Re: how to scrollback in terminal
In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Foreign characters in filenames on FTP
Hi, I have an issue with filenames that have foreign (e.g. Japanese) characters in them when trying to access them by FTP from a Windows machine (the server is running FreeBSD 7.1, the same problem occurs with both the builtin ftpd and vsftpd). It is most likely an encoding problem, but I can't figure out where it lies exactly. It basically boils down to this: When I access the FTP from my Windows machine, the foreign characters come as a load of random characters. However, when I access it from a Linux machine, everything is fine, and the filemanes are also fine when I use ls at the shell. As I said, it is most likely a problem in how FreeBSD encodes the filenames, but I read throught the mount(8) man page and found no option that would allow changing it. Any pointers would be much appreciated. Firas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
PHP 5.2.8 crash (segmentation fault 11)
Hi all:
Freshly compiled PHP 5.2.8 with PECL and PHP5-extensions support
on FreeBSD 7.1 (i386) seems to be crashing in
#0 0x28e3e006 in hash_lookup (hashtab=0x29ea2f70,
key=0xbfbfea30 \221??\222)??{\206)p/??)??\r\226)`Qp() at misc.c:349
349 for (ret = hashtab-table[hash_index (hashtab,key)]; ret; ret =
ret-next)
[New Thread 0x28759400 (LWP 100083)]
The stack frame are shown below.
(gdb) bt
#0 0x28e3e006 in hash_lookup (hashtab=0x29ea2f70,
key=0xbfbfea30 \221??\222)??{\206)p/??)??\r\226)`Qp() at misc.c:349
#1 0x29867dae in find_alias () from /usr/local/lib/librecode.so.3
#2 0x29869361 in recode_new_outer () from /usr/local/lib/librecode.so.3
#3 0x2981dd6e in zm_startup_recode ()
from /usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/recode.so
#4 0x081c0f65 in zend_startup_module_ex (module=0x287cd100)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/Zend/zend_API.c:1472
#5 0x081c81d2 in zend_hash_apply (ht=0x82f0a80,
apply_func=0x81c0dc0 zend_startup_module_ex)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/Zend/zend_hash.c:673
#6 0x081c112f in zend_startup_modules ()
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/Zend/zend_API.c:1519
#7 0x08166db8 in php_module_startup (sf=0x82ec200, additional_modules=0x0,
num_additional_modules=0)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/main/main.c:1843
#8 0x0823abf1 in php_cli_startup (sapi_module=0x82ec200)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:357
#9 0x0823b8a6 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfbfeda8)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:716
Anybody pointers as to how to solve this issue ?
thanks
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Re: PHP 5.2.8 crash (segmentation fault 11)
Saifi Khan wrote:
Hi all:
Freshly compiled PHP 5.2.8 with PECL and PHP5-extensions support
on FreeBSD 7.1 (i386) seems to be crashing in
#0 0x28e3e006 in hash_lookup (hashtab=0x29ea2f70,
key=0xbfbfea30 \221Û\222)À{\206)p/ê)ì\r\226)`Qp() at misc.c:349
349 for (ret = hashtab-table[hash_index (hashtab,key)]; ret; ret =
ret-next)
[New Thread 0x28759400 (LWP 100083)]
The stack frame are shown below.
snip
Anybody pointers as to how to solve this issue ?
Isn't this simply the classic problem with the order of the extensions
in extensions.ini?
http://www.pingle.org/2006/10
/Morgan
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Re: swap_pager complaints but not using swap
Dieter wrote: AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory My console says: login: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 pstat -sk Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/ad6s10 4590208 96 4590112 0% Wow, using a whole 96K of swap. I don't see any disk related complaints in dmesg. Is this something to worry about? Yes, the system was *trying* to do swap I/O and timing out while doing so. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
Y'never know when a meteor will destroy the Earth... . Using tar onto acd may not work, but utilizing atapicam, it could works with some DVD+R drives with DVD+RW media that was formatted with dvd+rw-format. just tar -b 64 works with DVD+R media too but media is not fixated ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
to only extract the music/ subtree. The tar file system is best for interoperability because (if I may say this) every UNIX-like OS can read tar, no matter if you the funny thing is when you create CD/DVD with FAT file system. Windoze can't read it :) because in this excuse of OS disks MUST be FAT/NTFS and CDROM/DVD must be ISO9660. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: KDE: What a monster!
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/evilwm make install clean Can't beat a window manager with a binary size of 29k and a resident memory footprint under 2MB. No window decorations, leaving lots of room memory footprint is much lower actually. you probably looked at RSS in top. but it shows everything that is resident, but say C library and X11 library is shared! for xterms. Launch everything via script or shell alias. Very keyboard driven. i must look. i currently use fvwm2 with my own config removing all decorations, window frames and with keyboard shortcuts (ALT-F*) to switch desktop. If only I could find a terminal program that was smaller than rxvt I'd be happy. I feel your pain on the bloated software phenomenom. That's the pain of me too. but with my config i can easily do everything on 256MB RAM without mostly using swap ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
describe something more. and what you mean rehash? Rehashing forces the shell to reinitialise (for want of a better term) so that it rechecks the path and can sometimes discover new programs installed if they don't seem to work. Alternatively you can exit and ok you mean shell rehashing. so PATH is missing something ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out. The BSD model is more logical and straightforward. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin7 doesn't play video
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Old Zhang toold.zh...@gmail.com wrote: I just updated linux-flashplugin7, xorg, and firefox (version 2) up to date. However, the flashplugin7 can't play video, I see only a black box on YouTube. I had the same problem with linux-flashplugin7. Switching to linux-flashplugin9 fixed the problem. -- Joakim Fogelberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
default CFLAGS
Hi all: What is the default CFLAGS if *no* CFLAGS has been specified in /etc/make.conf ? As an example, let us consider a FreeBSD 7.1 system running on a Intel Celeron M. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port openoffice.org-devl (3.1.20081224) installs fine but does not run
Hello...
It is because the installation (the makefile is wrong, it install the
binary /usr/local/openoffice.org/openoffice.org3/program/soffice
as a copy of soffice.bin)
it must install it as a shell script that fixes the loader path.
here is the shell script (named soffice).
copy over the binary soffice and make it executable
here it runs fine... FreeBSD amd64.
