Simple Text Mail Setup
I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patch Failures during Portupgrade
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is the hunk of ports that continually fail to upgrade due to problems with patching. i use the command portupgrade -aDkp -m BATCH=yes Any assistance with this greatly appreciated. Do you have the latest ports tree (via cvsup or csup)? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards! --from a /. post ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Rem Roberti wrote: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. You may be looking for nbsmtp (said to stand for no-brainer SMTP). It's in ports. It works good for simple situations, and requires no brains. That's why I use it. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On 6/23/08, Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem Hi Rem, I just installed msmtp this weekend and it seems to work quite well for sending and queing email. Have a look at the examples, you will even be able to queue them offline and send them, when you have an internet connection. I prefer Imap, so instead of fetchmail I use offlineimap. I wanted to be able to use my whole email archive with the notebook. Regards Armando ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patch Failures during Portupgrade
On Monday 23 June 2008 18:03:34 Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is the hunk of ports that continually fail to upgrade due to problems with patching. i use the command portupgrade -aDkp -m BATCH=yes Any assistance with this greatly appreciated. Do you have the latest ports tree (via cvsup or csup)? I csup'd my ports today and am re-doing it at present. src kernel is all uptodate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patch Failures during Portupgrade
On Monday 23 June 2008 05:03:34 Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is the hunk of ports that continually fail to upgrade due to problems with patching. i use the command portupgrade -aDkp -m BATCH=yes Any assistance with this greatly appreciated. Do you have the latest ports tree (via cvsup or csup)? or portsnap fetch extract portsnap update portupgrade -arR and since gettext got updated .. is gonna take a loot of time to update all of your ports ... Actually .. from /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20080605: AFFECTS: users of devel/gettext (ie: YOU) AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.17, the shared library version of libintl has changed, so you will need to rebuild all ports that depend on gettext: # portupgrade -rf gettext # portmaster -r gettext\* Given the scope and sheer number of dependent ports, it may be more advisable to simply blow away all existing install ports (after keeping any local configuration changes), and rebuilding from scratch. Patience is a virtua ... I guess :s -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux-quake4 (short and sweet, again)
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:38:15 -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: Has anyone been able to get linux-quake4 working on FBSD7.0-REL? Useful info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% uname -rsim FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 GENERIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% sysctl -a | grep linux hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0 compat.linux.oss_version: 198144 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16 compat.linux.osname: Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% pkg_info -xE linux linux-doom3-1.1.1286,0 linux-expat-1.95.8 linux-flashplugin-9.0r124 linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_7 linux-openssl-0.9.7f linux-quake4-1.4.2,1 linux-sdl-1.2.10,1 linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 linux_base-fc-4_13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% The problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% linux-quake4 /usr/local/lib/quake4/quake4.x86: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid ^^ [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% linux-quake4smp /usr/local/lib/quake4/quake4smp.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.id.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% ldd /usr/local/lib/quake4/quake4smp.x86 /usr/local/lib/quake4/quake4smp.x86: libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x284da000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x284ec000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x284f) ^^ [2] libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x285c3000) libSDL-1.2.id.so.0 = not found libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x285d2000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x285e5000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x286c2000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x286e8000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x286f2000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x284bc000) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% ldd seems to indicate the port is hosed: libSDL-1.2.id.so.0 = not found For the record: linux-doom3-1.1.1286,0 runs like silk in here .. so .. it doesn't seem to be an emulation problem. Yet still: linux-quake4 /usr/local/lib/quake4/quake4.x86: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid, dazzels me ... Any hints, pointers, info, will be greatly appreciated. I want to make sure Im not doing something wrong before e-mailing the maintainer. Your program stops at [1] which is a native FreeBSD library while ldd finds [2] which is a linux one. I've seen that only when there is something non-default is defined (ex. LD_LIBRARY_PATH) which redefines a default FreeBSD behaviour and results in finding a library at /usr/local/lib before /compat/linux. Please, check up your environment and/or script. Can't comment no libSDL-1.2.id.so.0 though. If the maintainer (Ed Schouten according to the Makefile) is on the list, please feel free to contact me to work and test this =) Thanks :) WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:05:56AM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem I use getmail to receive mail, mutt to manage that mail, and msmtp to send mail. Works great. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixit / LiveFS problems (AMD64)
I recently rebuild a 7-STABLE which refused to boot then ran into some problems trying to recover. 1) After escaping to the loader prompt, I could only enter a couple of characters (eg 2) before the machine hung. Not enough for the unload / load dance. 2) After booting from the downloaded 7-RELEASE install ISO (AMD64), I find the emergency shell doesn't have mount_ufs, just mount_nfs. Also, no /rescue directory. I don't know if this is by design, but how does one mount root or any other local disk partition? 3) After downloading burning the 7-RELEASE LiveFS ISO (AMD64), I find fixit told me ld.so-hints could not be created dynamicly linked programs wouldn't run -- and they didn't. 4) So I reinstalled, only newfs'ing /root pulled the appropriate files from a backup. What am I missing? This is a dual-boot VISTA machine with easybcd boot sector. I don't know what to make of problem 1), but the others seem release-engineering related. Thanks. Kent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gantt/pert chart in ports ?
Can anybody recommend a simple Gantt or PERT chart program from ports? I'm looking at creating project diagrams for 3-5 years, with time detalisation of one month, with 10-30 tasks and 1-3 people. I note there are several packages, so it would be good to hear about the benefits and drawbacks from those who use them. many thanks anton -- 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]
portupgrade dependency loop
Hiya How do I fix this? === Registering installation for horde-base-3.2_3 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pear-Auth-1.6.1 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pear-Auth_SASL-1.0.2 pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package pear-Net_SMTP-1.3.1 I tried doing a 'pkgdb -F' and removing the dependencies in the loop, but they just get rebuilt. -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gantt/pert chart in ports ?
Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can anybody recommend a simple Gantt or PERT chart program from ports? /usr/ports/deskutils/ganttproject Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bsdnews
I've missed the information so I need to ask if bsdnews.exospy.com Is the new site for bsdnews.com Thanks /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patch Failures during Portupgrade
Warren Liddell writes: Do you have the latest ports tree (via cvsup or csup)? I csup'd my ports today and am re-doing it at present. Can't speak to the other ports, but the current version of ruby is ruby-1.8.6.111_3,1 which built yesterday for me with zero problems. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
In response to Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/outgoing-only.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange Out of disk space
Hello! Look at this: /dev/da0s1f 104164493 104061031 -8229697 109%/usr but du -k -d1 /usr gives a lot less (about 20GB). My guess is that something has mmap-ed a HUGE chunk of disk space. If I reboot the space is freed. The question is how can i sees what process mmaped how much space and where? -- Regards, Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange Out of disk space
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:45:37PM +0400, Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! Look at this: /dev/da0s1f 104164493 104061031 -8229697 109%/usr but du -k -d1 /usr gives a lot less (about 20GB). My guess is that something has mmap-ed a HUGE chunk of disk space. If I reboot the space is freed. Much more likely is that some program has deleted a large file, while still holding it open. Usual suspect is some kind of log file, or temporary file. The question is how can i sees what process mmaped how much space and where? -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD + Unicode filenames
Hi, Can someone please point me in the right direction regarding handling unicode characters in filenames on freeBSD. I have an rsync backup script running from a linux server which hosts many files with european accented characters. The script bombs out on encountering these files, and as i understand it this isn't an rsync issue but presumably one of the filesystem being able to handle filenames containing these characters. I've read a bit online re unicode terminals, handling unicode text in files, but i really just need to be able to have unicode filenames.. The systems are a mix of 6.2 and 7.0, but a fix under 6.2 would be most helpful.. thanks Paul. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On 2008.06.23 09:31:56 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:05:56AM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem I use getmail to receive mail, mutt to manage that mail, and msmtp to send mail. Works great. Thanks to all who replied. I shall spend today looking into your suggestions, including the handbook. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD + Unicode filenames
Paul Macdonald writes: Can someone please point me in the right direction regarding handling unicode characters in filenames on freeBSD. Is the question Does it understand them? or How does it display them? Because on a -CURRENT system with: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=C ls -al produuces this: -rw-r--r-- 1 huff huff 1204 Jun 19 17:16 C9tincelle.xhtml at the correct point in the sort order. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with IF_RE
