Hello,
Hello, I'm just wondering why I couldn't install FreeBSD 5.1 (I've tryed 4.9 also) on my Sony PCG-GRX550 notebook. When I insert boot disk, it tries to load setup to install FBSD and freezes and I can do nothing but restart. I've searched the internet for answers about solving this problem but still I don't have any answer. Maybe you have any solution to my problem. Thank you! Sincerely, Tomas Paplauskas Lithuania ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hello,
[Eng] Did u tried to boot from floppy?.. instalation from network [Lit} Na tu is flopiko kraut bandei? ant kurios vietos freezinasi? Treiadienis 12 Lapkriio 2003 09:22, Tomas ra: Hello, I'm just wondering why I couldn't install FreeBSD 5.1 (I've tryed 4.9 also) on my Sony PCG-GRX550 notebook. When I insert boot disk, it tries to load setup to install FBSD and freezes and I can do nothing but restart. I've searched the internet for answers about solving this problem but still I don't have any answer. Maybe you have any solution to my problem. Thank you! Sincerely, Tomas Paplauskas Lithuania ___ [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]
ssh has a delay when typing
List, I have searched the list and have not found a solution. I have also upgraded to the latest in the ports tree. I am running FreeBSD 4.9 Release. I can connect to the machine fine, but after connected I get random pauses and delays while typing. Any ideas? --will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:00:33PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: I'm also starting to learn objective C (the competitor to C++) so that I can utilize my Macintosh as a development platform. The reason apple used objective C was because Mac OS X is really Nextstep which was written in like 1988 or so. It was always said that if you knew C, you could learn Obj-C in a few hours. And in a legalistic sense, that is true: Obj-C is a superset of C, and once you've got the method call syntax down: [anObject withAnArgument: foo andAnother: bar ]; and about 4 or 5 other things, you've got the whole language syntax down. All that remains then is to become familiar with the whole panoply of the AppKit which will take you of the order of Months to do. Plus learning about effective OO design -- the whole semantic structure of the language. Obj-C is really nice in that regard: like chess, you can learn the rules very quickly, and start playing effectively immediately. And because playing is easy, it frees you to learn the subtleties. Once you've mastered Obj-C and if you then start looking at Java, you'll find things seem eerily familiar -- although the Java syntax is superficially more like C++, Java was based pretty closely on the semantics of Obj-C. 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
converting real media audio
[please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on my speakers to a file sox can convert (which device shoud I cat?)? Is there some utility to convert from .rm files to .wav? tks -- pica ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: owner of dir/files
First of all please don't reply to an old thread when posting a new topic - it messes the threading up and confuses things generally. On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:58:20AM -0500, M.D. DeWar wrote: I just noticed that when I d/led a program and un-tarred it and set it up that the directory in the apache web root has as owner something like 501:www . I also noticed some others that were mysql:mysql or 500:100 for the user/group. This happens when the owner:group on the source system don't exist on the destination system. Say the owner of the files was 'mark' on the original server and his uid was 501, but no user existed on your system with uid 501, then the owner would show up just as the UID, in this case 501. I am not sure what happens if left that way. Since there is no user/group for those does it mean the files won't run or be served ? Depends on what the permissions of the 'other' bit are. For a file that's owner:group is 501:www, permissions of 755 on the file would mean the files would be read/write/executable (7) by the user with UID 501 - in your case noone has that UID so noone has rwx perms other than root. Similarly the file would be read/executable (5) by the 'www' group and read/executable (5) by the 'other' group. So as it is the file would be served by the webserver since the 'www' user has read/execute access. However it's not a good idea to leave files unowned on the system in case you eventually do add a user with UID 501 - in which case they would end up getting rwx perms on the file. If only the webserver will be accessing the file then you can generally just do 'chown www:www file' to change the owner:group to www:www. There are security implications of leaving files rwx by the www user, especially if the file is a config file and you have other users on the server that can run cgi scripts - the file could be overwritten by a malicious script in that case. For config files it's best to set the perms to In my web root should all directories and files be nobody:nobody ? that could work, but only if the perms for 'other' are sufficient to allow reading of the files - since the web user is in the other group and needs to be able to read the file to be able to serve it via the httpd. what if some are root:wheel ? The same holds again, although having files owned by root in a web docroot isn't a great idea - if the file is a CGI script and a vulnerability is found in the script and a misconfigured suexec system is in place, commands could be executed with root permissions. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade -arR
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much longer it is likely to take? I realize that that depends grin / Well, that depends; many ports can be upgraded quickly. However compilation of C++ is markedly slower than compilation of C, so whenever you see things like KDE or Qt meeding an upgrade, expect it to take a while. If you use portversion -v | grep -v = then you'll see the list of ports which remain that need updating. (You need to run portsdb after a cvsup for the output of this, and portupgrade's operation, to be accurate.) Any suggestions? Thanks. If you've got packages installed that you don't want, portupgrade _can_ be safely interrupted and will pick up pretty much from where it left off when you kick it off again. It's often worthwhile checking the Makefiles for the ports you install for tunable variables. Many ports offer interactive menus to select features to build; Murphy's law would suggest that one of these might well pop up just after you leave portupgrade to do its thing and go to bed. You can normally select batch operation and choose the appropriate options by putting them into /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf; the exact mechanism used to indicate non-interactive mode isn't uniform across all ports, however. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'` ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
md5/des ?
Hello! /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() problem, and the DES is the default... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows XP
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:44:50 -0600, Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:34, Eric Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: Hello. I would like to learn to use FreeBSD. I would also like to have the ability to choose between either Win XP Pro and FreeBSD upon starting up my system. I do have 2 40GB hard drives, plus Partition Magic if I need. My plan at the moment is to simply have Win XP Pro on one hdd, and FBSD on the other. Ok what I would like to know is this: should I install FreeBSD first? Or Win XP first? I am thinking I better not install FreeBSD first because I doubt that WinXP's setup would recognize FreeBSD as a 2nd. O.S. on my system when installing (thereby not providing the ability to choose an O.S. on startup). Any suggestions? My hardware should all be compatible to use FreeBSD. Yeah, install XP first and then stick BSD on there. The boot manager from BSD, although not very elegant, will let you choose XP or BSD on startup. You can setup XP's to boot another OS as well, but it's more difficult. One OS per drive should work fine as well. Have fun. One OS per drive is fine. You can boot both OSs with FreeBSD's boot loader (if you do this, install the FreeBSD bootloader on *both* drives); you can boot both with XP's boot loader (it's one of the FAQs at FreeBSD's web site, though admittedly the language is not entirely clear to me regarding how to use XP's bootloader where FBSD and XP are on different drives); you can use Grub from the FreeBSD ports collection, a bit more involved but provides good learning experience about bootloaders; or you can go the easy, automagic route with the free GAG bootloader URL: http://gag.sourceforge.net/. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh has a delay when typing
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:15:45AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I have searched the list and have not found a solution. I have also upgraded to the latest in the ports tree. I am running FreeBSD 4.9 Release. I can connect to the machine fine, but after connected I get random pauses and delays while typing. Any ideas? Please provide more details about your setup. For example, if you're SSH'ing to a remote machine on the internet, this would be expected behaviour. kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
5.1 current on intel 865 motherboard
Also posted to freebsd-current mailing list: Hi, Having lots of probs with a machine based on an Intel 865 motherboard. Any pointers? Please let me know if you need more info. It seems to run OK unless userland ppp is invoked, after which it falls over within about 30 minutes. External ISDN TA connected to cuaa0 stopped functioning after a couple of days' operation. New TA installed, sources updated, world and kernel built and installed. At the very least, is there a way to stop the automatic reboot until I get the underlying problem solved? Thanks in advance, Peter Risdon. server.mydomain.com kernel log messages: a-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 2394011744 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b02370 GEOM: create disk ad2 dp=0xc6b02070 sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 WARNING: / was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr/home was not properly dismounted WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted /var: superblock summary recomputed lock order reversal 1st 0xc70c8afc vm object (vm object) @ vm/swap_pager.c:1323 2nd 0xc097fc80 swap_pager swhash (swap_pager swhash) @ vm/swap_pager.c:1838 3rd 0xc1034378 vm object (vm object) @ vm/uma_core.c:876 Stack backtrace: lock order reversal 1st 0xc71d7090 rtentry (rtentry) @ net/rtsock.c:388 2nd 0xc693b87c radix node head (radix node head) @ net/route.c:1114 Stack backtrace: 1st 0xc0974ab4 route cache (route cache) @ netinet/ip_input.c:781 2nd 0xc7d4ed90 rtentry (rtentry) @ netinet/ip_input.c:781 panic: mutex inp not owned at ../../../netinet/ip_output.c:210 syncing disks, buffers remaining... 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 6901 giving up on 2420 buffers Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: sleeping thread (pid 27) owns a mutex Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Fatal double fault: eip = 0xc07ec9f5 esp = 0xe1c4e000 ebp = 0xe1c4e008 panic: double fault Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep Uptime: 6h55m14s panic: msleep FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Mon Nov 10 11:44:45 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENplusSERIAL Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc0a7. avail memory = 1016430592 (969 MB) pcib1: slot 1 INTA is routed to irq 11 pcib1: slot 8 INTA is routed to irq 11 puc0: Dolphin Peripherals 4036 port 0xbc00-0xbc1f irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci1 sio4: Dolphin Peripherals 4036 on puc0 sio4: type 16550A sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode sio5: Dolphin Peripherals 4036 on puc0 sio5: type 16550A sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode ahc0: Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20C/30C SCSI adapter port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xff8ff000-0xff8f irq 3 at device 2.0 on pci1 ahc0: Host Adapter Bios disabled. Using default SCSI device parameters aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs fxp0: Intel 82801BA (D865) Pro/100 VE Ethernet port 0xb400-0xb43f mem 0xff8fe000-0xff8fefff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci1 npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface Timecounter TSC frequency 2394013308 Hz quality 800 GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b02370 GEOM: create disk ad2 dp=0xc6b02070 sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 WARNING: / was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr/home was not properly dismounted WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted /var: mount pending error: blocks 4 files 1 /var: superblock summary recomputed FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Mon Nov 10 11:44:45 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENplusSERIAL Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc0a7. avail memory = 1016430592 (969 MB) pcib1: slot 1 INTA is routed to irq 11 pcib1: slot 8 INTA is routed to irq 11 puc0: Dolphin Peripherals 4036 port 0xbc00-0xbc1f irq 11 at
