I have had similar problems with the driver. The signal quality in
Windows is higher. But there are other problems. For example, when I
start Limewire I have to wait for about 3 minutes before it loads. I
am sure this is a problem with ath interface.
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> 1. Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved (Cristiano Deana)
> 2. Re: Attention Julian Stacey (Wilko Bulte)
> 3. [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins (Dennis Melentyev)
> 4. Re: Polling and em0 (Eugene Kazarinov)
> 5. Re: Attention Julian Stacey (Julian H. Stacey)
> 6. Re: Polling and em0 (Robert Watson)
> 7. Re: arrrrgh! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's gmirror code?!
> (Jo Rhett)
> 8. Re: Attention Julian Stacey (Jase Thew)
> 9. Re: [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins (Pav Lucistnik)
> 10. Re: [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins
> (Henrik Brix Andersen)
> 11. Re: RELENG_6 power button ignored after halt if ACPI enabled
> (Mark Kirkwood)
> 12. Re: bge watchdog timeouts still happening (Ronald Klop)
> 13. Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved (Ganbold)
> 14. ath0 weak connectivity (Dmitry Karasik)
> 15. Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved (Robert Watson)
> 16. Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved (Ganbold)
> 17. Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved (Robert Watson)
> 18. Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!
> (Oliver Fromme)
> 19. Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved (Ganbold)
> 20. Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!
> (Dave Horsfall)
> 21. Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved (Robert Watson)
> 22. Re: [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins (Dennis Melentyev)
> 23. Too dumb to mount as non privileged user (norbert@akumakun.de)
> 24. Re: Too dumb to mount as non privileged user (George Potapov)
> 25. Re: Too dumb to mount as non privileged user (Jona Joachim)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:08:25 +0200
> From: "Cristiano Deana" <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved
> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>
> Cc: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>, Ganbold
> <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID:
> <d8a4930a0609170808y414cc83fy7aba07df96db0d5d@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> 2006/9/17, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>:
>
> > I've just comitted a fix to syscalls.master and regenerated the
remaining
> > system call files, which should correct the auditctl: Invalid Argument
error
> > being returned by auditd. In short order, this fix should be on the
cvsup
> > mirrors -- please let me know if it resolves the problem you were
> > experiencing.
>
> auditd up and running, tnx Robert.
>
> I will submit more information.
>
>
> --
> Cris, member of G.U.F.I
> Italian FreeBSD User Group
> http://www.gufi.org/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:48:36 +0200
> From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: Attention Julian Stacey
> To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Julian H. Stacey"
<jhs@flat.berklix.net>,
> kris@obsecurity.org
> Message-ID: <20060917154836.GA734@freebie.xs4all.nl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:49:43PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote..
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, 02:31-0600, Scott Long wrote:
> >
> > > Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > >
> > > > Postmaster@freebsd.org
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >Message-id:
<20060916214219.GA19007@xor.obsecurity.org>
> > > > >From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >lol, that's the stupidest thing I've heard all
week.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Inflamatory. Refered to postmaster.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Julian, meet Kris. Kris has been the head of the FreeBSD ports
team for
> > > a large number of years. He's also written and presented
several papers
> > > on FreeBSD performance, among many other hobbies and interests.
He's a
> > > pretty laid back and fun guy, with a sharp sense of humor.
> > >
> > > Kris, meet Julian. Julian has been a FreeBSD user, contributor,
and
> > > advocate since before there was such a such a thing as
'FreeBSD', or
> > > even 'http' for that matter. I've never met him in
person, but based on
> > > the many years worth of emails I've seen from him, he seems
like a
> > > pretty decent and smart fellow.
> > >
> > > Julian, meet Paul Saab. Paul was a key FreeBSD developer for
many years
> > > at Yahoo. He's worked on many areas of the FreeBSD codebase,
and has
> > > been instrumental in gaining and coordinating support for FreeBSD
from
> > > many corporate vendors. He also runs mu.org as a hobby and as an
> > > informal hosting service for many FreeBSD developers, including
Kris.
