Re: Install Freebsd 5.4
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:46:49 +0100, Thomas H. Bellus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to see the screens for configuring X for my monitor or video card. I have ver 5.4, I have used both the standard install and the custom install. I have used the most recent install documents on the internet and I have a copy of Complete BSD by Greg Lehey. I am new to BSD but I want to get this install to work. I can not get anytype of graphical interface. 1.) Why do you not install FreeBSD 6.2 if you are new? 2.) read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logout from gnome panel stops responding.
Hello, I am using 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 while using gnome when i click on logout it (logout panel only) stops responding, and i need to Force quit, same thing is happening with my gaim. It crashes. Is anyone facing the same problem? How to trace/fix it? This problem causing me to use linux more. I want to use FreeBSD as main. But with Gnome crashing few utilities I am unable to use it all the time. With FreeBSD 6.1 I faced no such problem. thanks and regards anugunj anuj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...
On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:49, Modulok wrote: To the best of my knowledge, most processes can be killed explicitly by kill -s KILL; There are a few which cannot, such as disk i/o processes. The idea here is data integrity. A process might be in cannot-be-killed condition while in kernel e.g. during a system call. That has to do with the completion of the system call, not with data integrity. The kernel tries to complete what was asked for. Also, Killing a process with SIGKILL is far from safe. To put it in another way data integrity can be guaranteed only by the program itself. For example it could have a defined behavior when it is signaled by e.g. SIGTERM, for example clean up data and exit. Or not. It's up to the programmer. Sending a SIGKILL will not give that chance. SIGKILL can not be handled. It will be terminated as soon as possible. Also, separate the meanings data integrity and filesystem data integrity. The filesystem will be in fine condition when a process gets killed by SIGKILL during file I/O, the data in the file most probably not. On the rare occasion however, (when attempting to recover data from corrupt disks for example), I've had a process invoked by the cp command, hang. This poses a significant problem as these processes are disk i/o processes, and as such cannot be terminated (even by root). So, other than physically hitting the reset button on the case, is there a more eloquent method of forcefully halting a hanged disk i/o process? The idea of you don't want to terminate a disk i/o process, it could corrupt the data isn't really a good argument, because if the process hangs and I have to punch the reset button anyway what's the difference? Pressing the button will leave your filesystem in a undefined state, you are risking filesystem integrity. Keep in mind that while in use (open files etc) a filesystem cannot be unmounted. Anyway, try to shut the computer down, it's far more gentle than pressing the button. At least the rest of the filesystems will be cleanly unmounted. Is there something in particular you want to achieve? Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:43:01AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: cpghost wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: That's pure speculation (and quite paranoid). The daemon image is still visible on many FreeBSD.org web pages. In fact, no less pages than before the contest, and there is no indication that it might change. However, you've dropped it in favor of the sextoy on the FreeBSD 6.2 DVD case cover (Lehmanns/GUUG, Jan. 2007). That was the decision of the designers at the marketing department of Lehmanns (I'm only responsible for the text on the back of the box, not for the overall design). Those people have near zero technical nor historical knowledge about FreeBSD. Sure, it's not an official DVD, but it does appear in bookstores and is often the first encounter by newbies to FreeBSD :-(. I wish it was. :-( In fact, the past issues of the Lehmanns edition of FreeBSD (including the ones where there still was a large Beastie on the front of the box) had rapidly decreasing sales numbers. It's probably because many people now have fast internet access (cable, DSL, whatever) and prefer to down- load the ISOs and packages instead of buying a DVD-ROM. We were lucky that the GUUG agreed to sponsor the 6.2 issue, otherwise Lehmanns would have been forced to stop its support of FreeBSD, and the DVD for 6.2-Release would not exist today. I have no idea what will happen with 6.3 ... If nobody buys 6.2, then it's probably the last one. It's obviously the same problem that Walnut Creek faced back then, when bandwidth was large enough for CD ISOs. That's very unfortunate, because having FreeBSD CD/DVDs in bookstores definitely helps getting more exposure. 1 out of 3 FreeBSD users I know first learned about FreeBSD in a bookstore as they bought one of the earlier Walnut Creek CD cases. Good luck with the 6.2 DVD! :) Best regards Oliver PS: For people who don't know at all what we're talking about, here's a link: http://www.lob.de/cgi-bin/out?isbn=3865411886 The page text is in German, I'm afraid, but at least you can see the picture of the DVD box (front side only, though). Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package missing
The pdflib binary package which is needed by gnuplot-4.0 is missing on the AMD64 port of the 6.2 release in th ftp site Thanks if you can restore it Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetch - size of remote file is not known
Hello all, Viewing a certain Url results in a dynamically generated .png graph being displayed in my Browser. I would like to fetch this Graph.png via Command-line, but a simple fetch https://www.domain.com/grapher/chart.php? graphid=1stime=mmddhhmmperiod=7200from=0width=-108 wont do, and results in an Error as below: fetch https://www.domain.com/grapher/chart.php? graphid=1stime=mmddhhmmperiod=7200from=0width=-108: size of remote file is not known Is there a way i can force fetch to get that Graph, even when it doesnt know the size beforehand, or do you have another simple idea (no extra ports if at all possible) to get that Graph from Command-line? Thanks a lot and best regards, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing user passwd information between servers
Doesn't NIS have an 8 character limit on usernames? -Original Message- From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:07:59 To:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syncing user passwd information between servers Noah wrote: see more questions below? Daniel Marsh wrote: On 3/9/07, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out the Best admininstrative way to do the following: We have two FreeBSD 6.2 servers and want to keep the passwd files in sync so all the same users can log into each machine, their UID's match, and when the update the password on one machine the other machine gets the password. When we add the user to one machine then the other machine has an additional user too. What is the best scheme that we can devise to get this working technically well? Cheers, A couple of things can be done... The first, and longest existing method would be to use NIS between the two machines where one machine acts as a server, the other as a client to that server, if the server goes down, no-one can login. (I havn't investigated in backup NIS servers as I don't like NIS) yeah NIS does not feel like the right direction The other option would be using LDAP (OpenLDAP), you'll install OpenLDAP on both servers, one will act as a master, the other as a slave, each machine will login against the ldap database running locally. The master ldap will replicate to the slave to keep any user changes in tact and up to date. You'll need to install the pam_ldap and nss_ldap ports and may want to use LDAP Account Manager (runs via PHP on Apache) to manage the user accounts. so the users would not be locked out of the second server if the master LDAP server goes down, right? cheers, Noah Another option may be to use a versioning system, one machine has a versioning repository, you import /etc/ into the versioning system (CVS or Subversion), when you make a change on a server to passwd's etc... you commit the change and check it out on the other machine, maybe even making use of merging changes so if two people, one on each machine, change their passwords and they both commit you don't lose one of the password changes. As was suggested to me about 4-5 months ago (may want to look in the archives), the best means to ensure user account info is synced is to use NIS (for credentials, like users, groups, NIS domain info, etc) and LDAP/Kerberos (authentication, passwords, etc). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:24:40 +0100 From: Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I am trying to get my Palm Treo sync with Jpilot. Unfortunately so far without results :-( . Who can help me with this? Here's what I tried so far: Added this line to etc/usbd.conf just above the fallthrough entry: / device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach chmod 0666 /dev/ucom* /dev/ttyU* /dev/cuaU*/ /kldload ucom kldload uvisor / Filled in this 'adress' in jpilot: //dev/ttyU0/ You may want to check out devfs.rules(5) for changing permissions on hotplug devices. That said, I do use a similar entry in usbd.conf to spawn pppd when I connect my Tungsten E. With that I find I need to add a sleep 2; to the beginning of the 'attach' line or the following command fails because the device nodes aren't set up quickly enough. HTH. Peter Harrison ** This document is strictly confidential and is intended only for use by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other action taken in reliance of the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Department for Work and Pensions. If you have received this transmission in error, please use the reply function to tell us and then permanently delete what you have received. Please note: Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications. ** The original of this email was scanned for viruses by Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSI this email was certified virus free. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetch - size of remote file is not known