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#!/bin/sh
#*
#
# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
#
# Copyright 2008 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
#
# OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite
#
# $RCSfile: soffice.sh,v $
#
# $Revision: 1.34 $
#
# This file is part of OpenOffice.org.
#
# OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3
# only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
#
# OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details
# (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code).
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License
# version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see
# http://www.openoffice.org/license.html
# for a copy of the LGPLv3 License.
#
#*
#
# STAR_PROFILE_LOCKING_DISABLED=1
# export STAR_PROFILE_LOCKING_DISABLED
#
# file locking now enabled by default
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
# Uncomment the line below if you suspect that OpenGL is not
# working on your system.
# SAL_NOOPENGL=true; export SAL_NOOPENGL
# the following test is needed on Linux PPC with IBM j2sdk142
if [ `uname -s` = Linux -a `uname -m` = ppc ] ; then
JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6
export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE
fi
# resolve installation directory
sd_cwd=`pwd`
if [ -h $0 ] ; then
sd_basename=`basename $0`
sd_script=`ls -l $0 | sed s/.*${sd_basename} - //g`
cd `dirname $0`
cd `dirname $sd_script`
else
cd `dirname $0`
fi
sd_prog=`pwd`
cd $sd_cwd
sd_binary=`basename $0`.bin
#collect all bootstrap variables specified on the command line
#so that they can be passed as arguments to javaldx later on
for arg in $@
do
case $arg in
-env:*) BOOTSTRAPVARS=$BOOTSTRAPVARS $arg;;
esac
done
# extend the ld_library_path for java: javaldx checks the sofficerc for
us
if [ -x $sd_prog/../basis-link/ure-link/bin/javaldx ] ; then
# this is a temporary hack until we can live with the default search
paths
case `uname -s` in
FreeBSD)
sd_prog1=$sd_prog/../basis-link/program
sd_prog2=$sd_prog/../basis-link/ure-link/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_prog1:$sd_prog2${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:
${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
;;
esac
my_path=`$sd_prog/../basis-link/ure-link/bin/javaldx
$BOOTSTRAPVARS \
-env:INIFILENAME=vnd.sun.star.pathname:$sd_prog/redirectrc`
if [ -n $my_path ] ; then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$my_path${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
fi
unset XENVIRONMENT
# uncomment line below to disable anti aliasing of fonts
# SAL_ANTIALIAS_DISABLE=true; export SAL_ANTIALIAS_DISABLE
# uncomment line below if you encounter problems starting soffice on
your system
# SAL_NO_XINITTHREADS=true; export SAL_NO_XINITTHREADS
# pagein
for sd_arg in ${1+$@} ; do
case ${sd_arg} in
-calc)
sd_pagein_args=${sd_pagein_args:
+${sd_pagein_args} }...@pagein-calc
break;
;;
-draw)
sd_pagein_args=${sd_pagein_args:
+${sd_pagein_args} }...@pagein-draw
break;
;;
-impress)
sd_pagein_args=${sd_pagein_args:
+${sd_pagein_args} }...@pagein-impress
break;
;;
-writer)
sd_pagein_args=${sd_pagein_args:
+${sd_pagein_args} }...@pagein-writer
break;
;;
*)
;;
esac
done
# read database entries for Adabas D
if [ -f /etc/adabasrc ]; then
. /etc/adabasrc
fi
sd_pagein_args=${sd_pagein_args:+${sd_pagein_args} }...@pagein-common
$sd_prog/../basis-link/program/pagein
-L$sd_prog/../basis-link/program \
${sd_pagein_args}
# Set PATH so that crash_report is found:
PATH=$sd_prog${PATH+:$PATH}
export PATH
# execute soffice binary
$sd_prog/$sd_binary $@
trap 'kill -9 $!' TERM
wait $!
while [ $? -eq 79 ]
do
$sd_prog/$sd_binary $BOOTSTRAPVARS
wait $!
done
exit
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Re: flashplugin7 doesn't play video
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Old Zhang toold.zh...@gmail.com wrote: I just updated linux-flashplugin7, xorg, and firefox (version 2) up to date. However, the flashplugin7 can't play video, I see only a black box on YouTube. youtube-dl from ports is your friend I had the same problem with linux-flashplugin7. Switching to linux-flashplugin9 fixed the problem. -- Joakim Fogelberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:35:38 + (GMT) Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: What is the default CFLAGS if *no* CFLAGS has been specified in /etc/make.conf ? As an example, let us consider a FreeBSD 7.1 system running on a Intel Celeron M. It depends on what you've set as CPUTYPE, and the platform; you can find out with make -V CFLAGS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 1/24/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi: Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system. Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to download Qt 3.3.8 Is there a way to modify the installation script so that Opera can use the installed qt 4.4.3 version ? Yes you can modify it, but question is will opera work at all with qt 4. There is static opera binary, try it. -- Paul The download site for FreeBSD is http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=freebsd-i386list=all It shows the following entry FreeBSD 7.x (static) 7 MB But when the file is downloaded, it is shared version. opera-9.63-freebsd7-shared-qt3.i386.tar.bz2 Thus static opera binary is not available :( thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 -- fbsd-7.0, something strange happened. Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the precise path to the program. System doesn't see several but not all programs. I've upgraded several servers (using source files -- cvsup) withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine. Some programs will not run because of a library version bump. Those programs will need to be recompiled, i.e. rebuild all ports. You can check this by running 'ldd' on the specific program. Let's assume that you have zip installed: $ ldd /usr/local/bin/zip /usr/local/bin/zip: libbz2.so.3 = /usr/lib/libbz2.so.3 (0x80065c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x80076c000) Thanks for that tip. Here's output of one of the programs that doesn't run: ldd /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup ldd: /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not a dynamic executable BUT, it is executable and using the exact path to the program still gives this error: /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not found Yes, I did re-install the port too. No dice. Again MOST all programs run except for this one and maybe a couple others that may be causing buildworld to fail. Strange! Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:51:32 + Saifi Khan saifik...@gmail.com wrote: on running the command 'make -V CFLAGS', the output is -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe i haven't setup the CPUTYPE anywhere (not as an env variable nor in /etc/make.conf) So are these default settings for a generc x86 based system ? Yes, if you are using i386. Most CPUs have the same default CFLAGS, it's the value of CPUTYPE that's passed to the compiler that determines processor optimizations. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
Jack L. Stone writes: Some programs will not run because of a library version bump. Those programs will need to be recompiled, i.e. rebuild all ports. You can check this by running 'ldd' on the specific program. Let's assume that you have zip installed: Thanks for that tip. Here's output of one of the programs that doesn't run: ldd /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup ldd: /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not a dynamic executable BUT, it is executable and using the exact path to the program still gives this error: No, it's a script - perl, to be exact - and does not count for the purposes of ldd. Compare more /usr/local/ bin/fastest_cvsup and more /usr/bin/csup. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
At 07:06 AM 1.24.2009 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 -- fbsd-7.0, something strange happened. Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the precise path to the program. System doesn't see several but not all programs. I've upgraded several servers (using source files -- cvsup) withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine. BTW: as more details of the problem, I had found a tiny bug in mkdep which initially caused the upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0 to fail during buildworld. Once fixed, it appeared to upgrade fine (build/install/mergemaster), including a new kernel build/install, but on reboot it still shows 6.3...!!! I have rmoved /usr/obj and even /usr/src and tried over several times, but same result. Some parts of the system is running okay, but not others. Have wasted too much time on this machine and today will move to a new machine and start over. This server is one of our DNS servers, so we're covered with others that take over during shutdown of this problem server. The DNS (or named) is one of the parts not running correctly and the most vital. Just a very strange issue and wondered if anyone else had similar results ever -- it may just be the machine, but didn't act like it. Thanks again, Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Start-up of freeBSD need help with one question.
Bob Falanga rfalang@gmail.com writes: When I try to configure a printer, CUPS requires a user id, my own or root. But it will not accept either. Interestingly, at boot up time I saw CUPS started three times but cannot find where all the requests for start is. I added a line in rd.conf to start CUPS but that is the only place. I'd try to solve the second problem before the first (for me, the root password works fine; although normally, I don't *have* a valid password on the root account). The correct way to start cups from rc.conf is: cupsd_enable=YES Is that how you do it? -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2 problem/question.
Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com writes: While it looks like it install/runs fine (i.e, linux-flash9 works, skype works) the following error is show (process:47722): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0) Following this advice, all I could find, http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-emulationa=2005-11t=1506833 The fix is, to tell /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to look at NIS too. Is UID 0 in your /etc/passwd? Can you try changeing /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to something like this: passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group: files nisplus nis Uid 0 is in my /etc/passwd, there's no /compat/linux/etc/passwd., and changing /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to read the same doesn't fix the error message. Advice, suggestions? Those setting for nsswitch.conf don't look right to me. There should have been a message printed out when you installed one of the linux_base ports, telling you how to configure it. I think the fc4 version is the default these days; if that is what you are using, the message is in the file /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4/pkg-message -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
At 07:29 AM 1.24.2009 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 07:06 AM 1.24.2009 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 -- fbsd-7.0, something strange happened. Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the precise path to the program. System doesn't see several but not all programs. I've upgraded several servers (using source files -- cvsup) withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine. BTW2: Yes, I do know this isn't windows and doesn't have a registry per se in that regard, but something does keep track of the programs installed and I've never located that place/file/db not having a crucial reason to before. Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Healtd
Having upgraded my motherboard I have discovered that healthd does not like the chipset as the values it is producing are way out eg cpu temp 255c, I wonder if anyone can recommend a good more upto date alternative that would work with phpsysinfo or mrtg ? Regards Graeme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port openoffice.org-devl (3.1.20081224) installs fine but does not run
El día Saturday, January 24, 2009 a las 10:13:32AM -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi escribió: Hello... It is because the installation (the makefile is wrong, it install the binary /usr/local/openoffice.org/openoffice.org3/program/soffice as a copy of soffice.bin) it must install it as a shell script that fixes the loader path. here is the shell script (named soffice). copy over the binary soffice and make it executable here it runs fine... FreeBSD amd64. Hola Sérgio, ¡Obrigado! I will give it a try. The e-mail transport has mangeled a bit with your shell script but I have seen two identicals ones in the port: work/DEV300_m38/desktop/scripts/soffice.sh work/DEV300_m38/desktop/unxfbsdi.pro/misc/soffice.sh and I will test it. Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e matthias.ap...@oclc.org - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ SPAMer of the year: Subject: Alle Software ist Deutsche Sprachen From: -40 % die Neujahrsaktion gabriellekel...@grungecafe.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
RW wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:51:32 +
Saifi Khan saifik...@gmail.com wrote:
on running the command 'make -V CFLAGS', the output is
-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
i haven't setup the CPUTYPE anywhere (not as an env variable nor in
/etc/make.conf)
So are these default settings for a generc x86 based system ?
Yes, if you are using i386.
Most CPUs have the same default CFLAGS, it's the value of CPUTYPE
that's passed to the compiler that determines processor optimizations.
If you want to know what gcc processor optimizations will be enabled you
can do this:
Create hello.c:
#include stdio.h
main()
{
printf(hello, world\n);
}
Then compile it with -Q -v in addition to the default CFLAGS:
gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Q -v -o hello hello.c
The section options enabled will list them all. I usually only add
-march=native to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific
optimizations.
/Morgan
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Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version
On 1/24/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 1/24/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi: Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system. Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to download Qt 3.3.8 Is there a way to modify the installation script so that Opera can use the installed qt 4.4.3 version ? Yes you can modify it, but question is will opera work at all with qt 4. There is static opera binary, try it. -- Paul The download site for FreeBSD is http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=freebsd-i386list=all It shows the following entry FreeBSD 7.x (static) 7 MB But when the file is downloaded, it is shared version. opera-9.63-freebsd7-shared-qt3.i386.tar.bz2 Thus static opera binary is not available :( Well for 9.63 there is only static one for FreeBSD 5. After all this is not freebsd problem, ask opera where is static version for FreeBSD 7 -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:53:47AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 07:29 AM 1.24.2009 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 07:06 AM 1.24.2009 -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 -- fbsd-7.0, something strange happened. Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the precise path to the program. System doesn't see several but not all programs. I've upgraded several servers (using source files -- cvsup) withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine. BTW2: Yes, I do know this isn't windows and doesn't have a registry per se in that regard, but something does keep track of the programs installed and I've never located that place/file/db not having a crucial reason to before. Ports and packages are, if you like, 'registered' in subdirectories of /var/db/pkg Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpXJ9CDDMjUk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: default CFLAGS
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: The section options enabled will list them all. I usually only add -march=native to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific optimizations. If you set CPUTYPE, -march is set to match, so setting -march=native should be redundant. OTOH a number of other make variables are defined from CPUTYPE, so if you set -march=native, but not CPUTYPE you might miss some optimisations based on build options. I've no idea whether there are any such options, just that you're probably not going to do better than setting CPUTYPE, and leaving the rest alone. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: jdk16
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:53:31PM -0800, Brian McQueen wrote: I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not right, so the manual download step does not work. I built jdk16 a few months ago the urls were right. Is your ports tree up-to-date? Although I don't think the urls have changed. What errors are you getting? 404s? What urls are you using? IIRC you have to register an account with Sun before you can download the jdk from their site. You have to place the downloaded files in /usr/ports/distfiles/ before you can build the port without make(1) dropping out after printing the message with the urls. The port built fine for me. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2 problem/question.
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com writes: While it looks like it install/runs fine (i.e, linux-flash9 works, skype works) the following error is show (process:47722): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0) Following this advice, all I could find, http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-emulationa=2005-11t=1506833 The fix is, to tell /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to look at NIS too. Is UID 0 in your /etc/passwd? Can you try changeing /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to something like this: passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group: files nisplus nis Uid 0 is in my /etc/passwd, there's no /compat/linux/etc/passwd., and changing /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf to read the same doesn't fix the error message. Advice, suggestions? Those setting for nsswitch.conf don't look right to me. There should have been a message printed out when you installed one of the linux_base ports, telling you how to configure it. I think the fc4 version is the default these days; if that is what you are using, the message is in the file /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4/pkg-message You're right, missed the message during the install, scrolled off screen. Following the pkg-message in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f8/pkg-message and reinstalling linux-gtk2-2.6.10_1 still gives me the same message. I knew I forgot something with the original message. FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Tue Jan 6 03:43:02 EST 2009 jim...@fortytwo.zapto.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO linux-atk-1.9.1_1 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary linux-cairo-1.0.2 Linux cairo binary linux-expat-1.95.8 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library linux-flashplugin-9.0r152 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_7 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig linux-gspca-kmod-1.0.20 A port of the linux gspcav1 webcam driver *** linux-gtk2-2.6.10_1 GTK+ library, version 2.X, Linux binary *** What's giving me the error. linux-jpeg-6b.34RPM of the JPEG lib linux-kmod-compat-20080408 Adaptation layer to build linux drivers on FreeBSD linux-libsigc-2.0.17 Callback Framework for C++ (linux version) linux-openssl-0.9.7f SSL and crypto library (Linux Version) linux-pango-1.10.2_1 Linux pango binary linux-png-1.2.8_2 RPM of the PNG lib linux-tiff-3.7.1TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Xorg libraries, linux binaries *** linux_base-f8-8_10 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)*** emulators/linux_base-f8 linux_dri-7.0 Binary Linux DRI libraries for 3D hardware acceleration of linuxdoc-1.1_1 The Linuxdoc SGML DTD lirc-0.8.0_2Linux Infared Remote Control sgmlformat-1.7_2Generates groff and HTML from linuxdoc and docbook SGML doc v4l_compat-1.0.20060801 Video4Linux compatibility header -- Over the years I've come to regard you as people I've met. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
