Apache and PHP Packages
I have installed the latest Apache and PHP Packages. I can get Apache working, but nothing is standing out as to why I can't get the PHP package to work. Best I can figure is that this package was compiled without the options to include apache support. -or- there is another package that adds support for apache 2.2.3 i installed: php5-5.1.6_3 apache-2.2.3 (and dependencies). can't figure it out. i haven't installed /compiled with FreeBSD in a long time so I thought the packages would be easy enough... Thank You, Stephen Willson Perot Systems at St. Josephs. Office: +1 714-937-6669 Notice from St.Joseph Health System: Please note that the information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache and PHP Packages
Stephen Willson wrote: I have installed the latest Apache and PHP Packages. I can get Apache working, but nothing is standing out as to why I can't get the PHP package to work. Best I can figure is that this package was compiled without the options to include apache support. -or- there is another package that adds support for apache 2.2.3 i installed: php5-5.1.6_3 apache-2.2.3 (and dependencies). can't figure it out. i haven't installed /compiled with FreeBSD in a long time so I thought the packages would be easy enough... I dont know whether or not the php-package are built with the apache module but have you configured your apache correctly? have you added AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps to your apache conf? My suggestion would be to compile the packages from the ports-collection to make sure the module is compiled and then make sure that the webserver is configured properly. You can read about the ports collection and how to use it here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups. However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have bogus user group ID's that the system just won't let me do anything to. I can delete them, cant rename them, cant move them, cant chmod/chown, cant cat to them, nothing... I just get Operation not permitted. Here's a sample of one of them: ---xrx 1 2761022747 1016642816 0 Apr 19 15:35 Video d--s---rw- 2 3251161791 726015594 512 Apr 19 15:41 .shrc Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of these files? I've done an fsck from single user mode and that doesn't come up with anything. Short of copying all the data over to a new volume sans these files and then reformatting the old volume and then moving the good files back what can I do? Any assistance would be appreciated. I'd also like to thank everyone who browses this group and regularly posts responses... Without you guys some of us would never get the help and knowledge we need! Thanks in advance! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache and PHP Packages
Peter Ankerstål wrote: Stephen Willson wrote: I have installed the latest Apache and PHP Packages. I can get Apache working, but nothing is standing out as to why I can't get the PHP package to work. Best I can figure is that this package was compiled without the options to include apache support. -or- there is another package that adds support for apache 2.2.3 i installed: php5-5.1.6_3 apache-2.2.3 (and dependencies). can't figure it out. i haven't installed /compiled with FreeBSD in a long time so I thought the packages would be easy enough... Just realized that php5-5.1.6_3 are quite old and does have some security problems. Another reason to install php5-5.2.1_3 from ports instead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:56:31PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups. However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have bogus user group ID's that the system just won't let me do anything to. I can delete them, cant rename them, cant move them, cant chmod/chown, cant cat to them, nothing... I just get Operation not permitted. Here's a sample of one of them: ---xrx 1 2761022747 1016642816 0 Apr 19 15:35 Video d--s---rw- 2 3251161791 726015594 512 Apr 19 15:41 .shrc Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of these files? I've done an fsck from single user mode and that doesn't come up with anything. Short of copying all the data over to a new volume sans these files and then reformatting the old volume and then moving the good files back what can I do? It's unlikely to be due to the uid/gids, do a ls -lo to check for the schg flag (man chflags). Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD RSS feed
On 4/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why the RSS feed of the security advisories does not work with Fire Fox? http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.rdf This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. That file is not an RSS feed, just a plain XML file. It's also served with the MIME type text/xml. -- Victor Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups. However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have bogus user group ID's that the system just won't let me do anything to. I can delete them, cant rename them, cant move them, cant chmod/chown, cant cat to them, nothing... I just get Operation not permitted. Here's a sample of one of them: ---xrx 1 2761022747 1016642816 0 Apr 19 15:35 Video d--s---rw- 2 3251161791 726015594 512 Apr 19 15:41 .shrc Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of these files? I've done an fsck from single user mode and that doesn't come up with anything. Short of copying all the data over to a new volume sans these files and then reformatting the old volume and then moving the good files back what can I do? Any assistance would be appreciated. I'd also like to thank everyone who browses this group and regularly posts responses... Without you guys some of us would never get the help and knowledge we need! Thanks in advance! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot compile thunderbird 2 and firefox 2 from ports
Hello I'm in trouble to compile those two mozilla apps se below error messages which seems to come from the same origin Thanks for any infos Frank FIREFOX c++ -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/nss -I/usr/local/include/nss/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O2 -fshort-wchar -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -fPIC -shared -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-h,libgtkxtbin.so -o libgtkxtbin.so gtk2xtbin.o-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib/nss -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/firefox -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXt -lX11 -Wl,-Bsymbolic -lc -lm -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -liconv gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x13): In function `xt_event_prepare': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_lock' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x35): In function `xt_event_prepare': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_unlock' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x5f): In function `xt_event_check': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_lock' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x8a): In function `xt_event_check': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_unlock' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x9e): In function `xt_event_check': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_unlock' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0xdf): In function `xt_event_dispatch': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_lock' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x11f): In function `xt_event_dispatch': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_unlock' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x219): In function `gtk_xtbin_class_init': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_class_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x23a): In function `gtk_xtbin_class_init': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_class_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x2d6): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_is_a' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x2f7): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `g_return_if_fail_warning' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x314): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x335): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `gdk_window_get_geometry' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x376): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_class_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x399): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x3c5): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `gdk_flush' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x3df): In function `gtk_xtbin_realize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x440): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `gdk_drawable_get_visual' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x451): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `gdk_drawable_get_colormap' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x459): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `gdk_x11_colormap_get_xcolormap' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x468): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `gdk_drawable_get_visual' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x470): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `gdk_x11_visual_get_xvisual' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x48f): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_free' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x4ba): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_source_new' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x4d7): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_source_set_priority' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x4e2): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_source_set_can_recurse' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x4ed): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_source_attach' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x52a): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_main_context_add_poll' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x570): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x588): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `gdk_window_get_user_data' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x5a3): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x5bb): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x5da): In function `gtk_xtbin_new': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x617): In function `gtk_xtbin_set_position': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x639): In function `gtk_xtbin_set_position': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x644): In function `gtk_xtbin_set_position': : undefined reference to `gdk_window_move' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x679): In function `gtk_xtbin_resize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x713): In function `gtk_xtbin_unrealize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast' gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x725): In function `gtk_xtbin_unrealize': : undefined reference to `g_type_check_instance_cast'
Re: Proliant G5 and E200i controller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have purchased a new Proliant G5 server with the E200i RAID controller. FreeBSD is not recognizing the the drives. The ciss module for the controller is not loaded. Do I need to do something special to make FreeBSD recognize the controller? Which version of FreeBSD? I had it running fine with 6.2-release. I had 6.2-release running on Proliant G5 with E200i, it worked all right. RAID was recognized without any trouble. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best programming language for console/sql application?
