Synchronizing packages on several machines from a repository
I have one main server and several slave machines. All machines are running FreeBSD 7.0. I have done a csup to my server and have done a 'portsupgrade -ap' to build and install my current selection of ports on the server. This proceedure also creates the packages in /usr/ports/packages/All. I would now like to sync my other machines using the packages found on this server. Each slave machine has a skeleton of the ports tree. Reading the portinstall doco I thought I could do something like: # setenv PKG_SITES http://myhost/packages/; # portupgrade -avPP --- Session started at: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:35:31 + ** None has been installed or upgraded. --- Session ended at: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:35:41 + (consumed 00:00:10) I can see that there are packages out of date but I am not sure how to tell the ports/packages environment what to do. Do I need to do a csup on all my slave machines. If so they may be out of sync with the master that I may have processed a week before (for testing). What is the correct proceedure for keeping packages in sync with a master repository without the need to rebuild each port on each machine. Note: I am able to do a 'portinstall -PPR packagename' on a slave machine to retrieve a new package so I know that the PKG_SITES is correct and working. -- Daryl Sayers To reply please remove the XYZ from the email address. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems opening mail on this list
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 219, Issue 7 At Message: 20 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:23:32 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 10-Jun-08, at 1:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Andrew, maybe you could send a signed message, state in the body that it was signed, and then I can look at the headers and tell you what's going on. Here is a message which has been signed. --Andrew -- Note that I'm replying to a digest message so a) threading is screwed and b) I don't see full headers of individual messages, but this shows that your message hit the digest without attachment, and others report no attachment seen in list mail either, as this reply by Paul shows: Here is a message which has been signed. There's no sig attached, so it's getting stripped off somewhere. This line in the headers looks to be the culprit: X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 That will strip all attachments, including S/MIME. However, what normally happens to attachments to questions@, at least to digests, is that they get stripped with a note pointing to the original attachment, as this subsequent message from Chad illustrates: Message: 27 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:32:45 -0600 From: Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems opening mail on this list To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Note Content-type: possibly modified from original? .. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:34:59PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 16:23:32 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10-Jun-08, at 1:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Andrew, maybe you could send a signed message, state in the body that it was signed, and then I can look at the headers and tell you what's going on. Here is a message which has been signed. There's no sig attached, so it's getting stripped off somewhere. This line in the headers looks to be the culprit: X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 That will strip all attachments, including S/MIME. My PGP signatures seem to come through just fine, however. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Anonymous: Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's old and tough. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20080610/f86dad22/attachment-0001.pgp -- So Andrew, there's something different about your particular S/MIME attachments I guess. Another illustration from an earlier digest: : Message: 29 : Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:51:30 -0400 : From: Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests : To: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 : : Wojciech Puchar wrote: [.. content elided ..] : --Jon Radel : : -- next part -- : A non-text attachment was scrubbed... : Name: smime.p7s : Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature : Size: 3283 bytes : Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature : Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20080610/cc6da5da/smime-0001.bin Dunno if that helps, but your Mac gadget seems to work differently .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Thanks a lot :) 1. Please don't cross-post. 2. ls -lt /var/db/pkg/*/+DESC piped to whatever language you want to analyze the dates will provide you the result you want, _unless_ either you modified the file(s) Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Example uses of bsnmp-ucd?
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:17:33 -0400 Chris Haulmark wrote: CH Hello, CH I have discovered that bsnmp-ucd provides the ability to monitor FreeBSD CH by gathering memory, load average, cpu usage and other system CH statistics. CH I wonder if anyone else have any examples of how they graph those CH statistics? CH I am currently using cacti and it seems difficult for me to create a CH template to gather those gathered data. I am looking for help. If you have bsnmpd configured to load bsnmp-ucd module, you can use 'ucd/net SNMP Host' template in cacti to monitor la, memory and cpu statistics. Graph templates are: ucd/net - CPU Usage ucd/net - Load Average ucd/net - Memory Usage -- Mikolaj Golub ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
generating random passwords
Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice. :) Best regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.lc-words.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Radel Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02 PM To: Wojciech Puchar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Nameservers are hitting an address of yours. Therefore something is probably handing out your address. Somebody (that would be me) has looked up the address in question and even looked up the nameserver which is handing out that address in a glue record. A simple problem EASILY solved. Why bother the owner of the misconfigured nameserver? Instead, simply insert a wildcard record to your namesever that hands out the IP number of the nastiest porno site you can find to any DNS query. After a few days the owners of the misconfigured nameservers or clients will go hunting for whatever is poisoning their cache. Problem solved. Ted ___ 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 determine the date a port is installed
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? ls -ld /var/db/pkg/port, use the mtime of the directory. 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete. Not really. This is a bit dangerous. The dangerous part is the mtime of the directory. It would be much better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes *after* the package has been installed. It is possible, though not certain, that the mtime of the directory may change if another package is installed later which depends on this one - pkg_add(1) then updates some files, most notably +REQUIRED_BY, to reflect the new dependency, so that pkg_delete(1) may warn you later if you try to delete something that other packages depend on. Of course, the part with the mtime of the directory may change depends a bit on the filesystem used, but I find it easier to just rely on the +CONTENTS file that I'm sure should never change - unless I edit it by hand, but then all bets are off :) Novembre, you might want to try something like: # Change the working directory for easier path handling cd /var/db/pkg # Create a temporary file with the modification time set to the date # that you want to examine (in this case, May 15, 2008, 11:00am) touch -t 200805151100 /tmp/stamp # Find all +CONTENTS files that have a modification time later than that # of the stamp file find . -type f -name '+CONTENTS' -mnewer /tmp/stamp # Extend the previous command - get only the second component of the # file path, which is the name of the package directory, which coincides # with the name of the package :) find . -type f -name '+CONTENTS' -mnewer /tmp/stamp | cut -d/ -f2 That should give you a list; you may redirect it to a file or, if you are feeling really adventurous, just pipe it to | xargs pkg_delete :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit. pgpRMeph8IlP3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: generating random passwords
Le 11/06/08 à 09:22, Zbigniew Szalbot téléscripta :
Hello,
Hello,
Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow
me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts
or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to
generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the
keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice.
:)
apg[1] could do the trick, it could generate different kind of
passwords, eiher pronounceable or unpronounceable.
% apg -a1 -m64
jVMH8f]~[nZ\Bs2a-b*,gYPIYW0P?+I~A'd/,M(8B~w'i`siSn!5_B|NA1'hx
!e/599bdWH)oE8Y5=m]F6|jy6Iasa8`BytT/kyqP{_0WKIyu8j:@`!v,*a(DXWa
QJn%pSXAF\4y8gRyiCi]uc^/U+K|)bn!#mvrL]LA7f5!woo,jHBTM(9IUx+.'wS
3.7}7uo\XF9s0z;~6{n\MlV6*0EfHJOQZpNM~'Z4hsl#nZvnz(Q4{kjP(]Q.0)#R
8|;[EMAIL PROTECTED]'a(sT;+OMlpcYg%VI/%4Kg=J[EMAIL PROTECTED]/VVJ51
[EMAIL PROTECTED]67dgAf;dq)j,8[mL/ZjGURL=u9_zt~+:OXg$jDE{JnRx
% apg -a0 -m8
DykavWabjo
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Agdeikkeo
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ipfevDyod
MywranEn1
Ref:
[1] - http://www.freshports.org/security/apg/
Best regards,
Regards,
Baptiste
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Re: generating random passwords
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 10:20:30 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow
me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts
or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to
generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the
keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice.
:)
That's a common problem I have, and most of the times I was on relying
on BASH's $RANDOM. Just thought of this:
sed -n 's/[EMAIL PROTECTED]*()_+=-|\]//g; /^\(.\{10\}\).*/{ s//\1/p; q; }; b'
/dev/urandom
HTH, Nikos
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Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7
Hey, Set it with sysctl inet.inet.ip.forwarding=1 or Alternatively set it by adding this to /etc/sysctl.conf net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 I guess more proper way of doing this is adding: gateway_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf? I don't have any sysctl custom configuration in my sysctl.conf and OpenVPN still works (I have gateway_enable in my rc.conf, of course). Bye, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall high-load performance
Woj, another of the few joys of -digests: two birds with one stone: is there a way to check on running system how much CPU time is used to perform firewalling/traffic manager - be it pf or ipfw? Sure, compare ping times / traffic throughput with firewall turned off and on? I recall that a FreeBSD 2.2.6 P166 with about 1000 ipfw rules added up to ~2ms to ping times through - on a local 10Mbps network :) On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:35:14 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (quoting Matthew Seaman) High load may or may not be a problem depending on your traffic patterns. I've seen pf firewalls suffer by running out of state-table space in situations where there are a lot of fairly short-lived but low volume network connections. The default is 10,000 states. If your firewall machine is this state-table a hash table or something similar. if so - making it much bigger than CPU cache may actually slow down things because DRAM access latency is huge on modern machines. There was some discussion of the efficiency of ipfw stateful rules in recent weeks, over on -net IIRC. As someone else mentioned, that's the place to be if you're interested in net stuff, and are prepared to sit back and read some real expertise before saying too much for a while :) ipfw hashes src.ip ^ dst.ip ^ src.port ^ dst.port for connections in a default of 256 buckets, which is very fast when there are no collisions; duplicates however are added to a linked list, which gets slow if large, such as for raw IP or ICMP where 'port' numbers = 0. I'm not sure what stateful rules really mean in those contexts anyway, but there was talk of increasing both the (default) no. of buckets and maximum stetes kept, the memory penalty being pretty insignificant on today's hardware. I tend to doubt that processor caching is an issue one way or the other. On the whole I'd go with pf every time simply based on how much more manageable it is compared to ipfw -- you have to try, hard, to lock yourself out when reloading a new pf ruleset. i already learned well locking myself after making mistake in ipfw rules now i run screen and do something like that cd /etc cp firewall firewall.old cp firewall firewall.new edit firewall.new cp firewall.new firewall;/etc/rc.d/ipfw restart;sleep 100;cp firewall.old firewall;/etc/rc.d/ipfw restart then i have 100 seconds to quickly test new rules, at least to make sure i'm not locked. Yeah that'll work, as suggested in the manual's example. I also wouldn't mind seeing some proper empirical comparisons between ipfw and pf. Many of the reasons sometimes offered to prefer pf have been addressed in ipfw more recently (like in-kernel NAT for 7.x) and development of both is always ongoing, so it's still largely personal preference. I've been using ipfw for just over 10 years and am fairly familiar with it, and there are plenty of options I've not yet tried. Anyone reading the handbook these days would think ipfw was deprecated, and one day I hope to do a number on the ipfw section there; it contains out and out factual errors, some misconceptions and poor examples, still the author does declare his familiarity is otherwise, ipf as I recall. BTW I'm not dissing pf in any way, I've just never tried it. ipfw plus dummynet has done everything well that I've needed to do so far, mostly on networks smaller even than yours :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
pearl# dig dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 21682 IN 2001:4070:101:2::1 that's funny because i have in my domain: dns3A 213.192.74.1 dns32001:4070:101::1 not :2::1 tried my secondary dns - the same. tried dig dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl from other server in poland - the same! any idea where this :2::1 can be kept. nowhere on my machines for sure. i did grep 2001:4070:101:2::1 /etc/namedb/*/* on both my primary and secondary dns - found only one position that defines wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl nothing more. asked polish telecom DNS to look how it look from outside, got this dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 10800 IN 2001:4070:101::1 which is OK. as you get :2::1 - any idea why? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
can find to any DNS query. After a few days the owners of the misconfigured nameservers or clients will go hunting for whatever is poisoning their cache. Problem solved. Ted when i will be sure it is not my fault i would do this ;) but now i actually don't know where is a problem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall high-load performance
is there a way to check on running system how much CPU time is used to perform firewalling/traffic manager - be it pf or ipfw? Sure, compare ping times / traffic throughput with firewall turned off and on? this will not measure CPU load but delays. delays are unnoticable and doesn't look like a problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?
