Re: Problem in checking machine architecture
Eitan Shefi wrote: I have a host with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (64 bit) installed. How do I check the host's architecture ? When I run: uname -m the output is: amd64 When I run: sysctl -a | less and search for: CPU I see that: hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5140 @ 2.33GHz ... hw.machine_arch: amd64 So, is this host's architecture is: Intel or AMD I'm confused about it. Can someone help ? Thanks, Eitan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just like AMD made i686 processors. What's the I stand for? Intel came out with the 8086-686 class processors first, and AMD picked up that architecture. AMD came out with 64-bit architecture first so the platform is commonly referred to as amd64. 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: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Mark Boolootian wrote: Hi folks, I've done a couple of fresh installs on 7.0-RELEASE today, and subsequently run freebsd-update. freebsd-update reports: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.0-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols /usr/bin/dig /usr/bin/host /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/bin/nsupdate /usr/include/netinet/tcp.h /usr/lib/libssh.a /usr/lib/libssh.so.4 /usr/lib/libssh_p.a /usr/sbin/dnssec-signzone /usr/sbin/lwresd /usr/sbin/named /usr/sbin/named-checkconf /usr/sbin/named-checkzone /usr/sbin/named-compilezone /usr/sbin/sshd /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp.h /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update. However 'uname -a' says something else: FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 And although /usr/sbin/named has been updated, it appears not to have been upgraded: $ /usr/sbin/named -v BIND 9.4.2 Thoughts? You've got p3, don't worry. There was no kernel update in p3, hence you got the p2 GENERIC kernel. If you want uname to actually show p3, you will have to recompile your kernel, using something like this (assuming you got the kernel sources installed and intend to keep using GENERIC): cd /usr/src make buildkernel installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC and then reboot However the only difference will be in the -p number, nothing else so you don't have to do it. FWIW, the /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh contains the -p number you see in uname, and this changes everytime freebsd-update fetches updates - whether they include kernel updates or not. Some people (especially those responsible for large number of machines) will recompile the kernel anyway, so they can easily see their patchlevel using uname. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another way I'm TRYING to get into the habit of doing, to find the patches applied to a system is to make a dir, such as something like /root/updates In this directory I place all the *.asc and *.diff or *.patch files that apply to the updates. This way the uname can give me some very good information, but the patches and updates I've received (either via freebsd-update or via rebuilding world) have been recorded, and it's on a host-by-host basis this way too. I hope this helps anybody in their administration tasks. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump and restore
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote: The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine on different IDE controllers. The time for dump/restore normally depends more on the occupancy of the partition than its actual size. This is one reason why we avoid using dd for this purpose as we must then copy the entire 74Gb rather than just that used. Hmmm, I didn't even know it was possible to dump a partition unmounted. Try that next time then. The actual partition size was ~200GB, but around 74Gb data. Thanks all for your answers. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Card Info
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular video card ? I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from ports back when I last upgraded and it works fine. But does the proprietary nvidia driver work? The nv driver is slow, makes heavy use of the CPU, and has no 3-d support. The nvidia driver doesn't work on the 64-bit version of FreeBSD through. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD
Hello, I could successfully extract the last track, no. 7, on a pretty worn-out audio CD issuing the command: % cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -t 7 (0,0,0 being the SCSI device corresponding to the cdda2wav -scanbus output) while I have failed doing so earlier via: % cdda2wav -D /dev/acd0 -t 7 since it got stuck at %84 giving the error cooked: Read cdda : Input/output error. I experienced similar failure with KAudioCreator. Any explanations to this? This is 7.0-RELEASE running KDE 3.5.8. Thanks! //rk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE
Hi I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there any way I can figure out this ? And what is the difference between kernel-mode PPP and user-mode PPP ? I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3 (amd64). References: [1] - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pppoe.html TIA -- ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- pgp70CdkS9uHK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2
