Re: Enabling Gratuitous ARP
On Thursday, 14 April 2005 at 16:10:39 +0930, Adam Smith wrote: Hi, In a particular network scenario we have, swapping an ethernet link between two FreeBSD machines with a different MAC is proving to be a problem. We have discovered that in order to make this work we will need to enable gratuitous ARP. Does anyone know how to turn this feature on? Heh. Yes, I've run into this problem too, and with your ADSL2 DSLAMs at that. I'm still investigating. Call me next week if we haven't resolved it by then. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what kind of BBS software on freebsd work well
And has more security problems than Carter has liver pills If more people are using a project like phpBB surely there is more chance that bugs / problems will be sorted out i.e. more 'reporters' If you have had problems with phpBB surely its better to submit them to the phpBB team rather than complain about them on a list - thats how things get better isnt it ? I would be interested to hear about the security problems you are referring to ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what kind of BBS software on freebsd work well
Graham Bentley wrote: And has more security problems than Carter has liver pills If more people are using a project like phpBB surely there is more chance that bugs / problems will be sorted out i.e. more 'reporters' If you have had problems with phpBB surely its better to submit them to the phpBB team rather than complain about them on a list - thats how things get better isnt it ? I would be interested to hear about the security problems you are referring to ? I think Paul was right about poor security of phpbb. It's just that there are no alternatives now. I wonder if we should move to -chat... Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:37:43 -0600 Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may not, but users of FreeBSD do. At the very least, ports should be tagged as to the versions of the OS with which they will work, and it should be possible to retrieve the most recent version of the port that works with the version of the OS you are running. Brett, if you want something to happen do something about it. You seem to spend a incredible amount of time and energy telling others how FreeBSD should be, yet you don't want to put up. Having users update in the standard (and prescribed) way and finding out that a major function (the entire ports system) is no longer working is certainly not something one would expect from professionally crafted software. The handbook clearly states that current ports are only supported on -CURRENT and -STABLE. You might be lucky and get the ports to work on older releases. The OpenBSD people do the same, btw. Except if you try to use the current ports on a release they will sure fail to build. As someone who does ports work I can tell you that supporting RELENG_4 and RELENG_5 is enough work already. What you're asking for is not reasonable for a volunteer driven project. Note that under Linux, the maintainers of distributions do exactly this. However, FreeBSD is essentially its own distro, so the job of doing this falls to the FreeBSD developers and the maintainers of the ports. If it is not done, FreeBSD users will enjoy an inferior experience to the one they get with Linux or even Windows. The situation is very different. Linux distros are a kernel + packages, because the concept of a base system doesn't exist in the Linux world. And people who run production Linux boxes are very careful about updating critical parts of the system like glibc and friends. You should take a look at e.g. RHEL and you'll see that they are quite conservative too and only support very specific versions of software packages. Windows doesn't even play in the same league, why mention it? As I've said, show the rest of us that you care enough about this and do something about it. Else it sounds like you're just enjoying the free ride and expect others to do all the work for you. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgpFMlmJgKUDG.pgp Description: PGP signature
DLT tape / no streaming
Hi, I use a Benchmark DLT tape drive to backup data on my DELL PowerEdge 2650 system; syslog says: Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0: BNCHMARK VS640 5032 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) The problem I see is that data flow is not steadily streaming; the tape drive is operating in start-stop-mode. Disk speed does not seem to be the problem, e.g.: gwdu111# dd if=/home/local2/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/3.3-RELEASE.iso of=/dev/null bs=8k 82401+0 records in 82401+0 records out 675028992 bytes transferred in 14.670024 secs (46014170 bytes/sec) What can I do to improve the situation? Any ideas are very welcome. Thanks in advance! Regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mutt header arrangement
Hi all, I hope this is the correct list to post to. When I receive mail in mutt, I have set it to ignore certain headers. What I want coming through is From: To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Date: How can I order them in mutt so that they are always shown like that, not randomly jumbled up by whoever is sending me the mail. I don't want to play with the mail using maildrop, I'd much rather get mutt to do it, because I often want to see the full headers of the mail. TIA, -John -- John Oxley E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +263 4 858404 ext 2017 Yo!Africa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cvsup problems
On 4/19/05, Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having cvsup update issues right now. When I try to update I get: Cannot connect to cvsupxx.us.freebsd.org: Connection refused Will retry at xx:xx:xx No matter which server I try. I had this problem a couple of days ago with the UK cvsup mirrors, the only two things I could think of were: 1. I'd tried to cvsup once too often (e.g. two or three times in 24 hours) - don't think this was the case but I wouldn't be surprised if the mirror maintainers impose temporary bans on IPs that try to connect more than X times in a given period. 2. Some sort of update was pushed out that caused things to break on the mirrors. The problem seemed to go away for a couple of days but it's back for me at the moment. Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non Network cvsup?
At 2005-04-19T23:12:33-04:00, Daniel Bass wrote: So my IT department won't open port 5999 so I can't access the servers with cvsup. Is there some manual method to synchronize my installation? If your firewall does not block SSH connections, and if you have a shell account on a machine outside your firewall, you can use CVSup with SSH port forwarding. There have been several threads in the list on this topic, which can be found by searching the archives. See, e.g., http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2003-March/000213.html Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting Up a X Server
Hello everyone; I am looking for information on how to setup a remote X server. This is my setup: Internet. | FreeBSD Gateway (Running Xorg) | 8 Port hub Wireless Base Station | 6 machines, Various Operating Systems What I wish to be able to do is setup the 6 client machines to be able to access the X server running on the gateway. I have looked at the gdm configuration manager, and it allows a option for remote connections, but I am unsure of the exact procedure I would use to connect to this from one of the client systems. The one I am mostly concerned with is my FreeBSD laptop. Do I need to create some 'virtual screens' to enable more than one X session to be run on the machine at once? I have also tried acomplising this using Xvnc, however when I try to start the server I get the error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/bin/Xvnc Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. I still wish the local X server to be able to be run, so I am unsure how I can proceed. I hope someone can help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt header arrangement
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:23:33AM +0200, John Oxley wrote: Hi all, I hope this is the correct list to post to. I believe mutt has its own mailing list for user support. However, it's a while since I was subscribed... When I receive mail in mutt, I have set it to ignore certain headers. What I want coming through is From: To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Date: How can I order them in mutt so that they are always shown like that, not randomly jumbled up by whoever is sending me the mail. I don't want to play with the mail using maildrop, I'd much rather get mutt to do it, because I often want to see the full headers of the mail. I achieve this with these lines in my ~/.muttrc ignore * unignore from date subject to cc unhdr_order hdr_order From Date: From: To: Cc: Subject: You should take a look at the documentation section at mutt.org for a lot more information, it is a very useful resource. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpztpc5vyJPp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: another newbie question
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:08:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Been playing around with FreeBSD for a couple of months. Just configured my .muttrc, and I'm able to send messages but not to receive. I read the man pages and followed the instructions but still it's not working. Am I missing something here? Well, yes. mutt is a mail reader, and that is all it does. It doesn't send mail, it doesn't receive mail, it doesn't even have an editor to call its own. In order to send email, mutt sends its output to sendmail (or your site's MTA). To receive mail, you need to have an SMTP server running. If you want to collect mail from your ISP's server, you will need to configure mutt with your POP or IMAP account details (instructions for both are on the mutt.org website), or use a third party program such as fetchmail to poll the remote server for you and download any waiting messages. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpmY1mXyjYZF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:40:15PM +0100, Chris Hodgins wrote: On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But it says : (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: After I had export DISPLAY=freebsdboxip:0.0 it says again: (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: But I can run freebsd application from my fedora core 2. What is the problem? If you are using ssh anyway, you can tell ssh to do X11 forwarding. Read the man page first as there is some slight security risks involved depending on the way your machine is used. Try this: --- $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] With versions of openssh newer than 3.8, you probably want -Y instead of -X. Password: enter password hostname$ xterm --- Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 pgpWXZ9suaRZj.pgp Description: PGP signature
2 same IP's on 2 different interface?
Hi, I accidently configured the same IP on a machine but on different interface and it is accepted. Maybe it is not a bug but semanticly it shouldn't be. I thinks I should send a pr for this problem cause it may cause other problems like the one I lived( losing network connection) Here is an example: rl0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU !!-inet 192.168.6.49 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.6.255 inet6 fe80::250:fcff:fef6:20e8%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:50:fc:f6:20:e8 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active rl1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::20d:61ff:fe92:c70d%rl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 !!-inet 192.168.6.49 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.6.255 ether 00:0d:61:92:c7:0d media: Ethernet autoselect (none) --- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.EnderUNIX.ORG Software Development Team @ Turkey http://www.Faruk.NET For Public key: http://www.enderunix.org/ofsen/ofsen.asc First Turkish FreeBSD book is out! Go check it. Duydunuz mu! Turkiye'nin ilk FreeBSD kitabi cikti. http://www.acikakademi.com/freebsd.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Failover cluster for webserver with dynamic content ?
