Adding IP's ifconfig problems
I have a 5.2.1 server which I need to add IP's to. When the provider assigned me the IP's they also said use the netmask 255.255.255.240. I added the IP's to my rc.conf as you can see below but they do not show up in my ifconfig. MY rc.conf: # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Nov 3 09:22:52 2004 # Created: Wed Nov 3 09:22:52 2004 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter=208.53.17X.1 hostname=warped.xconch.net ifconfig_fxp0=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES inetd_enable=YES pureftpd_enable=YES ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 208.53.17X.2 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias1=inet 208.53.17X.3 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias2=inet 208.53.17X.4 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias3=inet 208.53.17X.5 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias4=inet 208.53.17X.6 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias5=inet 208.53.17X.7 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias6=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias7=inet 208.53.17X.9 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias8=inet 208.53.17X.10 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias9=inet 208.53.17X.11 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias10=inet 208.53.17X.12 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias11=inet 208.53.17X.13 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias12=inet 208.53.17X.14 netmask 255.255.255.240 Here is my ifconfig: [7:58]([EMAIL PROTECTED])[/etc] ifconfig fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 208.53.17X.255 inet6 fe80::220:edff:fe27:63aa%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 208.53.17X.2 netmask 0xfff0 broadcast 208.53.17X.15 ether 00:20:ed:27:63:aa media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 Only the first IP 208.53.17X.2 showed up in the ifconfig. That tells me there is something wrong with the following line but I can not find anything wrong with the line. If I try and ping the next IP from the box locally I get the following: [7:58]([EMAIL PROTECTED])[/etc] ping 208.53.17X.3 PING 208.53.17X.3 (208.53.17X.3): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Host is down ping: sendto: Host is down ^C Why don't my IP's show up in ifconfig? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding IP's ifconfig problems
ifconfig_fxp0=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 ^ ifconfig_fxp0=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 208.53.17X.2 netmask 255.255.255.240 ^^ Netmask should be 255.255.255.255 on a alias if it is from the same network as the primary address. ifconfig_fxp0_alias6=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.240 ^^^ You already assigned this address?!?!?! -- Chris * ** This email has been scanned by Cenergy Networks for viruses and ** ** spam. As part of our ongoing drive to ensure reliable and ** ** secure communications, Cenergy Networks guarantees this message ** ** to be clean of any viruses or spam. Should you not be satisfied** ** with the content of this email, please let us know by emailing ** ** us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel Panic!
Hi, At random I will get this kernel panic Does anyone have any idea what this means ?? Also how do I make the kernel auto reboot the system when there is a kernel panic.. Thanks for the help! Steven Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] DriftNet Web Services http://www.drifthost.com Home: +61 2 94274857 Fax: +61 2 94274857 Mobile +61 (0) 404 085644 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcp problems (i think)
I messed up something on myh primary server, where I run dhcp. Since I did whatever-it-was, ssh takes at least two minutes to get from NS1 (aka 'sage'), and anywhere else. Only on sage can I type 'ping foo.org' and get an immediate responce. On any other server, typing 'ping' hangs forever. There is no No route to server error. Of course nothing else works across my private network. Nothing is resolvable. This suddenly since around 18:00 local time. In /var/db, myleases look valid. (I just installed the newest dhcp-server. Zip. Anbody know where I'm screwing up? thanks in advance guys, gary -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding IP's ifconfig problems
I should have just left the IP's in untouched. I know that looks suspicious but they are two different IP's one is lets say 178 and the other 179, they arent used twice. But good catch. From: Chris Knipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Chris Knipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adding IP's ifconfig problems Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:18:30 +0200 ifconfig_fxp0=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 ^ ifconfig_fxp0=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 208.53.17X.2 netmask 255.255.255.240 ^^ Netmask should be 255.255.255.255 on a alias if it is from the same network as the primary address. ifconfig_fxp0_alias6=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.240 ^^^ You already assigned this address?!?!?! -- Chris * ** This email has been scanned by Cenergy Networks for viruses and ** ** spam. As part of our ongoing drive to ensure reliable and ** ** secure communications, Cenergy Networks guarantees this message ** ** to be clean of any viruses or spam. Should you not be satisfied** ** with the content of this email, please let us know by emailing ** ** us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Kernel Panic!
Sorry it was changed to text only.. The error is as follows (or go to http://drifthost.com/intertia-error.jpg) === Kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Cupid= = 0; apic id = 00 Fault virtual address = 0x24 Fault code = supervisor read, page not present Instruction pointer = 0x8 :0c04d954e Stack pointer = 0x10 :0xe0083c64 Frame pointer = 0x10:0xe0083c88 Code segment = base 0x0, limit 0x, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 Processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 Current process = 29 (irq16: bge0) Trap number = 12 Panic: page fault Cupid = 0; Boot() called on cpu#0 Syncing disks, buggers remaining panic: pmap_invalidate_range: interrupts disabled Cupid = 0; Boot() called on cpu#0 Uptime: 14d23h0m11s = It seems it's a program with the bge (network card) Curious how I make it reboot on error and how I would debug this/fix it. Steven Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] DriftNet Web Services http://www.drifthost.com Home: +61 2 94274857 Fax: +61 2 94274857 Mobile +61 (0) 404 085644 -Original Message- From: Steven Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 November 2004 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kernel Panic! Hi, At random I will get this kernel panic Does anyone have any idea what this means ?? Also how do I make the kernel auto reboot the system when there is a kernel panic.. Thanks for the help! Steven Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] DriftNet Web Services http://www.drifthost.com Home: +61 2 94274857 Fax: +61 2 94274857 Mobile +61 (0) 404 085644 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help me, Get a Free flat screen
Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 Best regards, and Thank you Daniel Jesperson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen
[Daniel Jesperson, 2004-11-05] Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 Please note the following from their Terms and conditions statement: # 3. Emails. # # (c) By signing up for this website, the user agrees to receive emails we # or another 3rd party may send about special offers on our website, as # well as third party advertisements or offers. # # 4. Cancellation of Account. # # (a) There is no way to cancel an account. If a user no longer wishes to # remain a part of this site, they should cease to access their account, # and nothing more will happen with their information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding IP's ifconfig problems
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:11:57AM -0500, GRF . wrote: I have a 5.2.1 server which I need to add IP's to. When the provider assigned me the IP's they also said use the netmask 255.255.255.240. I added the IP's to my rc.conf as you can see below but they do not show up in my ifconfig. MY rc.conf: # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Nov 3 09:22:52 2004 # Created: Wed Nov 3 09:22:52 2004 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter=208.53.17X.1 hostname=warped.xconch.net ifconfig_fxp0=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES inetd_enable=YES pureftpd_enable=YES ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 208.53.17X.2 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias1=inet 208.53.17X.3 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias2=inet 208.53.17X.4 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias3=inet 208.53.17X.5 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias4=inet 208.53.17X.6 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias5=inet 208.53.17X.7 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias6=inet 208.53.17X.8 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias7=inet 208.53.17X.9 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias8=inet 208.53.17X.10 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias9=inet 208.53.17X.11 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias10=inet 208.53.17X.12 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias11=inet 208.53.17X.13 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_fxp0_alias12=inet 208.53.17X.14 netmask 255.255.255.240 Classic error. You need to read this part of the ifconfig(8) man page more carefully: alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to the old interface. If the address is on the same subnet as the first network address for this interface, a non-conflicting netmask must be given. Usually 0x is most appropriate. ie. only one address (per network) on the interface can have the 'real' netmask. The others (ie all of your aliases) should use 0x or 255.255.255.255. Or to put it another way, the bitwise 'and' of the IP number and the netmask must be different for every address configured on the interface. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgpNSklIQGHFr.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD Interface
Hi, I downloded the FreeBSD and install it at my PC but i'm wondaring if FreeBSD is supporting User Interface like WindowsX or Mac PC. If yes, show me the place where i can see the stips to follow please. Regards Adel Al M'mari UAE - Sharjah P.O.Box-980 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Interface
Hi, Adel Al M'mari wrote: Hi, I downloded the FreeBSD and install it at my PC but i'm wondaring if FreeBSD is supporting User Interface like WindowsX or Mac PC. If yes, show me the place where i can see the stips to follow please. The X-Window system can be installed to provide a GUI. Follow the instruction from the Handbook for installation : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html HM ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hello !!!
