Re: How to get out of GNOME?
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Andrew Jones wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit. Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes before trying again on display :0. and then it comes back on. Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to off. kill -HUP 1. Then kill the gdm process. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door - W.E. Channing ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and I'm sure 64 MB and a 1gig hard drive would suffice. You may be better off with Soekris boxes, e.g. the net4801, which runs FreeBSD RELENG_5 just fine: http://www.soekris.com/ Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid? --Paul Hoffman Cheers, cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Here is a better idea! Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram). Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster. Step 3: Install said network cards into computers. Step 4: Install and configure m0n0wall on said computers. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ Step 5: Profit??? -- Total Cost: $0.00 Well, depending on your geographic location, you may want to consider power consumption as the main cost factor here. A Soekris box would consume something around 5-10 Watt or so on average. Compare this to even the slowest Pentium. Oh, and they are absolutely silent as well :-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD for Soekris is called MiniBSD. You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X: /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd Cheers, cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....
nobody ??? matt virus wrote: Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array with. the devices are: ad4ad11 All drives have been fdisk'd and such, ad4s1d.ad11s1d The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel disklabel -e /dev/ad4 The disk label says it has 8 partitions, but only the A and C partitions are shown... **MY DISKLABEL # /dev/ad4: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 320173040 16unused0 0 c: 3201730560unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit ** Now, i know i have to change *something* to vinum but i'm unsure which one, or if I need to actually add a line or ??? This is my first time playing with vinum, i've read a handful of howtos and all the documentation I find shows the disklabel looking like this: *HOWTO's Disklabel # disklabel da0 [snip] #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1024000 10240004.2BSD 2048 1638490 b: 10240000 swap c: 179124120unused0 0 e: 15864412 2048000 vinum (source: http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html) Any direction is appreciated :-) -matt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matt Virus (veer-iss) www.mattvirus.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get out of GNOME? (resolved)
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Andrew Jones wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit. Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes before trying again on display :0. and then it comes back on. Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to off. kill -HUP 1. Then kill the gdm process. There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have any effect. However. In top, killing XFree86 or gdmlogin restarts GNOME. killing them both results in a No such process error on gdmlogin process and GNOME restarts. However, killing the gdm binary that is in poll state does the job; killing it causes all four of the processes to drop out of the top display. Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho! Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
* Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1036 04:36]: On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200 Emanuel Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and I'm sure 64 MB and a 1gig hard drive would suffice. Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid? Bad idea IMHO. I'd suggest having a look at http://www.soekris.com/ (net4501 for easiest requirements, better 4801, all in one extendable box) or if you Or else take a look at mini-ITX: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/mini-itx/ Good things about laptops: 1. built in console 2. built in UPS - if there's a power cut the box just runs on its battery -- common sense is what tells you that the world is flat. - Principia Discordia Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-10-10 - 2004-10-30
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to print to hp JetDirect/LaserJet
Mike Jeays wrote: Add rm=192.168.1.40 to the /etc/printcap entry. My example is (faraday is the name of the machine with the printer): lp|hp710c:\ :lp=::rm=faraday:rp=lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sd=/var/spool/lpd:mx#0: Mike, Thanks much, but that doesn't work for me. I also tried rm=http://192.168.1.40 and that produced some error results; I'll experiment more tomorrow. Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.3-RC1 problem with SiI 3114 (Tyan S2882 in i386 mode) with some disks
Hi I have a Tyan S2882 dual opteron running 5.3-RC1 (I think -- uname says 5.3-STABLE but I did it soon after RC1 came out -- I must have misread which branch to synch with). I have 1 WD 36GB Raptor SATA drive and 2 WD 200GB SATA drives. These are not the boot drives or anything. An Adaptec 2200S with 2 SCSI based RAIDs are the main boot and used disks. The SATA is for swap and backup and play space. The SiI 3114 is used in ultra mode, which is the plain disk mode. It is not in raid mode. This machine was running 5.2-CURRENT from about mid summer. The onboard SiI 3114 was not working right at the time I had last updated the system, but I did not get the following error. Under 5.2-CURRENT the Raptor and one of the 200GB drives was hooked to a Promise SATA card and the last WD card was hooked to the SiI 3114 but not used due to some problems. After I updated to 5.3 (I believe RC1 as I said above), the machine will no longer boot with the following errors (if I hook the same drives to a Promise SATA card) this is not a problem and the disks work. (This is with one disk on the SiI 3114) ata7-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED ata7-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED ata7-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out If I put all 3 disks on the SiI 3114 and remove the promise card, the Raptor drive is found correctly but when it goes to find the first 200GB drive, the same error pops up (the ata bus number changes) ata3-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED ata3-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED ata3-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out Since the drives seem to work fine with the Promise card, I think the drives are OK. It happens with both 200GB drives, in any order I put them. The 36GB Raptor does seem to be found OK at boot though. I updated the Tyan MB bios (which updated the SiI bios) to the latest available from the Tyan website and the problem still happens. Unfortunately I cannot use the Promise card in production as it is not a 2U compatible card and this is a 2U server. Up to now, since it is in testing for the last 6 months, I have left the lid slightly askew for the cables, but cannot do that when I put the machine into production, which I want to do soon, when 5.3-RELEASE comes out or soon thereafter... It seems that there is some problem in the ATA driver for this chip??? Thanks Chad ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raidframe problem
Hi All, I have a pair of IDE disks which have FreeBSD 4.9 installed on them on two mirrored (raid1) raidframe partitions: raid0 mounted as / raid1 as /usr Something went wrong with this installation as it hangs at the startup, regardless whether one or both disks are present and I am not able to fix it. More importantly, before I reinstall fresh the whole thing, I need to save some data from the /usr partition. I plugged a third disk in the system and installed on it a vanilla FreeBSD 5.2.1 kern-developer distribution. I created the config file for the raid device, but whenever I try to create the raid device by using 'raidctl -C /etc/raid0.conf' the system reboots with: Kernelized RAIDframe activated RAIDFrame: protectedSectors is 64 Waiting for DAG engine to start Panic: lockmgr: thread ... 'snip' Any ideas of what is wrong? This is brand new fresh install. Thanks, Leo The config file and disklabels I used are follows: START array 1 2 0 START disks /dev/ad1s1e /dev/ad2s1e START layout 64 1 1 1 START queue fifo 100 # /dev/ad1s1: type: ESDI disk: ad1s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 1657 sectors/unit: 1670697 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 49152004.2BSD0 0 0 b: 262144 491520 swap c: 16706970unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit e: 917033 753664 raid _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get out of GNOME? (resolved)
Jay O'Brien wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Andrew Jones wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit. Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes before trying again on display :0. and then it comes back on. Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to off. kill -HUP 1. Then kill the gdm process. There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have any effect. However. In top, killing XFree86 or gdmlogin restarts GNOME. killing them both results in a No such process error on gdmlogin process and GNOME restarts. However, killing the gdm binary that is in poll state does the job; killing it causes all four of the processes to drop out of the top display. Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho! Jay When you started with a login manager the ctrl-alt-backspace=restart X. I use kdm, If for some reason I want to exit to terminal I use a terminal (logged in as root) and type: killall kdm You could try that for gdm. -yuri ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FireFox crash on Print
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Why don't you try a fresh cvsup of your ports tree. Then, upgrade to firefox-1.0.1.p_4. I think that's pretty much taken care of the problem for anyone who's done that. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW, I'm seeing the same problem. aurvandil# pkg_info | grep -i firefox firefox-1.0.1.p_4 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla Refer to the archives on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent a path for people to try. Joe Upgrading to firefox-1.0.r1,1 fixed the problem :-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 11:16 am, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Compared to other types of hardware, the support for wireless cards is lacking on *BSD because many vendors don't provide documentation or the cards require the upload of a binary firmware image that, absurdly as it sounds, may not be redistributed. Well, some people are working on improving this situation step by step and you can help by writing to the hardware vendors. Specifically, there already is a FreeBSD 5.x driver for the Texas Instruments ACX100 802.11b chipset (DLink DWL-520+, DWL-650+, and others), which is currently maintained externally: http://wlan.kewl.org/modules/mantis/main_page.php However, a firmware binary blob must be uploaded to the card, and since TI doesn't allow redistribution it can't be included with the driver, rendering it useless. mucho snippo A few comments/questions: 1) The only driver I've tried is: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ It worked pretty well for me. As I recall there is a script to download the firmware - I don't recall from where it was d/l, but I don't remember having to check off any license agreement forms during the process. Pretty painless... I never realized it was an issue 'til I saw your post. 2) Wouldn't voting with your pocketbook be more persuasive than whining? I recently bought two WiFI cards that use the Prism chipset (seattlewireless.net) 'cause they've got better support in the systems I use. This purchase represents a loss for TI the mfrs who buy their ACX100 chips, and a gain for Intersil and their customers. The free market is pretty effective at sorting these things out. 3) As far as 'activism' goes, I think you and the other merry men would be heard much more clearly if you each bought a single share of TI stock (it's real cheap right now :) and used your status as shareholders to submit motions or resolutions to TI's Board of Directors. Better yet, attend the annual shareholder's meeting, and let your voices be heard! Good Luck, Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Saturday 30 October 2004 07:45 pm, LiQuiD wrote: I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? Not FreeBSD, but I have installed and used OpenBSD successfully. There are a few tricks involved in using the CF card. Here's my fstab listing - it may help get you started: $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,noaccesstime 1 1 # /dev/wd0d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=128000 0 0 /dev/wd0b /var mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,union,-s=128000 0 0 /dev/wd0g /usr ffs rw,nodev,noaccesstime 1 2 Check the soekris OpenBSD mailing list archives for more goodies. If this were possible, I could replace my router with that, and a couple clients' machines with something far smaller and with much less power consumption. Yep - that's the idea. Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatible NIC
On Friday, 29 October 2004 at 18:09:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/29/04 3:27:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just voiced my opinion. If you want to use them, feel free. Use 5.2.1. with the rl driver. Have the slowest server on the block. What do I care? A lot, apparently; if you didn't care you wouldn't say anything. How much do you say your time is worth, again? You must have donated hundreds of dollars worth of your caring to the mailing list over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, valuing the time of others in the same way, you've also cost the user community many thousands of dollars reading your strangely-embittered commentary. No one is forcing you to read anything. I never copy you on anythere, I'm not sure what anythere means, but by sending messages to the mailing list, you're copying Kris and everybody else who is on the list. but here you are again With good reason. Aside from the few weenies like yourself who think you know everything and would rather not hear the truth, I'm sure that there are many who are a bit more objective and value hearing another point of view. People want to know whats good and bad about using FreeBSD. Your Klan just paints a rosey picture about everything, so nothing you say can have any credibility. You're welcome to say what you want about FreeBSD. Just find a more appropriate channel. Kris was just asking you to respect the charter of the mailing list. I've looked at about 15 messages from you, most of them insulting, some voicing opinions that run contrary to fact, and suggesting that you have a good overall understanding of the project. Given that you don't know who Kris is, it's difficult to believe the last point. In any case: please read the charter. Please abide by it. If you don't, you're in line to become one of the select few who have ever been banned from this list. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim with Courier Maildir
Hi, I have been tasked with moving our current sendmail system currently running on fedora to Exim with Courier Imap using Maildir on FreeBSD. Does any one know of any good howto to carry out this operation. Thanks in advance Zen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: entertainment side of fbsd
asolomon15 wrote: I was woundering if anyone ever got a game called Unreal Tournament 2004 running on freebsd? I did google search but didn't find anything. Greetings! I got UT2K3 working all right on my old i386 box. You need to enable Linux emulation, as there only exists builds of that game for Linux (aside from WinBlows). I would imagine the same holds true for UT2K4. -- Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup....base and prefix???
