different rules
for comments. In particular, you may think that the string
- <!-- opens a comment, and it is only closed by
+ <!-- opens a comment, and it is only closed by
-->.This is not the case. A lot of web browsers
have broken HTML parsers, and will accept that as valid. However, the
SGML parsers used by the Documentation Project are much stricter, and
will reject documents that make that error.Erroneous SGML comments]]>The SGML parser will treat this as though it were actually;<!THIS IS OUTSIDE THE COMMENT>This is not valid SGML, and may give confusing error
messages.]]>As the example suggests, do not write
comments like that.]]>That is a (slightly) better approach, but it still potentially
confusing to people new to SGML.For you to do…Add some comments to example.sgml, and
check that the file still validates using &man.nsgmls.1;Add some invalid comments to
example.sgml, and see the error messages that
&man.nsgmls.1; gives when it encounters an invalid comment.EntitiesEntities are a mechanism for assigning names to chunks of content.
As an SGML parser processes your document, any entities it finds are
replaced by the content of the entity.This is a good way to have re-usable, easily changeable chunks of
content in your SGML documents. It is also the only way to include one
marked up file inside another using SGML.There are two types of entities which can be used in two different
situations; general entities and
parameter entities.General EntitiesYou cannot use general entities in an SGML context (although you
define them in one). They can only be used in your document.
Contrast this with parameter
entities.Each general entity has a name. When you want to reference a
general entity (and therefore include whatever text it represents in
your document), you write
&entity-name;. For
example, suppose you had an entity called
current.version which expanded to the current
version number of your product. You could write;The current version of our product is
¤t.version;.]]>When the version number changes you can simply change the
definition of the value of the general entity and reprocess your
document.You can also use general entities to enter characters that you
could not otherwise include in an SGML document. For example, <
and & cannot normally appear in an SGML document. When the SGML
parser sees the < symbol it assumes that a tag (either a start tag
or an end tag) is about to appear, and when it sees the & symbol
it assumes the next text will be the name of an entity.Fortunately, you can use the two general entities < and
& whenever you need to include one or other of these A general entity can only be defined within an SGML context.
Typically, this is done immediately after the DOCTYPE
declaration.Defining general entities
]>]]>Notice how the DOCTYPE declaration has been extended by adding a
square bracket at the end of the first line. The two entities are
then defined over the next two lines, before the square bracket is
closed, and then the DOCTYPE declaration is closed.The square brackets are necessary to indicate that we are
extending the DTD indicated by the DOCTYPE declaration.Parameter entitiesLike general
entities, parameter entities are used to assign names to
reusable chunks of text. However, where as general entities can only
be used within your document, parameter entities can only be used
within an SGML
context.Parameter entities are defined in a similar way to general
entities. However, instead of using
&entity-name; to
refer to them, use
%entity-name;Parameter entities use the
Percent symbol.. The definition also includes the %
between the ENTITY keyword and the name of the
entity.Defining parameter entities
]>]]>This may not seem particularly useful. It will be.For you to do…Add a general entity to
example.sgml.
]>
An example HTML file
This is a paragraph containing some text.
This paragraph contains some more text.
This paragraph might be right-justified.
The current version of this document is: &version;
]]>Validate the document using &man.nsgmls.1;Load example.sgml into your web browser
(you may need to copy it to example.html
before your browser recognises it as an HTML document).Unless your browser is very advanced, you will not see the entity
reference &version; replaced with the
version number. Most web browsers have very simplistic parsers
which do not handle proper SGMLThis is a shame. Imagine all the problems and hacks (such
as Server Side Includes) that could be avoided if they
did..The solution is to normalise your
document using an SGML normaliser. The normaliser reads in valid
SGML and outputs equally valid SGML which has been transformed in
some way. One of the ways in which the normaliser transforms the
SGML is to expand all the entity references in the document,
replacing the entities with the text that they represent.You can use &man.sgmlnorm.1; to do this.&prompt.user; sgmlnorm example.sgml > example.htmlYou should find a normalised (i.e., entity references
expanded) copy of your document in
example.html, ready to load into your web
browser.If you look at the output from &man.sgmlnorm.1; you will see
that it does not include a DOCTYPE declaration at the start. To
include this you need to use the
option;&prompt.user; sgmlnorm -d example.sgml > example.htmlUsing entities to include filesEntities (both general and parameter) are
particularly useful when used to include one file inside another.Using general entities to include filesSuppose you have some content for an SGML book organised into
files, one file per chapter, called
chapter1.sgml,
chapter2.sgml, and so forth, with a
book.sgml file that will contain these
chapters.In order to use the contents of these files as the values for your
entities, you declare them with the SYSTEM keyword.
This directs the SGML parser to use the contents of the named file as
the value of the entity.Using general entities to include files
]>
&chapter.1;
&chapter.2;
&chapter.3;
]]>When using general entities to include other files within a
document, the files being included
(chapter1.sgml,
chapter2.sgml, and so on) must
not start with a DOCTYPE declaration. This is a syntax
error.Using parameter entities to include filesRecall that parameter entities can only be used inside an SGML
context. Why then would you want to include a file within an SGML
context?You can use this to ensure that you can reuse your general
entities.Suppose that you had many chapters in your document, and you
reused these chapters in two different books, each book organising the
chapters in a different fashion.You could list the entities at the top of each book, but this
quickly becomes cumbersome to manage.Instead, place the general entity definitions inside one file,
and use a parameter entity to include that file within your
document.Using parameter entities to include filesFirst, place your entity definitions in a separate file, called
chapters.ent. This file contains the
following;
]]>Now create a parameter entity to refer to the contents of the
file. Then use the parameter entity to load the file into the
document, which will then make all the general entities available
for use. Then use the general entities as before;
%chapters;
]>
&chapter.1;
&chapter.2;
&chapter.3;
]]>For you to do…Use general entities to include filesCreate three files, para1.sgml,
para2.sgml, and
para3.sgml.Put content similar to the following in each file;This is the first paragraph.]]>Edit example.sgml so that it looks like
this;
]>
An example HTML file
The current version of this document is: &version;
¶1;
¶2;
¶3;
]]>Produce example.html by normalising
example.sgml.&prompt.user; sgmlnorm -d example.sgml > example.htmlLoad example.html in to your web
browser, and confirm that the
paran.sgml files
have been included in example.html.Use parameter entities to include filesYou must have taken the previous steps first.Edit example.sgml so that it looks like
this; %entities;
]>
An example HTML file
The current version of this document is: &version;
¶1;
¶2;
¶3;
]]>Create a new file, entities.sgml, with
this content:
]]>Produce example.html by normalising
example.sgml.&prompt.user; sgmlnorm -d example.sgml > example.htmlLoad example.html in to your web
browser, and confirm that the
paran.sgml files
have been included in example.html.Marked sectionsSGML provides a mechanism to indicate that particular pieces of the
document should be processed in a special way. These are termed
marked sections.Structure of a marked section<![ KEYWORD [
Contents of marked section
]]>As you would expect, being an SGML construct, a marked section
starts with <!.The first square bracket begins to delimit the marked
section.KEYWORD describes how this marked
section should be processed by the parser.The second square bracket indicates that the content of the marked
section starts here.The marked section is finished by closing the two square brackets,
and then returning to the document context from the SGML context with
>Marked section keywordsCDATA, RCDATAThese keywords denote the marked sections content
model, and allow you to change it from the
default.When an SGML parser is processing a document it keeps track
of what is called the content model.Briefly, the content model describes what sort of content the
parser is expecting to see, and what it will do with it when it
finds it.The two content models you will probably find most useful are
CDATA and RCDATA.CDATA is for Character Data.
If the parser is in this content model then it is expecting to see
characters, and characters only. In this model the < and &
symbols lose their special status, and will be treated as ordinary
characters.RCDATA is for Entity references and
character data If the parser is in this content model then it
is expecting to see characters and entities.
< loses its special status, but & will still be treated as
starting the beginning of a general entity.This is particularly useful if you are including some verbatim
text that contains lots of < and & characters. While you
could go through the text ensuring that every < is converted to a
< and every & is converted to a &, it can be
easier to mark the section as only containing CDATA. When the SGML
parser encounters this it will ignore the < and & symbols
embedded in the content.When you use CDATA or
RCDATA in examples of text marked up in SGML,
keep in mind that the content of CDATA is not
validated. You have to check the included SGML text using other
means. You could, for example, write the example in another
document, validate the example code, and then paste it to your
CDATA content.Using a CDATA marked section<para>Here is an example of how you would include some text
that contained many < and & symbols. The sample
text is a fragment of HTML. The surrounding text (<para> and
<programlisting>) are from DocBook.</para>
<programlisting>
- <![ CDATA [ This is a sample that shows you some of the elements within
HTML. Since the angle brackets are used so many times, it is
simpler to say the whole example is a CDATA marked section
than to use the entity names for the left and right angle
brackets throughout.
This is a listitem
This is a second listitem
This is a third listitem
This is the end of the example.
]]>
]]>
</programlisting>If you look at the source for this document you will see this
technique used throughout.INCLUDE and
IGNOREIf the keyword is INCLUDE then the contents
of the marked section will be processed. If the keyword is
IGNORE then the marked section is ignored and
will not be processed. It will not appear in the output.Using INCLUDE and
IGNORE in marked sections<![ INCLUDE [
This text will be processed and included.
]]>
<![ IGNORE [
This text will not be processed or included.
]]>By itself, this is not too useful. If you wanted to remove text
from your document you could cut it out, or wrap it in
comments.It becomes more useful when you realise you can use parameter entities
to control this. Remember that parameter entities can only be used
in SGML contexts, and the keyword of a marked section
is an SGML context.For example, suppose that you produced a hard-copy version of
some documentation and an electronic version. In the electronic
version you wanted to include some extra content that was not to
appear in the hard-copy.Create a parameter entity, and set its value to
INCLUDE. Write your document, using marked
sections to delimit content that should only appear in the
electronic version. In these marked sections use the parameter
entity in place of the keyword.When you want to produce the hard-copy version of the document,
change the parameter entity's value to IGNORE and
reprocess the document.Using a parameter entity to control a marked
section<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" [
<!ENTITY % electronic.copy "INCLUDE">
]]>
...
<![ %electronic.copy [
This content should only appear in the electronic
version of the document.
]]>When producing the hard-copy version, change the entity's
definition to;
- <!ENTITY % electronic.copy "IGNORE">
+ <!ENTITY % electronic.copy "IGNORE">On reprocessing the document, the marked sections that use
%electronic.copy as their keyword will be
ignored.For you to do…Create a new file, section.sgml, that
contains the following;<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" [
<!ENTITY % text.output "INCLUDE">
]>
<html>
<head>
<title>An example using marked sections</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This paragraph <![ CDATA [contains many <
characters (< < < < <) so it is easier
- to wrap it in a CDATA marked section ]]></p>
+ to wrap it in a CDATA marked section ]]></p>
<![ IGNORE [
<p>This paragraph will definitely not be included in the
output.</p>
]]>
<![ [
<p>This paragraph might appear in the output, or it
might not.</p>
<p>Its appearance is controlled by the
parameter entity.</p>
]]>
</body>
</html>Normalise this file using &man.sgmlnorm.1; and examine the
output. Notice which paragraphs have appeared, which have
disappeared, and what has happened to the content of the CDATA
marked section.Change the definition of the text.output
entity from INCLUDE to
IGNORE. Re-normalise the file, and examine the
output to see what has changed. ConclusionThat is the conclusion of this SGML primer. For reasons of space
and complexity several things have not been covered in depth (or at
all). However, the previous sections cover enough SGML for you to be
able to follow the organisation of the FDP documentation.
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Advanced NetworkingSynopsisThis chapter will cover some of the more frequently used network
services on Unix systems. We will cover how to define, setup, test and
maintain all of the network services that FreeBSD utilizes. In addition,
there have been example configuration files included throughout this
chapter for you to benefit from.After reading this chapter, you will know:The basics of gateways and routes.How to make FreeBSD act as a bridge.How to setup a network file system.How to setup network booting on a diskless machine.How to setup a network information server for sharing user
accounts.How to setup automatic network settings using DHCP.How to setup a domain name server.How to synchronize the time and date, and setup a
time server, with the NTP protocol.How to setup network address translation.How to manage the inetd daemon.How to connect two computers via PLIPBefore reading this chapter, you should:Understand the basics of the /etc/rc scripts.Be familiar with basic network terminology.CoranthGryphonContributed by Gateways and RoutesroutinggatewaysubnetFor one machine to be able to find another over a network, there
must be a
mechanism in place to describe how to get from one to the other. This is
called routing. A route is a defined pair of addresses: a
destination and a gateway. The pair
indicates that if you are trying to get to this
destination, communicate through this
gateway. There are three types of destinations:
individual hosts, subnets, and default. The
default route is used if none of the other routes apply.
We will talk a little bit more about default routes later on. There are
also three types of gateways: individual hosts, interfaces (also called
links), and Ethernet hardware addresses (MAC addresses).
An ExampleTo illustrate different aspects of routing, we will use the
following example from netstat:&prompt.user; netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default outside-gw UGSc 37 418 ppp0
localhost localhost UH 0 181 lo0
test0 0:e0:b5:36:cf:4f UHLW 5 63288 ed0 77
10.20.30.255 link#1 UHLW 1 2421
example.com link#1 UC 0 0
host1 0:e0:a8:37:8:1e UHLW 3 4601 lo0
host2 0:e0:a8:37:8:1e UHLW 0 5 lo0 =>
host2.example.com link#1 UC 0 0
224 link#1 UC 0 0default routeThe first two lines specify the default route (which we
will cover in the next
section) and the localhost route.loopback deviceThe interface (Netif column) that it specifies
to use for localhost is
lo0, also known as the loopback device. This
says to keep all traffic for this destination internal, rather than
sending it out over the LAN, since it will only end up back where it
started.EthernetMAC addressThe next thing that stands out are the addresses beginning
with 0:e0:. These are Ethernet
hardware addresses, which are also known as MAC addresses.
FreeBSD will automatically identify any hosts
(test0 in the example) on the local Ethernet and add
a route for that host, directly to it over the Ethernet interface,
ed0. There is also a timeout
(Expire column) associated with this type of route,
which is used if we fail to hear from the host in a specific amount of
time. In this case the route will be automatically deleted. These
hosts are identified using a mechanism known as RIP (Routing
Information Protocol), which figures out routes to local hosts based
upon a shortest path determination.subnetFreeBSD will also add subnet routes for the local subnet (10.20.30.255 is the broadcast address for the
subnet 10.20.30, and example.com is the domain name associated
with that subnet). The designation link#1 refers
to the first Ethernet card in the machine. You will notice no
additional interface is specified for those.Both of these groups (local network hosts and local subnets) have
their routes automatically configured by a daemon called
routed. If this is not run, then only
routes which are statically defined (ie. entered explicitly) will
exist.The host1 line refers to our host, which it
knows by Ethernet address. Since we are the sending host, FreeBSD
knows to use the loopback interface (lo0)
rather than sending it out over the Ethernet interface.The two host2 lines are an example of what
happens when we use an &man.ifconfig.8; alias (see the section of Ethernet for
reasons why we would do this). The => symbol
after the lo0 interface says that not only
are we using the loopback (since this is address also refers to the
local host), but specifically it is an alias. Such routes only show
up on the host that supports the alias; all other hosts on the local
network will simply have a link#1 line for
such.The final line (destination subnet 224) deals
with MultiCasting, which will be covered in a another section.The other column that we should talk about are the
Flags. Each route has different attributes that
are described in the column. Below is a short table of some of these
flags and their meanings:UUp: The route is active.HHost: The route destination is a single host.GGateway: Send anything for this destination on to this
remote system, which will figure out from there where to send
it.SStatic: This route was configured manually, not
automatically generated by the system.CClone: Generates a new route based upon this route for
machines we connect to. This type of route is normally used
for local networks.WWasCloned: Indicated a route that was auto-configured
based upon a local area network (Clone) route.LLink: Route involves references to Ethernet
hardware.Default Routesdefault routeWhen the local system needs to make a connection to remote host,
it checks the routing table to determine if a known path exists. If
the remote host falls into a subnet that we know how to reach (Cloned
routes), then the system checks to see if it can connect along that
interface.If all known paths fail, the system has one last option: the
default route. This route is a special type of gateway
route (usually the only one present in the system), and is always
marked with a c in the flags field. For hosts on a
local area network, this gateway is set to whatever machine has a
direct connection to the outside world (whether via PPP link,
DSL, cable modem, T1, or another network interface).If you are configuring the default route for a machine which
itself is functioning as the gateway to the outside world, then the
default route will be the gateway machine at your Internet Service
Provider's (ISP) site.Let us look at an example of default routes. This is a common
configuration:
[Local2] <--ether--> [Local1] <--PPP--> [ISP-Serv] <--ether--> [T1-GW]
The hosts Local1 and
Local2 are at your site.
Local1 is connected to an ISP via a dial up
PPP connection. This PPP server computer is connected through
a local area network to another gateway computer with an
external interface to the ISPs Internet feed.The default routes for each of your machines will be:HostDefault GatewayInterfaceLocal2Local1EthernetLocal1T1-GWPPPA common question is Why (or how) would we set the T1-GW to
be the default gateway for Local1, rather than the ISP server it is
connected to?.Remember, since the PPP interface is using an address on the ISP's
local network for your side of the connection, routes for any other
machines on the ISP's local network will be automatically generated.
Hence, you will already know how to reach the T1-GW machine, so there
is no need for the intermediate step of sending traffic to the ISP
server.As a final note, it is common to use the address X.X.X.1 as the gateway address for your local
network. So (using the same example), if your local class-C address
space was 10.20.30 and your ISP was
using 10.9.9 then the default routes
would be:HostDefault RouteLocal2 (10.20.3.2)Local1 (10.20.30.1)Local1 (10.20.30.1, 10.9.9.30)T1-GW (10.9.9.1)Dual Homed Hostsdual homed hostsThere is one other type of configuration that we should cover, and
that is a host that sits on two different networks. Technically, any
machine functioning as a gateway (in the example above, using a PPP
connection) counts as a dual-homed host. But the term is really only
used to refer to a machine that sits on two local-area
networks.In one case, the machine has two Ethernet cards, each having an
address on the separate subnets. Alternately, the machine may only
have one Ethernet card, and be using &man.ifconfig.8; aliasing. The former is
used if two physically separate Ethernet networks are in use, the
latter if there is one physical network segment, but two logically
separate subnets.Either way, routing tables are set up so that each subnet knows
that this machine is the defined gateway (inbound route) to the other
subnet. This configuration, with the machine acting as a Bridge
between the two subnets, is often used when we need to implement
packet filtering or firewall security in either or both
directions.If you want this machine to actually forward packets
between the two interfaces, you need to tell FreeBSD to enable
this ability.
Building a RouterrouterA network router is simply a system that forwards packets
from one interface to another. Internet standards and good
engineering practice prevent the FreeBSD Project from enabling
this by default in FreeBSD. You can enable this feature by
changing the following variable to YES in
&man.rc.conf.5;:gateway_enable=YES # Set to YES if this host will be a gatewayThis option will put the &man.sysctl.8; variable
net.inet.ip.forwarding to
1. If you should need to stop routing
temporarily, you can reset this to 0 temporarily.Your new router will need routes to know where to send the
traffic. If your network is simple enough you can use static
routes. FreeBSD also comes with the standard BSD routing
daemon &man.routed.8;, which speaks RIP (both version 1 and
version 2) and IRDP. For more complex situations you may want
to try net/gated.Even when FreeBSD is configured in this way, it does not
completely comply with the Internet standard requirements for
routers. It comes close enough for ordinary use,
however.Routing Propagationrouting propagationWe have already talked about how we define our routes to the
outside world, but not about how the outside world finds us.We already know that routing tables can be set up so that all
traffic for a particular address space (in our examples, a class-C
subnet) can be sent to a particular host on that network, which will
forward the packets inbound.When you get an address space assigned to your site, your service
provider will set up their routing tables so that all traffic for your
subnet will be sent down your PPP link to your site. But how do sites
across the country know to send to your ISP?There is a system (much like the distributed DNS information) that
keeps track of all assigned address-spaces, and defines their point of
connection to the Internet Backbone. The Backbone are
the main trunk lines that carry Internet traffic across the country,
and around the world. Each backbone machine has a copy of a master
set of tables, which direct traffic for a particular network to a
specific backbone carrier, and from there down the chain of service
providers until it reaches your network.It is the task of your service provider to advertise to the
backbone sites that they are the point of connection (and thus the
path inward) for your site. This is known as route
propagation.TroubleshootingtracerouteSometimes, there is a problem with routing propagation, and some
sites are unable to connect to you. Perhaps the most useful command
for trying to figure out where a routing is breaking down is the
&man.traceroute.8; command. It is equally useful if you cannot seem
to make a connection to a remote machine (i.e. &man.ping.8;
fails).The &man.traceroute.8; command is run with the name of the remote
host you are trying to connect to. It will show the gateway hosts
along the path of the attempt, eventually either reaching the target
host, or terminating because of a lack of connection.For more information, see the manual page for
&man.traceroute.8;.StevePetersonWritten by BridgingIntroductionIP subnetbridgeIt is sometimes useful to divide one physical network (such as an
Ethernet segment) into two separate network segments without having
to create IP subnets and use a router to connect the segments
together. A device that connects two networks together in this
fashion is called a bridge. A FreeBSD system with two network
interface cards can act as a bridge.The bridge works by learning the MAC layer addresses
(Ethernet addresses) of the devices on each of its network interfaces.
It forwards traffic between two networks only when its source and
destination are on different networks.In many respects, a bridge is like an Ethernet switch with very
few ports.Situations Where Bridging Is AppropriateThere are two common situations in which a bridge is used
today.High Traffic on a SegmentSituation one is where your physical network segment is
overloaded with traffic, but you do not want for whatever reason to
subnet the network and interconnect the subnets with a
router.Let us consider an example of a newspaper where the Editorial and
Production departments are on the same subnetwork. The Editorial
users all use server A for file service, and the Production users
are on server B. An Ethernet is used to connect all users together,
and high loads on the network are slowing things down.If the Editorial users could be segregated on one network
segment and the Production users on another, the two network
segments could be connected with a bridge. Only the network traffic
destined for interfaces on the "other" side of the bridge would be
sent to the other network, reducing congestion on each network
segment.Filtering/Traffic Shaping FirewallfirewallIP MasqueradingThe second common situation is where firewall functionality is
needed without IP Masquerading (NAT).An example is a small company that is connected via DSL or ISDN
to their ISP. They have a 13 globally-accessible IP addresses
from their ISP and have 10 PCs on their network. In this situation, using a
router-based firewall is difficult because of subnetting
issues.routerDSLISDNA bridge-based firewall can be configured and dropped into the
path just downstream of their DSL/ISDN router without any IP
numbering issues.Configuring a BridgeNetwork Interface Card SelectionA bridge requires at least two network cards to function.
Unfortunately, not all network interface cards as of FreeBSD 4.0
support bridging. Read &man.bridge.4; for details on the cards that
are supported.Install and test the two network cards before continuing.Kernel Configuration Changeskernel configurationkernel configurationoptions BRIDGETo enable kernel support for bridging, add the:options BRIDGEstatement to your kernel configuration file, and rebuild your
kernel.Firewall SupportfirewallIf you are planning to use the bridge as a firewall, you will
need to add the IPFIREWALL option as well. Read for general information on configuring the
bridge as a firewall.If you need to allow non-IP packets (such as ARP) to flow
through the bridge, there is an undocumented firewall option that
must be set. This option is
IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT. Note that this
changes the default rule for the firewall to accept any packet.
Make sure you know how this changes the meaning of your ruleset
before you set it.Traffic Shaping SupportIf you want to use the bridge as a traffic shaper, you will need
to add the DUMMYNET option to your kernel
configuration. Read &man.dummynet.4; for further
information.Enabling the BridgeAdd the line:net.link.ether.bridge=1to /etc/sysctl.conf to enable the bridge at
runtime. If you want the bridged packets to be filtered by &man.ipfw.8;,
you should also add:net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1as well.PerformanceMy bridge/firewall is a Pentium 90 with one 3Com 3C900B and one
3C905B. The protected side of the network runs at 10mbps half duplex
and the connection between the bridge and my router (a Cisco 675) runs
at 100mbps full duplex. With no filtering enabled, I have found that
the bridge adds about 0.4 milliseconds of latency to pings from the
protected 10mbps network to the Cisco 675.Other InformationIf you want to be able to telnet into the bridge from the network,
it is OK to assign one of the network cards an IP address. The
consensus is that assigning both cards an address is a bad
idea.If you have multiple bridges on your network, there cannot be more
than one path between any two workstations. Technically, this means
that there is no support for spanning tree link management.TomRhodesReorganized and enhanced by BillSwingleWritten by NFSNFSAmong the many different file systems that FreeBSD supports is
the Network File System, also known as NFS.
NFS allows a system to share directories and files
with others over a network. By using NFS, users and
programs can access files on remote systems almost as if they were local
files.Some of the most notable benefits that NFS can provide are:Local workstations use less disk space because
commonly used data can be stored on a single machine and still
remain accessible to others over the network.There is no need for users to have separate home directories
on every network machine. Home directories could be setup on the
NFS server and made available throughout the network.Storage devices such as floppy disks, CDROM drives, and ZIP drives
can be used by other machines on the network. This may reduce the number
of removable media drives throughout the network.How NFS WorksNFS consists of at least two main parts: a server
and one or more clients. The client remotely accesses the data that is stored
on the server machine. In order for this to function properly a few
processes have to be configured and running:The server has to be running the following daemons:NFSserverportmapmountdnfsdDaemonDescriptionnfsdThe NFS daemon which services requests from
the NFS clients.mountdThe NFS mount daemon which carries out
the requests that &man.nfsd.8; passes on to it.portmap The portmapper daemon
allows NFS clients to discover which port the NFS server
is using.The client can also run a daemon, known as
nfsiod. The nfsiod
daemon services the requests from the NFS server. This
is optional, and improves performance, but is not required for normal
and correct operation. See the &man.nfsiod.8; manual page for more information.
Configuring NFSNFSconfigurationNFS configuration is a relatively straightforward
process. The processes that need to be running can all start at boot time with
a few modifications to your /etc/rc.conf
file.On the NFS server, make sure that the following options
are configured in the /etc/rc.conf file:portmap_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
mountd_flags="-r"mountd runs automatically whenever the
NFS server is enabled.On the client, make sure this option is present in
/etc/rc.conf:nfs_client_enable="YES"
The /etc/exports
file specifies which filesystems NFS should export (sometimes
referred to as share).
Each line in /etc/exports specifies a filesystem to be exported and
which machines have access to that filesystem. Along with what machines have access
to that filesystem, access options may also be specified. There are many such options
that can be used in this file but only a few will be mentioned here. You can easily discover
other options by reading over the &man.exports.5; manual page.Here are a few example /etc/exports
entries:NFSExamples of exporting filesystemsThe following examples give an idea of how to export filesystems,
although the settings may be different depending on
your environment and network configuration.
For instance, to export the /cdrom directory to
three example machines that have the same domain name as the server
(hence the lack of a domain name for each) or have entries in your
/etc/hosts file. The
flag makes the exported file system read-only. With this flag, the
remote system will not be able to write any changes to the
exported file system./cdrom -ro host1 host2 host3The following line exports /home to three
hosts by IP address. This is a useful setup if you have a
private network without a DNS server configured.
Optionally the /etc/hosts file could be configured
for internal hostnames; please review &man.hosts.5; for more
information. The flag allows the subdirectories
to be mount points. In other words, it will not mount the subdirectories
but permit the client to mount only the directories that are required or
needed./home -alldirs 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4The following line exports /a so that two
clients from different domains may access the filesystem. The
flag allows the root
user on the remote system to write data on the exported filesystem as
root. If the -maproot=root flag is not specified, then even if
a user has root access on the remote system, they will not
be able to modify files on the exported filesystem./a -maproot=root host.example.com box.example.orgIn order for a client to access an exported filesystem, the client must
have permission to do so. Make sure the client is listed in your
/etc/exports file.In /etc/exports, each line represents
the export information for one filesystem to one host. A
remote host can only be specified once per filesystem, and may only
have one default entry. For example, assume that /usr
is a single filesystem. The following /etc/exports
would be valid:/usr/src client
/usr/ports clientOne filesystem, /usr, has two lines
specifying exports to the same host, client.
The correct format for this situation is:/usr/src /usr/ports clientThe properties of one filesystem exported to a given host
must all occur on one line. Lines without a client specified
are treated as a single host. This limits how you can export
filesystems, but for most people this is not an issue.The following is an example of a valid export list, where
/usr and /exports
are local filesystems:# Export src and ports to client01 and client02, but only
# client01 has root privileges on it
/usr/src /usr/ports -maproot=root client01
/usr/src /usr/ports client02
# The client machines have root and can mount anywhere
# on /exports. Anyone in the world can mount /exports/obj read-only
/exports -alldirs -maproot=root client01 client02
/exports/obj -roYou must restart
mountd whenever you modify
/etc/exports so the changes can take effect.
This can be accomplished by sending the hangup signal
to the mountd process:&prompt.root; kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`Alternatively, a reboot will make FreeBSD set everything
up properly. A reboot is not necessary though.
Executing the following commands as root
should start everything up.On the NFS server:&prompt.root; portmap
&prompt.root; nfsd -u -t -n 4
&prompt.root; mountd -rOn the NFS client:&prompt.root; nfsiod -n 4Now everything should be ready to actually mount a remote file
system. In these examples the
server's name will be server and the client's
name will be client. If you only want to
temporarily mount a remote file system or would rather test the
configuration, just execute a command like this as root on the
client:NFSmounting filesystems&prompt.root; mount server:/home /mntThis will mount the /home directory
on the server at /mnt on the client. If
everything is set up correctly you should be able to enter
/mnt on the client and see all the files
that are on the server.If you want to automatically mount a remote filesystem
each time the computer boots, add the filesystem to the
/etc/fstab file. Here is an example:server:/home /mnt nfs rw 0 0The &man.fstab.5; manual page lists all the available options.Practical UsesNFS has many practical uses. Some of the more common
ones are listed below:NFSusesSet several machines to share a CDROM or
other media among them. This is cheaper and often
a more convenient method to install software on multiple machines.On large networks, it might be more convenient to configure a
central NFS server in which to store all the user
home directories. These home directories can then be exported to
the network so that users would always have the same home directory,
regardless of which workstation they log in to.You can use an exported CDROM to install
software on multiple machines.Several machines could have a common
/usr/ports/distfiles directory.
That way, when you need to install a port on several machines, you can
quickly access the source without downloading it on each machine.WylieStilwellContributed by ChernLeeRewritten by amdamdautomatic mounter daemon&man.amd.8; (the automatic mounter daemon)
automatically mounts a
remote filesystem whenever a file or directory within that
filesystem is accessed. Filesystems that are inactive for a
period of time will also be automatically unmounted by
amd. Using
amd provides a simple alternative
to permanent mounts, as permanent mounts are usually listed in
/etc/fstab.amd operates by attaching
itself as an NFS server to the /host and
/net directories. When a file is accessed
within one of these directories, amd
looks up the corresponding remote mount and automatically mounts
it. /net is used to mount an exported
filesystem from an IP address, while /host
is used to mount an export from a remote hostname.An access to a file within
/host/foobar/usr would tell
amd to attempt to mount the
/usr export on the host
foobar.Mounting an Export with amd&prompt.user; showmount -e foobar
Exports list on foobar:
/usr 10.10.10.0
/a 10.10.10.0
&prompt.user; cd /host/foobar/usrAs seen in the example, the showmount shows
/usr as an export. When changing directories to
/host/foobar/usr, amd
attempts to resolve the hostname foobar and
automatically mount the desired export.amd can be started through the
rc.conf system by placing the following lines in
/etc/rc.conf:amd_enable="YES"Additionally, custom flags can be passed to
amd from the
amd_flags option. By default,
amd_flags is set to:amd_flags="-a /.amd_mnt -l syslog /host /etc/amd.map /net /etc/amd.map"The /etc/amd.map file defines the
default options that exports are mounted with. The
/etc/amd.conf file defines some of the more
advanced features of amd.Consult the &man.amd.8; and &man.amd.conf.5; man pages for more
information.JohnLindContributed by Problems Integrating with Other SystemsCertain Ethernet adapters for ISA PC systems have limitations
which can lead to serious network problems, particularly with NFS.
This difficulty is not specific to FreeBSD, but FreeBSD systems
are affected by it.The problem nearly always occurs when (FreeBSD) PC systems are
networked with high-performance workstations, such as those made
by Silicon Graphics, Inc., and Sun Microsystems, Inc. The NFS
mount will work fine, and some operations may succeed, but
suddenly the server will seem to become unresponsive to the
client, even though requests to and from other systems continue to
be processed. This happens to the client system, whether the
client is the FreeBSD system or the workstation. On many systems,
there is no way to shut down the client gracefully once this
problem has manifested itself. The only solution is often to
reset the client, because the NFS situation cannot be
resolved.Though the correct solution is to get a higher
performance and capacity Ethernet adapter for the FreeBSD system,
there is a simple workaround that will allow satisfactory
operation. If the FreeBSD system is the
server, include the option
on the mount from the client. If the
FreeBSD system is the client, then mount the
NFS file system with the option . These
options may be specified using the fourth field of the
fstab entry on the client for automatic
mounts, or by using the parameter of the mount
command for manual mounts.It should be noted that there is a different problem,
sometimes mistaken for this one, when the NFS servers and clients
are on different networks. If that is the case, make
certain that your routers are routing the
necessary UDP information, or you will not get anywhere, no matter
what else you are doing.In the following examples, fastws is the host
(interface) name of a high-performance workstation, and
freebox is the host (interface) name of a FreeBSD
system with a lower-performance Ethernet adapter. Also,
/sharedfs will be the exported NFS
filesystem (see &man.exports.5;), and
/project will be the mount point on the
client for the exported file system. In all cases, note that
additional options, such as or
and may be desirable in
your application.Examples for the FreeBSD system (freebox) as
the client: in /etc/fstab on freebox:fastws:/sharedfs /project nfs rw,-r=1024 0 0As a manual mount command on freebox:&prompt.root; mount -t nfs -o -r=1024 fastws:/sharedfs /projectExamples for the FreeBSD system as the server: in
/etc/fstab on fastws:freebox:/sharedfs /project nfs rw,-w=1024 0 0As a manual mount command on fastws:&prompt.root; mount -t nfs -o -w=1024 freebox:/sharedfs /projectNearly any 16-bit Ethernet adapter will allow operation
without the above restrictions on the read or write size.For anyone who cares, here is what happens when the failure
occurs, which also explains why it is unrecoverable. NFS
typically works with a block size of 8k (though it
may do fragments of smaller sizes). Since the maximum Ethernet
packet is around 1500 bytes, the NFS block gets
split into multiple Ethernet packets, even though it is still a
single unit to the upper-level code, and must be received,
assembled, and acknowledged as a unit. The
high-performance workstations can pump out the packets which
comprise the NFS unit one right after the other, just as close
together as the standard allows. On the smaller, lower capacity
cards, the later packets overrun the earlier packets of the same
unit before they can be transferred to the host and the unit as a
whole cannot be reconstructed or acknowledged. As a result, the
workstation will time out and try again, but it will try again
with the entire 8K unit, and the process will be repeated, ad
infinitum.By keeping the unit size below the Ethernet packet size
limitation, we ensure that any complete Ethernet packet received
can be acknowledged individually, avoiding the deadlock
situation.Overruns may still occur when a high-performance workstations
is slamming data out to a PC system, but with the better cards,
such overruns are not guaranteed on NFS units. When
an overrun occurs, the units affected will be retransmitted, and
there will be a fair chance that they will be received, assembled,
and acknowledged.Jean-FrançoisDockèsUpdated by Diskless Operationdiskless workstationdiskless operationA FreeBSD machine can boot over the network and operate without a
local disk, using file systems mounted from an NFS server. No system
modification is necessary, beyond standard configuration files.
Such a system is easy to set up because all the necessary elements
are readily available:There are at least two possible methods to load the kernel over
the network:PXE: Intel's Preboot Execution
Environment system is a form of smart boot ROM built into some
networking cards or motherboards. See &man.pxeboot.8; for more
details.The etherboot
port (/usr/ports/net/etherboot)
produces ROM-able code to boot kernels over the network. The code
can be either burnt into a boot PROM on a network card, or loaded
from a local floppy (or hard) disk drive, or from a running
MS-DOS system. Many network cards are supported.A sample script
(/usr/share/examples/diskless/clone_root) eases
the creation and maintenance of the workstation's root filesystem
on the server. The script will probably require a little
customization but it will get you started very quicklyStandard system startup files exist in /etc
to detect and support a diskless system startup.Swapping, if needed, can be done either to an NFS file or to
a local diskThere are many ways to set up diskless workstations. Many
elements are involved, and most can be customized to suit local
taste. The following will describe the setup of a complete system,
emphasizing simplicity and compatibility with the
standard FreeBSD startup scripts. The system described has the
following characteristics:The diskless workstations use a shared
read-only root filesystem, and a shared
read-only /usr.The root file system is a copy of a
standard FreeBSD root (typically the server's), with some
configuration files overridden by ones specific to diskless
operation or, possibly, to the workstation they belong to.The parts of the root which have to be
writable are overlaid with &man.mfs.8; filesystems. Any changes
will be lost when the system reboots.The kernel is loaded by etherboot
, using DHCP (or BOOTP) and TFTP.As described, this system is insecure. It should
live in a protected area of a network, and be untrusted by
other hosts.Setup InstructionsConfiguring DHCP/BOOTPThere are two protocols that are commonly used to boot a
workstation that retrieves its configuration over the network: BOOTP
and DHCP. They are used at several points in the workstation
bootstrap:etherboot uses
DHCP (by default) or BOOTP (needs a configuration option) to
find the kernel. (PXE uses DHCP).The kernel uses BOOTP to locate the NFS
root.It is possible to configure a system to use only BOOTP.
The &man.bootpd.8; server program is included in the
base FreeBSD system.However, DHCP has a number of advantages over BOOTP (nicer
configuration files, possibility of using PXE, plus many others
not directly related to diskless operation), and we shall describe
both a pure BOOTP, and a BOOTP+DHCP configuration, with an
emphasis on the latter, which will use the ISC DHCP software
package.Configuration Using ISC DHCPThe isc-dhcp server can answer
both BOOTP and DHCP requests.As of release 4.4, isc-dhcp
3.0 is not part of the base
system. You will first need to install the
/usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3 port or the
corresponding package. Please refer to
for general information about ports and packages.Once isc-dhcp is installed, it
needs a configuration file to run, (normally named
/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf). Here follows
a commented example:
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
authoritative;
option domain-name "example.com";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.4.1;
option routers 192.168.4.1;
subnet 192.168.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
use-host-decl-names on;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.4.255;
host margaux {
hardware ethernet 01:23:45:67:89:ab;
fixed-address margaux.example.com;
next-server 192.168.4.4;
filename "/tftpboot/kernel.diskless";
option root-path "192.168.4.4:/data/misc/diskless";
}
}
This option tells
dhcpd to send the value in the
host declarations as the hostname for the
diskless host. An alternate way would be to add an
option host-name
margaux inside the
host declarations.The
next-server directive designates
the TFTP server (the default is to use the same host as the
DHCP server).The
filename directive defines the file that
etherboot will load as a
kernel.
PXE appears to prefer a relative file
name, and it loads pxeboot, not the
kernel (option filename
"pxeboot").The
root-path option defines the path to
the root filesystem, in usual NFS notationConfiguration Using BOOTPHere follows an equivalent bootpd
configuration. This would be found in
/etc/bootptab.Please note that etherboot must
be compiled with the non-default option
NO_DHCP_SUPPORT in order to use BOOTP, and that PXE
needs DHCP. The only obvious advantage of
bootpd is that it exists in the base system.
.def100:\
:hn:ht=1:sa=192.168.4.4:vm=rfc1048:\
:sm=255.255.255.0:\
:ds=192.168.4.1:\
:gw=192.168.4.1:\
:hd="/tftpboot":\
:bf="/kernel.diskless":\
:rp="192.168.4.4:/data/misc/diskless":
margaux:ha=0123456789ab:tc=.def100
Preparing a Boot Program with
EtherbootEtherboot's Web
site contains
extensive documentation mainly intended for Linux
systems, but nonetheless containing useful information. The following
will just outline how you would use
etherboot on a FreeBSD system.You must first install - and possibly compile - the
etherboot package. The
etherboot port can normally be found in
/usr/ports/net/etherboot. If the ports tree is
installed on your system, just typing make in
this directory should take care of everything. Else refer to
for information about ports and
packages.For our setup, we shall use a boot floppy. For other methods
(PROM, or dos program), please refer to the
etherboot documentation.To make a boot floppy, insert a floppy in the drive on the
machine where you installed etherboot,
then change your current directory to the src
directory in the etherboot tree and
type:
&prompt.root; gmake bin32/devicetype.fd0devicetype depends on the type of
the Ethernet card in the diskless workstation. Refer to the
NIC file in the same directory to determine the
right devicetype.Configuring the TFTP and NFS ServersYou need to enable tftpd on the TFTP
server:Create a directory from which tftpd
will serve the files, ie: /tftpbootAdd this line to your
/etc/inetd.conf:tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd /tftpbootIt appears that at least some PXE versions want
the TCP version of TFTP. In this case, add a second line,
replacing dgram udp with stream
tcpTell inetd to reread its configuration
file:&prompt.root; kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`You can place the tftpboot
directory anywhere on the server. Make sure that the
location is set in both inetd.conf and
dhcpd.conf.You also need to enable NFS service and export the
appropriate filesystem on the NFS serverAdd this to /etc/rc.conf:nfs_server_enable="YES"Export the filesystem where the diskless root directory
is located by adding the following to
/etc/exports (adjust the volume mount
point and workstation name!):/data/misc -alldirs -ro margauxTell mountd to reread its configuration
file. If you actually needed to configure NFS service at step
1, you probably want to reboot instead.&prompt.root; kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`Building a Diskless KernelCreate a kernel configuration file for the diskless client
with the following options (in addition to the usual
ones):
options BOOTP # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname
options BOOTP_NFSROOT # NFS mount root filesystem using BOOTP info
options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken bootp daemons.
You may also want to use BOOTP_NFSV3 and
BOOTP_WIRED_TO (refer to LINT).Build the kernel (See ),
and copy it to the tftp directory, under the name listed
in dhcpd.confPreparing the root FilesystemYou need to create a root filesystem for the diskless
workstations, in the location listed as
root-path in
dhcpd.conf.The easiest way to do this is to use the
/usr/share/examples/diskless/clone_root
shell script. This script needs customization, at least to adjust the
place where the filesystem will be created (the
DEST variable).
Refer to the comments at the top of the script for
instructions. They explain how the base filesystem is built,
and how files may be selectively overridden by versions specific
to diskless operation, to a subnetwork, or to an individual
workstation. They also give examples for the diskless
/etc/fstab and
/etc/rc.confThe README files in
/usr/share/examples/diskless contain a lot
of interesting background information, but, together with the
other examples in the diskless directory,
they actually document a configuration method which is distinct
from the one used by clone_root and
/etc/rc.diskless[12], which is a little
confusing. Use them for reference only, except if you prefer
the method that they describe, in which case you will need
customized rc scriptsAs of FreeBSD version 4.4-RELEASE, there is a small
incompatibility between the clone_root
script and the /etc/rc.diskless1
script. Please refer to PR
conf/31200 for the small adjustment needed in
clone_root.
Also see PR
conf/29870
about a small adjustment needed in
/etc/rc.diskless2.
Configuring SwapIf needed, a swap file located on the server can be
accessed via NFS. The exact bootptab
or dhcpd.conf options are not clearly
documented at this time. The following configuration
suggestions have been reported to work in some installations
using isc-dhcp 3.0rc11.Add the following lines to
dhcpd.conf:
# Global section
option swap-path code 128 = string;
option swap-size code 129 = integer 32;
host margaux {
... # Standard lines, see above
option swap-path "192.168.4.4:/netswapvolume/netswap";
option swap-size 64000;
}
The idea is that, at least for a FreeBSD client,
DHCP/BOOTP option code 128 is the path to the NFS swap file,
and option code 129 is the swap size in kilobytes. Older
versions of dhcpd allowed a syntax of
option option-128 "..., which does not
seem to work any more./etc/bootptab would use the
following syntax instead:T128="192.168.4.4:/netswapvolume/netswap":T129=64000
On the NFS swap file server, create the swap
file(s)
&prompt.root; mkdir /netswapvolume/netswap
&prompt.root; cd /netswapvolume/netswap
&prompt.root; dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=64000 of=swap.192.168.4.6
&prompt.root; chmod 0600 swap.192.168.4.6192.168.4.6 is the IP address
for the diskless clientOn the NFS swap file server, add the following line to
/etc/exports/netswapvolume -maproot=0:10 -alldirs margauxThen tell mountd to reread the
exports file, as above.Miscellaneous IssuesRunning with a read-only /usrIf the diskless workstation is configured to run X, you
will have to adjust the xdm configuration file, which puts
the error log on /usr by default.
Using a non-FreeBSD ServerWhen the server for the root filesystem is not running FreeBSD,
you will have to create the root file system on a
FreeBSD machine, then copy it to its destination, using
tar or cpio.In this situation, there are sometimes
problems with the special files in /dev,
due to differing major/minor integer sizes. A solution to this
problem is to export a directory from the non-FreeBSD server,
mount this directory onto a FreeBSD machine, and run
MAKEDEV on the FreeBSD machine
to create the correct device entries.ISDNA good resource for information on ISDN technology and hardware is
Dan Kegel's ISDN
Page.A quick simple road map to ISDN follows:If you live in Europe you might want to investigate the ISDN card
section.If you are planning to use ISDN primarily to connect to the
Internet with an Internet Provider on a dial-up non-dedicated basis,
you might look into Terminal Adapters. This will give you the
most flexibility, with the fewest problems, if you change
providers.If you are connecting two LANs together, or connecting to the
Internet with a dedicated ISDN connection, you might consider
the stand alone router/bridge option.Cost is a significant factor in determining what solution you will
choose. The following options are listed from least expensive to most
expensive.HellmuthMichaelisContributed by ISDN CardsISDNcardsFreeBSD's ISDN implementation supports only the DSS1/Q.931
(or Euro-ISDN) standard using passive cards. Starting with
FreeBSD 4.4, some active cards are supported where the firmware
also supports other signaling protocols; this also includes the
first supported Primary Rate (PRI) ISDN card.Isdn4bsd allows you to connect
to other ISDN routers using either IP over raw HDLC or by using
synchronous PPP: either by using kernel PPP with isppp, a
modified sppp driver, or by using userland &man.ppp.8;. By using
userland &man.ppp.8;, channel bonding of two or more ISDN
B-channels is possible. A telephone answering machine
application is also available as well as many utilities such as
a software 300 Baud modem.Some growing number of PC ISDN cards are supported under
FreeBSD and the reports show that it is successfully used all
over Europe and in many other parts of the world.The passive ISDN cards supported are mostly the ones with
the Infineon (formerly Siemens) ISAC/HSCX/IPAC ISDN chipsets,
but also ISDN cards with chips from Cologne Chip (ISA bus only),
PCI cards with Winbond W6692 chips, some cards with the
Tiger300/320/ISAC chipset combinations and some vendor specific
chipset based cards such as the AVM Fritz!Card PCI V.1.0 and the
AVM Fritz!Card PnP.Currently the active supported ISDN cards are the AVM B1
(ISA and PCI) BRI cards and the AVM T1 PCI PRI cards.For documentation on isdn4bsd,
have a look at /usr/share/examples/isdn/
directory on your FreeBSD system or at the homepage of
isdn4bsd which also has pointers to hints, erratas and
much more documentation such as the isdn4bsd
handbook.In case you are interested in adding support for a
different ISDN protocol, a currently unsupported ISDN PC card or
otherwise enhancing isdn4bsd, please
get in touch with &a.hm;.For questions regarding the installation, configuration
and troubleshooting isdn4bsd, a
majordomo maintained mailing list is available. To join, send
mail to &a.majordomo; and specify:subscribe freebsd-isdnin the body of your message.ISDN Terminal AdaptersTerminal adapters(TA), are to ISDN what modems are to regular
phone lines.modemMost TA's use the standard hayes modem AT command set, and can be
used as a drop in replacement for a modem.A TA will operate basically the same as a modem except connection
and throughput speeds will be much faster than your old modem. You
will need to configure PPP exactly the same
as for a modem setup. Make sure you set your serial speed as high as
possible.PPPThe main advantage of using a TA to connect to an Internet
Provider is that you can do Dynamic PPP. As IP address space becomes
more and more scarce, most providers are not willing to provide you
with a static IP anymore. Most stand-alone routers are not able to
accommodate dynamic IP allocation.TA's completely rely on the PPP daemon that you are running for
their features and stability of connection. This allows you to
upgrade easily from using a modem to ISDN on a FreeBSD machine, if you
already have PPP setup. However, at the same time any problems you
experienced with the PPP program and are going to persist.If you want maximum stability, use the kernel PPP option, not the user-land iijPPP.The following TA's are know to work with FreeBSD.Motorola BitSurfer and Bitsurfer ProAdtranMost other TA's will probably work as well, TA vendors try to make
sure their product can accept most of the standard modem AT command
set.The real problem with external TA's is like modems you need a good
serial card in your computer.You should read the FreeBSD Serial
Hardware tutorial for a detailed understanding of
serial devices, and the differences between asynchronous and
synchronous serial ports.A TA running off a standard PC serial port (asynchronous) limits
you to 115.2Kbs, even though you have a 128Kbs connection. To fully
utilize the 128Kbs that ISDN is capable of, you must move the TA to a
synchronous serial card.Do not be fooled into buying an internal TA and thinking you have
avoided the synchronous/asynchronous issue. Internal TA's simply have
a standard PC serial port chip built into them. All this will do, is
save you having to buy another serial cable, and find another empty
electrical socket.A synchronous card with a TA is at least as fast as a stand-alone
router, and with a simple 386 FreeBSD box driving it, probably more
flexible.The choice of sync/TA v.s. stand-alone router is largely a
religious issue. There has been some discussion of this in
the mailing lists. I suggest you search the archives for
the complete discussion.Stand-alone ISDN Bridges/RoutersISDNstand-alone bridges/routersISDN bridges or routers are not at all specific to FreeBSD
or any other operating system. For a more complete
description of routing and bridging technology, please refer
to a Networking reference book.In the context of this page, the terms router and bridge will
be used interchangeably.As the cost of low end ISDN routers/bridges comes down, it
will likely become a more and more popular choice. An ISDN
router is a small box that plugs directly into your local
Ethernet network, and manages its own connection to the other
bridge/router. It has built in software to communicate via
PPP and other popular protocols.A router will allow you much faster throughput that a
standard TA, since it will be using a full synchronous ISDN
connection.The main problem with ISDN routers and bridges is that
interoperability between manufacturers can still be a problem.
If you are planning to connect to an Internet provider, you
should discuss your needs with them.If you are planning to connect two LAN segments together,
such as your home LAN to the office LAN, this is the simplest
lowest
maintenance solution. Since you are buying the equipment for
both sides of the connection you can be assured that the link
will work.For example to connect a home computer or branch office
network to a head office network the following setup could be
used.Branch Office or Home Network10 base 2Network uses a bus based topology with 10 base 2
Ethernet ("thinnet"). Connect router to network cable with
AUI/10BT transceiver, if necessary.---Sun workstation
|
---FreeBSD box
|
---Windows 95 (Do not admit to owning it)
|
Stand-alone router
|
ISDN BRI line10 Base 2 EthernetIf your home/branch office is only one computer you can use a
twisted pair crossover cable to connect to the stand-alone router
directly.Head Office or Other LAN10 base TNetwork uses a star topology with 10 base T Ethernet
("Twisted Pair"). -------Novell Server
| H |
| ---Sun
| |
| U ---FreeBSD
| |
| ---Windows 95
| B |
|___---Stand-alone router
|
ISDN BRI lineISDN Network DiagramOne large advantage of most routers/bridges is that they allow you
to have 2 separate independent PPP connections to
2 separate sites at the same time. This is not
supported on most TA's, except for specific (usually expensive) models
that
have two serial ports. Do not confuse this with channel bonding, MPP,
etc.This can be very useful feature if, for example, you have an
dedicated ISDN connection at your office and would like to
tap into it, but do not want to get another ISDN line at work. A router
at the office location can manage a dedicated B channel connection
(64Kbps) to the Internet and use the other B channel for a
separate data connection. The second B channel can be used for
dial-in, dial-out or dynamically bonding (MPP, etc.) with the first
B channel for more bandwidth.IPX/SPXAn Ethernet bridge will also allow you to transmit more than just
IP traffic. You can also send IPX/SPX or whatever other protocols you
use.BillSwingleWritten by EricOgrenEnhanced by UdoErdelhoffNIS/YPWhat Is It?NISSolarisHP-UXAIXLinuxNetBSDOpenBSDNIS, which stands for Network Information Services, was
developed by Sun Microsystems to centralize administration of Unix
(originally SunOS) systems. It has now essentially become an
industry standard; all major Unix systems (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc) support NIS.yellow pagesNISNIS was formerly known as Yellow Pages, but because of
trademark issues, Sun changed the name. The old term (and yp) is
still often seen and used.NISdomainsIt is a RPC-based client/server system that allows a group
of machines within an NIS domain to share a common set of
configuration files. This permits a system administrator to set
up NIS client systems with only minimal configuration data and
add, remove or modify configuration data from a single
location.Windows NTIt is similar to Windows NT's domain system; although the
internal implementation of the two are not at all similar,
the basic functionality can be compared.Terms/Processes You Should KnowThere are several terms and several important user processes
that you will come across when
attempting to implement NIS on FreeBSD, whether you are trying to
create an NIS server or act an NIS client:portmapTermDescriptionNIS domainnameAn NIS master server and all of its clients
(including its slave servers) have a NIS
domainname. Similar to an NT domain name, the NIS
domainname does not have anything to do with DNS.portmapMust be running in order to enable RPC (Remote
Procedure Call, a network protocol used by NIS). If
portmap is not running, it will be
impossible to run an NIS server, or to act as an NIS
client.ypbindbinds an NIS client to its NIS
server. It will take the NIS domainname from the
system, and using RPC, connect to the
server. ypbind is the core of
client-server communication in an NIS environment; if
ypbind dies on a client machine, it
will not be able to access the NIS server.ypservShould only be running on NIS servers, is the NIS
server process itself. If &man.ypserv.8; dies, then the
server will no longer be able to respond to NIS requests
(hopefully, there is a slave server to take over for
it). There are some implementations of NIS (but not the
FreeBSD one), that do not try to reconnect to another
server if the server it used before dies. Often, the
only thing that helps in this case is to restart the
server process (or even the whole server) or the
ypbind process on the client.
rpc.yppasswddAnother process that should only be running on
NIS master servers, is a daemon that will allow NIS
clients to change their NIS passwords. If this daemon
is not running, users will have to login to the NIS
master server and change their passwords there.How Does It Work?There are three types of hosts in an NIS environment: master
servers, slave servers, and clients. Servers act as a central
repository for host configuration information. Master servers
hold the authoritative copy of this information, while slave
servers mirror this information for redundancy. Clients rely on
the servers to provide this information to them.Information in many files can be shared in this manner. The
master.passwd, group,
and hosts files are commonly shared via NIS.
Whenever a process on a client needs information that would
normally be found in these files locally, it makes a query to the
NIS server that it is bound to instead.Machine TypesNISmaster serverA NIS master server.
This server, analogous to a Windows
NT primary domain controller, maintains the files used by all
of the NIS clients. The passwd,
group, and other various files used by the
NIS clients live on the master server.It is possible for one machine to be an NIS
master server for more than one NIS domain. However, this will
not be covered in this introduction, which assumes a relatively
small-scale NIS environment.NISslave serverNIS slave servers.
Similar to NT's backup domain
controllers, NIS slave servers maintain copies of the NIS
master's data files. NIS slave servers provide the redundancy,
which is needed in important environments. They also help
to balance the load of the master server: NIS Clients always
attach to the NIS server whose response they get first, and
this includes slave-server-replies.NISclientNIS clients. NIS clients, like most
NT workstations, authenticate against the NIS server (or the NT
domain controller in the NT Workstation case) to log on.Using NIS/YPThis section will deal with setting up a sample NIS
environment.This section assumes that you are running FreeBSD 3.3
or later. The instructions given here will
probably work for any version of FreeBSD greater
than 3.0, but there are no guarantees that this is
true.PlanningLet us assume that you are the administrator of a small
university lab. This lab, which consists of 15 FreeBSD machines,
currently has no centralized point of administration; each machine
has its own /etc/passwd and
/etc/master.passwd. These files are kept in
sync with each other only through manual intervention;
currently, when you add a user to the lab, you must run
adduser on all 15 machines.