ok this is fixed. It actually was a permission problem. sorry On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:45 PM, David Schulz wrote: fetch https://www.domain.com/grapher/chart.php? graphid=1stime=mmddhhmmperiod=7200from=0width=-108: size of remote file is not known ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing user passwd information between servers
In response to Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am trying to figure out the Best admininstrative way to do the following: We have two FreeBSD 6.2 servers and want to keep the passwd files in sync so all the same users can log into each machine, their UID's match, and when the update the password on one machine the other machine gets the password. When we add the user to one machine then the other machine has an additional user too. What is the best scheme that we can devise to get this working technically well? In addition to the other options that have been presented, you may want to consider Kerberos. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 65535 outbound connections
In response to Atis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/9/07, Niklaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood many of the concepts , please correct appropriately. 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max 65535 outbound connections There can be simultaneous connections to one port. For example apache's httpd - it listens port 80, does that mean, it can serve only one connection? nope. Once connection is established, it's forwarded to another thread, that have connection id, and processes it. Don't know about outgoing connections, but i think, they also can be simultaneous. No. Outgoing connections must always grab a unique port. The upshot is that the socket pair, which is the IP:port of one end of the connection, plus the IP:port of the other end, must always be unique. Since a listening socket (server) will frequently have many connections to the same port, client side apps _must_ pick a unique port each time, to protect from network failure. This is enforce by the operating system. So, the total number of (theoretical) connections is limited by the product of IP space * port range. But the total number of available outgoing connections is limited by the port range, and that's where that 65536 comes from. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING
On Thursday March 08, 2007 at 07:45:06 (PM) Christian Walther wrote: CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. You might want to take a look at CPUTYPE, too. This can be set to match your CPU type, which means you'll get the most of it. You can find some examples in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf Thanks, but that is not exactly what I was looking for. I was attempting to find out what the default setting is in FreeBSD-6.2. I heard it was '02' but I have not been able to confirm that. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
65535 outbound connections
Hi I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood many of the concepts , please correct appropriately. 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max 65535 outbound connections What i was thinking was to send to another machines A and B from the same port [X] and then when we get data from it to [X] we can the send it to the correct application using stateful mapping or storing some information . The machines A and B are unaware of this mapping from the C machine. Can we increase it by anymeans in the kernel. Does we have patches for the above i read on the web that terry lambert has got 1.6 million simultaneous connection ? how is the way it is done. http://kerneltrap.org/node/277 yes now lets take 2 dest machines , source ip is fixed , source port (2^16 - 1) destip is fixed (a.a.a.a and b.b.b.b) ,dest port(2^16 -1) each , for a connection we have one port used , say connection 1 is source ip,port 1 , a.a.a.a port 1 source ip,port 2 , a.a.a.a port 2 . . . source ip,port 65535 , a.a.a.a port 65535 so total of 65535 connections (assume traffic is still going on, a movie on a slow line dialup or 1kbps ) now if i try to open another connection (assume lots of file descriptors are present) to a.a.a.a what happens to b.b.b.b what happens i think both will not get established as the OS doesn't have any free source ports or am i wrong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 65535 outbound connections
On 3/9/07, Niklaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood many of the concepts , please correct appropriately. 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max 65535 outbound connections There can be simultaneous connections to one port. For example apache's httpd - it listens port 80, does that mean, it can serve only one connection? nope. Once connection is established, it's forwarded to another thread, that have connection id, and processes it. Don't know about outgoing connections, but i think, they also can be simultaneous. Regards, Atis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using gpg-agent on freebsd
On Thursday March 08, 2007 at 10:19:27 (PM) Joe Vender wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 I've been tinkering with using gpg-agent for GnuPG passphrase caching when using Kmail. I have been able to get it working as per the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/gnupg-kmail.php for starting the daemon when entering KDE. But, I want to start gpg-agent when the sytem starts and I login to console mode (not just when I enter KDE), and I want Kmail to use the agent for GnuPG usage. Could someone please describe to me the details of the steps that I need to take and the file modifications that I need to make for this to work. Again, I want the gpg-agent to be up and running when I login to the console, also when I log into KDE, I want Kmail to use the agent. The way I log into KDE is to first login to the console via a limited user account, then do sudo kdm and log into KDE using the same limited user account. I have root login disabled for both console and KDE. I've read the instructions for using a ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession to start the gpg-agent daemon when logging into kde, but I have neither file in my home directory, and anyway want the daemon running upon entering console mode login, i.e., running always and only one gpg-agent process running at any given time. Please CC my email address with any responses. Thanks very much for suggestions. FreeBSD rocks! Read 'man gpg-agent'. It has a script that may very well be exactly what you want. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11
Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this: voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo make zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and PORTVERSION instead of PKGNAME. (This port is too old for your bsd.port.mk, please update it to match your bsd.port.mk.) *** Error code 1 Stop. I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, but have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could simplify, I would appreciate it. -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...
Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying question remains un-answered: How do you kill a hanged process that (seemingly) cannot be killed because of the two conditions below? -It's hanged, so it's not ever going to self terminate. -It's a disk i/o process so not even root can kill it. The gentle shutdown solution doesn't work: Even during shutdown the process cannot be killed: it's hanged, it's disk i/o. How do you kill an un-killable process? -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:49, Modulok wrote: To the best of my knowledge, most processes can be killed explicitly by kill -s KILL; There are a few which cannot, such as disk i/o processes. The idea here is data integrity. A process might be in cannot-be-killed condition while in kernel e.g. during a system call. That has to do with the completion of the system call, not with data integrity. The kernel tries to complete what was asked for. Also, Killing a process with SIGKILL is far from safe. To put it in another way data integrity can be guaranteed only by the program itself. For example it could have a defined behavior when it is signaled by e.g. SIGTERM, for example clean up data and exit. Or not. It's up to the programmer. Sending a SIGKILL will not give that chance. SIGKILL can not be handled. It will be terminated as soon as possible. Also, separate the meanings data integrity and filesystem data integrity. The filesystem will be in fine condition when a process gets killed by SIGKILL during file I/O, the data in the file most probably not. On the rare occasion however, (when attempting to recover data from corrupt disks for example), I've had a process invoked by the cp command, hang. This poses a significant problem as these processes are disk i/o processes, and as such cannot be terminated (even by root). So, other than physically hitting the reset button on the case, is there a more eloquent method of forcefully halting a hanged disk i/o process? The idea of you don't want to terminate a disk i/o process, it could corrupt the data isn't really a good argument, because if the process hangs and I have to punch the reset button anyway what's the difference? Pressing the button will leave your filesystem in a undefined state, you are risking filesystem integrity. Keep in mind that while in use (open files etc) a filesystem cannot be unmounted. Anyway, try to shut the computer down, it's far more gentle than pressing the button. At least the rest of the filesystems will be cleanly unmounted. Is there something in particular you want to achieve? Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PERC 3/DC RAID controller
I have recently aquired a server which is a Dell PowerEdge 4600 with a PERC 3/DC RAID controller. I was just about to start intalling FreeBSD 6.2, but noticed the hardware notes mentions practically every other Dell RAID controller except this one! Does anyone know if it will work? I have a horrible suspicion I will be back with plenty of questions in the coming weeks as I wrestle with this, my first ever server, and my first 'for real' use of FreeBSD! However I am reading all I can, especially the FreeBSD handbook. Thanks Barnaby Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...
