Re: Bios chip update suggestions
Can you set your system clock first L-) This message is dated 14.3.2009 @ 11:37 Jos Chrispijn Fbsd1 wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip and the bio's id string is 01/08/2002-694T-686-P6VXM2TC-00 All the internet bio's chip update url's found by Google search are customized for MS windows. Suggestions on how or where to purchase the correct bio's chip update? What do you mean the update url's are customised for windows? The bios doesn't know anything about operating system. Most likely you could download a dos boot disk image - google, there are plenty around - create a bootable floppy and copy your latest bios image and bios update program, eg awdflash.exe onto it. Just boot from the floppy and run the update. Just be sure the bios image is really intended for your motherboard and don't interrupt the update. Chris ___ 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 What i mean is all the bio update sites have a utility that runs from the website to fetch your bio id string info. This utility will not work on a non-windows operating system. ___ 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: How to interrupt hung boot process?
Shaun writes: Have you tried ^X or ^Z? Often when my cable modem has lost its link and I reboot, FreeBSD will hang waiting to start sendmail because it can't determine the local IP. Sometimes it will hang while processing my ipfw scripts due to DNS failures. I usually try ^C, ^X, and ^Z in that order and in my experience one of them will abort the hung process. I tried every letter on the keyboard, ^\, a few other keys, and break (RS-232 console). Seems like ^\ used to be a sure kill (SIGKILL maybe?). Tim writes: If a shell script traps the signals, there is nothing you can do except by calling a SIGKILL to the PID, which requires the system to be in Multi-User Mode. The shell script doesn't, but a binary program it calls might. I'll have to look into that. michael writes: or, boot with rescue cd or anything that will write to the fs and disable the script I managed to get the boot loader to boot single user, then moved the script to a different filename. Added a symlink from the script name to /bin/true, which turns out to not exist. Someone moved true to /usr/bin. Fortunately the script not existing didn't cause a problem. Thanks, gang. Any other ideas? BTW, softdeps and background fsck are very much appreciated when pressing the reset button! ___ 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
Unix Epoch
On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether this can technically affect my system or is it just a milestone in history? Jos Chrispijn ___ 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
Unix Epoch
On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether this can technically affect my system or is it just a milestone in history? Jos Chrispijn References Visible links Hidden links: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#cite_note-0 ___ 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: Unix Epoch
On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether this can technically affect my system or is it just a milestone in history? just a milestone ;) Jos Chrispijn References Visible links Hidden links: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#cite_note-0 ___ 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: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS
On 14/2/09 06:28, Tim Judd wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:32 -0600, Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along very well. So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? Thanks in advance, Bobby There was a recommendation of another win32-based email server -- and I have it bookmarked at work. From the single person that mentioned it, he was praising it pretty well. When I get to work, I'll send it on your way. I just don't have a clue what it was right now. From what I can remember http://www.hmailserver.com/ is decent for a windows based free mailserver (smtp imap pop and imap.) Been a while since i used it and they seem to have closed the source for the latest version but its still free as in beer. Vince ___ 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
ipv6 aliases in rc.conf
Hi, I'm trying to add ipv6 aliases for my jails (7.1) in rc.conf. ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet 192.168.64.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::2 prefixlen 128 The ipv6 aliases aren't configured as expected. I tried also the variants ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias2=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0=inet6 alias fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48 without success. Btw the man page for rc.conf suggests the following as replacement for the alias syntax (for ipv4): ipv4_addrs_lo0=127.0.0.1/8 192.168.64.1-7/24 ipv6_addrs_lo0=::1/128 fe80::1/64 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1-7/48 Which syntax is suggested and working for mixed ipv4/ipv6 aliases in rc.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: reread newsyslog.conf without reboot
newsyslog.conf is read by newsyslog(8) and newsyslog is executed by cron(8) as specified in /etc/crontab, usually every hour. so you changes will take effect the next time cron runs newsyslog. Fbsd1 wrote: How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the system? ___ 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 -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli h...@sepehrs.com Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 ___ 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: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:32:39 -0600 Bobby Walker bo...@missionaccess.org wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along very well. So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? Actually, I know of several instances of Exchange with 'catchall mail boxes. It is, to a certain degree, version dependent. You can get the scripts and other information here. Google for more if you need it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/324021 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691132.aspx -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde signature.asc Description: PGP signature
OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
Hello Everyone, I'm guessing this is off-topic so thank you in advance if you can offer any help. I currently SSH into a couple of freebsd machine I have dotted about which run some console and web based php code. This is all fine and dandy but when it comes to remote support I struggle reading plain code when the file gets over a certain size and find a little syntax highlighting helps a lot. So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. TIA, Si. ___ 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: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
