Re: NextCom or eRacks?
Andrew P. wrote: Hey, where's your damn dmesg output? :-) Come on, don't tell us you prefer a FreeBSD-based OS to the FreeBSD itself :-) LOL!! Well ... it is a nice compromise. I get a BSD-ish OS but I also get a nice UI, nice hardware, and a nicely integrated OS/application combination. Oh, and I can plug in a digital camera ;) I may try installing OpenBSD/macppc at some point dmesg, as requested ;) standard timeslicing quantum is 1 us vm_page_bootstrap: 123187 free pages mig_table_max_displ = 70 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. using 1310 buffer headers and 1310 cluster IO buffer headers Extension com.apple.driver.KeyLargoATA has no kernel dependency. IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: TI 1510 rev 00 FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 31 built-in now active, GUID 001124ff fe88adf2; max speed s800. CSRHIDTransitionDriver::probe CSRHIDTransitionDriver::start before command Extension com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard has no kernel dependency. Extension com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver has no kernel dependency. Security auditing service present BSM auditing present disabled rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 0D6C03E5-7419-37B0-8B4C-238B1E06949C Waiting on dict ID=0keyIOProviderClass/keystring ID=1IOResources/stringkeyIOResourceMatch/keystring ID=2boot-uuid-media/string/dict CSRHIDTransitionDriver::stop Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC2PE/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/AppleMacRiscPCI/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/AppleKauaiATA/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/FUJITSU MHT2080AH Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Untitled [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSD root: disk0s3, major 14, minor 2 [HCIController][start] [AppleUSBHCIController][StopIsochPipeRead] - mInt1IsochInPipe = 0 - numReadsPending = 0 [start] 1 Jettisoning kernel linker. Resetting IOCatalogue. Matching service count = 0 Matching service count = 0 Matching service count = 0 Matching service count = 0 Matching service count = 0 UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:11:24:88:ad:f2 AirPortPCI_MM: Ethernet address 00:11:24:9c:42:f0 ATY,Jasper_A: vram [b800:0400] ATY,Jasper_B: vram [b800:0400] [HCIController][setupHardware] AFH Is Supported [AppleUSBHCIController][StopIsochPipeRead] - mInt1IsochInPipe = 0 - numReadsPending = 0 AirPort: Link Active: vilot - 000625f73fed - chan 4 [AppleUSBHCIController][StopIsochPipeRead] - mInt1IsochInPipe = 0 - numReadsPending = 0 [AppleUSBHCIController][StopIsochPipeRead] - mInt1IsochInPipe = 0 - numReadsPending = 0 netsmb_dev: loaded smbfs_smb_qfsattr: (fyi) share '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@', attr 0xb, maxfilename 255 smbfs_aclsflunksniff: (fyi) user sid S-1-5-21-1119581718-3952614669-2751118408-1208 didnt map ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NextCom or eRacks?
Ah, to heck with it. I bought an Apple PowerBook G4. Damn thing rulez ... ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NextCom or eRacks?
Hello, all. I'm trying to choose between two laptops for FreeBSD: eRacks/Centrino: http://eracks.com/products/Laptops/config?sku=CENTRINO 1.5GHz, $1,699 base price vs: NextCom NextBook: http://www.nextcomputing.com/nextbook.htm 3GHz, $2,050 base price. Does anyone have any experience with these machines or these companies? NextCom also offers a 64bit laptop. But I'm not clear on what the state of FreeBSD and 64bit computing is, at least with regard to ports and packages. Thanks ... -- Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It's an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. -- Pablo Picasso. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I'm typing this on an Acer Ferrari 3400. Those are kinda sweet machines, too ... :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?
I'm itching for a new laptop. I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer laptops and what might be recommended. Also -- I am interested (possibly) in an AMD 64 laptop, if BSD is working well on one... Thanks. -- The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true. -- Paul Graham Hackers and Painters Page 36 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: httpd.core
Although quite a bit of time has gone by, I thought I would follow up this thread with my fix so that future searches of this thread will turn up the solution. My solution was to statically compile mod_perl into httpd. Although I thought the problem was PHP, it turned out not to be. After carefully pruning the httpd.conf file one line at a time, it became apparent that it was my use of mod_perl that was at issue. Statically compiling it into apache worked nicely. And this only required that I set up my Apache this way: +---+ +-+ |Apache with| | Apache with|--+ |mod_ssl|-| mod_perl compiled | |-+ +---+ | in statically | | | ^+-+ | | | +-+ | | ++ | ^ + | uses proxying | to my mod_perl httpd| All 'conventional' sitest | that use static content are | hosted here.| All ssl is handled here.| | | All my mod_perl sites use this configuration. Multiple mod_perl httpd processes with different httpd.conf definitions One of the nice things with this configuration is that I can reboot my individual mod_perl based applications (which have a somewhat heavy startup time, since I compile a lot of modules on startup) without affecting all the 'conventional' sites that are currently running on my server. It also allows me to modify the mod_perl compiled httpd in the future if I need to. Again, without screwing up my main, conventional sites. --- Tom Vilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vilot.com http://PaintedSnapshot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
httpd.core
What tools do I use to examine a core dump file? I'd like to at least have a clue what is wrong with httpd :c) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: httpd.core
