Re: df shows bogus values on gbde'd partitions
In all seriousness, I've never seen this but almost choked when I saw the numbers. Hope someone can help. BTW, what does the .bde stand for after the slice/partition? .bde means an attached crypted partiotoin. See gbde(8) on 5.x. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ???
--- Guillermo_García-Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old Pentium-MMX 200 Mhz and 40Mb RAM, 1 Gb HD. Can you put Windows 2000 on it? I don't think so. MY setup test box is: Pentium 200Mhz 128MB RAM 16MB TNT Graphics Card Windows 2000 runs rock solid fast on my 17inch monitor :) ... 1GIG is more than enough for Windows 2000 with about 600MB to spare Did I mention I have no monitor??? I do not need it, so I do not need a GUI Can you live without your Windows 2000 GUI? Can you work without it? Why would I want to... a GUI makes life easier makes my ability to do work more productive :) What if some big company ask you to work for them, but they have UNIX systems, are you prepared or can you handle that work? Any OS will take me about 1 week to get up to speed - if its a MS product, about 2 days :) One more thing, my OpenBSD 3.5 costs me $0, FreeBSD price is $0 too. Did you spend the same amount of money on your Windows 2000?? Yea 0$ - all my software is War... *cough* ... donated Kind Regards, DK __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Installing Packages is nice easy straight forward from the docs(should be more of these!) - Installing ports/packages via ftp/net - Forget it!! I have barely got BSD running, the last thing I want is connecting a BSD box to my broadband connection ?? Does BSD have a default firewall ?? Don't know, having trouble installing stuff let alone configuring a firewall via scripts/files You are probably better off and more secure with an initial install, with no additional work or tweaking, of FreeBSD on the net than you would be with a MS system with every know fix available. The system is inherently more secure and in addition - and maybe partially because of this - fewer, by far, attempts at cracking FreeBSD are made than are made against MS systems. Some of this is, of course, because there are much fewer FreeBSD systems out there to tempt kiddies. But, the fact that cracking FreeBSD is more difficult contributes to this effect. So if I do a default install of FreeBSD then connect to the net for ports/packages, is there a default firewall running in the background ?? Then its going step by step with the install guides when I try to install MySQL, I type # groupadd mysql I get command not found ... ??? no idea, I am following the install guides... now if I am doing the same as everyone else with a fresh install of BSD, why is it no one else gets groupadd mysql command not found ?? What does commmand not found sound like it means? The shell doesn't know how to find the command you typed in. Either you didn't update your search path to include the directory it is in or it didn't get installed correctly where it should be. Probably the first is true. So, find out where it should be and add that directory to the path. See man path. thnx, will check out the path. Again, you are much safer on the net with a FreeBSD system. Just do it. I do all my installs over the net. Do use appropriate precautions such as ssh instead of telnet and ssl protected sites where possible and check md5-s of downloaded files. But, don't let it stop you from using it with FreeBSD. Do you install FreeBSD first connect to the net for ports/packages, or install the actual FreeBSD OS from the /stand/sysinstall select the net ?? It sounds a lot like you may have some processes wanting to check themselves via the net upon startup that are holding things up during boot. They will each wait until they time out before things move on. I have several dual-boot machines, WinXP/FreeBSD, Win2k/FreeBSd and Win95/FreeBSD and they all boot in about the same amount of time with the FreeBSD being maybe a mite faster to get to my login than the MS stuff being able to get to a state where I can actually do something - eg not just getting the spash screen or background displayed. So, either plug in the net or disable those utilities that want to talk and try things again. My bootup is fine, its the BSD+wmaker running opening nedit a cmd prompts that are slower than Windows 2000 ?? any suggestions as to why ?? Kind regards, DK __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Major FreeBSD Problem plz help
Hello, I messed something up in my FreeBSD-5.2.1 box. I ran sysinstall in root and installed compat4 and some other compatibility base dir thing and it extracted over / i think and now the box wont recognize my logins. I am locked out of my own box. Is there a way to reset what I did so i wont lose any data. My server is colocated at a datacenter and the techs would have to do it. Could you guys possibly explain what needs to be done so i wont lose any data and reset what i did. Any help would be greatly appreciated [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Jonathan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Going OT: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have aninstaller package like this ???
--- Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Complaining one or two lines from a tutorial don't work (ie. groupadd mysql) without reading: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-modifying.html thnx, I will read that see if it helps me solve my groupadd problem, If you haven't yet grasped the 'feel' for FreeBSD, why are you trying to drive a Ferrari with it, when you can't even manage a tricycle with it yet? Is trying to install an app a Ferrari.. gee you guys really don't understand how dumb point click it is to install stuff on MS I cannot remember reading a manual for ever doing stuff in MS. Its just so logical straight forward... that you can install configure 99% of apps without having to ever read mans/docs/guides .. I know its hard for people to swallow, but MS Windows IS easier to use than BSD/Linux/OSX ... The only part that is hard to swallow is you putting *BSD, Linux and OS X on one big pile as if they're basically the same thing (to a user, they're not; to a sysadmin, they're not; they're all only Unix-like). The point I was making was at one point or another, they all came from the same BSD tree... whats the damn command startxfce4 ??? this doesn't work!)... It worked for me. Damn Ferrari's! Especially as a server: I use CLI only. A GUI just gets in my way. I am curious, how does a gui get in your way ?? Gnome starts faster than Windows ?? Start time is not important To me, it is. My FreeBSD 4.10 booting into xdm, me typing in my username and password and logging in to IceWM *and start working* takes almost half the time it takes my coworkers' Windows 2000 Professional 'puters to boot up at all in a workable state. I reboot my Windows box once every 3-4 days.. so boot time is irrelevant to me... - I am talking about reaction time of the GUI Yes, it seems that Windows is snappier. Thank GOD someone actually can see this :-O The X Window System, however, doesn't get in my way when I do other important stuff (backups, network stressing, whatever). Plus, I get to log in from *anywhere* (even a thin client) ans get *my* desktop on *my* pc. Windows 2000 doesn't get in my way, never crashes... don't know what network stressing your talking about though... ...I too can log in using VNC see my desktop :) Whats the purpose of having to manually set the system to automount ?? as opposed to having it as a system install default ?? if there is an advantage, I am sure its for the 0.01% of the user base How can security be just for 0.01%? Have you ever thought of it this way: I want my computer to do something when *I* say it to!. Automount is insecure... not for a home workstation thats just exaggerating I can tell you that 95% of people who use computers want EASE of USE I am afraid you are right there. That is why the world of computing is in such a shitty state and we get a new worm or virus every 15 minutes. Ease of use is not why the world of computing is a shitty place... its the 'genuine' lack of alternatives... BSD too me could be something very great... I am sure thats what Jobs see's as well - installable YES, configurable ... you've got to be shitting me :o Well... I think I just took a cr*p on your front lawn, dude. ;-) (that really is a pathetic attempt at a joke; I'm just kidding) Sickem Rex! Apple OSX understands this(nice GUI over BSD base - shame about the stupid high prices dumb one button mouse)... Why? The one button mouse adds even more ease of use, no? No! - why, do you have only ONE finger ?? My MS mouse with 4 Buttons a scroll wheel allows my one hand to access 6 different functions - the wheel also acts as a 5th button :) Don't you get it? You are *free* to choose whatever system you want. If you choose any of the BSD's (for that matter), you are *free* to choose a GUI or the CLI. Also, should you opt for the GUI, you are *free* to choose which one. Also, you are *free* to choose whatever software you additionally would like to run. An editor? You are *free* to choose which one, be it CLI or GUI. A web server? Again, freedom. Choose Apache, choose thttpd, do so *freely*. Freedom is nice... how about throwing me a line create a default install so I don't need to waste so much time configuring messing around ?? Wow, you hate FreeBSD, Java *and* Linux! ;-) No, only Java, Linux Apple all versions of Windows except 2000 - I actually like BSD... or at least I am trying too its just that the 'skanky hoe' is a bit ugly is in need of a makerover! Kind Regards, DK ___ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ???
--- Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe you would like a test of the Apache Web Server on BSD against the Apache Web Server on Windows 2000 ?? - I will search the net get back to you on that if you are interested ?? I wonder if people that run web servers on BSD never use a GUI thereby saying how fast BSD is... - yes, keep using VI don't forget to feed the Horse :) Have you taken a look at this lately? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html I don't know how important uptime is to you, but that's a big reason so many people use it. I agree with you 110% ... thats why I want to install run a FreeBSD Apache Server instead of using a Windows Server box running Apache. Kind Regards, DK __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'
Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error while doing netstat -m: $ netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory This is a PIV 2ghz, with 1,5 GB of memory I couldn't find anything about this on the internet.. anyone that has any idea whats wrong here ? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Courier-imap + Postfix problem
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:16:37PM -0700 or thereabouts, Brent Wiese wrote: Sorry, I missed this question and have been away from the list for a bit. Hopefully you figured this out by now, but just in case, I've answered below. So was I :(. All i got to do now, it seems, is start portmap and fam on system boot. I know portmap_enable=YES in rc.conf does the trick, but what about starting fam? Look in /usr/local/etc/rc.d There will likely be several startup scripts in there for other services. Use one as a skeleton to start up fam. Likely, if you installed fam from ports, there will already be a startup script in that directory, it'll just need to be renamed. Many ports will put the scripts there with a -sample extension. Check to make sure that file looks in the right places for your daemon and if so, rename it to remove the -sample and it'll start up on boot. There is no such script in ../etc/rc.d. All you have to do is to start portmap (in rc.conf), and then edit your /etc/inetd.conf and add there: sgi_fam/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/local/bin/fam fam and then killall -HUP inetd. This one should do the trick. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Hudec| corwin at aeternal.net | corwin at web.markiza.sk http://www.aeternal.net | cell +421 907 303 393 pgpnxMVDTXYv5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'
what does dmesg, tail /var/log/messages, vmstat, and top tell you -- Steve Rieger ICQ # 5956607 yahoo IM riegersteve - Original Message - From: lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:08 AM Subject: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory' Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error while doing netstat -m: $ netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory This is a PIV 2ghz, with 1,5 GB of memory I couldn't find anything about this on the internet.. anyone that has any idea whats wrong here ? Thanks ___ [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: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'
/var/log/messages gives: Jul 29 01:55:56 server /kernel: All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7). So I have set in /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 And rebooted the machine but stilll got the same message with netstat -m dmesg is not giving any weird messages top: last pid: 5178; load averages: 0.22, 0.12, 0.09 up 0+00:34:27 10:35:01 100 processes: 4 running, 96 sleeping CPU states: 11.3% user, 0.0% nice, 2.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 86.0% idle Mem: 131M Active, 444M Inact, 180M Wired, 23M Cache, 163M Buf, 729M Free Swap: 3072M Total, 3072M Free # vmstat procs memory pagedisks faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ad2 in sy cs us sy id 2 6 0 238980 767852 439 1 1 0 356 0 0 0 359 3718 168 4 3 93 Steve wrote: what does dmesg, tail /var/log/messages, vmstat, and top tell you -- Steve Rieger ICQ # 5956607 yahoo IM riegersteve - Original Message - From: lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:08 AM Subject: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory' Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error while doing netstat -m: $ netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory This is a PIV 2ghz, with 1,5 GB of memory I couldn't find anything about this on the internet.. anyone that has any idea whats wrong here ? Thanks ___ [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: HOWTO Ping LAN???