Pretty much anything but / (rot). I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large. root partition is always checked foreground. i would be possible to check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
Do a netstat -na | grep 53. This will help. Something is wrong with your setup if you are seeing undesirable results. all OK, on port 53 my named is listening. it is used as cache-only DNS for my computer and few others. yes i can just block out accesses from outside 2001:4070:101:2::/64 but i would like to know why they are asking at all! A couple of questions... are you using ONLY /64 prefixes? Whether they do or yes i do. 2001:4070:101::/64 and 2001:4070:101:2::/64 are different subnets ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system needing fsck at reboot, manual intervention necessary
fsck_y_enable=YES On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Michael Grant wrote: One of my freebsd 6.3 boxes is crashing and when it reboots, it comes up in single user mode. Unfortunately, it's a remote box and I don't have access to a history of the console and there's nothing in /var/log/messages. I think it's a hardware problem, or at least it seems to be. It's as if it's a bad power supply. Anyway, what I'd like to know, where is the fsck that is done at reboot such that I can modify it to do an fsck -y? Some people will argue this is dangerous, but I'm not sure what else one would do. The goal is to make it reboot without intervention. Michael Grant ___ 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: Synchronizing packages on several machines from a repository
Hi, You must cvsup your ports tree before you execute the portupgrade. This way you make your system aware of the need of update. In your case I asume it would be better to make your main server a cvs replica of the ports tree and use it for internal synchronization. Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Daryl Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11.06.2008 09:01 To freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc Subject Synchronizing packages on several machines from a repository I have one main server and several slave machines. All machines are running FreeBSD 7.0. I have done a csup to my server and have done a 'portsupgrade -ap' to build and install my current selection of ports on the server. This proceedure also creates the packages in /usr/ports/packages/All. I would now like to sync my other machines using the packages found on this server. Each slave machine has a skeleton of the ports tree. Reading the portinstall doco I thought I could do something like: # setenv PKG_SITES http://myhost/packages/; # portupgrade -avPP --- Session started at: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:35:31 + ** None has been installed or upgraded. --- Session ended at: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:35:41 + (consumed 00:00:10) I can see that there are packages out of date but I am not sure how to tell the ports/packages environment what to do. Do I need to do a csup on all my slave machines. If so they may be out of sync with the master that I may have processed a week before (for testing). What is the correct proceedure for keeping packages in sync with a master repository without the need to rebuild each port on each machine. Note: I am able to do a 'portinstall -PPR packagename' on a slave machine to retrieve a new package so I know that the PKG_SITES is correct and working. -- Daryl Sayers To reply please remove the XYZ from the email address. ___ 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: generating random passwords
Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat bin/genpwd #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8 count=1 2/dev/null |hexdump|cut -b 9-12,14-17,19-22,24-27 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system needing fsck at reboot, manual intervention necessary
Hi, You may put fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf file. The other option is to modify /etc/rc.d/fsck which is not so good approach. Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11.06.2008 03:41 To FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject system needing fsck at reboot, manual intervention necessary One of my freebsd 6.3 boxes is crashing and when it reboots, it comes up in single user mode. Unfortunately, it's a remote box and I don't have access to a history of the console and there's nothing in /var/log/messages. I think it's a hardware problem, or at least it seems to be. It's as if it's a bad power supply. Anyway, what I'd like to know, where is the fsck that is done at reboot such that I can modify it to do an fsck -y? Some people will argue this is dangerous, but I'm not sure what else one would do. The goal is to make it reboot without intervention. Michael Grant ___ 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]
Problem updating nvidia driver
The update of nvidia-driver-169.12 fails on my system. ( 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD) estanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissin g-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -ff ormat-extensions -c nvidia_subr.c nvidia_subr.c:654: error: conflicting types for 'nv_os_agp_init' nv-freebsd.h:406: error: previous declaration of 'nv_os_agp_init' was here nvidia_subr.c:739: error: conflicting types for 'nv_os_agp_teardown' nv-freebsd.h:407: error: previous declaration of 'nv_os_agp_teardown' was here *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.05/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-173.14.05. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver. === make failed for x11/nvidia-driver === Aborting update === Update for nvidia-driver-169.12 failed === Aborting update --- Any ideas? Thanks Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hesiod in RELENG_7 not working or poorly documented
Hi all. I'm trying to setup a hesiod/kerberos based domain. Kerberos works just fine but as for hesiod I can't understand what I need to do to make it work. Originally I have created a sample zone 'ns.local': $TTL 86400 ; 1 day @ IN SOA server.local. hostmaster.server.local. ( 2008061101 3600900 2419200 3600) ; Serial Refresh Retry Expire Minimum IN NS server.local. IN MX 0 server.local. test.passwd TXT test:*:2001:2001::0:0:Test user:/home/test:/bin/tcsh 2001.uidCNAME test.passwd test.group TXT test:*:2001: 2001.gidCNAME test.group And used this configuration file: rhs = local lhs = hs classes = IN The hesinfo works with no problems: # hesinfo test passwd test:*:2001:2001::0:0:Test user:/home/test:/bin/tcsh However finger stands that user test is uknown: I'm using the following nsswitch.conf: # # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file # $FreeBSD: src/etc/nsswitch.conf,v 1.1 2006/05/03 15:14:47 ume Exp $ # group: compat group_compat: dns hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: compat passwd_compat: dns shells: files services: compat services_compat: dns protocols: files rpc: files And I do have the +... lines in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I've tried to debug the cause of the error and it reveals that hesinfo and finger makes different lookups: hesinfo: client 127.0.0.1#62846: view internal: query: test.passwd.hs.tandem.local IN TXT + finger: client 127.0.0.1#51278: view internal: query: passwd-0.passwd.hs.tandem.local IN TXT + I've searched the net for 'passwd-0' cause and tried to make something for this to work, but all my efforts were futile. Can anyone help me with hesiod configuration? Just a little sample of your working zone would be enough. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Heikki Suonsivu wrote: I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD in terms of installation and use. A linux with basic userland and ports(-like) system, and quick and easy install like FreeBSD ? Heikki Suonsivu I don't think you will have much luck installing any modern linux distro on ancient hardware. In your case, I would consider running an older version of FreeBSD, like e.g. 4.11. This will work without a math co-processor. You can see the hardware notes here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/hardware-i386.html Download from ftp-archive, here: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.11 See also this very interesting post on minimum memory requirements for each FreeBSD version: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html I have a 4.11 installed successfully on a 386 with 20Mb RAM. You could also go with a Linux version specifically for old PCs, but better have a look at distrowatch.com for these. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD-like linux distro?