Thank you, Subhro, for such a quick response to my question. For examining any core file you need a debugger. A very popular debugger is the GNU Debugger also known as gdb Now ... the only problem is that if I examine the httpd.core file, it evidently has no debugging information in it (naturally): This GDB was configured as i386-unknown-freebsd. Core was generated by `httpd'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x2895e06c in ?? () How do I build Apache with debugging information? I see in the INSTALL file: Use the --without-execstrip option to disable the stripping of executables on installation. This can be important on some platforms in combination with --enable-rule=SHARED_CORE or when Apache was built with debugging symbols which shouldn't be lost. I assume I need that, too ... but I also am not clear on how to build apache13-modssl with the debug information ... Thank you in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Very confused
apache and the ports tree I find a bit confusing. I want: Apache with mod_perl and mod_ssl. I had apache with mod_ssl by installing apach13-modssl. But I kinda need mod_perl compiled in statically. If I deinstall apache13-modssl, and then install apache13-modperl, I don't have mod_ssl anymore. How do I install JUST mod_ssl? Or ... more specifically ... how do I install both? httpd -l Compiled-in modules: http_core.c mod_so.c mod_perl.c ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very confused
Erik Nørgaard wrote: I think the whole mod_ means that you don't compile anything statically in. I installed apache13-modssl and then installed modperl separately, works fine. I think I finally figured this out --- by having two different apache installs: one with ssl the other with perl. I want mod_perl compiled in statically. I have been finding that if I leave it as a loadable module, I get my signal 11 core dumps in Apache ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP / Apache bus error
Peter Risdon helpful contributes: You don't _have_ to boot into single user mode. See below. Okay, cool. I did it. Upgraded to 4.11 without any problems. However ... I still have the following problems: 1. child pid 28305 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) messages (lots of 'em) in httpd error logs. 2. Gallery doesn't work. Returns an empty page, and I get a Signal 10 in the error log. 3. Drupal doesn't work. Blank php page is returned. I'm fairly confident this is php / mysql / httpd related. So, for your reference, I have: apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 php4-4.3.10_2 php4-gettext-4.3.10_2 php4-mysql-4.3.10_2 php4-pcre-4.3.10_2 php4-pear-4.3.10_2 php4-pgsql-4.3.10_2 php4-session-4.3.10_2 php4-xml-4.3.10_2 mysql-client-3.23.58 mysql-client-4.0.15 mysql-server-3.23.58 php4-mysql-4.3.10_2 zope-zmysqlda-2.0.8_1 I do not know HOW I ended up with two installs of mysql client .. but there ya go. So if anyone sees anything obvious in those versions ... I would love to hear about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Restart Networks
On linux variants, you can run a command like:
/etc/init.d/network restart
that will restart network serverices ie, reinitialize ifconfig setup, reload
IPs for a local NIC.
Does anyone know if there is a similar command or command set in
FreeBSD?
You can also try just restarting the interface. On my laptop, for
example, running FreeBSD 5.3, I re-start the ndis based network
interface thusly:
/etc/rc.d/ndis restart
where that script is:
--
#!/bin/sh
# By Mario S. 2004
# PROVIDE: ndis
# KEYWORD: FreeBSD
. /etc/rc.subr
name=ndis
start_precmd=
stop_precmd=
start_cmd=ndis_yastart
stop_cmd=ndis_yastop
ndis_yastart()
{
echo Starting NDIS network driver:
sysctl dev.ndis.0.SSID=myssid
ifconfig ndis0 192.168.1.234
route add default 192.168.1.1
echo Done
}
ndis_yastop()
{
ifconfig ndis0 down
kldunload if_ndis
killall dhclient
}
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command $1
--
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Re: Sound Editors
Audacity is pretty good (audio/audacity in the ports collection). I second that. Audacity is just fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard Repeat Rate
Do you mean that you have your system set to load X immediately upon booting, and that you do not set the keyboard repeat rate before then? No, I boot into terminal mode and then log in and then issue startx. What happens for me currently is that I start up x and they key repeat rate is too slow. Even if I issue kbdcontrol -r fast before starting x. If so, put the following in /etc/rc.conf: keyrate=fast Okay. I'll try that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard Repeat Rate
If so, put the following in /etc/rc.conf: keyrate=fast Okay. I'll try that. Well, that didn't work. It sets the key repeat rate, but when I start X it goes back to defaults. At least for the X session. I'm guessing there's a configuration somewhere for WindowMaker that is re-setting it. :c( Hmmm. I'll have to poke around some more . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP / Apache bus error
Peter Risdon helpful contributes: You don't _have_ to boot into single user mode. See below. Okay, cool. I have one last question (me thinks) before I attempt this. (and I'll attempt it on my home server, first, even though it is a 5.3 box. At least I can get practice). On the 4.9 server, what should my supfile's tag be? *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_11 Is that right? And I assume I would then be safe doing: rm -fr /usr/src cvsup stable-supfile [ re: going from 4.x to 5.x] No, this would have some issues that you might be better avoiding right now. I've since gathered that is the case. I can see it is possible, but since the server has two drives, I think I'll wait on this, install 5.3 on the second drive, and deal with that stuff then. The only time I have ever had a problem with a remote upgrade within the 4.x tree was when _I_ made a mistake. You think you're special, eh? :c) I make some JUICY mistakes sometimes, too!! The only difference from the procedure in the handbook for a remote upgrade is that you would not boot into single user mode at any point, obviously, but instead do a normal reboot. Generally, I am the only user logged into the machine. So the only issue is running processes, which I am not all that worried about since right after the install I'm going to reboot. Do read /usr/src/UPDATING, consider what you might need in /etc/make.conf and understand how mergemaster(8) works before Starting. 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]