Aaron P. Martinez wrote: I have successfully used cvsup a few times now...and i am comfortable with what the base and the prefix do. My question is why would someone put things in different locations than for instance./usr for both base and/or prefix? I have seen a few different options used both in the cvs up faq on the cvsup homepage, the handbook and also in the complete freebsd they all have different places listed..but not one single place is any discussion about the theory or logic behind where it is placed. This is really just a help me understand the philosophy question as it seems that no matter where i place my 'base' and 'prefix' paths..the cvsup will work...just trying to get a grasp on _why_ i would want it one place more than another. Thanks in advance, Aaron Greetings! Being no authority on the matter, I can let you know my thoughts on it. The base path is where CVSup places all the metadata, i.e. all of the control information regarding the files you download. The prefix path is where CVSup places the files it downloads. The first thing that strikes me logical about changing these two is that you can then track several different branches. For instance, -CURRENT in /usr/src-CURRENT and -STABLE in /usr/src (the default). Alternatively, you can point the base and prefix paths at an NFS mount and in that way seamlessly distribute the sources. In short, your fantasy is the only limitation. The option to change them exists to add flexibility. After all, you'd rather have the option there and never need it, than *not* having it and needing it /desparately/, wouldn't you? ;-) -- Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD support of 3Com 3C2000-T NIC
Hello, is 3Com gigabit 3C2000-T nic supported in FreeBSD4/5? If not, which gigabit nic can you recommend to use? thank you. -- martin hudec * 421 907 303 393 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.aeternal.net Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pgpQvmuQc7PY5.pgp Description: PGP signature
mysql and system/nice cpu usage
Hi, I have web server which uses php+mysql. As far as I have searched the best thing to use mysql on FreeBSD is to use linuxthreads. For the performance and stability I have done following things on my FreeBSD-4.X Stable system: Compile mysql with linuxthreads and as static binary. I have read http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000697.html. I have used mysql 4.0 and 4.1 for my setup but had problems on both of the version. My problem is the mysql eats away lots of CPU time especially in nice and system which is really very very weird. A snapshot of the top is like this: -- 240 processes: 7 running, 233 sleeping CPU states: 10.9% user, 73.9% nice, 12.5% system, 2.7% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 244M Active, 1309M Inact, 309M Wired, 93M Cache, 199M Buf, 56M Free Swap: 3072M Total, 24K Used, 3072M Free --- This system is HTT enabled 2 Xeon 2.8 GHZ with 2 GB RAM. I have disabled SMP and recompiled my kernel but my problem (nice and system cpu times..) still persists. I would appreciate if any of you help me.. REGARDS. --- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.EnderUNIX.ORG Software Development Team @ Turkey http://www.Faruk.NET For Public key: http://www.enderunix.org/ofsen/ofsen.asc First Turkish FreeBSD book is out! Go check it. Duydunuz mu! Turkiye'nin ilk FreeBSD kitabi cikti. http://www.acikkod.com/freebsd.php ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: I have web server which uses php+mysql. As far as I have searched the best thing to use mysql on FreeBSD is to use linuxthreads. [ ... ] 240 processes: 7 running, 233 sleeping CPU states: 10.9% user, 73.9% nice, 12.5% system, 2.7% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 244M Active, 1309M Inact, 309M Wired, 93M Cache, 199M Buf, 56M Free Swap: 3072M Total, 24K Used, 3072M Free Well, you've managed to saturate the available CPU power with the workload. If you've already done some performance tuning at the FreeBSD level by adjusting your kernel config and followed man tuning, you aren't likely to get much further by tweaking FreeBSD's config. Look into optimizing your database utilization by checking the SQL query histogram, particularly if your site ends up doing transaction(s) for each HTTP hit. People write books on database management and tuning, and you should look there rather than to a FreeBSD list for advice. :-) You could also get another machine and run the database and webserver on seperate systems to help site performance by dividing and concentrating the workload. Consider switching from MySQL to postgres or a database you actually pay for: Oracle, Sybase, Frontbase, etc. You could also consider another web middleware/scripting evironment than PHP which handles database interactions more efficiently: Zope, JSP, WebObjects. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Oct 31, 2004, at 1:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: IIRC one set of scripts and utilities for creating a minimal FreeBSD for Soekris is called MiniBSD. You probably mean nanobsd, on FreeBSD 5.X: /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd Thats nice too, but this is what I used and expanded upon for a project: http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....
On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote: nobody ??? OK I'll give it a try. I have a vinum RAID 1 running though, but the way to get it tunning isn't very different. matt virus wrote: Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array with. the devices are: ad4ad11 All drives have been fdisk'd and such, ad4s1d.ad11s1d The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel disklabel -e /dev/ad4 The disk label says it has 8 partitions, but only the A and C partitions are shown... **MY DISKLABEL # /dev/ad4: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 320173040 16unused0 0 c: 3201730560unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit ** c: is not a valid disk label. You need to create one first. See the example below first: there's an e label. You can do this in sysinstall: Configure / Label / ad4 and then C to create one. Once that's done it'll show up in disklabel as you write below. Then in disklabel you can change the 4.2BSD to vinum. Of course you can also add the whole label-line in disklabel itself but I find sysinstall easier. Arno Now, i know i have to change *something* to vinum but i'm unsure which one, or if I need to actually add a line or ??? This is my first time playing with vinum, i've read a handful of howtos and all the documentation I find shows the disklabel looking like this: *HOWTO's Disklabel # disklabel da0 [snip] #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1024000 10240004.2BSD 2048 1638490 b: 10240000 swap c: 179124120unused0 0 e: 15864412 2048000 vinum (source: http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html) Any direction is appreciated :-) -matt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing
On Sunday, 31. October 2004 09:51, Jay Moore wrote: 2) Wouldn't voting with your pocketbook be more persuasive than whining? I recently bought two WiFI cards that use the Prism chipset (seattlewireless.net) 'cause they've got better support in the systems I use. This purchase represents a loss for TI the mfrs who buy their ACX100 chips, and a gain for Intersil and their customers. The free market is pretty effective at sorting these things out. It's obviously not, because (as a !Windows user) your pocketbook isn't even registered for voting. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org pgpZ7SeIFdw0M.pgp Description: PGP signature
compiling openoffice 1.1.3 error
Hi,
I'm trying to install openoffice 1.1.3 from the ports, but keep getting the
following error message :
checking for X11/extensions/XIElib.h... no
configure: error: Could not compile basic X program.
=== Script configure failed unexpectedly.
Please direct the output of the failure of the make command to a file, and
then feed that file to the gnomelogalyzer, available from
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/gnomelogalyzer.sh, which will diagnose the
problem
and suggest a solution. If - and only if - the gnomelogalyzer cannot solve
the problem, report the problem to the FreeBSD GNOME team at
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
and attach
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/mozilla/work/mozilla/config.log and
the output of the failure of the make command. Also, it might be a good idea
to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
/var/db/pkg`).
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/mozilla.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1.
I'm running 5.3-REL (upgraded/cvsup'ed from 5.2.1) and using Xorg. And here
also the config.log from the mozilla/work dir.
What file(s)/program(s) am I missing here ?
Thanks for the help !
Beni.