On k, 2005-04-19 at 17:21 -0400, Paul Mather wrote: to what you describe using geom_gate for the remote component. See ggated(8) and ggatec(8) for how to set up an use a geom_gate provider. Note that the geom_mirror + geom_gate synchronisation would be one-way. Bad luck, I would like to have something that creates a layer over the two volume of the machines, and when this higher layer accessed both execute the requested operation. Anyway one step further, my question is How can I create a failover cluster with two machines for a freebsd webserver with dynamic content runing apache with php, and postgresql. I read about CARP, but more experienced people advised me to use DNS-LB since its more reliable with service type pings (HTTP GET) than simple is the machine answers for TCP SYN. They made a point with that to me. Im trying to syncronize the postgresql database with Slony, no luck yet, all the examples I found describing master and slave on the same machine. I got slony communicate between the two, but on updates nothing happens on the slave. I access the master on unix socket, maybe other type of access needed .. hm I will see If on failure the switching is done with DNS-LB and the SQL is in sync Im nearly OK, but since I have file uploads on the webserver as well, I need a shared volume which available to both of them and after one is out the other still has access to the data. Maybe Im complettly wrong I have no clear ideas about what happens when this ... and what happens whan that ... scenarios All I want is a higher availability with two machines than one and without messing up the consistency of the data of course. Im not after chasing nearly 100% ... the policy/expectation is if one fails the other should automatically continue the serving data (nearly there) where the other stopped. If anyone did something like that, and aware of some solution without buying expensive HA hardware, please share us. Hope this is possible at all. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2 over an ssh2 connection
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:46:10PM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: I connect to my FreeBSD system from a PowerBook and was wondering (mostly for fun) if I can run Gnome2 or KDE or something within a Terminal connection on my PowerBook. Yes, but you need an X server for your power book. Apple has a copy of XFree86 available on their website, I'd recomend installing it. I can manage my FreeBSD system fine from a CLI but thought it would be fun to run Gnome or KDE. Yea, you could run a whole Gnome or KDE desktop over ssh, but it might be a little slow. I'd recommend using VNC or running a local KDE or Gnome desktop on the powerbook and only remote the apps you need to. Is what I am mentioning even feasible? Right now after following the handbook for installing gnome2 (5.7.1.2 Installing GNOME) I startx and get an error Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O. You can't run startx over ssh. startx is used to start the X server and the initial clients, but you need the X server to run on the power book where the mouse and keyboard is, not the freebsd box. That's why you need to install X on the power book. All the clients like the KDE desktop and xsolitaire can be run off of the freebsd box, but the X server is the program that access the display, mouse, and keyboard and so it has to run on the machine your in front of. If I am just loony let me know otherwise if what I am trying to do is feasible I will ask the gnome mailing list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 pgpI04Gy0BIvr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: vmware alternative for freebsd?
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Grant wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier Wiroth Sent: 19 April 2005 14:35 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vmware alternative for freebsd? the ports tree. I was wondering if there are any alternatives to vmware, commercial or freeware. I'm talking about a host version (I'm not talking about guest OSes). Hey, There is a few out there for fbsd.. but the only one I have used with success is qemu. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/qemu/pkg-descr Its quite quick, but I feel it isn't as quick as vmware is/was. But it is something to look at, if its just simple things you need from it it will be fine, but anything CPU heavy I find its not great on. Another one that you might want to look at is bochs http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/bochs/pkg-descr There is also wine, depending on what exactly you need. Dosbox is nice if all you need to do runs in dos. I cant really say much about this one, I've tried it before but never got anywhere, so it might be good for what you need. Or it might be rubbish :) Anyways gotta do some work :) Bye. Grant. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 pgpOYx67f2UlN.pgp Description: PGP signature
MySQL Server died yesterday !
Hello All ! I made quite a few changes to my system recently but havent touched any MySQL specific stuff. When I came to check my forum it was dead with an unable to connect error :( This is in the logs and is recorded every time I reboot or start manaully with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start 12:05:43 mysqld started 12:05:44 InnoDB: Started 12:05:44 Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 12:05:44 Aborting 12:05:44 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 12:05:46 InnoDB: Shutdown completed 12:05:46 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown Complete I have googled on this and read various sections of the MySQl manual but cant seem to nail it - nothing seem specific to my issue. Some links suggested reinitialising my DB but am not sure how to go about that. Any help appreciated ! Graham ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid problem
Warren wrote: On the machine i am running squid, it runs the program fine, but as soon as anything goes to use the proxy server the program dies. How can i run squid so that im able to see why its crashing/closing when something goes to use it? im running FreeBSD 5.4-Stable CVSUPED and updated Ports/Src/Kernel as of about 10 hours ago. What do logs say ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL Server died yesterday !
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:14:19PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: Hello All ! I made quite a few changes to my system recently but havent touched any MySQL specific stuff. When I came to check my forum it was dead with an unable to connect error :( This is in the logs and is recorded every time I reboot or start manaully with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start 12:05:43 mysqld started 12:05:44 InnoDB: Started 12:05:44 Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 12:05:44 Aborting 12:05:44 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 12:05:46 InnoDB: Shutdown completed 12:05:46 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown Complete I have googled on this and read various sections of the MySQl manual but cant seem to nail it - nothing seem specific to my issue. Some links suggested reinitialising my DB but am not sure how to go about that. This is a very MySQL specific question. You should post it to the MySQL mailing list. It's been a while since I used MySQL. The host table is in the MySQL database. There should be a directory called data, or something similar, and inside that there is a directory called mysql, and inside that there is a file called host, which contains the host table. Or at least, that's what I remember. Either that file is missing, or the system permissions on it have changed, or MySQL has changed access privileges on it. Or something. Check to make sure that it is there, and has the correct system permissions (ls -l). If it's not there, you may have to back up all your tables and reinstall. Or you may be able to reinstall just the host table. Further questions should go to a MySQL mailing list. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Bluetooth dongle recommendation
dear list, i will have to work on a project involving bluetooth technologie, for this i will have to get me a usb bluetooth dongle. i would be very happy to receive recommendations on devices that work esecially well (under FreeBSD). TIA zheyu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware alternative for freebsd?
Didier Wiroth wrote: Hey, Please dont top-post...it makes it very hard to know what you are referring to Actually I'm working witn xp and windows vmware. I use it for testing unattended installation CDs, service packs etc..., new windows netware client testing, software testing etc... and use a lot the vmware snapshot functionality. same situation here - haven't actually had time to look seriously into it. Has anyone tried running the linux version under FBsd with the Linux compat layer? Some other links you may want to look into: http://www.essenz.com/support/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/Sep/25/205021.html mentions something called plex86. cheers, Beto Thank you Regards Didier -- Hey, There is a few out there for fbsd.. but the only one I have used with success is qemu. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/qemu/pkg-descr Its quite quick, but I feel it isn't as quick as vmware is/was. [...] Another one that you might want to look at is bochs http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/bochs/pkg-descr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question about mirroring
Dear Sir , I would like to ask about what is the requirement to be freebsd mirror site FTP mirror I hope you can supply me with detail information about this Thank you for your time Best Regards, Eskandar S.Sadek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf
Hi, everyone:
I installed isc-dhcp3-server on my freebsd 5.3(also it
is a gateway which have double NIC), and it can work
at our net. example, dhcpd can assign dhcp client
internal address from 'A slightly different
configuration for an internal subnet' at my
dhcpd.conf.
But now I want to assign some of dhcp client fixed
address.
if I haved my dhcpd.conf as this, does it work?
# A slightly different configuration for an internal
subnet.
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.7;
option domain-name-servers domain.org, domain2.org;
option domain-name test.org;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
default-lease-time 6400;
max-lease-time 59200;
}
# Fixed IP addresses can also be specified for hosts.
These addresses
# should not also be listed as being available for
dynamic assignment.
# Hosts for which fixed IP addresses have been
specified can boot using
# BOOTP or DHCP. Hosts for which no fixed address is
specified can only
# be booted with DHCP, unless there is an address
range on the subnet
# to which a BOOTP client is connected which has the
dynamic-bootp flag
# set.
host client {
hardware ethernet 00:e0:4c:a7:ca:de;
fixed-address 192.168.0.6;
}
and another problem is still some words from dhcpd, as
these:
dhcpd: unable to create icmp socket: operation not
permitled
dhcpd: can't open /var/db/dhcpd.leases for append
Thank you for your reply
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Re: question about mirroring
Eskandar S.Sadek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to ask about what is the requirement to be freebsd mirror site FTP mirror I hope you can supply me with detail information about this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL Server died yesterday !