Clearly, this has to change, so you have decided to convert the
lab to use NIS, using two of the machines as servers.Therefore, the configuration of the lab now looks something
like:Machine nameIP addressMachine roleellington10.0.0.2NIS mastercoltrane10.0.0.3NIS slavebasie10.0.0.4Faculty workstationbird10.0.0.5Client machinecli[1-11]10.0.0.[6-17]Other client machinesIf you are setting up a NIS scheme for the first time, it
is a good idea to think through how you want to go about it. No
matter what the size of your network, there are a few decisions
that need to be made.Choosing a NIS Domain NameNISdomainnameThis might not be the domainname that you
are used to. It is more accurately called the
NIS domainname. When a client broadcasts its
requests for info, it includes the name of the NIS domain
that it is part of. This is how multiple servers on one
network can tell which server should answer which request.
Think of the NIS domainname as the name for a group of hosts
that are related in some way.Some organizations choose to use their Internet domainname
for their NIS domainname. This is not recommended as it can
cause confusion when trying to debug network problems. The
NIS domainname should be unique within your network and it is
helpful if it describes the group of machines it represents.
For example, the Art department at Acme Inc. might be in the
"acme-art" NIS domain. For this example, assume you have
chosen the name test-domain.SunOSHowever, some operating systems (notably SunOS) use their
NIS domain name as their Internet domain name.
If one or more machines on your network have this restriction,
you must use the Internet domain name as
your NIS domain name.Physical Server RequirementsThere are several things to keep in mind when choosing a
machine to use as a NIS server. One of the unfortunate things
about NIS is the level of dependency the clients have on the
server. If a client cannot contact the server for its NIS
domain, very often the machine becomes unusable. The lack of
user and group information causes most systems to temporarily
freeze up. With this in mind you should make sure to choose a
machine that will not be prone to being rebooted regularly, or
one that might be used for development. The NIS server should
ideally be a stand alone machine whose sole purpose in life is
to be an NIS server. If you have a network that is not very
heavily used, it is acceptable to put the NIS server on a
machine running other services, just keep in mind that if the
NIS server becomes unavailable, it will affect
all of your NIS clients adversely.NIS Servers The canonical copies of all NIS information are stored on
a single machine called the NIS master server. The databases
used to store the information are called NIS maps. In FreeBSD,
these maps are stored in
/var/yp/[domainname] where
[domainname] is the name of the NIS domain
being served. A single NIS server can support several domains
at once, therefore it is possible to have several such
directories, one for each supported domain. Each domain will
have its own independent set of maps.NIS master and slave servers handle all NIS requests with
the ypserv daemon. ypserv
is responsible for receiving incoming requests from NIS clients,
translating the requested domain and map name to a path to the
corresponding database file and transmitting data from the
database back to the client.Setting Up a NIS Master ServerNISserver configurationSetting up a master NIS server can be relatively straight
forward, depending on your needs. FreeBSD comes with support
for NIS out-of-the-box. All you need is to add the following
lines to /etc/rc.conf, and FreeBSD will
do the rest for you.nisdomainname="test-domain"
This line will set the NIS domainname to
test-domain
upon network setup (e.g. after reboot).nis_server_enable="YES"
This will tell FreeBSD to start up the NIS server processes
when the networking is next brought up.nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES"
This will enable the rpc.yppasswdd
daemon, which, as mentioned above, will allow users to
change their NIS password from a client machine.Depending on your NIS setup, you may need to add
further entries. See the section about NIS servers
that are also NIS clients, below, for
details.Now, all you have to do is to run the command
/etc/netstart as superuser. It will
setup everything for you, using the values you defined in
/etc/rc.conf.Initializing the NIS MapsNISmapsThe NIS maps are database files,
that are kept in the /var/yp directory.
They are generated from configuration files in the
/etc directory of the NIS master, with one
exception: the /etc/master.passwd file.
This is for a good reason; you do not want to propagate
passwords to your root and other administrative accounts to
all the servers in the NIS domain. Therefore, before we
initialize the NIS maps, you should:&prompt.root; cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd
&prompt.root; cd /var/yp
&prompt.root; vi master.passwdYou should remove all entries regarding system accounts
(bin, tty, kmem,
games, etc), as well as any accounts that you
do not want to be propagated to the NIS clients (for example
root and any other UID 0 (superuser) accounts).Make sure the
/var/yp/master.passwd is neither group
nor world readable (mode 600)! Use the
chmod command, if appropriate.Tru64 UnixWhen you have finished, it is time to initialize the NIS
maps! FreeBSD includes a script named
ypinit to do this for you
(see its manual page for more information). Note that this
script is available on most Unix Operating Systems, but not on all.
On Digital Unix/Compaq Tru64 Unix it is called
ypsetup.
Because we are generating maps for an NIS master, we are
going to pass the option to
ypinit.
To generate the NIS maps, assuming you already performed
the steps above, run:ellington&prompt.root; ypinit -m test-domain
Server Type: MASTER Domain: test-domain
Creating an YP server will require that you answer a few questions.
Questions will all be asked at the beginning of the procedure.
Do you want this procedure to quit on non-fatal errors? [y/n: n] n
Ok, please remember to go back and redo manually whatever fails.
If you don't, something might not work.
At this point, we have to construct a list of this domains YP servers.
rod.darktech.org is already known as master server.
Please continue to add any slave servers, one per line. When you are
done with the list, type a <control D>.
master server : ellington
next host to add: coltrane
next host to add: ^D
The current list of NIS servers looks like this:
ellington
coltrane
Is this correct? [y/n: y] y
[..output from map generation..]
NIS Map update completed.
ellington has been setup as an YP master server without any errors.ypinit should have created
/var/yp/Makefile from
/var/yp/Makefile.dist.
When created, this file assumes that you are operating
in a single server NIS environment with only FreeBSD
machines. Since test-domain has
a slave server as well, you must edit
/var/yp/Makefile:ellington&prompt.root; vi /var/yp/MakefileYou should comment out the line that says `NOPUSH =
"True"' (if it is not commented out already).Setting up a NIS Slave ServerNISconfiguring a slave serverSetting up an NIS slave server is even more simple than
setting up the master. Log on to the slave server and edit the
file /etc/rc.conf as you did before.
The only difference is that we now must use the
option when running ypinit.
The option requires the name of the NIS
master be passed to it as well, so our command line looks
like:coltrane&prompt.root; ypinit -s ellington test-domain
Server Type: SLAVE Domain: test-domain Master: ellington
Creating an YP server will require that you answer a few questions.
Questions will all be asked at the beginning of the procedure.
Do you want this procedure to quit on non-fatal errors? [y/n: n] n
Ok, please remember to go back and redo manually whatever fails.
If you don't, something might not work.
There will be no further questions. The remainder of the procedure
should take a few minutes, to copy the databases from ellington.
Transferring netgroup...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring netgroup.byuser...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring netgroup.byhost...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring master.passwd.byuid...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring passwd.byuid...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring passwd.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring group.bygid...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring group.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring services.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring rpc.bynumber...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring rpc.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring protocols.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring master.passwd.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring networks.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring networks.byaddr...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring netid.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring hosts.byaddr...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring protocols.bynumber...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring ypservers...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
Transferring hosts.byname...
ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred
coltrane has been setup as an YP slave server without any errors.
Don't forget to update map ypservers on ellington.You should now have a directory called
/var/yp/test-domain. Copies of the NIS
master server's maps should be in this directory. You will
need to make sure that these stay updated. The following
/etc/crontab entries on your slave
servers should do the job:20 * * * * root /usr/libexec/ypxfr passwd.byname
21 * * * * root /usr/libexec/ypxfr passwd.byuidThese two lines force the slave to sync its maps with
the maps on the master server. Although these entries are
not mandatory, since the master server attempts to ensure
any changes to its NIS maps are communicated to its slaves
and because password information is vital to systems
depending on the server, it is a good idea to force the
updates. This is more important on busy networks where map
updates might not always complete.Now, run the command /etc/netstart on the
slave server as well, which again starts the NIS server.NIS Clients An NIS client establishes what is called a binding to a
particular NIS server using the
ypbind daemon.
ypbind checks the system's default
domain (as set by the domainname command),
and begins broadcasting RPC requests on the local network.
These requests specify the name of the domain for which
ypbind is attempting to establish a binding.
If a server that has been configured to serve the requested
domain receives one of the broadcasts, it will respond to
ypbind, which will record the server's
address. If there are several servers available (a master and
several slaves, for example), ypbind will
use the address of the first one to respond. From that point
on, the client system will direct all of its NIS requests to
that server. ypbind will
occasionally ping the server to make sure it is
still up and running. If it fails to receive a reply to one of
its pings within a reasonable amount of time,
ypbind will mark the domain as unbound and
begin broadcasting again in the hopes of locating another
server.Setting Up an NIS ClientNISclient configurationSetting up a FreeBSD machine to be a NIS client is fairly
straightforward.Edit the file /etc/rc.conf and
add the following lines in order to set the NIS domainname
and start ypbind upon network
startup:nisdomainname="test-domain"
nis_client_enable="YES"To import all possible password entries from the NIS
server, remove all user accounts from your
/etc/master.passwd file and use
vipw to add the following line to
the end of the file:+:::::::::This line will afford anyone with a valid account in
the NIS server's password maps an account. There are
many ways to configure your NIS client by changing this
line. See the netgroups
section below for more information.
For more detailed reading see O'Reilly's book on
Managing NFS and NIS.You should keep at least one local account (i.e.
not imported via NIS) in your
/etc/master.passwd and this
account should also be a member of the group
wheel. If there is something
wrong with NIS, this account can be used to log in
remotely, become root, and fix things.To import all possible group entries from the NIS
server, add this line to your
/etc/group file:+:*::After completing these steps, you should be able to run
ypcat passwd and see the NIS server's
passwd map.NIS SecurityIn general, any remote user can issue an RPC to &man.ypserv.8; and
retrieve the contents of your NIS maps, provided the remote user
knows your domainname. To prevent such unauthorized transactions,
&man.ypserv.8; supports a feature called securenets which can be used to
restrict access to a given set of hosts. At startup, &man.ypserv.8; will
attempt to load the securenets information from a file called
/var/yp/securenets.This path varies depending on the path specified with the
option. This file contains entries that
consist of a network specification and a network mask separated
by white space. Lines starting with # are
considered to be comments. A sample securenets file might look
like this:# allow connections from local host -- mandatory
127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255
# allow connections from any host
# on the 192.168.128.0 network
192.168.128.0 255.255.255.0
# allow connections from any host
# between 10.0.0.0 to 10.0.15.255
# this includes the machines in the testlab
10.0.0.0 255.255.240.0If &man.ypserv.8; receives a request from an address that matches one
of these rules, it will process the request normally. If the
address fails to match a rule, the request will be ignored and a
warning message will be logged. If the
/var/yp/securenets file does not exist,
ypserv will allow connections from any host.The ypserv program also has support for Wietse
Venema's
tcpwrapper package. This allows the
administrator to use the tcpwrapper configuration
files for access control instead of
/var/yp/securenets.While both of these access control mechanisms provide some
security, they, like the privileged port test, are
vulnerable to IP spoofing attacks. All
NIS-related traffic should be blocked at your firewall.Servers using /var/yp/securenets
may fail to serve legitimate NIS clients with archaic TCP/IP
implementations. Some of these implementations set all
host bits to zero when doing broadcasts and/or fail to
observe the subnet mask when calculating the broadcast
address. While some of these problems can be fixed by
changing the client configuration, other problems may force
the retirement of the client systems in question or the
abandonment of /var/yp/securenets.Using /var/yp/securenets on a
server with such an archaic implementation of TCP/IP is a
really bad idea and will lead to loss of NIS functionality
for large parts of your network.tcpwrapperThe use of the tcpwrapper
package increases the latency of your NIS server. The
additional delay may be long enough to cause timeouts in
client programs, especially in busy networks or with slow
NIS servers. If one or more of your client systems
suffers from these symptoms, you should convert the client
systems in question into NIS slave servers and force them
to bind to themselves.Barring Some Users from Logging OnIn our lab, there is a machine basie that is
supposed to be a faculty only workstation. We do not want to take this
machine out of the NIS domain, yet the passwd
file on the master NIS server contains accounts for both faculty and
students. What can we do?There is a way to bar specific users from logging on to a
machine, even if they are present in the NIS database. To do this,
all you must do is add
-username to the end of
the /etc/master.passwd file on the client
machine, where username is the username of
the user you wish to bar from logging in. This should preferably be
done using vipw, since vipw
will sanity check your changes to
/etc/master.passwd, as well as
automatically rebuild the password database when you
finish editing. For example, if we wanted to bar user
bill from logging on to basie
we would:basie&prompt.root; vipw[add -bill to the end, exit]
vipw: rebuilding the database...
vipw: done
basie&prompt.root; cat /etc/master.passwd
root:[password]:0:0::0:0:The super-user:/root:/bin/csh
toor:[password]:0:0::0:0:The other super-user:/root:/bin/sh
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7::0:0:Binaries Commands and Source,,,:/:/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13::0:0:Games pseudo-user:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem:/:/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66::0:0:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/libexec/uucp/uucico
xten:*:67:67::0:0:X-10 daemon:/usr/local/xten:/sbin/nologin
pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
+:::::::::
-bill
basie&prompt.root;UdoErdelhoffContributed by Using NetgroupsnetgroupsThe method shown in the previous section works reasonably
well if you need special rules for a very small number of
users and/or machines. On larger networks, you
will forget to bar some users from logging
onto sensitive machines, or you may even have to modify each
machine separately, thus losing the main benefit of NIS,
centralized administration.The NIS developers' solution for this problem is called
netgroups. Their purpose and semantics
can be compared to the normal groups used by Unix file
systems. The main differences are the lack of a numeric id
and the ability to define a netgroup by including both user
accounts and other netgroups.Netgroups were developed to handle large, complex networks
with hundreds of users and machines. On one hand, this is
a Good Thing if you are forced to deal with such a situation.
On the other hand, this complexity makes it almost impossible to
explain netgroups with really simple examples. The example
used in the remainder of this section demonstrates this
problem.Let us assume that your successful introduction of NIS in
your laboratory caught your superiors' interest. Your next
job is to extend your NIS domain to cover some of the other
machines on campus. The two tables contain the names of the
new users and new machines as well as brief descriptions of
them.User Name(s)Descriptionalpha, betaNormal employees of the IT departmentcharlie, deltaThe new apprentices of the IT departmentecho, foxtrott, golf, ...Ordinary employeesable, baker, ...The current internsMachine Name(s)Descriptionwar, death, famine, pollutionYour most important servers. Only the IT
employees are allowed to log onto these
machines.pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, slothLess important servers. All members of the IT
department are allowed to login onto these machines.one, two, three, four, ...Ordinary workstations. Only the
real employees are allowed to use
these machines.trashcanA very old machine without any critical data.
Even the intern is allowed to use this box.If you tried to implement these restrictions by separately
blocking each user, you would have to add one
-user line to each system's
passwd
for each user who is not allowed to login onto that system.
If you forget just one entry, you could be in trouble. It may
be feasible to do this correctly during the initial setup,
however you will eventually forget to add
the lines for new users during day-to-day operations. After
all, Murphy was an optimist.Handling this situation with netgroups offers several
advantages. Each user need not be handled separately;
you assign a user to one or more netgroups and allow or forbid
logins for all members of the netgroup. If you add a new
machine, you will only have to define login restrictions for
netgroups. If a new user is added, you will only have to add
the user to one or more netgroups. Those changes are
independent of each other; no more for each combination
of user and machine do... If your NIS setup is planned
carefully, you will only have to modify exactly one central
configuration file to grant or deny access to machines.The first step is the initialization of the NIS map
netgroup. FreeBSD's &man.ypinit.8; does not create this map by
default, but its NIS implementation will support it once it has
been created. To create an empty map, simply typeellington&prompt.root; vi /var/yp/netgroupand start adding content. For our example, we need at
least four netgroups: IT employees, IT apprentices, normal
employees and interns.IT_EMP (,alpha,test-domain) (,beta,test-domain)
IT_APP (,charlie,test-domain) (,delta,test-domain)
USERS (,echo,test-domain) (,foxtrott,test-domain) \
(,golf,test-domain)
INTERNS (,able,test-domain) (,baker,test-domain)IT_EMP, IT_APP etc.
are the names of the netgroups. Each bracketed group adds
one or more user accounts to it. The three fields inside a
group are:The name of the host(s) where the following items are
valid. If you do not specify a hostname, the entry is
valid on all hosts. If you do specify a hostname, you
will enter a realm of darkness, horror and utter confusion.The name of the account that belongs to this
netgroup.The NIS domain for the account. You can import
accounts from other NIS domains into your netgroup if you
are one of unlucky fellows with more than one NIS
domain.Each of these fields can contain wildcards. See
&man.netgroup.5; for details.netgroupsNetgroup names longer than 8 characters should not be
used, especially if you have machines running other
operating systems within your NIS domain. The names are
case sensitive; using capital letters for your netgroup
names is an easy way to distinguish between user, machine
and netgroup names.Some NIS clients (other than FreeBSD) cannot handle
netgroups with a large number of entries. For example, some
older versions of SunOS start to cause trouble if a netgroup
contains more than 15 entries. You can
circumvent this limit by creating several sub-netgroups with
15 users or less and a real netgroup that consists of the
sub-netgroups:BIGGRP1 (,joe1,domain) (,joe2,domain) (,joe3,domain) [...]
BIGGRP2 (,joe16,domain) (,joe17,domain) [...]
BIGGRP3 (,joe31,domain) (,joe32,domain)
BIGGROUP BIGGRP1 BIGGRP2 BIGGRP3You can repeat this process if you need more than 225
users within a single netgroup.Activating and distributing your new NIS map is
easy:ellington&prompt.root; cd /var/yp
ellington&prompt.root; makeThis will generate the three NIS maps
netgroup,
netgroup.byhost and
netgroup.byuser. Use &man.ypcat.1; to
check if your new NIS maps are available:ellington&prompt.user; ypcat -k netgroup
ellington&prompt.user; ypcat -k netgroup.byhost
ellington&prompt.user; ypcat -k netgroup.byuserThe output of the first command should resemble the
contents of /var/yp/netgroup. The second
command will not produce output if you have not specified
host-specific netgroups. The third command can be used to
get the list of netgroups for a user.The client setup is quite simple. To configure the server
war, you only have to start
&man.vipw.8; and replace the line+:::::::::with+@IT_EMP:::::::::Now, only the data for the users defined in the netgroup
IT_EMP is imported into
war's password database and only
these users are allowed to login.Unfortunately, this limitation also applies to the ~
function of the shell and all routines converting between user
names and numerical user ids. In other words,
cd ~user will not work,
ls -l will show the numerical id instead of
the username and find . -user joe -print will
fail with No such user. To fix this, you will
have to import all user entries without allowing them
to login onto your servers.This can be achieved by adding another line to
/etc/master.passwd. This line should
contain:+:::::::::/sbin/nologin, meaning
Import all entries but replace the shell with
/sbin/nologin in the imported
entries. You can replace any field
in the passwd entry by placing a default value in your
/etc/master.passwd.Make sure that the line
+:::::::::/sbin/nologin is placed after
+@IT_EMP:::::::::. Otherwise, all user
accounts imported from NIS will have /sbin/nologin as their
login shell.After this change, you will only have to change one NIS
map if a new employee joins the IT department. You could use
a similar approach for the less important servers by replacing
the old +::::::::: in their local version
of /etc/master.passwd with something like
this:+@IT_EMP:::::::::
+@IT_APP:::::::::
+:::::::::/sbin/nologinThe corresponding lines for the normal workstations
could be:+@IT_EMP:::::::::
+@USERS:::::::::
+:::::::::/sbin/nologinAnd everything would be fine until there is a policy
change a few weeks later: The IT department starts hiring
interns. The IT interns are allowed to use the normal
workstations and the less important servers; and the IT
apprentices are allowed to login onto the main servers. You
add a new netgroup IT_INTERN, add the new IT interns to this
netgroup and start to change the config on each and every
machine... As the old saying goes: Errors in
centralized planning lead to global mess.NIS' ability to create netgroups from other netgroups can
be used to prevent situations like these. One possibility
is the creation of role-based netgroups. For example, you
could create a netgroup called
BIGSRV to define the login
restrictions for the important servers, another netgroup
called SMALLSRV for the less
important servers and a third netgroup called
USERBOX for the normal
workstations. Each of these netgroups contains the netgroups
that are allowed to login onto these machines. The new
entries for your NIS map netgroup should look like this:BIGSRV IT_EMP IT_APP
SMALLSRV IT_EMP IT_APP ITINTERN
USERBOX IT_EMP ITINTERN USERSThis method of defining login restrictions works
reasonably well if you can define groups of machines with
identical restrictions. Unfortunately, this is the exception
and not the rule. Most of the time, you will need the ability
to define login restrictions on a per-machine basis.Machine-specific netgroup definitions are the other
possibility to deal with the policy change outlined above. In
this scenario, the /etc/master.passwd of
each box contains two lines starting with ``+''. The first of
them adds a netgroup with the accounts allowed to login onto
this machine, the second one adds all other accounts with
/sbin/nologin as shell. It is a good
idea to use the ALL-CAPS version of the machine name as the
name of the netgroup. In other words, the lines should look
like this:+@BOXNAME:::::::::
+:::::::::/sbin/nologinOnce you have completed this task for all your machines,
you will not have to modify the local versions of
/etc/master.passwd ever again. All
further changes can be handled by modifying the NIS map. Here
is an example of a possible netgroup map for this
scenario with some additional goodies.# Define groups of users first
IT_EMP (,alpha,test-domain) (,beta,test-domain)
IT_APP (,charlie,test-domain) (,delta,test-domain)
DEPT1 (,echo,test-domain) (,foxtrott,test-domain)
DEPT2 (,golf,test-domain) (,hotel,test-domain)
DEPT3 (,india,test-domain) (,juliet,test-domain)
ITINTERN (,kilo,test-domain) (,lima,test-domain)
D_INTERNS (,able,test-domain) (,baker,test-domain)
#
# Now, define some groups based on roles
USERS DEPT1 DEPT2 DEPT3
BIGSRV IT_EMP IT_APP
SMALLSRV IT_EMP IT_APP ITINTERN
USERBOX IT_EMP ITINTERN USERS
#
# And a groups for a special tasks
# Allow echo and golf to access our anti-virus-machine
SECURITY IT_EMP (,echo,test-domain) (,golf,test-domain)
#
# machine-based netgroups
# Our main servers
WAR BIGSRV
FAMINE BIGSRV
# User india needs access to this server
POLLUTION BIGSRV (,india,test-domain)
#
# This one is really important and needs more access restrictions
DEATH IT_EMP
#
# The anti-virus-machine mentioned above
ONE SECURITY
#
# Restrict a machine to a single user
TWO (,hotel,test-domain)
# [...more groups to follow]If you are using some kind of database to manage your user
accounts, you should be able to create the first part of the
map with your database's report tools. This way, new users
will automatically have access to the boxes.One last word of caution: It may not always be advisable
to use machine-based netgroups. If you are deploying a couple
dozen or even hundreds of identical machines for student labs,
you should use role-based netgroups instead of machine-based
netgroups to keep the size of the NIS map within reasonable
limits.Important Things to RememberThere are still a couple of things that you will need to do
differently now that you are in an NIS environment.Every time you wish to add a user to the lab, you
must add it to the master NIS server only,
and you must remember to rebuild the NIS
maps. If you forget to do this, the new user will
not be able to login anywhere except on the NIS master.
For example, if we needed to add a new user
jsmith to the lab, we would:&prompt.root; pw useradd jsmith
&prompt.root; cd /var/yp
&prompt.root; make test-domainYou could also run adduser jsmith instead
of pw useradd jsmith.Keep the administration accounts out of the NIS
maps. You do not want to be propagating administrative
accounts and passwords to machines that will have users that
should not have access to those accounts.Keep the NIS master and slave
secure, and minimize their downtime.
If somebody either hacks or simply turns off
these machines, they have effectively rendered many people without
the ability to login to the lab.This is the chief weakness of any centralized administration
system, and it is probably the most important weakness. If you do
not protect your NIS servers, you will have a lot of angry
users!NIS v1 Compatibility FreeBSD's ypserv has some support
for serving NIS v1 clients. FreeBSD's NIS implementation only
uses the NIS v2 protocol, however other implementations include
support for the v1 protocol for backwards compatibility with older
systems. The ypbind daemons supplied
with these systems will try to establish a binding to an NIS v1
server even though they may never actually need it (and they may
persist in broadcasting in search of one even after they receive a
response from a v2 server). Note that while support for normal
client calls is provided, this version of ypserv does not handle
v1 map transfer requests; consequently, it cannot be used as a
master or slave in conjunction with older NIS servers that only
support the v1 protocol. Fortunately, there probably are not any
such servers still in use today.NIS Servers that are also NIS Clients Care must be taken when running ypserv in a multi-server
domain where the server machines are also NIS clients. It is
generally a good idea to force the servers to bind to themselves
rather than allowing them to broadcast bind requests and possibly
become bound to each other. Strange failure modes can result if
one server goes down and others are dependent upon on it.
Eventually all the clients will time out and attempt to bind to
other servers, but the delay involved can be considerable and the
failure mode is still present since the servers might bind to each
other all over again.You can force a host to bind to a particular server by running
ypbind with the
flag. If you do not want to do this manually each time you
reboot your NIS server, you can add the following lines to
your /etc/rc.conf:nis_client_enable="YES" # run client stuff as well
nis_client_flags="-S NIS domain,server"See &man.ypbind.8; for further information.libscrypt v.s. libdescryptNIScrypto libraryOne of the most common issues that people run into when trying
to implement NIS is crypt library compatibility. If your NIS
server is using the DES crypt libraries, it will only support
clients that are using DES as well. To check which one your server
and clients are using look at the symlinks in
/usr/lib. If the machine is configured to
use the DES libraries, it will look something like this:&prompt.user; ls -l /usr/lib/*crypt*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 13 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt.a@ -> libdescrypt.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt.so@ -> libdescrypt.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 16 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt.so.2@ -> libdescrypt.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 15 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt_p.a@ -> libdescrypt_p.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 13018 Nov 8 14:27 libdescrypt.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Nov 8 14:27 libdescrypt.so@ -> libdescrypt.so.2
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 12965 Nov 8 14:27 libdescrypt.so.2
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 14750 Nov 8 14:27 libdescrypt_p.aIf the machine is configured to use the standard FreeBSD MD5
crypt libraries they will look something like this:&prompt.user; ls -l /usr/lib/*crypt*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 13 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt.a@ -> libscrypt.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt.so@ -> libscrypt.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 16 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt.so.2@ -> libscrypt.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 15 Jul 15 08:55 libcrypt_p.a@ -> libscrypt_p.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6194 Nov 8 14:27 libscrypt.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Nov 8 14:27 libscrypt.so@ -> libscrypt.so.2
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7579 Nov 8 14:27 libscrypt.so.2
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6684 Nov 8 14:27 libscrypt_p.aIf you have trouble authenticating on an NIS client, this
is a pretty good place to start looking for possible problems.
If you want to deploy an NIS server for a heterogenous
network, you will probably have to use DES on all systems
because it is the lowest common standard.GregSutterWritten by DHCPWhat Is DHCP?Dynamic Host Configuration ProtocolDHCPInternet Software Consortium (ISC)DHCP, the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, describes
the means by which a system can connect to a network and obtain the
necessary information for communication upon that network. FreeBSD
uses the ISC (Internet Software Consortium) DHCP implementation, so
all implementation-specific information here is for use with the ISC
distribution.What this Section CoversThis section attempts to describe only the parts
of the DHCP system that are integrated with FreeBSD;
consequently, the server portions are not described. The DHCP
manual pages, in addition to the references below, are useful
resources.How It WorksUDPWhen dhclient, the DHCP client, is executed on
the client
machine, it begins broadcasting requests for configuration
information. By default, these requests are on UDP port 68. The
server replies on UDP 67, giving the client an IP address and
other relevant network information such as netmask, router, and
DNS servers. All of this information comes in the form of a DHCP
"lease" and is only valid for a certain time (configured by the
DHCP server maintainer). In this manner, stale IP addresses for
clients no longer connected to the network can be automatically
reclaimed.DHCP clients can obtain a great deal of information from
the server. An exhaustive list may be found in
&man.dhcp-options.5;.FreeBSD IntegrationFreeBSD fully integrates the ISC DHCP client,
dhclient. DHCP client support is provided
within both the installer and the base system, obviating the need
for detailed knowledge of network configurations on any network
that runs a DHCP server. dhclient has been
included in all FreeBSD distributions since 3.2.sysinstallDHCP is supported by sysinstall.
When configuring a network interface within sysinstall,
the first question asked is, "Do you want to try DHCP
configuration of this interface?" Answering affirmatively will
execute dhclient, and if successful, will fill
in the network configuration information automatically.There are two things you must do to have your system use
DHCP upon startup:DHCPrequirementsMake sure that the bpf
device is compiled into your kernel. To do this, add
pseudo-device bpf to your kernel
configuration file, and rebuild the kernel. For more
information about building kernels, see .The bpf device is already
part of the GENERIC kernel that is
supplied with FreeBSD, so if you do not have a custom
kernel, you should not need to create one in order to get
DHCP working.For those who are particularly security conscious,
you should be warned that bpf
is also the device that allows packet sniffers to work
correctly (although they still have to be run as
root). bpfis required to use DHCP, but if
you are very sensitive about security, you probably
should not add bpf to your
kernel in the expectation that at some point in the
future you will be using DHCP.Edit your /etc/rc.conf to
include the following:ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"Be sure to replace fxp0 with the
designation for the interface that you wish to dynamically
configure.If you are using a different location for
dhclient, or if you wish to pass additional
flags to dhclient, also include the
following (editing as necessary):dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"
dhcp_flags=""DHCPserverThe DHCP server, dhcpd, is included
as part of the isc-dhcp3 port in the ports
collection. This port contains the full ISC DHCP distribution,
consisting of client, server, relay agent and documentation.
FilesDHCPconfiguration files/etc/dhclient.confdhclient requires a configuration file,
/etc/dhclient.conf. Typically the file
contains only comments, the defaults being reasonably sane. This
configuration file is described by the &man.dhclient.conf.5;
manual page./sbin/dhclientdhclient is statically linked and
resides in /sbin. The &man.dhclient.8;
manual page gives more information about
dhclient./sbin/dhclient-scriptdhclient-script is the FreeBSD-specific
DHCP client configuration script. It is described in
&man.dhclient-script.8;, but should not need any user
modification to function properly./var/db/dhclient.leasesThe DHCP client keeps a database of valid leases in this
file, which is written as a log. &man.dhclient.leases.5;
gives a slightly longer description.Further ReadingThe DHCP protocol is fully described in
RFC 2131.
An informational resource has also been set up at
dhcp.org.CeriDaviesWritten by ceri@FreeBSD.orgInstalling And Configuring A DHCP ServerWhat this Section CoversThis section provides information on how to configure
a FreeBSD system to act as a DHCP server using the ISC
(Internet Software Consortium) implementation of the DHCP
suite.The server portion of the suite is not provided as part of
FreeBSD, and so you will need to install the
net/isc-dhcp3
port to provide this service. See for
more information on using the ports collection.DHCP Server InstallationDHCPinstallationIn order to configure your FreeBSD system as a DHCP server,
you will need to ensure that the &man.bpf.4;
device is compiled into your kernel. To do this, add
pseudo-device bpf to your kernel
configuration file, and rebuild the kernel. For more
information about building kernels, see .The bpf device is already
part of the GENERIC kernel that is
supplied with FreeBSD, so you do not need to create a custom
kernel in order to get DHCP working.Those who are particularly security conscious
should note that bpf
is also the device that allows packet sniffers to work
correctly (although such programs still need privileged
access). bpfis required to use DHCP, but if
you are very sensitive about security, you probably
should not include bpf in your
kernel purely because you expect to use DHCP at some
point in the future.The next thing that you will need to do is edit the sample
dhcpd.conf which was installed by the
net/isc-dhcp3 port.
By default, this will be
/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf.sample, and you
should copy this to
/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf before proceeding
to make changes.Configuring the DHCP ServerDHCP configurationdhcpd.confdhcpd.conf is
comprised of declarations regarding subnets and hosts, and is
perhaps most easily explained using an example :option domain-name "example.com";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.4.100;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 3600;
max-lease-time 86400;
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 192.168.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.4.129 192.168.4.254;
option routers 192.168.4.1;
}
host mailhost {
hardware ethernet 02:03:04:05:06:07;
fixed-address mailhost.example.com;
}This option specifies the domain that will be provided
to clients as the default search domain. See
&man.resolv.conf.5; for more information on what this
means.This option specifies a comma separated list of DNS
servers that the client should use.The netmask that will be provided to clients.A client may request a specific length of time that a
lease will be valid. Otherwise the server will assign
a lease with this expiry value (in seconds).This is the maximum length of time that the server will
lease for. Should a client request a longer lease, a lease
will be issued, although it will only be valid for
max-lease-time seconds.This option specifies whether the DHCP server should
attempt to update DNS when a lease is accepted or released.
In the ISC implementation, this option is
required.This denotes which IP addresses should be used in the
pool reserved for allocating to clients. IP addresses between,
and including, the ones stated are handed out to clients.Declares the default gateway that will be provided to
clients.The hardware MAC address of a host (so that the DHCP server
can recognise a host when it makes a request).Specifies that the host should always be given the same
IP address. Note that a hostname is OK here, since the DHCP
server will resolve the hostname itself before returning the
lease information.Once you have finished writing your
dhcpd.conf, you can proceed to start the
server by issuing the following command:&prompt.root; /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd.sh startShould you need to make changes to the configuration of your
server in the future, it is important to note that sending a
SIGHUP signal to
dhcpd does not
result in the configuration being reloaded, as it does with most
daemons. You will need to send a SIGTERM
signal to stop the process, and then restart it using the command
above.FilesDHCPconfiguration files/usr/local/sbin/dhcpddhcpd is statically linked and
resides in /usr/local/sbin. The
dhcpd(8) manual page installed with the
port gives more information about
dhcpd./usr/local/etc/dhcpd.confdhcpd requires a configuration
file, /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf before it
will start providing service to clients. This file needs to
contain all the information that should be provided to clients
that are being serviced, along with information regarding the
operation of the server. This configuration file is described
by the dhcpd.conf(5) manual page installed
by the port./var/db/dhcpd.leasesThe DHCP server keeps a database of leases it has issued
in this file, which is written as a log. The manual page
dhcpd.leases(5), installed by the port
gives a slightly longer description./usr/local/sbin/dhcrelaydhcrelay is used in advanced
environments where one DHCP server forwards a request from a
client to another DHCP server on a separate network. The
dhcrelay(8) manual page provided with the
port contains more detail.ChernLeeContributed by DNSOverviewBINDFreeBSD utilizes, by default, a version of BIND (Berkeley
Internet Name Domain), which is the most common implementation of the
DNS protocol. DNS is the protocol through which names are mapped to
IP addresses, and vice versa. For example, a query for
www.FreeBSD.org
will receive a reply with the IP address of The FreeBSD Project's
web server, whereas, a query for ftp.FreeBSD.org
will return the IP
address of the corresponding FTP machine. Likewise, the opposite can
happen. A query for an IP address can resolve its hostname. It is
not necessary to run a name server to perform DNS lookups on a system.
DNSDNS is coordinated across the Internet through a somewhat
complex system of authoritative root name servers, and other
smaller-scale name servers who host and cache individual domain
information.
This document refers to BIND 8.x, as it is the stable version
used in FreeBSD. BIND 9.x in FreeBSD can be installed through
the net/bind9 port.
RFC1034 and RFC1035 dictates the DNS protocol.
Currently, BIND is maintained by the
Internet Software Consortium (www.isc.org)TerminologyTo understand this document, some terms related to DNS must be
understood.TermDefinitionforward DNSmapping of hostnames to IP addressesoriginrefers to the domain covered for the particular zone
filenamed, bind, name servercommon names for the BIND name server package within
FreeBSDresolverresolvera system process through which a
machine queries a name server for zone informationreverse DNSreverse DNSthe opposite of forward DNS, mapping of IP addresses to
hostnamesroot zoneroot zoneliterally, a ., refers to the
root, or beginning zone. All zones fall under this, as
do all files in fall under the root directory. It is
the beginning of the Internet zone hierarchy.zoneEach individual domain, subdomain, or area dictated by
DNSzonesexamplesExamples of zones:
. is the root zoneorg. is a zone under the root zoneexample.org is a zone under the org. zonefoo.example.org. is a subdomain, a zone under the
example.org. zone
1.2.3.in-addr.arpa is a zone referencing all IP addresses
which fall under the 3.2.1.* IP space.
As one can see, the more specific part of a hostname appears to
its left. For example, example.org. is more
specific than org., as org. is
more specific than the root zone. The layout of each part of
a hostname is much like a filesystem: the /dev
directory falls within the root, and so on.Reasons to Run a Name ServerName servers usually come in two forms: an authoritative
name server, and a caching name server.An authoritative name server is needed when:one wants to serve DNS information to the
world, replying authoritatively to queries.a domain, such as example.org, is
registered and IP addresses need to be assigned to hostnames
under it.an IP address block requires reverse DNS entries (IP to
hostname).a backup name server, called a slave, must reply to queries
when the primary is down or inaccessible.A caching name server is needed when:a local DNS server may cache and respond more quickly
then querying an outside name server.a reduction in overall network traffic is desired. (DNS
traffic has been measured to account for 5% or more of total
Internet traffic)When one queries for www.FreeBSD.org, the
resolver usually queries the uplink ISP's name server, and retrieves
the reply. With a local, caching DNS server, the query only has to
be made once to the outside world by the caching DNS server. Every
additional query will not have to look to the outside of the local
network, since the information is cached locally.How It WorksIn FreeBSD, the BIND daemon is called
named for obvious reasons.FileDescriptionnamedthe BIND daemonndcname daemon control program/etc/namedbdirectory where BIND zone information resides/etc/namedb/named.confdaemon configuration file
Zone files are usually contained within the
/etc/namedb
directory, and contain the DNS zone information
served by the name server.
Starting BINDBINDstarting
Since BIND is installed by default, configuring it all is
relatively simple.
To ensure the named daemon is started at boot, put the following
modifications in /etc/rc.conf:
named_enable="YES"To start the daemon manually (after configuring it)&prompt.root; ndc startConfiguration FilesBINDconfiguration filesmake-localhostBe sure to:
&prompt.root; cd /etc/namedb
&prompt.root; sh make-localhostto properly create the local reverse DNS zone file in
/etc/namedb/localhost.rev.
/etc/namedb/named.conf// $FreeBSD$
//
// Refer to the named(8) manual page for details. If you are ever going
// to setup a primary server, make sure you've understood the hairy
// details of how DNS is working. Even with simple mistakes, you can
// break connectivity for affected parties, or cause huge amount of
// useless Internet traffic.
options {
directory "/etc/namedb";
// In addition to the "forwarders" clause, you can force your name
// server to never initiate queries of its own, but always ask its
// forwarders only, by enabling the following line:
//
// forward only;
// If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter
// its IP address here, and enable the line below. This will make you
// benefit from its cache, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the
Internet.
/*
forwarders {
127.0.0.1;
};
*/
Just as the comment says, to benefit from an uplink's cache,
forwarders can be enabled here. Under normal
circumstances, a name server will recursively query the Internet
looking at certain name servers until it finds the answer it is
looking for. Having this enabled will have it query the uplink's
name server (or name server provided) first, taking advantage of
its cache. If the uplink name server in question is a heavily
trafficked, fast name server, enabling this may be worthwhile.
127.0.0.1 will not work here.
Change this IP address to a name server at your uplink. /*
* If there is a firewall between you and name servers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
/*
* If running in a sandbox, you may have to specify a different
* location for the dumpfile.
*/
// dump-file "s/named_dump.db";
};
// Note: the following will be supported in a future release.
/*
host { any; } {
topology {
127.0.0.0/8;
};
};
*/
// Setting up secondaries is way easier and the rough picture for this
// is explained below.
//
// If you enable a local name server, don't forget to enter 127.0.0.1
// into your /etc/resolv.conf so this server will be queried first.
// Also, make sure to enable it in /etc/rc.conf.
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};
zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
};
zone
"0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.INT" {
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
};
// NB: Do not use the IP addresses below, they are faked, and only
// serve demonstration/documentation purposes!
//
// Example secondary config entries. It can be convenient to become
// a secondary at least for the zone where your own domain is in. Ask
// your network administrator for the IP address of the responsible
// primary.
//
// Never forget to include the reverse lookup (IN-ADDR.ARPA) zone!
// (This is the first bytes of the respective IP address, in reverse
// order, with ".IN-ADDR.ARPA" appended.)
//
// Before starting to setup a primary zone, better make sure you fully
// understand how DNS and BIND works, however. There are sometimes
// unobvious pitfalls. Setting up a secondary is comparably simpler.
//
// NB: Don't blindly enable the examples below. :-) Use actual names
// and addresses instead.
//
// NOTE!!! FreeBSD runs bind in a sandbox (see named_flags in rc.conf).
// The directory containing the secondary zones must be write accessible
// to bind. The following sequence is suggested:
//
// mkdir /etc/namedb/s
// chown bind:bind /etc/namedb/s
// chmod 750 /etc/namedb/sFor more information on running BIND in a sandbox, see
Running named in a sandbox.
/*
zone "domain.com" {
type slave;
file "s/domain.com.bak";
masters {
192.168.1.1;
};
};
zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type slave;
file "s/0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.bak";
masters {
192.168.1.1;
};
};
*/In named.conf, these are examples of slave
entries for a forward and reverse zone.For each new zone served, a new zone entry must be added to
named.confFor example, the simplest zone entry for example.org can
look like:zone "example.org" {
type master;
file "example.org";
};The zone is a master, as indicated by the
statement, holding its zone information in
/etc/namedb/example.org indicated by
the statement.zone "example.org" {
type slave;
file "example.org";
};In the slave case, the zone information is transferred from
the master name server for the particular zone, and saved in the
file specified. If and when the master server dies or is
unreachable, the slave name server will have the transferred
zone information and will be able to serve it.Zone Files
An example master zone file for example.org
(existing within /etc/namedb/example.org)
is as follows:
$TTL 3600
example.org. IN SOA ns1.example.org. admin.example.org. (
5 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
604800 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL
; DNS Servers
@ IN NS ns1.example.org.
@ IN NS ns2.example.org.
; Machine Names
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 3.2.1.2
ns2 IN A 3.2.1.3
mail IN A 3.2.1.10
@ IN A 3.2.1.30
; Aliases
www IN CNAME @
; MX Record
@ IN MX 10 mail.example.org.
Note that every hostname ending in a . is an
exact hostname, whereas everything without a trailing
. is referenced to the origin. For example,
www is translated into www +
origin. In our fictitious zone file, our origin
is example.org., so
www would translate to
www.example.org.
The format of a zone file follows:
recordname IN recordtype valueDNSrecords
The most commonly used DNS records:
SOAstart of zone authorityNSan authoritative name serverAA host addressCNAMEthe canonical name for an aliasMXmail exchangePTRa domain name pointer (used in reverse DNS)
example.org. IN SOA ns1.example.org. admin.example.org. (
5 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh after 3 hours
3600 ; Retry after 1 hour
604800 ; Expire after 1 week
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 dayexample.org.the domain name, also the origin for this
zone file.ns1.example.org.the primary/authoritative name server for this
zoneadmin.example.org.the responsible person for this zone,
email address with @
replaced. (admin@example.org becomes
admin.example.org)5the serial number of the file. this
must be incremented each time the zone file is modified.
Nowadays, many admins prefer a
yyyymmddrr format for the serial
number. 2001041002 would mean last modified 04/10/2001,
the latter 02 being the second time the zone file has
been modified this day. The serial number is important
as it alerts slave name servers for a zone when it is
updated.
@ IN NS ns1.example.org.
This is an NS entry. Every name server that is going to reply
authoritatively for the zone must have one of these entries.
The @ as seen here could have been
example.org.
The @ translates to the origin.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 3.2.1.2
ns2 IN A 3.2.1.3
mail IN A 3.2.1.10
@ IN A 3.2.1.30
The A record indicates machine names. As seen above,
ns1.example.org would resolve to
3.2.1.2. Again, the origin symbol, @, is
used here, thus meaning example.org
would resolve to 3.2.1.30.
www IN CNAME @
The canonical name record is usually used for giving aliases
to a machine. In the example, www is
aliased to the machine addressed to the origin, or
example.org (3.2.1.30).
CNAMEs can be used to provide alias
hostnames, or round robin one hostname among multiple
machines.
@ IN MX 10 mail.example.org.
The MX record indicates which mail servers are responsible
for handling incoming mail for the zone.
mail.example.org is the hostname of the mail server,
and 10 being the priority of that mail server.
One can have several mail servers, with priorities of 3, 2,
1. A mail server attempting to deliver to example.org
would first try the highest priority MX, then the second
highest, etc, until the mail can be properly delivered.
For in-addr.arpa zone files (reverse DNS), the same format is
used, except with PTR entries instead of
A or CNAME.
$TTL 3600
1.2.3.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns1.example.org. admin.example.org. (
5 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
604800 ; Expire
3600 ) ; Minimum
@ IN NS ns1.example.org.
@ IN NS ns2.example.org.
2 IN PTR ns1.example.org.
3 IN PTR ns2.example.org.
10 IN PTR mail.example.org.
30 IN PTR example.org.
This file gives the proper IP address to hostname mappings of our above
fictitious domain.
Caching Name ServerBINDcaching name server
A caching name server is a name server that is not
authoritative for any zones. It simply asks queries of its own,
and remembers them for later use. To set one up, just configure
the name server as usual, omitting any inclusions of zones.
CeriDaviesContributed by Running named in a SandboxBINDrunning in a sandboxchrootFor added security you may want to run &man.named.8; as an
unprivileged user, and configure it to &man.chroot.8; into a
sandbox directory. This makes everything outside of the sandbox
inaccessible to the named daemon. Should
named be compromised, this will help to
reduce the damage that can be caused. By default, FreeBSD has a user
and a group called bind, intended for this
use.Various people would recommend that instead of configuring
named to chroot, you
should run named inside a &man.jail.8;. This
section does not attempt to cover this situation.Since named will not be able to
access anything outside of the sandbox (such as shared
libraries, log sockets, and so on), there are a number of steps
that need to be followed in order to allow
named to function correctly. In the
following checklist, it is assumed that the path to the sandbox
is /etc/namedb and that you have made no
prior modifications to the contents of this directory. Perform
the following steps as root.Create all directories that named
expects to see:&prompt.root; cd /etc/namedb
&prompt.root; mkdir -p bin dev etc var/tmp var/run master slave
&prompt.root; chown bind:bind slave var/*named only needs write access to
these directories, so that is all we give it.Rearrange and create basic zone and configuration files:&prompt.root; cp /etc/localtime etc
&prompt.root; mv named.conf etc && ln -sf etc/named.conf
&prompt.root; mv named.root master
&prompt.root; sh make-localhost && mv localhost.rev localhost-v6.rev master
&prompt.root; cat > master/named.localhost
$ORIGIN localhost.
$TTL 6h
@ IN SOA localhost. postmaster.localhost. (
1 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
1800 ; retry
604800 ; expiration
3600 ) ; minimum
IN NS localhost.
IN A 127.0.0.1
^DThis allows named to log the
correct time to &man.syslogd.8;Build a statically linked copy of
named-xfer, and copy it into the sandbox:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/lib/libisc && make clean all
&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/lib/libbind && make clean all
&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/libexec/named-xfer && make NOSHARED=yes all
&prompt.root; cp named-xfer /etc/namedb/bin && chmod 555 /etc/namedb/bin/named-xferThis step has been reported to fail occasionally. If this
happens to you, then issue the command:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src && make cleandir && make cleandirThis will clean out any cruft from your
source tree, and retrying the steps above should then work.Make a dev/null that
named can see and write to:&prompt.root; cd /etc/namedb/dev && mknod null c 2 2
&prompt.root; chmod 666 nullSymlink /var/run/ndc to
/etc/namedb/var/run/ndc:&prompt.root; ln -sf /etc/namedb/var/run/ndc /var/run/ndcThis simply avoids having to specify the
option to &man.ndc.8; every time you
run it. If this is something that you find useful, you
may wish to add this entry to root's crontab, making use
of the option. See
&man.crontab.5; for more information regarding
this.Configure &man.syslogd.8; to create an extra
log socket that
named can write to. To do this,
add -l /etc/namedb/dev/log to the
syslogd_flags variable in
/etc/rc.conf.Arrange to have named start
and chroot itself to the sandbox by
adding the following to
/etc/rc.conf:named_enable="YES"
named_flags="-u bind -g bind -t /etc/namedb /etc/named.conf"Note that the configuration file
/etc/named.conf is denoted by a full
pathname relative to the sandbox, i.e. in
the line above, the file referred to is actually
/etc/namedb/etc/named.conf.The next step is to edit
/etc/namedb/etc/named.conf so that
named knows which zones to load and
where to find them on the disk. There follows a commented
example (anything not specifically commented here is no
different from the setup for a DNS server not running in a
sandbox):options {
directory "/";
named-xfer "/bin/named-xfer";
version ""; // Don't reveal BIND version
query-source address * port 53;
};
// ndc control socket
controls {
unix "/var/run/ndc" perm 0600 owner 0 group 0;
};
// Zones follow:
zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "master/named.localhost";
allow-transfer { localhost; };
notify no;
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "master/localhost.rev";
allow-transfer { localhost; };
notify no;
};
zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.int" {
type master;
file "master/localhost-v6.rev";
allow-transfer { localhost; };
notify no;
};
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "master/named.root";
};
zone "private.example.net" in {
type master;
file "master/private.example.net.db";
allow-transfer { 192.168.10.0/24; };
};
zone "10.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in {
type slave;
masters { 192.168.10.2; };
file "slave/192.168.10.db";
};The
directory statement is specified as
/, since all files that
named needs are within this
directory (recall that this is equivalent to a
normal user's
/etc/namedb.Specifies the full path
to the named-xfer binary (from
named's frame of reference). This
is necessary since named is
compiled to look for named-xfer in
/usr/libexec by default.Specifies the filename (relative
to the directory statement above) where
named can find the zonefile for this
zone.Specifies the filename
(relative to the directory statement above)
where named should write a copy of
the zonefile for this zone after successfully transferring it
from the master server. This is why we needed to change the
ownership of the directory slave to
bind in the setup stages above.After completing the steps above, either reboot your
- server or restart &man.syslogd.8 and start &man.named.8, making
+ server or restart &man.syslogd.8; and start &man.named.8;, making
sure to use the new options specified in
syslogd_flags and
named_flags. You should now be running a
sandboxed copy of named!SecurityAlthough BIND is the most common implementation of DNS,
there is always the issue of security. Possible and
exploitable security holes are sometimes found.
It is a good idea to subscribe to CERT and
freebsd-security-notifications
to stay up to date with the current Internet and FreeBSD security
issues.
If a problem arises, keeping sources up to date and having a
fresh build of named would not hurt.Further Reading
BIND/named manual pages: &man.ndc.8; &man.named.8; &man.named.conf.5;
Official ISC Bind
Page
BIND FAQO'Reilly
DNS and BIND 4th EditionRFC1034
- Domain Names - Concepts and FacilitiesRFC1035
- Domain Names - Implementation and SpecificationTomHukinsContributed by NTPNTPOverviewOver time, a computer's clock is prone to drift. As time
passes, the computer's clock becomes less accurate. NTP
(Network Time Protocol) is one way to ensure your clock is
right.Many Internet services rely on, or greatly benefit from,
computers' clocks being accurate. For example, a Web server
may receive requests to send a file if it has modified since a
certain time. Services such as &man.cron.8; run commands at a
given time. If the clock is inaccurate, these commands may
not run when expected.NTPntpdFreeBSD ships with the &man.ntpd.8; NTP server which can
be used to query other NTP servers to set the clock on your
machine or provide time services to others.Choosing Appropriate NTP ServersNTPchoosing serversIn order to synchronize your clock, you will need to find
one or more NTP servers to use. Your network administrator or
ISP may have setup an NTP server for this purpose—check
their documentation to see if this is the case. There is a
list of
publicly accessible NTP servers which you can use to
find an NTP server near to you. Make sure you are aware of
the policy for any servers you choose, and ask for permission
if required.Choosing several unconnected NTP servers is a good idea in
case one of the servers you are using becomes unreachable or
its clock is unreliable. &man.ntpd.8; uses the responses it
receives from other servers intelligently—it will favor
unreliable servers less than reliable ones.Configuring Your MachineNTPconfigurationBasic ConfigurationntpdateIf you only wish to synchronize your clock when the
machine boots up, you can use &man.ntpdate.8;. This may be
appropriate for some desktop machines which are frequently
rebooted and only require infrequent synchronization, but
most machines should run &man.ntpd.8;.Using &man.ntpdate.8; at boot time is also a good idea
for machines that run &man.ntpd.8;. &man.ntpd.8; changes the
clock gradually, whereas &man.ntpdate.8; sets the clock, no
matter how great the difference between a machine's current
clock setting and the correct time.To enable &man.ntpdate.8; at boot time, add
ntpdate_enable="YES" to
/etc/rc.conf. You will also need to
specify all servers you wish to synchronize with and any
flags to be passed to &man.ntpdate.8; in
ntpdate_flags.NTPntp.confGeneral ConfigurationNTP is configured by the
/etc/ntp.conf file in the format
described in &man.ntp.conf.5;. Here is a simple
example:server ntplocal.example.com prefer
server timeserver.example.org
server ntp2a.example.net
driftfile /var/db/ntp.driftThe server option specifies which
servers are to be used, with one server listed on each line.
If a server is specified with the prefer
argument, as with ntplocal.example.com, that server is
preferred over other servers. A response from a preferred
server will be discarded if it differs significantly from
other servers' responses, otherwise it will be used without
any consideration to other responses. The
prefer argument is normally used for NTP
servers that are known to be highly accurate, such as those
with special time monitoring hardware.The driftfile option specifies which
file is used to store the system clock's frequency offset.
&man.ntpd.8; uses this to automatically compensate for the
clock's natural drift, allowing it to maintain a reasonably
correct setting even if it is cut off from all external time
sources for a period of time.The driftfile option specifies which
file is used to store information about previous responses
from the NTP servers you are using. This file contains
internal information for NTP. It should not be modified by
any other process.Controlling Access to Your ServerBy default, your NTP server will be accessible to all
hosts on the Internet. The restrict
option in &man.ntp.conf.5; allows you to control which
machines can access your server.If you want to deny all machines from accessing your NTP
server, add the line restrict default ignore
to /etc/ntp.conf. If you only want to
allow machines within your own network to synchronize their
clocks with your server, but ensure they are not allowed to
configure the server or used as peers to synchronize
against, add restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap
instead, where 192.168.1.0 is
an IP address on your network and 255.255.255.0 is your network's
netmask./etc/ntp.conf can contain multiple
restrict options. For more details, see
the Access Control Support subsection of
&man.ntp.conf.5;.Running the NTP ServerTo ensure the NTP server is started at boot time, add the
line xntpd_enable="YES" to
/etc/rc.conf. If you wish to pass
additional flags to &man.ntpd.8; edit the
xntpd_flags parameter in
/etc/rc.conf.To start the server without rebooting your machine, run
ntpd being sure to specify any additional
parameters from xntpd_flags in
/etc/rc.conf. For example:&prompt.root; ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pidUsing &man.ntpd.8; with a temporary Internet
connectionntpd does not need a permanent
connection to the Internet to function properly. However, if
you have a temporary connection that is configured to dial out
on demand, it is a good idea to prevent NTP traffic from
triggering a dial out or keeping the connection alive. If you
are using user PPP, you can use filter
directives in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. For
example: set filter dial 0 deny udp src eq 123
# Prevent NTP traffic from initiating dial out
set filter dial 1 permit 0 0
set filter alive 0 deny udp src eq 123
# Prevent incoming NTP traffic from keeping the connection open
set filter alive 1 deny udp dst eq 123
# Prevent outgoing NTP traffic from keeping the connection open
set filter alive 2 permit 0/0 0/0For more details see the PACKET
FILTERING section in &man.ppp.8; and the examples in
/usr/share/examples/ppp/.Some Internet access providers block low-numbered ports,
preventing NTP from from functioning since replies never
reach your machine.Further InformationDocumentation for the NTP server can be found in
/usr/share/doc/ntp/ in HTML
format.ChernLeeContributed by Network Address TranslationOverviewnatdFreeBSD's Network Address Translation daemon, commonly known as
&man.natd.8; is a daemon that accepts incoming raw IP packets,
changes the source to the local machine and re-injects these packets
back into the outgoing IP packet stream. natd does this by changing
the source IP address and port such that when data is received back, it is
able to determine the original location of the data and forward it
back to its original requester.Internet connection sharingIP masqueradingThe most common use of NAT is to perform what is commonly known as
Internet Connection Sharing.SetupDue to the diminishing IP space in IPv4, and the increased number
of users on high-speed consumer lines such as cable or DSL, people are
increasingly in need of an Internet Connection Sharing solution. The
ability to connect several computers online through one connection and
IP address makes &man.natd.8; a reasonable choice.Most commonly, a user has a machine connected to a cable or DSL
line with one IP address and wishes to use this one connected computer to
provide Internet access to several more over a LAN.To do this, the FreeBSD machine on the Internet must act as a
gateway. This gateway machine must have two NICs--one for connecting
to the Internet router, the other connecting to a LAN. All the
machines on the LAN are connected through a hub or switch. _______ __________ ________
| | | | | |
| Hub |-----| Client B |-----| Router |----- Internet
|_______| |__________| |________|
|
____|_____
| |
| Client A |
|__________|Network LayoutA setup like this is commonly used to share an Internet
connection. One of the LAN machines is
connected to the Internet. The rest of the machines access
the Internet through that gateway
machine.kernelconfigurationConfigurationThe following options must be in the kernel configuration
file:options IPFIREWALL
options IPDIVERTAdditionally, at choice, the following may also be suitable:options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSEThe following must be in /etc/rc.conf:gateway_enable="YES"
firewall_enable="YES"
firewall_type="OPEN"
natd_enable="YES"
natd_interface="fxp0"
natd_flags=""gateway_enable="YES"Sets up the machine to act as a gateway. Running
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
would have the same effect.firewall_enable="YES"Enables the firewall rules in
/etc/rc.firewall at boot.firewall_type="OPEN"This specifies a predefined firewall ruleset that
allows anything in. See
/etc/rc.firewall for additional
types.natd_interface="fxp0"Indicates which interface to forward packets through.