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Mike Jeays wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 06:32, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Dear list This is OT. I am a 4 year php developer and is very familiar with javascript and awk (familiar = knows and used all functions and features of the language itself) and I am a 5 year FreeBSD user. Being frustrated for the lack of a good console-based issue tracking tool (like mantis or bugzilla), I think I should start to write my own. I'll either start from scratch or (better) write a frontend for mantis which I used for years. 1. If someone has already started, I should try join him/her rather than reinventing the wheel. So if someone knows any person who is starting to work on a slim console-based issue tracker, please let me know. I already did quit a few searches. I know someone is working on a console front-end of G-Forge, but a big software like G-Forge is not what I am thinking of. Not sure it's quite what you're after, but have a look at request tracker. It is primarily web based, with an email gateway, but also supports command-line operation via its bin/rt. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Whenever I see a dog salivate I get an insatiable urge to ring a bell. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
On Sunday 22 April 2007, Don O'Neil said: I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups. However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have bogus user group ID's that the system just won't let me do anything to. I can delete them, cant rename them, cant move them, cant chmod/chown, cant cat to them, nothing... I just get Operation not permitted. Here's a sample of one of them: ---xrx 1 2761022747 1016642816 0 Apr 19 15:35 Video d--s---rw- 2 3251161791 726015594 512 Apr 19 15:41 .shrc Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of these files? I've done an fsck from single user mode and that doesn't come up with anything. Short of copying all the data over to a new volume sans these files and then reformatting the old volume and then moving the good files back what can I do? Any assistance would be appreciated. I'd also like to thank everyone who browses this group and regularly posts responses... Without you guys some of us would never get the help and knowledge we need! Thanks in advance! Try doing: chflags -R noschg directory or chflags noschg file See: man(1) chflags Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No buffer space available
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:20:58PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: - --On Saturday, April 07, 2007 20:12:00 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also to add I now have a 2nd box using 6.2 STABLE few days old code, had to use it because of broadcom 5755 nic card, I plan to use large tcp window sizes so will be interesting to see if this also suffers from the problem. I've got 8 servers on the same network, 3 are almost identical, but one of them (the one with the problem) is using software RAID vs hardware ... but, if you are seeing it without using software RAID, then that is obviously not the culprit :( May be a red herring... I'm able to reproduce the No buffer space available message when setting net.inet.tcp.(send|recv)space to non-default values. All I've tried is the following, with a kernel dated 2007/04/22: # sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 Example session: $ su2 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 - 131072 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 - 262144 # logout $ ssh medusa socket: No buffer space available ssh: connect to host medusa port 22: No buffer space available $ su2 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=32768 net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 131072 - 32768 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 262144 - 65536 # logout $ ssh medusa Last login: Mon Apr 23 03:45:45 2007 from ... I assume this is because the maximum size of a TCP datagram is 65536 bytes, but as I'm not familiar enough with TCP on such a low level, this may be speculation on my part. Just something worth checking/tinkering with. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCIe NIC for FreeBSD 5.5
On Sunday 22 April 2007 22:38:03 Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have been askedto install FreeBSD on a server, but I had no saying on the procurement of the server. It ends up to be an HP 380G5, with onboard Broadcom based NIC that is not supported and only PCIe extension slots. I am wondering what NIC I could buy that would be PCIe, x4 or x8, and supported by FreeBSD 5.5. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] any particular reason why youre note going with 6.2? i have 6.2 running on several DL G4's and G5's (couple ML's in there too), and they all have no trouble with the broadcom nics. also, both my laptop and desktop have the broadcoms as well, and again, they work very nicely... in 6.2. but to field your question more directly, surely Intel has a pcie version of their nics. thats what i would choose if i were pressed to buy something other than what came on the system's board. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: CUPS + FreeBSD 6.2 + HP Laserjet 5
Thanks. My printer is attached straight to the network (RJ-45), but I check /var/db/pkg, and saw no mention of cups-pdf or cups-pstoraster, so I am installing those... I'll try setting up my printer when I get home. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 4/22/07, Jared Barneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to print a test page for my printer using cups and I get the following error: Unsupported format 'application/postscript'! Funny you should post about this problem... I have an HP Laserjet 5L. It connects via parallel port to my wifes windows XP box. I was trying to point to it and I kept getting that same error. I only had cups-base installed and no other cups ports. To attempt to fix it I did the following: 1. I made sure these three ports were installed. cups-base-1.2.2 The Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.4.5 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers 2. I added the windows box to the host file 3. I restarted cupsd. 4. Deleted the printer and readded it. It started working. I am not sure which step fixed it. I couldn't find anything when googling with FreeBSD in my search. When I took out FreeBSD, I got something for debian referencing lines 103 and 109 in the config being uncommented to get it to work. 103 in the default is blank, 109 is blank except for teh '#'. I uncommented this line, and restarted CUPS: application/vnd.cups-postscriptapplication/vnd.cups-raster 100pstoraster It didn't fix anything. I added this line, and restarted: application/postscriptapplication/vnd.cups-raster100 pstoraster And I still get the same error. I know CUPS worked fine from an install maybe 6 months ago (it had a completely different printer setup than now, it wasn't as easy to setup, but at least it worked). My question (1) Anyone know how to fix this issue with the current version (cvsup'ed and built today via 'sudo portupgrade -f print/cups-pstoraster print/cups-base print/ghostscript-gnu* print/ghostscript-gpl*' (2) How do I get csup/cvsup to match one port or a group of ports by name? I put *default date=2006.08.01.00.00.00 in my supfile (etc/supfile-ports) and tried: sudo csup -i '*cups*' -L 2 /etc/supfile-ports sudo csup -i 'print/cups*' -L 2 /etc/supfile-ports sudo cvsup -g -i '*cups*' -L 2 /etc/supfile-ports sudo cvsup -g -i 'print/cups*' -L 2 /etc/supfile-ports and none of the above updated any files according to the output (I usually see a list of files updated). Since ports were updated this morning, without the date line (so to today's ports layout), I should have seens something. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ 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: Anti Spam
Derek Ragona wrote: At 11:43 AM 4/20/2007, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am posting this question here because I know there are alot of ISPs using FreeBSD (including me) and am hoping to get feedback, either directly to me or to the list. We are wrestling (as I am sure many are), with spam. Up until now we have been employing Spamassassin locally and using some 3rd party Anti-Spam servervices that are getting less and less reliable as the weeks go by. We are considering two hardware solutions, Easyantispam and Barracuda. Barracuda is very expensive, so the most likely candidate is Easyantispam. Does anyone out there have thought on either or both of these? Usability? Reliability? Total Cost of ownership? Integration issues? Any thoughts will be appreciated, If your volume of mail is 5 per day don't use the baracuda. It won't keep up. I agree that this statement depends on the unit(s) and setup. We use two clustered 400's, and we realize 500,000 - 1,000,000 emails every day, and it keeps up just perfectly fine. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Porting a driver from RELENG_6 to RELENG_6_2
On 4/22/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are unlucky then the driver may rely on changes made after the release of 6.2 and you will have to either back-port those changes too (or just run RELENG_6). I am unlucky here :( The driver is has a dependency on one MFC, relating to PCI_FIND_EXTCAP. Is it possible to get the full patchset for that particular commit? cvsweb is file oriented, ie you get a diff of this MFC for each file, not the entire diff. raj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Porting a driver from RELENG_6 to RELENG_6_2
On 4/22/07, Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried searching http://www.marvell.com/ for the driver? Yes, they have this driver, but i am trying to see if I can get the maintained driver in FreeBSD working. raj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:56:31PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups. However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have bogus user group ID's that the system just won't let me do anything to. I can delete them, cant rename them, cant move them, cant chmod/chown, cant cat to them, nothing... I just get Operation not permitted. Here's a sample of one of them: ---xrx 1 2761022747 1016642816 0 Apr 19 15:35 Video d--s---rw- 2 3251161791 726015594 512 Apr 19 15:41 .shrc Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of these files? I've done an fsck from single user mode and that doesn't come up with anything. Short of copying all the data over to a new volume sans these files and then reformatting the old volume and then moving the good files back what can I do? I am not sure why you couldn't read/copy them if you have tried that. As for writing to them or changing permissions or ownership, it could be that the files have some flags set on them. Then, not even root can modify them without removing the flag[s]. See man chflags. If that doesn't help, are you ready to just leave that data behind and move on? If so, you will probably want to rebuild the partitioning on the array. You might want to wipe out enough stuff to make sure to avoid any possible conflicts (probably none, but...) To do that use dd and overwrite the first few hundres sectors or the logical device. If you address the array as ad1, for example, do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1024 Then fdisk it and bsdlabel it and newfs partitions you create with bsdlabel and if it is all happy, then you have a cleaned out working 'drive' again. jerry Any assistance would be appreciated. I'd also like to thank everyone who browses this group and regularly posts responses... Without you guys some of us would never get the help and knowledge we need! Thanks in advance! ___ 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: portupgrade failing, portsdb error
Drew Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED](/usr/ports)# portupgrade gnome-vfs [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': database file error (PortsDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in all_depends_list' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084 I've got Index up to date, I've run portsdb -u, and it seems to think everything is good. Any recommendations? I've not seen this error before. Thanks in advance. portsdb -F? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache and PHP Packages
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:56:04 +0200 Peter Ankerst?l [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Willson wrote: I have installed the latest Apache and PHP Packages. I can get Apache working, but nothing is standing out as to why I can't get the PHP package to work. Best I can figure is that this package was compiled without the options to include apache support. -or- there is another package that adds support for apache 2.2.3 i installed: php5-5.1.6_3 apache-2.2.3 (and dependencies). can't figure it out. i haven't installed /compiled with FreeBSD in a long time so I thought the packages would be easy enough... I dont know whether or not the php-package are built with the apache module but have you configured your apache correctly? have you added AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps to your apache conf? My suggestion would be to compile the packages from the ports-collection to make sure the module is compiled and then make sure that the webserver is configured properly. You can read about the ports collection and how to use it here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Unless it's changed quite recently (always possible), installing PHP5 from a package does not get you mod_php5 / libphp5.so, unlike PHP4. As packages are built with default options, and as building the apache module is not enabled by default (without/before running make config), you now HAVE to use the port for PHP5, selecting the module in config. I don't know why this became the default, assuming the majority of php users are installing it for the apache module, but there it is. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade failing, portsdb error
