Re: No spam???
John Almberg wrote: 2008-01-14 09:30:37.074087500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72121: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 Just one comment, in my installation of SpamAssassin, it reports in syslog as spamd, not at rblsmtpd. This looks like logs from the rblsmtpd program that is not SpamAssasin. As some one mentionned, one way to prevent false positive and too agressive black lists is to use them through SpamAssassin only, where the black list score is only part of the spaminess. The draw back is that it puts more load the server and SpamAssassin that has to scrutinize every email, while dropping at the SMTP level is fast and uses very low resources. Ah... I see. Yes, you are correct. It is rblsmtpd that is doing the filtering. One of my goals with this mail server set up (primarily pf, qmail, spamassassin, maildrop, courier) was to minimize processing, since my last set up got totally bogged down handling my, and my client's email, frequently running with a load of 8 or more with several spam per second. A real drag. This set up runs at a much lower load, and seems to do a better job filtering spam. Since you're already using PF, why not use OpenBSD spamd (not spamassassin) as well? You don't need rblsmtpd then, and OpenBSD spamd operates together with PF. Maybe rblsmtpd does as well, I don't know - I never tried it. Also in combination with relaydb to create your own blacklists it can be pretty interesting. Check out http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/ for additional info. Anyway, to go a little more on the background about blacklists; we were troubled by a lot of false positive entries in the blacklists (we use uatraps and nixspam, and spamassassin checks on blacklists like spamhaus since they only allow DNS queries if you don't want to pay). We had big ISPs blacklisted, and seeing at the amount of mailservers they have you don't want to check all of that by hand. And I'm sure somebody else noticed Gmail's awkward way of handling outgoing e-mail. They apparently have one global mail queue or something and try another mail server (of the hundereds they have) when the delivery fails once - a horrible situation for greylisting. So what we did is create a Perl script that checks every blacklisted entry for a PTR record and tried to give an SMTP HELO command. We filter the PTR record on several keywords (like dsl, dynamic, cable, ip address, stuff like that). If a valid PTR record or a valid SMTP HELO reply has been recieved we remove that entry automatically from the blacklist. So you still blacklist the zillions of DSL connection and filter out the big ISPs or other customers. Naturally you will filter some spammers out using this method, but we still have SpamAssassin as a second layer doing a fine job.(And FYI: it picks a random IP address and has a 1 second delay on everything it checks - we don't want to cause a fuss at ISPs with a lot of blacklisted entries). There's more stuff in this script but the point of this e-mail is not a lecture of that :P Anyway, ever since we put this script into place we got zero complains about blacklists, while still effectively trapping spammers into OpenBSD spamd and keeping them busy. Quite a story - I hope someone might find this info useful one way or another. As always, YMMV. - Jorn -- John ___ 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: (postfix) SPAM filter?
Eric Crist wrote: On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Jorn Argelo wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:20:50 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote: Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was very effective, but that is long gone. Spammers aren't stupid, and they follow the development of anti-spam techniques as much as e-mail admins do. Greylisting is a start, but from my experience it is not nearly enough. I have heard this said elsewhere too. Yes don't rely solely on greylisting unless you're a lucky guy and don't get a lot of spam. I hear a lot of people saying that greylisting doesn't work, when I have actual numbers for my network proving it does. These numbers are from the first week of May 2007 to today: [snip] I'm not saying it doesn't work. As a matter of fact, we're making effective use of greylisting as well. With spamd you can see the sender address and the HELO for example, so you can make nice scripts of trapping forged e-mail addresses, incorrect HELO commands, empty sender addresses, stuff like that. Just the greylisting process itself is only working so-so in our environment. All I'm saying is that greylisting is a start and not a solution :) But like I said, YMMV. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:20:50 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote: Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was very effective, but that is long gone. Spammers aren't stupid, and they follow the development of anti-spam techniques as much as e-mail admins do. Greylisting is a start, but from my experience it is not nearly enough. I have heard this said elsewhere too. Yes don't rely solely on greylisting unless you're a lucky guy and don't get a lot of spam. Also I believe that rejecting e-mail is a big point of discussion. We had an internet e-mail environment built about 3 years ago, and there the users were terrorized by spam. We had some users getting 30 spam mails a day at least. This setup was running amavis, spamassassin, postfix, postgrey, dcc and razor. Unfortunately, over time the bayes filter got incorrectly trained, and it sometimes rejected valid e-mails. If there's something you DON'T want to happen it's that. And also troubleshooting those kind of things can be quite hard ... What about CRM114 and dspam? I played with dspam at home but I didn't really got it running as I wanted to. I didn't invest an awful lot of time in it though, so I cannot properly judge it. I never heard of CRM114, so I cannot say anything from that. Have you ever tried statistical filtering instead of heuristics with spamassassin? We rebuilt the environment from scratch. Right now we are running OpenBSD spamd + OpenBSD Packetfilter. This functions as greylisting / greptrapping in combination with the PF firewall. We made a couple of scripts to trap invalid / forged e-mail addresses that are greylisted. Also we make use of the uatraps / nixspam traplists, and our own generated blacklist generated from spam being sent to the postmaster. We had some problems with blacklisted entries in the past, but we worked around that. It goes further then that, but I will