Re: DVD
Hallo Bryan Cassidy, mplayer -brightness 9 -autosync 30 -dvd 1 /dev/dvd I can play the DVD without ANY problems what so ever. The problem is this. Say I just booted into FreeBSD, did a startx, loged into root and ran mplayer with those options. It will play fine and no sound problem. After a couple hours or so (using those same commands usually) I can still play the DVD but no sound. If I reboot *AFTER* the sound problem then I get the sound back. There are no other applications running at the same time to block the audio so I don't know what it could be. Other than this small problem, DVD is working pretty good so far for me under FreeBSD. it might be a problem in your sound driver. does -ao sdl help? mplayer -ao sdl -brightness 9 -autosync 30 -dvd 1 /dev/dvd kind regards Dirk - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany - [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Undocumented kernel panic during installation
I've tried to install FreeBSD-4.8, 4.9 and during the boot time from cd-rom kernel panics with those mesg: ... pci_cfgintr_virgin: using routalbe interrupt 3 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xeb902 falut code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc00eb807 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc084db6c frame pointer = 0x10:0xc084db6c code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, tyep 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 (swapper) interrupt mask = net tty bio cam trap number = 12 panic: page fault I've found this problem on a notebook completly based on Sis 630 controller, with Sis 900 network adapter etc. If I try to boot the kernel with manual cofiguration even if no conflit are signaled, and even if I try to change some option, the kernel still panics. I've tried FreeBSD 5.1, and it also crashs if I don't use acpi. Now I'm developing modules under a vmware machine, but I'd like to use my full machine capability. I'm waiting for a your suggestion, if you want some other explanation of the problem you ca't mail me... bye Mariano Tortoriello ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Routing problems
Hi Dimitris, snip lots of relevaent info The 10.X.X.X subnet will never need to use any of the services of the 193.X.X.X subnet or the 193.R.R.R router. It will always access internet via its own 10.R.R.R router, which only routes packets towards the internet and never towards the 193.X.X.X subnet. Thus, what's the need to do any of the above? Well a packet originating on the 193.x.x.x network will have a return address on the 193.x.x.x network even after its been routed via the freebsd box, (unless you nat, which if your adsl router is a rubbish as mine was you may have to as i couldnt add static routes to mine, but thats another issue.) and so the 10.R.R.R router wont know where to forward to if it has no route to 10.x.x.x (or at least the sending host on that network.) Please note that I am rather inexperienced in routing and please forgive me if I make terrible mistakes. :-) and excuse me if i do too :) I've plenty of experience, but no formal training. Thanks for the responce Jim Xochellis Do You Yahoo!? ?p??t?ste t? d??e?? @yahoo.gr d?es? sa? st? http://www.otenet.gr ___ [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]
Programmatic control of screen-saver
I have a machine controlling a tester. Tester control and display is via a virtual console terminal. (X is not installed on the machine) I need to blank the screen (screen saver style) when there is no terminal activity for some time -- much the same as as normal screen-saver operation except that screen output as well as keyboard input should inhibit the screen-saver taking over or cause the normal terminal display to be restored if the saver is already in effect. I would hope that there might be some ioctl call to the terminal which could be used from within the tester control software to wake up the terminal or prevent the screen saver taking over until a further timeout has elapsed. I've not been able to find such an ioctl call parameter. Does anyone have any ideas or a solution please? (FreeBSD 4.8-Release) Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KCron error - SOLVED
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:26 pm, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, FBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13, KDE 3.1. When I click menu/system/KCron, I get an error: The following error occurred when initializing KCron, No password entry for user '#' KCron will now exit. I've searched using Google and searched the list archives with no joy. There is, of course, no local documentation for KCron. Can someone point me to the place to find out how to fix this? I found a bug report concerning this by searching the KDE list archives. KCron reads /etc/passwd on startup, and cannot deal with comments (lines preceeded by '#'.) Removing the comment lines resolved this issue. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing binary files
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: Hello, Uuencoding works fine... yup, that's what I thought. And it works fine indeed. However, I was thinking into more of a MIME or multi-part message, much like a regular attachment. That's not really essential, however. This just works. If you prefer Mime over uuenconding mutt can be used from the command line as well. Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding packages to the 4.7-RELEASE
Hello: I'm having difficulty locating a download site where I can get a python interpreter. I am running 4.7-RELEASE and both /stand/sysinstall and browing mirror sites using a web browser turn up nothing. Can you either mail me the python package or point me to a site where I get retrieve it? I've tried setting my release to any but that has not fixed or changed the problem. Thanks,Steve -- ISC Network Engineering The University of Pennsylvania 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 221A Philadelphia, PA 19104 voice: 215-573-8396 fax: 215-898-9348 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serial ports from additional old IDE ISA card
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Rolandas Naujikas wrote: I'm tried to poke into ISA slot additional old IDE card (from old 486 computer) with serials and paralell ports. With jumpers on it I'm disabled IDE, floppy and parallel port. I'm tried to use only serial ports, configured at I/O location of COM3 and COM4 ports and IRQ 5 and IRQ 9. When tried to boot FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE with GENERIC kernel and enabled sio2 devices, I see sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A sio2: configured irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0 and sio1 are from mainbord. sio2 could be from my additional card. Can I make possible to work this card as additional serials ports ? It's obvious that your card isn't configured to irq 5. In fact it seems to be configured to no irq at all. -- B.Walter BWCThttp://www.bwct.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need Help Please.
Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Fowler___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help
Hi i have already installed Freebsd i my computer i have a x86, but i have been trying to run de graphic mode, i think i somenthing called XFree86 or X server, but i can't do it it says taht X server is already active for display 0; that's waht appear when i try to run startkde and it also says that can not find the xserver coul you help me with thta step please note: i have already installed the kde and gnome and also configured in Xserver the mouse videocard and the monitor well thanks i hope you can help me _ MSN. Más Útil Cada Día http://www.msn.es/intmap/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 04:10, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Thanks Chris. Please take a look at my reply to Scott because the two of you seem to be suggesting contradicting ideas, and I'm keen to learn why! Have done. It's just my preference because I find it easier: the FreeBSD installer as you've noticed, by default, puts the home directories under / usr/home, and creates /home as a symlink. Therefore I found it easier just to tell the installer that /usr/home would be its own partition. Ultimately it's just what you find easiest, there's no right way, though some things are probably frowned upon. Installation is only something you need to do once, after that you cvsup :) The file system on my laptop looks something like this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 126M90M26M77%/ /dev/ad0s3h 5.8G 2.2G 3.1G41%/usr /dev/ad0s3d 8.8G 7.6G 509M94%/usr/home /dev/ad0s3g 5.8G 3.0G 2.3G56%/usr/home/devel /dev/ad0s3e 197M15M 166M 8%/tmp /dev/ad0s3f 197M88M93M49%/var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc linprocfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc sauron:/space/test75G64G 3.6G95%/mnt/test /usr/home/devel is a separate partition from /usr/home because I use /usr/ home/devel to compile KDE CVS reguarly, and compiling thousands of source files, even on efficient file systems, is a good way to cause fragmentation, therefore I like to keep it separate from the rest of the system. My server looks like this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 252M 155M77M67%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.0M 223M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g 7.3G 4.1G 2.6G61%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 756M 220M 476M32%/var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc /dev/ad4s1e 75G64G 3.6G95%/space /dev/vinum/vinum1 144G63G69G48%/vinum1 My home directories here are under /space (though will be under /vinum1 soon when I finish migrating data from /space, an 80GB disk to /vinum1, 2 x160GB in RAID 1 with vinum). /etc/exports on the server looks like this: /space/test /space/persbackup /space/photos -maproot=0 -network 192.168.1.0 - -mask 255.255.255.0 Hope this helps. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/sjY3F8Iu1zN5WiwRAkoNAJ4gOm9PLfdg0ntSS4f4nAwWlRtrQgCfZxF5 d+1OYiJzqYEVSgCT++bnRyw= =KNgm -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner
Hi, I have an atapi cd burner that cdbakeoven doesn't see when starting. (output from dmesg) acd0: CD-RW AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224 1.06 20030110 at ata0-slave UDMA33 I know I can use burncd, although I haven't tried it. I want to get cdbakeoven working. I assume I have to load ATAPI/CAM in the kernel, and let cdbakeoven see my burner as a SCSI device...? I've searched the list archives, searched the kde website (I bet they would hire a technical documentation writer with no questions asked, since there is so little documentation for kde ;-) ) and Googled for cdbakeoven with no joy. Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me get started? -- Thanks, Charles ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having some problems with it. Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. aura# pkgdb -Fv Try this: pkgdb -fuF -- Best regards, Chris __ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers __ 01010010011101100011011001010111001001011000 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HighPoint RocketRAID 454
Hi All, is anyone using the HighPoint RocketRAID 454 controller in RAID level 5 under FBSD 4.9 or 5.1 ? Thanks, Lutz Rabing ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any way to lock down disk errors?
Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Strictly speaking OT but the machine is running FreeBSD. While copying a file I got I/O errors. The console shows: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891359 of 31891359-31891486 status=59 error=40 ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 31891231 of 31891231-31891486 status=59 error=40 Given that the disk is just under three months old, is it worth doing anything other than getting it replaced? I have no other disk big enough to old the data on it so unless the supplier sends me a replacement ahead of me returning the faulty one it will be a pain. I have enough space to empty the partition with the error in, but I couldn't find anything in newfs or fsck which would let me map out selected blocks or to do a full write test of each block and map out bad ones. Is there such a beast? Unfortunately, this doesn't really do any good any more. Disks will do this internally before even reporting errors back to you, so if you're getting a lot of problems, then it's possible (but rare) that a manufacturer's maintenance tool will straighten out the trouble, but even then you'd need to backup everything off of it first... If you want to try badsect(8), you can, but it isn't for the faint-hearted. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting real media audio
Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] Hi, I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on my speakers to a file sox can convert (which device shoud I cat?)? Is there some utility to convert from .rm files to .wav? tks -- pica Run realplayer under linux-vsound (in the ports). -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:38, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I have an atapi cd burner that cdbakeoven doesn't see when starting. (output from dmesg) acd0: CD-RW AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224 1.06 20030110 at ata0-slave UDMA33 I know I can use burncd, although I haven't tried it. I want to get cdbakeoven working. I assume I have to load ATAPI/CAM in the kernel, and let cdbakeoven see my burner as a SCSI device...? Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me get started? I've gotten as far as making camcontrol devlist show my drives, eg: ASUS DVD-ROM E612 l.2B at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,cd0) LITE-ON LTR-24103S XB03 at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,cd1) But cdbakeoven doesn't see those drives... so if you get further... please let me know! ;) Bjarne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md5/des ?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:23:35PM +0200, Oles Hnatkevych wrote: /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() problem, and the DES is the default... It's not the perl crypt() function, as that just mirrors the behaviour of the underlying libc crypt(3) function. Try these commands and you'll see how things work: Traditional DES: % perl -le 'print crypt(password, xx)' Extended DES: % perl -le 'print crypt(password, _xx)' Modular ($1$ = MD5) % perl -le 'print crypt(password, \$1\$xx)' ie. The format of the salt supplied to crypt controls the algorithm used. You're right however that the adduser(8) command will always generate a DES encrypted password hash. Unfortunately it's programmed so that it can't do anything else -- plus it uses srand() on a combination of the PID, the date and some other data to seed the RNG, which used to be a reasonable idea, but now that we have /dev/random is much less so. Use 'pw useradd' command instead. See pw(8) -- this is a much more capable program for manipulating user and group accounts, and it doesn't suffer from the drawbacks you've noted. 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: How to find our what version of ports your running?
Thanks, Horio and Kris for the CVS solution. Is there a way to find out the ports version, from a CD upgrade? i.e.. initial install was 4.2 then a 4.6 upgrade, then a 4.7 and then a 4.8 upgrade. Hmm, was the ports tree upgraded along with main upgrades or not? Cheers, Paul Hamilton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of horio shoichi Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 10:47 AM To: Paul Hamilton Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: How to find our what version of ports your running? On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:14:23 +0800 Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to print out the base version of when you last installed the ports base, or cvs'ed it? cheers, Paul Hamilton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If $PORTSDIR/CVS/Tag exists cat $PORTSDIR/CVS/Tag will give you the idea. If it doesn't exist you have current. horio shoichi ___ [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: recover from failed make build
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:30:31PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:18 pm, Marty Landman wrote: I just tried doing a make build for Apache2 from the FBSD 4.8 mini port. Here's what I got fetch: httpd-2.0.44.tar.gz appears to be truncated: 4108288/5505246 bytes *** Error code 1 Any advice on how to recover from this? Also I apologize if this in the docs, but I didn't see this problem addressed. :( You could remove the file manualy and start over. It in /usr/port/distfiles/. If you like you could also fetch the remaining manualy. You should read man fetch on how to do this. That may be because the current version is apache-2.0.48_1. It looks like your. port setup is fairly old. Its more likly that the download was aborted. Marty if you still like to update here are two links you should read: Updating FreeBSD Sources for the OS and the ports: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Compiling FreeBSD sources to update the OS: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Updating ports you have now could be best done with portsupgrade. To install this do: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portsupgrade make install make clean The update all your ports do: portupgrade -fa (this can take as much as days) -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programmatic control of screen-saver
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:33:07PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: I have a machine controlling a tester. Tester control and display is via a virtual console terminal. (X is not installed on the machine) I need to blank the screen (screen saver style) when there is no terminal activity for some time -- much the same as as normal screen-saver operation except that screen output as well as keyboard input should inhibit the screen-saver taking over or cause the normal terminal display to be restored if the saver is already in effect. I would hope that there might be some ioctl call to the terminal which could be used from within the tester control software to wake up the terminal or prevent the screen saver taking over until a further timeout has elapsed. I've not been able to find such an ioctl call parameter. Does anyone have any ideas or a solution please? See vidcontrol(1): # vidcontrol -t 30 sets the console screensaver timeout to 30s, and # vidcontrol -t off turns off the console screensaver. This does indeed operate using the CONS_BLANKTIME ioctl -- see the code in the set_screensaver_timeout() function in /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c and the sys/consio.h header file. I think that ioctl should do what you want, although I'm not sure that setting the blanking time to zero would actually cancel a running screen saver. 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: I need Help Please.
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:15, darkstarmaster21 wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much Hmm, you can download iso. There's no need to do them yourself. trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which This is a bit intricate. You can use a bootloader for that job. FreeBSD has one very basic included but I suggest you have a look at http://gag.sourceforge.net/ took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my That's correct. You can have a complete BSD OS without X on a 250MB CD iso display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I Try the nvidia drivers. Just cd into /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and type make install. You need to have the ports tree installed. For more info see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html For tuning your resolution the relevant lines from XF86Config are: Section Screen Identifier YourScreen Device Your nvidia card MonitorYourMonitor DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection The order of the resolutions listed is determinig the resolution which X starts with. See http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/ for details looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. It isn't harder. It's a complete operating system, not just a kernel with assorted ingredients arround. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. Well, thats not enough info to help you. Basically you need two interfaces on the FreeBSD box, depending on your DSL hardware you need either mpd (or any other way you like to handle ppp (pppoE or pptp, depending on your DSL-line)) and on the second card a private IP with a correct subnetmask, lets say 192.168.0.1/24. The /24 means 24bits of the address are network bits and the rest 8 bits are host bits wich is a network mask of 255.255.255.0! Now you have to assign your XP box a address from the same subnet named 192.168.0.0/24. The .1 is occupied by your FreeBSD box, .255 is for broadcasts reserved so you can choose between 2 and 254. Lets take 2. Sou you assign you XP bos the address 192.168.0.2 and the netmask 255.255.255.0. If you connected your network cards correctly (x-cable or hub or switch) you can now ping the 192.168.0.1 from the XP box and the 192.168.0.2 from the FreeBSD box. You can edit your file /etc/hosts and enter a name for 192.168.0.2 (e.g. xpbox) so you can ping xpbox. For details see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ advanced-networking.html -Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Fowler pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: How to find our what version of ports your running?
Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to find out the ports version, from a CD upgrade? i.e.. initial install was 4.2 then a 4.6 upgrade, then a 4.7 and then a 4.8 upgrade. Hmm, was the ports tree upgraded along with main upgrades or not? Ports are not updated along with the base system. You can do that separately, but usually don't need to. You can determine the versions of the ports installed on your system with the pkg_version(1) command. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding packages to the 4.7-RELEASE
Steve Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having difficulty locating a download site where I can get a python interpreter. I am running 4.7-RELEASE and both /stand/sysinstall and browing mirror sites using a web browser turn up nothing. Can you either mail me the python package or point me to a site where I get retrieve it? I've tried setting my release to any but that has not fixed or changed the problem. 4.7 isn't being kept around on the mirrors any more (for space reasons), so finding the original packages will be kind of tricky, as you have been finding. It's possible that newer packages would work for you, but by no means guaranteed. Your best bet is probably to go through the ports system, which I believe is still maintaining compatibility with 4.7. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting real media audio
[please honour, Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] * Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 15:12]: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on my speakers to a file sox can convert (which device shoud I cat?)? Is there some utility to convert from .rm files to .wav? Run realplayer under linux-vsound (in the ports). Thanks for the tip, however it doesn't quite work: (16:24:25 ~) 0 $ vsound -f appel.wav /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm Missing file ./vsound61809.au. This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. (16:24:51 ~) 0 $ sudo vsound -f appel.wav /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm Missing file ./vsound62032.au. This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. (16:27:22 ~) 0 $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1247004 Nov 5 17:16 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay What am I doing wrong? tks -- pica ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backup drive scheme
FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2. can somebody recommend another backup solution here? Things are working fine right now. just trying to figure out other solutions? - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FYI: {CD,DVD}-ROM ATA mode, 5.1R
Hi, Just for information, may be it is already well known: I found that by default all ATA CD- and DVD-ROMS have PIO4 mode (at least on my machines, 5.1R). Changing mode to at least UDMA33 (atacontrol) improves performance dramatically - not just transfer speed increased, but (and this is more important) interrupt time reduced (according to systat -vmstat: from 40% to 0.8%). Regards, Sergey. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backup drive bootabel
FreeBSD 4.8-stable I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the first. but I need to make the 2nd drive bootable as well since this drive will be plopped in if the first drive goes bad. any recommendations on how to do this? Please send me to a good web tutorial if need be. - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup drive scheme
Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2. can somebody recommend another backup solution here? Things are working fine right now. just trying to figure out other solutions? - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about RAID 1 with vinum? Alternatively you could go out and buy a hardware based RAID controller for a few bucks if you're serious about performance. Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup drive bootabel
Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-stable I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the first. but I need to make the 2nd drive bootable as well since this drive will be plopped in if the first drive goes bad. any recommendations on how to do this? Please send me to a good web tutorial if need be. - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems like a good candidate for RAID 1 mirroring to me. See my reply to your backup drive scheme message. Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:22 am, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD's, added device atapicam to my kernel config file, rebuilt the kernel. Now my burner is detected in scanbus. Still having lots of issues to sort out. I have created a new data cd successfully by reading an iso image on another drive that I created in Windows with Easy CD Creator, but I can't mount that cd on FBSD or Windows. camcontrol devlist shows my burner, but mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c /cdrom fails with cd9660: /dev/cd0c: Invalid argument mount /cdrom also fails with cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error I have just tried my old, original, 100% legal copy of Windows 95. It mounts like a charm with either mount /cdrom or mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c / cdrom. The latter is much faster, though. So I guess that means the cd's I'm making are somehow bad, or unuseable, or the .iso files I'm reading are incompatible with FBSD or cdbakeoven. The cd's are Maxell CD-RW 650MB, which, of course, I erased with cdbakeoven before burning. I'm copying my Windows 95 cd now, funny, my burner is 52x, but it's only burning at 4x, even though I've got the slider all the way to maximum. I guess I can live with that. OK, I successfully copied the Win95 cd, and can mount it. That eliminates the cd's, and probably says the .iso images I created with Easy CD Creator are *no good* for FBSD or cdbakeoven. I guess it *could* also be my settings in cdbakeoven, need to research that further. I'm also unable to read/play any commercial audio cd's. It's like they are blank. This is a *big* issue for me. I *have* to get this resolved. Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me get started? I did find *some* documentation. In cdbakeoven, Help, About, click the link, browse the FAQ (very minimal) and documentation. Hope this helps! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting real media audio
Joan Picanyol i Puig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour, Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] * Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 15:12]: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on my speakers to a file sox can convert (which device shoud I cat?)? Is there some utility to convert from .rm files to .wav? Run realplayer under linux-vsound (in the ports). Thanks for the tip, however it doesn't quite work: (16:24:25 ~) 0 $ vsound -f appel.wav /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm Missing file ./vsound61809.au. This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. (16:24:51 ~) 0 $ sudo vsound -f appel.wav /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm Missing file ./vsound62032.au. This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. (16:27:22 ~) 0 $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1247004 Nov 5 17:16 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay What am I doing wrong? My notes (for streaming media) have the -d and -s switches. My guess is what you actually need is just the -d. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lnc0 problems on vmware
I Am using FreeBSD 4.9 and it works very nice with vmware. my guest host is windowsXP and I Am running FreeBSD from vmware inside windows XP. I have these errors in the logs lnc0: Missed Packet -- no receive buffer lnc0 what does it mean ? I Tried to search on the archives but no useful threads for my problem. This happens when the system is on high CPU load. thank you Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:13, Charles Howse wrote: Try reading 'man atapicam'. It tells you what needs to be done. Actually, I read the Handbook section on CD's, added device atapicam to my kernel config file, rebuilt the kernel. Now my burner is detected in scanbus. Hmm... interesting. I've done everything described in man/handbook. The drives shows up (correctly) in dmesg and with camcontrol. So *why* will cdbakeoven not detect the drives? Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me get started? I did find *some* documentation. In cdbakeoven, Help, About, click the link, browse the FAQ (very minimal) and documentation. Hope this helps! Only as much as I now know it *ought* to work... I just don't know why it doesn't... Bjarne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade -arR
- Original Message - From: Jan Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:37 AM On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, William O'Higgins wrote: Quite foolishly, I ran this command without thinking it through: portupgrade -arR It's been running for 15 hours or so now, and I'm wondering how much longer it is likely to take? I realize that that depends grin / Well, that depends; many ports can be upgraded quickly. However compilation of C++ is markedly slower than compilation of C, so whenever you see things like KDE or Qt meeding an upgrade, expect it to take a while. If you use portversion -v | grep -v = then you'll see the list of ports which remain that need updating. (You need to run portsdb after a cvsup for the output of this, and portupgrade's operation, to be accurate.) Or you can use the (IMHO) simpler 'portversion -vL=' to get the same information. Cheers, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++
I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. If the courses are any good, you'll get feedback, and you'll be paced and challenged with projects designed to help you learn. Going it alone in an unguided environment will only familiarize you the lesser aspects of a language, if you last that long. The difficult and most important aspects of the language (like pointers, virtual functions, references) will become almost insurmountable trial-and-error obstacles if you try to teach yourself. If you want to get a lower paying and boring job programming in C/C++ for whatever reason and have a piece of paper that says you can have that job, I recommend wasting 4-6 months taking a course in your spare time to learn C/C++. If you want to be top of your game and learn C/C++ without wasting time on topics that take you a minute to understand, get a good book, practice the topics you have learned at your own pace, get numorous code examples for things you may want to do (sockets, GUI, OpenGL, ncurses, threading, kernel interfacing) from the glorious and infinite internet and emulate good programming style (using const qualifiers in C++, using #defines in C, etc.). Also be prepared to teach yourself because you may not always be prepared for a job you may find yourself with; learn how to easily learn and use external libraries. The best programmers will teach themselves. A statement that may be on the borderline of opinion to fact by constant example. After all the first programmer, in fact, taught herself. -Rian Hunter _ MSN Messenger with backgrounds, emoticons and more. http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_customize ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Routing problems
Hi Vince, Hi list, --- Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 10.X.X.X subnet will never need to use any of the services of the 193.X.X.X subnet or the 193.R.R.R router. It will always access internet via its own 10.R.R.R router, which only routes packets towards the internet and never towards the 193.X.X.X subnet. Thus, what's the need to do any of the above? Well a packet originating on the 193.x.x.x network will have a return address on the 193.x.x.x network even after its been routed via the freebsd box, (unless you nat, which if your adsl router is a rubbish as mine was you may have to as i couldnt add static routes to mine, but thats another issue.) and so the 10.R.R.R router wont know where to forward to if it has no route to 10.x.x.x (or at least the sending host on that network.) Currently, I have solved all my problems, (it seems so) without adding any routes to the 10.R.R.R router. I have just added the 193.x.x.x interface to it and I gave it an address in that interface. This seems to be sufficient enough! What I have learned from this problems is that a router can only route packets that are coming from interfaces that it knows. Thus it either has to be a member of the source subnet or we have to appropriately translate the addresses via NAT. Am I right? Although I have not followed your advice I am very grateful to you, because you helped me think towards the right direction. I will also keep in mind what you have said in case I face problems in the future... Thanks a lot Jim Xochellis Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup drive bootabel
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:00:38 -0500, Jason Stewart wrote Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-stable I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the first. but I need to make the 2nd drive bootable as well since this drive will be plopped in if the first drive goes bad. any recommendations on how to do this? Thanks Jason, I will consider it. in the mean time can somebody explain to me how to make the 2nd drive bootable. I have seen many different ways to do this. can you direct me to the most optimal. I want to place a boot section that has no menu and no options. just load teh kernel and go. - Noah Please send me to a good web tutorial if need be. - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems like a good candidate for RAID 1 mirroring to me. See my reply to your backup drive scheme message. Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++