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Drew Sanford wrote: I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED](/usr/ports)# portupgrade gnome-vfs [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': database file error (PortsDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in `all_depends_list' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084 I've got Index up to date, I've run portsdb -u, and it seems to think everything is good. Any recommendations? I've not seen this error before. Thanks in advance. I saw this when I didn't have the portupgrade port upgraded properly. It has changed the location. From /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20070205: AFFECTS: everybody AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New ports category was created - /usr/ports/ports-mgmt Most significant port moved to this new category is portupgrade. So don't be alarmed, it was not deleted. You can find it now in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linksys wireless pcmcia card / FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Allthough i have set to yes the option about receiving your messages to the list I didn't receive it. In addition i haven't received any reply so far. Could somebody confirm that my message was sent properly to the list. Thanks, Spiros On 21/04/07, Spiros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE and I have the above card in my DELL's latitude c810 cardbus. I followed the instructions on the page below and configure the kernel accordingly: http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1 /articles/wireless/article.html i get the message about: cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0 cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS which takes me to the post below...: http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-stable/200607/msg00449.html I guess i need to tweak the windows driver or anyway hack it somehow. The problem is that i 've never done anything similar before but i would like to get involved and make it work. Anybody can point me to the right direction ? If the above is not the best solution i would really appreciate pointing me to the best alternative. thanks in advance Spiros P. -- Spiros P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot compile thunderbird 2 and firefox 2 from ports
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm in trouble to compile those two mozilla apps se below error messages which seems to come from the same origin Thanks for any infos Frank FIREFOX c++ -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/nss -I/usr/local/include/nss/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O2 -fshort-wchar -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -fPIC -shared -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-h,libgtkxtbin.so -o libgtkxtbin.so gtk2xtbin.o-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib/nss -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/firefox -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXt -lX11 -Wl,-Bsymbolic -lc -lm -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -liconv gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x13): In function `xt_event_prepare': : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_lock' snip lots of errors gtk2xtbin.o(.text+0x959): In function `xt_client_init': : undefined reference to `gdk_get_display' gtk2xtbin.o(.data.rel+0xc): undefined reference to `g_free' gmake[2]: *** [libgtkxtbin.so] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin' gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/mozilla' gmake: *** [default] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Hi Frank. Just wanted to let you know the two ports, thunderbird-2.0.0.0 and firefox-2.0.0.3,1 are not broken because I've installed them myself. Thunderbird sure takes a long time to compile though. I did a sudo portupgrade thunderbird yesterday and it took 8 hours on my 750MHz laptop. I think my distcc cluster, such as it is, is broken. Hope you fix your problem. Perhaps gtk2 needs an upgrade? Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
Don O'Neil wrote: bogus user group ID's Hi Don. Could you create the bogus user and group in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and thus log in with rights to those files? Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:57:45PM +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote: Don O'Neil wrote: bogus user group ID's Hi Don. Could you create the bogus user and group in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and thus log in with rights to those files? Not necessary, see my previous reply. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No buffer space available
On Monday, 23 April 2007 at 4:06:10 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:20:58PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: - --On Saturday, April 07, 2007 20:12:00 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also to add I now have a 2nd box using 6.2 STABLE few days old code, had to use it because of broadcom 5755 nic card, I plan to use large tcp window sizes so will be interesting to see if this also suffers from the problem. I've got 8 servers on the same network, 3 are almost identical, but one of them (the one with the problem) is using software RAID vs hardware ... but, if you are seeing it without using software RAID, then that is obviously not the culprit :( May be a red herring... I'm able to reproduce the No buffer space available message when setting net.inet.tcp.(send|recv)space to non-default values. All I've tried is the following, with a kernel dated 2007/04/22: # sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 Example session: $ su2 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 - 131072 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 - 262144 # logout $ ssh medusa socket: No buffer space available ssh: connect to host medusa port 22: No buffer space available $ su2 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=32768 net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 131072 - 32768 # sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 262144 - 65536 # logout $ ssh medusa Last login: Mon Apr 23 03:45:45 2007 from ... I assume this is because the maximum size of a TCP datagram is 65536 bytes, but as I'm not familiar enough with TCP on such a low level, this may be speculation on my part. Just something worth checking/tinkering with. Try to adjust kern.ipc.maxsockbuf value. -- == - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. --- == ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with Quotacheck after crash
This question is related to my recent question about not being able to delete files after a disk crash... I solved that problem with the chflags (the no-delete flag was set!).. Thanks for all who suggested it. Now that I've deleted the files, I thought this problem would go away, but its not: quotacheck: /home/quota.user: seek failed: Invalid argument THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: /dev/twed0s1d (/home) I've run an fsck on the volume from single user mode, after deleting the files, and it was clean, but I still get this error. I deleted the quota.user quota.group files because they were corrupted when the crash happened. I'm at a loss as to what to do next, any suggestions? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help
Il Sunday 22 April 2007 21:38:12 Thierry Thomas ha scritto: Le Jeu 19 avr 07 à 1:00:38 +0200, Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : I have just upgraded FreeMAT to 3.1, which fixes the inv() problem, and which should fix this Help on line bug too; could you please check it? Yes, with the new version 3.1 inv now works fine. Unfortunately the Help on line still doesn't work. I think that something worsened because with this new port now I cannot use the help on line even as root (in the previous version Help online as root worked quite well). Could you please script (1) a session with only `truss FreeMat', just calling the help and exiting? Then please send me the compresed log of this session. If you had created some symlinks, please don't forget to remove them. Regards, I cannot truss anything victor# truss /bin/echo hello truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No such file or directory any other solution or workaround? Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot compile thunderbird 2 and firefox 2 from ports
Adam J Richardson writes: Thunderbird sure takes a long time to compile though. I did a sudo portupgrade thunderbird yesterday and it took 8 hours on my 750MHz laptop. I think my distcc cluster, such as it is, is broken. For comparison: on a 2.25g P4 it takes 3-4 hours. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't build kernel
Since 3 days i can't compile kernel with success. After cvsup stable-supfile on fresh 6.2 and make depend: make: don't know how to make ../../../crypto/rijndael/rijndael-alg-fst.c. Stop I cant find any errors in my KERNfile. Any ideas? -- Regards s. -- Masz plan? Potrzebujesz motywacji ? wejdz na http://link.interia.pl/f1a40 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail Switcher
Does anyone have any ideas on how I would solve the following problem? I have two mail servers. One is running cyrus imap and the other courier. I am in the process of moving users over one at a time and would like to put some kind of proxy box in front of the mail servers. I would like to have the proxy listen on port 143 for connections and grab the usernames. Once this happens I want the users connection routed to the appropriate mail server. Any ideas? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help needed with server setup at work
Hi. At work we have a bunch of NFS servers. The servers provide the home directories for all the employees client machines. Most of the employees mount their home dirs manually, but some are mounted using scripts. Employee John knows he belongs to NFS server 1, and emplyoee Britney knows she belongs to NFS server 3 and so on. Now due to new conditions I have to set up a new system from which ALL employees are able to mount their home directories from their homes (where they live). Since I only have one IP address at my disposal, I need to set up some kind of union system in which all home directories apear as they live on just one server. Besides that I have to figure out what kind of security I need to use. I have been thinking about AFS. About the union thing I first thought of somehow union mouting all the different home directories on a single machine which then serves as the access point, but I am affraid if that particular machine crashes, then no one can get to their files. Good ideas and experiences are greatly appreciated! -- Best and kind regards Rico Secada ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linksys wireless pcmcia card / FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Spiros Papadopoulos wrote: Allthough i have set to yes the option about receiving your messages to the list I didn't receive it. In addition i haven't received any reply so far. Could somebody confirm that my message was sent properly to the list. Yes, I got your original message on freebsd-questions yesterday. I think the problem is with Google mail. I have problems receiving mail from a neighbor of mine who is on Gmail. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?
Message: 11 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:58:32 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Adam J Richardson wrote: Finally, mptable shows what's really going on: MP Config Base Table Entries: -- Processors: APIC ID Version StateFamily Model Step Flags 3 0x11BSP, usable 6 8 30x387fbff 0 0x11AP, unusable 6 8 30x387fbff Apparently the application processor is unusable, whatever that means. I am now stuck. Is there a software fix for this, or do I have a broken CPU, unlikely as it seems? Any help is appreciated. Does it seem likely that upgrading both CPUs to the highest Pentium- IIIs I can find, which I was thinking about doing anyway, would fix the problem? It's more likely that updating the system BIOS and trying to tweak any settings related to SMP or ACPI might help. You might also try enabling or toggling the PnP OS installed, to avoid having the BIOS configure stuff it doesn't need to boot, and leaving FreeBSD to assign IRQs itself... If that doesn't help, I believe there's a freebsd-acpi list which contain people who can look at the dump of your BIOS and fix the broken IRQ assignments it is doing. -- -Chuck Thanks Chuck. I'll give these suggestions a try and post feedback when I'm done. Might not be for two weeks though, as I'm just about to go on a trip to the US. :) Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help
Il Sunday 22 April 2007 21:38:12 Thierry Thomas ha scritto: Le Jeu 19 avr 07 à 1:00:38 +0200, Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : I have just upgraded FreeMAT to 3.1, which fixes the inv() problem, and which should fix this Help on line bug too; could you please check it? Yes, with the new version 3.1 inv now works fine. Unfortunately the Help on line still doesn't work. I think that something worsened because with this new port now I cannot use the help on line even as root (in the previous version Help online as root worked quite well). Could you please script (1) a session with only `truss FreeMat', just calling the help and exiting? Then please send me the compresed log of this session. If you had created some symlinks, please don't forget to remove them. Regards, I cannot truss anything victor# truss /bin/echo hello truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No such file or directory any other solution or workaround? Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build kernel
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:36:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since 3 days i can't compile kernel with success. After cvsup stable-supfile on fresh 6.2 and make depend: make: don't know how to make ../../../crypto/rijndael/rijndael-alg-fst.c. Stop I cant find any errors in my KERNfile. Any ideas? Go back to GENERIC or put back the bits you removed until you spot the error you made :) Kris pgp3r9m9xX18S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?
