Trouble: cant do anything
Hi, I kind of newbie to freebsd, so go easy on me. First of all I was having troable to install version 5.1 on my machine, but then i finaly got it (or at list I thought so). When I boot the system it asks me to write the path of my shell, and since I don't have any installed I just press ENTER. Then I try to create a file and the system says that it's a read only file system. How do I enter the normal system? Thats is just one of my problems, I will send more questians later... Thank you. Yahoo! Mail - o melhor webmail do Brasil http://mail.yahoo.com.br ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
request for comments
Hello, I've been looking for some assistance regarding hardware support, but I can't find any. Sorry for repeated posts, but if you can, please read the following message at http://news.gw.com/freebsd.hardware/3909 Your help will be appreciated. Thank you in advance and best regards, Simonas Kareiva ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble: cant do anything
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:03:31AM -0300, Carvalho Paulo wrote: First of all I was having troable to install version 5.1 on my machine, but then i finaly got it (or at list I thought so). When I boot the system it asks me to write the path of my shell, and since I don't have any installed I just press ENTER. Then I try to create a file and the system says that it's a read only file system. How do I enter the normal system? Your system isn't booting up all the way to multiuser mode. Instead, it's stopping at single user mode. This is generally an indication that something is wrong with one of the very low-level parts of the system (generally the filesystem), and you're being left in single user mode to give you a chance to fix the problems. Try the following commands: # fsck -p # swapon -a # mount -a The fsck command may or may not burble about checking file systems, but it should eventually tell you that the file systems are clean. The other commands should run without emitting any errors. If they do print out anything untoward, copy it down and send it to this list and someone should be able to advise you how to fix things. Once you've successfully got past that step, your file systems will be mounted read-write and you will be able to edit files as necessary to cure the problem that stopped you booting up properly the first time. Once you're satisfied with that, just type 'exit' to get out of single user mode, and the system should carry on booting up to multiuser mode. Once you see the 'Login:' prompt, you might permit yourself a little jig of triump, as you've successfully booted up. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
IDE card reader
Hi all, I have an IDE card reader ( compact flash, secure digital, MMC, and memory stick) that I am trying to get to work. However when I start my system with it installed it crashes on boot up. This is what it outputs Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virual address= 0x4b fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc03558bc stack pointer = 0x10:0xd6aa6c 54 frame pointer = 0x10:0xd6aa6c 58 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gram 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0 current process = 24 (irq15: ata1) trap number = 12 panic: page fault and it then gives the option to pause or reeboot. If I boot up with a SD card in the reader, I get the exact same message, but with the following just before it: afd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 error=0x04 and it repeats this 4 times If anyone can give me any info, explanation as to what is happenening, a link to another site, anything, please let me know Thanks in advance David Lodeiro ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adaptec Hardware
Hi I don't see the Adaptec 2120S Raid card in the Hardware.TXT file but I see in some mailing list there are some question for this raid card. My question is : This card work or not in FreeBSD 4.X (even 4.9 I can wait), but I don't want to use FreeBSD 5.1 for this server because It's in production for many pepoels. Thanks for advanced. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Tel : 01 44 27 86 88 FAX : 01 44 27 69 35 GSM(UFR) : 06 85 05 58 43 Heure local/Local time: Wed Oct 29 09:52:59 CET 2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log every access to a file
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:57:31AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you create/add a system log to monitor every access to a specific file (say a database file accessed through samba)? A sample line for syslog.conf would be greatly appreciated ?? :-) Samba has extensive logging capabilities itself -- which generally bypass syslog entirely, although there are options available to use syslog. It will certainly log who is accessing the server and from what machines. I don't think it has the capability to monitor accesses down to the level of a particular file though, but read the manuals carefully to be sure. If you really need to log all accesses to the file, then probably your best bet is to only make the file available via a web interface, which can be set to require passwords before it will allow access and will supply the logs you require. Alternatively, databases such as postgres or mysql can keep detailed logs of all queries run against them. Actually, there are two options that will allow you to monitor accesses of any particular file. The first is to periodically stat that file. This is incredibly simple to do. The disadvantage is that if the file is being accessed very often, you may miss some accesses (if you're checking every second, and two people access in the same second, you'll only see one access); if the file is being accessed very rarely, it's a bit of a waste of cpu and disk time to keep checking it. But, nonetheless, this is sometimes the best way to go. I've attached a script statlog.py (requires python 2.3) that will do it for you. It read a list of filenames (one per line) from /usr/local/etc/statlog.conf, and begins monitoring each one, and outputs to /var/log/statlog.log any time there's been a change to A/M/C time. By default, it checks once/second, but you can change this with the -f flag (./statlog -f 5 means five times/second, ./statlog -f 0.5 means every two seconds, ./statlog -f 0 means as often as you can--which you probably only want to use in conjunction with nice or idprio_. The second is to use fam. I should mention that I've only used fam under linux, and, after a brief glance, it looks like the FreeBSD port (/usr/ports/devel/fam) is not as powerful--in particular, FreeBSD apparently doesn't provide imon support (a way for the filesystem to make a callback to a usermode app like fam--no dnotify or anything similar, either, apparently). Which implies that it's probably just a heavier-weight way of doing the exact same thing--periodically stat'ing a list of files--and that there is no better solution available. But I could be wrong, and it's probably worth testing to see if it works better for you. Also, if the files are stored on nfs-mounted drives (and this may be true for smb also, but I don't know), and the nfs server is running fam, the checks are passed off to the server, which makes them faster (and, if the server is running linux or another imon-capable OS, gets around the worries mentioned above). You should have no problem getting fam itself working if you follow the instructions in the message you get when installing the port/package. Anyway, the second script, famlog.py, is a slightly-modified version of a script that I've used for a similar purpose in linux. It reads the filenames in /usr/local/etc/famlog.conf, tells fam to monitor all of those files, and sends its output to /var/log/famlog.log. If either of these is useful to me, let me know. If you need help automating stuff (making an rc.d/famlog.sh wrapper, and maybe a logrotater), modifying either script to use syslog instead of its own log file (should be a one-line change), etc., just ask. (NOTE: The attachments are scrubbed from the copy of this message sent to the list; if anyone besides the original author wants them, let me know.) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log every access to a file
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:07:26AM -0800, andi payn wrote: The second is to use fam. I should mention that I've only used fam under linux, and, after a brief glance, it looks like the FreeBSD port (/usr/ports/devel/fam) is not as powerful--in particular, FreeBSD apparently doesn't provide imon support (a way for the filesystem to make a callback to a usermode app like fam--no dnotify or anything similar, either, apparently). Which implies that it's probably just a heavier-weight way of doing the exact same thing--periodically stat'ing a list of files--and that there is no better solution available. Check the kevent(2) man page. It's a generic mechanism for having the kernel message your process when some condition occurs, such as modification of a file. Unfortunately other than knowing something happened, it doesn't tell you a great deal else, like who it was that made the alteration. Even so, fam(1) has apparently not been patched to use kevent(2) under FreeBSD, so, yes, it's probably going to operate by polling the file status every so often. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
ppp
I have a freebsd 4.4.1 workstation on my LAN configured to obtain it's IP address through DHCP. The proxy server is a Microsoft Proxy Server and it will not allow the freebsd machine to access the Internet. Only windows workstations are able to connect to the Internet. In all the documentation that I have read on PPPoE it explains how to connect to ADSL or ATM through a second nic. Surely bsd will connect to the outside world just by knowing the gateway address? Do I have to still configure ppp.conf and if so what do I put in it? If somebody could just point me towards some documentation I'd be most grateful. Thank you. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About support in FreeBSD 4.9 HomePNA card
Hallo! Why FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE not support: Device ID: 0xA0FA Chip Number: BCM4210 Description: OEM Chip for 10meg/s over phone line Description: iLine10 HomePNA 2.0 Thanks! p.s it is very important ;-) _ / _ / / /_/ Admin Routec systems register account #1024 \ \_\ ISP Routec | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN:165210895 | mob.0672538162 \\ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing colors in shells
Lo folks, i would like to change the colors of the shell to FG=green BG=black. I do _not_ ask how to change the promt, i rather want to change the default FG BG colors, so that with whatever program (be it Konsole, putty, ssh.org, ...) i log in via SSH it uses this colors. I am aware of the fact that i can set up these colors in the clients itself, however this is not what i want. Where do i set them up? Thank you! -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD X.x-RELEASE as DVD ISO
Dear List, in times of more people having a DVD burner, wouldnt it make sense to provide the latest versions of FreeBSD also as an ISO-Image ? Kind regards Kai PS: Please CC me, as i am not subscribed to -questions ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
run XFree86 at 512x384
Hello. I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on Thinkpad 600X -- my old Pentium 500MHz notebook with neomagic at XGA resolution. My CPU isn't fast enough to view some divx movie in enlarged mode, but the movies looks bad just in a small window. I wish I can setup the XFree86 server to run at 512x384 resolution, which is very close to my movies' size. I know it can be totally impossible. I just want to try my luck here if someone knows right about it:) I remember I played games at 512x384 several years ago on a PII Windows PC, so this seems to be a reachable resolution on some cards. However I don't have knowledge if my neomagic card support it, neither do I know where to look for the supported resolutions. Of course I can use VGA resolution, but VGA looks bad, because on LCD: some pixels are stretched to two, some stretched to three. If I can use 512x384 then every pixel is stretched to four, which would look better. Do I need to add a modeline to the XF86Config? What about ModeLine parameters? Besides, if 512x384 is possible, I can play NEO*GEO arcade games with xmame smoothly. I will love it. Thank you. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Drive Geometry -- confusion.