(the interface connected to the Internet)natd_flags=""Any additional configuration options passed to
&man.natd.8; on boot.Having the previous options defined in
/etc/rc.conf would run
natd -interface fxp0 at boot. This can also
be run manually.Each machine and interface behind the LAN should be assigned IP address
numbers in the private network space as defined by
RFC 1918
and have a default gateway of the natd machine's internal IP address.For example, client a and b behind the LAN have IP addresses of 192.168.0.2
and 192.168.0.3, while the natd machine's LAN interface has an IP address of
192.168.0.1. Client a and b's default gateway must be set to that of
the natd machine, 192.168.0.1. The natd machine's external, or
Internet interface does not require any special modification for natd
to work.Port RedirectionThe drawback with natd is that the LAN clients are not accessible
from the Internet. Clients on the LAN can make outgoing connections to
the world but cannot receive incoming ones. This presents a problem
if trying to run Internet services on one of the LAN client machines.
A simple way around this is to redirect selected Internet ports on the
natd machine to a LAN client.
For example, an IRC server runs on Client A, and a web server runs
on Client B. For this to work properly, connections received on ports
6667 (irc) and 80 (web) must be redirected to the respective machines.
The -redirect_port must be passed to
&man.natd.8; with the proper options. The syntax is as follows: -redirect_port proto targetIP:targetPORT[-targetPORT]
[aliasIP:]aliasPORT[-aliasPORT]
[remoteIP[:remotePORT[-remotePORT]]]In the above example, the argument should be:
-redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:6667 6667
-redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:80 80
This will redirect the proper tcp ports to the
LAN client machines.
The -redirect_port argument can be used to indicate port
ranges over individual ports. For example, tcp
192.168.0.2:2000-3000 2000-3000 would redirect
all connections received on ports 2000 to 3000 to ports 2000
to 3000 on Client A.These options can be used when directly running
&man.natd.8; or placed within the
natd_flags="" option in
/etc/rc.conf.For further configuration options, consult &man.natd.8;Address Redirectionaddress redirectionAddress redirection is useful if several IP addresses are available, yet
they must be on one machine. With this, &man.natd.8; can assign each
LAN client its own external IP address. &man.natd.8; then rewrites outgoing
packets from the LAN clients with the proper external IP address and redirects
all traffic incoming on that particular IP address back to the specific LAN
client. This is also known as static NAT. For example, the IP addresses
128.1.1.1, 128.1.1.2, and 128.1.1.3 belong to the natd gateway
machine. 128.1.1.1 can be used as the natd gateway machine's external
IP address, while 128.1.1.2 and 128.1.1.3 are forwarded back to LAN
clients A and B.The -redirect_address syntax is as follows:localIPThe internal IP address of the LAN client.publicIPThe external IP address corresponding to the LAN client.In the example, this argument would read:Like -redirect_port, these arguments are also placed within
natd_flags of /etc/rc.conf. With address
redirection, there is no need for port redirection since all data
received on a particular IP address is redirected.The external IP addresses on the natd machine must be active and aliased
to the external interface. Look at &man.rc.conf.5; to do so.ChernLeeContributed by inetd Super-ServerOverview&man.inetd.8; is referred to as the Internet
Super-Server because it manages connections for several
daemons. Programs that provide network service are commonly
known as daemons. inetd serves as a
managing server for other daemons. When a connection is
received by inetd, it determines
which daemon the connection is destined for, spawns the
particular daemon and delegates the socket to it. Running one
instance of inetd reduces the overall
system load as compared to running each daemon individually in
stand-alone mode.Primarily, inetd is used to
spawn other daemons, but several trivial protocols are handled
directly, such as chargen,
auth, and
daytime.This section will cover the basics in configuring
inetd through its command-line
options and its configuration file,
/etc/inetd.conf.Settingsinetd is initialized through
the /etc/rc.conf system. The
inetd_enable option is set to
NO by default, but is often times turned on by
sysinstall with the medium security
profile. Placing:
inetd_enable="YES" or
inetd_enable="NO" into
/etc/rc.conf can enable or disable
inetd starting at boot time.Additionally, different command-line options can be passed
to inetd via the
inetd_flags option.Command-Line Optionsinetd sypnosis:-dTurn on debugging.-lTurn on logging of successful connections.-wTurn on TCP Wrapping for external services. (on by
default)-WTurn on TCP Wrapping for internal services which are
built in to inetd. (on by
default)-c maximumSpecify the default maximum number of simultaneous
invocations of each service; the default is unlimited.
May be overridden on a per-service basis with the
parameter.-C rateSpecify the default maximum number of times a
service can be invoked from a single IP address in one
minute; the default is unlimited. May be overridden on a
per-service basis with the
parameter.-R rateSpecify the maximum number of times a service can be
invoked in one minute; the default is 256. A rate of 0
allows an unlimited number of invocations.-aSpecify one specific IP address to bind to.
Alternatively, a hostname can be specified, in which case
the IPv4 or IPv6 address which corresponds to that
hostname is used. Usually a hostname is specified when
inetd is run inside a
&man.jail.8;, in which case the hostname corresponds to
the &man.jail.8; environment.When hostname specification is used and both IPv4
and IPv6 bindings are desired, one entry with the
appropriate protocol type for each binding is required for
each service in /etc/inetd.conf. For
example, a TCP-based service would need two entries, one
using ``tcp4'' for the protocol and the other using
``tcp6''.-pSpecify an alternate file in which to store the
process ID.These options can be passed to
inetd using the
inetd_flags option in
/etc/rc.conf. By default,
inetd_flags is set to -wW,
which turns on TCP wrapping for
inetd's internal and external
services. For novice users, these parameters usually do not need
to be modified or even entered in
/etc/rc.confAn external service is a daemon outside of
inetd, which is invoked when a
connection is received for it. On the other hand, an internal
service is one that inetd has the
facility of offering within itself.inetd.confConfiguration of inetd is
controlled through the /etc/inetd.conf
file.When a modification is made to
/etc/inetd.conf,
inetd can be forced to re-read its
configuration file by sending a HangUP signal to the
inetd process as shown:Sending inetd a HangUP Signal
- &prompt.root kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
+ &prompt.root; kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`Each line of the configuration file specifies an
individual daemon. Comments in the file are preceded by a
#. The format of
/etc/inetd.conf is as follows:service-name
socket-type
protocol
{wait|nowait}[/max-child[/max-connections-per-ip-per-minute]]
user[:group][/login-class]
server-program
server-program-argumentsAn example entry for the ftpd daemon
using IPv4:ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -lservice-nameThis is the service name of the particular daemon.
It must correspond to a service listed in
/etc/services. This determines which
port inetd must listen to. If
a new service is being created, it must be placed in
/etc/services
first.socket-typeEither stream,
dgram, raw, or
seqpacket. stream
must be used for connection-based, TCP daemons, while
dgram is used for daemons utilizing the
UDP transport protocol.protocolOne of the following:ProtocolExplanationtcp, tcp4TCP IPv4udp, udp4UDP IPv4tcp6TCP IPv6udp6UDP IPv6tcp46Both TCP IPv4 and v6udp46Both UDP IPv4 and v6{wait|nowait}[/max-child[/max-connections-per-ip-per-minute]] indicates whether the
daemon invoked from inetd is
able to handle its own socket or not.
socket types must use the wait
option, while stream socket daemons, which are usually
multi-threaded, should use .
usually hands off multiple sockets
to a single daemon, while spawns a
child daemon for each new socket.The maximum number of child daemons
inetd may spawn can be set using
the option. If a limit of ten
instances of a particular daemon is needed, a
/10 would be placed after
.In addition to another
option limiting the maximum connections from a single
place to a particular daemon can be enabled.
does
just this. A value of ten here would limit any particular
IP address connecting to a particular service to ten
attempts per minute. This is useful to prevent
intentional or unintentional resource consumption and
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to a machine.In this field, or
is mandatory.
and
are
optional.A stream-type multi-threaded daemon without any
or
limits
would simply be: nowaitThe same daemon with a maximum limit of ten daemons
would read: nowait/10Additionally, the same setup with a limit of twenty
connections per IP address per minute and a maximum
total limit of ten child daemons would read:
nowait/10/20These options are all utilized by the default
settings of the fingerd daemon,
as seen here:finger stream tcp nowait/3/10 nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -suserThe user is the username that the particular daemon
should run as. Most commonly, daemons run as the
root user. For security purposes, it is
common to find some servers running as the
daemon user, or the least privileged
nobody user.server-programThe full path of the daemon to be executed when a
connection is received. If the daemon is a service
provided by inetd internally,
then should be
used.server-program-argumentsThis works in conjunction with
by specifying the
arguments, starting with argv[0], passed to the daemon on
invocation. If mydaemon -d is
the command line, mydaemon -d would be
the value of .
Again, if the daemon is an internal service, use
here.SecurityDepending on the security profile chosen at install, many
of inetd's daemons may be enabled by
default. If there is no apparent need for a particular daemon,
disable it! Place a # in front of the daemon in
question, and send a hangup signal
to inetd.
Some daemons, such as fingerd, may
not be desired at all because they provide an attacker with too
much information.Some daemons are not security-conscious and have long, or
non-existent timeouts for connection attempts. This allows an
attacker to slowly send connections to a particular daemon, thus
saturating available resources. It may be a good idea to place
and
limitations on certain daemons.By default, TCP wrapping is turned on. Consult the
&man.hosts.access.5; manual page for more information on placing
TCP restrictions on various inetd
invoked daemons.Miscellaneousdaytime,
time,
echo,
discard,
chargen, and
auth are all internally provided
services of inetd.The auth service provides identity
(ident, identd) network services, and is configurable to a certain
degree.Consult the &man.inetd.8; manual page for more in-depth
information.Parallel Line IP (PLIP)PLIPParallel Line IPPLIP lets us run TCP/IP between parallel ports. It is
useful on machines without network cards, or to install on
laptops. In this section, we will discuss:Creating a parallel (laplink) cable.connecting two computers with PLIP.Creating a Parallel CableYou can purchase a parallel cable at most computer supply
stores. If you can't do that, or you just want to know how
it's done, here's how you make one out of a normal parallel
printer cable.
Setting up PLIPGet a laplink cable.Confirm that both computers have a kernel with lpt driver
support.&prompt.root; dmesg | grep lp
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven
lp0: TCP/IP capable interfacePlug in the laplink cable into the parallel interface on
both computers.Configure the network interface parameters for lp0 on both
sites as root. For example, if you want connect the host host1
with host2 host1 <-----> host2
IP Address 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2Configure the interface on host1 by doing:&prompt.root; ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2Configure the interface on host2 by doing:&prompt.root; ifconfig lp0 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1You now should have a working connection. Please read the
man pages &man.lp.4; and &man.lpt.4; for more details.You should also add both hosts to
/etc/hosts.127.0.0.1 localhost.my.domain localhost
10.0.0.1 host1.my.domain host1
10.0.0.2 host2.my.domainTo confirm the connection works, go to each host and ping
the other. For example, on host1:&prompt.root; ifconfig lp0
lp0: flags=8851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xff000000
&prompt.root; netstat -r
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
host2 host1 UH 4 127592 lp0
&prompt.root; ping -c 4 host2
PING host2 (10.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.774 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.530 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.556 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=2.714 ms
--- host2 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.530/2.643/2.774/0.103 ms
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JordanHubbardContributed by Contributing to FreeBSDcontributingSo you want to contribute something to FreeBSD? That is great! We can
always use the help, and FreeBSD is one of those systems that
relies on the contributions of its user base in order
to survive. Your contributions are not only appreciated, they are vital
to FreeBSD's continued growth!Contrary to what some people might also have you believe, you do not
need to be a hot-shot programmer or a close personal friend of the FreeBSD
core team in order to have your contributions accepted. The FreeBSD
Project's development is done by a large and growing number of
international contributors whose ages and areas of technical expertise
vary greatly, and there is always more work to be done than there are
people available to do it.Since the FreeBSD project is responsible for an entire operating
system environment (and its installation) rather than just a kernel or a
few scattered utilities, our TODO list also spans a
very wide range of tasks, from documentation, beta testing and
presentation to highly specialized types of kernel development. No matter
what your skill level, there is almost certainly something you can do to
help the project!Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also
encouraged to contact us. Need a special extension to make your product
work? You will find us receptive to your requests, given that they are not
too outlandish. Working on a value-added product? Please let us know! We
may be able to work cooperatively on some aspect of it. The free software
world is challenging a lot of existing assumptions about how software is
developed, sold, and maintained throughout its life cycle, and we urge you
to at least give it a second look.What Is NeededThe following list of tasks and sub-projects represents something of
an amalgam of the various core team TODO lists and
user requests we have collected over the last couple of months. Where
possible, tasks have been ranked by degree of urgency. If you are
interested in working on one of the tasks you see here, send mail to the
coordinator listed by clicking on their names. If no coordinator has
been appointed, maybe you would like to volunteer?Ongoing TasksMost of the tasks listed in the previous sections require either a
considerable investment of time or an in-depth knowledge of the
FreeBSD kernel (or both). However, there are also many useful tasks
which are suitable for "weekend hackers", or people without
programming skills.If you run FreeBSD-current and have a good Internet
connection, there is a machine current.FreeBSD.org which builds a full
release once a day — every now and again, try and install
the latest release from it and report any failures in the
process.Read the freebsd-bugs mailing list. There might be a
problem you can comment constructively on or with patches you
can test. Or you could even try to fix one of the problems
yourself.Read through the FAQ and Handbook periodically. If anything
is badly explained, out of date or even just completely wrong, let
us know. Even better, send us a fix (SGML is not difficult to
learn, but there is no objection to ASCII submissions).Help translate FreeBSD documentation into your native language
(if not already available) — just send an email to &a.doc;
asking if anyone is working on it. Note that you are not
committing yourself to translating every single FreeBSD document
by doing this — in fact, the documentation most in need of
translation is the installation instructions.
- Read the freebsd-questions mailing list and &ng.misc
+ Read the freebsd-questions mailing list and &ng.misc;
occasionally (or even regularly). It can be very satisfying to
share your expertise and help people solve their problems;
sometimes you may even learn something new yourself! These forums
can also be a source of ideas for things to work on.If you know of any bug fixes which have been successfully
applied to -current but have not been merged into -stable after a
decent interval (normally a couple of weeks), send the committer a
polite reminder.Move contributed software to src/contrib
in the source tree.Make sure code in src/contrib is up to
date.Build the source tree (or just part of it) with extra warnings
enabled and clean up the warnings.Fix warnings for ports which do deprecated things like using
gets() or including malloc.h.If you have contributed any ports, send your patches back to
the original author (this will make your life easier when they
bring out the next version)Suggest further tasks for this list!Work through the PR Databaseproblem reports databaseThe FreeBSD PR
list shows all the current active problem reports and
requests for enhancement that have been submitted by FreeBSD users.
Look through the open PRs, and see if anything there takes your
interest. Some of these might be very simple tasks, that just need an
extra pair of eyes to look over them and confirm that the fix in the
PR is a good one. Others might be much more complex.Start with the PRs that have not been assigned to anyone else, but
if one them is assigned to someone else, but it looks like something
you can handle, email the person it is assigned to and ask if you can
work on it—they might already have a patch ready to be tested,
or further ideas that you can discuss with them.How to ContributeContributions to the system generally fall into one or more of the
following 6 categories:Bug Reports and General CommentaryAn idea or suggestion of general technical
interest should be mailed to the &a.hackers;. Likewise, people with
an interest in such things (and a tolerance for a
high volume of mail!) may subscribe to the
hackers mailing list by sending mail to &a.majordomo;. See mailing lists for more information
about this and other mailing lists.If you find a bug or are submitting a specific change, please
report it using the &man.send-pr.1; program or its WEB-based
equivalent. Try to fill-in each field of the bug report.
Unless they exceed 65KB, include any patches directly in the report.
If the patch is suitable to be applied to the source tree put
[PATCH] in the synopsis of the report.
When including patches, do not use cut-and-paste
because cut-and-paste turns tabs into spaces and makes them unusable.
Consider compressing patches and using &man.uuencode.1; if they exceed
20KB. Upload very large submissions to ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/.After filing a report, you should receive confirmation along with
a tracking number. Keep this tracking number so that you can update
us with details about the problem by sending mail to
bug-followup@FreeBSD.org. Use the number as the
message subject, e.g. "Re: kern/3377". Additional
information for any bug report should be submitted this way.If you do not receive confirmation in a timely fashion (3 days to
a week, depending on your email connection) or are, for some reason,
unable to use the &man.send-pr.1; command, then you may ask
someone to file it for you by sending mail to the &a.bugs;.Changes to the Documentationdocumentation submissionsChanges to the documentation are overseen by the &a.doc;. Send
submissions and changes (even small ones are welcome!) using
send-pr as described in Bug Reports and General
Commentary.Changes to Existing Source CodeFreeBSD-currentAn addition or change to the existing source code is a somewhat
trickier affair and depends a lot on how far out of date you are with
the current state of the core FreeBSD development. There is a special
on-going release of FreeBSD known as FreeBSD-current
which is made available in a variety of ways for the convenience of
developers working actively on the system. See Staying current with FreeBSD for more
information about getting and using FreeBSD-current.Working from older sources unfortunately means that your changes
may sometimes be too obsolete or too divergent for easy re-integration
into FreeBSD. Chances of this can be minimized somewhat by
subscribing to the &a.announce; and the &a.current; lists, where
discussions on the current state of the system take place.Assuming that you can manage to secure fairly up-to-date sources
to base your changes on, the next step is to produce a set of diffs to
send to the FreeBSD maintainers. This is done with the &man.diff.1;
command, with the context diff form
being preferred. For example:diff&prompt.user; diff -c oldfile newfile
or
&prompt.user; diff -c -r olddir newdir
would generate such a set of context diffs for the given source file
or directory hierarchy. See the man page for &man.diff.1; for more
details.Once you have a set of diffs (which you may test with the
&man.patch.1; command), you should submit them for inclusion with
FreeBSD. Use the &man.send-pr.1; program as described in Bug Reports and General Commentary.
Do not just send the diffs to the &a.hackers; or
they will get lost! We greatly appreciate your submission (this is a
volunteer project!); because we are busy, we may not be able to
address it immediately, but it will remain in the PR database until we
do. Indicate your submission by including [PATCH]
in the synopsis of the report.uuencodeIf you feel it appropriate (e.g. you have added, deleted, or
renamed files), bundle your changes into a tar file
and run the &man.uuencode.1; program on it. Shar archives are also
welcome.If your change is of a potentially sensitive nature, e.g. you are
unsure of copyright issues governing its further distribution or you
are simply not ready to release it without a tighter review first,
then you should send it to &a.core; directly rather than submitting it
with &man.send-pr.1;. The core mailing list reaches a much smaller
group of people who do much of the day-to-day work on FreeBSD. Note
that this group is also very busy and so you
should only send mail to them where it is truly necessary.Please refer to &man.intro.9; and &man.style.9; style for
some information on coding style. We would appreciate it if you
were at least aware of this information before submitting
code.New Code or Major Value-Added PackagesIn the case of a significant contribution of a large body
work, or the addition of an important new feature to FreeBSD, it
becomes almost always necessary to either send changes as uuencoded
tar files or upload them to a web or FTP site for other people to
access. If you do not have access to a web or FTP site, ask on an
appropriate FreeBSD mailing list for someone to host the changes for
you.When working with large amounts of code, the touchy subject of
copyrights also invariably comes up. Acceptable copyrights for code
included in FreeBSD are:BSD copyrightThe BSD copyright. This copyright is most preferred due to
its no strings attached nature and general
attractiveness to commercial enterprises. Far from discouraging
such commercial use, the FreeBSD Project actively encourages such
participation by commercial interests who might eventually be
inclined to invest something of their own into FreeBSD.GPLGNU General Public LicenseGNU General Public LicenseThe GNU General Public License, or GPL.
This license is not quite as popular with us due to the amount
of extra effort demanded of anyone using the code for
commercial purposes, but given the sheer quantity of GPL'd code
we currently require (compiler, assembler, text formatter, etc)
it would be silly to refuse additional contributions under this
license. Code under the GPL also goes into a different part of
the tree, that being /sys/gnu or
/usr/src/gnu, and is therefore easily
identifiable to anyone for whom the GPL presents a
problem.Contributions coming under any other type of copyright must be
carefully reviewed before their inclusion into FreeBSD will be
considered. Contributions for which particularly restrictive
commercial copyrights apply are generally rejected, though the authors
are always encouraged to make such changes available through their own
channels.To place a BSD-style copyright on your work, include
the following text at the very beginning of every source code file you
wish to protect, replacing the text between the %%
with the appropriate information.Copyright (c) %%proper_years_here%%
%%your_name_here%%, %%your_state%% %%your_zip%%.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer as
the first lines of this file unmodified.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY %%your_name_here%% ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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IN NO EVENT SHALL %%your_name_here%% BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
$Id$For your convenience, a copy of this text can be found in
/usr/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright.Money, Hardware or Internet AccessWe are always very happy to accept donations to further the cause
of the FreeBSD Project and, in a volunteer effort like ours, a little
can go a long way! Donations of hardware are also very important to
expanding our list of supported peripherals since we generally lack
the funds to buy such items ourselves.Donating FundsThe FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt
foundation established to further the goals of the FreeBSD
Project. As a 501(c)3 entity, the Foundation is generally
exempt from US federal income tax as well as Colorado
State income tax. Donations to a tax-exempt entity are
often deductible from taxable federal income.Donations may be sent in check form to:
The FreeBSD Foundation
7321 Brockway Dr.Boulder, CO80303USA
The Foundation is not yet able to accept other forms
of payment such as credit cards and PayPal.More information about the FreeBSD Foundation can be
found in The
FreeBSD Foundation -- an Introduction. To contact
the Foundation by email, write to
bod@FreeBSDFoundation.org.Donating HardwaredonationsDonations of hardware in any of the 3 following categories are
also gladly accepted by the FreeBSD Project:General purpose hardware such as disk drives, memory or
complete systems should be sent to the FreeBSD, Inc. address
listed in the donating funds
section.Hardware for which ongoing compliance testing is desired.
We are currently trying to put together a testing lab of all
components that FreeBSD supports so that proper regression
testing can be done with each new release. We are still lacking
many important pieces (network cards, motherboards, etc) and if
you would like to make such a donation, please contact &a.dg;
for information on which items are still required.Hardware currently unsupported by FreeBSD for which you
would like to see such support added. Please contact the
&a.core; before sending such items as we will need to find a
developer willing to take on the task before we can accept
delivery of new hardware.Donating Internet AccessWe can always use new mirror sites for FTP, WWW or
cvsup. If you would like to be such a mirror,
please contact the
&a.hubs; for more information.
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JimMockRestructured, reorganized, and parts updated by JordanHubbardOriginal work by Poul-HenningKampJohnPolstraNikClaytonThe Cutting EdgeSynopsis&os; is under constant development between releases. For
people who want to be on the cutting edge, there are several easy
mechanisms for keeping your system in sync with the latest
developments. Be warned—the cutting edge is not for everyone!
This chapter will help you decide if you want to track the
development system, or stick with one of the released
versions.After reading this chapter, you will know:The difference between the two development
branches; &os.stable; and &os.current;.How to keep your system up to date with
CVSup,
CVS, or
CTM.How to rebuild and reinstall the entire base
system with make world.Before reading this chapter, you should:Properly setup your network connection ().Know how to install additional third-party
software ().&os.current; vs. &os.stable;-CURRENT-STABLEThere are two development branches to FreeBSD; &os.current; and
&os.stable;. This section will explain a bit about each and describe
how to keep your system up-to-date with each respective tree.
&os.current; will be discussed first, then &os.stable;.Staying Current with &os;As you read this, keep in mind that &os.current; is the
bleeding edge of &os; development.
&os.current; users are expected to have a high degree of
technical skill, and should be capable of solving difficult
system problems on their own. If you are new to &os;, think
twice before installing it. What Is &os.current;?snapshot&os.current; is the latest working sources for &os;.
This includes work in progress, experimental changes, and
transitional mechanisms that might or might not be present
in the next official release of the software. While many
&os; developers compile the &os.current; source code daily,
there are periods of time when the sources are not
buildable. These problems are resolved as expeditiously as
possible, but whether or not &os.current; brings disaster or
greatly desired functionality can be a matter of which exact
moment you grabbed the source code in!Who Needs &os.current;?&os.current; is made available for 3 primary
interest groups:Members of the &os; group who are actively working
on some part of the source tree and for whom keeping
current is an absolute
requirement.Members of the &os; group who are active testers,
willing to spend time solving problems in order to
ensure that &os.current; remains as sane as possible.
These are also people who wish to make topical
suggestions on changes and the general direction of
&os;, and submit patches to implement them.Those who merely wish to keep an eye on things, or
to use the current sources for reference purposes
(e.g. for reading, not running).
These people also make the occasional comment or
contribute code.What Is &os.current; Not?A fast-track to getting pre-release bits because you
heard there is some cool new feature in there and you
want to be the first on your block to have it. Being
the first on the block to get the new feature means that
you're the first on the block to get the new
bugs.A quick way of getting bug fixes. Any given version
- of &os.current is just as likely to introduce new bugs
+ of &os.current; is just as likely to introduce new bugs
as to fix existing ones.In any way officially supported. We
do our best to help people genuinely in one of the 3
legitimate &os.current; groups, but we
simply do not have the time to
provide tech support. This is not because we are mean
and nasty people who do not like helping people out (we
would not even be doing &os; if we were). We simply
cannot answer hundreds messages a day
and work on FreeBSD! Given the
choice between improving &os; and answering lots of
questions on experimental code, the developers opt for
the former.Using &os.current;Join the &a.current; and the &a.cvsall;. This is not
just a good idea, it is essential. If
you are not on the &a.current;,
you will not see the comments that people are
making about the current state of the system and thus will
probably end up stumbling over a lot of problems that others
have already found and solved. Even more importantly, you
will miss out on important bulletins which may be critical
to your system's continued health.The &a.cvsall; mailing list will allow you to see the
commit log entry for each change as it is made along with
any pertinent information on possible side-effects.To join these lists, send mail to &a.majordomo; and
specify the following in the body of your message:subscribe freebsd-current
subscribe cvs-allmajordomoOptionally, you can also say help
and Majordomo will send you full help on how to subscribe
and unsubscribe to the various other mailing lists we
support.Grab the sources from ftp.FreeBSD.org. You can do this in
one of three ways:cvsupcron-CURRENTSyncing with CVSupUse the cvsup program
with this
supfile. This is the most recommended
method, since it allows you to grab the entire
collection once and then only what has changed from then
on. Many people run cvsup from
cron and keep their
sources up-to-date automatically. You have to
customize the sample supfile above, and configure
cvsup for your environment.
If you want help doing this configuration,
simply type:&prompt.root; pkg_add -f ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.0.tgz-CURRENTDownloading with ftpUse ftp. The source tree for
&os.current; is always exported on:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/.
Some of our FTP mirrors may also allow
compressed/tarred grabbing of whole trees. e.g. you
see:usr.bin/lexYou can do the following to get the whole directory
as a tar file:ftp>cd usr.binftp>get lex.tar-CURRENTSyncing with CTMUse the CTM facility. If you
have very bad connectivity (high price connections or
only email access) CTM is an option.
However, it is a lot of hassle and can give you broken files.
This leads to it being rarely used, which again increases
the chance of it not working for fairly long periods of
time. We recommend using
CVSup
for anybody with a 9600bps modem or faster connection.
If you are grabbing the sources to run, and not just
look at, then grab all of &os.current;, not
just selected portions. The reason for this is that various
parts of the source depend on updates elsewhere, and trying
to compile just a subset is almost guaranteed to get you
into trouble.Before compiling &os.current;, read the
Makefile in /usr/src
carefully. You should at least run a make world the first time through
as part of the upgrading process. Reading the &a.current;
will keep you up-to-date on other bootstrapping procedures
that sometimes become necessary as we move towards the next
release.Be active! If you are running &os.current;, we want
to know what you have to say about it, especially if you
have suggestions for enhancements or bug fixes. Suggestions
with accompanying code are received most
enthusiastically!Staying Stable with &os;What Is &os.stable;?-STABLE&os.stable; is our development branch from which major releases
are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and
with the general assumption that they have first gone into
&os.current; first for testing. This is still
a development branch, however, and this means that at any given time,
the sources for &os.stable; may or may not be suitable for any
particular purpose. It is simply another engineering development
track, not a resource for end-users.Who Needs &os.stable;?If you are interested in tracking or contributing to the
FreeBSD development process, especially as it relates to the
next point release of FreeBSD, then you should
consider following &os.stable;.While it is true that security fixes also go into the
&os.stable; branch, you do not need to
track &os.stable; to do this. Every security advisory for
FreeBSD explains how to fix the problem for the releases it
affects
That is not quite true. We can not continue to
support old releases of FreeBSD forever, although we do
support them for many years. For a complete description
of the current security policy for old releases of
FreeBSD, please see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/
, and tracking an entire development branch just
for security reasons is likely to bring in a lot of unwanted
changes as well.Although we endeavor to ensure that the &os.stable; branch
compiles and runs at all times, this cannot be guaranteed. In
addition, while code is developed in &os.current; before including
it in &os.stable;, more people run &os.stable; than &os.current;, so
it is inevitable that bugs and corner cases will sometimes be found
in &os.stable; that were not apparent in &os.current;.For these reasons, we do not recommend that
you blindly track &os.stable;, and it is particularly important that
you do not update any production servers to &os.stable; without
first thoroughly testing the code in your development
environment.If you do not have the resources to do this then we recommend
that you run the most recent release of FreeBSD, and use the binary
update mechanism to move from release to release.Using &os.stable;-STABLEusingJoin the &a.stable;. This will keep you informed of
build-dependencies that may appear in &os.stable;
or any other issues requiring
special attention. Developers will also make announcements
in this mailing list when they are contemplating some
controversial fix or update, giving the users a chance to
respond if they have any issues to raise concerning the
proposed change.The &a.cvsall; mailing list will allow you to see the
commit log entry for each change as it is made along with
any pertinent information on possible side-effects.To join these lists, send mail to &a.majordomo; and
specify the following in the body of your message:subscribe freebsd-stable
subscribe cvs-allmajordomoOptionally, you can also say help
and Majordomo will send you full help on how to subscribe
and unsubscribe to the various other mailing lists we
support.If you are installing a new system and want it to be as
stable as possible, you can simply grab the latest dated
branch snapshot from ftp://releng4.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
and install it like any other release.If you are already running a previous release of &os;
and wish to upgrade via sources then you can easily do so
from ftp.FreeBSD.org. This can
be done in one of three ways:-STABLEsyncing with CVSupUse the cvsup program
with this
supfile. This is the most recommended
method, since it allows you to grab the entire
collection once and then only what has changed from then
on. Many people run cvsup from
cron to keep their
sources up-to-date automatically. For a fairly easy
interface to this, simply type:
-STABLEdownloading with FTPUse ftp. The source tree for
&os.stable; is always exported on:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/Some of our FTP mirrors may also allow
compressed/tarred grabbing of whole trees. e.g. you
see:usr.bin/lexYou can do the following to get the whole directory
for you as a tar file:ftp>cd usr.binftp>get lex.tar-STABLEsyncing with CTMUse the CTM facility. If
you do not have a fast and inexpensive connection to
the Internet, this is the method you should consider
using.
Essentially, if you need rapid on-demand access to the
source and communications bandwidth is not a consideration,
use cvsup or ftp.
Otherwise, use CTM.-STABLEcompilingBefore compiling &os.stable;, read the
Makefile in /usr/src
carefully. You should at least run a make world the first time through
as part of the upgrading process. Reading the &a.stable; will
keep you up-to-date on other bootstrapping procedures that
sometimes become necessary as we move towards the next
release.Synchronizing Your SourceThere are various ways of using an Internet (or email)
connection to stay up-to-date with any given area of the &os;
project sources, or all areas, depending on what interests you. The
primary services we offer are Anonymous
CVS, CVSup, and CTM.While it is possible to update only parts of your source tree,
the only supported update procedure is to update the entire tree
and recompile both userland (i.e., all the programs that run in
user space, such as those in /bin and
/sbin) and kernel sources. Updating only part
of your source tree, only the kernel, or only userland will often
result in problems. These problems may range from compile errors
to kernel panics or data corruption.anonymous CVSAnonymous CVS and
CVSup use the pull
model of updating sources. In the case of
CVSup the user (or a
cron script) invokes
the cvsup program, and it interacts with a
cvsupd server somewhere to bring your files
up-to-date. The updates you receive are up-to-the-minute and you
get them when, and only when, you want them. You can easily
restrict your updates to the specific files or directories that are
of interest to you. Updates are generated on the fly by the server,
according to what you have and what you want to have.
Anonymous CVS is quite a bit more
simplistic than CVSup in that it is just an extension to
CVS which allows it to pull changes
directly from a remote CVS repository.
CVSup can do this far more efficiently,
but Anonymous CVS is easier to
use.CTMCTM, on the other hand, does not
interactively compare the sources you have with those on the master
archive or otherwise pull them across.. Instead, a script which
identifies changes in files since its previous run is executed
several times a day on the master CTM machine, any detected changes
being compressed, stamped with a sequence-number and encoded for
transmission over email (in printable ASCII only). Once received,
these CTM deltas can then be handed to the
&man.ctm.rmail.1; utility which will automatically decode, verify
and apply the changes to the user's copy of the sources. This
process is far more efficient than CVSup,
and places less strain on our server resources since it is a
push rather than a pull
model.There are other trade-offs, of course. If you inadvertently
wipe out portions of your archive, CVSup
will detect and rebuild the damaged portions for you.
CTM will not do this, and if you wipe some
portion of your source tree out (and do not have it backed up) then
you will have to start from scratch (from the most recent CVS
base delta) and rebuild it all with CTM or, with
anoncvs, simply delete the bad bits and resync.Using make worldmake worldOnce you have synchronized your local source tree against a
particular version of &os; (&os.stable;, &os.current;, and so on)
you can then use the source
tree to rebuild the system.Take a BackupIt cannot be stressed enough how important it is to take a
backup of your system before you do this.
While rebuilding the world is (as long as you follow these
instructions) an easy task to do, there will inevitably be times
when you make mistakes, or when mistakes made by others in the
source tree render your system unbootable.Make sure you have taken a backup. And have a fix-it floppy to
hand. You will probably never have to use it, but it is better to be
safe than sorry!Subscribe to the Right Mailing Listmailing listThe &os.stable; and &os.current; branches are, by their
nature, in development. People that
contribute to &os; are human, and mistakes occasionally
happen.Sometimes these mistakes can be quite harmless, just causing
your system to print a new diagnostic warning. Or the change may
be catastrophic, and render your system unbootable or destroy your
filesystems (or worse).If problems like these occur, a heads up is
posted to the appropriate mailing list, explaining the nature of
the problem and which systems it affects. And an all
clear announcement is posted when the problem has been
solved.If you try to track &os.stable; or &os.current; and do
not read the &a.stable; or the
&a.current; respectively, then you are
asking for trouble.Read /usr/src/UPDATINGBefore you do anything else, read
/usr/src/UPDATING (or the equivalent file
wherever you have a copy of the source code). This file should
contain important information about problems you might encounter, or
specify the order in which you might have to run certain commands.
If UPDATING contradicts something you read here,
UPDATING takes precedence.Reading UPDATING is not an acceptable
substitute for subscribing to the correct mailing list, as described
previously. The two requirements are complementary, not
exclusive.Check /etc/make.confmake.confExamine the files
/etc/defaults/make.conf and
/etc/make.conf. The first contains some
default defines – most of which are commented out. To
make use of them when you rebuild your system from source, add
them to /etc/make.conf. Keep in mind that
anything you add to /etc/make.conf is also
used every time you run make, so it is a good
idea to set them to something sensible for your system.A typical user will probably want to copy the
CFLAGS and
NOPROFILE lines found in
/etc/defaults/make.conf to
/etc/make.conf and uncomment them.Examine the other definitions (COPTFLAGS,
NOPORTDOCS and so
on) and decide if they are relevant to you.Update /etc/groupThe /etc directory contains a large part
of your system's configuration information, as well as scripts
that are run at system startup. Some of these scripts change from
version to version of FreeBSD.Some of the configuration files are also used in the day to
day running of the system. In particular,
/etc/group.There have been occasions when the installation part of
make world has expected certain usernames or groups
to exist. When performing an upgrade it is likely that these
groups did not exist. This caused problems when upgrading.The most recent example of this is when the ppp subsystem were installed using a
non-existent (for them) group name.The solution is to examine
/usr/src/etc/group and compare its list of
groups with your own. If there are any groups in the new file that
are not in your file then copy them over. Similarly, you should
rename any groups in /etc/group which have
the same GID but a different name to those in
/usr/src/etc/group.If you are feeling particularly paranoid, you can check your
system to see which files are owned by the group you are
renaming or deleting.&prompt.root; find / -group GID -printwill show all files owned by group
GID (which can be either a group name
or a numeric group ID).Drop to Single User Modesingle-user modeYou may want to compile the system in single user mode. Apart
from the obvious benefit of making things go slightly faster,
reinstalling the system will touch a lot of important system
files, all the standard system binaries, libraries, include files
and so on. Changing these on a running system (particularly if
you have active users on the system at the time) is asking for
trouble.multi-user modeAnother method is to compile the system in multi-user mode, and
then drop into single user mode for the installation. If you would
like to do it this way, simply hold off on the following steps until
the build has completed.As the superuser, you can execute&prompt.root; from a running system, which will drop it to single user
mode.Alternatively, reboot the system, and at the boot prompt,
enter the flag. The system will then boot
single user. At the shell prompt you should then run:&prompt.root; fsck -p
&prompt.root; mount -u /
&prompt.root; mount -a -t ufs
&prompt.root; swapon -aThis checks the filesystems, remounts /
read/write, mounts all the other UFS filesystems referenced in
/etc/fstab and then turns swapping on.If your CMOS clock is set to local time and not to GMT,
you may also need to run the following command:&prompt.root; adjkerntz -iThis will make sure that your local timezone settings
get set up correctly - without this, you may later run into some
problems.
Remove /usr/objAs parts of the system are rebuilt they are placed in
directories which (by default) go under
/usr/obj. The directories shadow those under
/usr/src.You can speed up the make world process, and
possibly save yourself some dependency headaches by removing this
directory as well.Some files below /usr/obj may have the
immutable flag set (see &man.chflags.1; for more information)
which must be removed first.&prompt.root; cd /usr/obj
&prompt.root; chflags -R noschg *
&prompt.root; rm -rf *Recompile the SourceSaving the OutputIt is a good idea to save the output you get from running
&man.make.1; to another file. If something goes wrong you will
have a copy of the error message. While this might not help you
in diagnosing what has gone wrong, it can help others if you post
your problem to one of the &os; mailing lists.The easiest way to do this is to use the &man.script.1;
command, with a parameter that specifies the name of the file to
save all output to. You would do this immediately before
rebuilding the world, and then type exit
when the process has finished.&prompt.root; script /var/tmp/mw.out
Script started, output file is /var/tmp/mw.out
&prompt.root; make TARGET… compile, compile, compile …
&prompt.root; exit
Script done, …If you do this, do not save the output
in /tmp. This directory may be cleared
next time you reboot. A better place to store it is in
/var/tmp (as in the previous example) or
in root's home directory.Compile and Install the Base SystemYou must be in the /usr/src
directory...&prompt.root; cd /usr/src(unless, of course, your source code is elsewhere, in which
case change to that directory instead).makeTo rebuild the world you use the &man.make.1; command. This
command reads instructions from the Makefile,
which describes how the programs that comprise &os; should be
rebuilt, the order in which they should be built, and so on.The general format of the command line you will type is as
follows:&prompt.root; make In this example,
-x
is an option that you would pass to &man.make.1;. See the
&man.make.1; manual page for an example of the options you can
pass.
-DVARIABLE
passes a variable to the Makefile. The
behavior of the Makefile is controlled by
these variables. These are the same variables as are set in
/etc/make.conf, and this provides another
way of setting them.&prompt.root; make -DNOPROFILE=true targetis another way of specifying that profiled libraries should
not be built, and corresponds with theNOPROFILE= true
# Avoid compiling profiled librarieslines in /etc/make.conf.target tells &man.make.1; what
you want to do. Each Makefile defines a
number of different targets, and your choice of
target determines what happens.Some targets are listed in the
Makefile, but are not meant for you to run.
Instead, they are used by the build process to break out the
steps necessary to rebuild the system into a number of
sub-steps.Most of the time you will not need to pass any parameters to
&man.make.1;, and so your command like will look like
this:&prompt.root; make targetBeginning with version 2.2.5 of &os; (actually, it was
first created on the &os.current; branch, and then retrofitted to
&os.stable; midway between 2.2.2 and 2.2.5) the
world target has been split in
two. buildworld and
installworld.As the names imply, buildworld
builds a complete new tree under /usr/obj,
and installworld installs this tree on
the current machine.This is very useful for 2 reasons. First, it allows you
to do the build safe in the knowledge that no components of
your running system will be affected. The build is
self hosted. Because of this, you can safely
run buildworld on a machine running
in multi-user mode with no fear of ill-effects. It is still
recommended that you run the
installworld part in single user
mode, though.Secondly, it allows you to use NFS mounts to upgrade
multiple machines on your network. If you have three machines,
A, B and C that you want to upgrade, run make
buildworld and make installworld on
A. B and C should then NFS mount /usr/src
and /usr/obj from A, and you can then run
make installworld to install the results of
the build on B and C.Although the world target still exists,
you are strongly encouraged not to use it.Run&prompt.root; make buildworldIt is now possible to specify a -j option to
make which will cause it to spawn several
simultaneous processes. This is most useful on multi-CPU machines.
However, since much of the compiling process is IO bound rather
than CPU bound it is also useful on single CPU machines.On a typical single-CPU machine you would run:&prompt.root; make -j4 buildworld&man.make.1; will then have up to 4 processes running at any one
time. Empirical evidence posted to the mailing lists shows this
generally gives the best performance benefit.If you have a multi-CPU machine and you are using an SMP
configured kernel try values between 6 and 10 and see how they speed
things up.Be aware that this is still somewhat experimental, and commits
to the source tree may occasionally break this feature. If the
world fails to compile using this parameter try again without it
before you report any problems.Timingsmake worldtimingsMany factors influence the build time, but currently a 500 MHz
Pentium 3 with 128 MB of RAM takes about 2 hours to build
the &os.stable; tree, with no tricks or shortcuts used during the
process. A &os.current; tree will take somewhat longer.Compile and Install a New KernelkernelcompilingTo take full advantage of your new system you should recompile the
kernel. This is practically a necessity, as certain memory structures
may have changed, and programs like &man.ps.1; and &man.top.1; will
fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the
same.The simplest, safest way to do this is to build and install a
kernel based on GENERIC. While
GENERIC may not have all the necessary devices
for your system, it should contain everything necessary to boot your
system back to single user mode. This is a good test that the new
system works properly. After booting from
GENERIC and verifying that your system works you
can then build a new kernel based on your normal kernel configuration
file.If you are upgrading to &os; 4.0 or above then the standard
kernel build procedure (as described in )
is deprecated. Instead, you should run these commands
after you have built the world with
buildworld.&prompt.root; cd /usr/src
&prompt.root; make buildkernel
&prompt.root; make installkernelIf you are upgrading to a version of &os; below 4.0 you should
use the standard kernel build procedure. However, it is recommended
that you use the new version of &man.config.8;, using a command line
like this.&prompt.root; /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/config/config KERNELNAMEReboot into Single User Modesingle-user modeYou should reboot in to single user mode to test the new kernel
works. Do this by following the instructions in
.Install the New System BinariesIf you were building a version of &os; recent enough to have
used make buildworld then you should now use
installworld to install the new system
binaries.Run&prompt.root; cd /usr/src
&prompt.root; make installworldIf you specified variables on the make
buildworld command line, you must specify the same
variables in the make installworld command
line. This does not necessarily hold true for other options;
for example,
-j
must never be used with
installworld.For example, if you ran:&prompt.root; make -DNOPROFILE=true buildworldyou must install the results with:&prompt.root; make -DNOPROFILE=true installworldotherwise it would try and install profiled libraries that
had not been built during the make buildworld
phase.Update Files Not Updated by make worldRemaking the world will not update certain directories (in
particular, /etc, /var and
/usr) with new or changed configuration files.mergemasterThe simplest way to update these files is to use
&man.mergemaster.8;, though it is possible to do it manually
if you would prefer to do that. We strongly recommend you
use &man.mergemaster.8;, however, and if you do then you
can skip forward to the next
section, since &man.mergemaster.8; is very simple to use.
You should read the manual page first, and make a backup of
/etc in case anything goes wrong.If you wish to do the update manually,
you cannot just copy over the files from
/usr/src/etc to /etc and
have it work. Some of these files must be installed
first. This is because the /usr/src/etc
directory is not a copy of what your
/etc directory should look like. In addition,
there are files that should be in /etc that are
not in /usr/src/etc.The simplest way to do this by hand is to install the
files into a new directory, and then work through them looking
for differences.Backup Your Existing /etcAlthough, in theory, nothing is going to touch this directory
automatically, it is always better to be sure. So copy your
existing /etc directory somewhere safe.
Something like:&prompt.root; cp -Rp /etc /etc.old
-R
does a recursive copy,
-p
preserves times, ownerships on files and suchlike.You need to build a dummy set of directories to install the new
/etc and other files into.
/var/tmp/root is a reasonable choice, and
there are a number of subdirectories required under this as
well.&prompt.root; mkdir /var/tmp/root
&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/etc
&prompt.root; make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/root distrib-dirs distributionThis will build the necessary directory structure and install the
files. A lot of the subdirectories that have been created under
/var/tmp/root are empty and should be deleted.
The simplest way to do this is to:&prompt.root; cd /var/tmp/root
&prompt.root; find -d . -type d | xargs rmdir 2>/dev/nullThis will remove all empty directories. (Standard error is
redirected to /dev/null to prevent the warnings
about the directories that are not empty.)/var/tmp/root now contains all the files that
should be placed in appropriate locations below
/. You now have to go through each of these
files, determining how they differ with your existing files.Note that some of the files that will have been installed in
/var/tmp/root have a leading /var/tmp/root/ and
/var/tmp/root/root/, although there may be others
(depending on when you are reading this. Make sure you use
The simplest way to do this is to use &man.diff.1; to compare the
two files.&prompt.root; diff /etc/shells /var/tmp/root/etc/shellsThis will show you the differences between your
/etc/shells file and the new
/etc/shells file. Use these to decide whether to
merge in changes that you have made or whether to copy over your old
file.Name the New Root Directory
(/var/tmp/root) with a Time Stamp, So You Can
Easily Compare Differences Between VersionsFrequently rebuilding the world means that you have to update
/etc frequently as well, which can be a bit of
a chore.You can speed this process up by keeping a copy of the last set
of changed files that you merged into /etc.
The following procedure gives one idea of how to do this.Make the world as normal. When you want to update
/etc and the other directories, give the
target directory a name based on the current date. If you were
doing this on the 14th of February 1998 you could do the
following.&prompt.root; mkdir /var/tmp/root-19980214
&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/etc
&prompt.root; make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/root-19980214 \
distrib-dirs distributionMerge in the changes from this directory as outlined
above.Do not remove the
/var/tmp/root-19980214 directory when you
have finished.When you have downloaded the latest version of the source
and remade it, follow step 1. This will give you a new
directory, which might be called
/var/tmp/root-19980221 (if you wait a week
between doing updates).You can now see the differences that have been made in the
intervening week using &man.diff.1; to create a recursive diff
between the two directories.&prompt.root; cd /var/tmp
&prompt.root; diff -r root-19980214 root-19980221Typically, this will be a much smaller set of differences
than those between
/var/tmp/root-19980221/etc and
/etc. Because the set of differences is
smaller, it is easier to migrate those changes across into your
/etc directory.You can now remove the older of the two
/var/tmp/root-* directories.&prompt.root; rm -rf /var/tmp/root-19980214Repeat this process every time you need to merge in changes
to /etc.You can use &man.date.1; to automate the generation of the
directory names.&prompt.root; mkdir /var/tmp/root-`date "+%Y%m%d"`Update /devDEVFSDEVFSIf you are using DEVFS this is unnecessary.
- In most cases, the &man.mergemaster.8 tool will realize when
+ In most cases, the &man.mergemaster.8; tool will realize when
it is necessary to update the devices, and offer to complete it
automatically. These instructions tell how to update the devices
manually.For safety's sake, this is a multi-step process.Copy /var/tmp/root/dev/MAKEDEV to
/dev.&prompt.root; cp /var/tmp/root/dev/MAKEDEV /devMAKEDEVIf you used &man.mergemaster.8; to
update /etc, then your
MAKEDEV script should have been updated
already, though it cannot hurt to check (with &man.diff.1;)
and copy it manually if necessary.Now, take a snapshot of your current
/dev. This snapshot needs to contain the
permissions, ownerships, major and minor numbers of each filename,
but it should not contain the time stamps. The easiest way to do
this is to use &man.awk.1; to strip out some of the
information.&prompt.root; cd /dev
&prompt.root; ls -l | awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $NF}' > /var/tmp/dev.outRemake all the devices.&prompt.root; Write another snapshot of the directory, this time to
/var/tmp/dev2.out. Now look through these
two files for any devices that you missed creating. There should
not be any, but it is better to be safe than sorry.&prompt.root; diff /var/tmp/dev.out /var/tmp/dev2.outYou are most likely to notice disk slice discrepancies which
will involve commands such as
&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV sd0s1
to recreate the slice entries. Your precise circumstances may
vary.Update /standThis step is included only for completeness. It can safely be
omitted.For the sake of completeness, you may want to update the files in
/stand as well. These files consist of hard
links to the /stand/sysinstall binary. This
binary should be statically linked, so that it can work when no other
filesystems (and in particular /usr) have been
mounted.&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall
&prompt.root; make all installRebootingYou are now done. After you have verified that everything appears
to be in the right place you can reboot the system. A simple
&man.fastboot.8; should do it.&prompt.root; fastbootFinishedYou should now have successfully upgraded your &os; system.
Congratulations.If things went slightly wrong, it is easy to rebuild a particular
piece of the system. For example, if you accidently deleted
/etc/magic as part of the upgrade or merge of
/etc, the &man.file.1; command will stop working.
In this case, the fix would be to run:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/usr.bin/file
&prompt.root; QuestionsDo I need to re-make the world for every change?There is no easy answer to this one, as it depends on the
nature of the change. For example, if you just ran CVSup, and
it has shown the following files as being updated,src/games/cribbage/instr.csrc/games/sail/pl_main.csrc/release/sysinstall/config.csrc/release/sysinstall/media.csrc/share/mk/bsd.port.mkit probably is not worth rebuilding the entire world.
You could just go to the appropriate sub-directories and
make all install, and that's about it. But
if something major changed, for example
src/lib/libc/stdlib then you should either
re-make the world, or at least those parts of it that are
statically linked (as well as anything else you might have added
that is statically linked).At the end of the day, it is your call. You might be happy
re-making the world every fortnight say, and let changes
accumulate over that fortnight. Or you might want to re-make
just those things that have changed, and are confident you can
spot all the dependencies.And, of course, this all depends on how often you want to
upgrade, and whether you are tracking &os.stable; or
&os.current;.My compile failed with lots of signal 11 (or other signal
number) errors. What has happened?signal 11This is normally indicative of hardware problems.
(Re)making the world is an effective way to stress test your
hardware, and will frequently throw up memory problems. These
normally manifest themselves as the compiler mysteriously dying
on receipt of strange signals.A sure indicator of this is if you can restart the make and
it dies at a different point in the process.In this instance there is little you can do except start
swapping around the components in your machine to determine
which one is failing.Can I remove /usr/obj when I have
finished?The short answer is yes./usr/obj contains all the object files
that were produced during the compilation phase. Normally, one
of the first steps in the /usr/obj around after you have finished
makes little sense, and will free up a large chunk of disk space
(currently about 340MB).However, if you know what you are doing you can have
If you want to live dangerously then make the world, passing
the NOCLEAN definition to make, like
this:&prompt.root; make -DNOCLEAN worldCan interrupted builds be resumed?This depends on how far through the process you got before
you found a problem.In general (and this is not a hard and
fast rule) the make world process builds new
copies of essential tools (such as &man.gcc.1;, and
&man.make.1;) and the system libraries. These tools and
libraries are then installed. The new tools and libraries are
then used to rebuild themselves, and are installed again. The
entire system (now including regular user programs, such as
&man.ls.1; or &man.grep.1;) is then rebuilt with the new
system files.If you are at the last stage, and you know it (because you
have looked through the output that you were storing) then you
can (fairly safely) do… fix the problem …
&prompt.root; cd /usr/src
&prompt.root; make -DNOCLEAN allThis will not undo the work of the previous
make world.If you see the message
--------------------------------------------------------------
Building everything..
--------------------------------------------------------------
in the make world output then it is
probably fairly safe to do so.If you do not see that message, or you are not sure, then it
is always better to be safe than sorry, and restart the build
from scratch.NFSCan I use one machine as a This is a fairly easy task, and can save hours of compile
time for many machines. Simply run the
buildworld on a central
machine, and then NFS mount /usr/src and
/usr/obj on the remote machine and
installworld there.How can I speed up making the world?Run in single user mode.Put the /usr/src and
/usr/obj directories on separate
filesystems held on separate disks. If possible, put these
disks on separate disk controllers.Better still, put these filesystems across multiple
- disks using the &man.ccd.4 (concatenated disk
+ disks using the &man.ccd.4; (concatenated disk
driver) device.Turn off profiling (set NOPROFILE=true in
/etc/make.conf). You almost certainly
do not need it.Also in /etc/make.conf, set
CFLAGS to something like -O
-pipe. The optimization -O2 is much
slower, and the optimization difference between
-O and -O2 is normally
negligible. -pipe lets the compiler use
pipes rather than temporary files for communication, which
saves disk access (at the expense of memory).Pass the
-j<n>
option to make to
run multiple processes in parallel. This usually helps
regardless of whether you have a single or a multi processor
machine.The filesystem holding
/usr/src can be mounted (or remounted)
with the
noatime
option. This prevents the
filesystem from recording the file access time. You probably
do not need this information anyway.
&prompt.root; mount -u -o noatime /usr/srcThe example assumes /usr/src is
on its own filesystem. If it is not (if it is a part of
/usr for example) then you will
need to use that filesystem mount point, and not
/usr/src.The filesystem holding /usr/obj can
be mounted (or remounted) with the async
option. This causes disk writes to happen asynchronously.