Message: 15 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:11:58 +0300 From: Apatewna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Maybe you should use FreeBSD more often :) Absolutely. I'm using it more and more. It's my goal to become completely free of certain operating systems beginning with W and other commercial software. I haven't had the guts to plunge straight into FreeBSD, but I'm gradually achieving my goal by parallel upgrades. As of FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE, SMP systems are correctly detected and the SMP kernel is used, no need to rebuild kernel. I have such an old hardware arround (Dual [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and 6.2 RELEASE loaded the SMP kernel as expected. Same thing on shiny new Core2Duo machines. Try a reinstall, if this a testing machine and you'll notice that the SMP kernel is loaded by default, unless some other strange hardware problem exists. I didn't know that. How handy. Actually I'm not sure how options SMP got in my kernel config file. It's not an old kernel config file and this is my first SMP system. Oh well. so I like to have several kernels in my /boot anyway - kernel, kernel.old, kernel.generic and kernel.debug. I don't like to run kernel.generic knowing there's lots of stuff in there I'm just not using, and I like having kernel.debug around so I can backtrace kernel panics. I'll have a go with all my kernels, see if one of them boots the unusable AP. I'm off for a couple of weeks though, so I might not respond for a while. Thanks, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help
Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il Sunday 22 April 2007 21:38:12 Thierry Thomas ha scritto: Le Jeu 19 avr 07 à 1:00:38 +0200, Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : I have just upgraded FreeMAT to 3.1, which fixes the inv() problem, and which should fix this Help on line bug too; could you please check it? Yes, with the new version 3.1 inv now works fine. Unfortunately the Help on line still doesn't work. I think that something worsened because with this new port now I cannot use the help on line even as root (in the previous version Help online as root worked quite well). Could you please script (1) a session with only `truss FreeMat', just calling the help and exiting? Then please send me the compresed log of this session. If you had created some symlinks, please don't forget to remove them. Regards, I cannot truss anything victor# truss /bin/echo hello truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No such file or directory any other solution or workaround? truss needs procfs: mount_procfs /dev/mem /proc Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:11:32 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am suggesting that, I can think of headaches of all the places (like interrupt tables) where it needs to be changed, not to mention the worry that the lower APIC IDs were assigned to IOAPICs. I don't know, you'd have to ask jhb@ about the details. APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should suffice for now. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Switcher
Does anyone have any ideas on how I would solve the following problem? I have two mail servers. One is running cyrus imap and the other courier. I am in the process of moving users over one at a time and would like to put some kind of proxy box in front of the mail servers. I would like to have the proxy listen on port 143 for connections and grab the usernames. Once this happens I want the users connection routed to the appropriate mail server. Any ideas? I've never used it myself, but perdition comes up when this gets asked... http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mount an iso image?
Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:01:10PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Use mdconfig with -t vnode, then mount_cd9660 Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:01:10 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Seems that you need 18.6.2 mkisofs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html HTH, WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon 23 Apr 2007 14:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ To mount a iso image: mdconfig -at nvode -f MYIMAGE.ISO mount_cd9960 /dev/md0 /somewhere If you want to mount multiple ISO images then you will have to use md1, md2, ect. Don't forget to unmount and detach the memory disk: umount /somewhere mdconfig -ud 0 0 should be replaced with the appropiate device number Note that this will only mount standard iso images (iso9660, usually .iso or .bin), if you want to mount Nero/Alcohol/PowerISO/ect images then you must first convert them, iat is a great tool for doing this: Ports collection: sysutils/iat Website: http://iat.berlios.de/ -- Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:18:55 +0200 Martin Tournoij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 23 Apr 2007 14:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ To mount a iso image: mdconfig -at nvode -f MYIMAGE.ISO mount_cd9960 /dev/md0 /somewhere I notice no-one is recommending it be mounted read-only. Is it implicit for cd9960, or can an iso be modified this way? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:36:40PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:18:55 +0200 Martin Tournoij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 23 Apr 2007 14:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ To mount a iso image: mdconfig -at nvode -f MYIMAGE.ISO mount_cd9960 /dev/md0 /somewhere I notice no-one is recommending it be mounted read-only. Is it implicit for cd9960, or can an iso be modified this way? It's implicit. Kris pgp5mPpR8Bq9X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon 23 Apr 2007 20:04, RW wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:18:55 +0200 Martin Tournoij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 23 Apr 2007 14:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ To mount a iso image: mdconfig -at nvode -f MYIMAGE.ISO mount_cd9960 /dev/md0 /somewhere I notice no-one is recommending it be mounted read-only. Is it implicit for cd9960, or can an iso be modified this way? cd9660 can only mount read-only: $ mount_cd9660 -o rw /dev/md0 /mnt/md0/ $ mount | grep cd9660 $ dev/md0 on /mnt/md0 (cd9660, local, read-only) Note that I made a typing error in my previous email, 'nvode' should be 'vnode' --Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
On Monday 23 April 2007 02:51:19 pm Mark Tinguely wrote: John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= =20 both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should= =20 suffice for now. =2D-=20 John Baldwin IMO, the quick solution also requires that MAX_APICID in [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/local_apic.c needs to be changed because lapic_create() checks if the passed apic_id MAX_APICID. Also in [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/mp_machdep.c checks in cpu_add() if the passed apic_id = MAXCPU. There are a couple other checks in mp_machdep.c before converting to use the cpu_apic_ids[] array. I was curious, and wrote up a patch file with the potential minor changes for -current at http://www.casselton.com/~tinguely/acpicid.patch . I saw one more change needed to use on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. What I have so far is somewhat similar, but goes ahead and allows the full range of APIC IDs while trying to still honor MAXCPU correctly. I haven't ported it to i386 yet, nor compiled it yet, much less booted it. :) I hope to at least get it booted on amd64 today. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Switcher
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on how I would solve the following problem? I have two mail servers. One is running cyrus imap and the other courier. I am in the process of moving users over one at a time and would like to put some kind of proxy box in front of the mail servers. I would like to have the proxy listen on port 143 for connections and grab the usernames. Once this happens I want the users connection routed to the appropriate mail server. Any ideas? I've never used it myself, but perdition comes up when this gets asked... http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/ Perfect...it also seems to exist in ports /usr/ports/mail/perdition...works very well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
Last night, I was starting to install Samba3, but wrong FreeBSD disc (2) in the CD-ROM drive (first package to install on disc 1). After placing the right disc in the drive, I accidentally pushed the POWER button instead of the CD-ROM door open/close button and turned the computer off. In my defense, the power button is right next to it AND has a hair trigger. :-( I turned the computer back on, and FreeBSD booted with no complaints, so I assumed all was well. I then proceeded to install Samba3 successfully, after which I shut down the system (halt). This morning when I booted FreeBSD to configure Samba, I got: -- ... /dev/da0s1f: UNALLOCATED I=5 OWNER=root MODE=0 /dev/da0s1f: SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr 22 17:28 2007 /dev/da0s1f: NAME=/lost+found UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: ufs: /dev/da0s1f (/usr) Automatic file system check failed; help! /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: -- I assume I'll have to run fsck on /usr, but have 2 questions: 1) Is this problem caused by yesterday's accidental power-off? 2) What prompts should I expect from fsck, and how should I reply to each in order to resolve this problem correctly? Here's where I'm at now: -- fsck -y /usr Start /usr wait fsck_ufs /dev/da0s1f ** /dev/da0s1f ** Last Mounted on /usr ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames UNALLOCATED I=5 OWNER=root MODE=0 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr 22 17:28 2007 NAME=/lost+found UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY REMOVE? [yn] -- - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
--On Monday, April 23, 2007 21:18:55 +0200 Martin Tournoij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 23 Apr 2007 14:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ To mount a iso image: mdconfig -at nvode -f MYIMAGE.ISO mount_cd9960 /dev/md0 /somewhere If you want to mount multiple ISO images then you will have to use md1, md2, ect. Don't forget to unmount and detach the memory disk: umount /somewhere mdconfig -ud 0 0 should be replaced with the appropiate device number Note that this will only mount standard iso images (iso9660, usually .iso or .bin), if you want to mount Nero/Alcohol/PowerISO/ect images then you must first convert them, iat is a great tool for doing this: Ports collection: sysutils/iat Website: http://iat.berlios.de/ Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I wasn't trying to create an iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first. That works perfectly. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, L Goodwin wrote: [...] I assume I'll have to run fsck on /usr, but have 2 questions: 1) Is this problem caused by yesterday's accidental power-off? Yes, most likely. 2) What prompts should I expect from fsck, and how should I reply to each in order to resolve this problem correctly? Just say yes to all the prompts, but backup any important data first. Or if you're afraid of any issues, reinstall. If this problem persists (near every time you reboot), it's time to get a new drive because it got toasted during a write phase. I wouldn't say that though until you install from scratch though and verify that that is or is not the case. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
O/H Martin Tournoij έγραψε: cd9660 can only mount read-only: $ mount_cd9660 -o rw /dev/md0 /mnt/md0/ $ mount | grep cd9660 $ dev/md0 on /mnt/md0 (cd9660, local, read-only) Note that I made a typing error in my previous email, 'nvode' should be 'vnode' So what is wrong with: mount -o loop freebsd.iso /mnt/cdrom It opens/mounts the iso as expected. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _ Thanos Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:42:14PM +0300, Apatewna wrote: O/H Martin Tournoij ??: cd9660 can only mount read-only: $ mount_cd9660 -o rw /dev/md0 /mnt/md0/ $ mount | grep cd9660 $ dev/md0 on /mnt/md0 (cd9660, local, read-only) Note that I made a typing error in my previous email, 'nvode' should be 'vnode' So what is wrong with: mount -o loop freebsd.iso /mnt/cdrom It opens/mounts the iso as expected. That is a Linux command? Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
