Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller on FreeBSD7.0 Current
I typed this: #kldload snd_hda #cat /dev/sndstat/ Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xfebfc000 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20070710_0047] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) # Now I have add device sound in Kernel Configuration. #ee /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC now I don't know where exactly I have to add device sound. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller on FreeBSD7.0 Current
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:39:59PM +0800, Tsetsbold wrote: I typed this: #kldload snd_hda #cat /dev/sndstat/ Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xfebfc000 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20070710_0047] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) # Now I have add device sound in Kernel Configuration. #ee /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC now I don't know where exactly I have to add device sound. Anywhere, but I usually put new things at the bottom of this file. but you probably also have to add device snd_hda ___ 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]
Formatting man pages - txt file
Hello, I'd like to get a man page in .txt format. What I tried was man man man.txt, but this gives me the man pages with many control char. How can I get a man page to be formatted to a regular .txt file? Thanks, Alain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: uid 80: exited on signal 6
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: szalbot.homedns.org kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.BfIqepKO Fri Oct 12 03:08:35 2007 +pid 82543 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 82542 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 82541 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 82537 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 82533 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 82536 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 82535 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 82534 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 +pid 3653 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 This means that the httpd child processes are crashing, most likely in response to a request. Because apache creates child processes dynamically to handle load (at least, with the default MPM) these crashed processes are automatically replaced, and the server continues happily servicing requests. It might be a good idea to go through your access and error logs and see if there are any suspicious-looking or unusually long requests that might be trying to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in apache or a module thereof. If you are using mod_php, though, it's more likely that it's a bug in PHP or a PHP extension that's being flushed out by some rarely used script on your server. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ECC capability and ACPI warnings
Hi! Is there any way, by poking through dmesg or sysctls, to determine if a machine has, or is capable of using, ECC RAM? Also, is there an easy way to silence the following warnings in dmesg? They all appear to be about the serial and parallel ports, which, as far as I know, the machine does have. They may not be enabled in the BIOS, however. acpi0: PTLTD RSDT on motherboard ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [Z00Q] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND SearchNode 0xc4b47040 StartNode 0xc4b47040 ReturnNode 0 ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.SIO_.COM1._STA] (Node 0xc4b47040), AE_NOT_FOUND ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [Z00Q] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND SearchNode 0xc4afdce0 StartNode 0xc4afdce0 ReturnNode 0 ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.SIO_.COM2._STA] (Node 0xc4afdce0), AE_NOT_FOUND ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [Z00Q] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND SearchNode 0xc4afdae0 StartNode 0xc4afdae0 ReturnNode 0 ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.SIO_.LPT_._STA] (Node 0xc4afdae0), AE_NOT_FOUND Thanks! -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amanda failing on sendsize
Hi, I just upgraded amanda-client and gtar: gtar-1.18_1 GNU version of the traditional tar archiver amanda-client-2.5.1p3_1,1 The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver on a 5.5 server FreeBSD ufo.cs.ait.ac.th 5.5-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p15 #7: Wed Oct 3 10:17:29 ICT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 and last night bacup failed with sendsize coredump. kernel: Oct 12 00:50:59 ufo kernel: pid 64313 (sendsize), uid 14: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) While I am looking at it, any idea about where I could search is welcome. 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]
Re: BitTorrent configuration in FreeBSD-6.2 -for Large file downloads uploads
dhaneshk k wrote: But how I can use Bittorrent to serve these big files to the remote users of my website (so that I can save a lot of bandwidth of my network connection ) The Bittorent is installed in this box was( py24-BitTorrent-4.20.2_1,1 ) . I have the ISO images , but how can I put these ISO's to be served via Bittorrent how others can accesss these iso's from my webserver through bittorrent To serve torrents, you need a tracker, and you need clients to seed. Fortunately, your server can work as both. On the subject of trackers: There are quite a few PHP trackers around, though the one I use is Torrent Trader Lite. (http://www.torrenttrader.com/) This is a lightweight tracker that stores all its information in flatfiles, so no rdbms is necessary. This should be placed on a publicly accessible URL, so that the people who wish to download via bittorrent can use it. You may also consider creating and uploading torrents to a popular public tracker, such as The Pirate Bay, to boost exposure and reduce the amount of software you must deal with. I would suggest avoiding registration-required trackers if you're hoping for impulse downloads, though, as mandatory registration can be a bit of a turnoff for a lot of people. On the subject of clients: There are a myriad of bittorrent clients in existence, but most of them require some form of graphical interface. You've found one of the best for console downloading, but it still can't be run in the background (ignoring for the moment running things in screen). The software I use for downloading torrents is TorrentFlux (http://www.torrentflux.com/). It is a PHP webapp frontend to BitTornado (a fork of BitTorrent) designed to run the torrents in the background, while providing a pretty interface for controlling them. As this will act as your seed, this should be kept private and password-protected. Best of all, both of these solutions can be run through your current webserver infrastructure, via virtual hosts or simple subdirectories. After getting your tracker and client set up, you can use TorrentFlux to create a .torrent file for your chosen ISO or group of ISOs, specify your tracker's announce URL, register the .torrent file with your tracker (if necessary) and start seeding, and your bittorrent-savvy visitors can torrent to their heart's content. A big notice, though: BitTorrent won't initially save bandwidth, especially if your server is the only seeder, and may actually be much slower if the files aren't very popular, as there won't be as many other visitors to help distribute chunks of the files. I hope this helps! -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:39 PM, James wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:14 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: James writes: What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in /usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall everything that exists there. Having been in almost the identical situation for different rasons, I sympathize. Yes, this will involve a sweep through /usr/ports distfiles. If you haven't ever deleted anything, I suggest a prelimiary manual run deleting everything but the most recent version. This has a down-side, but it will prevent cluttering the rebuilt system with unused ports. /usr/ports/distfiles is definitely looking promising. awk is too damn painful to work with, so I'm going to dust off my perl skills. Hell, this could actually turn out to be fun. And if I write the script properly, it might make a nice disaster recovery tool for /usr/ports/ports-mgmt - it can be called WhenYou'reAnIdiotLikeJamesWasOnFreeBSDQuestions Well, if you figure out what ports you have installed, you can regenerate the pkgdb using: make -DNO_BUILD -DNO_INSTALL generate-plist fake-pkg for each port. I just tested that using a temporary PKG_DBDIR. In case you wanna see what happens, here's what I did: mkdir -p /tmp/var/db/pkg cd /usr/ports/shells/bash env PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/var/db/pkg make -DNO_BUILD -DNO_INSTALL \ generate-plist fake-pkg Wow, that's great! I understand that it has the caveats that you mentioned, but it's *at least* a fantastic start. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't run 'make clean' then you can look for the 'work' directory to know if you've installed it or not. But some of the port tools automatically run make clean for you so they would disappear. A simple 'find /usr/ports -type d -name work' would probably work well enough unless you wanted it all automated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what kind of UPS will work best?
Hi,
the *why*. Is there a best type to save me from this? Do any of
these power supplies come with scripts to shutdown a Unix {or
Linux} computer? Is there a UPS that is designed for heavy use
and a very short (5- to 10-second) uptime? I'll need one that can
interface thru the COM ports or the UBS port, if that is how
these devices work.
Sorry if I jump in the thread. When it comes to detecting a power
outage and shutingdown nicely your server, a cheap/easy way is for the
server (on the UPS) to check through the network for a low grade PC
(not on the UPS). If the low grade PC is down, it means the power is
off and the server should consider a shutdown.
Dirty trick, but it works.
Best regards,
Olivier
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RE: what kind of UPS will work best?
Hi Gary,
I've owned and worked with at least a dozen different UPS brands.
The best UPS I have - which I have right now powering several systems,
is a Best Power Ferrups FE series. I don't think they make it anymore,
sorry!
As for the APC units - the APC standby units are everyone's whore.
I have a collection of them that have failed for a variety of reasons.
They have their problems.
The worst part about the APC units are the batteries. If you decide
to go APC, when it comes time to replace the batteries you -must- buy
the most expensive lead acid gel cells you can find. You cannot put in
the cheap Chinese batteries and have them last. The reason is that
APC has deliberately calibrated their charging circuitry to fast-charge
the batteries and they use fast charge curves that will destroy the
cheap batteries very quickly. By contrast most everyone else in the
industry uses feedback circuits that measure how fast the battery is
taking a recharge and will not boil dry the cheap batteries. Last time
I changed batteries in my Best unit was 9/2004 and they are still going
strong and I used the cheap Chinese batteries. By contrast all the
APC units I had which I got the same cheap batteries for, have dead
batteries in them now.
Now, it may be in the brand new APC's they have changed things. I
noticed in the last new APC unit we sold that APC had switched to
cheaper cells from Better Battery rather than the more spendy cells
from Panasonic that they used in their older UPSes. But, I still think
there are better deals to be had.