I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD in terms of installation and use. A linux with basic userland and ports(-like) system, and quick and easy install like FreeBSD ? Heikki Suonsivu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:37:22 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much anything but / (rot). I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large. root partition is always checked foreground. i would be possible to check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts There is no explicit fsck for the root partition. If you have background-checking enabled there is a single call to fsck -p -F that does foreground checking on filesystems in fstab that aren't eligible for background-checking. AFAIK the sole reason that root is foreground checked is that sysinstall doesn't set soft-updates on it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Similar Experience/Forget Hardy
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:47 pm Mike Bird wrote: All we need is stable unadulterated versions of most packages, a real binary package manager (sorry Gentoo and Slackware), and a recent kernel and graphics support. Compared to Ubuntu that would be a lot more value for a lot less effort. If anyone knows of a distro like this I really want to hear about it. Mike Bird for President! Yeh! I guess that imaginary distro is exactly what I want. (thinks ) Would v7 of FreeBSD qualify? -- Regards, Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]Change font for aterm
2008/6/8 Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: 2008/6/8 Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: Dear All, I used to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in Gnome-terminal, by change the configure in the menu. Now I am using aterm, but I also want to use that font. I can see it by fc-list: [3:39pm:kemian] ~ fc-list | grep Sans Mono Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Oblique Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman I add entry in .Xresources: Aterm*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman Use: Aterm*font: -bitstream-bitstream\ vera\ sans\ mono-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 in ~/.Xdefaults (all on one line). aterm still complain can not find this font. Then: $ xrdb -load Sorry. should have been: $ xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults This command did not give any output, it held there and nothing happened. I have to Ctrl+C to stop it. The size of the font can be varied by changing the 16 in that line. $ xlsfonts | less This did not give the output of bitstream vera sans mono. Does the dir /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/ exist? If not you have to install: x11-fonts/bitstream-vera and follow the instructions to change your xorg.conf and then restart X. If it exists, you have to add the dir to xorg.conf like so: FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/ under the Files section. Restart X. X should read ~/.Xdefaults on start up your font will be used for aterm. xlsfonts should also now list the bitstream vera fonts. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html Thanks a lot, it works. There is no font path in the xorg.conf, and after I add them in, it comes out. Another thing is, it did not recognize the \ to space, the will work. The font line I am using is: Aterm*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 Though the font seems a little bigger than I suppose, anyway, it works. Sorry for replying later due to lot of work these days. -- Best wishes, Kemian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: generating random passwords
At 2008-06-11T09:20:30+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. One way is to use the rand(1) command which comes with the base system as a part of OpenSSL: [riemann:/usr/home/raghu]% openssl rand -base64 6 1olqAkXG [riemann:/usr/home/raghu]% openssl rand -base64 9 gO/9nTp5/SYa [riemann:/usr/home/raghu]% openssl rand -base64 6 ib9SrIe2 Base64 encoding transforms every group of 3 octets to 4 encoded characters, so `openssl rand -base64 3N' produces a string with 4N encoded characters. In case it is relevant, the generated strings are made up of the 62 US-ASCII alphanumerical characters, `+', and `/'. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ 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 determine the date a port is installed
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:31:08 +0300 Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? ls -ld /var/db/pkg/port, use the mtime of the directory. 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete. Not really. This is a bit dangerous. The dangerous part is the mtime of the directory. It would be much better to use the mtime of the file, since it never changes *after* the package has been installed. +CONTENTS can change if you use a tool like portmaster or portupgrade If you have portupgrade installed, pkg_glob can list packages installed before a specific date, so presumably pkg_deinstall can delete them directly since it support package globs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD in terms of installation and use. A linux with basic userland and ports(-like) system, and quick and easy install like FreeBSD ? run FreeBSD 4.* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
See also this very interesting post on minimum memory requirements for each FreeBSD version: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html I have a 4.11 installed successfully on a 386 with 20Mb RAM. NetBSD 1.5 runs for sure and runs fast on 486SX and 8MB RAM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address
greetings all, firstly, i am not subscribed, please cc: responces, appreciated. i have been using freebsd v2.2.5-release (as my domains mx host on a 486dx33 .. that was upgraded after 20 years running with 6 years on v2.2.5 to a p5-133 mhz into which i moved teh whole scsi harddisk ssubsystem (card and drives) ther it ran v 2.2.5-r faultlessly untill last january when i cleaned of teh hard drives reformated averything and installed freebsd v6.2-release !! than after a few weeks of settling down and setting up every thing worked well, as expected, then the sendmail nightmares started ... basically the system could not send mail anywhere !!! cutting long story short, it was basically my having to relearn teh whole universe .. there were more differences than i had planned for and it was an uphill battle relearning essentially everything i had learned about freebsd over th previous ten years. about 3 weeks ago things started to make sence, herebouts, slowly it is clearing up, as i started to understand sendmail and getting teh configurations right .. most of teh poorly configured hosts i've now cleaned up and are working properly, but, one ... i have now got one left and like teh linux chappie who i found on google who had a similar out of teh blue experience like mine, (about 2003) one day sendmail worked then teh veyr next it was defereing everytingh .. just like here. this chappie had replaced his nic, i've not done angthiny like that hppen here, the machine is the machine and no hardware has been changed ?? i donot understand what is going on here .. i've included all teh differnt bits in teh maillog file here is teh /var/log/maillog exerpt Jun 9 00:00:00 reality newsyslog[15991]: logfile turned over Jun 9 03:01:05 reality sendmail[16485]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 03:06:36 reality sendmail[17417]: m58H6aGk017417: from=root, size=12938, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 9 03:06:36 reality sendmail[17417]: m58H6aGk017417: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=42938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:40 reality sendmail[17475]: m58H6dJG017475: from=root, size=137243, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 9 03:06:40 reality sendmail[17475]: m58H6dJG017475: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=167243, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m58H6aGk017417: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:13, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=132938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m58H6dJG017475: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=257243, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57LAP8l013868: to=root, delay=19:56:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3644350, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57LAP8m013868: to=root, delay=19:56:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3768123, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57H6qfr013304: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:59:57, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4542984, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57H6u1Q013363: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:59:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4666757, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56MMWd3009824: to=root, delay=1+18:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=7861512, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56LMVd3009703: to=root, delay=1+19:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8054226, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56LMVd4009703: to=root, delay=1+19:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8177393, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56ILDAU009315: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=1+22:45:36, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8670146, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56H6f3Y009045: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=2+00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8952860,
RE: Problems opening mail on this list
Paul, The message you sent right after this one produced the same error in Outlook as Andrew's. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems opening mail on this list --On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 15:32:45 -0600 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:34:59PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 16:23:32 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10-Jun-08, at 1:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Andrew, maybe you could send a signed message, state in the body that it was signed, and then I can look at the headers and tell you what's going on. Here is a message which has been signed. There's no sig attached, so it's getting stripped off somewhere. This line in the headers looks to be the culprit: X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 That will strip all attachments, including S/MIME. My PGP signatures seem to come through just fine, however. Yes it did. And it appears that this is the reason: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary=H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Disposition: inline Andrew's is like this: Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-746495031; micalg=sha1; protocol=application/pkcs7-signature Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:23:32 -0400 References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) X-Spam-Scanner: SpamAssassin 3.04 (http://www.spamassassin.org/) on batman.cs.uoguelph.ca X-Spam-Score: hits=0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Tests: FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Status: Suspected X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 131.104.94.198 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 172.17.94.85 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Notice that his was processed through MIMEDefang twice and then Content Filtered by Mailman. Also, his content type is protocol=application/pkcs7-signature whereas yours is application/pgp-signature. There's also no Content-Disposition: line in Andrew's email headers, so it's possible that absence of that line makes a difference as well. By default, it appears that Mailman does not do content filtering. It also has pass rules (if filtering is enabled) for multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative and text/plain. So, it's possible that MIMEDefang is the culprit instead. -- Paul Schmehl As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ___ 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: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?
check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts There is no explicit fsck for the root partition. If you have background-checking enabled there is a single call to fsck -p -F that does foreground checking on filesystems in fstab that aren't eligible for background-checking. AFAIK the sole reason that root is foreground checked is that sysinstall doesn't set soft-updates on it. you are right. sorry but i was sure my / partition on my laptop have soft updates set, while it doesn't. and this is the only place i have background_fsck set to yes sorry for messing up ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]Change font for aterm
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:39:21PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: 2008/6/8 Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: 2008/6/8 Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: Dear All, I used to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in Gnome-terminal, by change the configure in the menu. Now I am using aterm, but I also want to use that font. I can see it by fc-list: [3:39pm:kemian] ~ fc-list | grep Sans Mono Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Oblique Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman I add entry in .Xresources: Aterm*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman Use: Aterm*font: -bitstream-bitstream\ vera\ sans\ mono-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 in ~/.Xdefaults (all on one line). aterm still complain can not find this font. Then: $ xrdb -load Sorry. should have been: $ xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults This command did not give any output, it held there and nothing happened. I have to Ctrl+C to stop it. The size of the font can be varied by changing the 16 in that line. $ xlsfonts | less This did not give the output of bitstream vera sans mono. Does the dir /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/ exist? If not you have to install: x11-fonts/bitstream-vera and follow the instructions to change your xorg.conf and then restart X. If it exists, you have to add the dir to xorg.conf like so: FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/ under the Files section. Restart X. X should read ~/.Xdefaults on start up your font will be used for aterm. xlsfonts should also now list the bitstream vera fonts. Regards, Thanks a lot, it works. There is no font path in the xorg.conf, and after I add them in, it comes out. Another thing is, it did not recognize the \ to space, the will work. The font line I am using is: Aterm*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 Though the font seems a little bigger than I suppose, anyway, it works. Hi Kemian, I'm glad you got it working. To change the size of the font, you want to change the the first 0 in the line to the font size you require in pixels. E.g: I use: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 for a 16px font. I like it big! You can test it beforehand by using xfd (in ports if not already installed) i.e: $ xfd -fn -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono\ -medium-r-normal--16-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 Use iso8859-15 if you want € (the euro) in your character set. Sorry for replying later due to lot of work these days. No worries. I assumed you'd got it to work. -- Best wishes, Kemian Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer plug-in not playing some streams
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:05:46 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed mplayer-0.99.10_14 and mplayerplug-in-3.45 using packages on my 7.0-RELEASE machine which runs Firefox 2.0.0.12. I am not able to see *some* online content, though, and I couldn't find any pattern. For example, going to I find the mplayer plugin to be pretty unreliable - it sounds like it's improved at lot by your description. I've had a lot more success with konquerer and kmplayer with the xine backend. There's also a firefox plugin provided by gxine which may be worth a try, although it's never been as good as kmplayer in my experience. ___ 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 determine the date a port is installed
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? ls -ld /var/db/pkg/port, use the mtime of the directory. 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete. Not really. This is a bit dangerous. The dangerous part is the mtime of the directory. It would be much better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes *after* the package has been installed. It actually does if you're using portupgrade (and probably portmaster), see the @pkgdep entries. Use +DESC, +COMMENT or +MTREE_DIRS instead. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer ___ 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 check status of ida disks?
Anybody on this, please? -- Robi Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hello. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on an old compac server. The server has a RAID SCSI controller (if I'm not wrong is the Compaq SMART 3200 Controller) that at times I'd like to check if the status is still ok or somehow degraded. The OS is accessing it using the ida driver. Do anybody know how to achive it? Thank you in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Radel Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02 PM To: Wojciech Puchar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Nameservers are hitting an address of yours. Therefore something is probably handing out your address. Somebody (that would be me) has looked up the address in question and even looked up the nameserver which is handing out that address in a glue record. A simple problem EASILY solved. Why bother the owner of the misconfigured nameserver? Instead, simply insert a wildcard record to your namesever that hands out the IP number of the nastiest porno site you can find to any DNS query. After a few days the owners of the misconfigured nameservers or clients will go hunting for whatever is poisoning their cache. Problem solved. Ted Silly me, I've always believed that people setup nameservers because they want their resources to be found. Having one the parents of your zone point to a random machine of yours, which you then use to serve crap records, strikes me as somewhat counterproductive. And I really fail to see why whomever runs the parent zone would even notice. So I rather suspect that the log messages which so traumatize Wojciech would continue. Problem not solved. --Jon Radel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?
