installing port devel/py-qt4-dbussupport - cannot open Makefile
I'm trying to install devel/py-qt4-dbussupport on freebsd 8.3. When I type make it looks like configure is run, but then I get an error cannot open Makefile. I'm not sure what steps to take next. google only shows the following query, which is unanswered. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=37696 (but I note that this is on Freebsd 9) Creating pyuic4 wrapper... Creating pyuic4 Makefile... pylupdate4 and pyrcc4 will not be built because the Qt XML module is missing. Creating pyqtconfig.py... === Building for py27-qt4-dbussupport-4.9.6 make: cannot open Makefile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/py-qt4-dbussupport. shairia# uname -a FreeBSD shairia.millerfarm.com 8.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 00:39:29 UTC 2012 root@amd64- builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 My steps to get into this state: portsnap fetch update (about a week ago - a couple days after kde 4.9.5 went live) follow the steps in Updating - 20130203 for updating KDE. At some point in this process I lost system power, but most of the update was done. I attempted to do the update boost (2013013) instructions, but had problems because of mixed python 2.6 and 2.7, so I did a pkg_delete on py26*. (This was probably wrong). Looking farther I found the python entry from back in 20110304, but I had to errors until I updated perl (20130204), and tcl/tk (20130206). I then completed the python update. My attempts to do any more updates (either complete boost, or just upgrade everything with portmaster -a) all fail on the above port. ___ 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
Urgent notice for you, reply now
Hi, We've set up a web office for TAKUGOLD and we want you to join. Here's a personal message from Henry Taku: Urgent notice Please a compensation payment of $850,000.00 USD has been awarded to this email address, if you are the owner of the email address contact Mr Victor sunday Email: spstvic...@yahoo.com.ph TelNo:+22993010868 with your full name telephone No. address, age and profetion to send your payment to you immediately. Mr henry Taku Director board of WBC Payment A web office is like a private website -- only people who join can see what's there. We can use the site to share files, pictures, and links, coordinate events, and keep everyone up-to-date on important group announcements. You don't need anything special to connect to the site; just a web browser and an Internet connection. But you do need to sign up to become a member. Here's how to join... 1. Go to http://takugold.webexone.com/register_member.asp 2. Fill out the information on the new member form using the Registration Code: dGFrdWdv 3. That's it! Just make sure that when you enter the Registration Code, you type it just like it's shown above because it is case-sensitive. Also, be sure to keep the Registration Code private because anyone who knows it can join the web office. Enjoy your web office! ___ http://Webexone.com Get everyone on the same page. SM ___ 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: 'rm' Can not delete files
So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit? I use bash 4. And by the way, for me, part of the normal installation of a new FBSD box is to make certain changes. For example, for uniq -c I use %06 instead of %d because this way I can sort the output. Things like that. I never learned a shell language. I suppose no one is as dumb as someone who choose's not to learn, so, what's the right one. csh?, because I do a lot of scientific work?, or should I be looking at another? On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+, RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 + Matthew Seaman wrote: ls -1 | xargs rm but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use the xargs -n switch here. The above will also try to 'rm' directories, which won't work. Instead I would use 'find': find . -type f -depth 1 -delete This will also work with filenames with spaces. Or the scenic route, using xargs, with one rm per file (slower): find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 rm -f (The scenic route is useful if you want to do something else with the files instead of deleting them with rm.) Regards Andrew ___ 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
inetd[1081]: ssh/tcp: bind: address already in use
First, thank you folks for your help. Each of you. I been pretty much a glass terminal UN*X user since I started. Now, because of you guys and the people behind X and oh!, all those programs that get linked in (three hours of package loading plus six hours of ports downloading and compilation, I have a pretty nice Fvwm environment with some nifty plotting. (Though I wonder, is it better to be forced to visualize the underlying curve's of a system without looking. A philosophical problem for another day...) Second, I am getting: inetd[1081]: ssh/tcp: bind: address already in use. What's the fix, please? And third, about the intrusion. I have already wiped the machine to rebuild it. But I noted the requested files, if their is a future incident. I had used null passwords while I was loading FBSD software. A practice I shall never repeat. me bad... ___ 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
on hammer's, security, and centrifuges...
So I was coding along... On my laptop, on session #1, and I get a notice that someone did an su. Except I'm the only user and I didn't have an ethernet cord connected. (And no, it wasn't me...) I just built this laptop a few days ago. Fresh. I did have to get on the net to download/make/install a few critical packages. I do development. And research. My guess, not one shred of evidence, is that someone got in while I was re-building packages. Some, (for example Maxima,) take hours. And because of problems with gnuplot and pdflib, won't build as packages without re-compilation. Look, I'm going to use FreeBSD as long as both it and I am around, it's just the best choice for me, for my user's. But we need to improve security. I'm not a security expert, my work is in another area. But I would like to suggest that the FBSD be enhanced so that each load module, each compiled program, contain a DSA-based public key. Yes, this would make installing and maintaining systems an all-day run. But some of us need a higher degree of security than is presently available. For now, until I remake my laptop, I'm going to disable the ath0 wireless. How? What's the best method to make certain that my wireless chip is turned off? Or is this something best accomplished with a hammer? Not a pleasant thought... (Oh, and centrifuges?, well two out of three isn't bad. About centrifuges I got nothing.) Is their something I can do that would help the FBSD security people?, or, is hacking so routine that it wouldn't help to know the particulars. sigh... ___ 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
Fwd: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential
-- Forwarded message -- From: Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM Subject: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Has anyone gotten one to work? Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm not say that, YET. I'd like to hear from other purchasers, what's the current buzz on this product. I don't want to bash the WD guys, in the past their products have been wonderful and it may turn out that this will the case here too. But after a lot of struggling, first with 3.x, now with 2.x, I'm still not able to get beyond /dev/da0. And yes I've tried mounting that but that doesn't work. And nothing I do seems to produce the needed /dev/da0s1, which is usually what I see to do a mount. I've been getting really good help from Roland and others here. We've been concentrating on the FBSD side of things and now I'm thinking that's not where the trouble is. So again, has anyone gotten a WD My Book Essential drive to work? With either USB 2.x or 3.x? ___ 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: the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential
Ah!, I didn't know that some USB connectors (the receptacle on the computer side of the cable,) were for 3.0 and others for 2.0. How do I discover or test my USB receptacles? On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.comwrote: Has anyone gotten one to work? Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm not say that, YET. I'd like to hear from other purchasers, what's the current buzz on this product. I don't want to bash the WD guys, in the past their products have been wonderful and it may turn out that this will the case here too. But after a lot of struggling, first with 3.x, now with 2.x, I'm still not able to get beyond /dev/da0. And yes I've tried mounting that but that doesn't work. And nothing I do seems to produce the needed /dev/da0s1, which is usually what I see to do a mount. I've been getting really good help from Roland and others here. We've been concentrating on the FBSD side of things and now I'm thinking that's not where the trouble is. So again, has anyone gotten a WD My Book Essential drive to work? With either USB 2.x or 3.x? I have this drive, and it works on my new computer with FreeBSD 9.0 beginning with BETA1, plugged into USB 3.0 port, but does not work on this computer when plugged into USB 2.0 port. This same drive also works with Linux, using the System Rescue CD ( http://sysresccd.org/). It came with one NTFS partition spanning the whole drive. I was able to copy out the data using the System Rescue CD and then repartition with gpt/gpart. This drive was not accessible with NetBSD, OpenIndiana or FreeDOS. Tom ___ 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
the WD USB 3.0 My Book Essential
Has anyone gotten one to work? Either as a USB 2.x or 3.x? Yes, I know that to do 2.x one must use a different cable. I do that. Because I am wondering what's going on. Possibly I just happened to buy a drive that's DOA, I don't know, and I'm not say that, YET. I'd like to hear from other purchasers, what's the current buzz on this product. I don't want to bash the WD guys, in the past their products have been wonderful and it may turn out that this will the case here too. But after a lot of struggling, first with 3.x, now with 2.x, I'm still not able to get beyond /dev/da0. And yes I've tried mounting that but that doesn't work. And nothing I do seems to produce the needed /dev/da0s1, which is usually what I see to do a mount. I've been getting really good help from Roland and others here. We've been concentrating on the FBSD side of things and now I'm thinking that's not where the trouble is. So again, has anyone gotten a WD My Book Essential drive to work? With either USB 2.x or 3.x? ___ 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: When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.