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Hi Folks,
Recently, a storm happened and the power surge blew me
off-line. Time to get serious about buying a UPS that will
handle my four main servers for at-most, a 10-second power
outage. After that, shut down my computers. It took me 90
minutes of up and down and crawling around last time. That's
the *why*. Is there a best type to save me from this? Do any of
these power supplies come with scripts to shutdown a Unix {or
Linux} computer? Is there a UPS that is designed for heavy use
and a very short (5- to 10-second) uptime? I'll need one that can
interface thru the COM ports or the UBS port, if that is how
these devices work.
tia,
gary
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Re: genuine bulk email
On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like Your Document, Thank you for your inquiry. below is a link to the brochures as requested, in Adobe Acrobat format. It includes the YYY Airport Hotel and other information which may be useful. We thank you for your query. Your Document may be found here http://host/path/aa- hrcc-20071012113659-20zi0rfoknv6gdi1w4bls0psd0.pdf Sales Team It could be personalised a bit more, When you personalize that give the date and IP address of the request. Something like ... the brochures you requested at TIME from IP. but is there anything at a system level that can be done to make emails less likely to be classified as spam? The most crucial thing is the status of IP of the host sending the mail o Does it have a proper DNS PTR (reverse DNS) record? o Are you using SPF or DomainKeys to show that that IP address is authorized to send mail in the sending domain's name? o Do you have working postmaster and abuse addresses for the domain you are sending from? o Do you have a static IP address? o Are you clear of any major blacklists? o Can you demonstrate that every recipient really did request the mail? Each of those are far more important than whether you attach a PDF. (By the way, say it's PDF or even Adobe's PDF, but not Adobe Acrobat format.) I assume that spammers try very hard and fail, so is this kind of email application effectively dead in the water before it starts? Automatic mailing is fine. What is important is how the email addresses were acquired. -j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenEXR linking error
On Oct 12, 2007, at 6:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Philipp. At least I know that it is me. It's not just you. I've been following the instructions in /usr/ ports/UPDATING and have been getting the exact failure you describe when trying to build OpenEXR. I'm using 6.2-RELENG Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting coredumps from Apache
Hello! I have apache22 (with standard prefork mpm) and php5 (Apache module) installed from ports. I'm noticing a lot of httpd children dying with signal 11 messages and would like to get a coredump in order to diagnose the problem. However, I can't get any coredumps from Apache. I created a directory for coredumps: # ls -ld /var/apache drwxrwxrwx 2 www wheel 512 Oct 12 14:12 /var/apache Added this to httpd.conf: CoreDumpDirectory /var/apache and set sysctl kern.sugid_coredump=1 Made sure there are no process limits applied to Apache. Restarted Apache Signal 11 errors continue, but nothing gets recorded to /var/amanda. What am I missing? -- Toomas Aas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1 TB data copy
Hi all, We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. Thanks BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:11:56AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: FreeBSD is not Windows. True statement - thank heaven. You cannot have another root in the system. Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this is NOT a true statement. You can create as many ids with a '0' UID as you want. It may not be But they are the same as it is still the same UID. Under WIndows, you can create as many 'root' accounts you want. I think you misunderstand what is being said. An account with a UID of 0 in UNIX is root for all practical purposed. The only difference is that it has a different name and it can have a different home directory if you want to keep them separate - but you don't have to. To repeat, any account with a UID of 0 is root. It does not depend on the name of the account, but the UID. You can call the account anything and if its UID is 0, then it is root. UID (User ID) refers to the number that the system uses internally to identify the account and its priviledges. To be really complete, make it have a GID (Group ID) of 0 which is the 'wheel' group in FreeBSD. Some UNIXes make wheel be 10, but FreeBSD follows the original standard of it being 0. root is special. Yes, because it has a UID of 0. Allow then all members of wheel to access the files needed by the group wheel. Not the best idea. Really not. But at least better than to work as root. What you left out is the better way of doing it and that is to leave the file GID be whatever it naturally should be. Then use su to set your effective UID to 0 - eg give yourself root priviledge and then work with the files. Don't set a lot of files to wheel GID and then give a lot of people wheel GID, because that will make it possible for all of them to become root and do more than just muck with those files. jerry I would not do this as it creates many security wholes. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a beginner
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. I forgot one more important thing. Subscribe to this list -- FreeBSD-questions and probably at least FreeBSD-announce and maybe FreeBSD-newbies and read through all the discussions. Some you will learn to ignore and you will also learn to filter out the flame wars - which are surprisingly few on the FreeBSD lists, compared to some others. Once you have read and tried things in the handbook, if you have more specific questions - and you will - then post them to this or one of the other FreeBSD lists or the list for which ever port you are trying to manage. People here are pretty good about answering questions if you have made the good effort to find answers yourself, but can get a little sarcastic, if it is apparent that you haven't done your homework yet. jerry Connie Webb Montgomery County Courts Helpdesk Specialist 41 N. Perry Street Dayton, Ohio Phone: 937-225-3480 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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]
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a beginner
Connie, I'm beginner, too. On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:47 -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. I guess you need first to have a look at Documentation's section on FreeBSD WWW site. Here is the link: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html In my case, actually I need to learn reading and writing in English as a first step. Then I can read and understand the above link ;; May the FreeBSD be with you! Sincerely, -- Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. -- Vito Corleone, Chapter 1, page 38 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
Hi all, Installed the following sysutils/fusefs-ntfs sysutils/ntfsprogs When I run the command ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/windows I get the error message fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory Thank you On 10/12/07, CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. As I recall, the native FreeBSD NTFS support is read-only. However, the NTFS-3g project has a mostly complete (and pretty safe) read/write implementation as a FUSE program, which can be found in ports: sysutils/fusefs-ntfs sysutils/ntfsprogs FreeBSD NTFS is not read only, but there are restrictions on what it can write. To quote the man page: There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparses (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac- ters. If your file name uses only ASCII characters, you will be probably be OK using mount_ntfs to write to an NTFS filesystem. I've used it for years, but mostly for reading files. The few times I've used it for writing, it worked fine. I think you are most likely to have problems if you use it to edit an existing file. - Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:57:59AM -0600, James wrote: This isn't quite as simple as I'd hoped it'd be to fix. Here's my findings thus far (I haven't started writing my script yet, but I will later today): 1. /usr/ports/distfiles contains everything I need 2. distfiles contains several versions of some packages, but that's pretty trivial to resolve. 3. distfiles contains some packages whose source tarballs are named *differently* to the packages themselves, such as unrar. A few more problems: a) Not every port will have a corresponding tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles. A few ports have all the source directly in the ports tree. This means that your point 1) above is not necessarily true. b) Several ports have many tarballs in /usr/ports/distfiles c) A few of the tarballs can be used by more than one port. It's number 3 that's getting me. It looks like the simplest thing might be an if statement: if (make search name=$PACKAGE) score! else grep -r $PACKAGE /usr/ports But before I go that far, I wanted to see if anyone had an alternate idea for what might work. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [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: 1 TB data copy
On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. Thanks BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The fastest approach would likely be to use Samba to transfer the files between the computers and then backup onto the usb drive from FreeBSD. But it'd help to use gigabit ethernet cards too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: driver for LSI megaraid sas 8708 ELP in FreeBSD 6.2
--On 12 octobre 2007 13:32:17 + Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Small correction I meant 7-STABLE since RELENG is not done certifying it I found 7-current-200709 on ftp.freebsd.org but when I boot on it, it didn't recognize my virtual disk ( raid 5 ) plugged on this card . This version doesn't seem to manage this card too. A cvsup upgrade should fix that. I can't , It 's a new server I haven't got another disk in it, and its not possible to do it. I must have a CD-ROM to boot. I don't how to do such CD from another machine, installed with this version -- Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system admin question...
Gary Kline skrev: This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or CWTM, KDE, Whatever] workspace that will help me track each of my four or five computers? (((Is xosview broken? I have it running here on this pre xorg-7.2 system.))) xsysstats seems reasonable; are there any others? I'd like to be able to spot any overloads of file system snafus before they go critical... . thanks for any|all insights, gary Nagios and Cacti are your friends ;^) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system admin question...
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Mel wrote:
On Friday 12 October 2007 02:43:23 Gary Kline wrote:
((A parenthetical note):
In prep for this posting I finished (or expanded) my
mail-strip program that eliminates most of the cruft and
leaves the body. )
So I'll look at bigsister, conky, nagios, monit, and Ksysguard.
(Mel, if you have a cheatsheet for Ksysguard, that would be a
big win.) The more I can automate, the better.
Hmm, the cheatsheet would be:
- ssh-keygen -d = create passwordless ssh key
- ${EDITOR} ~/.ssh/config = setup configfile to use the passwordless key to
those machines. A nice trick is to use CNAME/A record in your local dns,
with 'sysguard.machinename.local.domain' and set that as Host for the
passwordless key. This allows you to use keys with passwords on normal
hostname, should you desire so.
The rest is drag'n'drop - create new tabs for a host and drag the infomodule
over that you want displayed. Right-click for properties, like size and graph
type then save the worksheet. Once the worksheet is setup, nothing on the
remote machine is needed and you can set it as default, create/open new ones
etc. This is really personal preference. I create worksheets per type
(load/memory/disks) and have all machines in different tabs, but others might
find it more useful to create worksheets per machine.
I've set up the paswordless ssh keys before. The *rest* of it--
especially using GUI tools--may drive me up the wall! Or maybe
not; maybe I'm getting uesd to these graphic tools:-)
thanks, and I may tap you on the shoulder, offline! if I get wedged
gary
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Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Friday 12 October 2007 18:57:59 James wrote:
This isn't quite as simple as I'd hoped it'd be to fix. Here's my
findings thus far (I haven't started writing my script yet, but I will
later today):
1. /usr/ports/distfiles contains everything I need
2. distfiles contains several versions of some packages, but that's
pretty trivial to resolve.
3. distfiles contains some packages whose source tarballs are named
*differently* to the packages themselves, such as unrar.
It's number 3 that's getting me. It looks like the simplest thing might
be an if statement:
if (make search name=$PACKAGE)
score!
else
grep -r $PACKAGE /usr/ports
But before I go that far, I wanted to see if anyone had an alternate
idea for what might work.