Hi all, I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Intel Turbo, 9c Li-Ion, My current working involves scientific calculation and programming. I'm from a linux background(redhat, debian, ubuntu), but after some googling and comparison, I found FreeBSD more stable and I want to try FreeBSD. I am tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. My questions are: 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most important. 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux binary compatibility stable enough for work ? Thanks a lot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html now i made my tests with FreeBSD 7. no installer, my semi-custom kernel i use everywhere on x86 (everything moduled, all needed things in loader.conf). i used qemu results: 16MB RAM - boots without problems, no swapping at all 12MB - boots without problems, little bit swapping 10MB - boots without problems, more swapping, hanged after booting multiuser, before displaying login. probably out of kernel memory for consoles 10MB again - after turning of all consoles but the first, boots fine, somehow usable, but for routers should be OK. then i made REALLY custom kernel. minimal but enough for a router. was able to get down to 9MB. so - on 12MB 486DX, FreeBSD 7 is useful system for routing, firewalling, small nameserver, general control etc. with 16MB - swap is barely touched. 486DX machines with 8-16MB RAM and small (like 100-500MB) disks are for free here, ISA network cards too. good to know they can run newest FreeBSD release! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libcdio upgrade problems
Im trying to upgrade some ports, and have a problem with libcdio. At least i think i do. When i try to upgrade, say, Nautilus (or a buncha other things), it dies in the end with a libcdio-0.78.2_2 is already installed. You may wish to make deinstall etc. message. But i did go to /usr/ports/sysytils/libcdio and make deinstall and make reinstall, and this was successful. I sync'd the ports collection again, but no luck. Nothing in UPDATING about this. Thanks! I've run into similar experiences with other ports, and what I have done to get it to work is to deinstall the complaining port (in this instance libcdio), and let the original port install it as a dependency instead of doing a make reinstall. -- Im afraid this didnt work either--whether libcdio is installed or not (and installing it seems to work fine), any other port that requires it tells me that it is installed and need to be make deinstalled and make reinstalled. Yet this doesnt work. Is there any other brute-force way to get around this? This is getting difficult. Thanks again, everyone. Jen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html now i made my tests with FreeBSD 7. no installer, my semi-custom kernel i use everywhere on x86 (everything moduled, all needed things in loader.conf). i used qemu results: 16MB RAM - boots without problems, no swapping at all 12MB - boots without problems, little bit swapping 10MB - boots without problems, more swapping, hanged after booting multiuser, before displaying login. probably out of kernel memory for consoles 10MB again - after turning of all consoles but the first, boots fine, somehow usable, but for routers should be OK. then i made REALLY custom kernel. minimal but enough for a router. was able to get down to 9MB. so - on 12MB 486DX, FreeBSD 7 is useful system for routing, firewalling, small nameserver, general control etc. with 16MB - swap is barely touched. 486DX machines with 8-16MB RAM and small (like 100-500MB) disks are for free here, ISA network cards too. good to know they can run newest FreeBSD release! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To the OP, if you go ahead with trying to use this 486 or older hw, consider the effort of maintaining the system. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
Wojciech Puchar wrote: pearl# dig dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 21682 IN 2001:4070:101:2::1 that's funny because i have in my domain: dns3A 213.192.74.1 dns32001:4070:101::1 not :2::1 tried my secondary dns - the same. tried dig dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl from other server in poland - the same! any idea where this :2::1 can be kept. nowhere on my machines for sure. i did grep 2001:4070:101:2::1 /etc/namedb/*/* on both my primary and secondary dns - found only one position that defines wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl nothing more. asked polish telecom DNS to look how it look from outside, got this dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 10800 IN 2001:4070:101::1 which is OK. as you get :2::1 - any idea why? Sure thing. I know exactly why. I keep telling you why. You keep ignoring me. Frankly, I'm beginning to suspect that you're only pretending that you know how DNS works. You might want to research it a bit. Run this: $ dig @bilbo.nask.org.pl tensor.gdynia.pl ns ; DiG 9.4.2 @bilbo.nask.org.pl tensor.gdynia.pl ns ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45423 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;tensor.gdynia.pl. IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN NS dns2.tensor.gdynia.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN NS dns.tensor.gdynia.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN NS dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN A 213.192.74.1 dns.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN 2001:4070:101::1 dns2.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN A 83.18.148.142 dns2.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN 2001:4070:101::1 dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN A 83.12.228.78 dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN 2001:4070:101:2::1 ;; Query time: 233 msec ;; SERVER: 195.187.245.51#53(195.187.245.51) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 11 13:21:48 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 222 over and over until you catch on to what it means. Once you understand that, then run this: $ dig @f-dns.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl ns ; DiG 9.4.2 @f-dns.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl ns ; (2 servers found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13848 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;tensor.gdynia.pl. IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: gdynia.pl. 86400 IN NS dns2.task.gda.pl. gdynia.pl. 86400 IN NS bilbo.nask.org.pl. gdynia.pl. 86400 IN NS ns-pl.tpnet.pl. gdynia.pl. 86400 IN NS kirdan.warman.nask.pl. gdynia.pl. 86400 IN NS dns.task.gda.pl. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns.task.gda.pl.86400 IN A 153.19.250.100 dns2.task.gda.pl. 86400 IN A 212.77.97.222 ;; Query time: 131 msec ;; SERVER: 2001:1a68:0:10::189#53(2001:1a68:0:10::189) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 11 13:30:16 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 200 over and over until you realize why this means that the results of the first command actually matter. Or you could skip a step and run: $ dig @b-dns.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl ns ; DiG 9.4.2 @b-dns.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl ns ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10267 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;tensor.gdynia.pl. IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN NS dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN NS dns2.tensor.gdynia.pl. tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN NS dns.tensor.gdynia.pl. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN A 213.192.74.1 dns.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN 2001:4070:101::1 dns2.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN A 83.18.148.142 dns2.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN 2001:4070:101::1 dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN A 83.12.228.78 dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 28800 IN 2001:4070:101:2::1 ;; Query time: 138 msec ;; SERVER: 80.50.50.10#53(80.50.50.10) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 11 13:32:09 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 222 Basically, according to the root servers, pl has 8 nameservers, a-dns.pl through h-dns.pl. They give different answers when asked about gdynia.pl and tensor.gdynia.pl a: returns set of 5, including bilbo.nask.org.pl, which then returns the dreaded address b: returns set of 5 for gdynia.pl, BUT WHEN ASKED ABOUT TENSOR.GDYNIA.PL returns your 3 nameservers, with the
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Also Slackware has a rather Unix-like concept. The versions until 11 (if I remember right) still run on the 2.4 kernel and have an option to install without X11 and KDE and such. I still use it on a slow server, it is easy to understand when you come from BSD-land. Cheers herbs On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:54:07PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD in terms of installation and use. A linux with basic userland and ports(-like) system, and quick and easy install like FreeBSD ? Heikki Suonsivu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert at langhans.com.pl *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M, 3 USB2, serials, sound, etc, it has VESA form factor so you can attach it behind many LCD displays, etc. They have beefier models, but this one is cheapest and uses least power, latter of which is the more critical requirement for us. We would like to use it for certain control applications. Linux works, has been tested, but requires patches (turn math emulation on, add support for built-in ethernet, bug workaround). The problem with is that while FreeBSD 4 seemed to boot on it, it did not recognize any peripherals as they are new. Old OS's are not really what we want, this is not one-off but volume product, it will be internet-connected so we need bugfixes and we need support for latest chipsets on 802.11 cards etc. There is another similar CPU, even slower and less power consuming, I do not remember the part number, I think it was about 100 MHz 486 without math as well. This was some manufacturer of microcontrollers. Heikki Manolis Kiagias wrote: Heikki Suonsivu wrote: I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD in terms of installation and use. A linux with basic userland and ports(-like) system, and quick and easy install like FreeBSD ? Heikki Suonsivu I don't think you will have much luck installing any modern linux distro on ancient hardware. In your case, I would consider running an older version of FreeBSD, like e.g. 4.11. This will work without a math co-processor. You can see the hardware notes here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/hardware-i386.html Download from ftp-archive, here: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.11 See also this very interesting post on minimum memory requirements for each FreeBSD version: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html I have a 4.11 installed successfully on a 386 with 20Mb RAM. You could also go with a Linux version specifically for old PCs, but better have a look at distrowatch.com for these. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grep Guru
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep grepoptions text to search
There's no more need for find | xargs
Try:
find . -type -f -exec grep grepoptions text to search {} \+
-exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo
-exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file
Thanks for this kick; I'd missed or misunderstood using {} \+
The issue here is that grep execs grep for each file found while
xargs batches the files.
If find(1) is to be believed, so does -exec utility [argument ...] {} +
Yes, sure. I think Bill was just being extra-conservative[1] and he
explicitly chose to quote `+' with a backslash to avoid spurious
interpreration by the shell. I also type `\+' out of habbit most
of the time.
It doesn't hurt. My tests used \+ too, though after seeing yours I
tried with just '+' which works in tcsh anyway, unlike unescaped ';'
(It was Raphael actually, though I was replying to Bill's)
[1] BSD users tend to be this way, but that's a good thing, right? :)
Right! Of course for balance we have a 'left!' of out-there developers,
forever pushing envelopes, generating need for updates .. but we'd best
leave the stability vs progress politics to its playground on stable@ :)
cheers, Ian
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Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 219, Issue 6
Camilo Reyes wrote: The easiest way to deal with this is to disable IPv6 on your kernel. There is a good guide here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html. Simply comment out the 'options INET6' line from your config file. Also, you could give more information on what application is generating those logs. For example, what services are you running? Is this setup as a server? And things of that sort. Disabling things so the log messages stop and you can pretend all the brokenness has magically gone away is indeed the easiest solution sometimes. It's rarely a good one, particularly for the long term. Anyway, the OP actually uses IPv6 on his network, so this is pretty much akin to suggesting that he turn off his computer to keep people from bothering it. The log messages are from his DNS server; he uses it for resolving and some local stuff; the log entries are the result of queries from random machines being rejected; random machines are doing that since at least one of his parent nameservers is handing out the IPv6 address of his server against his wishes; eventually he'll realize this is actually the case; and maybe he'll be able to convince whomever runs the parent nameserver(s) to update the records for his zone. (Just to cover the rest of your questions. :-) --Jon Radel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
RE: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?