I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976. And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's, getting maxima and doing things manually. No problems. But the installs have never worked. Specificially, using the sysinstall tool, going to Packages, going to Math, and dropping down to Maxima, FAILS!!! And a few years ago everyone yelled at me and said I was wrong. But I've had this problem on at least a dozen machines, from laptop's to desktops, to blades. And when Gnuplot failed to install that stopped the installation of maxima. So I did workarounds but lost graphing and other resources. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Michael L. Squires mi...@siralan.orgwrote: I just compiled maxima from ports using default settings under FreeBSD 8-STABLE (updated 12/24/2011) and had no problems with the compile (i.e., I just su'd to root, did a cd /usr/ports/math/maxima;make). This was under the amd64 version of FreeBSD (hardware is a Tyan S4882 quad Opteron). I just upgraded from 7.4 to 8.2-RELEASE and then, as usually, updated to the STABLE version using cvs. I usually don't upgrade to a newer version until it becomes obviously necessary due to either features I need in the newer release or the ending of support for the version I'm currently using. I wonder what versions you've been trying to install, since I've rarely had problems installing from ports when upgrading as described above. Mike Squires mikes at siralan.org UN*X at home since 1986 ___ 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
9.0 install problems
When I boot the CD I get a different menu, ie., boot, shell, install. Since the CD is in the CD-ROM drawer and I know how to use sysinstall (or so I thought!,) I get a fresh shell and say sysinstall. Okay? Except I can't write the disk. Notice, I have not explicitly mounted it or done anything to reserve it. I need a procedure to do this please. It's just a small machine. But having this up let's me do a backup and once I've backed up the disks on my other computers, then I can do some serious stuff with 9.0. I'd like to use sysinstall, if possible. I know it and I like it. I do have some other FBSD boxes nearby, each with TCP/IP running fine; But I'm not knowledgeable with PXE. ___ 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
USB 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1
What's the plan? Anything I can do? ___ 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 3.0 with FreeBSD 8.1
When I look, I see a file /dev/da0, but I can't do anything with it. I've tried mount's and newfs and Fdisk, nothing works. Yes, their is an entry in the /dev directory, but no it doesn't do me a lot of good. Now, I am willing to do USB 2.0 transfers. I'm willing to lose the 3.0 support. I got this drive so I could back my machine up, but so far it's doing a perfectly fine imitation of a boat anchor. If I have to, I'll put up 9.x on another machine and simply do the transfers across a TCP/IP wire. A little slower but a day or so isn't critical. Now my questions: a) Am I supposed to be able to get USB 2.0 support by simply using a conventional cable? Because so far I'm getting nothing. b) Does 9.0 have USB 3.0 support. The device I am trying to use is a WD My Essential Drive. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:02 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 January 2012 22:55, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 January 2012 20:22, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: What's the plan? Anything I can do? I don't see any xhci(4) support in 8-STABLE, but then there's this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/231976.html Here's me correcting myself: ls /8-STABLE/src/sys/dev/usb/controller/ | grep xhci xhci.c xhci.h xhci_pci.c xhcireg.h Looks like it is also present in 8.2. Doesn't look like it's in 8.1, though. If upgrading to 8.2 isn't a possibility, the module probably isn't impossible to backport. -- -- ___ 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
When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.
I've said this here before. And been attacked, pretty much by everyone. But I was telling the truth. When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails. I go to through various work-arounds, different things. But Saturday I will be installing 9.0 and would like to have a successful install. Ideas? ___ 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
reexec socketpair: No buffer space available
Hi all, Has anyone come across this error before: sshd[20861]: error: reexec socketpair: No buffer space available It stops remote users/services to connect to the machine remotely. I have 17 jails running on the machine. CPU load on the machine is low, and RAM usage is also low (16GB avail, 5GB Active) System info: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p6 $ netstat -mb 1029/4101/5130 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 514/3446/3960/65536 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/1536 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/1582/1582/12800 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/6400 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/3200 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 1285K/14245K/15530K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 373686 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 0 calls to protocol drain routines What else should I be looking for to help me trouble this? I know I'm hitting some limit, but not sure which one. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Henry ___ 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
load average with multi-core CPU's
Hi all, Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load average on top/uptime is actually displaying? Is the load the average amount of processes waiting to execute on the server, or is it independent of CPU? Am I correct with the below statements? * Example 1: 1 CPU, load average of 1.00, CPU at capacity. No processes have to wait to execute. 1 CPU, 2.00 load average, 1 process is waiting to execute. * Example 2: 1 CPU, 4 cores. load average of 2.00. 2 cores are working at capacity, other 2 are idle (mostly). 1 CPU, 4 cores, load average 5.00. 4 cores are at capacity, 1 process waiting to execute. I tried searching, but I couldn't find much besides some blog postings. Thanks, Henry ___ 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: load average with multi-core CPU's
Thanks- That's what I thought it was. I'm trying to settle an argument at work : ) On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M henr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load average on top/uptime is actually displaying? Load average is average number of processes in the run queue for the 1, 5, and 15 minute intervals. If you have a quad core CPU a 4.00 load average means you've been keeping the CPU busy at 100%. Does that make sense? Regards, Mark __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A quality operating system
Baloney. Sure, nothing human is perfect, that includes the people behind FreeBSD and also the OS. But compared to (gasp!,) windoz and linux, (not too bad, but it's as non-secure as windoz!,) FreeBSD and OpenBSD standout for one reason, their better. I would like to see negotiate a deal to give us pre-built java-enabled browsers. A few other things, too. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:02:18 -0500, Evan Busch wrote: I didn't expect this much response. You always get what you deserve on this list. :-) No, seriously: There are participants of this list who understand complains and other statements in a critical tone as inspiration for improvement. But allow me to say that _if_ you are interested in contributing in _that_ way, you should always bring examples and name _concrete_ points you're criticizing, instead of just mentioning wide ranges of this doesn't conform to my interpretation of what 'professional' should look like. As long as you are professional and fair, you will get a polite and substantial (!) response. Every professional documentarian I've encountered agrees with you. It's inconsistent, wordy, and has no concept of the order of introduction of its concepts. No professional software package would ship with documentation this bad. Depends. Have a look at IBM's mainframe or midrange documentation. For those who are working with this very special kind of documentation, it may appear fully understandable, helpful and direct. For hobbyists or newbies, it may look to be the complete opposite: Not understandable, no structure, way too verbose, and not helpful at all. You can also see how Sun publishes documentation for their Solaris OS. Did publish. Past tense. :-) In most cases, documentation requires you to have a minimal clue of what you're doing. There's terminology you simply have to know, and concepts to understand in order to use the documentation. Different kinds of users have different preferences. Some like to use the web, like to use Wikis and discussion boards. Others like to use structured web pages. Again, other like web pages too, but want to have as much information in _one_ (long) page. And there are those who do not want to depend on the web - those like man pages. If you're used to some specific _way_ of documentation, you will maybe value anything that's _different_ from that way as being inferior, non-professional, or less helpful. Also keep in mind that especially for developers, the SOURCE CODE also is an important piece of documentation. Here FreeBSD is very good, compared to other systems. The multiple grammatical errors only enhance the sense of its fundamentally confused nature as a document. Oh, then don't visit the non-english translations of the documentation. :-) On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Well, in _this_ area, I would also agree that work should be done to concentrate documentation, e. g. make an essence from knowledge and examples in mailing lists, web forums and so on. But there are too many of them, and you simply cannot put all the possible things into the one documentation project. This isn't as big of a project as you make it seem. In fact, it will reduce your workload and that of your users. I have worked on documentation projects (in the medical and technical sector) before, and it was relatively easy because you KNEW enough, e. g. who your clients are, how they read, what they need to know, and what they already do know, so you had a good basis for creating documentation that fits there needs. Here the one size fits all problem arises. It's really hard to make documentation for everybody. What should be in there? How much detail is needed? What can the reader conclude himself? Which terminology is he already familiar with? I think the comments above provide a good starting point for actual discussion. It would help if you could just bring some examples for what is lacking in your opinion. As far as people proving my point about the BSD community being reactionary: [...] These angry non-sequiturs just reek of defensiveness. Note the presence of :-) and the abilities of english native speakers who are much more able to express between the lines than I am, for example. I think I predicted these behaviors when I spoke of cliques and the nasty, elitist side of geek culture. You can predict that everywhere. Just go to any halfway specialized setting and make claims about something not meeting your requirements, telling the people they are not professional and lack the most fundamental things. Of course there will be some who thing you're just trolling them, because to _them_, that's exactly what you do, even if you have other intentions. Interpretation heavily depends on specific discussion cultures. The way
Re: ZFS and NFS or CIFS
Hi Chris, If you are transferring data from a Windows machine, your best bet would be to use SAMBA. Windows communicates with samba pretty easily. You essentially just mount a network drive, and transfer the files you want. Here are a few links to get you started: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-samba.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php The samba configs are pretty straight forward, you just need to make permissions are correct. Good luck! Regards, Henry On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Greetings! I have several ZFS volumes set up on my FreeBSD 8.2 (32-bit) server at home and I am trying to figure out how to set up a NFS and/or CIFS share of the various volumes I have created and for the life of me, I can't figure it out. I don't really care which one or both right now (I should learn both). I just have tons and tons of data to move from my Windows desktop to this server and I'd like to use something other then SFTP, even over my LAN, it's very slow. Many thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction... -- Chris Brennan -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ___ 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
what to do about missing Flash and missing Java
I love FreeBSD, (and though years ago I was a Slackware user,) I much prefer the BSD's. But guy's, we really have to solve these problems. So here it is, I just installed 8.2 and need the latest Flash. What's the right procedure here, please. ___ 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
i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
Woe is me. First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost power on an laptop running 8.2. Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr files. I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I put a comment (#) in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. Now, I can't boot. I need what's on my disk -- of course! ___ 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: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
I had an old FBSD 7.2 CD. good enough for this I thought. I booted from that but now I need to mount the file systems on my hard drive. How do I do that? I agree,, once I get the /etc file system mounted I can edit the file. Okay, next.. How do I do an fsck on the /usr file system when coming up? On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.comwrote: Boot to a boot disk.. anything... CD, DVD, USB Load up vi - you can probably do this from a live linux distro. Unedit the line. Save. Quit. Reboot. You're golden. On May 6, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: Woe is me. First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost power on an laptop running 8.2. Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr files. I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I put a comment (#) in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. Now, I can't boot. I need what's on my disk -- of course! ___ 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
DRi's failing sporadically
Having trouble with DRi's. The weird thing about this is that it only happens immediately after a sendmail interrogation. Ideas? ___ 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: slightly OT... .
I have some information that the problem is because the Macbook fonts are different from the FreeBSD fonts. Thank you!, thank you very much. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. What do I to make them work? You could try to use one of the tools provided in the ports collection: a) rtf2latex then continue to remove macros to gain plain text b) rtf2html same game here c) rtfreader d) rtfx this is a tool that gives XML output - maybe usabe for further input to AbiWord e) unrtf includes processing like a) and b), and some more formats Which tool to use depends on how you intnd to further use the documents. If it's just about the text, the pure filter programs should be sufficient. Otherwise, try to load them in OpenOffice and see how you can export them from there; ^A ^C and ^V into a text editor should work from there, too. Oh the joy of nonstandard file formats. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: slightly OT... .
