How do I diagnose and fix a boot problem?
I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 server and wanted to upgrade it to 5.4. So I backed it up to both DVD and to another 5.4 system. The only change in the hardware was adding a Zonet ZEN3300E gigabit PCI adapter (Realtek RTL8169S-32). It is an old dual 600 P3 with 1GB RAM and a 3Ware 7000-2 controller with 2 160GB drives. I wiped the system and started from scratch with a standard (everything) install. I added the updated packages and got Samba, Apache2, the TWiki installed with all the shared files and twiki files restored. The system was rebooted at least 5-6 times to make sure everything started up properly, and it did great. I was just tweaking the sshd settings so that I could run cygwin XFree86 over ssh, and did a ps to get the pid of sshd, and ps came back with an error message. I had never seen this before and so figured perhaps a reboot was in order. So I did and ended up with this:: -- FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok -- So I booted using floppies and a CD (the SCSI CD is not bootable - old Adaptec controller) and loaded the Live CD (disk 1). Going into Fixit mode, I mounted the first slice. Everything was fine no damage. The kernel was there with the same date and size as the version on the Live CD. I read through the Handbook section 12.3. None of the files had a recent timestamp. I thought perhaps the MBR a file had been corrupted. I tried the command disklabel -B twed0s1 which executed with no errors. When I tried the command fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 twed0 It failed saying it could not find /dev/twed0 or if the correct directory was /dev, then twedo could not be found. Yet the device file was in /dev, the values looked reasonable, and df and other file system utilities were returning valid values. I tried rebooting again and looked variable values. Currdev and Loaddev are both disk1s1a which I am not sure is correct, but I get an error message if I try to change it to twed0s1a. Not sure what to try next. I don't know what the problem is or what caused the it. Any help or hints as to how to diagnose the problem or fix this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Frederick N. Brier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: and the winner is...
Mario Carugno ha scritto: I there, i was trying freebsd for a while, and comparing it against debian/linux. The winner was Debian by far... Freebsd could be stable, but it is not faster... and Debian is far much more 'usable'. Freebsd package installation is very laborious compared with Debian's apt system. I have to search in each CD, know dependences,... X configuration is hard too when the autodetected configuration doesn't works... I think fbsd is good, but needs some user facilities. Maybe do you like the flame but this is really bad place for it. Enjoy what you like. Simone ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bsdlabel on slice vs on mirror
Hi there, I have a RAID1 with gmirror between ad6s1 and ad10s1: NameStatus Components mirror/mirror_swap COMPLETE ad6s1 ad10s1 If I run bsdlabel on ad6s1 I get the 'partition c ' error: -- # bsdlabel ad6s1 # /dev/ad6s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 209643040 swap c: 209643200unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities -- but if I do it on the mirror, it shows the *same* info, but no error: # bsdlabel /dev/mirror/mirror_swap # /dev/mirror/mirror_swap: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 209643040 swap c: 209643200unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit From fdisk # fdisk -s ad6 /dev/ad6: 484521 cyl 16 hd 63 sec PartStartSize Type Flags 1: 6320964321 0xa5 0x00 2:20964825 467426295 0xa5 0x00 # uname -rm 6.0-BETA3 amd64 I can see that it seems ad6s1c is actually 1 sector smaller than the whole slice (20964320 vs 20964321 ). Other than that, the system is working ok. 1) how serious is the problem? 2) Why doesn't it show the same error on the mirror? Is it because the mirror is actually 1 sec smaller than the slices that make the mirror? I tried to fix it via: bsdlabel -R /dev/ad6s1 partition_mirror_swap.txt but I get: # bsdlabel -R /dev/ad6s1 partition_mirror_swap.txt bsdlabel: Geom not found which doesn't make sense as a) I have mirrors running b) geom_mirror is built into the kernel # cat partition_mirror_swap.txt # /dev/mirror/mirror_swap: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 209643040swap 0 0 c: 209643210unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit thanks in advance, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Four (even five) problems/queries on my FreeBSD installation
Hi. I have installed 5.4/KDE on my Thinkpad 600E, and it mostly works but there are a few things I need help with. (Please note that I still consider myself being a newbie on FreeBSD!) ;) 1. I installed KDM to make the computer a little more userfriendly, but now I can't run things as su. Emacs refuses to start for instance, and when I am trying to adjust things in Login Manager (in KControl) it asks me for the root password, I enter it, and then I bounce back. What is the problem? I still can run emacs as lars, but not as superuser. (I can su in a terminal window of course) 2. During my window years (those are goodbye now! ;) I bought a TwinMos 256Mb USB-memory, and FreeBSD finds an umass device when I put it in my Thinkpad, but how will I mount it? Can it be done? 3. Since I installed KDM I got the Turn off computer-option in KDE, but it only runs FreeBSD to a halt, not to a complete power down - how will I chance that? 4. As su I can use tab to complete filenames, but not as user lars. I guess it has to to with which shell I use, how do I change shell? Or is it another way I can get the possibility to use tab to complete filenames? 5. My girlfriend found the Klickety-game in KDE - anyone else here having the same problem? Your computer being taken by someone who wants to play the games so you cannot sit for hours and hours and have fun tweaking the system? ;) Hope someone can help me! Thanks in advance! / Lars ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best OCR scanner??
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:07:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR software in recent years. This book has few footnotes or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully, something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.) thanks for any clues; I've never used a scanner before! --yea, no kidding:-) ... just a postscript here to the list: my interest in the best scanner obviously applies to the Unix realm, too. Just FWIW. 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: best OCR scanner??
On 9/1/05, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR software in recent years. This book has few footnotes or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully, something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.) Any scanner will work when your scanning a 2 tone document! The only thing that matters is the OCR software and their is only one game in town, OmniPage Pro by scansoft. BTW it's faster (and won't damage the book) to photograph the book and then crop and covert to BW, white balance, contrast, etc in photoshop or gimp etc., and then import the photos into the OCR software. The OCR software should produce less errors too. After all is done post the book on gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ oh, you should be able to fine some tips about scanning books at the gutenberg site too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best OCR scanner??