In the last episode (Apr 23), Paul Schmehl said: --On Monday, April 23, 2007 21:18:55 +0200 Martin Tournoij On Mon 23 Apr 2007 14:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? To mount a iso image: mdconfig -at nvode -f MYIMAGE.ISO mount_cd9960 /dev/md0 /somewhere If you want to mount multiple ISO images then you will have to use md1, md2, ect. Don't forget to unmount and detach the memory disk: umount /somewhere mdconfig -ud 0 0 should be replaced with the appropiate device number Note that this will only mount standard iso images (iso9660, .usually iso or .bin), if you want to mount .Nero/Alcohol/PowerISO/ect images then you must first convert them, iat is a great tool for doing this: Ports collection: sysutils/iat Website: http://iat.berlios.de/ Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I wasn't trying to create an iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first. That works perfectly. If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: tar tvf mycd.iso, since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem format :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Schmehl wrote: Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I wasn't trying to create an iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first. That works perfectly. You can just use tar(1) to read the contents of an iso nowadays, no need to mount anything: lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar -tvf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso | head -20 drwx-- 0 0 06144 Jan 12 13:47 . dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 06144 Jan 12 07:41 bin dr-xr-xr-x 5 0 04096 Jan 12 11:33 boot dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:41 boot/defaults dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 61440 Jan 12 10:55 boot/kernel dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 boot/modules dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 dev dr-xr-xr-x 18 0 0 12288 Jan 12 07:42 etc dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/X11 dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/bluetooth dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/defaults dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/gnats dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/isdn dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mail dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mtree dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/ntp dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 04096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/pam.d dr-xr-xr-x 6 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/periodic dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 04096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/daily dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/monthly lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar --version bsdtar 1.2.53 - libarchive 1.2.53 Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGLRsu8Mjk52CukIwRCKfuAJ9DblEUgpu5eCEsdBWVFX8TgOiY+wCgj0rQ tAlswF71TKS2CoEqs/kkqq0= =2ME7 -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: Mount an iso image?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:45:14PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 23), Paul Schmehl said: --On Monday, April 23, 2007 21:18:55 +0200 Martin Tournoij On Mon 23 Apr 2007 14:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is it possible to mount an iso image? I'm not referring to a cd, but a single file that has been created using mkisofs. If so, what command would you use? mount_cd9660 wants a block device. Do I need to use some sort of pseudo block device? To mount a iso image: mdconfig -at nvode -f MYIMAGE.ISO mount_cd9960 /dev/md0 /somewhere If you want to mount multiple ISO images then you will have to use md1, md2, ect. Don't forget to unmount and detach the memory disk: umount /somewhere mdconfig -ud 0 0 should be replaced with the appropiate device number Note that this will only mount standard iso images (iso9660, .usually iso or .bin), if you want to mount .Nero/Alcohol/PowerISO/ect images then you must first convert them, iat is a great tool for doing this: Ports collection: sysutils/iat Website: http://iat.berlios.de/ Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I wasn't trying to create an iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first. That works perfectly. If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: tar tvf mycd.iso, since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem format :) That's a neat trick that is worth publicizing. Maybe the freebsd-tips fortune file? Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem
John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= =20 both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should= =20 suffice for now. =2D-=20 John Baldwin IMO, the quick solution also requires that MAX_APICID in [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/local_apic.c needs to be changed because lapic_create() checks if the passed apic_id MAX_APICID. Also in [amd64/amd64 | i386/i386]/mp_machdep.c checks in cpu_add() if the passed apic_id = MAXCPU. There are a couple other checks in mp_machdep.c before converting to use the cpu_apic_ids[] array. I was curious, and wrote up a patch file with the potential minor changes for -current at http://www.casselton.com/~tinguely/acpicid.patch . I saw one more change needed to use on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. --Mark Tinguely ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
O/H Kris Kennaway έγραψε: That is a Linux command? Kris Whoaaa, wasted bandwidth! You are right, I'll archive the correct commands for future reference. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _ Thanos Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail
Hello, I've got a machine on the local network, with a local DNS name (which is not a valid name in the global DNS). My problem is that I cannot kludge sendmail into behaving nicely and allow the periodic(8) mailings to get through. The machine is named psyche.local domain1.com is a domain that we own, but this machine has nothing to do with it. I want the emails delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not an email server in any way - All I care about it getting my periodic output. Here are the settings I'm trying : /etc/mail/psyche.local.mc define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.telus.net') define(`MAIL_HUB',`mail.telus.net') define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`domain1.com') MASQUERADE_AS(domain1.com) MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(psyche.local psyche) FEATURE(`allmasquerade') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') /etc/mail/genericsdomain psyche.local /etc/mail/genericstable root[EMAIL PROTECTED] andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/mail/aliases root : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/hosts 192.168.2.10 psyche psyche.local With all the configurations I've tried, emails are rejected by my smarthost with an error like sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid; domain does not exist. What I'd like to do is find a way to alter sendmail's perception of my hostname. Ideally, this would only affect sendmail and nothing else. I can't possibly be the only person running such a configuration. How have other people in the list worked past this? - Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
--On Monday, April 23, 2007 21:46:38 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Schmehl wrote: Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I wasn't trying to create an iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first. That works perfectly. You can just use tar(1) to read the contents of an iso nowadays, no need to mount anything: lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar -tvf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso | head -20 drwx-- 0 0 06144 Jan 12 13:47 . dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 06144 Jan 12 07:41 bin dr-xr-xr-x 5 0 04096 Jan 12 11:33 boot dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:41 boot/defaults dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 61440 Jan 12 10:55 boot/kernel dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 boot/modules dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 dev dr-xr-xr-x 18 0 0 12288 Jan 12 07:42 etc dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/X11 dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/bluetooth dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/defaults dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/gnats dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/isdn dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mail dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mtree dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/ntp dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 04096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/pam.d dr-xr-xr-x 6 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/periodic dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 04096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/daily dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/monthly lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar --version bsdtar 1.2.53 - libarchive 1.2.53 Good to know. However, I didn't want to just list the contents. I also wanted to view some of the files' contents. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
setting ENV VARs in make.conf/ports.conf ?
hi, i've installed FreeBSD v6.2-RELEASE, plus 'portconf' 'ccache' from ports. i've setup, /etc/make.conf - PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 USE_OPENSSL_PORT=true OPENSSLBASE=/usr/local USE_OPENSSH_PORT=true WITHOUT_X11=yes CPUTYPE?=pentium-mmx CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe ## Begin portconf settings ## Do not touch these lines .if !empty(.CURDIR:M/usr/ports*) exists(/usr/local/libexec/portconf) _PORTCONF!=/usr/local/libexec/portconf .for i in ${_PORTCONF:S/|/ /g} ${i:S/%/ /g} .endfor .endif ## End portconf settings .if !defined(NOCCACHE) CC=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/cc CXX=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/c++ CPP=/usr/local/libexec/ccache/cpp .endif - so that i can turn OFF use of ccache for individual ports. i find that different ports 'respond' only to specific ways of setting the NOCCACHE var. e.g., in, cat /usr/local/etc/ports.conf - *:\ CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -s -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer | \ CXXFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -s -frename-registers databases/sqlite3-threads:NOCCACHE=true | \ WITHOUT_DEBUG=true|WITH_DOCS=true|WITH_FTS1=true|WITH_TCLWRAPPER=true|BATCH=Yes sysutils/pflogx:MAKE_ENV= NOCCACHE=true | \ WITH_EXPAT=true|BATCH=Yes - pflogx and sqlite3 require DIFFERENT specifications of NOCCACHE ... swapping formate, e.g., causes the conditional .if !defined(NOCCACHE) to fail; meaning, that the CC/CXX/CPP defs pointing to ccahce/* are oncorrectly used. is this expected/normal? i would've expected the same method of defining ENV VAR knobs ... is there a _consistent_ way of turning off NOCCACHE via the ports.conf? thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
Thanks, Garrett. Ran fsck -y /usr * FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN * * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED * Upon reboot, all is well EXCEPT for the following 2 warnings: --- Mounting local file systems: WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted WARNING: /sambavol was not properly dismounted --- Both /var and /sambavol are mounted (ufs, local, soft-updates). Rebooted again, and did not get these warnings. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, L Goodwin wrote: [...] I assume I'll have to run fsck on /usr, but have 2 questions: 1) Is this problem caused by yesterday's accidental power-off? Yes, most likely. 2) What prompts should I expect from fsck, and how should I reply to each in order to resolve this problem correctly? Just say yes to all the prompts, but backup any important data first. Or if you're afraid of any issues, reinstall. If this problem persists (near every time you reboot), it's time to get a new drive because it got toasted during a write phase. I wouldn't say that though until you install from scratch though and verify that that is or is not the case. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image? (simplest way?)