I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. What do I to make them work? On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there weren't that many embedded quotes. By-hand worked fine. --g On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:12:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms, this isn't a FreeBSD question, but humor me anyway. A [long] while ago I checked on the OOOForums list and got the howto's of changing this into ``this'' in openoffice. [[And 'this into `this': it's a two-fer]]. Has anybody tried this with abiword?? Clues, tips please? (Figure I'll ask here first.) My ascii-to-markup program does the same thing, but only for double-quotes since the fact that the zillions of contractions like can't, would've, and informal english like So: howzit hangin'? gave me *many* second thoughts. 1) Does anybody onlist have any idea howto turn 'this' into lsquo' ? In the HTML ampersand chars list, that's what it is called. Using the ampersand and ints it is #8286; -- minus the quotes, of course. 2) Iwould like some clues howto automate this either via abiword OR algorithm. It took some large N days back in 1994 when I first hacked atom to realize that I would have to use recursion to get the left|beginning and right|closing double quotes. 3) Or should I give up and do this by eyeball?! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.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 ___ 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 8.1-RELEASE Installation success
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team. I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should have scripts that describe every aspect of a computer, so that such scripts can be mechanically read and a configuration built. We do ./configure for software we install. Same thing, but for all aspects of the hardware. The present configure logic covers the OS and the installed software, we need to do this for hardware. I notice that freeBSD download's and installs trails Linux. That's okay. FreeBSD is so much better, and in so many ways, too. Nothing I've seen in Linux lands comes close to the sysinstall command or the plainly superior organization of FreeBSD. What I'm trying to encourage is that we, as a group, work on our infra-structures, like strengthing the already high level of organization we have in sysinstall. How about a query program that examines a machine. Is this practical? Something like the automated X-install process that makes it unnecessary to set the horizontal and vertical frequencies ourselves (which we used to have to do.) But not for X, for the sound card, for as much as possible. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net wrote: Good Day; It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5, KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3, and Thunderbird 3.1.5. The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4 2.4 GHz PC with 3G of ram and an ATI Radeon video adapter. This install has not been without it's trials. 4 weeks ago I backed up all my data and reformatted from Debian 'lenny' to GPT/ZFS/8.1-RELEASE. The next two weeks did not go so well. While I tried hard to get ZFS formatted drives to work reliably, intermittent unexplained core dumps with reboots gave me cause for concern. I finally reinstalled msdos boot records and formatted the drives UFS. That install has lasted 2 more weeks. I liked ZFS v14 and would like to try it again when I get more current hardware with more ram and SATA drives. My next challenge was building KDE4, Firefox, and Thunderbird from ports. KDE4 and friends (QT4) took days on this machine to build, install and setup. I initially installed the ports tree using portsnap but was having so much trouble building the mozilla stuff from ports I moved to cvsup and portupgrade. This is also what I used to install the kernel and base source tree. Several iterations of make - clean and deinstall/reinstall along with cvsup'ing ports a couple of times finally got me to a working browser and mail client. I have had a time getting Flash working with Firefox. I have not yet got the plugin working in Firefox but Opera, using linux-f10 allows my kids view their on-line home school lessons. Audio was somewhat of a challenge to get sound from an AC97 on-board audio chipset. snd_hda was the module that eventually provided the needed audio driver for this chipset. I think I forgot what configuring this stuff was like during my 'hamm', 'bo', and 'slink', debian days. My thanks to the entire FreeBSD/KDE development team on allowing me to experience the fruit of their efforts. I still like turning the knobs myself. I'll keep reading the manuals. :) Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-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: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)
My first machine was an IBM 1620, but hey, at least we had an actual disk. A couple of 2311's. To quote a fellow I used to consult for, two days' I had solved a particularly nasty programming problem for his company, But what have you done for us lately? On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:23 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or ferrite/empty. Dredging up physics unused for 30+ years, ferrite is ferromagnetic and intensifies magnetic fields so a coil of wire with ferrite inside is a massively bigger inductor then an empty coil. I vaguely remember that brass is slightly diamagnetic, but could be mistaken. If it is, then it would have the opposite effect and reduce the inductance, so you'd get a better difference in signal between brass/ferrite than air/ferrite. Possibly. I'm wondering if there might be three states, where the third state is writable. Air/brass would give very small differences in signal, I was thinking in that case it would be open/short circuit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..
I'm not sure which writer said it, but whoever it is who started that paragraph with Kinda wish you... you sir are the problem. Not just a problem for us FreeBSDer's, but also for American's. You probably don't see yourself that way. I understand that. But what you are doing is surrilous. That's when instead of making the points underlying your position you resort to name calling and bad mouthing. Disagree? Well, re-read what you wrote. See what I mean? So stop. On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 21:47, Jarrod Slick jarrod...@gmail.com wrote: @rob, Kinda wish you would make a video wherein you read your above statement from a teleprompter with a green-screened American flag billowing in the background. You might want to add in a statement about your deep respect and admiration for the troops, though. To add in even more of that good ol' fashioned American [self-]righteousness you could even, in a senseless spat of litigiousness, DMCA yourself and have the video removed from whatever third-party site you decide to post it on. Oh, and disclaimer . . . I'm an American. Anyhow, I'll go back to lurking. You can imply that I'm a nationalistic jackass all you like, but the fact still remains that nobody has presented an argument (well reasoned and coherent or otherwise) for why FreeBSD wouldn't be subject to the EAR or why changing the license for this code would make one bit of difference (beyond public relations). -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: fdisk
And still the wife doesn't suspect? On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Ian I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted to respond to you. You have given a lot of good advice and information and I appreciate it. ~ fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=60801 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=60801 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 63, size 976773105 (476939 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED So pausing here for a bit .. starting at 63 (cyl 0/ head 1/ sector1 in CHS terms), looks correct for s1, one slice, whole disk for NTFS. That should rule out a damaged MBR in sector 0 - though it doesn't rule out the boot code in the first 2 or so sectors having been clobbered. I have tried earlier to explain what might/could have happened but was most likely not specific enough. I will try to do better. This was the wife's computer. It had Xp Pro on the first slice and FreeBSD 7.x on the second. Windows started acting strange and then was rebooting as soon as the desktop rendered. I booted to safe mode and went back one day in the recover option. Same thing happened, i.e. reboot after desktop rendered. I again booted in safe mode and went back two days. Could never get it to boot again even in safe mode. I booted into FreeBSD and copied some critical files off of the Windows slice that she was desperate to have. I put them on a pen drive so she could then access via her laptop. I checked the backup drive and saw that all was fine. I had the D$S stuff backing up nightly. I was able to mount either drive with _ntfs or ntfs-3g. No matter what I tried I could not get windows to boot even in safe mode. I left it running on FreeBSD aver night expecting to have to reinstall windows in the morning. The next day the system had rebooted with the GAG screen up. I ran memtest for about 6 hours and it showed a couple of faults. I pulled one of the three 512M memory chips and it seemed to run OK but still could not boot windows. I reinstalled windows and was doing all of the updates when it started failing to boot. Somewhere in that time the backup (500GB) drive became invisible to windows. FreeBSD showed only ad6 without the s1 partition. I used sade to look at it and it did not show as ntfs. I marked it as ntfs thinking that would fix it but it probably caused all of these problems. Whatever is wrong with that computer it now completely messed up. It will not even power on. I strapped out the power connect pins 3 and 4 and the PS runs and the voltages check out. You can often poke around the beginning of disks to advantage with say: # dd if=/dev/da1 bs=512 count=126 | hd | less to see the first two tracks .. sector 63 should be where NTFS starts, ie after sectors 0-62 on head 0. hd(1) skips repeated zeroes or 0xff and such, so you can hunt through quite a lot of early sectors without huge output in less, usually. Which looks a lot better. I can mount /dev/da1 and it shows Just to be clear, you mean: '# mount_ntfs /dev/da1 /mnt' ? (try to be sure to mount NTFS filesystems _explicitly_ read-only, especially if likely damaged) ~ ls -l /mnt total 70044 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2560 Dec 31 1600 $AttrDef -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $BadClus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4194304 Dec 31 1600 $Bitmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8192 Oct 1 09:09 $Boot drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Extend -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 67108864 Oct 1 09:09 $LogFile -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Oct 1 09:09 $MFTMirr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Dec 31 1600 $Secure -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel131072 Oct 1 09:09 $UpCase -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Volume -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 45124 Aug 18 2001 NTDETECT.COM drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 17:29 System Volume Information -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193 Oct 1 09:12 boot.ini -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel222368 Aug 18 2001 ntldr But I cannot mount /dev/da1s1 ~ sudo mount_ntfs
trying to put up X, am using an Nvidia card an HP Presario
Several people in this group took a lot of time and helped me when I couldn't get FBSD 7.2 running with X on an HP Presario. Now, I'm having *somewhat* *similar* problems, doing the install for 8.1. I've attached my rc,conf, the X log file, and the list of installed packages. I've also said: hald_enable=YES and dbus_enable=YES in the rc.conf file. Apparently playing with the boot loader file isn't necessary, now. Oh, I downloaded (using sys-install,) the nvidia helper system but couldn't get the NVIDIA screen logo that goes up just before X comes up. Thanks, all! ___ 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: trying to put up X, am using an Nvidia card an HP Presario
Kenneth CF once wrote: 2) Install the nvidia-driver. # cd /usr/ports/x11/x11-driver/nvidia-driver # make install clean (I built with options FREEBSD_AGP checked, ACPI checked, LINUX unchecked). and this didn't help. Under 7.2, this was the game changer. Everything worked with this and a couple tweaks. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: Several people in this group took a lot of time and helped me when I couldn't get FBSD 7.2 running with X on an HP Presario. Now, I'm having *somewhat* *similar* problems, doing the install for 8.1. I've attached my rc,conf, the X log file, and the list of installed packages. I've also said: hald_enable=YES and dbus_enable=YES in the rc.conf file. Apparently playing with the boot loader file isn't necessary, now. Oh, I downloaded (using sys-install,) the nvidia helper system but couldn't get the NVIDIA screen logo that goes up just before X comes up. Thanks, all! ___ 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
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev
Not that I blame the people behind FBSD. I am amazed that it's so robust. But of course, since I purchased this ASPIRE laptop (model 7741Z,) for FreeBSD I'd like to run that on it. So far, well, maybe Billy Gates has finally gotten his memory back, maybe he'll finally make something that works. This is what I know, I run the FBSD install program and immediately, as soon as the system attempts to do the necessary partitioning. That's when the failure occurs, with the complaint that: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev I've tried a few things, I can put OpenBSD up, works fine -- except as good as that system is, I need to run FBSD. I do development and research and everything I've done for the last decade is done under FBSD. So I guess I am really serious here, HELP. Oh, one more thing. I can install PC-BSD, that works. And I actually like that system, I just don't want all that overhead, it's pretty resource intensive. I just want my FreeBSD. The thing is, am I going to get it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Unable to find device node for ./dev/ad4s1b in /dev
This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1. Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731, and tried to install FreeBSD. (It had a copy of windoz on it. goodbye and good riddance.) My point is simple, this is about as vanilla as it gets. And I get the error, shown in the subject line. Not sure if this is important, but the ad4s1b partition is the SWAP partition. --jg ___ 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: Browser choices flash
I'm about to put up 8.1. And would like (I know I'm dreaming,) to get this right, first time. Many times I've had to scrap an installation and restart from scratch because I didn't do things right. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:45:48AM +0100, David Southwell wrote: Hi One of our freebsd systems is a user terminal with desktop. We have constant difficulties with web browsing on that platform. Here is the data 1. INFO: System: freebsd 7.2-RELEASE-p3 - GENERIC amd64 Desktop: kde4.5.1 Current installed web browser stuff: konqueror 4.5.1 epiphany-2.30.2_1 firefox-3.5.11,1 flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13_5 A GPL standalone Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla This plugin is now five years old, and doesn't seem to be in active development anymore. 3. ADVICE PLEASE Most reliable browser combination and recomendations of specific port combinations which can deliver reliable browsing including flash capability. No open source flash player works on all sites, as far as I know. If you don't mind non-free software and all the extra linux compat stuff that it needs, try the linux version of the Adobe flash plugin; www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 Try graphics/gnash instead if you want native software. Mind that there is a problem with the 0.8.7 version of gnash and youtube. This is fixed in 0.8.8 but that hasn't made it into ports yet. Gnash sometimes crashes, but this doesn't usualy affect firefox. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ 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
dealing with a possible security breach and am just trying to be careful...
