Re: rmuser failed / cannot readd user

2008-04-30 Thread Hartleigh Burton

Problem solvered ;)

Thanks Matthew.



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On 30/04/2008, at 3:57 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:


Hartleigh Burton wrote:

I added a user called mrawebuser, which failed because there was  
not enough free space on / at the time. Now when I try to add the  
user again it says the user already exists when it doesn't. I have  
used rmuser to remove the account and also manually check /etc/ 
passwd, /etc/master.passwd,  /etc/group - none of these files  
contain any reference to mrawebuser. If I repeat the rmuser  
command it will find the user every time.


Run this command:

  # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: Dynamic Memory Allocation Limit?

2008-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar

However, I have read elsewhere that memory labeled as inactive should
be available for the heap

Is there a limit to how much memory may be allocated to a process?
Any other reasons someone might think of?



ulimit -a
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Re: Spawning Xdialogs from devd...

2008-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar

   match subsystem   IBM;
   action /root/bin/acpi_oem_exec.sh $notify ibm;
};

I'm curious to know what is actually going on here. I wouldn't have thought the 
context from which devd is restarted would make any difference, but clearly it 
does. Any clues?

Also, does anyone have any ideas how I can call Xdialog to get the windows 
displayed?



you run Xdialog from root (devd is root), you run X from user.

ln -s /home/user/.Xuathority to /root/.Xauthority

and of course add

DISPLAY=:0 before Xdialog
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Re: raid and dump/restore after the disaster

2008-04-30 Thread Roberto Nunnari

Hi!

Anybody on this, plase? :)

Am I missing something basilar, or it's a FreeBSD bug?
Incomplete support for the ICH9R?

I cannot attach the boot log, because the boot process
panics just before mounting the disks and nothing is
logged on /var/log/

Anyways, booting in verbose mode shows that the last
activities before it panics are on the disks and fakeraid..
it finds one of the disks and then the last output before
the panic is about the Intel MatrixRAID.

Any thoughts on this, please?

Best regards
Robi


Roberto Nunnari wrote:

Hi all!

I'm playing with new HW and FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0.

I set up raid 1 on two sata disks (fakeraid on ICH9R)
and as long as I can see, it seams to work very well.

Now I'm trying to simulate 1 disk failure (I just take
out a disk and boot again). Doesn't matter which of the
two disks I take out, the bios correctly shows the raid
as degraded and bootable, loads the FreeBSD loader, who
loads the kernel and starts the boot.
But when the kernel comes to the drives (or the swap?)
it fatal traps 12. The trap descriptions sais that
current process is 0 (swapper).

Reading that I commented out the swap partition from fstab,
but that doesn't help.

How can I get the system to finish the boot?

Thank you and best regards.




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ml370 and smartarray 431

2008-04-30 Thread Gabri Mate
Dear List,

i have a really old (from 2001) ml370 with a smart array 431 raid
controller. FreeBSD 7 installs perfectly but i couldn't find a way to
monitor my drives. I've installed the hpacucli port, but it says that it
can't find any controllers in the system.

Do you know any solution for this problem?

Thank you!
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Re: ml370 and smartarray 431

2008-04-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark

Gabri Mate wrote:

Dear List,

i have a really old (from 2001) ml370 with a smart array 431 raid
controller. FreeBSD 7 installs perfectly but i couldn't find a way to
monitor my drives. I've installed the hpacucli port, but it says that it
can't find any controllers in the system.

Do you know any solution for this problem?


We use lmon from ports, works with some tweaking. There are possibly 
others as well.


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Re: Transfer CD image to USB memory stick?

2008-04-30 Thread Christian Laursen
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Could someone please point me to information how to achieve this? Have
 new hardware that lacks CD/floppy and want to install FreBSD...

I have a script that makes a disk image from a bootonly FreeBSD
install image.

I usually install grub on the USB memory stick and use memdisk from
the syslinux package to load the image. A sample menu entry for grub
is included in the script.

http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/iso2diskimage.pl

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Re: Spawning Xdialogs from devd...

2008-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Even if running X under root, it's the same behaviour. Unless devd is
restarted, there is no sound or xdialogs. If I restart devd from
another console, then the sound device becomes available and sound can


do you restart devd from xterm? if so - DISPLAY gets set



be heard, but no Xdialogs. If devd is restarted from within X, then
both sound and Xdialogs are ok. This is with any window manager, and
nothing much else is running here to screw things up.

