Re: Stuck between current and 9 release.
Quoting Boris Samorodov b...@passap.ru: 14.11.2011 23:50, eculp пишет: I have been looking for an amd 64 version of a release snapshot and haven't found anything close. Seems that you need this: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve Thanks Boris. You are a life saver. Hopefully the Handbook will be updated. The current one has the following: Acquire the Memory Stick Image just for information The memory stick image can be downloaded from the ISO-IMAGES/ directory from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/arch/arch/ISO-IMAGES/version/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-arch-memstick.img. Replace arch and version with the architecture and the version number which you want to install, respectively. For example, the memory stick images for FreeBSD/i386 9.0-RELEASE are available from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img. /just for information Thanks again. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Stuck between current and 9 release.
I was running current (before 10) last month, had a health emergency and when I could check the server current was 10. I ereased all sources and switched all my csup files to release and begin building a new world daily with no problems to be sure all was well. ( probably a mistake ). Port upgrades were building fine with portmaster so I just decided to reboot to see if all was well.( Dumb ) it wasn't, (Murphy's Law), the machine won't boot. Rather than a spinning slash (/) a single one and it hangs. I have been looking for an amd 64 version of a release snapshot and haven't found anything close. I have no idea why it doesn't even try to boot. I have tried all the loader options and get nowhere. I could use any suggestions especially since I don't even have a amd64 snapshot other than old ones to do a reinstall especially if there is a problem with the release. Thanks, ed P.S. If this should be on another list please let me know. If there is an AMD RELEASE 9 snap somewhere other than what is in the handbook. Anything would be great. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Has anyone been able to configure a Linksys E3000 using freebsd or pcbsd?
In a trade with a friend, I ended up with a Linksys E3000. The only windows machine that I have is my wife's 10 laptop that doesn't have a dvd. I use FreeBSD or pcBSD for everything, workstations, servers, etc. I need to configure this thing but can't find any instructions on web based configuration. The FAQ and the dvd all imply that you must run the windows installation programs. I doubt that is true. I've used other Linksys products, printservers, AP's, etc. with no problem. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ed PS I've thought about wine but the machines I have here are all AMD64. In addition, I'm going to have to reconfigure it at some point. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.
Quoting C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps are not good, this will be MORE than enough RAM and CPU. (...) Maybe turn this into a virtual host and make some use of that hardware, or just be happy using it at 5% capacity. ... or run some instances of Plone on it. Should be enough to keep it busy and out of the idle thread even at moderate traffic. ;-) I agree but somehow my extra resources (memory, disk, cpu, etc.) always seem to find sponges in a short period of time. This may be the exception. thanks ed G -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.
I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming machine at a great price and am considering it as a web-server. In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem with. I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a gaming machine needs the most aggressive hardware. I have also seen this processor with 12 GB rather than 8 which, in my ignorance sounds better. Any opinions and guidance are appreciated. Thanks, ed I will be running 9.0 on this as I am already doing on one of my web-servers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is Intel Core I7 930 2.80 Ghz as good or better option than AMD
I've always been an AMD fan but am getting the idea that they are loosing their edge. So my question if the Intel Core I7 930 2.80 Ghz is as good and option or is their a better AMD at a similar o cheaper price? I plan to install this in a GigaByte GA-X58A/UD7 motherboard with 6 Gb in a Cosmos-S Cooler Master cabinet with extra fans and Cooler Master 600w power supply. Any comments appreciated. Please copy me on your answers. Enjoy your weekend. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release
Quoting Andreas Rudisch c...@gmx.net: On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:45 -0600 eculp ec...@encontacto.net wrote: I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try. freebsd-update does not work on STABLE branches. You can only track a RELEASE branch and a few Beta/RC releases with it. I am trying to follow the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html From the first paragraph: Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade Looks like I was reading what I wanted to read and not what was written. Sorry. Thanks for the the wakeup call. Have a great day, ed Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release
I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release and then probably to 9.0 current. I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try. Previously I have used cvsup and/or a cdrom but freebsd-update is binary and even does ports so being lazy . . . . I have tried and the following are the results. freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. I am trying to follow the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html I guess that I could just use cvsup or the new dvd. Does anyone who has done this give me a tip? Also to go from 8.0 to 9.0 should be fairly easy with cvsup, kernel, world, rebooting and recompiling all ports, no? Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Current - USB2 - cups and lp devices.
I just rebooted my laptop that I have today's USB2 hopefully with the latest USB compatibility, if I understood the GENERIC kernel correctly. I'm using i386 version, up to date as of this morning. Ports are completely up to date. all etc/dev* stuff is as it was with USB1. With localhost:631 I see Unable to open device file /dev/ulpt0: Operation not permitted. Probably because, there ain't none. Is there something else that I need to do that I didn't do before? This isn't critical. I probably print only a few pages a week but I do want it to work when something is critical. Thanks, ed P.S. Maybe this should be posted on another list rather than questions? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
Quoting Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs thanks for your fbsd how-to! looks great, and i will try it if nothing else works. i have ff3 (i think that is a Linux-firefox3 port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now downloading the firefox-devel port. in my opinion, too many way to go and too little data on how to get everything working. gary Gary, I would recommend www/firefox3 rather than www/firefox-devel that IIRC is older not being updated. I remember that someone had problems with that previously. ed On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sh parameter substitution problem
Quoting Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au:
I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of
this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run':
addr='195.68.176.4#1440:'
addr='195.68.176.4#16811:'
addr='195.68.176.4#276:'
sh(1) in hand, I've tried:
ip=${addr:%#*}
ip=${addr:%%#*}
ip=${addr:%[#]*}
ip=${addr:%%[#]*}
but all of these report './testbit: 7: Syntax error: Bad substitution'
How can I split these strings to exclude the '#' and all beyond,
preferably using sh syntax, at least without resorting to perl?
sed would work. Something like
for i in addr='195.68.176.4#1440:' addr='195.68.176.4#16811:'
addr='195.68.176.4#276:'
do
echo $i | sed 's/#.*//'
done
of course using the echo line in your script or something similar.
I'm sure there are many simple or simpler solutions.
ed
Please cc me as I'm only subscribed to the digest.