Hi all, So how do I delete a running load module? Is this even possible? Please copy your replies to me: henry.ol...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse
I see: Setting master xclock: not found Dropping master While the root screen has: drm0: Intel i845G GMCH on vgapci0 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster info: [drm] AGP at 0xf000 128NB info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 I have: hald_enable=YES in the boot up conf file (/boot/loader.conf) and Option AutoAddDevice Off Option IgnoreEmptyInput Off in the xorg.conf file On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card, this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. But it is important for me to press it into service. I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck. so now my questions... Will FBSD 7.3 make use of xf86cfg or some such program. I ask because the X --configure command has never worked for me; Not on any of five different machines I've put FBSD on. I'm not trying to do a sophisticated install either -- and though I've decided against running OpenBSD, the default install put's up X perfectly... (Why??) wish I knew more... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org add this line to your rc.conf hald_enable=YES and restart your machine ___ 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
under X, frozen keys, no mouse
I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box. It has a built-in video card, this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. But it is important for me to press it into service. I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck. so now my questions... Will FBSD 7.3 make use of xf86cfg or some such program. I ask because the X --configure command has never worked for me; Not on any of five different machines I've put FBSD on. I'm not trying to do a sophisticated install either -- and though I've decided against running OpenBSD, the default install put's up X perfectly... (Why??) wish I knew more... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
hardening FreeBSD, already using GBDE
For example, the editor I use normally writes to /tmp -- I changed that, making it slower, but in the event that someone takes my laptop I want to sleep at night. I've no problem letting some poor person make a windoz machine out of my laptop -- but I don't want to share my work, my intellectual property. (I do research.) So, I'm looking for a list of changes to make, hacks really, that will further tighten up security. Can you point me to such a list of to-do's, please. Just send mail to henry.ol...@gmail.com --jg ___ 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: pkg_info fails with leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''
Mike, Thanks for your response. Since originally writing that message, I had done some tests (there was a misconfiguration in mailer that my browser called on the system I was sending from so the message got sent out much later when it was corrected). I had tried running the exact same executable both in the jail and outside and got a different set of libraries. One odd thing that I had also noticed is that when I ran ldd against the same executable, I came up with a different set of libraries. I'm not sure what controls the library searches. As far as I can tell the libraries are the same also. However, since then, my /var/run/ld-elf* files have changed. I no longer see the problem or the differences in ldd. This may have corrected the problem. Henry Mike Clarke wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Henry Wong wrote: I'm seeing the same problem with pkg_info on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. However, I also found that even when running as the root user, if I'm in a chroot jail, it does not fail. Sometime after experiencing this problem I discovered that my ports had suffered from the accidental introduction of some packages which had been built for rev. 6.4 (see the thread under http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-January/210421.html). As a result of this I had to completely remove and re-install all my ports and I haven't seen the leave_playpen problem since then. It might be just coincidence or it may be that pkg_info just got confused by all the links to wrong and non-existent libraries. Could it be that the ports in your main system are corrupt but those in the jail are clean? -- Henry Wong Lead Software Engineer Lumeta - / Securing the Network in the Face of Change / _hw...@lumeta.com_ 732.357.3534 (office) 732.564.0731 (fax) 220 Davidson Avenue Somerset , NJ 08873-4146 www.lumeta.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
pkg_info fails with leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''
Mike Clarke, I'm seeing the same problem with pkg_info on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. However, I also found that even when running as the root user, if I'm in a chroot jail, it does not fail. Henry Wong ___ 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
want to configure an old HP 6000 omnibook
And I can get the basic screens up but have no working keyboard or mouse. To each of you, thank you very much for your assistance. ___ 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
libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2
I very much appreciate the help I get here. And boy!, do I need it. Undoubtedly I did something wrong when I was putting my system together. But I just can't throw it away -- I'm trying to get some things done. So, awk! help! ___ 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
a javascript issue wrt FreeBSD
A FreeBSD machine I have has caught a scripting virus; And I'd rather not save what I must and rebuild it -- though if I have to I will of course. Anyone got any ideas to find/isolate the virus? Please copy me directly, my email service is limited until I can fix this. ___ 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: am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else
I'm sorry fellows. You guys have given me great support and apparently I didn't get back to you. I'm sorry, I'm not very polite some times. I will try to be more careful about this. Okay -- I was able to get my mouse working. I made a ServerFlags section in my xorg.conf and suddenly!, my mouse moved. (Here you can assume a remark not in evidence...) Next, I have wonderful X sessions now. Next, I am prepared to nuke the /usr/ports area if I am told to do that -- I know it can be mechanically rebuilt in about an hour. (A past note from Kenneth gave me this instruction and while I was a little nervous I did it; And wow!, I was so impressed as I watched it come back.) Question: Does the rebuild process examine the pkg_info results and load up the directory appropriately?. or is it one size fits all? Question: Does anyone have a solution for doing a general machine backup to one file? So that I can back the machine up and later, subsequently, perform a simple restore. Because I've been using the machine very heavily now, and I usually find that my own manual backups miss one thing or another... You've probably had the same experience. Now, I see others asking for such a feature/mechanism. What's possible? As for gcc44, I am fairly certain that it's actually broken -- that the port itself is broken and that it isn't my incompetence, that the port itself is mis-configured or mis-coded. Oh., and in a conversation with an HP technical representative recently, he told me that my taking down windoz to install FreeBSD constituted a machine downgrade. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Kenneth Freidank kennet...@earthlink.netwrote: Here are partial listings of my config files. Add these entries to your config files and see if that does the trick. I can't be 100% sure that everything is required, but it is what I have, and it works. Attached is the xorg.conf file I generated. Place it in the directory /etc/X11/. When you have done these things, make sure your user belongs to the group wheel, then login. To start X, give the command: startx You should get 3 windows, one of them labeled login in the title bar. If you type exit while inside this window, then return, that will end your X session. You will have some fatal error messages in your console window when X finishes. Also, make sure you have installed the nvidia drivers per my other postings. You can check if you have the package installed by typing: pkg_info | grep nvidia You should see at a minimum: nidia-driver-185.18.29 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren You have to build this packages and install it. This process is documented in the NetBSD documents and my other postings for installing FreeBSD on a Compaq Presario CQ60. File /etc/rc.conf linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES keyrate=fast saver=star hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES vesa_load=YES File /boot/loader.conf nvidia_load=YES -Original Message- From: Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com Sent: Oct 26, 2009 2:53 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kenneth kennet...@earthlink.net, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Subject: am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else 'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 I know, (in all likelihood,) I'll have to scratch this area and do a complete re-install. Fine. The thing is, I didn't change anything to mess this area up in the first place. I've just been going to various directories in /usr/ports and saying, make install clean and now this... I was trying to put up octave when this happened. So I could use a little help here, please... I also want/need to run X, and my X session (just put up,) doesn't yet let me move the mouse. I installed hal and dbus but what do I do now? And where or where do I put the ServerFlags entry in my xorg.conf file. I'm sorry, I just don't know these things... === Building for gcc-4.4.2.20091006 echo stage3 stage_final gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' rm -f stage_current gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty' gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/intl' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports
Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates
Look, keep claiming that it's working if you like, but I've been backing up
another machine and making notes -- so that when I do my reinstall of 7.2, I
don't have to come back here again, asking for help that's already been
given.
My point is: gcc44 doesn't work. It is broken and I suspect it's going to
stay broken. Only a fresh install *might* fix the problem.