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:40:02AM -0400, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: Figure 1 *** * Internet * *24.199.1xx.xx* *** ~ | ~ | *** ** * Defaut GW * __ __ *Kids Machine* *192.68.0.0 * *192.68.0.3 * ~ FreeBSD 4.10 ** Mandrake 10* *** ** ~ | ~ | *** *Wrk Station 1* *192.68.0.1 * *Redhat 9 * *** This is a rough diagram of the network... I would like to ssh, ping, etc. the machines behind the default gateway directly (without tunneling) from the outside the network (at work for example). Is this possible and if so how do I config. Keep in mind that my default gateway is FreeBSD. I know this may be a complicated project but if you could help that would help me greatly. Many thanks to everyone in advance. I'm afraid that's not going to be possible with your current network layout. If you want all of your machines to be accessible from the Internet, then you'll need routable addresses on all of your machines. I know you've said you don't want to use tunnelling, but unfortunately, that's the only way you can access a private address space as you have from outside it. A relatively simple way of doing that is to ssh into your gateway box, and use the '-L' or '-R' portforwarding options to create a tunnel to one of the internal machines, and then ssh or otherwise connect through that tunnel: see eg. http://www.linux.ie/articles/tutorials/ssh.php One other point: you're going to have problems if you're using 192.168.0.0 as the IP number on your FreeBSD machine. That's the *network* address, and shouldn't be applied directly to any specific machine. If you're running your internal network using 192.168.0.0/24 as the address space, then you have 254 addresses (from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254) to use for client machines, since 192.168.0.0 (network address) and 192.168.0.255 (broadcast address) are reserved as part of the networking setup. 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 pgpWWQfQYD8aq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Going OT: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD haveaninstaller package like this ???
Hi DK, Thanks for responding. Remember: tongue-in-cheek! Is trying to install an app a Ferrari.. gee you guys really don't understand how dumb point click it is to install stuff on MS No, you are trying to build/drive/whatever a Ferrari/liner jet/whatever while you don't get/comprehend the basics of the system yet. You have to learn how to fall / before you learn to fly - [was that a Paul Simon quote?] Yes, I actually do know how easy it is to install stuff on MS. I also happen to know how much pain and agony are involved when your pointy-clicky app doesn't do what it is supposed to do. You're left in the dark, most of the times. I also know how easy it is for *others* to install stuff on *my* Windows workstation without me knowing! ;-) I cannot remember reading a manual for ever doing stuff in MS. Its just so logical straight forward... that you can install configure 99% of apps without having to ever read mans/docs/guides Please, from now on, leave all comparisons to Windows 2000 out of this discussion and you'll get the/my/whatever point. My Sinclair ZX81 runs an OS, my MSX 1 and 2 machines (don't have those anymore :-( ) run an OS. None of 'em are like Windows 2000. It would be totally daft for me to compare these OS's. Agreed, both Windows 2000 and FreeBSD are modern day operating systems. That doesn't mean, however, that they should act and feel the same way. You would like that, but that's just your opinion and what you specifically want. The point I was making was at one point or another, they all came from the same BSD tree... I'll let you figure that out for yourself: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ I am curious, how does a gui get in your way ?? Windows: 1. Start 2. Programs 3. Accessories 4. Notepad (Yes, I could create a shortcut on the Desktop.) CLI: 1. nano -w [file] (Yes, I happen to like nano.) Remember: *I* find that the GUI gets in *my* way. Not everybody's or your way. Thank GOD someone actually can see this :-O Ohw, that was an obvious one. ;-) Windows was created to perform desktop tasks so it has to run snappy at that and most of the time it does. Windows 2000 doesn't get in my way, never crashes... Good for you. Windows 2000 is a major step ahead compared to any other version of Windows before that. Still, after 18 months of heavy usage (Macromedia stuff, Adobe stuff) I need to reinstall pronto. ...I too can log in using VNC see my desktop :) And not use your 'puter for anything else. Thanks, but no thanks. I can have 20 people use my desktop simultaneously without a hickup. I happen to like that. Automount is insecure... not for a home workstation thats just exaggerating No, that's a difference of opinion. Ease of use is not why the world of computing is a shitty place... its the 'genuine' lack of alternatives... Somehow, somewhere, marketing people and a bunch of programmers decided that a computer should be usable by anyone, anytime with their brain switched off. Hence, I declare shitty state, for I am confronted with the rubble on a day to day basis just as a lot of people on this list, I presume. People all over the world have been happy running Unix workstations, Mac workstations and whatnot. It is sad to see a marketing department so shrewd, that even elderly people who had no computer at all ran to the nearest software retailer to buy a copy of Windows 95 because they were made to believe they needed it. No! - why, do you have only ONE finger ?? I'm sorry. How is having 5 'buttons' easier than having one button? Ahw, forget it. Freedom is nice... how about throwing me a line create a default install so I don't need to waste so much time configuring messing around ?? No. You do that. No, only Java, Linux Apple all versions of Windows except 2000 - I actually like BSD... or at least I am trying too its just that the 'skanky hoe' is a bit ugly is in need of a makerover! I am truly sorry you do not seem to get it. I feel your opinions are in the way of your comprehension. I think you might want to try running something like Mandrake or Xandros first. Good luck to you... Nico P.S. Should I feel the urge to add another note to this discussion, I'll refrain from making any comparisons to Windows (2000). I don't feel the discussion is served by these comparisons. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding Cosultants
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:05:13PM -0500, W. D. wrote: At 21:10 7/28/2004, Jonathan White wrote: Anyone have an idea how to find a FreeBSD consultant in Brooklyn NY? Thanks jonathan http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consult.html http://www.Google.com/search?q=%28brooklyn+OR+nyc++OR+%22New+York%22%29+freebsd http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%28brooklyn+OR+nyc+OR+%22New+York%22%29+freebsd Also try posing to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, describing what you want done and preferably some sort of idea of what rates you'll be prepared to pay. 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 pgpGh5r5T2dky.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDE vs Gnome
Chris wrote: Sandbox Video Productions wrote: IF i install both gnome kde. how do i choose which one i want to start up. It seem that it only starts the GUI that was installed last. __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends. 1. Are you using KDM? If so, you make your choice at the login menu. 2. If not above, edit .xinitrc and comment out one IE: exec startkde #gnome-session #exec startxfce4 #exec startfluxbox In the above example, KDE starts after entering startx #exec startkde gnome-session #exec startxfce4 #exec startfluxbox In the above example, Gnome starts ater entering startx Even easier, if you want to avoid editing ~/.xinitrc everytime you want to change between the two, you could add a case statement in ~/.xinitrc to handle args to startx(1): case $1 in -k) exec startkde ;; -g) gnome-session ;; *) exec startkde ;; esac The '*' case being the default if there are no args. For this to work you have to hack /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and change the line defaultclient=/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm to defaultclient= because if you specify any (client) args then startx(1) just starts X and an xterm - no window manager. The last time I used multiple WMs was in XFree86 3.x and I'm certain I didn't have to hack startx so it looks like the behaviour has changed, or it maybe that it was just so long ago that I've forgotten :-) See startx(1) and xinit(1) for details of the default startup behaviour. HTH Regards, Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wireless LAN
I'm using SONY VAIO Z1 series, and it seems that the built in wireless LAN isn't working properly. So I got a PC Card which is WaveLAN (Lucent), a bit old one but expect to work fine under FreeBSD 5.2.1. I've enabled 'pccard' at rc.conf file and the kernel seems to load the 'wi' driver by default. But the WaveLAN isn't working yet. Could anyone drive me in a good (complete) reference to get things working? Cheers, SH- __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Courier-imap + Postfix problem
Hi Martin, That worked for me! Thanks for the late post anyway. Gareth - Original Message - From: Martin Hudec [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brent Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Gareth Bailey' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Courier-imap + Postfix problem ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Major FreeBSD Problem plz help
yes the system is now in a fresh state (same as if you do a fresh install) root has no password and all user are gone (the install has overwritten the passwd-file). just log in on a local console with root (you wont need a password) -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Jonathan Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2004 09:01 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Major FreeBSD Problem plz help Hello, I messed something up in my FreeBSD-5.2.1 box. I ran sysinstall in root and installed compat4 and some other compatibility base dir thing and it extracted over / i think and now the box wont recognize my logins. I am locked out of my own box. Is there a way to reset what I did so i wont lose any data. My server is colocated at a datacenter and the techs would have to do it. Could you guys possibly explain what needs to be done so i wont lose any data and reset what i did. Any help would be greatly appreciated [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Jonathan ___ [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: wireless LAN
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:04:16AM -0700, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: I'm using SONY VAIO Z1 series, and it seems that the built in wireless LAN isn't working properly. So I got a PC Card which is WaveLAN (Lucent), a bit old one but expect to work fine under FreeBSD 5.2.1. I've enabled 'pccard' at rc.conf file and the kernel seems to load the 'wi' driver by default. But the WaveLAN isn't working yet. Could anyone drive me in a good (complete) reference to get things working? Cheers, SH- Have you configured the wireless interface yet? See: man ifconfig man wi Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, DK wrote: ... then you maybe right Remko, BSD may not be right for me. I think it's becoming clear that it's not. You seem to expect FreeBSD to be 'just like MSWindows, but Better!' - but it's *not* like MSWin, at all. If you keep expecting to install/adminsiter a UNIX-like system in the same way you install/administer a MSWindows system, you will be perpetually frustrated and disappointed, because you will *continually* run into the ways in which FreeBSD is nothing like Windows, and you will *never* use the OS in the way it was designed to be used (because your mind is stuck in Windows-land). If you're seriously interest in *learning* how to use UNIX-like systems, take it slowly and ask lots of specific questions. If you just want to rant, you're really wasting everybody's time. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Devices
where to get a text howto change the device bus ids. i searched the handbook but not find anything. i also tryed google. does i can set this with a command or do i have to programm anything? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
password
hello ive got a problem login to freebsd. i had a copy of freebsd given me and when i installed it it asks me for a login name and password. is there a way of findin out the login name and password? Film TV Extras urgently required in your area - See Yourself in major Films TV? Call 0907 1512440 to Register. calls cost 150pm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password
login as root -- Steve Rieger ICQ # 5956607 yahoo IM riegersteve - Original Message - From: John Rackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:02 AM Subject: password hello ive got a problem login to freebsd. i had a copy of freebsd given me and when i installed it it asks me for a login name and password. is there a way of findin out the login name and password? Film TV Extras urgently required in your area - See Yourself in major Films TV? Call 0907 1512440 to Register. calls cost 150pm ___ [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: help make crashes
Abidoon Nadeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please find my kernel config file attached this does fine when i make depend but it fails on make please help i dont understand whats wrong i get an error code 1 The useful error messages were before that, and I don't have a -CURRENT box at hand, but a quick look showed me a few problems: you commented out scbus and da, but left in some other devices that require those. Also, you have both sc and vt enabled; I believe they are mutually exclusive. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password
Hi, John Rackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello ive got a problem login to freebsd. i had a copy of freebsd given me and when i installed it it asks me for a login name and password. is there a way of findin out the login name and password? yes of course. yust log in as root (this is the system administrator) and type: cat /etc/master.passwd | cut -d : -f 1 if you can see the username, that matches your userid, set a new password for this username by typing: passwd the_username_you_found_out HTH Sven -- Why You Can't Find Your System Administrator: They are hiding under the stairs --[Simon Burr [EMAIL PROTECTED] --[rand. sig. #24] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limit login attempts with pam
Redmond Militante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello i'm interested in configuring PAM on my 4x system so that a user is locked out of ignored if trying to log in unsuccessfully via ftp within the space of a minute or so. i'm trying to eliminate brute force attacks... can anyone point me towards some good tutorials on how to do this? Good tutorials? I don't know, but there is source for the pam_tally module included in the tree on my -STABLE machine. Think it over carefully before enabling this kind of capability, though; you may be making brute force attacks somewhat harder, but a denial-of-service attack on specific users will become trivial. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password
To log in as root, John Rackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello ive got a problem login to freebsd. i had a copy of freebsd given me and when i installed it it asks me for a login name and password. is there a way of findin out the login name and password? User: root Password: [leave blank] Assuming you had the installation media and went through sysinstall et al, then you should be able to use the name/password that you entered during that process. The commands that Sven give below will tell you what the user name was, but if you can't remember what the password was, you'll need to change it to a new one. Once in, it is recommended you change the root password from [nothing] to [something], if [nothing] is still the root password: # passwd Changing local password for root. New password: [something] Retype the password: [something] passwd: updating the database... passwd: done # If you ever need to change the root password again, you'll need to log in using single user mode. The handbook will explain how to do that. If you've logged in as a user, then passwd works to change that user's local password. If you're logged in as root, you can change the password of a user using 'passwd -l [username]' http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html and '# man passwd' can help out here. HTH, rip At 13:40 29/07/2004. Sven Pfeifer had this to say: Hi, John Rackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello ive got a problem login to freebsd. i had a copy of freebsd given me and when i installed it it asks me for a login name and password. is there a way of findin out the login name and password? yes of course. yust log in as root (this is the system administrator) and type: cat /etc/master.passwd | cut -d : -f 1 if you can see the username, that matches your userid, set a new password for this username by typing: passwd the_username_you_found_out HTH Sven -- Why You Can't Find Your System Administrator: They are hiding under the stairs --[Simon Burr [EMAIL PROTECTED] --[rand. sig. #24] ___ [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]
openssl/pem.h references undefined?