spare you all the details. pf(4) has some amazing features that come in handy for spam control. I guess it forms a key component of any spam blocking architecture. And it works in concert with the other OpenBSD niceties you point out like populating the tables with blacklists and whitelists, greytrapping and using the pf(4) anchor mechanism to automate stuff. Indeed. PF is very powerful and uses very little resources. Hats off to the OpenBSD guys for this. And indeed, I can recommend every e-mail admin to use a pf and spamd combination. It's awesome and you can do a lot with it. Check out the OpenBSD website for more info. The probability and state tracking options in pf(4) are pretty interesting too if used creatively. Very much so, it opens a lot of new options for you to handle blacklisted entries. On the second line we run Postfix / ClamSMTP / Clamd / Spamassassin. We removed Amavis because it was annoying to upgrade and we wanted to get rid of it, as we had problems with it in the past. With SpamAssassin we use sa-update and sa-learn to keep the rules up-to-date and make sure bayes gets properly trained. So we are marking e-mail as spam and no longer block it. Why? Simple ... we no longer want to block false positives. Again, there is more to this, but I will spare you all the details. But if you don't update virus signatures wouldn't that cause worms and malware propagation? I know I am digressing but I thought signature updation was critical to malware control... Well of course, but with clamd I also ment using freshclam :) So we keep our signature database up-to-date as well. Right now we have 2500 happy users. Their local helpdesks helped them with getting an Outlook rule in place to automatically move tagged e-mails to a spam folder. Just like their gmail, hotmail or Yahoo account does at home. Wow, this is great. I am not surprised to hear this. ;) The environment we have is certainly not the easiest one, but we automated many things, leaving us with practically no work on it. All the updating of rulesets / blacklists / whitelists /whatever goes by itself. Downside of an environment like this is that you will need quite some knowledge of all the components and how they work together. But hey, I got it running at home as well (a bit simpler though) and didn't had a single spam mail in my mailbox the last 4 months. Sure, the ones I do get are getting tagged and moved to my spam folder automatically, which I do with maildrop (though procmail does the job nicely too). All in all it works like a charm. Using the X-foobar headers I suppose? I just check the Subject header to see if it starts with *SPAM*. So yes, using the mail headers :) Well a long story, but maybe it is of use for someone else. As always, YMMV. Yes, very enlightening, many thanks. Glad to hear. Jorn
Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 03:12:53 schrieb Chuck Swiger: Install the following: /usr/ports/mail/postfix-policyd-weight /usr/ports/mail/postgrey Just as an added suggestion: these two (very!) lightweight packages suffice to keep SPAM out of our company pretty much completely. Both are best used to reject mails before they even have to be delivered (in Postfix, this is a sender or recipient restriction, see the websites of the two projects for more details on how to set them up), so as a added bonus, people don't have to scroll through endless lists of mails marked as ***SPAM***. Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was very effective, but that is long gone. Spammers aren't stupid, and they follow the development of anti-spam techniques as much as e-mail admins do. Greylisting is a start, but from my experience it is not nearly enough. Also I believe that rejecting e-mail is a big point of discussion. We had an internet e-mail environment built about 3 years ago, and there the users were terrorized by spam. We had some users getting 30 spam mails a day at least. This setup was running amavis, spamassassin, postfix, postgrey, dcc and razor. Unfortunately, over time the bayes filter got incorrectly trained, and it sometimes rejected valid e-mails. If there's something you DON'T want to happen it's that. And also troubleshooting those kind of things can be quite hard ... We rebuilt the environment from scratch. Right now we are running OpenBSD spamd + OpenBSD Packetfilter. This functions as greylisting / greptrapping in combination with the PF firewall. We made a couple of scripts to trap invalid / forged e-mail addresses that are greylisted. Also we make use of the uatraps / nixspam traplists, and our own generated blacklist generated from spam being sent to the postmaster. We had some problems with blacklisted entries in the past, but we worked around that. It goes further then that, but I will spare you all the details. On the second line we run Postfix / ClamSMTP / Clamd / Spamassassin. We removed Amavis because it was annoying to upgrade and we wanted to get rid of it, as we had problems with it in the past. With SpamAssassin we use sa-update and sa-learn to keep the rules up-to-date and make sure bayes gets properly trained. So we are marking e-mail as spam and no longer block it. Why? Simple ... we no longer want to block false positives. Again, there is more to this, but I will spare you all the details. Right now we have 2500 happy users. Their local helpdesks helped them with getting an Outlook rule in place to automatically move tagged e-mails to a spam folder. Just like their gmail, hotmail or Yahoo account does at home. The environment we have is certainly not the easiest one, but we automated many things, leaving us with practically no work on it. All the updating of rulesets / blacklists / whitelists /whatever goes by itself. Downside of an environment like this is that you will need quite some knowledge of all the components and how they work together. But hey, I got it running at home as well (a bit simpler though) and didn't had a single spam mail in my mailbox the last 4 months. Sure, the ones I do get are getting tagged and moved to my spam folder automatically, which I do with maildrop (though procmail does the job nicely too). All in all it works like a charm. Well a long story, but maybe it is of use for someone else. As always, YMMV. - Jorn I've had a setup with amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav on another mail server (basically the same thing Chuck described), but for our current usage, these two are efficient enough not to warrant the upgrade to more powerful hardware (which would be required to run SpamAssassin properly). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?
RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd need /usr mounted too. You'd need to mount /usr anyway, as the vi binary is located in /usr/bin ;-) ___ 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: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?
---BeginMessage--- Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [1][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. I think vi will also fail unless it has access to termcap, so you'd need /usr mounted too. You'd need to mount /usr anyway, as the vi binary is located in /usr/bin ;-) *cough* /rescue/vi Ah good point, forgot about that one. Cheers References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?
John Murphy wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in single user mode. It grumbled about termcap (I think) and then gave me a simple shell with a % prompt. ... I'll know to always accept the suggested /bin/sh in future, but I was wondering if the only reason a choice of a different shell is offered is to scare the unwary. Selecting /bin/[t]csh always works for me. I just tried it again with exactly the same results (FreeBSD-7.0 beta3): [after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu] Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: /bin/tcsh sh: Cannot open /etc/termcap sh: using dumb terminal settings %fsck -p fsck: Command not found %mount -u / mount: Command not found %reboot reboot: Command not found %exit logout ... continues to a Login prompt. You simply don't have the commands in your PATH. Type /sbin/mount, /sbin/fsck, /sbin/reboot and so on, and it does work. Never tried using an setenv PATH /bin:/sbin:usr/bin:/usr/sbin(etc) in single user mode, but I reckon it works. Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. Regards, Jorn Pressing RETURN or typing /bin/sh gets a '#' prompt and working fsck etc. Is your /etc/termcap a symlink? ll /etc/termcap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 23 Nov 15 20:27 /etc/termcap - /usr/share/misc/termcap ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Managing very large files
Steve Bertrand wrote: man 1 split (esp. -l) That's probably the best option for a one-shot deal like this. On the other hand, Perl itself provides the ability to go through a file one line at a time, so you could just read a line, operate, write a line (to a new file) as needed, over and over, until you get through the whole file. The real problem would be reading the whole file into a variable (or even multiple variables) at once. This is what I am afraid of. Just out of curiosity, if I did try to read the entire file into a Perl variable all at once, would the box panic, or as the saying goes 'what could possibly go wrong'? Steve Check out Tie::File on CPAN. This Perl module treats every line in a file as an array element, and the array element is loaded into memory when it's being requested. In other words: This will work great with huge files such as these, as not the entire file is loaded into memory at once. http://search.cpan.org/~mjd/Tie-File-0.96/lib/Tie/File.pm Jorn ___ 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]
ramdisk on /tmp in jail
Hi all, I'm trying to get a ramdisk in a jail on /tmp. Doing this by hand by using the mdmfs(8) utility goes fine. However, now I am trying to get a ramdisk on /tmp during boot time. I tried using tmpmfs_enable=YES (with tmpsize) in the rc.conf of the jail, but if I do that nothing appears to happen. Doing the same on the host of the server works fine though. What would be the recommended way of achieving this? Should I use the fstab on the host, or maybe in the jail? Maybe somebody else has a better suggestion? Thanks a lot in advance. Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Optimizationn questions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 02:16, Gary Kline wrote: Two quick one for kernel and/or compiler wizards: first, is a 400Mz processor considered a 586 (for my KERNELCONF file)? Think its 686 (but really, leaving 486 and 586 in isn't going to slow down booting or anything!) I always say: Use GENERIC unless you have a good reason not to. Second, is it safe to do a buildworld with -O3? If there are No. It's not supported if things break. stability concerns, I'll go with the default when I rebuild my 6.2 systems. The defaults should be fine. Also, like I said consider just using GENERIC and load the odd kmod if needed. Generally it's less headache and equal performance. thanks in advance, gary Cheers, Dan Dan, I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times (if options were added statically) and compile times if [(# of options added) (# of options in GENERIC)]. I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the boot time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of stuff you don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but this is what my personal experience is. Jorn I like being able to compile my kernel on my P4 in less than 10 minutes anyhow with less options :). The only thing that was brought up earlier (sometime later last year in a thread--I think either Oct or Nov) is that removing options removes flexibility as well. But that's a tradeoff you have to make. -Garrett ___ 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: gcc compiler cputype, prescott or nocona confusion
