somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue
I know this is a Sendmail issue, but I haven't been able to track down any information online, or found any Sendmail user email lists yet. And since I am running it on a FreeBSD server, I thought I would try here and see if anyone knows the answer to my problem. I have enabled SSL on SMTP to enable the delivery and reception of TLS encrypted emails, the server is going to be used as a relay between a MS Exchange server and an external Spam filtering service that has an encrypted email sending application that strips attachments and creates a password protected HTTPS link based on keywords in the subject. Everything works as expected, but when I test the server against required PCI scans, it accepts weak encryption ciphers, I need to limit these ciphers. After a lot of extensive searching I have found references to the fact that it is possible to configure Sendmail to do this, but I can't find any documentation on how to do it. The server is running FreeBSD 8.2 which is patched up to p4, and Sendmail was configured with the following options, this test setup is also being used to test secure IMAP with authentication, so there are settings in here as well for Cyrus IMAP. /etc/make.conf: # Use OpenSSL from ports instead of base WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes # Enable SMTP Authentication SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 # Adding to enable alternate port (smtps) for sendmail... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL Steps done after editing /etc/make.conf: cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil make cleandir make obj make cd /usr/src/lib/libsm make cleandir make obj make cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail make cleandir make obj make make install /etc/rc.conf: # Enable Sendmail saslauthd_enable=YES saslauthd_flags=-a sasldb cyrus_imapd_enable=YES sendmail_enable=YES /etc/mail/hostname.mc: define(`confLOCAL_MAILER',`cyrusv2') define(`CYRUS_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver') MAILER(`cyrusv2') dnl set SASL options TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN') define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN') dnl Cert Options define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/usr/local/etc/ssl/smtp')dnl define(`confCACERT', `/usr/local/etc/ssl/smtp/gd_bundle.crt')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `/usr/local/etc/ssl/smtp/server.crt')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `/usr/local/etc/ssl/smtp/server.key')dnl dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA') DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s') I know that setting this option in Apache does the trick for HTTPS, I just need to figure out how to tell Sendmail to do the same. SSLCipherSuite ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!SSLv2 If anyone has any idea how to do this, or any idea on what keywords to search on that might find me the directions it would be a great help. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net http://www.dweimer.net/ ___ 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: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Dean E. Weimer wrote: I know this is a Sendmail issue, but I haven't been able to track down any information online, or found any Sendmail user email lists yet. And since I am running it on a FreeBSD server, I thought I would try here and see if anyone knows the answer to my problem. I have enabled SSL on SMTP to enable the delivery and reception of TLS encrypted emails, the server is going to be used as a relay between a MS Exchange server and an external Spam filtering service that has an encrypted email sending application that strips attachments and creates a password protected HTTPS link based on keywords in the subject. Everything works as expected, but when I test the server against required PCI scans, it accepts weak encryption ciphers, I need to limit these ciphers. After a lot of extensive searching I have found references to the fact that it is possible to configure Sendmail to do this, but I can't find any documentation on how to do it. There is an active Usenet group at comp.mail.sendmail. Does the ENCR parameter documented at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/starttls.html do you any good? It doesn't restrict the method, only the number of bits in the key. Daniel Feenberg ___ 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: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue
Hi--
On Oct 12, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Dean E. Weimer wrote:
I know that setting this option in Apache does the trick for HTTPS, I just
need to figure out how to tell Sendmail to do the same.
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!SSLv2
If anyone has any idea how to do this, or any idea on what keywords to search
on that might find me the directions it would be a great help.
If you can't find a way of specifying the allowed SSL ciphers via sendmail
config (as someone mentioned, you can test ${cipher_bits} against ENCR:bits,
but that doesn't disable anonymous ciphers like ADH entirely), you can build a
modern flavor of OpenSSL to /usr/local with the ciphers you don't like
disabled, and rebuild sendmail against this OpenSSL.
I believe that the security/openssl already does most of this for you, and
would be easy to tweak a bit more if that's needed.