Bob Hall wrote on Wednesday 20 April 2005 13:49 in the group list.freebsd.questions: This is a very MySQL specific question. You should post it to the MySQL mailing list. It's been a while since I used MySQL. The host table is in the MySQL database. There should be a directory called data, or something similar, and inside that there is a directory called mysql, and inside that there is a file called host, which contains the host table. Or at least, that's what I remember. Either that file is missing, or the system permissions on it have changed, or MySQL has changed access privileges on it. Or something. Check to make sure that it is there, and has the correct system permissions (ls -l). If it's not there, you may have to back up all your tables and reinstall. Or you may be able to reinstall just the host table. Further questions should go to a MySQL mailing list. Bob Hall The only host file I can find is in /var/db/mysql/mysq -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 0 Nov 19 09:12 columns_priv.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 1024 Nov 19 09:12 columns_priv.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8778 Nov 19 09:12 columns_priv.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 765 Dec 5 07:55 db.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 3072 Dec 6 09:32 db.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 9088 Nov 19 09:12 db.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 0 Nov 19 09:12 func.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 1024 Nov 19 09:12 func.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8641 Nov 19 09:12 func.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 0 Nov 19 09:12 host.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 1024 Nov 19 09:12 host.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 9064 Nov 19 09:12 host.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 0 Nov 19 09:12 tables_priv.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 1024 Nov 19 09:12 tables_priv.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8877 Nov 19 09:12 tables_priv.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 404 Dec 5 07:55 user.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 2048 Dec 6 09:32 user.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 9806 Nov 19 09:12 user.frm -- Key-ID = A6581435 E-mail address is valid ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid problem
What do logs say ? 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE9 for i386-portbld-freebsd5.3... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Process ID 8201 2005/04/20 22:54:57| With 1216 file descriptors available 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Performing DNS Tests... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 59981, FD 5 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Adding nameserver 127.0.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf FATAL: Cannot open '/usr/local/squid/logs/access.log' for writing. The parent directory must be writeable by the user 'squid', which is the cache_effective_user set in squid.conf. Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE9): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.044 seconds = 0.044 user + 0.000 sys Maximum Resident Size: 1844 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Squid previously used to work, then all of a sudden it would crash each time and up till now i havent botherd to much with it. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
parse dmesg, compare to GENERIC and create MYKERNEL?
Hi, I was wondering if there is a tool available that can: 1) parse the dmesg file 2) compare it to the GENERIC kernel file 3) and create a file called (for example) CUSTOM or MYKERNEL where unused devices are disabled (or commented out). There was/is (it's pretty old now) a tool available for openbsd called dmassage (see: http://www.sentia.org/projects/dmassage/manpage.shtml) Is there a similar tool available for freebsd? thanks a lot didier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid problem
Warren wrote: What do logs say ? FATAL: Cannot open '/usr/local/squid/logs/access.log' for writing. The parent directory must be writeable by the user 'squid', which is the cache_effective_user set in squid.conf. Did you verify the permissions for the squid process to access the all the path to /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid problem
Warren wrote: What do logs say ? 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE9 for i386-portbld-freebsd5.3... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Process ID 8201 2005/04/20 22:54:57| With 1216 file descriptors available 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Performing DNS Tests... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2005/04/20 22:54:57| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 59981, FD 5 2005/04/20 22:54:57| Adding nameserusver 127.0.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf FATAL: Cannot open '/usr/local/squid/logs/access.log' for writing. The parent directory must be writeable by the user 'squid', which is the cache_effective_user set in squid.conf. Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE9): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.044 seconds = 0.044 user + 0.000 sys Maximum Resident Size: 1844 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Squid previously used to work, then all of a sudden it would crash each time and up till now i havent botherd to much with it. Log shows you the all of the needed information: /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log is not writeable by the user squid Following two commands should fix things up: chown -R squid:squid /usr/local/squid/ chmod -R 750 /usr/local/squid/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid problem
Log shows you the all of the needed information: /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log is not writeable by the user squid Following two commands should fix things up: chown -R squid:squid /usr/local/squid/ chmod -R 750 /usr/local/squid/ Thanks. Im more concernd as to what changed it so it lost the permissions, so as to prevent it from happening again (should there be a next time) -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this hardware supported
I have found a supplier of a nice small embeded-system type computer using an x86 system-on-chip motherboard. They supply it with Linux pre installed, but I would prefer to use FreeBSD, since that's what I'm using for other applications. The chipset is from http://www.vortex86.com/ Can anyone tell me if a computer/motherboard built around this would be supported ? Mike === Michael Doyle email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator mobile: +353 87 235 7853 Co-operation Ireland http://www.cooperationireland.org/ Phone: +353-1-661 0588 Fax: +353-1-661 8456 *** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Bluetooth dongle recommendation
FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i will have to work on a project involving bluetooth technologie, for this i will have to get me a usb bluetooth dongle. i would be very happy to receive recommendations on devices that work esecially well (under FreeBSD). D-Link DBT-120 works very well. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid problem
Warren wrote: Log shows you the all of the needed information: /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log is not writeable by the user squid Following two commands should fix things up: chown -R squid:squid /usr/local/squid/ chmod -R 750 /usr/local/squid/ Thanks. Im more concernd as to what changed it so it lost the permissions, so as to prevent it from happening again (should there be a next time) Maybe some recent upgrade ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysinstall don't want to install packages
Hello list, I've patched my FreeBSD to 5.3-RELEASE-p9. Afterwards I tried to install with sysinstall via ftp some packages, but sysinstall was saying that the 5.3-RELEASE-p9 isn't at the ftp-server and I should set in the options any in the release-field... My question is: Is this message OK or how should I install release-packages after a cvsup-Update of my release? With regards Stevan Tiefert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vmware 4.5.2 support on freebsd see here...
Hi, Regarding my previous post: vmware alternative for freebsd? I had a look at the vmware3 port maintainer's website. http://www.break.net/orlando/freebsd.html I was surprised to see that he has a more or less working freebsd port of vmware workstation 4.5.2. There are a few system and kernel patches available there. I did not try it myself for now, but I will: Perhaps there are other volunteers :-)) please post your comments about the testing :-)) thx didier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DLT tape / no streaming
In the last episode (Apr 20), Konrad Heuer said: I use a Benchmark DLT tape drive to backup data on my DELL PowerEdge 2650 system; syslog says: Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0: BNCHMARK VS640 5032 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device Apr 20 09:09:02 gwdu111 /kernel: sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) The problem I see is that data flow is not steadily streaming; the tape drive is operating in start-stop-mode. What blocksize are you using? If you're just using tar, the default of 10k is too small. Try 64k (tar cvb 128 /usr, for example). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [freebsd-questions] Error starting opera 8.00
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded opera 8.00, extracted the .tar.gz and ran the install.sh script, all the files were copied to the right places. When I tried to run opera I first had to symlink 2 libs ( libm.so.2 and libc_r.so.4 ) that wasn't much of a problem but when I try to run it now I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] opera /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: Undefined symbol __stderrp I am running FreeBSD 5.3. Anyone an Idea what I am doing wrong ? Not offhand (although it might just be a library inconsistency; symlinking like you did is not generally a good idea: version numbers get changed for a *reason*). Try using the port; this is exactly why we have them. [/usr/ports/www/opera-devel] With the port I got the same error so that didn't do the job. I installed the new Opera by hand because the port wasn't updated yet. Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error starting opera 8.00
On 4/20/05, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded opera 8.00, extracted the .tar.gz and ran the install.sh script, all the files were copied to the right places. When I tried to run opera I first had to symlink 2 libs ( libm.so.2 and libc_r.so.4 ) that wasn't much of a problem but when I try to run it now I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] opera /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: Undefined symbol __stderrp Try downloading the static version, and not the shared one. I suggest to use the linux-opera version from the ports, or you won't be able to run flash! I am running FreeBSD 5.3. Anyone an Idea what I am doing wrong ? Not offhand (although it might just be a library inconsistency; symlinking like you did is not generally a good idea: version numbers get changed for a *reason*). Try using the port; this is exactly why we have them. [/usr/ports/www/opera-devel] With the port I got the same error so that didn't do the job. I installed the new Opera by hand because the port wasn't updated yet. Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gahr.ch/pgp-key Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gahr.ch/pgp-key Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). Im at the point now, because Im using that FreeBSD box to host email for myself and some production/development web pages, in case the box fails I want to be able to quickly either rebuild the contents of that boxs hard drive or move the backup server over to replace it. It took a few weeks to get the P4 box configured the way I want, so I dont think its just a simple matter of popping in the 5.3 install disk and re-installing. So Im trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of downtime. I should note that in a few weeks Ill be replacing the current PI backup server with a PIII box. My home network consists of a linksys router with a couple workstations attached and the above mentioned web and backup servers. The web and backup servers do not have cd burners, however I could transfer files to one of the workstations to burn backup disks. I would like to know in general some approaches I could take to create either some redundancy in my network at home with the two FreeBSD servers I have (each has different hardware specs) or more effectively back up the FreeBSD box doing the email/web hosting for myself. I would consider myself a moderately competent amateur system admin. I dont work in the IT industry and I have zero knowledge of things like mirroring boxes or using applications like rsync so Im looking for a guidance on a simple solution. Thank you much in advance. Steve www.digitalbluesky.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box