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/mozilla/work/mozilla/config.log :
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
configure:833: checking host system type
configure:854: checking target system type
configure:872: checking build system type
configure:1980: checking for gcc
configure:2093: checking whether the C compiler (gcc32 -O -pipe ) works
configure:2109: gcc32 -o conftest -O -pipeconftest.c 15
configure:2135: checking whether the C compiler (gcc32 -O -pipe ) is a
cross-compiler
configure:2140: checking whether we are using GNU C
configure:2149: gcc32 -E conftest.c
configure:2168: checking whether gcc32 accepts -g
configure:2204: checking for c++
configure:2236: checking whether the C++ compiler (g++32 -O -pipe ) works
configure:2252: g++32 -o conftest -O -pipe conftest.C 15
configure:2278: checking whether the C++ compiler (g++32 -O -pipe ) is a
cross-compiler
configure:2283: checking whether we are using GNU C++
configure:2292: g++32 -E conftest.C
configure:2311: checking whether g++32 accepts -g
configure:2360: gcc32 -c -O -pipe conftest.c 15
configure:2377: gcc32 -c -O -pipe conftest.c 15
configure:2396: checking for ranlib
configure:2428: checking for as
configure:2469: checking for ar
configure:2510: checking for ld
configure:2551: checking for strip
configure:2592: checking for dlltool
configure:2654: checking whether gcc32 and cc understand -c and -o together
configure:2669: gcc32 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o 15
configure:2670: gcc32 -c conftest.c -o conftest.o 15
configure:2675: cc -c conftest.c 15
configure:2677: cc -c conftest.c -o conftest.o 15
configure:2678: cc -c conftest.c -o conftest.o 15
configure:2739: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:2760: gcc32 -E conftest.c /dev/null 2conftest.out
configure:2819: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor
configure:2837: g++32 -E conftest.C /dev/null 2conftest.out
configure:2873: checking for a BSD compatible install
configure:2926: checking whether ln -s works
configure:2951: checking for gawk
configure:2951: checking for mawk
configure:2951: checking for nawk
configure:2985: checking for xemacs
configure:2985: checking for lemacs
configure:2985: checking for emacs
configure:3026: checking for perl5
configure:3066: checking for minimum required perl version = 5.004
configure:3076: checking for full perl installation
configure:3089: checking for whoami
configure:3125: checking for autoconf
configure:3161: checking for unzip
configure:3199: checking for zip
configure:3240: checking for makedepend
configure:3275: checking for xargs
configure:3316: checking for gmake
configure:3372: checking whether /usr/local/bin/gmake sets ${MAKE}
configure:3404: checking for X
configure:3718: checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet
configure:3737: gcc32 -o conftest -O -pipeconftest.c -ldnet 15
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldnet
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 3726 configure
#include confdefs.h
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char dnet_ntoa();
int main() {
dnet_ntoa()
; return 0; }
configure:3759: checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub
configure:3778: gcc32 -o conftest -O -pipeconftest.c -ldnet_stub 15
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldnet_stub
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 3767 configure
#include confdefs.h
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char dnet_ntoa();
int
MySQL not responding
I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server with Apache 2, mod_php4, and MySQL4. Individually all the pieces work. Apache up and serving pages, PHP pages work, and MySQL is working and I restored my databases from a Linux project. I also moved all my working code from an old Linux project. I also checked the accounts on MySQL and passwords so they would work with the old code. Problem: Any page that calls MySQL stops at the MySQL call and sits there forever. I threw in some debug code to confirm it is executing right up to the call to MySQL. What have I missed in setting this environment up. Is there something I need to do to Apache to call MySQL. Do I need to install MySQL client, I only install the server. Can someone point me to some doc or advice on what to check next. Thanks, Steve B. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VPN questions
Hello Chris PPTP works also behind NAT and key is 128 bit long. In most parts 12b bit are enough. PPTP is also a vpn solutions. Am Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:28:10PM -0400 Chris Shenton schrieb: Aaron P. Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest looking at openvpn, it is a ssl based vpn that is fairly easy to set up. I might shy away from freeswan as it is for the most part out of development, only one more rollup and that's it. Any suggestions for something compatible with Cisco's 3080 VPN product? Something that will work from behind my home NAT box, ideally? -- Regards Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; pgpuiTWobCz2g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1
Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. The other method I've seen discussed is to set up a LINUX box and install on that onto an NFS mounted directory (which has the same directory path on both the FreeBSD and LINUX boxes. Installation of 9i and 10g are covered for various LINUX distributions on the site www.puschitz.org; the RH ES3 instructions work fine for at least one RH ES3 clone, WhiteBox LINUX. All the instructions I've seen call for installing different versions of various things, such the the libraries; apparently Oracle looks for very specific versions during the install. I've never tried the installation under FreeBSD, postgreSQL is more than sufficient for me needs (since I don't need to run any Oracle-based clients). I have seen a note that all 8i versions are now de-supported by Oracle; I can also personally attest that the 9i client does not work reliably with 10g in a grid environment. Mike Squires ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage
Everything that is stated in tuning man page was done. What is interesting that this site was running more than 8 months without problem. But a few weeks ago system was started to behave like that. By the way isn't it interesting that mysql creates load on system and nice? I think mysql should create load on user. That is why I have send this problem to FreeBSD mailing list. I am using FreeBSD for more that 4 years but never come across with a problem like that. I am thinking to use Zend Optimizer. Maybe that helps me .. If that doesn't help I was thinking to run sql on a seperate machine. Chuck Swiger writes: Omer Faruk Sen wrote: I have web server which uses php+mysql. As far as I have searched the best thing to use mysql on FreeBSD is to use linuxthreads. [ ... ] 240 processes: 7 running, 233 sleeping CPU states: 10.9% user, 73.9% nice, 12.5% system, 2.7% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 244M Active, 1309M Inact, 309M Wired, 93M Cache, 199M Buf, 56M Free Swap: 3072M Total, 24K Used, 3072M Free Well, you've managed to saturate the available CPU power with the workload. If you've already done some performance tuning at the FreeBSD level by adjusting your kernel config and followed man tuning, you aren't likely to get much further by tweaking FreeBSD's config. Look into optimizing your database utilization by checking the SQL query histogram, particularly if your site ends up doing transaction(s) for each HTTP hit. People write books on database management and tuning, and you should look there rather than to a FreeBSD list for advice. :-) You could also get another machine and run the database and webserver on seperate systems to help site performance by dividing and concentrating the workload. Consider switching from MySQL to postgres or a database you actually pay for: Oracle, Sybase, Frontbase, etc. You could also consider another web middleware/scripting evironment than PHP which handles database interactions more efficiently: Zope, JSP, WebObjects. -- -Chuck --- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.EnderUNIX.ORG Software Development Team @ Turkey http://www.Faruk.NET For Public key: http://www.enderunix.org/ofsen/ofsen.asc First Turkish FreeBSD book is out! Go check it. Duydunuz mu! Turkiye'nin ilk FreeBSD kitabi cikti. http://www.acikkod.com/freebsd.php ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Determining original FBSD version
I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL not responding
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:51:41 -0800, steveb99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server with Apache 2, mod_php4, and MySQL4. Individually all the pieces work. Apache up and serving pages, PHP pages work, and MySQL is working and I restored my databases from a Linux project. I also moved all my working code from an old Linux project. I also checked the accounts on MySQL and passwords so they would work with the old code. Problem: Any page that calls MySQL stops at the MySQL call and sits there forever. I threw in some debug code to confirm it is executing right up to the call to MySQL. What have I missed in setting this environment up. Is there something I need to do to Apache to call MySQL. Do I need to install MySQL client, I only install the server. Hi Steve, Have you checked the Apache and MySQLd log files? Have you also turned on full error reporting in php.ini/checked your php.ini? Hope this helps, David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining original FBSD version
Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a). Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soekris engineering routers
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, LiQuiD wrote: I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one of those boxes using a compact flash card? My current firewall is FreeBSD 5.3-beta7 running on a Celeron 700 with a pair of xl NICs running from a 128MB Compact Flash card via an IDE-CF convertor. I basically installed FreeBSD on a spare parition on my desktop, recompiled the kernel to remove stuff that I didn't need and copies directories like /usr, /bin etc over (very unscientific but I was in a rush and didn't have time to write a nice script to automate it yet). The CF card is mounted read only. rc.conf looks like this: hostname=gimli.middleearth ifconfig_xl0=DHCP ifconfig_xl1=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xff00 sshd_enable=YES varmfs=YES tmpmfs=YES populate_var=YES pf_enable=YES (unfortunately the stuff in the handbook regarding read only file systems is obsoleted by rcNG) and fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1a / ufs ro 0 0 You could very very easily fit it onto a 64MB CF card or maybe even 32 if you leave out some of the kernel modules, it just takes a bit more thought and time. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org pgpDmoIaTgW8P.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Laptops as routers
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 it looks like Emanuel Strobl composed: Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and I'm sure 64 MB and a 1gig hard drive would suffice. Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid? Bad idea IMHO. I'd suggest having a look at http://www.soekris.com/ (net4501 for easiest requirements, better 4801, all in one extendable box) or if you need just basic 586cpu-power without extendability and only (well designed) ethernet ports see: http://www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm You can use any type of PC as terminal to operate these boxes vi the serial interface. Perhaps you already have any old vt100 terminal handy. But I don''t have an answer to your original question, sorry. Although I'd like to mention that old laptops often can't handle modern PC-CARDSs (CARDBUS), PCMCIA was 5v and 16 bit wide, very slow and really not sutable for routing purposes! I used to have a spare 486/dx4-100 laptop that I would use ONLY when I had to take my main machine off the grid here at home. It had the exact same ipaddr/settings as the main router/NAT machine did and it worked well. It was an old Toshiba that didn't even have a CDROM. It was that old. The thing about it was that it was brand new !! Nobody wanted to use it at my friends work so the IT guy just gave it to me. So I refer to it as my brand-new-low-mileage-1962-Ford-Falcon-laptop I would of course never have it on the net at the same time but kept the CAT5 cables just barely unsnapped at their points of entry to the network (DSL router and switch) so it would only take the time to boot it and snap in the CAT5's to be routing again. -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,CA 94121 | but rather to skid in sideways, totally http://billschoolcraft.com | spent, yelling holy shit, what a ride! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatible NIC