TIA, Ian
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Re: Flash9and FreeBSD7.0isssue
Quoting Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi list, I followed http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html To enable flash9 support for FreeBSD7.0 I installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped I would suggest linux_base-f8-8_11, the in /etc/sysctl.conf put: compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16, for firefox use the latest firefox3 port (firefox-3.0.5_1,1) NOT firefox-devel, all the plugins that you want such as linux-flashplugin-9.0r152 and any others then nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2 and run the script and start firefox3 and all should be well if I haven't forgotten something. I would guess that the principal problem is the firefox-devel port rather than firefox3. IIRC, it is pre-firefox3. ed second step I followed and installed latestfirefox-devel then I installed nspluginwrapper next step I downloaded this ftp://greyone.tulatelecom.ru/pub/linux/adobe/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz from this link http://www.filewatcher.com/m/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz.2608602.0.0.html as adobe.com not allowing me to download it. then I untarred itand copied libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins ( I created plugins directory as there is no default plugins directory in ~/.mozilla/ and I invoked the nspluginwrapper $ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and observed that it created nswrapper.libflashplayer.so but $ nspluginwrapper -l given me the the message segmentation fault core dumped sig 11 what I made wrong ? I tried to restart the firefox and it restarted and showing message you updated to the latest fiefox version . but when I accessed the http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ URL I am getting message in the console as LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object libdl.so.2 not found, required by libflashplayer.so] Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object libdl.so.2 not found, required by libflashplayer.so] Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory but find commad showing that libdl.so.2 is ther in /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2 # find / -name libdl.so.2 /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2 [dhanesh]$ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 [dhanesh$ uname -a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 any hints to make it work most welcome.. please see this paste also http://rafb.net/p/Yz7dBS79.html thanks in advance Been where you are, done all that. First, deinstall from ports emulators/linux_base-fc4 and make install linux_base-f8. Then make install from ports www/linux-firefox, www/nspluginwrapper and www/linux-flashplugin9. kldload linux, and mount -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc. Run nspluginwrapper and then run linux-firefox. Tada! All should work now, but it can be a little unstable. HTH. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Flash9and FreeBSD7.0isssue
Quoting Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi list, I followed http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html To enable flash9 support for FreeBSD7.0 I installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped second step I followed and installed latestfirefox-devel then I installed nspluginwrapper next step I downloaded this ftp://greyone.tulatelecom.ru/pub/linux/adobe/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz from this link http://www.filewatcher.com/m/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz.2608602.0.0.html as adobe.com not allowing me to download it. then I untarred itand copied libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins ( I created plugins directory as there is no default plugins directory in ~/.mozilla/ and I invoked the nspluginwrapper $ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and observed that it created nswrapper.libflashplayer.so but $ nspluginwrapper -l given me the the message segmentation fault core dumped sig 11 what I made wrong ? I tried to restart the firefox and it restarted and showing message you updated to the latest fiefox version . but when I accessed the http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ URL I am getting message in the console as LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object libdl.so.2 not found, required by libflashplayer.so] Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object libdl.so.2 not found, required by libflashplayer.so] Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory but find commad showing that libdl.so.2 is ther in /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2 # find / -name libdl.so.2 /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2 [dhanesh]$ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 [dhanesh$ uname -a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 any hints to make it work most welcome.. please see this paste also http://rafb.net/p/Yz7dBS79.html thanks in advance Been where you are, done all that. First, deinstall from ports emulators/linux_base-fc4 and make install linux_base-f8. Then make install from ports www/linux-firefox, www/nspluginwrapper and www/linux-flashplugin9. kldload linux, and mount -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc. Run nspluginwrapper and then run linux-firefox. Tada! All should work now, but it can be a little unstable. HTH. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Flash9and FreeBSD7.0isssue
Quoting Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 07:50 -0600, ec...@casasponti.net wrote: Quoting Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi list, I followed http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html To enable flash9 support for FreeBSD7.0 I installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped I would suggest linux_base-f8-8_11, the in /etc/sysctl.conf put: compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16, Ahh yes. Forgot that point- a must for flash9. for firefox use the latest firefox3 Why firefox3? Isn't there stability issues? And doesn't the firefox still need to be linux-firefox? I hope not because I'm using it right now with a site that requires flash 9. IMO, it works much better than windows firefox with wine emulation plus the linux firefox-devel has a security issue, I believe. The only issue is with a few extra processes for flash on ocassion, but I'm not complaining. The version of FBSD firefox from ports firefox3 I'm using is 3.0.5. ed port (firefox-3.0.5_1,1) NOT firefox-devel, all the plugins that you want such as linux-flashplugin-9.0r152 and any others then nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2 and run the script and start firefox3 and all should be well if I haven't forgotten something. I would guess that the principal problem is the firefox-devel port rather than firefox3. IIRC, it is pre-firefox3. ed second step I followed and installed latestfirefox-devel then I installed nspluginwrapper next step I downloaded this ftp://greyone.tulatelecom.ru/pub/linux/adobe/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz from this link http://www.filewatcher.com/m/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz.2608602.0.0.html as adobe.com not allowing me to download it. then I untarred itand copied libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins ( I created plugins directory as there is no default plugins directory in ~/.mozilla/ and I invoked the nspluginwrapper $ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and observed that it created nswrapper.libflashplayer.so but $ nspluginwrapper -l given me the the message segmentation fault core dumped sig 11 what I made wrong ? I tried to restart the firefox and it restarted and showing message you updated to the latest fiefox version . but when I accessed the http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ URL I am getting message in the console as LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object libdl.so.2 not found, required by libflashplayer.so] Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object libdl.so.2 not found, required by libflashplayer.so] Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory but find commad showing that libdl.so.2 is ther in /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2 # find / -name libdl.so.2 /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2 [dhanesh]$ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 [dhanesh$ uname -a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 any hints to make it work most welcome.. please see this paste also http://rafb.net/p/Yz7dBS79.html thanks in advance Been where you are, done all that. First, deinstall from ports emulators/linux_base-fc4 and make install linux_base-f8. Then make install from ports www/linux-firefox, www/nspluginwrapper and www/linux-flashplugin9. kldload linux, and mount -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc. Run nspluginwrapper and then run linux-firefox. Tada! All should work now, but it can be a little unstable. HTH. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas
Re: Anybody using Lenovo S10?[ Model Correction ]
Quoting Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com: ec...@casasponti.net wrote: Quoting ec...@casasponti.net: I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife. It comes with WindowsXP and while configuring it for her I found it to be a nice, new generation laptop. I liked it well enough to consider buying another for me and installing FreeBSD but I would like to see what works and doesn't work. Link because of the original subject error [Lenovo S110 rather than the correct S10. Sorry. http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087current-category-id=D4B2E83FADD74C9F8BBA5B276072AD8C Any comments or suggestions appreciated. ed According to the link, it has a broadcom wireless, which I believe will be a problem. Yep, I think you are right. I remembered that broadcom was supported but I see I am very behind times with wireless and have been playing catchup with ath that now works great. Thanks for the reality check. I still think it is a nice machine for the price but . . . . ed Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Anybody using Lenovo S110?
I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife. It comes with WindowsXP and while configuring it for her I found it to be a nice, new generation laptop. I liked it well enough to consider buying another for me and installing FreeBSD but I would like to see what works and doesn't work. Any comments or suggestions appreciated. ed Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Anybody using Lenovo S10? [ Model Correction ]
Quoting ec...@casasponti.net: I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife. It comes with WindowsXP and while configuring it for her I found it to be a nice, new generation laptop. I liked it well enough to consider buying another for me and installing FreeBSD but I would like to see what works and doesn't work. Link because of the original subject error [Lenovo S110 rather than the correct S10. Sorry. http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087current-category-id=D4B2E83FADD74C9F8BBA5B276072AD8C Any comments or suggestions appreciated. ed Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptop suggestions, but wait there's more...
Quoting Gautham Ganapathy gaut...@lisphacker.org: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Does anyone know of a laptop, preferably an older model so it's inexpensive, (It doesn't have to be very fast.), that is: As I mentioned in another thread, I just bought a Lenovo S10 with Atom processor 512k cache and 1G memory, 10+ screen, feels very solid, best scratch pad I've ever used and cost 399 dls. I haven't put unix on it. I'm probably going to buy another. I gave this one to my wife for her iTunes and iPhone (cheaper than MAC :( ) and while setting it up I was very pleasantly surprised at how solid it was and with great performance under XP that comes with it. ed 1) FreeBSD friendly. 2) Isn't a portable skillet? 3) Is physically sturdy. Not bulletproof, but not creaking, sagging plastic. My dell inspiron 9400 works quite well, except for 1. Card reader 2. Suspend/resume It does get a bit warm, but not more than when I am running windows. Battery time was also pretty much the same It's no longer in production, but i believe the replacements are the inspiron 1720 and the xps 1730 I am not sure if the newer 4965 802.11n wifi chipset that are currently available would be supported, but you could opt for the 3945 -- Gautham Ganapathy http://lisphacker.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT
Quoting maddae...@gmail.com maddae...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, ec...@casasponti.net wrote:
I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from rc.conf.
example:
ifconfig_wlan0=DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1
I'm traveling and haven't been able to connect to hotspots that are using
wpa[2]. The handbook isn't up to date and I have been looking for over a
week unsuccessfully. As far as I know there isn't an X utility to do this
from and I've tried wpa_suplicant.conf with a router here but since I don't
understand it, I'm sure it is incorrect (plus the important clue that it
doesn't work) Hopefully this is an easier and simpler way to do this.
The wpa_supplicant.conf configuration that I've tested is:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
## eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA2
ssid=TestRouter
## bssid=[mac address of your access point here]
## key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
## pairwise=TKIP
## psk=[i forgot what this is, presumably the md5 of the passphrase.]
password=Testing123
}
Any suggestions for getting out of this glass of water that I'm drowning in
would be greatly appreciated.
Handbook: Section 31
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#NETWORK-WIRELESS
HTML Manpage for wpa_supplicant.conf:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.confsektion=5
proto List of acceptable protocols; one or more of: WPA (IEEE
802.11i/D3.0) and RSN (IEEE 802.11i). WPA2 is another name for
RSN. If not set this defaults to WPA RSN.
I have 7.0-RELEASE working perfectly with WPA2/CCMP (using AES), so I
can't imagine that 8 would break it that badly, but I could be wrong..
Here's my (very simple) wpa_supplicant.conf (psk edited, of course):
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
# Home:
network={
ssid=none
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=x}]{-9jimCm`6V:LI#HiLa[Q5\jL/b;R:2)/%HU#zW=:?K?PP8mx48`Jvx-K
}
I really needed a working example and that did it. I've tested with
several and they all work fine. I also reread the handbook pages and
understood them much better. I also wasn't using /etc/rc.d/netif for
testing. I had forgotten about it.
Thanks so much,
ed
HTH
~MD
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HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT
I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from rc.conf.
example:
ifconfig_wlan0=DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1
I'm traveling and haven't been able to connect to hotspots that are
using wpa[2]. The handbook isn't up to date and I have been looking
for over a week unsuccessfully. As far as I know there isn't an X
utility to do this from and I've tried wpa_suplicant.conf with a
router here but since I don't understand it, I'm sure it is incorrect
(plus the important clue that it doesn't work) Hopefully this is an
easier and simpler way to do this.