Mark Boolootian wrote: which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update. However 'uname -a' says something else: FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 And although /usr/sbin/named has been updated, it appears not to have been upgraded: $ /usr/sbin/named -v BIND 9.4.2 Thoughts? You've got p3, don't worry. There was no kernel update in p3, hence you got the p2 GENERIC kernel. If you want uname to actually show p3, you will have to recompile your kernel Shouldn't freebsd-update do this, not only for the kernel and named and whatever else it updates? I'm relatively new to freebsd-update, and while I appreciate its speed advantange over make buildworld/buildkernel, it's confusing when it applies updates but does not display correct version numbers. dn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2
David Newman wrote: Mark Boolootian wrote: which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update. However 'uname -a' says something else: FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 And although /usr/sbin/named has been updated, it appears not to have been upgraded: $ /usr/sbin/named -v BIND 9.4.2 Thoughts? You've got p3, don't worry. There was no kernel update in p3, hence you got the p2 GENERIC kernel. If you want uname to actually show p3, you will have to recompile your kernel Shouldn't freebsd-update do this, not only for the kernel and named and whatever else it updates? I'm relatively new to freebsd-update, and while I appreciate its speed advantange over make buildworld/buildkernel, it's confusing when it applies updates but does not display correct version numbers. dn This is not a problem with freebsd-update. The kernel has not changed between -p2 and -p3, so freebsd-update will not get you an updated one. If you recompile the kernel afterwards, it will show -p3 because of the change in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh (this changes everytime freebsd-update gets new updates, regardless of whether the kernel is updated or not). So, simply by recompiling the kernel you will get the -p3 indication, though nothing much else in this case. When an update *does* include a new kernel *and* you are running a GENERIC kernel, freebsd-update will update it. If you are running your custom kernel, you will have to recompile anyway. Also note that you need to have the relevant parts installed for freebsd-update to update them. For example, if you don't have the kernel sources installed, freebsd-update will *not* download and install them for you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2
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Re: Video Card Info
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular video card ? I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from ports back when I last upgraded and it works fine. But does the proprietary nvidia driver work? The nv driver is slow, makes heavy use of the CPU, and has no 3-d support. The nvidia driver doesn't work on the 64-bit version of FreeBSD through. You should mention that the Nvidia driver that Nvidia distributes (and is represented within FreeBSD by a port which builds installs with no difficulty at all) works just fine. I personally have the Nvidia 8600GTS, I use that driver, and it's a perfectly fine option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiCCcUACgkQz62J6PPcoOlC0gCfY1t2ZaXuvzBwSgzmGwgfgI06 +kgAmgJd/jEaUggqD5gE2M0K5m3FobOi =i0jc -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: Video Card Info
RW writes: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular video card ? I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from ports back when I last upgraded and it works fine. But does the proprietary nvidia driver work? The nv driver is slow, makes heavy use of the CPU, and has no 3-d support. The nvidia driver doesn't work on the 64-bit version of FreeBSD through. I'm running amd64, so I didn't even try the proprietary one. g. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Card Info
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Hartzell wrote: RW writes: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular video card ? I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from ports back when I last upgraded and it works fine. But does the proprietary nvidia driver work? The nv driver is slow, makes heavy use of the CPU, and has no 3-d support. The nvidia driver doesn't work on the 64-bit version of FreeBSD through. I'm running amd64, so I didn't even try the proprietary one. I have an amd64 host, but I don't run FreeBSD on that one, I sort of spread myself out so I can cover a few extra platforms. I did hear that the nvidia driver didn't work on amd64, but I couldn't tell you why. It's probably covered onthe FreeBSD-multimedia mailing list, and I would search the archives of that list before bothering folks on that. The FreeBSD mailing list archives are great resources. g. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiCDWcACgkQz62J6PPcoOlR6wCfVuohVUf///FzhyQjVZYEu72T HJ0AoJUh+GhXcQq0tqpGHNRukVmT6VGD =ichG -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: Why this linking fail?
On Thursday 17 July 2008 07:37:43 Unga wrote:
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry guys, I have found an issue. In the libc compile log
shows following error:
lex -P_nsyy -o/dev/stdout /usr/src/lib/libc/net/nslexer.l
| sed -e '/YY_BUF_SIZE/s/16384/1024/'
|
nslexer.c
lex: fatal internal error, exec failed
Let me check why the lex failed.