Garrett Cooper wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:40:38 +1100, Scott Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When recompiling the world or kernel in FreeBSD i386 Rel 6.1 with, # make buildworld or # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYSMPCONF (or building anything anything else for that matter), even though I have CPUTYPE?=nocona set in my /etc/make.conf file the compiler seems to head back to a default of -march=prescott when compiling many of the functions on a Dual Xeon 3.6g (nocona) machine! This doesn't happen when compiling for other machine types, I've tried it on a Dual PentiumPro, Dual PII, Dual PIII setting the CPUTYPE to the correct cpu type and the -march sticks to the assigned cpu type through all operations and produces nice quick optimized code. Why is this so? Is it because the nocona machine type optimization refers to the EMT64 technology and thus is rejected when compiling for i386 targets rather than amd64 or emt64 targets and Gcc rejects it? That's right. AFAIK the Nocona core is a prescott with EM64T support (feel free to correct me if I am wrong). Basically you have an i386 version of FreeBSD, and with EM64T instructions enabled GCC will build a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I think that's the reason it switches back to prescott. Most of the time you're right. However (for starters), some nocona chips feature 2MB cache instead of 1MB cache: http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447p=2. I'd have to look more in depth, but OTOH the nocona also featured some architecture upgrades, other than just the 64-bit'ness I heard that gcc 3.4.x was pretty funky with the nocona processors though, and prescott's a more stable target; that changed a bit in gcc 4.x I think. Or maybe I'm just mixing up nocona and yonah in this case. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yonah is the Pentium M version of the first Core generation I believe. Or maybe it was still a Netburst, I can't remember. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gcc compiler cputype, prescott or nocona confusion
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:40:38 +1100, Scott Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When recompiling the world or kernel in FreeBSD i386 Rel 6.1 with, # make buildworld or # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYSMPCONF (or building anything anything else for that matter), even though I have CPUTYPE?=nocona set in my /etc/make.conf file the compiler seems to head back to a default of -march=prescott when compiling many of the functions on a Dual Xeon 3.6g (nocona) machine! This doesn't happen when compiling for other machine types, I've tried it on a Dual PentiumPro, Dual PII, Dual PIII setting the CPUTYPE to the correct cpu type and the -march sticks to the assigned cpu type through all operations and produces nice quick optimized code. Why is this so? Is it because the nocona machine type optimization refers to the EMT64 technology and thus is rejected when compiling for i386 targets rather than amd64 or emt64 targets and Gcc rejects it? That's right. AFAIK the Nocona core is a prescott with EM64T support (feel free to correct me if I am wrong). Basically you have an i386 version of FreeBSD, and with EM64T instructions enabled GCC will build a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I think that's the reason it switches back to prescott. Jorn Regards Scott K ___ 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: State of gvinum RAID-5
Michael L. Squires wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very painful and not possible. Now I will have to upgrade hardware soon, which means I could switch from NetBSD (and Raidframe) to FreeBSD (with gvinum) again. I would like to because NetBSD seems to have some kind of memory leak in connection with Samba and large or many files, but I'd rather have a somewhat unstable Samba than an unstable Raid, so what's the state of affairs? Cheers Felix I'm about to try; I have my home server stuck at 4.11 because I could never get gvinum to work reliably with 5.x, and the drives I had wouldn't work with two different hardware RAID controllers (ex EMC ST446xxx's, a DPT/Adaptec controller and a LSI controller - apparently only certain EMC BIOS versions will work, and I don't have them). I did find a posting by someone who installed gvinum/RAID5 recently (under 6.X) but there was nothing about stability. Mike Squires UNIX(tm) at home since 1986 I'm running gvinum on a PowerEdge 2450 with an external Adaptec SCSI card connected to a PowerVault 712 (I think, at least an old one), also running RAID 5. This runs on FreeBSD 6.1. It was not that hard to set it up, as the handbook has well written documentation about it. However, there is one thing you should know: Never, ever, edit the gvinum config file directly when you want to remove drives from your array. Use the gvinum shell for that. Immediately removing them from the config file will cause kernel panics. In fact, only use the config file to define your array: Make changes via the shell. Maybe it sounds logic to you, but I had about 10 kernel panics before I figured that out. Overall if you follow exactly what's being said in the documentation it is quite okay, but my gvinum installation is still missing features. The Google Summer of Code project has invested quite a lot of time in fixing the missing features in gvinum, so overall I think it should be a fairly complete suite now. I'm not sure if those changes are already commited to the source tree, but I guess they are. My gvinum installation certainly is stable, however. And the server is fairly important, so I can't risk upgrading gvinum and maybe ruin the array. Jorn ___ 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: WordPress, Apache, modules, mod_rewrite - how to verify?