In other words, the write completes immediately, and the
data is written to the disk a few seconds later. This
allows writes to be clustered together, and can be a
dramatic performance boost.Keep in mind that this option makes your filesystem
more fragile. With this option there is an increased
chance that, should power fail, the filesystem will be in
an unrecoverable state when the machine restarts.If /usr/obj is the only thing on
this filesystem then it is not a problem. If you have
other, valuable data on the same filesystem then ensure
your backups are fresh before you enable this
option.&prompt.root; mount -u -o async /usr/objAs above, if /usr/obj is not on
its own filesystem, replace it in the example with the
name of the appropriate mount point.What do I do if something goes wrong?Make absolutely sure your environment has no
extraneous cruft from earlier builds. This is simple
enough.&prompt.root; chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr
&prompt.root; rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
&prompt.root; cd /usr/src
&prompt.root; make cleandir
&prompt.root; make cleandirYes, make cleandir really should
be run twice.Then restart the whole process, starting
with make buildworld.If you still have problems, send the error and the
output of uname -a to &a.questions;.
Be prepared to answer other questions about your
setup!MikeMeyerTracking for multiple machinesIf you have multiple machines that you want to track the
same source tree, then having all of them download sources and
rebuild everything seems like a waste of resources: disk space,
network bandwidth, and CPU cycles. It is, and the solution is
to have one machine do most of the work, while the rest of the
machines mount that work via NFS. This section outlines a
method of doing so.PreliminariesFirst, identify a set of machines that is going to run
the same set of binaries, which we will call a
build set. Each machine can have a
custom kernel, but they will be running the same userland
binaries. From that set, choose a machine to be the
build machine. It is going to be the
machine that the world and kernel are built on. Ideally, it
should be a fast machine that has sufficient spare CPU to
run make world. You will also want to
choose a machine to be the test
machine, which will test software updates before they
are put into production. This must be a
machine that you can afford to have down for an extended
period of time. It can be the build machine, but need not be.All the machines in this build set need to mount
/usr/obj and
/usr/src from the same machine, and at
the same point. Ideally, those are on two different drives
on the build machine, but they can be NFS mounted on that machine
as well. If you have multiple build sets,
/usr/src should be on one build machine, and
NFS mounted on the rest.Finally make sure that
/etc/make.conf on all the machines in
the build set agrees with the build machine. That means that
the build machine must build all the parts of the base
system that any machine in the build set is going to
install. Also, each build machine should have its kernel
name set with KERNCONF in
/etc/make.conf, and the build machine
should list them all in KERNCONF, listing
its own kernel first. The build machine must have the kernel
configuration files for each machine in
/usr/src/sys/arch/conf
if it is going to build their kernels.The base systemNow that all that is done, you are ready to build
everything. Build the kernel and world as described in on the build machine,
but do not install anything. After the build has finished, go
to the test machine, and install the kernel you just
built. If this machine mounts /usr/src
and /usr/obj via NFS, when you reboot
to single user you will need to enable the network and mount
them. The easiest way to do this is to boot to multi-user,
then run shutdown now to go to single user
mode. Once there, you can install the new kernel and world and run
mergemaster just as you normally would. When
done, reboot to return to normal multi-user operations for this
machine.After you are certain that everything on the test
machine is working properly, use the same procedure to
install the new software on each of the other machines in
the build set.PortsThe same ideas can be used for the ports tree. The first
critical step is mounting /usr/ports from
the same machine to all the machines in the build set. You can
then set up /etc/make.conf properly to share
distfiles. You should set DISTDIR to a
common shared directory that is writable by whichever user
root is mapped to by your NFS mounts. Each
machine should set WRKDIRPREFIX to a
local build directory. Finally, if you are going to be
building and distributing packages, you should set
PACKAGES to a directory similar to
DISTDIR.
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best, if not often the only, way stay informed of the latest advances.
Since FreeBSD is a volunteer effort, the user community itself also
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JimMockRestructured, reorganized, and parts
rewritten by RandyPrattThe sysinstall walkthrough, screenshots, and general
copy by Installing FreeBSDSynopsisinstallationFreeBSD is provided with a text-based, easy to use installation
program called Sysinstall. This is the
default installation program for FreeBSD, although vendors are free to
provide their own installation suite if they wish. This chapter
describes how to use Sysinstall to install
FreeBSD.After reading this chapter, you will know:How to create the FreeBSD installation disks.How FreeBSD refers to, and subdivides, your hard disks.How to start Sysinstall.The questions Sysinstall will ask
you, what they mean, and how to answer them.Before reading this chapter, you should:Read the supported hardware list that shipped with the version
of FreeBSD you are installing, and verify that your hardware is
supported.In general, these installation instructions are written
for i386 (PC compatible) architecture
computers. Where applicable, instructions specific to other
platforms (for example, Alpha) will be listed.Pre-installation TasksInventory Your ComputerBefore installing FreeBSD you should attempt to inventory the
components in your computer. The FreeBSD installation routines will
show you the components (hard disks, network cards, CDROM drives, and
so forth) with their model number and manufacturer. FreeBSD will also
attempt to determine the correct configuration for these devices,
which includes information about IRQ and IO port usage. Due to the
vagaries of PC hardware this process is not always completely
successful, and you may need to correct FreeBSD's determination of
your configuration.If you already have another operating system installed, such as
Windows or Linux, it is a good idea to use the facilities provided
by those operating systems to see how your hardware is already
configured. If you are really not sure what settings an expansion
card is using, you may find it printed on the card itself. Popular IRQ
numbers are 3, 5, and 7, and IO port addresses are normally written as
hexadecimal numbers, such as 0x330.We recommend you print or write down this information before
installing FreeBSD. It may help to use a table, like this:
Sample Device InventoryDevice NameIRQIO port(s)NotesFirst hard diskN/AN/A4GB, made by Seagate, first IDE masterCDROMN/AN/AFirst IDE slaveSecond hard diskN/AN/A2GB, made by IBM, second IDE masterFirst IDE controller140x1f0Network cardN/AN/AIntel 10/100ModemN/AN/A3Com 56K faxmodem, on COM1…
Backup Your DataIf the computer you will be installing FreeBSD on contains
valuable data then ensure you have it backed up, and that you have
tested the backups before installing FreeBSD. The FreeBSD
installation routine will prompt you several times before writing any
data to your disk, but once that process has started it cannot be
undone.Decide Where to Install FreeBSDIf you want FreeBSD to use all your disk, then there is nothing
more to concern yourself with at this point — you can skip to the
next section.However, if you need FreeBSD to co-exist with other operating
systems then you need to have a rough understanding of how data is
laid out on the disk, and how this affects you.Disk Layouts for the i386A PC disk can be divided in to discrete chunks. These chunks are
called partitions. By design, the PC only
supports four partitions per disk. These partitions are called
primary partitions. To work around this
limitation and allow more than four partitions, a new partition type
was created, the extended partition. A disk
may contain only one extended partition. Special partitions, called
logical partitions, can be created inside this
extended partition.Each partition has a partition ID, which is
a number used to identify the type of data on the partition. FreeBSD
partitions have the partition ID 165.In general, each operating system that you use will identify
partitions in a particular way. For example, DOS, and its
descendants, like Windows, assign each primary and logical partition a
drive letter, starting with
C:.FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition. FreeBSD can
keep all its data, including any files that you create, on this one
partition. However, if you have multiple disks, then you can create a
FreeBSD partition on all, or some, of them. When you install FreeBSD,
you must have one partition available. This might be a blank
partition that you have prepared, or it might be an existing partition
that contains data that you no longer care about.If you are already using all the partitions on all your disks, then
you will have to free one of them for FreeBSD using the tools
provided by the other operating systems you use (e.g.,
fdisk on DOS or Windows).If you have a spare partition then you can use that. However, you
may need to shrink one or more of your existing partitions
first.A minimal installation of FreeBSD takes as little as 100MB of disk
space. However, that is a very minimal install,
leaving almost no space for your own files. A more realistic minimum
is 250MB without a graphical environment, and 350MB or more if you
want a graphical user interface. If you intend to install a lot of
third party software as well, then you will need more space.You can use a commercial tool such as Partition
Magic to resize your partitions to make space for
FreeBSD. The tools directory on the CDROM
contains two free software tools which can carry out this task,
FIPS and
PResizer. Documentation for both of these
is in the same directory.Incorrect use of these tools can delete the data on your disk.
Be sure that you have recent, working backups before using
them.Using an existing partition unchangedSuppose that you have a computer with a single 4GB disk that
already has a version of Windows installed, and you have split the
disk in to two drive letters, C: and
D:, each of which is 2GB in size. You have
1GB of data on C:, and 0.5GB of data on
D:.This means that your disk has two partitions on it, one per
drive letter. You can copy all your existing data from
D: to C:, which
will free up the second partition, ready for FreeBSD.Shrinking an existing partitionSuppose that you have a computer with a single 4GB disk, that
already has a version of Windows installed. When you installed
Windows you created one large partition, giving you a
C: drive that is 4GB in size. You are
currently using 1.5GB of space, and want FreeBSD to have 2GB of
space.In order to install FreeBSD you will need to either:Backup your Windows data, and then reinstall Windows,
asking for a 2GB partition at install time.Use one of the tools such as Partition
Magic, described above, to shrink your Windows
partition.Disk Layouts for the AlphaAlphaYou will need a dedicated disk for FreeBSD on the
Alpha. It is not possible to share a disk with another
operating system at this time. Depending on the specific
Alpha machine you have, this disk can either be a SCSI disk
or an IDE disk, as long as your machine is capable of
booting from it.Following the conventions of the Digital / Compaq
manuals all SRM input is shown in uppercase. SRM is case
insensitive.To find the names and types of disks in your machine, use
the SHOW DEVICE command from the SRM
console prompt:>>>show device
dka0.0.0.4.0 DKA0 TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-57 3476
dkc0.0.0.1009.0 DKC0 RZ1BB-BS 0658
dkc100.1.0.1009.0 DKC100 SEAGATE ST34501W 0015
dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-75-6D-01
pkc0.7.0.1009.0 PKC0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.27
pqa0.0.0.4.0 PQA0 PCI EIDE
pqb0.0.1.4.0 PQB0 PCI EIDEThis example is from a Digital Personal Workstation
433au and shows three disks attached to the machine. The
first is a CDROM drive called DKA0 and
the other two are disks and are called
DKC0 and
DKC100 respectively.Disks with names of the form DKx
are SCSI disks. For example DKA100
refers to a SCSI with SCSI target ID 1 on the first SCSI bus (A),
whereas DKC300 refers to a SCSI disk
with SCSI ID 3 on the third SCSI bus (C). Devicename
PKx refers to the SCSI host bus adapter. As
seen in the SHOW DEVICE output SCSI
CDROM drives are treated as any other SCSI hard disk drive.IDE disks have names similar to DQx,
while PQx is the associated IDE
controller.Collect Your Network Configuration DetailsIf you intend to connect to a network as part of your FreeBSD
installation (for example, if you will be installing from an FTP
site, or an
NFS server), then you need to know your network configuration. You
will be prompted for this information during the installation so that
FreeBSD can connect to the network to complete the install.Connecting to an Ethernet Network, or Cable/DSL ModemIf you connect to an Ethernet network, or you have an Internet
connection via cable or DSL, then you will need the following
information:IP address.IP address of the default gateway.Hostname.DNS server IP addresses.If you do not know this information, then ask your system
administrator or service provider. They may say that this
information is assigned automatically, using
DHCP. If so, make a note of this.Connecting Using a ModemIf you dial up to an ISP using a regular modem then you can
still install FreeBSD over the Internet, it will just take a very
long time.You will need to know:The phone number to dial for your ISP.The COM: port your modem is connected to.The username and password for your ISP account.Check for FreeBSD ErrataAlthough the FreeBSD project strives to ensure that each release
of FreeBSD is as stable as possible, bugs do occasionally creep in to
the process. On very rare occasions those bugs affect the
installation process. As these problems are discovered and fixed they
are noted in the FreeBSD Errata, posted on the FreeBSD web site. You
should check the errata before installing to make sure that there are
no late-breaking problems which you should be aware of.Information about all the releases, including the errata for each
release, can be found on the
release
information section of the
FreeBSD web site.Prepare the Boot DiscsFreeBSD can be installed from a number of different media; CDROM,
DVD, FTP (both anonymous and non-anonymous), NFS, tape, or an existing
MS-DOS partition.If you have FreeBSD on CDROM or DVD, and your computer allows
you to boot from the CDROM or DVD (typically a BIOS option called
Boot Order or similar) then you can skip this
section. The FreeBSD CDROM and DVD images are bootable and can be
used to install FreeBSD without any other special
preparation.The FreeBSD installation process is started by booting your
computer into the FreeBSD installer—it is not a program you run
within another operating system. To do this, you must create some
floppy disks that can be booted from, and then boot from them.If you are not installing directly from
CDROM, DVD, or FTP then you are probably preparing your own
installation media (e.g., an MS-DOS partition), which must be prepared
before you install FreeBSD. This is a slightly more advanced,
infrequent activity, and is documented in . This includes the scenario where you
want to create your own FTP site on your own network so that other
computers can use your site as a FreeBSD FTP installation site.In general, to create boot floppy images, follow these
steps:Acquire the Boot Floppy ImagesThe boot discs are available on your installation media
in the floppies directory, and
can also be downloaded from the
floppies directory.The floppy images have a .flp extension.
The floppies/ directory contains a number of
different images, and the ones you will need to use depends on the
version of FreeBSD you are installing, and in some cases, the
hardware you are installing to. In most cases you will need two
files, kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp, but check
README.TXT in the same directory to be
sure.Your FTP program must use binary mode
to download these disk images. Some web browsers have been
known to use text (or
ASCII) mode, which will be apparent if you
cannot boot from the disks.Prepare the Floppy DisksYou must prepare one floppy disk per image file you had to
download. It is imperative that these disks are free from
defects. The easiest way to test this is to format the disks
for yourself. Do not trust pre-formatted floppies.If you try to install FreeBSD and the installation
program crashes, freezes, or otherwise misbehaves, one of
the first things to suspect is the floppies. Try writing
the floppy image files to some other disks and try
again.Write the Image Files to the Floppy Disks.The .flp files are
not regular files you copy to the disk.
Instead, they are images of the complete contents of the
disk. This means that you cannot use
commands like DOS' copy to write the
files. Instead, you must use specific tools to write the
images directly to the disk.DOSIf you are creating the floppies on a computer running
DOS/Windows, then we provide a tool to do
this called fdimage.If you are using the floppies from the CDROM, and your
CDROM is the E: drive, then you would
run this:E:\>tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp A:Repeat this command for each .flp
file, replacing the floppy disk each time, being sure to label
the disks with the name of the file that you copied to them.
Adjust the command line as necessary, depending on where you have
placed the .flp files. If you do not have
the CDROM, then fdimage can be downloaded from
the tools directory on the FreeBSD FTP site.If you are writing the floppies on a Unix system (such as
another FreeBSD system) you can use the &man.dd.1; command to
write the image files directly to disk. On FreeBSD, you would
run:&prompt.root; dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0On FreeBSD, /dev/fd0 refers to the
first floppy disk (the A: drive).
/dev/fd1 would be the
B: drive, and so on. Other Unix
variants might have different names for the floppy disk
devices, and you will need to check the documentation for the
system as necessary.You are now ready to start installing FreeBSD.Starting the InstallationBy default, the installation will not make any changes to your
disk(s) until you see the following message.Last Chance: Are you SURE your want continue the installation?
If you're running this on a disk with data you wish to save then WE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE PROPER BACKUPS before proceeding!
We can take no responsibility for lost disk contents!The install can be exited at any time prior to the final
warning without changing the contents of the hard drive. If you are
concerned that you have configured something incorrectly you can just
turn the computer off before this point, and no damage will be
done.BootingBooting for the i386Start with your computer turned off.Turn on the computer. As it starts it should display an
option to enter the system set up menu, or BIOS, commonly reached
by keys like F2, F10,
Del, or
AltS. Use whichever keystroke is indicated on screen. In
some cases your computer may display a graphic while it starts.
Typically, pressing Esc will dismiss the graphic
and allow you to see the necessary messages.Find the setting that controls which devices the system boots
from. This is commonly shown as a list of devices, such as
Floppy, CDROM,
First Hard Disk, and so on.If you needed to prepare boot floppies, then make sure that the
floppy disk is selected. If you are booting from the CDROM then
make sure that that is selected instead. In case of doubt, you
should consult the manual that came with your computer, and/or its
motherboard.Make the change, then save and exit. The computer should now
restart.If you needed to prepare boot floppies, as described in
then one of them will be the
first boot disc, probably the one containing
kern.flp. Put this disc in your floppy
drive.If you are booting from CDROM, then you will need to turn on
the computer, and insert the CDROM at the first
opportunity.If your computer starts up as normal, and loads your existing
operating system then either:The disks were not inserted early enough in the boot
process. Leave them in, and try restarting your
computer.The BIOS changes earlier did not work correctly. You
should redo that step until you get the right option.FreeBSD will start to boot. If you are booting from CDROM you
will see a display similar to this:Verifying DMI Pool Data ........
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
1. FD 2.88MB System Type-(00)
Uncompressing ... done
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive B: is disk1
BIOS drive C: is disk2
BIOS drive C: is disk3
BIOS 639kB/261120kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(murray@builder.freebsdmall.com, Thu Jan 17 19:28:57 PST 2002)
/kernel text=0x266691 data=0x407c+0x20d68 \
|
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... _If you are booting from floppy disc, you will see a display
similar to this:Verifying DMI Pool Data ........
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/261120kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(murray@builder.freebsdmall.com, Thu Jan 17 19:28:57 PST 2002)
/kernel text=0x266691 data=0x407c+0x20d68 |
Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter:Follow these instructions by removing the
kern.flp disc, insert the
mfsroot.flp disc, and press
Enter.Irrespective of whether you booted from floppy or CDROM, the
boot process will then get to this point.Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... _Either wait ten seconds, or press Enter. This
will then launch the kernel configuration menu.Booting for the AlphaAlphaStart with your computer turned off.Turn on the computer and wait for a boot monitor
prompt.If you needed to prepare boot floppies, as described in
then one of them will be the
first boot disc, probably the one containing
kern.flp. Put this disc in your floppy
drive and type the following command to boot the disk
(substituting the name of your floppy drive if
necessary):>>>BOOT DVA0 -FLAGS '' -FILE ''If you are booting from CDROM, insert the CDROM into
the drive and type the following command to start the
installation (substituting the name of the appropriate
CDROM drive if necessary):>>>BOOT DKA0 -FLAGS '' -FILE ''FreeBSD will start to boot. If you are booting from a
floppy disc, at some point you will see the message:Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter:Follow these instructions by removing the
kern.flp disc, insert the
mfsroot.flp disc, and press
Enter.Irrespective of whether you booted from floppy or CDROM, the
boot process will then get to this point.Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... _Either wait ten seconds, or press Enter. This
will then launch the kernel configuration menu.Kernel ConfigurationThe kernel is the core of the operating
system. It is responsible for many things, including access to all
the devices you may have on your system, such as hard disks, network
cards, sound cards, and so on. Each piece of hardware supported by
the FreeBSD kernel has a driver associated with it. Each driver has a
two or three letter name, such as sa for the
SCSI sequential access driver, or sio for the
Serial I/O driver (which manages COM ports).When the kernel starts, each driver checks the system to see
whether or not the hardware it supports exists on your system. If it
does, then the driver configures the hardware and makes it available
to the rest of the kernel.This checking is commonly referred to as device
probing. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to do
this in a safe way. Some hardware drivers do not co-exist well
together, and probing for one piece of hardware can sometimes leave
another in an inconsistent state. This is a basic
limitation of the design of the PC.Many older devices are called ISA devices—as opposed
to PCI devices. The ISA specification requires each device to have
some information hard coded into it, typically the Interrupt Request
Line number (IRQ) and IO port address that the driver uses. This
information is commonly set by using physical
jumpers on the card, or by using a DOS based
utility.This was often a source of problems, because it was not possible
to have two devices that shared the same IRQ or port address.Newer devices follow the PCI specification, which does not require
this, as the devices are supposed to cooperate with the BIOS, and be
told which IRQ and IO port addresses to use.If you have any ISA devices in your computer then FreeBSD's
driver for that device will need to be configured with the IRQ and
port address that you have set the card to. This is why carrying out
an inventory of your hardware (see ) can be useful.Unfortunately, the default IRQs and memory ports used by some
drivers clash. This is because some ISA devices are shipped with IRQs
or memory ports that clash. The defaults in FreeBSD's drivers are
deliberately set to mirror the manufacturer's defaults, so that, out
of the box, as many devices as possible will work.This is almost never an issue when running FreeBSD day-to-day.
Your computer will not normally contain two pieces of hardware that
clash, because one of them would not work (irrespective of the
operating system you are using).It becomes an issue when you are installing FreeBSD for the first
time because the kernel used to carry out the install has to contain
as many drivers as possible, so that many different hardware
configurations can be supported. This means that some of
those drivers will have conflicting configurations. The devices are
probed in a strict order, and if you own a device that is probed late
in the process, but conflicted with an earlier probe, then your
hardware might not function or be probed correctly when you install
FreeBSD.Because of this, the first thing you have the opportunity to do
when installing FreeBSD is look at the list of drivers that are
configured in to the kernel, and either disable some of them, if you
do not own that device, or confirm (and alter) the driver's
configuration if you do own the device but the defaults are
wrong.This probably sounds much more complicated than it actually
is. shows the first kernel
configuration menu. We recommend that you choose the
Start kernel configuration in full-screen visual
mode option, as it presents the easiest interface for
the new user.Kernel Configuration MenuThe kernel configuration screen ()
is then divided into four sections.A collapsible list of all the drivers that are currently
marked as active, subdivided in to groups such as
Storage, and Network. Each
driver is shown as a description, its two three letter driver
name, and the IRQ and memory port used by that driver. In
addition, if an active driver conflicts with another active driver
then CONF is shown next to the driver name.
This section also shows the total number of conflicting drivers
that are currently active.Drivers that have been marked inactive. They remain in the
kernel, but they will not probe for their device when the kernel
starts. These are subdivided in to groups in the same way as the
active driver list.More detail about the currently selected driver, including its
IRQ and memory port address.Information about the keystrokes that are valid at this point
in time.The Kernel Device Configuration Visual InterfaceAt this point there will always be conflicts listed. Do not worry
about this, it is to be expected; all the drivers are enabled, and
as has already been explained, some of them will conflict with one
another.You now have to work through the list of drivers, resolving the
conflicts.Resolving Driver ConflictsPress X. This will completely expand the
list of drivers, so you can see all of them. You will need to use
the arrow keys to scroll back and forth through the active driver
list. shows the result of
pressing X. Expanded Driver ListDisable all the drivers for devices that you do not have. To
disable a driver, highlight it with the arrow keys and press
Del. The driver will be moved to the
Inactive Drivers list.If you inadvertently disable a device that you need then press
Tab to switch to the Inactive
Drivers list, select the driver that you disabled, and
press Enter to move it back to the active
list.Do not disable sc0. This controls
the screen, and you will need this unless you are installing
over a serial cable.Only disable atkbd0 if you are
using a USB keyboard. If you have a normal keyboard then you
must keep atkbd0.If there are no conflicts listed then you can skip this step.
Otherwise, the remaining conflicts need to be examined. If they
do not have the indication of an allowed conflict in the message
area, then either the IRQ/address for device probe will need to be
changed, or the IRQ/address on the hardware
will need to be changed.To change the driver's configuration for IRQ and IO port
address, select the device and press Enter. The
cursor will move to the third section of the screen, and you can
change the values. You should enter the values for IRQ and port
address that you discovered when you made your hardware inventory.
Press Q to finish editing the device's
configuration and return to the active driver list.If you are not sure what these figures should be then you can
try using -1. Some FreeBSD drivers can safely
probe the hardware to discover what the correct value should be,
and a value of -1 configures them to do
this.The procedure for changing the address on the hardware varies
from device to device. For some devices you may need to
physically remove the card from your computer and adjust jumper
settings or DIP switches. Other cards may have come with a DOS
floppy that contains the programs used to reconfigure the card.
In any case, you should refer to the documentation that came with
the device. This will obviously entail restarting your computer,
so you will need to boot back in to the FreeBSD installation
routine when you have reconfigured the card.When all the conflicts have been resolved the screen will look
similar to .Driver Configuration With No ConflictsAs you can see, the active driver list is now much smaller,
with only drivers for the hardware that actually exists being
listed.You can now save these changes, and move on to the next step
of the install. Press Q to quit the device
configuration interface. This message will appear.Save these parameters before exiting? ([Y]es/[N]o/[C]ancel)Answer Y to save the parameters and the
probing will start. After displaying the probe results in white
on black text Sysinstall will start
and display its main menu
().Sysinstall Main MenuReviewing the Device Probe ResultsThe last few hundred lines that have been displayed on screen are
stored and can be reviewed.To review the buffer, press Scroll Lock. This
turns on scrolling in the display. You can then use the arrow keys, or
PageUp and PageDown to view the
results. Press Scroll Lock again to stop
scrolling,Do this now, to review the text that scrolled off the screen when
the kernel was carrying out the device probes. You will see text
similar to , although the precise
text will differ depending on the devices that you have in your
computer.Typical Device Probe Resultsavail memory = 254611456 (248644K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc069a000.
Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xc069a084.
md1: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI (AGP bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <Matrox MGA G200 AGP graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
isab0: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 82C586 ATA33 controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xe400-0xe41f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0
usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
chip1: <VIA 82C586B ACPI interface> at device 7.3 on pci0
ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 9 at device 10.0 on pci0
ed0: address 52:54:05:de:73:1b, type NE2000 (16bit)
isa0: too many dependant configs (8)
isa0: unexpected small tag 14
orm0; <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq6 drq2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60-0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0c3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags-0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/15 bytes threshold
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
ad0: 8063MB <IBM-DHEA-38451> [16383/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <DELTA OTC-H101/ST3 F/W by OIPD> at ata0-slave using PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0Check the probe results carefully to make sure that FreeBSD found
all the devices you expected. If a device was not found, then it will
not be listed. If the device's driver required configuring
with the IRQ and port address then you should check that you entered
them correctly.If you need to make changes to the UserConfig device probing,
its easy to exit the sysinstall program
and start over again. Its also a good way to become more familiar
with the process.Select Sysinstall ExitUse the arrow keys to select
Exit Install from the Main
Install Screen menu. The following message will display: User Confirmation Requested
Are you sure you wish to exit? The system will reboot
(be sure to remove any floppies from the drives).
[ Yes ] NoThe install program will start again if the CDROM is left
in the drive and [Yes] is selected.If you are booting from floppies it will be necessary to remove
the mfs.root floppy and replace it with
kern.flp before rebooting.Introducing SysinstallSysinstall is the installation
application provided by the FreeBSD Project. It is console based and is
divided into a number of menus and screens that you can use to
configure and control the installation process.The Sysinstall menu system is controlled
by the arrow keys, Enter, Space. and
other keys. A detailed description of these keys, and what they do, is
contained in Sysinstall's usage
information.To review this information, ensure that the
Usage entry is highlighted and that the
[Select] button is selected, as shown in , then press Enter.The instructions for using the menu system will be displayed. After
reviewing them, press Enter to return to the Main
Menu.Selecting Usage From Sysinstall Main MenuSelecting The Documentation MenuFrom the Main Menu, select Doc with
the arrow keys and
press Enter.Selecting Documentation MenuThis will display the Documentation Menu.Sysinstall Documentation MenuIt is important to read the documents provided.To view a document, select it with the arrow keys and
press Enter. When finished reading a document,
pressing Enter will return to the Documentation
Menu.To return to the Main Installation Menu, select
Exit with the
arrow keys and press Enter.Selecting The Keymap MenuTo change the keyboard mapping, use the arrow keys to select
Keymap from the menu and press
EnterSysinstall Main MenuA different keyboard mapping may be chosen by selecting the
menu item using up/down arrow keys and pressing Space.
Pressing Space again will unselect the item. When
finished, choose the &gui.ok; using the
arrow keys and press
Enter.Only a partial list is shown in this screen representation.
Selecting &gui.cancel; will use the default
keymap and return to the Main Install Menu.Sysinstall Keymap MenuInstallation Options ScreenSelect Options and press
EnterSysinstall Main MenuSysinstall OptionsThe default values are usually fine for most users and do
not need to be changed.The description of the selected item will appear at the
bottom of the screen highlighted in blue. Notice that one of the
options is Use Defaults to reset all
values to startup defaults.Press F1 to read the help screen about the
various options.Pressing Q will return to the Main Install
menu.Begin A Standard InstallationThe Standard installation is the
option recommended for those new to Unix or FreeBSD. Use the arrow
keys to select Standard and
then press Enter to start the installation.Begin Standard InstallationAllocating Disk SpaceYour first task is to allocate disk space for FreeBSD, and label
that space so that Sysinstall can prepare
it. In order to do this you need to know how FreeBSD expects to find
information on the disk.BIOS Drive NumberingBefore you install and configure FreeBSD on your system, there is an
important subject that you should be aware of, especially if you have
multiple hard drives.DOSMicrosoft WindowsIn a PC running a BIOS-dependent operating system such as
MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows, the BIOS is able to abstract the
normal disk drive order, and
the operating system goes along with the change. This allows the user
to boot from a disk drive other than the so-called primary
master. This is especially convenient for some users who have
found that the simplest and cheapest way to keep a system backup is to
buy an identical second hard drive, and perform routine copies of the
first drive to the second drive using
Ghost or XCOPY
. Then, if the
first drive fails, or is attacked by a virus, or is scribbled upon by an
operating system defect, he can easily recover by instructing the BIOS
to logically swap the drives. It is like switching the cables on the
drives, but without having to open the case.SCSIBIOSMore expensive systems with SCSI controllers often include BIOS
extensions which allow the SCSI drives to be re-ordered in a similar
fashion for up to seven drives.A user who is accustomed to taking advantage of these features may
become surprised when the results with FreeBSD are not as expected.
FreeBSD does not use the BIOS, and does not know the logical BIOS
drive mapping. This can lead to very perplexing situations,
especially when drives are physically identical in geometry, and have
also been made as data clones of one another.When using FreeBSD, always restore the BIOS to natural drive
numbering before installing FreeBSD, and then leave it that way. If you
need to switch drives around, then do so, but do it the hard way, and
open the case and move the jumpers and cables.An Illustration from the Files of Bill and Fred's Exceptional
Adventures:Bill breaks-down an older Wintel box to make another FreeBSD box
for Fred. Bill installs a single SCSI drive as SCSI unit zero and
installs FreeBSD on it.Fred begins using the system, but after several days notices that
the older SCSI drive is reporting numerous soft errors and reports
this fact to Bill.After several more days, Bill decides it is time to address the
situation, so he grabs an identical SCSI drive from the disk drive
archive in the back room. An initial surface scan
indicates that
this drive is functioning well, so Bill installs this drive as SCSI
unit four and makes an image copy from drive zero to drive four. Now
that the new drive is installed and functioning nicely, Bill decides
that it is a good idea to start using it, so he uses features in the
SCSI BIOS to re-order the disk drives so that the system boots from
SCSI unit four. FreeBSD boots and runs just fine.Fred continues his work for several days, and soon Bill and Fred
decide that it is time for a new adventure -- time to upgrade to a
newer version of FreeBSD. Bill removes SCSI unit zero because it was
a bit flaky and replaces it with another identical disk drive from
the archive. Bill then installs the new version of FreeBSD onto the
new SCSI unit zero using Fred's magic Internet FTP floppies. The
installation goes well.Fred uses the new version of FreeBSD for a few days, and certifies
that it is good enough for use in the engineering department...it is
time to copy all of his work from the old version. So Fred mounts
SCSI unit four (the latest copy of the older FreeBSD version). Fred
is dismayed to find that none of his precious work is present on SCSI
unit four.Where did the data go?When Bill made an image copy of the original SCSI unit zero onto
SCSI unit four, unit four became the new clone,
When Bill
re-ordered the SCSI BIOS so that he could boot from SCSI unit four, he
was only fooling himself. FreeBSD was still running on SCSI unit zero.
Making this kind of BIOS change will cause some or all of the Boot and
Loader code to be fetched from the selected BIOS drive, but when the
FreeBSD kernel drivers take-over, the BIOS drive numbering will be
ignored, and FreeBSD will transition back to normal drive numbering.
In the illustration at hand, the system continued to operate on the
original SCSI unit zero, and all of Fred's data was there, not on SCSI
unit four. The fact that the system appeared to be running on SCSI
unit four was simply an artifact of human expectations.We are delighted to mention that no data bytes were killed or
harmed in any way by our discovery of this phenomenon. The older SCSI
unit zero was retrieved from the bone pile, and all of Fred's work was
returned to him, (and now Bill knows that he can count as high as
zero).Although SCSI drives were used in this illustration, the concepts
apply equally to IDE drives.Disk OrganizationThe smallest unit of organization that FreeBSD uses to find files
is the filename. Filenames are case-sensitive, which means that
readme.txt and README.TXT
are two separate files. FreeBSD does not use the extension
(.txt) of a file to determine whether the file is
program, or a document, or some other form of data.Files are stored in directories. A directory may contain no
files, or it may contain many hundreds of files. A directory can also
contain other directories, allowing you to build up a hierarchy of
directories within one another. This makes it much easier to organize
your data.Files and directories are referenced by giving the file or
directory name, followed by a forward slash, /,
followed by any other directory names that are necessary. If you have
directory foo, which contains directory
bar, which contains the file
readme.txt, then the full name, or
path to the file is
foo/bar/readme.txt.Directories and files are stored in a filesystem. Each filesystem
contains exactly one directory at the very top level, called the
root directory for that filesystem. This root
directory can then contain other directories.So far this is probably similar to any other operating system you
may have used. There are a few differences; for example, DOS uses
\ to separate file and directory names, while MacOS
uses :.FreeBSD does not use drive letters, or other drive names in the
path. You would not write c:/foo/bar/readme.txt
on FreeBSD.Instead, one filesystem is designated the root
filesystem. The root filesystem's root directory is
referred to as /. Every other filesystem is then
mounted under the root filesystem. No matter
how many disks you have on your FreeBSD system, every directory
appears to be part of the same disk.Suppose you have three filesystems, called A,
B, and C. Each filesystem has
one root directory, which contains two other directories, called
A1, A2 (and likewise
B1, B2 and
C1, C2).Call A the root filesystem. If you used the
ls command to view the contents of this directory
you would see two subdirectories, A1 and
A2. The directory tree looks like this. /
|
+--- A1
|
`--- A2A filesystem must be mounted on to a directory in another
filesystem. So now suppose that you mount filesystem
B on to the directory A1. The
root directory of B replaces A1,
and the directories in B appear accordingly. /
|
+--- A1
| |
| +--- B1
| |
| `--- B2
|
`--- A2Any files that are in the B1 or
B2 directories can be reached with the path
/A1/B1 or /A1/B2 as
necessary. Any files that were in /A1 have been
temporarily hidden. They will reappear if B is
unmounted from A.If B had been mounted on A2
then the diagram would look like this; /
|
+--- A1
|
`--- A2
|
+--- B1
|
`--- B2and the paths would be /A2/B1 and
/A2/B2 respectively.Filesystems can be mounted on top of one another. Continuing the
last example, the C filesystem could be mounted on
top of the B1 directory in the B
filesystem, leading to this arrangement. /
|
+--- A1
|
`--- A2
|
+--- B1
| |
| +--- C1
| |
| `--- C2
|
`--- B2Or C could be mounted directly on to the
A filesystem, under the A1
directory. /
|
+--- A1
| |
| +--- C1
| |
| `--- C2
|
`--- A2
|
+--- B1
|
`--- B2If you are familiar with DOS, this is similar, although not
identical, to the join command.This is not normally something you need to concern yourself with.
Typically you create filesystems when installing FreeBSD and decide
where to mount them, and then never change them unless you add a new
disk.It is entirely possible to have one large root filesystem, and not
need to create any others. There are some drawbacks to this approach,
and one advantage.Benefits of multiple filesystemsDifferent filesystems can have different mount
options. For example, with careful planning, the
root filesystem can be mounted read-only, making it impossible for
you to inadvertently delete or edit a critical file.FreeBSD automatically optimizes the layout of files on a
filesystem, depending on how the filesystem is being used. So a
filesystem that contains many small files that are written
frequently will have a different optimization to one that contains
fewer, larger files. By having one big filesystem this
optimization breaks down.FreeBSD's filesystems are very robust should you lose power.
However, a power loss at a critical point could still damage the
structure of the filesystem. By splitting your data over multiple
filesystems it is more likely that the system will still come up,
making it easier for you to restore from backup as
necessary.Benefit of a single filesystemFilesystems are a fixed size. If you create a filesystem when
you install FreeBSD and give it a specific size, you may later
discover that you need to make the partition bigger. This is not
easily accomplished without backing up, recreating the filesystems
with the size, and then restoring.FreeBSD 4.4 and up have a featured command, the
- &man.growfs.8, which will makes it possible to
+ &man.growfs.8;, which will makes it possible to
increase the size of a filesystem on the fly, removing this
limitation.Filesystems are contained in partitions. This does not have the
same meaning as the earlier usage of the term partition in this
chapter, because of FreeBSD's Unix heritage. Each partition is
identified by a letter, a through to
h. Each partition can only contain one filesystem,
which means that filesystems are often described by either their
typical mount point on the root filesystem, or the letter of the
partition they are contained in.FreeBSD also uses disk space for swap
space. Swap space provides FreeBSD with
virtual memory. This allows your computer to
behave as though it has much more memory than it actually does. When
FreeBSD runs out of memory it moves some of the data that is not
currently being used to the swap space, and moves it back in (moving
something else out) when it needs it.Some partitions have certain conventions associated with
them.PartitionConventionaNormally contains the root filesystembNormally contains swap spacecNormally the same size as the enclosing slice. This
allows utilities that need to work on the entire slice (for
example, a bad block scanner) to work on the
c partition. You would not normally create
a filesystem on this partition.dPartition d used to have a special
meaning associated with it, although that is now gone. To
this day, some tools may operate oddly if told to work on
partition d, so
Sysinstall will not normally create
partition d.Each partition-that-contains-a-filesystem is stored in what
FreeBSD calls a slice. Slice is FreeBSD's term
for what were earlier called partitions, and again, this is because of
FreeBSD's Unix background. Slices are numbered, starting at 1,
through to 4.slicespartitionsdangerously dedicatedSlice numbers follow
the device name, prefixed with an s,
starting at 1. So da0s1
is the first slice on the first SCSI drive. There can only be
four physical slices on a disk, but you can have logical
slices inside physical slices of the appropriate type. These
extended slices are numbered starting at 5, so
ad0s5 is the first
extended slice on a disk. These devices are used by file
systems that expect to occupy a slice.Slices, dangerously dedicated physical
drives, and other drives contain
partitions, which are represented as
letters from a to h.
This letter is appended to the device name, so
da0a is the a partition on
the first da drive, which is dangerously dedicated.
ad1s3e is the fifth partition
in the third slice of the second IDE disk drive.Finally, each disk on the system is identified. A disk name
starts with a code that indicates the type of disk, and then a number,
indicating which disk it is. Unlike slices, disk numbering starts at
0. Common codes that you will see are listed in
.When referring to a partition FreeBSD requires that you also name
the slice and disk that contains the partition, and when referring to
a slice you should also refer to the disk name. Do this by listing
the disk name, s, the slice number, and then the
partition letter. Examples are shown in
. shows a conceptual
model of the disk layout that should help make things clearer.In order to install FreeBSD you must first configure the disk
slices, then create partitions within the slice you will use for
FreeBSD, and then create a filesystem (or swap space) in each
partition, and decide where that filesystem will be mounted.
Disk Device CodesCodeMeaningadATAPI (IDE) diskdaSCSI direct access diskacdATAPI (IDE) CDROMcdSCSI CDROMfdFloppy disk
Sample Disk, Slice, and Partition NamesNameMeaningad0s1aThe first partition (a) on the first
slice (s1) on the first IDE disk
(ad0).da1s2eThe fifth partition (e) on the
second slice (s2) on the second SCSI disk
(da1).Conceptual Model of a DiskThis diagram shows FreeBSD's view of the first IDE disk attached
to the system. Assume that the disk is 4GB in size, and contains
two 2GB slices (DOS partitions). The first slice contains a DOS
disk, C:, and the second slice contains a
FreeBSD installation. This example FreeBSD installation has three
partitions, and a swap partition.The three partitions will each hold a filesystem. Partition
a will be used for the root filesystem,
e for the /var directory
hierarchy, and f for the
/usr directory hierarchy..-----------------. --.
| | |
| DOS / Windows | |
: : > First slice, ad0s1
: : |
| | |
:=================: ==: --.
| | | Partition a, mounted as / |
| | > referred to as ad0s2a |
| | | |
:-----------------: ==: |
| | | Partition b, used as swap |
| | > referred to as ad0s2b |
| | | |
:-----------------: ==: | Partition c, no
| | | Partition e, used as /var > filesystem, all
| | > referred to as ad0s2e | of FreeBSD slice,
| | | | ad0s2c
:-----------------: ==: |
| | | |
: : | Partition f, used as /usr |
: : > referred to as ad0s2f |
: : | |
| | | |
| | --' |
`-----------------' --'Creating Slices using FDiskNo changes you make at this point will be written to the disk.
If you think you have made a mistake and want to start again you can
use the menus to exit Sysinstall and try
again. If you get confused and can not see how to exit you can
always turn your computer off.After choosing to begin a standard installation in
Sysinstall you will be shown this
message. Message
In the next menu, you will need to set up a DOS-style ("fdisk")
partitioning scheme for your hard disk. If you simply wish to devote
all disk space to FreeBSD (overwriting anything else that might be on
the disk(s) selected) then use the (A)ll command to select the default
partitioning scheme followed by a (Q)uit. If you wish to allocate only
free space to FreeBSD, move to a partition marked "unused" and use the
(C)reate command.
[ OK ]
[ Press enter to continue ]Press Enter as instructed. You will then be
shown a list of all the hard drives that the kernel found when it
carried out the device probes.
shows an example from a
system with two IDE disks. They have been called
ad0 and ad2.Select Drive for FDiskYou might be wondering why ad1 is not
listed here. Why has it been missed?Consider what would happen if you had two IDE hard disks, one
as the master on the first IDE controller, and one as the master on
the second IDE controller. If FreeBSD numbered these as it found
them, as ad0 and
ad1 then everything would work.But if you then added a third disk, as the slave device on the
first IDE controller, it would now be ad1,
and the previous ad1 would become
ad2. Because device names (such as
ad1s1a) are used to find filesystems, you
may suddenly discover that some of your filesystems no longer
appear correctly, and you would need to change your FreeBSD
configuration.To work around this, the kernel can be configured to name IDE
disks based on where they are, and not the order in which they were
found. With this scheme the master disk on the second IDE
controller will always be
ad2, even if there are no
ad0 or ad1
devices.This configuration is the default for the FreeBSD kernel, which
is why this display shows ad0 and
ad2. The machine on which this screenshot
was taken had IDE disks on both master channels of the IDE
controllers, and no disks on the slave channels.You should select the disk on which you want to install FreeBSD,
and then press &gui.ok;.
FDisk will start, with a display similar to
that shown in .The FDisk display is broken in to three
sections.The first section, covering the first two lines of the display,
shows details about the currently selected disk, including its FreeBSD
name, the disk geometry, and the total size of the disk.The second section shows the slices that are currently on the
disk, where they start and end, how large they are, the name FreeBSD
gives them, and their description and sub-type. This example shows two
small unused slices, which are artifacts of disk layout schemes on the
PC. It also shows one large FAT slice, which almost certainly appears
as C: in DOS / Windows, and an extended
slice, which may contain other drive letters for DOS / Windows.The third section shows the commands that are available in
FDisk.Typical Fdisk Partitions Before EditingWhat you do now will depend on how you want to slice up your
disk.If you want to use FreeBSD for the entire disk (which will delete
all the other data on this disk when you confirm that you want
Sysinstall to continue later in the
installation process) then you can press A, which
corresponds to the Use Entire Disk option.
The existing slices will be removed, and replaced with a small area
flagged as unused (again, an artifact of PC disk
layout), and then one large slice for FreeBSD. If you do this then
you should then select the newly created FreeBSD slice using the arrow
keys, and press S to mark the slice as being
bootable. The screen will then look very similar to
. Note the
A in the Flags column, which
indicates that this slice is active, and will be
booted from.If you will be deleting an existing slice to make space for
FreeBSD then you should select the slice using the arrow keys, and
then press D. You can then press C,
and be prompted for size of slice you want to create. Enter the
appropriate figure and press Enter.If you have already made space for FreeBSD (perhaps by using a
tool such as Partition Magic) then you can
press C to create a new slice. Again, you will be
prompted for the size of slice you would like to create.Fdisk Partition Using Entire DiskWhen finished, press Q. Your changes will be
saved in Sysinstall, but will not yet be
written to disk.Install a Boot ManagerYou now have the option to install a boot manager. In general,
you should choose to install the FreeBSD boot manager if:You have more than one drive, and have installed FreeBSD onto
a drive other than the first one.You have installed FreeBSD alongside another operating system
on the same disk, and you want to choose whether to start FreeBSD
or the other operating system when you start the computer.Make your choice and press Enter.Sysinstall Boot Manager MenuThe help screen, reached by pressing F1,
discusses the problems that can be encountered when trying to share
the hard disk between operating systems.Creating Slices on Another DriveIf there is more than one drive, it will return to the
Select Drives screen after the boot manager selection. If you wish to
install FreeBSD on to more than one disk, then you can select another
disk here and repeat the slice process using
FDisk,Exit Select DriveThe Tab key toggles between the last drive
selected, &gui.ok;, and
&gui.cancel;.Press the Tab once to toggle to the
&gui.ok;, then
press Enter
to continue with the installation.Creating Partitions using
DisklabelYou must now create some partitions inside each slice that you
have just created. Remember that each partition is lettered, from
a through to h, and that
partitions b, c, and
d have conventional meanings that you should adhere
to.Certain applications can benefit from particular partition
schemes, especially if you are laying out partitions across more than
one disk. However, for this, your first FreeBSD installation, you do
not need to give too much thought to how you partition the disk. It
is more important that you install FreeBSD and start learning how to
use it. You can always re-install FreeBSD to change your partition
scheme when you are more familiar with the operating system.This scheme features four partitions—one for swap space, and
three for filesystems.
Partition Layout for First DiskPartitionFilesystemSizeDescriptiona/100MBThis is the root file system. Every other filesystem
will be mounted somewhere under this one. 100MB is a
reasonable size for this filesystem. You will not be storing
too much data on it, as a regular FreeBSD install will put
about 40MB of data here. The remaining space is for temporary
data, and also leaves expansion space if future versions of
FreeBSD need more space in /bN/A2-3 x RAMThe system's swap space is kept on this partition.
Choosing the right amount of swap space can be a bit of an
art. A good rule of thumb is that your swap
space should be two or three times as much as the
available physical memory (RAM). So if you have
You should also have at least 64MB of swap, so if you have
less than 32MB of RAM in your computer then set the swap
amount to 64MB.
If you have more than one disk then you can put swap
space on each disk. FreeBSD will then use each disk for
swap, which effectively speeds up the act of swapping. In
this case, calculate the total amount of swap you need
(e.g., 128MB), and then divide this by the number of disks
you have (e.g., two disks) to give the amount of swap you
should put on each disk, in this example, 64MB of swap per
disk.e/var50MBThe /var directory contains variable
length files; log files, and other administrative files. Many
of these files are read-from or written-to extensively during
FreeBSD's day-to-day running. Putting these files on another
filesystem allows FreeBSD to optimise the access of these
files without affecting other files in other directories that
do not have the same access pattern.f/usrRest of diskAll your other files will typically be stored in
/usr, and its subdirectories.
If you will be installing FreeBSD on to more than one disk then
you must also create partitions in the other slices that you
configured. The easiest way to do this is to create two partitions on
each disk, one for the swap space, and one for a filesystem.
Partition Layout for Subsequent DisksPartitionFilesystemSizeDescriptionbN/ASee descriptionAs already discussed, you can split swap space across
each disk. Even though the a partition is
free, convention dictates that swap space stays on the
b partition.e/disknRest of diskThe rest of the disk is taken up with one big partition.
This could easily be put on the a
partition, instead of the e partition.
However, convention says that the a
partition on a slice is reserved for the filesystem that will
be the root (/) filesystem. You do not
have to follow this convention, but
Sysinstall does, so following it
yourself makes the installation slightly cleaner. You can
choose to mount this filesystem anywhere; this example
suggests that you mount them as directories
/diskn, where
n is a number that changes for each
disk. But you can use another scheme if you prefer.
Having chosen your partition layout you can now create it using
Sysinstall. You will see this
message. Message
Now, you need to create BSD partitions inside of the fdisk
partition(s) just created. If you have a reasonable amount of disk
space (200MB or more) and don't have any special requirements, simply
use the (A)uto command to allocate space automatically. If you have
more specific needs or just don't care for the layout chosen by
(A)uto, press F1 for more information on manual layout.
[ OK ] Press Enter to start the FreeBSD partition
editor, called Disklabel. shows the display when you first
start Disklabel. The display is divided in
to three sections.The first few lines show the name of the disk you are currently
working on, and the slice that contains the partitions you are
creating (at this point Disklabel calls
this the Partition name rather than slice name).
This display also shows the amount of free space within the slice;
that is, space that was set aside in the slice, but that has not yet
been assigned to a partition.The middle of the display shows the partitions that have been
created, the name of the filesystem that each partition contains,
their size, and some options pertaining to the creation of the
filesystem.The bottom third of the screen shows the keystrokes that are valid
in Disklabel.Sysinstall Disklabel EditorDisklabel can automatically create
partitions for you and assign them default sizes. Try this now, by
Pressing A. You will see a display similar to that
shown in . Depending on the size of
the disk you are using the defaults may or may not be appropriate.
This does not matter, as you do not have to accept the
defaults.Beginning with FreeBSD 4.5, the default partitioning assigns
the /tmp directory its own partition instead
of being part of the / partition. This
helps avoid filling the / partition with
temporary files.Sysinstall Disklabel Editor With Auto DefaultsTo delete the suggested partitions, and replace them with your
own, use the arrow keys to select the first partition, and press
D to delete it. Repeat this to delete all the
suggested partitions.To create the first partition (a, mounted as
/), make sure the disk information at the top of
the screen is selected, and press C. A dialog box
will appear prompting you for the size of the new partition (as shown
in ). You can enter the size as
the number of disk blocks you want to use, or, more usefully, as a
number followed by either M for megabytes,
G for gigabytes, or C for
cylinders.Free Space For Root PartitionThe default size shown will create a partition that takes up the
rest of the slice. If you are using the partition sizes described
earlier, then delete the existing figure using
Backspace, and then type in
64M, as shown in
. Then press
&gui.ok;.Edit Root Partition SizeHaving chosen the partition's size you will then asked whether
this partition will contain a filesystem or swap space. The dialog
box is shown in . This first
partition will contain a filesystem, so check that
FS is selected and then press
Enter.Choose The Root Partition TypeFinally, because you are creating a filesystem, you must tell
Disklabel where the filesystem is to be
mounted. The dialog box is shown in
. The root filesystem's mount
point is /, so type /, and
then press Enter.Choose The Root Mount PointThe display will then update to show you the newly created
partition. You should repeat this procedure for the other
partitions. When you create the swap partition you will not be
prompted for the filesystem mount point, as swap partitions are never
mounted. When you create the final partition,
/usr, you can leave the suggested size as is, to
use the rest of the slice.Your final FreeBSD DiskLabel Editor screen will appear similar to
, although your values chosen may
be different. Press Q to finish.Sysinstall Disklabel EditorChoosing What To InstallSelect The Distribution SetDeciding which distribution set to install will depend largely
on the intended use of the system and the amount of disk space
available. The predefined options range from installing the
smallest possible configuration to everything. Those who are
new to Unix and/or FreeBSD should almost certainly select one
of these canned options. Customizing a distribution set is
typically for the more experienced user.Press F1 for more information on the
distribution set options and what they contain. When finished
reviewing the help, pressing Enter will return
to the Select Distributions Menu.If a graphical user interface is desired then a distribution
set that is preceded by an X should be
chosen. The configuration of XFree86 and selection of a default
desktop is part of the post-installation steps.The default XFree86 version installed is the 3.x branch. You
should check to see whether your video card is supported at the
XFree86 web site.
If it is only supported under the 4.x branch, then you will need
to install and configure XFree86 4.x after installation. Select a
distribution without X and refer to for
more information.If compiling a custom kernel is anticipated, select an option
which includes the source code. For more information on why a
custom kernel should be built or how to build a custom kernel see
.Obviously, the most versatile system is one that includes
everything. If there is adequate disk space, select
All as shown in
by using the arrow keys and
press Enter. If there is a concern about disk
space consider using an option that is more suitable for the
situation. Other distributions can be added after installation.Choose DistributionsInstalling The Ports CollectionAfter selecting the desired distribution, an opportunity to
install the FreeBSD Ports Collection is presented. The ports
collection is an easy and convenient way to install software.
The ports collection does not contain the source code necessary
to compile the software. It is a collection of files which
automates the downloading, compiling and installation.
discusses how to use the ports
collection.The installation program does not check to see if you have
adequate space. Select this option only if you have
adequate hard disk space. User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to install the FreeBSD ports collection?
This will give you ready access to over &os.numports; ported software packages,
at a cost of around 100MB of disk space when "clean" and possibly much
more than that if a lot of the distribution tarballs are loaded
(unless you have the extra CDs from a FreeBSD CD/DVD distribution
available and can mount it on /cdrom, in which case this is far less
of a problem).
The ports collection is a very valuable resource and well worth having
on your /usr partition, so it is advisable to say Yes to this option.
For more information on the ports collection & the latest ports,
visit:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] with the arrow keys to
install the ports collection or [ No ] to
skip this option. Press Enter to continue.
The Choose Distributions menu will redisplay.Confirm DistributionsIf satisfied with the options, select
Exit with the arrow keys, ensure that
&gui.ok; is highlighted, and press
Enter to continue.Choosing Your Installation MediaIf Installing from a CDROM, use the arrow keys to highlight
Install from a FreeBSD CD/DVD. Ensure
that &gui.ok; is highlighted, then press
Enter to proceed with the installation.For other methods of installation, select the appropriate
option and follow the instructions.Press F1 to display the Online Help for
installation media. Press Enter to return
to the media selection menu.Choose Installation MediaFTP Installation ModesinstallationnetworkFTPThere are three FTP installation modes you can choose from:
active FTP, passive FTP, or via a HTTP proxy.FTP Active, Install from an FTP
serverThis option will make all FTP transfers
use Active
mode. This will not work through firewalls, but will
often work with older FTP servers that do not support
passive mode. If your connection hangs with passive
mode (the default), try active!FTP Passive, Install from an FTP server through a
firewallFTPPassive modeThis option instructs FreeBSD to use
Passive mode for all FTP operations.
This allows the user to pass through firewalls
that do not allow incoming connections on random port
addresses.FTP via a HTTP proxy, Install from an FTP server
through a http proxyFTPvia a HTTP proxyThis option instructs FreeBSD to use the HTTP
protocol (like a web browser) to connect to a proxy
for all FTP operations. The proxy will translate
the requests and send them to the FTP server.
This allows the user to pass through firewalls
that do not allow FTP at all, but offer a HTTP
proxy.
In this case, you have to specify the proxy in
addition to the FTP server.For a proxy FTP server, you should usually give the name of the
server you really want as a part of the username, after an
@ sign. The proxy server then fakes
the real server. For example, assuming you want to install from
ftp.FreeBSD.org, using the proxy FTP
server foo.example.com, listening on port
1024.In this case, you go to the options menu, set the FTP username
to ftp@ftp.FreeBSD.org, and the password to your
email address. As your installation media, you specify FTP (or
passive FTP, if the proxy supports it), and the URL
ftp://foo.example.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD.Since /pub/FreeBSD from
ftp.FreeBSD.org is proxied under
foo.example.com, you are able to install
from that machine (which will fetch the files
from ftp.FreeBSD.org as your
installation requests them.Committing to the InstallationThe installation can now proceed if desired. This is also
the last chance for aborting the installation to prevent changes
to the hard drive. User Confirmation Requested
Last Chance! Are you SURE you want to continue the installation?
If you're running this on a disk with data you wish to save then WE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE PROPER BACKUPS before proceeding!
We can take no responsibility for lost disk contents!
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] and press
Enter to proceed.The installation time will vary according to the distribution
chosen, installation media used, and the speed of the computer.