At 08:07 PM 9/1/2005 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR software in recent years. This book has few footnotes or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully, something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.) thanks for any clues; I've never used a scanner before! --yea, no kidding:-) I happen to have some recent experience on a Windoze machine that may be useful. Of the several programs that Google found for me the one that met my needs best was Textbridge. The others put every paragraph into a separate text box, made correcting layout and formatting a nightmare. Textbridge (at least the current version) seems to do a good job as long as the print is reasonable clear. All the OCR programs I tried had problems putting pictures in the right place. I don't know what's available for FreeBSD, since I use my boxen for gateways, not even connected to printers. I should warn you, though, scanning isn't quick -- figure about two minutes per page (YMMV) plus any formatting fixup you have to do afterward. There are industrial-strength applications out there, but they cost. Can't offer advice about hardware -- I've got an Epson flatbed, pretty inexpensive but works good. -- Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Four (even five) problems/queries on my FreeBSD installation
On Friday 02 September 2005 15:45, lars.lindblad wrote: Hi. I have installed 5.4/KDE on my Thinkpad 600E, and it mostly works but there are a few things I need help with. (Please note that I still consider myself being a newbie on FreeBSD!) ;) 1. I installed KDM to make the computer a little more userfriendly, but now I can't run things as su. Emacs refuses to start for instance, and when I am trying to adjust things in Login Manager (in KControl) it asks me for the root password, I enter it, and then I bounce back. What is the problem? I still can run emacs as lars, but not as superuser. (I can su in a terminal window of course) maybe kcheckpass don't have the right permission for users, if so, you can chmod u+s kcheckpass to get the su run again. Note, the stuff needs to be done as root; maybe you need to login as root to do it. ^_^ 2. During my window years (those are goodbye now! ;) I bought a TwinMos 256Mb USB-memory, and FreeBSD finds an umass device when I put it in my Thinkpad, but how will I mount it? Can it be done? if you never configured the kernel, the USB device should work in FB5.4 directly. cd /dev and find how it is recognized by FB, say as da0 or da0s1 or something like this. Then you can mount it like this: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0(s1) /mnt/usb gook luck! 3. Since I installed KDM I got the Turn off computer-option in KDE, but it only runs FreeBSD to a halt, not to a complete power down - how will I chance that? anyone else know about this issue? maybe ACPI problem? 4. As su I can use tab to complete filenames, but not as user lars. I guess it has to to with which shell I use, how do I change shell? Or is it another way I can get the possibility to use tab to complete filenames? In default setting, root use csh, while general users use sh which doesn't support many useful features. But you can always change your shell using chsh. 5. My girlfriend found the Klickety-game in KDE - anyone else here having the same problem? Your computer being taken by someone who wants to play the games so you cannot sit for hours and hours and have fun tweaking the system? ;) Hope someone can help me! Thanks in advance! Sorry, never have that problem ^_^ Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Four (even five) problems/queries on my FreeBSD installation
Yuan Jue wrote: On Friday 02 September 2005 15:45, lars.lindblad wrote: 2. During my window years (those are goodbye now! ;) I bought a TwinMos 256Mb USB-memory, and FreeBSD finds an umass device when I put it in my Thinkpad, but how will I mount it? Can it be done? if you never configured the kernel, the USB device should work in FB5.4 directly. cd /dev and find how it is recognized by FB, say as da0 or da0s1 or something like this. Then you can mount it like this: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0(s1) /mnt/usb gook luck! Better check the kernel log messages, it says, which device it attached to the USB memory. Then you use that reported device name to mount it. 3. Since I installed KDM I got the Turn off computer-option in KDE, but it only runs FreeBSD to a halt, not to a complete power down - how will I chance that? anyone else know about this issue? maybe ACPI problem? Common problem in FreeBSD: You must have device apm0 line in kernel (and exactly like this, nothing more, nothing less). Also apm_enable=YES in rc.conf There is a thread about the problem in bsdforums.org: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-886.html -- Rein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Limiting closed port
On 01/09/2005, at 7:20 PM, Dark Star wrote: Hello all, Im on FreeBSD 4.8-R my logs since over 4 months always complaining from th follow: /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 243 to 200 packets per second /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 222 to 200 packets per second /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 238 to 200 packets per second I think its sometype of scan or attack. A scan.. If someone tries to connect to a port that has no service attached to it, by default the server will send a RST (reset) packet back (for TCP).. Someone is trying to scan you very quickly, so generating a lot of RST packets (probably scanning a very large range of ports) and the kernel is reducing the amount it will send per second.. This isn't really a problem, you can also set it so that connections to closed ports will not generate a RST response, but you would no longer be compliant with the RFCs regarding TCP connections.. If you aren't running a firewall you should probably be running one anyway since it seems your system is exposed to the outside world.. Personally I wouldn't be worried about the above log, unless you are running services which allow connections from the outside and which are possibly not very secure (public ftp, old versions of named, etc).. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting default MTA during system installation
Doing the installation of FreeBSD, there is an opportunity to choose an MTA. If I choose Postfix for instance, would that be installed as the default MTA or would the Sendmail program still be the default for the system, thereby requiring me to configure Postfix to operate with the system, and ultimately disabling Sendmail? -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\___/) (\___/) (\___/) (\___/) (\___/) (\___/) /0\ /0\ /o\ /o\ /0\ /0\ /O\ /O\ /o\ /o\ /0\ /0\ \__V__/ \__V__/ \__V__/ \__V__/ \__V__/ \__V__/ /|:. .:|\ /|;, ,;|\ /|:. .:|\ /|;, ,;|\ /|;, ,;|\ /|:. .:|\ \\:// \\;// \\:// \\;// \\;// \\:// jgs--` `---` `---` `---` `---` `---` `--- ^~^^~^~^~^~^^~~^^^~^~~^~^~^~^^~~^^^~^~~^~^~^~^^~~^^^~^^~^~^~^^~~^ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting default MTA during system installation
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:44:08 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing the installation of FreeBSD, there is an opportunity to choose an MTA. If I choose Postfix for instance, would that be installed as the default MTA or would the Sendmail program still be the default for the system, thereby requiring me to configure Postfix to operate with the system, and ultimately disabling Sendmail? if you install postfix from ports, it will ask you about this and give hints about it too see : /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perl setting locale failed
After having updated all freebsd 5.4 src ports I've issued the portsdb -uU command but freebsd complains endlessly: .. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = it_IT.ISO_8859-15 are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). perl: warning: Setting locale failed. . Yes, I recently set the Italian language and the complaint is only a warning but WHAT should I do to avoid that warning? Ciao Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
overlapping UID crisis
hi all, we had an overlapping uid crisis at work today. I ended up writing a script to start at 3 and increment by 1, to change all user's UID's (except system accounts) Then I wrote a script that did a recursive: chown -R $username:users /home/$username chown $username:users /var/mail/$username Is there anything i am missing? We've been up all night and I just need to make sure my tired mind isn't forgetting anything. Thanks, Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EDE
On Friday 02 September 2005 08:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's got me a little confused is this: The most important feature is full FreeBSD support. Could someone clue me in as to what exactly that means? I usually take this to mean that the development team will offer you help if you experience difficulties using the product/software/etc on that particular platform. This doesn't mean there aren't any bugs or that every feature of the OS is leverged fully. Quite simply the EDE developers 'care' about their software running on FreeBSD. For example, I purchased a copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 and it was clearly stated in the requirments that it worked with linux... however, it also stated that there was no 'support' for linux. If you are using EDE on FreeBSD and are experiencing difficulty you MAY contact the EDE developers about it, they are willing to support your endeavour. Support means just that... you have someone to help you out, no support... no help (although the thing may still actually work just fine). Yes yes? Reasonable? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Torrent Program
Being as Azureus is broken in the ports ... is there another torrent program that is as good/equivelant to it available ? -- 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: overlapping UID crisis