Nick wrote: Thanks! Can anyone help me regarding mod_rewrite? Can't find it in the ports. mod_rewrite comes with Apache if you build it from the ports tree AFAIK. Check out /usr/local/libexec/apache and see if you have a mod_rewrite.so. If you do, all you have to do is enable it in your httpd.conf. Jorn - Original Message From: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:12:28 AM Subject: Re: WordPress, Apache, modules, mod_rewrite - how to verify? Nick wrote: I've been looking on the web for hours but haven't found any help, though of asking on some forums when I suddenly remembered! There's freebsd-questions!! Anyway, I'm a MS SQL Server guy, trying to mess around with FreeBSD at home. I've managed to install 6.1, CVSup, xorg, KDE, Apache 1.3. I haven't touched this box for a while due to my work schedule, now I'm trying to pick up where I left off... I just install ed WordPress from ports, trying to use it to learn PHP and MySQL. (At work, I'm almost 100% SQL Server only! I'm hoping to change to a Linux / Oracle, Data Warehouse type of position but outside of work, I would like to learn some PHP, Perl and MySQL... may be start a little side web biz or something...) So, main question: WordPress requires PHP 4 and MySQL 3 or later, and optional mod_rewrite. How do I verify if these are installed? I used pkg_version -v to check my installed ports' versions, I have these: apache-1.3.37_1 mod_perl-1.29_1 mysql-client-5.1.11 perl-5.8.8 php5-5.1.4 php5-mysql-5.1.4 php5-pcre-5.1.4 php5-xml-5.1.4 wordpress-2.0.4_1,1 I think I still need to install mod_php and mod_rewrite, but I can't see them in /usr/ports/www How do I verify that php, MySql and mod_rewrite are install and function properly in Apache? Thanks! Nick make a file called pinfo.php in your web servers data directory root (/usr/local/www/data by default) put this in it: ?php phpinfo(); ? save it and go to: http://yourURL.com/pinfo.php and read away that will dump all php related info. make sure you install the suhosin patches against PHP and/or use the extension Eric ___ 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: building new kernel failed
mr thooL wrote: Hi, here is my conf file: [snip] # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! #devicemiibus# MII bus support Read the note :-) You have to keep miibus. Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: troubleshooting network settings
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 30/05/2006, at 10:29 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Running that command returns this: ifconfig: -inet: bad value Bah! I'm on the road too much lately. No dash before inet ... here's the output [snip] [Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits) [Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits) [Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache] [Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL [Tue May 30 22:43:26 2006] [info] Server: Apache/2.2.2, Interface:mod_ssl/2.2.2, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 [Tue May 30 22:43:51 2006] [alert] (EAI 8)hostname nor servname provided, or not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of bsd-box. Configuration Failed There we have it. Apache is unable to resolve bsd-box. This hostname should be resolvable, otherwise Apache will not work. Adding it to /etc/hosts is the easiest way: 192.168.1.104 bsd-box bsd-box.yourdomain.com Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210?
Jason Curole wrote: Hello all, I am a newbie to FreeBSD, though I currently use Mac OS X and am reasonably comfortable with the unix side. I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210 machine (scrounged it up recently and it has a huge hard drive, otherwise I don't know much about it). I have tried installation with FreeBSD Release 6.0 and 6.1 (both the full cd and boot-only cd for 6.0; just the boot-only cd for 6.1). The machine boots and I get to the screen where I can select my boot option. I select 5, (boot with detailed messaging) and the machine goes through some SMAP messages, a couple of Copyrights and a Free-BSD claimer with an email address. It pauses here for a good 10-15min. Then I get messages regarding preloading of elf kernel, mfs_root and elf module, followed by tables 'FACP' and 'APIC', MADT: Found table at ..., APIC: Using the MADT enumerator, then: MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 0 ACPI ID 1: enabled MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 1 ACPI ID 2: disabled It has remained at this point for at least a half-hour (through lunch, etc.), no lights flashing and does not respond to the enter key. Is this normal? I should mention that between the attempt at installing 6.0 (about 4 weeks ago) and 6.1 I had installed OpenBSD and it appeared to install and work fine, so I think the machine is okay. Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try booting with ACPI. ACPI is not only power management; it's also a method to talk to hardware. On a Poweredge 1850 I've had problems with the second CPU being not detected with an SMP kernel, and it turned out that I had to boot with ACPI enabled. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EMC SAN AX100 and FIber channel HBA in freebsd 5.4
Ratan Dey wrote: Hi, Currently i am using freebsd 5.4. We have a local storage system (EMC SAN AX100). Now i want to that AX100 as my remote storage system. I also need fiber channel host adapter card to communicate with AX100. But i am not sure which fiber channel host adapter is supported in freebsd 5.4 and whether EMC SAN AX100 can be used as remote storage in freebsd 5.4. pls give me suggestions in this regard. i am in real trouble. Rata - Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html Assuming you're using an x86 platform. Otherwise you'll have to search for supported hardware based on your architecture. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM Blade
Steele Burgess wrote: When is Freebsd going to support the blades. Doesn't make any sense. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blades are just servers like any other x86 server as far as I know. I don't see why they are not supported. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhclient in giant lock after a few days
Hi all, My FreeBSD server at home is running natd and ipfw on 6.1-STABLE. So it's the router and firewall for me at home. However, after a few days the dhclient, used for obtaining an IP address from my ISP (and the FreeBSD box gets that external IP address) gets into the giant lock and won't come out unless I kill dhclient and restart it again. Note that the dhclient runs fine for a few days first. After it comes in the giant lock, the functionality doesn't break or anything, it's just unusual behavior. I've been running 6.0 on this box first, where this behavior did not appear. However, after upgrading to 6.1-PRERELEASE (this was not intended, but that's besides the point) I've been experiencing this. Since it was a version before the betas I figured this would be fixed with the release of 6.1. However, I still have the same issue after upgrading to 6.1-STABLE. This is a little snapshot from top. And yes, it is constantly the most highest process when no HTTP or SMTP traffic passes trough. last pid: 5339; load averages: 0.09, 0.06, 0.01up 9+15:47:15 12:04:13 105 processes: 1 running, 103 sleeping, 1 lock CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle Mem: 177M Active, 164M Inact, 82M Wired, 26M Cache, 57M Buf, 17M Free Swap: 935M Total, 280K Used, 934M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 193 _dhcp1 960 1460K 964K *Giant 172:09 5.57% dhclient Note that this box has 6 jails with Postfix, Apache, BIND, MySQL and stuff like that. Also I'm using the vr(4) drivers for my NICs. Yes, I know that they aren't all that great, but that's the only thing I can use, since my VIA box doesn't have space for an external NIC. So if anybody has any advices or ideas, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you in advance. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 6.1 with Dell PE1850 / 1750