The script is definitely being run on the keypress each time. There's
obviously something I'm missing about devd here.



ln -s /home/user/.Xuathority to /root/.Xauthority

and of course add

DISPLAY=:0 before Xdialog



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Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

2008-04-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:00, O. Hartmann wrote:
 O. Hartmann wrote:
  Jonathan Chen wrote:
  On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:07:44AM +, O. Hartmann wrote:
  Hello out there,
  my question may sound a bit weird, but the situation is as follows:
 
  I use OpenLDAP 2.4 for authetication purposes within our lab's net
  and every user's account is of the objectclass 'posixAccount'. As we
  know, this class does not contain the attribute 'host', which belongs
  to structural class 'account' and both posixAccount and account  are
  of type structural and therefore can not be mixed.
 
  Is there really such a rule?

It's true that an object can only belong to one structural class (although it 
can belong to many auxiliary classes).

I use the auxiliary class extensibleObject, which allows you to add any 
attribute to an LDAP object. My user accounts have three object classes: 
inetOrgPerson (the structural class), posixAccount and extensibleObject. The 
rules for the first two are still enforced, but I am able to add the Host: 
attribute.

Jonathan
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Re: Spawning Xdialogs from devd...

2008-04-30 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:25:04 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I'm curious to know what is actually going on here. I wouldn't have thought 
  the context from which devd is restarted would make any difference, but 
  clearly it does. Any clues?
 
  Also, does anyone have any ideas how I can call Xdialog to get the windows 
  displayed?
 
 
 you run Xdialog from root (devd is root), you run X from user.

Even if running X under root, it's the same behaviour. Unless devd is
restarted, there is no sound or xdialogs. If I restart devd from
another console, then the sound device becomes available and sound can
be heard, but no Xdialogs. If devd is restarted from within X, then
both sound and Xdialogs are ok. This is with any window manager, and
nothing much else is running here to screw things up.

The script is definitely being run on the keypress each time. There's
obviously something I'm missing about devd here.

 
 ln -s /home/user/.Xuathority to /root/.Xauthority
 
 and of course add
 
 DISPLAY=:0 before Xdialog

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Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

2008-04-30 Thread O. Hartmann

O. Hartmann wrote:

Jonathan Chen wrote:

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:07:44AM +, O. Hartmann wrote:

Hello out there,
my question may sound a bit weird, but the situation is as follows:

I use OpenLDAP 2.4 for authetication purposes within our lab's net 
and every user's account is of the objectclass 'posixAccount'. As we 
know, this class does not contain the attribute 'host', which belongs 
to structural class 'account' and both posixAccount and account  are 
of type structural and therefore can not be mixed.


Is there really such a rule? There's an of examples in
O'Reilly's LDAP System Administration that has a mixed
account + posixAccount objectClasses for a node to implement
the situation of: One User and a Group of Hosts.


Well, simply try to include both structural object classes 'account' and 
posixAccount and you'll get a class violation - so it is here ...


Oliver

P.S. O'Reilly's book seems to be a little bit outdated, it reflects 
schemata prior to OpenLDAP 2.3 I guess and I use 2.4 by the way. I read 
many turoials mixin up both account and posixAccount but this isn't 
allowed any more with newer versions - as I understand.





Sorry,
I made a mistake, 'account' and 'inetOrgPerson' and 'person' collide, 
not 'posixAccount', so it's my fault.


Oliver
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Re: Spawning Xdialogs from devd...

2008-04-30 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:18:22 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

  Even if running X under root, it's the same behaviour. Unless devd is
  restarted, there is no sound or xdialogs. If I restart devd from
  another console, then the sound device becomes available and sound can
 
 do you restart devd from xterm? if so - DISPLAY gets set

If I set DISPLAY first in .cshrc, there's no difference. Also, if I set DISPLAY 
in another console before restarting devd, still same case as before. Also, how 
about the sound? Is it that devd can't hook into the drivers in question so 
early in the boot process or something?

 
 
  be heard, but no Xdialogs. If devd is restarted from within X, then
  both sound and Xdialogs are ok. This is with any window manager, and
  nothing much else is running here to screw things up.
 