On Friday 09 March 2007 15:28, Modulok wrote: Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying question remains un-answered: How do you kill a hanged process that (seemingly) cannot be killed because of the two conditions below? -It's hanged, so it's not ever going to self terminate. -It's a disk i/o process so not even root can kill it. As I said before disk I/O is irrelevant. The gentle shutdown solution doesn't work: Even during shutdown the process cannot be killed: it's hanged, it's disk i/o. How do you kill an un-killable process? What makes you believe there is another official way to kill a process? Perhaps you should ask How do I work-around a situation where my rm, cp, whatever hang forever?, if that's what you are looking for. -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:49, Modulok wrote: To the best of my knowledge, most processes can be killed explicitly by kill -s KILL; There are a few which cannot, such as disk i/o processes. The idea here is data integrity. A process might be in cannot-be-killed condition while in kernel e.g. during a system call. That has to do with the completion of the system call, not with data integrity. The kernel tries to complete what was asked for. Also, Killing a process with SIGKILL is far from safe. To put it in another way data integrity can be guaranteed only by the program itself. For example it could have a defined behavior when it is signaled by e.g. SIGTERM, for example clean up data and exit. Or not. It's up to the programmer. Sending a SIGKILL will not give that chance. SIGKILL can not be handled. It will be terminated as soon as possible. Also, separate the meanings data integrity and filesystem data integrity. The filesystem will be in fine condition when a process gets killed by SIGKILL during file I/O, the data in the file most probably not. On the rare occasion however, (when attempting to recover data from corrupt disks for example), I've had a process invoked by the cp command, hang. This poses a significant problem as these processes are disk i/o processes, and as such cannot be terminated (even by root). So, other than physically hitting the reset button on the case, is there a more eloquent method of forcefully halting a hanged disk i/o process? The idea of you don't want to terminate a disk i/o process, it could corrupt the data isn't really a good argument, because if the process hangs and I have to punch the reset button anyway what's the difference? Pressing the button will leave your filesystem in a undefined state, you are risking filesystem integrity. Keep in mind that while in use (open files etc) a filesystem cannot be unmounted. Anyway, try to shut the computer down, it's far more gentle than pressing the button. At least the rest of the filesystems will be cleanly unmounted. Is there something in particular you want to achieve? Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:53:00 -0500 Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday March 08, 2007 at 07:45:06 (PM) Christian Walther wrote: CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. You might want to take a look at CPUTYPE, too. This can be set to match your CPU type, which means you'll get the most of it. You can find some examples in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf Thanks, but that is not exactly what I was looking for. I was attempting to find out what the default setting is in FreeBSD-6.2. I heard it was '02' but I have not been able to confirm that. In my case: $ make -V CFLAGS -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=athlon-mp but run it on your own machine as it depends on what you set as CPUTYPE in make.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERC 3/DC RAID controller
I'm not sure if this helps, but I've been working with FreeBSD on dell hardware of all kinds for many years and have not had a problem with a PERC controller. The easiest way to see is boot from the install CD and start a standard install. It will error if it doesn't recognize any drives. -Original Message- From: Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:48:58 To:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PERC 3/DC RAID controller I have recently aquired a server which is a Dell PowerEdge 4600 with a PERC 3/DC RAID controller. I was just about to start intalling FreeBSD 6.2, but noticed the hardware notes mentions practically every other Dell RAID controller except this one! Does anyone know if it will work? I have a horrible suspicion I will be back with plenty of questions in the coming weeks as I wrestle with this, my first ever server, and my first 'for real' use of FreeBSD! However I am reading all I can, especially the FreeBSD handbook. Thanks Barnaby Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:04:50 -0800 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: On 08/03/07, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the default CFLAGS setting in FBSD-6.2 and would it improve performance any to set CFLAGS=Os as opposed to the default setting? CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. Note that by explicitly defining CFLAGS, you override the -fno-strict-aliasing that's set by default. FreeBSD provides sensible defaults for all of these things, based on CPUTYPE. As mentioned when I asked the question a while back, be careful about how you optimize freebsd. ... I was told to add -fno-strict-aliasing, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
limitiation on memory allocation
Hi.
On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate
more than 500Mb for my program.
I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known,
how do I overcome it ?
(On linuxes I can allocate arrays of size close to sum
of physical and swap memory, on similar machines)
Thank you and regards,
Dima.
$ top
...
Mem: 65M Active, 357M Inact, 142M Wired, 404K Cache, 112M Buf, 1437M Free
Swap: 4070M Total, 4070M Free
...
test code:
---
#includevector
#includeboost/shared_array.hpp
const unsigned M = 1024*1024;
const unsigned X = 510; // will fail with X 510
int main() {
std::vectorchar huge_v1(X*M); // fails in both ways
// boost::shared_arraychar huge( new char[X*M] );
}
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Re: remote install of 6.2
I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd every now and then). I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld install the new OS on the second disk, then boot off the second disk, leaving the original first disk with all the user data on it (plus as a way to back out). When I try to use /stand/sysinstall for this it seg-faults early in the installation, but after the Commit step. Hi Jerry, If you have a 6.2 machine handy, you can create dump files of each filesystem using dump(8), cpio(1) or pax(1) or whatever you're used to. Ship those dump files to your 4.8 machine via scp(1). Then use bsdlabel(8) to partition your second hard disk (the one you whish to install 6.2 on). Create filesystems on those new partitions. Mount those new filesystems into a chroot, for example /mnt/root, /mnt/usr, /mnt/var, etc. Then extract your dump files onto those new partitions. Don't forget to install a boot block on your disk with `bsdlabel -B` or with boot0cfg(8). That should do it. If you need more detailed step-by-step instructions, just say so, I'll send something on the list. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: You may want to check out devfs.rules(5) for changing permissions on hotplug devices. That said, I do use a similar entry in usbd.conf to spawn pppd when I connect my Tungsten E. With that I find I need to add a sleep 2; to the beginning of the 'attach' line or the following command fails because the device nodes aren't set up quickly enough. HTH. Peter Harrison Thanks for your help :-) . You mean like this? device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* sleep 2; attach chmod 0666 /dev/ucom* /dev/ttyU* /dev/cuaU*/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 15:32 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: You may want to check out devfs.rules(5) for changing permissions on hotplug devices. That said, I do use a similar entry in usbd.conf to spawn pppd when I connect my Tungsten E. With that I find I need to add a sleep 2; to the beginning of the 'attach' line or the following command fails because the device nodes aren't set up quickly enough. HTH. Peter Harrison Thanks for your help :-) . You mean like this? device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* sleep 2; attach chmod 0666 /dev/ucom* /dev/ttyU* /dev/cuaU*/ Sorry, that's me not making myself clear. I mean like this: device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU* But like I said, devfs.rules is really designed for this kind of thing. HTH. Peter Harrison. PLEASE NOTE: THE ABOVE MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE INTERNET. On entering the GSI, this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. In case of problems, please call your organisational IT Helpdesk. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk ** This document is strictly confidential and is intended only for use by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other action taken in reliance of the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Department for Work and Pensions. If you have received this transmission in error, please use the reply function to tell us and then permanently delete what you have received. Please note: Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications. ** The original of this email was scanned for viruses by Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSI this email was certified virus free. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: limitiation on memory allocation
check out your sysctl values.
man sysctl
for more information.
-Derek
At 08:32 AM 3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote:
Hi.
On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate
more than 500Mb for my program.
I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known,
how do I overcome it ?
(On linuxes I can allocate arrays of size close to sum
of physical and swap memory, on similar machines)
Thank you and regards,
Dima.
$ top
...
Mem: 65M Active, 357M Inact, 142M Wired, 404K Cache, 112M Buf, 1437M Free
Swap: 4070M Total, 4070M Free
...