> > > He might also one day be able to keep up with me on a snowboard,
but
> > > we'll just have to wait and see.
> > >
> > > So, like, now you all know each other, and stuff, so, like, try
to get
> > > along, m-kay?
> > >
> > > Scott
> >
> > But.. how is Scott??
>
> Scott is fine, no worries :-)
>
> --
> Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:14:04 +0000
> From: "Dennis Melentyev" <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins
> To: pav@FreeBSD.org
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID:
> <b84edfa10609170914q1d3839aka02040d0e0d8a105@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to build irmc/irmc-bluetooth plugins?
>
> I tried to play with them a bit, and stuck at the very beginning with
> configure unable to find proper entries in obex structures for just
> irmc plugin.
> Looks like we have "customdata" member in obex_ctrans_t while
irmc
> code trying to find "userdata".
>
> Bluetooth refers to some bluez/bluez-kernel >=2.3 which means nothing to
me.
>
> Is it Linux-only app, or it is possible to make it finally run on FreeBSD?
>
> --
> Dennis Melentyev
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:20:55 +0400
> From: "Eugene Kazarinov" <kamuzon@milshop.ru>
> Subject: Re: Polling and em0
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID:
> <519867a90609170920x51726e74k6f86f2661965fd03@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> >
> > Since 6.1 I have stopped using polling as a regular kernel seems to
give
> > good performance as compared to polling mode.
> > In fact I used to get anything between 55-75megs/sec on 6.1 with
regular
> > cables but since upgraded to cat6 quality Ethernet cable I get
> > practically full gigabit speed with no polling.
> > Close to 97megs/sec is the performance I get out of my Dells with the
em
> > driver, and apparently the new em driver in 6-stable 6.2 is even
faster.
> >
> > em(4) Dell to em(4) Dell
> > dell1# cat /dev/zero | dd bs=1m | nc dell2 3000
> > ^C0+18456 records in
> > 0+18455 records out
> > 1209466880 bytes transferred in 12.459299 secs (97,073,429 bytes/sec)
>
>
> Do you meen that from 6.2 I dont need polling for fastest performance?
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:18:59 +0200
> From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net>
> Subject: Re: Attention Julian Stacey
> To: stable@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
> Message-ID: <200609171818.k8HIIx15092881@fire.jhs.private>
>
> Scott Long wrote:
> > Julian, meet Paul Saab. Paul was a key FreeBSD developer for many
years
>
> Thanks Scott,
> Nicely put. Much appreciated. BTW I removed mu.org as a reject
> domain record from my .../access first thing this morning, just
> before I received your mail. Good you confirmed OK, thanks. No disrepect
> to Paul Saab, just hadn't heard of him (just skim many subject).
>
>
> > Julian, meet Kris. Kris has been the head of the FreeBSD ports team
for
>
> Long enough without peer review. Leaders don't post flame bait.
>
> ----- Below _Not_ personal criticism of any individual. -----
> Ideas of Automatic peer review, rotations etc are used by clubs,
> companies, & governments. I'm not aware if FreeBSD has adopted them
yet.
> - Reviews detects burn out, raised frequency of agression & attitudes
etc.
> Sabaticals, holidays etc are good for volunteers too, not just
employees.
> - Core are now elected by commiters, but when I suggested elections
> way back, it was flamed on high, so peer review could happen too.
> - 7 day suspensions for flamers could also help, unless they apologise
> within eg 48 hours to list (not necessarily recipient) for abuse of
list.
>
> The problem's not even really list abuse, but that tolerating
> spurious alienating agression (by list or private mail) over years
> from a tiny minority will have reduced code etc received in consequence
> from numerous others deterred. We have no employing boss to knocks
> heads, just the opposite, a few whose periodic implicit challenge
> is: "Tolerate my periodic agression or I'll take my toys &
leave."