Re: Keyboard Repeat Rate
Hmmm. I'll have to poke around some more . Perhaps Option AutoRepeat can be of help. See kbd(4x) or keyboard(4x) manual for description. Ah! That was it. Thank you so much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyboard Repeat Rate
After I start X, I need to switch to a virtual console and log in as root so that I can issue kbdcontrol -r fast. Is there a place I can set this so I don't have to do that anymore? I've looked at the man pages for a few settings, but I can't seem to find something that specifically addresses keyboard repeat rate. Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PHP / Apache bus error
I've done a lot of snooping around Google to figure this out. I've come to the conclusion that PHP just plain sucks ;c) I am fairly consistently getting bus errors in Apache when I use PHP (or at least, I'm fairly sure it is due to PHP). Entries like: ... [notice] child pid 70121 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Or if I run Apache in stand-alone mode, I will often simply get: Bus Error and it exits immediately. I am running php4-4.3.10_2 and apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 on FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE (Generic kernel). Is this something that will clear up if I move to FreeBSD 5.3? Or is there some other known work-around? I ask because I have a 5.3 box here at home that does not seem to be exhibiting this behavior. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP / Apache bus error
But then, I've found most apache/php errors actually derive from some php extension and this can be traced by a process of elimination. It's often then a dependency of the extension that has been updated, or something. I'm starting to think there's something funky about PHP and MySQL. Is this something that will clear up if I move to FreeBSD 5.3? Or is there some other known work-around? I ask because I have a 5.3 box here at home that does not seem to be exhibiting this behavior. Yes, but going to 4.11 should fix it as well. Can you explain why? What is it about 4.11 vs 4.9 with regard to this issue? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP / Apache bus error
Peter Risdon wrote: Can you explain why? What is it about 4.11 vs 4.9 with regard to this issue? Just that it's an up-to-date release. PHP and its extensions do depend on bits of the base system. You are using the very latest ported version, so far as I can see, with an out of date world. Okay, I suspect I'm going to have to bite the bullet. I must admit, tho, I have some irrational fears about upgrading the core system. 1. I've never done it before 2. The server in question is in Texas. I am in Colorado. 3. I would rather not have to rent KVM and reboot into single user mode ... but will if I must ... (( sigh )) If I'm going to upgrade the system, does it make sense to just go straight to 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: just finished install
Hello, Francis My main computer is WinXP (because the rest of the family uses it). It is connected to Adelphia cable modem via a D-Link, DI-524 wireless router. My Daughter is connected to internet via the WLAN. My freeBSD box is connected to modem via a crossover cable. bsd box has 96MB of RAM, Riva-TNT 16MB videocard on a intel 440 EX MoBo. I was going to use the bsd box as a router/firewall, but i don't know enough yet...so it is just a stand alone station. My problem right now is that I want to be able to see the rest of the network from the bsd box. I cannot ping the other 2 machines. And without X, I am not sure what to use to see if I am hitting internet with it. Yeah...I know i'm a newbie. Okay, first of all ... if you are connecting the BSD machine to the cable modem directly, it is natural that you can not see the rest of your local area network (assuming I understand you correctly). What you want is to connect the BSD box to a hub (without the crossover cable, obviously). The other computers, then, are connected to that hub either via ethernet cable or via wireless. Second, you are probably having issues with X because of the video card. My suspicion is that you don't have a driver for that card, and I do not even know if it is supported on BSD. Others on this list can probably answer that better than myself. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
flash plugin?
I have the port flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12 installed (using firefox-1.0.1_2,1). I find that it crashes firefox pretty consistently. However, a quick grep of flash in the ports reveals these: flash-0.9.5 flashplugin-0.4.3 flashplugin-firefox-0.4.12 flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.12 flashplugin-mozilla-devel-0.4.12 flashpluginwrapper-0.20021113 linux-flashplugin-5.0r51_2 linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_2 linux-flashplugin-7.0r25_1 linuxpluginwrapper-20050119_1 Should I be using one of these? What are they all!? :c) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin?
Jason Henson wrote: How about http://www.freshports.org/www/flashplugin-firefox/ And put WITH_MOZILLA=firefox ine /etc/make.conf. You may have had mozilla installed as a dependancy of the falsh plugin without that flag set. Nah, same problem :c( --- Mar 15 21:20:01 bsdlaptop kernel: pid 5564 (firefox-bin), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lots of apache httpsd processes in sbwait
Are you running mod_perl or php or something? Yep! mod_perl and php ... I'm thinking of breaking all that out: one main httpd config which runs all static sites, and uses mod_rewrite to forward to other httpd servers on different ports for the mod_perl and php sites... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 / keyboard emacs?
Matthias Buelow wrote: have you tried to include the above bindings in your $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 file? maybe then it will get read by all applications using the gtk 2.x toolkit. Thank you thank you thank you ... This has been driving me bonkers! It's not a systemwide setting .. but that's okay. In my home directory will do . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 / keyboard emacs?