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD gnome.kenesh.kg 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 4 09:57:07 KGT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 What means this message: kernel: arp: 192.168.10.3 is on rl1 but got reply from 00:02:44:1b:75:c1 on rl0 Thank you! It probably means that you have connected both RL0 and RL1 to the same network. On RL1 you have selected an IP address in the 192.168.10.X range, so FreeBSD expects packets in the 192.168.10.x-range to arrive at RL1. Now it sees packets in the 192.168.10.x-range arriving at RL0 and displays the message you are seeing. grtz, Daan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS problems
I have a FreeBSD 5.3RC1 and Mandrake 10 Connected over NFS. Server is on Mandrake and FreeBSD is only client. Transfer rate for files is great, but scanning folders on the NFS mount is ubearably slow. CPU usage on both machines is close to 0%, on Mandrake I can see a nfsd daemon or two fired up from time to time, client is waiting in the loop. What could be wrong? Regards, Karel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Festival usage problems
I want my computer to speak to me, thus I installed the following: # pkg_info | grep fest festival+OGI-1.4.1_1 Text-to-speech system with OGI residual LPC synthesizer festlex-cmu-1.4.1 CMU American English pronunciation dictionary for Festival festlex-oald-1.4.1 Oxford Advanced Learner's pronunciation dictionary for Fest festlex-ogi-2.0 Composite pronunciation dictionary from ogi.edu for Festiva festlex-poslex-1.4.1 English lexicon for Festival festvox-don-1.4.0 British English male voice for Festival speech synthesis sy festvox-jph-2.0 American English male voice for Festival festvox-kal16-1.4.0 American English male voice, sampled at 16 kHz, for Festiva festvox-ked16-1.4.0 American English male voice, sampled at 16 kHz, for Festiva festvox-mwm-2.0 American English male voice for Festival festvox-ogirab-2.0 British English male voice for Festival (non-commercial use festvox-rab16-1.4.1 16 kHz British English male voice for Festival festvox-tll-2.0 American English female voice for Festival (no commercial u festvox_aec-2.0 American English male voice for Festival speech synthesis s When trying to use it, this happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat a This is a test [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat a | festival --pipe SIOD ERROR: unbound variable This SIOD ERROR: unbound variable is SIOD ERROR: unbound variable a SIOD ERROR: unbound variable test [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# festival --tts a Can't access NAS server (null) Am I missing some settings? Packages? Thanks in advance. -- Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, http://www.grimstveit.no/jakob, +47 48298152 Bruk Newsergalleriet! No på http://www.newsergalleriet.no/ Treng du noko på CD?: http://www.grimstveit.no/jakob/burncd_no ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS problems
Karel Miklav wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.3RC1 and Mandrake 10 Connected over NFS. Server is on Mandrake and FreeBSD is only client. Transfer rate for files is great, but scanning folders on the NFS mount is ubearably slow. CPU usage on both machines is close to 0%, on Mandrake I can see a nfsd daemon or two fired up from time to time, client is waiting in the loop. Might it be that you are having issues with different MTU size? -- Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, http://www.grimstveit.no/jakob, +47 48298152 Bruk Newsergalleriet! No på http://www.newsergalleriet.no/ Treng du noko på CD?: http://www.grimstveit.no/jakob/burncd_no ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD newbye simple question
Experienced linux debian user, recently I smoothly moved to linux gentoo (BSD compliant) AND to FreeBSD 5.2.1. 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an application in /usr/ports I cannot find sources of the base system I had to install when starting the first installation from scratch. Where are those sources? 2) The questions' question: where can I read what are the options I can use with a certain source package and how can I use them when make(-ing) the program? 3) It goes without saying that many freebsd commands are the same as in linux but I cannot find the freebsd command equivalent to the linux command 'free' giving info about the size of memory used by the system's cache, buffers, swap, etc. Please help. Vittorio ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portdb corrupt?
Hi i have problem updating the portdb since i cvsup portversion/portupgrade or anything will fail with same or similar msgs. Im not certain how I can start already tried portsdb -F but didnt make difference any help or comment is welcome flute# portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-1.14.2 Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: fvwm-imlib-2.4.19 Done. done [Updating the portsdb format:bdb1_btree in /usr/ports ... - 11889 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.60 00.7000.8000./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.r b:587: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] Abort (core dumped) James H ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen
On 05/11/04 01:02 -0800, Daniel Jesperson wrote: Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Just for the record, I did this and got all of my 8 referrals. I got my free TV, *but I did not spam* to do it!!! I got 8 of my family and friends to sign up. Think about it. How many people here are going to really sign up for your offer when most of these people *really* hate spam? Oh, and one other thing... their policy allows them to spam you once you sign up, although I never actually got any spam as a result. Regards, Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
appendum post: rc2, xorg, and matrox g550 troubles
Hi, I've downloaded the matrox linux drivers for the g550. Istalling the mga_hal.o in the driver directoy wasn't enough, so I overwrited the mga_drv.o file with the linux one. Starting X worked, BUT, it was not possible to get a console back. When quitting X I get a blank and black screen. I need to ssh from another workstation to make a proper shutdown. When I disable acpi at boot time, start X (with linux drivers) and quit X I'm able to get back a console. Unfortunately dual screen does not work. What I didn't mention is that I'm using the dvi connectors of my lcds screen, perpaps this is also source of the problem?! thanks for feedback, comments, tips or any help. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portdb corrupt?
James Hong wrote: Hi i have problem updating the portdb since i cvsup portversion/portupgrade or anything will fail with same or similar msgs. Im not certain how I can start already tried portsdb -F but didnt make difference any help or comment is welcome flute# portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-1.14.2 Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: fvwm-imlib-2.4.19 Done. done [Updating the portsdb format:bdb1_btree in /usr/ports ... - 11889 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.60 00.7000.8000./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.r b:587: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] Abort (core dumped) James H ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] James, Kent Stewart explained what to do and how that came on 11/2/04 subject portupgrade core dump fix. Maybe it should have considered a security problem, as it is such a basic and widely used procedure and thus somehow security relevant? When will 4.11 released? :-) I suppose this bug is fixed in 4.11. Kind Regards, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Festival usage problems
On Friday 05 November 2004 06:49 am, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit proclaimed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# festival --tts a Can't access NAS server (null) Am I missing some settings? Packages? Thanks in advance. It looks like you have everything you need. However, it also looks like you don't have nasd running. What I've done on my system is created a start-up script called nas_d.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d $ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nas_d.sh #!/bin/sh # # This script was created for the sole purpose #of starting up the NAS daemon on system #startup. # /usr/X11R6/bin/nasd -local -b This way nasd is called up every time you start your system and you won't have to mess with it manually. Don't forget to make the script executable. You can also rename the script to whatever you want, but make sure it ends with the .sh else it wont be called up at start-up. HTH, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]Help me, Get a Free flat screen
Daniel Jesperson wrote: Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 Best regards, and Thank you Daniel Jesperson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] very sad...and some people still wonder how it is there can be so much spam when so many profess to hate it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question
Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Experienced linux debian user, recently I smoothly moved to linux gentoo (BSD compliant) AND to FreeBSD 5.2.1. 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an application in /usr/ports I cannot find sources of the base system I had to install when starting the first installation from scratch. Where are those sources? The system sources are normally installed in /usr/src if they are installed. If they are not, you can install them from sysinstall, or keep up with the latest sources on any of several branches of FreeBSD. See the FreeBSD Handbook section on The Cutting Edge. 2) The questions' question: where can I read what are the options I can use with a certain source package and how can I use them when make(-ing) the program? Not clear what you mean, but man ports will give you some information about how things work in general. Many ports have a config target (so you can make config and set some config options). I often look at the port makefile to see what variables it supports. If you're not using the ports system, then naturally you're on your own; every third-party program can set its options any way the author wished. 3) It goes without saying that many freebsd commands are the same as in linux but I cannot find the freebsd command equivalent to the linux command 'free' giving info about the size of memory used by the system's cache, buffers, swap, etc. Try top(1), swapinfo(8), vmstat(8), and so on (and see the SEE ALSO sections in their manual pages). Also, if you're not highly knowledgeable in Virtual Memory architecture techniques, see the FAQ entries titled FreeBSD uses far more swap space than Linux. Why? and Why does top show very little free memory even when I have very few programs running?. Good luck. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: portdb corrupt?
added /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf ENV['PKG_DBDRIVER'] = bdb_hash ENV['PORTS_DBDRIVER'] = bdb_hash and it worked! Thanks! James H -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Thelen Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 12:18 AM To: James Hong Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: portdb corrupt? James Hong wrote: Hi i have problem updating the portdb since i cvsup portversion/portupgrade or anything will fail with same or similar msgs. Im not certain how I can start already tried portsdb -F but didnt make difference any help or comment is welcome flute# portsdb -uU Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-1.14.2 Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: fvwm-imlib-2.4.19 Done. done [Updating the portsdb format:bdb1_btree in /usr/ports ... - 11889 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000. 60 00.7000.8000./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/por tsdb.r b:587: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] Abort (core dumped) James H ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] James, Kent Stewart explained what to do and how that came on 11/2/04 subject portupgrade core dump fix. Maybe it should have considered a security problem, as it is such a basic and widely used procedure and thus somehow security relevant? When will 4.11 released? :-) I suppose this bug is fixed in 4.11. Kind Regards, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:29:07 +, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Where are those sources? /usr/src 2) The questions' question: where can I read what are the options I can use with a certain source package and how can I use them when make(-ing) the program? Read the makefile or use ./configure --help | more 3) It goes without saying that many freebsd commands are the same as in linux but I cannot find the freebsd command equivalent to the linux command 'free' giving info about the size of memory used by the system's cache, buffers, swap, etc. Are you speaking about C? 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: [OT]Help me, Get a Free flat screen
Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... snip very sad...and some people still wonder how it is there can be so much spam when so many profess to hate it. I completly agree, though the company im being 'let go' from is just as bad, i mean come on its not spam, its e-mail marketing?? Anyway atleast theres less spam here than you get on the linux kernel list. -- Theres no place like ::1 Thanks, SimonB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Panic!
Quote: The error is as follows (or go to http://drifthost.com/intertia-error.jpg) === Kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Cupid= = 0; apic id = 00 Fault virtual address = 0x24 Fault code = supervisor read, page not present Instruction pointer = 0x8 :0c04d954e Stack pointer = 0x10 :0xe0083c64 Frame pointer = 0x10:0xe0083c88 Code segment = base 0x0, limit 0x, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 Processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 Current process = 29 (irq16: bge0) Trap number = 12 Panic: page fault Cupid = 0; Boot() called on cpu#0 Syncing disks, buggers remaining panic: pmap_invalidate_range: interrupts disabled Cupid = 0; Boot() called on cpu#0 Uptime: 14d23h0m11s = Any non standard CXFLAGS? 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]
Where XFree86-libraries-4.4.0_2?