  The script is definitely being run on the keypress each time. There's
  obviously something I'm missing about devd here.
 
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Re: Dynamic Memory Allocation Limit?

2008-04-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:37:12 -0400, Edward Ruggeri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have recently been writing an implementation of the sieve of
 Eratosthenes in C.  To find all primes less than N, I dynamically
 create an array of chars (relatively small datatype) of length N+1 (I
 know I don't need to represent evens).

 Everything works great up until around 600 million, at which case
 memory allocation fails.  At this point, I am asking for 600M chars,
 which is about 572MB (I might be failing to take account of offset?).

You are hitting the limit set as kern.maxdsiz (512 MB by default).

One possible 'optimization', which can bump the total count of numbers
you can represent in your sieve (at a small cost of extra complexity) is
to use a single *bit* for each number, and the macros from FreeBSD's
bitstring.h.  By using a bit-map for the numbers, you can represent
eight times as many numbers in a sieve of the same size.

Another option is to bump the value of kern.maxdsiz at boot time.  This
has been described many many times in the list archives, so a Google
search should quickly yield several hits.

 I am using FreeBSD 6.3-prerelease, with SMP for a Athlon X2 4200+ (if
 it makes a difference).  Sorry if this is a RTFM question ...

That's fine.  A question never asked is much worse than a question which
causes people to learn even more about FreeBSD :)

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Re: Install port without man page

2008-04-30 Thread Mel
On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:35:16 Ashant Chalasani wrote:
 Also part of the output of
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server]# make install clean
 MANPREFIX=/tmp/ PREFIX=/mnt/

 is..
 .
 install -c -m 444 dhcpd /mnt//sbin
 chmod 755 /mnt//sbin/dhcpd
 install -c  dhcpd.man8   /mnt//man/man8/dhcpd.8
 install -c  dhcpd.conf.man5   /mnt//man/man5/dhcpd.conf.5
 install -c  dhcpd.leases.man5   /mnt//man/man5/dhcpd.leases.5
 === Installing rc.d startup script(s)
 ..

 ps:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD fbsd70.kwest.wapsol.de 7.0-RELEASE
 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

 On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Ashant Chalasani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I've experimented with the isc-dhcp3-server port all 3 options -
   NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES, NOPORTDOCS and MANPREFIX and in every case there
   were manpages installed in /mnt/man/
 
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt/man]# find . -name *dhcp*
   ./man5/dhcp-options.5
   ./man5/dhcp-eval.5
   ./man5/dhcpd.conf.5
   ./man5/dhcpd.leases.5
   ./man8/dhcpd.8
 
   However, with
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server]# make install clean
   MANPREFIX=/tmp/ PREFIX=/mnt/
 
   we got...
 
   ===   Compressing manual pages for isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2
   gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man1/omshell.1: No such file or directory
   gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcpd.conf.5: No such file or directory
   gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcpd.leases.5: No such file or
  directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcp-eval.5: No such file or
  directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcp-options.5: No such file
  or directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man8/dhcpd.8: No such file or
  directory

That's because MANPREFIX relies on an mtree being present, meaning 
man/man[1-9] directories should be below it.
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Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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Part-Time Job Opportunity

2008-04-30 Thread Dulwich Picture Gallery

Good Day to you Sir/Madam.
 
I am pleased to give you an offer for employment as a consultant  withour 
fledgling company. 

We at Dulwich Picture Gallery have a mission to help individuals with investing 
into the Art 

 Antique but due to our wide range of customers and low reach in terms of 
offices 

worldwide,we have decided to make ties with individuals around the world who 
arewilling to be 

a part of our mission to make the future bright for our investors.
 
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Re: Part-Time Job Opportunity

2008-04-30 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 6:35 am, Dulwich Picture Gallery wrote:
 Good Day to you Sir/Madam.

 I am pleased to give you an offer for employment as a consultant  withour
 fledgling company.

 We at Dulwich Picture Gallery have a mission to help individuals with
 investing into the Art

  Antique but due to our wide range of customers and low reach in terms of
 offices

 worldwide,we have decided to make ties with individuals around the world
 who arewilling to be

 a part of our mission to make the future bright for our investors.