Ok, I managed to narrow down the problem.
I'm in a chroot jail.
lex -P_nsyy -o/dev/stdout /usr/src/lib/libc/net/nslexer.l nslexer.c
lex: could not create /dev/stdout
ls -l /dev/stdout
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jul 17 12:24 /dev/stdout - fd/1
ls -l /dev/fd/
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 17 Jul 17 10:30 0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 19 Jul 17 10:30 1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 21 Jul 17 10:30 2
echo xxx /dev/stdout
xxx
Note, writing /dev/stdout works, it prints back the xxx.
Before I enter into chroot jail, this is how mount devfs:
mount -v -o rw -t devfs dev /somepath/dev
Usually, it's:
mount -t devfs devfs /somepath/dev
^^
However, I don't know if that token distinction matters or that it's just a
label.
But this statement works well outside of jail:
lex -P_nsyy -o/dev/stdout /usr/src/lib/libc/net/nslexer.l nslexer.c
Is my devfs mount correct? I did not do any devfs configuration. Does it
require any devfs configuration on the new /somepath/dev mount?
Appreciate very much your reply on this.
This can be a problem, if you jexec into the jail as no full environment is
created, but it's usually just the /dev/tty that is the problem, not std{out|
err|null}.
Have you considered compiling on the host and using DESTDIR on installworld?
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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Re: http cache cleaner
On Thursday 17 July 2008 11:28:02 Jos Chrispijn wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: I have had every so often during the day a window saying http cache cleaner loading application appear but not listed in the actual processes or available to terminate, what is it an how do i stop it form loading ? Looks like a Ubuntu thinghy (...), this might help: cd /usr/share/services/ sudo cp http_cache_cleaner.desktop http_cache_cleaner.desktop.ubuntu sudo echo StartupNotify=false http_cache_cleaner.desktop It's not ubuntu specific. It's Konqueror's cache cleaner. It does show in process list, if you use pstree (sysutils/pstree) or ps -w, it'll be a kdeinit process. if it runs once per day, then you either visit a lot of different sites, or your cache settings for konqueror are low. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: log size handling
On Thursday 17 July 2008 13:31:39 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Yes, I am compressing them. Load is not an issue yet but I want to optimize things that can be optimized. So I guess, rotate more often? I like the idea of having one monthly log because it is then processed by web stat software so it is easier to submit one than a couple of them. Even though the awstats code is a bit kludgy perl (as most perl is I suppose), it is able to track the last line that it processed and so doesn't care if it gets half a log file or 'full' ones. I haven't looked at the more recent logprocessors in a while, so there may be others. In short: you may want to look around for logprocessors that can handle intermediate logfiles and still correctly create periodical stats. In these cases it's actually beneficial to do frequent rotations, because the arrays the software keeps in memory, are smaller by definition. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2
Manolis Kiagias wrote: This is not a problem with freebsd-update. The kernel has not changed between -p2 and -p3, so freebsd-update will not get you an updated one. If you recompile the kernel afterwards, it will show -p3 because of the change in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh (this changes everytime freebsd-update gets new updates, regardless of whether the kernel is updated or not). So, simply by recompiling the kernel you will get the -p3 indication, though nothing much else in this case. I had a thought the other day that it should be possible to to provide the system patch level as data within a very small KLD module. That way freebsd-update could change the value without having to supply a whole new kernel and without having to reboot. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD
Razmig K wrote: Snipped for logic: Hello, I could successfully extract the last track, no. 7, on a pretty worn-out audio CD got stuck at %84 giving the error cooked: Read cdda : Input/output error. Any explanations to this? Not trying to be overly arrogant, but aren't you asking something similar to why doesn't my broken car run? An input/output error on a worn-out CD isn't much of a surprise to me; and it's likely that the software isn't either written (or perhaps invoked) in such a way that such errors can be ignored. YMMV, #include disclaimer.h and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- He who steps on others to reach the top has good balance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump and restore
Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote: The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine on different IDE controllers. The time for dump/restore normally depends more on the occupancy of the partition than its actual size. This is one reason why we avoid using dd for this purpose as we must then copy the entire 74Gb rather than just that used. Hmmm, I didn't even know it was possible to dump a partition unmounted. Try that next time then. The actual partition size was ~200GB, but around 74Gb data. If you can, it's always *much* preferable to dump an unmounted partition. I suspect your problems here had more to do with the bad disk, though. -- 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: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD
Kevin Kinsey a écrit : Not trying to be overly arrogant, but aren't you asking something similar to why doesn't my broken car run? No, I'm aware of the implications of having a broken car. The question asked for explanations, if any, on why successful extraction was possible via the SCSI interface while it wasn't via the ATAPI interface. //rk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD
Sorry this is truncated, the google mail application on blackberry doesn't include the full mail. Anyway, I would highly suggest using cdparanoia from ports. I have had great success recovering very scratched discs with it in the past. Good luck! Josh On 7/19/08, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I could successfully extract the last track, no. 7, on a pretty worn-out audio CD issuing the command: % cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -t 7 (0,0,0 being the SCSI device corresponding to the cdda2wav -scanbus output) while I have failed doing so earlier via: % cdda2wav -D /dev/acd0 -t 7 since it got stuck at %84 giving the error cooked: Read cdda : Input/output error. I experienced similar failure with KAudioCreator. Any explanations to this? This is 7.0-RELEASE running KDE 3.5.8. Thanks! //rk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2
On 7/19/08 9:50 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: This is not a problem with freebsd-update. The kernel has not changed between -p2 and -p3, so freebsd-update will not get you an updated one. If you recompile the kernel afterwards, it will show -p3 because of the change in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh (this changes everytime freebsd-update gets new updates, regardless of whether the kernel is updated or not). So, simply by recompiling the kernel you will get the -p3 indication, though nothing much else in this case. I had a thought the other day that it should be possible to to provide the system patch level as data within a very small KLD module. That way freebsd-update could change the value without having to supply a whole new kernel and without having to reboot. Something showing what's currently running would be a useful addition IMO. Yes, the user can grep /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to get the kernel patch level, but: 1. the user doesn't know if that patch level is currently installed and running; and 2. the user may not know version numbers for other pieces of code altered by freebsd-update. For example, someone else already pointed out that 'named -v' returns '9.4.2', the same version as before running freebsd-update. Port maintenance tools such as portmaster and portupgrade indicate which version they're upgrading to; a similar facility in freebsd-update would be nice-to-have too. thanks dn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?
What price at the license of FreeBSD 7? it's important for me. I must know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7? it's important for me. I must know. It is available for the low low price of $0 or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to prevent certain gnome apps from being installed ...
Every time gnome desktop is upgraded via portupgrade it reinstalls a bunch of applications that I had previously removed using pkg_delete. For example, since I only use firefox as my browser there's no need to also have epiphany nor galeon. However, by default they are always reinstalled. I've tried using the HOLD_PKGS array in pkgtools.conf to prevent this, but to no avail. What to do? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: panic
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Grant wrote: I have been having panics on one of my machines, roughly every week or so. I was running 6.3 pre-release and then I updated to 6.3 p2 and I still have the panic, here's the message that appears on the console: panic: kmem_kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 2; apic id = 06 fault virtual address = 0x2c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06c5a5a stack pointer = 0x28:0xe6ea49ec frame pointer = 0x28:0xe6ea4a00 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 14 (swi1: net) trap number = 12 Is this possibly a hardware problem? Yes, but who can say? :) To complete your bug report please submit a backtrace. See the developers handbook for details. Kris Another crash: panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 335527936 total allocated cpuid = 0 Uptime: 3d22h55m59s Dumping 3327 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (151 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 3327MB (851568 pages) 3311 --- hangs here I waited about a half hour before pulling the plug. Then, during reboot: ... savecore: error reading last dump header at offset 10005032448 in /dev/ad1s1b: Input/output error savecore: no dumps found Jul 19 15:50:19 charm savecore: error reading last dump header at offset 10005032448 in /dev/ad1s1b: Input/output error ... I will wait and see if the next time it crashes I get a better dump, but in the mean time, still no ideas? Michael Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: panic