This question has been covered in great detail on this questions list in the past many times. You should review the archives for answer to your question -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of steve Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:53 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). Im at the point now, because Im using that FreeBSD box to host email for myself and some production/development web pages, in case the box fails I want to be able to quickly either rebuild the contents of that boxs hard drive or move the backup server over to replace it. It took a few weeks to get the P4 box configured the way I want, so I dont think its just a simple matter of popping in the 5.3 install disk and re-installing. So Im trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of downtime. I should note that in a few weeks Ill be replacing the current PI backup server with a PIII box. My home network consists of a linksys router with a couple workstations attached and the above mentioned web and backup servers. The web and backup servers do not have cd burners, however I could transfer files to one of the workstations to burn backup disks. I would like to know in general some approaches I could take to create either some redundancy in my network at home with the two FreeBSD servers I have (each has different hardware specs) or more effectively back up the FreeBSD box doing the email/web hosting for myself. I would consider myself a moderately competent amateur system admin. I dont work in the IT industry and I have zero knowledge of things like mirroring boxes or using applications like rsync so Im looking for a guidance on a simple solution. Thank you much in advance. Steve www.digitalbluesky.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box
I have been using FreeBSD 5.3 now for a couple months on a P4 box at home and I have been backing up the box nightly by doing a simple .tgz of the /etc, /usr/home and /var directories to a FreeBSD backup server at home (the backup server is a PI box). Im at the point now, because Im using that FreeBSD box to host email for myself and some production/development web pages, in case the box fails I want to be able to quickly either rebuild the contents of that boxs hard drive or move the backup server over to replace it. It took a few weeks to get the P4 box configured the way I want, so I dont think its just a simple matter of popping in the 5.3 install disk and re-installing. So Im trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of downtime. I should note that in a few weeks Ill be replacing the current PI backup server with a PIII box. My home network consists of a linksys router with a couple workstations attached and the above mentioned web and backup servers. The web and backup servers do not have cd burners, however I could transfer files to one of the workstations to burn backup disks. I would like to know in general some approaches I could take to create either some redundancy in my network at home with the two FreeBSD servers I have (each has different hardware specs) or more effectively back up the FreeBSD box doing the email/web hosting for myself. I would consider myself a moderately competent amateur system admin. I dont work in the IT industry and I have zero knowledge of things like mirroring boxes or using applications like rsync so Im looking for a guidance on a simple solution. Thank you much in advance. I'm not sure this would work for you, but it works for me for our dev servers at work where we need to get a standard box to a specific state fairly often. Install two drives in the server. Drive A is your primary every day drive. Drive B is big enough to hold both a minimal FreeBSD installation *and* the entire contents of Drive A. Configure the server to allow you to selectively boot either drive, but default it to Drive A. Then, whenever you want to make a backup, boot into Drive B and dump the entire contents of Drive A to disk. Something like: dump 0af drivea.dump /dev/ad0s1a For our dev servers we only have one partition, but you'd want to make sure you grabbed each partition separately. Then if you ever want to restore you can boot into Drive B, disklabel,newfs Drive A, and use restore to put everything back just the way it was. Probably worth saving a copy of Drive A's disklabel while your doing things as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iPod 40GB support on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64
I was curious if anyone had got their iPod 40GB working on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64? I've tried it under ehci(4) and it isn't properly detected. Sometimes it will even lock the system. When booting up it actually prevents the system from properly starting after it reaches the PATA/SATA drives. After I unplug the iPod from USB the system boots normally. The umass(4) driver shows the iPod when I plug it in, but it does not associate a da device with it. If any more information is desired, let me know. -- Best wishes, Alexander G. Chamandy Webmaster www.bsdfreak.org Your Source For BSD News! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Difference between `mod_auth_mysql' and `mod_auth_mysql_another'.
Hello everyone, I'm looking for a clear document which explains the differences between the `mod_auth_mysql' and `mod_auth_mysql_another' ports. Ideally, a grid with all of the possible options on top and on the left one line for both modules would be great. Some kind of one-on-one comparison. So far, I understand that `mod_auth_mysql_another' understands more encryption methods then `mod_auth_mysql'. But what are the other differences? Could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator david DOT robillard CIRCLED_A notarius DOT com Notarius (TSIN) Inc. 465, rue St-Jean, suite 200 Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2R6 Tel. : +1 514 966 0122 Fax. : +1 514 281 1226 http://www.notarius.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone to work with links?) Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; checking about plugings: tells me that everything is there. But when I try to listen to anything windows, the stream seems to load, but there is nosound. There are no controls. A right-mouse click brings up a small window. play is not checked and clicking on any of the options does no good. If I click on the full-screen option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed. I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks. Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to work? I've poked around and don't see anything very helpful on this port. Any mplayer wizards out there??? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting Up a X Server
Mick Walker wrote on Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:06 in the group list.freebsd.questions: Hello everyone; I am looking for information on how to setup a remote X server. This is my setup: Internet. | FreeBSD Gateway (Running Xorg) | 8 Port hub Wireless Base Station | 6 machines, Various Operating Systems What I wish to be able to do is setup the 6 client machines to be able to access the X server running on the gateway. I have looked at the gdm configuration manager, and it allows a option for remote connections, but I am unsure of the exact procedure I would use to connect to this from one of the client systems. The one I am mostly concerned with is my FreeBSD laptop. Do I need to create some 'virtual screens' to enable more than one X session to be run on the machine at once? I have also tried acomplising this using Xvnc, however when I try to start the server I get the error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/bin/Xvnc Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. I still wish the local X server to be able to be run, so I am unsure how I can proceed. I hope someone can help. You have to startup more than one Xvnc server. I use the wrapper: # vncserver :1 # vncserver :2 etc Then start on the client machine the remote desktop connection It is included in the KDE desktop You can connect to vncservername:1 and vncservername:2 etc... I just tested this and my 100 Mhz pentium got very busy :-) -- Key-ID = A6581435 E-mail address is valid ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AOpen NIC PXE booting w/ FreeBSD 5.3 server
Hello, Do someone has the AOpen NIC [1] from www.disklessworkststions.com doing diskless PXE booting properly with FreeBSD 5.3+ as server? Ref.: [1] http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/web/17.html Best regards, Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD vs Linux
Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff will be set up during installation. I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why isn't there a desktop and a server installation? Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? Koen (I don't want to start a flame war, only some good sites) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2 over an ssh2 connection
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:01:27AM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:46:10PM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: I connect to my FreeBSD system from a PowerBook and was wondering (mostly for fun) if I can run Gnome2 or KDE or something within a Terminal connection on my PowerBook. Yes, but you need an X server for your power book. Apple has a copy of XFree86 available on their website, I'd recomend installing it. Getting OT here, but if you bought a recent version (OS X 10.2 or later) it's on the extra DVD that came with the hardware and OS. I installed X for my daughter's iBook last summer so she could run OpenOffice. It is indeed perfectly feasible to run X apps over the network, that's what it was designed for. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide... -- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sysinstall don't want to install packages
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 09:32 am, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I've patched my FreeBSD to 5.3-RELEASE-p9. Afterwards I tried to install with sysinstall via ftp some packages, but sysinstall was saying that the 5.3-RELEASE-p9 isn't at the ftp-server and I should set in the options any in the release-field... My question is: Is this message OK or how should I install release-packages after a cvsup-Update of my release? Why use sysinstall? Just use pkg_add -r to fetch remote packages, or build them from ports, which generally gives you a more recent version number. It isn't rare for the precompiled packages to be slightly behind. Randi Harper URL:http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM:Randi BSD pgptwiD97zek6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff will be set up during installation. I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why isn't there a desktop and a server installation? Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? Koen (I don't want to start a flame war, only some good sites) If you are not finding FreeBSD suitable based on what you have said, then FreeBSD is NOT for you. The developers are not here to design an OS that is to en compus the users that want everything done for you. You have to have a certain level of knowledge to do FreeBSD, and to do it well. If you want easy (numbingly boring) then both Windows and Linux (some distros - not all) are for you. Don't expect things to change just because they seem to inconvenience YOU. Either YOU adapt, or YOU move on. Just like if you hear a song on the radio - if you don't like, you change the station. Pretty simple. Now - as to the differences - go a Google search on FreeBSD vs Linux. -- Best regards, Chris The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff will be set up during installation. I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why isn't there a desktop and a server installation? Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? There are a million sites discussing this, it's a flamebait, and no one wants to have that start up, so what you are doing is being (possible innocently, but I wonder) very very impolite. If you want to protect your reputation, drop Linux vs. FreeBSD as a subject right this minute. Otherwise, depending on if you answer this, most of the world is going to put you on their kill list for email blocking. You have been warned. If you have a specific FreeBSD question though, trot it out, you'll be amazed how good the support is. Koen (I don't want to start a flame war, only some good sites) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel option HZ and mysql