Matt Juszczak wrote: hi all, we had an overlapping uid crisis at work today. I ended up writing a script to start at 3 and increment by 1, to change all user's UID's (except system accounts) Then I wrote a script that did a recursive: chown -R $username:users /home/$username chown $username:users /var/mail/$username Is there anything i am missing? We've been up all night and I just need to make sure my tired mind isn't forgetting anything. You did make a mapping OldUID-NewUID didn't you? Then you can use find to find all files with OldUID and change it to NewUID: # find / -uname $OldUID | xargs chown $NewUID Before you do that you'll probably like to view what files are going to be affected first. What about the /etc/group? If all users have a group with GID=UID, then you have work to do there too - using the same trick as above. Now, also, it's a mess if you get it wrong, so wrap it all arround some verbose script that prints all chown commands executed in a file with the OldUID. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9 -- This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Atos Origin group liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. Este mensaje y los ficheros adjuntos pueden contener informacion confidencial destinada solamente a la(s) persona(s) mencionadas anteriormente. Pueden estar protegidos por secreto profesional Si usted recibe este correo electronico por error, gracias de informar inmediatamente al remitente y destruir el mensaje. Al no estar asegurada la integridad de este mensaje sobre la red, Atos Origin no se hace responsable por su contenido. Su contenido no constituye ningun compromiso para el grupo Atos Origin, salvo ratificacion escrita por ambas partes. Aunque se esfuerza al maximo por mantener su red libre de virus, el emisor no puede garantizar nada al respecto y no sera responsable de cualesquiera danos que puedan resultar de una transmision de virus -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Torrent Program
* Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being as Azureus is broken in the ports ... is there another torrent program that is as good/equivelant to it available ? /usr/ports/net/py-bittorrent Just the script that works without nonsence :P -- Ruud Jansen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyboard problems during Install
I am having problems installing FreeBSD on my PC. My USB keyboard will not work. I cannot select any of the menu choices in the install program using the arrow keys. I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard. I am installing FreeBSD 6.0. Matt Bach ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EDE
On 9/2/05, C. Michailidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes yes? Reasonable? Sounds good to me:) I was thinking for a moment that maybe there was some special feature that was OS dependent. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Torrent Program
On Friday 02 September 2005 20:35, Yuan Jue wrote: * Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being as Azureus is broken in the ports ... is there another torrent program that is as good/equivelant to it available ? /usr/ports/net/py-bittorrent Just the script that works without nonsence :P if you have installed wine, Bitspirit is also a good substitute. -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: duplicate file names in iso - extraction to dos partition for dos install
Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:01, andyk wrote: Hi, I searched high and low, to answer my question, now I'm hoping you can help. I want to do an install of 5.4 from a dos partition. as I was extracting the files from the iso/archive to the dos partition, I got a lot of seemingly duplicate names, as dos considers mail and Mail the same. I renamed all the duplicates with a 2 after them, but I wonder what problems I will have when I try to do the install? I plan to buy the cd, but wanted to try out freeBSD before buying. I really appreciate any help - thanks, Andy ___ Installing from a Dos partition is not an option. As you found out Fbsd and unix in general does recognise file names of different cases as being different files. Installing from a DOS partition certainly *is* an option, as described in the Handbook. Only the install distributions need to be present on the DOS partition, not the whole bootable system from the CD. http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html#INSTALL-MSDOS One point though FreeBSD is that it is Free. Why not use the CD to produce a floppy disk set and use that to do a ftp install or you could copy the CD(s). That will work. The directory structure needed on the FTP server is the same as that needed on a local MS-DOS partition. An FTP install from the official FTP servers has always been a good option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why does mountcritremote run before nfsclient
Hi, Running into a problem that mountcritremote runs before nfsclient does, and we run into problems that portmapper/statd/lockd aren't. Is there something happening with our setup that shouldn't be? Thanks, Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anything like NetSquid for FreeBSD?
Matt Virus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anything like this that runs on freebsd? http://netsquid.tamu.edu/faq.html Anything like this? Not sure how to answer that. There are a *lot* of vaguely similar things out that, including many in the ports. Most of them seem to use snort. And they are all different in some way or other, as well. You really need to look through the security (and net) categories of ports, and draw your own opinions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[요청] ports: korean/scim-hangul
요즘 일본어 공부중입니다. 그래서 그놈 데스크탑 환경에 적합한 다국어 입력기를 찾다가.. scim 이 좋다는 소식을 접했습니다. 그리고 ports 에서 scim 을 설치했습니다.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ pkg_info | grep scim ja-scim-canna-0.1.1 SCIM IMEngine module using Canna ja-scim-tables-0.5.1_3 SCIM table based Japanese input methods ja-scim-uim-0.1.3_3 SCIM IMEngine module using UIM input method library ko-scim-tables-0.5.1_3 SCIM table based Korean input methods scim-1.4.0 Smart Common Input Method platform scim-table-imengine-0.5.1_3 SCIM table based input method engine [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ uname -a FreeBSD viola.izb.knu.ac.kr 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Tue Jun 21 09:32:40 KST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 헌데 영어, 일본어는 잘 입력되는데.. 한글 입력에 문제가 좀 있더라구요.. 받침이 있는 글자를 입력할때엔 Nabi 와 조금 다르게 작동합니다. Ex) 아름다운 을 입력할때.. Nabi: 아름다운 Scim: 알ㅡ당ㅜㄴ 그래서 요청컨데.. 한국쪽 카테고리에 (korean/scim-hangul)도 넣어주셨으면 합니다.. 꾸벅,, -- 병희 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TIOCOUTQ ioctl for non-blocking socket
Hello everyone, I have to port some non-blocking socket output code from Linux to FreeBSD and I'm wondering how far I need to go to overcome a problem. On Linux this code puts the amount of data waiting in the socket's transmit queue into 'remaining'. int remaining = 0; int rc = ioctl(fileDescriptor, TIOCOUTQ, remaining); Testing rc on FreeBSD and printing errno, I see... ioctl: 45 Operation not supported Is there another way to ask the question on FreeBSD? Or should I be changing the non-blocking socket output design? Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP NC6000 with FB 5.4
On Thursday 01 September 2005 22:15, Yuan Jue wrote: Jue Yuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, everyone I'm a newbie here and to FreeBSD. Just installed FB5.4 in my notebook less than two months. After a lot of stuff have been done, I now can use my laptop with FB5.4+KDE3.4.2 as smoothly as using Windows before, even more efficiently^_^ But there is still some problems that I do want to fix in order to make my NB look more perfect. The question is: Can I use all of the buttons in my NB, say the Mute button, the Volume control buttons, and Wireless ON/OFF button. Although I can already control the volume of my soundcard and connect to wireless lan using the wireless NIC, I still want these buttons to work, just as in Windows. Does anyone know how to deal with this? Any suggestion will be appreciated! I don't know what you mean by NB, but maybe you could try using xev(1) to find out whether X sees events from those buttons? Seems that xev cannot recognize events from the buttons; it only can see events from keyboard and mouse... Any other ideas? Thanks. -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building a New BSD 5.3 Server
Dixit, Viraj wrote: I have a question regarding the compatibility of BSD 5.3 Unix which I found very stable running the OS for a website. I am purchasing a new server and these are the qualities that the server has. Is BSD 5.3 will be able to work and be compatible with these options. Enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven Intel(r) Xeon(tm) performance and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments All HP ProLiant DL380 G4 models include: * Intel(r) Xeon(tm) processor with 800MHz FSB * PC2-3200 registered ECC DDR2 SDRAM memory * Integrated Smart Array 6i controller * Dual port embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (NC7782) hi there, not *exactly* the same models, but we have 4 x DL360s with the same arrays and NICs and they work great. And they come with those nice iLO cards (no, haven't configured them under Fbsd, completelly firmware based). B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building a New BSD 5.3 Server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FreeBSD runs quite well on the HP DLxxx models, only annoying quirk is that if you set the OS Type in the BIOS to Other (since there's no BSD options) it won't display a lot of the features to the OS (such as SMP). Derek Dixit, Viraj wrote: | I have a question regarding the compatibility of BSD 5.3 Unix which I found very stable running the OS for a website. I am purchasing a new server and these are the qualities that the server has. Is BSD 5.3 will be able to work and be compatible with these options. | | Enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven Intel(r) Xeon(tm) performance and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments | All HP ProLiant DL380 G4 models include: | * Intel(r) Xeon(tm) processor with 800MHz FSB | * PC2-3200 registered ECC DDR2 SDRAM memory | * Integrated Smart Array 6i controller | * Dual port embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (NC7782) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDGGXXkFNFGZZn6c0RArHEAJ9cN5gfq2u44LjIE7cBHWW98FGpwwCgmRBK EGD2qA+/+O8Ys7L9TIHXqy8= =dyei -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broken mirror - help understanding this...