RW wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: The section options enabled will list them all. I usually only add -march=native to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific optimizations. If you set CPUTYPE, -march is set to match, so setting -march=native should be redundant. OTOH a number of other make variables are defined from CPUTYPE, so if you set -march=native, but not CPUTYPE you might miss some optimisations based on build options. I've no idea whether there are any such options, just that you're probably not going to do better than setting CPUTYPE, and leaving the rest alone. I'm sorry I was unclear. I set CPUTYPE to native of course which is then passed as -march=native to compiler. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
Hello, I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible. Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3. The problem comes in with INDEX files and packages. Indexes get updated only when the host serving the export updates the hierarchy via portsnap update. If I create a package on SPARC64 and the package exists already for an i386 build, then I've got an issue. Can someone point me to a doc/google/man page that may give me some guidance in setting up such an environment? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Pojken Purken p...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: RW wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: The section options enabled will list them all. I usually only add -march=native to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific optimizations. If you set CPUTYPE, -march is set to match, so setting -march=native should be redundant. OTOH a number of other make variables are defined from CPUTYPE, so if you set -march=native, but not CPUTYPE you might miss some optimisations based on build options. I've no idea whether there are any such options, just that you're probably not going to do better than setting CPUTYPE, and leaving the rest alone. I'm sorry I was unclear. I set CPUTYPE to native of course which is then passed as -march=native to compiler. The entry in file /var/run/dmesg.boot shows the CPU information as CPU: Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.40 GHz (686-class CPU) The entry in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf shows CPU types for Intel as core2 core nocona pentium4m pentium4 prescott pentium3m pentium3 pentium-m pentium2 pentiumpro pentium-mx pentium i486 i386 What would be the appropriate CPUTYPE specification in this case ? Is there any table which sort of maps the marketing names of the Intel processor with the CPU information shown in dmesg ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
Saifi Khan wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Pojken Purken p...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: RW wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: The section options enabled will list them all. I usually only add -march=native to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific optimizations. If you set CPUTYPE, -march is set to match, so setting -march=native should be redundant. OTOH a number of other make variables are defined from CPUTYPE, so if you set -march=native, but not CPUTYPE you might miss some optimisations based on build options. I've no idea whether there are any such options, just that you're probably not going to do better than setting CPUTYPE, and leaving the rest alone. I'm sorry I was unclear. I set CPUTYPE to native of course which is then passed as -march=native to compiler. The entry in file /var/run/dmesg.boot shows the CPU information as CPU: Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.40 GHz (686-class CPU) The entry in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf shows CPU types for Intel as core2 core nocona pentium4m pentium4 prescott pentium3m pentium3 pentium-m pentium2 pentiumpro pentium-mx pentium i486 i386 What would be the appropriate CPUTYPE specification in this case ? Is there any table which sort of maps the marketing names of the Intel processor with the CPU information shown in dmesg ? gcc 4.2 and later will figure out the correct -march and -mtune for you automatically if you use CPUTYPE=native. How it does it in detail can be seen in its source code but basically it's decided by checking manufacturer, cpu family and whether sse2 and sse3 support is present. Your processor is most likely a prescott and you can see what gcc selects by running the compilation example from my previous post. The choice shows up in its output. /Morgan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the precise path to the program. System doesn't see several but not all programs. I've upgraded several servers (using source files -- cvsup) withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine. BTW2: Yes, I do know this isn't windows and doesn't have a registry per se in that regard, but something does keep track of the programs package manages has it's database in /var/db/pkg but it's COMPLETELY different that registry. it only keep track of package files etc. installed and I've never located that place/file/db not having a crucial reason to before. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
Saifi Khan wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out. The BSD model is more logical and straightforward. Yes it is. As you get into BSD more, you'll find it makes more logical sense to stick with it, over Linux. Welcome to the group. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
Jack L. Stone wrote: At 04:33 PM 1.23.2009 +0100, cpghost wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:56:45PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: During an upgrade from fbsd-6.3 -- fbsd-7.0, something strange happened. Some of the programs will not run after rehash or even when given the precise path to the program. System doesn't see several but not all programs. I've upgraded several servers (using source files -- cvsup) withoug any such problem. It's just this one machine. Some programs will not run because of a library version bump. Those programs will need to be recompiled, i.e. rebuild all ports. You can check this by running 'ldd' on the specific program. Let's assume that you have zip installed: $ ldd /usr/local/bin/zip /usr/local/bin/zip: libbz2.so.3 = /usr/lib/libbz2.so.3 (0x80065c000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x80076c000) Thanks for that tip. Here's output of one of the programs that doesn't run: ldd /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup ldd: /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not a dynamic executable BUT, it is executable and using the exact path to the program still gives this error: /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup: not found Yes, I did re-install the port too. No dice. Again MOST all programs run except for this one and maybe a couple others that may be causing buildworld to fail. Strange! Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american is the shebang line invalid? head -1 /usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup and see if the program on that line is truly on your system: ls -lF program location The error above makes it look like it's the command line that's missing, but the shell will use the command line argument when the interpreter is missing. Good luck! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: swap_pager complaints but not using swap
Kris Kennaway wrote: Dieter wrote: AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory My console says: login: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 pstat -sk Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/ad6s10 4590208 96 4590112 0% Wow, using a whole 96K of swap. I don't see any disk related complaints in dmesg. Is this something to worry about? Yes, the system was *trying* to do swap I/O and timing out while doing so. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org isn't swapspace supposed to be on a 'b' partition? Are you using swap on a slice 10? how is that possible when the i386/amd64 BIOS can't see more than 4 primary partitions? Kris, would you mind giving input to this? How can there be a s10, and how can you add swapspace to a device that isn't a partition 'b' nor a file backed swapspace? Those were the only two ways I thought was supported for swap. Dieter, does my questions above sound to be a correct interpretation of your disk setup? thanks! --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:13:00 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: gcc 4.2 and later will figure out the correct -march and -mtune for you automatically if you use CPUTYPE=native. The point I was making before, is that CPUTYPE isn't just passed transparently to gcc, it's used for setting other variables, such as CFLAGS. So unless you know that CPUTYPE=native is supported by the OS as well as the compiler, you probably shouldn't use it in make.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mounting Nokia N95
What about this? Try in /usr/ports: # make print-index # make search key=mobile Thanks for the info .. will give some a try and see how it goes :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
RW wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:13:00 +0100
Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote:
gcc 4.2 and later will figure out the correct -march and -mtune for
you automatically if you use CPUTYPE=native.
The point I was making before, is that CPUTYPE isn't just passed
transparently to gcc, it's used for setting other variables, such as
CFLAGS. So unless you know that CPUTYPE=native is supported by the OS as
well as the compiler, you probably shouldn't use it in make.conf.
I got that point. As with all tuning you always take the risk of
breaking something but that is a personal choice. From my own experience
I prefer that the compiler choses the optimizations.
I don't know about the base OS but a quick grep through /usr/ports only
reveals 5 or 6 ports that actually checks CPUTYPE and they don't do much
more than setting -march={$CPUTYPE} which is pretty redundant.
