Re: Unable to reach hosts outside my subnet after initial installation
Edward Lay wrote: From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems more like a router/gateway network configuration type of problem. I've just discovered that when I ping the gateway's IP address, I get no answer. Now I know the gateway is functioning as every other host on the network can reach the rest of the internet and in fact, I've just successfully ping'd the gateway from the machine where I'm writing this message. So I'm wondering what could cause this or at least some way of approaching the problem. netmask? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound card
Joey Mingrone wrote: Hi, I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware notes, I can't tell whether I should use the snd_ich(4) driver for an Intel ICH4 card, the snd_hda(4) driver for an 82801 card or a sigmatel card. Any suggestions? %cat /var/run/dmesg.boot| grep pcm pcm0: Intel ICH4 (82801DB) port 0xee00-0xeeff,0xe000-0xe03f mem 0xffaff800-0xffaff9ff,0xffaff400-0xffaff4ff irq 4 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: [ITHREAD] pcm0: SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html Especially: If you are not sure which driver to use, you may try to load the snd_driver module: # kldload snd_driver This is a metadriver loading the most common device drivers at once. This speeds up the search for the correct driver. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? ls -ld /var/db/pkg/port, use the mtime of the directory. 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete. Not really. This is a bit dangerous. The dangerous part is the mtime of the directory. It would be much better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes *after* the package has been installed. It is possible, though not certain, that the mtime of the directory may change if another package is installed later which depends on this one - pkg_add(1) then updates some files, most notably +REQUIRED_BY, to reflect the new dependency, so that pkg_delete(1) may warn you later if you try to delete something that other packages depend on. Of course, the part with the mtime of the directory may change depends a bit on the filesystem used, but I find it easier to just rely on the +CONTENTS file that I'm sure should never change - unless I edit it by hand, but then all bets are off :) Novembre, you might want to try something like: # Change the working directory for easier path handling cd /var/db/pkg # Create a temporary file with the modification time set to the date # that you want to examine (in this case, May 15, 2008, 11:00am) touch -t 200805151100 /tmp/stamp # Find all +CONTENTS files that have a modification time later than that # of the stamp file find . -type f -name '+CONTENTS' -mnewer /tmp/stamp # Extend the previous command - get only the second component of the # file path, which is the name of the package directory, which coincides # with the name of the package :) find . -type f -name '+CONTENTS' -mnewer /tmp/stamp | cut -d/ -f2 That should give you a list; you may redirect it to a file or, if you are feeling really adventurous, just pipe it to | xargs pkg_delete :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit. pgpRMeph8IlP3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? ls -ld /var/db/pkg/port, use the mtime of the directory. 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete. Not really. This is a bit dangerous. The dangerous part is the mtime of the directory. It would be much better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes *after* the package has been installed. It actually does if you're using portupgrade (and probably portmaster), see the @pkgdep entries. Use +DESC, +COMMENT or +MTREE_DIRS instead. Yep. Sorry. Any of those would be a better candidate. I'd simply forgotten about port management tools modifying the dependencies in-place. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Thit sentence is not self-referential because thit is not a word. pgpKsLwZy90xN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: vmware timekeeping
I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on boot, I routinely lose 15 minutes a day (I keep it up 24x7). I think it is not so much a bug in VMware as opposed to the host OS running slower than it thinks (e.g. maybe a second of OS time is really 1.01 seconds of real time adding up over long periods) if the native OS is under moderate to heavy use. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverse proxy recommendation
Thomas Mullins wrote: Hello, We have three internal web servers that we make accessible to the internet. Right now we simply use pf and port redirection. Works great. But, we would like to tighten up security. I know you can do this with squid, apache and a few others. Could someone please make a recommendation on what solutions they have used or seen in the past? I'm using squid as reverse proxy, for several internal hosts (just one squid reading the host-header), both as rp for 'normal' sites and as https front end. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem
Thursday, 22 May 2008 at 9:13:41 +0100, Vince Hoffman said: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On 5/22/08, Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I have an ipw2200 bg. I can't make it work under FreeBSD 7 on AMD64. This is the output of pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x27028086 chip=0x42208086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'MPCI3B driverIntel PRO/Wireless 2200BG' class = network dmesg shows the following: pci0: network at device 5.0 (no driver attached) I tried to instal the iwi-firmware from ports: Have you read the manpage for iwi? No, I tried with iwi-firmware and iwicontrol and none of them existed. no ports are needed the firmware is now in the base system, Just add the entries as specified in this snippet from man iwi So... shouldn't this port be removed? I'm pretty sure that things changed between 6.x and 7.x, I'd imagine the port is needed for 7.x Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in loader.conf(5): if_iwi_load=YES wlan_load=YES firmware_load=YES In both cases, place the following lines in loader.conf(5) to load the firmware modules: iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES and This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. For the loaded firmware to work the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE must be agreed to and the follow-ing line be added to loader.conf(5): legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 I'll try it. But AFAIK, I have to recompile the kernel cause the device iwi line is missing. Am i right? I think they should all be loadable as modules if they arent in generic. To try without rebooting I believe the commands you want are: kenv legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 kldload if_iwi kldload wlan kldload firmware kldload iwi_bss kldload iwi_ibss kldload iwi_monitor However, I just had a look in my /boot/kernel for the if_iwi module and its not there so you may be correct. (I'm a touch supprised as the do exist on my i386 box) The same on my machine. The line is not in GENERIC and that modules don't exist. I will recompile my module as soon as I have some spare time. Thanks for your help. In theory you should be able to just cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwi make make install cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwifw make make install without rebuilding the entire kernel. I'm just puzzled why they dont build by default. I'm running a stock 7.0-STABLE with GENERIC and a default make.conf and I get the iwi modules no problem. I just followed the instructions in the man page and was up and running in 5 minutes. Peter Harrison Vince Best Regards regards, Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem
Thursday, 22 May 2008 at 14:04:46 +0100, Vince Hoffman said: peter harrison wrote: Thursday, 22 May 2008 at 9:13:41 +0100, Vince Hoffman said: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On 5/22/08, Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Have you read the manpage for iwi? No, I tried with iwi-firmware and iwicontrol and none of them existed. no ports are needed the firmware is now in the base system, Just add the entries as specified in this snippet from man iwi So... shouldn't this port be removed? I'm pretty sure that things changed between 6.x and 7.x, I'd imagine the port is needed for 7.x Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in loader.conf(5): if_iwi_load=YES wlan_load=YES firmware_load=YES In both cases, place the following lines in loader.conf(5) to load the firmware modules: iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES and This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. For the loaded firmware to work the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE must be agreed to and the follow-ing line be added to loader.conf(5): legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 I'll try it. But AFAIK, I have to recompile the kernel cause the device iwi line is missing. Am i right? I think they should all be loadable as modules if they arent in generic. To try without rebooting I believe the commands you want are: kenv legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 kldload if_iwi kldload wlan kldload firmware kldload iwi_bss kldload iwi_ibss kldload iwi_monitor However, I just had a look in my /boot/kernel for the if_iwi module and its not there so you may be correct. (I'm a touch supprised as the do exist on my i386 box) The same on my machine. The line is not in GENERIC and that modules don't exist. I will recompile my module as soon as I have some spare time. Thanks for your help. In theory you should be able to just cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwi make make install cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwifw make make install without rebuilding the entire kernel. I'm just puzzled why they dont build by default. I'm running a stock 7.0-STABLE with GENERIC and a default make.conf and I get the iwi modules no problem. I just followed the instructions in the man page and was up and running in 5 minutes. Are you running AMD64? the modules are there on my i386 laptop but not my AMD64 server (I dont use iwi on either though.) I'm running i386, so that may be the difference. I don't have an AMD64 system to check I'm afraid. Peter Harrison. vince Peter Harrison Vince Best Regards regards, Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Apache-2.2.8 PHP5 (+extensions) ports
Quoting Volker Jahns [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Apache reports this: [notice] child pid 31685 exit signal Illegal instruction (4) and my /var/log/messages state: kernel: pid 31685 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4 Have a look into apache log file, increase loglevel in httpd.conf LogLevel debug Hi Volker, Thanks for your answer. I tried that, but unfortunately it doesn't give me any more information (except deflating my traffic with gzip). Since this was in the errorlog I removed the DEFLATE option, just as a test, but that doesn't give the desired result either. This is the log: [debug] mod_deflate.c(619): [client 192.168.13.173] Zlib: Compressed 215 to 171 : URL /favicon.ico Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Apache-2.2.8 PHP5 (+extensions) ports