From: Gary Kline On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:08:11AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Gary Kline: This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings project. Some people are taking a break for the summer, c. I've had PHPBB up a few times, and lost it as many times for different reasons. It takes about an hour to set up one of these ``forum'' applications; I don't know about the others. Does anyone have a best-win/solution as to which port/package to use? Or would it be just as good to go with a canned (javascript or other) app? Again: the nutshell is to allow my fellow writers to comment-on, edit, suggest, critique, flame, whatever, my jotting meditation. [for now, the URL would not be published.] Have you looked at any wiki software? I have Dokuwiki running on an Apache server here at the office as an idea and collaboration incubator. There were over 1100 pages created on it the first year. It's all written in PHP and was quite simple to set up. You can get it at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki. Bob McConnell thanks for the url, bob. i'll pull it up next time i use a gui mailer. wiki would let us edit things. IIRC. but it may be over-kill too. i checked out what was, i believe, plone last week. i don't remember seeing plone on the opencma list. (still chewing it over with my fellow writers.unfortunately, none is a techno-geek.) i believe you that dokuwiki was easy to set up. how easy is/was it to *use*, tho? ---I'm following the gimp tutorial, but still cannot get anything to work. so if there are docs for this wiki software, they've got to be fairly well tested. There is an active group of folks using and maintaining Dokuwiki. That link goes to their wiki where they are using it for documentation. Access control is flexible, but optional. There was a new release in the past month or so which included support for a WYSIWYG editor plug-in. Without that, you do need to learn a few specific markup conventions, but they were never very difficult. You can edit everything from your browser. Footnotes, line-through deletion and other editing conventions are supported. But the best part is the change tracking that is built in. You can trace each and every change if you need to. Good luck, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Intel Turbo, 9c Li-Ion, My current working involves scientific calculation and programming. I'm from a linux background(redhat, debian, ubuntu), but after some googling and comparison, I found FreeBSD more stable and I want to try FreeBSD. I am tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. My questions are: 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most important. 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux binary compatibility stable enough for work ? Thanks a lot. If FreeBSD runs on your new T61, you can install the Maxima port as a free alternative to MATLAB and Mathematica. Maxima does symbolic math and handles tensors. You can run Maxima code that proves that Einstein's theory of relativity has a far-reaching logical inconsistancy in it because the theory assumes torsion = 0 and curvature is nonzero. Non-zero curvature implies torsion also is non-zero. See the code in paper 93 at http://www.aias.us/index.php?goto=showPageByTitlepageTitle=Unified_Field_Theory_papers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
$ dig @bilbo.nask.org.pl tensor.gdynia.pl ns so something is broken with my registrar. as other dns'es reports only 2 nameservers. host -t ns tensor.gdynia.pl dns.task.gda.pl reports 2 of them, and dns.task.gda.pl is main dns for gdynia.pl thank you for finally explaining things ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
To the OP, if you go ahead with trying to use this 486 or older hw, consider the effort of maintaining the system. maintaning? while running netbsd 1.5, my routers don't need any maintaining. they just works. what maintaining? just make your config so logs won't fill the disk. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Similar Experience/Forget Hardy
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:42:27PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:47 pm Mike Bird wrote: All we need is stable unadulterated versions of most packages, a real binary package manager (sorry Gentoo and Slackware), and a recent kernel and graphics support. Compared to Ubuntu that would be a lot more value for a lot less effort. If anyone knows of a distro like this I really want to hear about it. Mike Bird for President! Yeh! I guess that imaginary distro is exactly what I want. (thinks ) Would v7 of FreeBSD qualify? Well it's got a recent kernel, it's got Xorg 7.3 and it's got binary package management but it hasn't got Adobe Flash ATM. An Ubuntu user would be better pointed at PC-BSD or DesktopBSD. They aim at ease of use: http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.desktopbsd.net/ IIRC they use the 6.3 kernel (which is currently supported pretty much as recent as 7.0) and they use KDE rather than Gnome. They also have support forums aimed at new users, the FreeBSD mailing lists tend to be more technical. I can't comment as to how good either is as I've used neither but they've had positive write-ups. I use FreeBSD 7.0 on my workstation 6.3 on my server so I know the underlying system is sound. -- Regards, Brian HTH. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?
tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. My questions are: 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most important. not sure about display card. but everything else should be OK. it's IBM/Lenovo :) 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux binary compatibility stable enough for work ? works at least for acrobat reader completely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M, 3 USB2, serials, sound, etc, it has VESA form factor so you can attach it behind many LCD displays, etc. They have beefier models, but this one is cheapest and uses least power, latter of which is the more critical requirement for us. We would like to use it for certain control applications. Linux works, has been tested, but requires patches (turn math emulation on, add support for built-in ethernet, bug workaround). I don't know if this machine is going to be sited on an insecure network or not. If it is, then you'll probably be using ssh. Without a math co-proc to do the crypto, it will be horrendous. I don't even know if ssh would work with an architecture without a maths unit. If it can't work with ssh, then you might be restricting your market. I think you are punishing yourself unneccesarily by going with a processor without maths. You restrict the software (both OS application) you can run. The problem with is that while FreeBSD 4 seemed to boot on it, it did not recognize any peripherals as they are new. Old OS's are not really what we want, this is not one-off but volume product, it will be internet-connected so we need bugfixes and we need support for latest chipsets on 802.11 cards etc. There is another similar CPU, even slower and less power consuming, I do not remember the part number, I think it was about 100 MHz 486 without math as well. This was some manufacturer of microcontrollers. Can't you find a manufacturer that makes something similar with a DX instead? Or can you email this company and ask them how much it would cost to run off X units with a 486DX rather than SX? Heikki -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: prevent overwriting custom make options in ports
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:33:01PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use ports/lang/gcc42. I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile. However, with each tree update this option is overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile each time I update the port. What is the best way to preserve my custom setting, add an environment variable? Roland, Tijl, many thanks Somehow I missed you answers in the mailing list, only now picked them on google groups. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: To the OP, if you go ahead with trying to use this 486 or older hw, consider the effort of maintaining the system. maintaning? while running netbsd 1.5, my routers don't need any maintaining. they just works. what maintaining? just make your config so logs won't fill the disk. security patches, port updates? Any OS will probably require at least some of this. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
-Original Message- From: Jon Radel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:15 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Wojciech Puchar; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Radel Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02 PM To: Wojciech Puchar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Nameservers are hitting an address of yours. Therefore something is probably handing out your address. Somebody (that would be me) has looked up the address in question and even looked up the nameserver which is handing out that address in a glue record. A simple problem EASILY solved. Why bother the owner of the misconfigured nameserver? Instead, simply insert a wildcard record to your namesever that hands out the IP number of the nastiest porno site you can find to any DNS query. After a few days the owners of the misconfigured nameservers or clients will go hunting for whatever is poisoning their cache. Problem solved. Ted Silly me, I've always believed that people setup nameservers because they want their resources to be found. Having one the parents of your zone point to a random machine of yours, It seemed that the OP's claim was that he had NOT asked the parents of his domain to point any nameserving to his machine. It used to be that people would at times use random nameservers on the Internet that they discovered, rather than using their own ISP's nameserver. The advent of IP-based filtering for BIND which allows you to specify only non-recursive queries to be answered from IP blocks that are not your own, pretty much put a stop to that. But for whatever reason, sometimes you can't employ IP-based filtering, and you have to setup a nameserver to answer recursive queries from anyone, even though you may still only want the world to be making non-recursive queries to it. The suggestion to use wildcards to issue bogus responses is the general suggestion to convince goofballs on the Internet that happen to come across your recursive-query-responding nameserver that you do not want them to use to make recursive queries, to go elsewhere. Obviously if you intentionally are listing your nameserver in a parent zone, and you employ this trick, you will need to setup a new nameserver on a different IP and change the parent zone. I figured though, that anyone who knew what they were doing would have grasped that concept, however. which you then use to serve crap records, strikes me as somewhat counterproductive. And I really fail to see why whomever runs the parent zone would even notice. The OP claimed that he was getting an excessive number of DNS requests, implying that his parent was redirecting a lot of queries to him that he wasn't supposed to get. If his parent is doing that because they misconfigured their own nameserver, then anyone depending on their nameserver will get crap records back, and likely complain. I think the issue is that you are assuming his parent zone admins are doing the Correct Thing when they have configured their own nameservers. The OP was insistent that his parent zone admins were doing the Wrong Thing when they configured their own nameservers. Thus, my suggestion is essentially telling the OP that if he is so insistent that his parents are screwed up, then he can put his money where his mouth is and wildcard a porno site. As we saw by his response to my suggestion, when the OP was challenged to do this, he rapidly backwatered. Since backwatering he no longer can claim (at least on this list) that his parent admins are idiots, and thus I assume is now open to examining his own config a bit more closely. (which is what you were telling him to do all along) Sometimes if you want the horse to drink, you have to let them run in the opposite direction of the pond. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
maintaning? while running netbsd 1.5, my routers don't need any maintaining. they just works. what maintaining? just make your config so logs won't fill the disk. security patches, port updates? Any OS will probably require at least some of this. for router - not much :) there are for sure some security flawed programs on them, but what's a problem. every IP except some listed numbers are just blocked, dns server is cache-only with queries disabled from outside (and by netbsd's ipf to make sure), no outside-reachable services are running. that's about security :) about patches - why to patch fully WORKING thing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 7 and Apache 1.3.41 PROBLEM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a server I was running FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE together with apache 1.3.41 without any problem. After upgrading FreeBSD to FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE using a source upgrade, compiling, and a full recompile of all the ports apache refuses to start, or starts and exits with a .core dump. In httpd-error.log [Wed Jun 11 17:01:04 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr 10.10.10.10 [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [info] (2)No such file or directory: make_sock: for port 80, setsockopt: (SO_ACCEPTFILTER) [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? After hashing out #LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/apache/mod_unique_id.so #AddModule mod_unique_id.c Apache starts normally Can anyone explain this? Jack -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD8DBQFIT+8bPh5RwW/NzC4RAn9aAKCVKIvHFmFzpeaveqvHYbXjIRrhuACg0vxr f5f3FDGYigHPRaqGz+ZkDok= =TZvG -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: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re:
Nothing impersonal; just trying to help. I'm a big advocate of getting rid of things you don't need to keep things simple. Sorry that wasn't the answer you were looking for... Camilo Bono Vince Malum Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:13:47 -0400 From: Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 219, Issue 6 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Camilo Reyes wrote: The easiest way to deal with this is to disable IPv6 on your kernel. There is a good guide here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html. Simply comment out the 'options INET6' line from your config file. Also, you could give more information on what application is generating those logs. For example, what services are you running? Is this setup as a server? And things of that sort. Disabling things so the log messages stop and you can pretend all the brokenness has magically gone away is indeed the easiest solution sometimes. It's rarely a good one, particularly for the long term. Anyway, the OP actually uses IPv6 on his network, so this is pretty much akin to suggesting that he turn off his computer to keep people from bothering it. The log messages are from his DNS server; he uses it for resolving and some local stuff; the log entries are the result of queries from random machines being rejected; random machines are doing that since at least one of his parent nameservers is handing out the IPv6 address of his server against his wishes; eventually he'll realize this is actually the case; and maybe he'll be able to convince whomever runs the parent nameserver(s) to update the records for his zone. (Just to cover the rest of your questions. :-) --Jon Radel -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3283 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20080611/86e3c1cf/smime-0001.bin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Jon Radel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:15 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Wojciech Puchar; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Radel Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02 PM To: Wojciech Puchar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Nameservers are hitting an address of yours. Therefore something is probably handing out your address. Somebody (that would be me) has looked up the address in question and even looked up the nameserver which is handing out that address in a glue record. A simple problem EASILY solved. Why bother the owner of the misconfigured nameserver? Instead, simply insert a wildcard record to your namesever that hands out the IP number of the nastiest porno site you can find to any DNS query. After a few days the owners of the misconfigured nameservers or clients will go hunting for whatever is poisoning their cache. Problem solved. Ted Silly me, I've always believed that people setup nameservers because they want their resources to be found. Having one the parents of your zone point to a random machine of yours, It seemed that the OP's claim was that he had NOT asked the parents of his domain to point any nameserving to his machine. Yes. And I pointed out that he was WRONG, including in the message you responded to. I went so far as to send dig output showing the glue record that was causing his grief. It used to be that people would at times use random nameservers on the Internet that they discovered, rather than using their own ISP's nameserver. The advent of IP-based filtering for BIND which allows you to specify only non-recursive queries to be answered from IP blocks that are not your own, pretty much put a stop to that. But for whatever reason, sometimes you can't employ IP-based filtering, and you have to setup a nameserver to answer recursive queries from anyone, even though you may still only want the world to be making non-recursive queries to it. True, but quite beside the point. Anyway, those pesky people would quickly leave a server that denied all their requests alone, and if you'd actually read what the OP posted, you'd have noticed the denied at the end of every line from his logs that he found so disturbing. The suggestion to use wildcards to issue bogus responses is the general suggestion to convince goofballs on the Internet that happen to come across your recursive-query-responding nameserver that you do not want them to use to make recursive queries, to go elsewhere. Understood, true, but quite beside the point. Obviously if you intentionally are listing your nameserver in a parent zone, and you employ this trick, you will need to setup a new nameserver on a different IP and change the parent zone. I figured though, that anyone who knew what they were doing would have grasped that concept, however. You'd think, wouldn't you? which you then use to serve crap records, strikes me as somewhat counterproductive. And I really fail to see why whomever runs the parent zone would even notice. The OP claimed that he was getting an excessive number of DNS requests, implying that his parent was redirecting a lot of queries to him that he wasn't supposed to get. If his parent is doing that because they misconfigured their own nameserver, then anyone depending on their nameserver will get crap records back, and likely complain. He made no such claim at any time (at least in any e-mail that reached me privately or via the list). He was confused as to why random machines where hitting his closed nameserver at all. Do you honestly think lots of people are going to gang up on whomever runs his parent zone when they stop getting mail from the OP? Those that noticed would probably sigh a little sigh of relief that they'd no longer have to see the OP and me fussing at each other. I think the issue is that you are assuming his parent zone admins are doing the Correct Thing when they have configured their own nameservers. The OP was insistent that his parent zone admins were doing the Wrong Thing when they configured their own nameservers. Thus, my suggestion is essentially telling the OP that if he is so insistent that his parents are screwed up, then he can put his money where his mouth is and wildcard a porno site. Wow. You really have problems with reading comprehension, don't you? You have that more or less backwards. As we saw by his response to my suggestion, when the OP was challenged to do this, he rapidly backwatered. Since backwatering he no longer can claim (at least on this list) that his parent admins are idiots, and thus I assume is now open to examining his own config a bit more closely. (which is what you were
Re: generating random passwords
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice. :) Using FreeBSD's random device: tcsh syntax: ( dd if=/dev/random bs=6 count=1 | openssl base64 /dev/tty ) /dev/null sh syntax: dd if=/dev/random bs=6 count=1 2/dev/null| openssl base64 Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpxIgDT5pKek.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wojciech Puchar wrote: | tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or | another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. | | My questions are: | 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, | CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most | important. | | not sure about display card. but everything else should be OK. it's | IBM/Lenovo :) nVIDIA drivers should support it: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_100.14.09.html | | 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux | Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many | commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux | binary compatibility stable enough for work ? Linux emulation is stable enough, I would say. I've used it to run Mathematica 5 in the past (see handbook). - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhP/hsACgkQwMJqmJVx944oCQCfQN+mHM2k7RbGnQ45HW8qs/U+ 9aQAoN9vDKMqI8DoZAG3tJaJ0YefjX6b =x7TD -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: generating random passwords
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice. :) Using FreeBSD's random device: tcsh syntax: ( dd if=/dev/random bs=6 count=1 | openssl base64 /dev/tty ) /dev/null sh syntax: dd if=/dev/random bs=6 count=1 2/dev/null| openssl base64 I much prefer apg which can generate more-or-less pronounceable passwords which it is possible to remember (at least after typing them a few times :-). One of the biggest problems with random passwords is that they end up written on yellow-stickies on the monitor or under the keyboard. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke. -- Will Rogers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: very strange reaction of the md disks
Hello, I don't know why nobody else has given the correct answer to this (it's should actually be a FAQ). So I'll try to give an answer. The Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Maybe I just don't understand something, but anyway, it looks really odd. I have a machine with 2 Gb RAM with a clean newly-installed FREEBSD-7.0-RELEASE. I make two 300-MB mdconfig disks and populate them, and when the first one was already full and the second one is only half-full, I get a kernel panic not enough memory. Use -t swap with mdconfig(8), not -t malloc. [...] I was very surprised to see that one gigabyte of my memory suddenly became used up. FreeBSD uses all memory for caching, as far as possible. Free memory is wasted memory. A friend of mine told me that such a panic is really a thing to write a bugreport on it, No. It is clearly documented in the mdconfig(8) manpage: If the -o reserve option is not set, creating and filling a large malloc-backed memory disk is a very easy way to panic a system. As I said above, you probably don't want a malloc-backed memory disk (which means it consumes non-pagable kernel memory), but a swap-backed disk (which is cached in regular RAM and backed by swap). If you're absolutely sure you want kernel-malloc for your memory disk, you need to increase the kmem limit (see sysctl vm | grep kmem). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing' just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard. -- Peter van der Linden ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pietro Cerutti wrote: | Wojciech Puchar wrote: | | tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or | | another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. | | | | My questions are: | | 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, | | CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most | | important. | | | | not sure about display card. but everything else should be OK. it's | | IBM/Lenovo :) | | nVIDIA drivers should support it: | | http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_100.14.09.html err, this is the most up to date :) http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_173.14.05.html | | | | | 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux | | Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many | | commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux | | binary compatibility stable enough for work ? | | Linux emulation is stable enough, I would say. I've used it to run | Mathematica 5 in the past (see handbook). | | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhP/yQACgkQwMJqmJVx947A5gCfQ79JCQT/Ms/NhUi5J7zsi/dd XKYAni1WDmassbnMg5H+Vj9xZPn87Dug =0Vzp -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: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:29:30 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current working involves scientific calculation and programming. I'm from a linux background(redhat, debian, ubuntu), but after some googling and comparison, I found FreeBSD more stable and I want to try FreeBSD. I am tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. If FreeBSD runs on your new T61, you can install the Maxima port as a free alternative to MATLAB and Mathematica. Maxima does symbolic math and handles tensors. You can run Maxima code that proves that Einstein's theory of relativity has a far-reaching logical inconsistancy in it because the theory assumes torsion = 0 and curvature is nonzero. Non-zero curvature implies torsion also is non-zero. See the code in paper 93 at http://www.aias.us/index.php?goto=showPageByTitlepageTitle=Unified_Field_Theory_papers Maxima is great! The following may also be quite useful: http://www.scipy.org/ http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ If you prefer an integrated environment, try: http://sagemath.org/ -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: generating random passwords
One of the biggest problems with random passwords is that they end up written on yellow-stickies on the monitor or under the keyboard. there is no cure for that in FreeBSD. you need some non-computer hardware to stop that behaviour ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: intrusion? find is thrashing my disk every time I boot.
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm really no security expert. I don't leave the system up 24/7, and I'm on a US DSL connection with a bunch of windows boxes. Seems to be a recent phenomena, I've started experiencing disk thrashing I can hear across the room. ps and top report cvslockd has been responsible for the thrashing (which usually occurs at a specific time of day (~1 am MST)), but now, find is doing the thrashing at boot every time (within the last week at least). Needless to say, I haven't changed the system in any way during that week. On windows, I'd just assume this to be normal behavior, but on FreeBSD, it's got me worried... I presume the security section of the manual has a good into to detecting intruders, but first I'm interested if there is a legitimate reason for find to be torturing my disk. I don't run much on my system - apache, cvs, portsnap, ssh, that's about it. That's not really so little. I would tend to doubt it's a security issue, but tracking it down is still a good idea. You should be able to see what user is running the find, using ps(1), and that might give a clue to what the purpose is (but probably not; it'll probably turn out to be root). This script might be useful for that purpose: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/scripts/pidtrace Given the process ID of the find process on the command line, it will print its parent processes all the way up to init(8). That way you can easily find out if the find was started by a cron job, by an rc.d script, or something else. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd (On the statement print 42 monkeys + 1 snake:) By the way, both perl and Python get this wrong. Perl gives 43 and Python gives 42 monkeys1 snake, when the answer is clearly 41 monkeys and 1 fat snake.-- Jim Fulton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?
