Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote: as suggested i tried now foo2xqx filter. My printcap entry: --- HP:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=192.168.1.105:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/hp:\ :if=/usr/bin/foo2xqx-wrapper:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ --- ^ That backslash needs to go, for one thing. The backslash indicates continuation on the next line, but I don't know what would happen if there is no next line. In other words, the last line should NOT end with a backslash. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: learn
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Quark wrote: On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Mike Jeays wrote: [ big snip ] Hell, I may even get a hoody from the store :) hey, where are the hoodies??? I found for mozilla openSUSE on their respective sites very good looking hoodies, but nor FreeBSD I won't hesitate to order one for reasonable price of 20-30 USD https://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/scan/fi=prod_bsd/tf=list_order/sf=category/se=shirts?id=bipk46TBmv_pc=267 FreeBSD Mall, then shirts and jackets. They cost a little more than that, though. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 sasl/sendmail Report IP Of Failed Access?
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 June 2013, at 08:47, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am seeing login dictionary attacks on a FreeBSD mail server being reported. Is there a way to determine the IPs that are doing this so they can be blocked at the firewall? auth.log only notes the attempted user name, not the IP of origin. -- I wrote some code to find the appropriate maillog entries which do include the IP addresses. It automagically adds the IP addresses to the pf blackhole table if certain criteria is met. The criteria is changeable. If you would like a copy, let me know. That sounds incredibly useful. Can you post it somewhere? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Test
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Al Plant wrote: Ping . Pong http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-test Mahalo. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: day light saving time happened today
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: date command shows Sun Mar 10 16:50:33 EDT 2013 Very odd that your clock would be off by *two* hours. The real question is does New York State have day light saving time? Yes, it does. I lived there for many years. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Allow sudo bash only. The OP didn't want to use sudo because it's not in the base system. I would guess he also doesn't want to use bash, since it too is not in the base system. [ snip ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [ snip ] So what is the advice for transferring data via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition I could use? I've always used FAT32 for thumb drives and the like. I don't know if the SPARC would be able to use it, but FAT32 seems like it's most likely to be usable by the largest number of different platforms. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: who am i logged in as
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: I know there is a command that will give me the name of the account I am logged in on. But I can not recall the name of this command. What is the name of this command? whoami 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 -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: sh script code to get file size.
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to parse out to the position in the output of that ls -lh command to pickup the file size value. Is there some other way to do this? To parse it out, I've used something like: $ ls -lh npviewer.bin.core | cut -d \ -f 9 186M After the backslash are two spaces: one being the space that's being escaped to make it the delimiter, the other to separate the options. The number after the '-f' determines which field of the output is displayed, which may vary. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: static ip address and ifconfig
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: [ ... ] My host just has ifconfig_xl0=DHCP in rc.conf and xl0 is the NIC connected to public internet connection coming from my ISP. In that case, you are not using static IPs. If your ISP has assigned you - as in Poly's example - 123.456.789.1 through 123.456.789.25, then those addresses are for your use to assign as you see fit. You would configure this machine's interface for any address in that block. You can then configure the same interface for more than one of those, or use your extra IPs for other machines (or interfaces). Instead of ifconfig_xl0=DHCP in rc.conf, you might have ifconfig_xl0=123.456.789.16 255.255.255.128 or some such. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 as an Access Point
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, dweimer wrote: I have been having a lot of performance issues with my home wireless, and am considering replacing the current APs early next year. I wanted something a little more flexible than the standard consumer AP, without spending the money for a high end Cisco AP (I do realize that the hardware will run me in the range of their low end APs). My early searching shows I should be able to get an Alix board, Wireless Card, and Antennas for around $300. Not really an answer to the question, but maybe a solution to the problem... At my work we deploy a fair amount of wi-fi at clients' sites. The access points we like are Pakedge brand. These are solid, high-powered industrial-grade equipment, and in your price range. For what it's worth. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Manish Jain wrote: Those in a position to help but smugly choose not to may soon start experiencing a dramatic decline in their good fortunes. I'm not in a position to help, but I can explain a couple of things. # kldload ath kldload: can't load ath: File exists # kldload wlan_tkip kldload: can't load wlan_tkip: File exists This tells you that the module in question has already been loaded, or is present in the kernel. [snip] none5@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x661711ad chip=0x0032168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class = network The 'none..' tells you that no driver was attached to the device. I suspect that Alexander Kapshuk's reply is relevant here: that your Atheros card is not supported by the driver. I know it's not much help, but maybe it's nonzero. Good luck. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, RW wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit distribution on your 32-bit machine. Try fetching the distribution again (and re-burning the CD, or whatever your media was). This time get the i386 version. That's what you want for a Pentium. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 speed up port make??
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Ryan Noll wrote: Does anyone else remember The Complete FreeBSD? I'm looking right at it on the shelf here. Second Edition - over 1750 pages!. It is *bristling* with post-it notes used as bookmarks. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: usb identity issue
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Al Plant wrote: I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 boxes for testing here at my shop. Can anyone point me to any articles on this issue. Is there a command like usbconfig (saw this mentioned in an email question but it doesnt work) to bring this up on screen? I don't know of any articles, but here is what I do: $ uname -r 8.0-STABLE $ ls /dev | grep ^da $ (note that there is nothing found) ...and then plug in the thumb drive and do it again: $ ls /dev | grep ^da da0 da0s1 $ ...and now I can mount it. Since this drive is a FAT32 filesystem, I use mount_msdosfs. Having an entry in /etc/fstab is a convenience but not strictly necessary. Dmesg of the booted units shows da1 mostly but this identity cant be accessed on any of them. After pluggin in my thumb drive, my dmesg shows da0: SanDisk Cruzer 1.02 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 7629MB (15625216 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 972C) Note that while dmesg only shows da0, my `ls /dev` also shows da0s1. You may need to use /dev/da1s1 or similar (depending on what you see from `ls /dev`) in your mount command. Try a few permutations. HTH, and maika'i pomaika'i. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Adam Vande More wrote: SpinWrong is a scam, Gibson is a fraud, and this conversation is pure marketing gibberish. I thought most had overcome this credulity years ago. It appears I was mistaken. Care to elaborate? Most people on this list seem to speak highly of SpinRite. I'd be interested to know if they are all deluded, because I've been thinking of buying it. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, David Demelier wrote: I have an old SB Live! card with a 5.1 speaker set, but i can't get sound from center and rear speakers with mplayer. I'm using the snd_emu10kx driver and when I try to play a DVD I get sound only through the front speakers (and LFE) like a 2.1 Adding -channels 6 to the mplayer args does not help. Does the DVD source material actually have 5.1 sound? Silly question, I know, but it has to be asked. You may also want to pose this question to multimedia@ -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: find date of last boot
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? Perhaps somehow subtract `uptime` from today's date? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: find date of last boot
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote:
dmesg command does not show date of last boot.
Are there some other commands to find date of last boot?
That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all
mine.
--- cut here ---
#!/bin/sh
#
# Find date of last boot
#
DAYS_UP=`uptime | awk '{print $3}'`
SEC_UP=`echo ${DAYS_UP} * 86400 | bc`
DATE=`date`
EPOCH_DATE=`date -j -f %a %b %d %T %Z %Y ${DATE} +%s`
BOOT_SEC=`echo ${EPOCH_DATE} - ${SEC_UP} | bc`
BOOT_DATE=`gawk -v duh=${BOOT_SEC} 'BEGIN{print strftime(%Y-%m-%d,duh)}'`
echo Last boot on ${BOOT_DATE}
--- cut here ---
Example from this machine:
$ ./boot_date.sh
Last boot on 2010-12-26
$
Enjoy.