> Perhaps most wouldn't leave. If they did, we'd still survive,
> FreeBSD even survived when John (swap) Dyson very unfortunately got
> deterred & left, probably no threatened skill loss would be harder
> to replace.
>
> --
> Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen
http://berklix.com
> Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.
> Don't buy it ! Get it free ! http://berklix.org/free-software
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:33:06 +0100 (BST)
> From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Polling and em0
> To: Eugene Kazarinov <kamuzon@milshop.ru>
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20060917192528.P56201@fledge.watson.org>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Eugene Kazarinov wrote:
>
> >> Since 6.1 I have stopped using polling as a regular kernel seems
to give
> >> good performance as compared to polling mode. In fact I used to
get
> >> anything between 55-75megs/sec on 6.1 with regular cables but
since
> >> upgraded to cat6 quality Ethernet cable I get practically full
gigabit
> >> speed with no polling. Close to 97megs/sec is the performance I
get out of
> >> my Dells with the em driver, and apparently the new em driver in
6-stable
> >> 6.2 is even faster.
> >>
> >> em(4) Dell to em(4) Dell
> >> dell1# cat /dev/zero | dd bs=1m | nc dell2 3000
> >> ^C0+18456 records in
> >> 0+18455 records out
> >> 1209466880 bytes transferred in 12.459299 secs (97,073,429
bytes/sec)
> >
> > Do you meen that from 6.2 I dont need polling for fastest performance?
>
> There are two benefits to polling:
>
> - Moderating interrupt rates
>
> - Scheduling control over the amount of CPU dedicated to network tasks
>
> Modern gigabit cards have interrupt moderation, so in practice you get a
> polling-like effect with regard to interrupt rates. With significant
> performance improvements in the if_em driver over the last year, it could
well
> be that the benefits of the scheduling control no longer provide much help.
>
> Gigabit network cards also require a very high polling rate in order to be
> effective, since the on-card buffers quickly fill -- as a result, unless
the
> poll rate (driven by HZ) is set extremely high, polling may actually
> significant reduce performance by dramatically increasing packet loss under
> load.
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:55:59 -0700
> From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
> Subject: Re: arrrrgh! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's gmirror
code?!
> To: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk>
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "hackmiester \(Hunter Fuller\)"
> <hackmiester@hackmiester.com>
> Message-ID: <20060917185559.GA4781@svcolo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:39:55AM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> > Your Windows must be really badly broken, because my Windows XP
> > spontaneously rebooted only once in those many years I have been using
> > it. In my opinion, XP is pretty decent system.
>
> Your standards are pretty low. I've got freebsd/solaris systems with
> uptimes nearing 6 years. I've *NEVER* had a spontaneous reboot from
either
> operation system. If I did, I'd spent hours in the back hammering down
> exactly why.
>
> I don't run either Linux or Windows for exactly the reasons you
mention,
> except as gaming computers that I wipe/rebuild on a regular basis.
>
> --
> Jo Rhett
> senior geek
> SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:19:55 +0100
> From: Jase Thew <bazerka@beardz.net>
> Subject: Re: Attention Julian Stacey
> Cc: stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <450D9FDB.5090406@beardz.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>
> >> Julian, meet Kris. Kris has been the head of the FreeBSD ports
team for
> >
> > Long enough without peer review. Leaders don't post flame bait.
> >
> > ----- Below _Not_ personal criticism of any individual. -----
> > Ideas of Automatic peer review, rotations etc are used by clubs,
> > companies, & governments. I'm not aware if FreeBSD has adopted
them yet.
> > - Reviews detects burn out, raised frequency of agression &
attitudes etc.
> > Sabaticals, holidays etc are good for volunteers too, not just
employees.
> > - Core are now elected by commiters, but when I suggested elections
> > way back, it was flamed on high, so peer review could happen too.
> > - 7 day suspensions for flamers could also help, unless they
apologise
> > within eg 48 hours to list (not necessarily recipient) for abuse
of list.