I have a self-compiled mysql 4.1 (4.1.9) on FreeBSD 5.3. (Not built from ports for various reasons). The system load skyrockets when the web server that is using the mysql for its PHPnuke storage starts to get 100 or so or more active sessions. It appears that mysql is the culprit. The webserver is a prefork apache 2 with php5 and runs on the same system. top and other monitors show very little cpu on the httpd processes but lots on the mysql. There is plenty of free and inactive RAM and the CPUs are not particularly stresses (dual Opteron 2.0ghz in i386 mode). I am thinking that maybe the HZ setting could be causing some inefficiencies for mysql. It is set at HZ=1300 mysql itself was compiled with $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/public/mysql/mysql4.1 --enable-assembler --enable-thread-safe-client --without-debug --with-extra-charsets=complex and it uses ldd mysqld mysqld: libz.so.2 = /lib/libz.so.2 (0x283c2000) libcrypt.so.2 = /lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x283d2000) libpthread.so.1 = /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1 (0x283ea000) libstdc++.so.4 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.4 (0x2840e000) libm.so.3 = /lib/libm.so.3 (0x284e) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x284fa000) I would appreciate it if someone who has experience in this with mysql and HZ and HZ in general could comment on how HZ might affect mysql performance and system load. Thanks Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound not working
Didn't work! I saw that ,as you said, volume controls in kmix were turned down to 0. I changed them but it had no effect. I even tried playing saound in Gnome, but it didnt work either. :( On 4/18/05, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 April 2005 20:08, Emil Khatib wrote: Hi everybody. I'm using a SoundBlaster PCI 128 and I get a problem with sound when starting KDE. After builing and loading the sound moule (snd_es137x.ko) everything seems to work allright. KDE's startup melody sounds for a few seconds, but it suddenly stops without any error message. When I try to open a music file, it seems to work, but i get no sound!. I had this, and I've seen it reported several times. After the KDE jingle plays, the volume controls get turned down to zero. Turning up the volume in applications has no effect because the controls are multiplicative. Try running kmix, to the restore the volume levels. If the problem persists you can put it in autostart, and set it's option to restore volume controls on startup. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound not working
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 01:30 pm, Emil Khatib wrote: Didn't work! I saw that ,as you said, volume controls in kmix were turned down to 0. I changed them but it had no effect. I even tried playing saound in Gnome, but it didnt work either. :( Try using the console program, mixer? ex: `mixer vol 70` Randi Harper URL: http://freebsdgirl.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Randi BSD pgpfWN4Hm2q7I.pgp Description: PGP signature
Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start':
Has anyone seen these sorts of errors when compiling applications (such as PHP or Apache2)? I can buildworld, kernels and most of the ports.. but occasionally I run in to this error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `_init_tls' Here's the dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 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 5.4-STABLE #5: Wed Apr 6 08:31:13 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/saturn mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: 4\^C\^_ Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor (1331.32-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x644 Stepping = 4 Features=0x183fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR AMD Features=0xc044RSVD,AMIE,DSP,3DNow! real memory = 1610547200 (1535 MB) avail memory = 1572741120 (1499 MB) npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: Host to PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 12 Entries on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 $PIR: No matching entry for 0.1.INTA agp0: NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Controller mem 0xe000-0xe1ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.1 (no driver attached) pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.2 (no driver attached) pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.3 (no driver attached) pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.4 (no driver attached) pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.5 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 1.1 (no driver attached) pcib1: PCIBIOS PCI-PCI bridge at device 8.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: network, ethernet at device 4.0 (no driver attached) xl0: 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL port 0x9400-0x947f mem 0xe8004000-0xe800407f irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci1 miibus0: MII bus on xl0 ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:75:db:44:4e atapci0: SiI 3112 SATA150 controller port 0xa800-0xa80f,0xa400-0xa403,0xa000-0xa007,0x9c00-0x9c03,0x9800-0x9807 mem 0xe8005000-0xe80051ff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci1 ata2: channel #0 on atapci0 ata3: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: nVidia nForce2 UDMA133 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 9.0 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci1 ata1: channel #1 on atapci1 pcib2: PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci3: PCI bus on pcib2 $PIR: ROUTE_INTERRUPT failed. pci3: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xcd000-0xcd7ff,0xcc000-0xccfff,0xc-0xca7ff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port) Timecounter TSC frequency 1331323578 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad0: 19073MB WDC WD200BB-75CAA0/16.06V16 [38752/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM CREATIVE CD5233E/C1.00 at ata0-slave PIO4 ad2: 114472MB ST3120023A/3.33 [232578/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a -- Best wishes, Alexander G. Chamandy Webmaster www.bsdfreak.org Your Source For BSD News! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
At 11:43 4/20/2005, koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff will be set up during installation. I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why isn't there a desktop and a server installation? Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? There are some significant differences especially where servers are concerned--some links below. As far as the desktop environment goes, supposedly most anything that compiles on Linux, should compile on FreeBSD. http://tinyurl.com/2f8np http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/news/techtv_090303.html http://tinyurl.com/6xhrz http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux8.php http://www.InternetWeek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800936 http://Search.Yahoo.com/search?p=%22FreeBSD+vs.+Linux%22 http://www.Google.com/search?q=%22FreeBSD+vs.+Linux%22 Much of what runs on Linux also runs on FreeBSD, either 'natively' or using Linux emulation. http://www.Google.com/search?q=FreeBSD+features+Linux Here is an installation how-to that I've worked up: http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff will be set up during installation. I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why isn't there a desktop and a server installation? The above is a matter of taste, so I can't really do much other than share my personal experience. There is also a link closer the bottom if you want to skip my rant and get an answer to your second question. I use (i.e. administer) FreeBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux (Debian), Solaris and Microsoft Windows Servers on a daily basis, so I have seen my share of different installation methods throughout the years. I started in the Windows world a few years ago and moved to the UNIX world around 1995 (Windows95 was a bit too much for my 486DX2-66 with 4MB of RAM to handle, so I gave Redhat a spin). I've personally found sysinstall(8), to be a rather straight forward and logical mechanism for configuring all of my basic stuff, eg: - disk partitioning - network configuration - pkg-installation [1] - input devices (e.g. keyboard/mouse) - console configuration - Xwindows configuration I admit that printing and sound are not configured out of the box, however getting them up and running is not incredibly difficult. My positive experience with sysinstall(8) may be due to the fact that I spent a few minutes to go over the instructions provided in the handbook, which is available in multiple languages (including, what I am assuming is your native tongue, German): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ If your complaint is that FreeBSD and the community around it expect you too read some documentation, then FreeBSD probably is not the right OS for you. This is not to say that either you or FreeBSD are deficient, rather simply incompatible. There are UNIX like operating systems that allow you to have the instant gratification of a (usually) mostly working install out of the box without much reading (e.g. Mandriva (or OS formerly known as Mandrake), Suse, Fedora Core, etc...), so perhaps you would be more comfortable using one of those. Personally, I'm OK with the FreeBSD way of doing things so that's what I've been running as my primary desktop/workstation for the last few years. I do keep a GNU/Linux install (Currently Suse 9.2) on a laptop that I occasionally use so I remain up to date on the desktop side of GNU/Linux. If you are looking for a relatively inexpensive and easy to configure desktop only machine, but want still to play around with some UNIXy stuff, then perhaps Windows XP + (Cygwin [2] or Microsoft Services For Unix [3]) is a better route for you. Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? This is a good place to start: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Koen (I don't want to start a flame war, only some good sites) Unfortunately, due to the tone of your e-mail, you may find yourself getting flamed a bit. Hopefully, your e-mail was sincere and you get some helpful answers. If you're trolling with that e-mail, then I hope no one takes the bait. In any case, I hope you find a solution that works for you. -Ash [1] I admit that I haven't used sysinstall(8) for this purpose in years, as I prefer to cvsup base and ports after installing a bare system and go from there. [2] http://www.cygwin.com/ [3] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Server-based address book with LDAP
Hi all- So having sold my Mac (boo!) and being stuck with FreeBSD (yay!), I'm looking for a server-based address book replacement. LDAP seems like the way to go, but i have yet to find a good HOWTO and/or GUI based application for administering said contact repository. I'd ultimately like to be able to wire up a lightweight web-based solution for browsing addresses remotely, but first i need to get LDAP off the ground. If i ever get a Mac again, i'd likely use the new Auto LDAP-sync features in Tiger's Address Book, but for now, can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks in advance, darren david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf
At 2005-04-20T08:15:20+08:00, liu jiachang wrote: and another problem is still some words from dhcpd, as these: dhcpd: unable to create icmp socket: operation not permitled One reason could be that the device bpf(4) is not built into the kernel you are using. (This device is part of the GENERIC kernel, so if you have not compiled a custom kernel, the problem is due to something else.) See [Handbook, 23.5.7]. dhcpd: can't open /var/db/dhcpd.leases for append Perhaps the file does not exist. `dhcpd' needs this file to start --- see dhcpd.leases(5). Do touch /var/db/dhcpd.leases before the first run of `dhcpd'. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf
liu jiachang wrote: [ ... ] Yes, if you specify hardware MAC addresses, you can assign fixed IPs. and another problem is still some words from dhcpd, as these: dhcpd: unable to create icmp socket: operation not permitled dhcpd: can't open /var/db/dhcpd.leases for append You need to kill and restart dhcpd as root. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Bluetooth dongle recommendation
also MSI bluetooth dongle is working well in FreeBSD-5.3! On 20 Apr 2005 15:16:11 +0200, Christian Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i will have to work on a project involving bluetooth technologie, for this i will have to get me a usb bluetooth dongle. i would be very happy to receive recommendations on devices that work esecially well (under FreeBSD). D-Link DBT-120 works very well. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Edwin D. Viñas http://www.geocities.com/edwin_vinas/ IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
increasing username length via MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE
Hi, I have read the adduser man page which states the following: You can change UT_NAMESIZE in utmp.h and recompile the world; people have done this and it works, but you will have problems with any precompiled programs, or source that assumes the 8-character name limit and NIS. I have had a hard time finding examples of anyone who has actually increased the username length to something like 64+ characters though. I am wondering what if anything (besides NIS) might break on a freeBSD box running virtual domains with postfix/courier/apache/squirrelmail/webmin/etc. Has anyone actually done this and if so have you had any problems? The reason I'm looking at doing this is to support [EMAIL PROTECTED] style usernames (POP/IMAP/Webmail/usermin) without using a MySQL or LDAP system for authentication. Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD vs Linux
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. Yeah, this is unix my friend, that mean you have to get dirty AND LEARN a lot in the process. There are a million sites discussing this, it's a flamebait, and no one wants to have that start up, so what you are doing is being (possible innocently, but I wonder) very very impolite. I totally agree, stop whining and begin to read, read, read a lot, Do you want the easy way? go with linux, btw, i think windows xp is the rigth choice to you ;-) , you dont want to read and learn, dont even touch a unix terminal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Ash wrote: koen de wijs wrote: Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? This is a good place to start: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php That's an excellent article, and I wonder if the Powers That Be couldn't simply put the mail through one more script that would simply send that link (and then refuse further deliver) to any one of the 2 to 4 dozen people per month who post with such a subject line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway, thank you Matt, for taking time to write that one. To the O.P.: I get 3/4 of a million returns from your subject line when I enter it at www.google.com. There are some classics there that you should definitely look into, including Jeremy Zawodny's comparison using MySQLon both OS's, the TechTV episode with Matt Olander and Murray Stokely, and a paper Murray has/had at his freebsd.org webspace. Many of these are also archived mailing list threads, some (many!) from these lists, so you can see just what kind of can of worms you have attempted to open ;-) (regardless of intent; I bear no ill wil either; etc.; etc.; YMMV; include #disclaimer.h; ...). snip In any case, I hope you find a solution that works for you. -Ash I'll hope so, too. To the O.P., grandad used to say that anything worth having is worth working for ...; however, I understand the potential issues involved, I think. Use what makes you happiest, if happiness comes from such a trivial thing as O.S. choice. I would suggest that you'll spend more time and effort trying to ascertain how much time and effort you'll save with one vs. the other than if you just picked one or the other and installed it. But that can depend on what it is exactly you do. If you are an efficiency expert, feel free to publish a whitepaper; one more fellow harping on TCO should be just about right, I think ;-) [1] I admit that I haven't used sysinstall(8) for this purpose in years, as I prefer to cvsup base and ports after installing a bare system and go from there. After using sysinstall for the base system, with a little reading up on shell scripting, you can set up your own install wizard and run it from a floppy, cross a reboot and take a day off while the server/desktop/whatever box sets itself up I'm trying it, myself. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. Yeah, this is unix my friend, that mean you have to get dirty AND LEARN a lot in the process. There are a million sites discussing this, it's a flamebait, and no one wants to have that start up, so what you are doing is being (possible innocently, but I wonder) very very impolite. I totally agree, stop whining and begin to read, read, read a lot, Do you want the easy way? go with linux, btw, i think windows xp is the rigth choice to you ;-) , you dont want to read and learn, dont even touch a unix terminal I'm afraid after playing with both FreeBSD and some different distros of Linux, that easy way isn't necessarily Linux either. If anything it can get to be much more complex if used on the desktop when it comes to installing and updating software unless you only stick to that distro's way of installing new software. And if you set it up to do more complex tasks it still takes every bit as much understanding and altering of files as FreeBSD does! :-) The only easy way to go with installing things on a computer would have to be Windows (in the Intel world), since it is most often just a matter of clickclickclickclick done. Windows will usually run for several weeks while gathering glut and goo in the registry, in temporary directories, screwing up various things in the background. It has to be easy to set up because you end up having to reinstall when it starts acting weird :-) Really though; with Windows, it's a matter of I want a web server...down load web server...click click license yeah yeah click... oooh! Web server! (don't know what it has open in the background or what scripts are enabled or disabled or...but who cares...web server!) With a Unix system it's I want a web server...googlehmm...Apache looks like it should work...search through portsmake installedit config file...what's this do?...oh...googlegoogle...neat!...edit config...what's this directive?...googleokay...edit...save...apachectl start...web server with X, Y, Z enabled, ,listening on port X, logging to Y, with virtual host Z. WEB SERVER! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSDOSFS_LARGE option -- problem solved
Hello, My problem with mounting a FAT32 80GB disk disappeared after I removed from my kernel config file option MSDOSFS_LARGE and replaced it with option MSDOSFS Thanks to those who responded to my earlier post. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box
* steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-20 10:53:25 -0400]: So I'm trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of downtime. Use rsnapshot: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ The closest thing to a NetApp backup that you will get, minus the US$50,000 price tag. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iPod 40GB support on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:40 -0400, Alexander Chamandy wrote: I was curious if anyone had got their iPod 40GB working on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE/amd64? I've tried it under ehci(4) and it isn't properly detected. Sometimes it will even lock the system. When booting up it actually prevents the system from properly starting after it reaches the PATA/SATA drives. After I unplug the iPod from USB the system boots normally. The umass(4) driver shows the iPod when I plug it in, but it does not associate a da device with it. If any more information is desired, let me know. hi i´m not sure what is with 5.4 but on my system FreeBSD 5.3 the ehci doesn´t work see man ehciso the best way is to use the ipod on FreeBSD with firewire maybe this link help but it´s in german http://wiki.bsd-crew.de/index.php/IPod_Firewire_FreeBSD olli -- linuxbaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MSDOSFS_LARGE option -- problem solved
Brian M. Kincaid wrote: Hello, My problem with mounting a FAT32 80GB disk disappeared after I removed from my kernel config file option MSDOSFS_LARGE and replaced it with option MSDOSFS Thanks to those who responded to my earlier post. Brian Hmm, maybe so. The MSDOSFS_LARGE option was quoted as: The MSDOSFS_LARGE kernel option has been added to support FAT32 file systems bigger than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It uses at least 32 bytes of kernel memory for each file on disk; furthermore it is only safe to use in certain controlled situations, such as read-only mount with less than 1 million files and so on. Exporting these large file systems over NFS is not supported. in the 5.3-RELNOTES. Unfortunately, I didn't read that before I put a 200 GB drive in my USB enclosure and formatted it as FAT32, thinking that it would work well no matter what box I hooked it to. If only I could hack C Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:43:14PM +0200, koen de wijs wrote: I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff will be set up during installation. Hi Koen, comparing Linux to FreeBSD is a touchy topic here, not because of the comparison per se (both are very good), but because it's regularly being abused by trolls as the most likely flamebait. Anyway: both systems are Unix-like, and almost all programs that you know from Linux run natively under FreeBSD as well. It's just a matter of installing the appropriate port or meta-port. The internals however are different: it's a totally different kernel, a different userland, ... but also a different approach regarding code contributions and project management. But that doesn't matter (much) to the end user. There are some comparisons between Linux and FreeBSD out there regarding performance, but if you look at it from a bird's view, both are roughly comparable and doing just well. Unless you run a big, very high load server, you won't notice much difference at all. Ease of administration is also an important topic, esp. if you have to manage your own (set of) machine(s). Here, you can't compare FreeBSD to Linux, at best FreeBSD to specific Linux distros (which all vary widely w.r.t. admin philosophy). FreeBSD is extremely easy to configure and manage. Not necessarily with flashy GUI yast-like frontends, but by setting config variables in plain old text files like /etc/rc.conf and putting scripts in /etc/rc.d, /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Keeping up to date is also extremely convenient with cvsup/make buildworld... [gentoo borrowed its philosophy from the BSD ports and source code driven updating]. I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why isn't there a desktop and a server installation? What do you thing is illogical in the current sysinstall? sysinstall is not the kind of program that you would spend a lot of time using. Once the system is installed, you don't need it anymore and can simply edit things in /etc/rc.conf yourself. Of course, nothing prevents you from writing a GUIfied install program once you're not a newbie anymore. But you'll probably then decide that it is not really such a big deal or worth the effort. ;-) Could anyone give me a good site that describes the differences between FreeBSD and Linux? See previous postings. Just give them all a try, and stick to the OS you like the best. You can always re-evaluate later when you've acquired more Unix knowledge. Koen (I don't want to start a flame war, only some good sites) Cheers, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Font protocol dies unexpectedly
