X11 clipboard problems
Hello, - I have the following problem: box1 : FreeBSD 6.2-BETA with Xorg box2 : FreeBSD 4.11 with XFree 4.3 When I ssh from box1 into box2 using X11Forwarding and launch an application, for example Mozilla, on box2, I cannot copy and paste between the applications running on box1 and the application(s) running on box2. The clipboard just doesn't work. (AFAIK I have never encountered this problem before, but I will try this with one of my old SparcStations soon.) A search on Google revealed that this has happened to a few people on non-BSD systems, too; but I could not find any information on how to solve this, nor any work-around. Any tips or hints? Greetings, Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 802.1x
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cubicool wrote: [...] | I've scoured google all | over and discovered Open1x--which has openly dropped all BSD support [...] This statement does not seem to be entirely correct. The website http://www.open1x.org states that version 0.7 from 12 June 2003 features better BSD support, whatever that may be. Also the Supported Platforms chapter of the Xsupplicant documentation states that: *BSD support was initially removed largely due to a lack of active *BSD development. Some *BSD code does remain, however, and we encourage any *BSD developers out there to test xsupplicant and submit patches or file bug reports to improve *BSD support. [...] The Open1x team would like to reprovide support for *BSD platforms, but doing so will require some additional hacking on the codebase. This project is maintained in our spare time, and we already feel stretched, so we hope you understand our current dilemma in providing *BSD support. If you are interested in helping us with *BSD support, please let us know. http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=23371group_id=60236#ch2 Maybe you are able to help them out. Greetings, Martin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBJXE7kWEEBp53XEURAkXkAKDDKdkWlqzyRd7PuyrK5H72QT/UnwCfT79c UlA9gzlGYFNE3qm/UObYGIc= =pf7Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating jail
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Renato Botelho wrote:
| Hi all,
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| I have a box running FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, and I have a jail
| running on this machine, all works fine.
|
| When FreeBSD-5.3 releases, I want to upgrade my box to this version,
| how must I proceed to upgrade my box and my jail to new version?
You will have to sync your source using cvsup(1) to the apropriate
branch which I guess will be RELENG_5_3.
General instructions on how to sync your source to the new release and
how to recompile and reinstall your system are located in the FreeBSD
Handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html and
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html.
Some tips for updating your jails can be found at
http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/BuildAndUpdateJails.
You should definitely back up your entire system before updating. It's
also probably advisable to disable all additionally installed software
before booting the new version. There seem to have been a lot of changes
which may break your current binaries. So after you upgrade the system,
a portupgrade -fa may be in place.
And be sure to have a look at /usr/src/UPDATING after syncing your source.
I would break this all up into the following
1. backup
2. rebuild steps, including cvsup, buildworld etc
3. disable all ports and jails
4. install steps, including install{kernel,world} and mergemaster,
reboot etc
[see if it works]
5. jail updating steps
...
Hope this helps,
Martin
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Re: FBSD 5.2-1 NIS/YP KDE
RA Cohen wrote:
[...]
I have been successful in all aspects but one: client logins
default to the most basic window mgr (tvwm I think). There are
approx. 400 potentiaol users total over 65 workstations (a
school environment). How can I make all of them default to KDE
without manually going into each and every central home
directory to set this? Do I need a Perl sctript to do this? How
can I get a new user addition to default to KDE?
[...]
There are many ways to achieve this.
As you have all the home folders in a central location, it would be
easiest to replace every user's .xsession/.xinitrc files with one
calling startkde.
For new users to already have this custom file, place it in
/usr/share/skel/ with a name of dot.xinitrc resp. dot.xsession.
But there are other solutions:
One thing to consider is using a graphical login managager like
{k,g,x}dm, in case you don't already do so.
{k,g}dm allow the user to chooser their session. Adding new sessions to
the list is pretty straightforward - just take a look at gdm.conf resp.
kdm.conf files and the respective documentation.
If xdm is used you could modify its Xsession file: remove the part where
~/.xsession is started and simply have it launch kde.
Yet another way would be to simply replace twm with a symlink pointing
at the startkde script.
Finally, I suggest you check out cfengine www.cfengine.org (also in
the ports), which makes central administration of a network quite easy.
Cfengine also has macros to easily modify every user's
~/.{xsession,whatever} file.
Additionally, you might want to consider using CVS to keep track of your
configuration files (or/and the configuration files of cfengine).
HTH,
- Martin
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Re: jails; sharing parts of file system; mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.
Chad, Rob, - On linux you can do a % mount -bind olddir newdir to remount a piece of the FS somewhere else. The NullFS on FBSD seems to allow similar things. However, as much as I could find on NullFS [...] I'm currently setting up my 4.9-RELEASE webserver to do something similar - each jail gets a root filesystem, but /usr is shared readonly by all of them. The exception is /usr/local/etc, which is symlinked to /etc/local (in the jail). My impression, though I don't have much to back this up with, is that nullfs is reliable enough in read-only mode. Other folks may have a different opinion. Personally, I use (localhost) nfs-mounts to remount parts of the file system somewhere else. Works quite well. Greetings, Martin Brecher ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?