The wpa_supplicant.conf configuration that I've tested is:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
## eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA2
ssid=TestRouter
## bssid=[mac address of your access point here]
## key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
## pairwise=TKIP
## psk=[i forgot what this is, presumably the md5 of the passphrase.]
password=Testing123
}
Any suggestions for getting out of this glass of water that I'm
drowning in would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
ed
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Re: Suitability question
Quoting Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee: On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? In this case, I would recommend to use PC-BSD. http://www.pcbsd.org/ PC-BSD is full FreeBSD 7.1, with nice grapical installer, pre-configured for desktop use. Xorg, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, flash, etc. -- all will work out of the box... After installing PC-BSD, you can think of it as a standard FreeBSD -- Upgrade ports, build kernel, etc. Does anyone know if Flash 9 works on pcbsd? In fact, I use current and it works but hangs probably 4 times a day and I have to kill the linux pviewer.bin processes and restart apache to continue. It is much better than nothing though. I'm still using wine with windows firefox and flash doesn't give me any problems but I have problems with character sets so I use it only for flash. ed Regards, O.K. -- Mõõda oma inteneti kiirust / Test Your Internet speed http://tallinn.speedtest.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
Quoting Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be: On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:56 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: - on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some problems, but it's still impossible to burn a DVD for example. i don't have. i use only atapicam+cd driver, no acd. Of course I tried atapicam too (I even removed acd totally from the kernel), but it doesn't resolve the problem(s) I assume that you made the recommended links en /etc/devfs.conf etc. so I won't go into it but it has been literally years that I haven't had an issue burning cd's or dvd's be it music, movies, OS's built here or elsewhere. I've just recently started trusting all my burning to k3b because I like the music for success after finishing the burn. ;) It works on all my different machines, even a cheapy acer laptop with dvdrw. As I said, I've not seen it NOT work on any and all cheap hardware in a long, long time. I guess maybe I'm just lucky. ed P.S. The only thing that doesn't work on my cheapy laptop is the crystal eye webcam but I think that even the linux crowd is having issues with it plus I'm too old to want to send my video. - my mouse (a Logitec MX 300, USB) is still undetected at boot. Every time I have to unplug/plug it after boot. Not a big deal I admit, but boring. - USB mass storage plug/unplug sometimes causes system panic. I know never got such thing, except when i forgot to unmount except when i forgot to unmount - yep, the problem lies here, it's so natural to just unplug an USB device that this is a well known bug that require some rearchitecting and that a proper umount has always been the way to umount a drive, but, honestly, you cannot seriously convince someone to use FreeBSD with things like this ... - Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... is just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but it's being resolved I think). Of course there are packages, but it's far less friendly to use (and manage) than apt-get/dpkg. you may pkg_add from ftp repository of course .. too bad that there is no pkg_upgrade -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jci...@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pf or ipf rules to allow p2p Limewire through
Michael Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] The only way i can run limewire is to disable my firewall and that does not make me happy. This is simply not true. I have at one time or another run Limewire on each of the three different firewalls. Currently for a little over one year now it has been pf. The difference is just syntax. Why don't you send the rules or as you say difference in syntax that are blocking limewire and p2p to the list for two reasons: 1. to quickly find how it is being blocked and remedy your problem. 2. Help an idiot like me block p2p. good luck, ed I think the conclusion is that all 3 of the freebsd firewalls are unable to monitor packet exchange of p2p applications. These firewalls were designed before p2p applications were developed and their (p2p) inherent design is to defeat standard firewall designs. I really do not understand most of the above paragraph, it makes little sense to me. Non sequitur. The OSI reference stack has 7 layers. These firewalls are simple packet filtering firewalls and only reach Layer 4. The Application layer is Layer 7, and these firewalls do not perform the deep packet inspection or decoding required to filter at Layer 7. As far as reading the docs is concerned it should become apparent that there are 3 modalities for configuring Limewire. In my situation I have a FreeBSD server acting as a gateway with pf and DNS running. The UPnP option is for a typical Windows user who may have a router device that will assist a UPnP service to autoconfigure the Windows box. Proceed to examining the second option, Manual Port Forward. I'll ignore the third as it is Do Nothing, which is useless. So on the Limewire Advanced - Firewall config page enter a port number, such as 6346 in both the Listen on Port and the Manual Port Forward boxes. Then after your NAT rule in pf.conf enter something like the following: rdr on $ExtIF proto tcp from any to any port 6346 - 192.168.10.2 port 6346 and a corresponding filter pass rule: pass in quick on $ExtIF inet proto tcp from any to 192.168.10.2 port 6346 keep state 192.168.10.2 is my desktop machine where I use Limewire. It works just fine. -Mike ___ 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: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire
Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: These applications have predefined ports they use to start up the bi-directional packet conversation. But them unsolicited packeted come in from other pc nodes to share data using a wide range of high port numbers. IPFW, IPF, and PF don't seem to have a rule option to allow packs in/out based on program name that started the conversation. I thought i read in openbsd pf manual that pf state processing will allow applications like limewire to function normally by accepting the inbound high number port to pass through the firewall. I have inclusive firewall rule set which means only packets matching the rules are passed through. The inbound hight port numbers are blocked by design. How do other firewall users code rules to allow limewire to work? Hmmm. Isn't life interesting. I would like to know how to block them and others without causing strange secondary problems. Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm forgetting something important. ed ___ 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: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire
Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Isn't life interesting. I would like to know how to block them and others without causing strange secondary problems. Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm forgetting something important. ed I share your pain, Ed. I've had to perform 3 complete re-installations of computers in my household in the last year. Each time, I found a .limewire file in a user's application folder. The boys are now banned from my wife's computer. When the last culprit get's his computer back, he will find it running an operating system that is not supported by Limewire. The next time, he'll get it back without a network card. Andrew :) I understand. Hopefully someone has a reasonably efficient pf or ipfw based solution. If it cuts some of the microsoft traffic that I am seeing much more of recently, I won't complain either. I have tried to control them by ip's and but domain names with limited success. Too many windows boxes at the office. have a great day, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port
Vincent Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard port for ssh. 722. snip I've tried many variants but none have worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Hi, -e 'ssh -p722' should do it in theory I'm not certain if rsync over ssh honours the SSH_CONFIG(5) file(s) it should do though. If so it could also be added on a per host basis there. something like Host foo.example.com Port 722 User myuser IdentityFile /path/to/custom/key Hi Vince, I tested the ssh_config changes and indeed they work beautifully and give me an added layer of flexibility. This certainly seems to be the optimal solution for for different host configurations without having to change remote scripts. I hadn't even considered it. Again DUH! Hello! I can't thank you enough. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port
Test example. I need to sync a directory from my machine to another that is using port 722 rather than 22. I can use ssh -pm722, scp -P 722 fine but I prefer rsync for the backup due to configuration flexibility. The man says: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST Which I translate to something like: rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backupMachine.com:722/backup/ but I get the following: rsync: server sent SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901 rather than greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4] I've tried variants to the point of no return. Help would be appreciated. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port
I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard port for ssh. 722. For example, when I test using my translation of the man pages: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST I use: rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backkup.net:722/backup/ the error generated is: rsync: server sent SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901 rather than greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4] I've tried many variants but none have worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:43:39AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Test example. I need to sync a directory from my machine to another that is using port 722 rather than 22. I can use ssh -pm722, scp -P 722 fine but I prefer rsync for the backup due to configuration flexibility. The man says: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST Which I translate to something like: rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backupMachine.com:722/backup/ but I get the following: rsync: server sent SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901 rather than greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4] I've tried variants to the point of no return. Help would be appreciated. Check out the -e flag for rsync. There are examples of how to use this inside of the rsync(1) man page. I can't believe I missed that. Unfortunately I found the other first. Just for the record. a simple: rsync -avze 'ssh -p 722' /almacen/TestDir backupMachine.com:/backup/ worked as expected. Thanks, ed P.S. I also apologize to the list for sending two emails in the morning. I thought I had canceled the first but yet another error. I shouldn't work on Sundays ;) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port
Vincent Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard port for ssh. 722. For example, when I test using my translation of the man pages: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST I use: rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backkup.net:722/backup/ the error generated is: rsync: server sent SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901 rather than greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4] I've tried many variants but none have worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Hi, -e 'ssh -p722' should do it in theory I'm not certain if rsync over ssh honours the SSH_CONFIG(5) file(s) it should do though. If so it could also be added on a per host basis there. something like Host foo.example.com Port 722 User myuser IdentityFile /path/to/custom/key Thanks, Vince. That is a ver interesting solution. I'm going to give it a try in the morning. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re changing from vista