Dear List Members I am having an issue with a RealTek card for networking. The card in question is recognised by FB alright, as you can see in the pciconf output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:8:0: class=0x02 card=0x311a1385 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8110SB Single-Chip Gigabit LOM Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet But when I do an ifconfig, the result says Media None and No Carrier re0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:1e:2a:3b:2e:62 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffe0 broadcast x.x.x.x media: Ethernet none status: no carrier I know for a fact that the cable and the connection is alright -- I tried with other devices (like Laptops and other desktops), and when I plug the cable into the RTL card, the light on the switch shows connection established. But ifconfig report shows no carrier ? ? ? Any and all help is highly appreciated. I have already CVSupped twice within this week and built world and kernels from scratch as well. uname -a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Thu Jun 12 15:24:40 BST 2008 kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 18 0xc040 7bdce8 kernel 22 0xc0bbe000 28588linux.ko 31 0xc0be7000 7558c4 nvidia.ko 41 0xc133d000 7a88 if_re.ko 51 0xc1345000 6921cacpi.ko 61 0xc35c5000 4000 nullfs.ko 71 0xc4623000 1e000smbfs.ko 82 0xc4641000 3000 libiconv.ko 92 0xc4644000 3000 libmchain.ko All practical suggestions and pointers are highly appreciated. Thanks. - This message sent through Virus Free Email http://www.vfemail.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
Rem Roberti schrieb: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. Probably you only have to type sendmail_enable=YES into your /etc/rc.conf and reboot. Greetings, Uli. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ich8 sensors
Hiya After much searching around I stumbled on the coretemp driver for retrieving the core temperatures in a Core 2 Duo however, I'd like to monitor fan speed and northbridge temperature if at all possible. Motherboard is an Intel DG965WH with ICH8 chipset, Core 2 Duo 6300 chip. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #2: at one point I thought it used IPMI and compiled in the ipmi driver, but it doesn't create the /dev/ipmi device so I am assuming I was wrong. the manual talks about WfM platform, but searching for that gets me nowhere. no, mbmon doesn't work -: thanks for any info -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which file can I find the error message that shows on the screen when I build my kernel?jj
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:03:33AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I have make some changes to the kernel files and rebuild the kernel, but when I rebuild the kernel, it show some errors and stop rebuild. The question I want ask is that: Is there any file that store all these error message, If there is, where can I find it? Because there are too many errors occur, I can't see all the errors on the screen, if there is a file that store these error messages, then I can find all the errors and fixed them. Thanks! Best Wishes Check out the 'script(1)' utility man script If you invoke it with a file name, it will write all terminal stuff to a file. I almost always use it when I do a major build because it is impossible to catch stuff as it flies by on the screen. You can invoke it for the duration of a specific command or you can just start it on your interactive terminal session and then stop it when you are finished with it. jerry ___ 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: Problem with IF_RE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Dear List Members | | I am having an issue with a RealTek card for networking. The card in | question is recognised by FB alright, as you can see in the pciconf output | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:8:0: class=0x02 card=0x311a1385 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 | hdr=0x00 | vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' | device = 'RTL8110SB Single-Chip Gigabit LOM Ethernet Controller' | class = network | subclass = ethernet | | But when I do an ifconfig, the result says Media None and No Carrier | | re0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 | options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM | ether 00:1e:2a:3b:2e:62 | inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffe0 broadcast x.x.x.x | media: Ethernet none | status: no carrier | | I know for a fact that the cable and the connection is alright -- I | tried with other devices (like Laptops and other desktops), and when I | plug the cable into the RTL card, the light on the switch shows | connection established. | | But ifconfig report shows no carrier ? ? ? | | Any and all help is highly appreciated. I have already CVSupped twice | within this week and built world and kernels from scratch as well. | | uname -a | FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Thu Jun 12 | 15:24:40 BST 2008 | | | kldstat | Id Refs AddressSize Name | 1 18 0xc040 7bdce8 kernel | 22 0xc0bbe000 28588linux.ko | 31 0xc0be7000 7558c4 nvidia.ko | 41 0xc133d000 7a88 if_re.ko | 51 0xc1345000 6921cacpi.ko | 61 0xc35c5000 4000 nullfs.ko | 71 0xc4623000 1e000smbfs.ko | 82 0xc4641000 3000 libiconv.ko | 92 0xc4644000 3000 libmchain.ko | | | All practical suggestions and pointers are highly appreciated. Uhm, just out of curiosity, do you have the line devd_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf? | | Thanks. - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhfxiEACgkQwMJqmJVx944h4ACfc4u1o3BPX8BgSicgp65VPVvy hEIAoKgO0TBnyCSsPJN7jkOh/qWy3NKx =inAk -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]
unwanted text before shell prompt
Hi there, I just upgraded my FreeBSD box and now I am find that the is an almost blank line above my shell prompt that contains a % (without the quotes) about 20 columns in. What would be the places that this line could be defined? Cheers, noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unwanted text before shell prompt
At 11:42 AM 6/23/2008, Noah wrote: Hi there, I just upgraded my FreeBSD box and now I am find that the is an almost blank line above my shell prompt that contains a % (without the quotes) about 20 columns in. What would be the places that this line could be defined? Cheers, noah Check your prompts, which depends on the shell you are using. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On 2008.06.23 15:49:59 +, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Rem Roberti schrieb: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. Probably you only have to type sendmail_enable=YES into your /etc/rc.conf and reboot. Greetings, Uli. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. I have the feeling that there is a problem with how I am supposed to use my hostname. When I run hostname -r I get .hsd1.ca.comcast.net. As you can tell, I am a relative newbie, and not very well versed in all of these things. But I love the process of trying to get it figured out. Rem Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ 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: unwanted text before shell prompt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:42:56 -0700, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I just upgraded my FreeBSD box and now I am find that the is an almost blank line above my shell prompt that contains a % (without the quotes) about 20 columns in. What would be the places that this line could be defined? Which shell are you using? Have you customized its startup files in any way? What did those customizations change? - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk
On Saturday 21 June 2008 22:47:31 Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 09:44:09PM +, Helge Rohde wrote: Hello List, I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this as easy as possible for the local staff, so i'd like to check whether the drive is attached, if necessary mount it, copy over the backup and unmount it again, so that the local staff can swap the external disks when they're not used. Is there a canonical way to achieve what i want? I played with the idea of simply checking for /dev/da0s1d's existance, but that won't disappear on disconnect, so that would leave the is a possibility that although da0 is in /dev, it might not be connected. Use glabel(8) to give the device an unique label. There is no telling which device /dev/da0s1d is pointing to! After labeling you can check for /dev/fstype/yourlabel, which should be unique. Make sure to unmount the drive at the end of the backup script, or you'll get a kernel panic when staff pulls the plug on a mounted device. Roland Okay, it obviosly makes sense to use glabel instead of the device node. Will the glabel appear/disappear depending on whether the drive is connected? Is it possible to have more then one physical drive with the same glabel(As i plan to utilize two identical Firewire disks) ? Either way, i still need a way to check whether a drive is attached or not. Mounting( and unmounting!) will be done from the periodic backup scripts. I am not sure how devd could help me with that, besides maybe write/delete a zero-byte file somewhere and have the periodic script check for its existence. Thank you all for your help, Helge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
... But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? ... Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. Yes. On most residential connections, Comcast blocks port 25 to reduce the spam burden created by compromised hosts. Your options are not to send mail on port 25 (using port 587, for instance, but that makes you unable to communicate with many servers) or to buy business class service from Comcast, if they'll let you. You can try calling support and asking to have 25 unblocked, but I have yet to hear of a case where that was effective. -FT ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
In response to FT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? ... Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. Yes. On most residential connections, Comcast blocks port 25 to reduce the spam burden created by compromised hosts. Your options are not to send mail on port 25 (using port 587, for instance, but that makes you unable to communicate with many servers) or to buy business class service from Comcast, if they'll let you. You can try calling support and asking to have 25 unblocked, but I have yet to hear of a case where that was effective. No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
Rem Roberti schrieb: On 2008.06.23 15:49:59 +, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Rem Roberti schrieb: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. Probably you only have to type sendmail_enable=YES into your /etc/rc.conf and reboot. Greetings, Uli. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. I have the feeling that there is a problem with how I am supposed to use my hostname. When I run hostname -r I get .hsd1.ca.comcast.net. As you can tell, I am a relative newbie, and not very well versed in all of these things. But I love the process of trying to get it figured out. Rem I don't know mutt, but I guess you should be able to set Comcast's SMTP server somewhere. And: do you need some kind of authentification for it? Uli. Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ 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] -- Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that? Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with IF_RE
- Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:41:12 PM Subject: Problem with IF_RE Dear List Members I am having an issue with a RealTek card for networking. The card in question is recognised by FB alright, as you can see in the pciconf output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:8:0: class=0x02 card=0x311a1385 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8110SB Single-Chip Gigabit LOM Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet But when I do an ifconfig, the result says Media None and No Carrier re0: flags=8843metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b ether 00:1e:2a:3b:2e:62 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffe0 broadcast x.x.x.x media: Ethernet none status: no carrier I know for a fact that the cable and the connection is alright -- I tried with other devices (like Laptops and other desktops), and when I plug the cable into the RTL card, the light on the switch shows connection established. But ifconfig report shows no carrier ? ? ? Any and all help is highly appreciated. I have already CVSupped twice within this week and built world and kernels from scratch as well. uname -a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Thu Jun 12 15:24:40 BST 2008 kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 18 0xc040 7bdce8 kernel 22 0xc0bbe000 28588linux.ko 31 0xc0be7000 7558c4 nvidia.ko 41 0xc133d000 7a88 if_re.ko 51 0xc1345000 6921cacpi.ko 61 0xc35c5000 4000 nullfs.ko 71 0xc4623000 1e000smbfs.ko 82 0xc4641000 3000 libiconv.ko 92 0xc4644000 3000 libmchain.ko All practical suggestions and pointers are highly appreciated. Thanks. Hello, You should follow RELENG_7, I don't think got any changes in RELENG_7_0. Good luck with it. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:30:33PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to FT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. Yes. Use exactly the same delivery path as a normal PC/Mac email client would use. Deliver to comcast and let them figure out how to deliver, don't be too smart and try to deliver direct yourself. In postfix its the relayhost variable in main.cf. This email was brought to you with mutt and postfix, via smtp.knology.net. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:45:39AM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote: No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that? Google sendmail smart_host. I started using postfix many years ago at the recommendation of a friend who hosts really big mail systems on FreeBSD. The biggest immediate advantage was that I felt the configuration files were easier to read and understand. As I posted earlier, set relayhost = whatever you would put in a conventional email app as the SMTP delivery point and then postfix will send everything there that doesn't belong here. In all probability that is the only edit you will need for postfix. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
on 06-23-2008, Rem Roberti wrote: On 2008.06.23 15:49:59 +, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Rem Roberti schrieb: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via getmail. But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? Sendmail, which of course is included with FreeBSd, seems kind of nightmarish. Probably you only have to type sendmail_enable=YES into your /etc/rc.conf and reboot. Greetings, Uli. At any rate, this is a personal system, and I would like the simplest setup I can get to work. Any info would be much appreciated. Rem Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. I have the feeling that there is a problem with how I am supposed to use my hostname. When I run hostname -r I get .hsd1.ca.comcast.net. As you can tell, I am a relative newbie, and not very well versed in all of these things. But I love the process of trying to get it figured out. Rem Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ I was getting my outgoing email bounced by my ISP and after much research, I came up with this local.mc file. You put this file in /etc/mail named your hostname.local.mc and run make install. This creates the files needed by sendmail. divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights # reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright #notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright #notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the #documentation and/or other materials provided with the #distribution. # 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this # software #must display the following acknowledgement: # This product includes software developed by the University of # California, Berkeley and its contributors. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its # contributors #may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this #software #without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' # AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE # ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE # LIABLE # FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR # CONSEQUENTIAL # DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE # GOODS # OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) # HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, # STRICT # LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY # WAY # OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF # SUCH DAMAGE. # # # This is a generic configuration file for FreeBSD 5.X and later # systems. # If you want to customize it, copy it to a name appropriate for your # environment and do the modifications there. # # The best documentation for this .mc file is: # /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README or # /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README # divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.30.2.4 2007/11/22 16:20:01 gshapiro Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd6) DOMAIN(generic) FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -TTMPF /etc/mail/access') FEATURE(blacklist_recipients) FEATURE(local_lmtp) FEATURE(local_procmail) FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') dnl Uncomment to allow relaying based on your MX records. dnl NOTE: This can allow sites to use your server as a backup MX without dnl your permission. dnl FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX) dnl DNS based black hole lists dnl dnl DNS based black hole lists come and go on a regular basis dnl so this file will not serve as a database of the available servers. dnl For that, visit dnl http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Blacklists/ dnl Uncomment to activate Realtime Blackhole List dnl information available at http://www.mail-abuse.com/ dnl NOTE: This is a subscription service as of
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
In response to Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that? Without that setting, sendmail will try to send mail _directly_ to its final destination by looking up the MX record. If your workstation (I believe the original thread centered around configuring a workstation to send mail, right?) does not have all the magic stuff in place to get past spam filters, you will get bounced. i.e. if your DNS isn't set up perfectly, or if your IP address is on the list of DHCP addresses, etc. By setting up smart_host, sendmail will send _all_ email to smart_host, which (if your ISP is worth the money you pay for) will have proper DNS and will not be blacklisted or anything, and will reliably forward your mail on for you. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
In response to Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that? Oops, I misread your message to be why and not what. Steps (as root): 1) cd /etc/mail 2) make 3) Edit [hostname].mc to uncomment the smart_host setting and add your ISP's server 4) make install 5) /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart At least, I believe those steps are correct. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:25:58PM +, Helge Rohde wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2008 22:47:31 Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 09:44:09PM +, Helge Rohde wrote: Hello List, I need to write a backup script, and one of the required actions would be a copy of the backup to an external firewire drive. I would like to make this as easy as possible for the local staff, so i'd like to check whether the drive is attached, if necessary mount it, copy over the backup and unmount it again, so that the local staff can swap the external disks when they're not used. Is there a canonical way to achieve what i want? I played with the idea of simply checking for /dev/da0s1d's existance, but that won't disappear on disconnect, so that would leave the is a possibility that although Such devices should disappear on disconnect. da0 is in /dev, it might not be connected. Use glabel(8) to give the device an unique label. There is no telling which device /dev/da0s1d is pointing to! After labeling you can check for /dev/fstype/yourlabel, which should be unique. Let me rephrase that. You should actually use the file system's utility to set a label. This works for UFS (newfs, tunefs), msdosfs (newfs_msdos), ISO9660 (mkisofs) and ntfs. Make sure to unmount the drive at the end of the backup script, or you'll get a kernel panic when staff pulls the plug on a mounted device. Roland Okay, it obviosly makes sense to use glabel instead of the device node. Will the glabel appear/disappear depending on whether the drive is connected? Yes, just like regular device nodes. Is it possible to have more then one physical drive with the same glabel(As i plan to utilize two identical Firewire disks) ? You can label both drives the same. I don't know what will happen it you try to connect them both at the same time. I guess that the creation of the second label will fail. Either way, i still need a way to check whether a drive is attached or not. Simple. Check for the device node. Mounting( and unmounting!) will be done from the periodic backup scripts. I am not sure how devd could help me with that, besides maybe write/delete a zero-byte file somewhere and have the periodic script check for its existence. It can't completely. It should be able to detect your labeled device and mount it somewhere. But you _have_ to unmount _before_ the device node disappears, lest you get the aforementioned panic. It's easier to have the backup script test if the labeled device node exists. Do not forget to print a message (after the script has unmounted the drive) for the operators that the backup is finished and that the device may be disconnected. Thank you all for your help, You're welcome! 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) pgpErwAj4m0h2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unwanted text before shell prompt
On Monday 23 June 2008 11:42:56 am Noah wrote: Hi there, I just upgraded my FreeBSD box and now I am find that the is an almost blank line above my shell prompt that contains a % (without the quotes) about 20 columns in. What would be the places that this line could be defined? You appear to be using a c-shell (tcsh most likely). Check the prompt setting in ~/.cshrc. David -- This message beats a hard kick in the face. ___ 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