Reko Turja wrote: Whenever I click these, my browser wants to save a blank php-page, Apache reports this: [notice] child pid 31685 exit signal Illegal instruction (4) I've got signal 4's with PHP earlier, but I can't for now remember the exact cause. Usually my PHP problems have related to having module conflict in PHP, especially recode has been problematic. The solution has been commenting out extensions from /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini and then adding them back one by one until the problem returns - the last one added is the one causing the conflict. Of course you have to keep at least some extensions available in order to keep the website you're testing functional - databases etc. Reko, That's actually a good pointer. I'll try tonight. Other solution is trying to tweak the extension load order in extensions.ini after you have found the extension causing the crash. Other possible thing is accidentally building PHP against the wrong Apache if I recall right - in your case building Apache2 or Apache1 version when you are running Apache22. How would I do that? I installed Apache22 from ports and after that PHP. It never asked for any apache version. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Apache-2.2.8 PHP5 (+extensions) ports
Mel wrote: [notice] child pid 31685 exit signal Illegal instruction (4) That would mean faulty CFLAGS when building or faulty asm in c files, usually seen in multimedia apps (seriously doubt that applies here). I thought so at first. I had these in my /etc/make.conf, but rebuild every port without them: CPUTYPE= i686 CFLAGS=-O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe I don't think there's anything binary in joomla, but you may want to inspect the code in those faulty links. It might just shell_exec() an old binary you have lying around. Both FreeBSD, apache, php and joomla were fresh installs. Thanks for your answer. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Apache-2.2.8 PHP5 (+extensions) ports
Reko Turja wrote: How would I do that? I installed Apache22 from ports and after that PHP. It never asked for any apache version. I can't remember if that was at point in time when there wasAPACHE_VER=xxx knob - it was a long while ago. The module loading order difficulties tend to crop up every upgrade of PHP, forgetfulness to turn some extensions off from my part... Solved it by installing PHP from source. Thanks for your answer. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with Apache-2.2.8 PHP5 (+extensions) ports
Hi all, Here's the situation: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1, apache-2.2.8 from ports and php5: php5-5.2.6 PHP Scripting Language php5-bz2-5.2.6 The bz2 shared extension for php php5-ctype-5.2.6The ctype shared extension for php php5-dom-5.2.6 The dom shared extension for php php5-extensions-1.1 A meta-port to install PHP extensions php5-gd-5.2.6 The gd shared extension for php php5-gettext-5.2.6 The gettext shared extension for php php5-iconv-5.2.6The iconv shared extension for php php5-imap-5.2.6_1 The imap shared extension for php php5-mbstring-5.2.6 The mbstring shared extension for php php5-mcrypt-5.2.6 The mcrypt shared extension for php php5-mhash-5.2.6The mhash shared extension for php php5-mysql-5.2.6The mysql shared extension for php php5-pcre-5.2.6 The pcre shared extension for php php5-pdo-5.2.6 The pdo shared extension for php php5-posix-5.2.6The posix shared extension for php php5-session-5.2.6 The session shared extension for php php5-simplexml-5.2.6 The simplexml shared extension for php php5-spl-5.2.6 The spl shared extension for php php5-tokenizer-5.2.6 The tokenizer shared extension for php php5-xml-5.2.6 The xml shared extension for php php5-xmlreader-5.2.6 The xmlreader shared extension for php php5-xmlwriter-5.2.6 The xmlwriter shared extension for php php5-zlib-5.2.6 The zlib shared extension for php I've downloaded Joomla 1.5 from their site and installed it in my webroot, configured it with sample data and it works except for (so far) two links: Whenever I click these, my browser wants to save a blank php-page, Apache reports this: [notice] child pid 31685 exit signal Illegal instruction (4) and my /var/log/messages state: kernel: pid 31685 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4 I've reinstalled all my ports with portupgrade -af (as suggested by a google search result), but still it keeps doing this. On my other machine (6.3, apache from ports, but php installed from source) Joomla runs flawlessly. Anyone seen this (a solution would be nice :-) )? Thanks in advance. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP server with no persistent storage
Quoting Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will the DHCP server be this trouble-free if I switch my whole network to dynamic IPs? When the DHCP server goes offline, then comes back online, what happens? M0n0wall does it (http://m0n0.ch). I run M0n0 on my 4801 (I'm not using any DHCP on it however), but it seems to work. Maybe you'll find your answers at their site? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?
Christian Laursen wrote: It is also worth taking a look at the ProxyCommand option. For the case above something like this should be put in ~/.ssh/config: Host your.own.host-tunneled HostKeyAlias your.own.host ProxyCommand ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] nc your.own.host 22 The you can just do ssh your.own.host-tunneled and go through your.friends.host transparently. I forgot about this one: indeed a beauty ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?
Vince Sabio wrote: ** At 07:33 +0200 on 05/08/2008, Peter Boosten wrote: Vince Sabio wrote: Note if you choose to do this: scp'ing files becomes a four-step process (i.e., scp file(s) to intermediate server, log in to intermediate server, scp to destination server, delete file(s) from intermediate server). Still worth it, though. Never thought of port forwarding? Sure, but that would still leave my machines vulnerable to script kiddies. Huh?!? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?
Valeriu Mutu wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:33:13AM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Vince Sabio wrote: Note if you choose to do this: scp'ing files becomes a four-step process (i.e., scp file(s) to intermediate server, log in to intermediate server, scp to destination server, delete file(s) from intermediate server). Still worth it, though. Never thought of port forwarding? Peter Exactly. Following Peter's idea and assuming that public key authentication is setup, the tunnel could be setup as easy as: ssh -f -L localhost::localhost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh -f -L localhost::localhost:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sleep 120 In this case, we setup a tunnel through machineA to machineB. No, I was more thinking of: ssh -L :your.own.host:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then open a new shell: scp -P the-file-you-want-to-copy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This works easiest with agent forwarding, but I guess any authentication will do. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?
Vince Sabio wrote: Note if you choose to do this: scp'ing files becomes a four-step process (i.e., scp file(s) to intermediate server, log in to intermediate server, scp to destination server, delete file(s) from intermediate server). Still worth it, though. Never thought of port forwarding? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, David Kelly said: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in the ports) it works well and even has a RBL feature to block some of these script kiddies proactively. Unfortunately, these attempts have become a fact of life. I probably get 20 - 30 attempts a day between my various servers. Depending on how you use ssh from external systems you could add firewall rules to disallow all but known sources. I was doing that in the past, but I found it to be inflexable and sometimes a pain to deal with. I sometimes need to access a server from a new location and that kind of hard lockdown just isn't practical. The denyhosts solution works very well for me and the RBH feature blocks 9 out of 10 attempts outright. It's quite simple if you're using pf: in your pf.conf: table blacklist persist block in quick on $ext_if proto tcp from blacklist to any\ port 22 label ssh bruteforce pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to any port ssh flags S/SA \ keep state (max-src-conn 15, max-src-conn-rate 5/40, \ overload blacklist flush global) What is does is to check whether more than 15 connections are made from the same IP address, or 5 within 40 seconds. If that happens the offending IP address is put in a dynamic list called blacklist and gets blocked. Works like charm. Another option is sshguard (/usr/ports/security/sshguard) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: living with freebsd
Quoting Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This got me interested. So basically for a server, you don't do any upgrades unless there are security issues to solve or new features that you need? It seems to me that sometimes if you have waited with an upgrade for too long, it is more difficult to upgrade than it would have been if you had followed all small updates which appeared along the way... I think you have to differentiate between updates and upgrades. I consider an upgrade moving from one release to another (say from 6.2 to 6.3), while security patches are updates. I always run updates, but I don't always follow upgrades. Recently I upgraded one older machine from 5.5 to 6.2 (en even more recent to 6.3). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Variable arg function question
Unga wrote: Hi all I need to implement a variable argument function in C. The number of args are not known but the type is known, all are strings. Unfortunately va_arg() [stdarg(3)] does not return NULL or any other suitable value after processing the arg list, it just simply crashes once the arg list is exhausted. It seems there is no way to know the number of args inside the called function. Why is it in your opinion so hard to count the number of arguments *before* you call the function, in other words, what in your program prevents this count? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
webcam
Hi guys, Any recommendations for a particular webcam which works reasonably well under FreeBSD? I've noticed some drivers in the ports tree (would like to use it with Skype2). Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pw create home dir issue
Unga wrote: Hi I cannot get the pw to create a new user's home directory. Here is what I used: pw -V /etc useradd -n test \ -c Test User -b /home/ \ -G wheel,operator -m -M 0700 \ -k /etc/skel/ -s /usr/local/bin/bash It creates the user without user's home directory. Once home directory is created manually, the account can be used. I don't have a /etc/pw.conf. I also used -d /home/, but it still doesn't create the home directory. I use it without the slash: adduser -d /home -q -s /usr/local/bin/rzsh Works like charm Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pw create home dir issue
Unga wrote: --- Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unga wrote: Hi I cannot get the pw to create a new user's home directory. Here is what I used: pw -V /etc useradd -n test \ -c Test User -b /home/ \ -G wheel,operator -m -M 0700 \ -k /etc/skel/ -s /usr/local/bin/bash It creates the user without user's home directory. Once home directory is created manually, the account can be used. I don't have a /etc/pw.conf. I also used -d /home/, but it still doesn't create the home directory. I use it without the slash: adduser -d /home -q -s /usr/local/bin/rzsh Works like charm There is no keyword adduser to the pw(8) :) Ah, yeah you're right: therefore I used the adduser command :-) Apologies for the confusion. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.