There will be a series of
messages displayed indicating the status.The installation is complete when the following message is
displayed: Message
Congratulations! You now have FreeBSD installed on your system.
We will now move on to the final configuration questions.
For any option you do not wish to configure, simply select No.
If you wish to re-enter this utility after the system is up, you may
do so by typing: /stand/sysinstall .
[ OK ]
[ Press enter to continue ]Press Enter to proceed with post-installation
configurations.Selecting [ No ] and pressing
Enter will abort
the installation so no changes will be made to your system. The
following message will appear: Message
Installation complete with some errors. You may wish to scroll
through the debugging messages on VTY1 with the scroll-lock feature.
You can also choose "No" at the next prompt and go back into the
installation menus to try and retry whichever operations have failed.
[ OK ]This message is generated because nothing was installed.
Pressing Enter will return to the
Main Installation Menu to exit the installation.Post-installationConfiguration of various options follows the successful
installation. An option can be configured by re-entering the
configuration options before booting the new FreeBSD
system or after installation using
/stand/sysinstall and selecting
Configure.Network Device ConfigurationIf you previously configured PPP for an FTP install, this screen
will not display and can be configured later as described
above.For detailed information on Local Area Networks and
configuring FreeBSD as a gateway/router refer to the tutorial
PPP- Pendantic PPP Primer. User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to configure Ethernet or SLIP/PPP network devices?
[ Yes ] NoTo configure a network device, select
[ Yes ] and press Enter.
Otherwise, select [ No ] to continue.Selecting An Ethernet DeviceSelect the interface to be configured with the arrow keys and press
Enter. User Confirmation Requested
Do you want to try IPv6 configuration of the interface?
Yes [ No ]In this private local area network the current Internet
type protocol (IPv4) was sufficient and [ No ]
was selected with the arrow keys and Enter
pressed.If you want to try the new Internet protocol (IPv6), choose
[ Yes ] and press Enter.
It will take several seconds to scan for RA servers. User Confirmation Requested
Do you want to try DHCP configuration of the interface?
Yes [ No ]If DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is not required
select [ No ] with the arrow keys and press
Enter.Selecting [ Yes ] will execute
dhclient, and if successful, will fill
in the network configuration information automatically. Refer to
for more information.The following Network Configuration screen shows the
configuration of the Ethernet device for a system that will act
as the gateway for a Local Area Network.Set Network Configuration For ed0Use Tab to select the information fields and
fill in appropriate information:HostThe fully-qualified hostname, e.g. k6-2.example.com in
this case.DomainThe name of the domain that your machine is
in, e.g. example.com for this case.IPv4 GatewayIP address of host forwarding packets to non-local
destinations. Fill this in only if the machine is a node
on the network. Leave this field blank
if the machine is the gateway to the Internet for the
network.Name serverIP address of your local DNS server. There is no local
DNS server on this private local area network so the IP
address of the provider's DNS server (208.163.10.2) was
used.IPv4 addressThe IP address to be used for this interface was
(192.168.0.1).NetmaskThe address block being used for this local area
network is a Class C block (192.168.0.0 -
192.168.255.255). The default netmask is for a Class C
network (255.255.255.0).Extra options to ifconfigAny interface-specific options to ifconfig
you would like to add. There were none in this case.Use Tab to select &gui.ok;
when finished and press Enter. User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to Bring Up the ed0 interface right now?
[ Yes ] NoChoosing [ Yes ] and pressing
Enter will bring
the machine up on the network and be ready for use after leaving
leaving the installation.Configure Gateway User Confirmation Requested
Do you want this machine to function as a network gateway?
[ Yes ] NoIf the machine will be acting as the gateway for a local area
network and forwarding packets between other machines then select
[ Yes ] and press Enter.
If the machine is a node on a network then
select [ No ] and press
Enter to continue.Configure Internet Services User Confirmation Requested
Do you want to configure inetd and the network services that it provides?
Yes [ No ]If [ No ] is selected, various services
such telnetd will not be enabled. This
means that remote users will not be able to
telnet into this machine. Local users
will be still be able to access remote machines with
telnet.These services can be enabled after installation by editing
/etc/inetd.conf with your favorite text editor.
See for more information.Select [ Yes ] if you wish to
configure these services during install. An additional
confirmation will display. User Confirmation Requested
The Internet Super Server (inetd) allows a number of simple Internet
services to be enabled, including finger, ftp and telnetd. Enabling
these services may increase risk of security problems by increasing
the exposure of your system.
With this in mind, do you wish to enable inetd?
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] to continue. User Confirmation Requested
inetd(8) relies on its configuration file, /etc/inetd.conf, to determine
which of its Internet services will be available. The default FreeBSD
inetd.conf(5) leaves all services disabled by default, so they must be
specifically enabled in the configuration file before they will
function, even once inetd(8) is enabled. Note that services for
IPv6 must be seperately enabled from IPv4 services.
Select [Yes] now to invoke an editor on /etc/inetd.conf, or [No] to
use the current settings.
[ Yes ] NoSelecting [ Yes ] will allow adding
services by deleting the # at the beginning
of a line.Editing inetd.confAfter adding the desired services, pressing Esc
will display a menu which will allow exiting and saving
the changes.Anonymous FTP User Confirmation Requested
Do you want to have anonymous FTP access to this machine?
Yes [ No ]Deny Anonymous FTPSelecting the default [ No ] and pressing
Enter will still allow users who have accounts
with passwords to use FTP to access the machine.Allow Anonymous FTPAnyone can access your machine if you elect to allow
anonymous FTP connections. The security implications should be
considered before enabling this option. For more information
about security see .To allow anonymous FTP, use the arrow keys to select
[ Yes ] and press Enter.
The following screens (or similar) will display:Default Anonymous FTP ConfigurationPressing F1 will display the help:This screen allows you to configure the anonymous FTP user.
The following configuration values are editable:
UID: The user ID you wish to assign to the anonymous FTP user.
All files uploaded will be owned by this ID.
Group: Which group you wish the anonymous FTP user to be in.
Comment: String describing this user in /etc/passwd
FTP Root Directory:
Where files available for anonymous FTP will be kept.
Upload subdirectory:
Where files uploaded by anonymous FTP users will go.The ftp root directory will be put in /var
by default. If you do not have enough room there for the
anticipated FTP needs, the /usr directory
could be used by setting the FTP Root Directory to
/usr/ftp.When you are satisfied with the values, press
Enter to continue. User Confirmation Requested
Create a welcome message file for anonymous FTP users?
[ Yes ] NoIf you select [ Yes ] and press
Enter, an editor will automatically start
allowing you to edit the message.Edit The FTP Welcome MessageThis is a text editor called ee. Use the
instructions to change the message or change the message later
using a text editor of your choice. Note the file name/location
at the bottom.Press Esc and a pop-up menu will default
to a) leave editor. Press
Enter to exit and continue.Configure Network File ServicesNetwork File Services (NFS) allows sharing of files across a
network. A machine can be configured as a server, a client, or
both. Refer to for a more information.NFS Server User Confirmation Requested
Do you want to configure this machine as an NFS server?
Yes [ No ]If there is no need for a Network File System server or
client, select [ No ] and press
Enter.If [ Yes ] is chosen, a message will
pop-up indicating that the exports file must be created. Message
Operating as an NFS server means that you must first configure an
/etc/exports file to indicate which hosts are allowed certain kinds of
access to your local file systems.
Press [Enter] now to invoke an editor on /etc/exports
[ OK ]Press Enter to continue. A text editor will
start allowing the exports file to be created and edited.Editing the Exports FileUse the instructions to add the actual exported filesystems
now or later using a text editor of your choice. Note the
filename/location at the bottom of the editor screen.Press Esc and a pop-up menu will default to
a) leave editor. Press
Enter to exit and continue.NFS Client User Confirmation Requested
Do you want to configure this machine as an NFS client?
Yes [ No ]With the arrow keys, select [ Yes ]
or [ No ] as appropriate and
press Enter.Security ProfileA security profile is a set of
configuration options that attempts to achieve the desired
ratio of security to convenience by enabling and disabling
certain programs and other settings. The more severe the
security profile, the fewer programs will be enabled by
default. This is one of the basic principles of security: do
not run anything except what you must.Please note that the security profile is just a default
setting. All programs can be enabled and disabled after you
have installed FreeBSD by editing or adding the appropriate
line(s) to /etc/rc.conf. For more
information, please see the &man.rc.conf.5; manual
page.The following table describes what each of the security
profiles does. The columns are the choices you have for a
security profile, and the rows are the program or feature that
the profile enables or disables.
Possible security profilesExtremeModerate&man.sendmail.8;NOYES&man.sshd.8;NOYES&man.portmap.8;NOMAYBE
The portmapper is enabled if the machine has
been configured as an NFS client or server earlier
in the installation.NFS serverNOYES&man.securelevel.8;YES (2)
If you choose a security profile that sets the
securelevel (Extreme or High), you must be aware
of the implications. Please read the &man.init.8;
manual page and pay particular attention to the
meanings of the security levels, or you may have
significant trouble later!NO
User Confirmation Requested
Do you want to select a default security profile for this host (select
No for "medium" security)?
[ Yes ] NoSelecting [ No ] and pressing
Enter will set the security profile to medium.Selecting [ Yes ] and pressing
Enter will allow selecting a different security
profile.Security Profile OptionsPress F1 to display the help. Press
Enter to return to selection menu.Use the arrow keys to choose Medium
unless your are sure that another level is required for your needs.
With &gui.ok; highlighted, press
Enter.An appropriate confirmation message will display depending on
which security setting was chosen. Message
Moderate security settings have been selected.
Sendmail and SSHd have been enabled, securelevels are
disabled, and NFS server setting have been left intact.
PLEASE NOTE that this still does not save you from having
to properly secure your system in other ways or exercise
due diligence in your administration, this simply picks
a standard set of out-of-box defaults to start with.
To change any of these settings later, edit /etc/rc.conf
[OK] Message
Extreme security settings have been selected.
Sendmail, SSHd, and NFS services have been disabled, and
securelevels have been enabled.
PLEASE NOTE that this still does not save you from having
to properly secure your system in other ways or exercise
due diligence in your administration, this simply picks
a more secure set of out-of-box defaults to start with.
To change any of these settings later, edit /etc/rc.conf
[OK]Press Enter to continue with the
post-installation configuration.The security profile is not a silver bullet! Even if
you use the extreme setting, you need to keep up with
security issues by reading an appropriate mailing
list, using good passwords and passphrases, and
generally adhering to good security practices. It simply
sets up the desired security to convenience ratio out of the
box.System Console SettingsThere are several options available to customize the system
console. User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to customize your system console settings?
[ Yes ] NoTo view and configure the options, select
[ Yes ] and press Enter.System Console Configuration OptionsA commonly used option is the screensaver. Use the arrow keys
to select Saver and then press
Enter.Screensaver OptionsSelect the desired screen saver using the arrow keys
and then press Enter. The System Console
Configuration menu will redisplay.The default time interval is 300 seconds. To change the time
interval, select Saver again. At the
Screensaver Options menu, select Timeout
using the arrow keys and press Enter. A pop-up
menu will appear:Screensaver TimeoutThe value can be changed, then select &gui.ok;
and press Enter to return to the System Console
Configuration menu.System Console Configuration ExitSelecting Exit and pressing
Enter will continue with the post-installation
configurations.Setting The Time ZoneSetting the timezone for your machine will allow it to
automatically correct for any regional time changes and perform
other timezone related functions properly.The example shown is for a machine located in the Eastern
time zone of the United States. Your selections will vary according
to your geographical location. User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to set this machine's time zone now?
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] and press
Enter to set the time zone. User Confirmation Requested
Is this machine's CMOS clock set to UTC? If it is set to local time
or you don't know, please choose NO here!
Yes [ No ]Select [ Yes ]
or [ No ] according to how the machine's
clock is configured and press Enter.Select Your RegionThe appropriate region is selected using the arrow keys
and then press Enter.Select Your CountrySelect the appropriate country using the arrow keys
and press Enter.Select Your TimezoneThe appropriate time zone is selected using the arrow
keys and pressing Enter. Confirmation
Does the abbreviation 'EDT' look reasonable?
[ Yes ] NoConfirm the abbreviation for the time zone is correct.
If it looks okay, press Enter to continue with
the post-installation configuration.Linux Compatibility User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to enable Linux binary compatibility?
[ Yes ] NoSelecting [ Yes ] and pressing
Enter will allow
running Linux software on FreeBSD. The install will proceed to add
the appropriate packages for Linux compatibility.If installing by FTP, the machine will need to be connected to
the Internet. Sometimes a remote ftp site will not have all the
distributions like the Linux binary compatibility. This can
be installed later if necessary.Mouse SettingsThis option will allow you to cut and paste text in the
console and user programs with a 3-button mouse. If using a 2-button
mouse, refer to manual page, &man.moused.8;, after installation for
details on emulating the 3-button style. This example depicts a
non-USB mouse. User Confirmation Requested
Does this system have a non-USB mouse attached to it?
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] for a non-USB mouse or
[ No ] for a USB mouse and press
Enter.Select Mouse Protocol TypeUse the arrow keys to select Type and
press EnterSet Mouse ProtocolThe mouse used in this example is a PS/2 type, so the default
Auto was
appropriate. To change protocol, use the arrow keys to select
another option. Ensure that &gui.ok; is
highlighted and press Enter to exit this menu.Configure Mouse PortUse the arrow keys to select Port and
press Enter.Setting The Mouse PortThis system had a PS/2 mouse, so the default
PS/2 was
appropriate. To change the port, use the arrow keys and then
press Enter.Enable The Mouse DaemonLast, the mouse daemon is enabled and tested.Test The Mouse DaemonThe cursor moved around the screen so the mouse daemon is
running:Select [ Yes ] to return to the previous
menu then select Exit
with the arrow keys and press Enter to return to
continue with the post-installation configuration.Configure X-ServerIn order to use a graphical user interface such as
KDE, GNOME,
or others, the X server will need to be configured.To see whether your video card is supported, check the
XFree86 web site.
If your video card is only supported under XFree86 4.x, refer to
for installation and configuration. User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to configure your X server at this time?
[ Yes ] NoIt is necessary to know your monitor specifications and
video card information. Equipment damage can occur if settings
are incorrect. If you do not have this information, select
[ No ] and perform the configuration
after installation when you have the information using
/stand/sysinstall, selecting
Configure and then
XFree86.
If you have graphics card and monitor information, select
[ Yes ] and press Enter
to proceed with configuring the X server.Select Configuration Method MenuThere are several ways to configure the X
server. XF86Setup is fully graphical and
probably the easiest. Use the arrow keys to select the
XF86Setup and press
Enter. Message
You have configured and been running the mouse daemon.
Choose "/dev/sysmouse" as the mouse port and "SysMouse" or
"MouseSystems" as the mouse protocol in the X configuration utility.
[ OK ]
[ Press enter to continue ]This indicates that the mouse daemon previously configured has been
detected. Press Enter to continue. Press [Enter] to switch to graphics mode.
This may take a while...
[ OK ]Press Enter to switch to the graphics mode and
continue. It will not try to switch to the
graphics mode until Enter is pressed. The screen
will go black and then shortly a screen with a large X in the
center will appear. Be patient and wait.After a few more moments, the XF86Setup
introduction will display. Read all instructions
carefully. Press Enter to
continue.XF86Setup OverviewThere are several areas of configuration to be completed.
The configuration choices you make will depend on the hardware
in the system so only a general overview can be given here.Along the top of the configuration tool there are buttons
indicating the areas to be configured. You should be able to use
the mouse if it was previously configured and select each item by
clicking on it. Review each area and make appropriate selections
for your system.MouseThe mouse is the first item to be configured. If you
previously configured your mouse, the mouse daemon will already
be running and should indicate SysMouse
automatically for the mouse protocol. If you are use a two
button mouse, you should also select
Emulate3Buttons. There are other
settings that can be tweaked if necessary.After completing your selections, click on the
Apply and check the mouse actions are
working properly. If further adjustment is needed, make them
and recheck the operation by clicking on
Apply again. When finished, move
on to the next item.KeyboardSelect the appropriate keyboard model. The default
keyboard is Generic 101-key PC.Select the language layout for your keyboard. The default
layout is U.S. English. If you are
not using a U.S. keyboard, you may need to additionally
select a variant.There are other options under Group Shift/Lock behavior and
Control Key Position that can be selected if desired. Generally
the default settings are fine.After completing the keyboard configuration, click on
Apply and move on to the next
item.CardClick on Read README file for
additional help in configuring your video card.Select the appropriate video card from the list using the
scrollbar. Clicking on your card will show as
Card selected: above the list box.Next, the Detailed Setup was
selected just to check details. Typically, if your video
card was in the list, no changes will be needed here.When finished, move on to the next item.MonitorThere are two ways to proceed. One method requires that you
enter the horizontal and vertical sweep capabilities of your
monitor in the text boxes.Choosing one of the monitor options listed that the monitor
is the other method. After selecting a listed option, the
horizontal and vertical sweep rates that will be used will
display. Compare those to your monitor specifications. The
monitor must be capable of using those ranges.Do not exceed the ratings of your monitor. Damage could
occur. If you have doubts select ABORT
and get the information. The remainder of the installation process
will be unaffected and configuring the X-Server can be done
later using /stand/sysinstall.When finished, move on to the next item.ModeSelect the video mode(s) that you want to use. You can select
more than one option. Typically, useful ranges are 640x480,
800x600, and 1024x768 but those are a function of video card
capability, monitor size, and eye comfort.Next, select the default color depth you want to use. Your
choices are 8bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp, and 32bpp. Select the highest
color depth that your video card will support.When finished, move on to the next item.OtherThe default settings are reasonable values, so you
probably will not need to change anything here.The default setting which allows the server to be killed
with the hotkey sequence CtrlAltBackspace should be left on. This
can be executed if something is wrong with the server settings and
prevent hardware damage.The default setting that allows video mode switching will
permit changing of the mode while running X with the hotkey
sequence
Alt+ or
Alt-.
Testing the ServerVerify all the settings once again and select
Done and the following message will
display:If you've finished configuring everything press the
Okay button to start the X server using the configuration
you've selected. If you still wish to configure some things,
press one of the buttons at the top and then press "Done" again,
when you've finished.After selecting Okay, some messages
will briefly appear advising to wait and attempting to start
the X-server. This process takes a few moments, so be
patient.The screen will go blank for a short period of time and
then a screen will appear with the message
Congratulations, you've got a running server!If nothing appears or the display is distorted,
kill the X-server using
CtrlAltBackspace
and adjust the settings or revisit them after installation.Running xvidtuneThe display can be adjusted for height, width, or centering
by using xvidtune.There are warnings that improper settings can
damage your equipment. Heed them. If in doubt, do not do
it. Instead, use the monitor controls to adjust the display for
x-windows. There may be some display differences when switching
back to text mode, but it is better than damaging equipment.
xvidtune can be ran later using
/stand/sysinstall.Read the &man.xvidtune.1; man page before making
any adjustments.Saving ConfigurationWhen you are satisfied, the configuration can now be saved.
Select Save the configuration and Exit
The configuration file will be saved to
/etc/XF86Config.Once the configuration is done, the installation program will
need to create a link to the server: Do you want to create an 'X' link to the SVGA server?
(the link will be created in the directory:
/usr/X11R6/bin) Okay?
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] and press
Enter to create the link. Link created successfully.
[ OK ]Press Enter to continue configuration.Select Default X DesktopThere are a variety of window managers available. They range
from very basic environments to full desktop environments with a
large suite of software. Some require only minimal disk space and
low memory while others with more features require much more. The
best way to determine which is most suitable for you is to try a few
different ones. Those are available from the ports collection or as
packages and can be added after installation.You can select one of the popular desktops to be installed
and configured as the default desktop. This will allow you
to start it right after installation.Select Default DesktopUse the arrow keys to select a desktop and press
Enter. Installation of the selected desktop will
proceed.Install PackagesThe packages are pre-compiled binaries and are a convenient
way to install software.Installation of one package is shown for purposes of
illustration. Additional packages can also be added at this
time if desired. After installation
/stand/sysinstall can be used to add additional
packages. User Confirmation Requested
The FreeBSD package collection is a collection of hundreds of
ready-to-run applications, from text editors to games to WEB servers
and more. Would you like to browse the collection now?
[ Yes ] NoSelecting [ Yes ] and pressing
Enter will be
followed by the Package Selection screens:Select Package CategoryAll packages available will be displayed if
All is selected or you can select a
particular category. Highlight your selection with the arrow
keys and press Enter.A menu will display showing all the packages available for
the selection made.Select PackagesThe bash shell is shown selected.
Select as many as desired by highlighting the package and pressing
the Space.
A short description of each package will appear in the lower left
corner of the screen.Pressing the Tab key will toggle between the last
selected package, &gui.ok;, and
&gui.cancel;.When you have finished marking the packages for installation,
press Tab once to toggle to the
&gui.ok; and press
Enter to return to the Package Selection menu.The left and right arrow keys will also toggle between
&gui.ok; and &gui.cancel;.
This method can also be used to select &gui.ok;
and press Enter to return to the Package
Selection menu.Install PackagesUse the arrow keys to select [ Install ]
and press Enter. You will then need to confirm
that you want to install the packages.Confirm Package InstallationSelecting &gui.ok; and pressing
Enter will start
the package installation. Installing messages will appear until
completed. Make note if there are any error messages.The final configuration continues after packages are
installed.Add User/GroupsYou should add at least one user during the installation so
that you can use the system without being logged in as root. The
root partition is generally small and running applications as
root can quickly fill it. A bigger danger is noted below: User Confirmation Requested
Would you like to add any initial user accounts to the system? Adding
at least one account for yourself at this stage is suggested since
working as the "root" user is dangerous (it is easy to do things which
adversely affect the entire system).
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] and press
Enter to continue with adding a user.Select Add UserSelect Add User with the arrow keys
and press Enter.Add User InformationThe following descriptions will appear in the lower part of
the screen as the items are selected with Tab
to assist with entering the required information.Login IDThe login name of the new user (mandatory)UIDThe numerical ID for this user (leave blank for
automatic choice)GroupThe login group name for this user (leave blank for
automatic choice)PasswordThe password for this user (enter this field with
care!)Full nameThe user's full name (comment)Member groupsThe groups this user belongs to (i.e. gets access
rights for)Home directoryThe user's home directory (leave blank for
default)Login shellThe user's login shell (leave blank for
default). (/bin/sh)The login shell was changed from
/bin/sh to
/usr/local/bin/bash to use the
bash shell
that was previously installed as a package. Do not try to
use a shell that does not exist or you will not be able to
login.The user was also added to the group wheel to be able to
become a superuser with root privileges.When you are satisfied, press &gui.ok; and
the User and Group Management menu will redisplay.Exit User and Group ManagementGroups could also be added at this time if specific needs
are known. Otherwise, this may be accessed through using
/stand/sysinstall after installation is
completed.When you are finished adding users, select
Exit with the arrow keys and press
Enter to continue the installation.Set root Password Message
Now you must set the system manager's password.
This is the password you'll use to log in as "root".
[ OK ]
[ Press enter to continue ]Press Enter to set the root password.The password will need to be typed in twice
correctly. Needless to say, make sure you have a way of finding
the password if you forget.Changing local password for root.
New password :
Retype new password :The installation will continue after the password is
successfully entered.Exiting InstallIf you need to configure additional network devices or to
do any other configurations, you can do it at this point or
after installation with /stand/sysinstall. User Confirmation Requested
Visit the general configuration menu for a chance to set any last
options?
Yes [ No ]Selecting [ No ] with the arrow keys
and pressing Enter returns to the Main
Installation MenuExit InstallSelect [X Exit Install] with the arrow
keys and press Enter. You will be asked to
confirm exiting the installation: User Confirmation Requested
Are you sure you wish to exit? The system will reboot (be sure to
remove any floppies from the drives).
[ Yes ] NoSelect [ Yes ] and remove floppy if
booting from floppy. The CDROM drive is locked until the machine
starts to reboot. The CDROM drive is then unlocked and can
be removed from drive (quickly).The system will reboot so watch for any error messages that
may appear.FreeBSD BootupFreeBSD Bootup on the i386If everything went well, you will see messages scroll
off the screen and you will arrive at a login prompt. You can view
the content of the messages by pressing Scroll-Lock
and using PgUp and PgDn.
Pressing Scroll-Lock again will return
to the prompt.The entire message may not display (buffer limitation) but
it can be viewed from the command line after logging in by typing
dmesg at the prompt.Login using the username/password you set during installation
(rpratt, in this example). Avoid logging in as root except when
necessary.Typical boot messages:Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.5-RC2 #0: Thu Jan 17 21:24:52 GMT 2002
murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (300.68-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping = 0
Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
AMD Features=0x80000800<SYSCALL,3DNow!>
real memory = 268435456 (262144K bytes)
config> di sn0
config> di lnc0
config> di le0
config> di ie0
config> di fe0
config> di cs0
config> di bt0
config> di aic0
config> di aha0
config> di adv0
config> q
avail memory = 256311296 (250304K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0491000.
Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc049109c.
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 4 entries at 0xc00fde60
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <Matrox MGA G200 AGP graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
isab0: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 82C586 ATA33 controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xe400-0xe41f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0
usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
chip1: <VIA 82C586B ACPI interface> at device 7.3 on pci0
ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 9 at
device 10.0 on pci0
ed0: address 52:54:05:de:73:1b, type NE2000 (16 bit)
isa0: too many dependant configs (8)
isa0: unexpected small tag 14
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60-0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x1 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/15 bytes threshold
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ad0: 8063MB <IBM-DHEA-38451> [16383/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
ad2: 8063MB <IBM-DHEA-38451> [16383/16/63] at ata1-master using UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <DELTA OTC-H101/ST3 F/W by OIPD> at ata0-slave using PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
swapon: adding /dev/ad0s1b as swap device
Automatic boot in progress...
/dev/ad0s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1a: clean, 48752 free (552 frags, 6025 blocks, 0.9% fragmentation)
/dev/ad0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1f: clean, 128997 free (21 frags, 16122 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)
/dev/ad0s1g: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1g: clean, 3036299 free (43175 frags, 374073 blocks, 1.3% fragmentation)
/dev/ad0s1e: filesystem CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0s1e: clean, 128193 free (17 frags, 16022 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)
Doing initial network setup: hostname.
ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::5054::5ff::fede:731b%ed0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x1
ether 52:54:05:de:73:1b
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
Additional routing options: IP gateway=YES TCP keepalive=YES
routing daemons:.
additional daemons: syslogd.
Doing additional network setup:.
Starting final network daemons: creating ssh RSA host key
Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.
Your public key has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
cd:76:89:16:69:0e:d0:6e:f8:66:d0:07:26:3c:7e:2d root@k6-2.example.com
creating ssh DSA host key
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
f9:a1:a9:47:c4:ad:f9:8d:52:b8:b8:ff:8c:ad:2d:e6 root@k6-2.example.com.
setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/local/lib
a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout
starting standard daemons: inetd cron sshd usbd sendmail.
Initial rc.i386 initialization:.
rc.i386 configuring syscons: blank_time screensaver moused.
Additional ABI support: linux.
Local package initilization:.
Additional TCP options:.
FreeBSD/i386 (k6-2.example.com) (ttyv0)
login: rpratt
Password:Generating the RSA and DSA keys may take some time on slower
machines. This happens only on the initial boot-up of a new
installation. Subsequent boots will be faster.If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop
chosen, it can be started by typing startx at
the command line.Bootup of FreeBSD on the AlphaAlphaOnce the install procedure has finished, you will be
able to start FreeBSD by typing something like this to the
SRM prompt:>>>BOOT DKC0This instructs the firmware to boot the specified
disk. To make FreeBSD boot automatically in the future, use
these commands:>>>SET BOOT_OSFLAGS A>>>SET BOOT_FILE ''>>>SET BOOTDEF_DEV DKC0>>>SET AUTO_ACTION BOOTThe boot messages will be similar (but not identical) to
those produced by FreeBSD booting on the i386.FreeBSD ShutdownIt is important to properly shutdown the operating
system. Do not just turn off power. First, become a superuser by
typing su at the command line and entering the
root password. This will work only if the user is a member of the
group wheel. Otherwise, login as root and use
shutdown -h now.The operating system has halted.
Please press any key to reboot.It is safe to turn off the power after the shutdown command
has been issued and the message Please press any key to reboot
appears. If any key is pressed instead of turning off the power
switch, the system will reboot.You could also use the CTRL+ALT+DEL key
combination to reboot the system, however this is not recommended
during normal operation.Supported HardwarehardwareFreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, and
PCI bus-based PCs with Intel, AMD, Cyrix, or NexGen
x86 processors, as well as a number of
machines based on the Compaq Alpha processor.
Support for generic IDE or
ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controllers, PCMCIA
cards, USB devices, and network and
serial cards is also provided. FreeBSD also supports IBM's
microchannel (MCA) bus.A list of supported hardware is provided with each FreeBSD
release in the FreeBSD Hardware Notes. This document can
usually be found in a file named
HARDWARE.TXT, in the top-level directory of
a CDROM or FTP distribution or in sysinstall's documentation
menu. It lists, for a given architecture, what hardware devices
are known to be supported by each release of FreeBSD.TroubleshootinginstallationtroubleshootingThe following section covers basic installation troubleshooting,
such as common problems people have reported. There are also a few
questions and answers for people wishing to dual-boot FreeBSD with
MS-DOS.What to Do If Something Goes Wrong...Due to various limitations of the PC architecture, it is
impossible for probing to be 100% reliable, however, there are a
few things you can do if it fails.Check the Hardware Notes document for your version of
FreeBSD to make sure your hardware is
supported.If your hardware is supported and you still experience
lock-ups or other problems, reset your computer, and when the
visual kernel configuration option is given, choose it. This will
allow you to go through your hardware and supply information to the
system about it. The kernel on the boot disks is configured
assuming that most hardware devices are in their factory default
configuration in terms of IRQs, IO addresses, and DMA channels. If
your hardware has been reconfigured, you will most likely need to
use the configuration editor to tell FreeBSD where to find
things.It is also possible that a probe for a device not present will
cause a later probe for another device that is present to fail. In
that case, the probes for the conflicting driver(s) should be
disabled.Some installation problems can be avoided or alleviated by
by updating the firmware on various hardware components, most notably
the motherboard. The motherboard firmware may also be referred to
as BIOS and most of the motherboard or computer
manufactures have a website where the upgrades and upgrade information
may be located.Most manufacturers strongly advise against upgrading the motherboard
BIOS unless there is a good reason for doing so, which
could possibly be a critical update of sorts. The upgrade process
can go wrong, causing permanent damage to the
BIOS chip.Do not disable any drivers you will need during the
installation, such as your screen (sc0).
If the installation wedges or fails mysteriously after leaving
the configuration editor, you have probably removed or changed
something you should not have. Reboot and try again.In configuration mode, you can:List the device drivers installed in the kernel.Change device drivers for hardware that is not present in
your system.Change IRQs, DRQs, and IO port addresses used by a device
driver.After adjusting the kernel to match your hardware
configuration, type Q to boot with the new
settings. Once the installation has completed, any changes you
made in the configuration mode will be permanent so you do not have
to reconfigure every time you boot. It is still highly likely that
you will eventually want to build a custom kernel.MS-DOS User's Questions and AnswersDOSMany users wish to install FreeBSD on PCs inhabited by MS-DOS.
Here are some commonly asked questions about installing FreeBSD on
such systems.Help, I have no space! Do I need to delete everything
first?If your machine is already running MS-DOS and has little
or no free space available for the FreeBSD installation, all
hope is not lost! You may find the FIPS
utility, provided
in the tools directory on the FreeBSD
CDROM or various FreeBSD FTP sites to be quite
useful.FIPSFIPS allows you to split an
existing MS-DOS partition
into two pieces, preserving the original partition and
allowing you to install onto the second free piece. You
first defragment your MS-DOS partition using the Windows
DEFRAG utility (go into Explorer,
right-click on the
hard drive, and choose to defrag your
hard drive), or Norton Disk Tools. You then must run
FIPS. It
will prompt you for the rest of the information it needs.
Afterwards, you can reboot and install FreeBSD on the new
free slice. See the Distributions menu
for an estimate of how much free space you will need for the
kind of installation you want.Partition MagicThere is also a very useful
product from PowerQuest
called Partition Magic. This
application has far more functionality than
FIPS, and is
highly recommended if you plan to often add/remove
operating systems (like me). However, it does cost
money, and if you plan to install FreeBSD once and then
leave it there, FIPS will probably
be fine for you.Can I use compressed MS-DOS filesystems from
FreeBSD?No. If you are using a utility such as
Stacker or
DoubleSpace, FreeBSD
will only be able to use whatever portion of the filesystem
you leave uncompressed. The rest of the filesystem will
show up as one large file (the stacked/double spaced file!).
Do not remove that file or you will probably regret
it greatly!It is probably better to create another uncompressed
primary MS-DOS partition and use this for communications
between MS-DOS and FreeBSD.Can I mount my extended MS-DOS partition?partitionsslicesYes. DOS extended partitions are mapped in at the end
of the other slices in FreeBSD, e.g., your
D: drive might be
/dev/da0s5, your
E: drive,
/dev/da0s6, and so on. This example
assumes, of course, that your extended partition is on SCSI
drive 0. For IDE drives, substitute ad
for da appropriately if installing
4.0-RELEASE or later, and substitute
wd for da if you
are installing a version of FreeBSD prior to 4.0. You otherwise
mount extended partitions exactly like you would any other
DOS drive, for example:&prompt.root; mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s5 /dos_dAlpha User's Questions and AnswersAlphaThis section answers some commonly asked questions about
installing FreeBSD on Alpha systems.Can I boot from the ARC or Alpha BIOS Console?ARCAlpha BIOSSRMNo. &os;, like Compaq Tru64 and VMS, will only boot
from the SRM console.Help, I have no space! Do I need to delete
everything first?Unfortunately, yes.Can I mount my Compaq Tru64 or VMS filesystems?No, not at this time.ValentinoVaschettoContributed by Advanced Installation GuideThis section describes how to install FreeBSD in exceptional
cases.Installing FreeBSD on a System without a Monitor or
Keyboardinstallationheadless (serial console)serial consoleThis type of installation is called a headless install,
because the machine that you are trying to install FreeBSD on
either does not have a monitor attached to it, or does not even
have a VGA output. How is this possible you ask? Using a
serial console. A serial console is basically using another
machine to act as the main display and keyboard for a
system. To do this, just follow these steps:Fetch the Right Boot Floppy ImagesFirst you will need to get the right disk images so
that you can boot into the install program. The secret
with using a serial console is that you tell the boot
loader to send I/O through a serial port instead of
displaying console output to the VGA device and trying to
read input from a local keyboard. Enough of that now,
let's get back to getting these disk images.You will need to get kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp from the
floppies directory.Write the Image Files to the Floppy Disks.The image files, such as
kern.flp, are
not regular files that you copy to
the disk. Instead, they are images of the complete
contents of the disk.This means that you can not use
commands like DOS' copy to write the
files. Instead, you must use specific tools to write the
images directly to the disk.fdimageIf you are creating the floppies on a computer running
DOS then we provide a tool to do this called
fdimage.If you are using the floppies from the CDROM, and
your CDROM is the E: drive then
you would run this:E:\>tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp A:Repeat this command for each .flp
file, replacing the floppy disk each time. Adjust the
command line as necessary, depending on where you have
placed the .flp files. If you do not
have the CDROM then fdimage can be
downloaded from the tools
directory on the FreeBSD FTP site.If you are writing the floppies on a Unix system (such
as another FreeBSD system) you can use the &man.dd.1;
command to write the image files directly to disk. On
FreeBSD you would run:&prompt.root; dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0On FreeBSD /dev/fd0 refers to
the first floppy disk (the A:
drive). /dev/fd1 would be the
B: drive, and so on. Other Unix
variants might have different names for the floppy disk
devices, and you will need to check the documentation for
the system as necessary.Enabling the Boot Floppies to Boot into a Serial
ConsoleDo not try to mount the floppy if it is write-protectedmountIf you were to boot into the floppies that you just
made, FreeBSD would boot into its normal install mode. We
want FreeBSD to boot into a serial console for our
install. To do this, you have to mount the
kern.flp floppy onto your FreeBSD
system using the &man.mount.8; command.&prompt.root; mount /dev/fd0 /mntNow that you have the floppy mounted, you must
change into the floppy directory&prompt.root; cd /mntHere is where you must set the floppy to boot into a
serial console. You have to make a file called
boot.config containing
/boot/loader -h. All this does is pass a flag to the bootloader to
boot into a serial console.&prompt.root; echo "/boot/loader -h" > boot.configNow that you have your floppy configured correctly,
you must unmount the floppy using the &man.umount.8;
command&prompt.root; cd /
&prompt.root; umount /mntNow you can remove the floppy from the floppy
driveConnecting Your Null Modem Cablenull-modem cableYou now need to connect a null modem cable between
the two machines. Just connect the cable to the serial
ports of the 2 machines. A normal serial cable
will not work here, you need a null modem
cable because it has some of the wires inside crossed
over.Booting Up for the InstallIt is now time to go ahead and start the install. Put
the kern.flp floppy in the floppy
drive of the machine you are doing the headless install
on, and power on the machine.Connecting to Your Headless MachinecuNow you have to connect to that machine with
&man.cu.1;:&prompt.root; cu -l /dev/cuaa0That's it! You should be able to control the headless
machine through your cu session now. It will ask
you to put
in the mfsroot.flp, and then it will come
up with a selection of what kind of terminal to use. Just
select the FreeBSD color console and proceed with your
install!Preparing Your Own Installation MediaTo prevent repetition, FreeBSD disk in this context
means a FreeBSD CDROM or DVD that you have purchased, or produced
yourself.There may be some situations in which you need to create your own
FreeBSD installation media and/or source. This might be physical media,
such as a tape, or a source that Sysinstall
can use to retrieve the files, such as a local FTP site, or an MS-DOS
partition. For example:You have many machines connected to your local network, and one
FreeBSD disk. You want to create a local FTP site using the
contents of the FreeBSD disk, and then have your machines use this
local FTP site instead of needing to connect to the Internet.You have a FreeBSD disk, FreeBSD does not recognize your CD/DVD
drive, but DOS/Windows does. You want to copy the FreeBSD
installations files to a DOS partition on the same computer, and
then install FreeBSD using those files.The computer you want to install on does not have a CD/DVD
drive, or a network card, but you can connect a
Laplink-style serial or parallel cable to a computer
that does.You want to create a tape that can be used to install
FreeBSD.Creating a Local FTP Site with a FreeBSD DiskinstallationnetworkFTPFreeBSD disks are laid out in the same way as the FTP site. This
makes it very easy for you to create a local FTP site that can be used
by other machines on your network when installing FreeBSD.On the FreeBSD computer that will host the FTP site, ensure
that the CDROM is in the drive, and mounted on
/cdrom.&prompt.root; mount /cdromCreate an account for anonymous FTP in
/etc/passwd. Do this by editing
/etc/passwd using &man.vipw.8; and adding
this line.ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/nonexistentEnsure that the FTP service is enabled in
/etc/inetd.conf.Anyone with network connectivity to your machine can now
chose a media type of FTP and type in
ftp://your machine
after picking Other in the FTP sites menu during
the install.This approach is OK for a machine that is on your local network,
and that is protected by your firewall. Offering up FTP services to
other machines over the Internet (and not your local network)
exposes your computer to the attention of crackers and other
undesirables. We strongly recommend that you follow good security
practices if you do this.Creating Installation FloppiesinstallationfloppiesIf you must install from floppy disk (which we suggest you
do not do), either due to unsupported
hardware or simply because you insist on doing things the hard
way, you must first prepare some floppies for the installation.At a minimum, you will need as many 1.44MB or 1.2MB floppies
as it takes to hold all the files in the
bin (binary distribution) directory. If
you are preparing the floppies from DOS, then they
MUST be formatted using the MS-DOS
FORMAT command. If you are using Windows,
use Explorer to format the disks (right-click on the
A: drive, and select "Format".Do not trust factory pre-formatted
floppies. Format them again yourself, just to be sure. Many
problems reported by our users in the past have resulted from
the use of improperly formatted media, which is why we are
making a point of it now.If you are creating the floppies on another FreeBSD machine,
a format is still not a bad idea, though you do not need to put
a DOS filesystem on each floppy. You can use the
disklabel and newfs
commands to put a UFS filesystem on them instead, as the
following sequence of commands (for a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy)
illustrates:&prompt.root; fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440
&prompt.root; disklabel -w -r fd0.1440 floppy3
&prompt.root; newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/fd0Use fd0.1200 and
floppy5 for 5.25" 1.2MB disks.Then you can mount and write to them like any other
filesystem.After you have formatted the floppies, you will need to copy
the files to them. The distribution files are split into chunks
conveniently sized so that 5 of them will fit on a conventional
1.44MB floppy. Go through all your floppies, packing as many
files as will fit on each one, until you have all of the
distributions you want packed up in this fashion. Each
distribution should go into a subdirectory on the floppy, e.g.:
a:\bin\bin.aa,
a:\bin\bin.ab, and so on.Once you come to the Media screen during the install
process, select Floppy and you will be prompted
for the rest.Installing from an MS-DOS Partitioninstallationfrom MS-DOSTo prepare for an installation from an MS-DOS partition,
copy the files from the distribution into a directory on that
partition. For example, c:\freebsd. The directory
structure of the CDROM or FTP site must be partially reproduced
within this directory, so we suggest using the DOS
xcopy command if you are copying it from a
CD. For example, to prepare for a minimal installation of
FreeBSD:C:\>md c:\freebsdC:\>xcopy e:\bin c:\freebsd\bin\ /sC:\>xcopy e:\manpages c:\freebsd\manpages\ /sAssuming that C: is where you have
free space and E: is where your CDROM
is mounted.If you do not have a CDROM drive, you can download the
distribution from
ftp.FreeBSD.org. Each distribution is in its own directory;
for example, the bin distribution can be
found in the &rel.current;/bin/ directory.For as many distributions you wish to install from an MS-DOS
partition (and you have the free space for), install each one
under c:\freebsd — the
BIN distribution is the only one required for
a minimum installation.Creating an Installation Tapeinstallationfrom QIC/SCSI TapeInstalling from tape is probably the easiest method, short
of an online FTP install or CDROM install. The installation
program expects the files to be simply tarred onto the tape.
After getting all of the distribution files you are interested
in, simply tar them onto the tape:&prompt.root; cd /freebsd/distdir
&prompt.root; tar cvf /dev/rwt0 dist1 ... dist2When you go to do the installation, you should also make
sure that you leave enough room in some temporary directory
(which you will be allowed to choose) to accommodate the
full contents of the tape you have created.
Due to the non-random access nature of tapes, this method of
installation requires quite a bit of temporary storage. You
should expect to require as much temporary storage as you have
stuff written on tape.When starting the installation, the tape must be in the
drive before booting from the boot
floppy. The installation probe may otherwise fail to find
it.Before Installing over a Networkinstallationnetworkserial (SLIP or PPP)installationnetworkparallel (PLIP)installationnetworkEthernetThere are three types of network installations you can do.
Serial port (SLIP or PPP), Parallel port (PLIP (laplink cable)),
or Ethernet (a standard Ethernet controller (includes some
PCMCIA)).The SLIP support is rather primitive, and limited primarily
to hard-wired links, such as a serial cable running between a
laptop computer and another computer. The link should be
hard-wired as the SLIP installation does not currently offer a
dialing capability; that facility is provided with the PPP
utility, which should be used in preference to SLIP whenever
possible.If you are using a modem, then PPP is almost certainly
your only choice. Make sure that you have your service
provider's information handy as you will need to know it fairly
early in the installation process.If you use PAP or CHAP to connect your ISP (in other
words, if you can connect to the ISP in Windows without
using a script), then all you will need to do is type in
dial at the
ppp prompt. Otherwise,
you will need to know
how to dial your ISP using the AT commands
specific to your modem, as the PPP dialer provides only a very
simple terminal emulator. Please refer
to the user-ppp handbook and FAQ entries for further
information. If you have problems, logging can be directed to
the screen using the command set log local
....If a hard-wired connection to another FreeBSD (2.0-R or
later) machine is available, you might also consider installing
over a laplink parallel port cable. The data rate
over the parallel port is much higher than what is typically
possible over a serial line (up to 50kbytes/sec), thus resulting
in a quicker installation.Finally, for the fastest possible network installation, an
Ethernet adapter is always a good choice! FreeBSD supports most
common PC Ethernet cards; a table of supported cards (and their
required settings) is provided in the Hardware Notes
for each release of FreeBSD. If you are
using one of the supported PCMCIA Ethernet cards, also be sure
that it is plugged in before the laptop is
powered on! FreeBSD does not, unfortunately, currently support
hot insertion of PCMCIA cards during installation.You will also need to know your IP address on the network,
the netmask value for your address class, and the name of your
machine. If you are installing over a PPP connection and do not
have a static IP, fear not, the IP address can be dynamically
assigned by your ISP. Your system administrator can tell you
which values to use for your particular network setup. If you
will be referring to other hosts by name rather than IP address,
you will also need a name server and possibly the address of a
gateway (if you are using PPP, it is your provider's IP address)
to use in talking to it. If you want to install by FTP via a
HTTP proxy (see below), you will also need the proxy's address.
If you do not know the answers to all or most of these questions,
then you should really probably talk to your system administrator
or ISP before trying this type of
installation.Before Installing via NFSinstallationnetworkNFSThe NFS installation is fairly straight-forward. Simply
copy the FreeBSD distribution files you want onto a server
somewhere and then point the NFS media selection at it.If this server supports only privileged port
(as is generally the default for Sun workstations), you will
need to set this option in the Options menu before
installation can proceed.If you have a poor quality Ethernet card which suffers
from very slow transfer rates, you may also wish to toggle the
appropriate Options flag.In order for NFS installation to work, the server must
support subdir mounts, e.g., if your FreeBSD 3.4 distribution
directory lives
on:ziggy:/usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, then
ziggy will have to allow the direct mounting
of /usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, not just
/usr or
/usr/archive/stuff.In FreeBSD's /etc/exports file, this
is controlled by the
-alldirs
. Other NFS
servers may have different conventions. If you are getting
permission denied messages from the server, then
it is likely that you do not have this enabled
properly.
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Andrey A.ChernovContributed by Michael C.WuRewritten by Localization - I18N/L10N Usage and SetupSynopsisFreeBSD is a very distributed project with users and
contributors located all over the world. This chapter discusses
the internationalization and localization features of FreeBSD
that allow non-English speaking users to get real work done.
There are many aspects of the i18n implementation in both the system
and application levels, so where applicable we refer the reader
to more specific sources of documentation.After reading this chapter, you will know:How different languages and locales are encoded
on modern operating systems.How to set the locale for your login
shell.How to configure your console for non-English
languages.How to use X Windows effectively with different
languages.Where to find more information about writing
i18n-compliant applications.Before reading this chapter, you should:Know how to install additional third-party
applications ().The BasicsWhat is I18N/L10N?internationalizationlocalizationDevelopers shortened internationalization into the term I18N,
counting the number of letters between the first and the last
letters of internationalization. L10N uses the same naming
scheme, coming from "localization". Combined
together, I18N/L10N methods, protocols, and applications allow
users to use languages of their choice.I18N applications are programmed using I18N kits under
libraries. It allows for developers to write a simple file and
translate displayed menus and texts to each language. We strongly
encourage programmers to follow this convention.Why Should I Use I18N/L10N?I18N/L10N is used whenever you wish to either view, input, or
process data in non-English languages.What Languages Are Supported in the I18N Effort?I18N and L10N are not FreeBSD specific. Currently, one can
choose from most of the major languages of the World, including
but not limited to: Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, French,
Russian, Vietnamese and others.Using LocalizationIn all its splendor, I18N is not FreeBSD-specific and is a
convention. We encourage you to help FreeBSD in following this
convention.localeLocalization settings are based on three main terms:
Language Code, Country Code, and Encoding. Locale names are
constructed from these parts as follows:LanguageCode_CountryCode.EncodingLanguage and Country Codeslanguage codescountry codesIn order to localize a FreeBSD system to a specific language
(or any other I18N-supporting Unixes), the user needs to find out
the codes for the specify country and language (country
codes tell applications what variation of given
language to use). In addition, web
browsers, SMTP/POP servers, web servers, etc. make decisions based on
them. The following are examples of language/country codes:Language/Country CodeDescriptionen_USEnglish - United Statesru_RURussian for Russiazh_TWTraditional Chinese for TaiwanEncodingsencodingsASCIISome languages use non-ASCII encodings that are 8-bit, wide
or multibyte characters, see &man.multibyte.3; for more
details. Older applications do not recognize them
and mistake them for control characters. Newer applications
usually do recognize 8-bit characters. Depending on the
implementation, users may be required to compile an application
with wide or multibyte characters support, or configure it correctly.
To be able to input and process wide or multibyte characters, the FreeBSD Ports collection has provided
each language with different programs. Refer to the I18N
documentation in the respective FreeBSD Port.Specifically, the user needs to look at the application
documentation to decide on how to configure it correctly or to
pass correct values into the configure/Makefile/compiler.Some things to keep in mind are:Language specific single C chars character sets
(see &man.multibyte.3;), i.e.,
ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R, CP437.Wide or multibyte encodings, f.e. EUC, Big5.You can check the active list of character sets at the
IANA Registry.FreeBSD versions 4.5 and up use X11-compatible locale
encodings instead.I18N ApplicationsIn the FreeBSD Ports and Package system, I18N applications
have been named with I18N in their names for
easy identification. However, they do not always support the
language needed.Setting LocaleTheoretically, one only needs to export the value of his/her
locale name as LANG in the login shell and is
usually done through the user's
~/.login_conf or the user login shell
configuration (~/.profile,
~/.bashrc, ~/.cshrc).
This should set all of the locale subsets (such as
LC_CTYPE, LC_CTIME, etc.). Please
refer to language-specific FreeBSD documentation for more
information.You should set the following two values in your configuration
files:POSIXLANG for POSIX &man.setlocale.3; family
functionsMIMEMM_CHARSET for applications' MIME character
setThis includes the user shell config, the specific application
config, and the X11 config.Setting Locale Methodslocalelogin classThere are two methods for setting locale, and both are
described below. The first (recommended one) is by assigning
the environment variables in login
class, and the second is by adding the environment
variable assignments to the system's shell startup file.Login Classes MethodThis method allows environment variables needed for locale
name and MIME character sets to be assigned once for every
possible shell instead of adding specific shell assignments to
each shell's startup file. User
Level Setup can be done by an user himself and Administrator Level Setup require
superuser privileges.User Level SetupHere is a minimal example of a
.login_conf file in user's home
directory which has both variables set for Latin-1
encoding:german:German User:\
:charset=ISO-8859-1:\
:lang=de_DE.ISO_8859-1:de_DE.ISO8859-1 for FreeBSD
versions 4.5 and up.Traditional Chinese / BIG-5 encodingHere is an example of a
.login_conf that sets the variables
for Traditional Chinese in BIG-5 encoding. Notice the many
more variables set because some software does not respect
locale variables correctly for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.#Users who do not wish to use monetary units or time formats
#of Taiwan can manually change each variable
taiwan:Taiwanese User:\
lang=zh_TW.Big5:\
lc_all=zh_TW.Big:\
lc_collate=zh_TW.Big5:\
lc_ctype=zh_TW.Big5:\
lc_messages=zh_TW.Big5:\
lc_monetary=zh_TW.Big5:\
lc_numeric=zh_TW.Big5:\
lc_time=zh_TW.Big5:\
charset=big5:\
xmodifiers="@im=xcin": #Setting the XIM Input ServerSee Administrator Level
Setup and &man.login.conf.5; for more details.Administrator Level SetupCheck that /etc/login.conf have the
correct language user's class. Make sure these settings
appear in /etc/login.conf:language_name:accounts_title:\
:charset=MIME_charset:\
:lang=locale_name:\
:tc=default:So sticking with our previous example using Latin-1, it
would look like this:german:German Users Accounts:\
:charset=ISO-8859-1:\
:lang=de_DE.ISO_8859-1:\
:tc=default:de_DE.ISO8859-1 for FreeBSD
versions 4.5 and up.Changing Login Classes with &man.vipw.8;vipwUse vipw to add new users, and make
the entry look like this:user:password:1111:11:language:0:0:User Name:/home/user:/bin/shChanging Login Classes with &man.adduser.8;adduserlogin classUse adduser to add new users, and do
the following:Set defaultclass =
language in
/etc/adduser.conf. Keep in mind
you must enter a default class for
all users of other languages in this case.An alternative variant is answering the specified
language each time that
Enter login class: default []:
appears from &man.adduser.8;Another alternative is to use the following for each
user of a different language that you wish to
add:&prompt.root; adduser -class languageChanging Login Classes with &man.pw.8;pwIf you use &man.pw.8; for adding new users, call it in
this form:&prompt.root; pw useradd user_name -L languageShell Startup File MethodThis method is not recommended because it requires a
different setup for each possible login program chosen. Use
the Login Class Method
instead.MIMElocaleTo add the locale name and MIME character set, just set
the two environment variables shown below in the
/etc/profile and/or
/etc/csh.login shell startup files. We
will use the German language as an example below:In /etc/profile:LANG=de_DE.ISO_8859-1; export LANGMM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1; export MM_CHARSETOr in /etc/csh.login:setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1setenv MM_CHARSET ISO-8859-1de_DE.ISO8859-1 for FreeBSD
versions 4.5 and up.Alternatively, you can add the above instructions to
/usr/share/skel/dot.profile (similar to
what was used in /etc/profile above), or
/usr/share/skel/dot.login (similar to
what was used in /etc/csh.login
above).For X11:In $HOME/.xinitrc:LANG=de_DE.ISO_8859-1; export LANGOr:setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1Depending on your shell (see above).de_DE.ISO8859-1 for FreeBSD
versions 4.5 and up.Console SetupFor all single C chars character sets, set the correct
console fonts in /etc/rc.conf for the
language in question with:font8x16=font_name
font8x14=font_name
font8x8=font_nameThe font_name here is taken from
the /usr/share/syscons/fonts directory,
without the .fnt suffix.sysinstallkeymapscreenmapAlso be sure to set the correct keymap and screenmap for your
single C chars character set through
/stand/sysinstall.