Depends on your time and harddisk speed I suppose. You could:
for CAT in *; do
if test -d ${CAT}; then
cd ${PORTSDIR:=/usr/ports}/${CAT}
for PORT in *; do
if test -d ${PORT}; then
cd ${PORT}
make -V DISTNAME /usr/ports/distname.idx
cd ..
fi
done
fi
done
This would give you a distname index to work with. I checked INDEX-6 but don't
see a DISTNAME listed in there. I suppose I'd make the decision myself based
on how many I can't locate. Doing this for 10 ports I can easily guess myself
is nice for academics, but not when you're on the clock.
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Re: a beginner
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Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server
Hi, I have an new NFS server that is processing roughly 15mbit of NFS traffic that we recently upgraded from an older 4.10 box. It has a 3-ware raid card, and is serving NFS out a single em nic to LAN clients. The machine works great just serving NFS, but when I try to copy data from one raid volume to another for backups, the machine's NFS performance goes way down, and NFS ops start taking multiple seconds to perform. The file copy goes quite quickly, as would be expected. The console of the machine also starts to lag pretty badly, and I get the 'typing through mud' effect. I use rdist6 to do the backup. My first impression was that I was having interrupt issues, since during the backup, the em interfaces were pushing over 200k interrupts/sec (roughly 60% CPU processing interrupts). So I recompiled the kernel with polling enabled and enabled it on the NICs. The strange thing is that polling shows enabled in ifconfig, but systat -vm still shows the same amount of interrupts. I get the same performance with polling enabled. I'm looking for some guidance on why the machine bogs so much during what seems to me to be something that should barely impact machine performance at all. The old machine was 6 years old running an old intel raid5, and it handled NFS and the concurrent file copies without a sweat. My 3ware is setup as follows: a 2 disk mirror, for the system a 4 disk raid10, for /mnt/data1 a 4 disk raid10, for /mnt/data2 Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 #0: Thu Oct 11 10:43:22 PDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MADONNA Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.66GHz (2670.65-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6f4 Stepping = 4 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4e3bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,b9,CX16,b14,b15,b18 AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 real memory = 4831838208 (4608 MB) avail memory = 4125257728 (3934 MB) ACPI APIC Table: INTEL S5000PSL ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard lapic0: Forcing LINT1 to edge trigger kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: INTEL S5000PSL on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu0 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 acpi_button1: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xca2,0xca3,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci2 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci2 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9 port 0x3020-0x303f mem 0xf882-0xf883,0xf840-0xf87f irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci5 em0: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:21:bf:30 em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9 port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xf880-0xf881,0xf800-0xf83f irq 19 at device 0.1 on pci5 em1: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:21:bf:31 pcib6: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.3 on pci1 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib6 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 3.60.02.012 twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0x2000-0x203f mem 0xfa00-0xfbff,0xf890-0xf8900fff irq 26 at device 2.0 on pci6 twa0: [GIANT-LOCKED] twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: Model 9550SX-12, 12 ports, Firmware FE9X 3.08.00.004, BIOS BE9X 3.08.00.002 pcib7: PCI-PCI bridge at device 3.0 on pci0 pci7: PCI bus on pcib7 pcib8: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 4.0 on pci0 pci8: ACPI PCI bus on pcib8 pcib9: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 5.0 on pci0 pci9: ACPI PCI bus on pcib9 pcib10: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 6.0 on pci0 pci10: ACPI PCI bus on pcib10 pcib11: PCI-PCI bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 pci11: PCI bus on pcib11 pci0: base peripheral at device 8.0 (no driver attached) pcib12: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci12: ACPI PCI bus on pcib12 uhci0: UHCI (generic) USB controller port 0x4080-0x409f irq 23 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI
Re: genuine bulk email
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be sending from xxx.com should my RDNS point back to xxx.com? Presumably I can have only one IP--domain ptr. I suspect it will be easier to set up the front end machine as that is supposed to be for the same client. The checking will work fine with virtual domains. What matters is that DNS(rDNS(IP)) = IP = DNS(vhost) I think I've got that right. (It's a bit more complicated to state when MXes and multiple A records for the same name are considered, but this is the general idea.) Also it's not so much the header FROM or the envelope FROM, but the HELO string that is checked here. For SPF and DomainKeys, it is the envelope FROM that is checked against the IP. Presumably your mailer gives a constant HELO irrespective of the vhost that is in the envelope FROM. Automatic mailing is fine. What is important is how the email addresses were acquired. .. this isn't automatic, the sales people manually enter all the details. And how do the sales people acquire the data? I'm sure that it's okay, but you may want to have a small description of the process on your web page that you could point postmasters to if a question arises. -j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: genuine bulk email
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be sending from xxx.com should my RDNS point back to xxx.com? Presumably I can have only one IP--domain ptr. I suspect it will be easier to set up the front end machine as that is supposed to be for the same client. Supporting several e-mail domains on one server is not a problem. There is no general requirement that the mail server for a domain 'foo.com' have an address within foo.com --- you can quite freely have your e-mail handled by a third party. The important things to make sure of are: * Your mail server HELOs with a valid domain name, and that domain name should correspond to the IP that the mail server connects as, both forwards and backwards. Note: 'connects as' -- if your mail server is behind a NAT gateway, you will have to take that into account in your configuration. * Don't use the sort of domain name that is a thinly disguised IP number: eg: host12-34-56-78.provider.net -- this sort of hostname is a pretty good diagnostic for a spam source and some mail admins will go as far as immediately rejecting messages from such addresses. * Don't use addresses from dynamic IP number pools used for residential ADSL services. These overlaps a great deal with the above, and are frequently rejected for much the same sort of reasons. (There are entire RBL lists dedicated to enumerating such residential IP address blocks). * Do use static IP numbers from ranges specifically allocated to you. * Do make sure that you provide appropriate SPF records with include the name / IP your mail server HELOs as. Or if you aren't a believer in SPF, then either use a neutral entry like v:spf1 ~all or no entry at all. * Make sure that [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and possibly a few other common addresses are accepted by your domain, the messages are read and acted upon promptly. You should exempt these addresses as far as possible from all forms of anti-spam filtering. 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 v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHD6Ml8Mjk52CukIwRCAPoAJ9vZHSKOJXkQDQu+DXCAZPXeyXG2ACdGrJo 0Rl46a+eYzlYjy6IHR26Us0= =tpFm -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: batch conversion of TeX
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:44:44AM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
Those who have followed my openoffice to TeX conversion know I am brand
new to TeX and want to know how to do the following conversions
(hopefully via some non-interactive process [eg. Make files]):
TeX--plain text
detex
TeX--HTML
tex4ht
TeX--PDF
pdftex
TeX--PS
tex + dvips
All these programs come with a modern TeX distribution (I use texlive).
How to use these in a makefile depends on what you have. For a simple
document, processing with the command in question suffices.
But if you use footnotes and references, you need multiple passes to
sort everything out. If your document has an index and a bibliography,
you'll need to use makeindex and bibtex.
Here's an example of a Makefile for a long document of mine;
DOCSRC = logboek_RFS_II.tex
DOCPDF = $(DOCSRC:.tex=.pdf)
SUBDIR = grafieken figuren raytrace lam calc
$(DOCPDF): ${SUBDIR} $(DOCSRC) lbref.bib
@echo -n Regenerating the logbook...
@! pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode -file-line-error $*.tex | grep -A
1 '^l\.'
@makeindex -c -s myindex.ist $*.idx 2/dev/null
@bibtex $* /dev/null
@pdflatex --interaction batchmode -file-line-error $*.tex /dev/null
@makeindex -c -s myindex.ist $*.idx 2/dev/null
@pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode -file-line-error $*.tex /dev/null
@! pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode -file-line-error $*.tex |grep
Warning
@rm -f $*.lo* $*.aux $*.ilg $*.ind $*.toc $*.bbl $*.blg
@echo Done.
${SUBDIR}::
@cd ${.TARGET}; make ${.TARGETS}
clean: ${SUBDIR}
@rm -f *.lo* *.aux *.ilg *.ind *.toc *.bbl *.blg
@rm -f $(DOCPDF)
This Makefile also runs make in several subdirectories.