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Re: find date of last boot
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Chris wrote: On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all mine. -snip- Why create something that is already built in? Because I learned something by doing it. As I mentioned previously, the last command lists when the system was rebooted. I'm not sure it does: $ last reboot wtmp begins Fri Jun 1 08:31:38 EDT 2012 $ uptime 9:30PM up 529 days, 8:25, 4 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.18, 0.17 ...and even so, would it show a cold boot, or only a reboot? I'll credit Doug Hardie with the best solution: $ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7248 Dec 26 2010 /var/run/dmesg.boot Keep well, You too. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, G?k?in Akdeniz wrote: For the time being only ARM platform is restricted. True, but I would be astonished if this restriction were not expanded by MS in the future. Just my opinion, but I believe their ultimate goal is to add platforms until the secure boot restriction encompasses most or all desktop and server hardware. This would be over a period of years. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: djvu viewers from ports or add capability to view to xpdf, gv or other
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2012 16:35:03 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, How can I add the capability of viewing djvu files to say xpdf or gv without installing evince? Or is there a small djvu viewer available in ports that can be installed easily? You can install the port ImageMagick with support for djvu format. To view a file, simply call display file. Not tested. Be aware that ImageMagick is the opposite of small. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: help debug bwn(4) wireless
On Sat, 5 May 2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote; [snip] ...I still find the whole networking area perfectly impenetrable. (If you can recommend a really introductory book on the subject, I'd really appreciate it. [snip] See also TCP/IP Network Administration. This is an O'Reilley Associates book. Virtually *everything* they publish is excellent. If they've ever published an even mediocre book, _I_ have never encountered it. Anton, I'll second that recommendation. 'TCP/IP Network Administration' by Craig Hunt is an outstanding book; it taught me a lot about networking, really made the subject comprehensible. The other O'Reilly book that I found indispensable when getting started was 'Essential System Administration' by Aeleen Frisch. In fact, why don't I just me too about O'Reilly. Everything of theirs that I have seen has been excellent. [snip] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Printer recommendation please
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, RW wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:20 -0400 Mike Jeays wrote: I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home use. The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily worth the lack of colour, IMO. How do they compare for light and occasional use? I'm thinking in terms of a few pages, a few times a year, so presumably the consumables become perishables. In exactly that scenario, ink nozzles can dry out, rendering your inkjet printer inoperable. I only print every few weeks, and if I had to replace ink for every print just because it dried out, I think I might become angry. My laser printer works even after months of inactivity. For the record, I completely agree with Mike. I also would not buy a printer that did not speak Postscript. My PS-speaking LaserJet was working as fast as I could edit /etc/printcap - no CUPS, no drivers, no ghostscript, no filters. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Vivaldi Tablet
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Mike Jeays wrote: I saw a demo of a device about 30 years ago that you held in one hand. It had about five buttons positioned under your fingers, and various combinations would produce all the regular characters. Sounds like learning to play the saxophone. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Email issues, relay failure
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Robison, Dave wrote: On 02/24/2012 13:52, Bender, Chris wrote: Sendmail all of a sudden stopped working...the sendmial is supposed to send to another machine. ...snip... echo test email from ccl `date` | mailx -s test email from ccl `date` c...@cell.com The que message show the following.. Running /var/spool/mqueue/q1OKcmpH017170 (sequence 1 of 20) c...@cell.com... Connecting to tools.wms.cellularatsea.com. via relay... c...@cell.com... Deferred: Connection timed out with tools.wms.cell.com. I can ping this machine via ping tools Is there supposed to be some type of handler on tools to accept messages. How would I know if it were postfix or sendmail? telnet remote_machine 25 does it connect to a mailer daemon? How you would know: You should see something like this: $ telnet remote_machine 25 Trying 192.168.1.1... Connected to remote_machine.mydomain.com Escape character is '^]'. 220 remote_machine.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:44:05 -0500 (EST) Note the 'Sendmail'. I don't have a postfix server handy, but presumably it would not emit the S word. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: mount options display (detailed)
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/02/2012 15:56, jb wrote: how can I display detailed mount options, e.g. rw, async, acls, atime, ... This regarding local fs or NFS. 'mount' does not do that. mount -p This is actually something you could in theory have worked out from the mount(8) man page, so long as you knew what 'fstab format' meant. Perhaps that page could do with a little editing so that it doesn't assume so much prior knowledge of its readers. From the man page: -p Print mount information in fstab(5) format. Implies also the -v option. 'mount -p' shows me something that looks a lot like my own /etc/fstab. It appears to be showing me what's mounted right now, but it does not display any mount options. This is on 8.0-STABLE; maybe things have changed in the Brave New World of Nine. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: One or Four?
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this: Partition scheme [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition containing all subtrees plus one swap partition. [ ] separate partitioning + swap Create /, /var, /tmp and /usr (including home) partitions plus one swap partition. [ ] user-defined Make your own partitioning selection manually. Of course, the default SIZES for second choice should be reasonable. I like it. This, or something very similar, seems to me like the best way to go. I am not a professional sysadmin, but have been using FreeBSD since 2.2.6. FWIW, I prefer the multi-partition approach for all the reasons already mentioned. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Revision control advice
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Chris Hill wrote: I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Thank you to everyone who replied. Based on what I've found out, I think I will be setting up git on a test server so I can get familiar with it. Thanks again, and a happy $HOLIDAY to all. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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
Revision control advice
Hello list, I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other resources have come to naught and I think you folks may have some experience in this area. I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Simple enough, except that our situation is approximately the reverse of what most revision control systems are designed for. Unlike, e.g., FreeBSD kernel development, we have dozens or hundreds of small, rapid-fire projects that are created at the rate of 3 to 20 per month. They last a few days or a few months and are (usually) not developed afterward. Each project has one to three developers working on it, sometimes simultaneously. Usually it's one guy per project. Since my programmers are not necessarily UNIX-savvy, I'd like to deploy a web interface for them which will allow them to create new repositories (projects) as well as the normal checkin, checkout, etc. I want to set this up once, and from there on have the programmers deal with managing their own repos. And heaven forfend exposing them to the horrors of the shell. I've built a test server (9.0-RC3, amd64) for experimenting with this stuff. So far I've installed and played with: - fossil. I like the simplicity and light weight, but it doesn't seem to allow creation of new repos at all (let alone multiple ones) from the web interface, and the documentation is meager. I've pretty much given up on it. - subversion, which looks like the heavy hitter of RCSs, but it's not at all clear to me how to handle the multiple-project scenario. Still working on it. - git looks promising, but I have not installed it yet. If anyone can point me to a tool that might be suitable, I would be most grateful. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'. ... http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/traffic/cameras/ Works for me on 8.1-RELEASE with FF 3.5.10 and these packages: [ ... ] All I had to do was click on a camera (I picked Williams SB, for no particular reason) and I got what looked like an image, including an I-5 at Williams SB overlay. Granted there wasn't a whole lot to see, since it was after dark, but the image did show several vehicles' headlights -- it was not just a black rectangle. Right, but that's a still image, a screenshot. Above that is a link labeled go to live camera - when you click on that, do you see live motion video? What I see is mplayer-plugin starting, then buffering, then a blue rectangle. The live camera link is what goes to the .asx, which is what the OP was asking about. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: operapluginwraper
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, ajtiM wrote: On my FreeBSD 8.2 Release I use KDE 4 and Opera 11.52. Everytime when I start (use) Opera I have operapluginwraper..core in the /home directory.. In the /var/log/mesages I got also: Nov 8 15:15:20 athena console-kit-daemon[1395]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed: cannot open /proc/4679/mem [snip] I don't have /proc on my system and I don't know why I should have it? This might have to do with the linuxulator. At some point I added linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw00 ...to my /etc/fstab. I have a note in that file saying that it came from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html I don't recall if I had to create that directory; I suspect it appeared automagically. I see: $ ls -l /usr/compat/linux | grep proc dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Nov 8 19:15 proc ...which was just a moment ago. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: dvd1 in CD image names? (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 available here)
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:21:32 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.0 BETA3 is available here ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ I've been wondering, why the recent change to using dvd1 in the names of the full CD images? These *are* CD, not DVD images, aren't they? They are ISOs. You can burn them to either a CD or a DVD, since they are small enough to fit on a CD. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 check current port options before updating
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, zszal...@ovi.com wrote: I have been wondering how I can check current options of a port before I update it. The port in question (apache22) has a number of options and I would like to look at the current ones so that I do not install options that I may not need. I'd appreciate if you can point me to a reference or a command that does it. Will make config show it? make showconfig -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: wlan setup
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Derek Funk wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:00 -0500, Derek Funk wrote: [ ... ] Drivers are loaded and I tried using SYNCDHCP instead of just DHCP in rc.conf. I even tried my own entry in devd.conf as shown in a google search. But still it links to the access point but does not get an IP. Not to belabor the obvious, but do you have a working DHCP server available to the WAP? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: First World (Was: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?)