Mike wrote: Hello, I got a handful of Dell PE1850 and PE1750 boxes running mail scanning that we recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1. It started with a new PE1850 (mx4) that we immediately installed 6.1 on, which started having kernel panics- we initially blamed it on hardware. But last week, we rebuild a PE1750 (mx6) we've been running for over a year with FBSD 4.11 without any problems, and it's crashing now as well. Are there any known issues with FreeBSD 6.1 on any of the Dell PE series machines? Any thoughts would be great, Mike Some details: PE1850 --snip-- FreeBSD mx4 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 15 18:55:30 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U_GENERIC_SMP i386 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x5c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc072dbda stack pointer = 0x28:0xea9b9a98 frame pointer = 0x28:0xea9b9b28 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 20764 (exim-4.60-1) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 0 Uptime: 10d13h1m4s Dumping 3071 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 3071MB (786112 pages) 3055 3039 3823 3007 2991 --snip-- PE1750 --snip-- FreeBSD mx6 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 15 18:55:30 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U_GENERIC_SMP i386 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 2; apic id = 06 fault virtual address = 0x5c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc072dbda stack pointer = 0x28:0xf2791a98 frame pointer = 0x28:0xf2791b28 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 60007 (exim-4.60-1) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 2 Uptime: 2d16h44m0s Dumping 3071 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 3071MB (786135 pages) 3055 3039 --snip-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am running 6.1-STABLE on a Dell PE 1850 very smoothly actually. The machine is rock-solid and a constant load of 5-10. Can you give me a dmesg output? Maybe the hardware isn't identical to the setup we have, or maybe something isn't right in your kernel config. Jorn Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 6.1 with Dell PE1850 / 1750
Mike wrote: Mike wrote: Hello, I got a handful of Dell PE1850 and PE1750 boxes running mail scanning that we recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1. It started with a new PE1850 (mx4) that we immediately installed 6.1 on, which started having kernel panics- we initially blamed it on hardware. But last week, we rebuild a PE1750 (mx6) we've been running for over a year with FBSD 4.11 without any problems, and it's crashing now as well. Are there any known issues with FreeBSD 6.1 on any of the Dell PE series machines? Any thoughts would be great, Mike Some details: PE1850 --snip-- FreeBSD mx4 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 15 18:55:30 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U_GENERIC_SMP i386 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x5c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc072dbda stack pointer = 0x28:0xea9b9a98 frame pointer = 0x28:0xea9b9b28 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 20764 (exim-4.60-1) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 0 Uptime: 10d13h1m4s Dumping 3071 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 3071MB (786112 pages) 3055 3039 3823 3007 2991 --snip-- PE1750 --snip-- FreeBSD mx6 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 15 18:55:30 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U_GENERIC_SMP i386 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 2; apic id = 06 fault virtual address = 0x5c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc072dbda stack pointer = 0x28:0xf2791a98 frame pointer = 0x28:0xf2791b28 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 60007 (exim-4.60-1) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 2 Uptime: 2d16h44m0s Dumping 3071 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 3071MB (786135 pages) 3055 3039 --snip-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am running 6.1-STABLE on a Dell PE 1850 very smoothly actually. The machine is rock-solid and a constant load of 5-10. Can you give me a dmesg output? Maybe the hardware isn't identical to the setup we have, or maybe something isn't right in your kernel config. Jorn Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure- from the PE1850 --snip-- Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 15 18:55:30 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U_GENERIC_SMP Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf43 Stepping = 3 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA ,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x659dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 3220963328 (3071 MB) avail memory = 3151040512 (3005 MB) ACPI APIC Table: DELL PE BKC FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8 ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 9 ioapic1: WARNING: intbase 32 != expected base 24 ioapic2: Changing APIC ID to 10 ioapic2: WARNING: intbase 64 != expected base 56 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 32-55 on motherboard ioapic2 Version 2.0 irqs 64-87 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: DELL PE BKC on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu2: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu3: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci1 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 amr0: LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53 mem 0xf80f-0xf80f,0xfe9e-0xfe9f irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2 amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller amr0: LSILogic PERC 4e/Si Firmware 521X, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.2 on pci1 pci3: ACPI PCI
Re: A script for poets
Kristian Vaaf wrote: Hello! Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write rhymes, poems or just make up funny lines. http://www.rhymer.com is a great place, but unfortunately it requires a browser. Or maybe this is a feature that extends beyond the purpose of shell scripting, and that maybe for such I should start looking into languages like Ruby? Hoping for generous expert advise. Thank you, peasants and poets :) Vaaf (wuff) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm, maybe you could use LWP (libwww-perl) to execute search queries to a site like rhyme.poetry.com and then get the results in an array and do whatever you want with the output. Basically LWP is capable of printing out the raw HTML format, so a little bit of handy dandy perl functions would help a lot. LWP is a very nice perl module, and I suggest you look into that if you want to use an existing site to get your rhymes out. Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE - how to?