Once inside sysinstall, choose Configure, then
Console. Alternatively, you can add the
following to /etc/rc.conf:scrnmap=screenmap_name
keymap=keymap_name
keychange="fkey_number sequence"The screenmap_name here is taken
from the /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps
directory, without the .scm suffix. A
screenmap with a corresponding mapped font is usually needed as a
workaround for expanding bit 8 to bit 9 on a VGA adapter's font
character matrix in pseudographics area, i.e., to move letters out
of that area if screen font uses a bit 8 column.If you have the moused daemon
enabled by setting the following
in your /etc/rc.conf:moused_enable="YES"then examine the mouse cursor information in the next
paragraph.mousedBy default the mouse cursor of the syscons driver occupies the
0xd0-0xd3 range in the character set. If your language uses this
range, you need to move the cursor's range outside of it. To enable
the workaround for FreeBSD versions before 5.0, insert the following
line into your kernel config:options SC_MOUSE_CHAR=0x03For the FreeBSD versions 4.4 and up insert the following line
into /etc/rc.conf:mousechar_start=3The keymap_name here is taken from
the /usr/share/syscons/keymaps directory,
without the .kbd suffix. If you're
- uncertain which keymap to use, you use &man.kbdmap.1 to test
+ uncertain which keymap to use, you use &man.kbdmap.1; to test
keymaps without rebooting.The keychange is usually needed to program
function keys to match the selected terminal type because
function key sequences cannot be defined in the key map.Also be sure to set the correct console terminal type in
/etc/ttys for all ttyv*
entries. Current pre-defined correspondences are:Character SetTerminal TypeISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15cons25l1ISO-8859-2cons25l2ISO-8859-7cons25l7KOI8-Rcons25rKOI8-Ucons25uCP437 (VGA default)cons25US-ASCIIcons25wFor wide or multibyte characters languages, use the correct
FreeBSD port in your
/usr/ports/language
directory. Some ports appear as console while the system sees it
as serial vtty's, hence you must reserve enough vtty's for both
X11 and the pseudo-serial console. Here is a partial list of
applications for using other languages in console:LanguageLocationTraditional Chinese (BIG-5)chinese/big5conJapanesejapanese/ja-kon2-* or
japanese/Mule_WnnKoreankorean/ko-hanX11 SetupAlthough X11 is not part of the FreeBSD Project, we have
included some information here for FreeBSD users. For more
details, refer to the XFree86
web site or whichever X11 Server you use.In ~/.Xresources, you can additionally
tune application specific I18N settings (e.g., fonts, menus,
etc.).Displaying FontsX11 True Type font serverInstall the X11 True Type-Common server (XTT-common) and
install the language truetype fonts. Setting the correct
locale should allow you to view your selected language in menus
and such.Inputting Non-English CharactersX11 Input Method (XIM)The X11 Input Method (XIM) Protocol is a new standard for
all X11 clients. All X11 applications should be written as XIM
clients that take input from XIM Input servers. There are
several XIM servers available for different languages.Printer SetupSome single C chars character sets are usually hardware
coded into printers. Wide or multibyte
character sets require special setup and we recommend using
apsfilter. You may also convert the
document to PostScript or PDF formats using language specific
converters.Kernel and File SystemsThe FreeBSD FFS filesystem is 8-bit clean, so it can be used
with any single C chars character set (see &man.multibyte.3;),
but there is no character set
name stored in the filesystem; i.e., it is raw 8-bit and does not
know anything about encoding order. Officially, FFS does not
support any form of wide or multibyte character sets yet. However, some
wide or multibyte character sets have independent patches for FFS
enabling such support. They are only temporary unportable
solutions or hacks and we have decided to not include them in the
source tree. Refer to respective languages' web sites for more
informations and the patch files.DOSUnicodeThe FreeBSD MS-DOS filesystem has the configurable ability to
convert between MS-DOS, Unicode character sets and chosen
FreeBSD filesystem character sets. See &man.mount.msdos.8; for
details.Compiling I18N ProgramsMany FreeBSD Ports have been ported with I18N support. Some
of them are marked with -I18N in the port name. These and many
other programs have built in support for I18N and need no special
consideration.MySQLHowever, some applications such as
MySQL need to be have the
Makefile configured with the specific
charset. This is usually done in the
Makefile or done by passing a value to
configure in the source.Localizing FreeBSD to Specific LanguagesAndrey A.ChernovOriginally contributed by Russian Language (KOI8-R encoding)Russian localizationFor more information about KOI8-R encoding, see the KOI8-R References
(Russian Net Character Set).Locale SetupPut the following lines into your
~/.login_conf file:me:My Account:\
:charset=KOI8-R:\
:lang=ru_RU.KOI8-R:See earlier in this chapter for examples of setting up the
locale.Console SetupFor the FreeBSD versions before 5.0 add the following line
to your kernel configuration file:options SC_MOUSE_CHAR=0x03For the FreeBSD versions 4.4 and up insert the following
line into /etc/rc.conf:mousechar_start=3Use following settings in
/etc/rc.conf:keymap="ru.koi8-r"
scrnmap="koi8-r2cp866"
font8x16="cp866b-8x16"
font8x14="cp866-8x14"
font8x8="cp866-8x8"For each ttyv* entry in
/etc/ttys, use
cons25r as the terminal type.See earlier in this chapter for examples of setting up the
console.Printer SetupprintersSince most printers with Russian characters come with
hardware code page CP866, a special output filter is needed for
KOI8-R -> CP866 conversion. Such a filter is installed by
default as /usr/libexec/lpr/ru/koi2alt.
A Russian printer /etc/printcap entry
should look like:lp|Russian local line printer:\
:sh:of=/usr/libexec/lpr/ru/koi2alt:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:See &man.printcap.5; for a detailed description.MS-DOS FS and Russian FilenamesThe following example &man.fstab.5; entry enables support
for Russian filenames in mounted MS-DOS filesystems:/dev/ad0s2 /dos/c msdos rw,-Wkoi2dos,-Lru_RU.KOI8-R 0 0See &man.mount.msdos.8; for a detailed description of the
-W
and
-L
options.X11 SetupDo non-X locale
setup first as described.The Russian KOI8-R locale
may not work with old XFree86 releases (lower than 3.3).
The XFree86 port from
x11/XFree86 already is the
most recent XFree86 version, so it will work if you
install XFree86 from the port. This should not be an
issue unless you are using an old version of
FreeBSD.Go to the
russian/X.language directory
and issue the following command:&prompt.root; make installThe above port installs the latest version of the KOI8-R
fonts. XFree86 3.3 already has some KOI8-R fonts, but these
are scaled better.Check the "Files" section
in your /etc/XF86Config file.
The following
lines must be added before any other
FontPath entries:FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/100dpi"If you use a high resolution video mode, swap the 75 dpi
and 100 dpi lines.To activate a Russian keyboard, add the following to the
"Keyboard" section of your
XF86Config file.For XFree86 v3.*:XkbLayout "ru"
XkbOptions "grp:caps_toggle"For XFree86 v4.*:Option "XkbLayout" "ru"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle"Also make sure that XkbDisable is
turned off (commented out) there.The RUS/LAT switch will be CapsLock.
The old CapsLock function is still
available via Shift+CapsLock (in LAT mode
only).If you have Windows keys on your keyboard,
and notice that some non-alphabetical keys are mapped
incorrectly in RUS mode, add the following line in your
XF86Config file.For XFree86 v3.*:XkbVariant "winkeys"For XFree86 v4.*:Option "XkbVariant" "winkeys"The Russian XKB keyboard may not work with old XFree86
versions, see the above
note for more information. The Russian XKB
keyboard may also not work with non-localized
applications as well. Minimally localized applications
should call a XtSetLanguageProc (NULL, NULL,
NULL); function early in the program.
See
KOI8-R for X-Window for more instructions on
localizing X11 applications.Traditional Chinese Localization for TaiwanTraditional Chinese localizationThe FreeBSD-Taiwan Project has an I18N/L10N tutorial for
FreeBSD at http://freebsd.sinica.edu.tw/~ncvs/zh-l10n-tut/
using many chinese/* applications.
The editor for the zh-L10N-tut is Clive Lin
Clive@CirX.org. You can also cvsup the following
collections at freebsd.sinica.edu.tw:CollectionDescriptionoutta-port tag=.Beta-quality ports collection for Chinesezh-L10N-tut tag=.Localizing FreeBSD Tutorial in BIG-5 Traditional
Chinesezh-doc tag=.FreeBSD Documentation Translation to BIG-5 Traditional
ChineseChuan-Hsing Shen s874070@mail.yzu.edu.tw has
created the Chinese
FreeBSD Collection (CFC) using FreeBSD-Taiwan's
zh-L10N-tut. The packages and the script files
are available at ftp://ftp.csie.ncu.edu.tw/OS/FreeBSD/taiwan/CFC/.German Language Localization (For All ISO 8859-1
Languages)German localizationSlaven Rezic eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote a
tutorial how to use umlauts on a FreeBSD machine. The tutorial
is written in German and available at http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/umlaute/.Japanese and Korean Language LocalizationJapanese localizationKorean localizationFor Japanese, refer to http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/,
and for Korean, refer to http://www.kr.FreeBSD.org/.Non-English FreeBSD DocumentationSome FreeBSD contributors have translated parts of FreeBSD to
other languages. They are available through links on the main site or in
/usr/share/doc.
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JimMockRestructured and parts updated by Brian N.HandyOriginally contributed by RichMurpheyLinux Binary CompatibilitySynopsisLinux binary compatibilitybinary compatibilityLinuxFreeBSD provides binary compatibility with several other
Unix-like operating systems, including Linux. At this point,
you may be asking yourself why exactly, does
FreeBSD need to be able to run Linux binaries? The answer to that
question is quite simple. Many companies and developers develop
only for Linux, since it is the latest hot thing in
the computing world. That leaves the rest of us FreeBSD users
bugging these same companies and developers to put out native
FreeBSD versions of their applications. The problem is, that most
of these companies do not really realize how many people would use
their product if there were FreeBSD versions too, and most continue
to only develop for Linux. So what is a FreeBSD user to do? This
is where the Linux binary compatibility of FreeBSD comes into
play.In a nutshell, the compatibility allows FreeBSD users to run
about 90% of all Linux applications without modification. This
includes applications such as Star Office,
the Linux version of Netscape,
Adobe Acrobat,
RealPlayer
5 and 7, VMWare,
Oracle,
WordPerfect, Doom,
Quake, and more. It is also reported
that in some situations, Linux binaries perform better on FreeBSD
than they do under Linux.Linux/proc filesystemThere are, however, some Linux-specific operating system
features that are not supported under FreeBSD. Linux binaries will
not work on FreeBSD if they overly use the Linux
/proc filesystem (which is different from
FreeBSD's /proc filesystem), or i386-specific
calls, such as enabling virtual 8086 mode.After reading this chapter, you will know:How to enable Linux binary compatibility on your
system.How to install additional Linux shared
libraries.How to install Linux applications on your
FreeBSD system.The implementation details of Linux
compatibility in FreeBSD.Before reading this chapter, you should:Know how to install additional third-party
software ().InstallationKLD (kernel loadable object)Linux binary compatibility is not turned on by default. The
easiest way to enable this functionality is to load the
linux KLD object (Kernel LoaDable
object). You can load this module by simply typing
linux at the command prompt.If you would like Linux compatibility to always be enabled,
then you should add the following line to
/etc/rc.conf:linux_enable=YESThis, in turn, triggers the following action in
/etc/rc.i386:# Start the Linux binary compatibility if requested.
#
case ${linux_enable} in
[Yy][Ee][Ss])
echo -n ' linux'; linux > /dev/null 2>&1
;;
esacThe &man.kldstat.8; command can be used to verify that the
KLD is loaded:&prompt.user; kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 2 0xc0100000 16bdb8 kernel
7 1 0xc24db000 d000 linux.kokernel optionsLINUXIf for some reason you do not want to or cannot load the KLD,
then you may statically link Linux binary compatibility into the kernel
by adding options LINUX to your kernel
configuration file. Then install your new kernel as described in
.Installing Linux Runtime LibrariesLinuxinstalling Linux librariesThis can be done one of two ways, either by using the
linux_base port, or
by installing them manually.Installing Using the linux_base Portports collectionThis is by far the easiest method to use when installing the
runtime libraries. It is just like installing any other port
from the ports collection.
Simply do the following:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base
&prompt.root; make install distcleanYou should now have working Linux binary compatibility.
Some programs may complain about incorrect minor versions of the
system libraries. In general, however, this does not seem to be
a problem.Installing Libraries ManuallyIf you do not have the ports collection
installed, you can install the libraries by hand instead. You
will need the Linux shared libraries that the program depends on
and the runtime linker. Also, you will need to create a
shadow root directory,
/compat/linux, for Linux libraries on your
FreeBSD system. Any shared libraries opened by Linux programs
run under FreeBSD will look in this tree first. So, if a Linux
program loads, for example, /lib/libc.so,
FreeBSD will first try to open
/compat/linux/lib/libc.so, and if that does
not exist, it will then try /lib/libc.so.
Shared libraries should be installed in the shadow tree
/compat/linux/lib rather than the paths
that the Linux ld.so reports.Generally, you will need to look for the shared libraries
that Linux binaries depend on only the first few times that you
install a Linux program on your FreeBSD system. After a while,
you will have a sufficient set of Linux shared libraries on your
system to be able to run newly imported Linux binaries without
any extra work.How to Install Additional Shared Librariesshared librariesWhat if you install the linux_base port
and your application still complains about missing shared
libraries? How do you know which shared libraries Linux
binaries need, and where to get them? Basically, there are 2
possibilities (when following these instructions you will need
to be root on your FreeBSD system).If you have access to a Linux system, see what shared
libraries the application needs, and copy them to your FreeBSD
system. Look at the following example:Let us assume you used FTP to get the Linux binary of
Doom, and put it on a Linux system you have access to. You
then can check which shared libraries it needs by running
ldd linuxdoom, like so:&prompt.user; ldd linuxdoom
libXt.so.3 (DLL Jump 3.1) => /usr/X11/lib/libXt.so.3.1.0
libX11.so.3 (DLL Jump 3.1) => /usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0
libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) => /lib/libc.so.4.6.29symbolic linksYou would need to get all the files from the last column,
and put them under /compat/linux, with
the names in the first column as symbolic links pointing to
them. This means you eventually have these files on your
FreeBSD system:/compat/linux/usr/X11/lib/libXt.so.3.1.0
/compat/linux/usr/X11/lib/libXt.so.3 -> libXt.so.3.1.0
/compat/linux/usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0
/compat/linux/usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.3 -> libX11.so.3.1.0
/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.4.6.29 /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.4 -> libc.so.4.6.29
Note that if you already have a Linux shared library
with a matching major revision number to the first column
of the ldd output, you will not need to
copy the file named in the last column to your system, the
one you already have should work. It is advisable to copy
the shared library anyway if it is a newer version,
though. You can remove the old one, as long as you make
the symbolic link point to the new one. So, if you have
these libraries on your system:/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.4.6.27
/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.4 -> libc.so.4.6.27and you find a new binary that claims to require a
later version according to the output of
ldd:libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) -> libc.so.4.6.29If it is only one or two versions out of date in the
in the trailing digit then do not worry about copying
/lib/libc.so.4.6.29 too, because the
program should work fine with the slightly older version.
However, if you like, you can decide to replace the
libc.so anyway, and that should leave
you with:/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.4.6.29
/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.4 -> libc.so.4.6.29
The symbolic link mechanism is
only needed for Linux binaries. The
FreeBSD runtime linker takes care of looking for matching
major revision numbers itself and you do not need to worry
about it.
Installing Linux ELF BinariesLinuxELF binariesELF binaries sometimes require an extra step of
branding. If you attempt to run an unbranded ELF
binary, you will get an error message like the following:&prompt.user; ./my-linux-elf-binary
ELF binary type not known
AbortTo help the FreeBSD kernel distinguish between a FreeBSD ELF
binary from a Linux binary, use the &man.brandelf.1;
utility.&prompt.user; brandelf -t Linux my-linux-elf-binaryGNU toolchainThe GNU toolchain now places the appropriate branding
information into ELF binaries automatically, so you this step
should become increasingly more rare in the future.Configuring the Hostname ResolverIf DNS does not work or you get this message:resolv+: "bind" is an invalid keyword resolv+:
"hosts" is an invalid keywordYou will need to configure a
/compat/linux/etc/host.conf file
containing:order hosts, bind
multi onThe order here specifies that /etc/hosts
is searched first and DNS is searched second. When
/compat/linux/etc/host.conf is not
installed, Linux applications find FreeBSD's
/etc/host.conf and complain about the
incompatible FreeBSD syntax. You should remove
bind if you have not configured a name server
using the /etc/resolv.conf file.MurrayStokelyUpdated for Mathematica 4.X by BojanBistrovicMerged with work by Installing MathematicaapplicationsMathematicaThis document describes the process of installing the Linux
version of Mathematica 4.X onto
a FreeBSD system.The Linux version of Mathematica
runs perfectly under FreeBSD
however the binaries shipped by Wolfram need to be branded so that
FreeBSD knows to use the Linux ABI to execute them.The Linux version of Mathematica
or Mathematica for Students can
be ordered directly from Wolfram at http://www.wolfram.com/.Branding the Linux BinariesThe Linux binaries are located in the Unix
directory of the Mathematica CDROM
distributed by Wolfram. You
need to copy this directory tree to your local hard drive so that
you can brand the Linux binaries with &man.brandelf.1; before
running the installer:&prompt.root; mount /cdrom
&prompt.root; cp -rp /cdrom/Unix/ /localdir/
&prompt.root; brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/*
&prompt.root; brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux/*
&prompt.root; brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Installation/Binaries/Linux/*
&prompt.root; brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Graphics/Binaries/Linux/*
&prompt.root; brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Converters/Binaries/Linux/*
&prompt.root; brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/LicenseManager/Binaries/Linux/mathlm
&prompt.root; cd /localdir/Installers/Linux/
&prompt.root; ./MathInstallerAlternatively, you can simply set the default ELF brand
to Linux for all unbranded binaries with the command:&prompt.root; sysctl -w kern.fallback_elf_brand=3This will make FreeBSD assume that unbranded ELF binaries
use the Linux ABI and so you should be able to run the
installer straight from the CDROM.Obtaining Your Mathematica PasswordBefore you can run Mathematica
you will have to obtain a
password from Wolfram that corresponds to your machine
ID.EthernetMAC addressOnce you have installed the Linux compatibility runtime
libraries and unpacked Mathematica
you can obtain the
machine ID by running the program
mathinfo in the Install directory. This
machine ID is based solely on the MAC address of your first
Ethernet card.&prompt.root; cd /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Installation/Binaries/Linux
&prompt.root; mathinfo
disco.example.com 7115-70839-20412When you register with Wolfram, either by email, phone or fax,
you will give them the machine ID and they will
respond with a corresponding password consisting of groups of
numbers. You can then enter this information when you attempt to
run Mathematica for the first time
exactly as you would for any other
Mathematica platform.Running the Mathematica Frontend over a NetworkMathematica uses some special
fonts to display characters not
present in any of the standard font sets (integrals, sums, Greek
letters, etc.). The X protocol requires these fonts to be install
locally. This means you will have to copy
these fonts from the CDROM or from a host with
Mathematica
installed to your local machine. These fonts are normally stored
in /cdrom/Unix/Files/SystemFiles/Fonts on the
CDROM, or
/usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts on
your hard drive. The actual fonts are in the subdirectories
Type1 and X. There are
several ways to use them, as described below.The first way is to copy them into one of the existing font
directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.
This will require editing the fonts.dir file,
adding the font names to it, and changing the number of fonts on
the first line. Alternatively, you should also just be able to
run mkfontdir in the directory you have copied
them to.The second way to do this is to copy the directories to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts:&prompt.root; cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
&prompt.root; mkdir X
&prompt.root; mkdir MathType1
&prompt.root; cd /cdrom/Unix/Files/SystemFiles/Fonts
&prompt.root; cp X/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/X
&prompt.root; cp Type1/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MathType1
&prompt.root; cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/X
&prompt.root; mkfontdir
&prompt.root; cd ../MathType1
&prompt.root; mkfontdirNow add the new font directories to your font path:&prompt.root; xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/X
&prompt.root; xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MathType1
&prompt.root; xset fp rehashIf you are using the XFree86 server, you can have these font
directories loaded automatically by adding them to your
XF86Config file.fontsIf you do not already have a directory
called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, you
can change the name of the MathType1
directory in the example above to
Type1.AaronKaplanContributed by RobertGetschmannThanks to Installing MapleapplicationsMapleMaple is a commercial mathematics program similar to
Mathematica. You must purchase this software from and then register there
for a license file. To install this software on FreeBSD, please
follow these simple steps.Execute the INSTALL shell
script from the product distribution. Choose the
RedHat option when prompted by the
installation program. A typical installation directory
might be /usr/local/mapleIf you have not done so, order a license for Maple
from Maple Waterloo Software (http://register.maplesoft.com)
and copy it to
/usr/local/maple/license/license.datInstall the FLEXlm
license manager by running the
INSTALL_LIC install shell script that
comes with Maple. Specify the
primary hostname for your machine for the license
server.Patch the
usr/local/maple/bin/maple.system.type
file with the following: ----- snip ------------------
*** maple.system.type.orig Sun Jul 8 16:35:33 2001
--- maple.system.type Sun Jul 8 16:35:51 2001
***************
*** 72,77 ****
--- 72,78 ----
# the IBM RS/6000 AIX case
MAPLE_BIN="bin.IBM_RISC_UNIX"
;;
+ "FreeBSD"|\
"Linux")
# the Linux/x86 case
# We have two Linux implementations, one for Red Hat and
----- snip end of patch -----Please note that after the "FreeBSD"|\ no other
whitespace should be present.This patch instructs Maple to
recognize FreeBSD as a type of Linux system.
The bin/maple shell script calls the
bin/maple.system.type shell script
which in turn calls uname -a to find out the operating
system name. Depending on the OS name it will find out which
binaries to use.Start the license server.The following script, installed as
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/lmgrd.sh is a
convenient way to start up lmgrd: ----- snip ------------
#! /bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/maple/bin:/usr/local/maple/FLEXlm/UNIX/LINUX
export PATH
LICENSE_FILE=/usr/local/maple/license/license.dat
LOG=/var/log/lmgrd.log
case "$1" in
start)
lmgrd -c ${LICENSE_FILE} 2>> ${LOG} 1>&2
echo -n " lmgrd"
;;
stop)
lmgrd -c ${LICENSE_FILE} -x lmdown 2>> ${LOG} 1>&2
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" 1>&2
exit 64
;;
esac
exit 0
----- snip ------------Test-start maple:&prompt.user; cd /usr/local/maple/bin
-&prompt.user ./xmaple
+&prompt.user; ./xmaple
You should be up and running. Make sure to write
Maplesoft to let them know you would like a native FreeBSD
version!Common PitfallsThe FLEXlm license manager can be a difficult
tool to work with. Additional documentation on the subject
can be found at .lmgrd is known to be very picky
about the license file and to core dump if there are any
problems. A correct license file should look like this:# =======================================================
# License File for UNIX Installations ("Pointer File")
# =======================================================
SERVER chillig ANY
#USE_SERVER
VENDOR maplelmg
FEATURE Maple maplelmg 2000.0831 permanent 1 XXXXXXXXXXXX \
PLATFORMS=i86_r ISSUER="Waterloo Maple Inc." \
ISSUED=11-may-2000 NOTICE=" Technische Universitat Wien" \
SN=XXXXXXXXXSerial number and key 'X''ed out. "chillig" is a
hostname.Editing the license file works as long as you do not
touch the "FEATURE" line (which is protected by the
license key).MarcelMoolenaarContributed by Installing OracleapplicationsOraclePrefaceThis document describes the process of installing Oracle 8.0.5 and
Oracle 8.0.5.1 Enterprise Edition for Linux onto a FreeBSD
machineInstalling the Linux EnvironmentMake sure you have both linux_base and
linux_devtools from the ports collection
installed. These ports are added to the collection after the release
of FreeBSD 3.2. If you are using FreeBSD 3.2 or an older version for
that matter, update your ports collection. You may want to consider
updating your FreeBSD version too. If you run into difficulties with
linux_base-6.1 or
linux_devtools-6.1 you may have to use version
5.2 of these packages.If you want to run the intelligent agent, you will
also need to install the Red Hat Tcl package:
tcl-8.0.3-20.i386.rpm. The general command
for installing packages with the official RPM port is:&prompt.root; rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm packageInstallation of the package should not generate any errors.Creating the Oracle EnvironmentBefore you can install Oracle, you need to set up a proper
environment. This document only describes what to do
specially to run Oracle for Linux on FreeBSD, not
what has been described in the Oracle installation guide.Kernel Tuningkernel tuningAs described in the Oracle installation guide, you need to set
the maximum size of shared memory. Do not use
SHMMAX under FreeBSD. SHMMAX
is merely calculated out of SHMMAXPGS and
PGSIZE. Therefore define
SHMMAXPGS. All other options can be used as
described in the guide. For example:options SHMMAXPGS=10000
options SHMMNI=100
options SHMSEG=10
options SEMMNS=200
options SEMMNI=70
options SEMMSL=61Set these options to suit your intended use of Oracle.Also, make sure you have the following options in your kernel
config-file:options SYSVSHM #SysV shared memory
options SYSVSEM #SysV semaphores
options SYSVMSG #SysV interprocess communicationOracle AccountCreate an Oracle account just as you would create any other
account. The Oracle account is special only that you need to give
it a Linux shell. Add /compat/linux/bin/bash to
/etc/shells and set the shell for the Oracle
account to /compat/linux/bin/bash.EnvironmentBesides the normal Oracle variables, such as
ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID you must
set the following environment variables:VariableValueLD_LIBRARY_PATH$ORACLE_HOME/libCLASSPATH$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/classes111.zipPATH/compat/linux/bin
/compat/linux/sbin
/compat/linux/usr/bin
/compat/linux/usr/sbin
/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/local/bin
$ORACLE_HOME/binIt is advised to set all the environment variables in
.profile. A complete example is:ORACLE_BASE=/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=/oracle; export ORACLE_HOME
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ORACLE_SID=ORCL; export ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_TERM=386x; export ORACLE_TERM
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/classes111.zip
export CLASSPATH
PATH=/compat/linux/bin:/compat/linux/sbin:/compat/linux/usr/bin
PATH=$PATH:/compat/linux/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export PATHInstalling OracleDue to a slight inconsistency in the Linux emulator, you need to
create a directory named .oracle in
/var/tmp before you start the installer. Either
make it world writable or let it be owner by the oracle user. You
should be able to install Oracle without any problems. If you have
problems, check your Oracle distribution and/or configuration first!
After you have installed Oracle, apply the patches described in the
next two subsections.A frequent problem is that the TCP protocol adapter is not
installed right. As a consequence, you cannot start any TCP listeners.
The following actions help solve this problem:&prompt.root; cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib
&prompt.root; make -f ins_network.mk ntcontab.o
&prompt.root; cd $ORACLE_HOME/lib
&prompt.root; ar r libnetwork.a ntcontab.o
&prompt.root; cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib
&prompt.root; make -f ins_network.mk installDo not forget to run root.sh again!Patching root.shWhen installing Oracle, some actions, which need to be performed
as root, are recorded in a shell script called
root.sh. root.sh is
written in the orainst directory. Apply the
following patch to root.sh, to have it use to proper location of
chown or alternatively run the script under a
Linux native shell.*** orainst/root.sh.orig Tue Oct 6 21:57:33 1998
--- orainst/root.sh Mon Dec 28 15:58:53 1998
***************
*** 31,37 ****
# This is the default value for CHOWN
# It will redefined later in this script for those ports
# which have it conditionally defined in ss_install.h
! CHOWN=/bin/chown
#
# Define variables to be used in this script
--- 31,37 ----
# This is the default value for CHOWN
# It will redefined later in this script for those ports
# which have it conditionally defined in ss_install.h
! CHOWN=/usr/sbin/chown
#
# Define variables to be used in this scriptWhen you do not install Oracle from CD, you can patch the source
for root.sh. It is called
rthd.sh and is located in the
orainst directory in the source tree.Patching genclntshThe script genclntsh is used to create
a single shared client
library. It is used when building the demos. Apply the following
patch to comment out the definition of PATH:*** bin/genclntsh.orig Wed Sep 30 07:37:19 1998
--- bin/genclntsh Tue Dec 22 15:36:49 1998
***************
*** 32,38 ****
#
# Explicit path to ensure that we're using the correct commands
#PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin export PATH
! PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin export PATH
#
# each product MUST provide a $PRODUCT/admin/shrept.lst
--- 32,38 ----
#
# Explicit path to ensure that we're using the correct commands
#PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin export PATH
! #PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin export PATH
#
# each product MUST provide a $PRODUCT/admin/shrept.lstRunning OracleWhen you have followed the instructions, you should be able to run
Oracle as if it was run on Linux
itself.HolgerKippContributed by ValentinoVaschettoConverted to SGML by Installing SAP R/3 (4.6B - IDES)applicationsSAP R/3Installations of SAP Systems using FreeBSD will not be
supported by the SAP support team — they only offer support
for certified platforms.PrefaceThis document describes a possible way of installing a
SAP R/3 4.6B IDES-System
with Oracle 8.0.5
for Linux onto a FreeBSD 4.3 machine, including the installation
of FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and
Oracle 8.0.5.Even though this document tries to describe all important
steps in a greater detail, it is not intended as a replacement
for the Oracle and
SAP R/3 installation guides.Please see the documentation that comes with the
SAP R/3
Linux edition for SAP- and
Oracle-specific questions, as well
as resources from Oracle and
SAP OSS.SoftwareThe following CDROMs have been used for
SAP-installation:NameNumberDescriptionKERNEL51009113SAP Kernel Oracle /
Installation / AIX, Linux, SolarisRDBMS51007558Oracle / RDBMS 8.0.5.X /
LinuxEXPORT151010208IDES / DB-Export / Disc
1 of 6EXPORT251010209IDES / DB-Export / Disc
2 of 6EXPORT351010210IDES / DB-Export /
Disc3 of 6EXPORT451010211IDES / DB-Export /
Disc4 of 6EXPORT551010212IDES / DB-Export /
Disc5 of 6EXPORT651010213IDES / DB-Export /
Disc6 of 6Additionally, I used the Oracle 8
Server (Pre-production version 8.0.5 for Linux,
Kernel Version 2.0.33) CD which is not really necessary, and
of course FreeBSD 4.3 stable (it was only a few days past 4.3
RELEASE).SAP-NotesThe following notes should be read before installing
SAP R/3 or proved to be useful
during installation:NumberTitle0171356SAP Software auf Linux: grundlegenden
Anmerkungen0201147INST: 4.6C R/3 Inst. on UNIX -
Oracle0373203Update / Migration Oracle 8.0.5 -->
8.0.6/8.1.6 LINUX0072984Release of Digital UNIX 4.0B for
Oracle0130581R3SETUP step DIPGNTAB terminates0144978Your system has not been installed
correctly0162266Questions and tips for R3SETUP on Windows
NT / W2KHardware-RequirementsThe following equipment is sufficient for a
SAP R/3 System (4.6B):Component4.6B4.6CProcessor2 x 800MHz Pentium III2 x 800MHz Pentium IIIMemory1GB ECC2GB ECCHard Disc Space50-60GB (IDES)50-60GB (IDES)For use in production, Xeon-Processors with large cache,
high-speed disc access (SCSI, RAID hardware controller), USV
and ECC-RAM is recommended. The large amount of Hard disc
space is due to the preconfigured IDES System, which creates
27 GB of database files during installation. Usually after
installation it is then necessary to extend some
tablespaces.I used a dual processor board with 2 800MHz Pentium III
processors, Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter (for accessing
a 40/80 GB DLT tape drive and CDROM), Mylex AcelleRAID (2
channels, firmware 6.00-1-00 with 32MB RAM). To the Mylex
Raid-controller are attached two 17GB hard discs (mirrored)
and four 36GB hard discs (RAID level 5).Installation of FreeBSD 4.3-STABLEFirst I installed FreeBSD 4.3 stable. I did the
default-installation via FTP.Installation via FTPGet the diskimages
kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and put them on floppy disks (I got
mine from ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org. Please choose the appropriate
mirror).&prompt.root; dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0
&prompt.root; dd if=mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0Do not forget to use different disks for the two images,
then boot from the floppy with the kern.flp-image on it
and follow instructions. I used the following disk
layout:FilesystemSize (1k-blocks)Size (GB)Mounted on/dev/da0s1a1.016.3031//dev/da0s1b6<swap>/dev/da0s1e2.032.6232/var/dev/da0s1f8.205.3398/usr/dev/da1s1e45.734.36145/compat/linux/oracle/dev/da1s1f2.032.6232/compat/linux/sapmnt/dev/da1s1g2.032.6232/compat/linux/usr/sapI had to configure and initialize the two logical drives
with the Mylex software beforehand. It is located on the
board itself and can be started during the boot phase of the
PC. Please note that this disk layout differs slightly from
the SAP recommendations, as SAP suggests mounting the
oracle-subdirectories (and some others) separately - I
decided to just create them as real subdirectories for
simplicity.Get the Latest STABLE SourcesFor FreeBSD 4.3 stable onwards, it is quite easy to get
the latest stable sources. With the older versions of
FreeBSD, I had my own script located in /etc/cvsup. Setting
up CVSup for FreeBSD 4.3 is quite
easy. As user
root do the following:&prompt.root; cp /etc/defaults/make.conf /etc/make.conf
&prompt.root; vi /etc/make.confThe file /etc/make.conf requires the
following entries to be active:SUP_UPDATE= yes
SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup
SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
SUPHOST= cvsup8.FreeBSD.org
SUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfileChange the SUPHOST-value
appropriately. The supfiles in
/usr/share/examples/cvsup should be
fine. If you do not want to load all the docfiles, leave the
corresponding DOCSUPFILE-entry
inactive. Starting cvsup
to get the latest stable-sources is then very easy:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src
&prompt.root; make updatemake world and a New KernelThe first thing to do is to install the sources.
As user root, do the following:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src
&prompt.root; make worldIf this goes through, one can then continue creating and
configuring the new kernel. Usually this is where to
customize the kernel configuration file. As the computer is
named troubadix, the natural name for the
config file also is troubadix:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
&prompt.root; cp GENERIC TROUBADIX
&prompt.root; vi TROUBADIXAt this stage one can define the drivers to use and not
to use, etc. See the appropriate documentation or have a
look at file LINT for some additional
explanations.One can then also include the parameters as described
below Creating the new kernel then requires:&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
&prompt.root; config TROUBADIX
&prompt.root; cd /usr/src/sys/compile/TROUBADIX
&prompt.root; make depend
&prompt.root; make
&prompt.root; make installAfter make install finished
successfully, one should reboot the computer to have the new
kernel available.Installing the Linux EnvironmentI had some trouble downloading the required RPM-files (for
4.3 stable, 2nd May 2001), so you might try one of the
following locations (if all the others fail and the following
are not out of date):ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/rpmftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMSInstalling Linux Base-systemFirst the Linux base-system needs to be installed (as root):
&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base
&prompt.root; make packageInstalling Linux DevelopmentNext, the Linux development is needed:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/devel/linux_devtools
&prompt.root; make packageInstalling Necessary RPMsRPMsTo start the R3SETUP-Program, pam support is needed. As
this also requires some other packages, I ended up
installing several packages. After that, pam still
complained about a missing package, so I forced the
installation and it worked. I wonder if the other packages
are really needed or if it would have been sufficient to
install the pam-package.Anyway, here is the list of packages I installed:cracklib-2.7-5.i386.rpmcracklib-dicts-2.7-5.i386.rpmpwdb-0.60-1.i386.rpmpam-0.68-7.i386.rpmI installed these packages with the following
command:&prompt.root; rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm <package_name>except for the pam package, which I forced with&prompt.root; rpm -i --ignoreos --nodeps --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm \
pam-0.68-7.i386.rpmFor Oracle to run the
intelligent agent, I also had to install the following
RedHat Tcl package (as is stated in the FreeBSD Handbook):
tcl-8.0.5-30.i386.rpm (otherwise the
relinking during Oracle install
will not work). There are some other issues regarding
relinking of Oracle, but that is
a Oracle-Linux issue, not FreeBSD specific as far as I
understand it.Creating the SAP/R3 EnvironmentCreating the Necessary Filesystems and MountpointsFor a simple installation, it is sufficient to create the
following filesystems:mountpointsize in GB/compat/linux/oracle45 GB/compat/linux/sapmnt2 GB/compat/linux/usr/sap2 GBI also created some links, so FreeBSD will also find the
correct path:&prompt.root; ln -s /compat/linux/oracle /oracle
&prompt.root; ln -s /compat/linux/sapmnt /sapmnt
&prompt.root; ln -s /compat/linux/usr/sap /usr/sapCreating Users and DirectoriesSAP R/3 needs two users and
three groups. The usernames depend on the
SAP system id (SID) which consists
of three letters. Some of these SIDs are reserved
by SAP (for example
SAP and NIX. For a
complete list please see the SAP documentation). For the IDES
installation I used IDS. We have
therefore the following groups (group ids might differ, these
are just the values I used with my installation):group idgroup namedescription100dbaData Base Administrator101sapsysSAP System102operData Base OperatorFor a default Oracle-Installation, only group
dba is used. As
oper-group, one also uses group
dba (see Oracle- and
SAP-documentation for further information).We also need the following users:user idusernamegeneric namegroupadditional groupsdescription1000idsadm<sid>admsapsysoperSAP Administrator1002oraidsora<sid>dbaoperDB AdministratorAdding the users with adduser
requires the following (please note shell and home
directory) entries for SAP-Administrator:Name: idsadm <sid>adm
Password: ******
Fullname: SAP IDES Administrator
Uid: 1000
Gid: 101 (sapsys)
Class:
Groups: sapsys dba
HOME: /home/idsadm /home/<sid>adm
Shell: /bin/shand for Database-Administrator:Name: oraids ora<sid>
Password: ******
Fullname: Oracle IDES Administrator
Uid: 1002
Gid: 100 (dba)
Class:
Groups: dba
HOME: /oracle/IDS /oracle/<sid>
Shell: /bin/shThis should also include group
oper in case you are using both
groups dba and
oper.Creating DirectoriesThese directories are usually created as separate
filesystems. This depends entirely on your requirements. I
choose to create them as simple directories, as they are all
located on the same RAID 5 anyway:First we will set owners and right of some directories (as
user root):&prompt.root; chmod 775 /oracle
&prompt.root; chmod 777 /sapmnt
&prompt.root; chown root:dba /oracle
&prompt.root; chown idsadm:sapsys /compat/linux/usr/sap
&prompt.root; chmow 775 /compat/linux/usr/sapSecond we will create directories as user ora<sid>. These
will all be subdirectories of /oracle/IDS:&prompt.root; su - oraids
&prompt.root; mkdir mirrlogA mirrlogB origlogA origlogB
&prompt.root; mkdir sapdata1 sapdata2 sapdata3 sapdata4 sapdata5 sapdata6
&prompt.root; mkdir saparch sapreorg
&prompt.root; exitIn the third step we create directories as user
idsadm (<sid>adm):&prompt.root; su - idsadm
&prompt.root; cd /usr/sap
&prompt.root; mkdir IDS
&prompt.root; mkdir trans
&prompt.root; exitEntries in /etc/servicesSAP R/3 requires some entries in file
/etc/services, which will not be set
correctly during installation under FreeBSD. Please add the
following entries (you need at least those entries
corresponding to the instance number - in this case,
00. It will do no harm adding all
entries from 00 to
99 for dp,
gw, sp and
ms):sapdp00 3200/tcp # SAP Dispatcher. 3200 + Instance-Number
sapgw00 3300/tcp # SAP Gateway. 3300 + Instance-Number
sapsp00 3400/tcp # 3400 + Instance-Number
sapms00 3500/tcp # 3500 + Instance-Number
sapmsIDS 3600/tcp # SAP Message Server. 3600 + Instance-NumberNecessary LocaleslocaleSAP requires at least two locales that are not part of
the default RedHat installation. SAP offers the required
RPMs as download from their FTP-server (which is only
accessible if you are a customer with OSS-access). See note
0171356 for a list of RPMs you need.It is also possible to just create appropriate links
(for example from de_DE and
en_US ), but I would not recommend this
for a production system (so far it worked with the IDES
system without any problems, though). The following locales
are needed:de_DE.ISO-8859-1
en_US.ISO-8859-1If they are not present, there will be some problems
during the installation. If these are then subsequently
ignored (eg by setting the status of the offending steps to
OK in file CENTRDB.R3S), it will be impossible to log onto
the SAP-system without some additional effort.Kernel Tuningkernel tuningSAP R/3 Systems need a lot of resources. I therefore
added the following parameters to my kernel config-file:
# Set these for memory pigs (SAP and Oracle):
options MAXDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)"
options DFLDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)" # System V options needed.
options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
options SHMMAXPGS=262144 #max amount of shared mem. pages
options SHMMNI=256 #max number of shared memory ident if.
options SHMSEG=100 #max shared mem.segs per process
options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
options MSGSEG=32767 #max num. of mes.segments in system
options MSGSSZ=32 #size of msg-seg. MUST be power of 2
options MSGMNB=65535 #max char. per message queue
options MSGTQL=2046 #max amount of msgs in system
options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
options SEMMNU=256 #number of semaphore UNDO structures
options SEMMNS=1024 #number of semaphores in system
options SEMMNI=520 #number of semaphore indentifiers
options SEMUME=100 #number of UNDO keysThe minimum values are specified in the documentation that
comes from SAP. As there is no description for Linux, see the
HP-UX-section (32-bit) for further information.
Installing SAP R/3Preparing SAP CDROMsThere are lots of CDROMs to mount and unmount during
installation. Assuming you have enough CDROM-drives, you
can just mount them all. I decided to copy the CDROM
contents to corresponding directories:/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/<cd-name>where <cd-name> was one of KERNEL,
RDBMS, EXPORT1,
EXPORT2, EXPORT3,
EXPORT4, EXPORT5 and
EXPORT6. All the
filenames should be in capital letters, otherwise use the -g
option for mounting. So use the following commands:&prompt.root; mount_cd9660 -g /dev/cd0a /mnt
&prompt.root; cp -R /mnt/* /oracle/IDS/sapreorg/<cd-name>
&prompt.root; umount /mntRunning the install-scriptFirst we need to prepare an install-directory:&prompt.root; cd /oracle/IDS/sapreorg
&prompt.root; mkdir install
&prompt.root; cd installThen the install-script is started, which will copy nearly
all the relevant files into the install-directory:/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/KERNEL/UNIX/INSTTOOL.SHAs this is an IDES-Installation with a fully customized
SAP R/3 Demo-System, we have six instead of just three
EXPORT-CDs. At this point the installation template
CENTRDB.R3S is for installing a standard central instance
(R/3 and Database), not an IDES central instance, so copy
the corresponding CENTRDB.R3S from the EXPORT1 directory,
otherwise R3SETUP will only ask for three EXPORT-CDs.Start R3SETUPMake sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set correctly:&prompt.root; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oracle/IDS/lib:/sapmnt/IDS/exe:/oracle/805_32/libStart R3SETUP as user root from installation
directory:&prompt.root; cd /oracle/IDS/sapreorg/install
&prompt.root; ./R3SETUP -f CENTRDB.R3SThe script then asks some questions (defaults in brackets,
followed by actual input):QuestionDefaultInputEnter SAP System ID[C11]IDS<ret>Enter SAP Instance Number[00]<ret>Enter SAPMOUNT Directory[/sapmnt]<ret>Enter name of SAP central host[troubadix.domain.de]<ret>Enter name of SAP db host[troubadix]<ret>Select character set[1] (WE8DEC)<ret>Enter Oracle server version (1) Oracle 8.0.5, (2) Oracle 8.0.6, (3) Oracle 8.1.5, (4) Oracle 8.1.61<ret>Extract Oracle Client archive[1] (Yes, extract)<ret>Enter path to KERNEL CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/KERNELEnter path to RDBMS CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/RDBMSEnter path to EXPORT1 CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/EXPORT1Directory to copy EXPORT1 CD[/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/CD4_DIR]<ret>Enter path to EXPORT2 CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/EXPORT2Directory to copy EXPORT2 CD[/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/CD5_DIR]<ret>Enter path to EXPORT3 CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/EXPORT3Directory to copy EXPORT3 CD[/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/CD6_DIR]<ret>Enter path to EXPORT4 CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/EXPORT4Directory to copy EXPORT4 CD[/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/CD7_DIR]<ret>Enter path to EXPORT5 CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/EXPORT5Directory to copy EXPORT5 CD[/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/CD8_DIR]<ret>Enter path to EXPORT6 CD[/sapcd]/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/EXPORT6Directory to copy EXPORT6 CD[/oracle/IDS/sapreorg/CD9_DIR]<ret>Enter amount of RAM for SAP + DB850<ret> (in Megabytes)Service Entry Message Server[3600]<ret>Enter Group-ID of sapsys[101]<ret>Enter Group-ID of oper[102]<ret>Enter Group-ID of dba[100]<ret>Enter User-ID of <sid>adm[1000]<ret>Enter User-ID of ora<sid>[1002]<ret>Number of parallel procs[2]<ret>If I had not copied the CDs to the different locations,
then the SAP-Installer cannot find the CD needed (identified
by the LABEL.ASC-File on CD) and would
then ask you to insert / mount the CD and confirm or enter
the mount path.The CENTRDB.R3S might not be
error-free. In my case, it requested EXPORT4 again (but
indicated the correct key (6_LOCATI ON, then 7_LOCATION
etc.), so one can just continue with entering the correct
values. Do not get irritated.Apart from some problems mentioned below, everything
should go straight through up to the point where the Oracle
database software needs to be installed.Installing Oracle 8.0.5Please see the corresponding SAP-Notes and Oracle Readmes
regarding Linux and Oracle DB for possible problems. Most if
not all problems stem from incompatible librariesFor more information on installing Oracle, refer to the Installing Oracle
chapter.Installing the Oracle 8.0.5 with orainstIf Oracle 8.0.5 is to be
used, some additional libraries are needed for successfully
relinking, as Oracle 8.0.5 was linked with an old glibc
(RedHat 6.0), but RedHat 6.1 already uses a new glibc. So
you have to install the following additional packages to
ensure that linking will work:compat-libs-5.2-2.i386.rpmcompat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.2.i386.rpmcompat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpmcompat-egcs-c++-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpmcompat-binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.i386.rpmSee the corresponding SAP-Notes or Oracle Readmes for
further information. If this is no option (at the time of
installation I did not have enough time to check this), one
could use the original binaries, or use the relinked
binaries from an original RedHat System.For compiling the intelligent agent, the RedHat Tcl
package must be installed. If you cannot get
tcl-8.0.3-20.i386.rpm, a newer one like
tcl-8.0.5-30.i386.rpm for RedHat 6.1
should also do.Apart from relinking, the installation is
straightforward:&prompt.root; su - oraids
&prompt.root; export TERM=xterm
&prompt.root; export ORACLE_TERM=xterm
&prompt.root; export ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/IDS
&prompt.root; cd /ORACLE_HOME/orainst_sap
&prompt.root; ./orainstConfirm all Screens with Enter until the software is
installed, except that one has to deselect the
Oracle On-Line Text Viewer, as this is
not currently available for Linux. Oracle then wants to
relink with i386-glibc20-linux-gcc
instead of the available gcc,
egcs or i386-redhat-linux-gcc
.Due to time constrains I decided to use the binaries
from an Oracle 8.0.5 PreProduction
release, after the first
attempt at getting the version from the RDBMS-CD working,
failed, and finding / accessing the correct RPMs was a
nightmare at that time.Installing the Oracle 8.0.5 Pre-Production release for
Linux (Kernel 2.0.33)This installation is quite easy. Mount the CD, start the
installer. It will then ask for the location of the Oracle
home directory, and copy all binaries there. I did not
delete the remains of my previous RDBMS-installation tries,
though.Afterwards, Oracle Database could be started with no
problems.Continue with SAP R/3 InstallationFirst check the environment settings of users
idsamd
(<sid>adm) and
oraids (ora<sid>). They should now
both have the files .profile,
.login and .cshrc
which are all using hostname. In case the
system's hostname is the fully qualified name, you need to
change hostname to hostname
-s within all three files.Database LoadAfterwards, R3SETUP can either be restarted or continued
(depending on whether exit was chosen or not). R3SETUP then
creates the tablespaces and loads the data from EXPORT1 to
EXPORT6 (remember, it is an IDES system, otherwise it would
only be EXPORT1 to EXPORT3) with R3load into the
database.When the database load is finished (might take a few
hours), some passwords are requested. For test
installations, one can use the well known default passwords
(use different ones if security is an issue!):QuestionInputEnter Password for sapr3sap<ret>Confirum Password for sapr3sap<ret>Enter Password for syschange_on_install<ret>Confirm Password for syschange_on_install<ret>Enter Password for systemmanager<ret>Confirm Password for systemmanager<ret>At this point I had a few problems with
dipgntab.ListenerStart the Oracle-Listener as user
oraids (ora<sid>) as follows:umask 0; lsnrctl startOtherwise you might get ORA-12546 as the sockets will not
have the correct permissions. See SAP note 072984.Post-installation StepsRequest SAP R/3 License KeyThis is needed, as the temporary license is only valid for
four weeks. Do not forget to enter the correct Operating System:
(X) Other: FreeBSD 4.3 Stable. First get
the hardware key. Log on as user idsadm and
call saplicense:&prompt.root; /sapmnt/IDS/exe/saplicense -getCalling saplicense without options
gives a list of options. Upon receiving the license key, it can
be installed using&prompt.root; /sapmnt/IDS/exe/saplicense -installYou are then required to enter the following
values:SAP SYSTEM ID = <SID, 3 chars>
CUSTOMER KEY = <hardware key, 11 chars>
INSTALLATION NO = <installation, 10 digits>
EXPIRATION DATE = <yyyymmdd, usually "99991231">
LICENSE KEY = <license key, 24 chars>Creating UsersCreate a user within client 000 (for some tasks required
to be done within client 000, but with a user different from
users sap* and
ddic). As a username, I usually choose
wartung (or
service in English). Profiles
required are sap_new and
sap_all. For additional safety the
passwords of default users within all clients should be
changed (this includes users sap* and
ddic).Configure Transport System, Profile, Operation Modes, Etc.Within client 000, user different from ddic
and sap*, do at least the following:TaskTransactionConfigure Transport System, eg as Stand-Alone
Transport Domain EntitySTMSCreate / Edit Profile for SystemRZ10Maintain Operation Modes and InstancesRZ04These and all the other post-installation steps are
thoroughly described in SAP installation guides.Edit init<sid>.sap (initIDS.sap)The file
/oracle/IDS/dbs/initIDS.sap contains
the SAP backup profile. Here the size of the tape to be
used, type of compression and so on need to be defined. To
get this running with sapdba /
brbackup, I changed the following
values:compress = hardware
archive_function = copy_delete_save
cpio_flags = "-ov --format=newc --block-size=128 --quiet"
cpio_in_flags = "-iuv --block-size=128 --quiet"
tape_size = 38000M
tape_address = /dev/nsa0
tape_address_rew = /dev/sa0Explanations:compress The tape I use is a HP DLT1
which does hardware compression.archive_function This defines the
default behavior for saving Oracle archive logs: New logfiles
are saved to tape, already saved logfiles are saved again and
are then deleted. This prevents lots of trouble if one needs to
recover the database, and one of the archive-tapes has gone
bad.cpio_flags Default is to use -B which
sets blocksize to 5120 Bytes. For DLT-Tapes, HP recommends at
least 32K blocksize, so I used --block-size=128 for
64K. --format=newc is needed I have inode numbers greater than
65535. The last option --quiet is needed as otherwise
brbackup
complains as soon as cpio outputs the
numbers of blocks saved.cpio_in_flags Flags needed for
loading data back from tape. Format is recognized
automagically.tape_size This usually gives the raw
storage capability of the tape. For security reason (we use
hardware compression), thevalue is slightly lower than the
actual value.tape_address The non-rewindable
device to be used with cpio.tape_address_rew The rewindable device to be
used with cpio.Configuration Issues after InstallationThe following SAP-parameters should be tuned after
installation:NameValueztta/roll_extension250000000abap/heap_area_dia300000000abap/heap_area_nondia400000000em/initial_size_MB256em/blocksize_kB1024ipc/shm_psize_4070000000SAP-Note 0013026:NameValueztta/dynpro_area2500000SAP-Note 0157246:NameValuerdisp/ROLL_MAXFS16000rdisp/PG_MAXFS30000With the above parameters, on a system with 1 gigabyte
of memory, one may find memory consumption similar to:
Mem: 547M Active, 305M Inact, 109M Wired, 40M Cache, 112M Buf, 3492K FreeProblems During InstallationOSUSERSIDADM_IND_ORA During R3SETUPIf R3SETUP complains at this stage, edit file
CENTRDB.R3S. Locate [OSUSERSIDADM_IND_ORA] and edit the
following values:HOME=/home/idsadm (was empty)
STATUS=OK (had status ERROR)
Then you can restart R3SETUP with:&prompt.root; ./R3SETUP -f CENTRDB.R3SOSUSERDBSID_IND_ORA During R3SETUPPossibly R3SETUP also complains at this stage. Just edit
CENTRDB.R3S. Locate [OSUSERDBSID_IND_ORA] and edit the
following value in that section:STATUS=OKThen just restart R3SETUP again:&prompt.root; ./R3SETUP -f CENTRDB.R3Soraview.vrf FILE NOT FOUND During Oracle InstallationYou have not deselected Oracle On-Line Text Viewer
before starting the installation. This is marked for installation even
though this option is currently not available for Linux. Deselect this
product inside the Oracle installation menu and restart installation.TEXTENV_INVALID During R3SETUP, RFC or SAPGUI StartIf this error is encountered, the correct locale is
missing. SAP note 0171356 lists the necessary RPMs that need
be installed (eg saplocales-1.0-3,
saposcheck-1.0-1 for RedHat 6.1). In case
you ignored all the related errors and set the corresponding
status from ERROR to OK (in CENTRDB.R3S) every time R3SETUP
complained and just restarted R3SETUP, the SAP-System will not
be properly configured and you will then not be able to
connect to the system with a
sapgui, even though the system
can be started. Trying to connect with the old Linux
sapgui gave the following
messages:Sat May 5 14:23:14 2001
*** ERROR => no valid userarea given [trgmsgo. 0401]
Sat May 5 14:23:22 2001
*** ERROR => ERROR NR 24 occured [trgmsgi. 0410]
*** ERROR => Error when generating text environment. [trgmsgi. 0435]
*** ERROR => function failed [trgmsgi. 0447]
*** ERROR => no socket operation allowed [trxio.c 3363]
SpeicherzugriffsfehlerThis behavior is due to SAP R/3 being unable to
correctly assign a locale and also not being properly
configured itself (missing entries in some database
tables). To be able to connect to SAP, add the following
entries to file DEFAULT.PFL (see note 0043288):abap/set_etct_env_at_new_mode =0
install/collate/active =0
rscp/TCP0B =TCP0B
Restart the SAP system. Now one can connect to the
system, even though country-specific language settings might
not work as expected. After correcting country-settings
(and providing the correct locales), these entries can be
removed from DEFAULT.PFL and the SAP system can be
restarted.ORA-12546. Start Listener with Correct PermissionsStart the Oracle Listener as user
oraids with the following commands:&prompt.root; umask 0; lsnrctl startOtherwise one might get ORA-12546 as the sockets will not
have the correct permissions. See SAP note 0072984.[DIPGNTAB_IND_IND] During R3SETUPIn general, see SAP note 0130581 (R3SETUP step
DIPGNTAB
terminates). During this specific installation, for some
reasons the installation process was not using the proper
SAP system name "IDS", but the empty string "" instead. This
lead to some minor problems with accessing directories, as
the paths are generated dynamically using <sid> (in
this case IDS). So instead of accessing:/usr/sap/IDS/SYS/...
/usr/sap/IDS/DVMGS00the following path were used:/usr/sap//SYS/...
/usr/sap/D00iTo continue with the installation, I created a link and an
additional directory:&prompt.root; pwd
/compat/linux/usr/sap
&prompt.root; ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 idsadm sapsys 512 May 5 11:20 D00
drwxr-x--x 5 idsadm sapsys 512 May 5 11:35 IDS
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sapsys 7 May 5 11:35 SYS -> IDS/SYS
drwxrwxr-x 2 idsadm sapsys 512 May 5 13:00 tmp
drwxrwxr-x 11 idsadm sapsys 512 May 4 14:20 trans I also found SAP notes (0029227 and 0008401) describing
this behavior.[RFCRSWBOINI_IND_IND] During R3SETUPSet STATUS of the offending step from ERROR to OK (file
CENTRDB.R3S) and restart R3SETUP. After
installation, you have to execute the report
RSWBOINS from transaction SE38. See SAP
note 0162266 for additional information about phase
RFCRSWBOINI and
RFCRADDBDIF.[RFCRADDBDIF_IND_IND] During R3SETUPSet STATUS of the offending step from ERROR to OK (file
CENTRDB.R3S) and restart R3SETUP. After
installation, you have to execute the report
RADDBDIF from transaction SE38.
See SAP note 0162266 for further information.Advanced TopicsIf you are curious as to how the Linux binary compatibility
works, this is the section you want to read. Most of what follows
is based heavily on an email written to &a.chat; by Terry Lambert
tlambert@primenet.com (Message ID:
<199906020108.SAA07001@usr09.primenet.com>).How Does It Work?execution class loaderFreeBSD has an abstraction called an execution class
loader. This is a wedge into the &man.execve.2; system
call.What happens is that FreeBSD has a list of loaders, instead of
a single loader with a fallback to the #!
loader for running any shell interpreters or shell scripts.Historically, the only loader on the Unix platform examined
the magic number (generally the first 4 or 8 bytes of the file) to
see if it was a binary known to the system, and if so, invoked the
binary loader.If it was not the binary type for the system, the
&man.execve.2; call returned a failure, and the shell attempted to
start executing it as shell commands.The assumption was a default of whatever the current
shell is.Later, a hack was made for &man.sh.1; to examine the first two
characters, and if they were :\n, then it
invoked the &man.csh.1; shell instead (we believe SCO first made
this hack).What FreeBSD does now is go through a list of loaders, with a
generic #! loader that knows about interpreters
as the characters which follow to the next whitespace next to
last, followed by a fallback to
/bin/sh.ELFFor the Linux ABI support, FreeBSD sees the magic number as an
ELF binary (it makes no distinction between FreeBSD, Solaris,
Linux, or any other OS which has an ELF image type, at this
point).SolarisThe ELF loader looks for a specialized
brand, which is a comment section in the ELF
image, and which is not present on SVR4/Solaris ELF
binaries.For Linux binaries to function, they must be
branded as type Linux;
from &man.brandelf.1;:&prompt.root; brandelf -t Linux fileWhen this is done, the ELF loader will see the
Linux brand on the file.ELFbrandingWhen the ELF loader sees the Linux brand,
the loader replaces a pointer in the proc
structure. All system calls are indexed through this pointer (in
a traditional Unix system, this would be the
sysent[] structure array, containing the system
calls). In addition, the process flagged for special handling of
the trap vector for the signal trampoline code, and sever other
(minor) fix-ups that are handled by the Linux kernel
module.The Linux system call vector contains, among other things, a
list of sysent[] entries whose addresses reside
in the kernel module.When a system call is called by the Linux binary, the trap
code dereferences the system call function pointer off the
proc structure, and gets the Linux, not the
FreeBSD, system call entry points.In addition, the Linux mode dynamically
reroots lookups; this is, in effect, what the
union option to FS mounts
(not the unionfs!) does. First, an attempt
is made to lookup the file in the
/compat/linux/original-path
directory, then only if that fails, the
lookup is done in the
/original-path
directory. This makes sure that binaries that require other
binaries can run (e.g., the Linux toolchain can all run under
Linux ABI support). It also means that the Linux binaries can
load and exec FreeBSD binaries, if there are no corresponding
Linux binaries present, and that you could place a &man.uname.1;
command in the /compat/linux directory tree
to ensure that the Linux binaries could not tell they were not
running on Linux.In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the FreeBSD kernel; the
various underlying functions that implement all of the services
provided by the kernel are identical to both the FreeBSD system
call table entries, and the Linux system call table entries: file
system operations, virtual memory operations, signal delivery,
System V IPC, etc… The only difference is that FreeBSD
binaries get the FreeBSD glue functions, and
Linux binaries get the Linux glue functions
(most older OS's only had their own glue
functions: addresses of functions in a static global
sysent[] structure array, instead of addresses
of functions dereferenced off a dynamically initialized pointer in
the proc structure of the process making the
call).Which one is the native FreeBSD ABI? It does not matter.