Scott Mitchell wrote: [...] Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm imagining you need to use hard links or something to keep the size down. Check out rsync and the --link-dest=DIR option. This will hardlink unchanged files to the previous copy in the link-dest directory, rather than copying the data again. I just saw a project named rsnapshot on freshmeat.net: rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. It makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh. It uses hard links whenever possible, to greatly reduce the disk space required. Homepage is http://www.rsnapshot.org/. Does not seem to be in the ports collection, though. Greetings, Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: [...] However, I managed to work around these freezes by removing the two SMP-related lines from my kernel configuration: options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device apic # I/O APIC Additionally, I am sure ACPI does not have anything to do with this -- at least on this box. Well, it's getting more and more interesting... I'm curious what does it have to do with SMP ? Are you sure it has nothing to do with ACPI ? Other posters suggests disabling ACPI. Did you try and it didn't help ? ACPI is still activated. Removing those two lines from my kernel configuration solved the problem for me. Have you tried that? This would help nailing the problem down, I guess. BTW, I haven't tried with the geforce again, yet -- still running the i740 (which had the problems, too, of course). Some people mentioned that the X11 freezes crawled in shortly before the 5.2 branch; was there some (major?) update to the APIC stuff maybe? (Just guessing wild.) Greetings, Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumail
Robert Warning wrote: I almost forgot. You will get a different font error with the libart backend, but I know how to fix it :) Download this gziped tarball http://www.stupid-design.com/martin/GNUstep.de/Fonts/FreeFonts.nfont.tar.gz and unpack it in /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Fonts. Everything should be fine then. Also see: http://www.stupid-design.com/martin/GNUstep.de/Fonts/index.en.php3 Please see http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/nfont%20packages There are more links to more (imho better) nfont packages than the ones I have on GNUstep.de. As a side note: custom installed stuff should go into GNUstep/Local/... rather than System/... :-) Greetings, Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: [...] I installed 5.2-RC2 again, added hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to /boot/device.hints, but then I got this in dmesg after vga0:... unknown: PNP0401 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0700 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0f13 can't assign resources (irq) unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources (port) Messages were always present with ACPI disabled and absent when enabled. I've decided to get back to 5.1 and wait for 5.2-RELEASE... Have you tried removing options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device apic # I/O APIC from your kernel config and recompiled? I just put in the nvidida card again: no freezes with those two options removed from my kernel. And acpi.ko is working happily. Greetings, Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: [...] Yes, see my post from earlier today called Can't shutdown, logout, or restart cleanly. [...] thanks, I've read it - I have Asus P3B-F motherboard :)) But seriously, I'm not sure it's hardware-related - I don't remember a single occurence of this problem in 5.1 and 5.0. It seems to have something to do with 5.2. [...] I agree: I experienced X11 freezes on 5.2 with both a nvidia card as well as a card using the i740 chipset. The nv freezed the computer as soon as I started X, the i740 happend to freeze it when I killed the X server Also, I saw two similar reports on the -current list. However, I managed to work around these freezes by removing the two SMP-related lines from my kernel configuration: options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device apic # I/O APIC Additionally, I am sure ACPI does not have anything to do with this -- at least on this box. HTH - Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports?
John Mills wrote: [...] I have an installation I'm comfortable with, between those ports I chose to install, those I chose _not_ to install, and those I went around and added individually. Now I want to install the same set in a number of other systems. [...] The machines have 3.5 diskettes, _just_sufficient_ hard drives, netowrk interface cards, and no CD-ROMs. They hang on a LAN served with DHCP. [...] What are my options, and your recommendations? Assuming all machines have similar installations of FreeBSD, you could just cp -Rp /usr/local to the other machines over the network -- or have it just NFS mounted (no local copy on each machine). Additionally, you would have to copy missing items from /var/db/pkg to the other machines. And possibly diff/merge some files in /etc (some ports may need additional user accounts, etc). Greetings, Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vinum RAID5 speed question
Hi, - I plan on setting up a vinum RAID5 array of three 120GB IDE disks. The disks will be attached to two Promise 100 TX2 controllers, on which two other disks are residing, too. The following questions have come to my mind: 1. I thought about getting disks with 8MB cache. Does the bigger cache size affect performance in a RAID5 scenario? 2. Currently I'm running a RAID5 with 4 older 5400rpm disks in that machine, and write speeds are around 3MB/s. I guess that several people here are running vinum RAID5 with current IDE disks, so what throughput can I expect from the new planned setup? 3. The volume is meant for storing all kinds of files with all kinds of sizes. My current setup has a blocksize of 489kb. From other people's experience, what blocksize might bring the best results for such general purpose? 4. Any other advice would be welcome, of course. :-) Thanks, Martin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster
First off, let me say that FreeBSD is one of the cleanest systems out there as the developers try to remove bigger packages from the base system instead of adding more bloat every release. One example would be the removal of perl from the base distribution in 5.x. As for perl and the other scripting languages, the actual scripts are often very small because developers don't need to reinvent the wheel everytime but instead make use of the huge repository of existing classes and libraries. On Windows for example most software packages include their own dependencies. I have seen applications installing their own scripting environments, even their own Java VMs - apart from a dozen of dlls... If you want to develop graphical applications, let me recommend you to take a look at the GNUstep project (http://www.gnustep.org). It provides a complete and clean API but is very small in comparison to the likes of KDE/Qt or GNOME. Greetings, Martin Denis Troshin wrote: Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This 'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other unix-systems) to an ugly monster. For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I install require them. Does exist a programming under unix without these dependencies? P.S. Under Windows it is possible to write not bad applications which depend just on libraries (KERNEL32, USER32, GDI32). And these libs exist on every base system!!! Is it possible in unix? Before I thought that unix programs very compact, but they are huge! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