Thank you :-) Unfortunatly I took someone elses advice and upgraded to 7.0, which created it's own problem :-( But the libcdio thing did get fixed, at least! Jen --- On Wed, 6/18/08, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: libcdio upgrade problems To: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 12:57 PM Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum writes: 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. Sounds like the dependencies are confused. pkgdb(1) may help with that. If not, the brute force approach would be to remove the affected ports all the way back to (and including) libcdio, and build them over. I havent been able to figure out how to fix things with pkgdb. And i have tried, over and over, to remove the affected ports and build them from scratch but it hasnt been working. So i went to libcdio and did a make deinstall, deleted the work files, and did a make install clean, and it installed fine. Then i tried to build gvfs, also by doing a make install clean, and it died in the same way--telling me to make deinstall and make reinstall of libcdio. Ive tried this several times with no luck. If theres an even more brute force way id like to know what it is so i can do that. This is preventing a lot of other upgrades to GNOME, which i need. I found it. I think you need to reset the options on libcdio to re-enable the cdparanoia option. Some gnome ports seem to depend on the library specifically with the paranoia option, and I've seen some systems get the options jammed. Something like: (cd /usr/ports/sysutils/libcdio ; make rmconfig ; portupgrade -f libcdio) -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange Out of disk space
Hey, My guess is that something has mmap-ed a HUGE chunk of disk space. If I reboot the space is freed. Much more likely is that some program has deleted a large file, while still holding it open. Usual suspect is some kind of log file, or temporary file. I also had a similar problem, which I solved right now. :) So thanks for the inspiration to try harder to find out what was eating my disk space. df showed this: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f 112291390 83438178 1986990281%/usr and du -d1 -k /usr showed: 46934133/usr When this happened before, everything was freed after reboot. Just now, when writing this post, I went through my process list (I wanted to compare running services with your system) and found this: 2131 ?? DL 3:36,42 [md4] Then I remembered that once, quite some time ago, I created a file-backed filesystem using mdconfig. I did mdconfig -l -u /dev/md4 and got this: md4 vnode 111G /usr/snapshot/snap Because /usr/snapshot/snap doesn't exist anymore (I remember deleting it one day, because I thought I didn't need it anymore), du shows wrong size. Then I just did mdconfig -d -u /dev/md4 and everything is OK now: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f 112291390 46935874 5637220645%/usr Hope that it maybe helps. :) Bye, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
DA Forsyth recently mentioned the coretemp driver, which fetches the core temperatures for Core 2 Duo chips. I'm in the middle of building up a Shuttle SG31G2 (7-STABLE) and loaded the driver to see what it told me. I've noticed that cpu.0 is consistently hotter than cpu.1, even on an unloaded machine. Is that because that core's doing housekeeping work whilst the other is truly idle? dev.cpu.0.temperature: 44 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29 If I background a pair of dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null so that the cpu's are busy, both go up but cpu.0 stays hotter. I'm asking because I'm worried that this could be a sign that I didn't get the heatsink goop spread out sufficiently well Thanks, g. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with IF_RE
Quoting Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Uhm, just out of curiosity, do you have the line devd_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf? | | Thanks. No, I do not have it. Do you suppose I should? I have other devices and nodes coming up alright -- including mapping for different loopback devices as well. Thanks - This message sent through Virus Free Email http://www.vfemail.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
I've noticed that cpu.0 is consistently hotter than cpu.1, even on an unloaded machine. Is that because that core's doing housekeeping work whilst the other is truly idle? dev.cpu.0.temperature: 44 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29 I notice some differences on my quad-core (Q6600) CPU, too: dev.cpu.0.temperature: 35 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 34 dev.cpu.2.temperature: 27 dev.cpu.3.temperature: 30 The differences also stay around the same when I yes /dev/null 4 times to load up each core: dev.cpu.0.temperature: 47 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 45 dev.cpu.2.temperature: 38 dev.cpu.3.temperature: 42 The discrepancy isn't as much as in your case, though. 15 C is pretty significant. It could be that either your heat spreader or heat sink are concave or convex causing one of the cores to get hotter. On my dual-core box, here are the idle temps: dev.cpu.0.temperature: 33 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 31 and under load: dev.cpu.0.temperature: 48 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 46 I'd recommend taking the heat sink off and seeing how the thermal grease is spread on the CPU's head spreader and on the heatsink itself. If it looks lopsided or extremely thick on one side of the CPU package or extremely thin (to the point where you can still see the sheen of the heatsink or heat spreader), then re-mount the heatsink and try to make sure it's evenly distributing the pressure down on the CPU package. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
At 02:06 PM 6/23/2008, George Hartzell wrote: DA Forsyth recently mentioned the coretemp driver, which fetches the core temperatures for Core 2 Duo chips. I'm in the middle of building up a Shuttle SG31G2 (7-STABLE) and loaded the driver to see what it told me. I've noticed that cpu.0 is consistently hotter than cpu.1, even on an unloaded machine. Is that because that core's doing housekeeping work whilst the other is truly idle? dev.cpu.0.temperature: 44 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29 If I background a pair of dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null so that the cpu's are busy, both go up but cpu.0 stays hotter. I'm asking because I'm worried that this could be a sign that I didn't get the heatsink goop spread out sufficiently well Thanks, g. Not sure if the core duos work the same as older 2 CPU and 4 CPU motherboards, but there are some BIOS functions that always use the first CPU. So you never get true SMP because the hardware uses the first CPU more to service interrupts. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
Not sure if the core duos work the same as older 2 CPU and 4 CPU motherboards, but there are some BIOS functions that always use the first CPU. So you never get true SMP because the hardware uses the first CPU more to service interrupts. True, but interrupt handling and minimal background processing should not cause a core to be 15 C hotter. I guess the original poster can mention the load on both cores (or post a top snapshot) so we can see if there is some load on the system. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
FT wrote: ... But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? ... Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. Yes. On most residential connections, Comcast blocks port 25 to reduce the spam burden created by compromised hosts. Your options are not to send mail on port 25 (using port 587, for instance, but that makes you unable to communicate with many servers) or to buy business class service from Comcast, if they'll let you. You can try calling support and asking to have 25 unblocked, but I have yet to hear of a case where that was effective. -FT As an aside, I recently had a similar problem being able to send e-mail to my host (webgator.com) through Comcast's network -- a Comcast tech suggested using port 26 instead of 25, and that worked for me. -- Ethan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
In response to Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FT wrote: ... But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? ... Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. Yes. On most residential connections, Comcast blocks port 25 to reduce the spam burden created by compromised hosts. Your options are not to send mail on port 25 (using port 587, for instance, but that makes you unable to communicate with many servers) or to buy business class service from Comcast, if they'll let you. You can try calling support and asking to have 25 unblocked, but I have yet to hear of a case where that was effective. As an aside, I recently had a similar problem being able to send e-mail to my host (webgator.com) through Comcast's network -- a Comcast tech suggested using port 26 instead of 25, and that worked for me. That's exactly the kind of brain-dead answer I'd expect from Comcast. The Internet community comes up with a solution, and publishes the fact that port 587 is specifically _for_ this purpose, yet Comcast suggests 26 ... go figure. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with IF_RE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Quoting Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | | | Uhm, just out of curiosity, do you have the line | | devd_enable=YES | | in your /etc/rc.conf? | | | | | Thanks. | | | | No, I do not have it. Do you suppose I should? I have other devices and | nodes coming up alright -- including mapping for different loopback | devices as well. Well, the os doesn't receive link up notifications from the interface.. I fear is not as simple as devd, but you can't give it a try, it won't hurt... | | Thanks | | | | - | This message sent through Virus Free Email | http://www.vfemail.net | | | | ___ | 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) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhf+xAACgkQwMJqmJVx947UQgCgwHZeyBuT+kb8ADUlm3hvj+vJ AysAmwdoXhTOgR/tIWgvxbWVe+7oQw4c =SXKs -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: {Spam?} Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
At 02:24 PM 6/23/2008, Josh Carroll wrote: Not sure if the core duos work the same as older 2 CPU and 4 CPU motherboards, but there are some BIOS functions that always use the first CPU. So you never get true SMP because the hardware uses the first CPU more to service interrupts. True, but interrupt handling and minimal background processing should not cause a core to be 15 C hotter. I guess the original poster can mention the load on both cores (or post a top snapshot) so we can see if there is some load on the system. It can cause it to be hotter because the first CPU is servicing all motherboard hardware like the ethernet, video, etc. It is usually the ethernet that causes the most cpu activity. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with sirc and syscons