At Tue, 24 Apr 2007 it looks like Apatewna composed: O/H Kris Kennaway ??: That is a Linux command? Kris Whoaaa, wasted bandwidth! You are right, I'll archive the correct commands for future reference. Being on both systems alot, one wishes they had a port for that module whereas one could just type the shortest command. I see Linux ports everywhere else in FreeBSD-6.2, what's one more right? (giggle) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r 6.2-RELEASE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ find /usr/ports/ -iname *linux* -print | wc -l 363 -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail
At 02:19 PM 4/23/2007, Andrew Fremantle wrote: Hello, I've got a machine on the local network, with a local DNS name (which is not a valid name in the global DNS). My problem is that I cannot kludge sendmail into behaving nicely and allow the periodic(8) mailings to get through. The machine is named psyche.local domain1.com is a domain that we own, but this machine has nothing to do with it. I want the emails delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not an email server in any way - All I care about it getting my periodic output. Here are the settings I'm trying : /etc/mail/psyche.local.mc define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.telus.net') define(`MAIL_HUB',`mail.telus.net') define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`domain1.com') MASQUERADE_AS(domain1.com) MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(psyche.local psyche) FEATURE(`allmasquerade') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') /etc/mail/genericsdomain psyche.local /etc/mail/genericstable root[EMAIL PROTECTED] andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/mail/aliases root : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/hosts 192.168.2.10 psyche psyche.local With all the configurations I've tried, emails are rejected by my smarthost with an error like sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid; domain does not exist. What I'd like to do is find a way to alter sendmail's perception of my hostname. Ideally, this would only affect sendmail and nothing else. I can't possibly be the only person running such a configuration. How have other people in the list worked past this? You don't need to go to such efforts. The stock sendmail mc file should do fine with just a couple modifications. The details are here: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.22 Check your name resolution order in /etc/nsswitch.conf that you check files first. modify /etc/hosts 192.168.2.10 psyche psyche.local. so it is a fully qualified domain name. You can forward all mail in /etc/mail/virtualusertable with a line such as: @psyche.local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be sure to recompile your virtualusertable.db -Derek -- 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: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:23:16 -0700 (PDT) L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night, I was starting to install Samba3, but wrong FreeBSD disc (2) in the CD-ROM drive (first package to install on disc 1). After placing the right disc in the drive, I accidentally pushed the POWER button instead of the CD-ROM door open/close button and turned the computer off. In my defense, the power button is right next to it AND has a hair trigger. :-( This shouldn't be a problem unless your pc is very old (8 years or so), and it's a real power switch. On modern PCs the power switch is just a low-voltage control line. A light touch is a signal to the OS to shutdown cleanly - you have to hold the button down for several seconds to force it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail
On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote: With all the configurations I've tried, emails are rejected by my smarthost with an error like sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid; domain does not exist. What I'd like to do is find a way to alter sendmail's perception of my hostname. Ideally, this would only affect sendmail and nothing else. The reason emails from root are being exposed using the real hostname is because of this: # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if we masquerade # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even if we have a relay # class M: domains that should be converted to $M # class N: domains that should not be converted to $M #CL root C{E}root ...in sendmail.cf. Remove root from this C{E} line and you should be all set. However, if you want to explicitly set your hostname in sendmail, change this: # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain #Dj$w.Foo.CO ...to: Djmyhost.example.com ...or whatever you like. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
Yes, it's a hardware switch and a very bad design. It's flush with the surface of the faceplate and is right next to the CD-ROM button. Also sensitive to the lightest touch. Replacement would require buying a new case (not in budget). Think I'll make a clear plexi failsafe cover. Reminds me of the times my toddler son found the big red toggle switch on the side of my IBM RT-PC workstation within seconds of sitting in my chair... RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:23:16 -0700 (PDT) L Goodwin wrote: Last night, I was starting to install Samba3, but wrong FreeBSD disc (2) in the CD-ROM drive (first package to install on disc 1). After placing the right disc in the drive, I accidentally pushed the POWER button instead of the CD-ROM door open/close button and turned the computer off. In my defense, the power button is right next to it AND has a hair trigger. :-( This shouldn't be a problem unless your pc is very old (8 years or so), and it's a real power switch. On modern PCs the power switch is just a low-voltage control line. A light touch is a signal to the OS to shutdown cleanly - you have to hold the button down for several seconds to force it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS without rpcbind?
It was my understanding that NFS worked off of RPC. I accidently stumbled upon some redhat docs that said you use TCP based NFS which will not require rpc? I think this is an NFSv4 feature, but I'm not sure. I would like to achieve this using FreeBSD 6.2. My goal that I'm trying to accomplish is to get nfs to work in an environment where all traffic is denied by default. Using rpcbind doesn't work well with that type of setup. I tried the following nfs_reserved_port_only=YES nfs_server_enable=YES nfs_server_flags=-t -n 4 -h 10.a.b.c This spawned rpcbind which I didn't want. Does anyone know how to do a tcp only nfs implimentation? -dc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount an iso image?
On Mon 23 Apr 2007 16:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, April 23, 2007 21:46:38 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Schmehl wrote: Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I wasn't trying to create an iso. I wanted to see what was inside one without burning a CD first. That works perfectly. You can just use tar(1) to read the contents of an iso nowadays, no need to mount anything: lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar -tvf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso | head -20 drwx-- 0 0 06144 Jan 12 13:47 . dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 06144 Jan 12 07:41 bin dr-xr-xr-x 5 0 04096 Jan 12 11:33 boot dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:41 boot/defaults dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 61440 Jan 12 10:55 boot/kernel dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 boot/modules dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 dev dr-xr-xr-x 18 0 0 12288 Jan 12 07:42 etc dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/X11 dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/bluetooth dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/defaults dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/gnats dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/isdn dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mail dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/mtree dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/ntp dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 04096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/pam.d dr-xr-xr-x 6 0 02048 Jan 12 07:38 etc/periodic dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 04096 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/daily dr-xr-xr-x 2 0 02048 Jan 12 07:42 etc/periodic/monthly lack-of-gravitas:~/tmp:% tar --version bsdtar 1.2.53 - libarchive 1.2.53 Good to know. However, I didn't want to just list the contents. I also wanted to view some of the files' contents. Very useful hint! Thank you! The tar manpage makes no mention of this by the way, it should be updated... You can also extract stuff (although mounting is probably faster in most situations) tar xf Unreal\ Tournament.iso -C /usr/local/share/linux-ut/ --Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. This leaves backing up user data on some schedule. I've read Backup Basics, but have some questions: Which is best backup media for a FreeBSD file server, based on known issues (or lack of) with each format? I need to decide between the following formats: a) CD-R (or CD-RW?) b) DVD-R (or CD-RW?) c) Streaming tape (which format/standard?) Which is the best method for backing up data files on a Samba sharer FreeBSD? Handbook says dump is the only way to go. Is it possible to have a Windows client perform the backup files on the Samba share to a local Re-Writable CD or DVD drive? If the answer is YES, what are the pros and cons of a UNIX-based (data-file only) backup vs. a Windows-based one? Please add to my list of pros and cons: Windows Backup: PRO: Backup can be restored to a Windows drive while server is being fixed? CON: Users might forget to replace backup disk after using optical drive. FreeBSD Backup: PRO: Out of sight from users (server is in a storeroom). CON: Cannot restore backup to a Windows disk while server is being fixed? These are some of my other considerations: 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a multi-drive solution. Best if client does not handle backups (change discs/tapes), so a solution that permits storing several backups to same disc/tape preferred. 2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at a modest rate. 3) I do NOT have a writable CD or DVD drive (but can buy one if not too spendy). 4) I have an external SCSI connection, but very little shelf space. 5) The server does not have room for another internal device (except if swapping out the existing ATAPI CD-ROM drive). 6) I have an Ecrix Corporation Model VXI-1A SCSI internal tape drive that I assume is obsolete (comments appreciated). Anyway, I don't have room for it. 7) Have not yet settled on a backup schedule. May be weekly or monthly or ad-hoc, but daily is probably out of the question. The RAID 1 array is expected to provide some degree of protection in leieu of daily backups. Plan to back up all documents each time, rather than implement a two-tiered backup process. Thanks! - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
On 4/24/07, L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. This leaves backing up user data on some schedule. I've read Backup Basics, but have some questions: Which is best backup media for a FreeBSD file server, based on known issues (or lack of) with each format? I need to decide between the following formats: a) CD-R (or CD-RW?) b) DVD-R (or CD-RW?) c) Streaming tape (which format/standard?) Which is the best method for backing up data files on a Samba sharer FreeBSD? Handbook says dump is the only way to go. Is it possible to have a Windows client perform the backup files on the Samba share to a local Re-Writable CD or DVD drive? If the answer is YES, what are the pros and cons of a UNIX-based (data-file only) backup vs. a Windows-based one? Please add to my list of pros and cons: Windows Backup: PRO: Backup can be restored to a Windows drive while server is being fixed? CON: Users might forget to replace backup disk after using optical drive. FreeBSD Backup: PRO: Out of sight from users (server is in a storeroom). CON: Cannot restore backup to a Windows disk while server is being fixed? These are some of my other considerations: 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a multi-drive solution. Best if client does not handle backups (change discs/tapes), so a solution that permits storing several backups to same disc/tape preferred. 2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at a modest rate. 3) I do NOT have a writable CD or DVD drive (but can buy one if not too spendy). 4) I have an external SCSI connection, but very little shelf space. 5) The server does not have room for another internal device (except if swapping out the existing ATAPI CD-ROM drive). 6) I have an Ecrix Corporation Model VXI-1A SCSI internal tape drive that I assume is obsolete (comments appreciated). Anyway, I don't have room for it. 7) Have not yet settled on a backup schedule. May be weekly or monthly or ad-hoc, but daily is probably out of the question. The RAID 1 array is expected to provide some degree of protection in leieu of daily backups. Plan to back up all documents each time, rather than implement a two-tiered backup process. Thanks! Hey, We had a similar issue trying to figure out what type of media to backup to... Tapes are great when they work. You need to store them properly, make sure the tapes aren't old and worn either. I'd only do once off, for archiving purposes, backups to DVD. We tried to try a 16 tape LTO2 autoloader, but after three dead on arrivals we scrapped that idea. We use Bacula (it's open source and in the ports) to backup to hard drive mirrors, I think it's bloody wonderful in comparison to some of the windows based tape software thats out there. I'd use bacula to either do a backup to hard drive and use virtual media that gets rotated, or buy a new set of tapes and maybe a new tape drive and have bacula manage that... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
At 07:01 PM 4/23/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. This leaves backing up user data on some schedule. I've read Backup Basics, but have some questions: Which is best backup media for a FreeBSD file server, based on known issues (or lack of) with each format? I need to decide between the following formats: a) CD-R (or CD-RW?) b) DVD-R (or CD-RW?) c) Streaming tape (which format/standard?) Which is the best method for backing up data files on a Samba sharer FreeBSD? Handbook says dump is the only way to go. Is it possible to have a Windows client perform the backup files on the Samba share to a local Re-Writable CD or DVD drive? If the answer is YES, what are the pros and cons of a UNIX-based (data-file only) backup vs. a Windows-based one? Please add to my list of pros and cons: Windows Backup: PRO: Backup can be restored to a Windows drive while server is being fixed? CON: Users might forget to replace backup disk after using optical drive. FreeBSD Backup: PRO: Out of sight from users (server is in a storeroom). CON: Cannot restore backup to a Windows disk while server is being fixed? These are some of my other considerations: 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a multi-drive solution. Best if client does not handle backups (change discs/tapes), so a solution that permits storing several backups to same disc/tape preferred. 2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at a modest rate. 3) I do NOT have a writable CD or DVD drive (but can buy one if not too spendy). 4) I have an external SCSI connection, but very little shelf space. 5) The server does not have room for another internal device (except if swapping out the existing ATAPI CD-ROM drive). 6) I have an Ecrix Corporation Model VXI-1A SCSI internal tape drive that I assume is obsolete (comments appreciated). Anyway, I don't have room for it. 7) Have not yet settled on a backup schedule. May be weekly or monthly or ad-hoc, but daily is probably out of the question. The RAID 1 array is expected to provide some degree of protection in leieu of daily backups. Plan to back up all documents each time, rather than implement a two-tiered backup process. Thanks! You already have RAID 1 so you need more of an offline, removable media solution. You need to choose between CD, DVD, or tape. That is a cost and capacity issue, you need to do some price comparisons and choose what fits your budget. You can backup and restore all files UNIX and Samba/windows from the FreeBSD but not vice-versa. You would do well to setup some automated task, as in a cron job to do the backups. You will need a human to change whatever media you choose, and move it off-site occasionally too. For FreeBSD, be sure to backup /etc /usr/local/etc. You can use dump/restore, tar, pax, cpio, or one of the ports such as bacula. -Derek -- 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: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Marsh Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 8:21 AM To: L Goodwin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers On 4/24/07, L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. I dump (man dump) my array to a spare 250GB disk within my server. - Russell DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail
On Apr 23, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote: Are you aware of any way of doing this stuff in the .mc file? Should the .cf ever be remade, these changes would be blown away Right-- seems to be for the .mc file (from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/ README): There are always users that need to be exposed -- that is, their internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade name. Root is an example (which has been exposed by default prior to 8.10). You can add users to this list using EXPOSED_USER(`usernames') ...and to change hostname use: define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `hostname.example.com') -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
L Goodwin writes: I accidentally pushed the POWER button instead of the CD-ROM door open/close button and turned the computer off. In my defense, the power button is right next to it AND has a hair trigger. :-( I turned the computer back on, and FreeBSD booted with no complaints, so I assumed all was well. That was your second error. As I learned it: On anything other than a clean shutdown, you will need to fsck everything that was mounted at the time of the crash. (Remember to get the stuff that's noauto in fstab.) Run fsck on each partitions. Repeat until it reports no errors. (Not MARKED CLEAN but not errors. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best programming language for console/sql application?