Matthias Buelow wrote: That didn't work but one apparently can include files. snip I simply copied the gtkrc file to ~/gtkrc-2.0 and it worked fine for me Including is probably smarter, tho . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: umount
Gert Cuykens wrote: umount: unmount of /mnt failed: Device busy 7rxI# Why does it not want to unmount /dev/ar0s1 ? Are you sitting in the /mnt directory when you try to unmount it? :c) /mnt is busy because you have a process accessing it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lots of apache httpsd processes in sbwait
Speaking of httpd. don't these seem awfully large? PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 7410 www 2 0 117M 28488K sbwait 33:11 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7411 www18 0 119M 28172K lockf 33:05 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7409 www 2 0 117M 2K sbwait 33:01 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7413 www 2 0 116M 27452K select 32:46 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7408 www 2 0 117M 25940K sbwait 32:38 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7602 www18 0 118M 26972K lockf 32:12 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7407 www 2 0 117M 27160K sbwait 32:09 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7760 www 2 0 119M 30168K sbwait 32:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7412 www 2 0 120M 28712K sbwait 31:59 0.00% 0.00% httpd 7414 www18 0 119M 27464K lockf 31:33 0.00% 0.00% httpd ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X11 / keyboard emacs?
Well, I'm stumped.
I can't figure out why, in FreeBSD (or at least the one I have running
here) the keyboard mapping for editing all the text widgets (in X) is
not using emacs keybindings. The only way I can get control-a and
control-e, control-d etc, to work is if I run xfce4 and choose Emacs in
the Keyboard settings.
a peek at that file:
/usr/X11R6/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc
shows me things like:
#
# Bindings for GtkTextView and GtkEntry
#
binding gtk-emacs-text-entry
{
bind ctrlb { move-cursor (logical-positions, -1, 0) }
bind shiftctrlb { move-cursor (logical-positions, -1, 1) }
bind ctrlf { move-cursor (logical-positions, 1, 0) }
bind shiftctrlf { move-cursor (logical-positions, 1, 1) }
// snip //
What I don't understand is how to make that global. That is, applied to
all Window Managers. If I run AfterStep or WindowMaker, these keyboard
bindings do not apply and I can't figure out how to make them apply
irrespective of the window manager currently running.
:c(
Help?
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Re: BackupPC
dave wrote: Hello, Do you know if there's a port of BackupPC for FreeBSD? I'm looking for a backup solution for multiple platforms centering on a FreeBSD server. I've encountered BackupPC and Bacula, both look promising, primary backups are initially automated to disk then possibly later on to removable media such as DVD. Can I ask why a custom-written script (using rsync) in conjunction with mount_smbfs wouldn't be sufficient? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High levels of breakin attempts
Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address, temporarily block that address (perhaps at the firewall)? It'd be real satisfying to just dump the attackers' packets to the bit bucket and slow 'em down a bit. yeah, I have experienced exactly the same thing. I think I may write a simple daemon perl script that watches the tail of auth.log for some of this crap and installs firewalls ad-hoc. Here's a (very, very small) dump from /var/log/auth.og Jan 8 06:11:22 fusion sshd[43967]: Failed password for root from 64.246.44.130 port 54213 ssh2 Jan 8 06:11:22 fusion sshd[43969]: Failed password for root from 64.246.44.130 port 54219 ssh2 Jan 8 06:11:22 fusion sshd[43971]: Illegal user webmaster from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:22 fusion sshd[43973]: Illegal user data from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:23 fusion sshd[43975]: Illegal user user from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:23 fusion sshd[43977]: Illegal user user from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:23 fusion sshd[43979]: Illegal user user from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:23 fusion sshd[43981]: Illegal user web from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:24 fusion sshd[43983]: Illegal user web from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:24 fusion sshd[43985]: Illegal user oracle from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:24 fusion sshd[43987]: Illegal user sybase from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:24 fusion sshd[43989]: Illegal user master from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:25 fusion sshd[43991]: Illegal user account from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:25 fusion sshd[43993]: Illegal user backup from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:25 fusion sshd[43995]: Illegal user server from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:25 fusion sshd[43998]: Illegal user adam from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:26 fusion sshd[44000]: Illegal user alan from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:26 fusion sshd[44002]: Illegal user frank from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:26 fusion sshd[44004]: Illegal user george from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:26 fusion sshd[44006]: Illegal user henry from 64.246.44.130 Jan 8 06:11:26 fusion sshd[44008]: Failed password for john from 64.246.44.130 port 54348 ssh2 Interestingly, 64.246.44.130 is within the IP range of ev1servers.net which is where my BSD machine is located. . FUCKERS. :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High levels of breakin attempts
Murray Taylor wrote: I havent checked forsure but could sysutils/ipa help. it can 'open/close' firewalls upon certain limit conditions... The closest thing I have seen is portsentry. However, portsentry is a different beast. I don't think it knows about attempts to log in via ssh. In other words ... I don't think portsentry can say Hey!! Wait a sec. There are no users such as those. In fact, this server doesn't allow logins from ANYONE except X Y and Z via ssh keys Okay, time to block this bonehead . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkisofs and growisofs
Mike Jeays wrote: Thanks very much. They both installed fine once I was told where they are! My avenue of last resort is this: cd /usr/ports find . -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs grep -i name where name is what I remember the program name to be (cdrecord, etc) Also kinda handy if you have no idea what the name is but you know you want something like, say, audio compression: cd /usr/ports/audio find . -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs grep -i compres ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...
Eric F Crist wrote:
What is the point of the { } around some variables?
It's not strictly necessary, except in some cases. i.e:
m=34
echo $m
You don't need it there.