In a message dated 10/31/04 5:00:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No one is forcing you to read anything. I never copy you on anythere, I'm not sure what anythere means, but by sending messages to the mailing list, you're copying Kris and everybody else who is on the list. You don't actually read every message on every list you are on, do you? If you do then you really need a hobby. I scan the subjects and read the 2 or 3 out of 50 that sound interesting. I suggest you do the same. A member of the Gustapo said: Kris was just asking you to respect the charter of the mailing list. I've looked at about 15 messages from you, most of them insulting, some voicing opinions that run contrary to fact, and suggesting that you have a good overall understanding of the project. Given that you don't know who Kris is, it's difficult to believe the last point. --- So the charter of the mailing list is that only good and positive things can be said about FreeBSD, and no one is allowed to make distinctions between good and bad code and/or drivers? Is the soviet union back or what? The charter of this list is for people who want answers about FreeBSD to be able to get them. I felt it necessary to join when I noticed that EVERYONE on the list cheerfully steers poor suckers into using 5.x, even though it appears, after having to beat it out of them, everyone pretty much admits that 5.x isn't better than 4.x at the moment, and that even 5.3 is going to be a lower performer. To me, spinning the tale of 5.x to those in search of real answers is violating the charter, unless the charter has changed to shamelessly steering everyone to use 5.x for internal, political purposes. I know who Kris is. I respect and appreciate his contributions. I don't respect being lied to. And I don't respect the unconditional rejection of criticism by the team. And I haven't seen any evidence that anyone really has a clue as to how to measure the performance of the product they're developing. I was ridiculed for tearing apart the only test results posted, yet no credible ones were offered. I was asked for an explanation as to why I question drivers written by a certain developer, and I provided the info. Instead of credible counterpoint, I was told that I was wasting people's time. How am I wasting someone's time when I'm telling them not to use drivers that very likely have flaws? How are you helping someone by cheerfully recommending things known to be poorly done? To not hurt the developer's feelings? Is this forum about helping users or about coddling developers? Optimizing a driver is as important as making it bug free. If they do a half-assed job then criticism is warranted. Its easy to dismiss people who ask hard questions as trolls. Its a lot more difficult to answer the questions credibly. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)
After upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-RC1 (including a recompile of all ports), I noticed my system locking up when there was a high network load. A common way to reproduce this is to run a BiTTorrent client and, say, copy a file to another local machine over NFS. The computer does not respond to pings or any key presses. I'm using the lnc(4) driver for an AMD PCnet PCI ethernet card (exact model escapes me) [Am79C970/1/2/3/5/6 PCnet LANCE PCI Ethernet Controller]. (I'm aware of the pcn(4) driver, but cannot get it to recognize the card). I can reproduce this with both the 4BSD and ULE schedulers, if that matters. All relevant sysctl variables are defaults. Is this a known issue? Any ideas? Thanks. -- Joshua Beard % echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]|sed 's/\%//g; s/=//g'|rev PGP Key: http://www.hewbert.com/pgp.asc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A question about X
Hi! I have Freebsd 5.1 installed (never cvsup'ed). Yesterday my box was running all the day(without rebooting), and during that time i've installed many of ports(Krusader, Psi, mplayer, and so on). Everything was fine, but when I booted freebsd today, typed startx, (I'm using GNOME), I found, that there was only icons of menus, programs, but no names or inscription. After discovering this problem() I decided to reinstall X-server with all dependences. So my question is: HOW CAN I DO THIS? (what steps should I make to deinstall/install? Can I use the ports tree?) Or, if you can, you can give me a better way to fix this? Great thanks for your time and attention. #XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 24 May 2003 # ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage
In a message dated 10/31/04 11:03:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but never come across with a problem like that. I am thinking to use Zend Optimizer. Maybe that helps me .. If that doesn't help I was thinking to run sql on a seperate machine. You might try tuning kern.vm.kmem.size if thats not in the tuning suggestions. The OS tends to allocate way more memory than needed for the kernel if you have a lot of memory in the system; you probably don't need more than 100M or so unless you're running bgp or something unusual. Once you start swapping with mysql and php you're dead. Moving to another system can help, but be aware that if your network is busy it can add some different inefficiencies. If you do go to a separate system connect it with a dedicated NIC if possible, to alleviate network backup. If you have a multiple bus machine, moving your NIC to a separate bus from the HDD can significantly increase performance. When you have the NIC and HDD on the same bus, heavy network traffic can cause disk operations to back up and substantially slow database applications. Make sure the busses are really separate (and not cascaded), otherwise it won't help. Also if you're on a 32bit bus machine you'll have a lot more contention than with a pci-x bus. Most people think that if you have enough bus then it doesnt matter, but thats dead wrong. Bus contention between devices is a major performance factor. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)
In a message dated 10/31/04 11:56:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3-RC1 (including a recompile of all ports), I noticed my system locking up when there was a high network load. A common way to reproduce this is to run a BiTTorrent client and, say, copy a file to another local machine over NFS. The computer does not respond to pings or any key presses. I'm using the lnc(4) driver for an AMD PCnet PCI ethernet card (exact model escapes me) [Am79C970/1/2/3/5/6 PCnet LANCE PCI Ethernet Controller]. (I'm aware of the pcn(4) driver, but cannot get it to recognize the card). I can reproduce this with both the 4BSD and ULE schedulers, if that matters. All relevant sysctl variables are defaults. Is this a known issue? Any ideas? Thanks. Are you certain that its not NFS that's locking up? Certainly the use of NFS muddies the issue, as it doesnt like losing packets and isn't very eloquent in its handling of adversity. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A simple question
Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network is very slow... :( Thanks in advance! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing
On Sunday 31 October 2004 07:41 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote: 2) Wouldn't voting with your pocketbook be more persuasive than whining? I recently bought two WiFI cards that use the Prism chipset (seattlewireless.net) 'cause they've got better support in the systems I use. This purchase represents a loss for TI the mfrs who buy their ACX100 chips, and a gain for Intersil and their customers. The free market is pretty effective at sorting these things out. It's obviously not, because (as a !Windows user) your pocketbook isn't even registered for voting. Oh yes it is... my vote may go for Ralph Nader, but it's still a vote! And I think you may under-estimate just how many people and organizations are using open source and/or free software. Respectfully, Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD burners
I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? TIA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage
Hi The oid you are talking about is not valid in FreeBSD-4. Maybe you are talking about FreeBSD-5 sysctl oids? But it does worth to try but I am not sure which oid it is in FreeBSD 4.. REGARDS PS: I have found vm.kvm_size. I think it is the one that corresponds in your email? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 10/31/04 11:03:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but never come across with a problem like that. I am thinking to use Zend Optimizer. Maybe that helps me .. If that doesn't help I was thinking to run sql on a seperate machine. You might try tuning kern.vm.kmem.size if thats not in the tuning suggestions. The OS tends to allocate way more memory than needed for the kernel if you have a lot of memory in the system; you probably don't need more than 100M or so unless you're running bgp or something unusual. Once you start swapping with mysql and php you're dead. Moving to another system can help, but be aware that if your network is busy it can add some different inefficiencies. If you do go to a separate system connect it with a dedicated NIC if possible, to alleviate network backup. If you have a multiple bus machine, moving your NIC to a separate bus from the HDD can significantly increase performance. When you have the NIC and HDD on the same bus, heavy network traffic can cause disk operations to back up and substantially slow database applications. Make sure the busses are really separate (and not cascaded), otherwise it won't help. Also if you're on a 32bit bus machine you'll have a lot more contention than with a pci-x bus. Most people think that if you have enough bus then it doesnt matter, but thats dead wrong. Bus contention between devices is a major performance factor. --- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.EnderUNIX.ORG Software Development Team @ Turkey http://www.Faruk.NET For Public key: http://www.enderunix.org/ofsen/ofsen.asc First Turkish FreeBSD book is out! Go check it. Duydunuz mu! Turkiye'nin ilk FreeBSD kitabi cikti. http://www.acikkod.com/freebsd.php ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing
On Sunday, 31. October 2004 18:21, Jay Moore wrote: And I think you may under-estimate just how many people and organizations are using open source and/or free software. No, it doesn't work that way. You as a *BSD/Linux user were never meant to purchase a $40 wireless NIC with a TI chipset that says software requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP on the box or a $1399 OEM notebook with a builtin TI chipset that comes with Windows XP Home Edition. If you do, it's your problem, and if you don't, your purchase won't be missed by anyone. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org pgpqSVAwHSEYJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage
By the way here is my vmstat -m output: Memory statistics by bucket size Size In Use Free Requests HighWater Couldfree 16 105747917787211280 0 32 653 16512086878 640 19 64 130358 18122 19867705 320 27489 128 3120 2032 18073586 160 47472 256 127456 14725097033 80254 512 275245 32349 40 68 1K 1393533956273 20 522307 2K 27319 9225 10 6887 4K 24 1 3179 5 0 8K9 0 20 5 0 16K 10 0 3321 5 0 64K1 0 1 5 0 128K3 0 11 5 0 256K1 0 1 5 0 512K6 0 6 5 0 Memory usage type by bucket size Size Type(s) 16 uc_devlist, nexusdev, devbuf, UFS dirhash, p1003.1b, dummynet, routetbl, ether_multi, vnodes, mount, pcb, soname, atexit, accf, proc-args, kld, rman, bus, sysctloid, sysctl, temp 32 atkbddev, devbuf, UFS dirhash, dirrem, mkdir, diradd, freefile, freefrag, indirdep, bmsafemap, newblk, tseg_qent, in_multi, routetbl, ether_multi, ifaddr, BPF, vnodes, cluster_save buffer, pcb, accf, proc-args, sigio, file desc to leader, kld, taskqueue, SWAP, eventhandler, bus, sysctloid, sysctl, uidinfo, subproc, pgrp, temp 64 devbuf, lockf, isadev, UFS dirhash, allocindir, allocdirect, pagedep, routetbl, ether_multi, ifaddr, vnodes, vfscache, pcb, proc-args, file, rman, eventhandler, bus, sysctloid, subproc, session, temp 128 devbuf, ZONE, UFS dirhash, freeblks, inodedep, dummynet, routetbl, vnodes, mount, vfscache, soname, ttys, zombie, proc-args, dev_t, timecounter, kld, bus, cred, temp 256 devbuf, UFS dirhash, FFS node, newblk, IpFw/IpAcct, dummynet, routetbl, ifaddr, vnodes, vfscache, ttys, proc-args, kqueue, file desc, bus, subproc, temp 512 devbuf, UFS dirhash, UFS mount, dummynet, mount, BIO buffer, ptys, file desc, msg, ioctlops, bus, temp 1K uc_devlist, devbuf, dummynet, kqueue, file desc, sem, ioctlops, bus, uidinfo, temp 2K devbuf, UFS mount, ifaddr, BIO buffer, pcb, file desc, bus, temp 4K memdesc, devbuf, UFS mount, sem, msg, bus, subproc, proc, temp 8K UFS mount, syncache, dummynet, bus, temp 16K devbuf, indirdep, shm, msg, bus 64K pagedep 128K mbuf, VM pgdata, temp 256K MSDOSFS mount 512K UFS ihash, inodedep, vfscache, ISOFS mount, SWAP, temp Memory statistics by type Type Kern Type InUse MemUse HighUse Limit Requests Limit Limit Size(s) atkbddev 2 1K 1K102400K20 0 32 uc_devlist16 2K 2K102400K 160 0 16,1K nexusdev 3 1K 1K102400K30 0 16 memdesc 1 4K 4K102400K10 0 4K mbuf 188K 88K102400K10 0 128K devbuf 769 344K504K102400K 28520 0 16,32,64,128,256,512,1K,2K,4K,16K lockf54 4K 11K102400K 10079150 0 64 isadev12 1K 1K102400K 120 0 64 ZONE14 2K 2K102400K 140 0 128 VM pgdata 1 128K128K102400K10 0 128K UFS dirhash 657 131K257K102400K 26100 0 16,32,64,128,256,512 UFS mount1847K 47K102400K 180 0 512,2K,4K,8K UFS ihash 1 512K512K102400K10 0 512K FFS node121493 30374K 30374K102400K 43359640 0 256 dirrem 3 1K 2K102400K 2784480 0 32 mkdir 0 0K 1K102400K80 0 32 diradd 2 1K 2K102400K 2802390 0 32 freefile 1 1K 1K102400K 2603850 0 32 freeblks 3 1K 37K102400K 2025220 0 128 freefrag 2 1K 3K102400K630400 0 32 allocindir 5 1K 1381K102400K 1765910 0 64 indirdep 1 1K 49K102400K 47790 0 32,16K allocdirect 3 1K 36K102400K 3436450 0 64 bmsafemap 4 1K 1K102400K148770 0 32 newblk 1 1K 1K102400K 5202370 0 32,256 inodedep 9 513K551K102400K 2662680 0 128,512K pagedep 465K 65K102400K 90890 0 64,64K p1003.1b 1 1K 1K102400K10 0 16 syncache 1 8K 8K102400K10 0 8K tseg_qent 1 1K 2K102400K 45670 0 32 IpFw/IpAcct 7 2K 2K102400K70 0 256 dummynet 1050 141K163K102400K 124157120 0 16,128,256,512,1K,8K in_multi 3 1K 1K102400K30 0 32 routetbl 29241K501K102400K 2228470 0 16,32,64,128,256 ether_multi