> >
> > The problem's not even really list abuse, but that tolerating
> > spurious alienating agression (by list or private mail) over years
> > from a tiny minority will have reduced code etc received in
consequence
> > from numerous others deterred. We have no employing boss to knocks
> > heads, just the opposite, a few whose periodic implicit challenge
> > is: "Tolerate my periodic agression or I'll take my toys
& leave."
> > Perhaps most wouldn't leave. If they did, we'd still survive,
> > FreeBSD even survived when John (swap) Dyson very unfortunately got
> > deterred & left, probably no threatened skill loss would be harder
> > to replace.
> >
>
> No disrespect intended, but I think you need to obtain a sense of humour.
>
> J.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:55:24 +0200
> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins
> To: Dennis Melentyev <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
> Message-ID: <1158526524.9514.8.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2"
>
> Dennis Melentyev p?e v ne 17. 09. 2006 v 16:14 +0000:
>
> > Is it possible to build irmc/irmc-bluetooth plugins?
> >
> > I tried to play with them a bit, and stuck at the very beginning with
> > configure unable to find proper entries in obex structures for just
> > irmc plugin.
> > Looks like we have "customdata" member in obex_ctrans_t
while irmc
> > code trying to find "userdata".
> >
> > Bluetooth refers to some bluez/bluez-kernel >=2.3 which means
nothing to me.
> >
> > Is it Linux-only app, or it is possible to make it finally run on
FreeBSD?
>
> bluez is a Linux Bluetooth stack implementation. I don't think any of
> currently unported multisync plugins will be easy to get going on
> FreeBSD, otherwise I would already ported them.
>
> Plus, Multisync is dead in water, project abandoned...
>
> --
> Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
> <pav@FreeBSD.org>
>
> Maybe I should go ask that elvish wizard standing over there
> (YES A REAL ELF IS STANDING IN MY ROOM!),
> he should be able to tell me.
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> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:23:07 +0200
> From: Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20060917212307.GA42718@tirith.brixandersen.dk>
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>
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:55:24PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > Plus, Multisync is dead in water, project abandoned...
>
> Not completely true. Multisync in its current form is abandoned, but
> a new version based on the OpenSync framework
> (http://www.opensync.org/) is in the works.
>
> Regards,
> Brix
> --
> Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>
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>
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:24 +1200
> From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: RELENG_6 power button ignored after halt if ACPI enabled
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <450DD5E0.8090400@paradise.net.nz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Oops - didn't know about the -acpi mailing list, will post there,
sorry.
>
> Mark
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:22:43 +0200
> From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
> Subject: Re: bge watchdog timeouts still happening
> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>,
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Herve Boulouis
> <amon@sockar.homeip.net>
> Message-ID: <op.tf1pv5lu8527sy@guido.klop.ws>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8
>
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:33:00 +0200, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
wrote:
>
> > On Friday 15 September 2006 09:28, Herve Boulouis wrote:
> >> Le 15/09/2006 18:05, Gleb Smirnoff a ?crit:
> >> > H> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5700 B2, ASIC rev. 0x7102> mem
> >> > 0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci1 H>
miibus0: <MII
> >> > bus> on bge0
> >> > H> brgphy0: <BCM5401 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on
miibus0
> >> > H> brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX,
100baseTX-FDX,
> >> > 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto H> bge0: Ethernet
address:
> >> > 00:06:5b:1a:7f:4a
> >> >
> >> > Is it integrated or not? I've got exactly the same NIC
and I can
> >> > try to reproduce the problem if you describe the workload.
> >>
> >> Yes, it's the onboard bge. Workload is 10-25 Mbit/s of web
hosting.
> >
> > It seems to be at the top of the tree somewhere because people are
also
> > seeing the watchdog timeouts on em and I get them on the gigabit
re's.
> >
> > I got them downloading the kde-3.5.4 distfiles on a 768kb DSL line. I
> > had setiathome running, which keeps the cpu useage close to 100%.
>
> Is it possible this has something to do with the merge of taskqueue in
> 6-STABLE?