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 This document can also be viewed @ https://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/geometry Install 4.8 from CD-rom Drive Geometry confusion. My BIOS allows me a very limited amount of settings when it comes to an HDD. The following are the only settings offered by my BIOS: Read Prefetch - [Disabled | Enabled] - set to (Disabled) Disk Bios Translation - [LBA | CHS | Disabled] - set to (LBA) Local Bus IDE Mode - [High Performance | Compatible] - set to (High Performance) Size - 8455 MB --Auto-detected-- This is actually an 80GB HDD model: WD800JB. (Unable to change the 'Size' setting.) The only other setting that could remotely be associated with any HDD's installed would be the 'boot order' of the devices. ... sysinstall main menu | Custom | Partition : Here's where I'm confused; The following dialog message is printed: WARNING: A geometry of 155061/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or you are unsure as to whether or not it's correct, Please consult the Hardware Guide in the Documentation submenu or use the (G)eometry command to change it now. Remember: you need to enter whatever your BIOS thinks the geometry is! For IDE, it's what you were told in the BIOS setup. For SCSI, its the translation mode your controller is using. Do NOT use a physical Geometry. ## With the above two (2) paragraphs having been said, All I have at this point is the physical geometry given by the WD800JB specs --which the above paragraphs are currently fobbing me to use. Lets press enter for OK and move further into this... We're in the FDISK Partition Editor where it states on the second line from the top: DISK Geometry: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors (76316MB) If I understand correctly, the physical geometry of this WD800JB is: Cylinders = 16383 Heads = 16 Sectors/Track = 63 As seen on/at: The Westerndigital.com site. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=699p_cr eated=1037217622 I'm inclined to use the above three (3) values, however, The above FreeBSD installation 'dialog' expressly *forbids the use of the physical geometry. Is this not confusing to you as well? Why does the installation forbid us to use the 'physical geometry? --I'm sure there's a valid reason, I'd like to hear it. Can someone explain what to do and, for future reference, -- *why do that? As stated above; I'm confused. - All incoming attachments get deleted. Have a nice day. - ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with latest version of VICE emulator
On Saturday 18 October 2003 16:45, Cory Bajus wrote: I have been unable to get the latest version of the VICE Commodore emulator working (1.13 - built from the ports tree). The PET and Plus/4 emulator work, but the C64 and C128 emulators just give me a screen full of @'s and checkerboards. Is VICE working for anyone, or am I the only one crazy enough to be trying to run it? I have tried it on two different systems, one RELENG_4_8 and a recent RELENG_4 system. The last version (1.12) worked fine for me. Did you ever get a reply? Because, I'm getting this error too! Bjarne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing colors in shells
Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Lo folks, i would like to change the colors of the shell to FG=green BG=black. I do _not_ ask how to change the promt, i rather want to change the default FG BG colors, so that with whatever program (be it Konsole, putty, ssh.org, ...) i log in via SSH it uses this colors. I am aware of the fact that i can set up these colors in the clients itself, however this is not what i want. Where do i set them up? Thank you! I may be wrong because it been a while for me to make changes, but you need to edit your .profile for the system . Here you can set it up. You can even set it up where fortune, mot, or any other programs you want to start when a user log in. .profile more or less control shell, you can also set path up her at well. You will need to set an ansi color. Do a search on google for .profile you might find examples. Payne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portupgrade for python fails: patching doesn't work
FreeBSD 4.6.2. Anybody else seeing this problem? === Extracting for python-2.3.2 Checksum OK for python/Python-2.3.tgz. /usr/bin/sed -e '1s,^.*$,#!/usr/local/bin/python2.3,' /usr/ports/lang/python/work/Python-2.3/Tools/scripts/pydoc /usr/ports/lang/python/work/pydoc2.3 /usr/bin/sed -e '1s,^.*$,#!/usr/local/bin/python2.3,' /usr/ports/lang/python/work/Python-2.3/Tools/scripts/idle /usr/ports/lang/python/work/idle2.3 === Patching for python-2.3.2 === python-2.3.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/sed_inplace - found === Applying FreeBSD patches for python-2.3.2 1 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to configure.rej Patch patch-configure failed to apply cleanly. Patch(es) patch-Modules::_sre.c applied cleanly. *** Error code 1 I tried this a week ago, with the same results - did a make distclean this morning and tried again, still failing in the same place. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing colors in shells
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Lo folks, i would like to change the colors of the shell to FG=green BG=black. I do _not_ ask how to change the promt, i rather want to change the default FG BG colors, so that with whatever program (be it Konsole, putty, ssh.org, ...) i log in via SSH it uses this colors. I am aware of the fact that i can set up these colors in the clients itself, however this is not what i want. Where do i set them up? Thank you! If you mean the text console: vidcontrol green black If you mean in X, you can control it from the command line when launching an application: xterm -bg black -fg green Add this to your .xession file or check your windowmanager's docs for setting it in desktop shortcuts. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arplookup 192.168.0.1 failed: host is not on local network confusion
Hi, In my server, I have three ethernet cards: xl0, xl1 and vx0. xl0 and xl1 are bridged and one of them is connected to my ethernet switch, the other to my wireless acess point. xl0 has an IP address of 192.168.1.1. vx0 is connected to my ADSL modem. My ADSL modem (D-Link ADSL 300G+) insists on using an IP address of 192.168.1.0, but via DHCP it hands vx0 one of the IP addresses in the /29 that I have from my ADSL provider. In dmesg I often see: arplookup 192.168.0.1 failed: host is not on local network Now obviously 192.168.0.1 isn't on the same network as xl0's 192.168.1.1 since xl0 has a netmask of 0xf00. But what is causing this message? Something I read suggested dhcpd, which I have handing out IP addresses on 192.168.1.0/24, but I don't see why. I am aware that this has been discussed before, but I can't see anything misconfigured, and while this is only a minor annoyance I would quite like to get it fixed. ifconfig looks like this: xl0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=3rxcsum,txcsum inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fe9b:c86%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:01:02:9b:0c:86 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active vx0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::260:97ff:fe90:4ad7%vx0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 82.68.135.38 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 82.68.135.255 ether 00:60:97:90:4a:d7 xl1: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=3rxcsum,txcsum inet6 fe80::201:2ff:feb8:3c56%xl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ether 00:01:02:b8:3c:56 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier Thanks for any help Chris Howells ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Smbd process not disconnecting
Hi, The following line is from sockstat -4 on my machine curly, which I checked about 30 minutes ago. There is a netbios connection between curly (192.168.254.2) and moe (192.168.254.4) initiated by root with smbd. I share several directories with Samba. Most likely, I opened the WWW share on my XP box. USER COMMANDPID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS root smbd 3064 16 tcp4 192.168.254.2:139 192.168.254.4:1326 Below, note that I opened that share at 12:11 PM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ps -awux | grep 3064 root3064 0.0 2.6 6252 3272 ?? I12:11PM 0:01.34 /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D Note below, that the connection was opened on the 28th, but did not close, however the connection to Seeds closed about 4 mins after I opened it. Snippet from /var/log/moe.log [2003/10/28 12:11:13, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service WWW initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 3064) [2003/10/28 15:31:04, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service Seeds initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 3064) [2003/10/28 15:35:49, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(880) moe (192.168.254.4) closed connection to service Seeds Am I way off target here, or do I have a process that isn't disconnecting when it should? How can I find out why the connection to WWW didn't close, and prevent that from happening in the future? Thanks, Charles Got a computer with idle CPU time? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] and help make history! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Drive Geometry -- confusion.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of nw1 Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drive Geometry -- confusion. FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 This document can also be viewed @ https://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/geometry Install 4.8 from CD-rom Drive Geometry confusion. My BIOS allows me a very limited amount of settings when it comes to an HDD. The following are the only settings offered by my BIOS: Read Prefetch - [Disabled | Enabled] - set to (Disabled) Disk Bios Translation - [LBA | CHS | Disabled] - set to (LBA) Local Bus IDE Mode - [High Performance | Compatible] - set to (High Performance) Size - 8455 MB --Auto-detected-- This is actually an 80GB HDD model: WD800JB. (Unable to change the 'Size' setting.) The only other setting that could remotely be associated with any HDD's installed would be the 'boot order' of the devices. ... sysinstall main menu | Custom | Partition : Here's where I'm confused; The following dialog message is printed: WARNING: A geometry of 155061/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or you are unsure as to whether or not it's correct, Please consult the Hardware Guide in the Documentation submenu or use the (G)eometry command to change it now. Remember: you need to enter whatever your BIOS thinks the geometry is! For IDE, it's what you were told in the BIOS setup. For SCSI, its the translation mode your controller is using. Do NOT use a physical Geometry. ## With the above two (2) paragraphs having been said, All I have at this point is the physical geometry given by the WD800JB specs --which the above paragraphs are currently fobbing me to use. Lets press enter for OK and move further into this... We're in the FDISK Partition Editor where it states on the second line from the top: DISK Geometry: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors (76316MB) If I understand correctly, the physical geometry of this WD800JB is: Cylinders = 16383 Heads = 16 Sectors/Track = 63 As seen on/at: The Westerndigital.com site. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_ faqid=699p_cr eated=1037217622 I'm inclined to use the above three (3) values, however, The above FreeBSD installation 'dialog' expressly *forbids the use of the physical geometry. Is this not confusing to you as well? Why does the installation forbid us to use the 'physical geometry? --I'm sure there's a valid reason, I'd like to hear it. Can someone explain what to do and, for future reference, -- *why do that? As stated above; I'm confused. - All incoming attachments get deleted. Have a nice day. - ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This was a message from a little while ago that might shed some light: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, at 12:17:54, Mark Terribile wrote: Well, I've got my 120G disk up and running and now I'd like to understand something odd. I went into /stand/sysinstall to put down the partition and slice tables and the FS and found that it determined the geometry (cyl/head/sectors) as 15107/255/63 . Since it warned that the values must match the BIOS values, I set them to the 59131/16/255 that the BIOS reports. It rejected this entry and went back to its own. I also tried the values reported by the ata driver on startup; these too were rejected. Since it's working (with about 117G -- that's Gi_b_abytes) it must be OK (famous last words!) but what's going on here? Why does it demand the values reported by the BIOS if it will refuse them, and why does the driver come up with another set of values, also unacceptible to the disklabel/fdisk machinery? I expect that most people reading this are aware of some of the limitations of BIOS disk addressing, including the physical disk addresses in the disk partition table in the MBR (master bootstrap record) of bootable PC disk drives which allocates only 10 bits for the cylinder number, 8 bits for the head number, and 6 bits for the sector number. There is also a Fixed Disk Drive Parameter Table available through the traditional BIOS. The table format allocates 16 bits for the number of cylinders, 8 bits for the number of heads, and 8 bits for the number of sectors per track. Since BIOS sector numbers begin at one (not zero), the BIOS addressing limitations are usually given as 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, and 63 sectors per track. (Note: 1024*255*63 sectors is just under 8GB.) The ATA/IDE specifications limit you to 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, and 255 sectors per track (see http://www.t13.org). If you accept both sets of limitations at once, you get a maximum of 1024
Re: installing freebsd on another disk
Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to install freebsd on another disk from source. Can I do something like?: cd /usr/src make buildworld make PREFIX=/mnt installworld make PREFIX=/mnt kernel If not $PREFIX, what's the right answer? I'd try it and see...but I only have my one live box. Thanks DESTDIR is what you're looking for, but its use is a little tricky. I wouldn't recommend trying this if you don't have a system to spare. [I suppose you could try it inside a jail...] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freebsd on Macs
I am wondering if it is currently possible to run freebsd on a Mac. please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostFix error
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You forgot to disable the log generation in the daily periodic(8) script. There are some other daily operations you should probably disable, too. Try: daily_clean_hoststat_enable=NO daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO daily_status_include_submit_mailq=NO daily_submit_queuerun=NO [in periodic.conf(5), of course] I see a periodic folder off of /etc but no periodic.conf file. Should I just create one with the above settings? Also it seems that there are only 2 errors, not 4. man periodic.conf Ahhh I see the error now In the periodic folder, under daily there is a script called 150.clean-hoststat this file contains the following lines: if [ -z $(sendmail -bh 21) ]; then rc=2 else echo echo Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache: rc=0 sendmail -bH || rc=1 this is the source of the bh errors. I will disable this command and see if I get any more errors. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Is there a way to do this is PostFix or is this done automatically? The correct way to do this is with the configuration lines I gave in the previous message. The one causing the error you see in the log is the first of those configuration lines. Modifying the periodic scripts directly will work too, but you'll need to keep merging your changes as you update the system, so it's a less recommended approach. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Drive Geometry -- confusion.