joe probably can. i don't use PHP but it highlights properly every other language source i use On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm guessing this is off-topic so thank you in advance if you can offer any help. I currently SSH into a couple of freebsd machine I have dotted about which run some console and web based php code. This is all fine and dandy but when it comes to remote support I struggle reading plain code when the file gets over a certain size and find a little syntax highlighting helps a lot. So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. TIA, Si. ___ 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
Pendrive 8G+CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR
Hello everyone, Gentlemen, I wonder if someone passed by the following problem, I have 3 Pendrive, 2 are 1, 1G and 8G, I'm using FreeBSD-7.1-stable, the problem is when you connect to 8G, the fbsd detects the device, da0, etc, but not create the / dev/da0 takes us about 10min trying to create this device, only appears after / dev/da0 and various error messages such as: IOERROR, CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR and not mounted. The 8G are of FAT32 and to recognize and are usually mounted in Linux, usually the mount of 1G in FreeBSD, but the filesystem is FAT16. Someone went through this problem? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Live free or die - UNIX* -=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___ 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: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
Beautiful! That is exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much! Si. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: 14 February 2009 12:46 To: Simon Griffiths Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting joe probably can. i don't use PHP but it highlights properly every other language source i use On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm guessing this is off-topic so thank you in advance if you can offer any help. I currently SSH into a couple of freebsd machine I have dotted about which run some console and web based php code. This is all fine and dandy but when it comes to remote support I struggle reading plain code when the file gets over a certain size and find a little syntax highlighting helps a lot. So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. TIA, Si. ___ 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.23/1950 - Release Date: 02/13/09 06:51:00 ___ 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 Preferred RAID controllers
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 3:08 PM Gabe wrote: Now with a gstripe+gmirror setup, would it be possible to fail a specific drive on purpose? I mean fail a (good) drive, pull it out, replace it and rebuild(?) it. I know I know, but humor me. Yes. Cheers, Matthew Well, to 'fail' the drive, you'ld have to physically pull the drive from the chassis which will involve a power cycle unless you've got hot-swap drives. Of course, you should confirm that your system will boot with the RAID in a degraded state and that rebuilding the RAID will continue even if interrupted by a reboot. gmirror(8) passes those tests. You do have to type some commands to get a mirror to rebuild (examples are shown in the man page) unlike some hardware RAIDs where simply inserting an unused disk is sufficient. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW Hello again all, So I wanted to test out gmirror on software RAID so I installed a completely vanilla FBSD 7, as base an install as you can get, it hasn't even been on the network. Anyway, I did the following upon first boot to get gmirror going: # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17 Then: # gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0 Then: # gmirror load Then: # echo 'geom_mirror_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf Then I edited /etc/fstab to show: /dev/mirror/gm0s1bnoneswapsw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1a/ ufs rw 1 1 /dev/mirror/gm0s1e/tmpufs rw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1f/usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1d/varufs rw 2 2 I then rebooted the system, once I setup the mirror: # gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad1 # gmirror status and it shows as COMPLETE. Okay, here comes the annoying part, I've got hot-swappable bays and I went ahead and pulled the drive. I then tried to write to the disk so that it realizes the disk is no longer there: # touch file once I do that and execute: gmirror status it shows as degraded. All fine and dandy. However when it comes time to pop the drive back in the drive is not recognized at all. I mean, the green light on the bay comes on so it definitely makes a connection but then thats it, atacontrol list doesn't list it and gmirror status still shows the same, degraded. What gives? I wonder if this is hardware related? Bios related even? Any clues? Thanks! ___ 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: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. joe -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:29:12 -0600 Shaun free...@shaunc.com wrote: Is it safe to install one of the newer gcc ports on FreeBSD 4.11? I've had this machine for three years; I don't recall ever upgrading the compiler, although pkg_info seems to think that I did, or at least attempted to. I'm wondering if there are any risks involved in going from gcc 2.95 to, say, 3.4.6. Typically I'm happy to pull the latest stable of just about anything, but the compiler is a different story. ... FWIW: The reason I was wanting to upgrade gcc was to get the /usr/ports/net-mgmt/darkstat package installed. For future reference, installing a gcc port doesn't upgrade gcc, it installs a extra version of the compiler with differently named binaries e.g. gcc44 instead of gcc. Ports that need specific versions of gcc to build will acquire a gcc build-dependency if they cannot be built from the system compiler. Probably, this didn't work correctly for you since the port's infrastructure no longer supports 4.x. Although it might also happen if you have ccache installed, and you put it's symlinks in your path. The only correct way to upgrade the system compiler itself is to build a later version of FreeBSD. ___ 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
OT: sed + exit status
According to the man page: EXIT STATUS The sed utility exits 0 on success, and 0 if an error occurs. However, what constitutes success is undefined. Consider the sed command s/FOO/bar/ . Is sed successful is there are no instances of FOO? Or only if there is at least one instance of FOO and it is successfully replaced by bar? Respectfully, 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: Unix Epoch