Hello list, is it possible to update the termcap in the next release for a support of cs? With regards Stevan Tiefert Excuse me for the top post, but the both attached mails are a corrspondence with the author of x11/sirc which is explaining the problem. Weitergeleitete Nachricht Von: roger espel llima [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Problem with sirc Datum: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Eps, that's some memories there, it's been years since I've joined IRC of any kind, or run sirc. My best guess would be to try changing TERM to something else which may be compatible, or running sirc under GNU Screen. Basically it looks like the FreeBSD console can't do something sirc's interface wants, or isn't telling it that it can, so changing TERM would address the 2nd and using screen would address the 1st. Otherwise, you could always run X and run sirc in an xterm :) good luck, roger Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was trying sirc on FreeBSD 7.0 and on the console sirc says that it couldn't change_scroll_region. I had to run sirc with the -d argument but that is not a good solution. What should I do? With regards Stevan Tiefert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java Package for FreeBSD 7.0
Now that Java is opensource, I have looked for a Java package to install on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0, but so far without success. Is there a simple and quick-to-install Java package for FreeBSD? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wipe a drive clean
Hi, I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wipe a drive clean
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? Will... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk ...work? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java Package for FreeBSD 7.0
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:54:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Java is opensource, I have looked for a Java package to install on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0, but so far without success. Is there a simple and quick-to-install Java package for FreeBSD? It's not completely done yet. Some build tools were proprietary (Red Hat started the IcedTea project to rectify that). Some 2D graphics and sound stuff was not free. I've read that the developer of the 2D graphics stuff OK-ed the open sourcing, and that Sun is rewriting the sound bits. In short: patience, grasshopper ;-) 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) pgpZYFyu04xTG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problem with ppp.conf file
Hi all. I want adapt my Internet service to FreeBSD 7.0, and I need to building the etc/ppp/ppp.conf file, but, I do not have much experience in FreeBSD, Can you Help me? I have a Windows XP file, maybe, it is useful as example. I hope, you can help me. Note: My English is not good, i speak Spanish. Best Regards, Miguel. P.S.: Here my file example: ** [GENERAL] Company_Name = Movilnet CCU550 Registry_Folder = MovilnetCCU_550 Install_Directory = Movilnet\CCU550 SWVersion = Software Version : 1.1.6.20(CCU-550) Copyright = Copyright (c) 2006 Franklin Wireless Corp. About_FirmwareVersion = Firmware Version : About_Title = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Info(CCU-550) ;;; ;;0-None, 1-Exist UIMCARD = 0 ;;; ;;;0 - None, 1-RM3 , 2-Reverse RM3 RM3 = 1 ;;; ;;;EVDO-5500P(PCMCIA), EVDO-5500U(USB) Product_Name = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Product_Name_SPA = CCU-550 Modem EvDO DialUP_ConnectionName = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Connection ;;; ;;;Select Language SelectLang = ENGLISH ;;; ;;;PCMCIA, USB, MODEM DriverKind = USB ;;; ;;;Open Port Modem Name - default - not use OpenPortModemName = 1 ;;; ;;Only DriverKind = MODEM ModemPort = ;;; ;;Port Kind (SINGLE or MULTI) PORT_KIND = MULTI ;;; ;;Vid_05c6Pid_3196 ;;CMOTECH-5100P-6944 ;;VID_05C6PID_3100 DriverID = Vid_16d8Pid_5533Mi_00 DriverID_DM = Vid_16d8Pid_5533Mi_02 SWVer = MainProgramName = CMOCCU.exe CHINESE_HelpFile = chhelp.chm HelpFile = help.chm ;;; ; Use NAM NAME for LCD 0:no use , 1:use, default:use UseNAMNAME = 1 ;;; ;;;CMTNF5500P.exe(PCMCIA), CMTNF5500U.exe(USB) DetectorProgrameName = CMTNF5500D.exe TitleName = CCU-550 Modem EvDO AutoRun = 0 ; ;;; On(1)/Off(0) ATCommandActiveSend = 1 ; ;;; Hybrid -- EVDO Data Call : Outgoing call(Active) On(1)/Off(0) ATCommandOutgoing = 1 ; ;ShortCuts Name Shortcuts_DeskTop = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_Programs = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_Programs_Execute = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_Programs_Help = CCU-550 Modem EvDO User Manual Shortcuts_Programs_Uninstall = UnInstall CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_DeskTop_SPA = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_Programs_SPA = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_Programs_Execute_SPA = CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_Programs_Help_SPA = Manual de usuario del CCU-550 Modem EvDO Shortcuts_Programs_Uninstall_SPA = Desinstalar CCU-550 Modem EvDO ;; ;;Main_No_SRV check count No_SRVCheckCnt = 5 ;;;Voice function ON(1)/OFF(0) ;;default - on VoiceFuction = 0 ;;;Offline Display function ON(1)/OFF(0) ;;default - off OfflineFct = 0 ; Only Data~~~! default - 0 OnlyData = 1 ; packet amount 0:byte, 1:kbyte, 2:mbyte, 3:gbyte PacketAmount = 1 ; kind of minimize 0:minimize, 1:hidedefault:minimize KindOfMinimize = 1 ; Using changeable tray icon 0:no use, 1: changeabledefault:no use ChangeableTrayIcon = 1 ; ;;Active SMS Send ON(1)/OFF(0) ActiveSMSSend = 1 ;;; ;SMS Max String SmsMaxString = 160 SmsRcvMaxString = 230 ;;SMS UNICODE ~! USE(1)/UNUSE(0) SmsUnicode = 0 ;; ;;sms emergency priorty OFF(0) / Normal (1) Fast (2) Urgent(3) - default SmsEmergency = 0 ;;;
Re: Wipe a drive clean
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:57:47PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a USB thumb drive? I'm not sure about flash memory, but for a harddrive, simple writing 0's is not a secure way to delete data. It can still be recovered. I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I Have a look at security/wipe. was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? I think the trick is to use the right block size. Try bs=512 or 2048 in your dd command. Use if=/dev/random instead of if=/dev/zero and repeat a couple of times. Note that wiping flash drives way will shorten the lifespan of the device. 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) pgpFlUDyCpIT5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wipe a drive clean
In response to Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note that wiping flash drives way will shorten the lifespan of the device. This statement is largely obsolete. Modern flash has rewrite cycles that often exceed traditional platter-based disks. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that? Oops, I misread your message to be why and not what. Steps (as root): 1) cd /etc/mail 2) make 3) Edit [hostname].mc to uncomment the smart_host setting and add your ISP's server To uncomment, remove dnl from beginning of line. 4) make install 5) /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart 4) make install restart 5) there is no step 5 -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wipe a drive clean
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure about flash memory, but for a harddrive, simple writing 0's is not a secure way to delete data. It can still be recovered. Actually, this is for an experiment that I want to start with a clean device for. I'm not actually trying to obtain some level of security. I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I Have a look at security/wipe. Before reading this, yes I did. In fact, I even installed it. However, the first operation appears to be a renaming of the file in question. I was doing: wipe -z /dev/da2 which was being kicked out with Operation not permitted. It seemed to want to move/rename the file first. I didn't do enough digging to get around this before reading this e-mail. I think the trick is to use the right block size. Try bs=512 or 2048 in your dd command. Use if=/dev/random instead of if=/dev/zero and repeat a couple of times. Note that wiping flash drives way will shorten the lifespan of the device. The man page says that a block size of 512 is the default, though I put it on the command line anyway (talk about being paranoid). My problem was the input file. I was using /dev/null instead of /dev/zero (which I didn't know about until this e-mail). Thanks guys. Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:13:50 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Rem Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP. Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that? Oops, I misread your message to be why and not what. Steps (as root): 1) cd /etc/mail 2) make 3) Edit [hostname].mc to uncomment the smart_host setting and add your ISP's server 4) make install 5) /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart At least, I believe those steps are correct. I believe step four is: make all install restart You then skip step 5. -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. Roy L. Ash, ex-president, Litton Industries signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Wipe a drive clean
I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? Will... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m bs may be smaller but not the default 512 bytes. it's a block size. having very small block will make the process slow ...work? Steve ___ 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: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
Josh Carroll writes: [...] I'd recommend taking the heat sink off and seeing how the thermal grease is spread on the CPU's head spreader and on the heatsink itself. If it looks lopsided or extremely thick on one side of the CPU package or extremely thin (to the point where you can still see the sheen of the heatsink or heat spreader), then re-mount the heatsink and try to make sure it's evenly distributing the pressure down on the CPU package. This is a Shuttle XPC box. I pulled the heatsink/cooler assembly and there didn't seem to be any obvious asymmetries in how the the grease was distributed. I swirled it around a bit, reassembled, and am seeing the same kind of spreads. Here's the machine pretty much idle dev.cpu.0.temperature: 44 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 28 Where top says: last pid: 1217; load averages: 0.02, 0.51, 0.43up 0+00:14:57 13:49:47 52 processes: 1 running, 51 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.2% interrupt, 99.8% idle Mem: 22M Active, 13M Inact, 95M Wired, 1788K Cache, 15M Buf, 3797M Free Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free A could of dd if=/dev/urandom etc... quickly pushes it up, but the delta remains: dev.cpu.0.temperature: 51 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 39 Top says: last pid: 1243; load averages: 0.98, 0.65, 0.48up 0+00:16:07 13:50:57 54 processes: 3 running, 51 sleeping CPU: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 92.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 7.1% idle Mem: 22M Active, 13M Inact, 95M Wired, 1788K Cache, 15M Buf, 3797M Free Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free g. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wipe a drive clean
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm having no luck finding hits for wipe drive or zero drive in the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? Will... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m bs may be smaller but not the default 512 bytes. it's a block size. having very small block will make the process slow ...work? Steve I like this tool for nuking drives: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Server Questions.