Jim, Thanks for that, but I'm no closer to understanding my initial questions as seen on or at; https://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/geometry Why does the installation forbid us to use the 'physical geometry? --I'm sure there's a valid reason, I'd like to hear it. in this instance, can someone explain what to do and, why? for future reference. - Original Message - From: Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 8:46 AM Subject: RE: Drive Geometry -- confusion. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of nw1 Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drive Geometry -- confusion. FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 This document can also be viewed @ https://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/geometry Install 4.8 from CD-rom Drive Geometry confusion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd on Macs
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if it is currently possible to run freebsd on a Mac. please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html also: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/ http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd on Macs
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if it is currently possible to run freebsd on a Mac. please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! Although OS X is partially derived from FreeBSD, there is no Mac port yet. NetBSD and OpenBSD do though, check them out. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Editing a file with bash...
Hi list, can I edit a file and delete a line by searching any parameter with bash ??? Thanks... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Drive Geometry -- confusion.
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:20, nw1 wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 This document can also be viewed @ https://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/geometry Install 4.8 from CD-rom Drive Geometry confusion. My BIOS allows me a very limited amount of settings when it comes to an HDD. The following are the only settings offered by my BIOS: Read Prefetch - [Disabled | Enabled] - set to (Disabled) Disk Bios Translation - [LBA | CHS | Disabled] - set to (LBA) Local Bus IDE Mode - [High Performance | Compatible] - set to (High Performance) Size - 8455 MB --Auto-detected-- This is actually an 80GB HDD model: WD800JB. (Unable to change the 'Size' setting.) The only other setting that could remotely be associated with any HDD's installed would be the 'boot order' of the devices. ... sysinstall main menu | Custom | Partition : Here's where I'm confused; The following dialog message is printed: WARNING: A geometry of 155061/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or you are unsure as to whether or not it's correct, Please consult the Hardware Guide in the Documentation submenu or use the (G)eometry command to change it now. Remember: you need to enter whatever your BIOS thinks the geometry is! For IDE, it's what you were told in the BIOS setup. For SCSI, its the translation mode your controller is using. Do NOT use a physical Geometry. ## With the above two (2) paragraphs having been said, All I have at this point is the physical geometry given by the WD800JB specs --which the above paragraphs are currently fobbing me to use. Lets press enter for OK and move further into this... We're in the FDISK Partition Editor where it states on the second line from the top: DISK Geometry: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors (76316MB) If I understand correctly, the physical geometry of this WD800JB is: Cylinders = 16383 Heads = 16 Sectors/Track = 63 A simple calculation from these figures gives a total capacity of about 8.4Gb. In no way are these figures real (or even equivalent) for an 80Gb drive. The problem is that the hardware/software does not have the bit capacity to recognise more than 16383 cylinders. The 80Gb corresponds roughly with the 155061/16/63 figure. In fact modern drives at the disk hardware level expect simple absolute sector number for addressing not CHS, and in fact there may be different numbers of sectors to a track dependent on its diameter. So the 155061/16/63 figures are only some sort of equivalent CHS used in translating CHS addresses to absolute sector numbers. In principle you could pretend the CHS geometry was almost anything you want so long as it allows translation of hypothetical CHS addreses to real absolute sector addresses. The catch comes in the limitations of the bios/software/hardware registers to hold the CHS quantities. Using maxima for heads (255) and sectors (63) keeps the number of cylinders to a realisable value. Hence 9729/255/63 looks like the right choice. Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4.8 on i386
Hello, Are there issues with trying to install 4.8 on i386 machines? I've tried upgrading from 4.2 on ISO cd to using the FTP site directly, even tried a clean install from the ISO but the istall continues to fall apart while retrieving anything with the Xserver and the binary itself. I just, this AM, used the FTP direct upgrade (thinking my ISO burn was faulty), skipped through the Xserve stuff that failed and allegedly did a successful upgrade. On reboot I get: booting(kernel)... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' no bootable kernel ok I have a Mylex 760 raid card, is this the impediment? The 4.2 is successful without a hitch. I have an AMI 3.0 bios, a Super p6dgs/dbs motherboard. I've downloaded the ISO from different FTP sites and still get the same result from ISO install attempts. Any words for the unwise here? thanks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.8 on i386
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Are there issues with trying to install 4.8 on i386 machines? I've tried upgrading from 4.2 on ISO cd to using the FTP site directly, even tried a clean install from the ISO but the istall continues to fall apart while retrieving anything with the Xserver and the binary itself. I just, this AM, used the FTP direct upgrade (thinking my ISO burn was faulty), skipped through the Xserve stuff that failed and allegedly did a successful upgrade. On reboot I get: booting(kernel)... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' no bootable kernel ok I have a Mylex 760 raid card, is this the impediment? The 4.2 is successful without a hitch. I have an AMI 3.0 bios, a Super p6dgs/dbs motherboard. I've downloaded the ISO from different FTP sites and still get the same result from ISO install attempts. Any words for the unwise here? thanks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I won't call you unwise, but it's a lng way from 4.2 to 4.8. If you've still got a 4.2 world and a 4.2 kernel, I'd try to use cvsup/makebuildworld/../../../mergemaster (etc.) to get to 4.4, then 4.6, then 4.8 or 4.9.. Can you explain the phrase FTP direct upgrade a little more clearly? Do you mean using /stand/sysinstall? You may need to wait until some bigger brains see your question : ( Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editing a file with bash...
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Xpression wrote: Hi list, can I edit a file and delete a line by searching any parameter with bash ??? Thanks... sed '/searchstring/d' file1 file2 Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
multiple run reports??
Hello all, Yesterday I started to get multiple copies of the run reports for one of my FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE servers (this is a screen shot of some of the emails, http://www.bwlogic.com/downloads/hmmm2.GIF), has anyone seen this before or have any idea what could cause this? I checked the crontab, reviewed my logs and rebooted a few times and I didn't see anything obvious to me. I am using qmail with vpop. TIA, Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems building firebird on 4.9-stable
Hi! I'm unable to upgrade firebird to version 0.7. The build breaks at gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/ports/www/mozilla-firebird/work/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin' gtk2xtbin.c cc -o gtk2xtbin.o -c -DOSTYPE=\FreeBSD4\ -DOSARCH=\FreeBSD\ -D_IMPL_NS_WIDGET -DUSE_XIM -I../../../dist/include/gtkxtbin -I../../../dist/include -I/usr/local/ports/www/mozilla-firebird/work/mozilla/dist/include/nspr -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I/usr/X11R6/include -fPIC -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -O -pipe -D_THREAD_SAFE -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -ffunction-sections -I/usr/local/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/X11R6/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include-I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -include ../../../mozilla-config.h -DMOZILLA_CLIENT gtk2xtbin.c gtk2xtbin.c:170: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type gtk2xtbin.c: In function `gtk_xtbin_get_type': gtk2xtbin.c:207: `GTK_TYPE_SOCKET' undeclared (first use in this function) gtk2xtbin.c:207: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once gtk2xtbin.c:207: for each function it appears in.) gtk2xtbin.c: In function `gtk_xtbin_class_init': gtk2xtbin.c:218: `GTK_TYPE_SOCKET' undeclared (first use in this function) gtk2xtbin.c: In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': gtk2xtbin.c:271: warning: implicit declaration of function `gtk_socket_get_id' gtk2xtbin.c:279: warning: implicit declaration of function `gtk_socket_add_id' gmake[2]: *** [gtk2xtbin.o] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/ports/www/mozilla-firebird/work/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin' gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/ports/www/mozilla-firebird/work/mozilla' gmake: *** [default] Error 2 *** Error code 2 I've checked the dependencies and everything seems to be installed, so I'm sort of clueless which header is missing or can't be found and why that comes to pass. The file /usr/X11R6/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtksocket.h lies around. Any pointers? Thanks, norbert. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
afbackup keeps ejecting tapes
OS: freeBSD 4.8-STABLE afbackup-3.3.5 Hi, okay I am having a difficult time here. I must be misunderstainding something. I have one tape drive and two clients. one of the client machines dis also the server which has a single tape drive attached to it. the tape drive handles only one cartridge at a time. I am rotating backups between 3 separate cartridges. each weekly backup should be able to fit on one tape only since the tapes are 50GB each. I have already used these tapes for backup. The tape recently rotated.and as soon as the tape was inserted I received mail to run the cartready program and did that. then afbackup ejects the tape from the drive and sends me the following message: The device /dev/sa0 on host hostname.domain.com is not ready for use. You are requested to check the device for possible errors and to correct them. Best regards from your backup service. do I need to do more then cartready? Am I missing a step to rewind the tape? Any ideas here thanks, Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiple run reports??