Hi all, I rencently installed an i386 box under 5.3 Release, with Xorg 6.7.0_1 and KDE 3.3.0_4. I have been trying to add fonts, but when I click on the Fonts bookmark in Konqueror, or when I access the Font Installer pannel in KDE's Control Center, I get the following message : The process for the fonts protocol died unexpectedly. I'm not quite sure if this is an Xorg or a KDE issue and how to fix it. Any idea ? Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start':
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alexander Chamandy Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:37 AM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': Has anyone seen these sorts of errors when compiling applications (such as PHP or Apache2)? I can buildworld, kernels and most of the ports.. but occasionally I run in to this error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `_init_tls' Here's the dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 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 5.4-STABLE #5: Wed Apr 6 08:31:13 EDT 2005 I'd say look at the lists pertaining to -STABLE... because -STABLE isnt necessarily what its name implies, so many you need to cvsup and build world/kernel again, and possibly all your other applications. Maybe your /usr/src/UPDATING covers this... It's important to read. You never said what you're doing when you get that error. Andrew H. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start':
Alexander Chamandy wrote: Has anyone seen these sorts of errors when compiling applications (such as PHP or Apache2)? I can buildworld, kernels and most of the ports.. but occasionally I run in to this error: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x64): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `_init_tls' Hmm, are you installing from ports, or from source? And what specific part of the build is failing? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote: It sounds like a wonderful idea. Who's going to pay for it? The same guy who's paying all of the port maintainers now. ;-) Oh? Well, okay, MSWxp sp2 is not what I would call professionally crafted software. They're professionals; they're just not always competent professionals. But they're light years ahead of FreeBSD on the issue of maintainability. With FreeBSD, the answer is almost always to wipe the system clean and rebuild from scratch. I'm not going to lie. If it were possible to fund each of the BSDs enough to maintain professional backporting services for every release, I'll admit it would sure be nice. There's no need. Again, just maintain a record of the most recent version of each port that will work on each release of FreeBSD that has not been EOLed. Simple. And make sure that the port collection as a whole does not break itself when updated according to the recommended procedure. (This is the least one could expect of software of even mediocre quality.) --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
Brett Glass wrote: At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote: Oh? Well, okay, MSWxp sp2 is not what I would call professionally crafted software. They're professionals; they're just not always competent professionals. But they're light years ahead of FreeBSD on the issue of maintainability. With FreeBSD, the answer is almost always to wipe the system clean and rebuild from scratch. Not in my experience. More oft than not, it's FreeBSD I fix and that other OS I flatten. But then, maybe we work in different environments, although I'm betting my experience is more common than yours; but then again, we're way OT and about to cross a troll bridge, aren't we? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
At 05:58 PM 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Not in my experience. More oft than not, it's FreeBSD I fix and that other OS I flatten. But then, maybe we work in different environments, although I'm betting my experience is more common than yours I consult with, and provide service to, quite a few sysadmins at small companies. Most of them won't bother to fix a FreeBSD system that's gone awry like that; they'll just reinstall. They do not have the time to investigate the subtleties of what went wrong. But again, I guess I believe (to bring things back on topic) that a standard, recommended procedure should never leave your machine, or a major subsystem thereof, unusable. It's not hard to fix this, though in this particular case it's not just a matter of setting code but setting a little policy. That's why, contrary to what one recent taunting message in this thread suggests, I can't just go fix it. The fix has to be in the way things are done more than in the code. Ironically, in the FreeBSD world, this is the harder kind of change to make. --Brett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
Gary Kline wrote: What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone to work with links?) Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; checking about plugings: tells me that everything is there. But when I try to listen to anything windows, the stream seems to load, but there is nosound. There are no controls. A right-mouse click brings up a small window. play is not checked and clicking on any of the options does no good. If I click on the full-screen option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed. I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks. Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to work? I've poked around and don't see anything very helpful on this port. Any mplayer wizards out there??? gary do you have the win32-codecs port installed? If not install that then recompile mplayer and the plugin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
At 15:20 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: SNIP After using sysinstall for the base system, with a little reading up on shell scripting, you can set up your own install wizard and run it from a floppy, cross a reboot and take a day off while the server/desktop/whatever box sets itself up I'm trying it, myself. Would you please let us know what you come up with? Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:10:04 -0600 (BBrett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (B (B At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote: (B (B It sounds like a wonderful idea. (B (B Who's going to pay for it? (B (B The same guy who's paying all of the port maintainers now. ;-) (B (BYou can't see the irony in what you just said? (B (B Oh? Well, okay, MSWxp sp2 is not what I would call professionally (B crafted software. (B (B They're professionals; they're just not always competent professionals. (B But they're light years ahead of FreeBSD on the issue of maintainability. (B (BWhat on earth do you expect to gain by saying such a thing? (B (B With FreeBSD, the answer is almost always to wipe the system clean and (B rebuild from scratch. (B (BThat is entirely dependent on the experience you have. If you know (BOSxyz intimately, you will go dig into whatever semantic junkheap that (Bsystem registers its stuff in, maybe dig out some old versions of (Blibraries, that kind of thing. If you aren't so familiar, you won't (Bwaste too much time twiddling things you don't understand, you'll just (Bwipe and re-install something. The pain of re-installing the entire (Bsystem tends to discourage wiping the entire system, however. (B (BIf you don't know OSxyz intimately, the threshold for the re-install is (Bmuch lower. That's all. (B (B I'm not going to lie. If it were possible to fund each of the BSDs (B enough to maintain professional backporting services for every release, (B I'll admit it would sure be nice. (B (B There's no need. Again, just maintain a record of the most recent (B version of each port that will work on each release of FreeBSD that (B has not been EOLed. (B (BGood. _You_ start this wonderful compatibility database. Maintain it by (Bhand until you realize it isn't as easy as you thought. Then write the (Bsoftware to maintain the database more or less automatically. At that (Bpoint you might try to sell your compatibility tracking database to the (Bdevelopers. (Free beer costs, you know.) Or, if you're smart about it, (Byou'll show your hand-built database early on and ask for suggestions. (BIf you do a good enough job structuring (and selling) it, you may even (Bfind someone willing to help build the software side, or at least get (Bsome developers who'll show you how. (B (BBut you should realize freebsd already has a competing database in place. (BIt's not very accessible to people like you and me who don't get our (Bhands into the code very often. But it is very accessible to the (Bdevelopers, so your database starts out at a significant disadvantage. (B (B Simple. And make sure that the port collection (B as a whole does not break itself when updated according to the (B recommended procedure. (This is the least one could expect of software (B of even mediocre quality.) (B (BIf you do the update according to the recommended procedures, things (Bdon't break. Or if they do, fixing it yourself just happens to be one of (Bthe essential steps in the recommended procedures. (B (BWhich is what I guess you don't get. (B (BWhen you use freebsd, you are part of the dev process whether you are in (Bdeep or just testing. Not nearly so much so, perhaps, as with netbsd or (Bopenbsd, but much more part of it than with RedHat or Mac OS X. (And (BMicrosoft these days has cut the end-users completely out of the loop, (Bwhich is why so many end-users are cutting loose from Microsoft.) (B (BWhat you are asking for is something you can (sort of) get most of the (Btime from Apple or RedHat. If it's that important for you to be able to (Bkeep your hands out of the code, I recommend either one. Just recognize (Bthat the cost of the software is part of what's paying the developers to (Bmake it easy for you to keep track of what works and what doesn't. (B (BAnd, until you try to keep track of it yourself, so that you understand (Bit ain't nearly as trivial as you keep saying it is, well, you're going (Bto have a hard time selling your point of view here. (B (B-- (BJoel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bdigitcom, inc. $B3t<02q
php5, unable to use pcre module
Hi All, I'm using freebsd 5.3, apache2, and php5. I was getting the following error from one of my php scripts: Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_match() So, after looking around on various lists, I determined that I needed to install php5-pcre, so I installed the ports /usr/port/devel/pcre, and /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre. But now I get the following error in my /var/log/httpd-error.log file: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: pcre: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with module API=20040412, debug=1, thread-safety=0 PHPcompiled with module API=20041030, debug=1, thread-safety=0 These options need to match in Unknown on line 0 Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? I also tried installing /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions but I got similar errors for many of the extensions. I have also recently upgraded my ports collection with cvsup. I've been frigging around deinstalling and reinstalling things but I can't find the actual problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Stephen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resizing partitions
Hello, I've got a 5.3-RELEASE box which has a /usr partition /dev/ad0s1e that is to small by approximately 700 mb. I've got the space on /var /dev/ad0s1d to do a resize, but i am unsure as to the procedure. I tried this once a while back on a test box and lost everything. If anyone has done this or has a procedure i'd be interested. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