Sasa Stupar wrote: --On 21. december 2005 19:43 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! I have been searching and trying to build a FreeBSD with KDE desktop but I have not luck. The X starts but only the xdm. Is there some nice step by step guide for it? Don't tell me for handbook since I have tried to do it without success. Regards, Open /etc/ttys with your favourite editor and search for this line: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure Change this into: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/kdm xterm on secure And voila, KDM will start at boot. Best regards, Jorn OK. KDE is starting on boot but it won't let me to log in as root nor I can't su after I have logged in as normal user. And another thing: I have configure X with xorgcfg -textmode and I have specified my card, monitor, resolution. Hence, after the log into my account I have 640*480 only resolution. I have tried to change in preferencesperipheraldisplay but I have only one choose 640*480. What am I missing here? 1) Don't log into KDE as root. It's just not done. Create a normal user who is in the wheel group, which solves your su problem. 2) X -configure is the way to automatically configure your X server. Google for the Modes and DefaultDepth options in xorg.conf. 3) The FreeBSD handbook does an excellent job describing this :-) Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE - how to?
Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! I have been searching and trying to build a FreeBSD with KDE desktop but I have not luck. The X starts but only the xdm. Is there some nice step by step guide for it? Don't tell me for handbook since I have tried to do it without success. Regards, Open /etc/ttys with your favourite editor and search for this line: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure Change this into: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/kdm xterm on secure And voila, KDM will start at boot. Best regards, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Display
Benjamin Sobotta wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2005 03:51, Darren Terry wrote: I was wondering if any of you had a dual-head setup and if so what video card were you using? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello! I'm using two 19 TFTs with a GeForce 6600GT with Xinerama. Turns out to be _very_ nice, I wouldn't want to miss it... Yep, at work we use a dual screen setup to display our monitoring tools. I'm using an FX5200 which uses two different resolutions for each screen. There's plenty of documentation around dual screens. It's pretty easy to set up too. I'd definitely recommend it if you have the budget and need for two TFTs. Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How often portupgrades?
Kiffin Gish wrote: Yes, I believe that using portaudit as a kind of pre-selection tool for filtering out important updates is a good way of doing things. Do a cronjob every week or so and see what it has to say. Thanks a lot. If you install portaudit, it shall be run every night during your daily run output generated by the standard cron jobs. Personally I'm not too fond of upgrading to the latest version immediately. Though this is all right for most environments, I'm always careful with upgrading my mail environment, especially amavisd. Generally I don't run portupgrade often; I run it once there has been some serious exploit found. Perhaps I should run portupgrade more often, but I don't really do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading perl -ports
Zan wrote: uname -m = i386 which -a perl = /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl Please show: uname -m which -a perl On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, at 01:30 P:M, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Zan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in my /usr/local/bin I can clearly see that there is a newer version of perl (5.8.0) already there, but when I type 'perl -v' I see that I'm running off of 5.0. Is there anything else I can do besides trying the use.perl port command? Because that doesn't seem to work, and my jail did not come with a ports collection. I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you! Please show: uname -m which -a perl Just a little side-note. After performing such an upgrade of Perl it's likely that some applications will not work, since a lot of them expect your old version of Perl. Recompiling those applications does the trick. At least, that's what I noticed when upgrading from 5.8.6 to 5.8.7. And just so you know, there are ALOT of applications dependent of Perl. About your problem, you should really recompile Perl from the ports-tree if you want to upgrade your Perl version. And after you did that, I always rebooted the machine. I don't know how it will function without rebooting the machine, or if it's even possible to upgrade Perl properly without a reboot. Jorn ___ 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 perl -ports
Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jorn Argelo thusly... About your problem, you should really recompile Perl from the ports-tree if you want to upgrade your Perl version. And after you did that, I always rebooted the machine. I don't know how it will function without rebooting the machine, or if it's even possible to upgrade Perl properly without a reboot. There is no reason to reboot just to upgrade perl properly. Rebooting does nothing in regard to upgrading perl, rather you just cause inconvenience to yourself. - Parv Yes, I stand corrected. Which is why I mentioned that I didn't know for sure ;-) Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's next? (error after BTX started)
Robert Slade wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:05, user local wrote: This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it. Snip But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting even Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc. Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed. I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, so it can not be a CD drive problem. Help me, please! just once! Bundy, Al, esq. The hidden partition is most likely the Compaq utilities. You should be using these to setup the machine for installing an OS. On my Compaq Prolient they are called at boot time by pressing F10. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, we have Evos at work, and with us all the machines produce the same results. FreeBSD 5.1 worked fine on those machine, but after that it refuses to boot. One of my colleagues mentioned that the ATA controller is not (well) supported. FreeBSD 4.11 does work I think. About the utility partion Robert mentioned, I'm not too sure if that exists on the Evos. Because if that was the case, Windows or Linux shouldn't boot either, and they both do. It's more of a FreeBSD problem (or, well, maybe just the crappy hardware in it). I've never found a solution for this problem. This reply maybe doesn't help you that much, but I figured you might be interested to know that you're not the only person having problems with them. Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing x.org
Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, I am trying to install x.org onto my 5.4stable box. In /usr/ports/x11/xorg I typed make install and I get this error after a while (It's a long error): making Makefiles in include/bitmaps... imake: not found There you have it, you miss imake. cd /usr/ports/devel/imake-6 make install clean Kind of weird because it should just use imake as a dependency. Might be an idea to contact the ports maintainer about it and see why imake is not included as an dependency. Cheers, Jorn *** Error code 127 [snip] Does anyone know what could be wrong ? Thanks, Ian ___ 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: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...