Basically the only difference is that (currently; this could
easily be changed in a future release, and probably will be after
this) the FreeBSD glue functions are
statically linked into the kernel, and the Linux glue functions
can be statically linked, or they can be accessed via a kernel
module.Yeah, but is this really emulation? No. It is an ABI
implementation, not an emulation. There is no emulator (or
simulator, to cut off the next question) involved.So why is it sometimes called Linux emulation?
To make it hard to sell FreeBSD! Really, it
is because the historical implementation was done at a time when
there was really no word other than that to describe what was
going on; saying that FreeBSD ran Linux binaries was not true, if
you did not compile the code in or load a module, and there needed
to be a word to describe what was being loaded—hence
the Linux emulator.
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Installing Applications: Packages and PortsSynopsisportspackagesFreeBSD is bundled with a rich collection of system tools as
part of the base system. However, there is only so much one can
do before needing to install an additional third-party
application to get real work done. FreeBSD provides two
complementary technologies for installing third party software
on your system; the FreeBSD Ports Collection, and binary
software packages. Either system may be used to install the
newest version of your favorite applications from local media or
straight off the network.After reading this chapter, you will know:How to install third-party binary software packages.How to build third-party software from the ports
collection.How to remove previously installed packages or ports.Overview of Software InstallationIf you have used a Unix system before you will know that the typical
procedure for installing third party software goes something like
this:Download the software, which might be distributed in source code
format, or as a binary.Unpack the software from its distribution format (typically a
tarball compressed with either &man.compress.1; or &man.gzip.1;).Locate the documentation (perhaps a README
file, or some files in a doc/ subdirectory) and
read up on how to install the software.If the software was distributed in source format, compile it.
This may involve editing a Makefile, or
running a configure script, and other work.Test and install the software.And that is only if everything goes well. If you are installing a
software package that was not deliberately ported to FreeBSD you may
even have to go in and edit the code to make it work properly.Should you want to, you can continue to install software the
traditional way with FreeBSD. However, FreeBSD
provides two technologies which can save you a lot of effort;
packages and ports. At the time of writing, over &os.numports;
third party applications have been made available in this
way.For any given application, the FreeBSD package for that application
is a single file which you must download. The package contains
pre-compiled copies of all the commands for the application, as well as
any configuration files or documentation. A downloaded package file can
be manipulated with FreeBSD package management commands, such as
&man.pkg.add.1;, &man.pkg.delete.1;, &man.pkg.info.1;, and so on.Installing a new application can be carried out with a single
command.A FreeBSD port for an application is a collection of files designed
to automate the process of compiling an application from source
code.Remember that there are a number of steps you would normally carry
out if you compiled a program yourself (unpacking, patching, compiling,
installing). The files that make up a port contain all the necessary
information to allow the system to do this for you. You run a handful
of simple commands and the source code for the application is
automatically downloaded, extracted, patched, compiled, and installed
for you.In fact, the ports system can also be used to generate packages
which can later be manipulated with pkg_add
and the other package management commands that will be introduced
shortly.Both packages and ports understand
dependencies. Suppose you want to install an
application that depends on a specific library being installed. Both
the application and the library have been made available as FreeBSD
ports and packages. If you use the pkg_add command
or the ports system to add the application, both will notice that the
library has not been installed, and the commands will install the
library first.Given that the two technologies are quite similar, you might be
wondering why FreeBSD bothers with both. Packages and ports both have
their own strengths, and which one you use will depend on your own
preference.Package BenefitsA compressed package tarball is typically smaller than the
compressed tarball containing the source code for the application.Packages do not require any additional compilation. For large
applications, such as Mozilla,
KDE, or GNOME
this can be important, particularly if you are on a slow system.Packages do not require you to understand the process
involved in compiling software on FreeBSD.Ports BenefitsPackages are normally compiled with conservative options,
because they have to run on the maximum number of systems. By
installing from the port, you can tweak the compilation options to
(for example) generate code that is specific to a Pentium
III or Athlon processor.Some packages have compile time options relating to what they
can and cannot do. For example, Apache
can be configured with a wide variety of different built-in options.
By building from the port you do not have to accept the default
options, and can set them yourself.In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same
application to specify certain settings. For example,
Ghostscript is available as a
ghostscript package and a
ghostscript-nox11 package, depending on whether
or not you have installed an X11 server. This sort of rough
tweaking is possible with packages, but rapidly becomes impossible
if an application has more than one or two different compile time
options.The licensing conditions of some software distributions forbid
binary distribution. They must be distributed as source
code.Some people do not trust binary distributions. At least with
source code, you can (in theory) read through it and look for
potential problems yourself.If you have local patches, you will need the source in order to
apply them.Some people like having code around, so they can read it if they
get bored, hack it, borrow from it (license permitting, of course),
and so on.To keep track of updated ports, subscribe to the
&a.ports;.The remainder of this chapter will explain how to use packages and
ports to install and manage third party software on FreeBSD.Finding Your ApplicationBefore you can install any applications you need to know what you
want, and what the application is called.FreeBSD's list of available applications is growing all the
time. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to
find what you want.The FreeBSD web site maintains an up-to-date searchable list of
all the available applications, at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/.
The name space is divided in to categories, and you may either
search for an application by name (if you know it), or you can list
all the applications available in a category.FreshPortsDan Langille maintains FreshPorts, at
http://www.FreshPorts.org/.
FreshPorts tracks changes to the applications in the ports tree as
they happen, and allows you to watch one or more
ports, and will send you an email when they are updated.FreshMeatIf you do not know the name of the application you want, try
using a site like FreshMeat
(http://www.freshmeat.net/)
to find an application, then check back at the FreeBSD site to see
if the application has been ported yet.ChernLeeContributed by Using the Packages SystemInstalling a Packagepackagesinstallingpkg_addYou can use the &man.pkg.add.1; utility to install a
FreeBSD software package from a local file or from a server on
the network.Downloading a Package and then Installing It Locally&prompt.root; ftp -a ftp2.FreeBSD.org
Connected to ftp2.FreeBSD.org.
220 ftp2.FreeBSD.org FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password.
230-
230- This machine is in Vienna, VA, USA, hosted by Verio.
230- Questions? E-mail freebsd@vienna.verio.net.
230-
230-
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/sysutils/
250 CWD command successful.
ftp>get lsof-4.56.4.tgz
local: lsof-4.56.4.tgz remote: lsof-4.56.4.tgz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'lsof-4.56.4.tgz' (92375 bytes).
100% |**************************************************| 92375 00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete.
92375 bytes received in 5.60 seconds (16.11 KB/s)
ftp>exit
&prompt.root; pkg_add lsof-4.56.4.tgzIf you do not have a source of local packages (such as a
FreeBSD CDROM set) then it will probably be easier to use the
-r option to &man.pkg.add.1;. This will cause the utility to
automatically determine the correct object format and release
and then to fetch and install the package from an FTP site.
pkg_add&prompt.root; pkg_add -r lsof-4.56.4The example above would download the correct package and add it without
any further user intervention.Package files are distributed in .tgz format. You can
find them at
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/,
or on the FreeBSD CDROM distribution. Every CD on the
FreeBSD 4-CD set (and PowerPak, etc) contains packages in
the /packages directory. The layout of
the packages is similar to that of the
/usr/ports tree. Each category has its
own directory, and every package can be found within the
All directory.
The directory structure of the package system is identical
to that of the ports; they work with each other to form the entire
package/port system.
Deleting a Packagepkg_deletepackagesdeletingTo remove a previously installed software package, use the
&man.pkg.delete.1; utility.
- &prompt.root pkg_delete xchat-1.7.1
+ &prompt.root; pkg_delete xchat-1.7.1Managing Packagespackagesmanaging&man.pkg.info.1; is a utility that lists and describes
the various packages installed.
pkg_info
- &prompt.root pkg_info
+ &prompt.root; pkg_info
cvsup-16.1 A general network file distribution system optimized for CV
docbook-1.2 Meta-port for the different versions of the DocBook DTD
...&man.pkg.version.1; is a utility that summarizes the
versions of all installed packages. It compares the package
version to the current version found in the ports tree.
- &prompt.root pkg_version
+ &prompt.root; pkg_version
cvsup =
docbook =
...The symbols in the second column indicate the relative age
of the installed version and the version available in the local
ports tree.SymbolMeaning=The version of the
installed package matches that of the one found in the
local ports tree.<The installed version is older then the one available
in the ports tree.>The installed version is newer
than the one found in the local ports tree. (local ports
tree is probably out of date)?The installed package cannot be
found in the ports index.*There are multiple versions of the
package.MiscellaneousAll package information is stored within the
/var/db/pkg directory. The installed
file list and descriptions of each package can be found within
files in this directory.
Using the Ports CollectionThe following sections provide basic instructions on using the
ports collection to install or remove programs from your
system.Obtaining the Ports CollectionBefore you can install ports, you must first obtain the
ports collection—which is essentially a set of Makefiles,
patches, and description files usually placed in
/usr/ports.
When installing your FreeBSD system,
Sysinstall asked if you would like to
install the ports collection. If you chose no, you can follow
these instructions to obtain the ports collection.Sysinstall MethodThis method involves using
sysinstall again to manually
install the ports collection.As root, run /stand/sysinstall as
shown below:&prompt.root; /stand/sysinstallScroll down and select Configure,
Press EnterScroll down and select
Distributions, Press EnterScroll down to ports, Press the
Space keyScroll up to Exit, Press
EnterSelect your desired installation media, such as CDROM,
FTP, and so on.Follow the menus to Exit sysinstallThe alternative method to obtain and keep your ports
collection up to date is by using
CVSup. Look at the ports
CVSup file,
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile.
See Using CVSup () for more information on using
CVSup and the mentioned file.CVSup MethodThis is a quick method to getting the ports collection
using CVSup. If you want to keep
your ports tree up to date, or learn more about
CVSup, read the previously
mentioned sections.Install the net/cvsup port. See CVSup Installation () for more details.As root, copy
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
to a new location, such as /root or your
home directoryEdit ports-supfileChange CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org to a
CVSup near you. See CVSupp Mirrors () for a complete listing of mirror
sites.Run cvsup -g -L 2 <path_to_supfile>&prompt.root; cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfileRunning this consequent times at later dates will
download all the recent changes to your ports
collection.Installing PortsportsinstallingThe first thing that should be explained
when it comes to the ports collection is what is actually meant
by a skeleton. In a nutshell, a port skeleton is a
minimal set of files that tell your FreeBSD system how to
cleanly compile and install a program. Each port skeleton includes:A Makefile. The
Makefile contains various statements that
specify how the application should be compiled and where it
should be installed on your systemA distinfo file. This file contains
information about the files that must be downloaded to build the
port, and checksums, to ensure that those files have not been
corrupted during the download.A files directory. This directory
contains patches to make the program compile and install on
your FreeBSD system. Patches are basically small files that
specify changes to particular files. They are in plain text
format, and basically say Remove line 10 or
Change line 26 to this .... Patches are also
known as diffs because they are generated by the
diff program.This directory may also contain other files used in building
the port.A pkg-comment file. This is a one-line
description of the program.A pkg-descr file. This is a more
detailed, often multiple-line, description of the program.A pkg-plist file. This is a list of all
the files that will be installed by the port. It also tells the
ports system what files to remove upon deinstallation.Some ports have other files, such as
pkg-message. The ports system uses these
files to handle special situations. If you want more details
on these files, and on ports in general, check out the FreeBSD Porter's
Handbook.Now that you have enough background information to know what
the ports collection is used for, you are ready to install your
first port. There are two ways this can be done, and each is
explained below.Before we get into that however, you will need to choose a
port to install. There are a few ways to do this, with the
easiest method being the ports listing on the FreeBSD
web site. You can browse through the ports listed there
or use the search function on the site. Each port also includes
a description so you can read a bit about each port before
deciding to install it.Another method is to use the whereis
command. To use whereis, simply type
whereis <program you want to
install> at the prompt, and if it is found on
your system, you will be told where it is, like so:&prompt.root; whereis lsof
lsof: /usr/ports/sysutils/lsofThis tells us that lsof (a system utility)
can be found in the
/usr/ports/sysutils/lsof directory.Yet another way of finding a particular port is by using the
ports collection's built-in search mechanism. To use the search
feature, you will need to be in the
/usr/ports directory. Once in that
directory, run make search name=program-name
where program-name is the name of the program you
want to find. For example, if you were looking for
lsof:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports
&prompt.root; make search name=lsof
Port: lsof-4.56.4
Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof
Info: Lists information about open files (similar to fstat(1))
Maint: obrien@FreeBSD.org
Index: sysutils
B-deps:
R-deps: The part of the output you want to pay particular attention
to is the Path: line, since that tells you where to
find it. The other information provided is not needed in order
to install the port directly, so it will not be covered
here.For more in-depth searching you can also use
make search key=string where
string is some text to search for. This searches
port names, comments, descriptions and dependencies and can be used
to find ports which relate to a particular subject if you don't
know the name of the program you are looking for.In both of these cases, the search string is case-insensitive.
Searching for LSOF will yield the same results as
searching for lsof.You must be the root user to install
ports.Now that you have found a port you would like to install,
you are ready to do the actual installation. The port
includes instructions on how to build source code, but no
actual source code. You can get the source code from a CDROM
or from the Internet. Source code is distributed in whatever
manner the software author desires. Frequently this is a
tarred and gzipped file, but it might be compressed with some
other tool or even uncompressed. The program source code,
whatever form it comes in, is called a
distfile. You can get the distfile from a
CDROM or from the Internet.Installing Ports from a CDROMportsinstalling from CDROMThe FreeBSD Project's official CDROM images no longer
include distfiles. They take up a lot of room that is
better used by precompiled packages. CDROM products such as
the FreeBSD Power Pak do include distfiles, and you can
order these sets from a vendor such as the FreeBSD Mall.
This section assumes you have such a FreeBSD CDROM
set.Place your FreeBSD CDROM in the drive. Mount it on
/cdrom. (If you use a different mount
point, the install will not work.) To begin, change to the
directory for the port you want to install:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsofOnce inside the lsof directory,
you will see the port
skeleton. The next step is to compile (also called build) the
port. This is done by simply typing make at
the prompt. Once you have done so, you should see something
like this:&prompt.root; make
>> lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from file:/cdrom/ports/distfiles/.
===> Extracting for lsof-4.57
...
[extraction output snipped]
...
>> Checksum OK for lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz.
===> Patching for lsof-4.57
===> Applying FreeBSD patches for lsof-4.57
===> Configuring for lsof-4.57
...
[configure output snipped]
...
===> Building for lsof-4.57
...
[compilation snipped]
...
&prompt.root;Take notice that once the compile is complete you are
returned to your prompt. The next step is to install the
port. In order to install it, you simply need to tack one word
onto the make command, and that word is
install:&prompt.root; make install
===> Installing for lsof-4.57
...
[install routines snipped]
...
===> Generating temporary packing list
===> Compressing manual pages for lsof-4.57
===> Registering installation for lsof-4.57
===> SECURITY NOTE:
This port has installed the following binaries which execute with
increased privileges.
&prompt.root;Once you are returned to your prompt, you should be able to
run the application you just installed. Since
lsof is a
program that runs with increased privileges, a security
warning is shown. During the building and installation of
ports, you should take heed of any other warnings that
may appear.You can save an extra step by just running make
install instead of make and
make install as two separate steps.Please be aware that the licenses of a few ports do not
allow for inclusion on the CDROM. This could be because a
registration form needs
to be filled out before downloading, redistribution is not
allowed, and so on. If you wish to install a port not
included on the CDROM, you will need to be online in order to
do so (see the next
section).Installing Ports from the InternetAs with the last section, this section makes an assumption
that you have a working Internet connection. If you do not,
you will need to perform the CDROM
installation.Installing a port from the Internet is done exactly the same
way as it would be if you were installing from a CDROM. The
only difference between the two is that the port distfile
is downloaded from the Internet instead of pulled from the
CDROM.The steps involved are identical:&prompt.root; make install
>> lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
Receiving lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz (439860 bytes): 100%
439860 bytes transferred in 18.0 seconds (23.90 kBps)
===> Extracting for lsof-4.57
...
[extraction output snipped]
...
>> Checksum OK for lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz.
===> Patching for lsof-4.57
===> Applying FreeBSD patches for lsof-4.57
===> Configuring for lsof-4.57
...
[configure output snipped]
...
===> Building for lsof-4.57
...
[compilation snipped]
...
===> Installing for lsof-4.57
...
[install routines snipped]
...
===> Generating temporary packing list
===> Compressing manual pages for lsof-4.57
===> Registering installation for lsof-4.57
===> SECURITY NOTE:
This port has installed the following binaries which execute with
increased privileges.
&prompt.root;As you can see, the only difference is the line that tells
you where the system is fetching the port from.That about does it for installing ports onto your
system. In the next section you will learn how to remove a
port from your system.Removing Installed PortsportsremovingNow that you know how to install ports, you are probably
wondering how to remove them, just in case you install one and
later on you decide that you installed the wrong port.
We will remove our previous example (which was
lsof for
those of you not paying attention). As with installing ports,
the first thing you must do is change to the port directory,
/usr/ports/sysutils/lsof. After you change
directories, you are ready to uninstall lsof.
This is done with
the make deinstall command:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof
&prompt.root; make deinstall
===> Deinstalling for lsof-4.57That was easy enough. You have removed
lsof
from your system. If you would like to reinstall it, you can do
so by running make reinstall from the
/usr/ports/sysutils/lsof directory.The make deinstall and make
reinstall sequence does not work once you have run
make clean. If you want to deinstall a
port after cleaning, use pkg_delete as
discussed in the Packages
section of the Handbook.Post-installation activitiesAfter installing a new application you will normally want to read
any documentation it may have included, edit any configuration files
that are required, ensure that the application starts at boot time (if
it is a daemon), and so on.The exact steps you need to take to configure each application will
obviously be different. However, if you have just installed a new
application and are wondering What now? these tips might
help.Use &man.pkg.info.1; to find out which files were installed,
and where they were installed to. For example, if you have just
installed FooPackage version 1.0.0, then this command&prompt.root; pkg_info -L foopackage-1.0.0 | lesswill show all the files installed by the package. Pay special
attention to files in man/ directories, which
will be manual pages, etc/ directories, which
will be configuration files, and doc/, which will be
more comprehensive documentation.If you are not sure which version of the application was just
installed, a command like this&prompt.root; pkg_info | grep foopackagewill find all the installed packages that have
foopackage in the package name. Replace
foopackage in your commandline as
necessary.Once you have identified where the application's manual pages
have been installed, review them using &man.man.1;. Similarly,
look over the sample configuration files, and any additional
documentation that may have been provided.If the application has a web site, check it for additional
documentation, frequently asked question files, and so forth. If
you are not sure of the web site address it may be listed in the
output from&prompt.root; pkg_info foopackage-1.0.0will often include a WWW: line with the URL
of the application's web site.TroubleshootingThe following sections cover some of the more frequently asked
questions about the ports collection and some basic troubleshooting
techniques, and what do to if a port is broken.Some Questions and AnswersI thought this was going to be a discussion about
modems??!Ah, you must be thinking of the serial ports on the back
of your computer. We are using port here to
mean the result of porting a program from one
version of Unix to another.What is a patch?A patch is a small file that specifies how to go from
one version of a file to another. It contains plain text,
and basically says things like delete line 23,
add these two lines after line 468, or
change line 197 to this. They are also known
as diffs because they are generated by the
diff program.tarballWhat is all this about
tarballs?It is a file ending in .tar, or
with variations such as .tar.gz,
.tar.Z, .tar.bz2,
and even .tgz.Basically, it is a directory tree that has been archived
into a single file (.tar) and
optionally compressed (.gz). This
technique was originally used for Tape
ARchives (hence the name
tar), but it is a widely used way of
distributing program source code around the Internet.You can see what files are in them, or even extract
them yourself by using the standard Unix
tar program, which comes with the base
FreeBSD system, like this:&prompt.user; tar tvzf foobar.tar.gz
&prompt.user; tar xzvf foobar.tar.gz
&prompt.user; tar tvf foobar.tar
&prompt.user; tar xvf foobar.tarchecksumAnd a checksum?It is a number generated by adding up all the data in
the file you want to check. If any of the characters
change, the checksum will no longer be equal to the total,
so a simple comparison will allow you to spot the
difference.I did what you said for compiling ports from a CDROM and
it worked great until I tried to install the kermit
port.&prompt.root; make install
>> cku190.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/.Why can it not be found? Have I got a dud CDROM?As explained in the compiling ports from CDROM
section, some ports cannot be put on the CDROM set
due to licensing restrictions. Kermit is an example of
that. The licensing terms for kermit do not allow us to put
the tarball for it on the CDROM, so you will have to fetch
it by hand—sorry!The reason why you got all those error messages was
because you were not connected to the Internet at the time.
Once you have downloaded it from any of the MASTER_SITES
(listed in the Makefile), you can restart the install
process.I did that, but when I tried to put it into
/usr/ports/distfiles I got some error
about not having permission.The ports mechanism will download distribution
tarballs into /usr/ports/distfiles,
but many system administrators will symlink this directory
to a remote file server or local read-only CDROM media.
If this is the case, then you should specify a different
directory to be used for storing distfiles with the
following command:&prompt.root; make DISTDIR=/local/dir/with/write/permission installDoes the ports scheme only work if you have everything
in /usr/ports? My system administrator
says I must put everything under
/u/people/guests/wurzburger, but it
does not seem to work.You can use the PORTSDIR and
PREFIX variables to tell the ports
mechanism to use different directories. For
instance,&prompt.root; make PORTSDIR=/u/people/guests/wurzburger/ports installwill compile the port in
/u/people/guests/wurzburger/ports and
install everything under
/usr/local.&prompt.root; make PREFIX=/u/people/guests/wurzburger/local installwill compile it in /usr/ports and
install it in
/u/people/guests/wurzburger/local.And of course,&prompt.root; make PORTSDIR=../ports PREFIX=../local installwill combine the two (it is too long to write fully on
the page, but it should give you the general idea).imakeSome ports that use &man.imake.1; (a part of the X Windows
System) do not work well with PREFIX, and will insist on
installing under /usr/X11R6. Similarly, some Perl ports
ignore PREFIX and install in the Perl tree. Making these
ports respect PREFIX is a difficult or impossible
job.If you do not fancy typing all that in every time you
install a port, it is a good idea to put these variables
into your environment. Read the manual page for your shell for
instructions on doing so.I do not have a FreeBSD CDROM, but I would like to have
all the tarballs handy on my system so I do not have to wait
for a download every time I install a port. Is there any
way to get them all at once?To get every single tarball for the ports collection,
do:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports
&prompt.root; make fetchFor all the tarballs for a single ports directory,
do:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/directory
&prompt.root; make fetchand for just one port—well, you have probably
guessed already.I know it is probably faster to fetch the tarballs from
one of the FreeBSD mirror sites close by. Is there any way
to tell the port to fetch them from servers other than the
ones listed in the MASTER_SITES?Yes. If you know, for example, that ftp.FreeBSD.org is much closer to you
than the sites listed in MASTER_SITES,
do as follows:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/directory
&prompt.root; make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= \
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ fetchI want to know what files make is
going to need before it tries to pull them down.make fetch-list will display a list
of the files needed for a port.Is there any way to stop the port from compiling? I
want to do some hacking on the source before I install it,
but it is a bit tiresome to watch it and hit control-C every
time.Doing make extract will stop it
after it has fetched and extracted the source code.I am trying to make my own port and I want to be able
to stop it compiling until I have had a chance to see if my
patches worked properly. Is there something like
make extract, but for patches?Yes, make patch is what you want.
You will probably find the PATCH_DEBUG
option useful as well. And by the way, thank you for your
efforts!I have heard that some compiler options can cause bugs.
Is this true? How can I make sure that I compile ports
with the right settings?Yes, with version 2.6.3 of gcc (the
version shipped with FreeBSD 2.1.0 and 2.1.5), the
-O2
option could result in buggy code
unless you used the
-fno-strength-reduce
option as well. (Most of the ports do not use
-O2
). You should be
able to specify the compiler options used by something
like:&prompt.root; make CFLAGS='-O2 -fno-strength-reduce' installor by editing /etc/make.conf, but
unfortunately not all ports respect this. The surest way
is to do make configure, then go into
the source directory and inspect the Makefiles by hand, but
this can get tedious if the source has lots of
sub-directories, each with their own Makefiles.The default FreeBSD compiler options are quite conservative,
so if you have not changed them you should not have any
problems.There are so many ports it is hard to find the one I
want. Is there a list anywhere of what ports are
available?Look in the INDEX file in
/usr/ports. If you would like to
search the ports collection for a keyword, you can do that
too. For example, you can find ports relevant to the LISP
programming language using:&prompt.user; cd /usr/ports
&prompt.user; make search key=lispI went to install the foo port but
the system suddenly stopped compiling it and starting
compiling the bar port. What is going
on?The foo port needs something that is
supplied with bar — for instance,
if foo uses graphics,
bar might have a library with useful
graphics processing routines. Or bar
might be a tool that is needed to compile the
foo port. I installed the
grizzle program from the ports and
frankly it is a complete waste of disk space. I want to
delete it but I do not know where it put all the files.
Any clues?No problem, just type:&prompt.root; pkg_delete grizzle-6.5Alternatively, you can type:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/somewhere/grizzle
&prompt.root; make deinstallHang on a minute, you have to know the version number
to use that command. You do not seriously expect me to
remember that, do you?Not at all, you can find it out by doing:&prompt.root; pkg_info -I 'grizzle*'
Information for grizzle-6.5:
grizzle-6.5 - the combined piano tutorial, LOGO interpreter and shoot 'em up
arcade game.The version number can also be found using the
pkg_info or by typing:
ls /var/db/pkgTalking of disk space, the ports directory seems to be
taking up an awful lot of room. Is it safe to go in there
and delete things?Yes, if you have installed the program and are fairly
certain you will not need the source again, there is no
point in keeping it hanging around. The surest way to do
this is:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports
&prompt.root; make cleanwhich will go through all the ports subdirectories and
delete everything except the skeletons for each
port.It is possible to achieve the same effect without
recursively calling each makefile. For example, you
can delete all of the work subdirectories directly
with the following command:
&prompt.root; find /usr/ports -depth -name work -exec rm -rf {} \;I tried that and it still left all those tarballs or
whatever you called them in the
distfiles directory. Can I delete
those as well?Yes, if you are sure you have finished with them,
those can go as well. They can be removed manually, or by
using make distclean.I like having lots and lots of programs to play with.
Is there any way of installing all the ports in one
go?Just do:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports
&prompt.root; make installBe careful, as some ports may install files with the same
name. If you install two graphics ports and they both install
/usr/local/bin/plot then you will obviously
have problems.OK, I tried that, but I thought it would take a very
long time so I went to bed and left it to get on with it.
When I looked at the computer this morning, it had only
done three and a half ports. Did something go
wrong?No, the problem is that some of the ports need to ask
you questions that we cannot answer for you (e.g., Do
you want to print on A4 or US letter sized paper?)
and they need to have someone on hand to answer
them.I really do not want to spend all day staring at the
monitor. Any better ideas?OK, do this before you go to bed/work/the local
park:
- &prompt.root cd /usr/ports
+ &prompt.root; cd /usr/ports
&prompt.root; make -DBATCH installThis will install every port that does
not require user input. Then, when
you come back, do:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports
&prompt.root; make -DINTERACTIVE installto finish the job.At work, we are using frobble, which
is in your ports collection, but we have altered it quite a
bit to get it to do what we need. Is there any way of making
our own packages, so we can distribute it more easily around
our sites?No problem, assuming you know how to make patches for
your changes:&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/somewhere/frobble
&prompt.root; make extract
&prompt.root; cd work/frobble-2.8
[Apply your patches]
&prompt.root; cd ../..
&prompt.root; make packageThis ports stuff is really clever. I am desperate to
find out how you did it. What is the secret?Nothing secret about it at all, just look at the
bsd.port.mk and
bsd.port.subdir.mk files in
/usr/ports/Mk/.(Readers with an aversion to intricate shell-scripts are
advised not to look at the files in this directory.)Help! This Port Is Broken!If you come across a port that does not work for you, there are
a few things you can do, including:Fix it! The Porter's
Handbook includes detailed information on the
"Ports" infrastructure so that you can fix the occasional
broken port or even submit your own!Gripe—by email only! Send
email to the maintainer of the port first. Type make
maintainer or read the Makefile
to find the maintainer's email address. Remember to include
the name and version of the port (send the
$FreeBSD: line from the
Makefile) and the output leading up to the
error when you email the maintainer. If you do not get a
response from the maintainer, you can use
send-pr to submit a bug report.Grab the package from an ftp site near you. The
master package collection is on ftp.FreeBSD.org in the packages
directory, but be sure to check your local mirror
first! These are more likely to work
than trying to compile from source and are a lot faster as
well. Use the &man.pkg.add.1; program to install the package
on your system.
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MatthewDillonMuch of this chapter has been taken from the
security(7) manual page by SecuritysecuritySynopsisThis chapter will provide a basic introduction to system security
concepts, some general good rules of thumb, and some advanced topics
under FreeBSD. A lot of the topics covered here can be applied
to system and Internet security in general as well. The Internet
is no longer a friendly place in which everyone
wants to be your kind neighbor. Securing your system is imperative
to protect your data, intellectual property, time, and much more
from the hands of hackers and the like.FreeBSD provides an array of utilities and mechanisms to
ensure the integrity and security of your system and
network.After reading this chapter, you will know:Basic system security concepts, in respect to FreeBSD.About the various crypt mechanisms available in FreeBSD,
such as DES and MD5.How to setup S/Key, an alternative, one-time password
authentication system.How to setup Kerberos, another alternative
authentication system.How to create firewalls using IPFW.How to configure IPSec.How to configure and use OpenSSH, FreeBSD's SSH
implementation.Before reading this chapter, you should:Understand basic FreeBSD and Internet concepts.IntroductionSecurity is a function that begins and ends with the system
administrator. While all BSD Unix multi-user systems have some
inherent security, the job of building and maintaining additional
security mechanisms to keep those users honest is
probably one of the single largest undertakings of the sysadmin.
Machines are only as secure as you make them, and security concerns
are ever competing with the human necessity for convenience. Unix
systems, in general, are capable of running a huge number of
simultaneous processes and many of these processes operate as
servers – meaning that external entities can connect and talk
to them. As yesterday's mini-computers and mainframes become
today's desktops, and as computers become networked and
internetworked, security becomes an even bigger issue.Security is best implemented through a layered
onion approach. In a nutshell, what you want to do is
to create as many layers of security as are convenient and then
carefully monitor the system for intrusions. You do not want to
overbuild your security or you will interfere with the detection
side, and detection is one of the single most important aspects of
any security mechanism. For example, it makes little sense to set
the schg flags (see &man.chflags.1;) on every
system binary because
while this may temporarily protect the binaries, it prevents an
attacker who has broken in from making an easily detectable change
that may result in your security mechanisms not detecting the attacker
at all.System security also pertains to dealing with various forms of
attack, including attacks that attempt to crash, or otherwise make a
system unusable, but do not attempt to compromise the
root account (break root).
Security concerns
can be split up into several categories:Denial of service attacks.User account compromises.Root compromise through accessible servers.Root compromise via user accounts.Backdoor creation.DoS attacksDenial of Service (DoS)securityDoS attacksDenial of Service (DoS)Denial of Service (DoS)A denial of service attack is an action that deprives the
machine of needed resources. Typically, DoS attacks are
brute-force mechanisms that attempt to crash or otherwise make a
machine unusable by overwhelming its servers or network stack. Some
DoS attacks try to take advantage of bugs in the networking
stack to crash a machine with a single packet. The latter can only
be fixed by applying a bug fix to the kernel. Attacks on servers
can often be fixed by properly specifying options to limit the load
the servers incur on the system under adverse conditions.
Brute-force network attacks are harder to deal with. A
spoofed-packet attack, for example, is nearly impossible to stop,
short of cutting your system off from the Internet. It may not be
able to take your machine down, but it can saturate your
Internet connection.securityaccount compromisesA user account compromise is even more common than a DoS
attack. Many sysadmins still run standard
telnetd, rlogind,
rshd,
and ftpd servers on their machines.
These servers, by default, do
not operate over encrypted connections. The result is that if you
have any moderate-sized user base, one or more of your users logging
into your system from a remote location (which is the most common
and convenient way to login to a system) will have his or her
password sniffed. The attentive system admin will analyze his
remote access logs looking for suspicious source addresses even for
successful logins.One must always assume that once an attacker has access to a
user account, the attacker can break root.
However, the reality is that in a well secured and maintained system,
access to a user account does not necessarily give the attacker
access to root. The distinction is important
because without access to root the attacker
cannot generally hide his tracks and may, at best, be able to do
nothing more than mess with the user's files, or crash the machine.
User account compromises are very common because users tend not to
take the precautions that sysadmins take.securitybackdoorsSystem administrators must keep in mind that there are
potentially many ways to break root on a machine.
The attacker may know the root password,
the attacker may find a bug in a root-run server and be able
to break root over a network
connection to that server, or the attacker may know of a bug in
a suid-root program that allows the attacker to break
root once he has broken into a user's account.
If an attacker has found a way to break root
on a machine, the attacker may not have a need
to install a backdoor. Many of the root holes
found and closed to date involve a considerable amount of work
by the attacker to cleanup after himself, so most attackers install
backdoors. A backdoor provides the attacker with a way to easily
regain root access to the system, but it
also gives the smart system administrator a convenient way
to detect the intrusion.
Making it impossible for an attacker to install a backdoor may
actually be detrimental to your security, because it will not
close off the hole the attacker found to break in the first
place.Security remedies should always be implemented with a
multi-layered onion peel approach and can be
categorized as follows:Securing root and staff accounts.Securing root – root-run servers
and suid/sgid binaries.Securing user accounts.Securing the password file.Securing the kernel core, raw devices, and
filesystems.Quick detection of inappropriate changes made to the
system.Paranoia.The next section of this chapter will cover the above bullet
items in greater depth.securitysecuringSecuring FreeBSDCommand vs. ProtocolThroughout this document, we will use
bold text to refer to a command or
application. This is used for instances such as ssh, since it is
a protocol as well as command.The sections that follow will cover the methods of securing your
FreeBSD system that were mentioned in the last section of this chapter.Securing the root Account and
Staff AccountssuFirst off, do not bother securing staff accounts if you have
not secured the root account.
Most systems have a password assigned to the root
account. The first thing you do is assume
that the password is always compromised.
This does not mean that you should remove the password. The
password is almost always necessary for console access to the
machine. What it does mean is that you should not make it
possible to use the password outside of the console or possibly
even with the &man.su.1; command. For example, make sure that
your pty's are specified as being unsecure in the
/etc/ttys file so that direct
root logins
via telnet or rlogin are
disallowed. If using other login services such as
sshd, make sure that direct
root logins are disabled there as well.
You can do this by editing
your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, and making
sure that PermitRootLogin is set to
NO. Consider every access method –
services such as FTP often fall through the cracks.
Direct root logins should only be allowed
via the system console.wheelOf course, as a sysadmin you have to be able to get to
root, so we open up a few holes.
But we make sure these holes require additional password
verification to operate. One way to make root
accessible is to add appropriate staff accounts to the
wheel group (in
/etc/group). The staff members placed in the
wheel group are allowed to
su to root.
You should never give staff
members native wheel access by putting them in the
wheel group in their password entry. Staff
accounts should be placed in a staff group, and
then added to the wheel group via the
/etc/group file. Only those staff members
who actually need to have root access
should be placed in the
wheel group. It is also possible, when using
an authentication method such as Kerberos, to use Kerberos'
.k5login file in the root
account to allow a &man.ksu.1; to root
without having to place anyone at all in the
wheel group. This may be the better solution
since the wheel mechanism still allows an
intruder to break root if the intruder
has gotten hold of your
password file and can break into a staff account. While having
the wheel mechanism is better than having
nothing at all, it is not necessarily the safest option.An indirect way to secure staff accounts, and ultimately
root access is to use an alternative
login access method and
do what is known as starring out the crypted
password for the staff accounts. Using the &man.vipw.8;
command, one can replace each instance of a crypted password
with a single * character.
This command will update the /etc/master.passwd
file and user/password database to disable password-authenticated
logins.A staff account entry such as:foobar:R9DT/Fa1/LV9U:1000:1000::0:0:Foo Bar:/home/foobar:/usr/local/bin/tcshShould be changed to this:foobar:*:1000:1000::0:0:Foo Bar:/home/foobar:/usr/local/bin/tcshThis change will prevent normal logins from occurring,
since the encrypted password will never match
*. With this done,
staff members must use
another mechanism to authenticate themselves such as
&man.kerberos.1; or &man.ssh.1; using a public/private key
pair. When using something like Kerberos, one generally must
secure the machines which run the Kerberos servers and your
desktop workstation. When using a public/private key pair
with ssh, one must generally secure
the machine used to login from (typically
one's workstation). An additional layer of protection can be
added to the key pair by password protecting the key pair when
creating it with &man.ssh-keygen.1;. Being able to
star out the passwords for staff accounts also
guarantees that staff members can only login through secure
access methods that you have setup. This forces all staff
members to use secure, encrypted connections for all of their
sessions, which closes an important hole used by many
intruders: sniffing the network from an unrelated,
less secure machine.The more indirect security mechanisms also assume that you are
logging in from a more restrictive server to a less restrictive
server. For example, if your main box is running all sorts of
servers, your workstation should not be running any. In order for
your workstation to be reasonably secure you should run as few
servers as possible, up to and including no servers at all, and
you should run a password-protected screen blanker. Of course,
given physical access to a workstation an attacker can break any
sort of security you put on it. This is definitely a problem that
you should consider, but you should also consider the fact that the
vast majority of break-ins occur remotely, over a network, from
people who do not have physical access to your workstation or
servers.KerberosUsing something like Kerberos also gives you the ability to
disable or change the password for a staff account in one place,
and have it immediately effect all the machines on which the staff
member may have an account. If a staff member's account gets
compromised, the ability to instantly change his password on all
machines should not be underrated. With discrete passwords,
changing a password on N machines can be a mess. You can also
impose re-passwording restrictions with Kerberos: not only can a
Kerberos ticket be made to timeout after a while, but the Kerberos
system can require that the user choose a new password after a
certain period of time (say, once a month).Securing Root-run Servers and SUID/SGID BinariesntalkcomsatfingersandboxessshdtelnetdrshdrlogindThe prudent sysadmin only runs the servers he needs to, no
more, no less. Be aware that third party servers are often the
most bug-prone. For example, running an old version of
imapd or
popper is like giving a universal
root ticket out to the entire world.
Never run a server that you have not checked out carefully.
Many servers do not need to be run as root.
For example, the ntalk,
comsat, and
finger daemons can be run in special
user sandboxes. A sandbox is not perfect,
unless you go through a large amount of trouble, but the onion
approach to security still stands: If someone is able to break
in through a server running in a sandbox, they still have to
break out of the sandbox. The more layers the attacker must
break through, the lower the likelihood of his success. Root
holes have historically been found in virtually every server
ever run as root, including basic system servers.
If you are running a machine through which people only login via
sshd and never login via
telnetd or
rshd or
rlogind, then turn off those
services!FreeBSD now defaults to running
ntalkd,
comsat, and
finger in a sandbox. Another program
which may be a candidate for running in a sandbox is &man.named.8;.
/etc/defaults/rc.conf includes the arguments
necessary to run named in a sandbox in a
commented-out form. Depending on whether you are installing a new
system or upgrading an existing system, the special user accounts
used by these sandboxes may not be installed. The prudent
sysadmin would research and implement sandboxes for servers
whenever possible.sendmailThere are a number of other servers that typically do not run
in sandboxes: sendmail,
popper,
imapd, ftpd,
and others. There are alternatives to some of these, but
installing them may require more work than you are willing to
perform (the convenience factor strikes again). You may have to
run these servers as root and rely on other
mechanisms to detect break-ins that might occur through them.The other big potential root holes in a
system are the
suid-root and sgid binaries installed on the system. Most of
these binaries, such as rlogin, reside
in /bin, /sbin,
/usr/bin, or /usr/sbin.
While nothing is 100% safe, the system-default suid and sgid
binaries can be considered reasonably safe. Still,
root holes are occasionally found in these
binaries. A root hole was found in
Xlib in 1998 that made
xterm (which is typically suid)
vulnerable. It is better to be safe than sorry and the prudent
sysadmin will restrict suid binaries, that only staff should run,
to a special group that only staff can access, and get rid of
(chmod 000) any suid binaries that nobody uses.
A server with no display generally does not need an
xterm binary. Sgid binaries can be
almost as dangerous. If an intruder can break an sgid-kmem binary,
the intruder might be able to read /dev/kmem
and thus read the crypted password file, potentially compromising
any passworded account. Alternatively an intruder who breaks
group kmem can monitor keystrokes sent through
pty's, including pty's used by users who login through secure
methods. An intruder that breaks the tty
group can write to
almost any user's tty. If a user is running a terminal program or
emulator with a keyboard-simulation feature, the intruder can
potentially generate a data stream that causes the user's terminal
to echo a command, which is then run as that user.Securing User AccountsUser accounts are usually the most difficult to secure. While
you can impose Draconian access restrictions on your staff and
star out their passwords, you may not be able to
do so with any general user accounts you might have. If you do
have sufficient control, then you may win out and be able to secure
the user accounts properly. If not, you simply have to be more
vigilant in your monitoring of those accounts. Use of
ssh and Kerberos for user accounts is
more problematic, due to the extra administration and technical
support required, but still a very good solution compared to a
crypted password file.Securing the Password FileThe only sure fire way is to * out as many
passwords as you can and use ssh or
Kerberos for access to those accounts. Even though the crypted
password file (/etc/spwd.db) can only be read
by root, it may be possible for an intruder
to obtain read access to that file even if the attacker cannot
obtain root-write access.Your security scripts should always check for and report
changes to the password file (see the Checking file integrity section
below).Securing the Kernel Core, Raw Devices, and
FilesystemsIf an attacker breaks root he can do
just about anything, but
there are certain conveniences. For example, most modern kernels
have a packet sniffing device driver built in. Under FreeBSD it
is called the bpf device. An intruder
will commonly attempt to run a packet sniffer on a compromised
machine. You do not need to give the intruder the capability and
most systems do not have the need for the
bpf device compiled in.sysctlBut even if you turn off the bpf
device, you still have
/dev/mem and
/dev/kmem
to worry about. For that matter, the intruder can still write to
raw disk devices. Also, there is another kernel feature called
the module loader, &man.kldload.8;. An enterprising intruder can
use a KLD module to install his own bpf
device, or other sniffing
device, on a running kernel. To avoid these problems you have to
run the kernel at a higher secure level, at least securelevel 1.
The securelevel can be set with a sysctl on
the kern.securelevel variable. Once you have
set the securelevel to 1, write access to raw devices will be
denied and special chflags flags,
such as schg,
will be enforced. You must also ensure that the
schg flag is set on critical startup binaries,
directories, and script files – everything that gets run up
to the point where the securelevel is set. This might be overdoing
it, and upgrading the system is much more difficult when you
operate at a higher secure level. You may compromise and run the
system at a higher secure level but not set the
schg flag for every system file and directory
under the sun. Another possibility is to simply mount
/ and /usr read-only.
It should be noted that being too Draconian in what you attempt to
protect may prevent the all-important detection of an
intrusion.Checking File Integrity: Binaries, Configuration Files,
Etc.When it comes right down to it, you can only protect your core
system configuration and control files so much before the
convenience factor rears its ugly head. For example, using
chflags to set the schg bit
on most of the files in / and
/usr is probably counterproductive, because
while it may protect the files, it also closes a detection window.
The last layer of your security onion is perhaps the most
important – detection. The rest of your security is pretty
much useless (or, worse, presents you with a false sense of
safety) if you cannot detect potential incursions. Half the job
of the onion is to slow down the attacker, rather than stop him, in
order to give the detection side of the equation a chance to catch
him in the act.The best way to detect an incursion is to look for modified,
missing, or unexpected files. The best way to look for modified
files is from another (often centralized) limited-access system.
Writing your security scripts on the extra-secure limited-access
system makes them mostly invisible to potential attackers, and this
is important. In order to take maximum advantage you generally
have to give the limited-access box significant access to the
other machines in the business, usually either by doing a
read-only NFS export of the other machines to the limited-access
box, or by setting up ssh key-pairs to
allow the limited-access box to ssh to
the other machines. Except for its network traffic, NFS is the
least visible method – allowing you to monitor the
filesystems on each client box virtually undetected. If your
limited-access server is connected to the client boxes through a
switch, the NFS method is often the better choice. If your
limited-access server is connected to the client boxes through a
hub, or through several layers of routing, the NFS method may be
too insecure (network-wise) and using
ssh may be the better choice even with
the audit-trail tracks that ssh
lays.Once you give a limited-access box, at least read access to the
client systems it is supposed to monitor, you must write scripts
to do the actual monitoring. Given an NFS mount, you can write
scripts out of simple system utilities such as &man.find.1; and
&man.md5.1;. It is best to physically md5 the client-box files
at least once a day, and to test control files such as those
found in /etc and
/usr/local/etc even more often. When
mismatches are found, relative to the base md5 information the
limited-access machine knows is valid, it should scream at a
sysadmin to go check it out. A good security script will also
check for inappropriate suid binaries and for new or deleted files
on system partitions such as / and
/usr.When using ssh rather than NFS,
writing the security script is much more difficult. You
essentially have to scp the scripts to the client
box in order to
run them, making them visible, and for safety you also need to
scp the binaries (such as find) that those
scripts use. The ssh client on the
client box may already be compromised. All in all, using
ssh may be necessary when running over
unsecure links, but it is also a lot harder to deal with.A good security script will also check for changes to user and
staff members access configuration files:
.rhosts, .shosts,
.ssh/authorized_keys and so forth…
files that might fall outside the purview of the
MD5 check.If you have a huge amount of user disk space, it may take too
long to run through every file on those partitions. In this case,
setting mount flags to disallow suid binaries and devices on those
partitions is a good idea. The nodev and
nosuid options (see &man.mount.8;) are what you
want to look into. You should probably scan them anyway, at least
once a week, since the object of this layer is to detect a break-in
whether or not the break-in is effective.Process accounting (see &man.accton.8;) is a relatively
low-overhead feature of the operating system which might help
as a post-break-in evaluation mechanism. It is especially
useful in tracking down how an intruder has actually broken into
a system, assuming the file is still intact after the break-in
occurs.Finally, security scripts should process the log files, and the
logs themselves should be generated in as secure a manner as
possible – remote syslog can be very useful. An intruder
tries to cover his tracks, and log files are critical to the
sysadmin trying to track down the time and method of the initial
break-in. One way to keep a permanent record of the log files is
to run the system console to a serial port and collect the
information on a continuing basis through a secure machine
monitoring the consoles.ParanoiaA little paranoia never hurts. As a rule, a sysadmin can add
any number of security features, as long as they do not effect
convenience, and can add security features that
do effect convenience with some added thought.
Even more importantly, a security administrator should mix it up a
bit – if you use recommendations such as those given by this
document verbatim, you give away your methodologies to the
prospective attacker who also has access to this document.Denial of Service AttacksDenial of Service (DoS)This section covers Denial of Service attacks. A DoS attack
is typically a packet attack. While there is not much you can do
about modern spoofed packet attacks that saturate your network,
you can generally limit the damage by ensuring that the attacks
cannot take down your servers.Limiting server forks.Limiting springboard attacks (ICMP response attacks, ping
broadcast, etc.).Kernel Route Cache.A common DoS attack is against a forking server that attempts
to cause the server to eat processes, file descriptors, and memory,
until the machine dies. inetd
(see &man.inetd.8;) has several
options to limit this sort of attack. It should be noted that
while it is possible to prevent a machine from going down, it is
not generally possible to prevent a service from being disrupted
by the attack. Read the inetd manual
page carefully and pay
specific attention to the
-c
,
-C
,
and
-R
options. Note that spoofed-IP attacks
will circumvent the
-C
option to
inetd, so
typically a combination of options must be used. Some standalone
servers have self-fork-limitation parameters.Sendmail has its
-OMaxDaemonChildren
option, which tends to work
much better than trying to use sendmail's load limiting options
due to the load lag. You should specify a
MaxDaemonChildren parameter, when you start
sendmail, high enough to handle your
expected load, but not so high that the computer cannot handle that
number of sendmails without falling on
its face. It is also prudent to run sendmail in queued mode
(
-ODeliveryMode=queued
) and to run the daemon
(sendmail -bd) separate from the queue-runs
(sendmail -q15m). If you still want real-time
delivery you can run the queue at a much lower interval, such as
-q1m
, but be sure to specify a reasonable
MaxDaemonChildren option for
that sendmail to prevent cascade failures.Syslogd can be attacked directly
and it is strongly recommended that you use the
-s
option whenever possible, and the
-a
option
otherwise.You should also be fairly careful with connect-back services
such as tcpwrapper's reverse-identd,
which can be attacked directly. You generally do not want to use
the reverse-ident feature of
tcpwrappers for this reason.It is a very good idea to protect internal services from
external access by firewalling them off at your border routers.
The idea here is to prevent saturation attacks from outside your
LAN, not so much to protect internal services from network-based
root compromise.
Always configure an exclusive firewall, i.e.,
firewall everything except ports A, B,
C, D, and M-Z. This way you can firewall off all of your
low ports except for certain specific services such as
named (if you are primary for a zone),
ntalkd,
sendmail, and other Internet-accessible
services. If you try to configure the firewall the other way
– as an inclusive or permissive firewall, there is a good
chance that you will forget to close a couple of
services, or that you will add a new internal service and forget
to update the firewall. You can still open up the high-numbered
port range on the firewall, to allow permissive-like operation,
without compromising your low ports. Also take note that FreeBSD
allows you to control the range of port numbers used for dynamic
binding, via the various net.inet.ip.portrangesysctl's (sysctl -a | fgrep
portrange), which can also ease the complexity of your
firewall's configuration. For example, you might use a normal
first/last range of 4000 to 5000, and a hiport range of 49152 to
65535, then block off everything under 4000 in your firewall
(except for certain specific Internet-accessible ports, of
course).ICMP_BANDLIMAnother common DoS attack is called a springboard attack
– to attack a server in a manner that causes the server to
generate responses which overloads the server, the local
network, or some other machine. The most common attack of this
nature is the ICMP ping broadcast attack.
The attacker spoofs ping packets sent to your LAN's broadcast
address with the source IP address set to the actual machine they
wish to attack. If your border routers are not configured to
stomp on ping's to broadcast addresses, your LAN winds up
generating sufficient responses to the spoofed source address to
saturate the victim, especially when the attacker uses the same
trick on several dozen broadcast addresses over several dozen
different networks at once. Broadcast attacks of over a hundred
and twenty megabits have been measured. A second common
springboard attack is against the ICMP error reporting system.
By constructing packets that generate ICMP error responses, an
attacker can saturate a server's incoming network and cause the
server to saturate its outgoing network with ICMP responses. This
type of attack can also crash the server by running it out of
mbuf's, especially if the server cannot drain the ICMP responses
it generates fast enough. The FreeBSD kernel has a new kernel
compile option called
ICMP_BANDLIM
which limits the effectiveness
of these sorts of attacks. The last major class of springboard
attacks is related to certain internal
inetd services such as the
udp echo service. An attacker simply spoofs a UDP packet with the
source address being server A's echo port, and the destination
address being server B's echo port, where server A and B are both
on your LAN. The two servers then bounce this one packet back and
forth between each other. The attacker can overload both servers
and their LANs simply by injecting a few packets in this manner.
Similar problems exist with the internal
chargen port. A
competent sysadmin will turn off all of these inetd-internal test
services.Spoofed packet attacks may also be used to overload the kernel
route cache. Refer to the net.inet.ip.rtexpire,
rtminexpire, and rtmaxcachesysctl parameters. A spoofed packet attack
that uses a random source IP will cause the kernel to generate a
temporary cached route in the route table, viewable with
netstat -rna | fgrep W3. These routes
typically timeout in 1600 seconds or so. If the kernel detects
that the cached route table has gotten too big it will dynamically
reduce the rtexpire but will never decrease it
to less than rtminexpire. There are two
problems:The kernel does not react quickly enough when a lightly
loaded server is suddenly attacked.The rtminexpire is not low enough for
the kernel to survive a sustained attack.If your servers are connected to the Internet via a T3 or
better, it may be prudent to manually override both
rtexpire and rtminexpire
via &man.sysctl.8;. Never set either parameter to zero (unless
you want to crash the machine). Setting both
parameters to 2 seconds should be sufficient to protect the route
table from attack.Access Issues with Kerberos and SSHsshKerberosThere are a few issues with both Kerberos and
ssh that need to be addressed if
you intend to use them. Kerberos V is an excellent
authentication protocol, but there are bugs in the kerberized
telnet and
rlogin applications that make them
unsuitable for dealing with binary streams. Also, by default
Kerberos does not encrypt a session unless you use the
-x
option. ssh
encrypts everything by default.ssh works quite well in every
respect except that it forwards encryption keys by default. What
this means is that if you have a secure workstation holding keys
that give you access to the rest of the system, and you
ssh to an unsecure machine, your keys
becomes exposed. The actual keys themselves are not exposed, but
ssh installs a forwarding port for the
duration of your login, and if an attacker has broken
root on the
unsecure machine he can utilize that port to use your keys to gain
access to any other machine that your keys unlock.We recommend that you use ssh in
combination with Kerberos whenever possible for staff logins.
ssh can be compiled with Kerberos
support. This reduces your reliance on potentially exposable
ssh keys while at the same time
protecting passwords via Kerberos. ssh
keys should only be used for automated tasks from secure machines
(something that Kerberos is unsuited to do). We also recommend that
you either turn off key-forwarding in the
ssh configuration, or that you make use
of the from=IP/DOMAIN option that
ssh allows in its
authorized_keys file to make the key only
usable to entities logging in from specific machines.BillSwingleParts rewritten and updated by DES, MD5, and CryptsecuritycryptcryptDESMD5Every user on a Unix system has a password associated with
their account. It seems obvious that these passwords need to be
known only to the user and the actual operating system. In
order to keep these passwords secret, they are encrypted with
what is known as a one-way hash, that is, they can
only be easily encrypted but not decrypted. In other words, what
we told you a moment ago was obvious is not even true: the
operating system itself does not really know
the password. It only knows the encrypted
form of the password. The only way to get the
plain-text password is by a brute force search of the
space of possible passwords.Unfortunately the only secure way to encrypt passwords when
Unix came into being was based on DES, the Data Encryption
Standard. This was not such a problem for users resident in
the US, but since the source code for DES could not be exported
outside the US, FreeBSD had to find a way to both comply with
US law and retain compatibility with all the other Unix
variants that still used DES.The solution was to divide up the encryption libraries
so that US users could install the DES libraries and use
DES but international users still had an encryption method
that could be exported abroad. This is how FreeBSD came to
use MD5 as its default encryption method. MD5 is believed to
be more secure than DES, so installing DES is offered primarily
for compatibility reasons.Recognizing Your Crypt MechanismBefore FreeBSD 4.4 libcrypt.a was a
symbolic link pointing to the library which was used for
encryption. FreeBSD 4.4 changed libcrypt.a to
provide a configurable password authentication hash library.