On 11/12/03 12:09 PM, yo _ sat at the `puter and typed: I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. Not that I like disagreeing for no good reason, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. If the courses are any good, you'll get feedback, and you'll be paced and challenged with projects designed to help you learn. Going it alone in an unguided environment will only familiarize you the lesser aspects of a language, if you last that long. The difficult and most important aspects of the language (like pointers, virtual functions, references) will become almost insurmountable trial-and-error obstacles if you try to teach yourself. If you want to get a lower paying and boring job programming in C/C++ for whatever reason and have a piece of paper that says you can have that job, I recommend wasting 4-6 months taking a course in your spare time to learn C/C++. If you want to be top of your game and learn C/C++ without wasting time on topics that take you a minute to understand, get a good book, practice the topics you have learned at your own pace, get numorous code examples for things you may want to do (sockets, GUI, OpenGL, ncurses, threading, kernel interfacing) from the glorious and infinite internet and emulate good programming style (using const qualifiers in C++, using #defines in C, etc.). Also be prepared to teach yourself because you may not always be prepared for a job you may find yourself with; learn how to easily learn and use external libraries. The best programmers will teach themselves. A statement that may be on the borderline of opinion to fact by constant example. After all the first programmer, in fact, taught herself. -Rian Hunter I seem to remember another common saying: A person who is self taught has a fool for a teacher Not that I entirely disagree with your statement, but the first programmer if I understand your meaning, never presented her first attempt for approval to the current codeset - at least I didn't get the memo. All I have is the secondhand publishing of several different, and mostly conflicted sets of operating instructions, most of which are even self conflicting. So self taught isn't necessarily right the first time - unless the docs are all forged :) Then again, I could be entirely mistaken about your meaning, so feel free to ignore my babble before flaming (in fact, please do :). Besides, every person is different. Some people need some degree of structure to focus them. Others do better on a 'spur of the moment' schedule, where they spend time learning when it will be productive. I go for a walk down the middle of these perfectly valid, if fundamentalist, approaches. A person who only learns in school never learns outside of school. OTOH, a person who avoids structured learning environments will have a hard time in other structured environments. Most of my C++ knowledge was gained in school. My much more extensive C knowledge was entirely self taught. Yes, I do have the occasional pointer mishap, but I doubt there are many people who don't. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Old Japanese proverb: There are two kinds of fools -- those who never climb Mt. Fuji, and those who climb it twice. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++
I would recommend not trying to learn C or C++ by yourself from a book. The fastest (and best way) to learn the right stuff is to take coursework from a university or community college. If the courses are any good, you'll get feedback, and you'll be paced and challenged with projects designed to help you learn. Going it alone in an unguided environment will only familiarize you the lesser aspects of a language, if you last that long. The difficult and most important aspects of the language (like pointers, virtual functions, references) will become almost insurmountable trial-and-error obstacles if you try to teach yourself. This is a good point. The person who takes a class should (prividing the class is well done) be guided through the whole range of the language. Whereas someone learning on their own just picks up the pieces they need at the moment and then fixates on those parts and doesn't go on to learn the whole range of the language. If you want to get a lower paying and boring job programming in C/C++ for whatever reason and have a piece of paper that says you can have that job, I recommend wasting 4-6 months taking a course in your spare time to learn C/C++. If you want to be top of your game and learn C/C++ without wasting time on topics that take you a minute to understand, get a good book, practice the topics you have learned at your own pace, get numorous code examples for things you may want to do (sockets, GUI, OpenGL, ncurses, threading, kernel interfacing) from the glorious and infinite internet and emulate good programming style (using const qualifiers in C++, using #defines in C, etc.). Also be prepared to teach yourself because you may not always be prepared for a job you may find yourself with; learn how to easily learn and use external libraries. The only really valuable thing from this flame is the implication that you must go on and keep using the new learning and add to it from man sources. It is not a waste of time to learn it right from the start. The best programmers will teach themselves. A statement that may be on the borderline of opinion to fact by constant example. After all the first programmer, in fact, taught herself. And it was a lifelong mistake-filled iterative process. If the material was already there in the beginning as it is for C, C++, Fortran, Assembly, etc, then that lifelong process could have started at a higher level of understanding and moved on from their instead of having to spend so many years of rummaging around at the primative levels. Mostly, I am just responding to the making of a sweeping generalization that may apply to a very few, but for the most is meaningless. It seems to take a narrow viewpoint to make up a flame. jerry -Rian Hunter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ip-up script of pppd no triggered
Hi list, I need persuade pppd to call its ip-up script in order to add a non-default route when the link is up and running. Unfortunately it seems that my ip-up script is not being called. The mode of the file is rwxr-xr-x and the owner root:wheel. I am calling the pppd from inside a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ppp.sh script by using the following command: /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cuaa0 115200 A.A.A.A:B.B.B.B noauth persist netmask 255.255.255.252 Am I doing something wrong? Best Regards Jim Xochellis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem
I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of timeout problem on rewind: # mt -f /dev/nast0 rewind mt: /dev/nast0: rewind: Input/output error From console: Nov 12 11:28:02 bs4 /kernel: ast0: REZERO command timeout - resetting Nov 12 11:28:02 bs4 /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done This error does not appear if the tape is already rewound. Any thoughts? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup drive scheme
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:46:39AM -0800, Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2. can somebody recommend another backup solution here? Things are working fine right now. just trying to figure out other solutions? That's not a bad system per se -- would you care to elaborate what about that scheme is unsatisfactory? What sort of characteristics are you looking for in your backup scheme: for instance how long do you want to retain backups for? How much stuff do you want to backup? What about keeping off-site copies? Is it more important to be able to recover a system quickly or is it more important to cram as many copies of the data as possible onto the available media? 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: converting real media audio
* Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 17:23]: Joan Picanyol i Puig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031112 15:12]: Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on my speakers to a file sox can convert (which device shoud I cat?)? Is there some utility to convert from .rm files to .wav? Run realplayer under linux-vsound (in the ports). Thanks for the tip, however it doesn't quite work: (16:24:25 ~) 0 $ vsound -f appel.wav /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm Missing file ./vsound61809.au. This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. (16:24:51 ~) 0 $ sudo vsound -f appel.wav /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm Missing file ./vsound62032.au. This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. (16:27:22 ~) 0 $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1247004 Nov 5 17:16 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay What am I doing wrong? My notes (for streaming media) have the -d and -s switches. My guess is what you actually need is just the -d. Thanks, that did the trick. At least with linux-reaplayer you need -d -s and redirect to a file. tks -- pica ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple IPs in Jail
Hey all - We patched mijail5 (http://garage.freebsd.pl/mijail.README) against RELENG_5_1. Most of the patch was successful with a little fuzz, except for a couple lines in jls which didn't patch due to cosmetic changes (easily fixed). Before the patch was applied, the jail environment had no problem with dns. After the patch was applied however (and userland rebuilt both on host and jail), dns breaks in the jail environment. Basically, gethostbyname fails and h_errno is set to 2 - Host name lookup failure. the system is configured properly, since the only changes are to the kernel and the modified jail mechanism. Also interesting is that the failure is immediate, there is no timeout. However, inbound/outbound TCP traffic is not effected. - we are able to ssh in/out of the jailed environment. I was testing outbound UDP traffic however - simple matter of binding a socket to send a packet to a remote host. Outside the jail, it worked fine. inside the jail, sendto failed with a EINVAL error. Any help on this topic would be much appreciated. -Mike PS: I apologize for the cross-post to the freebsd-hackers and freebsd-questions lists... Need to get this box up ASAP and this is a major setback. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.537 / Virus Database: 332 - Release Date: 11/6/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup drive bootabel
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:20:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: I will consider it. in the mean time can somebody explain to me how to make the 2nd drive bootable. I have seen many different ways to do this. can you direct me to the most optimal. I want to place a boot section that has no menu and no options. just load teh kernel and go. These are SCSI drives? So one disk is da0 and the other is da1. There's two ways to work this: i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one. In this case should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and either remove the first drive or modify the jumpering on the disks to swap their order on the bus. You will need to mark the FreeBSD slice bootable in the disk partition label by running: # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr -s 1 da1 So long as the slice tables and disklabels on da0 and da1 are pretty much the same, either disk should boot up smoothly. ii) Set up the system so that you can boot from either disk at will, without having to fiddle around with the hardware at all. This means that the settings on the two drives cannot be exactly the same: specifically the /etc/fstab file on each disk should reference the filesystems on the same disk: da0 on da0 or da1 on da1. Now, you can boot from either disk by interrupting the boot process by hitting a key while the spinning cursor is showing (| / - \ ...) [That's before the system loads the kernel and prints the message about the 10s countdown] -- it can be tricky to catch the system at this stage especially if booting from a fast device. At the boot: prompt, type: 0:da(0,a)/kernel to boot from da0, or 1:da(0,a)/kernel to boot from da1. If you take this route, you may find it more convenient to set up the machine for dual-boot with the slightly unusual configuration of two copies of the same OS. In this case you'll need to install the FreeBSD boot block, which will mean that you get a prompt at boot time where you can choose which disk to boot from, but unless you start hitting the function keys, after a short delay the system will carry on an boot up from the same disk as the previous boot: # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 da0 # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 da1 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: ssh has a delay when typing
List, Yes, I am connecting to the machine remotely via the internet.. The lag is not acceptable, and this same lag and delay happened when I had another FreeBSD machine on our local network. Any more ideas? I have never experienced this behavior on any other unix machines. TIA will On Nov 12, 2003, at 3:31 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:15:45AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I have searched the list and have not found a solution. I have also upgraded to the latest in the ports tree. I am running FreeBSD 4.9 Release. I can connect to the machine fine, but after connected I get random pauses and delays while typing. Any ideas? Please provide more details about your setup. For example, if you're SSH'ing to a remote machine on the internet, this would be expected behaviour. kris --will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting real media audio ... ENCODING working?