Re: ACX100 Firmware Licensing
On Sunday 31 October 2004 11:36 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote: And I think you may under-estimate just how many people and organizations are using open source and/or free software. No, it doesn't work that way. You as a *BSD/Linux user were never meant to purchase a $40 wireless NIC with a TI chipset that says software requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP on the box or a $1399 OEM notebook with a builtin TI chipset that comes with Windows XP Home Edition. If you do, it's your problem, and if you don't, your purchase won't be missed by anyone. Well join the whiners then, Michael. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why going outside and searching the internet? You have a complete operating system, and it's one of the best documented out there. Just 'man ata', 'man atacontrol' and 'man gmirror'. Remember that FreeBSD isn't just a hacked kernel with lots of stuff arround without any sense, it's standardized an documented! ;) Ok, I looked at man gmirror, but found nothing for my 5.2.1 system. As you mentioned, gmirror is for 5.3 only. I missed man atacontrol, sorry for this. Now I've looked at its man page, looks good. Only one problem: man page says that I can only rebuild an RAID1 array on RAID capable ATA controllers. But I have no such real ATA controller. How can I replace a faulty disk with atacontrol on a normal ATA controller then? Thanks for your help, Emanuel! Greetings, Matthias -- You don't know what it's like -- I'm the one out there every day putting his ass on the line. And I'm not out of order! You're out of order! The whole freaking system is out of order! -- Homer Simpson Secrets of a Successful Marriage ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A simple question
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:20:08PM +0600, baguio_sun wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? About 350 MB. I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network is very slow... :( If you have a slow network connection, then it can indeed take a lot of time for the initial run of cvsup. Future runs will be faster, since only the changes will be fetched but the first run has to fetch everything. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 19:01 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why going outside and searching the internet? You have a complete operating system, and it's one of the best documented out there. Just 'man ata', 'man atacontrol' and 'man gmirror'. Remember that FreeBSD isn't just a hacked kernel with lots of stuff arround without any sense, it's standardized an documented! ;) Ok, I looked at man gmirror, but found nothing for my 5.2.1 system. As you mentioned, gmirror is for 5.3 only. I missed man atacontrol, sorry for this. Now I've looked at its man page, looks good. Only one problem: man page says that I can only rebuild an RAID1 array on RAID capable ATA controllers. But I have no such real ATA controller. How can I replace a faulty disk with atacontrol on a normal ATA controller then? You can use 'atacontrol detach' then powerdown, replace the drive and after booting you can 'atacontrol addspar ar0 ad6' (or what ever drive and array failed) and 'atacontrol rebuild ar0'. I've done some simulation of this but never had a real failed drive, also I never checked data integry by md5 sums or something like that. One important thing: If you simulate the failure by 'atacontrol detach' make sure to wipe out the first and last sectors of the failed disk, because otherwise ata would detect two raid arrays when booting next time and if you failed the first drive you get messed up! -Mano Thanks for your help, Emanuel! Greetings, Matthias pgpJPCNTDZajb.pgp Description: PGP signature
how to convert a non-RAID system to gmirror?
Hi all, I have two disk ad0 and ad2. FreeBSD 5.3 is installed on ad0, I can boot from it. Now I want to create a software RAID via gmirror with ad2. My question is: how can I create the array with the spare disk so that I can reboot from it without loosing any data or reinstall the whole system? Hope you can help me on this... Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- Who spread garbage all over Flanders's yard before I got a chance to? -- Homer Simpson Two Dozen and One Greyhounds ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: A simple question
Hello baguio_sun, Sunday, October 31, 2004, 7:23:06 PM, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:20:08PM +0600, baguio_sun wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me the size of folder '/usr/src' when the cvsup is complete? About 350 MB. I ran cvsup 8 hours ago and it's still running ... my network is very slow... :( you could get you source from installation CD and then run cvsup. then it should download only changed files... If you have a slow network connection, then it can indeed take a lot of time for the initial run of cvsup. Future runs will be faster, since only the changes will be fetched but the first run has to fetch everything. -- Best regards +--==/\/\==--+ | DanGer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ261701668 | | http://danger.homeunix.org | +--==\/\/==--+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- You can use 'atacontrol detach' then powerdown, replace the drive and after booting you can 'atacontrol addspar ar0 ad6' (or what ever drive and array failed) and 'atacontrol rebuild ar0'. Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. How can I rebuild the array on a normal ATA controller? Greetings, Matthias -- Marge, I ate those fancy soaps you bought for the bathroom. -- Homer Simpson The Front ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3
Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I don't see anything about that in the Early Adopter Guide. Assuming that I'm quite comfortable with day-to-day system administration under FreeBSD 4 but want to start using 5 on new systems when 5.3 comes out, what do I need to know? --Paul Hoffman ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining original FBSD version
jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a). Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer. That gave me an idea. I looked at the date of kernel.GENERIC, and a few other files in /etc. They have a date of April 21 2001. All I have to do to find out the exact version, is to boot the GENERIC kernel. I dont have a keyboard/monitor hooked up to it right now, but I'll check it out, before I destroy it when I install 5.3. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. Ahh, would it be possible to dd data to the new disk? And if yes: Is this the correct way create the array for the first time? I mean I have an existing installation on one disk. Now can I just dd data to the second disk, create mirror via atacontrol, edit fstab accordingly, and reboot into RAID without any other changes? Greetings, Matthias -- It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. -- Homer Simpson Colonel Homer ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.3-STABLE slower than 5.3-beta3 (gnome)
Hi there I just upgraded from beta3 to STABLE (NO -RELEASE this time) and gnome takes like 10 secs more to start any particular reasson for that??? the scheudeler swtch maybe? it's not a conf file I think I've checked everthing PS: the boot time improved a lot Jorge _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:38:02PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Here is a better idea! Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram). Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster. Step 3: Install said network cards into computers. Step 4: Install and configure m0n0wall on said computers. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ Step 5: Profit??? -- Total Cost: $0.00 Well, depending on your geographic location, you may want to consider power consumption as the main cost factor here. A Soekris box would consume something around 5-10 Watt or so on average. Compare this to even the slowest Pentium. Oh, and they are absolutely silent as well :-) -cpghost. The Soekris boxes are awesome, I'd LOVE to have one, But even with the power consumption, size, fanless arguments I still cannot justify the cost ($194 for a net4501-30 Board, Case, and PS) when I have old computers taking up space in my workshop. Money doesn't grow on trees in the world of small business. If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml 2. Remove all non-essential components from the system (CD-Roms, Hard drives, floppy drives, add-in cards, etc) and disable in the BIOS anything that can't be removed (floppy controller, sound card, printer and serial ports, secondary IDE controller, etc.). 3. Underclock and/or mount a big heatsink onto the CPU so you can remove the cpu fan. 4. One 64MB stick of ram uses less power then two 32MB sticks, follow that logic. 5. Remove some or all case fans because, Heat Isn't an issue unless your cpu is like 400Mhz+, you will still have the power supply fan for cooling. CPU (at full load): 30 Watts Mainboard: 10 Watts RAM: 5 Watts 3 NIC: 15 Watts 1 Fan: 5 Watts The Unkown: 10 Watts --- Total: 75 Watt Light Bulb It will take me 3.98 years just to recoup the cost of the net4501. (g+a)/d/c = h = 34931 (3.98 years) a/d/c = e, be = f, fd = g a = net4501-30 Board, Case, and Power Supply = $194 b = power used by net4501 = 0.012kWh c = power used by oldcomp = 0.075kWh d = Price (residential) of 1kWh = $0.0859 http://www.midamericanenergy.com/html/aboutus2.asp e = Number of hours I can run the computer until I spend $194 (the price of the net4501) in power. f = How many kWh the net4501 will uses in the same amount of time that it takes me the spend $194 in power using the computer. g = The price of those kWh's the net4501 uses h = How long (in hours) it will take to recoup the cost of buying the net4501 instead of just using an old computer. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question about X
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:09:36 +0600, baguio_sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 24 May 2003 # I would recommend you to upgrade to Xorg. Refer to the handbook for details on uninstalling Xserver and installing Xorg Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners
R. W. wrote: I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? Your mileage may vary. Consider: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? Sure. Oh, it's possible you can run into problems with your ATA cabling or the controller, but if you've got decent hardware you should be fine. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:30:05 + R. W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? I have a Plextor PX-708 that is working perfectly on a 5.3-STABLE, but it's not double-layer. My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? All you need is atapi_dma turned on. -- 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: Xorg86 -config error