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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Re: Turning system accounting data into money
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: So, systems that do what you want (and customers who want to pay on a per use basis) must be around for quite some time. Yeah, this was the normal way of doing things for many years on large systems, back when a large system was a multiuser UNIX box the size of a refrigerator. For a long time it went away, as computer time got too cheap to meter, so a lot of the accounting tools that exist in UNIX are a bit foreign to modern admins. We're seeing a bit of a resurgence of the pay-for-usage model with services like Amazon EC2. ___ 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: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue
On 12.10.2011 11:30, Daniel Feenberg wrote: There is an active Usenet group at comp.mail.sendmail. Does the ENCR parameter documented at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/starttls.html do you any good? It doesn't restrict the method, only the number of bits in the key. Daniel Feenberg Well after searching the comp.mail.sendmail list through Google groups, I have come up wiht the following changes. I changed the orignal /etc/make.conf: from this: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL to: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL -D_FFR_TLS_1 redid the compile steps: Added this to the end of /etc/mail/hostname.mc: LOCAL_CONFIG O CipherList=ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!SSLv2 under /etc/mail executed the make, make install steps After restarting, an attempt to do: /usr/local/bin/openssl s_client -starttls smtp -cipher EXP-RC4-MD5 -connect localhost:25 Failed, this successfully connected before these changes. Scans are running now, I will let you all know if it was successful. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net http://www.dweimer.net/ ___ 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: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue
On 12/10/2011 20:36, Dean E. Weimer wrote: Well after searching the comp.mail.sendmail list through Google groups, I have come up wiht the following changes. I changed the orignal /etc/make.conf: from this: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL to: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL -D_FFR_TLS_1 redid the compile steps: Added this to the end of /etc/mail/hostname.mc: LOCAL_CONFIG O CipherList=ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!SSLv2 under /etc/mail executed the make, make install steps After restarting, an attempt to do: /usr/local/bin/openssl s_client -starttls smtp -cipher EXP-RC4-MD5 -connect localhost:25 Failed, this successfully connected before these changes. Scans are running now, I will let you all know if it was successful. _FFR_TLS_1 is actually already defined in the default sendmail on FreeBSD. See /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile around line 63. It's also enabled in the ports version of sendmail, so long as you select the WITH_TLS option. I just added this setting to my sendmail config and it seems to work using the ports sendmail without having to recompile anything. It could certainly do with being mentioned in the documentation more prominently. There's not a hint of the CipherList option in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README _FFR_SMTP_SSL on the other hand, doesn't appear anywhere under /usr/src -- think that must be a fossil remnant from some older version of sendmail. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: KVM - FreeBSD Network Problem
On 10/07/11 01:01, Aydın Demirel wrote: Hi; I installed FreeBSD 8.2 on Centos 5.7 via KVM. KVM version is 8.3 and qemu version is 0.12.4 We have network problem. I set guest freebsd network as bridge mode and Status seems active. Default gateway is defined.. When I see network packets with tcpdump, packets are streaming (for example: ARP, requested has 10.6.21.221 ...) But, Guest network doesn't go out. What can be the problem? Any suggestion? Regards I have noticed odd behaviour when using Gentoo as the KVM host. I get very intermitant connectivity. I have it setup as a bridge on the host. ___ 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
LLTD protocol (Link Layer Topology Discovery)
I was just doing some reading about the LLTD protocol. It seems that Microsoft is distributing a package designed for Linux. This is the URL: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-the-lltd-protocol-responder-for-linux-on-debian-lenny I was wondering if this would actually work in a FreeBSD environment and if anyone had actually tried it. The link for downloading the Windows Rally Development Kit is wrong in the article. It should be: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463034 -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.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: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue
On 12.10.2011 15:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: _FFR_TLS_1 is actually already defined in the default sendmail on FreeBSD. See /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile around line 63. It's also enabled in the ports version of sendmail, so long as you select the WITH_TLS option. I just added this setting to my sendmail config and it seems to work using the ports sendmail without having to recompile anything. It could certainly do with being mentioned in the documentation more prominently. There's not a hint of the CipherList option in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README _FFR_SMTP_SSL on the other hand, doesn't appear anywhere under /usr/src -- think that must be a fossil remnant from some older version of sendmail. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW Interesting info, I will take a look at that Makefile and see what I find, I found those options to set originally on a web page, can't quite remember where, I pieced info from a few different locations to get everything working as I wanted. I do know a lot of it was originally done for an older version of FreeBSD, so perhaps it was an FFR option at that time it was written. One thing I have figured out in this process is that Sendmail FFR compiled options are basically undocumented outside of the source file comments. Perhaps it was my inclusion of an old setting, that caused the ciphers to open up more to start with. It did pass the tests as is, I will look more into this though. And see if I can't slim down the overall steps to get the server up and running before it goes live on a production server. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net http://www.dweimer.net/ ___ 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: Can't access a music CD