Hi all, Two questions for the Web hosting types out there: 1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand new Dell PE R200s and was considering using them as ns1 and ns2. What version of FBSD would one use (I am thinking 6.3 Rel, but us there any compelling reason to use 7.0? 2. What machine type would you suggest for Intel Xenon Duel Core? AMD or i386? Again, is there any real benifit to moving to 7.0 from a processor standpoint? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FT wrote: ... But I can't send mail because the system isn't configured for that, and I'm in the dark as how to accomplish it. Is there somewhere that I can go for info on setting up a simple configuration which will let me send mail from Mutt? ... Well, I have had sendmail enabled, but my outgoing mail gets bounced with a message saying that Comcast has blocked the process. Yes. On most residential connections, Comcast blocks port 25 to reduce the spam burden created by compromised hosts. Your options are not to send mail on port 25 (using port 587, for instance, but that makes you unable to communicate with many servers) or to buy business class service from Comcast, if they'll let you. You can try calling support and asking to have 25 unblocked, but I have yet to hear of a case where that was effective. As an aside, I recently had a similar problem being able to send e-mail to my host (webgator.com) through Comcast's network -- a Comcast tech suggested using port 26 instead of 25, and that worked for me. That's exactly the kind of brain-dead answer I'd expect from Comcast. The Internet community comes up with a solution, and publishes the fact that port 587 is specifically _for_ this purpose, yet Comcast suggests 26 ... go figure. Well, I certainly don't think highly of Comcast as a whole, but in this case they did suggest port 587. Apparently either HostGator doesn't (yet?) support it, or I'm not paying enough to get it. -- Ethan P.S. The correct name is HostGator, not webgator as my original post indicated. oops. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server Questions.
Celerin is probably fine, I assume you don't have a lot of DNS traffic. Usually NS2 is on another network... If its a 64-bit Xeon, AMD would be the right choice. Last gen Xeons and before... I386. 7.0 has a lot of SMP improvements besides all the other fixes, features and improvements... Why are you shy about using it like it costs more than 6? :) -Patrick On Jun 23, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Two questions for the Web hosting types out there: 1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand new Dell PE R200s and was considering using them as ns1 and ns2. What version of FBSD would one use (I am thinking 6.3 Rel, but us there any compelling reason to use 7.0? 2. What machine type would you suggest for Intel Xenon Duel Core? AMD or i386? Again, is there any real benifit to moving to 7.0 from a processor standpoint? -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: Server Questions.
Also, a true dual-core Xeon is 64-bit. hyperthreaded really has one core and is 32. -Patrick On Jun 23, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Two questions for the Web hosting types out there: 1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand new Dell PE R200s and was considering using them as ns1 and ns2. What version of FBSD would one use (I am thinking 6.3 Rel, but us there any compelling reason to use 7.0? 2. What machine type would you suggest for Intel Xenon Duel Core? AMD or i386? Again, is there any real benifit to moving to 7.0 from a processor standpoint? -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: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address
greetings derek and fellow list users thank you for your help in this sendmail matter, i recieved my forst crontab generated overnight (daily and security) system maintenance reports in a long long time, best part of a year. your kindness and persistance is muchly appreciated. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:15:56PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 10:16 PM 6/12/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: greetings, derek, much appreciated the prompt reply On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:43:42PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:36 AM 6/11/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: bit of history trimed for brevity in teh freebsd.mc/sendmail.mc and a 'make install' to cover all bases. i treied to restart teh mailqueue ... no luck .. grrr and then an entry into the mailertable . esmpt:mail.caamora.com.au again did the make whatever thingie and ... tried to post, again this defered post business .. can't asign .. there is something going on here that i donot understand .. some enlightenment would be appreciated, please. the few bits i found in yahoosearch engine, google resfuses me access still but yahoo i can use. i looked uo the error message and turned up this one endrt refereing to teh linux incedent, i have a copy of bat book ed 1 it just says it exists, same for smart_host mail_hub macros. is there some way to fix this short of upgrading and mvoing to postfix ?? i don't have teh needed stuff to do that just yet (me and hardware issues) it looks like i've missed somethings but i don't know enough about freebsd v6.x to know even where to start to look for this one .. aside from this i have another v6.2 host that also was doing the same thing but after i copied a working set of sendmail configs and restarted sendmail it work properly except teh it dosent forward the charlie root mail from teh maintenece events (at 2 am. 3 am and 4 am from teh /etc/cron events) the mail itesm just sit in teh /var/mail/root folder apart frpm some neurological disabilities that i was born with a lot of tireness and frustratin mixed with sideffects from medicines that i need to take to help my body function in teh face of life long disabilities combined to to help me miss some quite simple errors that when all combined .. draged this matter out far far longer than it need have been. in teh long run it turned out to be a poorly written 'etc/rc.conf' file and a posible freebsd oddity .. i am not sure about that one but now my system is working as all teh rest (other 4 in my local network) so i'm not arguing .. again thanks for all teh help guys, very much appreciated. the two main things were missing a lot of marks around most of teh lines to do with the local networking entries and a few that were just misssing, mainly because of assumtions that teh default entries in the /etc/default/rc.conf file would take care of teh system as a whole ?? in my hosts case they did not and i need to explicityly have them stated in teh /etc/rc.conf file before my system would pick tehm up and connect this machine to teh local network and then to forward packets onto teh far greater outside world. explicitly, all teh freebsd v6.2-release machines in my local network need, these lines added (be included in there /etc/re.conf file before local netoworking will function and sendmail will work properly with freebsd v6.2-release my host has a intel pci 10/100 mhz nic ifconfig_fxp0=inet ip.ad.ress.6 netmask 255.255.255.240 ifconfig_lo0= inet 127.0.0.1 both of these entries need to be included before neworking will function properly #ipv4_addrs_fxp0=ip.add.re.ss/24 this ipv4_addrs.. entry i do not understand ?? what its purpose or function is .. after 4 hours of typing starting at scree and constant rebooting i was not game to try it incase it broke somthing that i didn't not understand. now this following entry #network_interfaces=auto in my system/configuration this line, jut plain dosen't work and i need to use this entry (with relevent changes for teh other machines nic's) network_interfaces=fxp0 lo0 before networking will function properly (locally) or even have stable intranetwork connectivity. prior to starting to use freebsd v6.2-release my entire bsd experience was based upon freebsd upto and including freebsd v2.2.7-release and some same vintage linux and interactive unix v?.?? and qnx .. freebsd v6.2 was a real learning curve for me .. still is, largely... but i'm getting there .. muchly appreciated again, sorry for teh length, perhaps this might help some other tired/frustrated person who stumbles across this post after much much frutless effort at getting thier stubornly refuing to function netowrk, take care all and very much thanks for your most kind help support and effort !!! much most gracious appreciations jonathan -- powered by .. QNX, OS9 and freeBSD --
Re: Problem with sirc and syscons
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:53:03PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, is it possible to update the termcap in the next release for a support of cs? With regards Stevan Tiefert Excuse me for the top post, but the both attached mails are a corrspondence with the author of x11/sirc which is explaining the problem. Weitergeleitete Nachricht Von: roger espel llima [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Problem with sirc Datum: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Eps, that's some memories there, it's been years since I've joined IRC of any kind, or run sirc. My best guess would be to try changing TERM to something else which may be compatible, or running sirc under GNU Screen. Basically it looks like the FreeBSD console can't do something sirc's interface wants, or isn't telling it that it can, so changing TERM would address the 2nd and using screen would address the 1st. Otherwise, you could always run X and run sirc in an xterm :) good luck, roger Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was trying sirc on FreeBSD 7.0 and on the console sirc says that it couldn't ??change_scroll_region. I had to run sirc with the -d argument but that is not a good solution. What should I do? With regards Stevan Tiefert I have started to work on getting change_scroll_region working for cons25 I m a bit there just that I need to tweak the setting a bit so soon hopefully some ports will work correctly. pgpeKQHLVSLOG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:52:07PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: Josh Carroll writes: [...] I'd recommend taking the heat sink off and seeing how the thermal grease is spread on the CPU's head spreader and on the heatsink itself. If it looks lopsided or extremely thick on one side of the CPU package or extremely thin (to the point where you can still see the sheen of the heatsink or heat spreader), then re-mount the heatsink and try to make sure it's evenly distributing the pressure down on the CPU package. This is a Shuttle XPC box. I pulled the heatsink/cooler assembly and there didn't seem to be any obvious asymmetries in how the the grease was distributed. I swirled it around a bit, reassembled, and am seeing the same kind of spreads. Here's the machine pretty much idle dev.cpu.0.temperature: 44 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 28 Where top says: last pid: 1217; load averages: 0.02, 0.51, 0.43up 0+00:14:57 13:49:47 52 processes: 1 running, 51 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.2% interrupt, 99.8% idle Mem: 22M Active, 13M Inact, 95M Wired, 1788K Cache, 15M Buf, 3797M Free Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free My top on 7.0 says CPU states: not CPU: Are you sure you're running on 2 cores? dmesg will tell you and top will have a C column with 0 or 1 in it. If you're running on one core, it will explain the temperature discrepancy. A could of dd if=/dev/urandom etc... quickly pushes it up, but the delta remains: dev.cpu.0.temperature: 51 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 39 Top says: last pid: 1243; load averages: 0.98, 0.65, 0.48up 0+00:16:07 13:50:57 54 processes: 3 running, 51 sleeping CPU: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 92.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 7.1% idle Mem: 22M Active, 13M Inact, 95M Wired, 1788K Cache, 15M Buf, 3797M Free Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free -- 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]