This has happened to me a few times... The nightly check jobs either run too many times, or some of them don't run at all... I have posted this in the past, and have not received a response. However, it usually corrects itself in a few days. I have never found an explanation. Peter At 09:15 AM 10/29/2003, you wrote: Hello all, Yesterday I started to get multiple copies of the run reports for one of my FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE servers (this is a screen shot of some of the emails, http://www.bwlogic.com/downloads/hmmm2.GIF), has anyone seen this before or have any idea what could cause this? I checked the crontab, reviewed my logs and rebooted a few times and I didn't see anything obvious to me. I am using qmail with vpop. TIA, Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.529 / Virus Database: 324 - Release Date: 10/16/2003 Peter Elsner - President [EMAIL PROTECTED] SRI Software 726 Dalworth Suite 1007 Grand Prairie, TX. 75050 972-266-8870 - Voice 817-887-1609 - Fax www.sri-software.com Service Plus(tm) Public Warehouse Management Software --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.529 / Virus Database: 324 - Release Date: 10/16/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hey, Does anyone on the FreeBSD list use arpwatch arpsnmp? Arpwatch works great, however Id liked to use arpsnmp to monitor remote sites. The arpfetch script gives me the output below, however when I attempt to import that with arpsnmp I get syntax errors. I think it has something to do with the format, however I cannot figure what it should be. Any help would be greatly appreciated (btw please cc: me, Im no longer on the Freebsd list) ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.18.13.24.129:=:string:::1:c9:30:c8:1 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.130:=:string:::a0:c9:da:d2:81 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.135:=:string5e::1:1 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.138:=:string:::10:db:28:1b:21 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.141:=:string5e::1:1 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.142:=:string5e::1:1 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.143:=:string5e::1:1 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.144:=:string5e::1:1 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.156:=:string5e::1:1 ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.157:=:string:::a0:8e:32:93:ae ip-mib::ipnettomediaphysaddress.4.19.13.24.158:=:string:::a0:8e:32:8d:be However I when try to use this output with arpsnmp I get; bash# arpsnmp output file_loop: output:1 syntax error #1 Any help would be appreciated, Thanks! - Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Load Average more than 400
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Charles Swiger wrote: What does ps auxw look like when you have this load spike? Nothing unusual - mysqld processes, nothing else... Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Load Average more than 400
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Daniela wrote: Watch your top (or ps -ax) output. Anything odd there? Nothing odd - many mysqld processes as usual... Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Load Average more than 400
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MySQL has done this to me after an unclean shutdown. Try stopping mysqld and running myisamchk -r on all tables. first of all, I use mostly innodb tables, and secondly, and besides, there was indeed an unclean shutdown recently but already several hours had passed so it couldn't be the cause of it as it seems. Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Load Average more than 400
how bout systat - that might flush up which is goin nuts On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Daniela wrote: Watch your top (or ps -ax) output. Anything odd there? Nothing odd - many mysqld processes as usual... Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 4.8 on i386
This seems familiar to a problem I had at one point. There is a change on location of the kernel so I had to install new bootstraps to get around this. See `man disklabel` for info on installing the new bootstraps. Hope this helps, Jeff -Original Message- From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.8 on i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Are there issues with trying to install 4.8 on i386 machines? I've tried upgrading from 4.2 on ISO cd to using the FTP site directly, even tried a clean install from the ISO but the istall continues to fall apart while retrieving anything with the Xserver and the binary itself. I just, this AM, used the FTP direct upgrade (thinking my ISO burn was faulty), skipped through the Xserve stuff that failed and allegedly did a successful upgrade. On reboot I get: booting(kernel)... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' no bootable kernel ok I have a Mylex 760 raid card, is this the impediment? The 4.2 is successful without a hitch. I have an AMI 3.0 bios, a Super p6dgs/dbs motherboard. I've downloaded the ISO from different FTP sites and still get the same result from ISO install attempts. Any words for the unwise here? thanks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I won't call you unwise, but it's a lng way from 4.2 to 4.8. If you've still got a 4.2 world and a 4.2 kernel, I'd try to use cvsup/makebuildworld/../../../mergemaster (etc.) to get to 4.4, then 4.6, then 4.8 or 4.9.. Can you explain the phrase FTP direct upgrade a little more clearly? Do you mean using /stand/sysinstall? You may need to wait until some bigger brains see your question : ( Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free bsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.532 / Virus Database: 326 - Release Date: 10/27/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.532 / Virus Database: 326 - Release Date: 10/27/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with incorrect received date on microsoft clients
System is freebsd 4.7 with up to date sources. Mailer is exim 4.24 with mysql Pop3 server is TPOP3D 1.5.2 System was exim 4.10 and tpop3d 1.4.2 before upgrade After upgrade of exim and tpop3d clients using outlook or outlook express with versions less than 5.5 have the received date of all emails showing 4th October 2001. The mail is received by exim and dropped correctly into the users mailbox. Viewing the mailbox file contents shows no reference to this date only correct date headers. So telnet into the pop server and view the mail - no reference to this incorrect date and all headers correct. Yet when the client draws the mail through their mail client with version prior to 5.5 the received dates are incorrect. Only the time varies. To fix the problem is simple upgrade the few hundred clients to explorer 5.5 or above - right. Any had this or got ANY suggestions. Amavis is running on the server but it does the same even if i remove amavis from the exim configure file. By the way it does it on both our servers on separate networks after they were upgraded. Please help. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi list...
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:13:55 -0500 Xpression [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running TACACS+ on a FreeBSD server to aaa and I was wondering if I can restrict the entrance to peoples until a time, I mean, I don't want to be able the connection to some address pools from 6:00 pm until 6am, for example...any clue ??? Do I need a script before authentication or what ??? Thanks...if someone knows if it can do it on the NAS ??? perfect...thanx No clue what TACACS+ is, but if it involves the network you may want to look into ipfw and then setting up a cron job. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rxvt: backspace won't work?
Hello. I just have rxvt installed and working. The problem now is that when I am in vi, in the input mode (press 'a' or 'i' to enter input mode), if I press the backspace, a '\?' is resulted instead of deleting the character befor cursor. This also happens when I use less(3), when I search something with '/' the searched text cannot be backspace-deleted. In the meantime xterm works fine, everything behavior just like in the real console. Did I missed some thing in Xresource? Thank you. I am running fluxbox/FreeBSD 5.1 on thinkpad 600XD. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rxvt: backspace won't work?
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I just have rxvt installed and working. The problem now is that when I am in vi, in the input mode (press 'a' or 'i' to enter input mode), if I press the backspace, a '\?' is resulted instead of deleting the character befor cursor. This also happens when I use less(3), when I search something with '/' the searched text cannot be backspace-deleted. Try stty erase back space key Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dedicated Servers from $119/mo t: +44 7919 373537 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi list...
I'm running TACACS+ on a FreeBSD server to aaa and I was wondering if I can restrict the entrance to peoples until a time, I mean, I don't want to be able the connection to some address pools from 6:00 pm until 6am, for example...any clue ??? Do I need a script before authentication or what ??? Thanks...if someone knows if it can do it on the NAS ??? perfect...thanx could you not have a cron job which stops the process at a certain time, then starts it back up at another time? e.g. in '/etc/crontab' add the following *TAB18TAB*TAB*TAB*TABuser_to_perform_action_such_as_rootTAB/path /to/tacacs/stop-script *TAB6TAB*TAB*TAB*TABuser_to_perform_action_such_as_rootTAB/path/ to/tacacs/start-script replacing TAB with tabs so it'll stop at 18 hours (6pm) and start at 6am No clue what TACACS+ is, but if it involves the network you may want to look into ipfw and then setting up a cron job. http://www.easynet.de/tacacs-faq/tacacs-faq-2.html snip What is TACACS, XTACACS, TACACS+, RADIUS? All of them are protocols which allow a network access server (NAS, for example a Cisco 2511 or a 5300) to offload the user administation to a central server. There are now three versions of an authentication protocol that people commonly refer to as TACACS, which is as acronym for Terminal Access Controller Access Control System /snip hope this helps Simon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi list...