Yes, it's a 6 year old Gateway Laptop. I thought this informations was for new users of their port system. Anyway, I found a solution. I installed v5.2.1 on it. I still have a few errors that I am working out, but the Xserver starts fine. I'll start a new thread for them. Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Lloyd Hayes wrote: Sorry, I didn't finish the reply before sending the previous message. Yes, I was logged in as root. I was looking and could not find a configuration file, so I started reading the docs. They refer to setting the X- software during the installation, but that option was not presented to me. I can install v5.2.1 and it will be right there. But on v5.3, it isn't there. The docs on the CD also referred to using : Xorg -configure You've read the error that I got. So, I headed for the Xorg website and downloaded some of their PDF help files. These two pages are part of the same online document which you can download in PDF format. http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport2.html http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport3.html Xorg only has a 1280x1024 mode. My old laptop supports an 800x600x18 screen. (As opposed to the 800x600x16 that I posted before.) Xorg supports 8 and 24 bit color. Lloyd Hayes OK, so what you meant to say is something like X.Org only supports 8 and 24-bit modes at 1280x1024 for the SGI newport cards. Now, is that really the card you have? I'm rather dense, but I thought you said you have a Gateway laptop, not an SGI workstation with a newport video card in it ... KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
External Hard drive
I took the 10 GB hard drive out of a 4 year old laptop, which had died, and put it into a generic hard drive box, which connects to my laptop by USB cable. It pulls it's power from the computer. It sometimes worked with Windows 98SE. But it would not work with Windows 98SE if I also had my external CD ROM installed. (Installed! Not simply connected.) There was a conflict, and Win 98SE would only recognized the 1st of these two devices which were installed. It works fine with Win XP. So much for Windows. I had FreeBSD installed earlier this year on this same laptop. Like Windows XP, I don't remember it having any problem with these devices. I have been using this 6 year old laptop as a test bed for the different versions of Linux and FreeBSD. (The built-in CD ROM is almost worn out.) I just put v5.2.1 back on this laptop. It doesn't want to recognize this hard drive. I have checked the 'dmesg' and can't see any mention of this connection. I can connect and disconnect this drive while the system is running and not get any messages. I have ssh running and it is obviously doing something to the drive since I hear the drive clicking on/off. In fact, it sounds like a clock. (I am constantly getting messages from ssh.) Any ideas here? -- Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xfmail install problem.
I replaced v5.3 with v5.2.1. I have a few problems and errors, that I'll setup as separate threads. During the install process, xfmail was read, but would not install. It said to refer to the error log. 1st, I'm not familiar with the log and can't find information about it. (Or else I am looking in the wrong place.) After the installation was complete, I went back and tried to do a post install. I got the same error. I'm not sure how much I need it either. -- Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WiFi 802.11b or g setup
I have several wifi modems. I've read where the Linksys 802.11b seems the most compatable with UNIX type systems. I bought this one recently. I also have the US Robodics 802.11g, Netware 802.11b, and a generic wavelan 802.11b PCMCIA card. I have yet to get any of these to work under a UNIX type system. Obviously there is something here that I don't understand. Anyone have some step-by-step instuctions for this idiot? -- Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:49:07 -0700, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I don't see anything about that in the Early Adopter Guide. Assuming that I'm quite comfortable with day-to-day system administration under FreeBSD 4 but want to start using 5 on new systems when 5.3 comes out, what do I need to know? Maybe this helps. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html Cheers, David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3
At 8:02 PM + 10/31/04, David Jenkins wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:49:07 -0700, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I don't see anything about that in the Early Adopter Guide. Assuming that I'm quite comfortable with day-to-day system administration under FreeBSD 4 but want to start using 5 on new systems when 5.3 comes out, what do I need to know? Maybe this helps. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html Bingo, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Are there any other admin-visible changes in 5.3 I should be looking for? --Paul Hoffman ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipfw configuration to intercept SMTP traffic
Gentleones, I have a commercial website/mail product running on a box. Unfortunately, the product is not so smart and when it needs to bounce something, it ignores the SMTP Always Relay Via setting and attempts to connect directly to the mail exchanger for the domain it's bouncing to. So what I figure I can do is redirect port 25 of me to any to port 25 of the upstream server at aa.bb.cc.dd. That makes sense, right? So I'd probably use: ipfw add 8000 divert 25 all from me to aa.bb.cc.dd via en0 (8000 is OK because the only other rule in there right now is the default at 65535.) Well, that's what I tried and it looks like the SMTP server is still trying (and failing) to contact the servers directly. A telnet somehost.net 25 executed on this box fails, too, where it should get me the upstream relay server. So have I goofed the rule? (Yes.) OK, then how have I goofed it? Thanks, Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sun box
Hexren wrote: KC Hi there KC Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is it possible to run BSD on VMware KC Kim KC ___ KC [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list KC http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions KC To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I dunno about the SunBox but VMware is possible. Currently I run FreeBSD 4.10 in a VMware Workstation Version 4.0.5. The machine hosting the Virtual Machine is running Windows XP. Though I must admit I wasn't able to bring a FreeBSD Version greater than 4.10 to work in the VM.(I only tried 5.2.1) Hexren I've had 5-CURRENT (around 5.1.X at the time) running without issues under VMWare. There are one or two configuration gotchas which can be found on the VMWare support forum site or googledadding back in a 'FreeBSD' token basically for the OS type...which is virtually the same as the existing Linux OS config... Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining original FBSD version
- Original Message - From: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsdquestions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:20 PM Subject: Determining original FBSD version I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... Thanks I believe you're looking for uname -a. man uname for more info. Eihab E. Ibrahim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1
Michael L. Squires wrote: Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. I am using a tutorial I found using this method, but this person's install didn't run into the ins_precomp.mk bug which requires the glibc stubs, so it is rather unclear how to proceed. I really would like to proceed with the install this way, the error seems to be something that can be fixed by a -L/compat/linux/lib somewhere. I just cannot figure out where. The other method I've seen discussed is to set up a LINUX box and install on that onto an NFS mounted directory (which has the same directory path on both the FreeBSD and LINUX boxes. I also have heard this, and it will be my last course of action, but I am really hoping to avoid doing it this way Installation of 9i and 10g are covered for various LINUX distributions on the site www.puschitz.org; the RH ES3 instructions work fine for at least one RH ES3 clone, WhiteBox LINUX. All the instructions I've seen call for installing different versions of various things, such the the libraries; apparently Oracle looks for very specific versions during the install. I have installed on Linux before, thanks for the information, as far as 9i or 10g, as I said previously, unfortunately, I am locked into 8i, it is the only version that will meet my needs. My hardware is not strong enough for 9i, and it will be a while before I can upgrade the box to something that will run 9i nicely. When I installed on the 2.4 Linux kernel in the past, it was, to say the least difficult (a 4 day process of googling and tinkering). I am somewhat shocked that noone has run into this in the past, and further why Oracle refuses to support FreeBSD natively (at least with the newer releases). I've never tried the installation under FreeBSD, postgreSQL is more than sufficient for me needs (since I don't need to run any Oracle-based clients). Postgres is a very solid database, and I like it alot, but I pretty much need oracle's functionality as I will be replicating databases from another Oracle machine elsewhere. I dont want to have to modify stored procedures and queries to handle differences in the RDBMS. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 19:42 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- You can use 'atacontrol detach' then powerdown, replace the drive and after booting you can 'atacontrol addspar ar0 ad6' (or what ever drive and array failed) and 'atacontrol rebuild ar0'. Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some years ago) it was not in there. You can use the rebuild command also on non-raid controllers, at least it was possible for me when I did some tests about 3 months ago. As I can see you're considering gmirror, perhaps that's the better solution for you. In all cases, simulate a drive failure, so you do know what to do when one drive really fails. -Mano How can I rebuild the array on a normal ATA controller? Greetings, Matthias pgpicGnquEGHP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sun box
Scott W wrote: Hexren wrote: KC Hi there KC Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is it possible to run BSD on VMware http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html there are a long list of supported hardware using the Sun Sparc chip, essentially everything except stuff running the newer Sparc III chips and the old Ultra 1's. There are a couple of others that you would need to use tftp to boot but its all on the webpage. * Blade 100 * Blade 150 * Enterprise 220R * Enterprise 250 * Enterprise 420R * Enterprise 450 * Fire V100 * Fire V120 * Netra T1 105 * Netra T1 AC200/DC200 * Netra t 1100 * Netra t 1120 * Netra t 1125 * Netra t 1400/1405 * Netra 120 * Netra X1 * SPARCEngine Ultra Axi * SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp * Ultra 5 * Ultra 10 * Ultra 30 * Ultra 60 * Ultra 80 KC Kim KC ___ KC [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list KC http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions KC To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I dunno about the SunBox but VMware is possible. Currently I run FreeBSD 4.10 in a VMware Workstation Version 4.0.5. The machine hosting the Virtual Machine is running Windows XP. Though I must admit I wasn't able to bring a FreeBSD Version greater than 4.10 to work in the VM.(I only tried 5.2.1) Hexren I've had 5-CURRENT (around 5.1.X at the time) running without issues under VMWare. There are one or two configuration gotchas which can be found on the VMWare support forum site or googledadding back in a 'FreeBSD' token basically for the OS type...which is virtually the same as the existing Linux OS config... Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: missing kernel and kernel.old
because the kernel now lives in /boot/kernel Warner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by people saying that flash memory has a very short lifetime when you write to it. Even a system as minimal as a firewall will require frequent write operations if it does any logging at all. Has this limitation been overcome in recent years? Google isn't turning up any recent articles on this subject for me. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql and system/nice cpu usage
In a message dated 10/31/04 12:35:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi The oid you are talking about is not valid in FreeBSD-4. Maybe you are talking about FreeBSD-5 sysctl oids? But it does worth to try but I am not sure which oid it is in FreeBSD 4.. REGARDS PS: I have found vm.kvm_size. I think it is the one that corresponds in your email? - No, I gave you the correct one. Why dont you do some googling rather than trying to sift through docs? Its a kernel-level oid. Look in /boot/defaults/loader.conf As for the memory output, perhaps one of the geniuses that came up with that cryptic output can help ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-RC1 - Hangs on high net load(?)