Dear Gentlemen: Where can I get XFree86-libraries-4.4.0_2 (required by kde-3.3.0)? I clicked link Sources but recieved message: Sorry, did not find the sources for ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries only. In the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/x11/ directory I found XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7.tgz only and in the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/x11/ directory - XFree86-libraries-4.4.0_1.tgz only. Best regards, Alexander Igoshin. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dependency error
Hello! I am trying to upgrade my Apache. And get the following error message: host # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl host # make Dependency error, please do: pkg_delete /usr/local/include/fnmatch.h was installed by package heimdal-0.6.1 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl. host # grep -R fnmatch /var/db/pkg/ /var/db/pkg/apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate-1.3.31+2.8.18+1.0.31+1.0.21_4/+CONTENTS:include/apache/fnmatch.h /var/db/pkg/heimdal-0.6.1/+CONTENTS:include/fnmatch.h So what do I do with this? Heimdal was installed with Samba 3.0 -- Oles mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Appending CR to syslog output?
How do I get syslog to append a CR to output when it's being sent to a line printer on /dev/lpt0? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firefox or mozilla don't run
Hi, Damm ... problems, problems ... ;-( I've installed 5.3rc2 and I try to run X with a matrox g550, it works ... somehow now. I'm running xfce4 with xorg 6.7.0. When I try to launch firefox or mozilla. I get the following error error: no running window found To be able to run the apps, I need to: 1) xhost +local 2) su 3) type mozilla or firefox Mozilla or firefox need to be run as root or don't run at all. What's the problem? I tried firefox from pkg collection and build my own from ports, both had the same problem. thx for helping ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Naming confusion
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1109 16:09]: Here's a new thread. Naming the computer host? I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would normally get from my ISP. I don't have a permanent ISP. I mainly use 2 services at locations all across the USA. Normally I simply assign a name to the computer, but it appears that FBSD wants a complete Internet address. No, it shouldn't do. But life does get a lot saner if you get a free dynamic domain name from somewhere like dyndns.org and use ddclient from ports to automatically update it when you change IP. -- Oh how awful. Did he at least die peacefully? To shreds you say, tsk tsk tsk. Well, how's his wife holding up? To shreds, you say... - Prof. Farnsworth 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]
good hz value?
Hi, For about 60 mbit use of bandwidth and max of 85, what is a good value for HZ in the kernel config when i use device polling? Btw, are the bge now also useable with device polling? Bye, Mipam. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dependency error
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:03:18 +0200, Oles Hnatkevych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am trying to upgrade my Apache. And get the following error message: use portupgrade 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: dependency error
Oles Hnatkevych [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I am trying to upgrade my Apache. And get the following error message: host # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl host # make Dependency error, please do: pkg_delete /usr/local/include/fnmatch.h was installed by package heimdal-0.6.1 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl. host # grep -R fnmatch /var/db/pkg/ /var/db/pkg/apache+mod_ssl+mod_accel+mod_deflate-1.3.31+2.8.18+1.0.31+1.0.21_4/+CONTENTS:include/apache/fnmatch.h /var/db/pkg/heimdal-0.6.1/+CONTENTS:include/fnmatch.h So what do I do with this? Heimdal was installed with Samba 3.0 Looks like Heimdal conflicts with modssl. Do you need Active Directory support? If not, remove it from your Samba configuration, and then you can remove Heimdal. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transferring system to a new hard drive
My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, acronis(sp?)) If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of data? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen
Daniel Jesperson wrote: Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 Best regards, and Thank you Daniel Jesperson Forget it *so much*. I'm getting enough spam already because of posting to mailing-lists... =) Besides, I just ordered a TFT last week... Hehe... Kind regards, Benjamin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive
-- quoting CHris Rich -- My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, acronis(sp?)) If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of data? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated I had exactly the same issue this week, until I found this link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- The weak and nerdy are admired for their computer-programming abilities. -- Homer Simpson Bart vs. Australia ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Interface
Hi, I downloded the FreeBSD and install it at my PC but i'm wondaring if FreeBSD is supporting User Interface like WindowsX or Mac PC. If yes, show me the place where i can see the stips to follow please. You are looking for X-windows managers. When you install Xwindows - at least Xfree86 anyway - you are offered the opportunity to install several possible X-windows managers. The useful ones there are Afterstep which is the simplest and a little like the old NeXtstep stuff, KDE which is more elaborate and resource hungry and contains many applications similar to PC-Win and finally Gnome which is very big, resource hungry, feature laden and application heavy. Read up on them, try them out and then see what you like. Ask more questions again after you get a little farther in. jerry Regards Adel Al M'mari UAE - Sharjah P.O.Box-980 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen
Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 You realize they are just trying to build SPAM lists and pretend that by getting some sort of permission, they aren't really spamming. jerry Best regards, and Thank you Daniel Jesperson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:13:25AM -0600, CHris Rich wrote: My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. [...] If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage of the bigger hard drive? What I usually do is: - install the new hd as second drive in the running system - partition/slice it as you like - newfs the new partitions - mount the whole structure somewhere, like * mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt * mount /dev/ad1s1e /mnt/usr * mount /dev/ad1s1f /mnt/var etc. - go single user - cd / find all dirs except mnt, proc, tmp | cpio -padmuv /mnt - check /mnt/etc/fstab - write boot sector to ad1 - shutdown, replace old drive with new drive - done The find|cpio combination will copy your entire system 1:1 to the new hard disk and it's slice structure below /mnt. HTH, - D. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:24:46 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV ww.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=1141739 You realize they are just trying to build SPAM lists and pretend that by getting some sort of permission, they aren't really spamming. jerry Thats what i use yahoo for. If i need to sign up for something where i know im going to get spammed, i just use my yahoo address. Theres sites that offer mails just for this reason but i forgot the URL. But still the only spam I like is the monty python spam skit -- Theres no place like ::1 Thanks, SimonB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Appending CR to syslog output?
In the last episode (Nov 05), Kevin A. Pieckiel said: How do I get syslog to append a CR to output when it's being sent to a line printer on /dev/lpt0? Couple of options here: o Tell your printer that eols are LF instead of CRLF (if it can be configured to remember this on powerup) o Log to |sed -e 's/$/^m' /dev/lpt0 (where ^m is a raw CR) o If your printer knows an escape sequence to put it in LF mode, log to | echo 'escsequence' ; cat /dev/lpt0 o Set up a printcap with an input filter that adds the CR (or sends the magic escape sequence), and log to |lp o Edit syslogd.c to add the CRLF if the device printed to starts with /dev/lpt -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive
On 2004-11-05 09:13, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. So after googling and searching I found a few ideas of how to migrate to a new hard drive but none which I really trust, (ghosting, acronis(sp?)) You can do it using standard tools, provided with the base system. I recently moved all my data to a new 200 GB IDE disk, and kept a set of step-by-step notes while doing this. They are available online at my weblog, if that's any help while you plan your own migration to a larger hard disk: http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/daemonizing-a-new-disk If I do move it over will I have ot make new slices to take advantage of the bigger hard drive? If this is the case will I lose what data is already in the slice or can it adjust without any hitches or loss of data? I made new slices to the larger disk, installed a clean copy of FreeBSD using 'make installworld' and then moved all my user data to the new /home partition. You don't *have* to move everything. But it's a nice chance to clean up things if you have been upgrading from the sources during the past X years, like I had been doing. - Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portsdb -uU cause the server hanging up
hi all, i am tried to cvsup my ports then portsdb -uU found portsdb update take a lot of CPU resource (above 80%), then i just make the server hanging up, does it can limit the resource usage for portsdb update? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]Help me, Get a Free flat screen
--On Friday, November 05, 2004 08:41:27 AM -0500 Ed Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very sad...and some people still wonder how it is there can be so much spam when so many profess to hate it. I used to be a very active anti-spammer. Subscribed to nanae and the whole nine yards. One day I realized I was never going to make a dent in the problem because somewhere there's an idiot ready to believe and buy their crap. So I gave up my anti-spammer ways and moved on to more productive pursuits (like navel-gazing.) It's a hopeless problem that will never be solved. It's like the gnats that show up every spring to fly up in your nose and irritate the hell out of you. Now I just whitelist (but not with the damn irritating confirmation emails.) Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help
I am trying to install a Linksys 10/100/1000 gigabit network adapter on a 4.9 freebsd operating system, but the os is not detecting the nic; however, when I install a 10/100 linksys nic it works fine. Please help me, I know that it may be a simple answer or it also could be a little difficult; however, please help me thankyou. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: appendum post: rc2, xorg, and matrox g550 troubles
Hi, Thanks but that is actually what I tried ;-), without success. The screen keeps black no signal anymore. ctrl+alt FX can't get a console and even the X display was black, and I was unable to get working screen nor X or the console. I needed to ssh from another workstation to restart. I think I found temporary workaround. Not loading the freebsd mga and acpi kernel module seems to solve some problem. At least dualscreen works now. I'm using the native g550 linux drivers from matrox. didier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 security issues???