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether this can technically affect my system or is it just a milestone in history? Jos Chrispijn ___ It is my understanding that this event resulted in a certain amount of alcohol consumption yesterday. It is possible, therefore, depending on how you define technically affect, that certain systems may experience certain..inefficiencies today. Your mileage may vary. ;-) ___ 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: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
Nano supports syntax highlighting. it is off by default but can easily be turned on. I think that you actually have to find the config file to make it handle PHP though but that can be found pretty easily on the web -Sean -- From: Simon Griffiths simon.griffi...@tenenbaum.co.uk Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting Hello Everyone, I'm guessing this is off-topic so thank you in advance if you can offer any help. I currently SSH into a couple of freebsd machine I have dotted about which run some console and web based php code. This is all fine and dandy but when it comes to remote support I struggle reading plain code when the file gets over a certain size and find a little syntax highlighting helps a lot. So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. TIA, Si. ___ 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: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
Thanks for the tip Sean. It was mentioned that I could use joe and part of the /usr/ports/editors/joe build there is jpico which emulates the shortcuts im so used to in pico and nano. I think joe works great for me. Cheers, Si. Simon Griffiths So bored I made... www.tenenbaum.co.uk -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: 14 February 2009 15:55 To: Simon Griffiths; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting Nano supports syntax highlighting. it is off by default but can easily be turned on. I think that you actually have to find the config file to make it handle PHP though but that can be found pretty easily on the web -Sean -- From: Simon Griffiths simon.griffi...@tenenbaum.co.uk Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting Hello Everyone, I'm guessing this is off-topic so thank you in advance if you can offer any help. I currently SSH into a couple of freebsd machine I have dotted about which run some console and web based php code. This is all fine and dandy but when it comes to remote support I struggle reading plain code when the file gets over a certain size and find a little syntax highlighting helps a lot. So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. TIA, Si. ___ 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.23/1950 - Release Date: 02/13/09 06:51:00 ___ 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 Preferred RAID controllers
Gabe wrote: --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 3:08 PM Gabe wrote: Now with a gstripe+gmirror setup, would it be possible to fail a specific drive on purpose? I mean fail a (good) drive, pull it out, replace it and rebuild(?) it. I know I know, but humor me. Yes. Cheers, Matthew Well, to 'fail' the drive, you'ld have to physically pull the drive from the chassis which will involve a power cycle unless you've got hot-swap drives. Of course, you should confirm that your system will boot with the RAID in a degraded state and that rebuilding the RAID will continue even if interrupted by a reboot. gmirror(8) passes those tests. You do have to type some commands to get a mirror to rebuild (examples are shown in the man page) unlike some hardware RAIDs where simply inserting an unused disk is sufficient. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW Hello again all, So I wanted to test out gmirror on software RAID so I installed a completely vanilla FBSD 7, as base an install as you can get, it hasn't even been on the network. Anyway, I did the following upon first boot to get gmirror going: # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17 Then: # gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0 Then: # gmirror load Then: # echo 'geom_mirror_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf Then I edited /etc/fstab to show: /dev/mirror/gm0s1bnoneswapsw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1a/ ufs rw 1 1 /dev/mirror/gm0s1e/tmpufs rw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1f/usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1d/varufs rw 2 2 I then rebooted the system, once I setup the mirror: # gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad1 # gmirror status and it shows as COMPLETE. Okay, here comes the annoying part, I've got hot-swappable bays and I went ahead and pulled the drive. I then tried to write to the disk so that it realizes the disk is no longer there: # touch file once I do that and execute: gmirror status it shows as degraded. All fine and dandy. However when it comes time to pop the drive back in the drive is not recognized at all. I mean, the green light on the bay comes on so it definitely makes a connection but then thats it, atacontrol list doesn't list it and gmirror status still shows the same, degraded. What gives? I wonder if this is hardware related? Bios related even? Any clues? See atacontrol(8) # atacontrol list shows what your system knows is there # atacontrol attach X where X is the channel number, probes and attaches any devices on that channel in exactly the same way it is done at system boot. See camcontrol(8) if you've got SCSI drives. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS
Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along very well. So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? Another options may be to just use the smtp and pop3 that comes with Win2K3. You'll see these in the Add/Remove Windows Components under Add or Remove Software of Control Panel. These were previously on the Options Pack CD from which you installed IIS, but when Win2K3 came out they were added. May not fit your requirements. But it is free and Exchange is high $dollar and in many situations is overkill. Postfix in a VM might suffice for a small load. Free: http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ The main problem I see is the default networking situation in most VM installs is NAT. This allows outbound/return traffic but will block incoming connection attempts. There are three different networking configurations you can choose from, and the one you want is bridge. It's also the most difficult to configure. I've used VirtualBox on a Linux machine for a while now but it's quite possible the VMware Server may be a little more mature for use on a Windows box. YMMV -Mike ___ 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
Why there are so many binary packages missing on FTP?