Roland
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Howto: Prepare USB key with FreeDOS using FreeBSD
Hello. Well, I have a bunch of TYAN S2925B based boxes, all without floppy drives. For BIOS flash preparation I need an installation media and due to the fact I do not have a Windows XP box or FreeDOS box I need my laptop for creation of a bootable USB key media with the appropriate BIOS flash images and flashing tools. It seems to be a desaster. Every Wiki I visited looking for the subject referes to Gentoo/FreeDOS or highly complicated voodoo sessions installing first some files on floppy drive and the creating a bootable USB key ... blabla. Sorry, but I do not have FreeDOS running nor do I have Linux/Gentoo or Windows XP, I run FreeBSD on all of my machines. But in the age of legacy free computers, were floppy drives seems to be not essential anymore I run into massif problems having a legacy free server from TYAN without the ability taking any BIOS images from an USB key :-( The problem is I picked up some memory issues which have been solved with one of the newer BIOS images so I desperately need an update solution. Does anyone do have an idea? Thanks a lot in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a beginner
On Friday 12 October 2007 17:47:17 Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/getting-started.html Connie Webb Montgomery County Courts Helpdesk Specialist :D -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about HUP'ing nfsd
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 08:25 -0700, Michael Smith wrote: Hello All: We have a NAS that's running 6.2 with nfds, mountd, rpc_statd, rpcbind and rpc_lockd. Last night we had a scenario where nfs clients, once disconnected, couldn't reconnect to the NAS, reporting RPC timeouts. I've had RPC timeouts before. Turned out my NFS was misconfigured - I had a weird flag in /etc/rc.conf that was preventing mountd from loading. Could be someone made an undocumented change - you may want to check it. My question is, in troubleshooting this sort of thing, is there a proper sequence for stopping and restarting the various services associated with nfs? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Linux usually likes an exportfs -r, service portmap restart, service nfs restart. I've usually gone for a similar thing in FreeBSD. Something like: /etc/rc.d/mountd onereload /etc/rc.d/nfs restart I think that does it all. Otherwise, there's always shutdown NOW and then a ctrl-d. If you're not sshing in, of course. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: driver for LSI megaraid sas 8708 ELP in FreeBSD 6.2
--On 12 octobre 2007 07:52:07 + Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if 7-RELEASE supports it or not but you might want to try it... for anyone else reading and unaware 7-CURRENT became 7-RELEASE and CURRENT is now 8-CURRENT as of yesterday (at least in cvsup). Small correction I meant 7-STABLE since RELENG is not done certifying it I found 7-current-200709 on ftp.freebsd.org but when I boot on it, it didn't recognize my virtual disk ( raid 5 ) plugged on this card . This version doesn't seem to manage this card too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Questions about HUP'ing nfsd
Hello All: We have a NAS that's running 6.2 with nfds, mountd, rpc_statd, rpcbind and rpc_lockd. Last night we had a scenario where nfs clients, once disconnected, couldn't reconnect to the NAS, reporting RPC timeouts. We attempted to restart all of the services above in various orders, but we were not able to get the clients reconnected. We ultimately rebooted the NAS server and all was well. My question is, in troubleshooting this sort of thing, is there a proper sequence for stopping and restarting the various services associated with nfs? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system admin question...
On Friday 12 October 2007 02:43:23 Gary Kline wrote:
((A parenthetical note):
In prep for this posting I finished (or expanded) my
mail-strip program that eliminates most of the cruft and
leaves the body. )
So I'll look at bigsister, conky, nagios, monit, and Ksysguard.
(Mel, if you have a cheatsheet for Ksysguard, that would be a
big win.) The more I can automate, the better.
Hmm, the cheatsheet would be:
- ssh-keygen -d = create passwordless ssh key
- ${EDITOR} ~/.ssh/config = setup configfile to use the passwordless key to
those machines. A nice trick is to use CNAME/A record in your local dns,
with 'sysguard.machinename.local.domain' and set that as Host for the
passwordless key. This allows you to use keys with passwords on normal
hostname, should you desire so.
The rest is drag'n'drop - create new tabs for a host and drag the infomodule
over that you want displayed. Right-click for properties, like size and graph
type then save the worksheet. Once the worksheet is setup, nothing on the
remote machine is needed and you can set it as default, create/open new ones
etc. This is really personal preference. I create worksheets per type
(load/memory/disks) and have all machines in different tabs, but others might
find it more useful to create worksheets per machine.
--
Mel
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Re: batch conversion of TeX
On 2007-10-12 09:44, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those who have followed my openoffice to TeX conversion know I am brand new to TeX and want to know how to do the following conversions (hopefully via some non-interactive process [eg. Make files]): TeX--plain text TeX--HTML TeX--PDF TeX--PS I usually start by writing something like this in a Makefile: DOC = foo SRC = $(DOC).tex PDF = $(DOC).pdf PDFLATEX = pdflatex all: $(PDF) $(PDF): $(SRC) $(PDFLATEX) $(SRC) $(PDFLATEX) $(SRC) The two runs of $(PDFLATEX) are necessary to get cross-references correct in documents with internal cross-references. There are other tools, like texindex(1) which you may want to throw into the mix. The TeX toolchain is described in detail in the documentation which is available online at CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). It may be interesting for you to at least skim through the docs available at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/ All the books available at the `info' directory are useful, and many of them are excellent examples of what you can do by typesetting with TeX. Some of my favorites are: * ``Components of TeX'' http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/components-of-TeX/ * ``Essential information for writing LaTeX documents'' http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-essential/ * ``Making TeX Work'' http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/makingtexwork/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with text-append over SSH ?
On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. Normally, I would do this locally with: cat file1 file2 But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? Try running: cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd file2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install FreeBSD on hp notebook
Hello everyone! I have a hp 6515b notebook , the cpu is amd athlon(tm) 64x2 dual core tk-53(1700mhz), with 512m shared ddrII memory , and the gpu is ati radeon x1250. I've download the 6.2-release-amd64-disc1.iso , but there are some problems when I install the freebsd on the notebook , sometimes the install process stop at probing device , and sometimes stop at selecting country with the keyboard has no response . Is there anyone who has some experience on this ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
Quoting Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. I expect the filesystem is the problem. Windows doesn't understand UFS. FAT has been the traditional solution to this, since just about every OS understands FAT, but I don't believe FAT will support files as large as you're working with. I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. However, I think that's your only option. Luckily, since you're just using the USB drive to move a file, and can keep it safe in another location until you're sure it transferred safely, this shouldn't be too risky. I would format the drive with the Windows machine and make it NTFS, then work with the FreeBSD mount options to get FreeBSD to mount it. Have a look at mount_ntfs. I agree with your approach but, mount_ntfs is still essentially read-only. Fortunately ntfs-3g has been ported (using FUSE), so the OP should be able to use that instead. See the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. I expect the filesystem is the problem. Windows doesn't understand UFS. FAT has been the traditional solution to this, since just about every OS understands FAT, but I don't believe FAT will support files as large as you're working with. I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. However, I think that's your only option. Luckily, since you're just using the USB drive to move a file, and can keep it safe in another location until you're sure it transferred safely, this shouldn't be too risky. I would format the drive with the Windows machine and make it NTFS, then work with the FreeBSD mount options to get FreeBSD to mount it. Have a look at mount_ntfs. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with text-append over SSH ?
On Friday 12 October 2007 01:49:04 Juri Mianovich wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. Normally, I would do this locally with: cat file1 file2 But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? With echo or dd I don't know. With cat you can do it this way: cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat file2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: driver for LSI megaraid sas 8708 ELP in FreeBSD 6.2
Daniel Madaoui wrote: Hello, I've got a new server with the LSI SAS 8708 ELP card . It is based on the SAS1078 chip. I wanted to install FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine, but the installer didn't see the virtual disk ( Raid 5 ). Somenone knows, perhaps if a driver will provide support for this card soon. I don't know if 7-RELEASE supports it or not but you might want to try it... for anyone else reading and unaware 7-CURRENT became 7-RELEASE and CURRENT is now 8-CURRENT as of yesterday (at least in cvsup). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
driver for LSI megaraid sas 8708 ELP in FreeBSD 6.2
Hello, I've got a new server with the LSI SAS 8708 ELP card . It is based on the SAS1078 chip. I wanted to install FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine, but the installer didn't see the virtual disk ( Raid 5 ). Somenone knows, perhaps if a driver will provide support for this card soon. Thanks for your response -- Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting man pages - txt file
On October 12, 2007 at 03:14AM Alain G. Fabry wrote: I'd like to get a man page in .txt format. What I tried was man man man.txt, but this gives me the man pages with many control char. How can I get a man page to be formatted to a regular .txt file? man man | col -bx man.txt -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
Solved it. Had to manually run kldload /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko Thank you all for your support. Hi all, Installed the following sysutils/fusefs-ntfs sysutils/ntfsprogs When I run the command ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/windows I get the error message fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory Thank you On 10/12/07, CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. As I recall, the native FreeBSD NTFS support is read-only. However, the NTFS-3g project has a mostly complete (and pretty safe) read/write implementation as a FUSE program, which can be found in ports: sysutils/fusefs-ntfs sysutils/ntfsprogs FreeBSD NTFS is not read only, but there are restrictions on what it can write. To quote the man page: There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparses (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac- ters. If your file name uses only ASCII characters, you will be probably be OK using mount_ntfs to write to an NTFS filesystem. I've used it for years, but mostly for reading files. The few times I've used it for writing, it worked fine. I think you are most likely to have problems if you use it to edit an existing file. - Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: genuine bulk email
On Friday 12 October 2007 16:40:10 Robin Becker wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: [snip IP/hostname issues answered sufficiently by others] Automatic mailing is fine. What is important is how the email addresses were acquired. .. this isn't automatic, the sales people manually enter all the details. The attached document is what the application generates and then the combined email. It's also not your concern. Spam prevention is a collection of algorithms that boil down to an acceptable rate of false positives. For the sender of what he/she believes is legitimate email, it is mostly important to catch the false positives /and/ direct them to the people responsible for sending the mail. Also make them understand that they're responsible for the mailing, if they violate their set policy (whatever that may be), they risk being blocked for mail they really want as well. In practice this means errors should be caught, possibly parsed, collected and presented in a format the sender understands. Since most senders aren't mail administrators, directing the bounces to them doesn't help, as you'll be answering questions like what's a transient error and why do I get this in my email box?. The SMTP standard defines some tools for this, but in practice not all mailservers support these. So what you do is separate the MAIL FROM: smtp command and the From: mail header. Look for the equivalent of sendmail's -f option for your MTA, to set the MAIL FROM: (f.e.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and specify a From: header (f.e.: From: The Fabulous Sales Department [EMAIL PROTECTED]) in the mail itself. This way, automated responses arrive at bounces@ and people reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How you process bounces@ is up to you and the nature of the mail. You can pipe it to a script directly or you can simply stock it in a normal mail account and process periodically. Machine load, number of mails sent in a batch, whether it's time critical that the original sender knows that a mail fails are all factors in this. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interrupt problems with 6.2 NFS Server