On 03 Nov Rob wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: However, F1 takes you to the ttyv I'm logged in to and this gives you the opportunity to Ctrl-C my X session... leaving you standing in my shell! How do you start your X session? It seems like you log in via one of the text terminals (ttyv0) and then start X with the 'startx' command. Why don't you use xdm with X login instead? (I suppose you understand this, otherwise you may need some more guidance on how to set up X). Another thing you could do is make an alias like startx=exec startx or something like that in you shellrc This way a user still could access your screen w/ ctrl/alt/Fx, but stopping your Xsession will result in a to begin with but since they prompt for pwds... not catastrophic. logout ;-) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: This is more of an announcement than a question, but: In the past, I've noticed questions from people looking for ISO image file torrents for FreeBSD. To see if there really is a demand for this, I've set one up (only for FreeBSD 5.3RC2 i386 disk 1). You can download the torrent file from http://www.eng.ufl.edu/bobj/FreeBSD-5_3_RC2.torrent I'm using bnbt for the tracker and seeding it with ctorrent. For some reason it seems reluctant to seed to other copies of ctorrent, but works fine with other clients (e.g. qtorrent). When possible, I'll keep another seed up with a different client to try to make sure a usable seed is always up. I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more exposure. BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this time. Thanks for doing this for rc2 though. Kris OK, I should be able to use my seed system to provide a long-term seed to help with availability. BTW, I forgot to open the firewall to allow public access to the tracker, so anyone who tried to get this torrent last night would have been unable to. It's fixed now. - Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available
Once I get it downloaded I will try to seed it for as long as I can On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:03:28 -0500, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: This is more of an announcement than a question, but: In the past, I've noticed questions from people looking for ISO image file torrents for FreeBSD. To see if there really is a demand for this, I've set one up (only for FreeBSD 5.3RC2 i386 disk 1). You can download the torrent file from http://www.eng.ufl.edu/bobj/FreeBSD-5_3_RC2.torrent I'm using bnbt for the tracker and seeding it with ctorrent. For some reason it seems reluctant to seed to other copies of ctorrent, but works fine with other clients (e.g. qtorrent). When possible, I'll keep another seed up with a different client to try to make sure a usable seed is always up. I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more exposure. BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this time. Thanks for doing this for rc2 though. Kris OK, I should be able to use my seed system to provide a long-term seed to help with availability. BTW, I forgot to open the firewall to allow public access to the tracker, so anyone who tried to get this torrent last night would have been unable to. It's fixed now. - Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless internet
your best bet is to get a card that's natively supported by freebsd. i have had good luck with d-link 802.11g cards that use the atheros chipset, but any manufacturer's card(using atheros) should work the same. these cards are pretty inexpensive, and you'll probably have a lot better luck with them. you could also get a wireless bridge and just plug it into your wired network card, but i would rather get the wireless card. it's a little more flexible, and probably cheaper too. good luck --luke ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WRITE_DMA timeouts
I have a test machine with FreeBSD-5.3 RC2. It only has 2 drives (ATA). I am seeing this error (intermittently): ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3239915 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out Though the system seems to otherwise be working just fine. This used to be a Windows/XP system for a long time, and I never had any trouble. So I wonder what the above can be indicative of (ie: bad cabling, or?). Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A good IDE for C development?
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:52:27AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:29:08PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-26 00:04, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:45:55AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-23 22:52, John Oxley wrote: [ ... ] I use both Emacs and vim, with reasonable levels of comfort. I haven't found a way to convince ctags that it's ok for a tag to appear multiple times (which can really be annoying when editing the sources of a kernel, where names are *bound* to appear multiple times), but I know what you mean. Are you using exuberant ctags? I've had problems with various other ctags programs choking before, but exuberant has usually worked instead. Now I know that I had some programs with exuberant ctags with the linux kernel before, but I think if exuberant knows all the defines then it should be able to figure out which tag is correct by way of the c pre-processor. I don't think so. I tried using `/usr/bin/ctags' but being able to do my work with Emacs' support for tags didn't search for other vim-compatible tagging tools. I see now that Exuberant Ctags is available as the devel/ctags port. Perhaps it would be nice to try it out one of these days. Apparently it doesn't even conflict with the /usr/local/bin/ctags executable that comes with Emacs (it's installed as exctags in the same directory). Coolness! I've given up on emacs, save for use in vi-mode: [x]emacs demands at least two hands:) Beside, my fingers know vi automatically. --That said, isn't/wasn't there some kind of IDE that let the user choose different toolsets??-- (For example, I might be happy with an integrated [n]vi or vim + ctags + gdb) I've tried the KDE flavor of IDE back while running SuSE but it's editor gave me fits; kept hitting ESC and the [jk] keys, c. In the end, I think the IDE concept might not do that much for productivity; it may be more along thr 'neat-toys' category. But I'll withhold my biases until I learn differently. If there is no IDE that lets you pick-and-choose, is there any that uses vi* as its default? In windoze, most IDEs I've used automatically reconize that a file has been modified outside the program once you switch back to the IDE so you could say the IDE supports other editors. In linux, I've never tried using IDE. In fact, the only reason I was using an IDE in windoze is that the emulator or compiler is built in to the IDE and can't be used seperately. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix -- 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 pgpC3BM5vOVgx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...
Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 support If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that resultant array? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WRITE_DMA timeouts
On 11/05/04 01:22 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed: I have a test machine with FreeBSD-5.3 RC2. It only has 2 drives (ATA). I am seeing this error (intermittently): ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3239915 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out Though the system seems to otherwise be working just fine. This used to be a Windows/XP system for a long time, and I never had any trouble. So I wonder what the above can be indicative of (ie: bad cabling, or?). [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was hoping this was a thing of the past. I've seen this a lot with 5.2.1, but I usually ended up with a siezed system. I don't see how the fact that you had XP on the system could affect FreeBSD. Exactly what ATA controller do you have? I've run into trouble with the Intel ICH5 SATA controller in a new Dell Dimension 8300. I received *lots* of suggestions that the drive was bad (as per the little sniglet at the bottom), but that isn't the problem - it passed every utility I was able to put it through. BTW, my drive is a brand new WD 160 Gig. After days of googling, I found only a few suggestions that the problem was the scheduler and/or the HT processor. I turned HT off in the bios, and it still locks up - especially when shutting down. I've put the hardware through dozens of checks and tests, and there are absolutely no problems except when running FreeBSD with the disk under load. Even XP didn't lock up like this. I've been holding this new Dell in limbo for nearly 4 months waiting for this exact problem to get fixed. I *really* hate to do it, but I'm going to have to consider Linux if this doesn't get resolved in 5.3. And it looks like it isn't. I know I could get the code and work on it myself, but I'm not a driver engineer, and as much as I'd like to, I don't have the time to learn it right now. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Default, n.: The hardware's, of course. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 security issues???
Thought the list might benefit... Brian Bobowski wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: When I have X/Fluxbox up and running, I can press Ctrl+Alt+function-key and get to any other ttyv. This is annoying to begin with but since they prompt for pwds... not catastrophic. However, F1 takes you to the ttyv I'm logged in to and this gives you the opportunity to Ctrl-C my X session... leaving you standing in my shell! ... Have I done something wrong? How can I prevent this. It would be nice to be able to walk away from my desk and not worry about people using my machine. I'm not personally familiar with Fluxbox, but I do know that some window managers or environments - for instance, KDE - have the option to intercept the CTRL-ALT-Fn keypresses. That's one way to do it - from within your WM. The other way is to add these lines to your ServerFlags section of /etc/XF86Config : Option DontVTSwitch true Option DontZap true Excellent... Exactly what I needed! However, for what it's worth... I'm using xorg, and the syntax that worked for me was without the boolean values. Section ServerFlags Option DontVTSwitch Option DontZap EndSection Thanks for the help. The first prevents the behaviour that you specifically mentioned; the second prevents the CTRL-ALT-Backspace shortcut from killing the X server. If this section doesn't exist, then put: Section ServerFlags Option DontVTSwitch true Option DontZap true EndSection ...and that should achieve the desired results. HTH, -BB -- Regards, Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available
I finished downloading it fine, so your end is probably working ok, I will continue seeding to help anyone else who wants to grab it On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:09:35 -0600, CHris Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I get it downloaded I will try to seed it for as long as I can On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:03:28 -0500, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: This is more of an announcement than a question, but: In the past, I've noticed questions from people looking for ISO image file torrents for FreeBSD. To see if there really is a demand for this, I've set one up (only for FreeBSD 5.3RC2 i386 disk 1). You can download the torrent file from http://www.eng.ufl.edu/bobj/FreeBSD-5_3_RC2.torrent I'm using bnbt for the tracker and seeding it with ctorrent. For some reason it seems reluctant to seed to other copies of ctorrent, but works fine with other clients (e.g. qtorrent). When possible, I'll keep another seed up with a different client to try to make sure a usable seed is always up. I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more exposure. BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this time. Thanks for doing this for rc2 though. Kris OK, I should be able to use my seed system to provide a long-term seed to help with availability. BTW, I forgot to open the firewall to allow public access to the tracker, so anyone who tried to get this torrent last night would have been unable to. It's fixed now. - Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...