I'm a die hard FreeBSD user. For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in production on all of my servers. Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for popular VM applications. Is there hope for FreeBSD as a popularly supported virtual machine host, or am I stuck in the multiple disappointments of linsux land. Sincerely, Peter Brezny Purplecat Networks Inc. www.purplecat.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.
Yeah, But Jail offers no real segmentation of resource utilization and certainly no simple management interface to hand to customers. At least not back in 2006 when I was using them on a 4.x system, where none of the jails survived a simple upgrade (from like 4.9 to 4.10 or something I don't remember). A great tool for testing and such, but I just didn't find it could do what I needed (real resource segmentation and control). How's virtualbox coming along? Does it have FreeBSD host support yet? Anyone using it in production? Sincerely, Peter Brezny Purplecat Networks Inc. www.purplecat.net -Original Message- From: xSAPPYx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:47 PM To: Peter Brezny Subject: Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization. Thats a loaded question. Some might say that Freebsd has been a leading in virtualization ( jail(8) for example). Support for Zen Dom0 is coming along nicely it seems. If you want VMware hosting support, not really sure what to say there. VMware server is a linux kernel.. starting to get into the middle of linux land if you go down the VMware route. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Peter Brezny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a die hard FreeBSD user. For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in production on all of my servers. Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for popular VM applications. Is there hope for FreeBSD as a popularly supported virtual machine host, or am I stuck in the multiple disappointments of linsux land. Sincerely, Peter Brezny Purplecat Networks Inc. www.purplecat.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD network problem.
I have such a strange problem I cant even guess whats worng. Im running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE amd64 and zfs. When the machine starts everything works fine but after a while (the only thing I noticed, when the free memory drops below 1700MB) it starts to behave VERY strange when serving web-pages (running apache22). It has no problem serving html-pages but css and images doesnt work. The http-log reports 200 OK and tcpdump shows the whole css-code sent out on the interface. But the browser/telnet just sits there waiting for data. Sometimes we even get HTTP-requests inside the css-file from another machine to another server. (see picture) http://jf.jail.se/tmp/css.png When I reboot the machine everything works fine again but after a while this appears again. using lynx is no problem at all. or telnet and GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: blabla this gives the correct data, but GET /style.css HTTP/1.1 gives nothing, just waiting for data. Other protocols like ftp, ssh, smtp, imap seems to work fine. And sometimes it seems like it works fine UNTIL you do shift+reload until that the sites works fine. of course I figured that this must be a problem between the server and myself but since a reboot fixes the problem for a certain amout of time that could (maybe) not be the case. I really need some ideas on this.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ClamAV 0.93 on FreeBSD 4.11
Juergen Fiedler wrote: Hello, I am trying to install ClamAV 0.93 on a FreeBSD 4.11 (i386) system. I have downloaded and untarred the port, but when I try to install it, I get an error message indicating that my gcc can't build executables. The section of config.log that I believe to be relevant looks like this: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lpthread You should either upgrade your FreeBSD or build ClamAV without pthread support (you won't get the daemon then). I don't think 4.11 supports pthreads. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xfce and shutting down...
Tuesday, 15 April 2008 at 22:53:55 +0100, Peter Harrison said: I upgraded my ports a week or so ago (after the Gnome 2.20 upgrade if that helps). I'm running Xfce on both 7.0 and 6.3. Before the upgrade, I could use the Xfce opanel shutdown button to poweroff the system (with the appropriate entry in sudoers). Following the upgrade, I simply get returned to the login screen, with the following message repeated twice in /var/log/messages: console-kit-daemon[839]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed Can anyone shed any light on what's changed to prevent Xfce from being able to shut the system down? (Note, I can still poweroff by su-ing to root and running 'shutdown -p now'). Can anyone shed any light? Thanks for your help. Answering my own question, but for the sake of the archives... It seems that xfsm-shutdown-helper no longer uses sudo to gain the necessary privileges to shut the system down - instead it uses hal policykit. Unfortunately this changeover doesn't seem to be documented anywhere - either for freebsd or xfce. However, give the user the appropriate permissions in /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf (see the man page for details) and it all starts working again. Peter Harrison Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to exec a process in a jail while being on the main host?
For example, i have an already runing jail with some JID and i am logged in on the main host (which runs the jail). How can i run a new process inside the jail with a known JID w/o ssh-ing into that jail or doing a lot of strange manupulations? I am asking, because i have about 20 jails running and each has a running special control daemon which changes a lot and often. When change occures i need then to enter each jail as root, kill the old daemon, start the new one. This take a lot of time and is really annoying. jls jexec jid /program/to/exec jexec 1 /bin/sh -- Regards, Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xfce and shutting down...
I upgraded my ports a week or so ago (after the Gnome 2.20 upgrade if that helps). I'm running Xfce on both 7.0 and 6.3. Before the upgrade, I could use the Xfce opanel shutdown button to poweroff the system (with the appropriate entry in sudoers). Following the upgrade, I simply get returned to the login screen, with the following message repeated twice in /var/log/messages: console-kit-daemon[839]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed Can anyone shed any light on what's changed to prevent Xfce from being able to shut the system down? (Note, I can still poweroff by su-ing to root and running 'shutdown -p now'). Can anyone shed any light? Thanks for your help. Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wlan driver for VIA USB card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a driver for the VIA VNT6656G6A40 54 MBps Wireless USB Module to run on FreeBSD 7.0 i386. This is a daughterboard built around the VIA 6656 chipset. Two VIA drivers are listed in /boot/defaults/loader.conf but they are for different chip sets. http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/networking/wireless/vt6656/ http://www.logicsupply.com/products/vnt6656g6a40 Gary, You can make one yourself if you have the Windows drivers. Have a look at ndisgen(8). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )
If I run zpool import x1 it works. But as you say it should do it by its own. Maybe it whould be the best to open a bugreport ? In addition to what has already been mentioned by Ivan Voras, make sure your /boot is not the subject to strangeness. Specifically, imported pools are kept track of in /boot/zfs/zpool.cache. If you somehow have multiple versions of your /boot, or it is read-only somehow, you may see problems like this. (For example, if your real /boot during boot is different from the location actually at /boot once the system has mounted all filesystems, and ZFS is loaded at boot due to loader variable.) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Problem with gio-fam-backend, portupgrade failing...
Tuesday, 8 April 2008 at 15:41:04 +0200, Matthias Apitz said: El día Monday, April 07, 2008 a las 10:06:02PM +0100, Peter Harrison escribió: I have seen this before, if ( /devel/ ) gio-fam-backend needs a library that is outdated, it gives this sort of error. I know when I had the issue, it was that it needs glib 2.16 and I had 2.14. Thankfully it doesn't have too many dependancies so it isn't hard to check them all. Right, I'll start looking through the gio-fam-backend dependencies and report back. Thanks for the quick response. Peter Harrison. Mark Moellering I've installed last weekend a 7.0R, did portsnap fetch/extract and fired up my script to run in BATCH mode through the ~200 ports I wanted have installed on the box; when I came back late night and was hoping all went fine, some of the ports failed as well with gio-fam-backend; it took me some time to go to /usr/ports/devel/glib20, deinstall and install it fresh which changed it from glib-2.14.2 to 2.16.x (don't know the x from the top of my head now); after this all was fine again; really, I did not understand how this was possible after portsnap fetch/extract on a real new system, just installed from boot CD; matthias Seems to me there might have been a problem with the port. I noticed that gio-fam-backend had been updated to 2.16.3, ran portsnap and it then installed without problem. No other intervention required. I'm running portupgrade -a again now with no problems so far. Thanks all for the responses. Peter Harrison. -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB bluetooth problem...