koen de wijs writes: I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. That is the nature of UNIX. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly and the basic stuff will be set up during installation. Some distributions are. If you want to use UNIX without knowing how it works, Linux is a good choice. I really don't like the sysinstall menu. It is really unlogically. Why isn't there a desktop and a server installation? Because FreeBSD, like most other versions of UNIX, is intended for people who are familiar with UNIX. Additionally, FreeBSD, like most other versions of UNIX, works best as a server. If you want a desktop, Linux is probably a better choice. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Bart Silverstrim writes: I'm afraid after playing with both FreeBSD and some different distros of Linux, that easy way isn't necessarily Linux either. Some of them are apparently much closer to the plug-and-play environment of Windows than are any versions of UNIX. Logically anyone who wants Windows will install Windows, instead of Linux, of course, but logic isn't always the deciding factor. The only easy way to go with installing things on a computer would have to be Windows (in the Intel world), since it is most often just a matter of clickclickclickclick done. Yes. And if an Intel platform is not mandatory, the Mac is even easier to install and use--but it is more expensive, and it restricts the user to a single vendor for both OS software and hardware, and the range of available applications is much smaller. Windows will usually run for several weeks ... Current versions of Windows will run for years without a reboot. It has to be easy to set up because you end up having to reinstall when it starts acting weird :-) It doesn't start acting weird unless you contaminate it with spyware and viruses, which are easy enough to avoid. Really though; with Windows, it's a matter of I want a web server...down load web server...click click license yeah yeah click... oooh! Web server! I wouldn't use Windows for a Web server, personally, but a server version of the OS with IIS will get the job done. The point-and-click interface hides a lot of complexity, though, and while this isn't such a bad thing on the desktop, it can be dangerous on a server. On servers it's really important to know exactly what's running on the machine, what it's doing, and how the machine is interacting with the Net. With a Unix system it's I want a web server...googlehmm...Apache looks like it should work...search through portsmake installedit config file...what's this do?...oh...googlegoogle...neat!...edit config...what's this directive?...googleokay...edit...save...apachectl start...web server with X, Y, Z enabled, ,listening on port X, logging to Y, with virtual host Z. WEB SERVER! Far too complex for many newbies, but for those who stay the course, FreeBSD and Apache are the best possible combination for Web servers today. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
W. D. wrote: At 15:20 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: SNIP After using sysinstall for the base system, with a little reading up on shell scripting, you can set up your own install wizard and run it from a floppy, cross a reboot and take a day off while the server/desktop/whatever box sets itself up I'm trying it, myself. Would you please let us know what you come up with? Nothing spectacular, to be sure. I simply noticed that I have done a lot of things to set up a server or whatever, and they can easily be scripted. I'm certainly no shell scripting expert (A month ago I would have tried this in PHP, but there's a little chicken/egg problem there, and /bin/sh is really made for this stuff). Here's the rough outline: 1. Install a base system manually with sysinstall. Make sure that a source tree and ports tree exists by some manual means (like the aforementioned sysinstall). Make sure in BIOS that the system will boot with a floppy in the drive (priority to HD). 2. On a floppy I have three scripts, we'll call 'em install, setup1, setup2; and supfiles for -STABLE and ports. Mount the floppy and run install with a $SERVERTYPE argument 3. install copies the supfiles from floppy to a location on the machine's filesystem. It then copies setup1 and setup2 to /tmp/ and makes sure that they are executable. Having received an argument that tells the script what type of machine we're setting up, it calls /tmp/setup1 with that argument 4. setup1 checks for the existence of the ports tree, then builds cvsup-without-gui from ports. (This seems to be one Achilles tendon). It then runs cvsup on the src tree, builds world, builds a generic kernel, installs it, copies root's crontab to /tmp/ and adds an @reboot command pointing to /tmp/setup2 with the server type argument to the root crontab. It then calls shutdown -r. 5. When the machine comes back up on the new kernel, cron calls setup2, which sleeps a little (?maybe?) and then does some checks and installs the newly created world. I've not decided how to handle mergemaster. Setup2 adjusts make.conf and builds a list of ports to be installed based on the command line argument. The ports tree gets cvsupped, and each port is installed in turn. The backup copy of root's crontab is restored to its proper place so that the script isn't called anymore. The scripts deletes as much of my stuff as possible, and exits. That's about the size of it. My code isn't pretty, as I'm not real experienced with /bin/sh, but after some testing I might get it out for viewing, although it seems simple enough (to me) that anyone could follow this outline and make it happen for themselves...IOW, I can't believe that somebody out there doesn't have something like this already, and I'm quite sure that they do, (unless maybe they just image HD's instead?) And I see no reason why it couldn't be expanded to do a lot of other stuff as well. Scripting is just doing what you'd do yourself in code, so you can do something else, after all...I used to sit at terminals and watch buildworld happen ... now I'm generally past that ;-) although I've not yet been brave enough to have my buildworld scripts call shutdown for themselves on my production boxes Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VESA driver hangs Xorg
OK, I've gotten 5.3-Released installed, and worked around the firewalled ports to upgrade my ports, and I have Xorg 6.8.2 installed. The system I am working on has a Radeon X700 PCI Express graphics card, but I don't need 3d, just basic 2d graphics X-windows support for what I need to develop. When I try to bring up the X server with the vesa driver, the screen flashes briefly and the system locks up. If I set the driver to vga X runs fine, but I get at best 800x600x8bit resolution. So what am I missing? If I specify the ati or radeon driver, X fails to start. --daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unclean filesystem refusing to salvage
im running FreeBSD 5.4 and have /var as well as all the other filesystems not clean and when going to single user mode mounting all and running fsck -y ... it refuses to slvage anything and is causing multiple hassles with my computers stablity and running. How do i fix this or what may be causing this ? -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Kevin Kinsey writes: And I see no reason why it couldn't be expanded to do a lot of other stuff as well. Scripting is just doing what you'd do yourself in code, so you can do something else, after all... Keep in mind that flexibility and automation are always mutually exclusive. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
At 09:23 PM 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Nothing spectacular, to be sure. I simply noticed that I have done a lot of things to set up a server or whatever, and they can easily be scripted. I'm certainly no shell scripting expert (A month ago I would have tried this in PHP, but there's a little chicken/egg problem there, and /bin/sh is really made for this stuff). Here's the rough outline: 1. Install a base system manually with sysinstall. Make sure that a source tree and ports tree exists by some manual means (like the aforementioned sysinstall). Make sure in BIOS that the system will boot with a floppy in the drive (priority to HD). 2. On a floppy I have three scripts, we'll call 'em install, setup1, setup2; and supfiles for -STABLE and ports. Mount the floppy and run install with a $SERVERTYPE argument 3. install copies the supfiles from floppy to a location on the machine's filesystem. It then copies setup1 and setup2 to /tmp/ and makes sure that they are executable. Having received an argument that tells the script what type of machine we're setting up, it calls /tmp/setup1 with that argument 4. setup1 checks for the existence of the ports tree, then builds cvsup-without-gui from ports. (This seems to be one Achilles tendon). It then runs cvsup on the src tree, builds world, builds a generic kernel, installs it, copies root's crontab to /tmp/ and adds an @reboot command pointing to /tmp/setup2 with the server type argument to the root crontab. It then calls shutdown -r. 5. When the machine comes back up on the new kernel, cron calls setup2, which sleeps a little (?maybe?) and then does some checks and installs the newly created world. I've not decided how to handle mergemaster. Setup2 adjusts make.conf and builds a list of ports to be installed based on the command line argument. The ports tree gets cvsupped, and each port is installed in turn. The backup copy of root's crontab is restored to its proper place so that the script isn't called anymore. The scripts deletes as much of my stuff as possible, and exits. That's about the size of it. My code isn't pretty, as I'm not real experienced with /bin/sh, but after some testing I might get it out for viewing, although it seems simple enough (to me) that anyone could follow this outline and make it happen for themselves...IOW, I can't believe that somebody out there doesn't have something like this already, and I'm quite sure that they do, (unless maybe they just image HD's instead?) And I see no reason why it couldn't be expanded to do a lot of other stuff as well. Scripting is just doing what you'd do yourself in code, so you can do something else, after all...I used to sit at terminals and watch buildworld happen ... now I'm generally past that ;-) although I've not yet been brave enough to have my buildworld scripts call shutdown for themselves on my production boxes Most of this seems like it could be much more easily handled with something like cfengine (/usr/ports/sysutils/cfengine, and http://www.cfengine.org/). Especially when adding machines to an existing network with similarly configured systems. -Glenn Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php5, unable to use pcre module
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:07 pm, Stephen Kelly wrote: Hi All, I'm using freebsd 5.3, apache2, and php5. I was getting the following error from one of my php scripts: Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_match() So, after looking around on various lists, I determined that I needed to install php5-pcre, so I installed the ports /usr/port/devel/pcre, and /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre. But now I get the following error in my /var/log/httpd-error.log file: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: pcre: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with module API=20040412, debug=1, thread-safety=0 PHPcompiled with module API=20041030, debug=1, thread-safety=0 These options need to match in Unknown on line 0 It looks like your module versions are out of date. Try to recompile apache and all your php extensions. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? I also tried installing /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions but I got similar errors for many of the extensions. I have also recently upgraded my ports collection with cvsup. I've been frigging around deinstalling and reinstalling things but I can't find the actual problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Stephen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anish Mistry pgpeRz7TMPpIO.pgp Description: PGP signature