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software kind regards Peter Welcome to the free world Peter! FreeBSD is a very powerful and stable system, but that said it is also very hands on - the opposite extreme of vista which is all hands off. This means that you will have a very steep learning curve. This list is /very/ helpful, others may not be so friendly or helpful. This is great for newbies who need some real help in getting to know their system and fixing problems, but there are times when even this is not enough if you don't have enough experience with the system. My advice is this: get used to the *nix (linux, unix and other derivatives) systems and how they do things, and the best way to do this is to use linux which is like a halfway house for windows users. The software available for all systems is HUGE. And all this software will usually run on both systems. The difference is linux will take care of a lot of maintenance for you (like vista), but still allows you to get your hands dirty hacking the system to your hearts content. This is not to deter you from using FreeBSD - linux is a tough system when compared to windows, but FreeBSD is even tougher; bit like comparing a tank to fort knox. But the ease of use and experience you'll gain from using linux will be more forgiving than using FreeBSD. This is just wrong.I have always found FreeBSD to be easier to install and configure the way I want it that the Red Hat or Suse I often have to use for some servers at work. Amen to that. I've converted many Ubuntu users who had shot themselves in the foot. They are now happy freeBSD users. YMMV ed You can learn them all if you want and use them all. But, don't be bullied in to believing that FreeBSD is any harder than the Lunix flavors out there. jerry My suggestion would be to get used to the *nixes with Ubuntu or even PCBSD (which is a FreeBSD variant for newer users), once you have gotten used to that give yourself another steep learning curve and jump to the final level of FreeBSD straight-up :) Keep in touch with this list and you'll get all your questions answered no matter how ridiculous they may seem to the seasoned users here, and the Ubuntu list is nearly as helpful from my observation (hence my recommendation). Once you have the experience you'll definitely want FreeBSD for its security, stability, and more. You can run a desktop, a server, or just about whatever you want on it. The possibilties are endless with nearly any *nix system, but the stability can only be found with BSD. Good luck with your endeavours and welcome, again ___ 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]
I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a solution that I don't have. The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce blocking rules because they are completely legit. I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with our local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address. Thanks for any suggestions, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Yury Michurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, start with putting spf record on the domain, http://www.netdummy.net/stop-bounce-mail.html and finish with filtering bogus message-id wich was not orignated on your server with whatever software you using. I've had the spf record for a couple of years and I've started filtering. I guess I was just looking for something different. Thanks for helping me adapt to the real world. ed Regards, Yury On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a solution that I don't have. The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce blocking rules because they are completely legit. I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with our local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address. Thanks for any suggestions, ed ___ 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: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. My mail provider publishes SPF records. SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate backscatter not improve it. Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers will check that their spam is spf compliant. I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation. ed ___ 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: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a solution that I don't have. Did these come from Barracuda boxes? Blowback like this is hardly new or legitimate as the From and Sender header addresses are often (usually) forged in spam, and it does not do anything useful to reply to them. The forged addresses may just be something scraped from the address book of a machine running the Microsoft virus, Windows, or a deliberate ``Joe Job'' where a spammer is targeting somebody who may have caused them problems. It had just got up this morning and found my mailbox full of these and lost my cool. I probably sent the email too quickly. Thanks for helping me get it together. ed Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ 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: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. My mail provider publishes SPF records. If the names and numbers in the bouceback messages are to be believed, however, the spammers have defeated SPF by hijacking DNS. The poor recipients never see my SPF records because they're looking at the wrong IP address. Thanks, Matthew. I guess that is the root problem of spf, the spammers, that it is supposed to stop. It looks a bit like our economy, a loosing battle. It really make me feel impotent this morning. Have a great day, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:01:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a solution that I don't have. The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce blocking rules because they are completely legit. I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with our local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address. The term coined for this type of mail is backscatter. There is no easy solution for this. The backscatter article on postfix.org, for example, caused our mail servers to start rejecting mail that was generated from PHP scripts and CGIs on our own systems, which makes no sense. The article: http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html Thanks for the article, Jeremy. I hadn't seen it. If the backscatter is all directed to a single Email address (rather than a series of addresses, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you have [EMAIL PROTECTED] accepted), then a solution is to reject mail with an RCPT TO of an account or virtual address that does not exist on your machine. This, of course, has a wonderful side effect: spammers now have a way to detect what Email addresses on your box legitimately accept mail, thus once they find one which never gets a bounceback, will start pounding that address to kingdom come. Let me know if you do find a reliable, decent solution that does not involve SPF or postfix header_checks or body_checks. I wish ;) Thanks again, ed -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ 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: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, RW wrote: SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate backscatter not improve it. The main problem resulting in backscatter happens when forged spam from yourdomain.com get gets sent to a legit MX server which accepts the mail initially, and then generates a bounce due to later spam checking or failed delivery to an invalid user. The bounces which then get generated by the legit MX are likely to pass spam checking at yourdomain.com. Exactly what seems to be happening. Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers will check that their spam is spf compliant. SPF doesn't provide a magic solution to backscatter, but it helps simplify the problem. It should. If spam can be rejected during the SMTP phase rather than accepted, then most spam-spewing malware simply drops the attempted message rather than actually send a bounce to yourdomain.com. After all, the spammer is looking to deliver spam to lots of different mailboxes, not deliver tons of DSNs to a single mailbox or domain. Failing that, however, any bounces which are being generated are coming from or at least closer to the source of the spam, rather than coming from gmail, hotmail, etc. And if the spamming machine is forging your domain, then yourdomain.com MX boxes have a decent shot of rejecting the forgeries via hello_checks, RBLs, or other methods. Thanks Chuck, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:58:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi__: Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers will check that their spam is spf compliant. I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation. Actually that wasn't a joke, some people do cite that as the reason why SPF helps with backscatter, that spammers will leave your domain out of the mail from line if you publish SPF records for it. I see that but it still touched my funny bone but the problem is how many mail servers and admins completely ignore SPF and what happens to those who do try to comply? I'm sure that the hundreds of bounces that I have received are minimal in comparison to the delivered email. In fact many are reporting that a user is over quota Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: --On Thursday, October 16, 2008 09:01:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a solution that I don't have. The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce blocking rules because they are completely legit. I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with our local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address. We call those bounceback spam. The only solution that I know of is to tag all outgoing messages with a special header and then check for that header on all returns and reject those that don't contain the header. All legitimate bounces would contain the header because they originated with your MTA. E.g. X-Bounceback-Check: 0987923874 I have added headers for years but unfortunately these didn't originate on my servers. My email address was used as the return address for spam sent from multiple windows machines to .ru addresses. Thanks for the suggestion, Paul. ed The value of the header can be anything you want it to be, and you can change it periodically if you want to keep statistical data. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. My mail provider publishes SPF records. SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate backscatter not improve it. Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers will check that their spam is spf compliant. I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation. Most spammers aren't aiming to generate back-scatter as their primary means of disseminating their spam, so they'll do what they can to get the best chance of a successful delivery. That means sending SPF compliant e-mails where possible. It's actually quite simple for them to filter out SPF protected addresses from their target lists, so they do tend to do that, and it's typically the same list of target addresses they use for forged senders too. It's telling that both having a correct SPF record and having no SPF record at all have a zero score in SpamAssassin (ie. neutral) whereas non-compliance scores lots of spam points. Also see my point earlier about rejecting messages during the SMTP dialogue. SPF is easy to check early and lets you reject messages before acknowledging receiving them, which means a lot fewer bounce messages to (probably forged) sender addresses. Thanks, Matthew. That I've not done due to the possibility of rejecting legit email. I'm going to revisit that decision. ed Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Edwin Groothuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. When this happens I enable the move all messages from mailer-daemon to /dev/null rules in procmail for a day or two. And curse at the people who originated the original spam... Edwin Edwin,great idea especially the last part. I have done a good job of that today. ed -- Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ ___ 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: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:07PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*], use of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you. I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week. My mail provider publishes SPF records. SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate backscatter not improve it. Just a side comment for added clarity: this ultimately depends on how the mail server administrator implemented SPF. For example, our mail servers *do not* do SPF lookups at the SMTP level (e.g. in postfix) because 1) the added complexity is not worth it, and 2) spammers are now hijacking DNS. Instead, our servers use SPF in SpamAssassin, subtracting from the spam probability score if an SPF record is found and matches appropriately. That sounds like it is definitely worth trying. Thanks, ed -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ 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: two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.