Installation error. Command returned status 36
Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command returned status 36. And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. My HDD is Segate ST340810A 40Gb, and I was trying write geometry (which I found on its case and in BIOS), but without success. The same problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and another my HDD. But hardware looks good, because Linux and OpenBSD was installed without any problems. Thanks for help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command returned status 36. And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. My HDD is Segate ST340810A 40Gb, and I was trying write geometry (which I found on its case and in BIOS), but without success. Have you tried _not speficying a geometry? In my experience it is best to let the install program figure it out. I have always ignored the warning at the beginning of the installation process without problems. 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) pgp4b60hC8d0a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command returned status 36. And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. My HDD is Segate ST340810A 40Gb, and I was trying write geometry (which I found on its case and in BIOS), but without success. The same problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and another my HDD. But hardware looks good, because Linux and OpenBSD was installed without any problems. Probably your best bet is to ignore the geometry stuff and just let it do its own thing. Do not try to set the geometry. In reality, geometry is generally 'virtual' nowdays. jerry Thanks for help. ___ 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: Simple Text Mail Setup
First of all I want to thank all who responded to my question, but I gotta tell you, if it isn't one thing it's another. I opted to install msmtp, and it did just what I hoped it would do, working perfectly out of the box, including TLS. But now...I can't receive mail. As you recall from my first post I indicated that I could receive email, using mutt and getmail, and indeed I can, on my laptop, which was set up by someone who knew what they were doing. The computer in question is a desktop with a virgin installation of FreeBSD 7.0. I obviously spoke too soon. I have mutt and getmail installed, and now I can send from that computer, but when I try to receive I get error messages (maillog) saying, among other things: DSN:Data format error Invalid hostname stat=User unknown savemail panic savemail cannot save rejected email anywhere I have a feeling that this is a no brainer, probably related to what is or isn't stated in my rc.conf. But my newbieness has me on the ropes once again. Any help would once again be appreciated. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:55:51AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. Probably your best bet is to ignore the geometry stuff and just let it do its own thing. Do not try to set the geometry. In reality, geometry is generally 'virtual' nowdays. I concur with Roland and Jerry about ignoring the geometry warning. I've been doing so for as long as I can remember and I've never had an issue. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:00:52PM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote: First of all I want to thank all who responded to my question, but I gotta tell you, if it isn't one thing it's another. I opted to install msmtp, and it did just what I hoped it would do, working perfectly out of the box, including TLS. But now...I can't receive mail. As you recall from my first post I indicated that I could receive email, using mutt and getmail, and indeed I can, on my laptop, which was set up by someone who knew what they were doing. The computer in question is a desktop with a virgin installation of FreeBSD 7.0. I obviously spoke too soon. I have mutt and getmail installed, and now I can send from that computer, but when I try to receive I get error messages (maillog) saying, among other things: DSN:Data format error Invalid hostname stat=User unknown savemail panic savemail cannot save rejected email anywhere I have a feeling that this is a no brainer, probably related to what is or isn't stated in my rc.conf. But my newbieness has me on the ropes once again. Any help would once again be appreciated. Rem I'm running getmail version 4.7.6. My getmailrc file is i2/home/daf/.getmail}head -40 getmailrc # # This file contains various examples of configuration sections to use # in your getmail rc file. You need one file for each mail account you # want to retrieve mail from. These files should be placed in your # getmail configuration/data directory (default: $HOME/.getmail/). # If you only need one rc file, name it getmailrc in that directory, # and you won't need to supply any commandline options to run getmail. # # # Example 1: simplest case of retrieving mail from one POP3 server and # storing all messages in a maildir. # [retriever] type = SimplePOP3Retriever server = mail.mindspring.com username = [EMAIL PROTECTED] password = ** [destination] type = Maildir path = ~/Maildir/ [options] message_log = ~/.getmail/log delete = true Does this help? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple Text Mail Setup
I'm running getmail version 4.7.6. My getmailrc file is i2/home/daf/.getmail}head -40 getmailrc # # This file contains various examples of configuration sections to use # in your getmail rc file. You need one file for each mail account you # want to retrieve mail from. These files should be placed in your # getmail configuration/data directory (default: $HOME/.getmail/). # If you only need one rc file, name it getmailrc in that directory, # and you won't need to supply any commandline options to run getmail. # # # Example 1: simplest case of retrieving mail from one POP3 server and # storing all messages in a maildir. # [retriever] type = SimplePOP3Retriever server = mail.mindspring.com username = [EMAIL PROTECTED] password = ** [destination] type = Maildir path = ~/Maildir/ [options] message_log = ~/.getmail/log delete = true Does this help? Actually, I have getmailrc file with a proven track record, and that is what I am using on this laptop to receive mail from Comcast. I installed the same file on my new installation. No, I think the problem is deeper than that, and has to do with configuring sendmail correctly, and my rc.conf. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation error. Command returned status 36
Hey Viacheslav, I always ignore that message every time I will install fresh FreeBSD It doesn't not create error or anything during the installation. Cheers... Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0, but I have next problem. When installation program write new partitions structure to disc it exits with next error: Unable to make new root file system on /dev/ad1s1a! Command returned status 36. And at the start of installation process I have warning about wrong disk geometry. My HDD is Segate ST340810A 40Gb, and I was trying write geometry (which I found on its case and in BIOS), but without success. The same problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and another my HDD. But hardware looks good, because Linux and OpenBSD was installed without any problems. Thanks for help. ___ 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]
mysql 5.0.51b and ssl
hi all... i just installed openssl 0.9.8h and trying to build mysql 5.0.51b with it on a freebsd 7 machine. i get this: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(t1_srvr.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value any ideas? thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql 5.0.51b and ssl
from what i understand this is not uncommon. and it goes back to 2005. and it has to do with the fact that the machine identifies itself as amd64 even though it's an intel machine. what's not clear is what needs to be recompiled whit -fPIC?! my guess is openssl needs to. why? are there any flags i can change in the Makefile for the mysql build? does it have to be a 'shared'? static?! thanks... kalin m wrote: hi all... i just installed openssl 0.9.8h and trying to build mysql 5.0.51b with it on a freebsd 7 machine. i get this: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(t1_srvr.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value any ideas? thanks... ___ 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: mysql 5.0.51b and ssl
kalin m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just installed openssl 0.9.8h and trying to build mysql 5.0.51b with it on a freebsd 7 machine. i get this: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(t1_srvr.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value any ideas? You have a 64-bit system, yes? Try recompiling OpenSSL with the appropriate CFLAGS as suggested in the error output. Google portions of what you pasted above for more background on this issue. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opera's javascript time is off
All, for some reason when javascript posts the current system time inside of Opera, it reports it as being off by one hour. For example, when I use gmail chat; the time is off by one hour. Any reason that could be causing this odd behaviour? I've looked around the Opera site and there is nothing mentioned there; it's as if the javascript was using the wrong time zone. Bono Vince Malum -- -Camilo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