 JOB DESCRIPTION:
 Currently, due to the abundance of Art and Antique in the West African
 region, we are

 pitching our Resource Office there besides our Head Office that present
 here in the UK. We

 have abundant investors in the USA and Europe but sometimes
 havedifficulties getting their

 investment bids across to us, your job will entail the cashing in of
 investment bids from our

 investors, in any form they may come (personalized checks, cashiers check
 or cash) and

 sending the funds back to one of our offices through means that will be
 given to you when the

 time arises. Our seasoned workers set up this form of employment so it
 doesnt affect your day

 job if you have one.

 RENUMERATION:
 In an instance whereby you cash in an investment bid for our customer,you
 will be entitled to

 10% of the total amount you cash. For example; if you cash an investment
 bid of $3000, your

 pay on that bid will be $300, which is subject to change depending on the
 number of bids that

 you cash.

 IMPORTANT:
 You must be over 18 years of age.U.S,UK,CANADIAN OR AUSTRALIAN
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 receive a

 Representative Contract agreement.Please mail along with the requested
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Help

2008-04-30 Thread Farooq Hussain
Hello

I want the my apache server should executed PHP file. But its't not doing
this. Please tell me how i will configure PHP with apache. i have already
install apache22 and mysql now i want to configure my Roundcube mail server
but when i access it from my server it will return PHP code in browser

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Re: Help

2008-04-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot

Hello,

Farooq Hussain pisze:


Hello

I want the my apache server should executed PHP file. But its't not doing
this. Please tell me how i will configure PHP with apache. i have already
install apache22 and mysql now i want to configure my Roundcube mail server
but when i access it from my server it will return PHP code in browser



http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=10

and

http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=20

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Re: Distfile size mismatch for ImageMagick portupgrade

2008-04-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Upgrading ImageMagick from 6.3.6.9 to 6.4.0.11 fails after downloading 
 the distfile with size mismatch: expected 5837175, actual 5836089.

 I don't see anything relevant in UPDATING or on the Freshports site. 
 I've run pkgdb -u and downloaded a fresh copy 
 of /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick but still get the problem.

 Is this a general problem or have I overlooked something?

The tarball was re-rolled. 
The port has now been updated accordingly.
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Re: ipnat

2008-04-30 Thread alexus
su-3.2# ipnat -l
List of active MAP/Redirect filters:
map fxp0 172.16.172.16/32 - 0.0.0.0/32
rdr fxp0 0.0.0.0/0 port 22 - 172.16.172.16 port 22 tcp

List of active sessions:
su-3.2#

this configuration seems to be working just like i wanted it, i just
wanted to make sure its correct in terms of networking
first rule provides NAT for whatever coming out from
172.16.172.16/32 to everything outside
rdr rule is redirects port 22 tcp from outside to 172.16.172.16/32

a little confusion i get is due to in first rule there is 0.0.0.0/32
and in second rule there is 0.0.0.0/0


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Olivier GARNIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Other informations ?
 Have you try to login in ssh from your ssh server computer ?
 Is it working ?

 Have you try nmap on your ssh server computer tu see if 22 port is open ?
 Can you show us what is the ssh commande you type to try to connect ?


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 anyone?

 On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM, alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  i can't seem to figure this out
 
   su-3.2# ipnat -l
   List of active MAP/Redirect filters:
   rdr fxp0 0.0.0.0/32 port 22 - 172.16.172.16 port 22 tcp
 
   List of active sessions:
   su-3.2# netstat -tan | grep LISTEN | grep 22
   tcp4   0  0  172.16.172.16.22   *.*LISTEN
   su-3.2#
 
   i'm trying to ssh from outside, no luck :(
 
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Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

2008-04-30 Thread David Robillard
 On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:00, O. Hartmann wrote:

[ --- 8 --- SNIP! --- 8 --- ]

 It's true that an object can only belong to one structural class (although it
 can belong to many auxiliary classes).

 I use the auxiliary class extensibleObject, which allows you to add any
 attribute to an LDAP object. My user accounts have three object classes:
 inetOrgPerson (the structural class), posixAccount and extensibleObject. The
 rules for the first two are still enforced, but I am able to add the Host:
 attribute.