Quoting Nash Nipples [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a server to connect it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in the Dell that has the first dsl connection and the LAN. I have been running pf on the two nics with nat and squid in transparent proxy mode without any issues. My problem is that I haven't come up with a way to really take advantage of the new dsl to reduce traffic on the first. I'm not even dreaming of load balancing just sharing some of the load. I had thought about trying to get squid to use the second connection but my feeble attempts at redirecting it haven't made much sense nor have they worked. Most of our traffic is outgoing rather than incoming, if that helps. I'm sure someone else must have a similar setup and are doing better than I. Anything is better than nothing. Basically, I think and hope that I am just drowning in a glass of water. Thanks for any suggestions. ed it all well depends on how many wires you need to make your boss happy. if you feel like u can be replaced with a router maybe you should start making half-way websites rather than doing 2 way internet connections. but there is a shoe for every foot. i actually admire the creativity of the pf coders. i hope you have at least 2 gateways. please don't drown. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html Wow! Thanks, Nash. This should do it. I just read through it and had no idea it even existed. Especially the nat for two IP's I'll start trying it tomorrow and will post the results. Thanks again, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.
I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a server to connect it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in the Dell that has the first dsl connection and the LAN. I have been running pf on the two nics with nat and squid in transparent proxy mode without any issues. My problem is that I haven't come up with a way to really take advantage of the new dsl to reduce traffic on the first. I'm not even dreaming of load balancing just sharing some of the load. I had thought about trying to get squid to use the second connection but my feeble attempts at redirecting it haven't made much sense nor have they worked. Most of our traffic is outgoing rather than incoming, if that helps. I'm sure someone else must have a similar setup and are doing better than I. Anything is better than nothing. Basically, I think and hope that I am just drowning in a glass of water. Thanks for any suggestions. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...
Quoting andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed 2008-09-17 19:36:02 UTC-0400, Tom Marchand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block by IP if there are more then N failed attempts in a row? Why don't you have sshd listen on a different port? I imagine that on some hosts where there are multiple users/customers, moving sshd to another port isn't a practical solution due to people's habits in trying to connect to the default port. A human problem rather than a technical one. PS. Top posting is cruel. I`ve been more or less watching this thread and haven't seen the use of the ssh-bruteforce rules from the pf on line howtos being recommended. In my own case pf, in addition to a couple of other changes, has worked well for us. In the other changes mentioned we have also changed the ssh port that doesn't add security but has basically stopped logfiles full of dictionary attempts from what I expect are windows machines that have been violated and are being used to find more. I would highly recommend pf brutforce rules or something similar with other firewalls. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 install on Acer Aspire AM1640-U1401A
Quoting Christer Hermansson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joseph Olatt wrote: Hello, I have tried installing the following versions of FreeBSD: - 7.0 Release - 6.2 Release - 6.1 Release on an ACER Aspire AM1640-U1401A computer and the install program is not detecting the SATA hard drive. Does anybody else on the list have the above computer and have they succeeded in installing FreeBSD on it? I have an Acer Aspire AMD and had issues initially installing FBSD. What are you seeing when booting the installion cd? Do you get any errors? ed Any hints or feedback will be greatly appreciated. regards, joseph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe this is a very late reply but I haven't read this list for a while and this post/problem seems unsolved so I make a reply. Maybe you need to adjust the settings in the bios. I have the experience that to install and run Windows XP I need to *disable* native sata in the bios on some notebooks, e.g. HP 6710B, but to install and run Linux I must *enable* native sata in the bios. -- Christer Hermansson http://www.chdevelopment.se ___ 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]
Bidirectional traffic control with PF and altq or dummynet
I have been using PF for several years now and used IPFW previous to PF that I've grown more and more fond of. I now need to manage bidirectional traffic I have used Dummynet before to do similar things but it is my understanding that Altq can only manage outgoing traffic. My questions are: Am I correct in saying that Altq can not manage bidirectional traffic? if not I understand the dummynet can be used with pf and if so does anyone know of a howto to get me started? Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
Quoting Derek Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey all, I have tried using swfdec-plugin to do flash, but it doesnt seem to work too well at least with firefox. One ... I prefer being able to select what flash loads automaticly and Two ... I like to be able to see the flash video but all it does is freeze I can't seem to get linux-flashplugin7 anymore due to the restricted status. Flashplugin9 locks up also, which we all know already. I have heard gnash doesnt do much better... Anyone have a solution that works halfway? I've got a question. A friend has been loaning me his old laptop at work that runs Ubuntu and flash runs fine. I have not been able to make it fail, yet at least. Could there be a clue in Ubuntu somewhare? I'm actually thinking of running it under kqemu, if there isn't too much overhead, on my amd64 laptop until this gets sorted out. If anyone has flash9 working dependably under freebsd, please let us know how. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
Quoting herbert langhans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are some instructions how you can get the Flashplayer running. Not perfect, but it will do in many cases. http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html Excellent howto Herb. My problem is that it seems that firefox-devel doesn't work with amd64 but being stubborn, I'm forcing a compile just to be sure. If it doesn't work on my laptop amd64 I will find a i386 to test on. Thanks for you work and documentation Have a great day, ed Cheers herbs -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ 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]
reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0
This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running 24/7 since new, about 8 months. 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info file follows: Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008 Hostname: casasponti.net Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO Panic String: page fault Dump Parity: 2395754794 Bounds: 2 Dump Status: good the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is probably a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0
Quoting eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running 24/7 since new, about 8 months. 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info file follows: Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008 Hostname: casasponti.net Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO Panic String: page fault Dump Parity: 2395754794 Bounds: 2 Dump Status: good the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is probably a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Forgot I did try to debug but got nowhere: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.2 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd... Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (kgdb) Ignorance, I'm sure. Thanks, ed ___ 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: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: eculp wrote: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running 24/7 since new, about 8 months. 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info file follows: Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008 Hostname: casasponti.net Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO Panic String: page fault Dump Parity: 2395754794 Bounds: 2 Dump Status: good the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is probably a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. See the developers' handbook chapter on kernel debugging. Thanks Kris. I did that and I'm assuming that since debugging was not enabled in my kernel I got: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.2 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd... Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (kgdb) I assume it will only work with the new kernel because the kernel.debug only got to Cannot access memory at address 0x4b55. Which means I have to wait for another crash. I have already compiled a new kernelwith debuging and will reboot tonight to install the kernel and hopefully will never need to test it. Thanks for your help, ed However, panics that suddenly start happening frequently on a system that has been stable for a while with no OS or workload changes made, are usually due to the hardware starting to fail. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
Quoting Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: eculp writes: I've got a question. A friend has been loaning me his old laptop at work that runs Ubuntu and flash runs fine. I have not been able to make it fail, yet at least. Could there be a clue in Ubuntu somewhare? I'm actually thinking of running it under kqemu, if there isn't too much overhead, on my amd64 laptop until this gets sorted out. The Flashplugins in the ports collection are the Linux versions, which require both a) an interface between the plugin and the browser and b) the Linux emulation layer. My last information about Flash9, gleaned from various FreeBSD mailing lists: the problem is thought to be _somewhere_ between the plugin and the emulation layer. This is roughly equivalent to saying there is a mouse somewhere in inesrt your continent here. The current set of permanent pest control experts (the Linux emulation crew) has considered the matter and decided this is not worth the time. As of the time I heard about it, this was in part because a) Flash9 had tangible problems under Linux and b) even if they knew what was broken in the plugin the track record of Adobe being willing to fix it was poor. (Volunteers for a special mission should apply on the emulation@ list.) Don't get me wrong - I'd love to have a working Flashcurrent even under emulation. But after _years_ of having hopes raised and dashed I'm pretty much waiting for Flash10 which is supposed to have an open spec API (ABI??). Great information, Robert. Thanks. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Realtek ALC268 HDA sound and mixer only have output/playback and no way to input to a Mic, etc.
Realtek ALC268 HDA sound and mixer only have output/playback and no way to input to a Mic, etc. It is on an acer aspire 5520-5679 AMD 64x2 that I'm running up to date current8 AMD64 on. pciconf -lv shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7:0:class=0x040300 card=0x01261025 chip=0x055c10de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' class = multimedia # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: NVidia MCP67 High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xf268 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20080420_0052] [MPSAFE] (1p:2v/1r:1v channels duplex default) and the verbose dmesg can be seen at http://encontacto.net/SHARE/dmesg.txt I need to use it for skype and it isn't possible. Any suggestions appreciated. I have also tried OSS without any success at all. With OSS and skype-devel I get problem with audio playback in addition to the microphone not working. With Youtube.com oss just locks up firefox on playback. ossinfo doesn't show the microphone, either. http://encontacto.net/SHARE/ossinfo.aspire.txt Thanks to all, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Installing Sun JDK on FreeBSD
Quoting triggerme2ice [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am currently in the process of updating the ports tree... something i didn't know about earlier :clap: We will see how the java installation will go... i will keep you posted :) Thanks a lot, I guess that I have to have it to build openoffice. ed Vince Hoffman wrote: triggerme2ice wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone would know of a brute force way of installing the (newest possible) sun JDK on FreeBSD 5.0 (or any other versions for further info) Help a freeBSD user in need :teeth: The latest version in ports is 1.6.0.3p4 if you need more receent than that then no idea. If thats ok then cd /usr/port/java/jdk16 make Follow the instructions Also see http://www.freebsd.org/java/ 5.x has just been announce as no longer supported by ports though, although support wont be removed, just not updated and checked as changes are made. You will need a current jdk to compile it though and need to get the source files manually. To get a jdk to compile it I'd recommend installing the package from http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml Although you could install one of the linux-sun-jdk* ports if you prefer. you can pkg_delete the old jdk once you have the new one installed. Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-Installing-Sun-JDK-on-FreeBSD-tp17628876p17654891.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?