>
>
> --
> Ronald Klop
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:16:20 +0900
> From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
> Subject: Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved
> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
> Cc: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>, stable@FreeBSD.org,
> Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <450E39B4.2000105@micom.mng.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've just comitted a fix to syscalls.master and regenerated the
> > remaining system call files, which should correct the auditctl:
> > Invalid Argument error being returned by auditd. In short order, this
> > fix should be on the cvsup mirrors -- please let me know if it
> > resolves the problem you were experiencing.
>
> Hi,
>
> After installing and running auditd I don't see any log files for
auditd:
>
> daemon# ls -l /var/audit/
> total 0
> -r--r----- 1 root audit 0 Sep 18 14:23 20060918052316.20060918060339
> -r--r----- 1 root audit 0 Sep 18 15:03 20060918060339.not_terminated
>
> I have custom /etc/security/audit_control and audit_user files.
>
> daemon# more /etc/security/audit_control
> #
> # $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/etc/audit_control#3 $
> # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/openbsm/etc/audit_control,v 1.2.2.1 2006/09/02
> 10:46:00 rwatson Exp $
> #
> dir:/var/audit
> flags:all
> minfree:20
> naflags:lo
>
> #
> # $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/etc/audit_user#3 $
> # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/openbsm/etc/audit_user,v 1.2.2.1 2006/09/02
> 10:46:00 rwatson Exp $
> #
> #root:lo:no
> root:all:no
>
> I'm bit confused here I thought auditd should log all activities, but I
> don't see any log files.
> Am I doing something wrong here or my understanding regarding auditd is
> wrong?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Ganbold
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robert N M Watson
> > Computer Laboratory
> > University of Cambridge
> > _______________________________________________
> > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:31:39 +0200
> From: Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>
> Subject: ath0 weak connectivity
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20060918083139.GA59966@tetsuo.karasik.eu.org>
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>
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone experienced problems with ath0 giving bad connectivity on
> 6.1-STABLE? My wireless card reported as Atheros 5212 rapidly loses
> connectivity if I move it more than 2-3 meters away from the access
> point, but the same notebook connects well from under windows.
>
> I tried both kernel with both old device ath_rate_sample and ath_rate_onoe,
> tried to play with AP's settings, changed transmit rate and beacon
> interval, nothing helps. One interesting thing though is that
"ifconfig ath0
> scan" reports my station as configured to 119ms beacon interval, while
> it is set to 100ms actually.
>
> Anything else I can try?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Dmitry Karasik
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 15
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:23:08 +0100 (BST)
> From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved
> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
> Cc: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>, stable@FreeBSD.org,
> Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <20060918101952.R1708@fledge.watson.org>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ganbold wrote:
>
> > #
> > # $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/etc/audit_user#3 $
> > # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/openbsm/etc/audit_user,v 1.2.2.1 2006/09/02
10:46:00
> > rwatson Exp $
> > #
> > #root:lo:no
> > root:all:no
> >
> > I'm bit confused here I thought auditd should log all activities,
but I
> > don't see any log files. Am I doing something wrong here or my
understanding
> > regarding auditd is wrong?
>
> Your configuration looks right to me, and should be generating a ridiculous
> number of audit records. Could you try rebooting and logging in again?
> audit_user entries take effect only as of login, similar to /etc/group
> settings, etc. How are you logging into the system?
>
> On my local RELENG_6 system, with the recent auditctl(2) fix, I'm using
the
> following global settings to audit programs run by authenticated users:
>
> dir:/var/audit
> flags:lo,+ex
> minfree:20
> naflags:lo
>
> It seems to be working properly. User space login/logout auditing
won't work
> in RELENG_6 until the MFC of Christian's recent tweaks to pipe
preselection,
> which will occurr in a few days (and hence should appear in BETA2).