I know these systems are very complex, I don't want to criticize anyone --
I'm very impressed that the FreeBSD community works as well as it does; And
after all, this is the first time I've encountered problems this serious,
and I used to write compilers, so I know that you guys have done a terrific
job.
But let's move on; gcc44 doesn't work, it's not going to, and we need to
focus on a repair strategy. Is it to simply to do a fresh install? I've
been backing up, I'll do this if I have to...
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:07:09 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On 10/29/09, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:08 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + b. f.
bf1...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Scott Bennet wrote:
MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER?= `${SYSCTL} -n kern.smp.cpus`
_MAKE_JOBS= -j${MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER}
I figured it must do something of the sort. The CPU is an old 3.4
GHz
P4 Prescott, so it has two logical processors, so MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER gets
set
to 2. Given the handbook recommendations and my own observations, it
seems
to me that the above method should actually multiply the value of
kern.smp.cpus by at least 2.5 for best performance. For CPUs on
separate
cores, 3 is the recommended multiplier, but where HTT logical CPUs are
involved a multiplier somewhat lower than that is in order. On the
Prescott
chips, 2.5 seems to work very well, so when I set MAKEFLAGS myself, I
set
it to 5, which is 2.5 * kern.smp.scpus.
That seems a bit ambitious. In any event, It would be better to do
Perhaps it is, but my own experience with it shows 6 to be too high
and
4 to be a bit low. 5 seems to work pretty well with very little CPU idle
time.
this via the variable MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER, which was created for this
purpose and can be overridden by the user, rather than by using
MAKEFLAGS, which may cause all sorts of problems, among them ignoring
the setting of MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE.
When installing/updating ports, I always unsetenv MAKEFLAGS before
starting, so there should be no problem. It just means that some ports
jobs probably take slightly longer to complete.
I guess I will just have to add -x gcc\* to the
portmaster -x perl\*5.8.9\* -a runs from now on, which is now
possible
thanks to Doug Barton's portmaster enhancement that allows multiple
-x
arguments, and do lang/gcc* updates by the old-fashioned method that
worked
in this case. I'm not sure what to do if a situation arises like this
for
a port that has many dependencies that would typically be better
managed
by
portmaster or portupgrade, however.
You don't have to do it on the command line -- you can add the port to
HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf with portupgrade, or use a
I haven't been using portupgrade much lately. portmaster seems to
be the recommended tool, and it's certainly a lot faster than
portupgrade,
portmaster is more lightweight, but has fewer features. I roll my own.
From just the few months I've been using portmaster, it seems to make
fewer mistakes than portupgrade, though. The problem is in trying to keep
in mind that the mistakes that it does make are ones it makes quite
frequently.
/var/db/pkg/*/+IGNOREME as described in portmaster(8). It's a bit of
Yes, but that method doesn't work for perl, and IIRC, it doesn't
work for lang/gcc?? either. The -x method does, however.
It seems to work for me with lang/perl5.10. What experience have you
had that suggests that it doesn't work with these ports?
I upgraded from lang/perl5.8 to lang/perl5.10 a few months ago. The
thread should be in the freebsd-ports@ archives. portmaster would prompt
about the +IGNOREME file, accept the reply of n or just hitting enter
to take the default of n, continue on a while, and then begin to rebuild
perl-5.8.9 anyway.
-x works more reliably than +IGNOREME, but the two together cover more
situations, so that's what I do now for the really tough cases like perl.
A problem until a month or two ago was that portmaster would only accept a
single -x argument. Doug Barton enhanced it to accept many a couple of
months ago, so portmaster is a considerably better tool now than it was
before. He has recently posted a request on freebsd-announce for funding
to support a major rewrite/enhancement project for portmaster. If
I'm sure you've heard this before...
I want to turn the disks off. I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives. On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using 7.2. ___ 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
am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else
'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 I know, (in all likelihood,) I'll have to scratch this area and do a complete re-install. Fine. The thing is, I didn't change anything to mess this area up in the first place. I've just been going to various directories in /usr/ports and saying, make install clean and now this... I was trying to put up octave when this happened. So I could use a little help here, please... I also want/need to run X, and my X session (just put up,) doesn't yet let me move the mouse. I installed hal and dbus but what do I do now? And where or where do I put the ServerFlags entry in my xorg.conf file. I'm sorry, I just don't know these things... === Building for gcc-4.4.2.20091006 echo stage3 stage_final gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' rm -f stage_current gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty' gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libiberty' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/intl' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/intl' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/build-i386-portbld-freebsd7.2/libiberty' gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/build-i386-portbld-freebsd7.2/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/build-i386-portbld-freebsd7.2/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/build-i386-portbld-freebsd7.2/libiberty' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/build-i386-portbld-freebsd7.2/fixincludes' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/build-i386-portbld-freebsd7.2/fixincludes' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/zlib' true AR_FLAGS=rc CC_FOR_BUILD=cc CFLAGS=-g -fkeep-inline-functions CXXFLAGS=-g -fkeep-inline-functions CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/l ocal/include CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include INSTALL=/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel INSTALL_DATA=install -o root - g wheel -m 444 INSTALL_PROGRAM=install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 INSTALL_SCRIPT=install -o root -g wheel -m 555 LDFLAGS= LIBCFLAGS=-g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasin g -pipe -I/usr/local/include LIBCFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include MAKE=gmake MAKEINFO=makeinfo --no-split --split-size=5000 000 --split-size=500 --split-size=500 PICFLAG= PICFLAG_FOR_TARGET= SHELL=/bin/sh EXPECT=expect RUNTEST=runtest RUNTESTFLAGS= exec_prefix=/usr/loca l infodir=/usr/local/info/gcc44 libdir=/usr/local/lib/gcc44 prefix=/usr/local tooldir=/usr/local/i386-portbld-freebsd7.2 AR=ar AS=as CC=cc CXX=c++ LD= /usr/bin/ld LIBCFLAGS=-g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include NM=nm PICFLAG= RANLIB=ranlib DESTDIR= DO=all multi-do # gmake gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/zlib' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libcpp' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libcpp' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libdecnumber' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/libdecnumber' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/gcc' gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc44/work/build/gcc' ___ 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: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver
I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine. So... If you are running hald you probably need option AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off in the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf Or you can configure hal to recognise them - there are various threads in the archives i believe. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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
looking for /usr/ports/x11-driver, not /usr/ports/x11-drivers
I'm trying to X (re)configure a CQ60, which is not so trivial to do... Kenneth CF once wrote: 2) Install the nvidia-driver. # cd /usr/ports/x11-driver/nvidia-driver # make install clean (I built with options FREEBSD_AGP checked, ACPI checked, LINUX unchecked). And this was not a typo. ___ 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
I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download
Dear Dan: I don't want to cause people to jump up and down, but one fact I am absolutely certain of!, is the following; Take a hard-drive you can write on, burn a copy of FBSD 7.2 onto a CD, and do the basic install. Then, when the base system is up, run sysinstall and do a Configure followed by Packages. Then go to math and select maxima. Then watch. Gnuplot, a dependency of maxima will fail. And thus without using the -f flag (as part of a PKG_ADD command,) you can not load a recent copy of Maxima on FreeBSD. This is the case not only for 7.2, but it's been true since at least version 6.1 And Gnuplot seems to be missing something called PDFlib -- it may have been redacted by someone who decided that it wasn't supposed to be public, I don't know. But notice I am describing two problems. One, an install of Maxima fails using the package method, because Gnuplot doesn't install, and also, using the ports tree, (see, I'm not talking about a package anymore;) gnuplot fails to install because the PDFlib ports support file can not be found. Oddly, the package install failure, while it names gnuplot, doesn't correctly identify the problem. On several systems on which I've tried to do the maxima install, the error message identifies the problem as an I/O error. Only when I attempt the ports-install does the problem show up correctly, that gnuplot depends on PDFlib, which can not be found. Obviously I run maxima without gnuplot graphics. I just had to learn the work-around, not a big deal... I look at it this way... For me, getting maxima up on FreeBSD has taught me a lot about how FBSD is organized. But really, someone should take the time to make this a solved problem. I can make gnuplot work, but I don't have the authority to change the package content. A similar problem exists with clusterit. Most of the commands work just fine. But the semaphore control, (called guards in clusterit,) don't lock. They simply don't. The program probably works fine in Linux. But myself and a friend, who have about 85 years of programming experience couldn't make it work. We scrapped it and wrote our own tool to do this. I love FreeBSD and I continue to be very impressed with the quality of this OS, not just the core, not just the documentation, not just the applications, simply, it is truly a remarkable 'product'. The people who have contributed to making this work should know that they have really contributed. And I use FBSD heavily -- in fact I and a couple of friends put together a cluster of machines and we never saw any other OS as a good choice. These two problems are all I have; So you see, I'm not unhappy. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Oct 20), Henry Olyer said: I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. What errors are you getting? Portsmon says that gnuplot builds fine on all three branches: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=portname=gnuplot If you have a patch, send a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/article.html -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download