Michael Grant wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Grant wrote: I have been having panics on one of my machines, roughly every week or so. I was running 6.3 pre-release and then I updated to 6.3 p2 and I still have the panic, here's the message that appears on the console: panic: kmem_kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 2; apic id = 06 fault virtual address = 0x2c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06c5a5a stack pointer = 0x28:0xe6ea49ec frame pointer = 0x28:0xe6ea4a00 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 14 (swi1: net) trap number = 12 Is this possibly a hardware problem? Yes, but who can say? :) To complete your bug report please submit a backtrace. See the developers handbook for details. Kris Another crash: panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 335527936 total allocated cpuid = 0 Uptime: 3d22h55m59s Dumping 3327 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (151 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 3327MB (851568 pages) 3311 --- hangs here I waited about a half hour before pulling the plug. Then, during reboot: ... savecore: error reading last dump header at offset 10005032448 in /dev/ad1s1b: Input/output error savecore: no dumps found Jul 19 15:50:19 charm savecore: error reading last dump header at offset 10005032448 in /dev/ad1s1b: Input/output error ... I will wait and see if the next time it crashes I get a better dump, but in the mean time, still no ideas? You still didn't get the backtrace I requested (if dump is failing for you then try minidumps or compile in DDB and use that -- again, please read the developers handbook), but this particular panic has an obvious explanation: your kernel ran out of memory. Set the vm.kmem_size tunable to some larger value than 320M, or modify your workload to use less kernel memory. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?
On Saturday 19 July 2008 15:40:53 Kris Kennaway wrote: ... or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Kris ROFL to death ! Sorry .. couldn't help it ... You made me spit my pepsi all over my desktop ! 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]
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Re: Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0530 ___ Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there any way I can figure out this ? If you are starting it from the standard rc.d script, you are using user ppp. I think kernel ppp is a legacy feature that was used before the kernel supported tun interfaces. I don't know of any reason for still using it. IIRC with kernel ppp you run pppd (note the d) as root, and the interface shows-up as ppp0; with user ppp, you run ppp as any user, and the interface shows-up as tun0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7? it's important for me. I must know. It is available for the low low price of $0 or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Let's see, ... that would be approximately $149*10^12 Zimbabwe. -- 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: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?
On July 19, 2008 04:21:03 pm Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 15:40:53 Kris Kennaway wrote: ... or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Kris ROFL to death ! Sorry .. couldn't help it ... You made me spit my pepsi all over my desktop ! Thanks!! How many Zimbabwe dollars, I wonder? This seems to give the finest measurement for approximations to zero... -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-06-29 - 2008-07-19
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. These are the articles posted during this period: 6-Jul : ezjail - A jail administration framework This makes jails easier http://freebsddiary.org/ezjail.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to divide up?
Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special database, not html . is there some clever perl one-liner that would help me turn CENTERFONT face=Times size=3FONT color=#66RealizationBR into CENTER FONT face=Times size=3 FONT color=#66 Realization BR ?? tx for any clues, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to divide up?
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:23:48 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special database, not html . is there some clever perl one-liner ... I don't know about 'easy', because this looks pretty much like 'free form HTML'. Parsing liberally formatted HTML code from untrusted sources is a lot like trying to reinvent Firefox's HTML parsing engine or something similar. That's bound to be up there in the 'insanely difficult' and not so much in the 'easy to hack with sed and a bit of awk or some Perl' scale. If you have some sort of guarantee about the well-formedness of the HTML source though (i.e. it passes some sort of validation suite), then you can probably use tidy(1) to convert it to XML and then use xsltproc to convert the XML source to pretty much anything imaginable. Now, if you want to merely hack something quick and dirty, a short Perl script can probably do regexp substitution similar to # # WARNING: THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED :P # my $foo = STDIN; $foo = s:([^]+[^]*/[^]+):$1\n:ge; print $foo; but you shouldn't trust the output of such a quick hack too much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to divide up?