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Gary Gatten wrote: Interesting analogy. Osama - er, I mean Obama could really use people like you to explain things better to him, 'cause obviously he has NO idea what his various and numerous Czars and advisors are saying. Or maybe they're all barely functional and don't know any better I'm sure the OP found that extremely helpful. Thanks for the trenchant incisiveness. Right on topic, too. Oh wait, this is a FBSD list... Ah, FBSD Rules! Long live FBSD! Right. On Mon, August 22, 2011 7:19 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I live in some 3rd world country (BTW, how does one become 1st world?) Back in the day, you'd have needed to join NATO... (2nd world, of course, required joining the Warsaw Pact.) These days, I subscribe to the 'soda theory'. At the lowest level of an economy, you can only buy one of Pepsi or Coke. A step up, and you will have a choice. The next step beyond that, you have a choice between Sprite and 7-Up. A first world economy will have multiple choices for any flavor of soda, including things like Root Beer, Grape, or Sport Drinks. In fact, you will have specialty sodas in most flavors, that are in limited distribution by area, but still in major market retailers. They will often be sold at prices near or above half an hour's wage (at minimum wage) for a single soda. (Vs. Coke or Pepsi, which are usually sold at half that or less.) ;) Daniel T. Staal (How is Kenya these days? I haven't been there in 10 years or so...) --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ 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 font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font ___ 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 -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: extracting text from docx files
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:57:51PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: But if you really, really need to read docx, you can try the web application from Microsoft. A few months ago, I got also a lot of docx and I opend it with the microsoft web app; this worked for me to extract the information... More information: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/ The downside: ?you have to sign up on a microsoft service :( Can also use libreoffice. It is in the ports system :) Without installing anything, Google Docs also opens *.docx files, if needed. There are other options too, but it depends on what Anton wants to install* or just view* extract? Well.. I don't really want to install anything just to read docx. So probably something as small as possible. libreoffice (even if it's in ports, which I dearly love) looks like a monster of a package, so I'm not sure. Maybe an online service? If you don't have too many to convert at one time, and there's nothing secret in them, you could try http://www.doc2pdf.net/ - I've never used it, so caveat clicktor. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 on IBM 3630
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Peter Toth wrote: Anyone is running IBM 3630 out there with FreeBSD? Short: Try Harder ;-) Medium: If one ask a better question, one gets better answers. Well said. I misread the subject at first, and thought the OP was asking about running FreeBSD on an IBM 360 =:^O Long: You may improve responses by adding eg: - Why you want to know Thinking of buying or selling ? Got it working thinking of adding to compatabiity list ? Or ... ? - If you have one, try it attach dmesg or error message etc. - Summarise hardware, at least attach a URL such as: http://www.highlander-estore.com/products.asp?partno=737742G or find some better URL eg from: http://www.google.com/#hl=ensugexp=ldymlspq=dmesg%20%22ibm%203630%22%20freebsdxhr=tq=+%22IBM+3630%22cp=0pf=psclient=psysource=hpaq=faqi=aql=oq=+%22IBM+3630%22+FreeBSDpbx=1bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.fp=7ff7d408b5d36764biw=1560bih=836bs=1 Listing chipsets/ cards usually helps. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; indent with ; Cumulative like a play script. Mail plain text: Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. ___ 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 -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: RAM needed for DHCP + router?
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? FWIW, I can tell you some experiences that I've had. Thanks, Jaime, this is very useful. From what I'm hearing, it seems as though a 32-bit machine with maxed-out RAM would be more than adequate to the task. I'll be NAT'ing a class A worth of addresses, /16 of which will be DHCP range. But as I said, throughput will be near-zero; the NAT is for allowing occasional internet access for embedded controllers here and there, not for a thundering herd of desktop users. The machine will be mainly for serving DHCP, and is not the point of internet access for the organization. Many thanks to all who responded. Example #1: At one time, I had as many as 600-800 desktops and laptops receiving DHCP leases and DNS resolution from a single FreeBSD (5.x?) server. It was an old Dell desktop that a college had discarded/donated. I think it was something like 800MHz and 1GB of RAM. From what I remember seeing in top, uptime, et. al. it was like the server was bored. It was barely doing anything. Example #2: I'm currently running a school district with about 800 computers, some iPads and Nooks, a few dozen network printers, streaming video off of at least 3 DVRs, and whatever people bring in (unauthorized... we'll be fixing that shortly). So let's call it around 1000 - 1300 nodes. The entire thing is running through a FreeBSD system with two 100Mbps cards. I use IPFW to hijack certain TCP ports and redirect them into DansGuardian. This makes a transparent proxy. DG and Squid and BIND and ClamAV and snmpd, the Xymon client all run on this box. It acts as a secondary DNS resolver, secondary DNS server for internal addresses, web proxy, web content analysis and filtering, and more. Its 8GB of RAM and a 2.0GHz dual core CPU. Its doing the job just fine. No complaints. Every employee uses web-based services every day. We even use a fair amount of streaming video. Again, this works well. I've even heard of people managing to use NetFlix on occasion. It will saturate our Internet bandwidth before this server goes down. I have the graphs to prove it. Since you are talking about the box doing NAT, you may find yourself wanting a web proxy service and/or internal DNS resolver at some point. The NAT and DHCP services are, in my experience, not going to be a big deal. Configuring BIND to offer internal DNS resolution would add very little to your load. I would be really surprised if any desktop PC that you found for $500-$1000 wasn't up to the task. That said, here is the important part: This is going to be a single-point-of-failure for your institution. If it goes down for any reason, your entire business is off-line. That includes everything from bad hardware to a routine software upgrade (FreeBSD or a port). Do yourself a HUGE favor and build a redundancy system of some kind. For example, I'm currently trying to replace the DansGuardian/Squid/DNS server I listed above with a pair of servers using CARP http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/carp.html. That way, I can upgrade the OS whenever I want and the district's 800 authorized computers (and 50-200 unauthorized computers, phones, tablets, etc.) keep working. Seriously. Make it redundant. Its the most important lesson a systems administrator must learn. Well, that and scripting. OK, and documentation. :) Hope that helps, Jaime -- Network Administrator Cairo-Durham Central School District http://cns.cairodurham.org -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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
RAM needed for DHCP + router?
Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? This box will be running isc-dhcpd, doing NAT either via natd or pf, and not much else. I expect the amount of traffic (throughput) to be very small, but the address space involved is quite large, at least by my standards. It seems to me that this will require potentially large amounts of memory for routing tables, etc., but not much disk. I'll be installing the latest -RELEASE; 32-bit if I can, 64-bit if I must, depending on how much memory it looks like I'll need. I may also install webmin for the benefit of my computer-literate-but-not-unix-savvy coworkers. Thanks! -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: RAM needed for DHCP + router?
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Gary Gatten wrote: Your biggest consumers would be FBSD itself and the routing tables. I *think* full internet routing tables are still less than 512MB, (google to check), so unless you have more routes than that - 512MB may work, 1GB most likely will. Too many unknowns, like; is this ipv4 only or 6 and 4 routes? Tweaked/minimal kernel, etc. Sorry, forgot to mention: inet4 for now, probably mixed with v6 in years to come. GENERIC kernel if at all possible (trying to minimize maintenance and general fussiness level). And in reponse to Chuck, How many DHCP leases and NAT clients? At any one time, probably dozens (maybe hundreds) of leases and hundreds (maybe thousands) of NAT clients, but not tens of thousands. Leases and NAT clients will come and go on a daily or weekly basis as equipment is tested, configured and shipped out. - Original Message - From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 06:46 PM To: FreeBSD Questions List questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RAM needed for DHCP + router? Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? This box will be running isc-dhcpd, doing NAT either via natd or pf, and not much else. I expect the amount of traffic (throughput) to be very small, but the address space involved is quite large, at least by my standards. It seems to me that this will require potentially large amounts of memory for routing tables, etc., but not much disk. I'll be installing the latest -RELEASE; 32-bit if I can, 64-bit if I must, depending on how much memory it looks like I'll need. I may also install webmin for the benefit of my computer-literate-but-not-unix-savvy coworkers. Thanks! -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis
On Sun, 8 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote:
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
My question is the following:
How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert
them to ogg vorbis(with ogg extension already in place/or rename them
in one step[instead of running two scripts] and deleting the mp3's)
all in one time?
I had a similar (but not identical) problem
[ snip ]
My script is at http://pastebin.com/77NRE6SZ - maybe you can adapt it
to your needs.
Thank you for your suggestion. But I have gotten into a problem I get
errors and too many directories :(, Directories with spaces get
recreated and no ogg files are created :(
If your directory and/or file names have spaces, you will have to quote
the filenames somehow: 'file name' vs. file_name. Maybe you could escape
the spaces? None of my names have spaces, for exactly this reason.
[ Script mostly snipped ]
=
#!/bin/sh
# From Steve Parker, only slightly modified:
[ snip ]
traverse()
{
# Traverse a directory
ls $1 | while read i
do
if [ -d $1/$i ]; then
THISDIR=$1/$i
# Calling this as a subshell means that when the called
# function changes directory, it will not affect our
# current working directory
if [ -d $OGGROOT/$THISDIR ]; then
# directory exists, leave it be
echo $OGGROOT/$THISDIR already exists, not created.
else
mkdir $OGGROOT/$THISDIR
echo Copying $THISDIR to $OGGROOT/$THISDIR
fi
traverse $1/$i `expr $2 + 1`
else
[ snip ]
fi
done
}
traverse . 0
=
I have modified to above script. I don't get how the directory
structure is copied? I don't see a cp -r from_directory/ to
_directory/ then mplayer -ao
There is no cp -R. What this is doing is replicating the directory
structure, then copying each file. I missed it too, the first several
times I looked at it. Almost the entire script is the definition of the
traverse() function, which is called in the last line. The function then
calls itself whenever it finds a directory, which makes it recurse. I
thought it was pretty clever; wish I'd thought of it.