 Jonathan

That sounds very interesting Jonathan. Could you please share with us
the complete LDIF data used to create such a user?
Something like this for example:

# test.user.ldif
#
# Create a test user.

dn: cn=test.user, ou=users, dc=domain, dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
cn: Test User
sn: test.user
uid: test.user
userPassword: {SSHA}GmbwsRvJugoiT5NIIJ2bk+5YVfWMUVa1
uidNumber: 
gidNumber: 
gecos: Test User
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
telephonenumber: 123 456 7890 x1234
loginShell: /usr/local/bin/bash
homeDirectory: /nfs/home/test.user

# Link this user to it's group.
dn: cn=test, ou=groups, dc=domain, dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: posixGroup
cn: test
gidNumber: 
memberUid: test.user

# EOF

Many thanks,

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Re: raid and dump/restore after the disaster

2008-04-30 Thread Derek Ragona

At 02:09 AM 4/30/2008, Roberto Nunnari wrote:

Hi!

Anybody on this, plase? :)

Am I missing something basilar, or it's a FreeBSD bug?
Incomplete support for the ICH9R?

I cannot attach the boot log, because the boot process
panics just before mounting the disks and nothing is
logged on /var/log/

Anyways, booting in verbose mode shows that the last
activities before it panics are on the disks and fakeraid..
it finds one of the disks and then the last output before
the panic is about the Intel MatrixRAID.

Any thoughts on this, please?

Best regards
Robi


Roberto Nunnari wrote:

Hi all!
I'm playing with new HW and FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0.
I set up raid 1 on two sata disks (fakeraid on ICH9R)
and as long as I can see, it seams to work very well.
Now I'm trying to simulate 1 disk failure (I just take
out a disk and boot again). Doesn't matter which of the
two disks I take out, the bios correctly shows the raid
as degraded and bootable, loads the FreeBSD loader, who
loads the kernel and starts the boot.
But when the kernel comes to the drives (or the swap?)
it fatal traps 12. The trap descriptions sais that
current process is 0 (swapper).
Reading that I commented out the swap partition from fstab,
but that doesn't help.
How can I get the system to finish the boot?
Thank you and best regards.




I believe these are software RAID and the support for the failover is in 
the system BIOS.  If a drive fails, you need to replace the failed drive 
and rebuild the array.  If you want hot swapable drives in an array, you 
will need to use a different RAID card that supports that feature.


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Re: Help

2008-04-30 Thread prad
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:23:48 +0500
Farooq Hussain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Please tell me how i will configure PHP with apache.

does anyone know why php package doesn't run from apache and you need
to install it from ports (selecting the apache option)? 

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Re: Distfile size mismatch for ImageMagick portupgrade

2008-04-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

 The tarball was re-rolled.
 The port has now been updated accordingly.

Thanks. I've got the new version now

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BSDL C data structure library

2008-04-30 Thread Nathan Lay

Hi list,
As the subject suggests, is there a BSD licensed generalized C data 
structure library?  I noticed there is GDSL but I really don't want to 
use it because of the GPL.  If such a data structure library doesn't 
exist, I'd be extremely happy and willing to write one for the BSD 
community.


Best Regards,
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Re: BSDL C data structure library

2008-04-30 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 18:19:27 Nathan Lay wrote:
 Hi list,
 As the subject suggests, is there a BSD licensed generalized C data
 structure library?  I noticed there is GDSL but I really don't want to
 use it because of the GPL.  If such a data structure library doesn't
 exist, I'd be extremely happy and willing to write one for the BSD
 community.

Well, partly. queue(3) shows you the linked lists/queues that are basically a 
preprocessor hack, but work quite well.
I personally dont know about anything in base, for the other structures 
mentioned on the GDSL homepage.

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Re: BSDL C data structure library

2008-04-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 30), Mel said:
 On Wednesday 30 April 2008 18:19:27 Nathan Lay wrote:
  As the subject suggests, is there a BSD licensed generalized C data
  structure library?  I noticed there is GDSL but I really don't want
  to use it because of the GPL.  If such a data structure library
  doesn't exist, I'd be extremely happy and willing to write one for
  the BSD community.
 
 Well, partly. queue(3) shows you the linked lists/queues that are
 basically a preprocessor hack, but work quite well. I personally dont
 know about anything in base, for the other structures mentioned on
 the GDSL homepage.

sys/tree.h also provides implementations of splay and red-black
trees.