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:23:48PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special database, not html . is there some clever perl one-liner that would help me turn CENTERFONT face=Times size=3FONT color=#66RealizationBR into CENTER FONT face=Times size=3 FONT color=#66 Realization BR ?? Insert a newline in front of every : gsed -e s//\n/g infile outfile Note that this requires GNU sed. It won't work with BSD sed. 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) pgpGR4LfSUxnv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to simulate a user's crontab?
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:27:51 +0200,
DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
D John, it is not a permissions issue, but rather a path issue. Do as the
D other poster suggested and run a cron job to dump the environment and you
D will see that the PATH inside a cron job is very rudimentary. Either add
D what you need to it in the crontab or cron job, or always use absolute
D paths for everything in a cron entry.
D alternatively, set up an AT job as the user, then find the script generated
D by at and grab a copy (/var/spool/cron ???). You can use that copy as the
D basis for all cron scripts for that user, and always have the 'user'
D environment set up correctly.
I use templates for most of the things I write, so I don't end up making
the same stupid off-by-one mistakes for things like handling command-line
arguments. My template for a production shell script is below.
* Why use the Korn shell instead of bash? size prints out the size of
the text, data, and uninitialized data segments and their total for
a given program. On Solaris:
me% size /bin/ksh /bin/bash
/bin/ksh: 166555 + 2022 + 6438 = 175015
/bin/bash: 535476 + 74216 + 13712 = 623404
BSD numbers have the same general idea. Bash is 3 times heavier than
KSH in terms of memory use; if you need all that, fine, but if not,
consider something lighter. David Korn is one of the brightest minds
at ATT, and any shell he writes to correct deficiencies in the original
Bourne shell deserves a serious look.
* Always set your PATH and umask to something safe. This way, you avoid
unpleasant surprises if someone else runs your script, or if it's run
from cron.
* It should be easy to do things you do frequently. I use short functions
like logmsg to write to the system log for long-running scripts,
and die to print a useful error message and exit. This way, sanity
checking becomes much less tedious, and if you want to change the format
or destination of log messages, the change is made in *one* place.
* Using a template makes it easier to be consistent when choosing things
like command-line options; in just about everything I write, -d
turns on debugging output, -h prints help, etc.
This might not be a big deal if you're the only user, but if you work
a help desk and you need to know why a script barfed all over itself
when a customer's on the phone, it's a blessing.
* It should be easy to find out what version is being run and where the
source code is. The -v option prints the version and date, and the
-w option prints the source location from the revision system I use:
me% ./doit -v
doit v1.1 2008/02/24 13:02:35
me% ./doit -w
/src/script/RCS/doit,v
--
Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company
I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous.
---
#!/bin/ksh
#
# NAME:
#doit
#
# SYNOPSIS:
#doit [-dhuvw] [-o outfile] [infile ...]
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#program to ...
#
# OPTIONS:
#-d turns debug output on.
#-h prints help and exits.
#-o outfile specifies the optional output file.
#-u prints the UUID and exits.
#-v prints the version and exits.
#-w prints the location of the source code and exits.
#
# AUTHOR:
#Your name user [at] whatever [dot] com
#Your organization
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
umask 022
tag=`basename $0`
# FUNCTIONS =
# logmsg: prints a string to the system log.
logmsg () {
logger -t $tag $*
}
# die: prints an optional argument to stderr and exits.
# This works in subshells and loops, but may not exit with
# a code other than 0.
die () {
echo $tag: ERROR -- $* 2
exit 1
}
# usage: prints an optional string plus part of the comment
# header (if any) to stderr, and exits with code 1.
usage () {
lines=`egrep -n '^# (NAME|AUTHOR)' $0 | cut -f1 -d:`
(
case $# in
0) ;;
*) echo usage error: $*; echo ;;
esac
case $lines in
) ;;
*) set `echo $lines | sed -e 's/ /,/'`
sed -n ${1}p $0 | sed -e 's/^#//g' |
egrep -v AUTHOR:
;;
esac
) 2
exit 1
}
# Print the UUID for this script. Should be based on
# something unique, like date-time-hostname.
myuuid () {
lsedscr='s/UUID: //
s/\$//g'
lid='$UUID: ee96ec96-5bab-3443-b0d4-e0d2c96a4ffd $'