Hello! I'm trying to port some linux code to FreeBSD (4.10). One of the files makes use of PEM_[read|write]_RSAPublicKey(...). The linux version used a seven-param list for both read and write, but the FreeBSD one seems to only require a two param list for the write version: #ifdef _FREEBSD PEM_write_RSAPublicKey(f, rsa); #else PEM_write_RSAPublicKey(f, rsa, NULL, NULL, 0, 0, Zapf); #endif I know this, because the precompiler complained about differing param counts during macro expansion. When I compile with the above change now, however, I get: ... /tmp/cc75DK8C.o: In function `MakeKey': /usr/jail/cvswork/dev/firmware/cli/include/authfunctions.h:96: undefined reference to `PEM_write_RSAPrivateKey' /usr/jail/cvswork/dev/firmware/cli/include/authfunctions.h:103: undefined reference to `PEM_write_RSAPublicKey' ... What am I missing? I tried reinstalling openssl just in case, but that didn't change the behavior during the build, and the handbook says it's part of the base install anyway. man pem states openssl/pem.h should be included, and I'm doing that. rip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freeBSD How to you set the prompt
Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on IE ROOT or user johndoe. Eample of what the end results I would like to see. # router1.pdx/chatusa.com user johndoe. Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeBSD How to you set the prompt
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Dan wrote: Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on IE ROOT or user johndoe. Eample of what the end results I would like to see. # router1.pdx/chatusa.com user johndoe. It depends on what shell you're using. Read the man page for that shell, searching for information on the shell variable 'prompt'. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Updating 5.2.1 Release #
Hi, I completed my first update (upgrade?) of a 5.2.1 fresh FreeBSD install. I followed a couple how-to's, the handbook, and Absolute BSD as my guides. My machine is a 1.8Ghz AMD. Here is my supfile: *default host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. Everything seemed to go without a hitch. I did: 1. cvsup mysupfile 2. make buildworld 3. make buildkernel 4. make installkernel 5. make installworld The system is up and seems to be running fine, but here's my question: uname -a shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag= to something else to get up to date? Thanks for your time, Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password
hello ive got a problem login to freebsd. i had a copy of freebsd given me and when i installed it it asks me for a login name and password. is there a way of findin out the login name and password? Well, if you are right in the middle of the installation process, then it is asking you to make up a password. During the installation it asks for a password for root. You should normally create one you can remember, but that is hard to guess. If you are past that stage and you did not create a password for root during installation, then probably you can log in using 'root' for the id and without any password (eg just hit return/enter without typing any password). If that works, then change the root password right away since root has complete control over the whole system. You wouldn't want to leave that sitting around for the cat to wander over the keys at a bad time (or an attacker to try out). If that doesn't work, then a password was probably created during the install, but you don't remember it. In that case, and if you have access to the console, you need to do a boot to single user and then change the root password and also maybe create a working account for yourself. How to do these things are well covered in the FreeBSD handbook which is available online on the FreeBSD website. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
Change this: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE for this *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 On this way it will download the release 5.2.1 with the last revision - Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:05 AM Subject: Updating 5.2.1 Release # Hi, I completed my first update (upgrade?) of a 5.2.1 fresh FreeBSD install. I followed a couple how-to's, the handbook, and Absolute BSD as my guides. My machine is a 1.8Ghz AMD. Here is my supfile: *default host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. Everything seemed to go without a hitch. I did: 1. cvsup mysupfile 2. make buildworld 3. make buildkernel 4. make installkernel 5. make installworld The system is up and seems to be running fine, but here's my question: uname -a shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag= to something else to get up to date? Thanks for your time, Scott ___ [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: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer
--- Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe you would like a test of the Apache Web Server on BSD against the Apache Web Server on Windows 2000 ?? - I will search the net get back to you on that if you are interested ?? I wonder if people that run web servers on BSD never use a GUI thereby saying how fast BSD is... - yes, keep using VI don't forget to feed the Horse :) Have you taken a look at this lately? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html I don't know how important uptime is to you, but that's a big reason so many people use it. I agree with you 110% ... thats why I want to install run a FreeBSD Apache Server instead of using a Windows Server box running Apache. So, you want a reliable server, not a MS toy. One of the reasons FreeBSD is so much more of a reliable server is because it DOESN'T have all that MS stuff on it. jerry Kind Regards, DK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 4.4 port (for Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics) - timescale?
I also bought a EPIA Mini-ITX in early June before seeing the posting that the video wasn't supported by X on FreeBSD (Linux - supposedly yes, BSD not yet). The previous responder (thanks Erik) said, the CLE266 chipset will be supported in the port of XFree86 4.4 I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? (I did get an X windows manager running on the VGA S server but it was too low resolution to be useful.) Thanks in anticipation, Owen On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:20:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up a windows manager on a EPIA Mini-ITX M6000 board without any success. From the manual: Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics: VIA Castlerock AGP From dmesg.boot: agp0: VIA Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xd000-0xd7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Any hope? -- The via driver is available only from XFree86 4.4 (or in the x.org release.) The XFree86 port in FreeBSD has not yet been updated to 4.4, and the x.org ports are not quite finished yet. In other words: No, the via driver is not available yet, but once the X ports have been updated to the latest release it should work. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Installing Packages is nice easy straight forward from the docs(should be more of these!) - Installing ports/packages via ftp/net - Forget it!! I have barely got BSD running, the last thing I want is connecting a BSD box to my broadband connection ?? Does BSD have a default firewall ?? Don't know, having trouble installing stuff let alone configuring a firewall via scripts/files You are probably better off and more secure with an initial install, with no additional work or tweaking, of FreeBSD on the net than you would be with a MS system with every know fix available. The system is inherently more secure and in addition - and maybe partially because of this - fewer, by far, attempts at cracking FreeBSD are made than are made against MS systems. Some of this is, of course, because there are much fewer FreeBSD systems out there to tempt kiddies. But, the fact that cracking FreeBSD is more difficult contributes to this effect. So if I do a default install of FreeBSD then connect to the net for ports/packages, is there a default firewall running in the background ?? There is one there, but you have to turn it on. Actually, there are two of them there. By the way, firewalls are useful tools, but they are not the be-allend-all, last word in security. Then its going step by step with the install guides when I try to install MySQL, I type # groupadd mysql I get command not found ... ??? no idea, I am following the install guides... now if I am doing the same as everyone else with a fresh install of BSD, why is it no one else gets groupadd mysql command not found ?? What does commmand not found sound like it means? The shell doesn't know how to find the command you typed in. Either you didn't update your search path to include the directory it is in or it didn't get installed correctly where it should be. Probably the first is true. So, find out where it should be and add that directory to the path. See man path. thnx, will check out the path. Also, note the comment by whoever it was that said that groupadd is not the right thing to run for FreeBSD installations according to the docs. I haven't worked on that so don't personally know. Again, you are much safer on the net with a FreeBSD system. Just do it. I do all my installs over the net. Do use appropriate precautions such as ssh instead of telnet and ssl protected sites where possible and check md5-s of downloaded files. But, don't let it stop you from using it with FreeBSD. Do you install FreeBSD first connect to the net for ports/packages, or install the actual FreeBSD OS from the /stand/sysinstall select the net ?? I download the mini-iso (miniinst) CD and install everything, OS, source, ports over the net. It sounds a lot like you may have some processes wanting to check themselves via the net upon startup that are holding things up during boot. They will each wait until they time out before things move on. I have several dual-boot machines, WinXP/FreeBSD, Win2k/FreeBSd and Win95/FreeBSD and they all boot in about the same amount of time with the FreeBSD being maybe a mite faster to get to my login than the MS stuff being able to get to a state where I can actually do something - eg not just getting the spash screen or background displayed. So, either plug in the net or disable those utilities that want to talk and try things again. My bootup is fine, its the BSD+wmaker running opening nedit a cmd prompts that are slower than Windows 2000 ?? any suggestions as to why ?? Don't know about that. I have never used nedit. But, the editors I use pop up instantly - even when I am editing over the net. jerry Kind regards, DK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
Scott wrote: Hi, I completed my first update (upgrade?) of a 5.2.1 fresh FreeBSD install. I followed a couple how-to's, the handbook, and Absolute BSD as my guides. My machine is a 1.8Ghz AMD. Here is my supfile: *default host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. Everything seemed to go without a hitch. I did: 1. cvsup mysupfile 2. make buildworld 3. make buildkernel 4. make installkernel 5. make installworld The system is up and seems to be running fine, but here's my question: uname -a shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag= to something else to get up to date? I thought the #number indicated the number of times the server has been rebooted based upon the last time the kernel was recompiled. Being that it is #0, it was your first book. Reboot the machine and check the number again. Puna Thanks for your time, Scott ___ [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: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'
In the last episode (Jul 29), lists said: Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error while doing netstat -m: $ netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory This is a PIV 2ghz, with 1,5 GB of memory That means you have rebuilt your kernel and now kernel and world are out of sync. At minimum, rebuild libkvm and netstat. -- 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: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ???