The linux progs run very well, what I can tell with my modest amount of programs using this mode. BSD uses a seperate directory what contains all linux-bins and it integrates well. Also the speed is like a normal Linux distro. Maybe it is a good idea to get an old 20GB harddisk, change it and give it a try while leaving your old HD with your current installation intact? Cheers herbs 2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux Binary Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many commercial softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux binary compatibility stable enough for work ? Thanks a lot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert at langhans.com.pl *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7 and Apache 1.3.41 PROBLEM
In httpd-error.log [Wed Jun 11 17:01:04 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr 10.10.10.10 [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [info] (2)No such file or directory: make_sock: for port 80, setsockopt: (SO_ACCEPTFILTER) [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? After hashing out #LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/apache/mod_unique_id.so #AddModule mod_unique_id.c Apache starts normally Can anyone explain this? are you sure you use the same apache version as with 6.*? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Effects of CPUTYPE
Jonathan Chen wrote: Mark Ovens wrote: Trying to identify why I should be having all these problems I've been looking for anything that may be specific to my machine. One thing I've come up with is the fact that I have CPUTYPE?=athlon-mp in /etc/make.conf on both 6.3 and 7.0. In my personal opinion, the small gain you get is more than overwhelmed by the big pain you get from setting CPUTYPE. I'm setting CPUTYPE on all of my machines for many years, without the slightest problems. No pain at all. They're all kinds of different processors, c3-2 (VIA), athlon64, and so on. In some cases the difference is very noticable. Having said that, it's certainly worth trying whether your problems are gone when you compile without that setting. Do you have any other unusual settings, such as non-standard CFLAGS or anything? BTW, I once was bitten by a similar problem, when building software failed in strange ways, it turned out I had a bad variable in my environment that was picked up by some build scripts. Maybe it's worth a try to run your ports builds with a clean environment (env -), or try to install binary packages instead of building ports yourself, in order to narrow down where the problem is. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Python tricks is a tough one, cuz the language is so clean. E.g., C makes an art of confusing pointers with arrays and strings, which leads to lotsa neat pointer tricks; APL mistakes everything for an array, leading to neat one-liners; and Perl confuses everything period, making each line a joyous adventure wink. -- Tim Peters ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems opening mail on this list
Ian Smith wrote: However, what normally happens to attachments to questions@, at least to digests, is that they get stripped with a note pointing to the original attachment, as this subsequent message from Chad illustrates: Which makes sense - attachments don't clog up the list, and people can download them if they want. What I think is happening is that the attachment is being stripped, and Outlook is looking for it since it can be inferred that it exists from the MIME type. Of course, the error should be that the message can't be authenticated (That's what Mail does, and it's just a line, not a modal dialog), and have nothing to do with the recipient needing a certificate. But I think it's more general, as a PGP signature (which is no different from any other attachment) also caused Bob the error. I wonder if *any* scrubbed attachment will cause a problem? I just had to set up another system as my macbook's network card has died, so I'll send a signed message with Thunderbird in a minute to see if it also causes the error. Bob, if it still causes an error, you should seriously look at changing to a mail client which won't cause you these problems, since you can't control what users on mailing lists send you :). --Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems opening mail on this list
Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). --Andrew smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Static NAT and PAT on FreeBSD 6.2
I have continued to experiment and am still running into the same issues. Anyone? -Matt On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Matt Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am running FreeBSD 6.2-release. I have been running PAT via natd and ipfw for some time now and it runs great. However, I continue to try and employ static NAT on this router, and as soon as I do so all other clients lose routing. My natd.conf is as below: unregistered_only use_sockets log_ipfw_denied redirect_address 10.100.1.2 66.92.79.20 alias_address 66.92.79.89 Whenever I run with this configuration all clients except the static'ed one lose routing out of the building. I have tried switching the order of the alias_address and redirect_address. Any help is appreciated. -Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7
On 10-Jun-08, at 3:02 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Actually I don't think you can do the same thing with a tunnel. You have to use a different IP addresses for the tunnel itself. Have you read the OpenVPN manual? Yes, I should have been clearer: With a tunnel, I can still push routes and DNS, as long as I'm willing to sacrifice the same IP address. Yes, I did: 'tcpdump -i tun0'. Nothing shows up on the server, but on the client (OS X) I can see the pings being sent. This means that there is a problem with the OpenVPN connection. Can you show the tail of your logs on both sides? Here's what I found: Wed Jun 11 12:49:46 2008 client1/192.168.0.1:53237 MULTI: Learn: 10.8.0.6 - client1/192.168.0.1:53237 Wed Jun 11 12:49:46 2008 client1/192.168.0.1:53237 MULTI: primary virtual IP for client1/192.168.0.1:53237: 10.8.0.6 This was interesting since that IP wasn't being set by the client. I'd been manually setting it to 10.8.0.2, which caused this: Wed Jun 11 12:50:04 2008 client1/192.168.0.1:53237 MULTI: bad source address from client [10.8.0.2], packet dropped Wed Jun 11 12:50:05 2008 client1/192.168.0.1:53237 MULTI: bad source address from client [10.8.0.2], packet dropped Wed Jun 11 12:50:06 2008 client1/192.168.0.1:53237 MULTI: bad source address from client [10.8.0.2], packet dropped Wed Jun 11 12:50:07 2008 client1/192.168.0.1:53237 MULTI: bad source address from client [10.8.0.2], packet dropped Changing it to 10.8.0.6 allowed the VPN to work over the tunnel. I could access the VPN server on .1. Bridging still doesn't work - and I don't see any traffic over the interface either. Unfortunately, my laptop's network card just kicked the dust so it's going in for servicing. I might test it out using the Windows client on my desktop, but since it's inside the network all ready I imagine it would be much harder to test. proto tcp Why are you using TCP anyway? I'd been having problems with UDP and QoS a long time ago. I just hadn't bothered to change it since it was working. Thanks, --Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Heikki Suonsivu wrote: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M, 3 USB2, serials, sound, etc, it has VESA form factor so you can attach it behind many LCD displays, etc. They have beefier models, but this one is cheapest and uses least power, latter of which is the more critical requirement for us. That's a neat system. Are there any retailers in North America which sell them individually? --Andrew ___ 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 determine the date a port is installed
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? ls -ld /var/db/pkg/port, use the mtime of the directory. 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete. Not really. This is a bit dangerous. The dangerous part is the mtime of the directory. It would be much better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes *after* the package has been installed. It actually does if you're using portupgrade (and probably portmaster), see the @pkgdep entries. Use +DESC, +COMMENT or +MTREE_DIRS instead. Yep. Sorry. Any of those would be a better candidate. I'd simply forgotten about port management tools modifying the dependencies in-place. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Thit sentence is not self-referential because thit is not a word. pgpKsLwZy90xN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address
At 06:36 AM 6/11/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: greetings all, firstly, i am not subscribed, please cc: responces, appreciated. i have been using freebsd v2.2.5-release (as my domains mx host on a 486dx33 .. that was upgraded after 20 years running with 6 years on v2.2.5 to a p5-133 mhz into which i moved teh whole scsi harddisk ssubsystem (card and drives) ther it ran v 2.2.5-r faultlessly untill last january when i cleaned of teh hard drives reformated averything and installed freebsd v6.2-release !! than after a few weeks of settling down and setting up every thing worked well, as expected, then the sendmail nightmares started ... basically the system could not send mail anywhere !!! cutting long story short, it was basically my having to relearn teh whole universe .. there were more differences than i had planned for and it was an uphill battle relearning essentially everything i had learned about freebsd over th previous ten years. about 3 weeks ago things started to make sence, herebouts, slowly it is clearing up, as i started to understand sendmail and getting teh configurations right .. most of teh poorly configured hosts i've now cleaned up and are working properly, but, one ... i have now got one left and like teh linux chappie who i found on google who had a similar out of teh blue experience like mine, (about 2003) one day sendmail worked then teh veyr next it was defereing everytingh .. just like here. this chappie had replaced his nic, i've not done angthiny like that hppen here, the machine is the machine and no hardware has been changed ?? i donot understand what is going on here .. i've included all teh differnt bits in teh maillog file here is teh /var/log/maillog exerpt Jun 9 00:00:00 reality newsyslog[15991]: logfile turned over Jun 9 03:01:05 reality sendmail[16485]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 03:06:36 reality sendmail[17417]: m58H6aGk017417: from=root, size=12938, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 9 03:06:36 reality sendmail[17417]: m58H6aGk017417: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=42938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:40 reality sendmail[17475]: m58H6dJG017475: from=root, size=137243, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 9 03:06:40 reality sendmail[17475]: m58H6dJG017475: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=167243, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: grew WorkList for /var/spool/clientmqueue to 2000 Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m58H6aGk017417: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:13, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=132938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m58H6dJG017475: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=257243, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57LAP8l013868: to=root, delay=19:56:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3644350, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57LAP8m013868: to=root, delay=19:56:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3768123, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57H6qfr013304: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:59:57, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4542984, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m57H6u1Q013363: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:59:53, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4666757, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56MMWd3009824: to=root, delay=1+18:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=7861512, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56LMVd3009703: to=root, delay=1+19:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8054226, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56LMVd4009703: to=root, delay=1+19:44:17, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8177393, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56ILDAU009315: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=1+22:45:36, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=8670146, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Jun 9 03:06:49 reality sendmail[17463]: m56H6f3Y009045: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0),
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 3) a CPU,cache and memory bandwidth hogging feature of checksumming all blocks. thing that are already done in disk hardware. fortunately you can turn this off Obviously you have been lucky to never be a victim of silent disk corruption (or you just haven't noticed). There are other people who didn't have that much luck, including me. ZFS' checksumming and self-healing is a blessing. If you don't know how it works and call it marketing blah, then I suggest you read up on it a bit. And by the way, it doesn't take any significant amount of CPU power on hardware that is not ancient. I agree that ZFS is not suitable to run on ancient hardware. It isn't designed for that. You're free to use UFS, of course, and keep suffering from its shortcomings. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered. -- Guido van Rossum ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems opening mail on this list
--On Wednesday, June 11, 2008 13:13:42 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). And it came through fine. From: Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol=application/x-pkcs7-signature; micalg=sha1; boundary=ms060103070502080704070506 -- Paul Schmehl As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question about torrents via console
Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my server to finish the work without having to leave my main workstation running to do the work like I normally do. I'm using bittornado right now, and if there's a way to do this, I'd love to know how. Steven Lake Owner/Technical Writer Raiden's Realm www.raiden.net Bringing Linux and BSD to the World ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