Hi there, I have a 2 RAID 1 mirrors brake in front of my eyes, pretty much. they were based on ad4 and ad8 (SATA drives, the board has 2 SATA controllers). It seems ad4 either died or the primary controller did. I was writing several GBs of data to the 'mirror_data' device and...poof :-/ Can anyone tell from the info below whether it's the disk that died, or that controller? anyone seen anything like this before? (sorry, new to gmirror). Any tests that can be suggested (other than surface test, which I'll have to do after the weekend). 6.0-BETA3 (dual) amd64, SMP kernel, on a Tyan GT24b2891 http://tyan.com/products/html/gt24b2891_spec.html ). ad4: 238475MB WDC WD2500JS-00MHB0 02.01C03 at ata2-master SATA150 # gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/gm0s1 DEGRADED ad8s1 mirror/mirror_data DEGRADED ad8s2 /var/log/messages : - Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: subdisk4: detached Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: ad4: detached Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: unknown: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retrGy ElOeMf_tMI)RROR :L BDAe=vic3e7 5m8i1r3r4o0r1_d Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: ata: provider ad4s2 disconnected. Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=65536, length=2048)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=6144000, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=6160384, length=4096)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=64920735744, length=2048)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=178580144128, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=179928645632, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=180121288704, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=180313931776, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=180506574848, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=180699217920, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=180891860992, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181084504064, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181277147136, length=16384)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181315141632, length=32768)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181682601984, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181682733056, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181682864128, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181682995200, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181683126272, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181683257344, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181683388416, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181683519488, length=131072)] Sep 3 00:43:29 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider ad4s1 disconnected. Sep 3 00:43:30 cerberus kernel: unknown: timeout waiting to issue command Sep 3 00:43:30 cerberus kernel: unknown: error issueing WRITE_DMA48 command Sep 3 00:43:30 cerberus kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6). ad4s2[WRITE(offset=181682470912, length=131072)] - thanks for any help!! Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Torrent Program
Warren wrote: Being as Azureus is broken in the ports ... is there another torrent program that is as good/equivelant to it available ? When I switched to my FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE amd64 machine, I didn't really want to go through the hassle of getting Java to work nicely. So I searched around the ports for another one, and /usr/ports/net/rtorrent works for me. Yes, it is text based but it supports queues and you can screen it. It's also written in C++ so there isn't a need for Python. -Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POST Beep Codes on Intel motherboard ...
I'm trying to narrow a problem down with my new server, and want to confirm that this makes sense ... I have a new Intel SE7520JR2 DDR2 motherboard ... when I power up the server, I get a 'BIOS Lan Console' message, then it pauses, I get 'beep-pause-beepbeepbeep' and then it continues booting ... I can get FreeBSD installed, and it boots fine ... but after 60 minutes, the machine hangs ... From searching the web, it looks like the Beep Codes indicate a memory issue, but I just want to double check that I'm not mis-diagnosing the problem :( Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl setting locale failed
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... After having updated all freebsd 5.4 src ports I've issued the portsdb -uU command but freebsd complains endlessly: .. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = it_IT.ISO_8859-15 are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). perl: warning: Setting locale failed. . Yes, I recently set the Italian language and the complaint is only a warning but WHAT should I do to avoid that warning? RTFM locale(1). More directly, if you run locale -a | grep it_IT, you will see that there is no '_' after 'ISO'. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: POST Beep Codes on Intel motherboard ...
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:20 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: POST Beep Codes on Intel motherboard ... I'm trying to narrow a problem down with my new server, and want to confirm that this makes sense ... I have a new Intel SE7520JR2 DDR2 motherboard ... when I power up the server, I get a 'BIOS Lan Console' message, then it pauses, I get 'beep-pause-beepbeepbeep' and then it continues booting ... I can get FreeBSD installed, and it boots fine ... but after 60 minutes, the machine hangs ... From searching the web, it looks like the Beep Codes indicate a memory issue, but I just want to double check that I'm not mis-diagnosing the problem :( Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 __Since Beep codes differ from BIOS vendor to BIOS vendor, you'll have to look them up on the appropriate BIOS vendor's web site. Usually if you get a beep code from the BIOS, you won't boot at all; thus your beeps might be from another source, e.g. firmware on a net or raid card. Of course, then, you go to that vendor's web site. -gayn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting FreeBSD CD roms
L.S. How can I get those CD'd. I understand it will now be version 5.xx I live in The Netherlands. There is a deliverer in Germany, so I guess that is a good deliverer. So what is needed. Obviously a way for me to pay for the CD's with the software. After that of course those CD need to be sent to me. My adres is: Ir. Ing. Dennis Philip Barneveld Zuidermeent 30 1218 GW Hilversum The Netherlands Yours sincerely, Dennis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting FreeBSD CD roms
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:43:33 +0200 Dennis Barneveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.S. How can I get those CD'd. http://www.freebsdmall.com Daar bestel ik ook altijd. I always order there myself ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best OCR scanner??
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:21:03PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 08:07 PM 9/1/2005 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR software in recent years. This book has few footnotes or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully, something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.) thanks for any clues; I've never used a scanner before! --yea, no kidding:-) I happen to have some recent experience on a Windoze machine that may be useful. Of the several programs that Google found for me the one that met my needs best was Textbridge. The others put every paragraph into a separate text box, made correcting layout and formatting a nightmare. Textbridge (at least the current version) seems to do a good job as long as the print is reasonable clear. All the OCR programs I tried had problems putting pictures in the right place. I don't know what's available for FreeBSD, since I use my boxen for gateways, not even connected to printers. I should warn you, though, scanning isn't quick -- figure about two minutes per page (YMMV) plus any formatting fixup you have to do afterward. There are industrial-strength applications out there, but they cost. Can't offer advice about hardware -- I've got an Epson flatbed, pretty inexpensive but works good. Doesn't sound very encouraging... :( -gary -- Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting FreeBSD CD roms
On Sep 2, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Dennis Barneveld wrote: How can I get those CD'd. I understand it will now be version 5.xx I live in The Netherlands. There is a deliverer in Germany, so I guess that is a good deliverer. So what is needed. Obviously a way for me to pay for the CD's with the software. After that of course those CD need to be sent to me. My adres is: While there is nothing wrong with purchasing FreeBSD from a vendor who sells CD-ROMs, please be aware that you can download and burn the FreeBSD .iso images yourself for free (well, you have to supply the CD blank and the bandwidth): http://www.freebsd.org/where.html ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/5.4/ The people on this mailing list are here to answer questions about FreeBSD; we don't necessarily try to sell you stuff. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best OCR scanner??