I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. ___ 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
USB modem support on a FreeBSD box
I know about all the drivers being for windoz. And how we're pretty much left out in the cold. Does any solution exist? For example, if I access my USB modem via the Wine emulator, will that work? ___ 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
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. Don't apologize! Any input is valuable! But I don't quite understand what you meant about let ntpd take it from here or if it started out close... (I am French and maybe you're using a figure of language I don't understand...) Are you running with an elevated securelevel? No the Secure Level is -1... But I've found the beginning of a solution... It doesn't come from ntpd but from the Windows Time Server. When configured to sync with its internal clock, the NTP Server IP packets that goes to the client contain strange values (rootdispersion, etc.) that are higher than expected. Thus, ntpd doesn't consider the Windows Server as a reliable source. But once the windows server configured to sync with an external source, it works! The IP packets generated from the windows server begin to look like real and reliable answer to ntpd... I'm working now on a correct configuration of the Windows Server. Thanks again to all! ___ 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
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!! Are you sure that -x in there, telling ntpd to not step unless the offset is over 600 sec, doesn't override what you're trying to do with the -q? How about you try simple: ntpdate the_windows_server and see what that does? After that look in /var/log/messages. I don't have that command on my system... Alternatively, from the commandline try ntpd -g -q -c /etc/ntp.conf The -g flag allows ntpd to set the clock once regardless of the offset and the -q causes it to quit after setting the time. I tried this command without success... I can see the NTP packets (client and server) but the clock is never set with the debugging option enabled (-D 3), at the end I get: ... ... poll_update: at 15 172.30.1.5 flags 0201 poll 6 burst 1 last 1 next 17 read_network_packet: fd=22 length 48 from ac1e0105 172.30.1.5 receive: at 15 172.30.1.250-172.30.1.5 flags 19 restrict 080 receive: at 15 172.30.1.250-172.30.1.5 mode 4 code 1 auth 0 packet: flash header 0040 addto_syslog: no reply; clock not set ___ 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
FBSD 7.2, on a CQ60-419WM Presario, about headphones, function keys, FVWM fonts, and GBDE
How do I get to use the headphones? The speaker works but continues to play when I plug in headphones. Also adjusting the keyboard function controls to control the sound, (o anything else,) does nothing -- what is with this? Last, how do I change the font size with FVWM? As you can see I am new to a lot of things. I develop and sometimes I'd like to use headphones and gasp!, put up a DVD movie. Using mplayer. I made sound work. Hey, for me that was big. Last (this time I really mean last,) I'm using GBDE. I'd like to hear from anyone else who uses it. I have questions. ___ 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
NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008
Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP Server. On the Windows System the NTP Server (Windows Time Service) is *correctly* running. The thing is that even if there are NTP traffic between the client and the Server (NTP Client and Server IP packet), My FreeBSD is not synchronizing at all: freebsd-clientntpq -p 127.0.0.1 remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter === NTP_server 192.168.10.6 2 u 103 102411.037 -587367 0.002 As you can see the offset is huge and never decreases as in a normal way... My ntpd.conf file looks like: --- # File is automatically generated # Do not edit tinker panic 1 tinker step 1 # ntp servers list server 172.30.1.5 # files informations driftfile /etc/ntp.drift # restriction informations restrict default ignore # do not allow request by default restrict 127.0.0.1 # allow localhost for debugging restrict 172.30.1.5 nomodify my ntp.drift file -101.101 I know that maybe the Microsoft NTP/SNTP implementation is not RFC-compliant, but is there a way to configure my NTP client in a more compatible (less strict) way to adjust its time with a Windows Server? 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
NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008
Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP Server. On the Windows System the NTP Server (Windows Time Service) is *correctly* running. The thing is that even if there are NTP traffic between the client and the Server (NTP Client and Server IP packet), My FreeBSD is not synchronizing at all: freebsd-clientntpq -p 127.0.0.1 remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter === NTP_server 192.168.10.6 2 u 103 102411.037 -587367 0.002 As you can see the offset is huge and never decreases as in a normal way... My ntpd.conf file looks like: --- # File is automatically generated # Do not edit tinker panic 1 tinker step 1 # ntp servers list server 172.30.1.5 # files informations driftfile /etc/ntp.drift # restriction informations restrict default ignore # do not allow request by default restrict 127.0.0.1 # allow localhost for debugging restrict 172.30.1.5 nomodify my ntp.drift file -101.101 I know that maybe the Microsoft NTP/SNTP implementation is not RFC-compliant, but is there a way to configure my NTP client in a more compatible (less strict) way to adjust its time with a Windows Server? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008
ntpd wont resync if the time difference is to big, as it assumes something is wrong as you would have set the system clock roughly correct. To fix stop ntpd, then do an ntpdate against the server. This should set the time. Now run ntpd again also set the following variables to a server of your choosing to make sure ntpdate is run 1st on boot $ grep ntp /etc/rc.conf* /etc/rc.conf:ntpdate_flags=uk.pool.ntp.org /etc/rc.conf:ntpdate_enable=YES /etc/rc.conf:ntpd_enable=YES I cannot do that because I have no Internet access... so the very first thing you might want to try is to comment out the tinker commands, in particular the panic one. I'm not sure that after you set the panic threshold to 1 second you should expect your ntpd to pay any attention to servers with an offset of 587 seconds. If that fails, consider setting ntpdate_enable=YES ntpdate_hosts=NTP_server in your /etc/rc.conf and simply stepping to the correct time at boot time. In short, I don't think this has anything with a Windows server being involved, and everything to do with starting off almost 10 minutes off and a config file that says to never make a step correction larger than 1 second and to panic if you see an offset of over 1 second. I commented the commands involved and nothing changed... (with only 10 minutes of time difference) I even tried to force the sync: U450XA0A0800650nstop ntp U450XA0A0800650ntpd -x -n -q -c /var/ntp.conf U450XA0A0800650nstart ntp In fact I am still quite convinced that the MS implementation isn't totally compliant with the client... ___ 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
windoz, how do i install it last
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sound enablement on an HP CQ60-419WM
So I want to show a movie; How do I make sound work? I'll be using mplayer. --jg ___ 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
more problems. but not with 7.2
First, I want to thank Kenneth and Warren, and a few others who's names I never caught. I am up now with FBSD 7.2, on a browser and with my air-card running. Okay, so now I am back at work on my application. A few of you know of my science-fiction work. I'm trying to run a movie using mplayer. Here follows the text from an X session. How do I configure my sound (same machine, the CQ60-419WM,) and also tighen up the font's, please? Player 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) SI-42 (Family: 17, Model: 3, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Playing DAF_English.mov. ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime Quicktime/MOV file format detected. [mov] Video stream found, -vid 0 [mov] Audio stream found, -aid 2 VIDEO: [avc1] 720x404 24bpp 23.976 fps0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) == Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) == == Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000-192000) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder) == [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 404 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 720x404 = 720x404 Planar YV12 New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. A: 111.8 V: 111.8 A-V: 0.001 ct: 0.022 2682/2682 8% 2% 1.0% 26 0 Exiting... (Quit) ___ 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: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system
I have read all about the WPA sub-system; I've also setup my
/boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf files, correctly.
Except one small detail...
ifconfig ath0 up scan
never returns.
And when I do a:
ifconfig ath0
It tells me I don't have a carrier.
I know the wireless router is working because this Apple sees it. So the
problem is on my Presario.
But the HP CQ-60 Presario is a pretty popular laptop, and the Atheros
chip-set is also very widely used. So, some one has almost certainly been
here before me.
I think my only problem now is to get the carrier logic to respond. Of
course I'd like to be able to control my wireless by pushing the light
button, to turn on and off wireless access.
Does any FreeBSD user have the button working? I understand it turns blue
when it's up. Orange when it's not...
This is a friend's email account.
I am Jules Gilbert, and thank's very much -- I couldn't do this stuff by
myself.
--jg
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote:
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router.
How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly?
--jg
I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just
need
FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do??
If you're using WPA, create your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid=myssid
psk=mykey
}
Then you need the entries in /etc/rc.conf to create the wlan0 interface and
set it up for WPA and DHCP:
wlans_ath0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP
If you're not using WPA, well, why not?