While we're on the subject, has anyone gotten the Linux version of the Real Audio Producer (encoder) to work? It's a commercial app from RealNetworks that I downloaded and did a core dump when trying to run. (Sorry I forget details now.) Just wondering if anyone's ever successfully done RealAudio ENCODING on FreeBSD? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: internet setup
B F wrote: 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. I'm new to BSD, but if it was Windows I'd just tell you to enable DHCP on the FreeBSD box to get your network settings from your cable modem, and be happy. If that's not your style, then give your BSD box the network settings manually (probably 192.168.x.y for the IP address, with 255.255.255.0 as a subnet mask. Just pick something with a different final number than either of your other machines. ;) ) If you get the address via DHCP, run the following (my interface is ed0). alpha# dhclient ed0 And if you want it to get the address on boot, add the following to /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_ed0=DHCP #internet connection If you want it to be a router as well, add the following to rc.conf gateway_enable=YES ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christophe wrote: I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of timeout problem on rewind: A good general rule about using the Travan tape drives is -- don't. We used them for about a year until they started giving all kinds of wierd problems that appeared to be hardware related, timeouts, not able to read tapes after they were written, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, Face of Evil ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mysterious manpage *roff problems solved (SOLUTION)
I had posted recently regarding a mysterious problem I had with my manpage subsystem not working properly. This has been a problem for quite some time. After analyzing ktrace/kdump outputs, removing any conflicting *roff files in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share, we still couldn't get it working. Interestingly, there are no indications of *roff in /var/db/pkg, so I have no idea how it ended up under /usr/local to begin with. The solution, thanks to Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED], was to backup my /usr/src/sys/i386/conf file and rm -rf the entire /usr/src and /usr/obj trees, then re-CVSup (putting back my kernel config) and rebuild/reinstall the system. It was a pickle - as the problem just didn't seem obvious. So, somewhere along the line something got munged up in the /usr/src directory. I hope this solution helps someone out there that may get bitten by this. And again thanks to Larry. Forrest ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Essay.
Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. I am planning to write a brief history of the four BSDs, going way back in time (probably a few words on Ritchie, etc.) but then concentrate on FreeBSD. I'm really asking if anybody can suggest any particularly interesting topics that I can go away and research and then include in my essay. I guess since it's only a short essay I can't have /too/ much detail and I didn't particularly want to try and explain something /very/ complicated (although please suggest just the same ;). Somebody already suggested ``man hier'' but I'm not sure that's really technical enough, and problably not particularly specific to FreeBSD. Thanks very much -- any and all suggestions are very welcome :) -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
invalid argument
I have used mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and mount_cd9660 /cdrom It tells me that it is an invalid argument. I have a toshiba satelite laptop and I am running ver 4.7. My cdrom is a cdrw. What should I try next? Thank you -- __ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault
Chris wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having some problems with it. Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. aura# pkgdb -Fv Try this: pkgdb -fuF That seems to work - thanks. Presumably a corrupt pkgdb or something? Would be nice if portupgrade gave nicer errors, though. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server
Thanks Chris and Scott for your input on this subject - I've found it most helpful. The freedom to tweak the system to your own way of working is great, and I now feel I am better informed on how to do this without doing anything radical that I will regret in years to come. Thanks again to you both. Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: statvfs.h
find brings back nothing on my system. mark - Original Message - From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: M.D. DeWar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: statvfs.h M.D. DeWar wrote: were do yo u get header files ? or can't you ? I am trying to load a webmin module and it needs some perl modules and one filesys::statvfs needs the header file statsvfs.h and I donthave it. thanks mark #find / -name statvfs.h -print /usr/include/sys/statvfs.h /usr/src/sys/sys/statvfs.h HTH, 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]
symlink confusion
Could someone please briefly describe the reactions to the following actions? Sometimes I delete the original directories by deleting links, and hopefully someone can give me some insight. # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get removed, but in reality, I am dealing with my X11R6 directory which had to be moved temporarily to make room for a port install. # ln -s /usr/X11R6 /home/steve/X11R6 Which put a new link from the original to the new location. If I # rm /home/steve/X11R6, will I be safe as to not delete the original directory? If this is true, what could I have done in the past that would of seen an entire directory structure deleted by deleting the link? Tks for your input. Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: invalid argument
Gregory Stearns wrote: I have used mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom and mount_cd9660 /cdrom It tells me that it is an invalid argument. I have a toshiba satelite laptop and I am running ver 4.7. My cdrom is a cdrw. What should I try next? Thank you You syntax looks good, but do you have acd0c in your /dev/ file? Do $ls /dev and look for acd entries. My computers has acd0, and thats it. So I use $ mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom. Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Essay.
Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. I am planning to write a brief history of the four BSDs, going way back in time (probably a few words on Ritchie, etc.) but then concentrate on FreeBSD. I think showing the pedigree is a good idea. I would extend it to discuss and demonstrate how FreeBSD is a system with solid design principles and a resourceful community around it. It's benefits are more than technical, as anyone on this list can attest. Given the short length, I think an overview of how FreeBSD came to be, it's strengths, and whatever seems appropriate in the projected evolution would be worth reading. I'm really asking if anybody can suggest any particularly interesting topics that I can go away and research and then include in my essay. I guess since it's only a short essay I can't have /too/ much detail and I didn't particularly want to try and explain something /very/ complicated (although please suggest just the same ;). -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md5/des ?
+++ Oles Hnatkevych [freebsd] [12-11-03 13:23 +0200]: | Hello! | | /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) | But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. | How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() | problem, and the DES is the default... | | | -- man login.conf | grep passwd_format -A 5 Regards, Shantanoo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newbie dns mess w/ nic
I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now can't get dns working again. My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 on the network. My FBSD box will ping to localhost, 192.168.0.7 (itself), and other boxes on LAN by either name or IP. But when I try to ping google etc.. I get No route to host. $ cat /etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Nov 8 18:24:40 2003 # Created: Sat Nov 8 18:24:40 2003 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file no longer contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. hostname=fbsd.my.domain kern_securelevel_enable=NO linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES nfs_reserved_port_only=YES sendmail_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES ifconfig_ep0=inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP firewall_enable=no $ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/landns.root.sh #!/bin/sh natd -dynamic -interface ep0 dhclient ep0 ifconfig ep0 inet 192.168.0.7 255.255.255.0 echo Everone Feeling Better Now? 8^} $ netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 26lo0 192.168.0 link#1 UC 30ep0 192.168.0.100:08:74:c0:5e:69 UHLW2 200ep0 1065 192.168.0.700:20:af:4d:24:b7 UHLW04lo0 192.168.0.150 00:a0:cc:40:55:cf UHLW02ep0735 192.168.0.222 127.0.0.1 UGHS02lo0 Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::1 ::1 UH lo0 fe80::%ep0/64 link#1UC ep0 fe80::220:afff:fe4d:24b7%ep0 00:20:af:4d:24:b7 UHL lo0 fe80::%lo0/64 fe80::1%lo0 Uc lo0 fe80::1%lo0 link#4UHL lo0 ff01::/32 ::1 U lo0 ff02::%ep0/32 link#1UC ep0 ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 UC lo0 $ ifconfig -a ep0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::220:afff:fe4d:24b7%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0 ether 00:20:af:4d:24:b7 media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP lp0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 faith0: flags=8002BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 ppp0: flags=8010POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST mtu 552 $ Hey, at least I've got local connectivity stable now so I can copy and paste this stuff... oops maybe I shouldn't have even said anything to jinx this. pondering how bad things will get before some knowledge pervades my being Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
french accent + keyboard
hello, i have a freebsd 4.8 release and i have an azerty keyboard, but accents doesn't functions. I have the line : keymap=fr.iso.acc in the rc.conf file but nothing could you help me please Thank you ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb / portupgrade segfault
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:38 pm, Will Yardley wrote: Chris wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:08 pm, Will Yardley wrote: I have portupgrade version 20030723, installed from ports. I'm having some problems with it. Running pkgdb -Fv gives a segfault. aura# pkgdb -Fv Try this: pkgdb -fuF That seems to work - thanks. Presumably a corrupt pkgdb or something? Would be nice if portupgrade gave nicer errors, though. That would be a correct assumtion. Sometimes things happen. Most of the time though, the DB will get corrupt when the user break the portupgrade. That's been my experiance anyways. So, as a rule of thumb, only break portupgrade when it's absolutly, 100 percent, needed. I don't care what anyone says - to me, you just DON'T break access to any database. -- Best regards, Chris __ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers __ 01010010011101100011011001010111001001011000 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need Help Please.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:15:28 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) darkstarmaster21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. To get a working XF86Config use XFree86 -configure. Then move that file to /etc/X11/XF86Config Then to config the file use xf86cfg -textmode to configure it. Note: on some systems you may have to go in and comment out the dri line on some gfx cards. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. Uhm, having a error message to go by would be really useful. Hmm, if this is your first time trying stuff like this, don't worry about it, some of the finer parts of unix take awhile to learn. Here are some good starting places... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi Generally the best way to get help on a specific command is to use man... do a mam man to find more out about the man program. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. Lets make this part simple... use the freebsd box for nat and not the win2k machine. Check out the nat page in the handbook(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd .html and if you have not done so, read the rest of the handbook. Just put on of the nics in the bsd box on dhcp for the dsl adapter and the other to something like 192.168.0.1. Now plug your win2k machine into the second one and give it something like 192.168.0.2 and tell it to use 192.168.0.1 as the gateway. Hope this has been of help. If you have any other questions feel free to ask :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic
I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two - including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now can't get dns working again. My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1 on the network. My FBSD box will ping to localhost, 192.168.0.7 (itself), and other boxes on LAN by either name or IP. But when I try to ping google etc.. I get No route to host. Add the following to your /etc/rc.conf file: default_router=192.168.0.1 and then perform the following command to get it online without a reboot: # route add default 192.168.0.1 Hope this helps. Steve $ cat /etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Nov 8 18:24:40 2003 # Created: Sat Nov 8 18:24:40 2003 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file no longer contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. hostname=fbsd.my.domain kern_securelevel_enable=NO linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES nfs_reserved_port_only=YES sendmail_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES ifconfig_ep0=inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP firewall_enable=no $ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/landns.root.sh #!/bin/sh natd -dynamic -interface ep0 dhclient ep0 ifconfig ep0 inet 192.168.0.7 255.255.255.0 echo Everone Feeling Better Now? 8^} $ netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 26lo0 192.168.0 link#1 UC 30ep0 192.168.0.100:08:74:c0:5e:69 UHLW2 200ep0 1065 192.168.0.700:20:af:4d:24:b7 UHLW04lo0 192.168.0.150 00:a0:cc:40:55:cf UHLW02ep0735 192.168.0.222 127.0.0.1 UGHS02lo0 Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::1 ::1 UH lo0 fe80::%ep0/64 link#1UC ep0 fe80::220:afff:fe4d:24b7%ep0 00:20:af:4d:24:b7 UHL lo0 fe80::%lo0/64 fe80::1%lo0 Uc lo0 fe80::1%lo0 link#4UHL lo0 ff01::/32 ::1 U lo0 ff02::%ep0/32 link#1UC ep0 ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 UC lo0 $ ifconfig -a ep0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::220:afff:fe4d:24b7%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0 ether 00:20:af:4d:24:b7 media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP lp0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 faith0: flags=8002BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 ppp0: flags=8010POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST mtu 552 $ Hey, at least I've got local connectivity stable now so I can copy and paste this stuff... oops maybe I shouldn't have even said anything to jinx this. pondering how bad things will get before some knowledge pervades my being Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [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]
symlink confusion
At 03:00 PM 11/12/2003, you wrote: # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get removed I'm a newbie Steve so maybe will be asking more than answering here. But isn't it the case that with a soft link as you created in the first line in the second line you'd only be deleting the link itself and not the actual directory? But if you used a hard link # ln /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory then the real directory would be deleted? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Essay.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. I am planning to write a brief history of the four BSDs, going way back in time (probably a few words on Ritchie, etc.) but then concentrate on FreeBSD. My advise would be to pick one subject and stick with that. Don't go into the history in general if you for something detailed about FreeBSD and if you go for the hirstory don't write about something detailed. You'll proberbly find that you have lots to write about. I have two subjects you may like: 1. The history starting from 1978 until now. Perhaps something about the feutere of BSD (dead), BSDi (could be dead), FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. 2. FreeBSD 5 (History of FreeBSD 5, feutes, compersent betwain 4 and 5 and 5 and linux. If you have space over one detailed subject.) The history in it self should be larg enove and intersating on its own. You could start with the outcomming of Unix and go on to the univeristy of Berkley. Then go to the outcomming of FreeBSD, NetBSD and BSDi. Followed by the lawsute betain Unix and BSDi BSD. Then OpenBSD came out in 1995. Recently Apple followed with Darwin (based on NetBSD and FreeBSD). As altenative there are two CD versions (NetBox and FreeBIE) and a small version (PicoBSD) wich are based on FreeBSD. Ending with a compersent betwain all versions. I'm really asking if anybody can suggest any particularly interesting topics that I can go away and research and then include in my essay. I guess since it's only a short essay I can't have /too/ much detail and I didn't particularly want to try and explain something /very/ complicated (although please suggest just the same ;). Another subject would be the outcomming of FreeBSD 5. If you go this way skip the general history!! Only go for the relevent history for this version. Then coninue on the new and cool feutures of FreeBSD 5. Maybe talk about one or two in more detail. And a compersent betwain FreeBSD 4 and 5. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?
I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible to download tarballs and drop them into the ports tree somewhere so you don't have to do the download. I'm wondering how easy this is, though. By that I mean, if I wanted to say install Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc. in this manner how would I know which package to download? And from where? I'd like to download these at work, burn them on a CD and take them home. However, since I'm not in front of my machine I don't know where ports will be looking for these files. Anyone know? Preston ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which version of Java to use?
I want to install Java to use Ant/Tomcat/Struts stuff like that. Which JDK is the right one to install to get these to work properly? Can anyone tell me? Preston ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: symlink confusion
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:38, Marty Landman wrote: At 03:00 PM 11/12/2003, you wrote: # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get removed I'm a newbie Steve so maybe will be asking more than answering here. But isn't it the case that with a soft link as you created in the first line in the second line you'd only be deleting the link itself and not the actual directory? But if you used a hard link You can't make hard links to directories. See ln(1) for more info. # ln /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory then the real directory would be deleted? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [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: symlink confusion
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 19:48, Steve Bertrand wrote: Could someone please briefly describe the reactions to the following actions? Sometimes I delete the original directories by deleting links, and hopefully someone can give me some insight. # ln -s /home/steve/directory /tmp/directory # rm /tmp/directory In testing, the original directory (/home/steve/directory) did not get removed, but in reality, I am dealing with my X11R6 directory which had to be moved temporarily to make room for a port install. # ln -s /usr/X11R6 /home/steve/X11R6 Which put a new link from the original to the new location. If I # rm /home/steve/X11R6, will I be safe as to not delete the original directory? What does: # ls -l /usr/X11R6 /home/steve/X11R6 tell you? I'm currently a bit confused. If this is true, what could I have done in the past that would of seen an entire directory structure deleted by deleting the link? Tks for your input. Steve ___ [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]
crontab
Greetings, I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command. when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root. If I do a crontab -e its blank. I thought there was a template already, with example commented out. Do I have to create this file from scratch ? thanks, -D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:48, Preston Crawford wrote: I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible to download tarballs and drop them into the ports tree somewhere so you don't have to do the download. I'm wondering how easy this is, though. By that I mean, if I wanted to say install Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc. in this manner how would I know which package to download? And from where? I'd like to download these at work, burn them on a CD and take them home. However, since I'm not in front of my machine I don't know where ports will be looking for these files. Anyone know? Look into the makefile for the port. There's a line starting with MASTER_SITES, you can download from any of these. The variable DISTFILES contains the name of the file. Daniela ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: symlink confusion
# ln -s /usr/X11R6 /home/steve/X11R6 Which put a new link from the original to the new location. If I # rm /home/steve/X11R6, will I be safe as to not delete the original directory? I'm sorry, the above line should have read: # rm /usr/X11R6 not the other way around. In essence, if I delete the link, the directory should remain right? Then I can just move the directory back to it's original location? Steve What does: # ls -l /usr/X11R6 /home/steve/X11R6 tell you? I'm currently a bit confused. If this is true, what could I have done in the past that would of seen an entire directory structure deleted by deleting the link? Tks for your input. Steve ___ [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] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:48:20PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible to download tarballs and drop them into the ports tree somewhere so you don't have to do the download. I'm wondering how easy this is, though. By that I mean, if I wanted to say install Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc. in this manner how would I know which package to download? And from where? I'd like to download these at work, burn them on a CD and take them home. However, since I'm not in front of my machine I don't know where ports will be looking for these files. Anyone know? Preston ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- cd to, e.g. /usr/ports/editors/openoffice, look at the distinfo file. __ robert tan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:13:34 -0600 Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: Greetings, I am running 4.7 and want to use cron to run a command. when I look in /var/cron/tabs, there is not a file for root. If I do a crontab -e its blank. I thought there was a template already, with example commented out. Do I have to create this file from scratch ? thanks, -D from scratch, all users start with blank crontabs. enjoy LK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ER schema design
Hi, Anyone know of a good program to create an ER diagram? Tnx, -- robert tan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie dns mess w/ nic