I just need to set the record straight on this automount issue you keep ranting about... On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:53:30PM -0700, DK typed: [...] Whats the purpose of having to manually set the system to automount ?? as opposed to having it as a system install default ?? if there is an advantage, I am sure its for the 0.01% of the user base It's more in the range of 99.9%. Automounting can be annoying like hell when you happen to accidentally insert media in your drives. It can also be insecure if you don't want anyone to use the machine you've installed to mount CD-ROMs, floppies or other media of their choise. Accidently ?? what ?? Like you were walking down a hall way, tripped slipped accidenlty shoved a CD into the drive :)) No, more like you put a cd with sensitive data on it in the wrong tray of your 40+ identical rackmounted servers, exposing it to the wrong users on the wrong server. I can put a CD into Windows 2000 it has never been accessed unless I explicitly do it. - I don't see the problem ?? You keep on measuring FreeBSD by MS Windows standards. Wrong. FreeBSD (and Unixlike OSses in general) are designed to be truly *multi-user* operating systems and their default settings will reflect that. Especially FreeBSD, which still is mostly used as a server OS, servicing many users. - as for automounting, I think you are confusing this with AutoRUN for CD's AFAIK - you cannot disable automounting of Floppys/CD in Windows 2000 And they call this a server platform? What a joke! Ruben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:37:35AM -0500, Puna Tannehill wrote: Scott wrote: uname -a shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag= to something else to get up to date? I thought the #number indicated the number of times the server has been rebooted based upon the last time the kernel was recompiled. Being that it is #0, it was your first book. Reboot the machine and check the number again. I believe that the #n is the number of times the kernel has been re-compiled since the last time the system was installed. It's probably not a very interesting datum except to kernel hackers who need to do a lot of recompiling. What the original poster was thinking of is the patchlevel that gets incremented every time a new security (or nowadays: errata) patch is applied to any of the -RELEASE branches. That modifies the OS name (ie. the output of 'uname -r'), so instead of: 5.2.1-RELEASE it says (at the latest count): 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 See /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh for the file that controls all that. 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 pgpQ0wYOal1Cj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bootup is fine, its the BSD+wmaker running opening nedit a cmd prompts that are slower than Windows 2000 ?? any suggestions as to why ?? This is ridiculous. You're getting lousy help because most of your email sounds like a Troll ... and the Troll-feeders are answering your questions instead of people who know how to help. (Nothing against the Troll-feeders, they're just trying to help as well ... they just don't know any better) My FreeBSD system, using Gnome (which is a system hog) is faster than when Windows NT was installed ... and I _KNOW_ NT is faster than W2K. So, if you're honestly having speed problems, then something is wrong. So, you need to do the proper steps to figure out what's wrong with your system. Have you pasted a dmesg? My first guess would be that your hardware is a little off, and Windows has drivers for it but FreeBSD doesn't, thus you get expected performance on Windows, but crap on FreeBSD. Also, are you saying that you run nedit on both Windows and FreeBSD and it's faster on Windows? Or are you comparing nedit to an apple? Also, have you monitored various system stuff? Run top, systat, etc while starting the programs in an attempt to isolate the bottleneck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
( What the original poster was thinking of is ( the patchlevel that gets incremented every ( time a new security (or nowadays: errata) ( patch is applied to any of the -RELEASE ( branches. That modifies the OS name (ie. ( the output of 'uname -r') That is exactly right Matthew. I thought (assumed) that #0 in the uname -a output was the patchlevel of the OS. At this point in my life, I'm not so concerned about what that number is, but rather I am running the most secure and stable patchlevel available. So if I set my cvs tag as Ezequiel (thank you) suggested: change: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE to: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 That will get me the latest patches? I'll make that change and rebuild again today. Thanks all for your help. :) Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD on IBM x360 type hardware
Has anyone had success running FreeBSD on an IBM x360 type server? x4 2Ghz Xeon, 2MB L3 2GB PC1600 DDR IBM ServerRAID 4Mx Ultra160 SCSI Controller IBM EXP300 Storage Expansion Unit Quantum SDLT 220 Tape Drive I will go into more detail with the specs, but I was wondering if anyone has had success with any xSeries IBM servers with FreeBSD installed? Thank you, ..D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???
- Original Message - From: DK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Guillermo_García-Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:36 AM Subject: Re: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ??? snip Can you live without your Windows 2000 GUI? Can you work without it? Why would I want to... a GUI makes life easier makes my ability to do work more productive :) Not really. Your windows 2k pro doesn't allow for remote administration unless you have pc anywhere running, or it's connected to a domain to allow remote management. If your gui crashes, the box dies. If IE crashes to far, the box will die. No pretty gui for you then. What if some big company ask you to work for them, but they have UNIX systems, are you prepared or can you handle that work? Any OS will take me about 1 week to get up to speed - if its a MS product, about 2 days :) You've been playing with FreeBSD 4.10 for 6 days, and still have issues. You've played with 4.5 in the past also. Yet you still have problems. One more thing, my OpenBSD 3.5 costs me $0, FreeBSD price is $0 too. Did you spend the same amount of money on your Windows 2000?? Yea 0$ - all my software is War... *cough* ... donated You should be used to the problems of not having docs on the software that's donated to your hard drive then. Except in this case, the docs ARE freely available, it would just appear that you decided to not use them and run head long into something you know little to nothing about. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just like buying a car and not knowing it needs gas. First thing you'd do is blame the car for not running when if you look at the owners manual, it will plainly tell you that fuel is required. Kind Regards, DK __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [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: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer
- Original Message - From: DK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:55 AM Subject: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Installing Packages is nice easy straight forward from the docs(should be more of these!) - Installing ports/packages via ftp/net - Forget it!! I have barely got BSD running, the last thing I want is connecting a BSD box to my broadband connection ?? Does BSD have a default firewall ?? Don't know, having trouble installing stuff let alone configuring a firewall via scripts/files You are probably better off and more secure with an initial install, with no additional work or tweaking, of FreeBSD on the net than you would be with a MS system with every know fix available. The system is inherently more secure and in addition - and maybe partially because of this - fewer, by far, attempts at cracking FreeBSD are made than are made against MS systems. Some of this is, of course, because there are much fewer FreeBSD systems out there to tempt kiddies. But, the fact that cracking FreeBSD is more difficult contributes to this effect. So if I do a default install of FreeBSD then connect to the net for ports/packages, is there a default firewall running in the background ?? No, but then again, there are hardly any services either. See, unlike Windows, you're not going to have the same issues with trojans and breeches. If it's just you, and you've not added anyone else, you're pretty damn safe. Root can't log in from remote at all unless you specifically change the options that would allow it. snip -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOWTO Ping LAN???