See the Handbook for more:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router. How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly? --jg I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do?? ___ 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: A question for developers
Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.netmel.flynn%2bfbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:46:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: but may be handy until I become more fluent, as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. terminal emulation fault. stty erase ctrl-vctrl-h should fix it, on the shell that is. -- Mel ___ 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
making FBSD 7.2 X work on a CQ-60 laptop
I have been having a lot of trouble getting X running on my HP/Compaq laptop. A lot of trouble. For years I used to use xf86cfg and/or xf86config, but now, with FreeBSD 7.2 I can't find them. (Don't tell me that such useful tools were -- ugh -- depreciated. No, please no.) And worse, the keyboard has lot's of really nice key's on it, to dim the screen and such like that. Which right now 7.2 ignores. It's a CQ-60, a Walmart special and I purchased it because it had 3GB of RAM with a big screen (about 15.5, I think.) And I went down to my local computer store and purchased a 500GB SATA drive for $100. So for $400 I think I got a good deal. (The machine is on sale now at WM stores for less than $300. With tax it was $312.) Now though I have to make it work with FreeBSD 7.2. with X. I need help. Does anyone have one running FBSD 7.2 already? ___ 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: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1
On 20.8.2008, at 10.48, DA Forsyth wrote: Good for you. I see I'm a bit late coming in with my advice, which is to follow the instructions at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 with a few mods because you (and I) were not building a new machine. This is the one I basically followed - I read both that one and the freebsddiary one. I decided to reinstall the server though, because I was any way going to reinstall world and lots of packages were outdated as well. Dumping and restoring would've worked as well, I think. One thing with gmirror is that it won't like to suffer repeated power failures. If the time between failures is less than the time it takes to rebuild the mirror the mirror will break and require manual fsck and then a rebuild. This happened to my test server a few weeks back but today I get to install a UPS for it so this should not happen again. OK, good to know. Luckily I have a small UPS which should provide five to ten minutes of full power. In Finland the power cuts are quite rare and usually measured in mere seconds than minutes, so it's sufficient most of the time and if not, apcupsd shuts the server down after few minutes if something bigger happens. -- Henry Karpatskij http://ripe.net/fcgi-bin/whois?searchtext=HK1203-RIPE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1
Thanks a lot folks, I managed to get the server working, only one file could not be read from the bad disk, but it wasn't required. It took hours to do it and it certainly will remind me next time I choose to be lazy and install a server to non-mirrored disk. :-) -- Henry Karpatskij http://ripe.net/fcgi-bin/whois?searchtext=HK1203-RIPE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Migrating to gmirrored RAID1
Hi, I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk internals, I know how to install the system and somehow understand the concept of slices and partitions, but that's about it. I found some examples on how to install the gmirror on a running system, but they all have in common that they just add new spare disk to the system and turn on the mirroring to it, but I need to replace the current disk which is not the same size as the new ones. Any suggestions how one would do such an operation? Should I just re- install the server to a new disk, turn on the mirroring and then restore the configuration and files from the failing disk? Or is it easier to add the disks to the running system, turn on mirroring and then somehow dump the current disk to the mirror and then re-configure it to boot from the gmirror and remove the failing disk? Current df output: Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a507630 159262 30775834%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e507630 56 466964 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 33573476 6044408 2484319020%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 1762414 381632 123979024%/var devfs 1 10 100%/var/named/dev Thanks in advance, -- Henry Karpatskij http://ripe.net/fcgi-bin/whois?searchtext=HK1203-RIPE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: good replacement for open office
If you don't mind paying for software, I think you'll find SoftMaker's Textmaker and Planmaker tools wholly satisfatory. Their spreadsheets is fully compatible with Excel. They make their products for FreeBSD. Additionally, if you find quirks, they answer you (once I even saw one of their guys answer somebody on sci.math.numerical). *And* they provide regular service packs (bugfixes and improvements). I've long since ditched OpenOffice because it's always problematic. http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofl_en.htm Cheers, Henry Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I like Ubuntu
I tried Ubuntu once and went through an upgrade. This was after some years of Debian at home. There were problems, I thought it was a joke. The documentation was also very bad, having to google for web (PHP forums) pages with the right fix. Looked very ammateurish. I moved to FreeBSD. I had enough of Debian-related problems. [ ]s Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I like Ubuntu
On 4/14/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: My issues with FreeBSD as a desktop mostly come from the difficulty of I suppose your the kind of user that would benefit from using PC-BSD. PC-BSD is not a distro. It FreeBSB + friendlier installation and package management à la Windows or Mac (and ports if you like). Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I like Ubuntu
On 4/13/07, Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? ___ I'll give you a real example. I havea licensed mathematics package called Maple. It expensive. Ubuntu (Debian) just broke the installation from one upgrade to another. They take pride in not keeping backwards compatibility. Then, I used FreeBSD with the Red Hat emulation software, ad I have it runing. Another example: documentation (with whole books on the system desgin) and a community more knowledgeable. Plus, ports. You don have to wait 6 months like in Debian. Additionally, you can run Linux software under emulation layer. BSD license. Cheers. Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I like Ubuntu
I find nothing brilliant in Debian's package management. It's heavily dependent upon human intervention and just adds a layer of complexity on top of a problem that was *already solved* in the Unix world, by using Make files. Do they have a better backtracking algorith then Make? No. Debian's package management is the number one cause that distro just got slower and slower in their release cycle. Henry Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with running Linux software LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Dear folks --
I'm trying to install a software package called LINGO for my
operations research class. There's a Linux version (no BSD, though).
http://www.lindo.com/downloads/downloadm.html
I'm hoping I can get this to work with the Linux emulation layer
(other stuff work already, like Maple 8).
I am getting errors related to a shell script a LD_LIBRARY_PATH
There are libraries that need to be loaded in /opt/lingo9
ls
LINGO.CNF libcxa.so liblindo.so libmosek.so.3.2 lingovars.sh
libcxa.so.3 liblindo.so.3.0 libunwind.so.5
libconsub3.so libcxa.so.5 libmosek.so lingo9
I unpacked it under /opt.
There's a bash shell script you're supposed to run:
##
#! /bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/opt/lingo9/bin/linux32
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LINGO_LICENSE_FILE=$HOME/opt/lingo9/license/lndlng90.lic
export LINGO_LICENSE_FILE
###
My first question is if the shell script translation to tcsh is correct:
###
#!/bin/tcsh
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/opt/lingo9/bin/linux32
setenv LINGO_LICENSE_FILE /opt/ling9/license/lndlng90.lic
###
When I try to execute it, I get the error below (BTW, set to 755).
ls -l bsdlingolic.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2527 143 19 Abr 13:00 bsdlingolic.sh
./bsdlingolic.sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Undefined variable.
What suggestions do you have regarding this issue?
Thanks in advance.
Henry
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Re: I like Ubuntu
On 4/19/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry Lenzi wrote: I find nothing brilliant in Debian's package management. It's heavily dependent upon human intervention and just adds a layer of complexity on top of a problem that was *already solved* in the Unix world, by using Make files. Do they have a better backtracking algorithm then Make? No. I don't understand this at all. It's quite obvious you don't. Assuming that Ubuntu's package management is nearly the same as Debian's (by means of apt-get etc.) then how do you figure it's heavily dependent on human intervention? Have you ever seen the process whereby Debian (and I keep saying Debian because Ubuntu just piggybacks on the Debian developers) releases packages? Their package management system is supposed to be about handling dependencies automatically. Well, I'm not sure you've quite noticed this, that FreeBSD (and the other BSDs) *also* handle dependencies automatically. How? Because of the Magic Makefiles and its backtracking algorithm! Well, funny, huh. No need to reinvent the wheel, as 3 BSD Unixes demonstrate daily. Debian's package management is the number one cause that distro just got slower and slower in their release cycle. Interesting - so, the semi annual (of course this means 2 times a year) release of say Ubuntu isn't in line with say, OpenBSD or even FreeBSD (when they manage to push our 2 releases in a year). I said Debian and you said Ubuntu. My point was that the packaging system they have impinges an extra work load on their developers (there aren't really developers in Debian, only packagers. Only one or two develop system-level software, unlike in the BSDs). Fine. Ubuntu release sin a 6 months cycle. That is the reason they created Ubuntu, because Debian couldn't handle it. Notice that Ubuntu has full time developers on their payroll, *and* they piggyback on Debian. My point being that part of the blame lies in the technology which, in fact, is an opinion seldom heard. A funny thing that the guy who actually invented dpkg doesn't really use it anymore... Here's what you do: plot a graphic of the growth of number of packages in Debian, and then observe how that relates to their release cycle. You'll notice that the more packages they have, the more they stall. Base on what you have stated - you either used a very old version of Debian or a very old version of Ubuntu. Then again, there is always the notion that you may not have used any of the above and are just talking out your keister ;) Henry Lenzi Yes I have, I used Debian for over 5 years. I much prefer FreeBSD nowadays. Anyways, I'll not have an argument with you. I care nothing about Ubuntu or Debian or your opinons on whether I've used Debian or not. That is what I think. I'll just leave it at that. You think Ubuntu is great, good for you. Henry Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I like Ubuntu
I'll give you a real example. I have a licensed mathematics package called Maple. It expensive. Ubuntu (Debian) just broke the installation from one upgrade to another. They take pride in not keeping backwards compatibility. Then, I used FreeBSD with the Red Hat emulation software, ad I have it running. Yes. Well, you try that: buy expensive software and go use Ubuntu. Then, check if works between some release cycle. I will offer a piece of advice: Linux is so prone to mutation and so proud in their disregard for any sane ABI policy, that I recommend for those that wish to use commercial software on Linux that they choose Red Hat, because that is what all the vendors support, mostly. Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with running Linux software LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Thank you it worked, except it borked with out-of-memory. I'll quit using LINGO. Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with running Linux software LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Thank you Boris. I just discovered that there's an AMPL version for FreeBSD (who says FreeBSD doesn't get support ?) that works with lp_solve, so I'll be using that (lp_solve is in the ports tree). http://www.ampl.com/DOWNLOADS/details.html#Unix I mention this for other people that might want to search operations research software that works on FreeBSD. Thanks. Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with running Linux software LD_LIBRARY_PATH
On 4/19/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm far from understanding the topic of those programms. Can you say if the port of LINGO may be helpful for FreeBSD users? These softwares are for optimization of costs, resources etc. in products, or shipment, routes, etc. I think, yeah, it would be nice to have it on FreeBSD. If they support Linux, it means there are people interested and they're pretty much th same sort of crowd that would use FreeBSD. In fact, one of the reasons people might choose Linux instead of FreeBSD is because they think there is no - or see - no software for FreeBSD. BTW, I have contacted the tech support ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and told them it would probably be very easy for them so have a FreeBSD version. Spasiba, Boris! Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox can't save file
On 12/23/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, my firefox and linux-firefox can't save files, I have the same problem. The funny thing is that for a user in th wheel group, it doesn't save. For a normal user, it does. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unicode support on FreeBSD
On 12/16/06, 文鳥 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's worth noting that while this solution may work, it's an add-on. The question of Unicode is complex; you should check for relevant threads in the questions@ and i18n@ archives. I am using FreeBSD 6.1. with locale set to ja_JP.UTF-8 I'm sorry, I'm not following this discussion. To get Unicode support, I should set my system to ja_JP.UTF8?! My problem is cyrillic fonts; any help is aprreciated. Henry PS: Oh, and don't write back to me in Russian, please. I'm not there yet :-)) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portupgrade hung. What do I do?
Hi -- I was following the path of enlightenment to gnome upgrade, and the portupgrade process hung. It is a fact, there's nothing I can do about it. My question is: how do I gracefully make this thing stop (i.e., not smash the computer)? Ctrl-C doesn't work, for instance. And what do I do afterwards, hygiene-wise? TIA, Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade hung. What do I do?