There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host raid) and require special software drivers in the OS. You are much better off purchasing a separate hardware raid controller such as the 3Ware 8006-2LP 2 port, 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port, Adaptec 2410SA 4-port controllers. They do true hardware raid and work with FreeBSD. Hope that answers your question. Thanks, -- Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies On Nov 5, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 support If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that resultant array? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WRITE_DMA timeouts
Sorry, I should have specified the system. This is an older Compaq AP200. I've not idea what controller it's using on the motherboard, but can try Googling to find out. The processor is 500mhz, and has a reasonable amount of RAM. Again, this problem I'm seeing on /dev/console is intermittent. But the system otherwise appears to be peforming fine. It has 2 10krpm 10gb drives (IDE). Anyone else seeing this problem? The last build of this system was Oct 24th, I can CVSup and rebuild if there have been some corrections ? Forrest On 11/05/04 01:22 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed: I have a test machine with FreeBSD-5.3 RC2. It only has 2 drives (ATA). I am seeing this error (intermittently): ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3239915 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out Though the system seems to otherwise be working just fine. This used to be a Windows/XP system for a long time, and I never had any trouble. So I wonder what the above can be indicative of (ie: bad cabling, or?). [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was hoping this was a thing of the past. I've seen this a lot with 5.2.1, but I usually ended up with a siezed system. I don't see how the fact that you had XP on the system could affect FreeBSD. Exactly what ATA controller do you have? I've run into trouble with the Intel ICH5 SATA controller in a new Dell Dimension 8300. I received *lots* of suggestions that the drive was bad (as per the little sniglet at the bottom), but that isn't the problem - it passed every utility I was able to put it through. BTW, my drive is a brand new WD 160 Gig. After days of googling, I found only a few suggestions that the problem was the scheduler and/or the HT processor. I turned HT off in the bios, and it still locks up - especially when shutting down. I've put the hardware through dozens of checks and tests, and there are absolutely no problems except when running FreeBSD with the disk under load. Even XP didn't lock up like this. I've been holding this new Dell in limbo for nearly 4 months waiting for this exact problem to get fixed. I *really* hate to do it, but I'm going to have to consider Linux if this doesn't get resolved in 5.3. And it looks like it isn't. I know I could get the code and work on it myself, but I'm not a driver engineer, and as much as I'd like to, I don't have the time to learn it right now. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Default, n.: The hardware's, of course. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Scott Gerhardt wrote: There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host raid) and require special software drivers in the OS. You are much better off purchasing a separate hardware raid controller such as the 3Ware 8006-2LP 2 port, 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port, Adaptec 2410SA 4-port controllers. They do true hardware raid and work with FreeBSD. Hope that answers your question. Unfortunately ... yup :) I was hoping to avoid the extra cost, but glad to have it confirmed ... thanks ... BTW, the motherboard/chassis is the Intel SR1400/SE7520JR2 ... which, re-looking at the specs negates the original question anyway :) it only holds 3 drives ... Thanks though ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3Ware Controllers (Was: Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...)
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Scott Gerhardt wrote: There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host raid) and require special software drivers in the OS. You are much better off purchasing a separate hardware raid controller such as the 3Ware 8006-2LP 2 port, 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port, Adaptec 2410SA 4-port controllers. They do true hardware raid and work with FreeBSD. Hope that answers your question. Unfortunately ... yup :) I was hoping to avoid the extra cost, but glad to have it confirmed ... thanks ... BTW, the motherboard/chassis is the Intel SR1400/SE7520JR2 ... which, re-looking at the specs negates the original question anyway :) it only holds 3 drives ... Thanks though ... Wait, now I'm a bit nervous, as this is the first time I use SATA on anything but a desktop ... so my experiences are limited to 'single drive' systems ... The 8006-2LP ... how many drives will that support? Just 2, right? And the 9500-4LP will support 4? So, is it one cable that goes from the controller card to the chassis SATA backplane? From reading their web site, multiple cable would be the MI cards, instead of the regular ones ... right? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SoundMax sound card support.
How can I know I FreeBSD 4.9 supports SoundMax sound cards and, if not, when will they be supported? __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WRITE_DMA timeouts
You can get your ATA controller by looking for ATA in /var/run/dmesg.boot. And FTR, my problem is intermittent too, but seems to lock the system up with partition corruption when the disk is under heavy load. Good luck. Lou On 11/05/04 03:26 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed: Sorry, I should have specified the system. This is an older Compaq AP200. I've not idea what controller it's using on the motherboard, but can try Googling to find out. The processor is 500mhz, and has a reasonable amount of RAM. Again, this problem I'm seeing on /dev/console is intermittent. But the system otherwise appears to be peforming fine. It has 2 10krpm 10gb drives (IDE). Anyone else seeing this problem? The last build of this system was Oct 24th, I can CVSup and rebuild if there have been some corrections ? Forrest On 11/05/04 01:22 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed: I have a test machine with FreeBSD-5.3 RC2. It only has 2 drives (ATA). I am seeing this error (intermittently): ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3239915 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out Though the system seems to otherwise be working just fine. This used to be a Windows/XP system for a long time, and I never had any trouble. So I wonder what the above can be indicative of (ie: bad cabling, or?). [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was hoping this was a thing of the past. I've seen this a lot with 5.2.1, but I usually ended up with a siezed system. I don't see how the fact that you had XP on the system could affect FreeBSD. Exactly what ATA controller do you have? I've run into trouble with the Intel ICH5 SATA controller in a new Dell Dimension 8300. I received *lots* of suggestions that the drive was bad (as per the little sniglet at the bottom), but that isn't the problem - it passed every utility I was able to put it through. BTW, my drive is a brand new WD 160 Gig. After days of googling, I found only a few suggestions that the problem was the scheduler and/or the HT processor. I turned HT off in the bios, and it still locks up - especially when shutting down. I've put the hardware through dozens of checks and tests, and there are absolutely no problems except when running FreeBSD with the disk under load. Even XP didn't lock up like this. I've been holding this new Dell in limbo for nearly 4 months waiting for this exact problem to get fixed. I *really* hate to do it, but I'm going to have to consider Linux if this doesn't get resolved in 5.3. And it looks like it isn't. I know I could get the code and work on it myself, but I'm not a driver engineer, and as much as I'd like to, I don't have the time to learn it right now. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Default, n.: The hardware's, of course. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Arnold's Addendum: Everything else causes cancer in rats. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 support If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that resultant array? The two variations your are talking about are referred to as RAID 0 + 1, or RAID 10 depending on the order you stripe and mirror. I assume this is hardware RAID so FreeBSD shouldn't even know its there. You will create a logical drive from the RAID set you create and that is what FBSD will see. That is one of the reasons I like hardware RAID vs software RAID is the OS doesn't even know about it, it is just a drive to the OS. Steve Barnette ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Panic!
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:17:51PM +1100, Steven Adams wrote: Hi, At random I will get this kernel panic What kernel panic? Also how do I make the kernel auto reboot the system when there is a kernel panic.. It should automatically reboot unless you have DDB enabled, in which case also add DDB_UNATTENDED to your kernel (or remove DDB). The chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook has much more information about this, so you should try to read it. Kris pgpU0KTPabtJL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SoundMax sound card support.
On Friday 05 November 2004 04:15 pm, Andrei Iarus proclaimed: How can I know I FreeBSD 4.9 supports SoundMax sound cards and, if not, when will they be supported? You could either go to freebsd's website (freebsd.org), or if you have a releace CD downloaded and burned, you could check the CD. For the website, check the following link, select the applicable release version and then select Hardware notes. For the installation CD mount it and do the following: $cat /path_to_your_CD_mount/HARDWARE.TXT | more Of course, you could always check the FTP sites as well... For example, open your favorite browser and go to the following URL to view the HARDWARE nfo for the 4.9 release: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT (be advised that URL may have wrapped). As far as when... The best I can tell you is to check the history of the freebsd-hardware message board. You can do so by going to the following URL. You can even do a search so you won't have to read them all. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Nope. :) HTH Happy hunting, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postgresql not starting...
I'm accustomed to work with postgresql under linux both debian and gentoo. Now on my pentium 3 box under freeBSD 5.2.1 I've just compiled the following ports: postgresql7 postgresql7-client postgresql7-opt In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I find 010.pgsql.sh to start the service but /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start doesn't look to do anything. if I su - pgsql then try to createdb an error of missing server pops up. Could you please help in a straightforward way how to set postgresql straight? By the way how can I tell FreeBSD I want the postgresql to be started at boot time? Thanks Vittorio Vittorio ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Kernel Panic!
Im not quite sure what you mean by that.. Is that an env variable, make file or shell variable.. ? Steven Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] DriftNet Web Services http://www.drifthost.com Home: +61 2 94274857 Fax: +61 2 94274857 Mobile +61 (0) 404 085644 -Original Message- From: Subhro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2004 12:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kernel Panic! Quote: The error is as follows (or go to http://drifthost.com/intertia-error.jpg) === Kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Cupid= = 0; apic id = 00 Fault virtual address = 0x24 Fault code = supervisor read, page not present Instruction pointer = 0x8 :0c04d954e Stack pointer = 0x10 :0xe0083c64 Frame pointer = 0x10:0xe0083c88 Code segment = base 0x0, limit 0x, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 Processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 Current process = 29 (irq16: bge0) Trap number = 12 Panic: page fault Cupid = 0; Boot() called on cpu#0 Syncing disks, buggers remaining panic: pmap_invalidate_range: interrupts disabled Cupid = 0; Boot() called on cpu#0 Uptime: 14d23h0m11s = Any non standard CXFLAGS? 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] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:29:07 +, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an application in /usr/ports I cannot find sources of the base system I had to install when starting the first installation from scratch. Where are those sources? /usr/src 2) The questions' question: where can I read what are the options I can use with a certain source package and how can I use them when make(-ing) the program? I do the same as the others have suggested, read the Makefile. 3) It goes without saying that many freebsd commands are the same as in linux but I cannot find the freebsd command equivalent to the linux command 'free' giving info about the size of memory used by the system's cache, buffers, swap, etc. My preferred command for this is 'top -d1|grep -A1 Mem'. If you want you can alias this using your preferred shell or write a small script named 'free'. Nick. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox or mozilla don't run
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:14:33 +0100, Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running xfce4 with xorg 6.7.0. When I try to launch firefox or mozilla. I get the following error error: no running window found To be able to run the apps, I need to: 1) xhost +local 2) su 3) type mozilla or firefox Mozilla or firefox need to be run as root or don't run at all. What's the problem? Check the permissions of the .mozilla directory in ~/; they might be set as root:wheel which would make them unwritable by you and therefore unable to start. Nick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using dd to clone windows XP drives
Has anyone succesfully cloned a windows XP hard drive with dd? I heard there were problems specifically with XP drives, that they required a drive ID number to be changed or something silly like that. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATI, OpenGl, and the like.