Regards
Morgan
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Re: swap_pager complaints but not using swap
Tim Judd wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Dieter wrote: AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory My console says: login: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 pstat -sk Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/ad6s10 4590208 96 4590112 0% Wow, using a whole 96K of swap. I don't see any disk related complaints in dmesg. Is this something to worry about? Yes, the system was *trying* to do swap I/O and timing out while doing so. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org isn't swapspace supposed to be on a 'b' partition? Are you using swap on a slice 10? how is that possible when the i386/amd64 BIOS can't see more than 4 primary partitions? Kris, would you mind giving input to this? How can there be a s10, and how can you add swapspace to a device that isn't a partition 'b' nor a file backed swapspace? Those were the only two ways I thought was supported for swap. Dieter, does my questions above sound to be a correct interpretation of your disk setup? swap can be put anywhere thesedays (post-FreeBSD 4.x), even on things that are not even simple disk devices. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: default CFLAGS
On Saturday 24 January 2009 5:07:57 pm Saifi Khan wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Pojken Purken p...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: RW wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: The section options enabled will list them all. I usually only add -march=native to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific optimizations. If you set CPUTYPE, -march is set to match, so setting -march=native should be redundant. OTOH a number of other make variables are defined from CPUTYPE, so if you set -march=native, but not CPUTYPE you might miss some optimisations based on build options. I've no idea whether there are any such options, just that you're probably not going to do better than setting CPUTYPE, and leaving the rest alone. I'm sorry I was unclear. I set CPUTYPE to native of course which is then passed as -march=native to compiler. The entry in file /var/run/dmesg.boot shows the CPU information as CPU: Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.40 GHz (686-class CPU) The entry in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf shows CPU types for Intel as core2 core nocona pentium4m pentium4 prescott pentium3m pentium3 pentium-m pentium2 pentiumpro pentium-mx pentium i486 i386 What would be the appropriate CPUTYPE specification in this case ? Is there any table which sort of maps the marketing names of the Intel processor with the CPU information shown in dmesg ? This might help you out a little. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=816 Hope you found it usefull Regards -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:09:51PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3 books from libribox.org in ~/readings. There are PDF files and HTML and a slew of other stuff. man mkisofs man growisofs that's all. mkisofs creates ISO image growisofs records DVD you can make growisofs run mkisofs in-flight so no image file has to be made. either a few CD's or one DVD? Right now, I'm cross-backing up it's best NOT to use GUI interfaces for this. as always - doing it from command line is much easier when you learn. I understand that! ...learned the hard way:) Then again, I cheated and successfully used the K3B data-dvd mode. It only seemed to work 50%, then hung, but amazingly, the folder icons on the top left were movable to the large space on the lower right half. I chose the verify option. Now back to my original plans of using the command-line tool set. So far, so good. After a dozen failures, your earlier post did work. I did a mkdir cdr; cp'd hundreds of megs into it, then ran mkisofs. And lastly ran dvdisaster against the iso file to get an ECC listing. Now to find out how to burn this image to a CD or DVD and - you ARE NOT forced to use ISO-9660 filesystem. in unix recorded DVD is just readonly disk, you can use any filesystem it supports. So long as this is readable on FBSD, Linux, or a Mac, I'll be happy. if you do this often and your DVD's don't need to be windoze-readable (which could be adventage sometimes) then: - create partitions of exactly 9180416 sectors (which is 2295104 2K sectors - exactly DVD size) - use newfs to create partition. for best results use options newfs -m 0 -b 32768 -f 4096 -i 524288 note that -i specify how much bytes is available per inode. more given=less inodes created and less space wasted, but you may run out of inodes storing small files. this example allows you to store about 8900 files. wHat are the numbers ofr a CD-R/CD+RW? Would growisofs be able to figure this out from scanning a 700MB disc? (I have more CD's than DVD's.) - mount it and record what you like as usual - unmount and use growisofs to record a disc. use that disc with mount -r /dev/cd0 /mountpoint Thanks much. A FWIW to anyone reading this who is new to this optical stuff. Roland Smith has an outstanding writeup on how to configure the /etc/devfs files. I used in in late '07, then after my network meltdown when I needed to start from square-one, his tutorial got me going again. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version
2009/1/24 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com Well for 9.63 there is only static one for FreeBSD 5. After all this is not freebsd problem, ask opera where is static version for FreeBSD 7 ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/unix/freebsd/963/en/intel/static/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-01-04 - 2009-01-24
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/. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version
Sorry, my bad. I misread you wanted the static version for 7. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:14:08 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible to burn an existing .iso by something like dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b 1st: On FreeBSD, using direct write calls would involve the ATAPICAM facility, so /dev/cd0 instead of /dev/acd0 would be the correct device. 2nd: I'm not sure this works on FreeBSD, but I remember having used something similar on a SCSI CD recorder on a Sun or SGI system. I'm not sure which one it was, but it allowed to handle CDs the same way as other SCSI devices, like tape drives. You could try it out by loading the ATAPICAM subsystem (via kldload or compiled into kernel) and then try one of the commands above. I'm not sure dd works, but tar should. But to be honest, I've never tried it out because I'm very comfortable with cdrecord and cdrdao, and was with burncd in the past. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Comfortable dd bs= parameters for different media
Hi, I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading from different media using the dd utility. As far as I know, these are good values: Format Device (example)bs= - - Data CD /dev/acd0 2048 Music CD/dev/acd0t012352 DVD /dev/acd0 2048 (?) Hard disk /dev/ad0s1g 1m (?) The usual command is % dd if=/dev/see-above of=somefile.dd bs=whatever What about copying partition-wise from a hard disk to a dd file? Which bs= parameter would be encouraged to use? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: KDE: What a monster!
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:15:47 -0500, Eduardo Cerejo ejcer...@optonline.net wrote: I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4 machine! Where has kde gone? Is the developing team trying to beat VISTA? Pitiful at best! Without wanting to start an endless discussion, I may say that I've recognized the tendency to slow down programs in UNIX world such as it is always described in Windows land: As soon as you get a new OS or new programs, everything runs slower than before. In order to keep the overall usage speed, you need to have more hardware power. I'm running a P4 2GHz for more than 4 years now happily (I think), but when I needed to build a new software installation due to a data fallout in July 2008, I found everything running slower. THIS TO ALL FreeBSD DEVELOPERS: NOT YOUR FAULT! Every release of FreeBSD brought a higher bootup speed to my system, faster system services and better performance. But what about these advantages? They've got eaten up by all the applications installed, their libraries and especially their GUI toolkits. Nearly every Gtk application has been switched from Gtk 1 to Gtk 2, including more disk consuming libs and depencencies, slower program startup and slower reaction. My favourite examples are: * Opera, hardly reacting on input while loading a web page (and no, I don't try to use Flash stuff) * Gimp, loads very slowly, needs seconds (!) to show the right click menu, needs several seconds to launch printing dialog On the other hand, there are old programs that seem to profit from the system's speed gain. That's why I love to use them instead of their oversized brothers. Such an oversized brother is KDE 4. Don't get me wrong, please. On an up-to-date hardware basis, it's surely a joy to use, fast and responsive. But if your system isn't from today, you don't gonna have fun with it. Around me, other users seem to favour Gnome instead of KDE because they are not willing to update their perfectly running hardware with every release of the desktop environment. (Addition: Gnome has better german internationalisation than KDE.) But I'm not sure if Gnome or even XFCE will follow the tradition to decrease speed, I'm using neither of them. Decrease speed? In my opinion, the following formula is true: hardware resources --- = usage speed software requirements And if you add ++ to numerator and denominator of this quotient, you'll see that the result will stay the same. This is my very individual observation: People are doing the same things with their computers over the years, and they keep doing it *at the same speed* as years ago. I always was happy when I could update my FreeBSD system, because things were faster afterwards. Today, things are slower afterwards. This makes me sad... This has lead me to the conclusion not to use KDE, allthough it has really interesting applications. It's not that I need a desktop GUI system, I'm perfectly happy with a functional and fast window manager (i. e. WindowMaker). Sorry for bothering the list with my thoughts, but maybe I'm not alone with this unmodern point of view. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
X panics on xorg 7.4
I just upgraded X and when I started X with a fresh config. When X starts I see the normal no-wm-yet screen with an unmovable mouse. When I press ctrl+alt+spc I hear 3 beeps followed by a black screen. I tried x11/nvidia-driver and x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv. What should I be trying to fix it? What information do you (I?) need to debug? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: KDE: What a monster!