I'm trying to get a no-name usb bluetooth dongle working without luck so far. I'm reading through the handbook, so I've run: # kldload ng_ubt then I plug the dongle in, this is what I see in /var/log/messages: Apr 8 20:23:23 laptop root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1131 product 0x1001 bus uhub0 Apr 8 20:23:28 laptop kernel: ubt0: vendor 0x1131 ISSCBTA, class 224/1, rev 1.10/3.73, addr 2 on uhub0 Apr 8 20:23:28 laptop kernel: ubt0: Interface 0 endpoints: interrupt=0x81, bulk-in=0x82, bulk-out=0x2 Apr 8 20:23:28 laptop kernel: ubt0: Interface 1 (alt.config 5) endpoints: isoc-in=0x83, isoc-out=0x3; wMaxPacketSize=49; nframes=6, buffer size=294 Apr 8 20:23:29 laptop kernel: WARNING: attempt to net_add_domain(bluetooth) after domainfinalize() Apr 8 20:23:29 laptop kernel: WARNING: attempt to net_add_domain(netgraph) after domainfinalize() Apr 8 20:23:35 laptop kernel: ng_hci_process_command_timeout: ubt0hci - unable to complete HCI command OGF=0x3, OCF=0x3. Timeout Apr 8 20:23:36 laptop root: /etc/rc.d/bluetooth: ERROR: Unable to setup Bluetooth stack for device ubt0 Apr 8 20:28:22 laptop root: rc.d/bluetooth: ERROR: Unsupported device: and I don't get a /dev/ubt0 so none of the other commands will work. I also don't have a /usr/share/examples/netgraph/bluetooth/rc.bluetooth as suggested, but I do have a /etc/rc.d/bluetooth which seems to attempt to start the stack. This is on: FreeBSD laptop.piggybox 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Wed Apr 2 21:38:37 BST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with gio-fam-backend, portupgrade failing...
I'm having a problem running portupgrade -a. The original run was interrupted by a system crash. Now when I try to repeat it fails asking for pkgdb -fF to be run. When I run this, I get stale dependencies on policykit, but when I say yes to install, the install of policykit fails on gio-fam-backend (not a port I had installed before the attempted upgrade). Here's an extract from the build: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/include -pthread -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\GLib-GIO\ -I../.. -I../../glib -I../../gmodule -I../../gio -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DGIO_MODULE_DIR=\/usr/local/lib/gio/modules\ -DGIO_COMPILATION -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wall -MT libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.Tpo -c gfamfilemonitor.c -o libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.o /dev/null 21 mv -f .deps/libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.Tpo .deps/libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.Plo gmake: *** No rule to make target `../../gio/libgio-2.0.la', needed by `libgiofam.la'. Stop. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gio-fam-backend. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall.72819.0 env make ** Fix the problem and try again. --- Skipping 'sysutils/policykit' because a requisite port 'devel/gio-fam-backend' failed (specify -k to force) ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! devel/gio-fam-backend (unknown build error) * sysutils/policykit Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall sysutils/policykit So now I'm stuck halfway through a portupgrade. This is on FreeBSD desktop.piggybox 6.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #5: Wed Apr 2 03:41:26 BST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Can anyone offer a suggestion for how I fix this? Thanks in advance. Peter Harrison __ Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of THHGTTG. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. `Go to it,' it said, `and good luck.' It was cross-referenced to the entry concerning the size of the Universe and ways of coping with that. - One of the more preferable pieces of advice contained in the Guide. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick spamd question
Brian Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: check right now to verify), but once an entry gets listed WHITE, should the GREY entry remain? I seem to remember that the GREY entry expires immediately after the second attempt (thereby making the tuple whitelisted). The GREY entry may live on for a while, but the existence of a WHITE entry will ensure that the delivery will succeed on the next attempt. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with gio-fam-backend, portupgrade failing...
Monday, 7 April 2008 at 16:35:06 -0400, Mark Moellering said: On Monday 07 April 2008 03:54:12 pm peter harrison wrote: I'm having a problem running portupgrade -a. The original run was interrupted by a system crash. Now when I try to repeat it fails asking for pkgdb -fF to be run. When I run this, I get stale dependencies on policykit, but when I say yes to install, the install of policykit fails on gio-fam-backend (not a port I had installed before the attempted upgrade). Here's an extract from the build: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/include -pthread -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\GLib-GIO\ -I../.. -I../../glib -I../../gmodule -I../../gio -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DGIO_MODULE_DIR=\/usr/local/lib/gio/modules\ -DGIO_COMPILATION -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wall -MT libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.Tpo -c gfamfilemonitor.c -o libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.o /dev/null 21 mv -f .deps/libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.Tpo .deps/libgiofam_la-gfamfilemonitor.Plo gmake: *** No rule to make target `../../gio/libgio-2.0.la', needed by `libgiofam.la'. Stop. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gio-fam-backend. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall.72819.0 env make ** Fix the problem and try again. --- Skipping 'sysutils/policykit' because a requisite port 'devel/gio-fam-backend' failed (specify -k to force) ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! devel/gio-fam-backend (unknown build error) * sysutils/policykit Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall sysutils/policykit So now I'm stuck halfway through a portupgrade. This is on FreeBSD desktop.piggybox 6.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #5: Wed Apr 2 03:41:26 BST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Can anyone offer a suggestion for how I fix this? Thanks in advance. Peter Harrison I have seen this before, if ( /devel/ ) gio-fam-backend needs a library that is outdated, it gives this sort of error. I know when I had the issue, it was that it needs glib 2.16 and I had 2.14. Thankfully it doesn't have too many dependancies so it isn't hard to check them all. Right, I'll start looking through the gio-fam-backend dependencies and report back. Thanks for the quick response. Peter Harrison. Mark Moellering ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with gio-fam-backend, portupgrade failing...
Monday, 7 April 2008 at 16:28:07 -0400, Forrest Aldrich said: I'm having the same type of problems when compiling scanlogd (just posted a separate message about it). I installed the binary *.tbz package from freebsd.org, and that didn't quite work, there are other dependencies it needs. It's been a little frustrating. I'm also having trouble using downloaded packages - but I think that's mostly because of different compiled in options to the defaults further up the dependency chain. This is the first time I've had a problem with portupgrade where the solution didn't seem reasonably obvious. Thanks for the response. Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpa_supplicant not starting with /etc/rc.d/netif
Oleg Dolgov wrote: ifconfig_ral0=WPA DHCP ifconfig_ral0=DHCP WPA Both worked for me, so that should not be the problem. I've had my deal of issues with that ral driver though. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump
Paul Schmehl wrote: Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. I did this once: http://www.boosten.org/content/view/50/50/ But nowadays I prefer dirvish. That really works like charm. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:09:54 +0100 Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X restarts, kicking me out of my session. Does it restart by itself? Or simply crash on a signal 11? It just restarted, I had to logon again, but it has already been solved: I removed all the 'Acceleration' stuff from the conf file. Apparently my hardware didn't like that. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'd like some help
I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the instructions don't make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you tell me how to download Free BSD with it? The easiest method is probably to download CD-ROM images as per instructions at: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html More specifically for amd64 (if you have one of the newer 64 bit computers) you have: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ Or for i386 (older 32 bit): ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ DIsc 1 (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso respectively) are enough to install the operating system directly from CD. For actually burning the images onto a physical CD, you would have to use whichever CD burning software you have in Windows XP. Make sure you consult the FreeBSD handbook in relation to installation and aftewards: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ I don't know if this made any more sense than what you have already read. If things are unclear, please clarify what part you are having trouble will! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: i have questions
Ko Htoo wrote: Are you crazy ? you are bastard .!$%$#@@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@%#^%#% dump is the command to backup. If not sure, please ask, instead of flaming a guy for his good advice! Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE
Novembre wrote: Anyhow, smbd was looking for libgnutls.so.13 which I don't have, but I do have a libgnutls.so.26 and libgnutls.so in /usr/local/lib/ (the latter is a symlink to the former). Also, libgnutls.so.15 exists in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/. So what I did was creating a symlink to libgnutls.so.26 and called it libgnutls.so.13, and after rebooting, smbd starts just fine. I don't know whether I'm allowed to do such a thing or not, but since I didn't get any error message while upgrading samba, I don't know what could have gone wrong... Any ideas? :) You probably missed this one (from UPDATING): 20080303: AFFECTS: users of security/gnutls and any port that depends on it AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnutls has been updated to 2.2.2 and all shared libraries' versions have been bumped. So you need to rebuild all applications that depend on gnutls. Do something like: portupgrade -rf gnutls Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE
Novembre wrote: I've read UPDATING before doing anything, but I assumed that portupgrade -faP also covers that part about gnutls as well. Isn't it true? Unless portupgrade did upgrade samba first and then gnutls, which means it's not smart enough! Am I wrong? Probably not :-) In my experience portupgrade -fa isn't always that smart. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gcc and make not producing executable