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:27:05AM -0400, Hakim Singhji wrote: Hi Matt, You say that the only way I will be able to connect to my network is by tunneling. This is not what I want to do, I thought I may be able to SSH, Telnet, www, etc. from the outside to my default gateway and have the gateway pass SSH, Telnet, www., or any other request to the machine on the private network by including the localhost.defaultgateway.domain.org or something to that affect. Does NAT Overloading only go one way??? Essentially, yes. What you're after is called 'port forwarding' (which is actually a class of tunnelling methods). What you can't do in the sort of setup you describe is ssh(1) to the gateway machine and have it connect you to some arbitrary machine on your internal network. The outside world doesn't know anything about the arrangement of your private network: which machine should the gateway box forward the incoming connection to? All it sees is a TCP syn packet sent to port 22 on its internet interface. Going the other way round -- where the internal machine initiates the connection -- works because you can match up the response 'ACK' packet to the outgoing 'SYN' packet In order to allow remote access to your private machines you've somehow got to introduce a mechanism to permit the gateway machine to know which of the internal machines you want to connect to. You can set up non-standard ports on the NAT gateway to forward connections to internal machines: eg. Port: Destination: -- 2201 192.168.0.1:22 2202 192.168.0.2:22 2203 192.168.0.3:22 (see natd(8) but a) you'ld have to do that for each service on each machine you want connectivity to, and b) it's not going to work in the specific case of ssh(1) specifically, because ssh(1) attempts to verify the identity of the host it connects to against the host keys presented to it during the SSH connection. Probably the easiest thing to do is log into your gateway machine via ssh(1) and then take a second hop from there to your internal machines. telnet(1) is generally a bad idea for security reasons. ping(8) which operates via ICMP echo request is completely out: ICMP doesn't have the concept of port numbers at all, so there's no way to clue the NAT gateway into which machine you want to communicate with. 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 pgpdfHI8Byvo2.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
Matthew Seaman On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:37:35AM -0500, Puna Tannehill wrote: Scott wrote: uname -a shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag= to something else to get up to date? I thought the #number indicated the number of times the server has been rebooted based upon the last time the kernel was recompiled. Being that it is #0, it was your first book. Reboot the machine and check the number again. I believe that the #n is the number of times the kernel has been re-compiled since the last time the system was installed. It's probably not a very interesting datum except to kernel hackers who need to do a lot of recompiling. What the original poster was thinking of is the patchlevel that gets incremented every time a new security (or nowadays: errata) patch is applied to any of the -RELEASE branches. That modifies the OS name (ie. the output of 'uname -r'), so instead of: So what is the diff between uname -r and uname -v, which produce for me : Uname -r : 5.2.1-RELEASE Uname -v : FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jun 14 14:52:08 CEST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CNV_TOTAL Extract from man page : -r Write the current release level of the operating system -v Write the version level of this release of the operating system So that's mean that there are several Release ( as relesase level) and inside each release level there are several version level, am'I understanding well ? Cedric. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
Ok, I just did as suggested: ( Change this: ( *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE ( ( for this ( *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 and ran cvsup again. This time, I successfully and quickly deleted every thing under /usr/src. There must be something wrong with my cvs tag. I read the notice in the handbook that says Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an incorrect or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do not want deleted. Here is my supfile that just deleted everything under /usr/src: *default host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. To keep up to date with 5.2.1, is that the correct tag? I'm reinstalling now . . . Thanks, Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xsp server
i am trying to compile xsp server 1.0 on my freebsd 4.10 STABLE i have installed mono and mod_mono ... i do the configuration process whitout problem then i do this #make Making all in doc Making all in server /usr/local/bin/mcs -debug+ -debug:full -nologo -r:System.Web.dll -r:Mono.Posix.dll /d:MODMONO_SERVER /out:mod-mono-server.exe error CS2008: No files to compile were specified Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/osmany/mono/xsp-1.0/server. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/osmany/mono/xsp-1.0. then i do this #gmake Making all in doc gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/osmany/mono/xsp-1.0/doc' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/osmany/mono/xsp-1.0/doc' Making all in server gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/osmany/mono/xsp-1.0/server' /usr/local/bin/mcs -debug+ -debug:full -nologo -r:System.Web.dll -r:Mono.Posix.dll /d:MODMONO_SERVER /out:mod-mono-server.exe IApplicationHost.cs MonoWorkerRequest.cs Tracing.cs ApplicationServer.cs LingeringNetworkStream.cs BaseApplicationHost.cs BaseRequestBroker.cs IWebSource.cs server.cs ModMonoRequest.cs ModMonoWorkerRequest.cs ModMonoApplicationHost.cs AssemblyInfoModMono.cs Compilation succeeded and never finish it stay here forever and the mono process is using 80% of cpu This problem has solution Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 05:51:57PM +0200, Cedric GROSS wrote: So what is the diff between uname -r and uname -v, which produce for me : Uname -r : 5.2.1-RELEASE Uname -v : FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jun 14 14:52:08 CEST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CNV_TOTAL Extract from man page : -r Write the current release level of the operating system -v Write the version level of this release of the operating system So that's mean that there are several Release ( as relesase level) and inside each release level there are several version level, am'I understanding well ? The different flags to uname(1) basically select different bits out of the uname data -- so 'uname -a' gives you *all* of the data, 'uname -r' gives you the release level, 'uname -m' gives you the hardware architecture, etc. etc. Note that this command isn't FreeBSD specific -- the behaviour of uname(1) is part of the POSIX.2 specification, which means it will work the same way on any current unixoid OS you care to mention. Of course, different development groups do tend to have slightly different interpretations of exactly what it is POSIX.2 mandates should be printed out in each case. Under FreeBSD, 'uname -v' attempts to give you as unambiguous as possible identification of exactly what kernel/OS setup you have. Since FreeBSD has quite a number of different code branches, and several of those branches are under continuous development, and kernels can be compiled in various different configurations by various different people, it takes quite a complicated string to identify all of that. Other OSes tend to be somewhat more terse, especially those where the development process isn't exposed to the public: for instance Solaris just gives you the OS version number and the relevant patch id (if any) where patching has involved replacing the kernel image. 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 pgp9C6ddiRuje.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer
On 2004-07-28 23:55, DK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are probably better off and more secure with an initial install, with no additional work or tweaking, of FreeBSD on the net than you would be with a MS system with every know fix available. So if I do a default install of FreeBSD then connect to the net for ports/packages, is there a default firewall running in the background ?? No, but the default setup of FreeBSD doesn't enable a ton of services. The /etc/inetd.conf file has nothing enabled by default. Even if it did, you'd have to manually enable inetd in /etc/rc.conf since it's also disabled by default: $ grep -v '^[[:space:]]*#' /usr/src/etc/inetd.conf $ grep inetd_enable /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf inetd_enable=NO # Run the network daemon dispatcher (YES/NO). Do use appropriate precautions such as ssh instead of telnet and ssl protected sites where possible and check md5-s of downloaded files. But, don't let it stop you from using it with FreeBSD. Do you install FreeBSD first connect to the net for ports/packages, or install the actual FreeBSD OS from the /stand/sysinstall select the net ?? There is no difference in the two statements presented as alternative options above. Keep in mind that /stand/sysinstall *IS* the FreeBSD installer. My bootup is fine, its the BSD+wmaker running opening nedit a cmd prompts that are slower than Windows 2000 ?? any suggestions as to why ?? You're probably using X11 with a vesa driver or something that doesn't take advantage of all the accelerations that your hardware can provide. Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:01:34AM -0500, Scott wrote: Ok, I just did as suggested: ( Change this: ( *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE ( ( for this ( *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 and ran cvsup again. This time, I successfully and quickly deleted every thing under /usr/src. Ooops. Yes, you would see that effect. There's actually no such tag as RELENG_5_2_1. What you need is RELENG_5_2 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 pgpUkUxbmzstA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:05:49AM -0500, Scott wrote: So if I set my cvs tag as Ezequiel (thank you) suggested: change: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE to: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 That will get me the latest patches? No -- that's correct in spirit, but wrong in detail. Use tag=RELENG_5_2 for best results. 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 pgpP4pUoA1A4q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
So if I set my cvs tag as Ezequiel (thank you) suggested: change: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE to: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 That will get me the latest patches? I'll make that change and rebuild again today. Thanks all for your help. :) Scott ___ Scott, You'll be much happier if you use: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2 That will get you what you want. I'm not sure, but I think using the your last proposed tag might just erase your sorces and that's it. Don ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
( No -- that's correct in spirit, but wrong ( in detail. Use tag=RELENG_5_2 for best ( results. Ah, that would be what I did wrong then. I've reinstalled, am currently installing cvsup from ports and when that is done I'll try to update again with the correct tag this time. Thanks again to all that have helped. :) Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password
* On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:13:19PM +0100 Richard P. Williamson wrote: If you ever need to change the root password again, you'll need to log in using single user mode. The handbook will explain how to do that. Really? It's certainly not a requirement. Is there some reason to suggest you have to do this from single user mode? -- Mark Frank The fix is only temporary...unless it works. - Red Green ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:37:35AM -0500, Puna Tannehill wrote: Scott wrote: uname -a shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest revision is #9 or so? Do I need to tell it to get the latest revision somehow? Do I need to change the cvs tag= to something else to get up to date? I thought the #number indicated the number of times the server has been rebooted based upon the last time the kernel was recompiled. Being that it is #0, it was your first book. Reboot the machine and check the number again. I believe that the #n is the number of times the kernel has been re-compiled since the last time the system was installed. It's probably not a very interesting datum except to kernel hackers who need to do a lot of recompiling. Oh right right. Thank you for the correction. I'm still wiping the sleep from my eyes. Actually, it might be an fun indicator of how many 15-20 minute chunks of time one can never get back. heehee hmm ~sighs and sips coffee~ Puna What the original poster was thinking of is the patchlevel that gets incremented every time a new security (or nowadays: errata) patch is applied to any of the -RELEASE branches. That modifies the OS name (ie. the output of 'uname -r'), so instead of: 5.2.1-RELEASE it says (at the latest count): 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 See /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh for the file that controls all that. Cheers, Matthew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ???
On 2004-07-28 22:53, DK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the purpose of having to manually set the system to automount ?? as opposed to having it as a system install default ?? if there is an advantage, I am sure its for the 0.01% of the user base It's more in the range of 99.9%. Automounting can be annoying like hell when you happen to accidentally insert media in your drives. It can also be insecure if you don't want anyone to use the machine you've installed to mount CD-ROMs, floppies or other media of their choise. Accidently ?? what ?? Like you were walking down a hall way, tripped slipped accidenlty shoved a CD into the drive :)) I can put a CD into Windows 2000 it has never been accessed unless I explicitly do it. - I don't see the problem ?? Yes, which is exactly why every CD-ROM I've put in Windows 2000 installations is immediately scanned and autorun in the default setup of the system. Including those CD-ROMs whose autorun programs are brain-damaged and crash because of disk errors or bugs in the autorun program itself. Oh come on, I consider autorunning of removable media a security risk. You like it and try to present the opposite behavior as a fault. I don't think there is any case we can agree on this point. The best we can do about it is help you install amd, the automounter daemon and let us all live in peace :P Instead of leaving *all* the users exposed to risks like this, which is the usual Windows philosophy of doing stuff, FreeBSD has the capability to automount media but keeps it disabled by default. Why not enable it by default then allow people who love messing around with OS disable it manually - this seems more logical ... Exposing everyone to an unnecessary risk seems more logical just to please the users that come from a different OS? Hmmm... I really don't think so. hey why not add a nice GUI that allows you to edit all the OS configurations nahh ... no one would use that !! Because it requires a lot of things to work Right(TM) from the moment a computer fires up until the point that a usable GUI can reach a state of stability. You can always enable XDM at boot time and wait just a bit until X11 fires up, when you will be able to log into your BSD machine using a GUI. This is not something that should be forced on everyone though, because a lot of things might break and leave the user in the sorry state the Windows users find themselves so very often -- with a computer that has barely managed to reach a graphical mode and then froze when some driver did a stupid thing, leaving nothing but a blank screen to stare at. Is it so hard to edit a text file like rc.conf and add a simple line like this? amd_enable=YES Hard to edit... no your right, knowing where the file is located, yes ?? knowing where in the file it needs to go or does ordering matter, yes ?? One of the first things you see when logging into your BSD system is: o The Handbook and FAQ documents are at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ and, along with the mailing lists, can be searched by going to http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/. If the doc distribution has been installed, they're also available formatted in /usr/share/doc. All of the things you've presented so far as difficult and confusing are explained in the documentation pointed at by this message. If you had read even the Handbook you'd already know that it contains a chapter devoted to Configuration and Tuning, which includes: 11.3 Core Configuration The principal location for system configuration information is within /etc/rc.conf. This file contains a wide range of configuration information, principally used at system startup to configure the system. Its name directly implies this; it is configuration information for the rc* files. An administrator should make entries in the rc.conf file to override the default settings from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. The defaults file should not be copied verbatim to /etc - it contains default values, not examples. All system-specific changes should be made in the rc.conf file itself. If something was confusing or you couldn't locate something in the docs, as every single page of the documentation says in the bottom of the text you could have mailed your questions here: For questions about FreeBSD, read the documentation before contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED]. For questions about this documentation, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]. If you have tried all of these instead of bitching that FreeBSD is not Windows, I'm sure something more productive would have happened :-/ Do you really mean that this is so much harder to do than fumble and fight with multiple dialogs, which you have to remember by heart of course, just to find that disabling automounting is impossible (unless you download
Re: XFree86 4.4 port (for Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics) - timescale?
* Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 16:29 GMT]: I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? AFAIK the XFree86 4.4 ports are currently tested. On CURRENT the X.org ports are now the default, they should work with your VIA too. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-07-28 22:53, DK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really. But even if we provided examples of this configurability you wouldn't accept them as valid examples because they wouldn't be point and click on some wimpy dialog-based wizard, right? Right I think this is going to be my last post on the topic. There's not much point after this particular answer to discuss anything. Who could have put it better? As the pounding drums sound, Aragorn and Legolas rush to barricade the entrance to the burial chamber. Heavy footfalls sound and the statement is made, with plain disappointment, 'They have a cave troll.' KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ???