there is an faq at: http://www.easynet.de/tacacs-faq/tacacs-faq.html but the users guide say nothing about such restriction. kitsune wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:13:55 -0500 Xpression [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running TACACS+ on a FreeBSD server to aaa and I was wondering if I can restrict the entrance to peoples until a time, I mean, I don't want to be able the connection to some address pools from 6:00 pm until 6am, for example...any clue ??? Do I need a script before authentication or what ??? Thanks...if someone knows if it can do it on the NAS ??? perfect...thanx No clue what TACACS+ is, but if it involves the network you may want to look into ipfw and then setting up a cron job. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Screen eating all CPU
Hi all! I was just wondering what could be wrong with my screen. Just like many other I would like to have it for IRC over SSH. I installed screen on my 4.8 normally using pkg_add -r screen. I update the ports tree with cvsup on regular basis and the version that got installed was screen-3.9.13. As soon as I start screen for a normal user the load starts to rise. Slowly, but it will reach 1.00. I have run screen under Linux for serveral years without problems - what could have I missed? Best regards, Johan Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen eating all CPU
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Johan Paul wrote: Hi all! I was just wondering what could be wrong with my screen. Just like many other I would like to have it for IRC over SSH. I installed screen on my 4.8 normally using pkg_add -r screen. I update the ports tree with cvsup on regular basis and the version that got installed was screen-3.9.13. Its a known bug. Install screen from the compiled ports and it will all be fine Rgds Rusx -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dedicated Servers from $119/mo t: +44 7919 373537 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd on Macs
If you computer can run 10.3 I would got that way because this version is now is more *nix like than ever. It has X11 built into so you can now run X11, and there are hundreds of ports of BSD programs. And it stable. Payne Viktor Lazlo wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if it is currently possible to run freebsd on a Mac. please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! Although OS X is partially derived from FreeBSD, there is no Mac port yet. NetBSD and OpenBSD do though, check them out. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log every access to a file
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:00:15 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:07:26AM -0800, andi payn wrote: The second is to use fam. I should mention that I've only used fam under linux, and, after a brief glance, it looks like the FreeBSD port (/usr/ports/devel/fam) is not as powerful--in particular, FreeBSD apparently doesn't provide imon support (a way for the filesystem to make a callback to a usermode app like fam--no dnotify or anything similar, either, apparently). Which implies that it's probably just a heavier-weight way of doing the exact same thing--periodically stat'ing a list of files--and that there is no better solution available. Check the kevent(2) man page. It's a generic mechanism for having the kernel message your process when some condition occurs, such as modification of a file. Unfortunately other than knowing something happened, it doesn't tell you a great deal else, like who it was that made the alteration. And for a way to easily use this facility from shell scripts, check out sysutils/wait_on, in the ports tree. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd on Macs
There is also OpenDarwin http://www.opendarwin.org/ I haven't tried it yet, but I haven't had a chance to play with my mac yet. On Wed 2003-10-29 (12:02), Payne wrote: If you computer can run 10.3 I would got that way because this version is now is more *nix like than ever. It has X11 built into so you can now run X11, and there are hundreds of ports of BSD programs. And it stable. Payne Viktor Lazlo wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if it is currently possible to run freebsd on a Mac. please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! Although OS X is partially derived from FreeBSD, there is no Mac port yet. NetBSD and OpenBSD do though, check them out. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /~\ The ASCII ASCII stupid question, get a EBCDIC ANSI. \ / Ribbon Campaign John Oxley X Against HTMLhttp://oxo.rucus.net/ / \ Email! oxo at rucus.ru.ac.za Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. -- Thomas Scoville ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Confused about perl versions and perl modules
I'd love to understand the interaction between perl versions, FreeBSD versions and perl modules. Frinstance I have a 4.7 system with only the base system perl, and a number of perl modules from the ports collection. The perl modules seem to install themselves under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/ and put the man pages under /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man. Would this be different if I had perl 5.6 from ports installed and had done a use.perl port before installing them??? I note that on a 5.1 system under /usr/local/lib/perl5 there is both 5.00503 and 5.6.1 and site_perl and under site_perl there is 5.005 and 5.6.1. This seems kind of surprising given 5.x doesn't have a base system perl and the ports version is 5.6. I guess the real question is, if I move from base to ports version, do I have to uninstall and reinstall all the modules from ports? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.8 on i386
Yes, I used the upgrade tool in /stand/sysinstall and then ftp for the upgrade. I tried a clean install from a 4.8 and 4.9 ISO disk and things still collapse with the Xserver required fonts and whatever, then totally fails on the kernel extraction. Can't figure what's up. Dan Date sent: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:03:28 -0600 From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: 4.8 on i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Are there issues with trying to install 4.8 on i386 machines? I've tried upgrading from 4.2 on ISO cd to using the FTP site directly, even tried a clean install from the ISO but the istall continues to fall apart while retrieving anything with the Xserver and the binary itself. I just, this AM, used the FTP direct upgrade (thinking my ISO burn was faulty), skipped through the Xserve stuff that failed and allegedly did a successful upgrade. On reboot I get: booting(kernel)... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' no bootable kernel ok I have a Mylex 760 raid card, is this the impediment? The 4.2 is successful without a hitch. I have an AMI 3.0 bios, a Super p6dgs/dbs motherboard. I've downloaded the ISO from different FTP sites and still get the same result from ISO install attempts. Any words for the unwise here? thanks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I won't call you unwise, but it's a lng way from 4.2 to 4.8. If you've still got a 4.2 world and a 4.2 kernel, I'd try to use cvsup/makebuildworld/../../../mergemaster (etc.) to get to 4.4, then 4.6, then 4.8 or 4.9.. Can you explain the phrase FTP direct upgrade a little more clearly? Do you mean using /stand/sysinstall? You may need to wait until some bigger brains see your question : ( Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.8 on i386
It might be hardware. Start with http://www.memtest86.com/ On Wed 2003-10-29 (11:31), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I used the upgrade tool in /stand/sysinstall and then ftp for the upgrade. I tried a clean install from a 4.8 and 4.9 ISO disk and things still collapse with the Xserver required fonts and whatever, then totally fails on the kernel extraction. Can't figure what's up. Dan Date sent:Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:03:28 -0600 From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 4.8 on i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Are there issues with trying to install 4.8 on i386 machines? I've tried upgrading from 4.2 on ISO cd to using the FTP site directly, even tried a clean install from the ISO but the istall continues to fall apart while retrieving anything with the Xserver and the binary itself. I just, this AM, used the FTP direct upgrade (thinking my ISO burn was faulty), skipped through the Xserve stuff that failed and allegedly did a successful upgrade. On reboot I get: booting(kernel)... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' no bootable kernel ok I have a Mylex 760 raid card, is this the impediment? The 4.2 is successful without a hitch. I have an AMI 3.0 bios, a Super p6dgs/dbs motherboard. I've downloaded the ISO from different FTP sites and still get the same result from ISO install attempts. Any words for the unwise here? thanks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I won't call you unwise, but it's a lng way from 4.2 to 4.8. If you've still got a 4.2 world and a 4.2 kernel, I'd try to use cvsup/makebuildworld/../../../mergemaster (etc.) to get to 4.4, then 4.6, then 4.8 or 4.9.. Can you explain the phrase FTP direct upgrade a little more clearly? Do you mean using /stand/sysinstall? You may need to wait until some bigger brains see your question : ( Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /~\ The ASCII ASCII stupid question, get a EBCDIC ANSI. \ / Ribbon Campaign John Oxley X Against HTMLhttp://oxo.rucus.net/ / \ Email! oxo at rucus.ru.ac.za Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. -- Thomas Scoville ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making gv print with CUPS
I am trying to get GV to print with CUPS and am having no luck so far, it seems to be working fine with Kword, but I have a PDF file I need to print and can't get the job done with Kword. Any help would be most appreciated. -- Lute * Power Provided * * by * * FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will CVS let me pull in a revision between two existing ones?
I'm finally setting up a CVS repository for work we do at my company, and after piling through cvs.info and bouncing around in cvs(1) and through a number of CVS-related web sites, I think I've found answers to all of my questions but one: Can I import (or otherwise pull in) a revision of sources that is chronologically between two revisions already in the repository? The reason I want to do this is that we have source files embedded in projects which sprang from, eventually returned to, but are not identical to any revision in our local library of code modules. Example of development cycle: While working on a project, a code file I'll call file1 is written. It becomes useful in some similar form in several projects, so we take the time to write a generic version and put it in the code library. Sometime later, while working on another project, I find I have to update it within that project. The update turns out to be useful elsewhere, so it later gets merged by hand back into the library. (Yes, I know...this whole scenario is the whole purpose of systems like CVS; but of all the things CVS can do, time regression (so I can have managed all this right the first time) isn't one of them.) If I can indeed slip a mid-way revision in somehow, I can start building the repository immediately; otherwise, I fear I'll have to do a massive file organization first to line up all the revisions of individual files. In the docs, I saw a (dangerous but possible) way to remove a mid-way revision, but not a way to make one. I'm up for editing repository files if I must for this, but I want the final result to look like I committed the revisions in chronological order. Due to the way CVS numbers revisions, I doubt what I want can be done, at least without a major repository overhaul; but I figure it won't hurt to ask anyway. Thanks for any help. -- Doug Lee, Access Technology Programmer, Bartimaeus Group mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. --Helen Keller ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with date...
Hi all, I'm logging certain types of files to a daily grouping with the following format `date +%v` and the output format for today is eg. 29-Oct-2003, it's fine but this happens at 12:00 pm at night to rotate everyday, and I want to check and edit some lines on the file that was recorded but date is the actual and date +%v return me the date of today and not of yesterday, is there a way to recognize the past file ??? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen eating all CPU
I installed screen on my 4.8 normally using pkg_add -r screen. I update the ports tree with cvsup on regular basis and the version that got installed was screen-3.9.13. Its a known bug. Install screen from the compiled ports and it will all be fine Great, thanks - it worked! Now it doesn't eat all my CPU which is nice. But I have another problem related to screen. That is when I start screen my terminal emulation gets messed up. For example if a hit backspace or delete I get a ~ and the bell and my left- and right arrows doesn't work. This hasn't either happend to me under Linux. What could cause this and where can I controll the terminal emulation...? This happens to me with both tcsh and bash - if it has anything to do with the problem... Thanks again! -- Johan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with date...
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:58:21PM -0500, Xpression wrote: Hi all, I'm logging certain types of files to a daily grouping with the following format `date +%v` and the output format for today is eg. 29-Oct-2003, it's fine but this happens at 12:00 pm at night to rotate everyday, and I want to check and edit some lines on the file that was recorded but date is the actual and date +%v return me the date of today and not of yesterday, is there a way to recognize the past file ??? You can produce the date formatted as you wish but for 1 day ago by: % date -v-1d +%v It's also a good tip when dealing with files with a datestamp in their name if you use a format more like: % date +%Y-%M-%d (ie. 2003-10-29 for today). This has the very useful property that your directory listing will come out in *date* order. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: disappearing email?
I seem to have found the answer to my own question. Apparently, when anyone is connected to AOL, AOL overrides any SMTP settings the user has. Below are headers from a client of mine that was sent to me using a pop account on our server, with the SMTP in OE set to our server: Return-Path: x Received: from jwebmedia.com (jwebmedia.com []) by mx02.gvl-priv.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9TI0n1g014654; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:00:49 -0500 Received: from rly-ip05.mx.aol.com (rly-ip05.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.9]) by jwebmedia.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9TI06wB022831; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:00:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from x) Received: from logs-ntc-tj.proxy.aol.com (logs-ntc-tj.proxy.aol.com [198.81.20.131]) by rly-ip05.mx.aol.com (v95.1) with ESMTP id RELAYIN2-33fa0003836e; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:00:24 2000 Received: from xxx (ACC7A07C.ipt.aol.com [172.199.160.124]) by logs-ntc-tj.proxy.aol.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id h9THuWfJ006805; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:56:34 GMT Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: xxx To: Joseph Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: xx Subject: server check Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:56:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_0009_01C39E13.B09025F0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Apparently-From: xxx X-AOL-IP: 198.81.20.131 Status: Has anyone else seen this before? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 From: Joseph Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:37:43 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: disappearing email? I have a client with a POP account on my server. Their main connection to the internet is via AOL. Some messages (not all) that they send out via this POP account (through my SMTP) never reach the server at all. They never bounce back, but never hit the server. I've sat in front the computer, checked the outlook settings, deleted and re-created the outlook settings, etc. That is all correct. The only thing I'm starting to notice is that if they send an e-mail with 1 address in the TO: line, it has better luck than if there are multiple addresses in the TO: line, however, that doesn't seem to affect things always. I had a client with this problem in the past - we took them off of AOL and moved them to a local dial-up provider. After that, there were no missing e-mails. I wondered if anyone else had encountered a similar problem, and if they ever found out what the culprit was. I hate telling my clients, Don't use AOL without a reason for the disappearing e-mail. Thanks, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disappearing email?
