YES! You can do ANYTHING you want with BSD licensed software including
selling or including it in your propriety software (Mac OS-X). I
reference the MIT license when talking about the BSD license because
it's much shorter, has less legal speak, and they are more or less one
and the same.
My /var disk crashed this weekend. Now when I boot the system stops direct
after the boot-loader starts processing. No errormessages no nothing.
Where can I find resources on how to solve this problem so I can boot my system
again? It's not extremely important for me to keep the system, but I
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical
examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly
to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people
know what's available on the website. Before you post a question
here it might be a good idea to first search the
date nice +20 cat /dev/urandom testfile || date
06:27:43 to 12:44:06 (18919 seconds)
ll
total 655028704
-rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 670421843968 Aug 6 12:44 testfile
df -h|grep mnt
/dev/da0s1d679G625G2.0K 100%/mnt
Average write speed: 670422MB / 18919 = 35.44MB/s
At 12:35 AM 8/7/2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
My /var disk crashed this weekend. Now when I boot the system stops direct
after the boot-loader starts processing. No errormessages no nothing.
You should be able to boot into single user mode. From there you should be
able to do whatever you
On 8/7/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
YES! You can do ANYTHING you want with BSD licensed software including
selling or including it in your propriety software (Mac OS-X). I
reference the MIT license when talking about the BSD license because
it's much shorter, has less legal
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 07:33:02PM +0200, Philip S. Schulz wrote:
Joost Bekkers wrote:
Is there a way to calculate (over eg. a 5 minute interval) the average
amount the cpu was throttled? In this case by powerd(8).
No, powerd currently reads the CPU usage periodically and adjusts the
My /var disk crashed this weekend. Now when I boot the system stops direct
after the boot-loader starts processing. No errormessages no nothing.
You should be able to boot into single user mode. From there you should be
able to do whatever you need in order to fix the problem.
If you can't
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
CANNOT READ BLOCK:
evry time is different number and eventually i get:
ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash.
At 01:19 AM 8/7/2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
My /var disk crashed this weekend. Now when I boot the system stops direct
after the boot-loader starts processing. No errormessages no nothing.
You should be able to boot into single user mode. From there you should be
able to do whatever you need
A freebsd n00b question. How do I set ports up to use ccache (and
distcc for that matter)? Presumably I put something into
/etc/make.conf.
Haven't managed to find anything on list archives or goog.
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On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
CANNOT READ BLOCK:
evry time is different number and eventually i get:
ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, fire67 wrote:
Hello , i'm on freebsd 5.4 and i use openldap-server-2.2.27 but i have a
problem whith that :
# ldapadd -x -D cn=admin, dc=linux-win, dc=org -W -f linux-win.ldif
Enter LDAP Password:
adding new entry
Robert S wrote:
A freebsd n00b question. How do I set ports up to use ccache [...]
Presumably I put something into /etc/make.conf.
Yes, add the following lines to /etc/make.conf
CC=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/cc
CXX=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/c++
Björn
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I have a 24/7 server running FreeBSD-4.11-stable.
All my other machines run 5.4 though.
It's easier to maintain one version instead of two, so my question is
simple:
Is FreeBSD ready for running 24/7 a day in a *stable* way.
If yes, I'll upgrade my 4.11 server.
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Hello,
I am fairly new to FreeBSD having only used it for about a month. I am
using FreeBSD 5.4 release.
I have recently got round to setting up amd. I followed the instructions
to do this on a website I found -
http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/automounting.txt
After following the
Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a brand new motherboard. Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro. FreeBSD
5.4-RELEASE (amd64).
I was also doing some searching around and found a list post about
FreeBSD 5 and DMA write problems:
I've got a GA-K8NSC-939 running 5.4-R (i386) with two 80GB using
Hi guys,
I am running FreBSD 5.4 and wondered what the sittuation is with installing
the JRE so that OpenOffice is fully functional.
Charles Smyth
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On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
yea.. that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it
to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.
is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?
Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you can
read, not
dick hoogendijk wrote:
I have a 24/7 server running FreeBSD-4.11-stable.
All my other machines run 5.4 though.
It's easier to maintain one version instead of two, so my question is
simple:
Is FreeBSD ready for running 24/7 a day in a *stable* way.
If yes, I'll upgrade my 4.11 server.
Do you
Björn König [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert S wrote:
A freebsd n00b question. How do I set ports up to use ccache [...]
Presumably I put something into /etc/make.conf.
Yes, add the following lines to /etc/make.conf
CC=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/cc
CXX=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/c++
dick hoogendijk wrote:
Is FreeBSD ready for running 24/7 a day in a *stable* way.
If yes, I'll upgrade my 4.11 server.
I forgot to say that FreeBSD 5 is ready for use in production environments.
Björn
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On 07 Aug Björn König wrote:
dick hoogendijk wrote:
I have a 24/7 server running FreeBSD-4.11-stable.
In case you mean the other term of stable: 5.x has been declared
-STABLE one year ago.
I know that and of course will bad hard-/software destabalize a system.
But what I ment of course was
On 07 Aug Björn König wrote:
dick hoogendijk wrote:
Is FreeBSD ready for running 24/7 a day in a *stable* way.
If yes, I'll upgrade my 4.11 server.
I forgot to say that FreeBSD 5 is ready for use in production
environments.
Thank you. The former message was out and this one came in ;-)
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:01:40PM +0400, Daniel Sammut wrote:
Hello,
I am fairly new to FreeBSD having only used it for about a month. I am
using FreeBSD 5.4 release.
I have recently got round to setting up amd. I followed the instructions
to do this on a website I found -
there is architecture handbook ,there is devleper handbook ,but is
there mailist for the driver discussion?
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote:
You might want to consider LiteSpeed WebServer. They have a standard (free)
The specs for that seem very interesting.
What has been your experience with that program so far?
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On 8/6/05, Mervin McDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I have been experimenting with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA 2 on
my laptop which uses a ati radeon Mobile Utiliy 1
(IGP 320M) video vard. I have been able to configure
both high console resolution MODE_279 and X on the
laptop, however I have
Dick,
Never change a winning team! Why would you upgrade if everything is running
smooth and stable?
Jack
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From: Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: 5.4 -
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
No. Another poster sent you comments on that. You need to get a Kit.
Should not cost much though. Basically some mounting brackets and a
cable... although for your case probably just the cable
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
yea.. that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get
it
to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.
is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?
Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you can
read,
Hi folks,
I'am rather new to bsd and just came up with some errors while installing bsd
5.4 .
So, first I've installed bsd the standard way. After installing I went back the
the post-configuration.
Then I tried installing some ports for kde and gnome. For the ease of
installing I just seleced
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
/usr/ports/devel/ccache/pkg-descr
makes that sound like A Good Thing.
Any ideas why it's not built into cc/c++,
Because these are compilers, not compiler caches. I suppose it's not the
task of a compiler to speed up the build process, but rather producing
good
Marcel Lautenbach wrote:
[...]
So, first I've installed bsd the standard way. After installing I went back the
the post-configuration.
Then I tried installing some ports for kde and gnome. For the ease of
installing I just seleced the meta-ports. I also selected some editors. (emacs
and vim)
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:51:09PM +0200, Petr Holub wrote:
Hi all,
I've encoutnered the follwing kernel panic on 5.4-RELEASE-p6. However,
as the machine is production and not development one, I don't have
debugger analysis. The panic might *theoretically* be due to problems
accessing
Warren wrote:
will NTOP monitor SNMP or is it strictly local ?
OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
ntop is not about SNMP, it's about packet capture. It's a passive
listener which analyses traffic flow and makes nice pictures about it
via an embedded web server.
Excellent tool, but MRTG might be more of
Hello again:
I recently installed CUPS on a 4.11 webserver. After a few problems
everything got sorted and ran fine for a couple days.