Greetings! I've been a FreeBSD user for a few years now, off and on. After my last harddrive dumped on me, I decided to stick with FreeBSD as my main OS. I work as an PC/Net technician/admin and know the console and server ends of FreeBSD rather well at this point. I've never been much into graphics and games, but a little while ago I stumbled, through happenstance, upon an ATI AIW Raden 9600 w/ 128 Megs ram. I sold my old graphics card for cigarrette and pizza money, so going back to it is no longer an option. My first thought was to get the dual head function working under X11. No go. I googled the hell out of it, tried all the stuff I could find, wouldn't work for me. Not a big deal, I'll pic up an old pci video card at some point and give it another shot. If anyone happens to have an XF86Config or Xorg.conf file with this setup running, however, please feel free to send it my way. In my travels around the web I found a lot of irate FreeBSD users with ATI graphics cards, specifically dealing with getting OpenGL to work. I am running X.org 6.8.1 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have dual P3 1.0Ghzs and 512 megs RAM. Should be more than enough to play a silly little game on. The game in question is Cube. It looks nice, figured it might help me kill some time between on call rotations. Problem is, the darn thing runs slow enough to pace mollasses in january. I get 10 fps average. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? How can I tell if OpenGL is running properly? Where can I find info on configuring OpenGL for my card? I've tried setting the FPS range in the game, doesn't help. Oh, and if anyone knows what the deal is with these graphics cards and FreeBSD (well, I guess X on FreeBSD more specifically) is.. status of drivers and what not, point me in the right direction. Nothing major, just a little frustrating. All in all, I love FreeBSD. If this card isn't going to work for me, can anyone recommend a dual head video card that runs decently with OpenGL and has a built in TV tuner? Preferably a tv tuner that will actually work? (still holding my breath for the Gatos team to catch up some day.) If you need any of my config information, lemme know. Sorry for the message length, wasn't quite sure how to trim it down. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcpd (reprise)
Guys, I don't know if my mail from last night (Friday, localtime) got thru or not. Part of sendmail is bolloxed too... I see my /var/log/maillog filling up, but unable to resolve mail from freebsd.org. Or anywhere. Anyhow, last night thngs on my primary server broke. I can ping, I can use mozilla, wshatever, but only from ns1.thought.org. I fixed the new bind9 paths and re-exec'd those. But for unknown reasons, dhcpd fails to hand out new leases. Does anybody have any ideas howto debug this? (I've tried some people here on the Seattle list, but they're unavailable.) So: nutshell, looks like my /etc/namedb/* stuff is okay. --Something wrong with sendmail.-- And dhcp* quit working. Any real, hardcore system admins out there who can help me?? thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:29:07PM +, Vittorio wrote: Experienced linux debian user, recently I smoothly moved to linux gentoo (BSD compliant) AND to FreeBSD 5.2.1. 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how to compile an application in /usr/ports I cannot find sources of the base system I had to install when starting the first installation from scratch. Where are those sources? The sources for the base system are available on the same media from which you installed. If you don't have anything under /usr/src/ the you didn't install the sources. With a running system you can run the program called 'sysinstall', the same one use to install the intial system and install the sources. You can do this: sysinstall - Configure - Distributions - src 2) The questions' question: where can I read what are the options I can use with a certain source package and how can I use them when make(-ing) the program? Sometimes you can read the Makefile in the port directory for a particular port. 3) It goes without saying that many freebsd commands are the same as in linux but I cannot find the freebsd command equivalent to the linux command 'free' giving info about the size of memory used by the system's cache, buffers, swap, etc. As far as I know the best way to get this information is from the top(1). You can also get info from systat(1), check out the manpage. Nathan -- PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xD8527E49 pgpOpw8G3UjS9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: using dd to clone windows XP drives
We haven't used dd directly but have used g4u. g4u (ghost for unix) is a boot-floppy/CD that allows one to easily clone PC hard disks by using FTP. This is often done to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs. The floppy/CD offers two functions: it uploads the compressed image of a local hard disk to an FTP server, and then it can retrieve that image via FTP, uncompress it, and write it back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the hard disk is processed as an image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ Jason On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:25, NiY wrote: Has anyone succesfully cloned a windows XP hard drive with dd? I heard there were problems specifically with XP drives, that they required a drive ID number to be changed or something silly like that. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
buildworld
What will happen to the file system and boot manager when i am upgrading from 5.3b7 amd64 to current ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postgresql not starting...
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1153 22:53]: In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I find 010.pgsql.sh to start the service but /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start doesn't look to do anything. if I su - pgsql then try to createdb an error of missing server pops up. Could you please help in a straightforward way how to set postgresql straight? less ~pgsql/post-install-notes you want su -l pgsql -c initdb initdb creates the postgres system catalogs etc, you can't use createdb without them (since createdb makes databases by copying the template1 database). By the way how can I tell FreeBSD I want the postgresql to be started at boot time? '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start' should work after you've run that. Once the postmaster starts, then createdb will work. -- Aww, you know what always cheers me up? Laughing at other people's misfortunes. - Bender 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]
Re: Naming confusion
It doesn't matter what name you give the machine. Just add that name to /etc/hosts as the loop back address' lookup name. I refer to this computer as traveler2. It is the 2nd laptop that I had purchased. Everything before had been desktops. I have traveler2 and traveler4 in the truck with me. OK, lets say that I call it traveler2.hayes.org. Where will I get into trouble with this? Also, in reading about DHCP, I think that I read something about a caution concerning naming of the computer. Something about the computer should not have been named before. Is this correct? Can I just insert a name into the /etc/rc.conf file? Or do I need to go through the 'Name' procedure? It seems that I can't setup the DHCP, ddclients, until I get a wifi card that FBSD recognizes. All of my Internet access is through WiFi connections Also, In the /etc/hosts file, I understand the 27.0.0.0, but what is this ::1 address? Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Jeremy Faulkner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lloyd Hayes wrote: | Here's a new thread. | Naming the computer host? | | I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS | assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different | location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would | normally get from my ISP. I don't have a permanent ISP. I mainly use 2 | services at locations all across the USA. Normally I simply assign a | name to the computer, but it appears that FBSD wants a complete Internet | address. | | This appears to me to be a conflict. I think that I read in The | Complete FreeBSD, 4th Edition where there are some addresses to use if | the computer will never be hooked into the Internet. But that is not the | case here. | | Any ideas or help here? | It doesn't matter what name you give the machine. Just add that name to /etc/hosts as the loop back address' lookup name. The only thing that could go wrong is if you us a name that is the same as another computer that you try to connect to. The system will resolve the name to be your computer and will connect to itself instead of the remote machine. - -- Jeremy Faulkner[EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBir8Zfb0Lle2MIEIRAh03AJsE1297tvKCWMKluvPTVht79h4FQgCeIn3y dudmmQEcDvvO8KmPsGSfT4A= =NMgA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which WiFi cards work best?
I seem to have 4 PCMCIA WiFi cards which do not work with FreeBSD. I'm getting ads from eCost.com for these cards selling for $5. (Shipping costs more then the card, and I have purchased from this company before.) Which cards work best? Preferably a G card. I'd like to hear from people who are using them on a FreeBSD system, if possible.. -- 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]
gaim+meanwhile+gaim-encryption-2.31_2 on 5.3
Ive got gaim and friends installed from ports [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -al /var/db/pkg/ | grep -i gaim drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Oct 28 23:13 gaim-1.0.2 drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Nov 5 21:16 gaim-encryption-2.31_2 drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Oct 28 23:13 gaim-meanwhile-1.0.1_1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] but when I start gaim, it seems to hang trying to generate a crypto key for meanwhile. it says Generating RSA Key Pair for . This may take a little bit... This screen finally goes away, but gaim crashes and dumps a core. If I remove the gaim-crypto, its ok.. Can I disable the gaim-crypto for just the meanwhile account? Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gaim+meanwhile+gaim-encryption-2.31_2 on 5.3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason wrote: | Ive got gaim and friends installed from ports | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -al /var/db/pkg/ | grep -i gaim | drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Oct 28 23:13 gaim-1.0.2 | drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Nov 5 21:16 gaim-encryption-2.31_2 | drwxr-xr-x2 root wheel 512 Oct 28 23:13 gaim-meanwhile-1.0.1_1 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | but when I start gaim, it seems to hang trying to generate a crypto key for meanwhile. | it says Generating RSA Key Pair for . | This may take a little bit... This screen finally goes away, but gaim crashes and dumps a core. | If I remove the gaim-crypto, its ok.. Can I disable the gaim-crypto for just the meanwhile account? Doesn't looks like it. But I have my meanwhile key generated just fine. ~ You might try deleting your keys, and try again. Joe | | Jason | | ___ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBjEJOb2iPiv4Uz4cRAp4BAKCNfUFmkogbo1chwidxzbSCHwLHjgCbBuNv N1A5KZV2LMlxq75O32+s7aM= =ZG+Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Post freebsd-update question
I am newbie running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with a custom kernel. Not any major modifications, I just commented out a few devices which I do not have and copied over a few items from the Notes file. I just ran freebsd-update to pick up security patches. It fetched and installed without any problems. However, freebsd-update let me know that it did not update the kernel because it had been modified locally. What do I need to do now to update the kernel? Do I need to use csvup to update the GENERIC and NOTES files, then recompile and reinstall? Thank you, Ned ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
memory requirements?