Quoting Tom Ierna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 1, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: To be able to mount your iPhone, you're going to have to essentially void the warranty and risk turning it into a pretty paperweight. It sucks, but that's the way it is. But at least you can charge your iPhone using FreeBSD. If using libgpod through gtkpod only requires the iPhone be jailbroken, the above is not true. Jailbreaking your iPhone does not void the warranty, and there is very little chance of bricking it by just jailbreaking it. Bricking used to be an issue when mucking with the radio firmware, but jailbreaking doesn't touch that stuff. To jailbreak an iPhone, check out http://ziphone.org/ Hi Tom. Thanks for the link and clarification. AFAIK, my iPhone is Jailbroken because I'm using it on a Mexican carrier, TelCel and if I understand correctly, it would have to be to use the TelCel chip. Ziphone is a bit slow but I'm going to go through it and see if I can find the reason why I'm not able to get a mountable device created. Thanks again for your help, ed You will need either a Windows or Mac to do the Jailbreak though. -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?
Quoting Joshua Isom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To be able to mount your iPhone, you're going to have to essentially void the warranty and risk turning it into a pretty paperweight. It sucks, but that's the way it is. But at least you can charge your iPhone using FreeBSD. I'm already using it with a carrier that isn't yet authorized so I have to assume that it is jailbroken but I still can't find a way to mount it. It seems that it isn't recoginzed by FreeBSD current as being mountable. Thanks for the warning. ed On Jun 1, 2008, at 11:10 AM, eculp wrote: I've not been successful at googling a way to connect freebsd current amd64 to my iPhone. Eventually, I would like to be able to sync and upload to it from an opensource substitute for iTunes, that doesn't have a version from FreeBSD. When I connect my iPhone I see: Jun 1 09:55:00 ed kernel: uhid0: Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 on uhub3 in messages and that is it. No new device or anything that I can find. Any programs or suggestions that you have to facilitate using the iPhone will be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to use gtkpod without success because I can't mount it, I assume. Thanks, ed ___ 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't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?
Quoting Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:10:48AM -0500, eculp wrote: I've not been successful at googling a way to connect freebsd current amd64 to my iPhone. Eventually, I would like to be able to sync and upload to it from an opensource substitute for iTunes, that doesn't have a version from FreeBSD. When I connect my iPhone I see: Jun 1 09:55:00 ed kernel: uhid0: Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 on uhub3 in messages and that is it. No new device or anything that I can find. Any programs or suggestions that you have to facilitate using the iPhone will be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to use gtkpod without success because I can't mount it, I assume. The pags for libgpod (http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod.html), on which gtkpod depends, says: There's also preliminary support for the iPhone and the iPod Touch but they must be jailbroken to work. Whatever that means. :-) Here we call it un blocked which I assume is synonymous with jailbroken but I can't seem to get FreeBSD to recognize it as mountable so gtkpod doesn't see it either. Thanks for your help, ed Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnash leave a blank page when visit youtube
Quoting Derek Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on Monday 02 June 2008Monday 02 June 2008 Tobias Hoellrich Tobias Hoellrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Graham Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:59 PM To: Gerard Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnash leave a blank page when visit youtube I heard a rumor Microsoft was planning to create a linux version of silverlight, I also heard a rumor that silverlight could overcome flash alltogether. Yeah I have heard the same, I listen to MacBreek Weekly podcast and hear all about it on there :) Got to add that to my book of funny rumours :) Show me one true cross-platform product from Microsoft that has been updated in sync with the Windows versions over the years. If you find that, I guess we have an answer; if you don't find one, I guess we have an answer as well ;-) Tobias Don't get me started on keeping up with versions, adobe has ignored us, more sites use flash9, ports has adobe marked as restricted and I cant find a ver 9 alternative to adobe :( Microsoft is worse on supporting their own software, a product made for sale commericially *should* work smoother then one given for free, but Microsoft doesnt see thing like that :p If anyone knows a good alternative to flash9 let me know! Better, yet. Please let us all know. That Heads Up should even be crossposted ;) Flash 7 sites are becoming few and far between. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?
I've not been successful at googling a way to connect freebsd current amd64 to my iPhone. Eventually, I would like to be able to sync and upload to it from an opensource substitute for iTunes, that doesn't have a version from FreeBSD. When I connect my iPhone I see: Jun 1 09:55:00 ed kernel: uhid0: Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 on uhub3 in messages and that is it. No new device or anything that I can find. Any programs or suggestions that you have to facilitate using the iPhone will be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to use gtkpod without success because I can't mount it, I assume. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
Quoting Chad Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Rico Secada wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:14 -0600 eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the ISP's wireless router. They would like to change the PC's to unix desktops. I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of hardware. I would love to be proven wrong. Therefore I am considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add later. My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I would sure appreciate any suggestions. In my experience from similar situations I would recommend OpenSUSE from Novell, since it has to be as windows like as possible. OpenSUSE is very well supported and since it is Novell who is behind the distro, the company can provide professional support. In general I recommend Debian over any distro, but in some rare cases like this one, I would rather recommend OpenSUSE. I would recommend investigating Ubuntu or one of it's clones (e.g. Xubuntu, Kubuntu). The install is brainless, they offer commercial support through the parent company Canonical, and they are Debian-based. Hi Chad, Thanks a lot, I just tried the latest and greatest Ubuntu on my PITA laptop, acer 5520-5679, that is running FreeBSD current amd64 and was unable to get to the next step after the X configuration on the graphic installer. I got no error so maybe I should have waited longer and something would have happened. I think I dislike graphic installers unless maybe they were verbose and give an indication of the problem. Another option would be PC-BSD or DesktopBSD as they both have very easy installations and will support most things that the above support. The only stipulation that I have run into is the standard trouble of Flash on BSD operating systems. Very true. Windows folks, have a hardtime not just clicking on the you must update to the latest version of the flash player or something like that and expecting it to just work. Thanks again, ed Thanks, ed ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
Quoting Mehul Ved [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. Maybe PC-BSD or Sabayon Linux. Sabayon is based on gentoo and contains lots of proprietory drivers built in. So, if you have no problem with that maybe you could look at Sabayon Linux too. I've never heard of Sabayon but will definitely give it a shot on my laptop first and take a good look at the licensing. I really like the idea of PC-BSD but the Flash thing, holds me back a bit. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
Quoting Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED]: eculp wrote: I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the ISP's wireless router. They would like to change the PC's to unix desktops. I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of hardware. I would love to be proven wrong. Therefore I am considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add later. My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I would sure appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, ed PC-BSD would be a good choice but stay away from PBI. You may try also DesktopBSD, TrueBSD, or RoFreeSBIE. Something like the above would be my choice except for potential driver availability and FLASH9 that hold me back. I've not looked at TrueBSD or ROFreeSBIE although I have used FreeSBIE 6.0 IIRC. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
Quoting Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:14 -0600 eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the ISP's wireless router. They would like to change the PC's to unix desktops. I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of hardware. I would love to be proven wrong. Therefore I am considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add later. My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I would sure appreciate any suggestions. In my experience from similar situations I would recommend OpenSUSE from Novell, since it has to be as windows like as possible. OpenSUSE is very well supported and since it is Novell who is behind the distro, the company can provide professional support. In general I recommend Debian over any distro, but in some rare cases like this one, I would rather recommend OpenSUSE. Hey Rico, That really makes a lot of sense, I'll give it a try in a few minutes, Thanks a lot. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
Quoting Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:45 PM, eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the ISP's wireless router. They would like to change the PC's to unix desktops. I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of hardware. I would love to be proven wrong. Therefore I am considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add later. My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I would sure appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, ed Ubuntu Linux. It's very windows-users friendly, and has a graphical installer. It's based on Debian Linux. It also is a LiveCD, so you can test hardware before actually installing it to the HDD. Thanks, I'm going to give it another try after SUSE. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
Quoting Ezat - Ezatech [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ed, If flash is bothering you, its quite easy to just install the linux version of firefox on FreeBSD. Sabayon linux is a multimedia powerhouse. Definately needs some good spec hardware to run even after most of the xgl services have been disabled. The sabayon image is around 4.2GB which gives you an indication. Ezat. Ezat, thanks for the suggestion and the heads up on needed resources. I doubt it can be worse that Windows VISTA. Are you able to use Flashplayer9 with linux firefox. My Flash 7 works fine on both linux and freebsd firefox but I can not get Flash 9 to run reliably. Hopefully, I am behind on the latest flash info on FreeBSD. Thanks, ed eculp wrote: Quoting Mehul Ved [1][EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, eculp [2][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. Maybe PC-BSD or Sabayon Linux. Sabayon is based on gentoo and contains lots of proprietory drivers built in. So, if you have no problem with that maybe you could look at Sabayon Linux too. I've never heard of Sabayon but will definitely give it a shot on my laptop first and take a good look at the licensing. I really like the idea of PC-BSD but the Flash thing, holds me back a bit. ed ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [4]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [5][EMAIL PROTECTED] References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 4. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 5. mailto:[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]
Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.