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Re: BSDL C data structure library

2008-04-30 Thread Kris Kennaway

Mel wrote:

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 18:19:27 Nathan Lay wrote:

Hi list,
As the subject suggests, is there a BSD licensed generalized C data
structure library?  I noticed there is GDSL but I really don't want to
use it because of the GPL.  If such a data structure library doesn't
exist, I'd be extremely happy and willing to write one for the BSD
community.


Well, partly. queue(3) shows you the linked lists/queues that are basically a 
preprocessor hack, but work quite well.
I personally dont know about anything in base, for the other structures 
mentioned on the GDSL homepage.




See e.g. sys/tree.h for splay and RB trees

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driver for Atheros L2 10/100 lan?

2008-04-30 Thread Steve Franks
Anyone know if this is in the works?  Not an issue, my second NIC
works fine, but I'd like to use the onboard one day...

Steve
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Re: libstdc++ localization aborts with an exception

2008-04-30 Thread Sashi Asokarajan

Marian Asokarajan wrote:

And probably the darwin (or generic) model is used, instead of gnu
(s.a. line 5801 in file /usr/src/contrib/libstdc++/configure).
If it is so, why doesn't the gnu model apply to FreeBSD ?


I posted the same question to the libstdc++ mailing list and benjamin
kindly answered my question and he suggested the following:

BK It looks like it has something to do with ctype, and nothing to do with
BK named locales.

BK Named locales only work on GNU systems, or with systems that implement
BK the new POSIX locale model (newlocale/duplocale/strcoll_l, etc). From
BK what I understand, neither FreeBSD 7 nor Darwin meet these requirements.

So, is his suggestion right ?


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Mystery Hardware Error

2008-04-30 Thread David M. Patronis
When I burn a data cd using the burncd utility, I get this error at the 
end of the session:


acd0: FAILURE-READ_BIG HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x3e ascq=0x2

When I burn a second disc, there is no error message, and I've yet to 
have a bad burn. In fact I'm getting quality superior to that I was able 
to produce using Windows or Linux. What does the error mean, should I be 
concerned, and if so, what steps should I take to resolve the problem?


David
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(no subject)

2008-04-30 Thread Robert Davison
Im getting the followng error from freebsd-update fetch

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

Can anyone shed any light on why the public key is failing.


   
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Re: BSDL C data structure library

2008-04-30 Thread Nathan Lay

Nathan Lay wrote:

Hi list,
As the subject suggests, is there a BSD licensed generalized C data 
structure library?  I noticed there is GDSL but I really don't want to 
use it because of the GPL.  If such a data structure library doesn't 
exist, I'd be extremely happy and willing to write one for the BSD 
community.


Best Regards,
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Hi list,
Thanks for all the prompt responses.  I knew about the macros but was 
thinking of something more automated and complete (in the sense that all 
common data structures are supported).
I implemented a simple and generalized vector in C to demonstrate what I 
have in mind:


http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~nlay/bdsl.tar.gz

A toy program is included.  I ultimately want close to STL's 
functionality.  Any comments and criticisms are appreciated.


Best Regards,
Nathan Lay

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freebsd-update key error

2008-04-30 Thread Robert Davison

Im getting the followng error from freebsd-update fetch

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

Can anyone shed any light on why the public key is failing.

   
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ACPI can only be compiled into the kernel on the amd64 and ia64 platforms

2008-04-30 Thread alexus
dd# make cleandepend  make depend
rm -f .depend machine amd64
cd ../../../modules;
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/dd/modules
KMODDIR=/boot/kernel DEBUG_FLAGS=-g MACHINE=i386
KERNBUILDDIR=/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/dd make  cleandepend
=== aac (cleandepend)
rm -f @ machine amd64
rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS
=== accf_data (cleandepend)
rm -f @ machine amd64
rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS
=== accf_http (cleandepend)
rm -f @ machine amd64
rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS
=== acpi (cleandepend)
=== acpi/acpi (cleandepend)
Makefile, line 4: ACPI can only be compiled into the kernel on the
amd64 and ia64 platforms
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/acpi.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/dd.
dd#

I took GENERIC and rewise it a little bit

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Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

2008-04-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 16:43, David Robillard wrote:
  On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:00, O. Hartmann wrote:

 [ --- 8 --- SNIP! --- 8 --- ]

  It's true that an object can only belong to one structural class
  (although it can belong to many auxiliary classes).
 