Are you certain that its not NFS that's locking up? Certainly the use of NFS muddies the issue, as it doesnt like losing packets and isn't very eloquent in its handling of adversity. I'm positive. The machine itself locks up. I cannot ctrl+alt+del, can't switch VCs; it freezes. NFS isn't necessarily a part of the problem anyway. Just general net load seems to do it. For example, if I start multiple downloads with using Bittorent. I haven't narrowed the issue down terribly far, though. It did not hang while grabbing an ISO via HTTP at ~300 KBps. It does, however, hang when there's significant load and Bittorent is part of the formula. But it doesn't _always_ hang when using it. Have you ruled out livelock? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining original FBSD version
Gerard Samuel wrote: jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a). Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer. That gave me an idea. I looked at the date of kernel.GENERIC, and a few other files in /etc. They have a date of April 21 2001. All I have to do to find out the exact version, is to boot the GENERIC kernel. I dont have a keyboard/monitor hooked up to it right now, but I'll check it out, before I destroy it when I install 5.3. Good, but you need not boot it. You can check the release date for 4.6 and 4.4 to find which one it should. If you don't care about running a kernel out of sink with your world then by all means do it. Be sure to back up data first and I would recommend going into single user mode to help avoid a possible panic or other strange behavior. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some years ago) it was not in there. You can use the rebuild command also on non-raid controllers, at least it was possible for me when I did some tests about 3 months ago. As I can see you're considering gmirror, perhaps that's the better solution for you. In all cases, simulate a drive failure, so you do know what to do when one drive really fails. Any docs for gmirror except man page out there anywhere? Something like how to use it for root file system, how to convert a non-gmirror system, kernel configuration etc. Greets, Matthias -- Pfft. Now you tell me. -- Homer Simpson, finding out that working at a nuclear plant can make one sterile I Married Marge ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some years ago) it was not in there. You can use the rebuild command also on non-raid controllers, at least it was possible for me when I did some tests about 3 months ago. Ok thx for that. Only one last question: Is it enough to just dd onto 2nd disk, create the raid via atacontrol and edit fstab to ar0 to use it on root partition as well? Thx again for your help! Greetings, Matthias -- Homer: Aw, Marge, kids, I miss my club. Marge: Oh, Homey. You know, you are a member of a very exclusive club. Homer: The Black Panthers? Homer the Great ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co.
Hi, Anyone have any howto pages or any web sites where I can find on setting up a freebsd box as a voip gateway for a phone card co im looking into? _ MSN® Calendar keeps you organized and takes the effort out of scheduling get-togethers. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw configuration to intercept SMTP traffic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:39, Bill Eccles wrote: Gentleones, I have a commercial website/mail product running on a box. Unfortunately, the product is not so smart and when it needs to bounce something, it ignores the SMTP Always Relay Via setting and attempts to connect directly to the mail exchanger for the domain it's bouncing to. So what I figure I can do is redirect port 25 of me to any to port 25 of the upstream server at aa.bb.cc.dd. That makes sense, right? So I'd probably use: You mean redirect [from me to any destination-port 25] to upstream server aa.bb.cc.dd port 25? ipfw add 8000 divert 25 all from me to aa.bb.cc.dd via en0 Your rule seems to be wrong. It uses port 25 to setup the divert-socket, and matches all source-ports. The divert-socket default-port is 8668 (natd). ipfw add 8000 divert natd all from me to any 25 via en0 Are you running natd on your machine? Natd reads/writes the packets from/to the divert-socket and changes IP-address and portnumber as defined by natd options or in your natd.conf file. In your case I would run natd with the option '-proxy_rule port 25 server aa.bb.cc.dd:25'. Natd-setup is documented in 'man 8 natd'. HTH, ch - -- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBhWvk09WjGjvKU74RAh6VAJ9H6yEohPLFCBSRdJ+SNDA3nOycrACfaVqo C4tHUn2wstlv22ktbSCaFKU= =4jCL -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
Luke wrote: If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by people saying that flash memory has a very short lifetime when you write to it. Even a system as minimal as a firewall will require frequent write operations if it does any logging at all. Has this limitation been overcome in recent years? Google isn't turning up any recent articles on this subject for me. Yes and No, The problem is still there but when your dealing with an 8MB FreeBSD system (m0n0wall) all's you have to do is make a ram drive and copy the system to it. Then the only time you access the Flash device is at boot or when making changes to the config file, etc, this is how m0n0wall does it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:54, Luke wrote: If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using old computers I have some general tips for you: 1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc. http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by people saying that flash memory has a very short lifetime when you write to it. Even a system as minimal as a firewall will require frequent write operations if it does any logging at all. Has this limitation been overcome in recent years? Google isn't turning up any recent articles on this subject for me. I know that embedded OSs, like VxWorks, have dedicated flash filesystems that do wear-levelling. These filesystems avoid having special physical locations, and make sure all date is occasionally moved around to prevent the concentration of damage. I believe that some flash storage devices have this built in to the hardware nowdays. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my /var is full when I pkg_add --r openoffice
Is there any way I could resize this partition? PEARLBSD# df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a253678 139846 9353860%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s3e253678 108 233276 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s3f 10275212 4797722 465547451%/usr /dev/ad0s3d253678 195496 3788884%/var linprocfs 4 4 0 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc PEARLBSD# pkg_add -r openoffice Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz... /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicudata.so.22.0: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicui18n.so.22.0: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicule.so.22.0: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicuuc.so.22.0: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libj645fi_g.so: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjava_uno.so: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjdbc2.so: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjuhx.so: (null) /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjvm645fi.so: Can't open 'OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjvm645fi.so': No space left on device /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjvmaccessgcc3.so.3.1.0: Can't open 'OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjvmaccessgcc3.so.3.1.0': No space left on device /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/liblng645fi.so: Can't open 'OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/liblng645fi.so': No space left on device /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/liblocaledata_en.so: Can't open 'OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/liblocaledata_en.so': No space left on device /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full /var: write failed, filesystem is full I couldn't find a solution through the internet. Thank you in advance Regards, JX ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co.
- Original Message - From: Hadi Maleki-Baroogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:39 AM Subject: FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co. Hi, Anyone have any howto pages or any web sites where I can find on setting up a freebsd box as a voip gateway for a phone card co im looking into? I'm not quiet sure, but I think you'll find Asterisk and SER interesting. Check: Asterisk: http://www.asteriskpbx.com SER: http://www.iptel.org/ser/ They're both available in the ports collection: ports/net/asterisk and ports/net/ser. VOIP info http://www.voip-info.org can be very helpful as well. Hope this helped. Eihab E. Ibrahim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will this program work as a server program?
I am the president of the worlds smallist film and video online school.The Hirsute film Institute juet recieved its 501c3 this year.Now I need to learn how to operate a server program and some revevant IT techie stuff.The objective is to start putting up the schools actual web site then find students.How can you help me to reach some of that objective.I have another small PC to start as a server.And I can increase the gateway throughput on the Direcway dish that I have.Please contact me back at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining original FBSD version
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, Gerard Samuel wrote: jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... Thanks I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a). Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer. That gave me an idea. I looked at the date of kernel.GENERIC, and a few other files in /etc. They have a date of April 21 2001. All I have to do to find out the exact version, is to boot the GENERIC kernel. I dont have a keyboard/monitor hooked up to it right now, but I'll check it out, before I destroy it when I install 5.3. strings kernel.GENERIC | grep RELEASE -- Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Will this program work as a server program?
- Original Message - From: H Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 3:09 AM Subject: Will this program work as a server program? I am the president of the worlds smallist film and video online school.The Hirsute film Institute juet recieved its 501c3 this year.Now I need to learn how to operate a server program and some revevant IT techie stuff.The objective is to start putting up the schools actual web site then find students.How can you help me to reach some of that objective.I have another small PC to start as a server.And I can increase the gateway throughput on the Direcway dish that I have.Please contact me back at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The FreeBSD Handbook is your friend. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ It'll walk you through installing and configuring FreeBSD, setting up Apache web server and much more. You can find more books/articles on the FreeBSD website http://www.freebsd.org. Hope this helped. Eihab E. Ibrahim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is my computer under spec?