I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc. They have just realized that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the ISP's wireless router. They would like to change the PC's to unix desktops. I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of hardware. I would love to be proven wrong. Therefore I am considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add later. My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I suspect that I am asking the impossible but you never know. I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I would sure appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Squid3.0 missing something with pf transparent proxy.
Quoting Mehul Ved [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2/2/08, eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I use the pf redirect it seems to not get the url parsing right for some reason. I put http://www.google.com and see 1201906217.304 0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /google.com/ - NONE/- text/html 1201906217.466 0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /favicon.ico - NONE/- text/html 1 in the squid access.log rather than http:://www.google.com.and the screen shows: http://encontacto.net/transSquid3.0.png I faced that too. Turns out I had http_port 3128 but I needed http_port 3128 transparent That one word solve the problem immediately. Thanks a lot. I was ready to give up on both myself and squid and uninstall. Thanks again ed after making the change proxy worked perfectly fine. ___ 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]
Squid3.0 missing something with pf transparent proxy.
I haven't been using squid since version 2.5. I just built a new 3.0 and did a very basic configuration that works fine configuring the prefs - advanced - network and adding the host and port but when I use the pf redirect it seems to not get the url parsing right for some reason. I put http://www.google.com and see 1201906217.304 0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /google.com/ - NONE/- text/html 1201906217.466 0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /favicon.ico - NONE/- text/html 1 in the squid access.log rather than http:://www.google.com.and the screen shows: http://encontacto.net/transSquid3.0.png The pf redirect, etc is working fine, /dev/pf has squid as the group with rw perms, I have no idea where to look. I've got the idea that I must have missed something in the 3.0 configuration. Does anyone have it working and could you give me a hint or maybe share your squid.conf that works, just the diffs from the squid.conf.dist. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a suggestion for a good multifunction (printer, scanner, copier, fax ) solution?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good multifunction (printer, scanner, copier, fax ) solution that is supported, out of the box on up to date FreeBSD Current and/or FreeBSD STABLE preferably using cupsd w/gutenprint? Epson - Lexmark - HP ? I need a scanner and a printer so it sounds like a better deal to get two in one but suggestions from folks who have been there and done that are greatly appreciated. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: About FreeBSD installation
Quoting Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It depends on what you really want. If you don't want 64-bit version OS, I don't think you'll have problems at all. Recently, my PC got fucked up, I've changed the mother board, switched from 32 bit AMD Athlon to a 64 bit AMD Turion, and successfully booted from the previously installed FreeBSD 4.9Release on the hard drive. If you want the 64 bit version of the OS, further investigation from you are needed. Check this out: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html About two weeks ago, I lost two amd-32 servers and replaced them with amd-64 and am running off the old disks beautifully, and much, much faster. I have over 500 ports on both. One was and is running up to date Stable and the other up to date Current. I was planning on going to AMD64 but with the current results, I really doubt that I will make the change until well after the current 7.0 release. I made this decision based on recommendations made on this list a few days ago. You might want to search the mailing lists if you need more assurance and if no just enjoy the AMD64. I'm happy with their performance and price. enjoy, ed Best Regards, Vladimir On 04/07/07, Yordan Yordanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I want to install the last stable release of FreeBSD Unix on my desktop machine with AMD64 processor. Are there any differences in the FreeBSD ports for these two platform: FreeBSD/i386 and amd64? In the FreeBSD handbook I saw a workaround which should be applied to set up FreeBSD for some chipsets. If I have such a problem can I try to install i386 version on my machine. There is no reason not to work, but I want to be sure that this is possible. Greetings from Bulgaria Yordan - С бензин в кръвта! http://auto-motor-und-sport.bg/ ___ 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: Re: Re: flash
Quoting Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:15:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Need a trick to get folks to recognize it as flash9. I have an idea, possibly incorrect, that most folks who are asking for flash8 or higher will work with flash 7. I agree with you here, and I will test any possible hack :) When you finish your tests, I would appreciate your adding my email, [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the list. When I get behind, I often suspend freebsd-questions. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: flash
Quoting Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard Lynch writes: I found my surfing experience vastly improved without Flash. Formerly dog-slow sites are much faster. And there isn't any content I've felt deprived to not get. There are an increasing number of sites - including way too many companies who can afford to hire people who ought to know better - where the entry page is 100% Flash. Not even a button for [Skip Flash]. Hopefully the iPhone will help that as it doesn't include flash. That, I assume is the reason for http://m.youtube.com/, at least reduce the flash menues. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: flash
Quoting Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7/2/07, John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FireFox or Opera? I was able to get Flash7 working well in Firefox using tips from Nikola Lecic in a thread on this list about a month ago. Mostly this post: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200706020235.l522Zv7p002571 Can't seem to get YouTube working in Opera though. Just get the grey square and some download activity, although the Flash player part of this works: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ -- John. Hey, I tried what those tips and it worked but not for much. after some seconds of running appears those grey square again. Im using flash 9, ill try flash7 now. This is what I get after executing firefox from the console: %firefox *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue() *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed ... *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue() *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed I've found flash9 to be a lost cause on both Stable and Current but I've found flash7 to be stable on both and with both the linux and freebsd versions of firefox and
Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Quoting Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:12:39 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and see what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel compiled in sys/i386. amd64 and i386 are different platforms in the same sense that sparc64 and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to pentium pro code when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms. Thanks, RW. I had assumed that and had hoped to run my make buildworld, make buildkernel, mergemaster, make installkernel and make installworld then upgrade all ports. The problem is that I haven't been able to figure out, how to build using all amd64. Again very dumb on my part, I'm sure. ed As RW has said before it's possible. However, it's better and no doubt quicker to go about starting from scratch. -Garrett Hi Garrett, I have decided to do that one machine at a time but for now I'm just going to keep all as is. It seems to be working fine on both current and releng with the standard intel compilation. I just ordered a new machine that I will setup with current amd64 for evaluation and then decide after I've actually used it. Thanks to all for helping me get my feet back on the ground. have a great weekend, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Quoting RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to 64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is concerned, it may go either way. Hi RW, I probably didn't explain very well. I'll try again. The machines that I am updating are all athlon 32 bit machines, which I have been doing a daily cvsup, buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld and weekly portupgrade for several years. I just removed the disks from one that is running current and another that is running RELENG, both still running kernels cvsup-ed and compiled yesterday as well as userland. The ports are also up to date. What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and see what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel compiled in sys/i386. If all were to go well, I would then recompile all my ports. My problem is that when I created a sys/amd64/conf/AMD (just a generic kernel with PF added) file and went to /usr/src and tried make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD it didn't find the kernel configuration file. I tried with paths, etc. and no luck. I also see that my daily compiles and installs have not changed userland programs. /usr/bin/file shows: c++: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Using c++ and an example. I assume it should give a 64-bin executable if it were. This particular file was built and installed this morning. The bottom line is that I'm totally ignorant as to this change and have been doing some really dumb searches in that I haven't found what I'm missing. I'm convenced that it is something braindead simple but I am still looking. The good news is that both the current and RELENG boxes are working well with all as before. Again any suggestions or even flames with more information are appreciated. ed Right now all is working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. They are compiled for i386; Intel and AMD both produce CPUs for both platforms. ___ 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: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Quoting RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:12:39 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and see what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel compiled in sys/i386. amd64 and i386 are different platforms in the same sense that sparc64 and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to pentium pro code when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms. Thanks, RW. I had assumed that and had hoped to run my make buildworld, make buildkernel, mergemaster, make installkernel and make installworld then upgrade all ports. The problem is that I haven't been able to figure out, how to build using all amd64. Again very dumb on my part, I'm sure. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Quoting Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:12:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. No, you do not *need* to compile for 64-bit apps. Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to 64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is concerned, it may go either way. Hi RW, I probably didn't explain very well. I'll try again. The machines that I am updating are all athlon 32 bit machines, which I have been doing a daily cvsup, buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld and weekly portupgrade for several years. I just removed the disks from one that is running current and another that is running RELENG, both still running kernels cvsup-ed and compiled yesterday as well as userland. The ports are also up to date. What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and see what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel compiled in sys/i386. It probably will not work very well. The compiler on an i386 system does not know how to create amd64 code. It is not configured to be a crosscompiler - it will only compile to native i386 code. There is not really any support for switching from i386 to amd64 by source code. It can apparently be done if you know what you are doing but it is not trivial and not documented. The normal build system assumes that you are doing a native build by default. It is possible to build for a different system, but then you first need to build the necessary cross-tools (compiler, linker, assembler, etc.) and then use that to build the rest of the system. If all were to go well, I would then recompile all my ports. My problem is that when I created a sys/amd64/conf/AMD (just a generic kernel with PF added) file and went to /usr/src and tried make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD it didn't find the kernel configuration file. I tried with paths, etc. and no luck. I also see that my daily compiles and installs have not changed userland programs. /usr/bin/file shows: c++: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Using c++ and an example. I assume it should give a 64-bin executable if it were. This particular file was built and installed this morning. The bottom line is that I'm totally ignorant as to this change and have been doing some really dumb searches in that I haven't found what I'm missing. I'm convenced that it is something braindead simple but I am still looking. The good news is that both the current and RELENG boxes are working well with all as before. Again any suggestions or even flames with more information are appreciated. Why don't you just keep running the i386 version of FreeBSD ? Is there some particular reason you want to use the amd64 version ? Hi Erik, Ignorance, I assume, is my only excuse? At least thanks to your patience and explanation, I understand and am somewhat less ignorant;) Originally, I had ordered these and I was promised that they were dual core and I had to pay in advance. When they finally arrived, I found that they were standard AMD Athlon 3800+ and no x2 so it looks like I was had but that will be another story. Then it would have made sense to change to 64 bit. For the moment my problem is solved and I'll stay with 32 bit for now. Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very simple. I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and RELENG. All of which are up to date. Hopefully there will be no major problems. I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to build and install an AMD64 world and kernel. Right now all is working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. Any other suggestions appreciated. Maybe someone might recommend upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first? Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very simple. I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and RELENG. All of which are up to date. Hopefully there will be no major problems. I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to build and install an AMD64 world and kernel. Right now all is working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. Any other suggestions appreciated. Maybe someone might recommend upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first? Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Quoting Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very simple. It is possible to cross-build for amd64, but you'll need a seperate partition to put the 64-bit environment on. Look at the mailing list archives. This question has come up before. But to keep things simple, I'd advise you to backup your files, configuration files from /etc and possible /usr/ports/distfiles, reinstall from an amd64 CD and then rebuild your kernel, world and ports to your liking. Hi Roland. Boy am I glad that I asked. That is probably the last thing I would have done. Plus thanks for the answer, I must not have done a proper search. I hope that the apps will run after reinstalling. I assume that the source tree will somehow recognize that I will be building world and the kernel on a AMD64. I'm downloading a copy of disk2 from FreeBSD now. Have a great day. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
log is showing - kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Queue Full
I have a log with a lot of these messages. I have no idea what the messages mean. This is a Dell 2850 IIRC, colocated in another country. Is this as bad as it sounds and is there a kernel configuration setting that would solve this? The server is running up to date current. I know, but it is too late to change it. It was a test machine that was substituted for a broken server in an emergency situation and has been there ever since. Would a remote downgrade to Releng 6 be recommendable. If so just how dangerous would that be. I can visualize installing it over what is there and then rebuilding everything but I'm a bit worried that it wouldn't reboot. If not I will need to weather the storms until the 7.0 release. If it weren't so far away I wouldn't worry. Thanks for any help or suggestions, ed The full message that is repeated is Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 132 Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying Command Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Queue Full Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 131 Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying Command Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Queue Full with only the tagged openings now sequence changing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Segmentation Fault with pear on several machines
I've been updating all my ports and I started to get segmentation faults with pear. All I have to do is to type pear, let it list the options and it finishes with the following error and threatens to open a debugger that never opens. I now have three machines that have the problem. There is little in common between them. One is a P4 running up to date current, another is AMD Athlon also running up to date current and the last is a brand new DELL P-4 Server with 2G of ECC memory that I just finished installing RELENG_6, php5, php5-extensions, pear, etc. and have the same problem. All the other machines are a couple of years old. All three of the machines are cvsuping, building world, and kernels daily with no problems at all. All the systems libraries, includes, etc are up to date. I have installed world erased all more than a day old and re installed world several times in the last few days on the two older ones and the dell installation is less than 48 hours old and has build and installed world twice. The simplest way to get the error is to just run the pear command and it finishes with the following: Type pear help options to list all options. Type pear help shortcuts to list all command shortcuts. Type pear help command to get the help for the specified command. Segmentation Fault in 42156, waiting for debugger I have no idea what could cause the problem and much less, how to troubleshoot it. Google hasn't been my friend, yet, and that worries me ;) Sounds like operator error, but I have no idea how. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ed P.S. Versions of software that I have are: php5-5.1.4 pear-1.4.6 I haven't installed more pear because of the error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
I'm seeing 4 Current servers that were running squid with no problems now dumping core with the following error in the log file. +pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) I have no idea where to begin looking. I went to the squid list and saw where it was caused by persistent connections on some platforms so I turned them off and there was no change. All the machines are running up to date ports, with kernel and userland no more that a week old and it includes Intel and amd processors. Two boxes have multiple processors so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.
Quoting Martin Welk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:06:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure solution. I just found all this out and am totally blank. Have a look at OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.org/), it is available as a FreeBSD port and it comes with a Windows GUI clients, if your client will need that. It allows your FreeBSD box to be the endpoint of the connection, and you can set network parameters for the connection from the server side, for example, a route to the SCO box for allowing ssh or telnet. Thanks, Martin. I'm going there right now. From what you say that is exactly what I need if I can easily keep the users off the LAN by restricting them to telneting to the SCO box. These are far from being trusted users. The connection will be used by a large companies staff for everything from accounting system updates to reporte generation, and printing. I don't want them playing there :D. The more I talk the more this sounds like a VERY restrictive jail. Thanks again, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.
I installed a FreeBSD6.0 server/firewall for a remote customer about a week ago. Today they told me that on there LAN they had a Unix box that runs their internal ascii based accounting system that they have been accessing by modem from home. Now they want to access it over the Internet. The box is a pentiumIII running a SCO unixV from 1990 or 2000 with no secure anything that I have been able to find. In fact the company who maintains their system uses uucp for updating. I was thinking ipsec, originally but now I don't see a way to configure the SCO end of a tunnel. The server has a simple pf firewall with only a few ports open and opening ports isn't a problem. The application is a terminal session. Thirty users login in to it as root all with windows terminal sessions except for the modem connections and to make it more fun I shouldn't modify the SCO box because of their service contract. I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure solution. I just found all this out and am totally blank. thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.
Quoting Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:07 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall. I installed a FreeBSD6.0 server/firewall for a remote customer about a week ago. Today they told me that on there LAN they had a Unix box that runs their internal ascii based accounting system that they have been accessing by modem from home. Now they want to access it over the Internet. The box is a pentiumIII running a SCO unixV from 1990 or 2000 with no secure anything that I have been able to find. In fact the company who maintains their system uses uucp for updating. I was thinking ipsec, originally but now I don't see a way to configure the SCO end of a tunnel. The server has a simple pf firewall with only a few ports open and opening ports isn't a problem. The application is a terminal session. Thirty users login in to it as root all with windows terminal sessions except for the modem connections and to make it more fun I shouldn't modify the SCO box because of their service contract. I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure solution. I just found all this out and am totally blank. thanks, ed If your client is willing to use yet another box, you could front-end the old SCO box with a dual port FBSD box and establish a secure tunnel to the FBSD box. This could also be done with a low-end firewall. Thanks, gayn. I assume that you mean installing it on the LAN behind the firewall and opening the tunnel to it. I thought of that and mentioned it to them but found less that an enthusiastic response, that I expected. They don't understand the value, unfortunately. I guess I could do something like that with a jail, I would just need an extra IP, I guess. Thanks again, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mapings
OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mappings. I can't get openoffice to accept dead key mappings that are used to create accents. Could someone who is using spanish, french, italian, portuguese give me a hint as to what they do? Every other program that I use does. Thanks, ed This is current with openoffice 1.1.4 both es and english versions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