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:28:17 -0700 (PDT) DK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. I know its hard for people to swallow, but MS Windows IS easier to use than BSD/Linux/OSX ... thats WHY its the most widely used regardless of marketing/costs etc ... Depends on what you mean easy to use... if you by easy you mean lack of proper file manipulation tools, no easy to use package or ports system, search tools, easy to swap out window manager, and ect I guess so. Gnome starts faster than Windows ?? Start time is not important - I am talking about reaction time of the GUI - Menu's apearing, moving icons, applications appearing etc - Working with Fedora at Uni(Yes, I am doing a Masters) the other day, its on a 50 Node Cluster - Its running on systems faster than what I have at home(above), yet feels like its as gluggy as Windows 95! - nice one Linux Gnome does more than windows. BTW the speed in that case can most likely not be attributed to linux. Most likely it is not running with the defualt gnome settings and in some cases even safe or sane settings for compile options. As for XFCE, how do you start it from the .xinitrc The XFCE Homepage site says exec startxfce4 - but that didn't work for me ?? Works here. Whats the purpose of having to manually set the system to automount ?? as opposed to having it as a system install default ?? if there is an advantage, I am sure its for the 0.01% of the user base Yes, it is a default installs should under no circumstances decide what users want to do with there systems. If you want to create a second freebsd distros that includes amd running and configed by defualt, feel free to. I personally find it rather bloody nice, rather than having to deal with some stupid program guessing where I want it mount. It is bloody annoying in multiuser enviroments. - 300 Million Users of Windows thinks so ;)) (BTW: I am NOT including KDE/GNOME) Windows has a larger user base, that's correct. - No default Find Files GUI - I won't even comment on lack of functionality of Cmd line whereis/search/find In gnome there is a find option that enables you to find files. And then there is find, which can do a lot more then you probably think now. - sorry, I wasn't clear above - For the lack of a GUI Find Files option, I meant the default install or with Window Managers(wmaker), not the Desktop Environments like KDE/Gnome(which are also fast... NOT) - which I don't use as they are slow Guis to find files exist. Check the ports. /me has one hotkeyed to mod4+f BTW you are aware that the defualt configs for KDE and Gnome suck? If you want to complain about them, you have the wrong list. I can tell you that 95% of people who use computers want EASE of USE- This INCLUDES easy installation of the Operating System Following the handbook makes FreeBSD installable by nearly anyone. - installable YES, configurable ... you've got to be shitting me :o Once you find a editor it like, it is exteremely. - install BSD+wmaker(easy) - start the GUI - oops some doc reading here(easy+1) - while in wmaker, dynamically change the Montior settings from 1600x1200 32b to 1028x768 24b(wouldn't have a clue - off to the docs - manually edit configuration files ?? - then restart - but what is the correct horizontal frequency OR vertical refresh(hard++) - I don't know I don't want to know(hey while I am at it, why don't I start designing my own CPU)... that's why people use Windows(easy to configure) I have all ways found windows harder to configure. Requires to much muching about and shoe horning it into areas it was never meant to go, just to get a bit of usability in. I played with BSD back in 1997 thought it needed some work.. so I gave it a miss.. Fast Forward to 2004, all I see are developers adding features that are not that important, yet missing the basics of what the majority of USER's want(not coders) Apple OSX understands this(nice GUI over BSD base - shame about the stupid high prices dumb one button mouse)... sorry BSD/Linux developers ...your just giving more air to MS by focusing on the wrong things You do realize the difference between a bleeding OS and a bloody WM and that they are both completely seperate? If you want to talk about missing basics, talk about windows, which still to this day does not have a proper CLI, windowing system, and still regards telnet as good do to inept developers and managamnet. There are a horde of tools and the like it is completely and uderly missing. ...XPde seem to have the right idea... looks promising... hope the GUI reaction time is fast http://www.xpde.com/ And agian, under X11, the gui is totally seperate from the OS. Don't see what is really so special about it yet, given it docs and the like. that reminds me of my Java Lecturer(I hate Java BTW) in which every time students had a problem, he would never look at the code but just reply check out the
Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
Cheers Tilman, I just checked again on Ports for 5.2-CURRENT/i386 and 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386: version = XFree86-4.3.0,1 True, www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html#4 does say: 'Summary of new features in 4.4.0. A new driver for several VIA integrated graphics chipsets has been added.' and offers a source code download. I bought this PC so that, as a newbie, I don't twat the working copy of M$ on my other PC and to always have a working PC with a browser. CVSup and installing from ports is (only just) within my abilities (if nothing complains) - there's no way I'd be able to install from a tarball. Besides, isn't Ports the preferred installation medium for FreeBSD? So my question remains, how long for XFree86-4.4 in ports? 5.3-RELEASE/i386 perhaps? Is it also stupid of me to have a LCD monitor capable of only 1280x768 when the VIA driver documentation at www.xfree86.org says the VIA driver's display resolutions are: Option PanelSize string Specify the size (width x height) of the LCD panel attached to the system. Sizes 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1400x1050 are supported. Owen Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 16:29 GMT]: I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? AFAIK the XFree86 4.4 ports are currently tested. On CURRENT the X.org ports are now the default, they should work with your VIA too. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kmail date headers translated to local time.
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Re: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'
Is it possible to rebuild these without doing a complete make world and if so without rebooting ? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 29), lists said: Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error while doing netstat -m: $ netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory This is a PIV 2ghz, with 1,5 GB of memory That means you have rebuilt your kernel and now kernel and world are out of sync. At minimum, rebuild libkvm and netstat. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openssl/openssh from ports or base?
Hello, What is the preferred method that people are using for keeping openssl and openssh up to date? Are most people using the ports version? Or the base version? Seems like if there is a vunlerability released, its much easier to cvsup the ports tree and reinstall. But if you use the base versions, is there a way to update that without doing a complete buildworld/installworld? Just curious what other freebsd users are doing. Thanks Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem updating xorg-clients
I'm getting an error message (below) when trying to upgrade the xorg-clients port, and I'm not at all sure how to fix it. Am running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 with xorg-6.7.0_1. - jt making all in programs/xhost... cc -O -pipe -march=athlon-xp -ansi -pedantic -Wno-system-headers -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -I/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc -I/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc/exports/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DCSRG_BASED -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DTCPCONN -DUNIXCONN -DHAS_STICKY_DIR_BIT -DHAS_FCHOWN -DIPv6-DBSD44SOCKETS -DXVENDORNAME='The X.Org Foundation' -DXVENDORNAMESHORT='X.Org' -c xhost.c xhost.c: In function `change_host': xhost.c:423: error: syntax error before siaddr xhost.c:434: error: `siaddr' undeclared (first use in this function) xhost.c:434: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once xhost.c:434: error: for each function it appears in.) xhost.c: In function `get_hostname': xhost.c:883: error: `XServerInterpretedAddress' undeclared (first use in this function) xhost.c:883: error: `sip' undeclared (first use in this function) xhost.c:884: warning: ISO C89 forbids mixed declarations and code xhost.c:888: error: syntax error before ')' token *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc/programs/xhost. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc/programs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade99236.6 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
Scott, I'm sorry the correct tag is *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2 - Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ezequiel [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:01 PM Subject: Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release # Ok, I just did as suggested: ( Change this: ( *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE ( ( for this ( *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 and ran cvsup again. This time, I successfully and quickly deleted every thing under /usr/src. There must be something wrong with my cvs tag. I read the notice in the handbook that says Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an incorrect or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do not want deleted. Here is my supfile that just deleted everything under /usr/src: *default host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2_1 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. To keep up to date with 5.2.1, is that the correct tag? I'm reinstalling now . . . Thanks, Scott ___ [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: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:34:29 +0200 Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Tilman, I just checked again on Ports for 5.2-CURRENT/i386 and 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386: version = XFree86-4.3.0,1 True, www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html#4 does say: 'Summary of new features in 4.4.0. A new driver for several VIA integrated graphics chipsets has been added.' and offers a source code download. I bought this PC so that, as a newbie, I don't twat the working copy of M$ on my other PC and to always have a working PC with a browser. CVSup and installing from ports is (only just) within my abilities (if nothing complains) - there's no way I'd be able to install from a tarball. Besides, isn't Ports the preferred installation medium for FreeBSD? So my question remains, how long for XFree86-4.4 in ports? 5.3-RELEASE/i386 perhaps? Is it also stupid of me to have a LCD monitor capable of only 1280x768 when the VIA driver documentation at www.xfree86.org says the VIA driver's display resolutions are: Option PanelSize string Specify the size (width x height) of the LCD panel attached to the system. Sizes 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1400x1050 are supported. Owen Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 16:29 GMT]: I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? AFAIK the XFree86 4.4 ports are currently tested. On CURRENT the X.org ports are now the default, they should work with your VIA too. There has been some sort of problem getting XFree86 4.4 into the ports. Not sure what. But Xorg should work if it was supported XFree86 4.4, since for all effective purposes XFree86 4.4 and Xorg whatever the current one is is the same thing... due to when the fork happened... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'
In the last episode (Jul 29), lists said: Is it possible to rebuild these without doing a complete make world and if so without rebooting ? Yes: cd /usr/src/lib/libkvm make obj make depend make make install cd /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat make obj make depend make make install You may also need to rebuild systat, sockstat, netstat, lsof, and possibly other programs, which is why a buildworld is usually recommended. -- 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: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
OK, On www.x.org they say that the latest version of their X implementation is X11R6.7.0. I don't see it on the Ports page on FreeBSD.org. Is that because the ports page says: Last database update: 2004-07-16 08:54:22 UTC ? Owen Vulpes Velox wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:34:29 +0200 Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Tilman, I just checked again on Ports for 5.2-CURRENT/i386 and 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386: version = XFree86-4.3.0,1 There has been some sort of problem getting XFree86 4.4 into the ports. Not sure what. But Xorg should work if it was supported XFree86 4.4, since for all effective purposes XFree86 4.4 and Xorg whatever the current one is is the same thing... due to when the fork happened... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
osversion
i foun these line in the Makefile of mono
.if ${OSVERSION} 50
EXTRA_PATCHES= ${FILESDIR}/extra-patch-signbit
.elif ${OSVERSION} 502113
IGNORE= Does not work on 5.X before 502113
.endif
how can i know if myosversion is greater than 502113
On Thursday 29 July 2004 15:48, Owen.G wrote:
OK,
On www.x.org they say that the latest version of their X implementation
is X11R6.7.0.
I don't see it on the Ports page on FreeBSD.org. Is that because the
ports page says:
Last database update: 2004-07-16 08:54:22 UTC ?
Owen
Vulpes Velox wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:34:29 +0200
Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cheers Tilman,
I just checked again on Ports for 5.2-CURRENT/i386 and
5.2.1-RELEASE/i386:
version = XFree86-4.3.0,1
There has been some sort of problem getting XFree86 4.4 into the
ports. Not sure what. But Xorg should work if it was supported XFree86
4.4, since for all effective purposes XFree86 4.4 and Xorg whatever
the current one is is the same thing... due to when the fork
happened...