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:01:12AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 9/1/05, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR software in recent years. This book has few footnotes or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully, something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.) Any scanner will work when your scanning a 2 tone document! The only thing that matters is the OCR software and their is only one game in town, OmniPage Pro by scansoft. Well, the book I want to scan is from 1913:: just text. Does this scanner work with FreeBSD? or only Windows? BTW it's faster (and won't damage the book) to photograph the book and then crop and covert to BW, white balance, contrast, etc in photoshop or gimp etc., and then import the photos into the OCR software. The OCR software should produce less errors too. Okay, can do; thanks. After all is done post the book on gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ oh, you should be able to fine some tips about scanning books at the gutenberg site too. Yep; that's my idea. I've volunteered for PG, just never at the scanning level. 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]
FreeBSD vs. window managers
For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: default window manager? developer recommended window manager? easiest to install? I am not trying to start a religious war here. I am currently installing KDE from source and it is taking forever. #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3 # make Some of the packages needed cannot be found by the make file. Google is great but some of the packages are really hard to find. hal ___ 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. window managers
I don't think there is a default. But I can tell you that if you want something small, try fluxbox-devel from ports, or one of the other lightweight wm's available there. Mike ___ 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. window managers
On 9/2/05, hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: default window manager? FreeBSD does not neccessarially install X windows by default, and hence does not have a default window manager like say RedHat which has developed thier own cross of gnome and kde. When you install x.org http://x.org I belive it will install twm as a default WM. developer recommended window manager? easiest to install? I would try using packages to install window managers while checking things out. You really do not gain that much by installiing things like this from ports performance wise (that is unless you are using aggressive compile time optimizations or passing non-standard variables to configure), once you find what WM you find most usable you can always remove the packages and install your windowmanger of choice from ports. -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org http://www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ 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. window managers
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600 hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: default window manager? if you don't install any wm or D.E. then there's probably only the ancient twm I am currently installing KDE from source and it is taking forever. #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3 # make you have the choice for kde-lite btw (/usr/ports/x11/kde-lite) nitpick KDE, Gnome and xfce4 are Desktop Environments, they use a wm but they are not wm's itselves /nitpick what kind of wm or D.E. do you want ? one of the most simplistic and light-weight ones is wm2 (see /usr/ports/x11-wm/wm2) takes less than 1 minute to compile afair if you want a desktop-environment, xfce4 is interesting (lightweight), but if you're coming from a MS-windows environment you might like KDE better ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best OCR scanner??
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:46:27AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:07:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is Any scanner that works with SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/) scanner support framework should do. For supported hardware see: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html Epson seems to have the most supported scanners. I've got an Epson Perfection 1650, which works fine. and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR software in recent years. This book has few footnotes or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. There are several free OCR programs. I've used gocr (http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ and no, that's not a typo) and ocrad (http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html) Ocrad works ok, but you'll definitely have to correct errors, depending on the quality of the pictures/scans. HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpKDz7HzZI7u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Torrent program
Being as Azureus is broken in the ports ... is there another torrent program that is as good/equivelant to it available ? I'm running 5.4RC2 and also had problems with Azureus. The only program I got to work successfully is Qtorrent. It's located in ports under net and/or python. It uses Qt widgets. It doesn't look anywhere near as nice or work as well as Azureus but it gets the job done. I'm still looking for something as good as Azureus also -- Dan Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM: signulth Google Talk: spammesilly ___ 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. window managers
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600 hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: default window manager? developer recommended window manager? easiest to install? I am not trying to start a religious war here. I am currently installing KDE from source and it is taking forever. #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3 # make Some of the packages needed cannot be found by the make file. Google is great but some of the packages are really hard to find. hal Is there a reason you're compiling KDE from source? KDE is included on the installation CD's. Using pkg_add, you can also install binary packages (and their dependencies) for releases and stable branches from the ftp sites. For example, to get KDE for the i386 architecture, 5- STABLE branch, root would execute: pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/kde-3.4.2.tbz (Beware wordwrap in emails.) Regards, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best OCR scanner??
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005, Gary Kline wrote: ... Well, the book I want to scan is from 1913:: just text. Does this scanner work with FreeBSD? or only Windows? As somebody else suggested, you may well be better off ``scanning'' books with a digital camera than with a scanner. It's often difficult to get a book to lay flat enough on a scanner bed to get good scans. I've been planning on getting a photographic copy table that holds the camera at a fixed distance above its bed. I think it would also work best to have a flat glass or plastic sheet that can hold the page flat while it's been photographed, with something to keep the opposite page out of the camera's way. I have to admit that I do all my scanning and OCR on an OS X system, only marginally related to FreeBSD. I use an older HP Scanjet with automatic document feeder (ADF), and the HP software will scan straight to PDF documents. The Readiris OCS software can then OCR the PDF file making it fairly easy to deal with multiple pages. At one point we developed a perl::Tk program that worked with Vividata's scanning and OCR software to scan and OCR large documents from high-end Ricoh scanners with ADF. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin http://jefraskin.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot Device Question
Hi all, Just got done installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a Compaq DL380. The issue I am having is that when the server reboots, it tries device ad(0,a) and fails. This is because the root partition is on ad(1,a). How do I tell FreeBSD to use ad(1,a) instead of ad(0,a)? Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USRobotics Sportster MessagePlus X2 PnP modem
Hi Roland. I bought USRobotics Sportster MessagePlus X2 PnP modem. Does FreeBSD support it? How can i setup it? I can work only with kde in FreeBSD. Sincerely, Elchin On 8/27/05, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:44:00PM +0500, 897344 wrote: Does FreeBSD support Conexant Softv92 Data Fax Modem? HOW can i setup modem driver? No. It is a software modem which needs a driver. No such driver has been written for FreeBSD, although a company called Linuxant has written a Linux driver. See http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ This dirver is for Linux only, and only gives you 14.4Kbps in the free version. Buy a proper hardware modem, preferably one that connects to a serial port. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot Device Question
Timothy Radigan wrote: Hi all, Just got done installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a Compaq DL380. The issue I am having is that when the server reboots, it tries device ad(0,a) and fails. This is because the root partition is on ad(1,a). How do I tell FreeBSD to use ad(1,a) instead of ad(0,a)? Put a boot manager/menu on ad0 (where the BIOS can easily find it when looking for bootables) that will let you instruct the machine that you'd really rather boot from ad1. The boot manager provided with FreeBSD should do, but you might also choose something else (GAG, GRUB, etc.). I usually take the FreeBSD boot mgr. for stable servers and GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net/ for personal machines (where I tend to deinstall and reinstall different versions of things often). I've found GRUB to be awfully painful if the partition where its menu config is held gets broken or deinstalled. See section 2.5.3 of the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html Although that page describes the FreeBSD install procedure, you can use sysinstall to install just the boot manager without reinstalling the whole works. You might also be able to trick your BIOS into booting from ad1 directly, but (a) I've never tried that and (b) heard it's not really recommended because of unpredictable results. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sed not working