test code:
---
#includevector
#includeboost/shared_array.hpp
const unsigned M = 1024*1024;
const unsigned X = 510; // will fail with X 510
int main() {
std::vectorchar huge_v1(X*M); // fails in both ways
// boost::shared_arraychar huge( new char[X*M] );
}
---
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Re: Running script from rc.d as local user
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Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: Sorry, that's me not making myself clear. I mean like this: device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU* But like I said, devfs.rules is really designed for this kind of thing. HTH. Peter Harrison. Sorry, but I must ask you again :-[ . You mean adding this to devfs.rules? device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 16:12 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: Sorry, that's me not making myself clear. I mean like this: device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU* But like I said, devfs.rules is really designed for this kind of thing. HTH. Peter Harrison. Sorry, but I must ask you again :-[ . You mean adding this to devfs.rules? device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU* No, that's the syntax for usbd.conf - which should work but is not the 'preferred' way of doing it. I'll check my devfs.rules file over the weekend and email you again with the syntax for that. Peter Harrison. ** This document is strictly confidential and is intended only for use by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other action taken in reliance of the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Department for Work and Pensions. If you have received this transmission in error, please use the reply function to tell us and then permanently delete what you have received. Please note: Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications. ** The original of this email was scanned for viruses by Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSI this email was certified virus free. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote install of 6.2
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:30:44AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd every now and then). I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld install the new OS on the second disk, then boot off the second disk, leaving the original first disk with all the user data on it (plus as a way to back out). When I try to use /stand/sysinstall for this it seg-faults early in the installation, but after the Commit step. Hi Jerry, If you have a 6.2 machine handy, you can create dump files of each filesystem using dump(8), cpio(1) or pax(1) or whatever you're used to. Ship those dump files to your 4.8 machine via scp(1). Then use bsdlabel(8) to partition your second hard disk (the one you whish to install 6.2 on). Create filesystems on those new partitions. Mount those new filesystems into a chroot, for example /mnt/root, /mnt/usr, /mnt/var, etc. Then extract your dump files onto those new partitions. Don't forget to install a boot block on your disk with `bsdlabel -B` or with boot0cfg(8). That should do it. If you need more detailed step-by-step instructions, just say so, I'll send something on the list. OK. First, it was someone else who posted. I was one of the responders. That can be a good way of doing it. I have posted a list of steps for doing essentially that (slightly different circumstances) a couple of times in the past. But there is one disadvantage in this particular case. Since the OP is running 4.xx and wants to move to 6.xx, he would probably also want to take advantage of the new UFS2 filesystem improvements. But, if he builds the file system using the 4.xx fdisk and disklabel (before bsdlabel replaced it) then it will use the older file system missing some performance and feature improvements. So, he will want to find a way to fdisk and bsdlabel using a 6.xx system if at all possible. Of course, it is not the end of the world to be stuck with the older file system, but is less than optimal. It would be possible for the person to sort of double up on your suggestion and do a first build with the existing fdisk and bsdlabel and then restore 6.2 dumps. Then build a 6.2 system that can run from memory that includes the essentials such as fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs and tink with booting to boot to that memory system, which would then allow that second disk to remain unmounted or accessed anywhere -- essential for building the file systems. Then use that memory mounted system to build the file systems and finally do the restores from dumps. It should work, but will take some figuring out. The last time I built anything resembling that was back in about FreeBSD 4.9 and I made a file of it and burned it to CD and did the boots from CD. But it should be possible to get it to run from a memory file system. jerry Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: -Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 16:12 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Sorry, but I must ask you again :-[ . You mean adding this to devfs.rules? device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU* No, that's the syntax for usbd.conf - which should work but is not the 'preferred' way of doing it. I'll check my devfs.rules file over the weekend and email you again with the syntax for that. for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Peter Harrison. ** This document is strictly confidential and is intended only for use by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other action taken in reliance of the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Department for Work and Pensions. If you have received this transmission in error, please use the reply function to tell us and then permanently delete what you have received. Please note: Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications. ** The original of this email was scanned for viruses by Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSI this email was certified virus free. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Freebsd 5.4
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:46:49PM +0100, Thomas H. Bellus wrote: I have not been able to see the screens for configuring X for my monitor or video card. I have ver 5.4, I have used both the standard install and the custom install. I have used the most recent install documents on the internet and I have a copy of Complete BSD by Greg Lehey. I am new to BSD but I want to get this install to work. I can not get anytype of graphical interface. Well, it is hard to answer for as far back s 5.4. I would suggest, if at all possible, to first download and burn an install CD with 6.2 and then cvsup (csup) that to the latest world and ports, build and install world and kernel and then try again. It is possible that the version of X you are getting is out of sync with the OS you are using. That is only one possibility among others, but is one of the easiest to eliminate by bringing everything up to date. It then makes other possibilities easier to examine also. jerry Thanks, Thomas H Bellus ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote install of 6.2
OK. First, it was someone else who posted. I was one of the responders. My mistake! Sorry about this. That can be a good way of doing it. I have posted a list of steps for doing essentially that (slightly different circumstances) a couple of times in the past. But there is one disadvantage in this particular case. Since the OP is running 4.xx and wants to move to 6.xx, he would probably also want to take advantage of the new UFS2 filesystem improvements. But, if he builds the file system using the 4.xx fdisk and disklabel (before bsdlabel replaced it) then it will use the older file system missing some performance and feature improvements. So, he will want to find a way to fdisk and bsdlabel using a 6.xx system if at all possible. Of course, it is not the end of the world to be stuck with the older file system, but is less than optimal. It would be possible for the person to sort of double up on your suggestion and do a first build with the existing fdisk and bsdlabel and then restore 6.2 dumps. Then build a 6.2 system that can run from memory that includes the essentials such as fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs and tink with booting to boot to that memory system, which would then allow that second disk to remain unmounted or accessed anywhere -- essential for building the file systems. Then use that memory mounted system to build the file systems and finally do the restores from dumps. It should work, but will take some figuring out. The last time I built anything resembling that was back in about FreeBSD 4.9 and I made a file of it and burned it to CD and did the boots from CD. But it should be possible to get it to run from a memory file system. Indeed, you're absolutely right. An easy way to circumvent this filesystem issue would be to mount the ISO image of a 6.2 install CD as a virtual filesystem and use the binaries from there. This shows you how to proceed: http://www.freebsddiary.org/iso-mount.php Of course, you'll need a fair bit of RAM to do this. There's also this from Colin Percival that can be usefull: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: No, that's the syntax for usbd.conf - which should work but is not the 'preferred' way of doing it. I'll check my devfs.rules file over the weekend and email you again with the syntax for that. Peter Harrison. Thank for the effort! Btw I tried adding sleep 2; but this didn't help :-( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11
On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this: voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo make zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and PORTVERSION instead of PKGNAME. (This port is too old for your bsd.port.mk, please update it to match your bsd.port.mk.) *** Error code 1 Stop. I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, but have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could simplify, I would appreciate it. -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Check /usr/ports/UPDATING : 20070205: AFFECTS: all users of FreeBSD 4.X AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The remnants of FreeBSD 4.X support have been removed from bsd.port.mk. Any remaining users should _not_ get this or any subsequent updates. -- Best regards, Vasile Cristescu Server Department Lamit Datacenter www.lamit.ro tel: +40213352206 mob: +40788755463 PGP: http://hosting.lamit.ro/public.key pgpQRtPtKiFFI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Aniruddha wrote: I am trying to get my Palm Treo sync with Jpilot. Unfortunately so far without results :-( . Who can help me with this? Here's what I tried so far: Added this line to etc/usbd.conf just above the fallthrough entry: / device Palm devname ucom[0-9]* attach chmod 0666 /dev/ucom* /dev/ttyU* /dev/cuaU*/ /kldload ucom kldload uvisor / Filled in this 'adress' in jpilot: //dev/ttyU0/ ___ Here's my dmesg (with my Treo plugged in at boot). Maybe that will help: Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ (2403.09-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x20f71 Stepping = 1 Features=0x78bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM OV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2 Features2=0x1SSE3 AMD Features=0xe2500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow AMD Features2=0x1LAHF real memory = 1073414144 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1033031680 (985 MB) ACPI APIC Table: A M I OEMAPIC MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI ioapic0 Version 0.3 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: A M I OEMRSDT on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: VIA K8T800Pro host to PCI bridge mem 0xdc00-0xdfff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 nvidia0: GeForce 7800 GS mem 0xfb00-0xfbff,0xe000-0xefff,0xfa0 0-0xfaff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fwohci0: VIA Fire II (VT6306) port 0x9400-0x947f mem 0xf960-0xf96007ff irq 16 at device 7.0 on pci0 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:11:d8:00:00:58:84:0d fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci0 fwe0: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:11:d8:58:84:0d fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:11:d8:58:84:0d fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp0: SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop = 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) atapci0: Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller port 0xa400-0xa43f,0xa000-0xa00f, 0x9800-0x987f mem 0xf980-0xf9800fff,0xf970-0xf971 irq 18 at device 8 .0 on pci0 ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci0 skc0: Marvell Gigabit Ethernet port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xf9a0-0xf9a03fff ir q 17 at device 10.0 on pci0 skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9) sk0: Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 00:13:d4:9b:6b:c8 miibus0: MII bus on sk0 e1000phy0: Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: multimedia, audio at device 14.0 (no driver attached) pci0: input device at device 14.1 (no driver attached) fwohci1: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xf9c0-0xf9c007ff,0xf9b00 000-0xf9b03fff irq 16 at device 14.2 on pci0 fwohci1: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0) fwohci1: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci1: EUI64 00:02:3c:01:01:00:e8:de fwohci1: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci1: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire1: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci1 fwe1: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire1 if_fwe1: Fake Ethernet address: 02:02:3c:00:e8:de fwe1: Ethernet address: 02:02:3c:00:e8:de fwe1: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp1: SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire on firewire1 fwohci1: Initiate bus reset fwohci1: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire1: 1 nodes, maxhop = 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) firewire1: bus manager 0 (me) atapci1: VIA 6420 SATA150 controller port 0xd400-0xd407,0xd000-0xd003,0xc800-0 xc807,0xc400-0xc403,0xc000-0xc00f,0xb800-0xb8ff irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata5: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata6: ATA channel 1 on atapci1 atapci2: VIA 8237 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376, 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci2 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci2 uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 21 at device 16.0 on p ci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) Oh i forgot to mention you will have to restart devfs afterwards, /etc/rc.d/devfs restart Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11
On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this: voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo make zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and PORTVERSION instead of PKGNAME. (This port is too old for your bsd.port.mk, please update it to match your bsd.port.mk.) *** Error code 1 Stop. I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, but have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could simplify, I would appreciate it. Grant, Search for an email I sent to the list on 2/22 with Subject Determining daylight savings changes on BSD It has the steps needed to update manually from source. Here's the steps If you can't use the ports to update your time zone files here is the manual procedure. 1. create a new directory and cd into it e.g. # mkdir myzoneinfo; cd myzoneinfo 2. # fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz 3. # tar -zxvf tzdata2007b.tar.gz 4. you will now have a bunch of files in the directory extracted from tzdata2007b. you need to edit zone.tab and comment out these lines #AX +6006+01957 Europe/Mariehamn #GG +4927-00232 Europe/Guernsey #IM +5409-00428 Europe/Isle_of_Man #JE +4912-00207 Europe/Jersey #ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica #RS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade #TL -0833+12535 Asia/Dili 5. run this command # zic -d ./zoneinfo -p America/Los_Angeles -m 0644 -y ./yearistype \ africa antarctica asia australasia etcetera europe \ factory northamerica southamerica systemv that's all one long line the zic command will create a new directory named zoneinfo and fill it with the new zoneinfo files. You can compare it to /usr/share/zoneinfo 6. install the new files by running # cp -R -p ./zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo # cp ./zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo # tzsetup 7. to verify that all went well run # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 your should get /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 I've done this on 1/2 dozen older 4.x and 5.x servers and it works fine. Dan ___ 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. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote install of 6.2
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:39:31AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: OK. First, it was someone else who posted. I was one of the responders. My mistake! Sorry about this. That can be a good way of doing it. I have posted a list of steps for doing essentially that (slightly different circumstances) a couple of times in the past. But there is one disadvantage in this particular case. Since the OP is running 4.xx and wants to move to 6.xx, he would probably also want to take advantage of the new UFS2 filesystem improvements. But, if he builds the file system using the 4.xx fdisk and disklabel (before bsdlabel replaced it) then it will use the older file system missing some performance and feature improvements. So, he will want to find a way to fdisk and bsdlabel using a 6.xx system if at all possible. Of course, it is not the end of the world to be stuck with the older file system, but is less than optimal. It would be possible for the person to sort of double up on your suggestion and do a first build with the existing fdisk and bsdlabel and then restore 6.2 dumps. Then build a 6.2 system that can run from memory that includes the essentials such as fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs and tink with booting to boot to that memory system, which would then allow that second disk to remain unmounted or accessed anywhere -- essential for building the file systems. Then use that memory mounted system to build the file systems and finally do the restores from dumps. It should work, but will take some figuring out. The last time I built anything resembling that was back in about FreeBSD 4.9 and I made a file of it and burned it to CD and did the boots from CD. But it should be possible to get it to run from a memory file system. Indeed, you're absolutely right. An easy way to circumvent this filesystem issue would be to mount the ISO image of a 6.2 install CD as a virtual filesystem and use the binaries from there. This shows you how to proceed: http://www.freebsddiary.org/iso-mount.php Of course, you'll need a fair bit of RAM to do this. That can work. Make sure you check the added comments as well, although those refer to FreeBSD 5.xxx and you are still on 4.xxx. You will want to know it will be different once you start running the new one. Make sure that the ISO image is not stored on the drive to be fdisk-ed, bsdlabel-ed and newfs-ed. In this person's case, the system is already running on another disk, and he wants to put the 6.xx system on a second disk, so he just has to make sure to write the ISO to that first disk somewhere there is room and unmount anything on that second disk. There's also this from Colin Percival that can be usefull: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ This reference is really a different subject. jerry HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perforce access
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dear list, is it prossible (for a normal mortal, aka non-committer ) to access the the perforce repository to get code? i'd be interested in the mips code TIA Zheyu Shen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8YbvTqd8JUnGnQ0RAp8sAJ4u8xm5fSKrHIezyYoU6KEOByjlwQCgnYBv 4tSuEI/F0IlLrEdgYqC6xqc= =+CvU -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]
Re: Package missing
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:09:04AM +0100, Olivier Vimont wrote: The pdflib binary package which is needed by gnuplot-4.0 is missing on the AMD64 port of the 6.2 release in th ftp site Thanks if you can restore it This software may not be freely redestributed according to the license imposed by the software authors. Please talk to them about your concerns. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11
I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, but have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could simplify, I would appreciate it. You can simply take the /etc/localtime file from one of the completed servers, copy it to the server that is failing, and put it into /etc, overwriting the original. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote install of 6.2
Also see my post to doc about restoring dump files over an http connection, in case your existing systems' partitions don't have enough room to temporarily store them. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2007-February/012190.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running script from rc.d as local user
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:24:47 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried starting it from CRON; however, the variables: GPG_AGENT_INFO GPG_TTY are not set.. See crontab(5) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 support
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:06:29 +0100 Benjamin Sobotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear list, does freebsd 6.x support the ext3 filesystem? TIA zheyu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! AFAIK it doesn't support ext3. However, it supports ext2, which is structurally the same as ext2 except that it doesn't do any journaling. Hence, you should be able to mount and use ext3 except that the journal will not be used. There's fsck support for syncing the ext3 journal. I think it's in a port, but I can't remember which. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing command-line resolution
John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:48, frzburn wrote: Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the command-line snip FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64. Build and install a kernel with options VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE. Reboot. Run vidcontrol -i mode. Pick one you like and make a note of its number. Then do something similar to vidcontrol -f 8x14 cp437-8x14.fnt MODE_NNN, replacing NNN with the mode you noted previously and 8x14 with one of 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16. The font file should match the font size and codepage you want your terminal to be in. Repeat until you find the settings you want, then add a line like this to /etc/rc.conf: allscreens_flags=-f 8x14 cp437-8x14.fnt MODE_NNN using the same substitutions. See also man vidcontrol, man sc, and the FreeBSD handbook. JN ___ If I'm correct that's not going to work since VESA module doesn't work on an amd64 system, or at least that's what I thought I read some time ago. Not sure what your goal is with your machine but if it's not meant as a server you can always install Xorg with some lightweight WM. Good luck, -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known, how do I overcome it ? Google for MAXDSIZ and relevent discussions. See here for example: http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2005-April/001349.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: awk question
You are trying to remove the files whose names are given by
ls -lt | awk '{if ($8 == 2006) print $9}';
If you are in the same directory, or you have full pathnames, you can
do just (and avoid the 'for do done' loop)
rm $( ls -lt | awk '{if ($8 == 2006) print $9}' )
If this exceeds the maximum length of a line, just use xargs also.
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Re: ext3 support
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:12:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's fsck support for syncing the ext3 journal. I think it's in a port, but I can't remember which. sysutils/e2fsprogs ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Epson P2100 parallel port mode
Hello list!
I have spent some time installing Epson P2100 (aka P2200 in the U.S.) - the
USB connection did not work (printer was recognised, but any access to it
caused only a quick double-tick of the printing head and nothing more). The
good thing was that it supports also the parallel connection.