/usr/ports/UPDATING recently recommended to upgrade kde-4.1.0 to kde-4-2.0. So I deleted kde-4.1.0 only to find out that there are no binaries for both kde-4.1.0 and kde-4.2.0. So I had to build kde-4.2.0 for many hours, again, only to find out that it doesn't work as well as kde-4.1.0. Desktop Folder applet doesn't show anything for ke-4.1.0. Applets show contents of other folders but there are no scrollbars in them. Also bottom panel doesn't have any colors and looks ugly. So now I a stuck with broken kde-4.2.0 and there is no easy way to go anywhere. I sent similar question to k...@freebsd.org but got no answer. So why kde-4.1.0 and kde-4.2.0 binaries are missing on FTP? And does kde4-4.2.0 work for anybody? Yuri ___ 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: ipv6 aliases in rc.conf
Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, I'm trying to add ipv6 aliases for my jails (7.1) in rc.conf. ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet 192.168.64.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::2 prefixlen 128 ifconfig_lo0=inet 192.168.64.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48 ifconfig_lo0_alias2=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::2 prefixlen 128 ...works for me. Technically, IPv6 is designed for multiple addresses on each interface, so the secondary (alias) parameter should not be needed at all. However, using ifconfig, we must abide by it's methods of usage. IPv6 addresses should be put inline with the IPv4 addresses under the alias numbering scheme, and things will hold together. Out of curiosity, why are you using a /48 prefixlen? I understand the /128 (when it is not inside of another assigned prefix), but IMHO, you should only use a /64 on an interface. Steve ___ 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
gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64
I just did a successful portupgrade of multimedia/gpac-libgpac but when trying to upgrade the exact same port on amd64, it fails with the following error. Thanks cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign -I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../ -DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/events.c -o compositor/events.opic compositor/events.c: In function 'load_text_node': compositor/events.c:239: warning: passing argument 3 of 'gf_utf8_wcstombs' from incompatible pointer type compositor/events.c:247: warning: passing argument 3 of 'gf_utf8_wcstombs' from incompatible pointer type cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign -I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../ -DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/font_engine.c -o compositor/font_engine.opic cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign -I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../ -DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/hardcoded_protos.c -o compositor/hardcoded_protos.opic cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign -I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../ -DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/mesh.c -o compositor/mesh.opic In file included from compositor/mesh.c:33: compositor/gl_inc.h:45:19: error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory gmake: *** [compositor/mesh.opic] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac. ___ 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: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:27:02 -, Simon Griffiths simon.griffi...@tenenbaum.co.uk wrote: So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. Joe's own editor (joe) now supports syntax highlightin, as well as VI improved (vim). The editor of the Midnight Commander (mcedit) is my individual program of choice, allthough I needed to modify the syntax files to fit my imaginations, just as I created new ones. :-) -- 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: gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Troy t...@twisted.net wrote:
I just did a successful portupgrade of multimedia/gpac-libgpac but when
trying to upgrade the exact same port on amd64, it fails with the
following error.