Yesterday I set an alias for lp and everything seems to have broken. To
ease text file formatting I set:
alias lp='lp -o page-left=15 -o page-top=15'
In order to install JDK14, I need to run both of these commands:
kldload linprocfs
mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc
After rebooting the system, do I have to re-run those commands again for
java to be active? Would it be beneficial to put the mount command in
/etc/fstab? I am not
Hi everyone. I am in the process of taking the data from 4 NTFS drives,
copying them to a temporary drive, and then formatting them, and
creating partitions in UFS to be used with FreeBSD. I was having some
problems with DMA errors on one of the drives yesterday, so it was
suggested I try
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
Yes, with a 40-to-44-pin IDE adapter. The pins on a 2.5-inch laptop
drive are spaced closer together than on a 3.5-inch drive.
Before doing that, though, it's worth downloading a copy of the
Gerard Seibert wrote:
In order to install JDK14, I need to run both of these commands:
kldload linprocfs
mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc
After rebooting the system, do I have to re-run those commands again for
java to be active? Would it be beneficial to put the mount command
Björn König [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because these are compilers, not compiler caches. I suppose it's not the task
of a compiler to speed up the build
process, but rather producing good binaries from source code. I think of the
Unix dogma one task, one tool.
GCC violates that one almost
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote:
Is FreeBSD ready for running 24/7 a day in a *stable* way.
If yes, I'll upgrade my 4.11 server.
The only show-stopper I've run into has been my inability to get gvinum
or vinum (my understanding is that gvinum has replaced vinum in
5.4-STABLE
Joost Bekkers wrote:
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 07:33:02PM +0200, Philip S. Schulz wrote:
Joost Bekkers wrote:
Is there a way to calculate (over eg. a 5 minute interval) the average
amount the cpu was throttled? In this case by powerd(8).
[...]
Perhaps I should have said that differently:
My freeBSD 5.3 system supports HighPoint RocketRaid 454 flawless, using
Highpoints own driver.
The freeBSD 5.4 panics if I load Highpoints driver (marked for version 5.3) and
without loading it it simply doesn't identify it as a single unit.
I can't find support for the RocketRaid 454 in the
On 8/7/05, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My freeBSD 5.3 system supports HighPoint RocketRaid 454 flawless, using
Highpoints own driver.
The freeBSD 5.4 panics if I load Highpoints driver (marked for version 5.3)
and without loading it it simply doesn't identify it as a single
I had a disk that was giving the same errors so at the time I just
disabled DMA (in loader.conf, hw.ata.ata_dma=0) but I still wanted
to fix it..
so yesterday..
the drive was set as primary (ad2) but I switched it to slave (ad3).
it seems fine now.
clayton
On 8/7/05, Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL
On 07 Aug dick hoogendijk wrote:
Is FreeBSD ready for running 24/7 a day in a *stable* way.
If yes, I'll upgrade my 4.11 server.
This should of course be: Is FreeBSD-5.4 ready ...
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++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4
+ Nai
On 07 Aug Jack Raats wrote:
Never change a winning team! Why would you upgrade if everything is
running smooth and stable?
Like I said, maintainance on two different releases is more work than
just for one. Upgrading ports / world etc..
But like you said: it sure is a winning team ;-)
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Hi,
i needed a printer so i checked linuxprinting.org and thought an epson
c86 would be a good idea. i'm trying to set it up using usb.
now i've googled off and on for a few days now, and seen that people
have strong opinions as to whether they use CUPS or not. i tried a
few printcap recipies
Guten Tag Björn König,
am Sonntag, 7. August 2005 um 18:17 schrieben Sie:
Marcel Lautenbach wrote:
[...]
So, first I've installed bsd the standard way. After installing
I went back the the post-configuration.