But you would want it here:
f=/var/filename
fname=${f//name/name2}
It's when you need to differentiate the variable name from operations
around it ... for want of a better explanation
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Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys couldnt even sweep up after the original FreeBSD team. What a travesty. And apparently there aren't any technically capable people using FreeBSD anymore, because they all seem very happy with an O/S that is substantially slower than it was before. What a waste. You're on AOL. You demonstrate your incredible technical savvy with each post from that address. Bwaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI HD issue ...
Picking up on that SCSI hardware problem I posted about earlier ... I'm in the process of installing a second HD which will, hopefully, be the replacement for the one I believe is flaky. I've installed the second drive. I used dd to copy over to each partition (Yes, I know this is not the right way to do that ... I'll be using dump or tar next time. Thanks to Subhro for pointing that out...) However ... Now I have the following situation: da2 is the bad disc that I am still using. da0 is going to be the new disc. Somehow, I have managed to replace da2s1a with da0s1a as the / partition: /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/da2s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da2s1f on /usr (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates) /dev/da2s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) /dev/ad0 on /usr/share/archive (ufs, NFS exported, local) I'm not sure how to put it back. My fstab is: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da2s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/da2s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da2s1e /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/da2s1f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/da2s1d /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1 /dvdram ufs rw,noauto 0 0 proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/ad0/usr/share/archive ufs rw 0 0 I'm guessing I need to configure the boot loader but I'm a little unclear on how I do that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Eric Schuele wrote: I purchased mine from: http://www.pcdgloabl.com Which as luck would have it is within a mile of my office. So I just drove over there. Terrific. 1. Mis-type of the url: it is actually http://www.pcdglobal.com :) 2. Which model do you have? The Mini-PCI 802.11b/g AR5004? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free BSD
Duane Winner wrote: No way, Beavis, that's golf balls you're thinking of. They put people's heads in bowling balls, dumbass. Beavis! Your balls are filthy. Too the ball washer *now* . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance
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Re: Free BSD
Joshua Lokken wrote: But you just keep on responding :( Ah, but I was not responding to the troll. :c) I was responding to Duane. 'tis one of my favorite BB lines .. That and ... Liar! Liar! Pants on whoa... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI Hardware problem?
This looks to me like I've got a hardware problem. SCSI drive 0:4:0 -- or is this perhaps something else? I had to manually type this in ... :) copying it off the screen since I don't see this stuff in a log anywhere. FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual 450MHz Xeon with SCSI and IDE. GENERIC kernel. There was stuff above this, but it had scrolled off the screen and the console was locked up. da1 (scsi 4 on bus 0) is my boot drive. --- Dump Card State Ends (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): SCB 0x3 - timed out sg[0] - Addr 0x2574b000 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Queuing a BDR SCB (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): no longer in timeout, status = 24a ahc1: Timedout SCBs already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning. (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a, 0 0 47 49 23 0 0 4 0 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,1 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Power on occurred (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Retrying Command (per sense Data) (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a, 0 0 47 49 23 0 0 4 0 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): CAM Status: Check Condition (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,1 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Power on occurred (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Retries Exhausted (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): lost device (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): invalidating pack panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started Uptime: 3d12h50m3s --- I'm guessing I will want to copy this entire drive over to another one. What's the best way dd? Oh, one other question ... I'm used to runlevels on Linux. When I reset this machine, I'm presented with the prompt asking me for the default shell (/bin/sh). I hit enter, and I'm in sh where I can fsck the other drives and mount them. Cool. But once I have done that, how do I tell BSD to basically continue where it left off (i.e. run /etc/netstart sshd, httpd, psqld, zope, etc) without manually invoking each of those items? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Podcast
For anyone interested ... I'm on the newest podcast con croncast: http://croncast.com/ along with Amy Gahran (contentious.com). :c) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI Hardware problem?
Glenn Dawson wrote: Or you could just exit the shell and the system will continue to boot into multi-user mode. (( sigh )) It's always so much simpler than you think it is at first glance . Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...
Eric F Crist wrote:
First off, thanks again for all the help you've offered thus far.
That being said, I'm having a problem with variables in a function.
The code I'm having a problem with is:
setup_loopback () {
${fwcmd} add ${rulenum1} pass all from any to any via lo0;
${rulenum1}=`expr $rulenum1 + 50`
${fwcmd} add ${rulenum1} deny all from any to 127.0.0.0/8;
${rulenum1}=`expr $rulenum1 + 50`
${fwcmd} add ${rulenum1} deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any;
${rulenum1}=`expr $rulenum1 + 50`
}
The output of this, when run, is:
00050 allow ip from any to any via lo0
50=100: not found
00050 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8
50=100: not found
00050 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any
50=100: not found
This tells me that it's doing the math correctly, but it's not
reassigning the calculated value back to the variable.
Any pointers?
this is a very common mistake and is one of those things about sh and
bash that drives me batty, too.
You're thinking like perl. :c)
Stripping it down to a test script, I have this:
-
rulenum=50
rulenum=`$rulenum + 50`
echo $rulenum
I believe that is what you are after.
When you *assign* you don't use $
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Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...
Eric F Crist wrote:
What is the point of the { } around some variables?
It's not strictly necessary, except in some cases. i.e:
m=34
echo $m
You don't need it there.