prad wrote: :D :D :D actually my wife is using kde4 on suse. it's not too bad there for her needs at least, but i try to stay clear of her computer :D i did like kde3, but now i'm a dwm person! I've been using KDE4 on a machine with OpenSUSE 11 that has 512 MBs RAM, and an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ processor at 2.13GHz and it hasn't been slow or anything. I've also been fine with a Pentium 4 M @3.06GHz and 512 RAM. -Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:07:59 -0600, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup That's what Scroll Lock is for (and always has been); I'm glad that FreeBSD uses this key functionality as it has been intended, so there's not another useless key on the keyboard (such as the MICROS~1 advertising keys on modern ones)... :-) After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. While in Scroll Lock mode, you can even enter characters using the keyboard; they won't show up until ScrL is pressed the next time, but while entering the content of the screen (usually shifted some lines / pages up) won't alter. This can be very handy in situations where you first ScrL the screen, go up some pages, select text with the mouse, output it from the edit buffer to the command line using the middle mouse button and then un-ScrL to complete your command line and execute it. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... Definitely. I think the Linux way of scrollback is available in xterms... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:02:58 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: After a dozen failures, your earlier post did work. I did a mkdir cdr; cp'd hundreds of megs into it, then ran mkisofs. And lastly ran dvdisaster against the iso file to get an ECC listing. Now to find out how to burn this image to a CD or DVD There are several possibilities. The hard way? :-) 1. Record on CD-R(W) a) FreeBSD's burncd % burncd -e -v -s 16 -f /dev/acd0 data cdr.iso fixate b) The port cdrtools (includes cdrecord) % cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data cdr.iso 2. Record on DVD+-*/R(W) The port dvd+rw-tools (includes growisofs) growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=cdr.iso This example implies the following setting in /etc/devfs.conf: linkcd0 dvd Alter device to fit your needs. As aleays, check the manpages. They're helpful and include kind-of copy paste examples. Note that 1 b) and 2 need atapicam (in kernel or via kldload). For 1 b), you can check which SCSI ID corresponds to your recorder using the command % camcontrol devlist Have in mind that permissions have to be set correctly in order to access these devices for writing. It's intended to be that way. :-) Finally, check the optimal writing speed for your CDs and DVDs. So long as this is readable on FBSD, Linux, or a Mac, I'll be happy. These platforms will read everything that has been mentioned in this thread already, because they're real operating systems (and not excuses for being none). :-) I think the ISO-9660 + RockRidge is the most comfortable way for what you intend - allthough the tar method (or even the UFS method) won't be any problem here. But as I said, maximum compatibility is always welcome for backups. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:03:49AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:14:08 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible to burn an existing .iso by something like dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b 1st: On FreeBSD, using direct write calls would involve the ATAPICAM facility, so /dev/cd0 instead of /dev/acd0 would be the correct device. 2nd: I'm not sure this works on FreeBSD, but I remember having used something similar on a SCSI CD recorder on a Sun or SGI system. I'm not sure which one it was, but it allowed to handle CDs the same way as other SCSI devices, like tape drives. You could try it out by loading the ATAPICAM subsystem (via kldload or compiled into kernel) and then try one of the commands above. I'm not sure dd works, but tar should. But to be honest, I've never tried it out because I'm very comfortable with cdrecord and cdrdao, and was with burncd in the past. This is my chance to ask a last [ or one-of the last ] question[s]. Now that I have cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a CD, and 2. a DVD? Since `file' says that cdr.iso is a filesystem, I'm assuming that I don't need to grow or newfs anything on the disc. cdrdao seems like more toward audio, so i'm guessing that it's either cdrecord or burncd. I'll share my shell script once it works on both media. thankee, gary -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Wierd Port Problem
I aborted a make now it will not make php5-dba [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# make === PHPizing for php5-dba-5.2.8 cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba/work/php-5.2.8/ext/dba *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba. the work directory doesn't exist i cleared /var/db/ports it still won't make anyone have suggestions? i tried make clean [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# make clean === Cleaning for php5-dba-5.2.8 [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# i tried make install [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# make install install: /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba/work/php-5.2.8/ext/dba/modules/dba.so: No such file or directory *** Error code 71 1 error *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba. i tried make [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# make === PHPizing for php5-dba-5.2.8 cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba/work/php-5.2.8/ext/dba *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba. still nothing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
error trying to burncd thhen ecomign unkillable process
I havee 2 burrners in my machine and not one off them will bburn a CD or DVD from command line let alone trying to get k3b to recognise i even have a scsi burner... enterprise# burncd -e -v -s 16 -f /dev/acd0 data neroultraV7.iso fixate adding type 0x08 file neroultraV7.iso size 620990 KB 310495 blocks burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCINITTRACK): Input/output error After this error the ROM drives stays in a constant state of spin and the process refuses to die even after issuing the kill -9 What am i doing wrrong or what is wroong with my system to not allow me to burn a cd//dvd? I am usingg FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE 4.1.4 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:56:33 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Now that I have cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a CD, and 2. a DVD? Since `file' says that cdr.iso is a filesystem, I'm assuming that I don't need to grow or newfs anything on the disc. You're right. It is a pre-mastered file system that just needs to be recorded onto a media. The size 657922048 indicates that it would fit onto a regular CD-R. cdrdao seems like more toward audio, so i'm guessing that it's either cdrecord or burncd. I'll share my shell script once it works on both media. Yes, both will work, and yes, cdrdao is better for audio or mixed forms (allthough it can burn data ISO, too, but I don't know how, out of the box). :-) You may follow my examples from Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:53:46 +0100. I'm a lazy guy, so I've setup the following aliases in /etc/csh.cshrc: alias burndata'cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data' alias burnaudio 'cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -dao -audio' alias burntoc 'cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc-raw --device 1,0,0 --speed 16 --eject' And I've got a shell script burndvd in ~/bin (included in $PATH): #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = ]; then echo $0 iso exit 1 fi if [ ! -f $1 ]; then echo $0: cannot open $1 exit 1 fi growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=$1 cdcontrol eject I know this is *very* lazy stuff, but it works, and I never change a running system. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Registry corrupt?
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: describe something more. and what you mean rehash? Rehashing forces the shell to reinitialise (for want of a better term) so that it rechecks the path and can sometimes discover new programs installed if they don't seem to work ... ok you mean shell rehashing. so PATH is missing something Or an executable was added to one of the PATH directories since the last time PATH was set or the rehash command was issued, e.g. when a port was installed or upgraded. See tcsh(1) for details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: error trying to burncd thhen ecomign unkillable process