[ snip ]
Thanks for helping. I am experimenting and trying not to shoot myself
in the foot.
So was I; that's the main reason why there are all those `echo
something` lines - I wanted to see what it would try to do, before
actually turning it loose on my files. That and the fact that doing all
the conversions takes a few hours.
Good luck.
--
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Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: My question is the following: How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert them to ogg vorbis(with ogg extension already in place/or rename them in one step[instead of running two scripts] and deleting the mp3's) all in one time? I had a similar (but not identical) problem, and I wrote a script to solve it. I wanted to recursively go through a directory tree, find flac files, and make mp3s of them while transferring over the ID3 tags, while keeping a duplicate directory structure for the mp3s. And don't do the conversion if the file already exists. My script is based on traverse2.sh by Steve Parker, which is at http://steve-parker.org/sh/eg/directories/. His tutorial site is extremely helpful, and I recommend it. My script is at http://pastebin.com/77NRE6SZ - maybe you can adapt it to your needs. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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 basics (was Re: For My Edification)
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Louis Marrero wrote: I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to shed some light on. I shall endeavor to provide dumb answers in return :^) For *good* answers, a great place to start is the Handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html. In addition, I'm sure some of the many smart people on this list will speak up. Also, notice that I've changed the subject line to reflect a hint of the message's content. This list is archived, and anyone searching later migh not know to use 'edification' as a search term. Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to understand a very experienced programmer friend that mixes Linux/Unix terminology in his vocabulary under the assumption that everyone knows the language. Being familiar only with general knowledge on the Windows XP that I use daily, I've gone on the web to find out more information on some of the terms used by this programmer, such as BSD, shell terminal, nc -u, etc. Since my friend knows that my computer is strictly MS Windows, when my friend writes down something like In a shell terminal type nc -u 10.101.97.200 . it makes me wonder what I'm missing. When he says shell terminal, think command prompt. nc is netcat, but I didn't know Windows had that. In your friend's defense, I use Windows every day (at work) and I can't always remember what things are called. Especially since MS changes terminology every now and then, evidently just for the hell of it. 1. I know that Windows is an OS, and Linux/Unix as well as FreeBSD are other Operating System. My very basic question is this: Is it even possible to install a second OS, like FreeBSD on an existing Windows-based computer? Yes. You can either set it up for dual boot - either by adding a second hard drive, or by partitioning your existing drive if there's space - or you can run another OS within a virtual machine of some sort. The latter would need a pretty fast machine if the guest OS is to have decent performance. Having said that, I found it easier to get started using an old PC that was too slow to run a modern Windows, but perfectly fine for a GUI-free BSD. I'm typing this on an old Dell that I bought on ebay. 2. Is it possible to link my Windows laptop to a web server with Unix or FreeBSD and exercise Unix/Linux commands. If so, how is that done? The server's admin would have to give you a shell account. Most commercial ISPs won't do that, but maybe your friend will. I'd be grateful for any information. Hope this helps, and welcome. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)
Devin, Thanks for the reply. Info inline. On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:51 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: david.robi...@fisglobal.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Teske, Devin Subject: RE: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped) On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Devin Teske wrote: Continue on to create a 2nd [visible] partition beyond the primary bootable [invisible] partition (allowing you to use the remainder of your thumb drive for usable storage)... 5. Execute: echo p 2 0x0c * * | fdisk -f - /dev/da5 NOTE: again, assuming `da5' is your thumb drive tripel# echo p 2 0x0c * * | fdisk -f - /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** fdisk: Class not found tripel# Hmmm. Odd. That's worked for me on FreeBSD-4.11, 6.1, 7.2, and 8.1 (both i386 and amd64). I zeroed the thumb drive as you suggested, but got the same result from `echo p 2 0x0c * * | fdisk -f - /dev/da0` as before. BTW, that wiping of the thumb drive took over 14 hours! I should have thought to specify a large block size. What's the output of: uname -spr FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386 Also, after completing the dd(1) command, what's the output of: fdisk -p /dev/da5 It should look something like this: # /dev/da5 g c31 h64 s32 p 1 0x17 1 64259 a 1 Here's a sequence of events, after dd'ing the Druid iso: tripel# fdisk -p /dev/da0 # /dev/da0 g c1945 h255 s63 p 1 0x17 1 64259 a 1 tripel# echo p 2 0x0c * * | fdisk -f - /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** fdisk: Class not found tripel# fdisk -p /dev/da0 # /dev/da0 g c1945 h255 s63 p 1 0x17 1 64259 a 1 p 2 0x0c 64260 31182165 Does this mean the second fdisk succeeded, despite what looked like an error? Something you might also want to try is zapping the disk (wiping all contents) prior to trying again: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da5 -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Devin Teske wrote: Continue on to create a 2nd [visible] partition beyond the primary bootable [invisible] partition (allowing you to use the remainder of your thumb drive for usable storage)... 5. Execute: echo p 2 0x0c * * | fdisk -f - /dev/da5 NOTE: again, assuming `da5' is your thumb drive tripel# echo p 2 0x0c * * | fdisk -f - /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** fdisk: Class not found tripel# Any notion why? `man fdisk` isn't much help. Thanks. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: grep: write error: Broken pipe
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, ?? ??? wrote: My other question is, those of you who answer questions and debug problems on this list, what do you all get out of it? I feel kind of selfish asking for what is basically free technical support; how best can I repay you all? When you become knowledgeable, start answering questions yourself. I rarely have anything to contribute, but when I do I'll answer a question. As to why, there's an element of long-term self-interest: the more successes there are, the larger the user base becomes, the more experts develop. As a FreeBSD user, it's in my interest to have a large installed base and a large and robust user community since this will (I think and hope) ultimately mean more awareness from hardware makers and thus a continued supply of hardware I can use. Well, applications software too. And if you become an expert, maybe you can answer *my* question next time :^) -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ 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: android
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, ajtiM wrote: I bought HTC Inspire 4G phone and I lie to upload some mp3 files. When I connected a phoe to the USB port I got: da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da4: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da4: 4 MB/s transfers How can I mount it, please? Your phone might be similar to my HTC Evo. In the phone, I had to go to Settings - Connect to PC and set 'Default connection type' to 'Disk drive'. Once I did that, I could mount the phone in the same manner as a thumb drive. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Is there a 'Y' (i.e. branch) version of a command pipe?
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Modulok wrote: Is there a command that lets me send standard input to two different places at the same time? (i.e. non-sequentially.) Think of it like a pipe character, but with a 'Y' branch instead. Basically, I want to record standard input to a log file, but also send it to another command for processing. tee(1)? [snip] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Julian H. Stacey wrote: [ snip ] - There are small clones of standard vi, with executables no larger than ee, could replace ee. I think ee is actually a good choice for this application. vi can be a little frustrating for those who rarely use it, and it's downright impenetrable to someone who has never seen it before. With ee, a newb has a fighting chance. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Digital camera (Canon)
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Bernt Hansson wrote: I have a digital camera, Canon powershoot sx130 is. That I wish to mount. The camera contains an sd-card that I wish to extract the photos from. ugen2.2: canon inc. at usbus2 I have a Canon Powershot S5IS that behaves similarly. I have found that it can't be mounted like a disk drive, even though you would think it should work that way. Instead, I have to use gtkam to get the pictures off of it - /usr/ports/graphics/gtkam Also had to change some system stuff in order to be able to do this as an ordinary user: Added to /etc/devfs.conf # Allow members of group operator to use USB own usb*root:operator permusb*0660 ...and here is my /etc/devfs.rules in its entirety: # Added so ordinary users can use the USB camera if they are # members of group 'usb' # [usb_devices=10] add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group usb add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group usb # # 20091231: added the following for 8.0, since usb is handled # differently now. Hoping this will make gtkam work. add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group usb HTH... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: hostname
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Tim Kellers wrote: On 10/30/10 4:00 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: how can I set the hostname so that it persists through reboots? I have set the hostname I want in /etc/hosts but rebooting the change does not show up. In CentOS you have /etc/hostname which serves this purpose but in FreeBSD I don't know how to do this. thanks edit /etc/rc.conf and enter: hostname=[put your hostname here] change the [put your hostname here] to your actual hostname. And it will load the name on (re)boot. If you don't want to wait for reboot, you can set it immediately by typing hostname putyourhostnamehere as root, substituting your desired host name for putyourhostnamehere. Also see `man hostname`. Note, this is *in addition to* editing rc.conf. The hostname command sets the hostname right now, and rc.conf makes it happen on each boot. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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 now [green] KDE?