But you would want it here:
f=/var/filename
fname=${f//name/name2}
It's when you need to differentiate the variable name from operations
around it ... for want of a better explanation
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Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux also doesnt do a major release until its arguably better than the previous version. Another lesson that the FreeBSD camp could well learn from. You do your tweaking in the confines of your labs, not at the expense of your customer base.. I'm sorry ... I missed something. What exactly was the major arguably better difference between RedHat 8 and RedHat 9? I got the distinct impression RedHat was playing the version number game with SuSE and Mandrake. Or how about RedHat 7.2 to 7.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
One system cost me 3 months salary in Russia. Is this how you treat your users? Why can't your developer use the machine they used to make 5.3 work? Everyone tell me to use LINUX. Now I know why. You support bad slow version and not good one. Very stupid people. Thank you for trolling on an otherwise incredibly useful, civil, polite and helpful list. Now be gone. Back to your Linuxian ways ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think there is a story there for you but more along the lines of: Sun's wishy-washy licensing terms driving people away from Java Agreed. Sun has screwed up the licensing of Java from the start. Their deal with Microsoft early on made that clear to me. I prefer to use just about any other tool (except, of course, for JSP/.NET, etc). Python, Perl, ... any other tool will do the jobs I need done and I can avoid the sluggishness of Java, the licensing ambiguities, and the dependence on a company that is *not* a software company to begin with! G.. Please state your specific affiliation with FreeBSD. None. Just a user. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you've missed the fact that kernels and distributions are independent of one-another in linux. Redhat is just a distribution and has little to do with what particular kernel version you are using. First of all, that wasn't missed. It was quite intentional. I am underscoring the difference between Linux and *BSD. Second, I would argue with the assessment Linux doesn't do a major release until it is arguably better than the previous version, and that this somehow is in contrast to *BSD. This is an ambiguous statement, at best. Define major and define better. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asking a guy from a poor country to donate his hardware to a US organization at least partially funded by Yahoo is helpful? What planet are you from? The planet where 99% of the posts on this list are helpful, and the one from this guy (who calls the members of this list, and I quote, very stupid people) isn't. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tom, Have you tried any of the alternative implementations of Java? Sun's isn't the only one out there. I have. I'm sorry, I am mostly venting my frustration with Java as a language, Sun as a company, and J2EE as a hugely bloated and over-architected solution in dire need of a problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think he was calling the members of this list stupid. You are correct. He wasn't. Rather, it was the people who *developed* the *free* and very powerful operating system (that he is attempting to use) he called stupid. I'm still waiting to see him post an apology. I, for one, am humbled by the BSD teams. They do work I don't believe I could ever do, regardless of my 15 years of work in software. Only that not supporting major chipsets and whining about not having the funding nor the contacts to get a $250 Mobo as an excuse was Stupid. This is not a new chipset. Its been out for months and months. Really? Gee, so has my Linksys Wireless G card. In fact, I am fairly sure it's been out for more than a year. Guess what? It's not supported on FreeBSD 4.10 either. It *is* on 5.3 via ndis (which I was thrilled to discover). Kinda sounds like the situation with these SuperMicro boards. If it was *that* important to me to run this particular 802.11g card on FreeBSD 4.10, I *would* donate or loan it to a kernel developer. And that is perfectly reasonable advice. The fact that he's in Russia is of no consequence. His email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] We're supposed to just psychically *know* that's a Russian domain and his net income for three months is what I earn in an hour? Open Sound doesn't work on 4.10. Only on 5.3. Am I going to complain to 4Front Technologies that they are stupid? I think not. Besides ... with a name like hardcodeharry, I would expect a little more intelligence; a little more willingness to dig into things. A slight tendency to ask the question: how can I hack this code to work, and how would I contribute those modifications to the BSD team? But I see none of that. In short: troll. Anyone with a reasonable desire to use any of the *nixes would have enough smarts to know: 1. check the hardware compatibility lists to determine whether or not the hardware you want to run is going to work with the particular *nix you want to use. This is no different between BSD and Linux, Solaris, etc. 2. Don't expect every damn piece of hardware out there to work out of the box with an older version of the kernel for the given *nix. This is NOT WINDOWS (thank god) and just because you have a particular piece of hardware doesn't mean it's going to work. It is your responsibility to know this and to work with it. 3. Ask questions politely in the appropriate forums, and be civil. Failing to do so is probably not going to get your question answered. I for one was drafting a post for this list thanking *everyone* on it for being the kind of terrific help they are when Boris' post appeared. The kind of discourse I see on this list (and on other BSD oriented lists) is a huge and welcome contrast to the childish banter I see on most of the Linux (and MacOS and Windows) discussion lists out there. It is like the kind of professional enthusiasm I remember on the BeOS lists. As a result ... please pardon me if I am intolerant of behavior and attitudes that sound to me like that which I left behind when I put FreeBSD on my laptop and two servers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Whine, whine, whine, bitch, bitch, bitch. So go use Linux. Someone is twisting your arm? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so why are you even trying? Why are you on this list? This is a questions list. Not an advocacy list, not a BSD SUX list. Why are you here? I wish I could be as arrogant and condescending as you, but clearly you were born with an advantage in that arena. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powering down FreeBSD 5
Forrest Aldrich wrote: Can FreeBSD be configured to actually power off the machine, rather than sit with Press any key to reboot. We're redeploying some servers, and we'd like them to be powered on individually, not powered up upon plug-in to the power cable. /sbin/shutdown -p Although it does depend on the hardware being able to do that. i.e., my laptop handles that just fine, but not the old dual processor Xeon here ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD
Jerry McAllister wrote: Yes, and his holy mission seems to be to waste people's time and energy trying to draw attention to himself without making any contribution of value to the community. Less than two months ago, vastly excessive amounts of bandwidth and delete effort were wasted in this list on this creature. I fear insulting the good name of troll in this case. Can we NOT fall back in to that sinkhole and just ignore the trash. Okay, I'm with you Jerry. My apologies to the group for wasting bandwidth on this silly person. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Eric Schuele wrote: On the other hand... I've switched to an Atheros based miniPCI card which works quite well with 'device ath'. I can give you a link if your interested. I might be interested in one of those. I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
Anthony Atkielski wrote: I tend to agree. Are people still using Java? Yeah, I think so . strange as it seems to me. Perl seems to do just about everything. Agreed. OTOH, Perl is quite idiomatic, and that can be a real hurdle. Plus, there are so *many* ways to do things in Perl, that it can be easy to write what another programmer would consider opaque, impenetrable code. Python seems to be a nice intermediary. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uptime?