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:39:47 +0900
> From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
> Subject: Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved
> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
> Cc: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>, stable@FreeBSD.org,
> Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <450E6963.7030902@micom.mng.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Robert Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ganbold wrote:
> >
> >> #
> >> # $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/etc/audit_user#3 $
> >> # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/openbsm/etc/audit_user,v 1.2.2.1
2006/09/02
> >> 10:46:00 rwatson Exp $
> >> #
> >> #root:lo:no
> >> root:all:no
> >>
> >> I'm bit confused here I thought auditd should log all
activities, but
> >> I don't see any log files. Am I doing something wrong here or
my
> >> understanding regarding auditd is wrong?
> >
> > Your configuration looks right to me, and should be generating a
> > ridiculous number of audit records. Could you try rebooting and
> > logging in again? audit_user entries take effect only as of login,
> > similar to /etc/group settings, etc. How are you logging into the
> > system?
> This is my desktop system and I updated today to latest RELENG_6.
>
> daemon# uname -an
> FreeBSD daemon.micom.mng.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6:
> Mon Sep 18 12:56:04 ULAST 2006
> root@daemon.micom.mng.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GDAEMON i386
>
> I tried to restart several times auditd using /etc/rc.d/auditd script.
>
> daemon# /etc/rc.d/auditd restart
> Trigger sent.
> Starting auditd.
> daemon# /etc/rc.d/auditd restart
> Trigger sent.
> auditd already running? (pid=2065).
> daemon# /etc/rc.d/auditd restart
> Error sending trigger: Operation not supported by device
> Starting auditd.
> daemon# /etc/rc.d/auditd restart
> Trigger sent.
> auditd already running? (pid=2095).
> daemon# /etc/rc.d/auditd restart
> Error sending trigger: Operation not supported by device
> Starting auditd.
> daemon# /etc/rc.d/auditd restart
> Trigger sent.
> Starting auditd.
> daemon# ps ax | grep audit
> 10 ?? DL 0:00.00 [audit_worker]
> 2141 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/auditd
> 2143 p3 RV 0:00.00 grep audit (csh)
> daemon# ps ax | grep audit
> 10 ?? DL 0:00.00 [audit_worker]
> 2141 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/auditd
>
> Strange, there are still no logs in /var/audit dir :( Even tried to use
> your config, no success.
> However when I logged on to my desktop from console to itself (ssh -l
> tsgan localhost) it starts logging.
> But why it is not logging when I'm on console?
>
> >
> > On my local RELENG_6 system, with the recent auditctl(2) fix, I'm
> > using the following global settings to audit programs run by
> > authenticated users:
> >
> > dir:/var/audit
> > flags:lo,+ex
> > minfree:20
> > naflags:lo
> >
> > It seems to be working properly. User space login/logout auditing
> > won't work in RELENG_6 until the MFC of Christian's recent
tweaks to
> > pipe preselection, which will occurr in a few days (and hence should
> > appear in BETA2).
> I see.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ganbold
>
> >
> > Robert N M Watson
> > Computer Laboratory
> > University of Cambridge
> > _______________________________________________
> > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:46:17 +0100 (BST)
> From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved
> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
> Cc: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>, stable@FreeBSD.org,
> Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <20060918104446.V1708@fledge.watson.org>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ganbold wrote:
>
> > Strange, there are still no logs in /var/audit dir :( Even tried to
use your
> > config, no success. However when I logged on to my desktop from
console to
> > itself (ssh -l tsgan localhost) it starts logging. But why it is not
logging
> > when I'm on console?
>
> Are you using xdm/kdm/gdm/etc or /usr/bin/login? I'm not sure that the
> various GUI login managers associated with X11 ship with BSM support
compiled
> in by default, although given that they also run on Solaris, it is likely
they
> support it.
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:50:31 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
> Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!
> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Message-ID: <200609180950.k8I9oVrQ087071@lurza.secnetix.de>
>
> Michael Abbott wrote:
> > Roland Smith wrote:
> > > Martin Nilsson wrote:
> > > > Hans Lambermont wrote:
> > > > .. or just stop calling it STABLE and call it RELENG_6
instead
> > >
> > > That's a good idea, IMHO. When I started with FreeBSD I
found the
> > > difference between the branch names and cvs tags confusing.