Hi * -- Funny thing, ps ax does to tell me the PID of portupgrade. The process stopped while fetch a postgresql tarball. ps should list portupgrade or at least fetch, right? TIA, Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shutting down as user
On 11/16/06, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Rem P Roberti thusly... I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. Other than already proposed solution, given that you are the only person sitting near the machine working power management, a press of the power button should cleanly shut down the computer. Yes, if you have acpi enabled, you can do that. Otherwise, the OP may consider editing a sudoer list. Regs Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poutupgrade unsafe
A nice portupgrade feature would be to grok UPDATING, and present you with any such notes before the upgrade occurs. Mike I fully agree. It's not the best solution to have an UPDATE file that is very large and that is not integrated in the updating process. UPDATE should be machine-readable, for starters. Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers
My problem is that when you add a printer via the web interface the devices pull-down does not show a parallel port even if the system has detected that there is a printer there. (ie dmesg shows the printer discovery) so where is the parallel port? Hi -- What I think you want to know is the Device URI. If your printer is in lpt0, that would be: parallel://dev/lpt0 *However*, there's a bug report worth reading (I fixed this on my 6.0 - this is fixed in 6.1). Bug num. 99745 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2006-July/094331.html If you used 6.0, follow the instructions and your printer will be detected. I still remains with some other problems regarding CUPS...regarding ffomatic-rip. Hope this helped. Cheers, Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't find foomatic-rip on FreeBSD 6.0
I sent this to cups-bug too... -- Forwarded message -- From: Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 9, 2006 2:30 AM Subject: Can't find foomatic-rip on FreeBSD 6.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello -- I am trying to get CUPS rolling on a FreeBSD 6.0 with a HP Deskjet 840C printer. I have installed cups and all foomatics from ports, as well as some other filters. I think there might be a bug. At first CUPS did not work because of the bug reported in: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2006-July/094331.html Unable to open parallel port device file /dev/lpt0: Permission denied The bug fix in that report corrected this problem, and I guess FreeBSD 6.1 won't have that prblem anymore. The problem that remains now, however, relates to foomatic-rip. The printer is detected (Device URI is parallel://dev/lpt0), but when I try to print the test page, I get the following message: hp (Default Printer) /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed I have no idea as to what this means, since it seems the path is correct. Furthermore: machine# ls -l foomatic-rip lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 27 9 Set 04:29 foomatic-rip - /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers
I have this in my /etc/devfs.rules file on a system successfully using CUPS with a parallel port printer: [localrules=10] add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups (I also have 'devfs_system_ruleset=localrules' in my /etc/rc.conf file.) That makes sure that CUPS can access the lpt* devices (including the lpt*.ctl devices). Mode 0660 also ensures that not everyone can access lpt*, just root and members of the cups group (i.e., CUPS). Cheers, Paul. You solution in the same of the bug report I mentioned in another post in this thread. It refers to the bug report and fix in: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2006-July/094331.html I still have problems with CUPS. It borks complaining about foomatic-rip not being found, although it installed. Did you get a problem like that too? I have a HP Deskjet 840C on /dev/lpt0 Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Henry Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS borked, but apsfilter just works.
Hi -- We has some CUPS questions this week (doesn't every Unix list? ;-) Anyways, CUPS keeps borking. Buggy, bugyy, buggy on FreeBSD 6.0 with a HP Deskjet 840C. And this in 2006. Apsfilter, OTOH, just works. I just had to install the ghostscript-afpl (there are also ghoscript-gnu and ghostscrip-gpl). Just wanted to share my experience with other newbies. Cheers. Henry Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you have both KOI-R and ISO8859-15?
Hi -- I guess I am falling in a strange intersection...I need to be able to read/work with Russian and Latin-1 on my system. Russian filenames are just gibberish right now... Is there a way to have both? Or is this a problem that'll only get solved with Unicode? More and more we need to use foreign languages these days for our work... TIA, Henry Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you install diablo-jdk for 6.1 on 6.0?
Hi -- Can you install diablo-jdk for 6.1 on 6.0? One can no longer find the original package for 6.0 on the FreeBSD foundation web site. TIA. Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ebook reader
On 9/5/06, Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything in the ports tree for reading books on the computer? something like Tom Reader or Ice book reader for windows? I don't know what those are, since I don't use Windows. For ebooks, there are a variety of choices. These choices depend on the format of the ebook. Note that PDB files are proprietary and who know how they're specified...Which means for PDB files, I can't offer any solution. All this stuff is in ports: Type of file Solution - PDF epdfviewer, kpdf, gv, xpdf, acrobat, gpdf PostScript (PS)gv, ggv (?) dvi probably xdvi chm xchm djvu djvulibre, JavaDjVu A note on djvu: although djvulibre is in /usr/ports/graphics, I could not get the viewer (djview) to work properly. Two solutions are: 1) grab the tarball and compile it yourself (in, say, /opt) - very simple to do, just read the INSTALL file; 2) Install the FreeBSD official JDK package and make your file manager use JavaDjVu associated with djvu files - remember to move the jar (IIRC) to the directory where you store your djvu files. Hope this helps. Cheers, Henry Lenzi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portversion is part of what?
Hi -- Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just reinstall portversion. TIA, Henry L. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laser Scanners: Do you know what Kyeboard Wedge is ?
Hi -- I need to purchase a handheld laser scanner (for a market) and I would like it to work with FreeBSD, as that is the OS I plan on installing there (preferably, if I can - I want to avoid Linux, if possible). I found this, that claims to work out of the box. Apparently, there is this interface called Keyboard Wedge. Keyboard Wedge is the simplest and best way to connect the scanner to a regular desk top computer. There is no software to install, just connect in the keyboard circuit and start scanning. Works with ALL applications and ALL Operating Systems running on industry standard architecture PCs- Windows, DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Unix etc. http://www.barcodeman.com/ml/ms9500/ Anyone know anything about this interface and how its integrated in FreeBSD? There's some info here: http://www.csensors.com/kbdwedge.html Anyway, I'm looking for a scanner the works on FreeBSD. TIA, Henry Lenzi PS: Anyone in *Brazil* purchased one? Please get in contact. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laser Scanners: Do you know what Kyeboard Wedge is ?
I've used one of these beore. (...) Basically, it it pretends to be a keyboard. It plugs into the PS/2 port (...) with any operating system that supports a PS/2 keyboard. No special driver necessary. Thanks for answering. I'm much more optimistic now about using FreeBSD for my inventory needs. Easy as that, huh? And have you used it with FreeBSD? And, btw, where /is/ this code in the source tree? Henry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Squeak Smalltalk upgrading problems
Presumably because the maintainer hasn't had time to update it yet. If you provide patches, that would probably help him get it faster... Yes, I can infer that is one possibility. However, I was asking for specifics. And specifically, I wasn't asking for a knee-jerk answer with no real information content, like yours. It seems you neither use nor care about Squeak, but care only about engaging in such infantile exchanges, in which case you should refrain yourself from such lowly and puny pathetic pleasures. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kdebase upgrading bug - help and opinion needed
I am having problem upgrading kdebase from 3.4 to 3.5 on FreeBSD-6.0-release. I followed the instructions on /usr/ports/UPDATING For convenience, I post the instructions here: - 20060108: AFFECTS: users of x11/kdelibs3, x11/kdebase3, deskutils/superkaramba, x11-themes/kde-windeco-smoothblend, irc/kvirc, editors/vimpart AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A number of files have been moved from kdebase to kdelibs between KDE 3.4.3 and KDE 3.5.0 and some applications which used to be distributed separately from KDE have been included in the release. This means that you will have to take some precautions in order to update your KDE installation without interruptions. We recommend sticking to the following procedure. This procedure requires you to have sysutils/portupgrade installed and to be the superuser (or using sudo) . 1.) Delete installed packages which conflict with the updated KDE ports. pkg_deinstall -f kdebase-\[0-9\]\* superkaramba-\[0-9\]\* \ kde-windeco-smoothblend-\[0-9]\* kvirc-\[0-9\]\* \ kdeaddons-vimpart-\[0-9\]\* 2.) Now update the remaining KDE ports. portupgrade -O arts\* kde\* \*kde-i18n\* or, if you want to update KDE along with other updated ports: portupgrade -a 3.) Reinstall the KDE ports you deleted in step 1. portinstall -O kdebase -- I followed them and, after step 3, the system complained of bad C++ code. Please help me assess the severity of this: 1) Have you seen this? Have you had this problem? 2) Do you understand this? 3) Do you have a solution or a suggestion for this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Here is the error: --- konq_popupmenu.cc: In member function `void KonqPopupMenu::setup(uint)': konq_popupmenu.cc:797: error: no matching function for call to `KDEDesktopMimeTy pe::userDefinedServices(const QString, KSimpleConfig, bool, KURL::List)' /usr/local/include/kmimetype.h:561: note: candidates are: static QValueListKDED esktopMimeType::Service KDEDesktopMimeType::userDefinedServices(const QString, bool) /usr/local/include/kmimetype.h:568: note: static QValueListKDED esktopMimeType::Service KDEDesktopMimeType::userDefinedServices(const QString, KConfig, bool) gmake[3]: ** [konq_popupmenu.lo] Erro 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.5.2/libkonq' gmake[2]: ** [all-recursive] Erro 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.5.2/libkonq' gmake[1]: ** [all-recursive] Erro 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdebase3/work/kdebase-3.5.2' gmake: ** [all] Erro 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall49261.0 mak e ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11/kdebase3 (bad C++ code) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Squeak Smalltalk upgrading problems
Hi -- Squeak version 3.8 is out, but ports have 3.6. Does anyone know why? TIA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox with flash and java!
though the link got chopped for me. I believe it is portugese(sp), but here is Yes, it's Portuguese. Anyone who can read Spanish can read (proper) Portuguese. They are very similar. Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you install packages from STABLE in RELEASE?
Hi -- I'm currently running 6.0-SECURITY My portsnap tells me of a bunch of ports that have updates that, when I head directly for an ftp site, I find on a STABLE tree (like kde-3.5.3 - actually 3.5.2 until yesterday) For instance, ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/x11/ lists kde-3.4.2.tbz Can I install these on RELEASE? If not, why does portsnap even suggest them? TIA. HL. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What FreeBSD users really want
You know, for me, the little things have nothing to do with what you said. The little things have to do with the stuff my wife needs. Trivial things, like easily writing data to a CD, just like she does on her work with Windows, and automounting floppies for DOS formatted floppies. Automounting like in Linux. Every thing else is just fine, we ahve everything in FreeBSD that a desktop user needs. My 2 cents. HL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