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Gary Kline wrote: It has been nearly ten years since I last dealt with getting-X-going. Right now I have ballpark 530 ports installed. Can anybody give me the command that I can type from /usr/ports? Last time I installed X, I used the x11/xorg metaport and pkg_add: pkg_add -r xorg ...much faster than building ports. I don't know how much about KDE, but I'd suggest that you get X working first and then tackle KDE, rather than try to do everything in one big step. Also, what do I add to ~kline/[*]? I have the file .xinitrc in ~, but I think that gets created by the xorg install process. Don't know what you would need for KDE, but I would hope the package/port would create a default version of whatever you need. Hope it goes well! -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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 question
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: [snip] I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like it will install a huge amount of software that will not get used. I am reluctant to do this. I have installed 8.0-RELEASE from the CD and I want to run olvwm for a desktop. I have been using Solaris 2.6 with the OpenWindows desktop for 12 years and consider it to be as close to perfection as one can get. I am being forced, kicking and screaming, to move to some other type of Unix on a PC and would like to continue using OpenWindows. It is probably going to be an uphill battle to get olvwm to work. Am I going to have to install xorg to get everything needed? It really is the simplest way to get X working, and IMHO the least painful way to install xorg is to use the package. Without installing the xorg meta-port, you'd end up installing a lot of it by hand anyway. Come to think of it - since olvwm is a port (/usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm), I *guess* it would pull in all of xorg as a dependency anyway. I, too, took a long time to come around to the idea that it doesn't do any harm to have unused software lying around. Disk is cheap; life is short. Hope this helps. Best regards, Fred Tim Kellers wrote: Fred, From man startx(1): SEE ALSO xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5) Try: # whereis X If X is installed, it should return: # X: /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which if X is installed should return: # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X xorg-server-1.7.5,1 If it doesn't, then the full X server isn't installed: Try: # whereis xorg xorg: /usr/ports/x11/xorg If xorg isn't installed, cd to: /usr/ports/x11/xorg and make config-recursive (If you add any options, run make config-recursive a second time after the shell prompt returns) and then make install clean HTH Tim Kellers On 08/12/10 15:40, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hi Oliver and Tim, I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns nothing and man startx returns nothing. Fred Tim Kellers wrote: /usr/ports/x11/xinit On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): beta# whereis startx startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx xinit-1.2.0 beta# whereis xinit xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz /usr/ports/x11/xinit I' m not certain about the p5/Perl TK questions, but in the file: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk/pkg-descr there is this description: This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4 (John Ousterhout's production release). Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not been verified as compliant. It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge. The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented. This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+. Tim Kellers On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hello, Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under X11 but I don't want to install all of them to find it. Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? Best regards, Fred ___ 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 -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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:resize freebsd slice
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: only /home is in a diferent partition,but i don't care because i don't have any file in it (only .xinitrc,but this is not a prob) i give as a root the command dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/ /dev/ad0s3a but i receive the following error: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 12 01:39:31 2010 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad0s3a (/) to /mnt/hd/FBSD/ DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 6843871 tape blocks. DUMP: Cannot open output /mnt/hd/FBSD/. DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: (yes or no) i tried to reopen the output but it had no effect. Is there a filesystem at /mnt/hd/FBSD/? Please show us the output of the df command. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: office apps
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: [...] I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office tool, if only for converting from a different format. I'm currently doing that work on a Windows workstation, but I'd like to limit my involvement with Windows to only developing for it when I must. I have clients like that too. What I've done - only once or twice, and really just to be a dick - is to do my writeup in ASCII text, then `mv foo foo.doc`. There, it's in word format! And Word really can open the file, so... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: unexpected operator .sh error
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Aiza wrote: Added some code to a .sh script. When I run the script works but issues this message [: =: unexpected operator No line number telling where to look. I am not ever sure its talking about. IS [: whats wrong or =: I'd guess that what you added includes something like if [ x=y ] ... The open-square-bracket, [, is another name for test. IIRC the equal sign is not valid in that context. Can you post the 'before' and 'after' versions of that part of your script? It would help us in determining what the problem is. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Chip Camden wrote: [snip] Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for both FreeBSD and Windows clients? I built a FreeNAS last year which works like a champ for FreeBSD and Windows XP clients. I'm using it for backups: rsync for the FreeBSD clients, NASbackup for the Windows ones. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: .Xmodmap problems after upgrading to Xorg 7.5
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Joey Mingrone wrote: My .Xmodmap is included below. When I run %xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap the output is: xmodmap: .Xmodmap:13: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes [snip] When I encounter an unfamiliar error, I'll paste the entire error text into google. Sometimes that helps. Does anyone know why the keysyms aren't mapping to the keycodes? All I can offer is my own .Xmodmap, which is a small subset of yours. [snip] remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Control = Control_L It looks like you're trying to end up with two left-control keys and no CapsLock. My .Xmodmap wants to swap CapsLock with the left Control key, for which purpose the following works. I don't know if the order of remove, keysym and add matters, but it might. remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L [snip] HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: booting??
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:59:35 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (I did try # cdrecord dev=1,0,0 foo.iso on a non-empty and and empty DVD. no joy. I'm not sure it's safe to use cdrecord for DVDs. Anyway, I always wqas lucky using growisofs (from port dvd+rw-tools). This is the command: # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=foo.iso You can replace /dev/dvd with the ATAPICAM device refering to your DVD recorder, usually something like /dev/cd0. The command # camcontrol devlist shows you the device name (l?ok for the SCSI ID 1,0,0 as from your cdrecord example). what are the magic commands to use from the cmdline to erase my dvd? is there a utility to erase? In man growisofs I found this: Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blanking. If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'. This should work, or try the respective cdrecord blank= command (all or fast). In addition to Polytropon's sage advice, I need to mention that you never said that these were rewritable DVDs you're working with. Not saying you're that dumb, but *I* am that dumb so it's the sort of thing I might have overlooked. Also, make sure that (assuming they are rewritable) they are the right kind for your drive: the plus and minus discs are not the same; that's DVD+RW versus DVD-RW. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Addition to BSDstats
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:12:21PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: BSDSTATS is dead. Don't waste your time. Not dead, still very active with reports in daily ... i see a golden opportunity here, marc. why not post the basic onlist now? i've been signed up for a long while and have never checked ... be nice to see the latest stats. Stats are updated real time ... just go to http://www.bsdstats.org ... The only stats that aren't working right now are the ports ones, not sure why we disabled that one, but suspect alot of it is size / load time related ... the database is *huge* for that ... I'm going to have to look into that one ... Since we're on the topic, and in light of Fbsd1's recent adventure... Panama seems awfully high in the country stats. I understand what you said upthread about haproxy being in Panama, but it's a small country to be always at the top; maybe there's some way to differentiate between really in Panama and don't know? It also seems odd that I, personally, as a home user, should be responsible for about 3% of the bsdstats-reporting FreeBSD machines in the US. (3 hosts out of 101) Just wondering. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Network laser printcap
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Graham Bentley wrote: Could anyone using a network laser printer post their working /etc/printcap entry? Having mixed results getting a Kyocera FS-1010 working consistently on both ascii ps This has been working for many years, 4.x through 8.0: lp|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :mx#0:\ :lp=:rm=snowball:rp=auto: ...snowball is the printer's hostname. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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 use cdrecord
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Aiza wrote: [snip] tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast gives this error Open by devname not supported on this OS. What device am i to use? cdrecord wants to see your ATA burner as a SCSI device, so you'd use cdrecord dev=1,0,0 ... The numbers after dev= depend on where your burner is; find it using cdrecord -scanbus HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: RS232 / TCP converter and BSD.