Once connected via /dev/lpt0, the printer worked, but printed _very_ slowly
(and /var/log/messages announced irq storm on irq7).
A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode
to extended polling by command lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0. Then, the
printer worked normally.
ltpcontrol supports only connected (and powered on) printers, which is
usually not the case during boot, and it must be run with root privileges.
My question: how do I set the default port mode to extended polling instead
of iterrupt driven during the boot process?
Thanks for ideas,
Milan
P.S.
6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 on ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe with Pentium D.
dmesg:
ppc0: ECP parallel printer port port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 3 on
acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0
...
lpt0: Printer on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
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Re: Running script from rc.d as local user
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should add a line: /usr/bin/su [to your username] OK, I'll try that. A way to do this without needing special permissions to touch system files is to use cron; it has an @reboot time specification for this purpose. The original message finally arrived in my mailbox, so I see that you've already tried cron and didn't know how to set environmental variables that way. The answers are simple; set them in the crontab (usually on the command line you're executing), or write a wrapper script and call that from your crontab. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
Dima, Not all the settings there are tuneable. In 6.X the allowable memory is somewhat automatic based on the max users. Your kernel is set to 384. You can try changing that. You can also make some kernel settings in: /boot/loader.conf You can see the possible variables to set in: /boot/defaults/loader.conf I think the one variable you may want to change is: kern.maxdsiz=to your actual real memory size Don't make this larger than the real memory, in my experience that will cause the system to not boot properly into multi-user. -Derek At 11:06 AM 3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. I've passed over the man page and even over the man 3 page. What exactly should I look for ? Thank you. Dima. output of 'sysctl -a' is attached. On 3/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check out your sysctl values. man sysctl for more information. -Derek At 08:32 AM 3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=sysctl-a.output Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sysctl-a.output X-Attachment-Id: f_ez1pyii1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode
You may be able to change the port setting in your BIOS, most newer BIOS
allow this.
-Derek
At 01:25 PM 3/9/2007, Milan Knizek wrote:
Hello list!
I have spent some time installing Epson P2100 (aka P2200 in the U.S.) - the
USB connection did not work (printer was recognised, but any access to it
caused only a quick double-tick of the printing head and nothing more). The
good thing was that it supports also the parallel connection.
Once connected via /dev/lpt0, the printer worked, but printed _very_ slowly
(and /var/log/messages announced irq storm on irq7).
A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode
to extended polling by command lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0. Then, the
printer worked normally.
ltpcontrol supports only connected (and powered on) printers, which is
usually not the case during boot, and it must be run with root privileges.
My question: how do I set the default port mode to extended polling instead
of iterrupt driven during the boot process?
Thanks for ideas,
Milan
P.S.
6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 on ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe with Pentium D.
dmesg:
ppc0: ECP parallel printer port port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 3 on
acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0
...
lpt0: Printer on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
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Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING
On 09/03/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:04:50 -0800 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: On 08/03/07, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. Note that by explicitly defining CFLAGS, you override the -fno-strict-aliasing that's set by default. FreeBSD provides sensible defaults for all of these things, based on CPUTYPE. Thanks for pointing this out. I did read /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf to get some sensible settings, which is why I've chosen it to set CFLAGS like I did. Since -fno-strict-aliasing is that important, it should probably be mentioned in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf Just my 2 cents Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11
Dan Busarow wrote: On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this: voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo make zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and PORTVERSION instead of PKGNAME. (This port is too old for your bsd.port.mk, please update it to match your bsd.port.mk.) *** Error code 1 Stop. I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, but have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could simplify, I would appreciate it. Grant, Search for an email I sent to the list on 2/22 with Subject Determining daylight savings changes on BSD It has the steps needed to update manually from source. Here's the steps If you can't use the ports to update your time zone files here is the manual procedure. 1. create a new directory and cd into it e.g. # mkdir myzoneinfo; cd myzoneinfo 2. # fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz 3. # tar -zxvf tzdata2007b.tar.gz 4. you will now have a bunch of files in the directory extracted from tzdata2007b. you need to edit zone.tab and comment out these lines #AX +6006+01957 Europe/Mariehamn #GG +4927-00232 Europe/Guernsey #IM +5409-00428 Europe/Isle_of_Man #JE +4912-00207 Europe/Jersey #ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica #RS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade #TL -0833+12535 Asia/Dili 5. run this command # zic -d ./zoneinfo -p America/Los_Angeles -m 0644 -y ./yearistype \ africa antarctica asia australasia etcetera europe \ factory northamerica southamerica systemv that's all one long line the zic command will create a new directory named zoneinfo and fill it with the new zoneinfo files. You can compare it to /usr/share/zoneinfo 6. install the new files by running # cp -R -p ./zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo # cp ./zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo # tzsetup 7. to verify that all went well run # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 your should get /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 I've done this on 1/2 dozen older 4.x and 5.x servers and it works fine. Just a heads up, that file is now tzdata2007c.tar.gz, created on Feb 26th. At least I couldn't grab tzdata2007b.tar.gz anymore. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says that this device is capable of 10,000 insertion/removal cycles I assume that I must minimize the number of writes to the drive. It is okay with me if I have to configure syslog to log to another machine. Any suggestions/instructions how to achieve this? Any experienced users regarding this matter? Thanks for ideas and help. Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
Hey, this device is capable of 10,000 insertion/removal cycles I assume Sorry for replying my own post, but now I fould out that this actually means how many times can I insert/remove the module into/from the motherboard. Actually the number I am interested in is much higher: 2,000,000 Program/Erase cycles. However I have no idea how to measure how many writes are performed during a normal operation of a FreeBSD server running DHCP and pf firewall. Thanks, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgp-mime on kmail without gpg-agent
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Custom scripts files locations?
Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network Printing; where should this reside please? Thanks Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
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Re: Custom scripts files locations?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:55:12PM -, Andy Kendall wrote: Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network Printing; where should this reside please? Do you mean that you want some script available for any user to run at their discretion? Or that you want the system to run before any users get on so something is done for them? In the first case, probably /usr/local/bin is the most common place. In the second, /usr/local/etc/rc.d is the place to put them to have them run at boot to multi-user time. If those script in /usr/local/bin can do any thing serious, like write to people's files then you might want to make a little shell written in c to run them so the users do no run them directly, but only the binary. Then stash the actual scripts somewhere else. jerry Thanks Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom scripts files locations?
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Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. -Derek At 02:09 PM 3/9/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= wrote: Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says that this device is capable of 10,000 insertion/removal cycles I assume that I must minimize the number of writes to the drive. It is okay with me if I have to configure syslog to log to another machine. Any suggestions/instructions how to achieve this? Any experienced users regarding this matter? Thanks for ideas and help. Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
Hello Derek, You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. Also when just reading the flash drive? I would like to write to it only when it is absolutely necessary (configuration change). I think 2 million configuration changes should be enough? If it lasts only year, no problem I can exchange it every now and then. I just hope it is more damage-proof than ordinary hard drives (for example at power outages). Bye, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zoneinfo FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.11
On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:04 PM, DAve wrote: Dan Busarow wrote: On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:11, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I got all my servers playiung nice with the new port for zoneinfo, all but one which is a simple slave nameserver ruynning FreeBSD 4.4. When I installed the port on it, and try to run make, I get this: voyager ROOT /usr/gpeel/zoneinfo make zoneinfo-: You need to define PORTNAME and PORTVERSION instead of PKGNAME. (This port is too old for your bsd.port.mk, please update it to match your bsd.port.mk.) *** Error code 1 Stop. I have been reading lots about simply updateing the zone file itself, but have not been undersztanding what I am seeing. If anyone could simplify, I would appreciate it. Grant, Search for an email I sent to the list on 2/22 with Subject Determining daylight savings changes on BSD It has the steps needed to update manually from source. Here's the steps If you can't use the ports to update your time zone files here is the manual procedure. 1. create a new directory and cd into it e.g. # mkdir myzoneinfo; cd myzoneinfo 2. # fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz 3. # tar -zxvf tzdata2007b.tar.gz 4. you will now have a bunch of files in the directory extracted from tzdata2007b. you need to edit zone.tab and comment out these lines #AX +6006+01957 Europe/Mariehamn #GG +4927-00232 Europe/Guernsey #IM +5409-00428 Europe/Isle_of_Man #JE +4912-00207 Europe/Jersey #ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica #RS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade #TL -0833+12535 Asia/Dili 5. run this command # zic -d ./zoneinfo -p America/Los_Angeles -m 0644 -y ./ yearistype \ africa antarctica asia australasia etcetera europe \ factory northamerica southamerica systemv that's all one long line the zic command will create a new directory named zoneinfo and fill it with the new zoneinfo files. You can compare it to /usr/share/zoneinfo 6. install the new files by running # cp -R -p ./zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo # cp ./zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo # tzsetup 7. to verify that all went well run # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 your should get /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 I've done this on 1/2 dozen older 4.x and 5.x servers and it works fine. Just a heads up, that file is now tzdata2007c.tar.gz, created on Feb 26th. At least I couldn't grab tzdata2007b.tar.gz anymore. Thanks for cathing and posting that Dave. It is indeed supposed to be tzdata2007c.tar.gz Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...