> >
> > Let me second that. I hadn't realised that STABLE==RELENG_n
(where n is
> > the current version number) until very recently, and I've seen
the "STABLE
> > isn't stable" thing crop up over and over again over the
last few years,
> > both on mailing lists and IRC.
>
> Actually, FreeBSD has three types of branches:
>
> - current a.k.a. HEAD
> - X-stable a.k.a. RELENG_X
> - X.Y security branch a.k.a. RELENG_X_Y
>
> I think it would be better to rename the 2nd one "RELENG"
> (instead of "STABLE"), because that's exactly what it is:
> the release-engineering branch from which the releases are
> derived.
>
> The term "STABLE" would be much better suitable for the
> 3rd type of branches which are currently called "security
> branches". Thus we would have:
>
> - current
> - releng
> - stable
>
> Then the names match exactly what the branches are:
> "current" is the current head of experimental development,
> "releng" is the release engineering branch, and
"stable"
> is the stable branch for people who want to track only
> security fixes and the most critical stuff.
>
> Such appropriate naming would certainly prevent a lot of
> confusion.
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
> --
> Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing
> Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd
> Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author
> and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.
>
> "The last good thing written in C was
> Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9."
> -- Erwin Dieterich
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:52:46 +0900
> From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
> Subject: Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved
> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
> Cc: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>, stable@FreeBSD.org,
> Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <450E6C6E.7010702@micom.mng.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ganbold wrote:
> >
> >> Strange, there are still no logs in /var/audit dir :( Even tried
to
> >> use your config, no success. However when I logged on to my
desktop
> >> from console to itself (ssh -l tsgan localhost) it starts logging.
> >> But why it is not logging when I'm on console?
> >
> > Are you using xdm/kdm/gdm/etc or /usr/bin/login? I'm not sure
that
> > the various GUI login managers associated with X11 ship with BSM
> > support compiled in by default, although given that they also run on
> > Solaris, it is likely they support it.
> Ok, I'm using gnome and gnome-terminal, and it is not logging. Probably
> gnome-terminal is not compiled with BSM support.
> Auditd logs when I go to console using ctrl+alt+f2 combination from X.
> Thanks for clarifying this.
>
> Ganbold
>
> >
> > Robert N M Watson
> > Computer Laboratory
> > University of Cambridge
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:19:28 +1000 (EST)
> From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
> Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0609182012290.5511@dave.horsfall.org>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Then the names match exactly what the branches are:
"current" is the
> > current head of experimental development, "releng" is the
release
> > engineering branch, and "stable" is the stable branch for
people who
> > want to track only security fixes and the most critical stuff.
>
> Which is pretty well what OpenLDAP does; over there, HEAD is bleeding
> edge, RELEASE is the latest version, and STABLE is, well, stable as
> understood by most humans...
>
> See http://www.openldap.org/software/download/
>
> -- Dave
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:29:02 +0100 (BST)
> From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Problems with auditd -- resolved
> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
> Cc: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de>, stable@FreeBSD.org,
> Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <20060918112616.D42104@fledge.watson.org>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ganbold wrote:
>
> > Robert Watson wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ganbold wrote:
> >>
> >>> Strange, there are still no logs in /var/audit dir :( Even
tried to use
> >>> your config, no success. However when I logged on to my
desktop from
> >>> console to itself (ssh -l tsgan localhost) it starts logging.
But why it
> >>> is not logging when I'm on console?
> >>
> >> Are you using xdm/kdm/gdm/etc or /usr/bin/login? I'm not sure
that the
> >> various GUI login managers associated with X11 ship with BSM
support
> >> compiled in by default, although given that they also run on
Solaris, it is
> >> likely they support it.
> > Ok, I'm using gnome and gnome-terminal, and it is not logging.
Probably
> > gnome-terminal is not compiled with BSM support. Auditd logs when I go
to
> > console using ctrl+alt+f2 combination from X. Thanks for clarifying
this.