I seem to have found the answer to my own question. Apparently, when anyone is connected to AOL, AOL overrides any SMTP settings the user has. Below are headers from a client of mine that was sent to me using a pop account on our server, with the SMTP in OE set to our server: In the UK, The Planet, who area major virtual ISP for various household ISPs do a similar trick, basically any traffic on port 25 automatically gets proxied (don't know if that's the exact terminology, but that's the effect) through their mail server -- I guess they claim that it helps them track spam or whatever. You could either run your smtp daemon on a different port (nasty) or use ssh port forwarding (also nasty). Cheers Chris Howells ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disappearing email?
I am running my SMTP server on both ports 25 and 1025. The idea here is that we have a number of off site workers on a DSL account in which the ISP won't allow any port 25 connections from the inside to the outside of their network unless they are incoming SMTP from outside of their network. These offsite workers have to use port 1025 to send email through our mail server to avoid the port blocking rules that the ISP has implemented. Sincerely, Rick Duvall - Original Message - From: Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: Re: disappearing email? I seem to have found the answer to my own question. Apparently, when anyone is connected to AOL, AOL overrides any SMTP settings the user has. Below are headers from a client of mine that was sent to me using a pop account on our server, with the SMTP in OE set to our server: In the UK, The Planet, who area major virtual ISP for various household ISPs do a similar trick, basically any traffic on port 25 automatically gets proxied (don't know if that's the exact terminology, but that's the effect) through their mail server -- I guess they claim that it helps them track spam or whatever. You could either run your smtp daemon on a different port (nasty) or use ssh port forwarding (also nasty). Cheers Chris Howells ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATA error messages
Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since two days I log in /var/log/messages the following errors. What does they mean (I now, somthing with my first harddrive... :-) )? Yep. My System: FreeBSD saturn.pcs.ms 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu May 15 08:23:22 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL48 i386 /var/log/messages: Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done Oct 27 09:44:05 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 Oct 27 09:44:47 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 Oct 27 09:44:50 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 Oct 27 09:44:54 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 Oct 27 09:45:02 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 Oct 27 09:46:30 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 51216, size: 4096 Oct 28 09:35:45 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done These are all various kinds of reports of the disk not reporting back by the time the system expected it to do so. The usual first culprit to check is the drive cable. I've been getting the command timeouts on -STABLE for the last few weeks, and I'm figuring that the drive is probably on its way out -- but that it might take months to get there. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
p5-DBD-ODBC build error
FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 14 15:55:21 EST 2003 on i386 arch. When try to make install in /usr/ports/p5-DBD-ODBC In file included from dbdodbc.h:7, from ODBC.h:9, from ODBC.xs:1: /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:45: syntax error before `SQLLEN' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:49: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:60: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:73: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:81: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:93: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:117: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:140: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:152: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:163: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:174: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:205: syntax error before `SQLULEN' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:211: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:222: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:233: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:247: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:260: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:270: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:278: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:302: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:318: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:327: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:336: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:347: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:357: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:367: syntax error before `SQLWCHAR' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:555: syntax error before `SQLULEN' /usr/local/include/sqlucode.h:560: syntax error before `SQLULEN' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-ODBC/work/DBD-ODBC-1.06. *** Error code 1 Any help is appreciated. __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smbd process not disconnecting
At 7:42 AM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: Note below, that the connection was opened on the 28th, but did not close, however the connection to Seeds closed about 4 mins after I opened it. Snippet from /var/log/moe.log [2003/10/28 12:11:13, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service WWW initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 3064) [2003/10/28 15:31:04, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service Seeds initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 3064) [2003/10/28 15:35:49, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(880) moe (192.168.254.4) closed connection to service Seeds Am I way off target here, or do I have a process that isn't disconnecting when it should? How can I find out why the connection to WWW didn't close, and prevent that from happening in the future? I believe that what happens is that samba starts a process which handles connections as they come-and-go from the client machine. If you make additional connections, you'll notice that they all happen to 'pid 3064' (in the above example). I expect samba does this because there are times when the windows client will make a whole bunch of very short-lived connections, and it's better to have one process which keeps track of client-information than to rebuild all that information every time. I'm not much of an expert on the low-level details, but I can say that what you're seeing is also what I've seen, and that I believe samba is supposed to work that way. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Surface scan for Freebsd
Jer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a feeling one of my disks is going south Oct 28 11:28:40 computer /kernel: ad1: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Oct 28 11:28:40 computer /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done Oct 28 11:28:55 computer /kernel: ad1: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Oct 28 11:28:55 computer /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done Oct 28 11:29:06 computer /kernel: ad1: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Oct 28 11:29:06 computer /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done Actually, this doesn't show any signs of problems with the disk surface itself. The firmware on the drive is failing to report back when the disk controller was execpecting it to. I think the drive cable is the most common problem when this occurs, although the drive or the controller can be reponsible too. I've been getting these messages on my -STABLE machine for the last couple of weeks or so whenever the disk is stressed. I haven't yet gotten around to trying a new drive cable. how can i do a surgace scan of sorts so I can make them with badblock? Aside from the fact that you're treating the wrong problem, you can't do that within FreeBSD. Modern drives do such sophisticated bad-block mapping internally that it is no longer worthwhile to maintain such facilities in the OS. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ACPI on FreeBSD-4.9-RELEASE, silly question
Hello, I've just added the device acpica to my kernel, and after rebooting it seems to be working well. What I haven't found is any tool to use this. I see that FreeBSD-5.1 has acpiconf and acpidump, but it seems that FreeBSD-4.9 doesn't have them. What else can I do with this implementation of ACPI for FreeBSD-4.9 ? Moreover, KDE-3.1.4 only has APM support PS: Please answer me directly because I'm not currently subscribed to the list ! -- JFRH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Smbd process not disconnecting
At 7:42 AM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: Note below, that the connection was opened on the 28th, but did not close, however the connection to Seeds closed about 4 mins after I opened it. Snippet from /var/log/moe.log [2003/10/28 12:11:13, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service WWW initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 3064) [2003/10/28 15:31:04, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe (192.168.254.4) connect to service Seeds initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 3064) [2003/10/28 15:35:49, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(880) moe (192.168.254.4) closed connection to service Seeds Am I way off target here, or do I have a process that isn't disconnecting when it should? How can I find out why the connection to WWW didn't close, and prevent that from happening in the future? I believe that what happens is that samba starts a process which handles connections as they come-and-go from the client machine. If you make additional connections, you'll notice that they all happen to 'pid 3064' (in the above example). I expect samba does this because there are times when the windows client will make a whole bunch of very short-lived connections, and it's better to have one process which keeps track of client-information than to rebuild all that information every time. I'm not much of an expert on the low-level details, but I can say that what you're seeing is also what I've seen, and that I believe samba is supposed to work that way. I just checked again, and the connection was closed at 12:13 local time, about 24 hours later. I guess that's acceptable, as long as it *does* finally close on it's own. Thanks for the reply! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI on FreeBSD-4.9-RELEASE, silly question
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:23:08PM +0100, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: I've just added the device acpica to my kernel, and after rebooting it seems to be working well. What I haven't found is any tool to use this. I see that FreeBSD-5.1 has acpiconf and acpidump, but it seems that FreeBSD-4.9 doesn't have them. ports: devel/acpicatools should be something that interests you. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Smbd process not disconnecting
At 1:22 PM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: Garance wrote: I'm not much of an expert on the low-level details, but I can say that what you're seeing is also what I've seen, and that I believe samba is supposed to work that way. I just checked again, and the connection was closed at 12:13 local time, about 24 hours later. I guess that's acceptable, as long as it *does* finally close on it's own. Thanks for the reply! I believe there's an option which controls how long that process will stay around. Glancing at my smb config file, it might be the one called dead time. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to view kmail stored email from console
Hi All, I have FreeBSD 5.1 with KDE 3 running kmail. Kmail pulls from the local mailbox into its mail archive. I'd like to figure out a way to reading kmail email from the console. Is that possible? I can already read mail in my mailbox via the console by using mutt, however when kmail reads messages from the mailbox it deletes them and stores them in its own special file. So what I'm trying to do is read that file via a console program. Thanks, -Jason This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with new laptop touch pad
Just purchased and eMachine M3512. I cannot get the touch pad to work. Anyone else know if it's supported or any ideas on getting this running. I have tried it with both 4.8 and 5.1. I would rather have 5.1 working since the ethernet port is firewire and I can get it working in 5.1 but not 4.8. -- Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing as a user - FreeBSD, Apsfilter, KDE