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Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #
( Scott, I'm sorry the correct tag is ( ( *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2 That's ok Ezequiel. No harm done. Fortunately I was upgrading a fresh install so none of my own data was lost. I've learned a lot today. I've put off upgrading because the entire process looked so daunting, but when you break it down into each step, it's not as hard as I thought it would be. :) I just finished the upgrade using the correct cvs tag. It took three hours total, but seems to be up and running fine now. Uname now shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 Woo Hoo! It worked! Thanks again to everyone for the assistance today. :) Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: osversion
Osmany Guirola Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i foun these line in the Makefile of mono
.if ${OSVERSION} 50
EXTRA_PATCHES= ${FILESDIR}/extra-patch-signbit
.elif ${OSVERSION} 502113
IGNORE= Does not work on 5.X before 502113
.endif
how can i know if myosversion is greater than 502113
sysctl -n kern.osreldate
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Re: wireless LAN
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: I'm using SONY VAIO Z1 series, and it seems that the built in wireless LAN isn't working properly. So I got a PC Card which is WaveLAN (Lucent), a bit old one but expect to work fine under FreeBSD 5.2.1. I've enabled 'pccard' at rc.conf file and the kernel seems to load the 'wi' driver by default. But the WaveLAN isn't working yet. Could anyone drive me in a good (complete) reference to get things working? Cheers, SH- I sent this in reply to an earlier post, but failed to cc the list. It's not complete, but until you get better information perhaps it can help you out a bit: I have MA401 and it's working without any problems now. I started out with pccardd starting with configuration file, rather than using the default one. That didn't work so well, so in /etc/rc.conf I now have: pccard_enable=YES pccard_mem=DEFAULT pccard_beep=2 pccard_ifconfig=NO pccardd_flags= pccard_ether_delay=5 My understanding is that with this setup, pccardd will look for the file /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, then it might be the case (sorry for not being more knowledgable in this area) that it will read /etc/pccard.conf. Anyway, I have one and it looks like this: # Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE card Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE config 0x1 wi0 11 insert echo WaveLAN/IEEE inserted insert /etc/pccard_ether wi0 remove echo WaveLAN/IEEE removed remove /sbin/ifconfig wi0 delete # Netgear MA401 card NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC Card config auto wi ? 0x1 insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop Now, when I insert the card, after a few seconds the card shows up in ifconfig. I hope this helps out a bit. And oh, I'm on 4.10-STABLE Best regards Mathias ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound Driver
Starting KDE I always get this message. Then it just stalls Sound server informational message: Error while ititializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device not configured) The sound server will continue using the null output device __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with PF
hello, I configured PF for natting machines on my LAN using FreeBSD as ADSL gateway. I just write a simple rule nat on tun0 from 172.16.16.0/24 to any - (tun0) but NAT does not work, packets are blocked. ip forwarding is enabled using ipfilter works and packets are natted succesfully with a simple rule the same as before: map tun0 172.16.16.0/24 - tun0/32 I am using PF on OpenBSD since the first time it was released so I Am sure it is not a problem of my configuration (After all more than very simple) using PF on FreeBSD I noticed simply packets are not NATted. I have to say I am using it on sparc64 FreeBSD 5.2.1 on ultra 60. anyone has some hints ? maybe on i386 works who knows ? thanks Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with PF
On Thursday 29 July 2004 22:57, RJ45 wrote: hello, I configured PF for natting machines on my LAN using FreeBSD as ADSL gateway. I just write a simple rule nat on tun0 from 172.16.16.0/24 to any - (tun0) ^^ but NAT does not work, packets are blocked. ip forwarding is enabled using ipfilter works and packets are natted succesfully with a simple rule the same as before: map tun0 172.16.16.0/24 - tun0/32 I am using PF on OpenBSD since the first time it was released so I Am sure it is not a problem of my configuration (After all more than very simple) using PF on FreeBSD I noticed simply packets are not NATted. Well they are, but to a wrong address or no address at all, depending on the state of tun0 upon loading the ruleset. I have to say I am using it on sparc64 FreeBSD 5.2.1 on ultra 60. anyone has some hints ? Have you applied the dynamic address patches? # cd /usr/ports/security/pf make extract cd work/pf_freebsd_2.03/patches # less README for details. Unless you did so, the (ifname) syntax will not work on 5.2.1R. As a workaround you can place a #pfctl -f pf.conf in your linkup script. Other than that, you might want to try a recent -current snapshot in order to build 3.5 pf (the port is still as of 3.4) out of the box. There you have all the fancy interface handling that comes with 3.5 (including dynamic addresses of course) and additionally there is ALTQ ;) Patches for hme(4) from Pyun YongHyeon are on http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ALTQ_driver/ other driver patches upon request. sparc64 should not be a problem for pf in general. maybe on i386 works who knows ? Not with the dynamic address syntax, no. -- /\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News pgpZvj2KkLGKf.pgp Description: signature
Atheros card support in 5.2.1
Hello - I'm trying to get a card that's supported by madwifi drivers in Linux (atheros) to work in FreeBSD and eventually FreeSBIE. I've seen things posted in other threads that say that atheros cards are supported (at least some are) using the ath driver but in looking through my kernel configuration options I'm not seeing ath anywhere. I see an, awi, wi, and wl but no ath. Does anyone have any information about how to enable atheros support in 5.2.1?? Thanks, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreePascal don´t run fine on FreeBSD
Hi All, Here, I have a FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE-p8, running FireBird-1.5.1. I have many udf´s wrote in Delphi to run on Firebird for windows, I tried to compile these udf´s with FreePascal on FreeBSD, and register on firebird, but it don´t work. The same udf´s works fine when compiled on FreePascal on Windows and Linux, and udf´s written in C/C++ works fine on FreeBSD. Does anyone know if exist any problem with FreePascal on FreeBSD? PS: I tried with fpc-1.0.10, 1.9.2 and 1.9.4 and get the same error. Thanks in advance -- Renato Botelho ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeBSD How to you set the prompt
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:29:30 -
Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on IE ROOT or
user johndoe.
Eample of what the end results I would like to see.
# router1.pdx/chatusa.com user johndoe.
In tch I use this prompt (which also has some colors taht I cannot
reproduce here):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] current_path [current_time] last_command_exit_code
_#_
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/converters/php4-recode [20:35:57] 0
_ #_
which is done by adding this two lines in ~/.cshrc
set prompt = [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s` %{\e[0;31m%}%/%{\e[0m%} [%P]
%{\e[1;36m%}%?%{\e[0m%}
%s\n%B%U %{\e[0;31m%}#%{\e[0m%} %u%b
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Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
* Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 21:48 GMT]: I don't see it on the Ports page on FreeBSD.org. Is that because the ports page says: Last database update: 2004-07-16 08:54:22 UTC ? xorg metaport was committed on June 19. freshports.org is a very useful resource: http://www.freshports.org/x11/xorg regards tilman P.S. Please don't toppost. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems after php upgrade
I just upgraded php today, and php no longer works on the web server. I upgraded the php4 port, and then installed the extensions. When I try to load a php page, it's blank, and I get errors like these in httpd-errors.log: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './openssl.so' - Cannot open quot;./openssl.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './overload.so' - Cannot open quot;./overload.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './pcre.so' - Cannot open quot;./pcre.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 The php.ini file has this in it: extensions_dir = /usr/local/lib/php/20020429 (which is where the extensions are.) The perms are root:wheel r--r--r. There's also a php.conf file now (in /usr/local/etc/) and it has PHP_EXT_DIR=20020249. I have the correct stuff in httpd.conf (otherwise php wouldn't have worked before.) I looked through the pkg-message files in the extensions and base dirs, but no luck. What did I miss? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing cards in a reader (new info)
Aloha I have some additional information regarding this problem. I was reading some of the man pages for the ump-teenth time and I thought I would try something with fdisk. I started with a 128MB card in the reader. hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus/ hp# ls -l /mnt/olympus/ hp# ls -l /mnt/olympus/dcim/100olymp/ total 6752 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 680523 Jan 1 2000 p1010074.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 672166 Jun 5 07:19 p6050002.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 677171 Jun 5 07:19 p6050003.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 684658 Jun 5 07:23 p6050004.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 664210 Jun 5 07:23 p6050005.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 663849 Jun 5 07:24 p6050006.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 689533 Jun 5 07:37 p6050009.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 697084 Jun 5 07:37 p6050010.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 691391 Jun 5 07:59 p6050011.jpg -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 695390 Jun 5 07:59 p6050012.jpg hp# hp# umount /mnt/olympus/ Replace the 128MB with a 8MB hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus/ mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: Invalid argument Fails to mount hp# fdisk -i da2 *** Working on device /dev/da2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=7 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=7 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks ? [n] Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 1 (0x01),(Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT) start 25, size 15975 (7 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 10; end: cyl 249/ head 3/ sector 16 Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED Do you want to change it? [n] Partition 1 is marked active Do you want to change the active partition? [n] We haven't changed the partition table yet. This is your last chance. parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=7 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=7 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 1: sysid 1 (0x01),(Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT) start 25, size 15975 (7 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 10; end: cyl 249/ head 3/ sector 16 2: UNUSED 3: UNUSED 4: UNUSED Should we write new partition table? [n] hp# I answer no to all questions and then it mounts!! hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus/ hp# ls -l /mnt/olympus/dcim/100olymp/ total 680 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 694158 Jul 12 18:27 p7120001.jpg hp# Of course this (fdisk) has to be done as root. If I want to mount and umount as a standard user I need to chmod 660 da2s1 each time the card is changed and fdisk -i is run. I hope this triggers some memory cells on all the experienced users on this list. Is there a better way to do this? I am sorry my posts always seem to run long but I want to include what I feel is important. Thanks for all the help I have received and all the future help I hope I get :o) Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems after php upgrade
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:06:54 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded php today, and php no longer works on the web server. I upgraded the php4 port, and then installed the extensions. When I try to load a php page, it's blank, and I get errors like these in httpd-errors.log: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './openssl.so' - Cannot open quot;./openssl.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './overload.so' - Cannot open quot;./overload.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './pcre.so' - Cannot open quot;./pcre.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 The php.ini file has this in it: extensions_dir = /usr/local/lib/php/20020429 (which is where the extensions are.) The perms are root:wheel r--r--r. Stupid question: Are this the perms of the 20020429 directory ? They should be rwxr-xr-x on the dir and r--r--r-- on the .so -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems after php upgrade
Paul - From /usr/ports/UPDATING: If you have a previous php.ini configuration file, be sure to comment out the extension_dir parameter, since the correct path is statically compiled into the PHP binary. I missed this too the first time through, but it fixed the same exact problem. (possibly s/same exact/similar/) Hope this helps ~j Paul Schmehl wrote: I just upgraded php today, and php no longer works on the web server. I upgraded the php4 port, and then installed the extensions. When I try to load a php page, it's blank, and I get errors like these in httpd-errors.log: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './openssl.so' - Cannot open quot;./openssl.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './overload.so' - Cannot open quot;./overload.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library './pcre.so' - Cannot open quot;./pcre.soquot; in Unknown on line 0 The php.ini file has this in it: extensions_dir = /usr/local/lib/php/20020429 (which is where the extensions are.) The perms are root:wheel r--r--r. There's also a php.conf file now (in /usr/local/etc/) and it has PHP_EXT_DIR=20020249. I have the correct stuff in httpd.conf (otherwise php wouldn't have worked before.) I looked through the pkg-message files in the extensions and base dirs, but no luck. What did I miss? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jonathan T. Sage Theatrical Lighting / Set Designer Professional Web Design Homer: ...and when a woman says something sounds funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off. [HTTP://www.JTSage.com] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [See Headers for Contact Info] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Problems after php upgrade
--On Friday, July 30, 2004 2:20 AM +0300 Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question: Are this the perms of the 20020429 directory ? They should be rwxr-xr-x on the dir and r--r--r-- on the .so Not a stupid question at all. Perms on the dir are rwxr-xr-x. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems after php upgrade
--On Thursday, July 29, 2004 8:13 PM -0400 Jonathan T. Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul - From /usr/ports/UPDATING: If you have a previous php.ini configuration file, be sure to comment out the extension_dir parameter, since the correct path is statically compiled into the PHP binary. I missed this too the first time through, but it fixed the same exact problem. (possibly s/same exact/similar/) Hope this helps ~j Yep, that was it. Thanks. Missed it completely. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Different sysinstall labelling behaviour when run post-install vs. during install?