...alright then... How do I work-around a situation where cp, hangs forever? -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:28, Modulok wrote: Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying question remains un-answered: How do you kill a hanged process that (seemingly) cannot be killed because of the two conditions below? -It's hanged, so it's not ever going to self terminate. -It's a disk i/o process so not even root can kill it. As I said before disk I/O is irrelevant. The gentle shutdown solution doesn't work: Even during shutdown the process cannot be killed: it's hanged, it's disk i/o. How do you kill an un-killable process? What makes you believe there is another official way to kill a process? Perhaps you should ask How do I work-around a situation where my rm, cp, whatever hang forever?, if that's what you are looking for. -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:49, Modulok wrote: To the best of my knowledge, most processes can be killed explicitly by kill -s KILL; There are a few which cannot, such as disk i/o processes. The idea here is data integrity. A process might be in cannot-be-killed condition while in kernel e.g. during a system call. That has to do with the completion of the system call, not with data integrity. The kernel tries to complete what was asked for. Also, Killing a process with SIGKILL is far from safe. To put it in another way data integrity can be guaranteed only by the program itself. For example it could have a defined behavior when it is signaled by e.g. SIGTERM, for example clean up data and exit. Or not. It's up to the programmer. Sending a SIGKILL will not give that chance. SIGKILL can not be handled. It will be terminated as soon as possible. Also, separate the meanings data integrity and filesystem data integrity. The filesystem will be in fine condition when a process gets killed by SIGKILL during file I/O, the data in the file most probably not. On the rare occasion however, (when attempting to recover data from corrupt disks for example), I've had a process invoked by the cp command, hang. This poses a significant problem as these processes are disk i/o processes, and as such cannot be terminated (even by root). So, other than physically hitting the reset button on the case, is there a more eloquent method of forcefully halting a hanged disk i/o process? The idea of you don't want to terminate a disk i/o process, it could corrupt the data isn't really a good argument, because if the process hangs and I have to punch the reset button anyway what's the difference? Pressing the button will leave your filesystem in a undefined state, you are risking filesystem integrity. Keep in mind that while in use (open files etc) a filesystem cannot be unmounted. Anyway, try to shut the computer down, it's far more gentle than pressing the button. At least the rest of the filesystems will be cleanly unmounted. Is there something in particular you want to achieve? Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:25:34PM +0100, Milan Knizek wrote: A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode to extended polling by command lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0. Then, the printer worked normally. ltpcontrol supports only connected (and powered on) printers, which is usually not the case during boot, and it must be run with root privileges. My question: how do I set the default port mode to extended polling instead of iterrupt driven during the boot process? You have to add the setting to /boot/device.hints. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/#parport Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpHjL9J7QtxH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mounting into a jail
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.2. I am currently mounting a smb share and then remounting the smb mount into a jail with nullfs. /etc/fstab # smbfs mount //user@servername/share /path/to/smb/mount smbfs rw 0 0 # local mount /path/to/smb/mount /path/to/jail/directory nullfs rw,late 0 0 The main reason I am using this jail is for a webserver and I need to have the web developer be able to write to this samba share I originally tried mounting in fstab the smb share like this //user@servername/share /path/to/smb/mount smbfs rw,uid=www 0 0 however, this did not work so I ended up making the share point owned by the user and group www this took care of it but I was wondering if there was a better way to do this as far as passing through to a jail and maybe getting the uid to actually work from within the fstab file. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks, Troy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom scripts files locations?
Dependent on the type of script, I would usually use /usr/local/bin See hier(7) in the man pages. Andy Kendall wrote: Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network Printing; where should this reside please? Thanks Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting into a jail
On Mar 9, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Troy Schultz wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.2. I am currently mounting a smb share and then remounting the smb mount into a jail with nullfs. /etc/fstab # smbfs mount //user@servername/share /path/to/smb/mount smbfs rw 0 0 # local mount /path/to/smb/mount /path/to/jail/directory nullfs rw,late 0 0 The main reason I am using this jail is for a webserver and I need to have the web developer be able to write to this samba share I originally tried mounting in fstab the smb share like this //user@servername/share /path/to/smb/mount smbfs rw,uid=www 0 0 however, this did not work so I ended up making the share point owned by the user and group www this took care of it but I was wondering if there was a better way to do this as far as passing through to a jail and maybe getting the uid to actually work from within the fstab file. Any suggestions would be welcomed. I don't do this with smb but do do it with nfs. I don't know about uid with smb but I just mount it on the base server inside the jails path. Add the UID with no login capability to the base machine password file and then you can probably set uid in the base server as well. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Vince wrote: Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) Oh i forgot to mention you will have to restart devfs afterwards, /etc/rc.d/devfs restart Vince Ehm I can't find /etc/devfs.rules: ls /etc/ | grep dev devd.conf devfs.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Check out /etc/defaults/devfs.rules Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) Oh i forgot to mention you will have to restart devfs afterwards, /etc/rc.d/devfs restart Vince Ehm I can't find /etc/devfs.rules: ls /etc/ | grep dev devd.conf devfs.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Chris Slothouber wrote: Check out /etc/defaults/devfs.rules Thanks at least now I found devfs.rules :-) . I adjusted it accordingly (and /etc/rc.conf) but still my Palm refuses to sync. Maybe this error message reveals something: # /etc/rc.d/devfs restart /etc/rc.d/devfs: WARNING: devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset number /etc/rc.d/devfs: WARNING: devfs_apply_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset *Part of devfs.rules which I edited:* # Devices typically needed to support logged-in users. # Requires: devfsrules_hide_all # [devfsrules_unhide_login=3] add path 'ptyp*' unhide add path 'ptyq*' unhide add path 'ptyr*' unhide add path 'ptys*' unhide add path 'ptyP*' unhide add path 'ptyQ*' unhide add path 'ptyR*' unhide add path 'ptyS*' unhide add path 'ttyp*' unhide add path 'ttyq*' unhide add path 'ttyr*' unhide add path 'ttys*' unhide add path 'ttyP*' unhide add path 'ttyQ*' unhide add path 'ttyR*' unhide add path 'ttyS*' unhide add path fd unhide add path 'fd/*' unhide add path stdin unhide add path stdout unhide add path stderr unhide add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 * My changes to /etc/rc.conf* # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Mar 8 17:55:42 2007 # Created: Thu Mar 8 17:55:42 2007 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. hostname=freebsd.lan ifconfig_sk0=DHCP inetd_enable=NO ipv6_enable=YES keymap=us.iso linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES devfs_system_ruleset=system ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
Hello Derek, You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. Also when just reading the flash drive? I would like to write to it only when it is absolutely necessary (configuration change). I think 2 million configuration changes should be enough? If it lasts only year, no problem I can exchange it every now and then. I just hope it is more damage-proof than ordinary hard drives (for example at power outages). Bye, Nejc The answer is NO... (IMNSHO) I have a few Soekris servers running FreeBSD 5.5 at a *REMOTE* location (When I say remote, I don't mean the next city, or next state, or even a few states away... I mean a few states away *AND* you need a 4WD to drive 9 miles to get to it. Its ~500 feet from the Atlantic Ocean in an area without any paved roads). I have CF cards in them for the primary, the more durable/rugged of the SanDisk line and USB for swap/ports/squid data. It is *STILL* only rated for about 10K R/W operations. I also find when the facility DOES lose power (We are still building it out) that the CF and USB seem MUCH MORE prone to having issues coming back. I had thought to use CF/USB because they wouldn't crash and be more tolerant of bad conditions (heat and salt air humidity). I'm pretty much giving up and switching to notebook IDE drives the next time I am there. Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Sorry for replying my own post, but now I fould out that this actually means how many times can I insert/remove the module into/from the motherboard. Actually the number I am interested in is much higher: 2,000,000 Program/Erase cycles. However I have no idea how to measure how many writes are performed during a normal operation of a FreeBSD server running DHCP and pf firewall. m0n0wall gets around this by running out of RAM after booting from flash (or CD, or hard disk): http://m0n0.ch/wall/ pfSense is a variation of m0n0wall that uses pf for the firewall: http://www.pfsense.org Both of these provide DHCP and firewalls. m0n0wall uses IPFW, while pfSense uses pf. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom scripts files locations?