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Objective is to create a makefile which will create an executable named main. The books has this code in the Makefile: CC=gcc CFLAGS=-Wall main: main.o hello_fn.o clean: rm -f main main.o hello_fn.o The book says this should create two object files named main.o and hello_fn.o plus an executable named main. gmake does the trick. Otherwise your Makefile should look like this: begin Makefile main: main.o hello_fn.o gcc main.o hello_fn.o -o main main.o: main.c gcc -c main.c hello_fn.o: hello_fn.c gcc -c hello_fn.c clean: rm -f main *.o end Makefile Or easier: begin Makefile CC=gcc main: main.o hello_fn.o $(CC) main.o hello_fn.o -o main .c.o: $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $ clean: rm -f main *.o end Makefile Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
Mark Ovens wrote: The other thing I've noticed is, on my box at least, that the problem always starts when I move the mouse (not every time of course) so could it be Xorg 7.3 not playing nicely with the mouse driver - or the USB driver since my mouse is a USB one? Which may explain why some people see the problem and others don't? My mouse is on USB, still no problems. This is really becoming a big PITA. So I wonder how we can help the port maintainer to fix the issue. Maybe it's an idea to collect some data on installed ports (including versions), used hardware and whether or not one has problems? The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X restarts, kicking me out of my session. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gcc and make not producing executable
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: On Linux systems, there is no base system 'make', so GNU make is installed as 'make'. On FreeBSD systems, there is a base system make that is maintained by the FreeBSD project, so GNU make is installed as 'gmake'. The main differences in making with them is that GNU make and FreeBSD make accept different arguments, and their makefile syntaxes have discrepancies. What kind of documentation is available on FreeBSD's make, other than the man page? I was browsing through /usr/share/doc/ but I didn't see anything related to make. I saw pmake but not make. From the make man page: PMake - A Tutorial. in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available
Matthew Seaman wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 06:11:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: I use lsof to get the list of removed files still open (lsof +L1, useful after a port upgrade to check wether all upgraded daemons indeed restarted). It seems it's not possible with fstat. ... which is exactly what Jennifer needs at this moment (if she has room to install lsof). She has removed files yet not freed space and needs a tool to figure out who/what has these files open. fstat(1). It comes with the system. Cheers, Matthew Don't forget to check out all the snapshot files as well, I've had a similar issue and after deleting the snapshots the disk space was back in normal. Cheers, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
Scott Bennett wrote: Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wishing that I hadn't done it. Firefox hangs the server, using lots of CPU time, and the only way to get the screen, keyboard, and mouse access again is to power the machine down and up again, and then reboot. The xscreensaver modules mostly display nicely in the little window in the xscreensaver preferences panel, but about half of them when run in full-screen mode immediately crash the X server on a signal 11. PuTTY (installed from a port) is missing its terminal fonts, so I'm stuck using ssh(1) inside an xterm. I'm still discovering more and more broken stuff in 7.3 each day. It's only partially usable. How did this release ever make it out the door? What a mess. I suppose I can restore from the backups to get back to 6.9, though, but what a drag. All that mucking around to get through the upgrade, and for this?? Pardon my frustration, please. Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues you describe anyway. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues you describe anyway. indeed - i've jumped onto 7.3 as soon as it hit the ports tree. I'm using XFCE 4, on a relatively slow single cpu laptop and it just works as great as ever (quite well :P ). what cpu / wm are you using? what were you using before the upgrade ? Are you asking me? I'm on a very old laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 (I think), 500Mhz Celeron. I tried a myriad different wm's, but none of them really were what I was searching for (but they worked all). I didn't try KDE/Gnome, because my old laptop would not be able to handle them, and have functionality I'm not looking for. While enlightenment-devel still has its bugs (for instance 'lock screen' really does, it won't accept any password as valid - but it doesn't hang) it's fast, small, cool :-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
Ken Gunderson wrote: [snip] Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues you describe anyway. Peter So how would you explain that I am seeing same type of behaviors in straight startx with default twm, i.e. bundled Xorg wm? Dunno. But the troubles cannot originate from the xorg ports, or everyone would see the same behaviour, right? Maybe some other port, or hardware (maybe your video card? - just guessing), or the driver for that particular piece of hardware. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Terry Sposato wrote: Ted / Jeff, Could you please let me know where to download these free vm tools. The only description at google I can find is that of the actual VMWare Tools by VMWare. If you point me to a download link that would be great! Although my name isn't Ted or Jeff I will post the link :-) This is from a discussion last week: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: On Tue, March 18, 2008 11:40, Peter Boosten wrote: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Just to confirm. This one runs on RELENG_7_0? quote Kernel modules for FreeBSD, including an experimental port of HGFS to FreeBSD. /quote It allows dymanic memory management by the VM Ware host? It also allows the VMWare host to gracefully shutdown the Freebsd guest? quote The following components have been released as OSS: * Drivers for devices and filesystems access * Memory ballooning * Shared folders * Drag and Drop, Text and File Copy/Paste * Clipboard sharing * Disk wiping and shrinking * Time synchronization * Automatic guest screen resolution resizing * GuestInfo (provides statistics about guest environment) * Guest SDK (provides information about the VM) * Soft power operations * Multiple monitor support * GTK Toolbox UI /quote Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java based Content Management Systems on FreeBSD?
Hi, surfing the internet I a page describing some fancy Java based CMS's: http://java-source.net/open-source/content-managment-systems Does anyone have any experience with them on FreeBSD, do they work? (Please no flames about the advantages of PHP or Python, I am just looking for a starting point for some testing :) ) Greetings, Uli. - Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own bare metal product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. That's not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Java based Content Management Systems on FreeBSD?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Ulrich Kruppa Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:05 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Java based Content Management Systems on FreeBSD? Hi, surfing the internet I a page describing some fancy Java based CMS's: http://java-source.net/open-source/content-managment-systems Does anyone have any experience with them on FreeBSD, do they work? Java is write-once, run anywhere. As long as they run under the JDK that has been ported to FreeBSD then there's no problems. I know this is so because Sun Microsystems says so in their literature about Java. Sun says that a language that can only run on 1 specific platform is no good, that is the entire point of why they wrote Java, according to Sun. I see - you mean I should test myself: Jahia for example installs and works like a charm with diablo-jdk1.5.0 , but the drag-'n-drop and copy-'n-paste features - I would like to see - are commercial. I think I will try another one. Thanks for your help. Uli. - Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7
The people complaining about hardware compatibility need to pull their heads out. If they are buying brand new systems they are utter fools if they don't check out in advance what works and what doesen't. It's not like there's a shortage of experienced people on this list who could tell them what to buy. And if after the fact they find out their shiny new PC won't run FreeBSD - then they take it back to the retailer and exchange it for a different model. Why is this so difficult? The difficulty is not in checking out hardware before hand, the problem is FINDING hardware that satisfies your requirements. Just because I know that NIC so-and-so is recommended, it does not mean that I can find a complete server that: * Is within the budget. * Whose NIC is recommended for use in FreeBSD. * Whose disk/raid controller is recommended for use in FreeBSD - Including proper handling of write caching, cache flushing, etc * Is being sold in a fashion that is acceptable with respect to hardware support / replacement parts. * Otherwise is known to work with well FreeBSD. If you are a large company buying 200 servers I'm sure it's not a problem to get sample servers to try things on, or go for more expensive options just because of perceived FreeBSD compatibility. If you're a poor sod trying to get *one* machine for personal or small-company use and you want something that works and is stable, especially if you want it rack mountable, it is NOT necessarily trivial. Part of it is the problem of finding a solution that meets the requirements, and parts of it is about figuring out whether a particular solution DOES meet the requirements. For example, once your cheaper Dell server has arrived and you suddenly notice that it's delivered without a BBU, and clearly has write caching turned on based on performance, try asking (remember, this is a lonely customer with a single service) Dell hardware support whether that particular controller will honor cache flush requests right down to the constituent drives... I did, and eventually got a response after 1-2 weeks. But the response was such that I could not feel confident that the question was accurately forwarded to the right individual. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Sophos Puremessage
Anyone is running Sophos Puremessage out there on FreeBSD 6.3 or 7.0? Sophos has official support for 6.2 and just wondering if it's worth to risk 6.3 or 7.0 for a big production box. Regards, Peter Toth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Support for multiple VTs simultanously displayed (was: how to design a tablet driver?)