Quoting Derek Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey all, I have tried using swfdec-plugin to do flash, but it doesnt seem to work too well at least with firefox. One ... I prefer being able to select what flash loads automaticly and Two ... I like to be able to see the flash video but all it does is freeze I can't seem to get linux-flashplugin7 anymore due to the restricted status. Flashplugin9 locks up also, which we all know already. I have heard gnash doesnt do much better... Anyone have a solution that works halfway? I've got a question. A friend has been loaning me his old laptop at work that runs Ubuntu and flash runs fine. I have not been able to make it fail, yet at least. Could there be a clue in Ubuntu somewhare? I'm actually thinking of running it under kqemu, if there isn't too much overhead, on my amd64 laptop until this gets sorted out. If anyone has flash9 working dependably under freebsd, please let us know how. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about torrents via console
rtorrent should work for you bye Norman 2008/6/11 Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my server to finish the work without having to leave my main workstation running to do the work like I normally do. I'm using bittornado right now, and if there's a way to do this, I'd love to know how. Steven Lake Owner/Technical Writer Raiden's Realm www.raiden.net Bringing Linux and BSD to the World ___ 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: Question about torrents via console
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my server to finish the work without having to leave my main workstation running to do the work like I normally do. I'm using bittornado right now, and if there's a way to do this, I'd love to know how. Look into rTorrent. It's excellent. It's CLI, and runs perfect inside a screen session. It supports encryption, prioritization, and all other major features of any good client. http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
Hello, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that I don't use any mail client, but the old fashion way of using a web browser to log into my account and read my emails. That's why I asked this question in the first place. Call me paranoid, but I just feel more comfortable that way! So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list from within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? Is there any way to use the Raw E-Mail output to send an email from within GMail to the OP and the list so that it's threaded properly as well? You need to take the Message-ID header of the message that you're replying to, and put it into the In-Reply-To header of your response. That's what a standard mail client does when you reply to a message. The In-Reply-To header is used by clients and webmailers to identify the thread and the order of messages within that thread. I've never used Gmail or Yahoo, so I don't know if they provide a way to manually set the In-Reply-To header. If they don't you're out of luck, I'm afraid. By the way, I'm in a similar situation: I'm not subscribed to the lists, but I read them with a news client via an NNTP gateway. That gateway is one-way, i.e. I cannot post follow-ups to the news groups. Instead I use the reply-by- mail function of the news client. This works well, because the NNTP gateway sets the Reply-To back to the list's mail address (unless there already was a Reply-To header in the original mail, which is kept), and I configured my news client to copy the Message-ID into an In-Reply-To header, so it works as expected. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd I suggested holding a Python Object Oriented Programming Seminar, but the acronym was unpopular. -- Joseph Strout ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
Quoting herbert langhans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are some instructions how you can get the Flashplayer running. Not perfect, but it will do in many cases. http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html Excellent howto Herb. My problem is that it seems that firefox-devel doesn't work with amd64 but being stubborn, I'm forcing a compile just to be sure. If it doesn't work on my laptop amd64 I will find a i386 to test on. Thanks for you work and documentation Have a great day, ed Cheers herbs -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ 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: Question about torrents via console
F1 (vote yes) to rtorrent. I have rtorrents running permanently on my servers, seeding torrent files. I use screen, just like you suggest. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my server to finish the work without having to leave my main workstation running to do the work like I normally do. I'm using bittornado right now, and if there's a way to do this, I'd love to know how. Look into rTorrent. It's excellent. It's CLI, and runs perfect inside a screen session. It supports encryption, prioritization, and all other major features of any good client. http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ ___ 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: FreeBSD-like linux distro?
Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M, 3 USB2, serials, sound, etc, it has VESA form factor so you can attach it behind many LCD displays, etc. They have beefier models, but this one is cheapest and uses least power, latter of which is the more critical requirement for us. We would like to use it for certain control applications. Linux works, has been tested, but requires patches (turn math emulation on, add support for built-in ethernet, bug workaround). I don't know if this machine is going to be sited on an insecure network or not. If it is, then you'll probably be using ssh. Without a math co-proc to do the crypto, it will be horrendous. I don't even know if ssh would work with an architecture without a maths unit. You apparently do not use the source :), go and grep double and float from some of the most common programs you use (games, scientific stuff and crappy UI code excused). If it can't work with ssh, then you might be restricting your market. ssh does not use any floating point for any crypto algorithm. Oh, openssh does use doubles, it prints some ratios in some places, such as how many percent of something has been transferred. It seems to be stirring random numbers as floating point non-exactness does is not a bother there, but that is not used past session init. There is no human-noticeable effect on normal ssh use. I was one of the first guinea pigs for original ssh. We did have plenty of non-math cpus back then, and I did run ssh on non-fpu hardware until two years ago. We did run backups and configuration tasks over ssh on number of non-fpu computers acting as routers and other servers those days. Today's games might be different, but that is not what we do on these embedded computers... I think you are punishing yourself unneccesarily by going with a processor without maths. You restrict the software (both OS application) you can run. Applications cannot tell the difference between math emulation and hardware from anything else than performance, so there is no code difference in application layer, and kernel does not do fp at all, other than trapping fpu instructions and emulating them on non-fpu hardware. Kernel itself does not do fp math. I do not quite understand where this fear of non-fpu came from, as it made no practical difference just few years ago for anything but scientists in labs and intensive cad/graphics work. In particular I do not understand why people have an idea that everything uses floating point. Very few programs do heavy math processing, most common use is to double divide two longs to print out some statistics when program ends. The problem with is that while FreeBSD 4 seemed to boot on it, it did not recognize any peripherals as they are new. Old OS's are not really what we want, this is not one-off but volume product, it will be internet-connected so we need bugfixes and we need support for latest chipsets on 802.11 cards etc. There is another similar CPU, even slower and less power consuming, I do not remember the part number, I think it was about 100 MHz 486 without math as well. This was some manufacturer of microcontrollers. Can't you find a manufacturer that makes something similar with a DX instead? Or can you email this company and ask them how much it would cost to run off X units with a 486DX rather than SX? This is not 486, it is System-on-Chip thing. There are couple of very cheap SoCs, which do not have math, but performance is otherwise adequate for most applications. They are much faster than 486SX, by 5-10 times factor, so they are becoming popular on embedded devices. Heikki ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Effects of CPUTYPE
In my personal opinion, the small gain you get is more than overwhelmed by the big pain you get from setting CPUTYPE. I'm setting CPUTYPE on all of my machines for many years, without the slightest problems. No pain at all. They're all kinds of different processors, c3-2 (VIA), athlon64, and so on. In some cases the difference is very noticable. exactly like me. i set it everywhere, no problems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and NFSv4
Konrad Heuer wrote: are there any experiences with FreeBSD being an NFSv4 client out there? And furthermore, is there any further development of NFSv4 functionality within FreeBSD to come closer to RFC 3530? As far as I know (not 100% sure, though), the NFSv4 client is under active development. You might have better luck getting a useful answer on the -fs and/or -hackers lists. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Can the denizens of this group enlighten me about what the advantages of Python are, versus Perl ? python is more likely to pass unharmed through your spelling checker than perl. -- An unknown poster and Fredrik Lundh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 3) a CPU,cache and memory bandwidth hogging feature of checksumming all blocks. thing that are already done in disk hardware. fortunately you can turn this off Obviously you have been lucky to never be a victim of silent disk corruption (or you just haven't noticed). what you mean. that disk wrote the data wrong and doesn't detect it on read? i would mean broken disk processor, it's memory etc. possible - as much as broken main processor, main memory, some of chips on motherboard etc. - which will make ZFS calculate checksum wrong on write, or even calculate checksum right of wrong data generated by badly operating programs. given the complexity of motherboard+CPU etc. to complexity of disk hardware, i don't think silent disk failure happens often. i think all your cases wasn't disk, but general hardware problems. ZFS may help detect it, or it may not. if it helped for you. even without ZFS it WOULD cause problems with programs like random crashes. personally i often got disk failing the way that it was unable to read or write giving an error, but never things like that. You're free to use UFS, of course, and keep suffering from its shortcomings. i have to start suffering at first ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about torrents via console
Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my server to finish the work without having to leave my main workstation running to do the work like I normally do. I'm using bittornado right now, and if there's a way to do this, I'd love to know how. I have used net-p2p/ctorrent and net-p2p/rtorrent in the past and they have worked well. Both are console bittorrent clients. I am sure there are many others. -- Chess Griffin GPG Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Question about torrents via console
Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my server to finish the work without having to leave my main workstation running to do the work like I normally do. I'm using bittornado right now, and if there's a way to do this, I'd love to know how. At least on Debian, the bittornado port includes the curses interface. It was called 'btdownload.curses' I think. It's possible it is all ready installed or is available via ports. Another possibility is to run a GUI client in a VNC session. I do this with Azureus and am quite pleased with it. --Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0
This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running 24/7 since new, about 8 months. 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info file follows: Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008 Hostname: casasponti.net Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO Panic String: page fault Dump Parity: 2395754794 Bounds: 2 Dump Status: good the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is probably a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0
Quoting eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running 24/7 since new, about 8 months. 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info file follows: Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008 Hostname: casasponti.net Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO Panic String: page fault Dump Parity: 2395754794 Bounds: 2 Dump Status: good the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is probably a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Forgot I did try to debug but got nowhere: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.2 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd... Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (kgdb) Ignorance, I'm sure. Thanks, ed ___ 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: Problems opening mail on this list
Paul Schmehl wrote: [...] By default, it appears that Mailman does not do content filtering. It also has pass rules (if filtering is enabled) for multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative and text/plain. So, it's possible that MIMEDefang is the culprit instead. It's documented in the FreeBSD Handbook: http://freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAILFILTERING Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. -- Larry Wall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: generating random passwords
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the keyboard but if anything like that exists, many thanks for your advice. :) Best regards, I've used pwgen from ports. It sounds similar to the other suggestions. --Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0
eculp wrote: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running 24/7 since new, about 8 months. 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info file follows: Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008 Hostname: casasponti.net Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO Panic String: page fault Dump Parity: 2395754794 Bounds: 2 Dump Status: good the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is probably a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. See the developers' handbook chapter on kernel debugging. However, panics that suddenly start happening frequently on a system that has been stable for a while with no OS or workload changes made, are usually due to the hardware starting to fail. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