  I use the auxiliary class extensibleObject, which allows you to add any
  attribute to an LDAP object. My user accounts have three object classes:
  inetOrgPerson (the structural class), posixAccount and extensibleObject.
  The rules for the first two are still enforced, but I am able to add the
  Host: attribute.
 
  Jonathan

 That sounds very interesting Jonathan. Could you please share with us
 the complete LDIF data used to create such a user?

This is live from my LDAP server:

# jfm, group, hst.org.za
dn: cn=jfm,ou=group,dc=hst,dc=org,dc=za
objectClass: posixGroup
gidNumber: 1001
cn: jfm

# jfm, people, hst.org.za
dn: uid=jfm,ou=people,dc=hst,dc=org,dc=za
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: extensibleObject
sn: McKeown
cn: Jonathan McKeown
uidNumber: 1001
gidNumber: 1001
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loginShell: /usr/local/bin/bash
host: charlotte.hst.org.za
host: clare.hst.org.za
uid: jfm
homeDirectory: /home/jfm

There is, of course, also a userPassword attribute in the user account. (You 
didn't expect me to show you that, did you?!)

Using posixGroup, the attribute for adding additional members to a group is 
memberUid.

There's a bit more to getting this all working: configuring slapd.conf with 
appropriate schemas, installing and configuring pam_ldap and nss_ldap, and 
setting up PAM correctly. I can go into excruciating detail if you like...

My only irritation is that although passwd(1) in 6.3 has the code within it to 
allow it to be controlled by PAM, it's all currently diked out, so that you 
can't use passwd(1) transparently with LDAP users. (As far as I know this 
hasn't changed in 7.0).

inetOrgPerson gives you a huge number of optional fields for other 
information, up to and including a JPEG photo. It inherits from 
organizationalPerson which inherits from person, so you need to combine all 
three sets of attributes to get the complete spec for inetOrgPerson (note the 
only MUST attributes are sn and cn from person):

NAME 'inetOrgPerson'
DESC 'RFC2798: Internet Organizational Person'
SUP organizationalPerson
STRUCTURAL
MAY (   audio $ businessCategory $ carLicense $ departmentNumber $
displayName $ employeeNumber $ employeeType $ givenName $
homePhone $ homePostalAddress $ initials $ jpegPhoto $
labeledURI $ mail $ manager $ mobile $ o $ pager $
photo $ roomNumber $ secretary $ uid $ userCertificate $
x500uniqueIdentifier $ preferredLanguage $
userSMIMECertificate $ userPKCS12 )

NAME 'organizationalPerson'
DESC 'RFC2256: an organizational person'
SUP person
STRUCTURAL
MAY (   title $ x121Address $ registeredAddress $
destinationIndicator $
preferredDeliveryMethod $ telexNumber $
teletexTerminalIdentifier $ telephoneNumber $
internationaliSDNNumber $ facsimileTelephoneNumber $
street $ postOfficeBox $ postalCode $
postalAddress $ physicalDeliveryOfficeName $ ou $ st $ l )

NAME 'person'
DESC 'RFC2256: a person'
SUP top STRUCTURAL
MUST ( sn $ cn )
MAY ( userPassword $ telephoneNumber $ seeAlso $ description )

We're hardly using any of these, but it seemed to make more sense to build it 
in, in case.

Jonathan
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Support for SCSI Card LSI LSI20160?

2008-04-30 Thread perikillo
  I have a scsi card from LSI, the model is LSI20160, some knows if this is
support on FreeBSD 6.x or FreeBSD 7.0?

  I have been googling but i didn't anything related.

  Thanks!!
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dmesg empty after shutdown -r

2008-04-30 Thread A Hamilton-Wright


This is very strange.

After shutdown -r now and the subsequent reboot, I have
logged in to my machine
FreeBSD qemg.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 
10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Everything seems to be running normally, except dmesg produces
no output, and /var/run/dmesg.boot is zero bytes long.

Does anyone have any ideas why this would ever occur?  Or even how
it could occur?

Andrew.