At 03:32 PM 11/12/2003, Steve Bertrand wrote: Add the following to your /etc/rc.conf file: default_router=192.168.0.1 and then perform the following command to get it online without a reboot: # route add default 192.168.0.1 Steve, I decided to add the line to rc.conf and then shutdown... have done so many anyhow and didn't want to get stuck whenever I did reboot/shutting down again not knowing what to do. Anyway it didn't work on restart, but then when I issued the route add default cmd dns is working. So I added the line to my /usr/local/etc/rc.d and on restart everything's copasthetic. Why it didn't do the trick from rc.conf though... Thanks, Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 21:13, Darryl Hoar wrote: commented out. Do I have to create this file from scratch ? Yes. 'man 5 crontab' for examples. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/sqU9F8Iu1zN5WiwRApnDAJ9r3O90cSRmkk3ov8jhpvMQBu92NgCfSy8L 7V35rSiXRrtOTED/mHY/Srk= =VJBa -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Mount SMB share on bootup
Ed - that worked great... Thanks!! I am not sure what I did, but it worked. What language is that script in? It isn't perl - is it C? -Original Message- From: Edward Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 5:43 PM To: Chirhart, Brian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mount SMB share on bootup Lines prefixed with are what Chirhart, Brian wrote. point is password protected (on the XP side) so I am prompted for a password. How can I automate that? Or should I create the share without a password? I am not too worried about internal security so the share could have no password and that would be fine. Create a script called whatever.sh, chmod +x 755 whatever.sh and put that script in a /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Put the following lines in that script #!/bin/sh smbmount username=user password=pass and the rest of the parametars that you are normaly using when mounting smb partition. Mind that if your startup script for samba is samba.sh your mounting script must start with a letter after the letter s otherwise you would mounting a samba share without smb daemon started. When I try the smbmount I get a command not Found I checked the man pages on mount and found mount_smbfs, but I can not find any options that would allow me to specify a username and password. I am not using Samba (at least I didn't load it... may be there by default???) - To map the drive I have a line in my /etc/fstab file that reads: # Device #Mountpoint FSType OPtion //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /ftprootsmbfs rw.nosuto 0 0 Once the server boots, I type mount /ftproot and then it asks me for the password for User. After the password is entered, /ftproot contains the contents of the share on my XP system. It was one of the things that I fell in love with about BSD - the ability to see XP shares with no special magic. So anyway - I think there are several different approaches to this. Can I modify my fstab file so that auto would work by somehow specifing a password? Or is there a password option that I am missing in the mount or mount_smbfs commands? OR... is there a reason I don't have the smbmount command? You are on the right track; it took me a while to figure this one out too. You've got your /etc/fstab file set up correctly. This is how the line for me looks, it's just like yours. //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE /mnt/chaos smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 To specify your username and password for the mount, you should create /etc/nsmb.conf the syntax for this file is shown in /usr/share/examples/smbfs/dot.nsmbrc Here is an example from my machine: #nsmb.conf [CHAOS] addr=10.0.3.3 [CHAOS:EDWARD] password=X Finally, to mount on bootup, create a file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d with the following contents (or something similar; you probably didn't name your share CHAOS): [EMAIL PROTECTED] more /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.chaos.sh #! /bin/sh case $1 in start) echo Mounting CHAOS... mount /mnt/CHAOS 2 ;; stop) echo Unmounting CHAOS... umount /mnt/CHAOS 2 ;; esac Also, I make sure my /etc/nsmb.conf file is owned by root and chmod'ed 600 because it contains a password in plaintext. Don't forget to make sure that your file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is chmodded at least 700 so that it's executable by, at the very least, the owner (should be root). I hope this is clear enough to make some sense to you. Regards, Ed Thank you for all your help! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- There are people who cheat on their spouse but not at cards, and vice versa, and both and neither. Reputation is not necessarily portable from one situation to another, and it's not easily expressed. --Clay Shirkey. (http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html) It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. --Bertrand Russell. The American empire is ideological, not territorial. We are the most ideological people in the world, and we are so united in our view that we don't understand there can be other views. --Lt. Gen. William Odom, ret. (Former Director of NSA). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Essay.
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:41:40 +0100, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hey guys, I'm a first year CS student at Manchester and I've been given the task of writing a 1,000 word essay on something computer-related. It can be pretty much anything I want (I think). I've decided FreeBSD is interesting, the OS I advocate and that I shall write about this. I am planning to write a brief history of the four BSDs, going way back in time (probably a few words on Ritchie, etc.) but then concentrate on FreeBSD. My advise would be to pick one subject and stick with that. Don't go into the history in general if you for something detailed about FreeBSD and if you go for the hirstory don't write about something detailed. You'll proberbly find that you have lots to write about. I have two subjects you may like: 1. The history starting from 1978 until now. Perhaps something about the feutere of BSD (dead), BSDi (could be dead), FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. 2. FreeBSD 5 (History of FreeBSD 5, feutes, compersent betwain 4 and 5 and 5 and linux. If you have space over one detailed subject.) The history in it self should be larg enove and intersating on its own. You could start with the outcomming of Unix and go on to the univeristy of Berkley. Then go to the outcomming of FreeBSD, NetBSD and BSDi. Followed by the lawsute betain Unix and BSDi BSD. Then OpenBSD came out in 1995. Recently Apple followed with Darwin (based on NetBSD and FreeBSD). As altenative there are two CD versions (NetBox and FreeBIE) and a small version (PicoBSD) wich are based on FreeBSD. Ending with a compersent betwain all versions. I'm really asking if anybody can suggest any particularly interesting topics that I can go away and research and then include in my essay. I guess since it's only a short essay I can't have /too/ much detail and I didn't particularly want to try and explain something /very/ complicated (although please suggest just the same ;). Another subject would be the outcomming of FreeBSD 5. If you go this way skip the general history!! Only go for the relevent history for this version. Then coninue on the new and cool feutures of FreeBSD 5. Maybe talk about one or two in more detail. And a compersent betwain FreeBSD 4 and 5. For something sufficiently technical as well as a bit controversial, what about comparing/contrasting the two roads from version 4 of FreeBSD - version 5 vs. DragonflyBSD? Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system?
Look into the makefile for the port. There's a line starting with MASTER_SITES, you can download from any of these. The variable DISTFILES contains the name of the file. Thanks! I'll take a look when I get home and maybe download them tomorrow. Will it list dependencies as well? Preston ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
file sizes
Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner
Hmm... interesting. I've done everything described in man/handbook. The drives shows up (correctly) in dmesg and with camcontrol. So *why* will cdbakeoven not detect the drives? Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me get started? I did find *some* documentation. In cdbakeoven, Help, About, click the link, browse the FAQ (very minimal) and documentation. Hope this helps! Only as much as I now know it *ought* to work... I just don't know why it doesn't... I have never been able to get anything but burncd working either. None of the graphical cd burning programs work for me. You may want to look at kburncd: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kburncd http://kburncd.sourceforge.net/ which came very close to working, but looks like it has not been active since that first release. You may be able to tweak it a bit and get it to go. For my needs, burncd works just fine, but try telling that to someone who has never used a commandline before... _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file sizes
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:01, Bryan Cassidy wrote: Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. Try... ls -l filename ls -lh filename du -h directory -- Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, http://www.grimstveit.no/~jakob, +47 48298152 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...
Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not the hardware or network connectivity. I am confused about whether this should be lp=port@host with appropriate filters or some variant of rm=host rp=TEXT. None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except in the port@host configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. I am wanting to use this with an old LaserJet 4L PCL class printer. Directly connecting it to a parallel port works just fine [using apsfilter and all the other Postscript conversion software]. I just want to have it work from whichever machine using the network both for reasons of speed and not wanting to have a single box up just to print from some other machine. There was software from HP for this box for Solaris and HP-UX, but I am running FreeBSD and occasionally Solaris/x86, so I have none of the software from HP to work with. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks very much. --David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file sizes
In the last episode (Nov 12), Bryan Cassidy said: Trying to figure out how to find out the size of a file. ls -l myfile -- 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: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 17:13:06 -0500 David Bein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not the hardware or network connectivity. I am confused about whether this should be lp=port@host with appropriate filters or some variant of rm=host rp=TEXT. None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except in the port@host configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. I am wanting to use this with an old LaserJet 4L PCL class printer. Directly connecting it to a parallel port works just fine [using apsfilter and all the other Postscript conversion software]. I just want to have it work from whichever machine using the network both for reasons of speed and not wanting to have a single box up just to print from some other machine. This is a printcap entry I use for a PostScript enabled LaserJet 5: lj5|lphome: \ :lf=/var/log/lj5.err:\ :lp=:\ :rm=lj5.lerctr.org:\ :mx#0:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj5: Maybe it will help you. LER There was software from HP for this box for Solaris and HP-UX, but I am running FreeBSD and occasionally Solaris/x86, so I have none of the software from HP to work with. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks very much. --David ___ [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 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...
In the last episode (Nov 12), David Bein said: I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not the hardware or network connectivity. I am confused about whether this should be lp=port@host with appropriate filters or some variant of rm=host rp=TEXT. Either should work. I prefer the rm style since that works a bit better when you have multiple systems printing to the same printer. Make sure to telnet to the jetdirect and disable banners, though. None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except in the port@host configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. What happens? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