As said off-list, sorry for hijacking a thread. This was not my intention. I move it from -current to -questions and hope that it suits everyone. On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: Peter Ross wrote: I tried to find out whether FreeBSD's infrastructure does not support displaying of more than one VTs at the time, as someone claimed. I would like to configure my laptop to use the small internal monitor as a text console while the external monitor is serving X. BTW, in fact, you can rather easily get multiple monitors to work with Any system using X11, and that happens to include FreeBSD? I do not deny that X11 is able to support multiple monitors. The question I had is different, and it is not a X11 question, I believe. A text console on the internal screen and a X output on the external.. two different VTs displayed at the same time using the same graphics card. In a normal multiple monitor setup the XServer controls both outputs. I had a discussion with a KGI (Kernel Graphics Interface) developer, with Linux experience, now porting KGI to Hurd. He said that Linux does not have the kernel infrastructure to support the display of two virtual terminals at the same time. He doubted that FreeBSD has, so I try to find out. Regards Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Printing with a laserjet 1018
First of all, thanks to those who have helped me so far. I have configured the printer and everything looks OK, but when I do a test print the test page goes into the printer queue and stays there for ever. The printer doesn't even squeak. First I had to use the print driver for a laserjet 1010 as I couldn't kind a driver for the 1018. Second the printer does work under the alternate OS. Any ideas? Thank you, Bob Here is my config for the HP1018: dsl:#pkg_info| egrep cups|ghost|foo cups-base-1.3.4_1 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers foo2zjs-20070120_1 Driver for printers that use the ZjStream wire protocol foomatic-db-20070124_1 Foomatic database foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts ghostscript-gpl-8.60 GPL Postscript interpreter dsl:$cat /root/bin/printer.sh #!/bin/sh export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin cat /usr/local/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1018.dl /dev/ugen0.1 you might need to change your 'ugen0.1' to whatever USB port your printer is plugged into. Before you can use the printer, you have to do that above 'cat' command to load firmware. make sure regular users can use the printer: [chmod 666] dsl:#ls -l /dev/ugen0.1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator0, 40 Mar 4 23:32 /dev/ugen0.1 and via the cups web interface [localhost:631] just configure a new printer and choose the HP foo drivers,etc.etc. It just works. When you do the 'cat' command for firmware, the printer should make some noise and moving around. After that I'm able to print from konqueror/kprinter/firefox/etc.etc. dsl:#cat /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.4 # Written by cupsd on 2008-02-27 18:44 Printer HP1018 Info HP LaserJet 1018 Location 1018 DeviceURI usb:/dev/ugen0.1 State Idle StateTime 1204163073 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 AllowUser root AllowUser peter AllowUser Sanyusha OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer /Printer ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: My beef with the DNS tests was that ISC ran out and bought the hardware FIRST, -then- they started testing. This is directly contrary to every bit of advice ever given in the computer industry for the last 50 years - you select the software FIRST, -then- you buy the hardware that runs it. In short, it said far more about the incompetence of the testers than the shortcomings of the software. This is ridiculous. ISC is one of the most fervent pro-FreeBSD companies out there (basing most of our services on the OS, and contributing to the FreeBSD community including the busiest CVSup FTP servers and have FreeBSD committers on staff) I will not stand back and watch folks on a public mailing list call us incompetent individuals with a anti-FreeBSD bias. First off the final report was published last Friday at: http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/index.pl?tn=isc-tn-2008-1.html (the server this is served from runs FreeBSD) I was not one of the direct testers (we had a couple PhD's handling that, who I know both use FreeBSD on their personal systems), but as one of the folks who supported them in their work, I can tell you that the stats we gave the FreeBSD folks were from a test sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. We were mandated to use branded HW and we tested several models from HP, Sun, even Iron Systems (whitebox) before deciding on the HP's. The mechanism we used are all documented in the paper We were also asked to test DNS performance on several OS's. The short version was 'take a standard commercial off the shelf' server and see how BIND performs (esp. with DNSSEC) on it. We weren't asked to get hardware that was perfect for Brand X OS; that wasn't part of the remit. (We actually use the exact same HP HW for a secondary service where we host a couple of thousand zones using BIND including 30+ TLD zones. Oh and it runs FreeBSD) Yes we found FreeBSD performed poorly in our initial tests. and I talked to several folks (including rwatson and kris) about the issue. Kris had already been working on improving performance with MySQL and PgSQL and was interested in doing the same with BIND. Kris went off and hacked away and right before EuroBSDcon last September asked us to re-run the tests (on the same HW) using a 7.0-CURRENT snapshot, and the end results are shown with a 33,000 query increase over 6.2-RELEASE, bring FreeBSD just behind the Linux distros we tested. I know rwatson and kris have continually worked on the relevent network stack issues that cover BIND, and additional performance gains have been found since then, and working on this issue has been a true partnership between the FreeBSD developers and ISC. BIND isn't perfect, we admit that, we have been constantly improving it's multi-CPU performance and BIND 9.4 and 9.5 are continuing in that effort. We have several members of our dev team who use FreeBSD as their developent platform, including a FreeBSD committer. So Ted, stop spouting this ISC is spewing anti-FreeBSD bias crap, it flatly isn't true... Oh, and this email is coming to you via several of ISC FreeBSD MX servers which resolve the freebsd.org name via caching DNS servers running FreeBSD, to freebsd.org's MX server over a IPv6 tunnel supplied by ISC to the FreeBSD project to help FreeBSD eat their own IPv6 dog food... Yeah, ISC just hates FreeBSD... rolls eyes Best Wishes - Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | The bits must flow signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: dependencies in portmaster
I am trying to figure out what-all would happen if I were to install
a particular port. IOW I want to do something like
# portmaster {some set of options} name-of-port
and have it report something along the lines of
name-of-port vn #.## requires:
port status
--
dependency-1 OK
dependency-2 need vn 2.22, current 1.05
dependency-3 not installed
...
dependency-2 vn 2.22 requires:
port status
--
dependency-4 OK
dependency-5 need vn 5.03, current 4.57
...
dependency-3 vn #.## requires:
port status
--
dependency-6 not installed
...
I do not want it to actually build or install anything.
If I am understanding the portmaster manpage correctly this is close
to what -n would do, but I don't even want it to do 'make config' --
I just want a report of what would have to be added or upgraded in
order to install the port in question. (I imagine portmaster has
to already be collecting this sort of information internally, the
question is how to get it reported externally.)
BTW I am looking for a solution that does not involve portupgrade,
because I do not have portupgrade installed and before attempting
to install it I would want to see this sort of report regarding it.
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If you truly are just looking at the dependency list and do not wish to
have make do anything, wouldn't this do the trick:
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portdependencytree.py
I guess you would need to have an up to date ports tree for this to be
accurate.
Peter
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Re: tape splitter
On Friday, February 22, 2008, at 02:07PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:23 PM 2/22/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 and then concattapes /dev/sa0 |something i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. Well sonny in the old days we would create a volume with tar or cpio, then uuencode it, then run it through split. I believe gtar ( /usr/ports/archivers/gtar if I recall correctly) can do this directly. See the manual for more details: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC153 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POP3 recommendations...
I've not run a POP3 server before, but now I'm getting tired of confusing myself pulling my email down from my ISP across my laptop, desktop, and home server. Could someone recommend a solution for me? The situation is that I have a home server (running NFS, Samba, FTP, Apache, Mysql), plus a desktop and laptop (which generally gets used just around the house). The desktop and laptop both run fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP - but obviously this means some of my email ends up on the laptop, and some on the desktop. I'm after something like using fetchmail on the server to collect the mail, then probably sort it with procmail before making it available to my home network. The aim is for the mail to remain on the home server - Ie. In one central location on my network. Any recommendations for a POP3 server that would fit into a home network and make this easy to understand for the newbie? Thanks for your help. Peter Harrison Peter, Deb, Jessica, Alex Visit us online at www.4harrisons.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!!!!
Ryan Jenkins wrote: Hello, I currently have a Computer System that is based off the FreeBSD Operating System and I am trying to find a new supplier of hardware. Right now I am having a hard time finding a Computer Manufacture that can make a system that uses FreeBSD. I currently have found a product from MPC or Micron/Gateway that creates systems with no Operating System, but my programmers are having a hard time with getting the software loaded on the system. Can you please help me find a supplier that builds Desktop or All-in-One computers that will operate FreeBSD. Ryan Jenkins P.O. Box 21138 P: 406 896-9900 F: 406 896-0045 C: 406 208-8193 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have had very good experiences with FreeBSD Systems (now called freedomtc). http://www.freedomtc.com/ Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: PHP cli segfaults
Drew Sanford wrote: | Command line programs for php seem to segfault on a 7.0RC1 box (yes, I | know, I should update to RC2) - for example: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED](~/bin)$ php -v | PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Feb 9 2008 13:03:20) | Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group | Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies | zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) php -v | | Any pointers? Just update and see if that fixes it? Thanks in advance. | | | uname output: | FreeBSD colossus.cotharyus.net 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #0: Sat Feb 9 | 11:43:37 CST 2008 Getting same thing, fresh install of 7.0 [cvsupped to rc2?], latest or not latest portsnap, I found it was the 'mhash.so' extension that was causing php to segfault - did portsnap update, and rebuilt all php stuff, still does same thing - have not tried it for last several weeks, so could be fixed by now...I did cvsup to latest sources... my emails were subjected apache coredump with 'mhash' php extension enabled - with mhash disabled, php works fine now. Will try and buildworld/reinstall php with the latest 7 sometime soon. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mysql client
Hi all, Just after upgrading the mysql client to mysql-client-5.1.23 on 6.3, it seems that it's completely ignoring ~/.my.cnf. Anyone else has this problem? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disk error
Hi all, Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 ra kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=281550271 ra kernel: g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[READ(offset=138248126464, length=16384)]error = 5 ra kernel: handle_workitem_freeblocks: block count ra kernel: handle_workitem_freeblks: got error 5 while accessing filesystem Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk error
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 ra kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED LBA=281550271 Yea -- normally that means a bad sector(*), and where there's one, there's bound to be more. Failed drive eventually. I would pull this server from rotation and run a full surface sector scan on it (download an ISO of Hiran's Boot CD) Brian, thanks for your answer (and sugggestion). Isn't a drive supposed to mark a bad sector as bad and ignore it (that is: not use it anymore)? -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security Patches and Reboots
Chris Maness wrote: If I do a security update via freebsd-update, and it contains kernel related binary patches. I am assuming I need to reboot. Is this correct? Correct! Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Build part of a port.