Hi I have a problem with sed on one of my systems. Lets take the following command: sed -e '/^\([a-z_][a-z_]*\) /s//\1 gen_/' On all other systems the input would be transformed: int something() - int gen_something() On the broken system, the transformation is not done: int something() - int something() The broken system used to be 4.6-STABLE but I managed to upgrade it to 4.11-RELEASE-p11, hoping that the update procedure will fix the sed, but apparently not. Imagine the make buildworld without working sed :) Anyway I generated the files on other working system so I managed to get through the buildworld part. Installkernel and installworld did not used sed so no problems there. Does anybody have some ideas, what would be the reason? I tested the sed command also on 4.8-RELEASE and 4.10-STABLE where it works nicely. Even copied the sed over from working systems but no luck. -- Rein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sed not working
Rein Kadastik wrote: Hi I have a problem with sed on one of my systems. Lets take the following command: sed -e '/^\([a-z_][a-z_]*\) /s//\1 gen_/' On all other systems the input would be transformed: int something() - int gen_something() On the broken system, the transformation is not done: int something() - int something() The broken system used to be 4.6-STABLE but I managed to upgrade it to 4.11-RELEASE-p11, hoping that the update procedure will fix the sed, but apparently not. Imagine the make buildworld without working sed :) Anyway I generated the files on other working system so I managed to get through the buildworld part. Installkernel and installworld did not used sed so no problems there. Does anybody have some ideas, what would be the reason? I tested the sed command also on 4.8-RELEASE and 4.10-STABLE where it works nicely. Even copied the sed over from working systems but no luck. -- Rein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well let me make the problem description a bit more precise as I found some pattern: the following works: a b() - a gen_b() but this does not: int b() - int b() Very strange that if I write the specific first token, the transformation is not done. --Rein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Four (even five) problems/queries on my FreeBSD installation
lars.lindblad wrote: Hi. I have installed 5.4/KDE on my Thinkpad 600E, and it mostly works but there are a few things I need help with. Do you know the FreeBSD laptop compatibility list? http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ 4. As su I can use tab to complete filenames, but not as user lars. I guess it has to to with which shell I use, how do I change shell? Or is it another way I can get the possibility to use tab to complete filenames? To find out which shell lars$ echo $SHELL If it is csh open .cshrc in lars home directory and put 'set autolist' just below # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up If it is not csh and you would like it to be you can use chpass to change the shell for user lars. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Four (even five) problems/queries on my FreeBSD installation
1. I installed KDM to make the computer a little more userfriendly, but now I can't run things as su. Emacs refuses to start for instance, and when I am trying to adjust things in Login Manager (in KControl) it asks me for the root password, I enter it, and then I bounce back. What is the problem? I still can run emacs as lars, but not as superuser. (I can su in a terminal window of course) It is likely that the permissions for your X server deny new windows to be opened except by the user who is running X. So if the problem you are describing is that you start X/KDE as a normal user, then open a shell window and su to root and try to run Emacs as root, it likely will not work. You should however be able to run Emacs fine as the same user you started X/KDE with. You can try something like xhost + if you are in a fairly secure environment, or look at the man page for xhost to find other options. I don't know why KControl would act that way, but I bet it is unrelated to your problems with Emacs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chrooting SSH users into their home directories
I was wondering how you could lock a user into their home with chroot when using SSH, similar to what the /etc/ftpchroot file does for FTP users. The ssh server is sshd. ___ 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. window managers
hal wrote: For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: default window manager? developer recommended window manager? easiest to install? x-11wm/icewm is cool. It's lightweight, seems stable, and looks very attractive (imho). It's also quite easy for windoze people to relate to (not sure if that is a recommendation or a fault :P). games/xdesktopwaves is nice with it. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chrooting SSH users into their home directories
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:50:17PM -0400, Brian Kaczynski wrote: I was wondering how you could lock a user into their home with chroot when using SSH, similar to what the /etc/ftpchroot file does for FTP users. The ssh server is sshd. Brian, Check out: rssh -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USRobotics Sportster MessagePlus X2 PnP modem
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:32:48AM +0500, 897344 wrote: Hi Roland. I bought USRobotics Sportster MessagePlus X2 PnP modem. Does FreeBSD support it? If it is an external modem that connects ro a serial port, it will probably work. To find a modem's specifications on the Us Robotics site, you'll need the model number. How can i setup it? Read §21.2 from the FreeBSD Handbook if you want to connect using PPP, or §21.7 if your provider is still using SLIP. I can work only with kde in FreeBSD. That doesn't matter. Modem functionality does not depend on the X Window System or desktop environment. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpx92uKyoG06.pgp Description: PGP signature
Cant't load kernel at the beginning of the installation process
Im trying to install FreeBSD5.4 (from cd) At the beginning of the installion i get the following message (after 'FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1'): 'can't load `kernel`' 'Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. After that pc hang up and does not ract on key pressings (only Ctrl+Alt+Del). Also after last string are shown some stars, and unknown symbols. Thak you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chrooting SSH users into their home directories
On Fri, September 2, 2005 2:50 pm, Brian Kaczynski wrote: I was wondering how you could lock a user into their home with chroot when using SSH, similar to what the /etc/ftpchroot file does for FTP users. The ssh server is sshd. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the top of my head use a restricted bash shell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sed not working
Rein Kadastik wrote: Rein Kadastik wrote: Hi I have a problem with sed on one of my systems. Lets take the following command: sed -e '/^\([a-z_][a-z_]*\) /s//\1 gen_/' On all other systems the input would be transformed: int something() - int gen_something() On the broken system, the transformation is not done: int something() - int something() The broken system used to be 4.6-STABLE but I managed to upgrade it to 4.11-RELEASE-p11, hoping that the update procedure will fix the sed, but apparently not. Imagine the make buildworld without working sed :) Anyway I generated the files on other working system so I managed to get through the buildworld part. Installkernel and installworld did not used sed so no problems there. Does anybody have some ideas, what would be the reason? I tested the sed command also on 4.8-RELEASE and 4.10-STABLE where it works nicely. Even copied the sed over from working systems but no luck. You've probably tried this, but what does which sed show on the broken system? It should show /usr/bin/sed and if it doesn't, there's your problem :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network tools
Hi I share broadband with a couple of other people. One of them uses limewire p2p software. When limewire is not running browsing feels fast and ftp on my freebsd box says it's downloading at 115 to 120 kB/s. Even when I have an ftp download going browsing doesn't seem very much affected. I assume from this that my usage won't affect the other people very much. When limewire is running, even though it is throttled, ftp downloads run at half speed or less and my experience of browsing is that it is sluggish. Today I had a download running at about 60kB/s and he said his (XP based) limewire was showing 25kB/s download and 5kB/s upload. When he turned off limewire my download speed went back to 120k. Why don't the numbers support the experience? We have 1Mb/s download and 128K upload (telewest cable). In theory even between us we weren't using all the bandwidth. If I put a FreeBSD NAT/router box between the cable modem and the LAN what console based tools should I put on it to examine what's happening? I would very much appreciate any help as this is becoming a bit of an issue here. fwiw FreeBSD box.13dog.org 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun Aug 21 17:46:54 BST 2005. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Torrent Program
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 22:30 +1000, Warren wrote: Being as Azureus is broken in the ports ... is there another torrent program that is as good/equivelant to it available ? I have no problems at all with Azureus 2.3.0.4 or 2.3.0.5_B22 running on FreeBSD 5.4-stable using Java 1.4. -- GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B 0372 D25F CC81 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: network tools
Chris wrote: Hi snip If I put a FreeBSD NAT/router box between the cable modem and the LAN what console based tools should I put on it to examine what's happening? I would very much appreciate any help as this is becoming a bit of an issue here. fwiw FreeBSD box.13dog.org 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun Aug 21 17:46:54 BST 2005. If you must have a console app, you might want to try ngrep, but I'm not terribly familiar with it. I really recommend bringing your box up to 5-Stable, cvsup your ports tree, and install ntop-3.1_1. It has its own web server - doesn't depend on Apache - and you'll find lots of information there, including graphs for total bandwidth used over the last hour with 5 minute resolution, top 3 talkers for the same period, same for last 24 hours with 1/2 hour resolution, and lots more. Well worth the investment of time. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network tools
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:01:56AM +0100, Chris wrote:
[...]