echo $lid | sed -e $lsedscr
}
# Print the current version and source location.
version () {
lsedscr='s/RCSfile: //
s/.Date: //
s/,v . .Revision: / v/
s/\$//g'
lrevno='$RCSfile: doit,v $ $Revision: 1.1 $'
lrevdate='$Date: 2008/02/24 13:02:35 $'
echo $lrevno $lrevdate | sed -e $lsedscr
}
where
Reading from USB devices
Hi, I'd like to read data from a USB device that is not a thumb drive. How would I do this? For instance, it's an oximeter for reading biometrics. What libraries exist for reading things like VID/PID, and most importantly, reading the data from the device? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to divide up?
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:44:07 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, if you want to merely hack something quick and dirty, a short Perl script can probably do regexp substitution similar to # # WARNING: THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED :P # my $foo = STDIN; $foo = s:([^]+[^]*/[^]+):$1\n:ge; print $foo; but you shouldn't trust the output of such a quick hack too much. As I wrote in reply to the personal email, this was untested and a bit wrong in places, but now I've tried something like: $ echo 'helloworld/hellohellonext world/hello' | \ perl -e '$foo = STDIN; $foo =~ s:([^]+[^]*/[^]+):$1\n:g; print $foo;' and it does seem to sort of work. The output is: helloworld/hello hellonext world/hello Maybe that's good enough? They say `the perfect is the enemy of good enough', so if this works for your data set, it's probably ok to use it :-) Have fun, Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help to compile netlogin client
It must login first with a client before surf into Internet for me. The client
can be compiled well under linux, however, it failed under freebsd due to the
following code dealing with acquire ip/mac information:
[CODE]
static void getAddr(int sockfd, struct usrinfoSet *pui)
{
struct ifreq addr;
memset(addr, 0x0, sizeof addr);
strcpy(addr.ifr_name, pui - dev);
if (ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFADDR, (char *)addr) == -1) {
perror(ioctl);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
strcpy(pui - ip, inet_ntoa(((struct sockaddr_in *)addr.ifr_addr) -
sin_addr));
memset(addr, 0, sizeof addr);
strcpy(addr.ifr_name, (*pui).dev);
if(ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, (char *)addr) == -1) {
perror(ioctl);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
memcpy(pui - mac, addr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, 0x6);
}
[/CODE]
The full source and client are attached.
Thanks in advance!
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rtorrent refuses to open bittorrent file
As I am a new user to rtorrent I would like to know how to set it up properly. After I had configured .rc.rtorrent when I type --anyfile.torrent -- I got the answer that rtorrent is unable to open such a file... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: debug messages for system crash output- Kennawayothers
I solved the problem. I didn't find any documentation on what to do. _ Time for vacation? WIN what you need- enter now! http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergiveaway/?ocid=tag_jlyhm___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE
RW writes: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0530 ___ Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there any way I can figure out this ? If you are starting it from the standard rc.d script, you are using user ppp. I think kernel ppp is a legacy feature that was used before the kernel supported tun interfaces. I don't know of any reason for still using it. Won't you get any speed improvements with PPP connection in kernel-mode PPP as compared to user-mode PPP ? IIRC with kernel ppp you run pppd (note the d) as root, and the interface shows-up as ppp0; with user ppp, you run ppp as any user, and the interface shows-up as tun0. I use 'ppp -ddial my-adsl-provider' and it creates a 'tun0' interface. So this means I'm doing user-mode PPP. Thanks Ashish -- ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- pgpGvPds48tpW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to divide up?
At 5:23 PM -0700 7/19/08, Gary Kline wrote:
Guys,
Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line?
I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff
would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special
database, not html .
is there some clever perl one-liner that would help me turn
CENTERFONT face=Times size=3FONT color=#66RealizationBR
into
CENTER
FONT face=Times size=3
FONT color=#66
Realization
BR
I've been using this ...
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Process HTML data on STDIN into one tag per line form on STDOUT
while () {
s/\r/\n/gs;
s//\n/gs;
s//\n/gs;
s/\n\s*/\n/gs;
s/^\s*//;
print $_
}
... for quite some time under the name tag1. It's come in very handy.
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