I inherited a 400 MHz Pentium II with 128MB of RAM and a 20GB HD. Is this an adequate configuration to run 5.2.1, or do I need to add memory? Jay O'Brien ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: memory requirements?
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:49:56PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: I inherited a 400 MHz Pentium II with 128MB of RAM and a 20GB HD. Is this an adequate configuration to run 5.2.1, or do I need to add memory? It all depends what you want to do with it...it's the applications you run that take up most of the memory. 128MB is a bit on the small side if you're going to be doing memory-heavy desktop work (e.g. running mozilla, KDE, etc), but there are plenty of lighter-weight alternatives to those applications. Kris pgprFI2mFJ406.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: memory requirements?
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:49:56PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: I inherited a 400 MHz Pentium II with 128MB of RAM and a 20GB HD. Is this an adequate configuration to run 5.2.1, or do I need to add memory? It all depends what you want to do with it...it's the applications you run that take up most of the memory. 128MB is a bit on the small side if you're going to be doing memory-heavy desktop work (e.g. running mozilla, KDE, etc), but there are plenty of lighter-weight alternatives to those applications. Kris Good point. I am bringing up another (very capable) machine and learning as I go; I set it up with 4.10 and I now think I should be running 5.2.1. It will ultimately be a mail and web server. I thought I would bring this old machine (inherited from my 89 yr old m-i-l who passed away in August) on 5.2.1 to get a feel for it; I would probably not do much more than use it as a SSH terminal to connect to the other machine and as a learning tool to learn (or re-learn) unix commands. It presently runs Win98SE, had a CD reader and a NIC card, so I know it has working hardware. The bottom line is that 128MB seems adequate for FreeBSD itself? Jay O'Brien ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Big Problem, Load Avg Very High
Hi, I run FreeBSD 5.2.1 with the following hardware Acer Server: Altos LSI Megaraid with 5x 36 gig scsi on raid 5. Dual xeon cpu's 1GIG ECC Ram 2x 250GIG IDE Drives We host a couple or sites on this server (not very big sites). My server load is always around 0.90 - 3.40. Sometimes it will jump up to 10-15. At random it will jump up to 30-40 load and I wont even be able to get to the server, typing commands on the remote ip based kvm is VERY slow sometimes missing letters. As soon as im able to get top running it shows last pid: 52614; load averages: 6.82, 15.75, 15.18 up 1+03:07:12 16:32:22 462 processes: 1 running, 460 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.6% system, 0.6% interrupt, 98.7% idle Mem: 615M Active, 68M Inact, 288M Wired, 29M Cache, 112M Buf, 1844K Free Swap: 1536M Total, 555M Used, 981M Free, 36% Inuse, 12K In === I am trying to figure out why the load is so high for a server that should be able to handle it easily.. I did notice once when running systat -vmstat the amr0(scsi raid) jumps up to 99% busy copying 2-3MB/s for a few moments then goes back down.. After one of the times it went to 50load it got this on the console screen. FYI: amrd0s1h is /home partition == Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: amrd0s1h, blkno: 103776, size: 32768 Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: amrd0s1h, blkno: 130801, size: 4096 == I wanted to check the logs but for some weird reason syslogd is not logging to /var/log/security and /var/log/blah I tried to do a killall -HUP syslog and killall -9 syslogd ; syslogd It logs to the other log files but wont log to the /var/log/blah and /var/log/security so I cant see if there Is a problem with the server. My config is below. *.*/var/log/blah *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages security.* /var/log/security auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log local0.notice;local0.debug;mail.*;mail.none;mail.info;local0.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info/var/log/lpd-errs ftp.info/var/log/xferlog cron.* /var/log/cron *.=debug/var/log/debug.log *.emerg * # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log #console.info /var/log/console.log # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/all.log # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work #*.*/var/log/all.log # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost #*.*@loghost # uncomment these if you're running inn # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit # news.err /var/log/news/news.err # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice !startslip *.* /var/log/slip.log !ppp *.* /var/log/ppp.log I am really confussed what else I can do to find out what is causing this problem as the server completely locks up when it goes to 50+ load. It seems that its copying a lot of information to the swap drive and is running out of ram, which I don't know why it seems apache is taking up all of the ram for some weird reason? Here is my demsg, I hope you guys can help! == Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #3: Wed Sep 29 20:50:16 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/DRIFTHOST Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc070a000. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko at 0xc070a2bc. ACPI APIC Table: RCCGCSL Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2392.05-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA ,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE, Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory =
Re: memory requirements?
On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:17 PM, Jay O'Brien wrote: I thought I would bring this old machine (inherited from my 89 yr old m-i-l who passed away in August) on 5.2.1 to get a feel for it; you may want to put 5.3 on it. Supposed to release this weekend according to a note earlier. I only use FreeBSD for server work so I cannot comment on memory requirements for running X etc Chad ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big Problem, Load Avg Very High
In the last episode (Nov 06), Steven Adams said: We host a couple or sites on this server (not very big sites). My server load is always around 0.90 - 3.40. Sometimes it will jump up to 10-15. At random it will jump up to 30-40 load and I wont even be able to get to the server, typing commands on the remote ip based kvm is VERY slow sometimes missing letters. As soon as im able to get top running it shows last pid: 52614; load averages: 6.82, 15.75, 15.18 up 1+03:07:12 16:32:22 462 processes: 1 running, 460 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.6% system, 0.6% interrupt, 98.7% idle Mem: 615M Active, 68M Inact, 288M Wired, 29M Cache, 112M Buf, 1844K Free Swap: 1536M Total, 555M Used, 981M Free, 36% Inuse, 12K In 500MB of swap used? You might have a process that's allocating too much memory and causing the rest of the processes to swap to disk. Try keeping a top session running all the time so you can monitor swap usage and see if you notice any processes taking more memory than they should. I did notice once when running systat -vmstat the amr0(scsi raid) jumps up to 99% busy copying 2-3MB/s for a few moments then goes back down.. That could be either regular disk activity or swap thrashing. vmstat 1 will tell you (watch the fre, pi and po columns). After one of the times it went to 50load it got this on the console screen. FYI: amrd0s1h is /home partition Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: amrd0s1h, blkno: 103776, size: 32768 Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: amrd0s1h, blkno: 130801, size: 4096 Most likely you're thrashing. I've seen a couple other people mention this error with 5.2.1, but not lately, so chances are 5.3 has fixed this particular problem. It seems that its copying a lot of information to the swap drive and is running out of ram, which I don't know why it seems apache is taking up all of the ram for some weird reason? Not weird at all. If you are using perl or php modules, they can really suck up ram if you get a lot of page hits at once. You might want to look at using fastcgi to separate perl/php from the apache process itself. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Big Problem, Load Avg Very High
Hi Dan, I disabled one of my clients web pages ( the one that gets the most hits )and its gone down to 130MB swap used and staying there. The clients site is just a small site with one page that shows one gallery but gets a lot of hits... It now has 140MB free.. but It seems as if it slowly drops then comes back then drops again.. The weird thing is the clients site has been up for months and is getting the same hits, the load wasn't this bad before but was still around 1-2.. I used to run all the same thing on a different server with 1 cpu and 512MB ram on slackware linux and it ran fine.. That's why its confussing me.. ill give systat a go. I was going to do a make buildworld and update to freebsd 5.3 and see if that fixes it.. But Im not to sure if I should, ive been told it getting released soon so maybe its ok to update..? Heres a ps aux output USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root11 98.1 0.0 0 12 ?? RL Fri01PM 1627:28.24 (idle: cpu3) root12 97.3 0.0 0 12 ?? RL Fri01PM 1614:05.04 (idle: cpu2) root13 95.2 0.0 0 12 ?? RL Fri01PM 1571:36.41 (idle: cpu1) root14 89.6 0.0 0 12 ?? RL Fri01PM 1488:33.38 (idle: cpu0) mysql56065 1.3 3.1 74012 32480 ?? S 4:43PM 0:24.23 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local --datadir=/va nobody 60870 1.1 1.3 18644 13592 ?? S 5:07PM 0:04.83 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL jeneaux 62637 1.1 0.3 6192 2636 ?? S 5:20PM 0:00.03 cppop - serving 203.122.211.211 - TRANSACTION - jeneaux (cpp root29 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 5:19.11 (irq16: bge0) root37 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 1:20.92 (irq24: amr0) root62 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 5:23.31 (swi1: net) root63 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 3:49.56 (swi8: clock) root 2 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 0:08.92 (g_event) root 3 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 2:38.58 (g_up) root 4 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 3:33.41 (g_down) root65 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 0:48.94 (random) root66 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 1:04.29 (swi6:+) root 5 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 0:00.00 (taskqueue) root68 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 0:00.00 (swi7: acpitaskq) root70 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 0:00.00 (swi3: cambio) root71 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? WL Fri01PM 0:00.00 (swi7: task queue) root 6 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL Fri01PM 0:00.00 (acpi_task0) root 7 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL Fri01PM 0:00.00 (acpi_task1) root 8 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? IL Fri01PM 0:00.00 (acpi_task2) root 9 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 45:03.28 (pagedaemon) root72 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 11:07.16 (vmdaemon) root73 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 4:20.71 (pagezero) root74 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 0:06.06 (bufdaemon) root75 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 1:40.70 (syncer) root76 0.0 0.0 0 12 ?? DL Fri01PM 0:01.80 (vnlru) root 571 0.0 0.1 4348 1172 con- SFri01PM 0:06.88 rrdtimer (perl) root 573 0.0 0.0 976 332 ?? Ss Fri01PM 0:16.94 /usr/sbin/MegaServ MegaCtrl root 621 0.0 0.1 4892 1260 con- SFri01PM 0:17.42 perl ./read-data.pl start part root 636 0.0 0.3 6812 2692 con- SFri01PM 1:31.68 perl ./read-data.pl start system root 650 0.0 0.1 4868 1236 con- SFri01PM 0:09.02 perl ./read-data.pl start traffic root 668 0.0 0.0 1372 204 ?? Ss Fri01PM 0:00.72 /usr/sbin/cron bind 691 0.0 0.8 13396 7848 ?? Ss Fri01PM 0:53.57 /usr/sbin/named -u bind -c /etc/named.conf mailnull 707 0.0 0.0 5352 360 ?? Is Fri01PM 0:00.76 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m (exim-4.42-0) mailnull 711 0.0 0.0 5352 12 ?? Is Fri01PM 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -tls-on-connect -bd -oX 465 (exim-4.42-0) root 713 0.0 0.1 2412 1084 con- SFri01PM 0:19.81 antirelayd (perl) root 727 0.0 0.0 19680 12 ?? Is Fri01PM 0:00.48 /usr/bin/spamd -d --allowed-ips=127.0.0.1 --pidfile=/var/run root 734 0.0 1.5 23740 15168 ?? IFri01PM 0:36.61 spamd child (perl) root 735 0.0 1.5 24080 15512 ?? IFri01PM 0:36.18 spamd child (perl) root 736 0.0 1.5 23972 15416 ?? IFri01PM 1:24.11 spamd child (perl) root 737 0.0 1.5 23776 15824 ?? IFri01PM 0:58.46 spamd child (perl) root 738 0.0 1.4 25260 14804 ?? IFri01PM 0:35.16 spamd child (perl) nobody 774 0.0 0.0 2352 240 ?? Ss Fri01PM 0:01.16 proftpd: (accepting connections) (proftpd) root 824 0.0 0.7 12916 7012
Re: memory requirements?