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Olivier GARNIER wrote: I have a weather station (Lacross WS2350). (can be connect by USB / RS232). I want to get data from a FreeBSD server 70 meter from the weather station (with http://www.wviewweather.com/ software). I already have a RJ45 cable between the two objects. I wish i could get a RS232 to RJ45 connecter like this one : http://www.lextronic.fr/P6554-convertisseur-tcpip--rs232-cse-h53.html And use it to connect the weather station to the RJ45 network, and then get data from my BSD. The bad point is that the soft witch are given with the RS232 to RJ45 translater are for windows, and it make a virtual port on windows. I don't know if it will work on BSD. If it does not work, i'll be oblige to buy another RJ45 to RS232 translater... and it's not cheap. Has anybody already done a such network ? I have used this: http://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=iplts6s=0 ...with no issues. This one has six RS232 ports; they also make versions with one, two and four ports. The interface is software-neutral - just open a TCP connection to the device on port 2001, and everything you send and receive from the socket goes through the RS232 port. There is an embedded web server for configuration. I don't know what the pricing is on these things, but I'm sure they are not cheap (being Extron and all). But they are easy to use, work right and don't break. Just my opinion; hope this helps. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. Glen Barber posted this... http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: zfs on 8.0-RELEASE
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Victor Lyapunov wrote: I wanted to ask a simple question, is ZFS now ready to be used on production systems? From Thursday's announcement: - ZFS no longer in experimental status ...so I would guess the answer is 'yes'. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I need some basic information about Wifi routers - very little I know about it. There is my FreeBSD-server (the other one is Linux) and some clients are connected with a LAN-switch. Now I want to add a Wifi Router to the network. I am not sure if I can set up the router without using some Windows software what comes with the router. My questions: I just connect the Wifi router to the LAN and it should work? Or do I need any software (drivers) to keep the thing running? In the simplest case, yes, you can just plug it in. But see below. There must be some software to 'talk' to the router - for setup. Is there anything available for FreeBSD or do I need Windows environment (what I dont have available)? What did you use to install your Wifi-router? It depends on the router. Many if not most routers provide a web based configuration tool, but a special application may be needed to update firmware. I have an airport extreme, works great, but no web interface. My DSL is a 3Com with WiFi, it also has a web interface. I have seen routers that allows a commandline configuration tool, connect with ssh or telnet and upload or download the configuration with ftp. I have never installed an airport, but I have installed many consumer-grade Linksys, D-Link and Netgear WiFi boxes. They *all* have had a web interface and were pretty simple to set up. One thing to watch out for: before plugging in the ethernet wire, check the manual to see what the box's default IP address is. If it's the same as your gateway, you'll have to take steps to isolate them during the time it takes to change the WiFi box's IP. Other than changing the IP (and a password), all I've ever done is set up the wireless channel, SSID and encryption (type and key). HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacques Henry wrote: The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time. Slewing 587 seconds takes days. The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several hours!! If I may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if it started out close. Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the obvious thing to do. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Updating the ports collection
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup; it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment. Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all I do the same, and run csup as: csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports ...where /etc/supfile.ports is pretty much as above. In that case, it doesn't matter what default host is set to, since the -h option to csup overrides the default. The '-c us' part applies to me, but it might not for you; see the man page. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: DVD-R not recording .iso
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax? Caveats about anything I say: 1) I'm using 7.2, and b) I'm using +R media. Nothing is wrong with the syntax, although your command above says the ISO file is in a directory called /path. Does the directory exist? Is the ISO in that directory? Permissions OK on everything? Does /dev/cd0 point to your burner? And as Adam said, make sure you have atapicam loaded. I'm also assuming that dot at the end of your line is a period at the end of your sentence, and not part of the command you issued. Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? It burns the ISO to the disk as a premastered disk, which is what you want in this situation. If you wanted to just copy the ISO as a file, you'd replace the = sign with a space. Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? I have no idea what somebody on the BSD forum said :^) HTH. Hang loose. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Looking for fast graphical web browser
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:27:34AM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes. What version number would you call some time ago? I just used Ctrl-Q about six hours or so ago. I've used it too, but more like six years ago. I have not kept notes on the version numbers, just one day noticed Ctrl-Q not working anymore after an update. But I would guess it was sometime around the 1.x - 2.x transition. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Looking for fast graphical web browser
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:36 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:15:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Firefox even seems to lack a key to quit the program. :-) That's easy. Just press Ctrl+Q and it'll close Firefox immediately. Negative for firefox-2.0.0.12,1 (on my desktop system) - no Ctrl+Q. :-) Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: need network printer printcap example
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, dacoder wrote: has anybody got an example of a printcap file w/ an entry for a standalone network printer? i'd be grateful for one. Here's mine - been working for years: lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :mx#0:\ :lp=:rm=snowball:rp=auto: The printer's hostname is snowball, resolved via /etc/hosts at first and now via internal DNS. This printer understands Postscript and plain text, and has always Just Worked with no CUPS, filters or any of that stuff needed. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have been looking for and have not been able to find out if there is a driver for FreeBSD6.4 that supports the RTL8111-GR network adaptor. This is a port that is built into the Intel DG31PR Motherboard. Has anyone been able man 4 re says it support RTL8111 but i have FreeBSD 7.1 I have a 6.4 machine (about to be retired). On that machine, man 4 re says it supports the RTL8111S, but does not mention the RTL8111GR. My guess is that your GR will probably work, but it's only a guess. If worse comes to worst, throw in a PCI ethernet card from the parts bin. For reference, you can find man pages for many BSDs (and others) at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi - for FreeBSD, this covers 7.2-RELEASE back to 1.0-RELEASE. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Java without CUPS
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 22:34:52 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: I know that, since my printer speaks Postscript, I don't need CUPS. But some of the ports I'm installing want to install CUPS as a dependency. The first one I happened across was java/jdk16, but I'd be surprised if there weren't more. Just as an information: Gimp (Gutenprint) installs CUPS, allthough I already have apsfilter (HP Laserjet 4000 PCL). When printing, Gimp still tries to connect to server (lpstat). Ah, I didn't know that. It would be nice if they didn't assume... well, never mind. But I think it's possible to delete CUPS from the system after JDK is compiled successfully: CUPS isn't listed in RUN_DEPENDS so it doesn't seem to be required for running JDK / Java. That seems like a reasonable workaround, being that I'm lazy and all :^) Thank you for being the voice of reason, and for the obscure Homer references. Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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
Java without CUPS
Hello list, I know that, since my printer speaks Postscript, I don't need CUPS. But some of the ports I'm installing want to install CUPS as a dependency. The first one I happened across was java/jdk16, but I'd be surprised if there weren't more. Could it be as simple as # make -DWITHOUT_CUPS install ? I see no such possibility in either the config options or the Makefile for jdk16, and google was no help. It's not like the disk space costs anything nowadays, but I chafe at installing unneccesary bloat on my system. If it can't be done I'll deal, but I'd like to stay CUPS-free if possible. Thanks very much for any insight. $ uname -mv FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Portsnap vs CSup
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Charles Howse wrote: On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote: I just noticed the description in the man page for freebsd-update: ...Note that updates are only available if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture being used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. Is this saying that I can't get a binary upgrade for 6.4-STABLE? That is exactly what it's saying. (You would not believe how long the make world process takes on a Pentium 200!!) I believe it; been there! I seem to recall it went something like 'start the buildworld and go to bed'. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: is there a laptop ?
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Hendy wrote: I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is. Since nobody else has chimed in... HEAD refers to the bleeding edge, aka CURRENT. It's what you get if you have *default release=cvs tag=. in your supfile when you update the system (not ports). It changes frequently. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html [ Lengthy quote snipped 'cause this is OT anyway ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: USENET?
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Gary Kline wrote: are there any ports that offer an interface to USENET? I think mozilla did, but that was a long time ago ... . news/pan seems to work OK, if you want a GUI. But be aware that nowadays, you'll probably have to pay a monthly fee for usenet. ISPs don't seem to routinely offer it as part of the deal anymore like they used to. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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 on reliable home fileserver hardware?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Clifton Royston wrote: [snip] Can anyone recommend an integrated SFF system or other small case/mobo combination which they're using with FreeBSD 6 or 7, and which is both long-lived and fairly quiet? (It sits on my desk, and near my wife's desk, so the vacuum-cleaner-like noise levels from many 1U servers will not cut it.) As I am running two 200G PATA drives in gmirror - this has saved me twice now - one additional requirement is that it must fit at least two standard 3.5 hard drives and have an IDE interface. (Eventually I may switch over to SATA but would rather not change everything at the same time.) I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. I'm comfortable either building my own system, or buying a packaged system if it offers better value. I have a Dell GX150 SFF which has been running 24/7 for about two years now with no problems (knock on wood). Right now it's running 7.1-PRERELEASE from November. It's small and very quiet; I like it. You may have issues with: a) it nominally only supports one hard drive, but there are slimline spots for optical and diskette drives, so you may be able to commandeer one of those for a second hard drive; b) the machine I have has SATA interface, which is truly nothing to fear. From FreeBSD's standpoint, it looks exactly like ATA. If I were trying to do what you want to do, I'd probably end up with one HD running SATA in the hard drive slot, and the other running PATA in the optical slot. I don't know if the physical dimensions would work out for that. See the service manual at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx150/sm_en/smdsktp.htm ..and the user guide at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx150/en/ug/index.htm Anyway, I've had good luck so far with Dell desktop hardware; it seems to be well-made, easy to work with and QUIET. Check it out if you can get a machine cheap or free. Hope this helps. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Nice web interface or music?