Thanks
cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread
-fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign
-I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../
-DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/events.c -o
compositor/events.opic
compositor/events.c: In function 'load_text_node':
compositor/events.c:239: warning: passing argument 3 of 'gf_utf8_wcstombs'
from incompatible pointer type
compositor/events.c:247: warning: passing argument 3 of 'gf_utf8_wcstombs'
from incompatible pointer type
cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread
-fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign
-I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../
-DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/font_engine.c -o
compositor/font_engine.opic
cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread
-fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign
-I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../
-DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/hardcoded_protos.c -o
compositor/hardcoded_protos.opic
cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread
-fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign
-I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac/work/gpac/include -I../
-DGPAC_HAVE_CONFIG_H -fPIC -DPIC -c compositor/mesh.c -o
compositor/mesh.opic
In file included from compositor/mesh.c:33:
compositor/gl_inc.h:45:19: error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory
gmake: *** [compositor/mesh.opic] Error 1
*** Error code 2
Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac.
I ran into this, too. Since I didn't want OpenGL support anyway, I
just added OPTIONS support to this port, and one of those options is
to disable OpenGL support and submitted this as a PR.
The PR hasn't fully posted yet, but here's the URL for when it's in the system:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131681
The patch is here if you're interested:
http://pflog.net/~floyd/gpac-libgpac.patch
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac
patch /path/to/gpac-libgpac.patch
Then just make config and unselect the option for OPENGL, and it should build.
The port should have OpenGL as a dependency if OpenGL support is
enabled - as it is now, it's building with GL support if it finds
GL/gl.h and libGL.so, but it should be listed explicitly as a
dependency in the Makefile. I'll work on another patch for that.
As for getting it to build as-is, I think it'd be sufficient to add
-I${LOCALBASE}/include to --extra-cflags and -L${LOCALBASE}/lib to
--extra-ldflags, but I'm not sure this is the proper way to do that
(I'd have to check the porter's handbook). It does in fact build
properly by adding those, though so just update those lines in the
Makefile to:
--extra-cflags=${CFLAGS} ${PTHREAD_CFLAGS} -fPIC
-I${LOCALBASE}/include \
--extra-ldflags=${LDFLAGS} ${PTHREAD_LIBS} -L${LOCALBASE}/lib \
Josh
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getty on /dev/ttypN
After upgrading from 5.5 to 6.3 I'm noticing this a lot on the main console and in my logs. Dec 25 09:33:28 kanga init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp0: No such file or directory Dec 25 09:33:38 kanga init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp1: No such file or directory etc... msoul...@kanga:/etc$ ls -l /dev/ttyp0 crw--w 1 msoulier tty0, 94 Feb 14 15:29 /dev/ttyp0 it's there... /etc/ttys only mentions them as msoul...@kanga:/etc$ grep ttyp0 /etc/ttys ttyp0 nonenetwork on The only getty configured terminals are msoul...@kanga:/etc$ grep getty /etc/ttys # getty The program to start running on the terminal. Typically a # getty program, as the name implies. Other common entries # include none, when no getty is needed, and xdm, to start the # status Must be on or off. If on, init will run the getty program on # name getty typestatus comments ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv1 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv2 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv3 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv4 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv5 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv6 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv7 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd1 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd2 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd3 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure dcons /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 off secure I think I ran mergemaster correctly on the upgrade. I'm not sure why init is trying to talk to these ports, which are obviously pseudo terminals... Advice appreciated. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpkznDNScJa0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: portupgrade failing on perl modules
On 08/02/09 Matthew Seaman said:
I'd wager that 'pkg_info -l p5-Module-Giving-You-Trouble' says everything
is installed under ${LOCALBASE}/lib/perl5/site-perl/5.8.8 but that if you
run 'perl -v' the number 5.8.9 is prominently displayed.
Please read the UPDATING entry for 20090113, strike yourself upon the
forehead whilst crying D'oh! in a loud voice and then run
'perl-after-upgrade -f' as instructed.
All of the above worked, except striking myself on the forehead, which just
hurt.