Hi, I have an new NFS server that is processing roughly 15mbit of NFS traffic that we recently upgraded from an older 4.10 box. It has a 3-ware raid card, and is serving NFS out a single em nic to LAN clients. The machine works great just serving NFS, but when I try to copy data from one raid volume to another for backups, the machine's NFS performance goes way down, and NFS ops start taking multiple seconds to perform. The file copy goes quite quickly, as would be expected. The console of the machine also starts to lag pretty badly, and I get the 'typing through mud' effect. I use rdist6 to do the backup. My first impression was that I was having interrupt issues, since during the backup, the em interfaces were pushing over 200k interrupts/sec (roughly 60% CPU processing interrupts). So I recompiled the kernel with polling enabled and enabled it on the NICs. The strange thing is that polling shows enabled in ifconfig, but systat -vm still shows the same amount of interrupts. I get the same performance with polling enabled. I'm looking for some guidance on why the machine bogs so much during what seems to me to be something that should barely impact machine performance at all. The old machine was 6 years old running an old intel raid5, and it handled NFS and the concurrent file copies without a sweat. My 3ware is setup as follows: a 2 disk mirror, for the system a 4 disk raid10, for /mnt/data1 a 4 disk raid10, for /mnt/data2 Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 #0: Thu Oct 11 10:43:22 PDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MADONNA Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.66GHz (2670.65-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6f4 Stepping = 4 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4e3bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,b9,CX16,b14,b15,b18 AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 real memory = 4831838208 (4608 MB) avail memory = 4125257728 (3934 MB) ACPI APIC Table: INTEL S5000PSL ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard lapic0: Forcing LINT1 to edge trigger kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: INTEL S5000PSL on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu0 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 acpi_button1: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xca2,0xca3,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci2 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci2 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9 port 0x3020-0x303f mem 0xf882-0xf883,0xf840-0xf87f irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci5 em0: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:21:bf:30 em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9 port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xf880-0xf881,0xf800-0xf83f irq 19 at device 0.1 on pci5 em1: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:21:bf:31 pcib6: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.3 on pci1 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib6 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 3.60.02.012 twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0x2000-0x203f mem 0xfa00-0xfbff,0xf890-0xf8900fff irq 26 at device 2.0 on pci6 twa0: [GIANT-LOCKED] twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: Model 9550SX-12, 12 ports, Firmware FE9X 3.08.00.004, BIOS BE9X 3.08.00.002 pcib7: PCI-PCI bridge at device 3.0 on pci0 pci7: PCI bus on pcib7 pcib8: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 4.0 on pci0 pci8: ACPI PCI bus on pcib8 pcib9: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 5.0 on pci0 pci9: ACPI PCI bus on pcib9 pcib10: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 6.0 on pci0 pci10: ACPI PCI bus on pcib10 pcib11: PCI-PCI bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 pci11: PCI bus on pcib11 pci0: base peripheral at device 8.0 (no driver attached) pcib12: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci12: ACPI PCI bus on pcib12 uhci0: UHCI (generic) USB controller port 0x4080-0x409f irq 23 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root
Re: a beginner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:47:17 -0400
Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please help as I don't know where to begin.
No problems. what would you like to do? :)
silliness aside, if u mean 'being with freebsd', you should start with the
Handbook, which you can find online @ freebsd.org, under documentation.
B
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there.
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a beginner
Please help as I don't know where to begin. Connie Webb Montgomery County Courts Helpdesk Specialist 41 N. Perry Street Dayton, Ohio Phone: 937-225-3480 email: [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: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:57 AM, James wrote:
This isn't quite as simple as I'd hoped it'd be to fix. Here's my
findings thus far (I haven't started writing my script yet, but I will
later today):
1. /usr/ports/distfiles contains everything I need
2. distfiles contains several versions of some packages, but that's
pretty trivial to resolve.
3. distfiles contains some packages whose source tarballs are named
*differently* to the packages themselves, such as unrar.
It's number 3 that's getting me. It looks like the simplest thing
might
be an if statement:
if (make search name=$PACKAGE)
score!
else
grep -r $PACKAGE /usr/ports
But before I go that far, I wanted to see if anyone had an alternate
idea for what might work.
James
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Try something more akin to this.
find /usr/ports/devel -name distinfo -exec grep -l ddd-3.3.11.tar.gz
'{}' \; | cut -d / -f 1-5
You'd have to change ddd-3.3.11.tar.gz(I used it because I had it), but
you can then output a list of all the directories you need to build the
port in. You can then probably use xargs to automatically make that
port.
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Re: driver for LSI megaraid sas 8708 ELP in FreeBSD 6.2
I don't know if 7-RELEASE supports it or not but you might want to try it... for anyone else reading and unaware 7-CURRENT became 7-RELEASE and CURRENT is now 8-CURRENT as of yesterday (at least in cvsup). Small correction I meant 7-STABLE since RELENG is not done certifying it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 08:23 -0400, Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. What's the connection between your windows 2003 server and your freebsd server? Is the data 1 single file, or is it numerous small files? I'm understanding that the reason you want to involve FreeBSD at all is that it has faster write to the USB hard drive, yeah? If you have any kind of network access between the two machines, and it's small files, use rsync to copy data from windows to the FreeBSD box (which will probably involve installing cygwin on the windows box - relatively painless) . If that's not an option, consider physically removing the hard drive from the windows 2003 box, carrying it over to the FreeBSD box and mounting the drive and then just copy the data onto the hard drive using FAT as the destination file system, assuming it's not one large file. If it *is* one large file, you could use the programs other folks have recommended for NTFS read/write under FreeBSD. Another option would be to spend $20 on a usb 2 PCI card - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_e/103-8650702-2329464?initialSearch=1url=search-alias%3Delectronicsfield-keywords=usb+2.0+pciGo.x=0Go.y=0Go=Go Should also be available from your local electronics retailer. Install that in the windows box and use the now native USB 2.0 connection to dump the data. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help with text-append over SSH ?
I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. Normally, I would do this locally with: cat file1 file2 But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? Thanks. Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews, get listings, and more! http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/3658 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: genuine bulk email
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like .. When you personalize that give the date and IP address of the request. Something like ... the brochures you requested at TIME from IP. this sounds reasonable but is there anything at a system level that can be done to make emails less likely to be classified as spam? The most crucial thing is the status of IP of the host sending the mail o Does it have a proper DNS PTR (reverse DNS) record? o Are you using SPF or DomainKeys to show that that IP address is authorized to send mail in the sending domain's name? o Do you have working postmaster and abuse addresses for the domain you are sending from? o Do you have a static IP address? o Are you clear of any major blacklists? o Can you demonstrate that every recipient really did request the mail? these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be sending from xxx.com should my RDNS point back to xxx.com? Presumably I can have only one IP--domain ptr. I suspect it will be easier to set up the front end machine as that is supposed to be for the same client. Each of those are far more important than whether you attach a PDF. (By the way, say it's PDF or even Adobe's PDF, but not Adobe Acrobat format.) OK that's good. I assume that spammers try very hard and fail, so is this kind of email application effectively dead in the water before it starts? Automatic mailing is fine. What is important is how the email addresses were acquired. .. this isn't automatic, the sales people manually enter all the details. The attached document is what the application generates and then the combined email. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ECC capability and ACPI warnings
On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:54 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Is there any way, by poking through dmesg or sysctls, to determine if a machine has, or is capable of using, ECC RAM? Well, the sysutils/dmidecode port can be used to answer that question: pi# dmidecode -t memory # dmidecode 2.8 SMBIOS 2.3 present. Handle 0x1000, DMI type 16, 15 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC Maximum Capacity: 4 GB Error Information Handle: No Error Number Of Devices: 4 Handle 0x1100, DMI type 17, 23 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x1000 Error Information Handle: No Error Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 128 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: 1 Locator: DIMM_A Bank Locator: BANK_1 Type: SDRAM Type Detail: Synchronous Speed: 133 MHz (7.5 ns) [ ... ] Also, is there an easy way to silence the following warnings in dmesg? They all appear to be about the serial and parallel ports, which, as far as I know, the machine does have. They may not be enabled in the BIOS, however. I think those messages only appear if you do a verbose boot...? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with text-append over SSH ?
On Fri, October 12, 2007 01:49, Juri Mianovich wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. Normally, I would do this locally with: cat file1 file2 But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: Just did some testing and this should work: cat localtext | ssh remote cat remotetext Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
batch conversion of TeX
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Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Friday 12 October 2007 00:39:27 James wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:14 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
James writes:
What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in
/usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about
a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall
everything that exists there.
Having been in almost the identical situation for different
rasons, I sympathize.
Yes, this will involve a sweep through /usr/ports distfiles.
If you haven't ever deleted anything, I suggest a prelimiary manual
run deleting everything but the most recent version. This has a
down-side, but it will prevent cluttering the rebuilt system with
unused ports.
/usr/ports/distfiles is definitely looking promising. awk is too damn
painful to work with, so I'm going to dust off my perl skills.
Hell, this could actually turn out to be fun. And if I write the script
properly, it might make a nice disaster recovery tool
for /usr/ports/ports-mgmt - it can be called
WhenYou'reAnIdiotLikeJamesWasOnFreeBSDQuestions
Well, if you figure out what ports you have installed, you can
regenerate the
pkgdb using:
make -DNO_BUILD -DNO_INSTALL generate-plist fake-pkg
for each port.