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DNS Problem

2008-04-30 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi..

I dont know if this post belong here..but i try searching anywhere but none
could solve my problem..hope someone will help me here

I have problem in my load images using Mozilla  IE, the image can't load
for example in site of friendster most images
don't load, i have read lots of blogs about it some says that its a BUG
from friendster but they say they it was already.

Suddenly, i read from one blog by changing the DNS in IPV4 properties of
Network Connection it will fix the problem honestly i followed the
instruction and
gotcha it work out. but when i resume it to its current configuration
Obtain DBS server automatically the problem is back, is this a problem in
my DNS server?
I'm using the FreeBSD 6.2 version...

I already restarted the DNS Server /etc/rc.d/named restart but nothing
happens the problem is still there..Is there any one here could help
me solve it?

Hope someone here will help me, I'm stuck in this problem for 3 weeks,
another thing only site friendster the images dont load no other site
else...

Thanks..:(
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Perl 5.8.8 Compile

2008-04-30 Thread Jay Hall
I am attempting to compile Perl 5.8.8 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.  I make it 
through the configuration just fine, but when I attempt to run the make 
command, I receive the following error message.  I am creating a custom 
install.  The only parameter I am changing is the installation location.


make: don't know how to make command-line. Stop.

I have run make depend, and it finishes without any problems.

I'm sure this is something simple I am missing because I have been 
looking at the problem for so long.


Thanks in advance for your assistance.



Jay
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Re: Even more documentation?

2008-04-30 Thread T.

Edward Ruggeri wrote:

Hi all,

I've used FreeBSD for about two years now.  Besides using Linux for
projects on school computers, I never had much experience with
Unix-like operating systems.  While I get by nicely on FreeBSD, I
recently felt that I didn't have a very solid understanding of it's
organization or structure.  I suppose one can't know everything about
an operating system with as much functionality as FreeBSD, but I
started to feel like my knowledge was really ad-hoc, and that I didn't
completely understand what I was doing (as if I had learned only by
example).

To that end, I started reading the FreeBSD handbook front-to-back.
I've gotten to Part III, and while it's been very valuable, I still
feel like I'm learning by example, and not by understanding the
operating system.  I'm starting to think I'm expecting something out
of the handbook it's not designed to do.

It seems like the man pages would be a good place to go, but my
trouble with using them is that they're difficult to put together the
information on different pages.  I suppose I want something like a
textbook.  I dream of a KR type text that is very comprehensive and
well-organized.

If anyone has advice, I'd very much appreciate it!

Sincerely,

-- Ned Ruggeri


A lot more than just the handbook and man pages:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/

Design and Implementation is dense if you're not at that level of 
understanding yet.

It's the high level, comprehensive OS engineering manual.
And, like any engineering manual, by it's nature (not reflecting on 
McKusick), it can put you to sleep trying to read it front to back.
Honestly, it's too much too fast to practically learn from unless your 
already familiar with designing and implementing an OS and just want to 
get up to speed on FreeBSD.
The purpose spans the whole OS, so it's impossible to find focus on some 
relevant achievable goal in a straight front to back reading.
I'm finding it better for referencing particular internals you're 
focusing on at the moment.


A fun and exciting whirlwind tour that cuts quickly to the most 
significant internals and is strictly focused with a well defined and 
immediately achievable purpose is Designing BSD Rootkits by Joseph 
Kong. You'll be tinkering with protocol structures and manipulating 
critical system tables a lot faster. It's a serious eye-opener.


What you will find is that, in terms of development, /usr/src and 
analysis tools are the ultimate resources.


In terms of system administration, the Handbook, man pages and domain 
specific documentation are your best reference. Your best resource is 
experience. Ultimately, FreeBSD is just another system. The system must 
have a purpose. Your purpose will entail providing services. Your 
experience will be in mastering these services. Services are more so 
defined by their protocols and APIs than by the systems they're hosted 
on. Once you put it in perspective, the system is really just another 
collection of services, but these focus on providing a standard 
interface to the actual hardware beneath that make it all possible. But 
that's not entirely accurate, because ultimately, it's people that have 
made it possible, not the machines.


Again and again, it comes down to Purpose and focus. So, the real 
question becomes not one of resources (of which, there are plenty), but 
of inspiration and creativity.



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