hello.. I am using FreeBSD as my desktop. I'm looking for help to print as a user from KDE. I can generate a test print from Apsfilter just fine in the shell using the setup script. I think I either do not have a spooler set up right, or a permission perhaps. I also don't really know what I should select for the printer in KDE or if there should be a command line entry. I did have the sample lp setup in my printcap file at one point, currently that is commented out. I'm Running: FreeBSD Current (5.1) Printer Canon BJC-610 Parallel /dev/lp0 LPD on start up Ghostscript-gnu As SU checking for the lpt: freebie# dmesg | grep lpt lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port freebie# ls -l /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Oct 29 09:09 /dev/lpt0 From Apsfilter setup: Checking permissions of /usr/local/share/apsfilter found dir owner=root, ok! found dir group=wheel, ok! changing permissions of /usr/local/share/apsfilter... done. Now we are checking file permissions in spooldir Your line printer scheduler's spooldir seems to be: /var/spool/lpd drwxrwxrwx 2 root daemon 512 Oct 17 01:25 /var/spool/lpd The Owner of your spooldir seems to be: root The Group of your spooldir seems to be: daemon First time through on test print returns a printer busy and resets printer Second time through works fine I reset printers as suggested in setup From KDE 3.1.4 using OpenOffice Writer, from open document selected Generic Printer. Windows fly by but nothing happens. As I understand it, generic printer should be lpd and should be captured by Apsfilter. using Kmail, selected print through external program, ps (only possible selection: postscript printer, reports idle, accepting jobs), print command line empty. Reports generating print file, then: A print error occured. Error message received from system: Empty print command. Using Kmail, selecting Generic LPD print system, no device, no option to print Using Kmail, cannot select LPR/LPRng (port not installed at this time, will not compile on 5.1) not an Apsfilter issue obviously. Using KDE Control Center, peripherals, printer Print Through External Program, PS_printer (only device available) Unable to send, empty print command Any help or config file to check would be greatly appreciated. -- Regards, MIKE... Make your Information your KnowlEDGE Michael L. Dunham Principal Consultant Connecting Teams 2333 La Lima Way Sacramento, CA 95833 Phone: 707-780-3019 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] webpage: http://www.connectingteams.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI on FreeBSD-4.9-RELEASE, silly question
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:23:08PM +0100, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: I've just added the device acpica to my kernel, and after rebooting it seems to be working well. What I haven't found is any tool to use this. I see that FreeBSD-5.1 has acpiconf and acpidump, but it seems that FreeBSD-4.9 doesn't have them. ports: devel/acpicatools should be something that interests you. Cheers, Matthew I've just installed acpicatools-20030523.0 package using portinstall and there are only 2 commands: acpidump acpicadb (this doesn't have man page !!) So... I still don't have acpiconf Should I wait until KDE-3.2 ? I've just wanted to test this on my new laptop, but it's not very importantjust I was curious because I don't know what's exactly this stuff of acpi... :) Thanks! -- JFRH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log every access to a file
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 02:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:07:26AM -0800, andi payn wrote: The second is to use fam. I should mention that I've only used fam under linux, and, after a brief glance, it looks like the FreeBSD port (/usr/ports/devel/fam) is not as powerful--in particular, FreeBSD apparently doesn't provide imon support (a way for the filesystem to make a callback to a usermode app like fam--no dnotify or anything similar, either, apparently). Which implies that it's probably just a heavier-weight way of doing the exact same thing--periodically stat'ing a list of files--and that there is no better solution available. Check the kevent(2) man page. It's a generic mechanism for having the kernel message your process when some condition occurs, such as modification of a file. Thanks. This is pretty cool, but it's missing a few things. First, it works only on UFS filesystems. That's no big deal; fam could use kevent on UFS and poll other filesystems. However, that does seem to rule it out for the original poster's purpose (the file he wanted to monitor was mounted via smb). More importantly, kevent apparently doesn't notify you when a file is accessed (or does changing the atime trigger NOTE_ATTRIB? in that case, it does--but to distinguish between an access and a change you'd have to stat the file). This seems to make it unusable for fam, as well as for the original poster's purpose (he wanted to see all accesses to a file). It also doesn't seem to notify you when a file in a directory you're watching is changed. This might would make fam much more complicated. However, I think the same is true of dnotify, so the extra code can probably be borrowed from the dnotify patch Unfortunately other than knowing something happened, it doesn't tell you a great deal else, like who it was that made the alteration. Well, fam doesn't tell you anything more either; neither does imon nor dnotify--or stating a file directly. The OS and filesystem don't keep track of things like who was the last user or process to touch a file. If you want that, you could take fstat snapshots and hope to catch everyone who has the file open (this should work if users tend to access it for a long period of time, say a second or more). Or you could get a lease on a file and see who breaks it (although many programs might try to write the file without breaking your lock first, and just fail and give up--and besides, I don't know if that would work in FreeBSD the way it would in linux). Or you could put a fifo/socket/loopback filesystem/something between the actual file and the pathname people use to access it, and thereby control/monitor all access to it; etc. Even so, fam(1) has apparently not been patched to use kevent(2) under FreeBSD, so, yes, it's probably going to operate by polling the file status every so often. Well, it looks like it would be a pretty easy patch to fam (especially since someone's already generalized the imon code to allow using dnotify instead), but if it can't provide information on accesses, it'd also be a useless patch (which might explain why nobody's done it yet?). Another issue: In linux, you can open a file O_NOACCESS (== O_ACCMODE, if you don't #include anything extra), which gets you an fd to pass to fstat/fcntl/whatever even without read or write access to the file. I assume the dnotify patch to fam uses this. This doesn't seem to work in FreeBSD. If you try to open a file O_ACCMODE, you get EACCES. Therefore, you'd have to open the file O_RDONLY to get an fd for kevent--which means you can't monitor a file that you can't read, which would be another limit placed on fam by using kevent. Plus, kevent doesn't seem to give you information on what's been changed within a directory, so fam would have to do some dirty work on each access (or monitor all files within the directory...). I think the same is true with dnotify; if so the kevent patch could use the same code as the dnotify patch, which is probably fine. Still, it's a good idea; I'll look into this a little deeper. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 and Xfree86
M.D. DeWar: What is the purpose of them exactly. I have read the sites but being alien to the unix world it confuses me. Do they just make unix a windows type enviroment ? Is KDE/GNOME the same or they like themes to X windows. The simple answer is: X plus KDE or GNOME provides Unix with a Windows-type environment. KDE/GNOME are an integral part of that environment. KDE and GNOME themselves _have_ themes, and those are like themes in the Windows world. You want either KDE or GNOME, with all the default stuff that comes with it. In fact, install them both, and play with each for a while. In fact, there's a similar separation in Windows--some of the user environment is provided by Windows itself, and some by separate programs (especially the Windows Explorer program), but this separation is much cleaner under Unix/X. Furthermore, GNOME or KDE themselves separate into a number of separate layers (this is also true to some extent in Windows, but even to the application developer most of this is hidden). This difference has some advantages, and one big disadvantage. The biggest advantage is flexibility. You can run KDE or GNOME, or a few other alternatives, or a more bare-bones X setup with no desktop manager. You can run KDE apps under GNOME, and vice-versa (and so on for the other alternatives). In fact, you can replace almost any piece of the puzzle and everything will work smoothly. The biggest disadvantage is that novices have all these different pieces thrown at them. Instead of just Windows, they have to contend with, say, Unix, X, Metacity, Gtk+, GNOME, Nautilus, Panel, GDM, GConf, and ESD (and that's if you only run GNOME). So, let's look at these pieces briefly: * Unix is the operating system. (Linux people like to further divide this into the kernel and the rest of the OS.) The Windows equivalent is the NT kernel, its Win32 executive, the cmd command-line shell, a slew of command-line tools, a bunch of background services, etc. * X (aka X/Windows, X11, etc.) is the GUI. It's equivalent to part, but not all, of the Windows GUI. You can see what X does by just running X on its own, as Erik Steffl suggested. X also comes with a variety of tools, like xterm, and libraries for building X applications. * Metacity (kwm for KDE) is the default window manager. X plus a window manager is the equivalent to the Windows GUI itself. This is the part of the system that lets you drag windows around, assign hotkeys like Alt+Tab or Winkey+F, etc. You have a wide choice of other window managers, many (but not all) of which are completely compatible with GNOME or KDE. * Gtk+ (Qt for KDE) is a widget toolkit. It's equivalent to (the GUI parts of) the Win32 API. As a user, you never worry about this--you run programs that were built with Gtk+, just as Windows users run programs that were built with the Win32 SDK, and they just run. But unlike Windows, Unix/X has a dozen or so toolkits. You can run apps built against different toolkits together (although they they may not have exactly the same look and feel--a GNOME/Gtk theme only affects Gtk+ apps, etc.). You may have noticed something similar in Windows XP--most applications have XP-style buttons and borders, but some (including the cmd command-line window) have the old-fashioned Win95 style instead. (Maybe it's better to say that Windows XP has 1-1/2 toolkits?) * Nautilus (or Konqueror, for KDE) is the default file manager. It's almost equivalent to Explorer in Windows. Just like Explorer, Nautilus or Konqueror manage the desktop background window and all of its icons, and provide the My Computer and Network Neighborhood browsing, and can even be used as web browsers if you want. * Panel (or Kicker, for KDE) is the program that handles the taskbar and menubar and start menu. It's the rest of Windows' Explorer. * GDM (or KDM, for KDE) is the login manager. This is equivalent to the Login application in Windows. If you set up your system to boot into graphical mode, this is the program that asks you for a username and password (and maybe which desktop environment you want to run, etc.). Or, if you've set things up for autologin, it runs without you ever having to see it (just like in Windows). * GConf (no KDE equivalent) is a preferences warehouse, like the Windows registry. If you've never run regedit, you can probably ignore this. * ESD (or ARtS, for KDE) is a sound server. This lets you handle sound over the network, just as X lets you handle graphics over the network. It also lets old apps that try to monopolize the soundcard work together properly. You may have noticed on Windows that some programs take over the soundcard and nothing else can make any noise, but that this is less true with modern software. The same situation holds in Unix. Plus, like Windows XP, FreeBSD has some tricks to make old software cooperate (sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans). And often, it's not a big deal anyway. So often a sound server is not necessary for local use (and
internet setup
Hi, I just started using FreeBSD and am new to all things non-Windows so please bear with me. I am having trouble getting my internet connection working. I have installed FreeBSD 4.8. It shares a switch with my Windows machine: FreeBSD machine | | \|/ Switch--Cable modem-internet /|\ | | WindowsXP machine I have Roadrunner cable service ( i know, it sucks, but i get it for free). Can someone just tell me step by step how to get my internet running starting from a FreeBSD clean install? I have spent days trying different things I've read on websites and books, but have yet to get it working. Thanks. - Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD X.x-RELEASE as DVD ISO
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:42:52AM +0100, Kai Mosebach wrote: Dear List, in times of more people having a DVD burner, wouldnt it make sense to provide the latest versions of FreeBSD also as an ISO-Image ? FreeBSD is provided as an ISO image, but I assume you meant a DVD-sized image. I don't know that there's sufficient demand for this to warrant the extra work and load on mirrors. For example, note that we only provide the disc1 iso image on cdrom, so it's not like the other data you might consolidate on dvd is already provided as cdrom images. However, this is something that an interested third party could easily do themselves. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
why is it known as unknown
for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system or when doing a configure it shows as that ? thanks curious cat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.8 on i386
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:31:25AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I used the upgrade tool in /stand/sysinstall and then ftp for the upgrade. To upgrade you need to use a fresh version of /stand/sysinstall, not whatever ancient verson happens to be in /stand. For example, old versions didn't know how to install XFree86 4.x. The best way to do this is to download the install floppies for the version you want to update to, and boot those. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems building firebird on 4.9-stable