On 10/10/11 05:44, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:47:40AM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: snip This looks like it's playing. Is the CD/DVD drive active? snip Still will not play. Tried 2 different CD's. Thank You, If the drive is active and you're not getting sound out: What does: $ mixer $ cat /dev/sndstat show? Regards, GoodDay; Tried again with the following results; A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) and $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: HDA Sigmatel STAC9205X PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 75:75 Recording source: monitor no sound and no drive activity. Thank You, Michael ___ 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, Virtual OSs and GUI
Hello all. I hope this question does not sound too stupid. I am sorry in advance if you think so. Since version 2.x and until now all I have been using FreeBsd as a server, helping a small ISP company of a friend , basic web services, email, dns etc. All I have been doing has been done in the text interface, the pure shell. In fact, I have to confess that I have never tried any of the GUIs available. For some reasons not important to mention I need to have a server that can virtualize some other OS's (Linux, Freebsd and Windows). This will be used as a lab for some personal projects. Of course I thought to have as the base FreeBsd Version 8.2 and have the virtual machines running inside, was wondering if Virtualbox runs fine there. The virtual machines need to be used with their graphical interface (Gnome , Kde and windows). So I guess that the best and need is to have a graphical interface also running with the base (FreeBsd 8.2). Is that correct? If so, here are some questions: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect remotely to control the server and the other OS's. If I do not need necessarily a GUI running with FreeBSD, what do you suggest to use? I have to mention that I have done the first phase of my testing using XP and inside of it running VirtualBox with FreeBsd and Linux distros without problems... BUT... OF COURSE even with the firewall, antivirus , latest patches and all the protection schema, yesterday the antivirus start telling the machine has virus and seems it was comprmised, of course I can not continue using it and it was not the idea to have that, but for the 3 dyas of testing what I need to do was enough. By the way the hardware I will use I guess it is enough since it is for testing only and I won't be connected remotely all the time. The machine is an old Pentium Core 2 Duo, 2GB of ram (its maximum) and a hard disk of 500gb, also it has an Nvdia card 256Mb (can use the one with the motherboard if that is a problem) The motherboard is an INtel one. It runs perectly FreeBSD using it in text mode. As a curios information something in the motherboard maybe is not compatible with UBuntu . As always thanks in advance for your comments and your time. Jorge Biquez ___ 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, Virtual OSs and GUI
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). This is one of those ask a hundred different people get 100 different answers. I prefer KDE which would work well for you because both KDE and VirtualBox are built on QT4, a rather large system. KDE isn't really that heavy though relatively speaking. VirtualBox runs great for me and does all you indicated. What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect remotely to control the server and the other OS's. You will probably want a CPU and chipset that has hardware assist for virtualization, and plenty of RAM for both host and guests. Disk choice should reflect your data capacity, redundancy, and speed needs. A good quality Intel NIC is always nice. If I do not need necessarily a GUI running with FreeBSD, what do you suggest to use? You don't need a GUI, VirtualBox has a headless mode that handles it for you. By the way the hardware I will use I guess it is enough since it is for testing only and I won't be connected remotely all the time. The machine is an old Pentium Core 2 Duo, 2GB of ram (its maximum) and a hard disk of 500gb, also it has an Nvdia card 256Mb (can use the one with the motherboard if that is a problem) The motherboard is an INtel one. It runs perectly FreeBSD using it in text mode. As a curios information something in the motherboard maybe is not compatible with UBuntu . The hardware you mention likely doesn't have VT-d, and probably has VT-x which is perfectly fine, because to my knowledge you can't use VT-d with VirtualBox yet anyways. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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: Can't access a music CD
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:38:53 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: GoodDay; Tried again with the following results; A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) You cannot mount an audio CD, it doesn't contain a file system. Idea: Maybe some kind of interference of your desktop environment that intends to mount a CD that cannot be mounted, and the command line tool trying to access a resource that is blocked due to the first thing? You should step down to the lowest level possible for diagnostics, i. e. running the system's command line tools to make the CD play. If _this_ works, then go up and test within your GUI desktop environment. The less abstraction layers are in between, the better. and $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: HDA Sigmatel STAC9205X PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 75:75 Recording source: monitor no sound and no drive activity. Hmmm... I'm missing the CD in that listing. Which mixer is your default mixer? Try -f /dev/mixer0 to make sure the correct one is selected. On HDA codecs, there may be several mixers. -- Polytropon 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: Can't access a music CD
Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net writes: A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc You're not supposed to mount an audio disk. There's even a FAQ entry titled Why can I not mount an audio CD? http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-AUDIO-CD ___ 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: Can't access a music CD
On 10/12/11 18:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Michael D. Norwickmnorw...@centurytel.net writes: A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc You're not supposed to mount an audio disk. There's even a FAQ entry titled Why can I not mount an audio CD? http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-AUDIO-CD Good Day; Thank You for the replies. Got the part about not mounting an audio CD. I wasn't trying to. Inserting the disc in the drive brought up the error message. Mounting a data CD or DVD acts normally and the filesystem on it can be accessed. Michael ___ 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: Can't access a music CD
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:49:58 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Thank You for the replies. Got the part about not mounting an audio CD. I wasn't trying to. Inserting the disc in the drive brought up the error message. Mounting a data CD or DVD acts normally and the filesystem on it can be accessed. Do you have the option of testing mixer settings and CD playing commands _outside_ of the GUI, i. e. in normal text mode - just to make sure no DBUS, HAL or whatever part of the desktop environment might interfere? Things to check: - Which mixers do exist? Which settings are active? - Which CD device can be accessed by cdcontrol? Does it start playing properly? On today's disc drives, you typically don't have a 3.5mm headphone connector for direct listening. Also some sound cards (unlike most onboard sound chips) have the ability to connect the CD audio wire inside the machine. This feature is obsolete, but still works. It's typically not part of laptop designs. -- Polytropon 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
netstat -di - Idrop vs. Drop
On FreeBSD what's the difference between Drop and Idrop in the netstat output? $ netstat -di NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Opkts Oerrs Coll Drop bge0* 1500 Link#1 00:16:d4:e3:49:310 0 0 0 0 00 wpi0 2290 Link#2 00:1b:77:86:2d:fa0 53068 0 179587 3 00 The man page doesn't explain them. Also, does netstat get the drop count from the NIC or from a kernel buffer? For instance, if the NIC can't accept any more packets because of the lack of descriptors, will the packets lost be reported as one of the drop values in netstat? I ask because in Linux, ifconfig reads from /proc/net/dev and as for as I know, it drops only when the kernel buffer is full. So if the NIC wouldn't accept packets due to lack of descriptors you wouldn't know about it i.e. it hasn't made it's way into kernel memory. that and netstat on FreeBSD has the -B option for the BPF buffer stats, so right now it makes sense that netstat -di reports the drop count from the NIC/driver itself. Right/Wrong? Any help is appreciated, Thanks -- - Jon -- -- VMB: 812-682-0231 Dubois County Linux User Group - http://www.dclinux.org Southern Indiana Computer Klub - http://sickbits.networklabs.org Bloomington FOOLS - http://www.bloomingtonfools.org/ BloomingLabs - http://www.bloominglabs.org ISSA-Kentuckiana - http://issa-kentuckiana.org GPG Key ID: 810903CB Key fingerprint = 0069 ED69 EABB DF84 5983 AD3C 6C20 BEFD 8109 03CB ___ 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: Can't access a music CD
On Oct 12, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Polytropon wrote: On today's disc drives, you typically don't have a 3.5mm headphone connector for direct listening. Also some sound cards (unlike most onboard sound chips) have the ability to connect the CD audio wire inside the machine. This feature is obsolete, but still works. It's typically not part of laptop designs. A fair number of motherboards with integrated audio will take the analog audio output from a CD/DVD drive; the better ones will also accept a 3-pin digital SP/DIF connection as well. Even if they don't, however, it's not uncommon for them to have audio connectivity in the form of a microphone input buried within a 10-pin extension header (AC'97 and Intel's HD Audio front panel connector), rather than have a 4-pin or 3-pin connector which matches the cable which came with the CD/DVD drive. Anyway, none of the above should not be needed with modern SATA devices-- digital audio data goes directly over the SATA cable without a need for a separate audio cable. Any laptop (which isn't obsolete) would use this route. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: Can't access a music CD
Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net writes: Thank You for the replies. Got the part about not mounting an audio CD. I wasn't trying to. Inserting the disc in the drive brought up the error message. Mounting a data CD or DVD acts normally and the filesystem on it can be accessed. Okay, so what *are* you you using to try to play the CD? Someone suggested cdcontrol, but these days a lot of computers don't come with the cable to get analog audio directly off the drive. That's why the FAQ suggests xmcd, although it's far from the only option; most of the big desktop environments come with a CD playing application that gets the data digitally. For example, I think the Gnome application is brasero. ___ 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, Virtual OSs and GUI
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). This is one of those ask a hundred different people get 100 different answers. I prefer KDE which would work well for you because both KDE and VirtualBox are built on QT4, a rather large system. KDE isn't really that heavy though relatively speaking. VirtualBox runs great for me and does all you indicated. What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect remotely to control the server and the other OS's. You will probably want a CPU and chipset that has hardware assist for virtualization, and plenty of RAM for both host and guests. Disk choice should reflect your data capacity, redundancy, and speed needs. A good quality Intel NIC is always nice. If the OP is going to run a 64-bit OS, then hardware vitualization assist is *required* for VirtualBox to handle it. It is not required when VirtualBox is running a 32-bit OS. Just another minor detail to consider. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