I just tested that using a temporary PKG_DBDIR. In case you wanna see
what happens, here's what I did:
mkdir -p /tmp/var/db/pkg
cd /usr/ports/shells/bash
env PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/var/db/pkg make -DNO_BUILD -DNO_INSTALL \
generate-plist fake-pkg
Wow, that's great! I understand that it has the caveats that you mentioned,
but it's *at least* a fantastic start.
OK, found the culprit after some digging. Quite enlightening. The pkg_create
command gets fed the output of make actual-depends-list, which generates a
package dependency list based on what's really installed, by looking
into /var/db/pkg. Of course this doesn't work for you.
The solution lies in PKG_ARGS. I created a Makefile.local in x11/kdebase3 (cuz
I was there), with the following one-liner:
PKG_ARGS= -v -c -${COMMENT:Q} -d ${DESCR} -f ${TMPPLIST} -p
${PREFIX} -P `cd ${.CURDIR} ${MAKE} package-depends | ${GREP} -v -E
${PKG_IGNORE_DEPENDS} | ${SORT} -u -t : -k 2` ${EXTRA_PKG_ARGS}
$${_LATE_PKG_ARGS}
This is a copy of PKG_ARGS as defined in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk with the
difference that it uses package-depends rather then actual-package-depends to
generate the dependency list.
I'm 90% sure this ignores any WITH_ knobs/options you've set to generate the
dependency list, so you'll have to fix any stale dependencies with pkgdb -F
or similar tools later.
Adding the above line to /etc/make.conf should work for you - make sure it's
one line or escape properly ;)
--
Mel
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genuine bulk email
We have a project to make a graphical tool which allows salespersons to send an email with an attached PDF document. We are in testing and although the tool seems to work we have the problem of not looking like spam/phish etc etc. I have tried numerous tricks to avoid being classified as spam, but so far nothing seems to work. At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like Your Document, Thank you for your inquiry. below is a link to the brochures as requested, in Adobe Acrobat format. It includes the YYY Airport Hotel and other information which may be useful. We thank you for your query. Your Document may be found here http://host/path/aa-hrcc-20071012113659-20zi0rfoknv6gdi1w4bls0psd0.pdf Sales Team It could be personalised a bit more, but is there anything at a system level that can be done to make emails less likely to be classified as spam? I assume that spammers try very hard and fail, so is this kind of email application effectively dead in the water before it starts? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc?
Hi, This is kind of off topic for this list, but I know a lot of FreeBSD Admins use Procmail, so hopefully someone here can help. I'm running procmail 3.22 on FreeBSD. I verified that procmail does work on my system by following the testing your procmail installation in the ii Procmail Quick Start. Procmail worked flawlessly in processing a .procmailrc file in my home directory. Problem is, I can't seem to get it to do what is in my /etc/procmailrc file. Either procmail doesn't recognise the /etc/procmailrc file, or my syntax in that file is wrong. I'm using spamassassin, and I want to send email that gets a very high spam score to /dev/null. In the headers of these high scoring emails, there's a line like this: X-Spam-Score: 25.762 (*) My /etc/procmail.rc file looks like this: mail# more /etc/procmailrc # Directory for storing procmail configuration and log files # You can name this environment variable anything you like # (for example PROCMAILDIR) or, if you prefer, don't set it # (but then don't refer to it!) # PMDIR=/etc/Procmail # LOGFILE should be specified ASAP so everything below it is logged # Put ## before LOGFILE if you want no logging (not recommended) LOGFILE=/var/log/pmlog # To insert a blank line between each message's log entry, # uncomment next two lines (this is helpful for debugging) LOG= LOGABSTRACT=all # Set to yes when debugging; VERBOSE default is no VERBOSE=yes # Replace $HOME/Msgs with your mailbox directory # Mutt and elm use $HOME/Mail # Pine uses $HOME/mail # Netscape Messenger uses $HOME/nsmail # Some NNTP clients, such as slrn nn, use $HOME/News # Mailboxes in maildir format are often put in $HOME/Maildir # # IMPORTANT: Upon reading an instruction that contains MAILDIR=, #Procmail does a chdir to $MAILDIR and #relative paths are relative to $MAILDIR # MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # Make sure this directory exists! End Variables section; Begin Processing section :0: * ^X-Spam-Score: [2-9][0-9] /dev/null :0: * ^spam,[2-9][0-9] /dev/null # INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing # INCLUDERC=/etc/rc.testing INCLUDERC=/etc/rc.renattach When I receive an email with a spam score above 20, it is delivered, not sent to /dev/null. Also, procmail is not logging at all, even though with this procmailrc it ought to be logging verbosely in /var/log/pmlog By the way, the permissions and ownership of /etc/procmailrc is-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel and of /var/log/pmlog: -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel How can I figure out why this isn't working? Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc?
Quoting Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, This is kind of off topic for this list, but I know a lot of FreeBSD Admins use Procmail, so hopefully someone here can help. I'm running procmail 3.22 on FreeBSD. I verified that procmail does work on my system by following the testing your procmail installation in the ii Procmail Quick Start. Procmail worked flawlessly in processing a .procmailrc file in my home directory. Problem is, I can't seem to get it to do what is in my /etc/procmailrc file. Either procmail doesn't recognise the /etc/procmailrc file, or my syntax in that file is wrong. As with most FreeBSD ports, procmail on FreeBSD looks under /usr/local/etc for its configuration information. Just use that path instead of /etc in any non-FreeBSD documentation you encounter and you should be fine. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. As I recall, the native FreeBSD NTFS support is read-only. However, the NTFS-3g project has a mostly complete (and pretty safe) read/write implementation as a FUSE program, which can be found in ports: sysutils/fusefs-ntfs sysutils/ntfsprogs -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting man pages - txt file
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:14:07AM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hello, I'd like to get a man page in .txt format. What I tried was man man man.txt, but this gives me the man pages with many control char. How can I get a man page to be formatted to a regular .txt file? Others have already said. What I like is man -t man man.ps to create a Postscript file. Prints beautifully. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
On 10/12/07, CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. As I recall, the native FreeBSD NTFS support is read-only. However, the NTFS-3g project has a mostly complete (and pretty safe) read/write implementation as a FUSE program, which can be found in ports: sysutils/fusefs-ntfs sysutils/ntfsprogs FreeBSD NTFS is not read only, but there are restrictions on what it can write. To quote the man page: There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparses (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac- ters. If your file name uses only ASCII characters, you will be probably be OK using mount_ntfs to write to an NTFS filesystem. I've used it for years, but mostly for reading files. The few times I've used it for writing, it worked fine. I think you are most likely to have problems if you use it to edit an existing file. - Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 TB data copy
On October 12, 2007 at 08:23AM Monah Baki wrote: We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. Wouldn't it be advantageous to upgrade the Windows machine to USB2 level? -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a beginner
Hello, On 10/12/07, Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. It is not clear from your email what do you want to do and what you have done up to know. If you do not have FreeBSD already installed you can start from Installing FreeBSD chapter in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html. I had to repeat the installation two or three times because I was not satisfied with my partition layout or with the initial packages I had installed and just because I wanted to play with it and get comfortable. If you have FreeBSD already installed then proceed with the next chapters of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
This isn't quite as simple as I'd hoped it'd be to fix. Here's my findings thus far (I haven't started writing my script yet, but I will later today): 1. /usr/ports/distfiles contains everything I need 2. distfiles contains several versions of some packages, but that's pretty trivial to resolve. 3. distfiles contains some packages whose source tarballs are named *differently* to the packages themselves, such as unrar. It's number 3 that's getting me. It looks like the simplest thing might be an if statement: if (make search name=$PACKAGE) score! else grep -r $PACKAGE /usr/ports But before I go that far, I wanted to see if anyone had an alternate idea for what might work. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: genuine bulk email
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be sending from xxx.com should my RDNS point back to xxx.com? Presumably I can have only one IP--domain ptr. I suspect it will be easier to set up the front end machine as that is supposed to be for the same client. The checking will work fine with virtual domains. What matters is that DNS(rDNS(IP)) = IP = DNS(vhost) I think I've got that right. (It's a bit more complicated to state when MXes and multiple A records for the same name are considered, but this is the general idea.) Also it's not so much the header FROM or the envelope FROM, but the HELO string that is checked here. For SPF and DomainKeys, it is the envelope FROM that is checked against the IP. Presumably your mailer gives a constant HELO irrespective of the vhost that is in the envelope FROM. OK this makes better sense. So long as my internal machine name matches the equation above then I should be OK no matter what. I'm fairly sure I've got stuff set up properly. I do need to set up the appropriate rDNS and check the HELO on the test machine though. The HELO looks right, but my rDNS is shot and I am currently in the CBL for some reason. And how do the sales people acquire the data? I'm sure that it's okay, but you may want to have a small description of the process on your web page that you could point postmasters to if a question arises. .. these are telephone sales people so far as I know. When they're booking the room(s) for the client they ask if they want to receive an emailed document describing the hotel etc etc so it's not bulk in the sense of database -- email and certainly we're not recording any of the details at all. I suppose we could be used by our client as a spurious mail sender, but it would not be terribly fast and it's unlikely as they likely could do it much easier themselves. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a beginner