Mike
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touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein
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Re: gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64
http://pflog.net/~floyd/gpac-libgpac.patch Oops, if anyone grabbed that patch, grab it again, I ran the diff against the wrong original Makefile that had my --disable-opengl hard-coded in there during testing. Sorry for the trouble. Josh ___ 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: getty on /dev/ttypN
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:33:20 -0500, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: I think I ran mergemaster correctly on the upgrade. I'm not sure why init is trying to talk to these ports, which are obviously pseudo terminals... Do you have X running? Usually, the ttypN pseudo terminals are employed by xterms (or other terminal emulators on X). Maybe this is a result of a non-starting X? Do you have automated screen sessions running? Does the command w show something strange? The configuration files you showed seem to look completely normal. I don't see why init tries to getty for the ttypN... init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp[01]: No such file or directory The ttypN files in /dev are, if I see this correctly, only generated when needed. -- 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
The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-02-14
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/. RECENT ARTICLES: 2-Dec : Obscuring smtp auth headers If you consider your smtp-auth location to be private, this is what you want. http://freebsddiary.org/smtp-headers-rewrite-auth.php?2 29-Nov : OpenVPN - creating a routed VPN If you have multiple VPN clients, this is a practical solution. http://freebsddiary.org/openvpn-routed.php?2 27-Nov : Creating your own Certificate Authority How to create a CA and generate your own SSL certificates http://freebsddiary.org/openvpn-easy-rsa.php?2 27-Nov : OpenVPN - getting it running Using OpenVPN to create a secure pathway between home and office http://freebsddiary.org/openvpn.php?2 5-Oct : Removing dead mailing lists from Mailman Mailing lists can outlive their usefulness http://freebsddiary.org/mailman-removing-dead-lists.php?2 30-Aug : gmirror - recovering from a failed HDD an HDD failed. gmirror to the rescue. http://freebsddiary.org/gmirror-failure.php?2 6-Jul : ezjail - A jail administration framework This makes jails easier http://freebsddiary.org/ezjail.php?2 24-Jun : Adding gmirror to an existing installation Adding RAID-1 to an existing FreeBSD 7 installation http://freebsddiary.org/gmirror.php?2 20-Mar : ThinkPad x61s Unpacking the box, installing PC-BSD http://freebsddiary.org/thinkpad-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers
--- On Sat, 2/14/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:30 AM Gabe wrote: --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 3:08 PM Gabe wrote: Now with a gstripe+gmirror setup, would it be possible to fail a specific drive on purpose? I mean fail a (good) drive, pull it out, replace it and rebuild(?) it. I know I know, but humor me. Yes. Cheers, Matthew Well, to 'fail' the drive, you'ld have to physically pull the drive from the chassis which will involve a power cycle unless you've got hot-swap drives. Of course, you should confirm that your system will boot with the RAID in a degraded state and that rebuilding the RAID will continue even if interrupted by a reboot. gmirror(8) passes those tests. You do have to type some commands to get a mirror to rebuild (examples are shown in the man page) unlike some hardware RAIDs where simply inserting an unused disk is sufficient. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW Hello again all, So I wanted to test out gmirror on software RAID so I installed a completely vanilla FBSD 7, as base an install as you can get, it hasn't even been on the network. Anyway, I did the following upon first boot to get gmirror going: # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17 Then: # gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0 Then: # gmirror load Then: # echo 'geom_mirror_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf Then I edited /etc/fstab to show: /dev/mirror/gm0s1bnoneswapsw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1a/ ufs rw 1 1 /dev/mirror/gm0s1e/tmpufs rw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1f/usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1d/varufs rw 2 2 I then rebooted the system, once I setup the mirror: # gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad1 # gmirror status and it shows as COMPLETE. Okay, here comes the annoying part, I've got hot-swappable bays and I went ahead and pulled the drive. I then tried to write to the disk so that it realizes the disk is no longer there: # touch file once I do that and execute: gmirror status it shows as degraded. All fine and dandy. However when it comes time to pop the drive back in the drive is not recognized at all. I mean, the green light on the bay comes on so it definitely makes a connection but then thats it, atacontrol list doesn't list it and gmirror status still shows the same, degraded. What gives? I wonder if this is hardware related? Bios related even? Any clues? See atacontrol(8) # atacontrol list shows what your system knows is there # atacontrol attach X where X is the channel number, probes and attaches any devices on that channel in exactly the same way it is done at system boot. See camcontrol(8) if you've got SCSI drives. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW They're SATA drives. The two drives are on the same channel when using atacontrol list. I'm unsure that atacontrol attach ata0 would work but I'll give it a shot, hopefully that works. I'll report back. Thanks again ___ 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
bootable 7.1 USB disk versus flash drive versus internal ide hard drive
Is there a differences between a usb external hard drive and a usb flash drive boot loader pgm? When i plug a usb flash drive in FreeBSD handles it just like a internal IDE hard drive. To make a hard drive bootable you have to write the boot loader pgm to the disk. Does the ide hard drive boot loader pgm work on usb external hard drives and a usb flash drive? My pc has bios option to boot from usb disk but will not boot when i plug in a bootable flash drive. What am i missing here? ___ 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: OT: sed + exit status
. Is sed successful is there are no instances of FOO? Or only if there is at least one instance of FOO and it is successfully replaced by bar? Respectfully, 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 Hi Robert, try to use truss or strace to see the exit codes in both cases. ___ 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