Mark wrote: So, we know BSD is capable of stupidly high uptime, but what I'd like to know is how? I mean, we all have to patch things now and again, recompile kernels etc. Does this mean these sites are running thousand-day-old unpatched kernels,... Yep!! (AFAIK) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Minimal system installation
Colin J. Raven wrote: How about this one...a laptop with the CD inoperable and the floppy missing. The PCMCIA controller may/may_not be fried... I'm assuming built-in networking is asking too much of this poor old machine? :c( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
local ports (Mozilla Calendar)
I'm attempting a build of the Mozilla Calendar. One question: When I do a gmake install, I suspect what I install will not be understood by the packages system (/var/db/pkg). Is there a way to quickly make a local port or a local package that I can then use to do things like: make package make uninstall pkg_delete etc? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local ports (Mozilla Calendar)
Joshua Lokken wrote: And, if the port is not installed on your system, you can do: # make package snip Well, therein lies the problem. This is not a port. yet. This is a tarball (or, more accurately, a cvs dump). So I can't *do* a make package ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local ports (Mozilla Calendar)
Eric Schuele wrote: Unless you are referring to Sunbird... which is the stand alone calendar project... I do not think there is a port for it yet. I would prefer it to the component running in mozilla... so if that's what your working on, please save my address and e-mail me when you have something, I can help test. Yep, that's what I'm trying to get to compile ... If I get it working ... I'll let ya know ... and everyone else here ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is a testament ....
to the clean design of BSD that I could screw it up so badly and repair it so easily. (Re: ps, make deinstall) If I'd done this with RedHat (or any other RPM-based Linux distro) I hate to think about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cronjob doesn't run???
Might be a path issue. I had similar issues with cron (/etc/periodic/daily) if I didn't use a full path to the binaries. :c( i have an odd problem with this cronjob, #!/bin/sh cd /home/timothy burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank tar -zcvf ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/* tar -zcvf ./burning/Projects.tar.gz ./Projects/* tar -zcvf ./burning/cvsd.tar.gz /usr/local/cvsd/* mkisofs -L -l -relaxed-filenames -o tmp.iso burning burncd -e -f /dev/acd0c data tmp.iso rm tmp.iso rm burning/* n# ls -l /etc/periodic/daily/Backup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 323 Dec 27 22:42 /etc/periodic/daily/Backup as you can see it's not a permissions issue. the job must do something, because i end up with a cdrw i can't mount :\ ___ 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: a quick question
Andrei, what does the .xinitrc file look like (in either the root directory or in the home directory of the user you log in as)? Thank you for your quick replay but i am still not sure about a couple of things: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oooooops: make deinstall
I inadvertently invoked make deinstall from /usr/ports, thinking I was in the directory of the port I wanted to 'make deinstall make reinstall' I wasn't. Oops. I'm in the process of re-installing those ports I installed and depend on (firefox, thunderbird, etc). But ... since I control-c'ed the ill-chosen 'make deinstall', I'm sure I have left my package database in a rather un-tidy state. Is there an easy way to say, either with portupgrade or make or any other tool, the equivalent of: what ports are installed? Are they *really* installed? What do they depend on? Are those installed? Are they *really* installed? Of course I can do portupgrade -l -O, but I think my question is: does that tell me if my system is actually clean? :c) Also --- is there some way of looking at an audit trail or some way that I can see what ports/packages I had previously installed before I accidentally did make deinstall? Thanks ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a quick question ...
Andrei, it sounds to me like you have fvwm installed as your window manager / desktop. Install KDE or GNOME or WindowMaker or something useful, and you will have a bit more luck. As root (before you bother with startx), try this: pkg_add -r windowmaker Then, edit your .xinitrc file (in your /root directory) to contain the following line: wmaker Then, try startx. I suggest WindowMaker because it is fairly lightweight, will not take a long time to install, and will give you the base functionality of a GUI without requiring you to do a lot of work. Also, it is my window manager of choice :c) Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall and I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince in Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After the install for some reason i log into root and i use the startx command since i get no GUI interface and i get 3 pannels (light green bar and white background and a clock at the top (it looks like a 16 bit OS or something). Can you tell me what could be wrong ... any help will be apreciated. (i am gladly getting rid of windows and i am probably not give up easily that is why i would like some help) ... Thank you for the time taken to read my email and helping me. My system is 3.06Ghz intel, all in wonder ati 9700 pro, 200Gb WD, 1Gb ram, cd-rw 52x24x52, dvd-rw 4x2x32, sound blaster audigy 2. ___ 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: a quick question ...