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: I's like to set up my MP3's so that I can access them from the web server on my Free-BSD 7.1 machine. Is there a port, that provides a nice interface to this? I'd like something better than just letting Apache display the directories. I like audio/squeezecenter. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Nice web interface or music?
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 03:29:05PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: I's like to set up my MP3's so that I can access them from the web server on my Free-BSD 7.1 machine. Is there a port, that provides a nice interface to this? I'd like something better than just letting Apache display the directories. I like audio/squeezecenter. K, I installed the port, and pointed my browserr at port 9000 to cofigure it as the instructions sugewsted. I got a page congratulating me on my purchase of some hardware, andit said I needed to create an account on thier system. Weird What am I misunderstanding here? Sorry for the brevity earlier. The squeezecenter software is intended for use in supporting the Squeezebox family of hardware music players made by Logitech, hence the congrats. You *don't* actually have to create any account, and I'm not sure why they ask you to. You don't have to buy a player either; I use the included Java Web Start virtual player. On the web interface, look under Extras - SoftSqueeze and use either the applet or the JWS. Or you could buy a player [later], or both. You also need to put your music on the server in order to serve it (!). I have mine in a hierarchy of directories for artists and albums, but I guess you could just put your (properly tagged) mp3s on the machine somewhere. Tell squeezecenter where it is and have it re-scan. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Nice web interface or music?
Please keep the list cc'd since others may know more than I do. On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 04:29:18PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: Sorry for the brevity earlier. The squeezecenter software is intended for use in supporting the Squeezebox family of hardware music players made by Logitech, hence the congrats. You *don't* actually have to create any account, and I'm not sure why they ask you to. You don't have to buy a player either; I use the included Java Web Start virtual player. On the web interface, look under Extras - SoftSqueeze and use either the applet or the JWS. Or you could buy a player [later], or both. Thanks for taking the time to help out with this. What I am trying to do is make the music available to some friends of mine, who live in a diferent city. I want them to be ble to downlaod the songs, so that can play them on thier Ipods, and alos listen to the music streamed from my machine. I would first get it working on your local network, then work on the remote part. OK, I downloaded, and ran that. You also need to put your music on the server in order to serve it (!). I have mine in a hierarchy of directories for artists and albums, but I guess you could just put your (properly tagged) mp3s on the machine somewhere. Tell squeezecenter where it is and have it re-scan. Right, I have them in the webservers tree. I figured out how to point the software at them, and created a new directory for the project, Now I can work my way through picking musinc, but when I press that play Icon (right hand top of the screen). it does not play the misc. What am I doing wrong? I'm guessing that when you say screen, you mean the web interface to the Squeezecenter server, accessed via http://your_servers_ip:9000. That screen talks to the server; it does not control the local machine on which you are browsing to it. Presumably the local machine has the X display, sound card etc. Just to confuse the issue some more, the server can run on the same machine as you're browsing from. Although you don't need to buy a hardware player, you (and whatever friends want to listen later) will have to run some sort of player. As I said before, if you don't want to buy a hardware player you can use either of the two built-in Java-based software players. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: Image Programs
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, G magicman wrote: 1. Does Freebsd have a program like Photoshop avail to use a copy-left GNU license type ? and a form of Thumbsplus which allows me to do rudimentary picture manipulations changing file type, cropping etc. i have all the 3d programs but not these 2 basic ones. Like Photoshop, the best I can think of is the GIMP (/usr/ports/graphics/gimp or http://www.gimp.org/). I hear tell Photoshop is more capable, but I haven't used it in about 10 years so I don't really know. For basic editing (crop, resize, gamma, change file type) xv works just fine for me (/usr/ports/graphics/xv or http://www.trilon.com/xv/) BTW these are not part of FreeBSD, but developed and maintained by third parties. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ]___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repair v.7 installation
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, PJ wrote: [...] 1. On boot up and just before the crash there were warnings of an interrupt storm whatever that may mean and then there are messages about bad file descriptor; and there is a WARNING / was not properly dismounted (obviously because of the hardware problem) and init /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Last time I saw a bad file descriptor it was due to disk problems caused by a power hit since I had no UPS on that machine. In that case I was able to recover using the manufacturer's utility (seatools for the Seagate disk). 2. on bootup, there is a warning - /etc/rc WARNING run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/sbin/inetd 3. for login : in openpam_load_module (): no pam_opie.so found 4. login: pam_start(): system error 5. fsck gets wrong superblocks and cannot fix anything 6. When in single user mode, cannot access /usr or /var So, now I get the feeling that the installation is completely screwed. What I would like to recover is onle a bunch of files on the /usr partition like the web stuff for apache and some other files. All of these things smell like disk problems to me. But what do I know. What are my options? is there a way I could access these files? Booting from a live CD to recover your files to another drive has bee suggested, and that's a good idea. Apart from that, I would try the drive manufacturer's recovery tools before abandoning the system. Check their website and see if they don't have a bootable ISO with some sort of disk tools. HTH, and good luck. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replace XP with FreeBSD (was Re: (no subject))
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal server. I have been usining XP for several years now. Recently, I tried to install XP from my OEM cd and was notified by Gates and Company that XP would no longer be supported. Bummer! So what else is new? Time to part company with Bill? Vista was tha final straw. I need something that will replace XP in all the essentials but without a useless bag full of coverups for poor performance.. It depends on what you consider essential. I have been using FreeBSD as my daily desktop for maybe 10 years now. The only complaint I have is that Adobe steadfastly refuses to let us run a useable Flash player. Even that is Adobe's fault, not FreeBSD's. Debian was the first encouraging encounter. It was recommended as a cheap entry into the personal server concept, using a two to three year old PC chassis. Sounded good but I could never figure out just how to download it. If you should decide to give FreeBSD a shot, all you need is the disc1 image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/ -Well, also of course, a suitable machine on which to install. FreeBSD is a *lot* less resource-hungry than Windows in my experience. 7.1 is in beta right this minute, but it seems that release is imminent. There should be an announcement on the website when the time comes. Anyway, the idea is to download the ISO file, burn it to a CD, and boot the CD. If you're in the learing/experimenting phase, I would strongly suggest not doing the experiment on your only computer. You'll probably appreciate having a working web browser, email, etc. during the process. If you're used to Windows, this will be quite different. I like that FreeBSD does what you tell it to, not what it thought you might have wanted. Of course, that's a double-edged sword. So, FreeBSD appears in my fave list and server appears in the same paragraph as operating system. Here is my plan. I am 76, a retired Master Electrician, PC builder since '87, have a wife of 40 plus years, debilitating medical problems and a strong belief that I can milk a living out of internet affiliate marketing despite the current economic crisis. Good. You have been building PCs -and- doing wiring a lot longer than I have been doing either. Nobody needs to tell you what an IRQ is, or why a loose neutral might be a problem. My current model is to generate a basic website, use my existing isp to promote two consistent converting products, bootstrap the proceeds from that into building my own dedicated server to market 'how-to' products over a hundred or more websites. I have no business sense, and can't comment on the model. But I can say that you'd be hard-pressed to find a better server platform than FreeBSD. HTH, and good luck with the plan. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio streaming without kmplayer, etc???
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Gary Kline wrote: Only bleep-Doze or linux works, and I'd like a clue how to stream mp3 files using X browser on FBSD. If I try to stream or d/load with konq, it asks if I want to Save, Cancel, or use KMplayer. For most audio-- streams that last several minutes to two hours--KMplayer is fine. But for the few French language sites that stream one or two syllables at a time, I wind up with multiple KMplayers. (And linguist-dunce that I am, I'll reply a word or phrase 20-30 times. Yes, sorry, but I'm that bad. How do I stream an mp3 file without using a player Or is there a way? (I'd use Ubuntu 8.10, but the port is busted right now. Besides, it's time that it just-worked with FreeBSD. We've already got the most rock solid server OS; why can't we go the additional few centimeters? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but mplayer-plugin has worked under Firefox for a long time now. If you have a URL, I can try it from here. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automagically share knoqueror with ff3-- bookmarks?