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:24:48PM +0100, Norbert Koch wrote: I've checked the dependencies and everything seems to be installed, so I'm sort of clueless which header is missing or can't be found and why that comes to pass. The file /usr/X11R6/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtksocket.h lies around. The dependencies might be installed, but are they *all* up-to-date? You typically cannot build new versions of software with old dependencies. Use portupgrade to upgrade your ports. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: internet setup
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:16:30 -0800 (PST) B F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just started using FreeBSD and am new to all things non-Windows so please bear with me. I am having trouble getting my internet connection working. I have installed FreeBSD 4.8. It shares a switch with my Windows machine: FreeBSD machine | | \|/ Switch--Cable modem-internet /|\ | | WindowsXP machine Do you have 2 routable ips ? You want be able to use both boxes in the same time otherwise. Provide more info: 1. Did you manage to set-up your network card ? 2. If yes, can you ping the win box ? 3. What isn't working ? -- IOnut FreeBSD unregistered ;) user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hyperthreading FreeBSD 4.9
I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 with hyperthreading enabled. I just cvsup to the latest version of FreeBSD to 4.9. When I do make buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO, I get an error of unknown option HTT Has hyperthreading been disabled in FreeBSD 4.9? Thanks JP _ Enjoy MSN 8 patented spam control and more with MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service. Try it FREE for one month! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
afbackup keeps ejecting tapes
OS: freeBSD 4.8-STABLE afbackup-3.3.5 Hi, okay I am having a difficult time here. I must be misunderstainding something. I have one tape drive and two clients. one of the client machines dis also the server which has a single tape drive attached to it. the tape drive handles only one cartridge at a time. I am rotating backups between 3 separate cartridges. each weekly backup should be able to fit on one tape only since the tapes are 50GB each. I have already used these tapes for backup. The tape recently rotated.and as soon as the tape was inserted I received mail to run the cartready program and did that. then afbackup ejects the tape from the drive and sends me the following message: The device /dev/sa0 on host hostname.domain.com is not ready for use. You are requested to check the device for possible errors and to correct them. Best regards from your backup service. do I need to do more then cartready? Am I missing a step to rewind the tape? Any ideas here thanks, Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hyperthreading FreeBSD 4.9
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:51:32PM -0800, John Palmer wrote: I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 with hyperthreading enabled. I just cvsup to the latest version of FreeBSD to 4.9. When I do make buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO, I get an error of unknown option HTT Has hyperthreading been disabled in FreeBSD 4.9? It's controlled by sysctl, as long as you have a SMP kernel. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hyperthreading FreeBSD 4.9
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:51:32PM -0800, John Palmer wrote: I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 with hyperthreading enabled. I just cvsup to the latest version of FreeBSD to 4.9. When I do make buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO, I get an error of unknown option HTT Has hyperthreading been disabled in FreeBSD 4.9? The answer to your question is cunningly hidden at the top of the /usr/src/UPDATING file -- you know, the one the instructions are always telling you to read -- and it's hidden there because it's a secret, and that's the one place no-one would ever look for it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hyperthreading FreeBSD 4.9
Thanks From: Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hyperthreading FreeBSD 4.9 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:59:08 -0600 --On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 13:51:32 -0800 John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 with hyperthreading enabled. I just cvsup to the latest version of FreeBSD to 4.9. When I do make buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO, I get an error of unknown option HTT Has hyperthreading been disabled in FreeBSD 4.9? Read /usr/src/UPDATING. Thanks JP _ Enjoy MSN 8 patented spam control and more with MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service. Try it FREE for one month! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 attach3 _ Send instant messages to anyone on your contact list with MSN Messenger 6.0. Try it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: internet setup
On Oct 29, 2003, at 4:16 PM, B F wrote: FreeBSD machine | | \|/ Switch--Cable modem-internet /|\ | | WindowsXP machine I have Roadrunner cable service ( i know, it sucks, but i get it for free). Can someone just tell me step by step how to get my internet running starting from a FreeBSD clean install? I have spent days trying different things I've read on websites and books, but have yet to get it working. Thanks. If your switch is something like a Linksys broadband router, which runs it's own DHCP server and maybe PPPOE, you should be able to just do a dhclient on the FreeBSD machine and be good to go. Otherwise, you can set up your own local subnet on the switch, and then set up internet connection sharing on one machine or the other, but you'll need to add a second NIC, run NAT and PPPOE, and so forth. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Should I upgrade to 4.9?
I'm upgrading all my workstations to 4.9 tonight, but I have a small mail server (p120 with 120m ram) that's running 4.8 that does nothing more than fetch mail, sort it, scan it, then deliver it locally for me to pick up at my leisure. I'm wondering if it would be in my best interests to leave it at 4.8 for right now or go ahead with the 4.9 upgrade. The mail server is my only mission critical machine right now, so that's why I'm asking this. It's the only box I can't afford to have go down. Any help or suggestions is welcome. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail: limiting concurrent connections
freeBSD 4.8 sendmail 8.12.10 Hi, I need to limit sendmail to only have 40 concurrent connections to a single specific mail server. is there a way to configure this. please point me to the Proper documentation. - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I upgrade to 4.9?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:52:09PM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: I'm upgrading all my workstations to 4.9 tonight, but I have a small mail server (p120 with 120m ram) that's running 4.8 that does nothing more than fetch mail, sort it, scan it, then deliver it locally for me to pick up at my leisure. I'm wondering if it would be in my best interests to leave it at 4.8 for right now or go ahead with the 4.9 upgrade. The mail server is my only mission critical machine right now, so that's why I'm asking this. It's the only box I can't afford to have go down. Any help or suggestions is welcome. Thanks. Do you need to update it (security advisories, etc)? If yes, then update. If no, then don't ;-) Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: why is it known as unknown
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:33, M.D. DeWar wrote: for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system or when doing a configure it shows as that ? The short answer is that 'unknown' means that the applications were compiled to run on (almost) any i386-based platform. If that's not enough of an answer, read on. In most cases, you're seeing what your development tools saw as the target when building the software you're running. So, you're running software (including FreeBSD itself) that was built to run on an 'i386-unknown-freebsd4.8' system. This string is in the format 'cpu-platform-os[-kernel]'. So, the 'unknown' is the hardware platform. There are different i386-based hardware platforms--the 'pc98' platform, for example. But the vast majority of i386 systems out there follow the loosely-defined, de facto PC standard. Knowing that you're building for an 'i386-pc' doesn't tell you much more than 'i386-unknown'. Basically, whenever software for 'i386-pc98' and 'i386-pc' would have to be different, 'i386-pc' doesn't tell you enough anyway. Fortunately, the target string usually gets matched up against a wildcard string like 'i386-*-freebsd*' or 'i*86-*-*bsd*'. So, 'i386-unknown-freebsd4.8' will match the same things as 'i386-pc-freebsd4.8' anyway. So, most of the code you run is going to be for 'i386-unknown', and code that you build locally will probably end up targetted at that platform as well. The same isn't true for all platforms. For example, since a DECstation and an SGI box are quite different (and in consistent, meaningful, and important ways), even though they both use MIPS processors, it's reasonably common to distinguish 'mips-dec-*' vs. 'mips-sgi-*'. Now you're probably wondering where the '[-kernel]' part comes in. After all, there's only one possible kernel that FreeBSD 4.8 could be running on--the FreeBSD 4.8 kernel. Same for Ultrix or Irix (you'll see something like 'mips-dec-ultrix4.1') or any other Unix, right? But linux isn't an OS, it's just a kernel, so you can't have 'i386-unknown-linux' or 'mips-sgi-linux', or rms will sing at you. The OS that you get when you buy/download Redhat Linux or Mandrake Linux is not linux at all, but GNU/Linux--the GNU operating system running on top of the linux kernel--which is compatible with GNU/Hurd--the GNU operating system running on top of the HURD thingy. So, in either case, you should have 'i386-unknown-gnu'. It's a pity about all that old code that checks for 'i386-*-linux' because GNU/Hurd didn't actually exist until recently (assuming you'd call 2006 recent), but what can you do? Unfortunately, GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd aren't actually compatible in real life, so 'i386-*-gnu' doesn't really help--you need to distinguish between linux and HURD as often as between linux and FreeBSD. For that reason, you have 'i386-unknown-gnu-linux' or 'i386-unknown-gnu-hurd'. And you can then check for 'i386-*-gnu-linux' (plus, 'i386-*-linux' still works). Actually, some tools say 'i386-unknown-gnu-linux2.4.18', just like 'i386-unknown-freebsd4.8', so you really want to check 'i386-*-linux*', just like 'i386-*-freebsd*'. Not that this contradicts the fact that any other Unix only has one kernel to worry about (GNU's Not Unix), but since most Unix programs are built for linux as well (and vice-versa, fortunately, considering where the hype), it affects Unix anyway. If you want to know more about any of this... well, I'm not sure where all the information is, although there is a ton of it. Start by skimming the info pages for autoconf, I'd guess. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why is it known as unknown
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0500, M.D. DeWar wrote: for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system or when doing a configure it shows as that ? The middle part is really supposed to be the type of the system, so if you were running on an IBM system it ougth to say i386-ibm-freebsd4.8 and if you used a system from Digital it might be alpha-dec-freebsd4.8. On PC systems it is often impossible to determine from a program what kind of system it is, and it really doesn't matter much anyway, so the middle part is just reported as 'unknown'. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SNMP help
Hello all, I have been tasked with building two new FreeBSD Servers for our enterprise. Today, I was told that they have to have the ability to be polled by OpenView. So I have to load SNMP on these servers. Any suggestions as to what I should load to accomplish this? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks, Ron Clark __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems building firebird on 4.9-stable
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Kris, The dependencies might be installed, but are they *all* up-to-date? You typically cannot build new versions of software with old dependencies. Use portupgrade to upgrade your ports. I've done a 'portupgrade -frR firebird' which leads to the same result. Should I use other options? Thanks, norbert. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SNMP help
In the last episode (Oct 29), Ronnie Clark said: I have been tasked with building two new FreeBSD Servers for our enterprise. Today, I was told that they have to have the ability to be polled by OpenView. So I have to load SNMP on these servers. Any suggestions as to what I should load to accomplish this? Install the net-snmp port. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SNMP help
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ronnie Clark wrote: they have to have the ability to be polled by OpenView. So I have to load SNMP on these servers. Any suggestions as to what I should load to accomplish this? Try: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=snmpstype=all and the one you propably one is net/ucd-snmp. Works splendidly with OpenView. Also be sure to look at the script extension. Dw ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help With 'find' Syntax
On October 25, my /usr partition lost nearly 50% of it's available space. This disk hasn't had any significant size changes since I built the system as it basically serves as a gateway. I'm trying to use the find command to determine what may have been written to the disk but am not having any luck. I see primaries such as -atime, -mtime, -ctime, and -newer and have read the man pages but do not understand what the best combination to find those files. Basically how do I use 'find' to show me all file that were created or modified on October 25? I've tried commands such as find /usr \( -newerct 4d \! -newerct 3d \) -print but nothing is returned. Thanks, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