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:17:59PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:49:56PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: I inherited a 400 MHz Pentium II with 128MB of RAM and a 20GB HD. Is this an adequate configuration to run 5.2.1, or do I need to add memory? It all depends what you want to do with it...it's the applications you run that take up most of the memory. 128MB is a bit on the small side if you're going to be doing memory-heavy desktop work (e.g. running mozilla, KDE, etc), but there are plenty of lighter-weight alternatives to those applications. Kris Good point. I am bringing up another (very capable) machine and learning as I go; I set it up with 4.10 and I now think I should be running 5.2.1. It will ultimately be a mail and web server. I thought I would bring this old machine (inherited from my 89 yr old m-i-l who passed away in August) on 5.2.1 to get a feel for it; I would probably not do much more than use it as a SSH terminal to connect to the other machine and as a learning tool to learn (or re-learn) unix commands. It presently runs Win98SE, had a CD reader and a NIC card, so I know it has working hardware. The bottom line is that 128MB seems adequate for FreeBSD itself? More than adequate. I have a 300MHz 64MB machine with a 7GB hard drive running 5.2.1 handily. I don't have much on there besides dovecot, but I do use it as an installation and configuration testbed for new software I'm interested in. I don't have X installed. There is no difference in apparent speed at the console or through SSH between this machine and my other much more capable (800MHz, 384MB) 5.2.1 machine. Unless your needs are more substantial than they would appear, your machine is overpowered. I would just go ahead and try it. If you find that you need more power you haven't closed the door on any opportunities by trying it. As another poster has mentioned, you might want to wait for 5.3, or put a pre-release version of 5.3 on it. -- Danny ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error for my kernel configuration, please help
I've been trying to configure my first custom kernel according to the Handbook and looks that I got error in my configuration file, Would somebody please help me out? Thank you in advance. ++ Here is my custom configuration file: # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # #http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html # # The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook # if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the # FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the # latest information. # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is also present in the ../../conf/NOTES and NOTES files. # If you are in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first # in NOTES. # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.413.2.6 2004/09/22 19:23:37 andre Exp $ machine i386 #cpuI486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident PEARLBSD # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hints GENERIC.hints # Default places to look for devices. options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options INET# InterNETworking options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device #optionsNFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client #optionsNFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server #optionsNFS_ROOT# NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS# Pseudo-filesystem framework options GEOM_GPT# GUID Partition Tables. options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options SCSI_DELAY=15000# Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT# Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~128k to driver. options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT# Print register bitfields in debug # output. Adds ~215k to driver. options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive. # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device apic# I/O APIC # Bus support. Do not remove isa, even if you have no isa slots device isa device eisa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives #device ataraid # ATA RAID drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers #device ahb # EISA AHA1742 family #device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices #device ahd # AHA39320/29320 and onboard AIC79xx devices #device amd # AMD 53C974 (Tekram DC-390(T)) #device isp # Qlogic family #device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion #device ncr # NCR/Symbios Logic #device sym # NCR/Symbios Logic (newer chipsets + those of `ncr') #device trm # Tekram DC395U/UW/F DC315U adapters #device adv # Advansys SCSI adapters #device adw # Advansys wide SCSI adapters #device aha # Adaptec 154x SCSI adapters #device aic # Adaptec 15[012]x SCSI adapters, AIC-6[23]60.
Re: error for my kernel configuration, please help
Jian Guang Xu wrote: I've been trying to configure my first custom kernel according to the Handbook and looks that I got error in my configuration file, Would somebody please help me out? Thank you in advance. ++ Here is my custom configuration file: device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da Notice what umass requires: scbus and da. So you need to enable: # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device da # Direct Access (disks) R. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: memory requirements?
Danny MacMillan wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:17:59PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: It all depends what you want to do with it...it's the applications you run that take up most of the memory. 128MB is a bit on the small side if you're going to be doing memory-heavy desktop work (e.g. running mozilla, KDE, etc), but there are plenty of lighter-weight alternatives to those applications. Kris Good point. I am bringing up another (very capable) machine and learning as I go; I set it up with 4.10 and I now think I should be running 5.2.1. It will ultimately be a mail and web server. I thought I would bring this old machine (inherited from my 89 yr old m-i-l who passed away in August) on 5.2.1 to get a feel for it; I would probably not do much more than use it as a SSH terminal to connect to the other machine and as a learning tool to learn (or re-learn) unix commands. It presently runs Win98SE, had a CD reader and a NIC card, so I know it has working hardware. The bottom line is that 128MB seems adequate for FreeBSD itself? More than adequate. I have a 300MHz 64MB machine with a 7GB hard drive running 5.2.1 handily. I don't have much on there besides dovecot, but I do use it as an installation and configuration testbed for new software I'm interested in. I don't have X installed. There is no difference in apparent speed at the console or through SSH between this machine and my other much more capable (800MHz, 384MB) 5.2.1 machine. Unless your needs are more substantial than they would appear, your machine is overpowered. I would just go ahead and try it. If you find that you need more power you haven't closed the door on any opportunities by trying it. As another poster has mentioned, you might want to wait for 5.3, or put a pre-release version of 5.3 on it. Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: you may want to put 5.3 on it. Supposed to release this weekend according to a note earlier. I only use FreeBSD for server work so I cannot comment on memory requirements for running X etc Chad Thanks, folks! I hadn't considered 5.3, but as this is really only a test bed, I might as well go for it. I see 5.3-RC2 is available, I'll grab it and burn an ISO CD. Jay O'Brien ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: memory requirements?
On Nov 6, 2004, at 12:32 AM, Jay O'Brien wrote: Chad Thanks, folks! I hadn't considered 5.3, but as this is really only a test bed, I might as well go for it. I see 5.3-RC2 is available, I'll grab it and burn an ISO CD. Wait for 5.3-RELEASE It is supposed to be out this weekend. A little bird said to look for an announcement on Saturday (US Time) perhaps!?!? ;-) Chad ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
obtaining FreeBSD via cvsup
Hi friends I am a student in Romania, at the Petrol and Gas university of Ploiesti these guys forbid us to update FreeBSD via cvsup can you write that on a big site, somewhere where anyone can see? you can check if you want... thankes __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cpanel on FreeBSD 5.2 howto
anyone know any good howtos on getting Cpanel going on FreeBSD 5.2? _ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft® SmartScreen Technology. 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: memory requirements?
On 2004-11-05 21:17, Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:49:56PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: I inherited a 400 MHz Pentium II with 128MB of RAM and a 20GB HD. Is this an adequate configuration to run 5.2.1, or do I need to add memory? It all depends what you want to do with it...it's the applications you run that take up most of the memory. 128MB is a bit on the small side if you're going to be doing memory-heavy desktop work (e.g. running mozilla, KDE, etc), but there are plenty of lighter-weight alternatives to those applications. Good point. I am bringing up another (very capable) machine and learning as I go; I set it up with 4.10 and I now think I should be running 5.2.1. It will ultimately be a mail and web server. I thought I would bring this old machine (inherited from my 89 yr old m-i-l who passed away in August) on 5.2.1 to get a feel for it; I would probably not do much more than use it as a SSH terminal to connect to the other machine and as a learning tool to learn (or re-learn) unix commands. It presently runs Win98SE, had a CD reader and a NIC card, so I know it has working hardware. The bottom line is that 128MB seems adequate for FreeBSD itself? I've run 4.X versions of FreeBSD with 64 MB of physical memory and a bit of swap space for a long time. If you are not hosting a heavy-traffic Apache with lots of dynamic content (PHP or mod_perl), memory intensive desktop GUIs or other stuff that can bloat the memory requirements pretty fast (as Kris notes that is pretty often the case with this sort of programs), 128 MB and a bit of swap space is probably going to be fine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