Currently the library supports DES, MD5 and Blowfish hash
functions. By default FreeBSD uses MD5 to encrypt
passwords.It is pretty easy to identify which encryption method
FreeBSD is set up to use. Examining the encrypted passwords in
the /etc/master.passwd file is one way.
Passwords encrypted with the MD5 hash are longer than those
encrypted with the DES hash and also begin with the characters
$1$. Passwords starting with
$2$ are encrypted with the
Blowfish hash function. DES password strings do not
have any particular identifying characteristics, but they are
shorter than MD5 passwords, and are coded in a 64-character
alphabet which does not include the $
character, so a relatively short string which does not begin with
a dollar sign is very likely a DES password.The password format used for new passwords is controlled
by the passwd_format login capability in
/etc/login.conf, which takes values of
des or md5 or
blf. See the &man.login.conf.5; manual page
for more information about login capabilities.S/KeyS/KeysecurityS/KeyS/Key is a one-time password scheme based on a one-way hash
function. FreeBSD uses the MD4 hash for compatibility but other
systems have used MD5 and DES-MAC. S/Key has been part of the
FreeBSD base system since version 1.1.5 and is also used on a
growing number of other operating systems. S/Key is a registered
trademark of Bell Communications Research, Inc.From version 5.0 of FreeBSD, S/Key has been replaced with
the functionally equivalent OPIE (Onetime Passwords In
Everything). OPIE uses the MD5 hash by default.There are three different sorts of passwords which we will talk
about in the discussion below. The first is your usual Unix-style or
Kerberos password; we will call this a Unix password.
The second sort is the one-time password which is generated by the
S/Key key program or the OPIE
opiekey program and accepted by the
keyinit or opiepasswd programs
and the login prompt; we will
call this a one-time password. The final sort of
password is the secret password which you give to the
key/opiekey programs (and
sometimes the
keyinit/opiepasswd programs)
which it uses to generate
one-time passwords; we will call it a secret password
or just unqualified password.The secret password does not have anything to do with your Unix
password; they can be the same but this is not recommended. S/Key
and OPIE secret passwords are not limited to 8 characters like Unix
passwords, they can be as long as you like. Passwords of six or
seven word long phrases are fairly common. For the most part, the
S/Key or OPIE system operates completely independently of the Unix
password system.Besides the password, there are two other pieces of data that
are important to S/Key and OPIE. One is what is known as the
seed or key, consisting of two letters
and five digits. The other is what is called the iteration
count, a number between 1 and 100. S/Key creates the
one-time password by concatenating the seed and the secret password,
then applying the MD4/MD5 hash as many times as specified by the
iteration count and turning the result into six short English words.
These six English words are your one-time password. The
authentication system (primarily PAM) keeps
track of the last one-time password used, and the user is
authenticated if the hash of the user-provided password is equal to
the previous password. Because a one-way hash is used it is
impossible to generate future one-time passwords if a successfully
used password is captured; the iteration count is decremented after
each successful login to keep the user and the login program in
sync. When the iteration count gets down to 1, S/Key and OPIE must be
reinitialized.There are three programs involved in each system
which we will discuss below. The key and
opiekey programs accept an iteration
count, a seed, and a secret password, and generate a one-time
password or or a consecutive list of one-time passwords. The
keyinit and opiepasswd
programs are used to initialize S/Key and OPIE respectively,
and to change passwords, iteration counts, or seeds; they
take either a secret passphrase, or an iteration count,
seed, and one-time password. The keyinfo
and opieinfo programs examine the
relevant credentials files (/etc/skeykeys or
/etc/opiekeys) and print out the invoking user's
current iteration count and seed.There are four different sorts of operations we will cover. The
first is using keyinit or
opiepasswd over a secure connection to set up
one-time-passwords for the first time, or to change your password
or seed. The second operation is using keyinit
or opiepasswd over an insecure connection, in
conjunction with key or opiekey
over a secure connection, to do the same. The third is using
key/opiekey to log in over
an insecure connection. The fourth is using key
or opiekey to generate a number of keys which
can be written down or printed out to carry with you when going to
some location without secure connections to anywhere.Secure Connection InitializationTo initialize S/Key for the first time, change your password,
or change your seed while logged in over a secure connection
(e.g., on the console of a machine or via ssh), use the
keyinit command without any parameters while
logged in as yourself:&prompt.user; keyinit
Adding unfurl:
Reminder - Only use this method if you are directly connected.
If you are using telnet or rlogin exit with no password and use keyinit -s.
Enter secret password:
Again secret password:
ID unfurl s/key is 99 to17757
DEFY CLUB PRO NASH LACE SOFTFor OPIE, opiepasswd is used instead:&prompt.user; opiepasswd -c
[grimreaper] ~ $ opiepasswd -f -c
Adding unfurl:
Only use this method from the console; NEVER from remote. If you are using
telnet, xterm, or a dial-in, type ^C now or exit with no password.
Then run opiepasswd without the -c parameter.
Using MD5 to compute responses.
Enter new secret pass phrase:
Again new secret pass phrase:
ID unfurl OTP key is 499 to4268
MOS MALL GOAT ARM AVID COED
At the Enter new secret pass phrase: or
Enter secret password: prompts, you
should enter a password or phrase. Remember, this is not the
password that you will use to login with, this is used to generate
your one-time login keys. The ID line gives the
parameters of your particular instance; your login name, the
iteration count, and seed. When logging in the system
will remember these parameters and present them back to you so you
do not have to remember them. The last line gives the particular
one-time password which corresponds to those parameters and your
secret password; if you were to re-login immediately, this
one-time password is the one you would use.Insecure Connection InitializationTo initialize or change your secret password over an
insecure connection, you will need to already have a secure
connection to some place where you can run key
or opiekey; this might be in the form of a
desk accessory on a Macintosh, or a shell prompt on a machine you
trust. You will also need to make up an iteration count (100 is
probably a good value), and you may make up your own seed or use a
randomly-generated one. Over on the insecure connection (to the
machine you are initializing), use the keyinit
-s command:&prompt.user; keyinit -s
Updating unfurl:
Old key: to17758
Reminder you need the 6 English words from the key command.
Enter sequence count from 1 to 9999: 100
Enter new key [default to17759]:
s/key 100 to 17759
s/key access password:
s/key access password:CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GOREFor OPIE, you need to use opiepasswd:&prompt.user; opiepasswd
Updating unfurl:
You need the response from an OTP generator.
Old secret pass phrase:
otp-md5 498 to4268 ext
Response: GAME GAG WELT OUT DOWN CHAT
New secret pass phrase:
otp-md5 499 to4269
Response: LINE PAP MILK NELL BUOY TROY
ID mark OTP key is 499 gr4269
LINE PAP MILK NELL BUOY TROY
To accept the default seed (which the
keyinit program confusingly calls a
key), press Return.
Then before entering an
access password, move over to your secure connection or S/Key desk
accessory, and give it the same parameters:&prompt.user; key 100 to17759
Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin.
Enter secret password: <secret password>
CURE MIKE BANE HIM RACY GOREOr for OPIE:&prompt.user; opiekey 498 to4268
Using the MD5 algorithm to compute response.
Reminder: Don't use opiekey from telnet or dial-in sessions.
Enter secret pass phrase:
GAME GAG WELT OUT DOWN CHAT
Now switch back over to the insecure connection, and copy the
one-time password generated over to the relevant program.Generating a Single one-time PasswordOnce you have initialized S/Key or OPIE, when you login you will be
presented with a prompt like this:&prompt.user; telnet example.com
Trying 10.0.0.1...
Connected to example.com
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeBSD/i386 (example.com) (ttypa)
login: <username>
s/key 97 fw13894
Password: Or for OPIE:&prompt.user; telnet example.com
Trying 10.0.0.1...
Connected to example.com
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeBSD/i386 (example.com) (ttypa)
login: <username>
otp-md5 498 gr4269 ext
Password: As a side note, the S/Key and OPIE prompts have a useful feature
(not shown here): if you press Return
at the password prompt, the
prompter will turn echo on, so you can see what you are
typing. This can be extremely useful if you are attempting to
type in a password by hand, such as from a printout.MS-DOSWindowsMacOSAt this point you need to generate your one-time password to
answer this login prompt. This must be done on a trusted system
that you can run key or
opiekey on. (There are versions of these for DOS,
Windows and MacOS as well.) They need both the iteration count and
the seed as command line options. You can cut-and-paste these
right from the login prompt on the machine that you are logging
in to.On the trusted system:&prompt.user; key 97 fw13894
Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin.
Enter secret password:
WELD LIP ACTS ENDS ME HAAGFor OPIE:&prompt.user; opiekey 498 to4268
Using the MD5 algorithm to compute response.
Reminder: Don't use opiekey from telnet or dial-in sessions.
Enter secret pass phrase:
GAME GAG WELT OUT DOWN CHATNow that you have your one-time password you can continue
logging in:login: <username>
s/key 97 fw13894
Password: <return to enable echo>
s/key 97 fw13894
Password [echo on]: WELD LIP ACTS ENDS ME HAAG
Last login: Tue Mar 21 11:56:41 from 10.0.0.2 ... Generating Multiple one-time PasswordsSometimes you have to go places where you do not have
access to a trusted machine or secure connection. In this case,
it is possible to use the key command to
generate a number of one-time passwords before hand to be printed
out and taken with you. For example:&prompt.user; key -n 5 30 zz99999
Reminder - Do not use this program while logged in via telnet or rlogin.
Enter secret password: <secret password>
26: SODA RUDE LEA LIND BUDD SILT
27: JILT SPY DUTY GLOW COWL ROT
28: THEM OW COLA RUNT BONG SCOT
29: COT MASH BARR BRIM NAN FLAG
30: CAN KNEE CAST NAME FOLK BILKThe
-n 5
requests five keys in sequence, the
30
specifies what the last iteration number
should be. Note that these are printed out in
reverse order of eventual use. If you are
really paranoid, you might want to write the results down by hand;
otherwise you can cut-and-paste into lpr. Note
that each line shows both the iteration count and the one-time
password; you may still find it handy to scratch off passwords as
you use them.Restricting Use of Unix PasswordsRestrictions can be placed on the use of Unix passwords based
on the host name, user name, terminal port, or IP address of a
login session. These restrictions can be found in the
configuration file /etc/skey.access. The
&man.skey.access.5; manual page has more information on the complete
format of the file and also details some security cautions to be
aware of before depending on this file for security.If there is no /etc/skey.access file
(this is the FreeBSD default), then all users will be allowed to
use Unix passwords. If the file exists, however, then all users
will be required to use S/Key unless explicitly permitted to do
otherwise by configuration statements in the
skey.access file. In all cases, Unix
passwords are permitted on the console.Here is a sample configuration file which illustrates the
three most common sorts of configuration statements:permit internet 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0
permit user fnord
permit port ttyd0The first line (permit internet) allows
users whose IP source address (which is vulnerable to spoofing)
matches the specified value and mask, to use Unix passwords. This
should not be considered a security mechanism, but rather, a means
to remind authorized users that they are using an insecure network
and need to use S/Key for authentication.The second line (permit user) allows the
specified username, in this case fnord, to use
Unix passwords at any time. Generally speaking, this should only
be used for people who are either unable to use the
key program, like those with dumb terminals, or
those who are uneducable.The third line (permit port) allows all
users logging in on the specified terminal line to use Unix
passwords; this would be used for dial-ups.MarkMurrayContributed by MarkDapozBased on a contribution by KerberosKerberosKerberos is a network add-on system/protocol that allows users to
authenticate themselves through the services of a secure server.
Services such as remote login, remote copy, secure inter-system file
copying and other high-risk tasks are made considerably safer and more
controllable.The following instructions can be used as a guide on how to set up
Kerberos as distributed for FreeBSD. However, you should refer to the
relevant manual pages for a complete description.Installing KerberosMITKerberosinstallingKerberos is an optional component of FreeBSD. The easiest
way to install this software is by selecting the 'krb4' or
'krb5' distribution in sysinstall
during the initial installation of FreeBSD. This will install
the 'eBones' (KerberosIV) or 'Heimdal' (Kerberos5)
implementation of Kerberos. These implementations are
included because they are developed outside the USA/Canada and
were thus available to system owners outside those countries
during the era of restrictive export controls on cryptographic
code from the USA.Alternatively, the MIT implementation of Kerberos is
available from the ports collection as
security/krb5.Creating the Initial DatabaseThis is done on the Kerberos server only. First make sure that
you do not have any old Kerberos databases around. You should change
to the directory /etc/kerberosIV and check that
only the following files are present:&prompt.root; cd /etc/kerberosIV
&prompt.root; ls
README krb.conf krb.realmsIf any additional files (such as principal.*
or master_key) exist, then use the
kdb_destroy command to destroy the old Kerberos
database, or if Kerberos is not running, simply delete the extra
files.You should now edit the krb.conf and
krb.realms files to define your Kerberos realm.
In this case the realm will be EXAMPLE.COM and the
server is grunt.example.com. We edit
or create the krb.conf file:&prompt.root; cat krb.conf
EXAMPLE.COM
EXAMPLE.COM grunt.example.com admin server
CS.BERKELEY.EDU okeeffe.berkeley.edu
ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos.mit.edu
ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-1.mit.edu
ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-2.mit.edu
ATHENA.MIT.EDU kerberos-3.mit.edu
LCS.MIT.EDU kerberos.lcs.mit.edu
TELECOM.MIT.EDU bitsy.mit.edu
ARC.NASA.GOV trident.arc.nasa.govIn this case, the other realms do not need to be there. They are
here as an example of how a machine may be made aware of multiple
realms. You may wish to not include them for simplicity.The first line names the realm in which this system works. The
other lines contain realm/host entries. The first item on a line is a
realm, and the second is a host in that realm that is acting as a
key distribution center. The words admin
server following a host's name means that host also
provides an administrative database server. For further explanation
of these terms, please consult the Kerberos manual pages.Now we have to add grunt.example.com
to the EXAMPLE.COM realm and also add an entry to
put all hosts in the .example.com
domain in the EXAMPLE.COM realm. The
krb.realms file would be updated as
follows:&prompt.root; cat krb.realms
grunt.example.com EXAMPLE.COM
.example.com EXAMPLE.COM
.berkeley.edu CS.BERKELEY.EDU
.MIT.EDU ATHENA.MIT.EDU
.mit.edu ATHENA.MIT.EDUAgain, the other realms do not need to be there. They are here as
an example of how a machine may be made aware of multiple realms. You
may wish to remove them to simplify things.The first line puts the specific system into
the named realm. The rest of the lines show how to default systems of
a particular subdomain to a named realm.Now we are ready to create the database. This only needs to run
on the Kerberos server (or Key Distribution Center). Issue the
kdb_init command to do this:&prompt.root; kdb_initRealm name [default ATHENA.MIT.EDU ]:EXAMPLE.COM
You will be prompted for the database Master Password.
It is important that you NOT FORGET this password.
Enter Kerberos master key:Now we have to save the key so that servers on the local machine
can pick it up. Use the kstash command to do
this.&prompt.root; kstashEnter Kerberos master key:
Current Kerberos master key version is 1.
Master key entered. BEWARE!This saves the encrypted master password in
/etc/kerberosIV/master_key.Making It All RunTwo principals need to be added to the database for
each system that will be secured with Kerberos.
Their names are kpasswd and rcmd
These two principals are made for each system, with the instance being
the name of the individual system.These daemons, kpasswd and
rcmd allow other systems to change Kerberos
passwords and run commands like rcp,
rlogin and rsh.Now let us add these entries:&prompt.root; kdb_edit
Opening database...
Enter Kerberos master key:
Current Kerberos master key version is 1.
Master key entered. BEWARE!
Previous or default values are in [brackets] ,
enter return to leave the same, or new value.
Principal name:passwdInstance:grunt
<Not found>, Create [y] ?y
Principal: passwd, Instance: grunt, kdc_key_ver: 1
New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here
Verifying password
New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here
Random password [y] ?y
Principal's new key version = 1
Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ?Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ?Attributes [ 0 ] ?
Edit O.K.
Principal name:rcmdInstance:grunt
<Not found>, Create [y] ?
Principal: rcmd, Instance: grunt, kdc_key_ver: 1
New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here
Verifying password
New Password: <---- enter RANDOM here
Random password [y] ?
Principal's new key version = 1
Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ?Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ?Attributes [ 0 ] ?
Edit O.K.
Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exitCreating the Server FileWe now have to extract all the instances which define the
services on each machine. For this we use the
ext_srvtab command. This will create a file
which must be copied or moved by secure
means to each Kerberos client's
/etc/kerberosIV directory. This file must
be present on each server and client, and is crucial to the
operation of Kerberos.&prompt.root; ext_srvtab gruntEnter Kerberos master key:
Current Kerberos master key version is 1.
Master key entered. BEWARE!
Generating 'grunt-new-srvtab'....Now, this command only generates a temporary file which must be
renamed to srvtab so that all the servers can pick
it up. Use the mv command to move it into place on
the original system:&prompt.root; mv grunt-new-srvtab srvtabIf the file is for a client system, and the network is not deemed
safe, then copy the
client-new-srvtab to
removable media and transport it by secure physical means. Be sure to
rename it to srvtab in the client's
/etc/kerberosIV directory, and make sure it is
mode 600:&prompt.root; mv grumble-new-srvtab srvtab
&prompt.root; chmod 600 srvtabPopulating the DatabaseWe now have to add some user entries into the database. First
let us create an entry for the user jane. Use the
kdb_edit command to do this:&prompt.root; kdb_edit
Opening database...
Enter Kerberos master key:
Current Kerberos master key version is 1.
Master key entered. BEWARE!
Previous or default values are in [brackets] ,
enter return to leave the same, or new value.
Principal name:janeInstance:
<Not found>, Create [y] ?y
Principal: jane, Instance: , kdc_key_ver: 1
New Password: <---- enter a secure password here
Verifying password
New Password: <---- re-enter the password here
Principal's new key version = 1
Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ?Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ?Attributes [ 0 ] ?
Edit O.K.
Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exitTesting It All OutFirst we have to start the Kerberos daemons. NOTE that if you
have correctly edited your /etc/rc.conf then this
will happen automatically when you reboot. This is only necessary on
the Kerberos server. Kerberos clients will automagically get what
they need from the /etc/kerberosIV
directory.&prompt.root; kerberos &
Kerberos server starting
Sleep forever on error
Log file is /var/log/kerberos.log
Current Kerberos master key version is 1.
Master key entered. BEWARE!
Current Kerberos master key version is 1
Local realm: EXAMPLE.COM
&prompt.root; kadmind -n &
KADM Server KADM0.0A initializing
Please do not use 'kill -9' to kill this job, use a
regular kill instead
Current Kerberos master key version is 1.
Master key entered. BEWARE!Now we can try using the kinit command to get a
ticket for the id jane that we created
above:&prompt.user; kinit jane
MIT Project Athena (grunt.example.com)
Kerberos Initialization for "jane"
Password:Try listing the tokens using klist to see if we
really have them:&prompt.user; klist
Ticket file: /tmp/tkt245
Principal: jane@EXAMPLE.COM
Issued Expires Principal
Apr 30 11:23:22 Apr 30 19:23:22 krbtgt.EXAMPLE.COM@EXAMPLE.COMNow try changing the password using passwd to
check if the kpasswd daemon can get
authorization to the Kerberos database:&prompt.user; passwd
realm EXAMPLE.COM
Old password for jane:New Password for jane:
Verifying password
New Password for jane:
Password changed.Adding su PrivilegesKerberos allows us to give each user
who needs root privileges their own
separatesu password.
We could now add an id which is authorized to
su to root. This is
controlled by having an instance of root
associated with a principal. Using kdb_edit
we can create the entry jane.root in the
Kerberos database:&prompt.root; kdb_edit
Opening database...
Enter Kerberos master key:
Current Kerberos master key version is 1.
Master key entered. BEWARE!
Previous or default values are in [brackets] ,
enter return to leave the same, or new value.
Principal name:janeInstance:root
<Not found>, Create [y] ? y
Principal: jane, Instance: root, kdc_key_ver: 1
New Password: <---- enter a SECURE password here
Verifying password
New Password: <---- re-enter the password here
Principal's new key version = 1
Expiration date (enter yyyy-mm-dd) [ 2000-01-01 ] ?Max ticket lifetime (*5 minutes) [ 255 ] ?12 <--- Keep this short!
Attributes [ 0 ] ?
Edit O.K.
Principal name: <---- null entry here will cause an exitNow try getting tokens for it to make sure it works:&prompt.root; kinit jane.root
MIT Project Athena (grunt.example.com)
Kerberos Initialization for "jane.root"
Password:Now we need to add the user to root's
.klogin file:&prompt.root; cat /root/.klogin
jane.root@EXAMPLE.COMNow try doing the su:&prompt.user; suPassword:and take a look at what tokens we have:&prompt.root; klist
Ticket file: /tmp/tkt_root_245
Principal: jane.root@EXAMPLE.COM
Issued Expires Principal
May 2 20:43:12 May 3 04:43:12 krbtgt.EXAMPLE.COM@EXAMPLE.COMUsing Other CommandsIn an earlier example, we created a principal called
jane with an instance root.
This was based on a user with the same name as the principal, and this
is a Kerberos default; that a
<principal>.<instance> of the form
<username>.root will allow
that <username> to su to
root if the necessary entries are in the
.klogin file in root's
home directory:&prompt.root; cat /root/.klogin
jane.root@EXAMPLE.COMLikewise, if a user has in their own home directory lines of the
form:&prompt.user; cat ~/.klogin
jane@EXAMPLE.COM
jack@EXAMPLE.COMThis allows anyone in the EXAMPLE.COM realm
who has authenticated themselves to jane or
jack (via kinit, see above)
access to rlogin to jane's
account or files on this system (grunt) via
rlogin, rsh or
rcp.For example, jane now logs into another system using
Kerberos:&prompt.user; kinit
MIT Project Athena (grunt.example.com)
Password:
&prompt.user; rlogin grunt
Last login: Mon May 1 21:14:47 from grumble
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 (GR386) #0: Sat Apr 29 17:50:09 SAT 1995Or Jack logs into Jane's account on the same machine
(jane having
set up the .klogin file as above, and the person
in charge of Kerberos having set up principal
jack with a null instance:&prompt.user; kinit
&prompt.user; rlogin grunt -l jane
MIT Project Athena (grunt.example.com)
Password:
Last login: Mon May 1 21:16:55 from grumble
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD BUILT-19950429 (GR386) #0: Sat Apr 29 17:50:09 SAT 1995GaryPalmerContributed by AlexNashFirewallsfirewallsecurityfirewallsFirewalls are an area of increasing interest for people who are
connected to the Internet, and are even finding applications on private
networks to provide enhanced security. This section will hopefully
explain what firewalls are, how to use them, and how to use the
facilities provided in the FreeBSD kernel to implement them.People often think that having a firewall between your
internal network and the Big Bad Internet will solve all
your security problems. It may help, but a poorly setup firewall
system is more of a security risk than not having one at all. A
firewall can add another layer of security to your systems, but it
cannot stop a really determined cracker from penetrating your internal
network. If you let internal security lapse because you believe your
firewall to be impenetrable, you have just made the crackers job that
much easier.What Is a Firewall?There are currently two distinct types of firewalls in common use
on the Internet today. The first type is more properly called a
packet filtering router, where the kernel on a
multi-homed machine chooses whether to forward or block packets based
on a set of rules. The second type, known as a proxy
server, relies on daemons to provide authentication and to
forward packets, possibly on a multi-homed machine which has kernel
packet forwarding disabled.Sometimes sites combine the two types of firewalls, so that only a
certain machine (known as a bastion host) is
allowed to send packets through a packet filtering router onto an
internal network. Proxy services are run on the bastion host, which
are generally more secure than normal authentication
mechanisms.FreeBSD comes with a kernel packet filter (known as
IPFW), which is what the rest of this
section will concentrate on. Proxy servers can be built on FreeBSD
from third party software, but there is such a variety of proxy
servers available that it would be impossible to cover them in this
section.Packet Filtering RoutersA router is a machine which forwards packets between two or more
networks. A packet filtering router has an extra piece of code in
its kernel which compares each packet to a list of rules before
deciding if it should be forwarded or not. Most modern IP routing
software has packet filtering code within it that defaults to
forwarding all packets. To enable the filters, you need to define a
set of rules for the filtering code so it can decide if the
packet should be allowed to pass or not.To decide whether a packet should be passed on, the code looks
through its set of rules for a rule which matches the contents of
this packets headers. Once a match is found, the rule action is
obeyed. The rule action could be to drop the packet, to forward the
packet, or even to send an ICMP message back to the originator.
Only the first match counts, as the rules are searched in order.
Hence, the list of rules can be referred to as a rule
chain.The packet matching criteria varies depending on the software
used, but typically you can specify rules which depend on the source
IP address of the packet, the destination IP address, the source
port number, the destination port number (for protocols which
support ports), or even the packet type (UDP, TCP, ICMP,
etc).Proxy ServersProxy servers are machines which have had the normal system
daemons (telnetd,
ftpd, etc) replaced with special servers.
These
servers are called proxy servers as they
normally only allow onward connections to be made. This enables you
to run (for example) a proxy telnet server on your firewall host,
and people can telnet in to your firewall from the outside, go
through some authentication mechanism, and then gain access to the
internal network (alternatively, proxy servers can be used for
signals coming from the internal network and heading out).Proxy servers are normally more secure than normal servers, and
often have a wider variety of authentication mechanisms available,
including one-shot password systems so that even if
someone manages to discover what password you used, they will not be
able to use it to gain access to your systems as the password
instantly expires. As they do not actually give users access to the
host machine, it becomes a lot more difficult for someone to install
backdoors around your security system.Proxy servers often have ways of restricting access further, so
that only certain hosts can gain access to the servers, and often
they can be set up so that you can limit which users can talk to
which destination machine. Again, what facilities are available
depends largely on what proxy software you choose.What Does IPFW Allow Me to Do?ipfwIPFW, the software supplied with
FreeBSD, is a packet filtering and accounting system which resides in
the kernel, and has a user-land control utility,
&man.ipfw.8;. Together, they allow you to define and query the
rules currently used by the kernel in its routing decisions.There are two related parts to IPFW.
The firewall section allows you to perform packet filtering. There is
also an IP accounting section which allows you to track usage of your
router, based on similar rules to the firewall section. This allows
you to see (for example) how much traffic your router is getting from
a certain machine, or how much WWW (World Wide Web) traffic it is
forwarding.As a result of the way that IPFW is
designed, you can use IPFW on non-router
machines to perform packet filtering on incoming and outgoing
connections. This is a special case of the more general use of
IPFW, and the same commands and techniques
should be used in this situation.Enabling IPFW on FreeBSDipfwenablingAs the main part of the IPFW system
lives in the kernel, you will need to add one or more options to your
kernel configuration file, depending on what facilities you want, and
recompile your kernel. See "Reconfiguring your Kernel" ()
for more details on how to recompile your
kernel.There are currently three kernel configuration options relevant to
IPFW:options IPFIREWALLCompiles into the kernel the code for packet
filtering.options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSEEnables code to allow logging of packets through
&man.syslogd.8;. Without this option, even if you specify
that packets should be logged in the filter rules, nothing will
happen.options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10Limits the number of packets logged through
&man.syslogd.8; on a per entry basis. You may wish to use
this option in hostile environments in which you want to log
firewall activity, but do not want to be open to a denial of
service attack via syslog flooding.When a chain entry reaches the packet limit specified,
logging is turned off for that particular entry. To resume
logging, you will need to reset the associated counter using the
&man.ipfw.8; utility:&prompt.root; ipfw zero 4500Where 4500 is the chain entry you wish to continue
logging.Previous versions of FreeBSD contained an
IPFIREWALL_ACCT option. This is now obsolete as
the firewall code automatically includes accounting
facilities.Configuring IPFWipfwconfiguringThe configuration of the IPFW software
is done through the &man.ipfw.8; utility. The syntax for this
command looks quite complicated, but it is relatively simple once you
understand its structure.There are currently four different command categories used by the
utility: addition/deletion, listing, flushing, and clearing.
Addition/deletion is used to build the rules that control how packets
are accepted, rejected, and logged. Listing is used to examine the
contents of your rule set (otherwise known as the chain) and packet
counters (accounting). Flushing is used to remove all entries from
the chain. Clearing is used to zero out one or more accounting
entries.Altering the IPFW RulesThe syntax for this form of the command is:
ipfw-NcommandindexactionlogprotocoladdressesoptionsThere is one valid flag when using this form of the
command:-NResolve addresses and service names in output.The command given can be shortened to the
shortest unique form. The valid commands
are:addAdd an entry to the firewall/accounting rule listdeleteDelete an entry from the firewall/accounting rule
listPrevious versions of IPFW used
separate firewall and accounting entries. The present version
provides packet accounting with each firewall entry.If an index value is supplied, it is used to
place the entry at a specific point in the chain. Otherwise, the
entry is placed at the end of the chain at an index 100 greater than
the last chain entry (this does not include the default policy, rule
65535, deny).The log option causes matching rules to be
output to the system console if the kernel was compiled with
IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE.Valid actions are:rejectDrop the packet, and send an ICMP host or port unreachable
(as appropriate) packet to the source.allowPass the packet on as normal. (aliases:
pass and
accept)denyDrop the packet. The source is not notified via an
ICMP message (thus it appears that the packet never
arrived at the destination).countUpdate packet counters but do not allow/deny the packet
based on this rule. The search continues with the next chain
entry.Each action will be recognized by the
shortest unambiguous prefix.The protocols which can be specified
are:allMatches any IP packeticmpMatches ICMP packetstcpMatches TCP packetsudpMatches UDP packetsThe address specification is:fromaddress/maskporttoaddress/maskportvia interfaceYou can only specify port in
conjunction with protocols which support ports
(UDP and TCP).The
via
is optional and may specify the IP
address or domain name of a local IP interface, or an interface name
(e.g. ed0) to match only packets coming
through this interface. Interface unit numbers can be specified
with an optional wildcard. For example, ppp*
would match all kernel PPP interfaces.The syntax used to specify an
address/mask is:
address
or
address/mask-bits
or
address:mask-patternA valid hostname may be specified in place of the IP address.
mask-bits
is a decimal
number representing how many bits in the address mask should be set.
e.g. specifying 192.216.222.1/24 will create a
mask which will allow any address in a class C subnet (in this case,
192.216.222) to be matched.
mask-pattern
is an IP
address which will be logically AND'ed with the address given. The
keyword any may be used to specify any IP
address.The port numbers to be blocked are specified as:
port,port,port…
to specify either a single port or a list of ports, or
port-port
to specify a range of ports. You may also combine a single range
with a list, but the range must always be specified first.The options available are:fragMatches if the packet is not the first fragment of the
datagram.inMatches if the packet is on the way in.outMatches if the packet is on the way out.ipoptions specMatches if the IP header contains the comma separated list
of options specified in spec. The
supported list of IP options are: ssrr
(strict source route), lsrr (loose source
route), rr (record packet route), and
ts (time stamp). The absence of a
particular option may be denoted with a leading
!.establishedMatches if the packet is part of an already established
TCP connection (i.e. it has the RST or ACK bits set). You can
optimize the performance of the firewall by placing
established rules early in the
chain.setupMatches if the packet is an attempt to establish a TCP
connection (the SYN bit is set but the ACK bit is
not).tcpflags flagsMatches if the TCP header contains the comma separated
list of flags. The supported flags
are fin, syn,
rst, psh,
ack, and urg. The
absence of a particular flag may be indicated by a leading
!.icmptypes typesMatches if the ICMP type is present in the list
types. The list may be specified
as any combination of ranges and/or individual types separated
by commas. Commonly used ICMP types are: 0
echo reply (ping reply), 3 destination
unreachable, 5 redirect,
8 echo request (ping request), and
11 time exceeded (used to indicate TTL
expiration as with &man.traceroute.8;).Listing the IPFW RulesThe syntax for this form of the command is:
ipfw-a-t-NlThere are three valid flags when using this form of the
command:-aWhile listing, show counter values. This option is the
only way to see accounting counters.-tDisplay the last match times for each chain entry. The
time listing is incompatible with the input syntax used by the
&man.ipfw.8; utility.-NAttempt to resolve given addresses and service
names.Flushing the IPFW RulesThe syntax for flushing the chain is:
ipfwflushThis causes all entries in the firewall chain to be removed
except the fixed default policy enforced by the kernel (index
65535). Use caution when flushing rules, the default deny policy
will leave your system cut off from the network until allow entries
are added to the chain.Clearing the IPFW Packet CountersThe syntax for clearing one or more packet counters is:
ipfwzeroindexWhen used without an index argument,
all packet counters are cleared. If an
index is supplied, the clearing operation
only affects a specific chain entry.Example Commands for ipfwThis command will deny all packets from the host evil.crackers.org to the telnet port of the
host nice.people.org:
- &prompt.root ipfw add deny tcp from evil.crackers.org to nice.people.org 23
+ &prompt.root; ipfw add deny tcp from evil.crackers.org to nice.people.org 23The next example denies and logs any TCP traffic from the entire
crackers.org network (a class C) to
the nice.people.org machine (any
port).&prompt.root; ipfw add deny log tcp from evil.crackers.org/24 to nice.people.orgIf you do not want people sending X sessions to your internal
network (a subnet of a class C), the following command will do the
necessary filtering:&prompt.root; ipfw add deny tcp from any to my.org/28 6000 setupTo see the accounting records:
&prompt.root; ipfw -a list
or in the short form
&prompt.root; ipfw -a lYou can also see the last time a chain entry was matched
with:&prompt.root; ipfw -at lBuilding a Packet Filtering FirewallThe following suggestions are just that: suggestions. The
requirements of each firewall are different and we cannot tell you
how to build a firewall to meet your particular requirements.When initially setting up your firewall, unless you have a test
bench setup where you can configure your firewall host in a controlled
environment, it is strongly recommend you use the logging version of the
commands and enable logging in the kernel. This will allow you to
quickly identify problem areas and cure them without too much
disruption. Even after the initial setup phase is complete, I
recommend using the logging for `deny' as it allows tracing of
possible attacks and also modification of the firewall rules if your
requirements alter.If you use the logging versions of the accept
command, it can generate large amounts of log
data as one log line will be generated for every packet that passes
through the firewall, so large FTP/http transfers, etc, will really
slow the system down. It also increases the latencies on those
packets as it requires more work to be done by the kernel before the
packet can be passed on. syslogd will
also start using up a lot
more processor time as it logs all the extra data to disk, and it
could quite easily fill the partition /var/log
is located on.You should enable your firewall from
/etc/rc.conf.local or
/etc/rc.conf. The associated manual page explains
which knobs to fiddle and lists some preset firewall configurations.
If you do not use a preset configuration, ipfw list
will output the current ruleset into a file that you can
pass to rc.conf. If you do not use
/etc/rc.conf.local or
/etc/rc.conf to enable your firewall,
it is important to make sure your firewall is enabled before
any IP interfaces are configured.The next problem is what your firewall should actually
do! This is largely dependent on what access to
your network you want to allow from the outside, and how much access
to the outside world you want to allow from the inside. Some general
rules are:Block all incoming access to ports below 1024 for TCP. This is
where most of the security sensitive services are, like finger,
SMTP (mail) and telnet.Block all incoming UDP traffic. There
are very few useful services that travel over UDP, and what useful
traffic there is, is normally a security threat (e.g. Suns RPC and
NFS protocols). This has its disadvantages also, since UDP is a
connectionless protocol, denying incoming UDP traffic also blocks
the replies to outgoing UDP traffic. This can cause a problem for
people (on the inside) using external archie (prospero) servers.
If you want to allow access to archie, you will have to allow
packets coming from ports 191 and 1525 to any internal UDP port
through the firewall. ntp is another
service you may consider allowing through, which comes from port
123.Block traffic to port 6000 from the outside. Port 6000 is the
port used for access to X11 servers, and can be a security threat
(especially if people are in the habit of doing xhost
+ on their workstations). X11 can actually use a
range of ports starting at 6000, the upper limit being how many X
displays you can run on the machine. The upper limit as defined
by RFC 1700 (Assigned Numbers) is 6063.Check what ports any internal servers use (e.g. SQL servers,
etc). It is probably a good idea to block those as well, as they
normally fall outside the 1-1024 range specified above.Another checklist for firewall configuration is available from
CERT at http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/packet_filtering.htmlAs stated above, these are only guidelines.
You will have to decide what filter rules you want to use on your
firewall yourself. We cannot accept ANY responsibility if someone
breaks into your network, even if you follow the advice given
above.IPFW Overhead and OptimizationMany people want to know how much overhead IPFW adds to a
system. The answer to this depends mostly on your rule set and
processor speed. For most applications dealing with Ethernet
and small rule sets, the answer is
negligible. For those of you that need actual
measurements to satisfy your curiosity, read on.The following measurements were made using 2.2.5-STABLE on
a 486-66. (While IPFW has changed slightly in later releases
of FreeBSD, it still performs with similar speed.) IPFW was
modified to measure the time spent within the
ip_fw_chk routine, displaying the results
to the console every 1000 packets.Two rule sets, each with 1000 rules were tested. The
first set was designed to demonstrate a worst case scenario by
repeating the rule:&prompt.root; ipfw add deny tcp from any to any 55555This demonstrates worst case by causing most of IPFW's
packet check routine to be executed before finally deciding
that the packet does not match the rule (by virtue of the port
number). Following the 999th iteration of this rule was an
allow ip from any to any.The second set of rules were designed to abort the rule
check quickly:&prompt.root; ipfw add deny ip from 1.2.3.4 to 1.2.3.4The non-matching source IP address for the above rule
causes these rules to be skipped very quickly. As before, the
1000th rule was an allow ip from any to
any.The per-packet processing overhead in the former case was
approximately 2.703ms/packet, or roughly 2.7 microseconds per
rule. Thus the theoretical packet processing limit with these
rules is around 370 packets per second. Assuming 10Mbps
Ethernet and a ~1500 byte packet size, we would only be able
to achieve a 55.5% bandwidth utilization.For the latter case each packet was processed in
approximately 1.172ms, or roughly 1.2 microseconds per rule.
The theoretical packet processing limit here would be about
853 packets per second, which could consume 10Mbps Ethernet
bandwidth.The excessive number of rules tested and the nature of
those rules do not provide a real-world scenario -- they were
used only to generate the timing information presented here.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when building an
efficient rule set:Place an established rule early on
to handle the majority of TCP traffic. Do not put any
allow tcp statements before this
rule.Place heavily triggered rules earlier in the rule set
than those rarely used (without changing the
permissiveness of the firewall, of course).
You can see which rules are used most often by examining
the packet counting statistics with ipfw -a
l.OpenSSLsecurityOpenSSLOpenSSLAs of FreeBSD 4.0, the OpenSSL toolkit is a part of the base
system. OpenSSL
provides a general-purpose cryptography library, as well as the
Secure Sockets Layer v2/v3 (SSLv2/SSLv3) and Transport Layer
Security v1 (TLSv1) network security protocols.However, one of the algorithms (specifically IDEA)
included in OpenSSL is protected by patents in the USA and
elsewhere, and is not available for unrestricted use.
IDEA is included in the OpenSSL sources in FreeBSD, but it is not
built by default. If you wish to use it, and you comply with the
license terms, enable the MAKE_IDEA switch in
/etc/make.conf and
rebuild your sources using make world.Today, the RSA algorithm is free for use in USA and other
countries. In the past it was protected by a patent.OpenSSLinstallSource Code InstallationsOpenSSL is part of the src-crypto and
src-secure cvsup collections. See the Obtaining FreeBSD section for more
information about obtaining and updating FreeBSD source
code.YoshinobuInoueContributed by IPsecIPsecsecurityIPsecTerminating CharactersThroughout examples in this section, and other sections,
you will notice that there is a ^D at the end
of some examples. This means to hold down the Control
key and hit the D key. Another commonly used
character is ^C, which respectively means to hold
down Control and press C.For other HOWTOs detailing IPSec implementation in
FreeBSD, take a look at
and .The IPsec mechanism provides secure communication for IP
layer and socket layer communication. This section should
explain how to use them. For implementation details, please
refer to The
Developers' Handbook.The current IPsec implementation supports both transport mode
and tunnel mode. However, tunnel mode comes with some restrictions.
http://www.kame.net/newsletter/
has more comprehensive examples.Please be aware that in order to use this functionality, you
must have the following options compiled into your kernel:options IPSEC #IP security
options IPSEC_ESP #IP security (crypto; define w/IPSEC)Transport Mode Example with IPv4Let us setup security association to deploy a secure channel
between HOST A (10.2.3.4) and HOST B (10.6.7.8). Here we show a little
complicated example. From HOST A to HOST B, only old AH is used.
From HOST B to HOST A, new AH and new ESP are combined.Now we should choose an algorithm to be used corresponding to
AH/new AH/ESP/
new ESP. Please refer to the &man.setkey.8; man
page to know algorithm names. Our choice is MD5 for AH, new-HMAC-SHA1
for new AH, and new-DES-expIV with 8 byte IV for new ESP.Key length highly depends on each algorithm. For example, key
length must be equal to 16 bytes for MD5, 20 for new-HMAC-SHA1,
and 8 for new-DES-expIV. Now we choose MYSECRETMYSECRET,
KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME, PASSWORD,
respectively.OK, let us assign SPI (Security Parameter Index) for each protocol.
Please note that we need 3 SPIs for this secure channel since three
security headers are produced (one for from HOST A to HOST B, two for
from HOST B to HOST A). Please also note that SPI MUST be greater
than or equal to 256. We choose, 1000, 2000, and 3000,
respectively.
(1)
HOST A ------> HOST B
(1)PROTO=AH
ALG=MD5(RFC1826)
KEY=MYSECRETMYSECRET
SPI=1000
(2.1)
HOST A <------ HOST B
<------
(2.2)
(2.1)
PROTO=AH
ALG=new-HMAC-SHA1(new AH)
KEY=KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME
SPI=2000
(2.2)
PROTO=ESP
ALG=new-DES-expIV(new ESP)
IV length = 8
KEY=PASSWORD
SPI=3000
Now, let us setup security association. Execute &man.setkey.8;
on both HOST A and B:
&prompt.root; setkey -c
add 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 ah-old 1000 -m transport -A keyed-md5 "MYSECRETMYSECRET" ;
add 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 ah 2000 -m transport -A hmac-sha1 "KAMEKAMEKAMEKAMEKAME" ;
add 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 esp 3000 -m transport -E des-cbc "PASSWORD" ;
^D
Actually, IPsec communication does not process until security policy
entries are defined. In this case, you must setup each host.
At A:
&prompt.root; setkey -c
spdadd 10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8 any -P out ipsec
ah/transport/10.2.3.4-10.6.7.8/require ;
^D
At B:
&prompt.root; setkey -c
spdadd 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 any -P out ipsec
esp/transport/10.6.7.8-10.2.3.4/require ;
spdadd 10.6.7.8 10.2.3.4 any -P out ipsec
ah/transport/10.6.7.8-10.2.3.4/require ;
^D
HOST A --------------------------------------> HOST E
10.2.3.4 10.6.7.8
| |
========== old AH keyed-md5 ==========>
<========= new AH hmac-sha1 ===========
<========= new ESP des-cbc ============
Transport Mode Example with IPv6Another example using IPv6.ESP transport mode is recommended for TCP port number 110 between
Host-A and Host-B.
============ ESP ============
| |
Host-A Host-B
fec0::10 -------------------- fec0::11
Encryption algorithm is blowfish-cbc whose key is
kamekame, and authentication algorithm is hmac-sha1
whose key is this is the test key.
Configuration at Host-A:
&prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF
spdadd fec0::10[any] fec0::11[110] tcp -P out ipsec
esp/transport/fec0::10-fec0::11/use ;
spdadd fec0::11[110] fec0::10[any] tcp -P in ipsec
esp/transport/fec0::11-fec0::10/use ;
add fec0::10 fec0::11 esp 0x10001
-m transport
-E blowfish-cbc "kamekame"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
add fec0::11 fec0::10 esp 0x10002
-m transport
-E blowfish-cbc "kamekame"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
EOF
and at Host-B:&prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF
spdadd fec0::11[110] fec0::10[any] tcp -P out ipsec
esp/transport/fec0::11-fec0::10/use ;
spdadd fec0::10[any] fec0::11[110] tcp -P in ipsec
esp/transport/fec0::10-fec0::11/use ;
add fec0::10 fec0::11 esp 0x10001 -m transport
-E blowfish-cbc "kamekame"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
add fec0::11 fec0::10 esp 0x10002 -m transport
-E blowfish-cbc "kamekame"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
EOF
Note the direction of SP.Tunnel Mode Example with IPv4Tunnel mode between two security gatewaysSecurity protocol is old AH tunnel mode, i.e. specified by
RFC1826, with keyed-md5 whose key is this is the test as
authentication algorithm.
======= AH =======
| |
Network-A Gateway-A Gateway-B Network-B
10.0.1.0/24 ---- 172.16.0.1 ----- 172.16.0.2 ---- 10.0.2.0/24
Configuration at Gateway-A:
&prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF
spdadd 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.2.0/24 any -P out ipsec
ah/tunnel/172.16.0.1-172.16.0.2/require ;
spdadd 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.1.0/24 any -P in ipsec
ah/tunnel/172.16.0.2-172.16.0.1/require ;
add 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.2 ah-old 0x10003 -m any
-A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ;
add 172.16.0.2 172.16.0.1 ah-old 0x10004 -m any
-A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ;
EOF
If the port number field is omitted such as above then
[any] is employed. -m
specifies the mode of SA to be used. -m any means
wild-card of mode of security protocol. You can use this SA for both
tunnel and transport mode.and at Gateway-B:
&prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF
spdadd 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.1.0/24 any -P out ipsec
ah/tunnel/172.16.0.2-172.16.0.1/require ;
spdadd 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.2.0/24 any -P in ipsec
ah/tunnel/172.16.0.1-172.16.0.2/require ;
add 172.16.0.1 172.16.0.2 ah-old 0x10003 -m any
-A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ;
add 172.16.0.2 172.16.0.1 ah-old 0x10004 -m any
-A keyed-md5 "this is the test" ;
EOF
Making SA bundle between two security gatewaysAH transport mode and ESP tunnel mode is required between
Gateway-A and Gateway-B. In this case, ESP tunnel mode is applied first,
and AH transport mode is next.
========== AH =========
| ======= ESP ===== |
| | | |
Network-A Gateway-A Gateway-B Network-B
fec0:0:0:1::/64 --- fec0:0:0:1::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::1 --- fec0:0:0:2::/64
Tunnel Mode Example with IPv6Encryption algorithm is 3des-cbc, and authentication algorithm
for ESP is hmac-sha1. Authentication algorithm for AH is hmac-md5.
Configuration at Gateway-A:
&prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF
spdadd fec0:0:0:1::/64 fec0:0:0:2::/64 any -P out ipsec
esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require
ah/transport/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ;
spdadd fec0:0:0:2::/64 fec0:0:0:1::/64 any -P in ipsec
esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require
ah/transport/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ;
add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 esp 0x10001 -m tunnel
-E 3des-cbc "kamekame12341234kame1234"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 ah 0x10001 -m transport
-A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ;
add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10001 -m tunnel
-E 3des-cbc "kamekame12341234kame1234"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 ah 0x10001 -m transport
-A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ;
EOF
Making SAs with the different endESP tunnel mode is required between Host-A and Gateway-A. Encryption
algorithm is cast128-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is
hmac-sha1. ESP transport mode is recommended between Host-A and Host-B.
Encryption algorithm is rc5-cbc, and authentication algorithm for ESP is
hmac-md5.
================== ESP =================
| ======= ESP ======= |
| | | |
Host-A Gateway-A Host-B
fec0:0:0:1::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::1 ---- fec0:0:0:2::2
Configuration at Host-A:
&prompt.root; setkey -c <<EOF
spdadd fec0:0:0:1::1[any] fec0:0:0:2::2[80] tcp -P out ipsec
esp/transport/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::2/use
esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:1::1-fec0:0:0:2::1/require ;
spdadd fec0:0:0:2::1[80] fec0:0:0:1::1[any] tcp -P in ipsec
esp/transport/fec0:0:0:2::2-fec0:0:0:l::1/use
esp/tunnel/fec0:0:0:2::1-fec0:0:0:1::1/require ;
add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::2 esp 0x10001
-m transport
-E cast128-cbc "12341234"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
add fec0:0:0:1::1 fec0:0:0:2::1 esp 0x10002
-E rc5-cbc "kamekame"
-A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ;
add fec0:0:0:2::2 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10003
-m transport
-E cast128-cbc "12341234"
-A hmac-sha1 "this is the test key" ;
add fec0:0:0:2::1 fec0:0:0:1::1 esp 0x10004
-E rc5-cbc "kamekame"
-A hmac-md5 "this is the test" ;
EOF
ChernLeeContributed by OpenSSHOpenSSHsecurityOpenSSHSecure shell is a set of network connectivity tools used to
access remote machines securely. It can be used as a direct
replacement for rlogin,
rsh, rcp, and
telnet. Additionally, any other TCP/IP
connections can be tunneled/forwarded securely through ssh.
ssh encrypts all traffic to effectively eliminate eavesdropping,
connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks.OpenSSH is maintained by the OpenBSD project, and is based
upon SSH v1.2.12 with all the recent bug fixes and updates. It
is compatible with both SSH protocols 1 and 2. OpenSSH has been
in the base system since FreeBSD 4.0.Advantages of Using OpenSSHNormally, when using &man.telnet.1; or &man.rlogin.1;,
data is sent over the network in an clear, un-encrypted form.
Network sniffers anywhere in between the client and server can
steal your user/password information or data transferred in
your session. OpenSSH offers a variety of authentication and
encryption methods to prevent this from happening.Enabling sshdOpenSSHenablingBe sure to make the following additions to your
rc.conf file:sshd_enable="YES"This will load the ssh daemon
the next time your system initializes. Alternatively, you can
simply run the sshd daemon.SSH ClientOpenSSHclientThe &man.ssh.1; utility works similarly to
&man.rlogin.1;.
- &prompt.root ssh user@example.com
+ &prompt.root; ssh user@example.com
Host key not found from the list of known hosts.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Host 'example.com' added to the list of known hosts.
user@example.com's password: *******The login will continue just as it would have if a session was
created using rlogin or
telnet. SSH utilizes a key fingerprint
system for verifying the authenticity of the server when the
client connects. The user is prompted to enter
yes only when
connecting for the first time. Future attempts to login are all
verified against the saved fingerprint key. The SSH client
will alert you if the saved fingerprint differs from the
received fingerprint on future login attempts. The fingerprints
are saved in ~/.ssh/known_hosts, or
~/.ssh/known_hosts2 for SSH v2
fingerprints.By default, OpenSSH servers are configured to accept both
SSH v1 and SSH v2 connections. The client, however, can choose
between the two. Version 2 is known to be more robust and
secure than its predecessor.ssh can be forced to use either protocol
by passing it the
-1
or
-2
argument
for v1 and v2, respectively.Secure CopyOpenSSHsecure copyscpThe scp command works similarly to
rcp; it copies a file to or from a remote machine,
except in a secure fashion.
- &prompt.root scp user@example.com:/COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT
+ &prompt.root; scp user@example.com:/COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT
user@example.com's password:
COPYRIGHT 100% |*****************************| 4735
00:00
-&prompt.root
+&prompt.root;Since the fingerprint was already saved for this host in the
previous example, it is verified when using scp
here.The arguments passed to scp are similar
to cp, with the file or files in the first
argument, and the destination in the second. Since the file is
fetched over the network, through SSH, one or more of the file
arguments takes on the form
user@host:<path_to_remote_file>
.ConfigurationOpenSSHconfigurationThe system-wide configuration files for both the OpenSSH
daemon and client reside within the /etc/ssh
directory.ssh_config configures the client
settings, while sshd_config configures the
daemon.Additionally, the
sshd_program
(/usr/sbin/sshd by default), and
sshd_flags
rc.conf
options can provide more levels of configuration.ssh-keygenInstead of using passwords, &man.ssh-keygen.1; can
be used to generate RSA keys to authenticate a user.
- &prompt.user ssh-keygen
+ &prompt.user; ssh-keygen
Initializing random number generator...
Generating p: .++ (distance 66)
Generating q: ..............................++ (distance 498)
Computing the keys...
Key generation complete.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/identity):
Enter passphrase:
Enter the same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/identity.
...&man.ssh-keygen.1; will create a public and private
key pair for use in authentication. The private key is stored in
~/.ssh/identity, whereas the public key is
stored in ~/.ssh/identity.pub. The public
key must be placed in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
of the remote machine in order for the setup to work.This will allow connection to the remote machine based upon
RSA authentication instead of passwords.If a passphrase is used in &man.ssh-keygen.1;, the user
will be prompted for a password each time in order to use the private
key.A SSH v2 DSA key can be created for the same purpose by using
the ssh-keygen -d command (or
ssh-keygen -t dsa for FreeBSD &os.current;).
This will
create a public/private DSA key for use in SSH v2 sessions only.
The public key is stored in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub,
while the private key is in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.DSA public keys are placed in
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on the remote
machine.&man.ssh-agent.1; and &man.ssh-add.1; are
utilities used in managing multiple passworded private keys.SSH TunnelingOpenSSHtunnelingOpenSSH has the ability to create a tunnel to encapsulate
another protocol in an encrypted session.The following command tells &man.ssh.1; to create a tunnel
for telnet.&prompt.user; ssh -2 -N -f -L 5023:localhost:23 user@foo.example.com
&prompt.user;The ssh command is used with the
following options:
-2
Forces ssh to use version 2 of
the protocol. (Do not use if you are working with older
ssh servers)
-N
Indicates no command, or tunnel only. If omitted,
ssh would initiate a normal
session.
-f
Forces ssh to run in the
background.
-L
Indicates a local tunnel in
localport:remotehost:remoteport
fashion.
user@foo.example.com
The remote SSH server.An SSH tunnel works by creating a listen socket on
localhost on the specified port.
It then forwards any connection received
on the local host/port via the SSH connection to the specified
remote host and port.In the example, port 5023 on
localhost is being forwarded to port
23 on localhost
of the remote machine. Since 23 is telnet,
this would create a secure telnet session through an SSH tunnel.This can be used to wrap any number of insecure TCP protocols
such as SMTP, POP3, FTP, etc.Using SSH to create a secure tunnel for SMTP&prompt.user; ssh -2 -N -f -L 5025:localhost:25 user@mailserver.example.com
user@mailserver.example.com's password: *****
&prompt.user; telnet localhost 5025
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mailserver.example.com ESMTPThis can be used in conjunction with an
&man.ssh-keygen.1; and additional user accounts to create a
more seamless/hassle-free SSH tunneling environment. Keys
can be used in place of typing a password, and the tunnels
can be run as a separate user.Practical SSH Tunneling ExamplesSecure Access of a POP3 serverAt work, there is an SSH server that accepts
connections from the outside. On the same office network
resides a mail server running a POP3 server. The network,
or network path between your home and office may or may not
be completely trustable. Because of this, you need to check
your e-mail in a secure manner. The solution is to create
an SSH connection to your office's SSH server, and tunnel
through to the mail server.&prompt.user; ssh -2 -N -f -L 2110:mail.example.com:110 user@ssh-server.example.com
user@ssh-server.example.com's password: ******When the tunnel is up and running, you can point your
mail client to send POP3 requests to localhost
port 2110. A connection here will be forwarded securely across
the tunnel to mail.example.com.Bypassing a Draconian FirewallSome network administrators impose extremely Draconian
firewall rules, filtering not only incoming connections,
but outgoing connections. You may be only given access
to contact remote machines on ports 22 and 80 for SSH
and web surfing.You may wish to access another (perhaps non-work
related) service, such as an Ogg Vorbis server to stream
music. If this Ogg Vorbis server is streaming on some other
port than 22 or 80, you will not be able to access it.The solution is to create an SSH connection to a machine
outside of your network's firewall, and use it to tunnel to
the Ogg Vorbis server.&prompt.user; ssh -2 -N -f -L 8888:music.example.com:8000 user@unfirewalled.myserver.com
user@unfirewalled.myserver.com's password: *******Your streaming client can now be pointed to
localhost port 8888, which will be
forwarded over to music.example.com port
8000, successfully evading the firewall.Further ReadingOpenSSH&man.ssh.1; &man.scp.1; &man.ssh-keygen.1;
&man.ssh-agent.1; &man.ssh-add.1;&man.sshd.8; &man.sftp-server.8;