Yesterday I was upgrading the disk in one of my workstations. Since I was planning on growing the filesystems for my FreeBSD install at the same time, I needed to manually create a new disklabel. I used sysinstall for this, but ran into a problem: sysinstall doesn't allocate the partition letters, with 'a' first, if you aren't doing an initial install. I ended up using the auto defaults option to create the 'a' partition, then remove everything and create them as I wanted. I'm glad to say that it worked out just fine, but this problem raises a couple of questions: Why does sysinstall behave differently when run post-install? How do I manually specify or change the partition letter to use? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeBSD How to you set the prompt
Hello Dan: This may be of help: Understanding Shell Prompts http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/20/FreeBSD_Basics.html On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:29:30 -, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on IE ROOT or user johndoe. Eample of what the end results I would like to see. # router1.pdx/chatusa.com user johndoe. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems after php upgrade
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:13:11 -0400 Jonathan T. Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul - From /usr/ports/UPDATING: If you have a previous php.ini configuration file, be sure to comment out the extension_dir parameter, since the correct path is statically compiled into the PHP binary. I missed this too the first time through, but it fixed the same exact problem. (possibly s/same exact/similar/) Hope this helps ~j My php's recode.so make apache to dump core. I wonder if ti happens to anyone else. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
java jdk14 install - cannot find file
Hi, as part of the jdk14 install, i have to download the file j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin from the sun web site and put it into the /usr/ports/distfiles folder. I did that - no problem. I can see the file listed in the right place. When i do the Make, it aborts with an error. It cannot find the file I just downloaded. I highlight and copy the file name in the error message. Using KDE find files, i paste the filename into the search field, and the file is found in the distfiles folder !! If I do a whereis on the Konsole and it is not found. I cd'd to /usr/ports/distfiles and typed whereis j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin and i get j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin: back. I assume this means it is not found. I looked at the permissions of the file. they were rw-r--r--. I changed it to rwxr-xr-x. Didnt make any difference. The only other thing i noticed was that the file is a .bin, and the file type is listed as a shell script. i am really stuck. I am very new to this and cant see what is wrong. Can anyone help. Thanks Peter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port (for Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics) - timescale?
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:29:31 +0200, Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also bought a EPIA Mini-ITX in early June before seeing the posting that the video wasn't supported by X on FreeBSD (Linux - supposedly yes, BSD not yet). The previous responder (thanks Erik) said, the CLE266 chipset will be supported in the port of XFree86 4.4 I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? (I did get an X windows manager running on the VGA S server but it was too low resolution to be useful.) Thanks in anticipation, You can also do this by using the driver from XFree86's binary packages for 4.4. Once you have XFree86-4 installed using the port, do a portupgrade of the -Server port using the 4.3.99 snapshot port: portupgrade -f -o x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap XFree86-Server Then you need to grab the via_drv.o file from the XFree86 binary package. I just installed the whole thing to a temp dir, then copied over the driver module. From XFree86.0.log: (II) LoadModule: via (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (II) Module via: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 4.1.30 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.7 -Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2.1-p9 panics under high loads
Hi list, I have a Dual Xeon 2.8ghz w/ SMP enabled on a 5.2.1 server which is panicking under high loads. While I don't have a copy of the panic with me (datacenter still didn't mail it to me), I have seen this problem a while ago, don't remember if on this list. The problem was the same, 5.2 , SMP, and panic under high loads. Someone suggested that user adding a kernel option, which got him rid of the panics. But I couldn't find this thread. Does anyone know what this kernel option is? Best Regards, Hugo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Atheros card support in 5.2.1
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:16PM -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: Hello - I'm trying to get a card that's supported by madwifi drivers in Linux (atheros) to work in FreeBSD and eventually FreeSBIE. I've seen things posted in other threads that say that atheros cards are supported (at least some are) using the ath driver but in looking through my kernel configuration options I'm not seeing ath anywhere. I see an, awi, wi, and wl but no ath. Does anyone have any information about how to enable atheros support in 5.2.1?? Thanks, Ben I think you need to add the following to your kernel configuration file: device ath device ath_hal Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sysinstall errors and debug screen
Hi, when installing FreeBSD with Sysinstall it sometimes happens that an error message comes up and the module couldn't get installed. Changing the medium (CD or different ftp server) sometimes helps. It's not consistence, on one machine I could install Samba 3 and MySQL 4, on another one I'm always getting an error after a successful download. Samba 4 and MySql 3 can install. Can anyone tell me where to find the debug screen with the error messages? What can I do to be able to install from the ports. I'm close to download the packages from Samba.org and MySql.com instead of wasting time with sysinstall. VBR Stefan Warnke ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:48:43 +0200 Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, On www.x.org they say that the latest version of their X implementation is X11R6.7.0. I don't see it on the Ports page on FreeBSD.org. That is the lastest version of Xorg, not XFree86. :P ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backspace and delete keys behavior
Hi guys, I am new to Freebsd (after years of linux) and, althought system installation and configuration was quite seamlessly, I've an issue with the delete key of my keyboard (101 keys us layout): In xterm, the backspace key works ok, but when I press del, it prints the ~ character, instead of deleting . I have read it has something to do with keyboard layout config, but I couldn't find out how to fix it. So, any ideas? Thanks, (and forgive my poor english) Mariano Guadagnini Argentina ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java jdk14 install - cannot find file
On Friday 30 July 2004 12:30, Peter Ryan wrote: Hi, as part of the jdk14 install, i have to download the file j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin from the sun web site and put it into the /usr/ports/distfiles folder. I did that - no problem. I can see the file listed in the right place. When i do the Make, it aborts with an error. It cannot find the file I just downloaded. I highlight and copy the file name in the error message. Using KDE find files, i paste the filename into the search field, and the file is found in the distfiles folder !! If I do a whereis on the Konsole and it is not found. I cd'd to /usr/ports/distfiles and typed whereis j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin and i get j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin: back. I assume this means it is not found. whereis does not find files in the general sense; just executables in PATH and man pages in manpath and sources in some ?standard place?. The j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin: response is just the header declaring what you asked - any results follow this with complete paths. The usual command for finding files is 'locate' but this depends on a data base that is only updated once a week by default and then only if your machine in running at the appropriate time. You could use $ find / -name j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin but with the search directed to the entire system you can expect that this might take almost forever. Much quicker would be $ find /usr/ports/distfiles -name j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin I looked at the permissions of the file. they were rw-r--r--. I changed it to rwxr-xr-x. Didnt make any difference. The only other thing i noticed was that the file is a .bin, and the file type is listed as a shell script. What file type? You mean $ file j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin responds with script? It probably is and should be a Bourne shell script; take a look inside and make sure it is the required file and not just a URL of the true file. This sometimes happens. Failing that check very-very carefully that the file name in distfiles is exactly the same as that asked for by make. Malcolm i am really stuck. I am very new to this and cant see what is wrong. Can anyone help. Thanks Peter ___ [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]
mount_smbfs
The mount_smbfs(8) command on 5.2.1 allows multiple mounts using the same source and mount point. This sounds like a bug to me since other file systems such as ufs return an error on such attempts. Anyone know of a reason why this is allowed in mount_smbfs? J ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java jdk14 install - cannot find file
Thanks Malcolm, To make sure my eyes were not playing tricks, I was careful to do the KDE Find Files using a copypaste of the file name in the error message - and it was found exactly where I put it, ie in /usr/ports/distfiles, which is where it is supposed to be The file is about 34MB, so is not just a header, but anyway, the error message says ... doesn't seem to exist. Thanks very much for the advice on finding files in the Konsole. I used the find /usr/ports/distfiles -name version from the Konsole, and it also found the file. (I pasted the file name from the error message to the end of the find command - so I dont think there is any spelling error) This is baffling. Thanks again Peter --- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 12:30, Peter Ryan wrote: Hi, as part of the jdk14 install, i have to download the file j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin from the sun web site and put it into the /usr/ports/distfiles folder. I did that - no problem. I can see the file listed in the right place. When i do the Make, it aborts with an error. It cannot find the file I just downloaded. I highlight and copy the file name in the error message. Using KDE find files, i paste the filename into the search field, and the file is found in the distfiles folder !! If I do a whereis on the Konsole and it is not found. I cd'd to /usr/ports/distfiles and typed whereis j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin and i get j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin: back. I assume this means it is not found. whereis does not find files in the general sense; just executables in PATH and man pages in manpath and sources in some ?standard place?. The j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin: response is just the header declaring what you asked - any results follow this with complete paths. The usual command for finding files is 'locate' but this depends on a data base that is only updated once a week by default and then only if your machine in running at the appropriate time. You could use $ find / -name j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin but with the search directed to the entire system you can expect that this might take almost forever. Much quicker would be $ find /usr/ports/distfiles -name j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin I looked at the permissions of the file. they were rw-r--r--. I changed it to rwxr-xr-x. Didnt make any difference. The only other thing i noticed was that the file is a .bin, and the file type is listed as a shell script. What file type? You mean $ file j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin responds with script? It probably is and should be a Bourne shell script; take a look inside and make sure it is the required file and not just a URL of the true file. This sometimes happens. Failing that check very-very carefully that the file name in distfiles is exactly the same as that asked for by make. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