Lane wrote: welcome! There is nothing wrong, I think. It sounds as if you have properly installed X. But X isn't the friendliest desktop around, as you've seen. You should be able to get a full-featured desktop by issuing the following commands: cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 make all install clean login andrei (or some NON-ROOT user) startx The only problem with that (correct me if I am wrong) is that kde will take a *very* long time to build and install from the port ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oooooops: make deinstall
Chuck Swiger wrote: pkg_info, pkg_info -ag, pkg_info -ar (or pkg_info -aR, depending on which way you want to see the dependencies). Those are very handy I guess, tho ... since make deinstall will force remove a package even if another package uses it, what I really want to do is something like: pkgdb -F ... see the first failed dependency ... go find the package and install it ... repeat. :c( Seems like the kind of thing that could be scripted If you created a /usr/ports/packages directory, portupgrade and such will leave the precompiled binary packages you've created on your system there. Ah! Otherwise, consult your backups. well, this isn't a production machine by any stretch so I didn't do backups :c) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why must boot in single mode.
Skylar Thompson wrote: Getting started on FreeBSD can be a bit rough, but I'd give the Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html a good look over and you should be set. I think the FreeBSD Handbook is excellent. I also found this book: FreeBSD Unleashed; Second Edition http://www.bsdmall.com/freebun.html a godsend. So much so I had to write the authors ... :c) ports is a blessing unto itself, Ports/packages and portupgrade are things of beauty ... :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB flash drive support/usage
Marc Fonvieille wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Since the burner is seen as a SCSI drive, the driver atapicam(4) http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atapicamsektion=4 should not be used in the kernel configuration. Hmm. What if you need atapicam for other things, such as ATAPI DVDRW drives? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB flash drive support/usage
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I used fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs. The process is described here: http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/using-a-usb-20-flash-mini-disk-on-freebsd Can you re-post that url? I get a 404 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB flash drive support/usage
Alan Gerber wrote: I love my Lexar Jumpdrive. I have the 512MB version, but they're up to 1GB now, IIRC. 2 gig, actually :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare Workstation?
I have not yet tried this ... but has anyone gotten VMWare workstation running on FreeBSD? Of course, I don't mean running FreeBSD as a client OS in, say, Linux or Windows. But running it as the host OS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron not running job
I'm having problems getting my freshly update FreeBSD 5.3 system to run my cron jobs. Logged in as root, I enter the job in root's crontab with the following command crontab -e I enter the job in the following format: 05 10 * * * /root/cronjobs/cvs-sup.sh The script has the following permissions: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 255 Dec 13 10:39 cvs-sup.sh I can run the script as root with no errors. I look in the /var/log/cron log and I don't see any attempt by cron to run the job. There is no error either.There are entries for the edit of the crontab: This drove me batty for a while. You should see some emails to root regarding this. Typically, it's a path issue. In your cvs-sup.sh use the full path to the binaries you are trying to execute. Like this: /usr/local/bin/cvsup /root/ports-supfile /tmp/ports-log 21 /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu Also, you can use /etc/periodic/daily rather than using cron directly. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I have FreeBSD 5.3 running beautifully on a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash - superuser
Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the archives. Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but bash. I really don't get what the problem is with this 'sh is on the root' argument. Using bash is a lot more productive for many people, so why not let them use it? No problem for people to be productive with bash or whatever shell they prefer. Just not for root. You should not even use the root account unless absolutely necessary. Ya mean like ... ... editing /etc/rc.conf ... installing a port or package ... updating the ports tree and/or running portupgrade ... configuring the firewall ... backing up the file system ... checking /var/log files for attempts at cracking ... reading root's email ... rsyncing to a remote server I would be curious how I could do any of the above as someone other than root. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why must boot in single mode.
Jerry McAllister wrote: FreeBSD (with Apache, PHP, MySQL or PostgresSQL, etc) makes a very good - maybe the best - webserver system. Don't forget Zope :c) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox for FBSD?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for answering everyone :^) I really appreciate it. the thing is, I use FreeBSD 4.7 and I was thinking about the latest version of firefox. Doesn't matter what version of BSD you have ... It's a port. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD doesn't even boot!
Jorn Argelo wrote: You might want to consider installing a standard MBR during the installation (so not the FreeBSD bootloader). Then only FreeBSD will boot if you have selected the drive as the primary drive in the bios Oh, that reminds me of another question. I installed 5.3 on a Dell Inspiron 8200 (and am thoroughly pleased). Can I change / remove the boot loader now, after I've done all this? I would basically like to get rid of it, so that it just boots into FreeBSD. There are no other OSs on here. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype?
Has anyone managed to get Skype running (I would presume using Linux emulation) on FreeBSD? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skype?
Phil Schulz wrote: Tom Vilot wrote: Has anyone managed to get Skype running (I would presume using Linux emulation) on FreeBSD? There is a port in net/skype which I had running for a day or two. I had to uninstall it since I need to use Maple 8 which doesn't work with the version of linux_base skype requires. Maybe it's even possible to run them both at the same time but I didn't care enough to even attempt to solve the issues. If you already tried the skype port then you'll need to give more information. My bad. I didn't even *know* there was a skype port. I was trying to get the stuff on the skype site, which I downloaded, to run. I'll try the port ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot Loader (repost)
I installed 5.3 on a Dell Inspiron 8200 (and am thoroughly pleased). Can I change / remove the boot loader now, after I've done all this? I would basically like to get rid of it, so that it just boots into FreeBSD. There are no other OSs on here. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