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:11:18 +1000, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I havee 2 burrners in my machine and not one off them will bburn a CD or DVD from command line let alone trying to get k3b to recognise i even have a scsi burner... [...] After this error the ROM drives stays in a constant state of spin and the process refuses to die even after issuing the kill -9 I had similar problems, so I dropped burncd in favour of cdrecord which I'm using for burning ISO data CDs. What am i doing wrrong or what is wroong with my system to not allow me to burn a cd//dvd? For a CD, try % cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data neroultraV7.iso Check the SCSI device numbers using % camcontrol devlist and adjust the dev= parameter accordingly. For a DVD, try % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=neroultraV7.iso Excange /dev/dvd for the correct drive (e. g. /dev/cd0). I am usingg FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE 4.1.4 I don't know exactly, but can K3B be adjusted to use a specific command line burning tool to record pre-mastered ISO files onto CD or DVD? Maybe you could put one of the command lines above into this program... (I'm no KDE user, so I can't check this.) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:53:46AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:02:58 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: After a dozen failures, your earlier post did work. I did a mkdir cdr; cp'd hundreds of megs into it, then ran mkisofs. And lastly ran dvdisaster against the iso file to get an ECC listing. Now to find out how to burn this image to a CD or DVD There are several possibilities. The hard way? :-) 1. Record on CD-R(W) a) FreeBSD's burncd % burncd -e -v -s 16 -f /dev/acd0 data cdr.iso fixate b) The port cdrtools (includes cdrecord) % cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data cdr.iso 2. Record on DVD+-*/R(W) The port dvd+rw-tools (includes growisofs) growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=cdr.iso This example implies the following setting in /etc/devfs.conf: linkcd0 dvd Alter device to fit your needs. As aleays, check the manpages. They're helpful and include kind-of copy paste examples. Note that 1 b) and 2 need atapicam (in kernel or via kldload). For 1 b), you can check which SCSI ID corresponds to your recorder using the command % camcontrol devlist Have in mind that permissions have to be set correctly in order to access these devices for writing. It's intended to be that way. :-) Finally, check the optimal writing speed for your CDs and DVDs. So long as this is readable on FBSD, Linux, or a Mac, I'll be happy. These platforms will read everything that has been mentioned in this thread already, because they're real operating systems (and not excuses for being none). :-) I think the ISO-9660 + RockRidge is the most comfortable way for what you intend - allthough the tar method (or even the UFS method) won't be any problem here. But as I said, maximum compatibility is always welcome for backups. Max, yes, even if all I have is DOS :-) Thanks very much. I do have dvd linked in /etc/devfs.conf, as well as the atapi/cam/SCSI xpt stuff compiled in. So the last step would seem to be simply mousing in your cdrecord for my CD's. Probably use a seperate script for the DVD's and growiofs. gary -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:56:33PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Now that I have cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a CD, and 2. a DVD? Since `file' says that cdr.iso is a filesystem, I'm assuming that I don't need to grow or newfs anything on the disc. In addition to the cdrecord examples shown earlier, you can also simply use burncd: # burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data cdr.iso fixate But remember one thing: don't try to mix and match accesses to /dev/acd0 and /dev/cd0. IIRC, there are (were?) some issues with using ATAPI and ATAPICAM drivers simultaneously. If you prefer to stick to ATAPICAM (recommended), use cdrecord to write to the virtual device represending the burner. Use cdrecord's -scanbus option (as root!) to find out: phenom# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (amd64-unknown-freebsd7.1) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J??rg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) 'Optiarc ' 'DVD RW AD-7203A ' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * This would then be on that machine: # cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 cdr.iso To burn to a DVD, use growisofs, using something like this: # growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=8 -Z /dev/cd0=cdr.iso Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:32:01 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Max, yes, even if all I have is DOS :-) Sure, no problem. Erm stop, no, little problem with DOS: It will cut off filenames at 8.3 convention because DOS only gets the ISO-9660 part, but not the standard RockRidge (or even the non- standard Joliet extension). But because RockRidge is standard, it provides the RR_MOVED mechanism which can be used to obtain the real filenames from the ISO-9660 8.3 names. Thanks very much. I do have dvd linked in /etc/devfs.conf, as well as the atapi/cam/SCSI xpt stuff compiled in. You just need to have the proper permissions, or call the command with a sudo prefix - I prefer the first option. Probably use a seperate script for the DVD's and growiofs. Because the geowisofs burning command doesn't allow the file name for the ISO to be a separate parameter, I chose to put it into a little shell script. That's the only reason that I didn't create an alias in /etc/csh.cshrc. If something like % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -f cdr.iso ^^, fictional parameter would be possible, I would really prefer it. The alias could then be everything until -f (which would read out use this file as image instead of the device=file parameter which isn't good for creating an alias (such as for cdrecord or cdrdao). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:35:44 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: In addition to the cdrecord examples shown earlier, you can also simply use burncd: # burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data cdr.iso fixate An addition: -s max will select the drive's fastest speed. This can lead to problems if your media is cheap and can't handle a speed of 32x or 48x (writing speed). You can manually set a speed where you and your media feel safe. :-) Personally, I don't record faster than 16x. There is a saying (urband legend?) that you shouldn't record audio CDs faster than 8x, but I'm not sure if this applies. But remember one thing: don't try to mix and match accesses to /dev/acd0 and /dev/cd0. IIRC, there are (were?) some issues with using ATAPI and ATAPICAM drivers simultaneously. I haven't found such issues yet, but I dropped burncd some time ago because it wouldn't work on /dev/acd0 anymore (on 5.x, it did and was my preferred tool), so I switched to cdrecord and cdrdao, using the ATAPICAM facility. If you prefer to stick to ATAPICAM (recommended), use cdrecord to write to the virtual device represending the burner. Use cdrecord's -scanbus option (as root!) to find out: phenom# cdrecord -scanbus [...] 0,1,0 1) 'Optiarc ' 'DVD RW AD-7203A ' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM [...] I think the camcontrol utility (provided by the OS) works, too: % camcontrol devlist HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H58N 1.01 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass0) ^^ ^ ^^^ This command shows you the SCSI ID 1,0,0 and the device /dev/cd0 for the recorder at the same time. Instead of giving them as command line options to the various tools, you can create their config files and put this information there (refer to the manpages for the name and content description of the files). But because on systems the SCSI ID's don't change on a regular basis, using wrapper scripts or shell aliases will make burning comfortable, and they need service only if you change something in the hardware. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
portupgrade
Hi! My system 7.1. I am (was) user of postmaster but the last update for Xorg it did mess. Than I use portupgrade -arR and was okay, X works okay but when I run: portupgrade -arR ** Port marked as IGNORE: x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga: is marked as broken: Needs to be removed ** Port marked as IGNORE: x11-drivers/xf86-video-via: requires pciVideoPtr typedef ** Port directory not found: x11/xorg-protos ** Port directory not found: x11/xphelloworld --- Skipping 'x11/xorg-apps' (xorg-apps-7.3) because a requisite package 'xphelloworld-1.0.1_1' (x11/xphelloworld) failed (specify -k to force) --- Skipping 'x11-drivers/xorg-drivers' (xorg-drivers-7.3_3) because a requisite package 'xf86-video-via-0.2.2_3' (x11-drivers/xf86-video-via) failed (specify -k to force) --- Skipping 'x11/xorg' (xorg-7.3_2) because a requisite package 'xorg-apps-7.3' (x11/xorg-apps) failed (specify -k to force) ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga (marked as IGNORE) - x11-drivers/xf86-video-via (marked as IGNORE) - x11/xorg-protos (port directory error) - x11/xphelloworld (port directory error) * x11/xorg-apps (xorg-apps-7.3) * x11-drivers/xorg-drivers (xorg-drivers-7.3_3) * x11/xorg (xorg-7.3_2) I understand for VGA or VIA port but how can correct the other, please? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 44
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Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.com wrote: I don't have any useful advice to offer, but I would love it if you would summarize anything interesting that you get. I do a lot of computational biology work and am always interested in extension language for my computing systems. There was not a lot of response. One suggestion for Tcl and one for Ruby. I figured that all of the possibilities were going to be a pain to develop in their own unique way, so that was probably not the best evaluation criteria. The best choice was going to be the one that the people who were going to use it every day were the most comfortable with. So what I did was code up little samples in each of the serious contenders: Lua, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. Without telling people which language was which, I sent them around for votes. I really liked the Tcl syntax and I thought it was going to do really well, but Python came back the winner. Even so, I kept researching for farther-flung alternatives and turned up a couple of others as well, although several of the embedded languages are pretty stale, dead, or haven't gotten past 0.0.1-pre-alpha. Of the haven't heard of it before languages, only one called Pike earned serious consideration. (Technically I had heard of its predecessor LPC, but only as a result of a misspent youth. :-) ) Pike and Python went head to head and, probably since our team is heavy with C++ programmers, Pike came out on top. So, we've started doing a proof-of-concept using Pike and we'll see how it goes. So far so good, and it's actually a pretty fun language to work with. -LM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
dlopen Undefined symbol with x11/nvidia-driver