Then I tried installing some ports for kde and gnome. For the
ease of installing
I am researching and accumulating information on
setting up my small office network and using a FreeBSD
Gateway/Firewall as my entry point. I am seeking
general FreeBSD advise, know problems, and input on
this topic. I currently have all the equipment up and
configured and now I'm tying it all
At 02:13 PM 8/7/2005, steve lasiter wrote:
I am researching and accumulating information on
setting up my small office network and using a FreeBSD
Gateway/Firewall as my entry point. I am seeking
general FreeBSD advise, know problems, and input on
this topic. I currently have all the equipment
Is it possible to set things so that 'telnet' is allowed only to one
specific user, while everyone else needs sshd? ie: Obviously, nologin
can be used as a shell to not permit any logins (but makes 'su' break
too), but I'd like to allow telnet for one specific user only and keep
everyone
On 2005-08-07 Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 8/7/05, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My freeBSD 5.3 system supports HighPoint RocketRaid 454 flawless, using
Highpoints own driver.
The freeBSD 5.4 panics if I load Highpoints driver (marked for version 5.3)
and without loading it
good advices... didn't know about the atacontrol thank you all...
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
Yes, with a 40-to-44-pin IDE adapter. The pins on a 2.5-inch laptop
drive are spaced closer together than on a 3.5-inch
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
# Is it possible to set things so that 'telnet' is allowed only to one
# specific user, while everyone else needs sshd? ie: Obviously, nologin
# can be used as a shell to not permit any logins (but makes 'su' break
# too), but I'd like to allow
Hello Family,
I'm trying to get either GAIM or AIM to work on my 5.4 amd64 to no
avail. It works on my 5.4 i386 and I was wondering if anyone can
help, here is my ports failure message for GAIM. AIM reports only
being ported to i386.
#
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
Hello Family,
I'm trying to get either GAIM or AIM to work on my 5.4 amd64 to no
avail. It works on my 5.4 i386 and I was wondering if anyone can
help, here is my ports failure message for GAIM. AIM reports only
being ported to i386.
#
[EMAIL
Quoting the FreeBSD Handbook:
16.3.2.2 Dedicated
If you will not be sharing the new drive with another operating
system, you may use the dedicated mode. Remember this mode can confuse
Microsoft operating systems; however, no damage will be done by them.
IBM's OS/2(r) however, will appropriate any
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This morning, I came back to format the 60GB drive. I formatted it and ran it
through fdisk and disklabel. Whenever I do
What does I formatted it mean?
That means that I used the PowerMax utility to zero fill the 60GB drive
--On August 8, 2005 3:15:14 AM +0200 Kövesdán Gábor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It isn't a compiling error. There is a tool called portaudit, which
checks the ports against security vulnerabilities, and gaim 1.2.1 has
some security issues, thus portaudit prevents You from installing it. Is
your
Hi Mark,
On disk ad1 you have one slice ad1s1 which has one partition ad1s1d,
mount this
# mount /dev/ad1s1d /mnt
Now check the size of the partition :
#df -h
If the size of this partition is equal to the size of your drive you just
used the entire drive for that one partition. If it's not
At 1:48 AM +0300 8/7/05, Michael Dexter wrote:
Hello Garance and all,
snip
Garance wrote:
I think there's a writeup
somewhere on making/using snapshots. I'll see if I can
remember where it is.
Any pointers are appreciated. Seriously, I can't find any
useful documentation on how they work or
Ruben Bloemgarten wrote:
Hi Mark,
On disk ad1 you have one slice ad1s1 which has one partition ad1s1d,
mount this
# mount /dev/ad1s1d /mnt
Now check the size of the partition :
Hi Ruben. Thanks for the response.
After mounting /dev/ad1s1d in FixIt, df -h shows:
/dev/ad1s1d with 55G Size,
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
Hmmm. I didn't know that s1 could be mounted since the
filesytem doesn't start until at least 16 sectors after the start
of s1. But bsdlabel show that my a starts at 0 offset from
the start of my s3, so s1 and s1a must be pretty-much the
same thing as far as mounting
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# disklabel -Brw da1 auto
what did the -r option do, why is it used in this example when
bsdlabel doesn't support it.
It enabled the labeling of an unlabeled disk. It's used because the
handbook is still in transition from the old disklabel. My copy
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