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. Presuming what you want to begin is learning and using FreeBSD, the first thing is to start studying the extensive documentation that is available. See: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html Especially read the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ But, some of the other parts of documentation are helpful too. For Newbies gives a brief overview. Publications lists lots of things published about FreeBSD, but there are more, such as FreeBSD Unleashed which is missing from the list and is pretty good. Note that there may be more recent versions/editions of the books listed. Online Books and Publications lists some of the online magazines and articles describing how people did things with FreeBSD. Don't forget the Manual Pages - usually called 'man pages' which you should install when you install install FreeBSD, but are also available online. But, since it is very difficult to just read stuff and understand it, I would suggest, after reading some of the beginning parts of the Handbook such as 'Getting Started' and 'Installing FreeBSD', commandeering a machine, downloading or buying the install CD for the latest RELEASE version and plugging it in and doing an install. Use it a bit just like that and maybe learn to configure X (x.org) and then after a while of playing so you have some familiarity, read some more, wipe the whole thing and do the install again, for sure with X and add some more things that you want to try, such as a web server (Apache 2.2) and we Client/Browser (Firefox) and get Email set up to your satisfaction. Keep reading the Handbook and other documentation. It will give you ideas for additional things to try and improvements to make. Keep in mind that most of the people who write have favorite things that they advocate. The more religious they sound about it, the more likely it is that there are other ways that may work just as well and, for your specific purposes, whatever they are, even better. So, try to stand a little above the religious wars. For example, at the moment one of the hot wars seems to be about Email MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents). They all work just fine for some applications and situations. Sendmail, which comes included in a base install, can be a little confusing to configure, but it comes included and already configured to work for a basic setup (which most people never get beyond on a personal server), so, until you move to some more complicated/demanding situation (many thousands of accounts with different rules for each or whatever), there is little need to worry about it. Just learn from it. etc, etc, etc. Another one that initiates religious wars is the text editor to use. VI, Emacs, Vim, many others. Try a few and find a favorite, but learn to use 'vi' at least well enough to get by. The reason is that vi is always available in UNIX systems (including FreeBSD) and much system management seems to assume you are using vi. So, you are going to get stuck with it at times and, like many things, once you get used to it, it will seem almost second nature. I wrote up a page on learning to use very basic vi. It doesn't tell you everything about it. There are many more quite powerful things you can do, but if you learn the basics, you can do almost everything you need to do while managing a FreeBSD (or any other UNIX) system. That page is at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ Unfortunately, it is currently on a machine I have to take down frequently for various work needs. So, if it doesn't come up, check again an hour or so later. It will probably be back up. Have fun. FreeBSD is a very sophisticated and reliable OS, intended for real computer work. It is not just a toy, but once you get used to it, its value becomes more apparent and /usr/ports/... is loaded with eye candy as well as more useful work tools. jerry Connie Webb Montgomery County Courts Helpdesk Specialist 41 N. Perry Street Dayton, Ohio Phone: 937-225-3480 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: driver for LSI megaraid sas 8708 ELP in FreeBSD 6.2
Daniel Madaoui wrote: --On 12 octobre 2007 07:52:07 + Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if 7-RELEASE supports it or not but you might want to try it... for anyone else reading and unaware 7-CURRENT became 7-RELEASE and CURRENT is now 8-CURRENT as of yesterday (at least in cvsup). Small correction I meant 7-STABLE since RELENG is not done certifying it I found 7-current-200709 on ftp.freebsd.org but when I boot on it, it didn't recognize my virtual disk ( raid 5 ) plugged on this card . This version doesn't seem to manage this card too. A cvsup upgrade should fix that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc?
Hi John, As with most FreeBSD ports, procmail on FreeBSD looks under /usr/local/etc for its configuration information. Just use that path instead of /etc in any non-FreeBSD documentation you encounter and you should be fine. Thanks - procmail's cranking along now! I appreciate it. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: genuine bulk email
Robin Becker wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The checking will work fine with virtual domains. What matters is that DNS(rDNS(IP)) = IP = DNS(vhost) I think I've got that right. (It's a bit more complicated to state when MXes and multiple A records for the same name are considered, but this is the general idea.) This is your problem: Ass long as the reverse DNS for the sending IP does not resolve to an existing domain name you are fried. Fix that and you're all set. dig -x 217.196.247.135 ; DiG 9.3.3 -x 217.196.247.135 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 28770 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;135.247.196.217.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 247.196.217.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN SOA ns0.highspeedoffice.net. hostmaster.highspeedoffice.net. 2007061800 28800 7200 2419200 3600 ;; Query time: 56 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Fri Oct 12 22:09:13 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 116 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to recover from this? I have other FreeBSD boxes available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading man pkgdb in the meantime.. This came up recently in another thread, and what seemed to be the best solution to me, was this: 1. work out which leaf-ports you actually need - don't worry about the dependencies. 2. at your leisure build new packages under a chroot environment, or on another machine. 3. back-up /usr/local/etc (or the whole of /usr/local) 4. rm -rf /usr/local/* 5. Restore /usr/local/etc and install packages. (If you have xorg installed, and it's not up-to-date, you may need to consider /usr/X11R6 too) This seems to be a good solution, it avoids more than a few minutes disruption, avoids leaving any orphaned files,and most importantly makes sure that all of the installed package have an entry in /var/db/pkg. If you miss any of these entries, it may cause a lot of trouble down the line. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recent branching of CURRENT
Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Thanks, Per olof ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. It seems it was not announced anywhere just word of mouth kind of thing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ImageMagick
On Fri, October 12, 2007 22:59, Rem P Roberti wrote: ImageMagick keeps showing up as an upgrade, but when I run portugpgrade I get this message: ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: Presence of FPX breaks self-tests. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. I don't find anything in UPGRADING about this and am wondering whether there is something to be done here. Hi Rem, Go to the graphics/ImageMagick directory, perform a make config and switch off the tests (as suggested). Then do your portupgrade thingy. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ImageMagick
On Friday 12 October 2007 22:59:12 Rem P Roberti wrote: ImageMagick keeps showing up as an upgrade, but when I run portugpgrade I get this message: ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: Presence of FPX breaks self-tests. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. I don't find anything in UPGRADING about this and am wondering whether there is something to be done here. Yeah. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. Wait, it says that. Long version then: echo 'WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_TESTS=YES' /var/db/ports/ImageMagick/options -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Friday 12 October 2007 22:19:41 RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to recover from this? I have other FreeBSD boxes available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading man pkgdb in the meantime.. This came up recently in another thread, and what seemed to be the best solution to me, was this: 1. work out which leaf-ports you actually need - don't worry about the dependencies. 2. at your leisure build new packages under a chroot environment, or on another machine. 3. back-up /usr/local/etc (or the whole of /usr/local) 4. rm -rf /usr/local/* 5. Restore /usr/local/etc and install packages. Why would you go through 3-5 when you can just mv /chroot/build/directory/var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg ? -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ImageMagick
ImageMagick keeps showing up as an upgrade, but when I run portugpgrade I get this message: ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: Presence of FPX breaks self-tests. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. I don't find anything in UPGRADING about this and am wondering whether there is something to be done here. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PF ALTQ CBQ rules
Hello guys
I have this example from OpenBSD:
altq on $br1_if cbq bandwidth 20Mb qlimit 100 tbrsize 1000 queue { std1,
customer_1 }
queue customer_1 bandwidth 1Mb cbq(red,ecn) { customer_1_bulk, customer_1_ack }
queue customer_1_ack priority 7
queue customer_1_bulk priority 0
I want to use CBQ on FreeBSD, with similar rules still I have the
following problem:
On a 20Mb internet line I have 100 users. I want to limit (cap)
bandwidth per user at 1 Mb and to add queues for all 100 users.
The problem is that on FreeBSD this rules are not working, instead I
must use this:
altq on $br1_if cbq bandwidth 20Mb qlimit 100 tbrsize 1000 queue { std1,
customer_1 }
queue customer_1 bandwidth 1Mb cbq(red,ecn) { customer_1_bulk, customer_1_ack }
queue customer_1_ack bandwidth 800Kb priority 7
queue customer_1_bulk bandwidth 128Kb priority 0
This bandwidth option does not help me because I must not exceed 1 Mb.
My second problem is if I have 100 users, then toal of 1Mb x 100 will be
100Mb and I exceed total bandwidth of 20 Mb.
So my question is: how I do bandwidthupper limit with CBQ per user, like
no more than 1 Mb, and add rules for 100 users?
best regards,
ovi
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Re: ImageMagick
On Friday 12 October 2007 03:59:12 pm Rem P Roberti wrote: ImageMagick keeps showing up as an upgrade, but when I run portugpgrade I get this message: ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: Presence of FPX breaks self-tests. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. I don't find anything in UPGRADING about this and am wondering whether there is something to be done here. Personally, I'm waiting for the FXP options to be repaired, but if you really want to do the upgrade now, simply run 'make config' in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick and deselect the FXP knob. Then 'make install clean' as normal. David -- You will inherit some money or a small piece of land. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ImageMagick
On 2007.10.12 23:16:34 +, Peter Boosten wrote: On Fri, October 12, 2007 22:59, Rem P Roberti wrote: ImageMagick keeps showing up as an upgrade, but when I run portugpgrade I get this message: ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: Presence of FPX breaks self-tests. Disable FPX or disable automatic tests. I don't find anything in UPGRADING about this and am wondering whether there is something to be done here. Hi Rem, Go to the graphics/ImageMagick directory, perform a make config and switch off the tests (as suggested). Then do your portupgrade thingy. Peter Thanks, Peter. This is basically newbie stuff, which I am. I sure am having a good time learning FreeBSD. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rpc_lockd and syslogd
I have a chicken-egg problem. On my diskless setup the syslogd gives me this error during boot: syslogd: cannot open pid file: operation not supported And I tracked the issue to flock() and enabled rpc_lockd. Still it gives me the same error - because rpc_lockd starts AFTER syslogd does. I've tried fiddling around with REQUIRES and PROVIDES in the rc.d files but I cannot make it work... It gives me the error anyway. (or other errors due to rc.d-hacking)... is there any way to solve this? I'd appreciate some help! when running syslogd when logged in it doesn't give me the error so I guess rpc_lockd *really* is the sollution. regards J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PF ALTQ CBQ rules
On Saturday 13 October 2007 00:17:32 Ovi wrote:
Hello guys
I have this example from OpenBSD:
altq on $br1_if cbq bandwidth 20Mb qlimit 100 tbrsize 1000 queue { std1,
customer_1 } queue customer_1 bandwidth 1Mb cbq(red,ecn) { customer_1_bulk,
customer_1_ack } queue customer_1_ack priority 7
queue customer_1_bulk priority 0
I want to use CBQ on FreeBSD, with similar rules still I have the
following problem:
On a 20Mb internet line I have 100 users. I want to limit (cap)
bandwidth per user at 1 Mb and to add queues for all 100 users.