I co-developed a UNIX-based multi-product bug tracking system using an RDBMS (Informix, ISQL, Perform and ACE), bourne shell scripts, cron, and UNIX Mail. This solution also worked on PC clients (we used Reflection-X, but I'd recommend XWin32). Our design was selected over a PC-only solution that another faction was pushing (we had more UNIX clients than PC's at that time). It had some pretty sophisticated features for the time (some carried over from a previous version), including: Automated email notifications and summaries designed to support our software development methodology. Retrieve and display SCCS deltas to display code changed for a bug fix. Ability to store bug regression tests (manual and automated) in several different languages, and automatically generate automated regression tests based on several different criteria, including Product, Platform, Version Range, and Programming Language. This one was my baby (brag). I've also rewritten HPUX makefiles in bsh to permit execution on multiple UNIX platforms (HPUX make has some unique features not found in make on other UNIX platforms). Based on the above experience, I'd recommend shell scripts, though this will likely generate some opposition. In any case, if your system only needs to run on one platform, I'd use built-in tools. Since then, I've played around with using perl for CGI scripting (hated it), then PHP, which I love for this purpose. Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list This is OT. I am a 4 year php developer and is very familiar with javascript and awk (familiar = knows and used all functions and features of the language itself) and I am a 5 year FreeBSD user. Being frustrated for the lack of a good console-based issue tracking tool (like mantis or bugzilla), I think I should start to write my own. I'll either start from scratch or (better) write a frontend for mantis which I used for years. 1. If someone has already started, I should try join him/her rather than reinventing the wheel. So if someone knows any person who is starting to work on a slim console-based issue tracker, please let me know. I already did quit a few searches. I know someone is working on a console front-end of G-Forge, but a big software like G-Forge is not what I am thinking of. 2. If I start my own, I think I'll be using a console widget library (ncurse? because it's famous), an SQL database (no problem) and a programming language. I never developed console application before, so here asking for suggestions on what programming language to choose. Non of my known language php/javascript/awk are suitable so I guess I have to learn a new language anyway. The language better be easy to learn and work with (C++ is out), not necessarily have complicated calculation feature (like the graphical report mantis makes), not necessarily OOP. I have perl and tcl in my head now, can you make some recommendations? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
Thanks, Robert. Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L Goodwin writes: I accidentally pushed the POWER button instead of the CD-ROM door open/close button and turned the computer off. In my defense, the power button is right next to it AND has a hair trigger. :-( I turned the computer back on, and FreeBSD booted with no complaints, so I assumed all was well. That was your second error. As I learned it: On anything other than a clean shutdown, you will need to fsck everything that was mounted at the time of the crash. (Remember to get the stuff that's noauto in fstab.) Run fsck on each partitions. Repeat until it reports no errors. (Not MARKED CLEAN but not errors. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting ENV VARs in make.conf/ports.conf ?
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, snowcrash+freebsd wrote: hi, i've installed FreeBSD v6.2-RELEASE, plus 'portconf' 'ccache' from ports. i've setup, [..] is there a _consistent_ way of turning off NOCCACHE via the ports.conf? thanks! I'd direct this question to the ports@ mailing list. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting ENV VARs in make.conf/ports.conf ?
I'd direct this question to the ports@ mailing list. fair enough. thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best programming language for console/sql application?
If this is a product you developed long time ago, and especially if it's no longer used or the old company quit this business, it's probably possible to ask them if they can opensource the old product, and someone may come up and make it better? P.S. I was thinking of an ncurse-style interface, so can shell script do this? I thought shell tools like dialog wasn't powerful enough to support an user interface required by a bug tracker. On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 18:07 -0700, L Goodwin wrote: I co-developed a UNIX-based multi-product bug tracking system using an RDBMS (Informix, ISQL, Perform and ACE), bourne shell scripts, cron, and UNIX Mail. This solution also worked on PC clients (we used Reflection-X, but I'd recommend XWin32). Our design was selected over a PC-only solution that another faction was pushing (we had more UNIX clients than PC's at that time). It had some pretty sophisticated features for the time (some carried over from a previous version), including: Automated email notifications and summaries designed to support our software development methodology. Retrieve and display SCCS deltas to display code changed for a bug fix. Ability to store bug regression tests (manual and automated) in several different languages, and automatically generate automated regression tests based on several different criteria, including Product, Platform, Version Range, and Programming Language. This one was my baby (brag). I've also rewritten HPUX makefiles in bsh to permit execution on multiple UNIX platforms (HPUX make has some unique features not found in make on other UNIX platforms). Based on the above experience, I'd recommend shell scripts, though this will likely generate some opposition. In any case, if your system only needs to run on one platform, I'd use built-in tools. Since then, I've played around with using perl for CGI scripting (hated it), then PHP, which I love for this purpose. Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list This is OT. I am a 4 year php developer and is very familiar with javascript and awk (familiar = knows and used all functions and features of the language itself) and I am a 5 year FreeBSD user. Being frustrated for the lack of a good console-based issue tracking tool (like mantis or bugzilla), I think I should start to write my own. I'll either start from scratch or (better) write a frontend for mantis which I used for years. 1. If someone has already started, I should try join him/her rather than reinventing the wheel. So if someone knows any person who is starting to work on a slim console-based issue tracker, please let me know. I already did quit a few searches. I know someone is working on a console front-end of G-Forge, but a big software like G-Forge is not what I am thinking of. 2. If I start my own, I think I'll be using a console widget library (ncurse? because it's famous), an SQL database (no problem) and a programming language. I never developed console application before, so here asking for suggestions on what programming language to choose. Non of my known language php/javascript/awk are suitable so I guess I have to learn a new language anyway. The language better be easy to learn and work with (C++ is out), not necessarily have complicated calculation feature (like the graphical report mantis makes), not necessarily OOP. I have perl and tcl in my head now, can you make some recommendations? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice http://www.realss.com +86 592 2091112 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCIe NIC for FreeBSD 5.5
Hi, any particular reason why youre note going with 6.2? i have 6.2 running on several DL G4's and G5's (couple ML's in there too), and they all have no trouble with the broadcom nics. also, both my laptop and desktop have the broadcoms as well, and again, they work very nicely... in 6.2. only reasons are: - 5.5 is the declared legacy version of FreeBSD, for a remote server, I tend to be conservative in my choices; - I never used version 6 yet, I prefer using something I am familiar with :) - when I was away trying to install the machine, downloading FreeBSD 6.2 was not possible, while buying a card could have been possible (if any was available on the market there). I'll look at version 6.2. Thanks, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. This leaves backing up user data on some schedule. I've read Backup Basics, but have some questions: Which is best backup media for a FreeBSD file server, based on known issues (or lack of) with each format? I need to decide between the following formats: a) CD-R (or CD-RW?) b) DVD-R (or CD-RW?) c) Streaming tape (which format/standard?) For years I have been using Amanda (in the ports) to backup any servers, including Samba server, as well as some disks from PC under Windows, saving the data on a SLR 100 (Tandberg) tape. Tape dirve is expensive (and maybe out of production), tapes are not cheap, but they are reliable. Now days I would choose LTO technology I beleive. At any cost I would avoid any kind of DAT format: it acheives the capacity by high compression of the data on the tape and so the reliability is really an issue, plus the rotating head wears the tape much uch faster than any linear reccording technology. Which is the best method for backing up data files on a Samba sharer FreeBSD? Handbook says dump is the only way to go. I never looked at that part. I am using tar because it is a very universal format: the next server could be a Linux box, the tapes would still be readable, compared to dump that tend to be specific for each operating system. Is it possible to have a Windows client perform the backup files on the Samba share to a local Re-Writable CD or DVD drive? If the answer is YES, what are the pros and cons of a UNIX-based (data-file only) backup vs. a Windows-based one? Please add to my list of pros and cons: Of course it is possible: any file that the Windows machine can access through the network, it could back-it up. Windows Backup: PRO: Backup can be restored to a Windows drive while server is being fixed? CON: Users might forget to replace backup disk after using optical drive. FreeBSD Backup: PRO: Out of sight from users (server is in a storeroom). CON: Cannot restore backup to a Windows disk while server is being fixed? Except if your tape drive is dead, fixing the server is really a matter of a couple of hours: at least fixing the server enough so you can restore something from a backup tape. I once was even able to restore something from booting the server from the recovery boot... I would consider it a highly bad luck that the server is dead and at the very same time you need to do a restore. These are some of my other considerations: 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a 1) multi-drive solution. Best if client does not handle backups 1) (change discs/tapes), so a solution that permits storing several 1) backups to same disc/tape preferred. Tape is expensive. My future choice, when I have to replace the existing backup server is virtual tapes on some big hard disk (500GB SATA type of disk). Only thing to be found is the way to swap the hard drives. 