pppoe connection freezes
I have CenturyLink DSL, and I use the user-space ppp program in FreeBSD 9.1 to make the PPPoE connection. From time to time (every few days) the connection freezes up—no more data can be sent or received. No error shows up in ppp.log; all I can see there is that there are no more RecvEchoRequest and SendEchoReply entries after the connection freezes. If I send SIGINT to the ppp program, it reconnects just fine. I talked to CenturyLink's tech support, and they said that one of the times that I had a problem, the connection was dropped on their end, but the others it was fine. My ppp command line is ppp -nat -ddial centurylink My ppp.conf: default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command disable ipv6cp centurylink: set device PPPoE:rl0 enable lqr set authname balholmand...@qwest.net set authkey set dial set login add default HISADDR Is there a setting I can add to ppp.conf to make it detect when the connection freezes? Or is there something else that I need to fix? Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.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: BSD logo
Chad Perrin wrote: Andy Balholm wrote: although the UNIX term daemon is not satanic in origin, some aspects of Beastie's appearance are obviously derived from traditional depictions of the Devil. Really? Are you sure they weren't derived from something else -- perhaps a source in common for the traditional depictions of the devil? There may be a common source for both, rather than one being the source of the other. Correlation does not imply causation. Did you ask the original Beastie artist for confirmation that he was consciously emulating images of the Christian devil, or did you just jump to a conclusion like the OP? I jumped to a conclusion, but I'll stand by it until someone shows me the ancient common source. I don't recall anything that looks much like Beastie in Greek art. When someone in the modern western culture decides to draw a daemon and it comes out looking like a demon, the most plausible explanation is that he was influenced—consciously or unconsciously—by this culture's traditional way of depicting demons. In fact, not being influenced by that tradition would take a conscious effort. So I find that far more likely than an obscure common source. Note that I am not attributing the resemblance to any fiendish motives. I expect the artist just found the pun too good to pass up. I'll CC him in case he wants to comment on his sources, since you think he should be asked. Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.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: BSD logo
On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote: Am 27.07.2010 17:23, schrieb Andy Balholm: Chad Perrin wrote: Andy Balholm wrote: although the UNIX term daemon is not satanic in origin, some aspects of Beastie's appearance are obviously derived from traditional depictions of the Devil. Really? Are you sure they weren't derived from something else -- perhaps a source in common for the traditional depictions of the devil? There may be a common source for both, rather than one being the source of the other. Correlation does not imply causation. Did you ask the original Beastie artist for confirmation that he was consciously emulating images of the Christian devil, or did you just jump to a conclusion like the OP? I jumped to a conclusion, but I'll stand by it until someone shows me the ancient common source. I don't recall anything that looks much like Beastie in Greek art. Perhaps there are some ancient depictions/sculptures of the greek god Pan (god of the shepherds) around? Pan partially resembles a goat. The BSD daemon doesn't look like a goat (or Pan) at all. Maybe he has cloven hooves inside those tennis shoes; I don't know. But Pan could certainly have had some influence on how the Devil was traditionally drawn. My point wasn't that there is no earlier source that traditional depictions of the Devil draw on. They aren't based on anything in the Bible, so it seems quite likely that there is. I was just saying that the BSD daemon is not derived from that ancient source _independently_; its immediate source is almost certainly the traditional depictions of demons. Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.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: BSD logo
David Brodbeck wrote: It also hasn't escaped my notice that the original poster has never come back to this thread; I suspect we've been trolled, folks. That's possible. It's also possible that, after reading the responses to his inquiry, the original poster decided that his question had been adequately answered, his concerns were justified, and he should use a different operating system. If so, I can hardly blame him, even though I personally feel that boycotting BSD because of its mascot doesn't fit very well with the apostle Paul's advice to the Corinthian Christians that it was OK for them to buy from butchers who sacrifice to daemons (my own translation of δαιμονίοις θύει in 1 Corinthians 10:20). The original post looks to me like an expression of sincere concern about BSD's image, not an accusation of satanism or an attempt to start an argument. I wouldn't call his concern ignorant either: although the UNIX term daemon is not satanic in origin, some aspects of Beastie's appearance are obviously derived from traditional depictions of the Devil. Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.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: 'file' Command Giving False Positives
One thing I noticed about the file command's output might be useful: For the file in question, it says MS-DOS executable (built-in) For real Windows programs, it gives more information. One that I tried said PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit. I remember that some others have said COFF instead of PE32. So maybe you could just assume that unless the file command is able to figure out what _kind_ of executable the file is, it's a false positive. It depends how likely you are to run into a really ancient DOS program (which would probably just get the generic description).___ 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 not responding
I am having a problem with Xorg under FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and 8.1 RC1: When I type startx, the X server starts, and some xterm windows open, but it will not respond to keyboard or mouse input. The mouse pointer won't move, and the only keyboard input that does anything is CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. to switch virtual terminals. If I install FreeBSD 7.1, which installs Xorg straight from the installation CD, it works fine. Under version 8, I've tried installing from ports and packages, and I get this problem. When I first had this problem, I was running it under VirtualBox, so I thought maybe it was because VirtualBox's FreeBSD support is incomplete. But now I've tried it on real PC hardware, and I have the same problem. Obviously some people must be running X under FreeBSD 8, so I must be doing something wrong in my installation or configuration, but I can't guess what it is. Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.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: X not responding
Thanks. That fixed it. I guess I should have read the handbook more. Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.com On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Andy Balholm wrote: I am having a problem with Xorg under FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and 8.1 RC1: When I type startx, the X server starts, and some xterm windows open, but it will not respond to keyboard or mouse input. The mouse pointer won't move, and the only keyboard input that does anything is CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. to switch virtual terminals. Enable dbus and hal in rc.conf as shown here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html If you want to use X without hal for input device detection, add Option AutoAddDevices Off to the ServerLayout section. Do not set the AllowEmptyInput option, it is unnecessary and problematic. Or you can configure the xorg-server port without hal. ___ 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