The problem is that on FreeBSD this rules are not working, instead I
must use this:
altq on $br1_if cbq bandwidth 20Mb qlimit 100 tbrsize 1000 queue { std1,
customer_1 } queue customer_1 bandwidth 1Mb cbq(red,ecn) { customer_1_bulk,
customer_1_ack } queue customer_1_ack bandwidth 800Kb priority 7
queue customer_1_bulk bandwidth 128Kb priority 0
This bandwidth option does not help me because I must not exceed 1 Mb.
This can't be done with cbq, because in cbq the sum of child queues must match
the interface bandwidth or less. Use hfsc for this.
Also, you reserve 80% for ack and 20% for bulk, you might wanna reverse that.
So my question is: how I do bandwidthupper limit with CBQ per user, like
no more than 1 Mb, and add rules for 100 users?
See above.
A good resource on HFSC:
http://www.probsd.net/pf/index.php/HFSC
It would look something like this:
# Use interface bandwidth, so your interface doesn't get limited
altq on $br1_if bandwidth 100Mb hfsc(upperlimit 100Mb) queue { \
NO_CUSTOMER, \
CUSTOMERS
}
# Any traffic not assigned to a customer comes on the NO_CUSTOMER queue.
# Backlogged traffic consumes a maximum of 80Mbit
# There's always 55Mbit available.
# Realtime values may not exceed 75% of root queue
queue NO_CUSTOMER bandwidth 80Mb hfsc(realtime 55Mb default)
# Create a customers root queue, setting hard limits for any customers
# It ensures the entire internet connection is available at all times
# and also limits it to that ammount
queue CUSTOMERS bandwidth 20Mb hfsc(realtime 20Mb upperlimit 20Mb) { \
customer_1, \
customer_2, \
..., \
}
# Assign 1% per customer (100 customers) for backlogged traffic.
# No realtime guarantees, let hfsc figure out how to spend the 20Mbit
# from the CUSTOMERS parent queue.
# No customer gets more then 1Mbit even if he's alone surfing the net.
queue customer_1 bandwidth 1% hfsc(linkshare 1% upperlimit 1Mb) \
{ customer_1_bulk, customer_1_ack }
# default priority is 1
queue customer_1_bulk bandwidth 80% hfsc
queue customer_1_ack bandwidth 20% priority 2 hfsc
--
Mel
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Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 stable branches now? -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpc_lockd and syslogd
On Saturday 13 October 2007 00:41:31 mr. phreak wrote: I have a chicken-egg problem. On my diskless setup the syslogd gives me this error during boot: syslogd: cannot open pid file: operation not supported And I tracked the issue to flock() and enabled rpc_lockd. Still it gives me the same error - because rpc_lockd starts AFTER syslogd does. I've tried fiddling around with REQUIRES and PROVIDES in the rc.d files but I cannot make it work... It gives me the error anyway. (or other errors due to rc.d-hacking)... is there any way to solve this? I'd appreciate some help! when running syslogd when logged in it doesn't give me the error so I guess rpc_lockd *really* is the sollution. Or the solution is specifying a pid file on a memory disk? I can't think of any issues with /var/run being /dev/md*, but there might some. In any case, syslogd_flags=-s -P /tmp/syslogd.pid should work as well. The issue I see with that is that /etc/rc.d/syslogd doesn't expose it's pidfile for outside configuration. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
Mel wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 stable branches now? I would assume we have one current still (8-) and a pile of -STABLE (2.2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6- and now 7-). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:52:00AM +0200, Mel wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just forked for development of entirely new features? RELENG_7 was forked in preperation for the upcoming 7.0 release. That meant -CURRENT could be unfrozen so that new features can be added. (And since the current -CURRENT will eventually lead up to an 8.0 release it is now called 8-CURRENT rather than 7-CURRENT.) Personally I would not consider RELENG_7 to be a real 'stable' branch until after 7.0 has been officially released (or at least not until the RELENG_7_0 release branch has been created and RELENG_7 been unfrozen.) I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 stable branches now? We have many more than 2 stable branches: RELENG_6. RELENG_4, RELENG_3, RELENG_5, RELENG_2_2, etc. Most of them are no longer in active development, but you never know when some committer sees fit to backport something to an older branch. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [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: Recent branching of CURRENT
Mel wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 stable branches now? Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
Kris Kennaway wrote: Mel wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 stable branches now? Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released. Mmmm... forgot we've got PRERELEASE too, sorry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. Normally, I would do this locally with: cat file1 file2 But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? Try running: cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd file2 Thank you - I do indeed need to use 'dd' because I don't have access to 'cat' in the chroot. However, when I use your example, I get this error: dd: unknown operand So I have something off a bit ... help ? Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:43:38PM -0700, Juri Mianovich wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. Normally, I would do this locally with: cat file1 file2 But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? Try running: cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd file2 Thank you - I do indeed need to use 'dd' because I don't have access to 'cat' in the chroot. However, when I use your example, I get this error: dd: unknown operand So I have something off a bit ... help ? cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd -of file2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
On Saturday 13 October 2007 01:15:45 Kris Kennaway wrote: Mel wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 stable branches now? Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released. That is actually what I'm worried about. It means drivers are less likely to be MFC'd to RELENG_6 from 7.0-RELEASE onwards - I was hoping that wouldn't happen till 7.1. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
Mel wrote: On Saturday 13 October 2007 01:15:45 Kris Kennaway wrote: Mel wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 stable branches now? Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released. That is actually what I'm worried about. It means drivers are less likely to be MFC'd to RELENG_6 from 7.0-RELEASE onwards - I was hoping that wouldn't happen till 7.1. It's called progress. This is normal. If you need a driver that is happening in 7- only, then upgrade to 7. RELENG_6 will turn into a supported fix branch or whatever the name is and RELENG_7 is where the action takes place, just like it has been going on for quite some time (please correct me if I'm wrong). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:13:58 +0200 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 22:19:41 RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:19 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg. Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to recover from this? I have other FreeBSD boxes available to me, none with the same pkg list, though. I'll be reading man pkgdb in the meantime.. This came up recently in another thread, and what seemed to be the best solution to me, was this: 1. work out which leaf-ports you actually need - don't worry about the dependencies. 2. at your leisure build new packages under a chroot environment, or on another machine. 3. back-up /usr/local/etc (or the whole of /usr/local) 4. rm -rf /usr/local/* 5. Restore /usr/local/etc and install packages. Why would you go through 3-5 when you can just mv /chroot/build/directory/var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg ? For the reasons that that you snipped off the bottom of my post. ... avoids leaving any orphaned files,and most importantly makes sure that all of the installed package have an entry in /var/db/pkg. If you miss any of these entries, it may cause a lot of trouble down the line. /chroot/build/directory/var/db/pkg is only a rough guess as to what was actually installed under /usr/local/. Maybe some forgotten dependency doesn't get included in the new build. A year from now you may find odd build problems, or new port installs may use orphaned files with critical vulnerabilities that portaudit can't detect. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation interrupted
Hello all, I think I saw a post or FAQ explaining that an installation CD won't run a second time. Is this correct? I wasn't sure how to translate the hard drive names I saw listed in the install screen, to the Windows drive names so I cancelled the install. Now that I know which to choose I am unable to get the install to run again. (I get a Panic: ohci_add_done: addr oxoood1bfo not found). I'm guessing I need to reformat the 10G drive but am hesitant to do so because of the GRUB. Pointer to a FAQ or assistance please? I'll install over existing PCLinuxOS. Hmm, it occurs to me what the sage advice about not working on a production machine (my wife's home PC) is about. One reason is that makes it hard to mess about with the machine and really learn the basics... Trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64. eMachines T6524 1G mem, 10G HDD; 200G HD w/XP Dual boot with grub. PCLinuxOS already on 10G(nice too). Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd-update port uname/internal patch level mismatch
Hi, I noticed that using freebsd-update on a freshly installed 6.2-RELEASE system yielded the following mismatch: $ uname -vp FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 The results of running a freebsd-update fetch give: zcnew# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p8. So uname says -p4 and freebsd-update says -p8 I know -p8 is correct. The kernel was last patched in -p4 so maybe the uname information isn't updated if the kernel isn't updated...? If there is something I'm doing wrong, please let me know. Thank you. Vinny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