Hello, I am building a 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD LDAP server. I have installed OpenLDAP from ports and now want to move on to the wed front end. I am using Litespeed as the webserver (built from source), PHP-5 (built from source and customized) and would like to install phpldapadmin. There is a port for it but the port (and some of it's dependencies) will try to install the php5 port and the apache port. Is there a way to install phpldapadmin from ports while telling it (and it's dependencies) I have php5 already installed and not to install apache? Thank you, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error in the handbook
Hi, there is an error in the handbook, section 28.6.5.7 An Example NAT and Stateful Ruleset. On the bottom are two examples, 1st with command: $cmd 420 allow tcp from any to me 80 in via $pif setup limit src-addr 1 and second with command $cmd 370 allow tcp from any to me 80 in via $pif setup limit src-addr 2 Both commands should look in via $pif setup keep-state limit Or am I wrong? Best regards, -- Peter Rosa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error in the Handbook
Hi, there is an error in the handbook, section 28.6.5.7 An Example NAT and Stateful Ruleset. On the bottom are two examples, 1st with command: $cmd 420 allow tcp from any to me 80 in via $pif setup limit src-addr 1 and second with command $cmd 370 allow tcp from any to me 80 in via $pif setup limit src-addr 2 Both commands should look in via $pif setup keep-state limit Or am I wrong? Best regards, -- Peter Rosa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to debug crashing X-app
Hi all, I'm having trouble with my local X server, I think: If I start nethack(-qt), it throws me out of my X session, right back to the xdm login prompt. If I start nethack from another machine (on the same X server) the same happens. If I use another X server, for instance xming (on Windows), nethack runs normally, so I think it's (some part of) X server. But which part could that be? How can I analyse what exactly is going on? The Xorg.0.log.old shows these messages on the end, but googling shows nothing meaningful. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear TIA Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution
Quoting E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see that the new version of icu installed libicui18n.so.38. Is there a better way to fix this or should I just symlink libicui18n.so.38 to libicui18n.so.36? Rebuild evolution. I did the same with tin. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?
Quoting Shawn Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running X. Neither am I, so no X here. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?
Quoting Shawn Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this is a major nuisance, but I can't remember how I dealt with it in the past. My most recent stab at using ntpd with minpoll 4 polling of a local ntp time source isn't working, the clock drift prevents any sync from happening (but I'll admit not trying some of the more aggressive time adjustment options to ntpd). VMWare's documentation and support leans pretty heavily toward Linux and I'm not finding a decent recommendation from them. I rebuilding a kernel with options HZ=100 to see if that makes a difference, not sure why I remember that helping, but any other strategies known to work? In my /boot/loader.conf: kern.hz=100 In the vmx-file: tools.synctime = TRUE I installed the vmware tools and ntpd That's about all. ntpdate -d 192.168.23.15: 9 Feb 20:26:47 ntpdate[45172]: adjust time server 192.168.23.15 offset 0.057667 sec Cheers, Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A non FreeBSD question.
अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: Hi, It may start flame, Next lines may seem funny but I want to see what people think say, sorry i am posting here, just to get an idea. Cause i am also one of the open source user/lover and my most of the time goes with computers over freebsd/linux. If someone is away from his cell for around an hour, thus not picking the phone, and his colleagues does not knows where is he as he has not to give reporting to anyone, it means what's he doing? In the bathroom playing Nethack on his FreeBSD laptop 1.From a normal persons point of view. 2.From the point of view of spouse. Give the guy some trust or divorce him... Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb wifi
I don't know about the adaptor you've mentioned, but I'm using an Asus WL-167g (a ralink chipset) without problem using the native ural driver. Check the manpage for other supported devices. Peter Harrison Peter, Deb, Jessica, Alex Visit us online at www.4harrisons.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: usb wifi Date: Mon 4 Feb 2008 6:39 Size: 386 bytes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Has anyone tried the usb based wifi adapters, something like this http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=179211 with freebsd? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I run ntpd in a jail?
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:35:55AM -0800, Rudy wrote: ... Can ntpd update the system clock from within a jail? That is not possible. You have to update the system clock on the host system. -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. pgp1yefDk33BU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Building kernel with DEBUG
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:06:19AM -0500, Gerard wrote: Near the top of the /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC file, is the line: makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols Is this line really necessary? If I don't intend to ever debug a kernel, why should I leave it? It would seem like I could save some time compiling a kernel if I just remove or commented out that line. I'm sure that the time you took to write this mail was much more than you will save by removing the debug symbol... Maybe sometimes you do intend to debug your kernel because your machine crashed, you don't know why, ask this list and a FreeBSD developer ask about the kernel-dump... But maybe not. Good luck. :-) -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. pgpJWMgPYsRXL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cron to attach a gz file
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I know I can use mail -s logfile /var/log/httpd_access.log in cron to email the content of a log file to a particular email address but how do I make that log file a binary attachment (*.gz)? gzip -c /var/log/httpd_access.log | uuencode httpd_access.log.gz | mail -s logfile [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron to attach a gz file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can use mail -s logfile /var/log/httpd_access.log in cron to email the content of a log file to a particular email address but how do I make that log file a binary attachment (*.gz)? gzip -c /var/log/httpd_access.log | uuencode httpd_access.log.gz | mail -s logfile [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want an actual MIME attachment, see /usr/ports/mail/nail From a modern mail reader point of view there is not much difference between a MIME or a uuencoded attachment. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WPA and static IP
Vince Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a way to specify WPA ad a static IP for an interface in /etc/rc.conf I've had a quick look though the handbook and google but all the examples use WPA and DHCP. ifconfig_ath0=WPA inet 192.168.13.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 works for me. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]
iH, Sounds to me like the BIOS doesn't see the disk at all; disk too big for bios? I remember having to boot [manager] from an old HD with the actual OS on a new big HD that the bios would not see/boot from. formatting does not matter as bios does not see the disk anyways. I'd look into a controller, or update firmware. ]Peter[ On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:48:07 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.3 on an old PC. I have bought a new Maxtor DiamondMax 80Gig disk, to replace the old one. I will have only one disk in the PC. I am looking to build using boot floppies and FTP. There is no CD drive on the PC. When I turn the PC on the BIOS hangs with the message Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] However, by holding down F4, I was able to boot using the floppies boot.flp , kern1.flp , kern2.flp kern3.flp This detected disk and I selected standard configuration, and the FTP installation all went to plan. I got message saying installation was successful and I added users and set root password. However, when I reboot (without floppies) I still get the message Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] and when I go into BIOS , it still doesn't detect the IDE disk. How do I format disk so BIOS recognises it ? I read something about using DOS fdisk , but I haven't got DOS floppies. Can I format disk using boot or fixit floppies ? Thanks Some further info ... From sysinstall, I did Configure -- Fdisk It shows Disk name : ad0 |Disk Geom: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors(76316MB) Offset SizeEND Name Ptype DescSubtype Flags 0 63 62- 12 unused 0 63 156296322 156296384 ad0s1 8 freebsd 165 156296385 5103156301487 - 12unused0 hope this helps ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB / umass / automount
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:13:17PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, David Alanis wrote: Quoting Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, What is currently the best way to attach and detach umass-devices automatically? Bye Oliver -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. Could you just edit your fstab to have: /dev/umass-device /umass /umass-type auto 0 0 This will not make the auto-mounter daemon happen; rather, it will cause the system to try to mount /dev/umass-device at boot time. If the umass device is not connected at boot time, the system will need manual intervention in order to boot. Probably not what the OP wants. Besides, auto is the default anyway. Thanks for your answers! That's not exactly what I want - I thought about to plug e.g. an usb-stick into my machine, let it mount via amd and after I detach the device from my machine amd should umount the devices automatically. Is this possible? AFAIR bad things happen when a mounted usb-devices disappears... -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. pgpLeHUZErBaY.pgp Description: PGP signature
apache coredump / segfault in 7.0-beta2/4/RC1- php/mhash.