I have been having performance problems with my computer for months, ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1. I thought the situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I upgraded a couple weeks ago to 5.3-BETA7, but only saw slight improvements. I'm running Xorg, fvwm 2.4, several xterms, vncviewer, mozilla, xmms, and xine and my system was really running slow. At some point mozilla was killed because the system was out of swap space. I have a pentium celeron 3 600 MHz, with 128 megs of ram, 30 gig hd, 256 meg swap. Is my system just under spec for freebsd 5.x or is something else wrong? I didn't really think this should push a system like this that hard. I might try running linux on it in a similar configuration to compare and maybe think about some more ram if it also has problems. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C pgpKwL6k65Flk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ipfw configuration to intercept SMTP traffic
Actually, you bring up an interesting point that, yes, I'd forgotten about natd. However, I realized after watching a tcpdump that the outgoing port is a random port--only the destination port is 25 on the upstream box. So, somehow I have to rig up something that listens for an SMTP connection destined for any address from any port but to the upstream box's port 25. It then must send it out to the aa.bb.cc.dd:25. Any ideas, folks? Thanks, Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:39, Bill Eccles wrote: Gentleones, I have a commercial website/mail product running on a box. Unfortunately, the product is not so smart and when it needs to bounce something, it ignores the SMTP Always Relay Via setting and attempts to connect directly to the mail exchanger for the domain it's bouncing to. So what I figure I can do is redirect port 25 of me to any to port 25 of the upstream server at aa.bb.cc.dd. That makes sense, right? So I'd probably use: You mean redirect [from me to any destination-port 25] to upstream server aa.bb.cc.dd port 25? ipfw add 8000 divert 25 all from me to aa.bb.cc.dd via en0 Your rule seems to be wrong. It uses port 25 to setup the divert-socket, and matches all source-ports. The divert-socket default-port is 8668 (natd). ipfw add 8000 divert natd all from me to any 25 via en0 Are you running natd on your machine? Natd reads/writes the packets from/to the divert-socket and changes IP-address and portnumber as defined by natd options or in your natd.conf file. In your case I would run natd with the option '-proxy_rule port 25 server aa.bb.cc.dd:25'. Natd-setup is documented in 'man 8 natd'. HTH, ch - -- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBhWvk09WjGjvKU74RAh6VAJ9H6yEohPLFCBSRdJ+SNDA3nOycrACfaVqo C4tHUn2wstlv22ktbSCaFKU= =4jCL -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determining original FBSD version
Jeremy Faulkner wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, Gerard Samuel wrote: jason wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 via a fresh install. The thought came to me as to what was the original version of FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... Thanks I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a). Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer. That gave me an idea. I looked at the date of kernel.GENERIC, and a few other files in /etc. They have a date of April 21 2001. All I have to do to find out the exact version, is to boot the GENERIC kernel. I dont have a keyboard/monitor hooked up to it right now, but I'll check it out, before I destroy it when I install 5.3. strings kernel.GENERIC | grep RELEASE Excellent... hivemind# strings kernel.GENERIC | grep RELEASE BUS_RELEASE_RESOURCE RELEASE ELEMENT(10) RELEASE(10 RELEASE ELEMENT(06) RELEASE(06) @(#)FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 4.3-RELEASE ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is my computer under spec?
In the immortal words of Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have been having performance problems with my computer for months, ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1. I thought the situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I upgraded a couple weeks ago to 5.3-BETA7, but only saw slight improvements. I'm running Xorg, fvwm 2.4, several xterms, vncviewer, mozilla, xmms, and xine and my system was really running slow. At some point mozilla was killed because the system was out of swap space. I have a pentium celeron 3 600 MHz, with 128 megs of ram, 30 gig hd, 256 meg swap. Is my system just under spec for freebsd 5.x or is something else wrong? First thing to check is how much ram is being used by the system. the Top command is your best friend in this case, check to see what kind of memory usage each program has. It will also show how much CPU usage they are using. I didn't really think this should push a system like this that hard. I might try running linux on it in a similar configuration to compare and maybe think about some more ram if it also has problems. I would be suspecting RAM is your main bottleneck. Does your hard drive seem to be constantly working? I have 512Mb of ram installed and I'm still using some swap (33%) but I also have quite a number of programs running continuously (firefox, sylpheed-claws, several aterms, xmms,wmweather+, fluxbox-devel and a few other odda sods). I could probably optimise this, but the actual swap appears to be reasonably well managed and doesn't thrash my hard drives. I think you will find the machine is fine, for most things, just needs a little more RAM. Cheers Tim -- Tim Aslat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1
Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about PostgreSQL? :-) I had a hard enough time getting Oracle 9i2 installed and working with Redhat 7.3 for a Compiere ERP/CRM setup http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml Follow that guide and setup a test system using Redhat 7.x. Once you are comfortable with installing/setting up/running Oracle on this platform you can tranfer that knowledge into setting it up in Linux Compat Mode (which essentially is redhat 7.2) on FreeBSD. Thats the only advice I can offer. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptops as routers
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:54:33PM -0800, Luke wrote: To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone talk about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by people saying that flash memory has a very short lifetime when you write to it. Even a system as minimal as a firewall will require frequent write operations if it does any logging at all. Has this limitation been overcome in recent years? Google isn't turning up any recent articles on this subject for me. No, the limited write cycles problem is still there, but not as bad as you might imagine. In most cases, all you need to do is to put /var and /tmp on a memory filesystem, and archive only compressed logs either to flash or to a remote server every now and then, thus greatly reducing the write access cycles to your flash card. But this is not always a useful solution (e.g. if you want to run an MTA like postfix which accesses the filesystem that holds the mail queues quite frequently). Sometimes, a 2.5 harddisk (I don't know about microdisks' durability) is your only recourse. Cheers, cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is my computer under spec?
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 00:35, Loren M. Lang wrote: I have been having performance problems with my computer for months, ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1. I thought the situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I upgraded a couple weeks ago to 5.3-BETA7, but only saw slight improvements. I'm running Xorg, fvwm 2.4, several xterms, vncviewer, mozilla, xmms, and xine and my system was really running slow. At some point mozilla was killed because the system was out of swap space. I have a pentium celeron 3 600 MHz, with 128 megs of ram, 30 gig hd, 256 oh the inhumanity!! This is why you system sucks. It's swapping like mad. Xorg (on my system) weighs in a 50-70 MB, Mozilla will tip the scales in that range easily as well. Xterm-static comes in at 3-5MB each. If programs get killed because of swap space, more ram will save the day. Or more swap space, but in your case I say more ram. Is my system just under spec for freebsd 5.x or is something else wrong? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1
Nikolas Britton wrote: Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about PostgreSQL? :-) I had a hard enough time getting Oracle 9i2 installed and working with Redhat 7.3 for a Compiere ERP/CRM setup http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml Follow that guide and setup a test system using Redhat 7.x. Once you are comfortable with installing/setting up/running Oracle on this platform you can tranfer that knowledge into setting it up in Linux Compat Mode (which essentially is redhat 7.2) on FreeBSD. Thats the only advice I can offer. PostGres is fine, I use it in production on a Linux box that I host sites on, but for the applications on my FBSD box, they _have_ to have Oracle 8i (hardware doesnt support a newer version), but I will be replicating Oracle 8i databases, stored procs, triggers, sequences, etc... dont want to have to port the databases back and forth between a different platfrom (i.e. PostGres).. note this isnt a production system I have set up Oracle on Linux before.. 4 times, on Red Had 7.1 and 7.2... Its not that I dont know how to set up Oracle.. my problem is really not that deep, its just that somehow the system cant find libdl even though its there in /compat/linux/lib and i am using /compat/linux/bin/bash as the shell I know either something is wrong with my environment vars or I need to put an -L/compat/linux/lib somewhere in the Oracle installation... I just cannot figure out which it is... Thanks though... -- ... Jon Adams - Chance favors the prepared mind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://webpages.uncc.edu/~jkadams AOL IM: j2k4real GPG Sig: 2965 F58A 5DF8 B4C5 16D2 0AB4 ACE2 C4A1 D105 50D2 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my /var is full when I pkg_add --r openoffice
On Sunday 31 October 2004 04:02, Jian Guang Xu wrote: Is there any way I could resize this partition? PEARLBSD# df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a253678 139846 9353860%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s3e253678 108 233276 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s3f 10275212 4797722 465547451%/usr /dev/ad0s3d253678 195496 3788884%/var linprocfs 4 4 0 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc PEARLBSD# pkg_add -r openoffice Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/op enoffice.tbz... /var: write failed, filesystem is full OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicudata.so.22.0: (null) You don't need to resize the partition. pkg_add uses /var/tmp by default, since your /var is nearly full pkg_add chokes while extracting the package. To solve this set PKG_TMPDIR to point to someplace with more space. I couldn't find a solution through the internet. Thank you in advance Regards, JX ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -- Dana Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: throttling cpu speed to run cooler
Hanspeter Roth wrote: On Oct 30 at 13:42, jason spoke: man acpi_thermal and man acpi. There are sysctl knobs to throttle your cpu. I have 5.3-RC1 GENERIC and acpi enabled on a Centrino and on a Sempron but no hw.acpi.thermal. What is required to make hw.acpi.thermal appear? -Hanspeter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is what you could do to check your info. $ sysctl -a |grep thermal hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0 hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 2950 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 3732 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 3732 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: 3732 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 $ If there is no thermal you may not have support for it. I read on the list where centrino now has full powernow(or something) support on BSD. Also search the acpi list for your board and/or bios. There are some black listed products because acpi is broke on them. I seem to remember some asus products mentioned. Read the handbook about fixing or forcing acpi to load too if it is note black listed. Acpi is on in the bios and being loaded as a module right? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Double-layer DVD Burner
I am thinking of buying a USB double-layer DVD Burner to backup my data from both my desktop and laptop. And perhaps some multimedia contents occasionally. What should I take note of when choosing one? Thanks. --- Choy Kho Yee url: http://dotkoyi.infoseek.ne.jp/ blog: http://dotkoyi.blogspot.com/ There are only 10 types of people in the world, i.e. those who understand binary numbers and those who do not. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