2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data 2) occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at 2) a modest rate. Then install one disk and use some kind of virtual tapes on it. But that would not allow off site storage unless your disk can be moved. According the size of the data, you may consider USB connection. 3) I do NOT have a writable CD or DVD drive (but can buy one if not 3) too spendy). 4) I have an external SCSI connection, but very little shelf 4) space. 5) The server does not have room for another internal device (except 5) if swapping out the existing ATAPI CD-ROM drive). 6) I have an Ecrix Corporation Model VXI-1A SCSI internal tape drive 6) that I assume is obsolete (comments appreciated). Anyway, I don't 6) have room for it. 7) Have not yet settled on a backup schedule. May be weekly or 7) monthly or ad-hoc, but daily is probably out of the question. The 7) RAID 1 array is expected to provide some degree of protection in 7) leieu of daily backups. Plan to back up all documents each time, 7) rather than implement a two-tiered backup process. RAID 1 will not protect you against accidentally erasing a file. And even though you informed your customer that the back-up is there just in case of major system crash and does not cover the user mistakes, they will come back to you asking to restore a file that they deleted (Samba does not offer recycle-bin). So you can still think about daily incremental back-up. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
L Goodwin writes: 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a multi-drive solution. Best if client does not handle backups (change discs/tapes), so a solution that permits storing several backups to same disc/tape preferred. 2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at a modest rate. Weird as it sounds to be saying this ... 1 Gbyte is _nothing_. Buy an external hard drive that connects via USB 2.0. (100 Gbyte would last three months.) Practical transfer speed of, say, 15 Mbytes/sec means a dump will take less than 15 minutes. As for inter-OS software operability - no idea. Robert huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
My decade old Loader Express with ten 40 GB tapes finally died a couple of months ago. So, I just switched over to a different style. I don't know how applicable it is to your situation. I have used amanda for years to manage tape drives. In the latest version they support backup to hard disk. They have a disk-chg script that acts like it's changing a tape in a tape changer when really it's just pointing at a different directory on the disk. It ends up writing what otherwise would be on a tape to a file in that directory. But, it looks like a tape to amanda. Since tapes get expensive and disks are relatively cheap I went out and bought a 300 GB USB disk drive for about $90.00. Right now I have amanda configured to back things up onto 6 virtual tapes each of about 40GB, which matches the tape capacities I was using. The virtual tapes exist on the 300 MB USB disk drive. That all seems to be working. So, I am backing up 5 days a week onto a backup cycle of 6 tapes. I could mount and unmount the USB disk before and after the backups to make them a little more inaccessible when not performing a backup, but at the moment I don't. I also have an unused 8 port Power control unit that can be controlled by network or serial port. So, eventually I plan on connecting the USB disk drive to this power control unit and then modifying the disk-chg script to turn on the power to the USB disk and then mount it. Once the backup is done I'll unmount the disk drive and turn the power to the USB disk drive off via the APC control. So, my backup device will only be on-line during the backup itself. I can grow this by adding more external USB devices and modifying the disk-chg script to turn on the correct USB drive and mount it so I can have up to 8 USB devices, assuming I use a 4 port USB adaptor since the hardware only has 2 USB ports. I can add disks depending on how far back I want to save data. Each 300 GB should be able to handle a weeks worth of data at the current capacities. Anyway, to just get the 1 week depth was an ~$90.00 solution for me, the best I could find for a refurbished tape drive for my old tape changer was ~$600.00, and I can store things in the way I have been used to for that last decade, using amanda. Since I have a spare APC controller around I can expand on this at ~ $90.00 per week of backup desired, once I've provided a little software glue. Just a thought. Thanks Chris Kottaridis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) === On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:01 -0700, L Goodwin wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. This leaves backing up user data on some schedule. I've read Backup Basics, but have some questions: Which is best backup media for a FreeBSD file server, based on known issues (or lack of) with each format? I need to decide between the following formats: a) CD-R (or CD-RW?) b) DVD-R (or CD-RW?) c) Streaming tape (which format/standard?) Which is the best method for backing up data files on a Samba sharer FreeBSD? Handbook says dump is the only way to go. Is it possible to have a Windows client perform the backup files on the Samba share to a local Re-Writable CD or DVD drive? If the answer is YES, what are the pros and cons of a UNIX-based (data-file only) backup vs. a Windows-based one? Please add to my list of pros and cons: Windows Backup: PRO: Backup can be restored to a Windows drive while server is being fixed? CON: Users might forget to replace backup disk after using optical drive. FreeBSD Backup: PRO: Out of sight from users (server is in a storeroom). CON: Cannot restore backup to a Windows disk while server is being fixed? These are some of my other considerations: 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a multi-drive solution. Best if client does not handle backups (change discs/tapes), so a solution that permits storing several backups to same disc/tape preferred. 2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at a modest rate. 3) I do NOT have a writable CD or DVD drive (but can buy one if not too spendy). 4) I have an external SCSI connection, but very little shelf space. 5) The server does not have room for another internal device (except if swapping out the existing ATAPI CD-ROM drive). 6) I have an Ecrix Corporation Model VXI-1A SCSI internal tape drive that I assume is obsolete (comments appreciated). Anyway, I don't have room for it. 7) Have not yet settled on a backup schedule. May be weekly or monthly or ad-hoc, but
Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
Since tapes get expensive and disks are relatively cheap I went out and bought a 300 GB USB disk drive for about $90.00. Right now I have amanda configured to back things up onto 6 virtual tapes each of about 40GB, USB is a nice and cheap solution, as long as you don't have too much data to back-up every time. If you have 40GB per day, that would take 10 hours... a bit too much :) Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?
On 4/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/04/07, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri said: On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it comes to web media. I hope they kill each other and take the whole retch-media enhanced web experience with them flaming into the pit of hell from which they came. But that's just my opinion. References: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=boiling_blood I'm sorry but rich media is a fact in the web, and you can't ignore it. Flash is used with Yahoo! maps, and so with alot of useful apps like stocks prices ..etc. Instead of ignoring it, we should see it ported to FreeBSD. I agree. As much as I personally dislike flash, I have business clients who would be willing to switch from Micro$oft to FreeBSD. The main stumbling block is the lack of stable flash support. Where I have deployed test versions of FreeBSD with either OO or KDE with Firefox, they were generally happy except for flash. This is one of the things we need to overcome if we're ever going to be seriously considered as a desktop os. Most clients expect the browser to at least work as well as Micro$oft, however misguided that is. Being taken seriously is over-rated. Being taken seriously as a desktop OS would be an excellent joke was the reality of it not so horrifying. Televisions are much better at providing the sort of cacaphonic nonsense that flash users have come to expect. I am pleased clicking a link and coming across the dreadful, Must have MorkothMedia Flush Player 45.6 or newer installed to use this site. Honestly, I was expecting something jumbly but likely full of information. The download plugin box tells me that I have just saved the time of listening to some irritating music while it dawns on me that I have hit a dead end. The primary use of flash, as I have seen it in such places as you-tube and yahoo, is as a content slash copyright management* frontend. That they, the shadowy and sinister They in this case being that loveable and fuzzy company named after dried mud, even tried porting flash to linux was probably widely regarded as a mistake, at least internally. Porting it to even smaller-market operating systems, as far as the desktop is concerned, sounds like a losing proposition to me. Especially ones with users Quote: What should the BSDs do? As I've said several times in the last five years, that depends on what the projects want. But if we want to be seen as a viable alternative for use by non-developers, my big issue is that we need to understand the end user perspective. We can't just say of any feature If there's nobody there to support it, axe it. As long as there are people who want that feature, we need to support it. If we don't, BSD is gradually going to be usable only by software developers. Greg Lehey, 2004 http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/dadvocate.html Quote: FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is quickly approaching feature parity with Linux. Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop, Long said. Within the year, we expect to have, or be near, parity with Linux. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]