iH, apache13 segfaults/coredump on FreeBSD 7-RC with php mhash extension enabled, works fine on 6.3 [several boxes, fresh install 6 and 7]. [with or without latest cvsup RELENG_7 build/install world/kernel] apache13 php-5.2.5 mhash-0.9.9 php5-mhash-5.2.5 [ and all the other required libraries/etc ] this was installed via 'make config install' in more or less the above order; [and tested on a fresh box via pkg_add -r also] both ways, apache segfaults and dumps core /httpd.core, with that mhash php extension disabled, it works in 7, otherwise only in 6.x. This is a default install of 7-RC1.iso, portsnap fetch extract, make install; Same process on 6.3, apache works, no segfault/coredump. I've tested this several times and reloaded OS many times [under VMWare and a physical box - latest RELENG_7 cvsup/buildworld as of about Saturday/19th.] ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB / umass / automount
Hi, What is currently the best way to attach and detach umass-devices automatically? Bye Oliver -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. pgp6dOGpuYMWL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xorg-drivers-7.3
Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved in some configuration data hidden somewhere. When I try to redo it, it picks up my previous choice instead of giving me the option of making a new choice. Found saved configuration for xorg-drivers-7.3_1 portupgrade and Make distclean followed by Make both give this message. I've tried searching, but the key words I use aren't getting me any information. What do I do to deselect i740, or to force portmanager to let me reselect my options? make config :-) Greetings, Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build server for ports and world...
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:07:54AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:32:37PM +, peter harrison wrote: I'd like to set up a build server at home to save me time when running portupgrade and building world. I've read the handbook on this, and I'm happy with the process of NFS mounting /usr/src /usr/obj and /usr/ports etc.. I've two questions though. First, my home server currently runs 6.2-RELEASE - I update it using freebsd-update and it doesn't have the source for world kernel. Is it possible to put the 7.0 source on this and build for installation on my desktop, or do I need to take the server to 7.0 before I do this? Yes, it should be possible. Second, is there anyway of building packages without installing them? I'm not keen to put X and all my desktop gubbins on the server when I only need it to build the packages. Look at ports-mgmt/tinderbox, does exactly what you want :-) Thanks for any help. Peter Harrison. -- `That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.' - Marvin's first ever compliment about anybody. HTH, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Yuri, I'll take a look at Tinderbox. Peter Harrison. -- `Maybe somebody here tipped off the Galactic Police,' said Trillian. `Everybody saw you come in.' `You mean they want to arrest me over the phone?' said Zaphod, `Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered.' `Yeah,' said a voice from under the table [Ford's now completely rat-arsed at this point], `you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.' - Zaphod getting paranoid over a phone call. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recovering data from a newfs filesystem
try 'testdisk' mailds:#cat /usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk/pkg-descr Tool to check and undelete partition Works with the following partitions: - FAT12 FAT16 FAT32 - Linux EXT2/EXT3 - Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2) - NTFS (Windows NT/W2K/XP) - BeFS (BeOS) - UFS (BSD) - Netware - ReiserFS TestDisk is under GNU Public License. You can compile it under Dos with DJGPP or under Linux or BSD with gcc. WWW: http://www.cgsecurity.org/ - Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]Peter[ Months ago, I got a new USB drive for my Mac OS X, did newfs /dev/disk1 on it, and it's been working fine. I then foolishly did disklabel -create /dev/disk1, which broke it. How can I recover my data? I've tried fsck w/ alternate superblocks to no avail. less -f /dev/disk1 shows me the disk label I created: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple\ .com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd plist version=1.0 dict keyBase/key integer131072/integer keySize/key integer500107730944/integer /dict /plist but also shows me my file names/content, so I'm convinced the data is still there. How do I recover my data? I assume newfs creates a UFS by default? Can I decode /dev/disk1 the way one might decode a TAR file? Posting here because I know Mac OS X is FreeBSD inside. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Build server for ports and world...
I'd like to set up a build server at home to save me time when running portupgrade and building world. I've read the handbook on this, and I'm happy with the process of NFS mounting /usr/src /usr/obj and /usr/ports etc.. I've two questions though. First, my home server currently runs 6.2-RELEASE - I update it using freebsd-update and it doesn't have the source for world kernel. Is it possible to put the 7.0 source on this and build for installation on my desktop, or do I need to take the server to 7.0 before I do this? Second, is there anyway of building packages without installing them? I'm not keen to put X and all my desktop gubbins on the server when I only need it to build the packages. Thanks for any help. Peter Harrison. -- `That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.' - Marvin's first ever compliment about anybody. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space
Marc Silver wrote: Hi there, Check out /usr/ports/security/wipe/ - It should meet your requirements. Or always 'rm -P' :-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone out there using SSL-Explorer?
Kurt Buff wrote: Per a private message (thanks, Peter) I learned that 'ant run' is deprecated, and I should instead use 'ant start'. This seems to have no effect, as the output is the same. The README does talk about a wizard, which, after pondering all of this overnight, seems to mean some GUI component that guides you through setup. There is no window manager on this machine, and I don't have X installed, except for what Java/Ant libraries were installed. So, I'm still left with the questions above. Kurt, We spoke briefly about 'ant install' opening port 28080... when this happens, you can connect your browser to that port (http://yourhost:28080 - this is the wizard the readme is talking about). There seems to be some timegap between the installer reporting it's ready and the actual opening of the port (I tried last night). You don't need X (I don't have it), just some patience. When you've completed the install (with your browser), the ant will shutdown and you can start then sslexplorer with 'ant start'. Again there will be a timegap between the ending of the startup script and the opening of the port. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My local time seems to be out of sync
Anyone seen this (the date...)? /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20080118: p10 FreeBSD-SA-08:01.pty, FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc Fix issues which allow snooping on ptys. [08:01] Fix an off-by-one error in inet_network(3). [08:02] Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the Latest Clustering Tools for FreeBSD7.0
Hi Susanth, On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Susanth K wrote: Am Interested to know more about the Latest Clustering tools available in FreeBSD 7.0 Me too;-) Is SG Cluster Still active project ? [http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/sgcluster/ I don't know.. and have not used it. Sorry. Applications am Willing to run in Very Large Scale are : Apache + PHP + MySQL + FastCGI + C++ Based Custom Web Based Application + PostgreSQL on Top of FreeBSD 7.0 At my work place we have (FreeBSD based) Juniper DXes as a frontend to Red Hat boxes. With vanilla FreeBSD I could think of CARP/VRRP and pf incl. pfsync for redundancy on packet layer and pound as a web frontend (does reverse proxy, loadbalancing and heart-beat to mark failed servers). I did this before. I never run MySQL and PostgreSQL clustered, just in master/slave replication mode. Clustering at my workplace is done using MS SQL. We start a bigger Drupal project I am keen to know what PostgreSQL and MySQL offer in this regard these days (the MS SQL support in Drupal is a bit dubious) Regards Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How backup huge pgsql ?
I want to known how can I make backup of huge postgresql database (huge mean ~ 2To). I can stop the access of the database during N1 hours. Any idea about this ? pg_dump should work as usual. No need to stop database access since read-only access won't block anything else and it won't be blocked by other processes. That said, pg_dump:ing a database that is 2 terrabytes in size is going to take some significant time. If you want to maintain frequent backups you may want to look into using point in time recovery and WAL archiving. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/continuous-archiving.html Also the very long transaction used for the backup will prevent vacuuming from freeing tuples for the duration of the backup. If you have tables that rely on very frequent vacuuming for performance, those may be affected. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Setting up Smart Cards? (SCR3310)
Morning everybody, How exactly does one setup FreeBSD (primarily Firefox and Thunderbird) to use smart cards. While I understand both FF and TB have security device settings, trying to figure out how to get FreeBSD to first recognize my card. I have both a STCII and a SCR3310 and not sure what do once I plugged them in and inserted card. Can't find any documentation on this either. # dmesg ugen0: SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR3310 USB Smart Card Reader, class 0/0, rev 2.00/5.18, addr 3 on uhub3 ugen0: at uhub3 port 2 (addr 3) disconnected ugen0: detached ugen0: SCM Microsystems Inc. STCII Smart Card Reader, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.40, addr 3 on uhub3 And then what? Thanks, -Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