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Gary Kline wrote: Is there any way, short of writing my own program, to use the tens of bookmarks i've set up under konq and drop them into firefox3? I don't know how other browsers work - and haven't investigated this in years - but the old Netscape/Mozilla way was to store bookmarks as an HTML file, e.g. ~/.mozilla/default/xc43whpq.slt/bookmarks.html Assuming both browsers work this way, maybe you could symlink one to the other? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked^M -- TECRA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Polytropon wrote: [snip] I'm sure you noticed the Ctrl-M (^M) at the ends of each line. This seems to be an MS-DOS-like line break (ASCII 0x13 + 0x10). UNIX (and so FreeBSD) use the NL or LF character 0x10. And 0x13 is the CR character which is equivalent to Ctrl-M, if I do remember correctly. Almost correctly. ASCII CR (Ctrl-M) is 0x0d, which is decimal 13; ASCII LF (Ctrl-J or newline) is 0x0a, which is decimal 10. Sorry for the off-topic pedantry. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C++ compiler
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the URL where I can get gcc42 and is it easy to get or do I have to do devious things to eventually find it? # cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc42 # make install clean -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about new monitor...
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:16:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i'm on newegg.com that has a whole slew of options for narrowing the field. q's: is a higher contrast ratio better than a lower ratio? Generally, yes. Contrast ratio in a display is analogous to dynamic range in audio. is the widescreen better than the std? --i think widescreen is 16x9, standard is 4x3. Correct about the aspect ratios. As for better, it depends on whether your graphics card can run at those resolutions. I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. 1280x1024 is actually a 5:4 aspect, but people use it on a 4:3 display. I'm doing that right now :^) But if you send it to a 16:9 display it will probably appear stretched unless you adjust the display so it's effectively not a widescreen display anymore. Every LCD or DLP or plasma display has a native resolution, which is the actual number of pixels in its imaging device. Nowadays they all have internal scan converters so that you could, for instance, send your 1280x1024 to a display of some other native resolution and get a picture, subject to some limits (e.g., I doubt any 1024x768 LCD monitor would display a 3200x2400 signal). But it will always look best at the native resolution anyway, so you're on the right track. IFF xorg know what kind of beast this is:-) Well, yeah, that's the elephant in the room, isn't it? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: whatkind of 19 LCD display??
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] whatever display i get has to have dual capability. both digital and analog-- eventually I'll need a new KVM box. so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? I've been using a ViewSonic VP930b for a few years, and been very happy with it. It has two VGA inputs, no DVI. Probably not made anymore so I guess that's moot. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: whatkind of 19 LCD display??
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Chris Hill wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] whatever display i get has to have dual capability. both digital and analog-- eventually I'll need a new KVM box. so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? I've been using a ViewSonic VP930b for a few years, and been very happy with it. It has two VGA inputs, no DVI. Probably not made anymore so I guess that's moot. - Replying to my own post like a tool - This monitor does in fact have a DVI input in addition to the two VGAs. Don't know if that counts as 'digital' or not. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd drive won't open
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, chip wrote: chip wrote: Oddly enough, my cd drive will not open. Just yesterday I installed FBSD from cd and it was fine. Now it won't open. I haven't used it since installing FBSD. I've tried umount /cdrom but get an error message umount: /cdrom: not a file system root directory Doesn't make any sense. I'm gonna shut down the machine and check the cables, just in case it came loose. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, after reseating the cables for the cd drive, and rebooting twice, the drive finally opens. During bootup the system recognizes the drive correctly and assigns it to acd0. But, the orange activity light stays on continually (not flashing, just steady on) and everything is running very slow now. It's definately related to the cd drive, but what do I look for? Maybe the drive is bad? Are you able to try a different drive? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Ports] How to find where a port is located?
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Gilles wrote: Hello Currently, to find where a software is located under /usr/ports/, I rune the find command. Is there a database that I could query instead so that it gives out the whole path to that the application? I wrote a lame-ass script to do this: $ more /home/chris/bin/findport #!/bin/sh # # Find a port whose name contains the string supplied as argument # prev_dir=`pwd` cd /usr/ports # make search key=$1 | grep Path | grep -v deps | grep -i $1 # cd $prev_dir HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin a USB drive in with EHCI controller enabled (usb keyboard and mouse being already plugged in). Is this a hardware problem, or could it possibly be software related??? Hard to tell. I've had whining EPIA-boards when run at 1000 Hz, and after switching kern.hz to 100 Hz in /boot/loader.conf, the high-pitched whine stopped entirely. It also stopped when I slightly deviated from the 1000 Hz (to, say, 900 Hz or 1100 Hz), so there was obviously some hardware component on the boards oscillating like mad at this very frequency. I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. No legends here. The horizontal sweep frequency for televisions in the US is 17,500 Hz. It was 15,750 for original NTSC (black and white RS170), and changed to 15,734 when color (RS170A) came in in the 1950s. The vertical scan (field) rate also changed from 60 Hz to 59.94. These numbers were chosen because they are relatively easily derived from the newfangled color subcarrier of 3.579545 MHz, yet close enough to the old values that old pre-color TV sets could still lock to the new color signals. Many people could hear that whistle from cheap flyback transformers. Other devices would buzz, hum or rattle when they resonated with EM fields. Occasionally they can be heard by humans, more frequently they can be heard by their pets. As I have gotten older, I don't notice it as much. The joke used to go, Why did they pick that frequency? Well, the crusty old engineers just cranked it up until they couldn't hear the flyback anymore. I can still hear it, but then I'm still [just] on the candy-coated side of 50. I guess this is getting a little OT here... but by way of a half-assed response to the OP's question, I think Bob is on the right track - seems like an electromechanical resonance of some sort. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Justin Archer wrote: Hi, I have just purchased a new Dell Server, to run with Plesk. I have just moved from an Apple XServe and seeing that OS X derived from FreeBSD, I felt that it was the best choice to start with. My only dilemma is, I am wanting to run the system in 64-bit, with using the Intel Quad 2.5Ghz Xeon, but I am unsure as to which version I should be downloading. For plesk, I need to use version 6.1 and had read somewhere that I would use the AMD 64-bit version, can you confirm if this is correct for an Intel processor? Justin, Yes, you want amd64 if this is a modern 64-bit Intel CPU. As was pointed out recently when someone asked more or less the same question, the amd refers to the architecture, not the chip manufacturer. I know nothing about plesk, but are you sure you *must* have 6.1? The legacy production release is now at 6.3. I've never built a 64-bit machine, but given the present situation I'd absolutely go with 7.0 for a new install, at least for a 32-bit system. A note, if I may. I have been on this list for many years and can say without hesitation that you're unlikely to get an answer when your subject line reads Hi. You may want to repost with a subject line that more accurately describes your question. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE-upgraded and have a few problems.
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: that the card requires. You can # kldload sound.ko are you sure what you say. kldload sound.ko loads common sound drivers code, not all modules OK, I sit corrected. I thought it loaded all of them. kldload /boot/kernel/snd_* would do what you've said after this - look at logs what module actually fit, and then add snd_something_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf to have it loaded every boot. Exactly. These seem like issues with X and/or KDE. Are you able to run some other window manager, e.g. twm? icewm is very good for those who like somehow windows looking, but only somehow and only looking, it works very fast and very well :) I suggested twm because it comes with X, and it's a quick and easy test of the xserver - trying to separate X issues from KDE issues. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE-upgraded and have a few problems.
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Desmond Chapman wrote: I reinstalled and re upgraded FreeBSD 7.0 on my drive. The testing distribution worked better than the stable. Some of my problems may not be directed to the right mailing list for help. Please let me know where I can get the information. By testing, do you mean -CURRENT? What tag are you using in your supfile? As for the mailing list, this is a reasonable place to start. If you don't get a solution here, maybe try multimedia for the gstreamer problems. There does seem to be a kde-specific mailing list; see https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd, and also http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL for the full list of lists. (URL may have wrapped.) Sound card is no longer detected. Maybe since upgrading you are no longer loading whatever kernel module it is that the card requires. You can # kldload sound.ko ...to load all sound modules, for the purpose of finding out which one you need. BTW, what make and model sound card is it? Also please post the output of the following commands: $ uname -a $ dmesg | grep ^pcm $ pciconf -lv $ kldstat DCOP server for KDE3 does not start. KDE hangs and has to be shut does by a vtty. These seem like issues with X and/or KDE. Are you able to run some other window manager, e.g. twm? Gnome-audio gstreamer trouble. There were some notes recently about gstreamer in /usr/ports/UPDATING; look there. If you can be (a lot) more specific about the problem, someone here may well be able to help. That is, tell us what you were trying to do, what command you issued, what result you expected, and what result you got. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports Question
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Grant Peel wrote: What is the proper method to pass configure arguments when installing a port? example, I am trying to build exim with mysql and spf support make -D WITH_SPF=YES -D WITH_MYSQL=YES I think for this example the proper syntax would be: make -DWITH_SPF -DWITH_MYSQL or even make -DWITH_SPF -DWITH_MYSQL install clean ..although I know nothing of exim. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