>
> Basically, at login, the audit subsystem determins what new audit
properties
> are required for the login session and assigns them to the process, which
> consists of both the audit identifier associated with the user, and the
> preselection mask. Events associated with non-authenticated sessions
(which
> is what gdm logins will count as) should still get audited using the
> properties for the global naflags setting, so if you want to audit events
> associated with gdm you can set naflags to include more events. This will
> also be what audits things like web server activity, so it may result in
> significant numbers of events being audited as part of that also.
>
> We will need to add audit extensions to new login mechanisms, such as
> xdm/kdm/gdm, or enable them if already present but not enabled on FreeBSD
by
> default. OpenSSH, for example, already included BSM support due to Solaris
> and Mac OS X BSM, so we just enabled it by switching a flag in the compile
> (and also fixed a bug in it!). We should probably talk to the maintainers
of
> these ports about investigating creating or enabling BSM support.
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 22
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:42:47 +0300
> From: "Dennis Melentyev" <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Q] multisync irmc/irmc_bluetooth plugins
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID:
> <b84edfa10609180342x3d433160p37ab3e404e624ce6@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> 2006/9/18, Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>:
> > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:55:24PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > Plus, Multisync is dead in water, project abandoned...
> >
> > Not completely true. Multisync in its current form is abandoned, but
> > a new version based on the OpenSync framework
> > (http://www.opensync.org/) is in the works.
>
> Thanks, will check it.
>
> --
> Dennis Melentyev
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 23
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:12:29 +0200
> From: norbert@akumakun.de
> Subject: Too dumb to mount as non privileged user
> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
> Message-ID:
> <14301091.894441158577947426.JavaMail.servlet@kundenserver>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Hello,
>
> using a 6.2-PRERELEASE I am not able to let a normal user mount a cdrom.
> I have tried the following:
>
> o vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf
> o added group usermounters
> o added user to usermounters
> o own acd0 root:usermounters to devfs.conf
> o perm acd0 0660 to devfs.conf
> o created directory with ownership of non privileged user
> o reboot
>
> Trying to mount as user to the users own directory yields 'operation
not permitted' error.
>
> So I changed the ownerships to 0666 but this didn't help either.
> I doublechecked sysctl, groups and ownerships. Can please anybody give me a
hint?
>
> TIA
>
> Norbert
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 24
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:36:05 +0400
> From: George Potapov <nephrite@inbox.ru>
> Subject: Re: Too dumb to mount as non privileged user
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <200609181536.05468.nephrite@inbox.ru>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> On Monday 18 September 2006 15:12, norbert@akumakun.de wrote:
>
> > So I changed the ownerships to 0666 but this didn't help either.
> > I doublechecked sysctl, groups and ownerships. Can please anybody give
me a
> > hint?
>
> IIRC the mount point directory must be owned by the user attempting the
mount.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 25
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:36:08 +0200
> From: Jona Joachim <jaj13@web.de>
> Subject: Re: Too dumb to mount as non privileged user
> To: norbert@akumakun.de
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <450E84A8.8010407@web.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> norbert@akumakun.de wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > using a 6.2-PRERELEASE I am not able to let a normal user mount a
cdrom.
> > I have tried the following:
> >
> > o vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf
> > o added group usermounters
> > o added user to usermounters
> > o own acd0 root:usermounters to devfs.conf
> > o perm acd0 0660 to devfs.conf
> > o created directory with ownership of non privileged user
> > o reboot
> >
> > Trying to mount as user to the users own directory yields
'operation not permitted' error.
> >
> > So I changed the ownerships to 0666 but this didn't help either.
> > I doublechecked sysctl, groups and ownerships. Can please anybody give
me a hint?
>
> Make sure the cd9660 kernel module is loaded before you mount a CD as
> user. The first time you mount a CD the module is loaded but a user is
> not allowed to load a kernel module. You may want to load the module
> during boot time by putting a corresponding entry in /boot/loader.conf
>
> --jona
>
>
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>
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