On Monday 23 June 2008 16:06:20 George Hartzell wrote: DA Forsyth recently mentioned the coretemp driver, which fetches the core temperatures for Core 2 Duo chips. I'm in the middle of building up a Shuttle SG31G2 (7-STABLE) and loaded the driver to see what it told me. I've noticed that cpu.0 is consistently hotter than cpu.1, even on an unloaded machine. Is that because that core's doing housekeeping work whilst the other is truly idle? dev.cpu.0.temperature: 44 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29 If I background a pair of dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null so that the cpu's are busy, both go up but cpu.0 stays hotter. I'm asking because I'm worried that this could be a sign that I didn't get the heatsink goop spread out sufficiently well Thanks, g. For what is worth .. my readings: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # kldload coretemp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl hw.model hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.0.temperature; sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature; date +%H:%M:%S dev.cpu.0.temperature: 25 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 24 00:08:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null [1] 5482 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # date +%H:%M:%S 00:08:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.0.temperature; sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature; date +%H:%M:%S dev.cpu.0.temperature: 36 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 36 00:10:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # j [1] + 5482 Running dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # date +%H:%M:%S 00:11:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.0.temperature; sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature; date +%H:%M:%S dev.cpu.0.temperature: 40 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 37 00:11:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature ; sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature ; date +%H:%M:%S dev.cpu.1.temperature: 35 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 35 00:13:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # j; date +%H:%M:%S [1] + 5482 Running dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null 00:14:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature ; sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature ; date +%H:%M:%S dev.cpu.1.temperature: 39 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 39 00:14:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature ; sysctl dev.cpu.1.temperature ; date +%H:%M:%S dev.cpu.1.temperature: 37 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 37 00:14:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # fg dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null ^C29752816+0 records in 29752816+0 records out 15233441792 bytes transferred in 378.928688 secs (40201342 bytes/sec) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # Hope it helped :) -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gantt/pert chart in ports ?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Shterenlikht Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008 8:16 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gantt/pert chart in ports ? Can anybody recommend a simple Gantt or PERT chart program from ports? I'm looking at creating project diagrams for 3-5 years, with time detalisation of one month, with 10-30 tasks and 1-3 people. I note there are several packages, so it would be good to hear about the benefits and drawbacks from those who use them. many thanks anton /usr/ports/deskutils/taskjuggler takes a bit of getting used to its definition files for your jobs, but it generates good charts GANTT / Resource / etc on HTML --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nvidia GPU core temp (where to ge it?)
Can anyone point me to the origin/source/command/file/unameit from where nvidia-settings gets the core temp for the GPU? sysctl doesn't report a thing about it (or at least I was dumb enough not to see it) but nvidia-setting does indeed report it .. so that value _is_ there somewhere ... I'd like to perl something to get every temp reading on my system, but the GPU core temp is the only thing that I don't know where to get from :( For the record: hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.09 Wed Jun 4 11:26:01 PDT 2008 hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 8600 GT hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E Thanks =) -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different?
Frank Shute writes: [...] My top on 7.0 says CPU states: not CPU: Are you sure you're running on 2 cores? dmesg will tell you and top will have a C column with 0 or 1 in it. If you're running on one core, it will explain the temperature discrepancy. I'm almost certain that I'm running on 2 cores. My /usr/bin/top says that it's version: top: version 3.5beta12 It does the a C column with 0 and 1. I created a big file full of random data and bzip'd it. One copy of the file took 20 seconds. Two copies, two processes ran in 20 seconds each. Three copies, three processes too 32 seconds. Tops tells me that some things are running on CPU0 and others are on CPU1. My config file is a copy of GENERIC and includes 'options SMP'. As the machine boots it talks about finding both CPUS. Here's the config file: http://shrimp.alerce.com/bluetoo-info/BLUETOO.txt Here's the verbose dmesg: http://shrimp.alerce.com/bluetoo-info/dmesg.verbose.txt and my rc.conf: http://shrimp.alerce.com/bluetoo-info/rc.conf.txt and here's top: last pid: 1650; load averages: 0.00, 0.04, 0.11up 0+02:43:22 21:47:06 51 processes: 1 running, 50 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 22M Active, 518M Inact, 200M Wired, 214M Buf, 3189M Free Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 861 root 1 440 5688K 1148K select 1 0:01 0.00% powerd 1336 hartzell 1 440 33756K 4608K select 0 0:00 0.00% sshd 980 root 1 440 73860K 7192K select 1 0:00 0.00% httpd 854 root 1 440 9432K 2284K select 1 0:00 0.00% ntpd 1338 hartzell 1 200 10100K 3060K pause 1 0:00 0.00% tcsh 921 root 1 80 4600K 972K nanslp 1 0:00 0.00% svscan 1019 root 1 440 10696K 3868K select 1 0:00 0.00% sendmail 900 root 1 440 13416K 2772K select 1 0:00 0.00% nmbd 1104 hartzell 1 50 10100K 2752K ttyin 0 0:00 0.00% tcsh 943 dnscache 1 440 5624K 2368K select 1 0:00 0.00% dnscache 1333 root 1 40 33756K 4544K sbwait 1 0:00 0.00% sshd 733 root 1 440 5688K 1368K select 1 0:00 0.00% syslogd 942 root 1 440 6624K 1560K select 1 0:00 0.00% atalkd 971 avahi 1 440 15652K 2580K select 1 0:00 0.00% avahi-daemon 804 root 1 960 4604K 1424K select 0 0:00 0.00% nfsd 1092 root 1 80 20440K 1896K wait 1 0:00 0.00% login g. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shellscript conditional to check for external disk
On Monday 23 June 2008 18:24:59 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:25:58PM +, Helge Rohde wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2008 22:47:31 Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 09:44:09PM +, Helge Rohde wrote: Is there a canonical way to achieve what i want? I played with the idea of simply checking for /dev/da0s1d's existance, but that won't disappear on disconnect, so that would leave the is a possibility that although Such devices should disappear on disconnect. That's what i thought, but since i wasnt entirely sure i let the otherwise perfectly working behavior convince me otherwise. Sorry for any confusion caused. It seems that with the given Hardware combination fwohci runs into a bunch of errors and only creates the device nodes at the first time the drive is connected, but fails to destroy them upon disconnection. Reconnecting, mounting and writing to and from the device node produced no errors. If i connect the drive via usb cable instead of the fw one, all goes as expected and umass creates and destroys the device nodes. I will investigate and start a new thread on it later, for now my workaround is a strip of Gaffa Tape over the Firewire port and the instruction to only use USB ;) da0 is in /dev, it might not be connected. Use glabel(8) to give the device an unique label. There is no telling which device /dev/da0s1d is pointing to! After labeling you can check for /dev/fstype/yourlabel, which should be unique. Let me rephrase that. You should actually use the file system's utility to set a label. This works for UFS (newfs, tunefs), msdosfs (newfs_msdos), ISO9660 (mkisofs) and ntfs. Make sure to unmount the drive at the end of the backup script, or you'll get a kernel panic when staff pulls the plug on a mounted device. Roland Okay, it obviosly makes sense to use glabel instead of the device node. Will the glabel appear/disappear depending on whether the drive is connected? Yes, just like regular device nodes. I just didnt suspect just how irregular my device nodes are ;) Is it possible to have more then one physical drive with the same glabel(As i plan to utilize two identical Firewire disks) ? You can label both drives the same. I don't know what will happen it you try to connect them both at the same time. I guess that the creation of the second label will fail. Either way, i still need a way to check whether a drive is attached or not. Simple. Check for the device node. Mounting( and unmounting!) will be done from the periodic backup scripts. I am not sure how devd could help me with that, besides maybe write/delete a zero-byte file somewhere and have the periodic script check for its existence. It can't completely. It should be able to detect your labeled device and mount it somewhere. But you _have_ to unmount _before_ the device node disappears, lest you get the aforementioned panic. Thats precisely why i didnt want to let devd do the mounting: doing it just-in-time minimises the window of opportunity for vicious plug-pullers. It's easier to have the backup script test if the labeled device node exists. Do not forget to print a message (after the script has unmounted the drive) for the operators that the backup is finished and that the device may be disconnected. The Machine will run headless - I thought about sending a mail but i probably won't bother as by the time the backup and copy takes longer than a night, I should have received angry emails and snmp traps about filesystems way beyond their official capacity anyway ;) regards, Helge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