Today I had a download running at about 60kB/s and he said his (XP
based) limewire was showing 25kB/s download and 5kB/s upload. When he
turned off limewire my download speed went back to 120k.
Why don't the numbers support the experience? We have 1Mb/s download and
128K upload (telewest cable). In theory even between us we weren't using
all the bandwidth.
You're getting pretty close to maximum possible speed there on your
connection. A 1Mbit/s connection is about 128KByte/s, which would
explain your ftp download speedometer reading. Allowing for TCP
overhead, you're getting pretty good throughput.
I'm unsure where you extra bandwidth goes when limewire is running.
Why don't you set up a caching name-server on your internal network
and see whether that helps.
Cheers.
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Custom Build
Hello all, How this is the correct list to post this to, if not, please point me to a more apporiate list. What I want to do is make a custom automated build for FreeBSD. Basically, create a build, burn it to CD-ROM, go stick it into a server and it automatically configures to the correct hardware, auto sets up the file system (1 hard drive per server) and then reboots. When it comes back up, I have a full functionaly customized FreeBSD install. The only interaction that should happen during the install, is putting in the hostname, select static or dynamic ip and then [for non-FreeBSD app] select to save to local or network drive. I'm good with perl/bash, etc, so I know how to create a script to automate the install for our application. I need to do this on a lot of servers, so doing a manual install would take weeks. Each server has 1 hard drive, all the data is stored on a very robust file server that gets backed up, if the hard drive fails, we just replace, rebuild and contiune where we left off. During the install, it should just partion off 512 for swap, then use rest of disk for root directory. Each disk may be a differant size, but they will all be more then 2 gigs. The build I want to create would be a mini-FreeBSD, just the kernal, some basic programs and 1 non-FreeBSD application. The only port that would be open is for SSHD and all servers would sit behind a firewall in there own seperate subnet (firewall only routes http requests to upload data and incoming ssh connections). We're currently using a very old custom Linux build, it's less then 10 megs total. The problem we are having with this, is that it doesn't support all the newer hardware we use (the build is about 4-5 years old) and FreeBSD is our standard operating envoriment (as far as servers goes), the admins here are more famlair with FreeBSD so it makes sense to switch to FreeBSD since we have to update the build anyways (the guy that made the build isn't here any more and the rest of us are FreeBSD fan-boys :P ) All the other FreeBSD servers that aren't in the cluster/grid are manually installed. Could someone point me in the right direction or to some documentation or other resources? Regards, Jack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD php{4,5} w/ LDAP + SSL/TLS ldap_start_tls()
All: Firstly, sorry if this is the wrong list. There are thousands of forums and PHP5 related MLs, but nothing FBSD specific. Second, I wouldn't post if this wasn't happening on two completely different FBSD boxes. For whatever reason, the php4 and php5 from FreeBSD ports refuses to properly configure SSL/TLS support for the LDAP module. This breaks the TLS/SSL functionality in net/phpldapadmin and sysutils/ldap-account-manager (CC'ing maintainers) I've got two current i386/RELENG_5_3 boxes. Both with Apache apache-2.0.54_2 and openldap-client-2.2.27. The ldap client binaries are linked to SSL fine and can talk both ldaps:// and Start_TLS over ldap://. That's out of the question. One with php4-4.4.0, one with php5-5.0.3_2 (see below). Both have the LDAP and SSL php extension modules installed: $ egrep -i ldap|ssl /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini extension=openssl.so extension=ldap.so The php4 box's ldap module is linked to OpenSSL: # ldd /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/ldap.so /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/ldap.so: libldap-2.2.so.7 = /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x28174000) liblber-2.2.so.7 = /usr/local/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7 (0x281a7000) libcrypto.so.3 = /lib/libcrypto.so.3 (0x281b4000) libssl.so.3 = /usr/lib/libssl.so.3 (0x282c8000) The php5 box is as well: $ ldd /usr/local/lib/php/20041030/ldap.so /usr/local/lib/php/20041030/ldap.so: libldap-2.2.so.7 = /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7 (0x28173000) liblber-2.2.so.7 = /usr/local/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7 (0x281a6000) libcrypto.so.3 = /lib/libcrypto.so.3 (0x281b3000) libssl.so.3 = /usr/lib/libssl.so.3 (0x282c7000) The problem is that ldap_start_tls() is an unregistered/invalid function. When i run the functions.php at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-command-line-2 ldap_start_tls() isn't listed on either machine (see below). The only reference to the problem I've been able to find is a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72275 but this only relates to PHP4. I don't know why *GRRR*, but this PR was closed without a fix ever being commited or any remarks! Anyway, I tried the proposed solution on the PHP4 machine. I removed the OpenSSL shared extension, export WITH_OPENSSL=true, recompiled php4 CLI/MOD with SSL static. Removed the SSL module from extensions.ini. Same problem. The only possible localized problem I can see is my my predecessor placed: PHP_EXT_INC=openssl in php.conf. I've tried rebuilding with and without that to no avail. Anyway, I'm going to start looking into this tonight. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'll open a PR when I track down the problem. TIA, ~BAS # pkg_info |grep -i php libmcrypt-2.5.7_1 Multi-cipher cryptographic library (used in PHP) pear-XML_RPC-1.4.0 PHP implementation of the XML-RPC protocol php4-4.4.0 PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and CLI) php4-ctype-4.4.0The ctype shared extension for php php4-dba-4.4.0 The dba shared extension for php php4-extensions-1.0 A meta-port to install PHP extensions php4-gettext-4.4.0 The gettext shared extension for php php4-ldap-4.4.0 The ldap shared extension for php php4-mcrypt-4.4.0 The mcrypt shared extension for php php4-mysql-4.4.0The mysql shared extension for php php4-openssl-4.4.0 The openssl shared extension for php php4-overload-4.4.0 The overload shared extension for php php4-pcre-4.4.0 The pcre shared extension for php php4-pear-4.4.0 PEAR framework for PHP php4-pgsql-4.4.0The pgsql shared extension for php php4-posix-4.4.0The posix shared extension for php php4-session-4.4.0 The session shared extension for php php4-tokenizer-4.4.0 The tokenizer shared extension for php php4-xml-4.4.0 The xml shared extension for php php4-zlib-4.4.0 The zlib shared extension for php phpldapadmin-0.9.7.a6,1 A set of PHP-scripts to administer LDAP servers $ pkg_info |grep -i php5 php5-5.0.4_1PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and CLI) php5-bz2-5.0.3_2The bz2 shared extension for php php5-calendar-5.0.3_2 The calendar shared extension for php php5-ctype-5.0.3_2 The ctype shared extension for php php5-curl-5.0.4_2 The curl shared extension for php php5-dom-5.0.3_2The dom shared extension for php php5-exif-5.0.3_2 The exif shared extension for php php5-extensions-1.0 A meta-port to install PHP extensions php5-ftp-5.0.3_2The ftp shared extension for php php5-gd-5.0.3_2 The gd shared extension for php php5-gettext-5.0.3_2 The gettext shared extension for php php5-iconv-5.0.3_2 The iconv shared extension for php php5-imap-5.0.3_2 The imap shared extension for php php5-ldap-5.0.4_2 The ldap shared extension for php php5-mcrypt-5.0.3_2 The mcrypt shared extension for php php5-mhash-5.0.3_2 The mhash shared extension for php php5-mysql-5.0.3_2 The mysql shared extension for php php5-odbc-5.0.4_2 The odbc shared extension for php php5-openssl-5.0.3_2 The
Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers
On 09/02/05 11:19 AM, hal sat at the `puter and typed: For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: default window manager? developer recommended window manager? easiest to install? I am not trying to start a religious war here. I am currently installing KDE from source and it is taking forever. #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3 # make Some of the packages needed cannot be found by the make file. Google is great but some of the packages are really hard to find. None of the window managers are difficult to install on FreeBSD, but some may be tricky to configure. Maybe most. If you want a window manager, not a desktop, you don't want KDE. That's a desktop/WM. My personal favorite for more than 6 years now is FVWM2. Flexible, fast, supports all kinds of cool things, like fancy key and mouse bindings, Xinerama, etc. Still, lot's of people like KDE, enlightenment(?), IceWM, the Gnome Desktop, etc. My advice is try a few different ones before deciding. See how intiutive or simple you find configuration (I like FVWM2 because it's simple text file configuration, and manpages are quite thorough). Just remember, you will probably get a basic configuration set up the way you want and not really touch it for a long time. Then one day, you'll look at it to tweak some behavior. My config has only changed a little over the last 6 years, and only one or two small tweaks at a time. Lots of times, I have to go back to reread documentation or commentary in the config to figure out what it's doing. So, two things that are important: ease of configuration and flexibility. You want those small tweaks to be painless, but you also want the WM to be able to do what you want it to. So far, I've not found anything I wanted that FVWM2 couldn't do. Documentation (man pages) are well written enough that tweaks are pretty easy to manage now too. BTW, I'm fairly mouse averse, so I have my config set up to allow me to keep my hands on the keys until I go into a browser, unless I decide to exercise the mouse for some reason. This includes switching pages on the desktop, switching desktops, switching apps, etc.. If I go to the mouse, it all works pretty much the same. Key bindings allow me to use the fancy buttons on my fancy keyboard to control audio and video playback, volume - including mute, and window layering (move to top, bottom, etc.) among many other things. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 VMS, n.: The world's foremost multi-user adventure game. pgpd7BcyMM4TK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers
On Sep 3, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: None of the window managers are difficult to install on FreeBSD, but some may be tricky to configure. Maybe most. If you want a window manager, not a desktop, you don't want KDE. That's a desktop/WM. My personal favorite for more than 6 years now is FVWM2. Flexible, fast, supports all kinds of cool things, like fancy key and mouse bindings, Xinerama, etc. Still, lot's of people like KDE, enlightenment(?), IceWM, the Gnome Desktop, etc. My advice is try a few different ones before deciding. See how intiutive or simple you find configuration (I like FVWM2 because it's simple text file configuration, and manpages are quite thorough). Just remember, you will probably get a basic configuration set up the way you want and not really touch it for a long time. Then one day, you'll look at it to tweak some behavior. My config has only changed a little over the last 6 years, and only one or two small tweaks at a time. Lots of times, I have to go back to reread documentation or commentary in the config to figure out what it's doing. So, two things that are important: ease of configuration and flexibility. You want those small tweaks to be painless, but you also want the WM to be able to do what you want it to. So far, I've not found anything I wanted that FVWM2 couldn't do. Documentation (man pages) are well written enough that tweaks are pretty easy to manage now too. BTW, I'm fairly mouse averse, so I have my config set up to allow me to keep my hands on the keys until I go into a browser, unless I decide to exercise the mouse for some reason. This includes switching pages on the desktop, switching desktops, switching apps, etc.. If I go to the mouse, it all works pretty much the same. Key bindings allow me to use the fancy buttons on my fancy keyboard to control audio and video playback, volume - including mute, and window layering (move to top, bottom, etc.) among many other things. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 VMS, n.: The world's foremost multi-user adventure game. All depends on your taste, like Louis and others have been saying. If you want a complete desktop system (has a variety of tools, etc), try straight Gnome or KDE. As you've discovered though, compiling them takes quite a while as they are quite large. If you just want a WM (a means to view X programs), there are a variety of different choices: TWM (prepackaged, ugly), FVWM2, IceWM, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, XFCE4.2, and quite a few others exist for your X use. No one can really say which is best, I think, as it all depends on your choice and preference in terms of interfacing with X and programs, as well as how much resources you want to use, etc. There are also lighter versions of the KDE and-I think it's in the ports tree-Gnome meta builds which come with a lot less programs if you wish to only install needed and certain components to your system. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best OCR scanner??
On 9/2/05, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:01:12AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 9/1/05, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR software in recent years. This book has few footnotes or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully, something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.) Any scanner will work when your scanning a 2 tone document! The only thing that matters is the OCR software and their is only one game in town, OmniPage Pro by scansoft. Well, the book I want to scan is from 1913:: just text. Does this scanner work with FreeBSD? or only Windows? The OCR software? It works on windows and Mac OS-X. The software isn't cheap though, the current full version, 15, retails for $500. You may be able to find a demo version , so you can try before you buy, if you look in the right places. BTW it's faster (and won't damage the book) to photograph the book and then crop and covert to BW, white balance, contrast, etc in photoshop or gimp etc., and then import the photos into the OCR software. The OCR software should produce less errors too. Okay, can do; thanks. Have you ever seen a spy (movies) use a scanner to copy top secret documents? :-) I would just make a jig out of wood to hold the digital camera and a flat bottem to hold the book. It would be best if you had a 35mm AF SLR camera with like a 20 - 50mm macro len, but any camera should work. If you have an SLR camera but no macro lens you can try flipping your lens around. After all is done post the book on gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ oh, you should be able to fine some tips about scanning books at the gutenberg site too. Yep; that's my idea. I've volunteered for PG, just never at the scanning level. Cool. ___ 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 see second CPU in FreeBSD 5.4-p6
Hyperbollocks is disabled by default. See /usr/src/UPDATING entry for 20050513: Intel Hyper-Threading is now disabled by default due to a security issue, but can be re-enabled by setting the machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable in /boot/loader.conf. ah, thanks, that works. simple fixes make me happy. (: joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automount USB disk in FreeBSD with KDE?
Hello all. As a frequently usb disk user, I really want to make things easier and more comfortable for me to mount the usb disk whenever I need to use it. After doing some stuff, now I can mount it as a general user (not root) and use only one instruction like mount /mnt/usb; and umount it using umount /mnt/usb. But I still want more convenient^_^ I wish it can work like Windows, say when I plug the usb disk, system autodectect it and mount it and either show an icon in system tray or show it on desktop; when I finish the job, I can just click the icon and select remove safely and the disk is auto unmounted. That is all I want. I am using FreeBSD5.4 + KDE3.4.2. It seems that linux user can do this smoothly, but it has some stuff to do with the linux kernel, right? So i can't just use linux's solution. Any ideas? I appreciate any kind of suggestions. Thanks! -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