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Andy Kendall wrote: Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system users please? Depends on what they're for; 'man hier' describes the general rules. For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a script for Network Printing; where should this reside please? The print filter scripts shown there are placed in /usr/local/libexec. They're not really general-purpose scripts, but for the use of lpd. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
Hi, m0n0wall gets around this by running out of RAM after booting from flash (or CD, or hard disk): Yes, I know both m0n0wall and pfSense, but I prefer a custom FreeBSD installation since I have developed some custom scripts which I would like to use. This is what I am trying to do now - booting the system from flash IDE drive, creating mfs filesystems for /tmp and /var (just enabling them in rc.conf) and mounting all the partitions read-only. And of course I configured syslog to log to some remote host. So when I need to make a configuration change (rc.conf, dhcpd.conf), I just remount / or /usr read-write temporariliy, make the change and then remount back to read-only. This way, I guess, there will be minimal writes to the drive. Now I plan to do some power outage testing. Will let you know. Thanks to all of you, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE
I'm trying to track down a watchdog timeout that shows on average once a day, usually at a random time when idle. The system has two 3c905C NICs and does ipfw+natd duty with a couple services, and spends most of its time idle, both CPU and bandwidth-wise. Nothing out of the ordinary happens when saturating my cable connection at ~8 Mbps, be it with HTTP or 100+ BitTorrent connections. However, I'll randomly see in the logs during quieter times: Mar 10 00:04:46 imogen kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout Mar 10 00:04:46 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to DOWN Mar 10 00:04:48 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to UP It happens on either interface and doesn't cause any problems (so far), the interface always comes back up. I tried swapping a 3rd 3c905C of a slightly older revision for one of them, and the messages still showed up periodically on either. The same hardware ran without any issues or timeouts on 4.11, and is currently running 6.2-RELEASE plus security updates. Kernel is GENERIC with a few unneeded items taken out. Onboard EEPro and sound are disabled in the BIOS. I've also swapped out the ethernet cables for kicks, no change. Pciconf (cards at the end) and dmesg are below. Any ideas would be great, thanks. $ pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:class=0x06 card=0x25608086 chip=0x25608086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82845G/GL/GV/GE/PE DRAM Controller / Host-Hub I/F Bridge' class= bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x56418086 chip=0x25628086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82845G/GL/GV/GE/PE Integrated Graphics Device' class= display subclass = VGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:0:class=0x0c0300 card=0x56418086 chip=0x24c28086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:1:class=0x0c0300 card=0x56418086 chip=0x24c48086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:2:class=0x0c0300 card=0x56418086 chip=0x24c78086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:7:class=0x0c0320 card=0x56418086 chip=0x24cd8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller' class= serial bus subclass = USB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:0:class=0x060400 card=0x chip=0x244e8086 rev=0x81 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801BA/CA/DB/DBL/EB/ER/FB (ICH2/3/4/4/5/5/6), 6300ESB Hub Interface to PCI Bridge' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:0:class=0x060100 card=0x chip=0x24c08086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge' class= bridge subclass = PCI-ISA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:1: class=0x01018a card=0x56418086 chip=0x24cb8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA/100 EIDE Controller' class= mass storage subclass = ATA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:3:class=0x0c0500 card=0x56418086 chip=0x24c38086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller' class= serial bus subclass = SMBus [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x100010b7 chip=0x920010b7 rev=0x78 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Networking Division' device = '3C905C-TX Fast EtherLink for PC Management NIC' class= network subclass = ethernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x02 card=0x100010b7 chip=0x920010b7 rev=0x74 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Networking Division' device = '3C905C-TX Fast EtherLink for PC Management NIC' class= network subclass = ethernet Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sun Mar 4 20:49:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IMOGEN-1 ACPI APIC Table: INTEL D845GVS1 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1999.78-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE, MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM real memory = 535035904 (510 MB)
question?
hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software does, what applications it supports (e.g., will it run Microsoft Office), how much it costs. does your OS relate to this project? any help would be appreciated. thank you tom gunderman BRBRBR**BR AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting usb flash drive as user
I am trying to mount a usb flash drive as a user under FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I have followed the steps in the handbook, but it is not quite working. My user account is jon and is a member of the operator group. I have set the vfs.usermount variable to 1. I am trying to mount the drive at /usbdrv. Here is a terminal output. Script started on Fri Mar 9 23:26:53 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sysctl vfs.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /dev | grep da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 163 Mar 9 22:38 da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 164 Mar 9 22:38 da0s1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l / | grep usbdrv drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 512 Mar 7 18:25 usbdrv/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /usbdrv mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ exit Script done on Fri Mar 9 23:27:37 2007 However, if I su to root, and mount and unmount the drive, then the user is able to mount it. This is kind of annoying though. Did I miss a step somewhere? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting usb flash drive as user [SOLVED]
Jon Wolfgang wrote: Did I miss a step somewhere? Any suggestions are appreciated. As soon as I sent the message I had a moment of clarity! I don't have the msdosfs compiled into the kernel and I don't load it at bootup. The user account couldn't load the module dynamically. By adding the line: msdosfs_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, everything works fine. Anyway, thanks for reading! Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question?
On 09/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software does, what applications it supports (e.g., will it run Microsoft Office), how much it costs. does your OS relate to this project? any help would be appreciated. FreeBSD probably does relate to your project. It costs time and effort. It supports a few applications. ( http://www.freebsd.org/ports/categories-alpha.html ) In essence, the software allows a human (bark recognition software might be in the works somewhere, I do not know) to use the machine within the constraints of a certain set of the universe of possibilities. In other words, it can help you process text. It probably is of no use if you wish to drive nails into sheet- rock with the machine. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software does, what applications it supports (e.g., will it run Microsoft Office), how much it costs. does your OS relate to this project? any help would be appreciated. thank you tom gunderman BRBRBR**BR AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Tom, With respect to your home work assignment: does your OS relate to this project? any help would be appreciated. The answer is yes. Now keep in mind that this is a users mailing list. This translates into support gets done via volunteers; just an information tid bit. find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. Here is the home page to FreeBSD: www.freebsd.org . It has a good description of the Operating System. The answer is yes, this is an operating system that does not require the use of Microsoft Windows. Find out what the software does, what applications it supports (e.g., will it run Microsoft Office), how much it costs. FreeBSD by itself doesn't support Microsoft Applications; however there is a program called WINE that allows Microsoft applications to be run via a compatibility layer via a Windows API (Application Program Interface). More information can be found here: www.winehq.com What other applications does FreeBSD support? http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ The above is a link to a database that has over 16414 ports. What is a port? Well, I cannot do all your home work. :-) Keep in mind that there are several applications out there that have similar functionality to the Microsoft world. Here is a quick list of equivalents: Open Office similar to MS Office http://www.openoffice.org/ Web browser Firefox similar to IE http://www.mozilla.org There are several more that exist; but this is just to illustrate a point. Browse the ports collection; change the list to listed by logical group located on the left hand side of the screen. Ports will be grouped by functionality. PS: Additional information can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html Hope this helps. Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