dlopen: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules//libwfb.so: Undefined symbol miZeroLineScreenIndex (EE) Failed to load /usr/local/lib/modules//libfw.so (EE) Failed to load module wfb (loader failed 7) Fatal server error: Caught sigal 11. Server aborting Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Any idea what is causing this or how to fix it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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I just in stalled VTiger and missed the instructions on how to install it .do know or is there a command that will let me find that info wc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Linda Messerschmidt linda.messerschm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.com wrote: I don't have any useful advice to offer, but I would love it if you would summarize anything interesting that you get. I do a lot of computational biology work and am always interested in extension language for my computing systems. There was not a lot of response. One suggestion for Tcl and one for Ruby. I figured that all of the possibilities were going to be a pain to develop in their own unique way, so that was probably not the best evaluation criteria. The best choice was going to be the one that the people who were going to use it every day were the most comfortable with. So what I did was code up little samples in each of the serious contenders: Lua, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. Without telling people which language was which, I sent them around for votes. I really liked the Tcl syntax and I thought it was going to do really well, but Python came back the winner. Even so, I kept researching for farther-flung alternatives and turned up a couple of others as well, although several of the embedded languages are pretty stale, dead, or haven't gotten past 0.0.1-pre-alpha. Of the haven't heard of it before languages, only one called Pike earned serious consideration. (Technically I had heard of its predecessor LPC, but only as a result of a misspent youth. :-) ) Pike and Python went head to head and, probably since our team is heavy with C++ programmers, Pike came out on top. So, we've started doing a proof-of-concept using Pike and we'll see how it goes. So far so good, and it's actually a pretty fun language to work with. -LM Are you saying the choice is made on the basis of 'likeability' and not 'technical merit' ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: swap_pager complaints but not using swap
AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory My console says: login: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 pstat -sk Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/ad6s10 4590208 96 4590112 0% Wow, using a whole 96K of swap. I don't see any disk related complaints in dmesg. Is this something to worry about? Yes, the system was *trying* to do swap I/O and timing out while doing so. Kris Whoops, I forgot to change the subject line after adding the k option to pstat. Without the k it said 0 used. And this morning it occurs to me that even if swap used was zero, it could have been trying to *start* using swap. Anyway... given this timeout explaination, I'm guessing that page/swap has to compete with user processes for disk i/o, and thus probably suffers from the same lack of fair i/o scheduling that user processes suffer from. E.g. one process doing disk i/o can lock out another process for at least several minutes, probably indefinitely. :-( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: swap_pager complaints but not using swap
AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory My console says: login: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096 pstat -sk Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/ad6s10 4590208 96 4590112 0% Wow, using a whole 96K of swap. I don't see any disk related complaints in dmesg. Is this something to worry about? Yes, the system was *trying* to do swap I/O and timing out while doing so. isn't swapspace supposed to be on a 'b' partition? Are you using swap on a slice 10? how is that possible when the i386/amd64 BIOS can't see more than 4 primary partitions? Kris, would you mind giving input to this? How can there be a s10, and how can you add swapspace to a device that isn't a partition 'b' nor a file backed swapspace? Those were the only two ways I thought was supported for swap. Dieter, does my questions above sound to be a correct interpretation of your disk setup? Traditionally swap used the b partition. But then traditionally, there weren't MBR style partitions, called slices in FreeBSD-land. I suspect that the computers Unix grew up on (PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX) had to boot from the beginning of the disk, so the a partition went there. The Alpha continues in this DEC tradition. I was about to say that swap went next for speed, since the machines back then never had enough main memory, but those old disks didn't have variable number of sectors on inner vs outer tracks, so the speed would have been the same across the platter. So I'm not sure why swap was next. This machine has 2 GiB of main memory and almost never uses the swap partition, so I put swap at the slow end of the drive. Yes I have swap on slice 10. I use NetBSD's fdisk, as it handles more than 4 slices nicely, unlike FreeBSD's fdisk. As far as I know, the BIOS firmware doesn't need to know about swap. I think the BIOS firmware just loads and runs the MBR, which in turn loads and runs the bootstrap in the selected slice (or loads and runs the MBR in a different disk if you want). I suppose I could put a BSD disklabel on slice 10 and set it up with the whole slice as the b partition. But as far as I can tell FreeBSD is happy with /dev/ad6s10. As I wrote in my previous message I suspect that the pager/swaper is competing for disk i/o. I forgot to ask if there is some sysctl or other knob to lengthen the timeout. The real fix is to improve the i/o fairness, but I've been asking about this for 2-3 years and not getting anywhere. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0100 (CET) Sebastian Mellmann sebastian.mellm...@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 with IPFW DUMMYNET enabled. I've got a problem with creating a ruleset which allows me to limit the overall bandwidth of a link and afterwards pass the packets to another pipe for processing. So far I've got those rules: in_if=em0 out_if=em1 management_if=em2 in_ip=100.100.100.1 out_ip=200.200.200.1 management_ip=172.16.0.201 client1_subnet=192.168.5.0/26 client2_subnet=192.168.6.0/26 server_subnet=192.168.7.0/24 download_bandwidth=6144Kbit/s upload_bandwidth=1024Kbit/s delay=0 queue_size=10 10 slots ie packets is likely too small a queue size at these rates. You want to check the dropped packet stats from 'ipfw pipe show' re that; see the section in ipfw(8) about calculating sizes / delays. On the other hand, depending on how many hosts you're running individual queues for (mask 0x), you may need to trade with memory used .. cmd=ipfw $cmd add 10 allow all from any to any via lo0 $cmd pipe 100 config mask src-ip 0x bw $upload_bandwidth queue $queue_size delay $delay $cmd pipe 200 config mask dst-ip 0x bw $download_bandwidth queue $queue_size $cmd add pipe 100 all from $client1_subnet to $server_subnet in via $in_if $cmd add pipe 200 all from $server_subnet to $client1_subnet out via $in_if $cmd add pipe 100 all from $client2_subnet to $server_subnet in via $in_if $cmd add pipe 200 all from $server_subnet to $client2_subnet out via $in_if I suggest using 'in recv' and 'out xmit' rather than via for these, for the sake of clarity. 'in recv' and 'in via' come to the same thing, as only the receive interface is known on inbound packets, but 'out via' applies to packets that were *received* on the specified interface as well as those going out on that interface after routing, which can lead to surprising results sometimes, and being more specific never hurts .. $cmd add 1 allow all from any to any via $management_if $cmd add 2 allow all from any to any via $in_if $cmd add 3 allow all from any to any via $out_if --- What I want to add now, is the possibility to limit the bandwidth of the whole link, e.g. 100Mbit/s. I've tried to add a pipe: $cmd pipe 50 config bw 100Mbit/s queue $queue_size $cmd add pipe 50 all from any to any via $in_if But when I have a look at the pipes with 'ipfw show' I can only see packets go through the pipe 50 and nothing goes through the other pipes (which makes sense actually since IPFW work that way?). IPFW works that way if you (likely) have net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1 .. so that packets exiting from pipes aren't seen by the firewall again. If you set one_pass=0, packets are reinjected into the firewall at the rule following the pipe (or queue) action, which is what you want to do here. And you'll surely need a much larger queue for this pipe, at 100Mbit/s. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Comfortable dd bs= parameters for different media
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:11:11 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading from different media using the dd utility. As far as I know, these are good values: Format Device (example)bs= - - Data CD /dev/acd0 2048 Music CD/dev/acd0t012352 DVD /dev/acd0 2048 (?) Hard disk /dev/ad0s1g 1m (?) AFAICT these are fine. What about copying partition-wise from a hard disk to a dd file? Which bs= parameter would be encouraged to use? Presumably the destination file will also be on hard disk (or USB flash, or SSD). It may be ok to use 1m then :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: error trying to burncd thhen ecomign unkillable process
% camcontrol devlist Typed this but no output what so ever, which presumably isnt a good thing. and adjust the dev= parameter accordingly. For a DVD, try % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=neroultraV7.iso enterprise# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0=neroultraV7.iso :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device Something aint right obviously. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Comfortable dd bs= parameters for different media
I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading from different media using the dd utility ... In case anyone still cares, I have long used bs=120b for floppy disks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