SteveW wrote: Hi All, df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... After searching google freebsd.org I am no nearing to figuring this out, other than this is a known problem. Either I or the system managed to get the root partition back to under 100% but only just... I have looked for any large files that might be taking up space but have yet to locate anything over 3meg. Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts gratefully received. Thanks, Steve INFO: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10 / 80gig drive df was: /dev/ad0s1a 252M 250M -18.5M 108% There is always 5% of disk space on the root partition reserved for the super user (root). Which is why it shows up as 108% full when the 5% has been filled as well. Cheers, Jorn df now: FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 252M 230M 1.8M99%/ /dev/ad0s1g29G 2.3G24G 9%/home /dev/ad0s1f 3.0G 1.7G 1.0G62%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 3.9G75M 3.5G 2%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc After the cras dmesg was filled with this: pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full ___ 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: New motherboard advice
dgmm wrote: Has anyone installed FreeBSD using this board? Gigabyte 8S648FX -RZ ATX SiS648FX P4 Motherboard. http://www.digiconcepts.com/gigabyte_motherboards_105.htm SiS 648FX chipset Processor: Socket 478 for Intel® Pentium® 4 processor Chipset: North-bridge: SiS648FX South-bridge: SiS963L MuTIOL® Media I/O CMedia 9761A Codec chip ICS1883 LAN chip Any hardware incompatibilities I should know of? Should I avoid it like the plague? Or is it a nice, reliable, stable board? I don't see much mention in the hardware compatibility list for SiS chipsets. is there somewhere else I can look to find recommended motherboards? I'm intending putting an Intel P4 3.2GHz CPU in and DDR400 ram. It'd be nice if all the onboard stuff would play nicely with FreeBSD Just standard hardware with no exotic devices. Should work out of the box. I use a SiS chipset in my server as well. Maybe your LAN chip will not be reconized out of hte box but I think it will. There's just one way to find out ;) And I'm not sure what you want to do with it, but if you want to make it a server a 3.2 Ghz is way too much processing power. I have a 2Ghz with 400 MHz FSB and it's still too fast. Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgrey question
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: I've been looking into ways of improving our spam filtering. Currently I'm running postfix with amavisd-new (spamassassin and clamav), and saw an article on greylisting using postgrey. Turns out there's a port for it already in FreeBSD. I don't run postifx and the thing I am about to mention I have not tried yet, but you may want to explore modifying your greylisting to be based on spamassassin results. I use exim as the mta and there is a thing called sa-exim that lets you run spamassassin at SMTP time so that you can reject mail if you want before you actually are finished receiving it. The author of sa- exim has modified it to do greylisting based on spamassassing scores generated at smtp time, so that you only greylist mail that is thought to be spam and do not inconvenience your regular users. Can you do spamassassin at smtp time with postfix? That's far too complicated. Postgrey does an excellent job. I have installed postgrey yesterday, and it works really well. I didn't read all the emails regarding this subject, so my apologies if I only tell you things you've already heared. Basically it works like this: You're recieving an e-mail on your mailserver. Postgrey checks if it's an e-mail address it has seen before (which it stores in a database). If he has, he passed it to amavis where it can be processed further. If it isn't a known e-mail address, it automatically blacklists the e-mail address for an x amount of seconds while sending the sending server a message that it's busy and that it should try again in x amount of seconds. Normal mailservers wait patiently for those x amount of seconds and try sending it again (except for hotmail, who tries to send it every 30 seconds even if your server tells it to wait 90 seconds). Since Postgrey has it stored in the database, the email will be passed trough nicely. The main advantage of this is that spammers and viruses have massive amount of email lists and just try to send it to as many people as possible. They are not going to wait and try to send the e-mail again, thus you effectively block many amount of spam and virus e-mail before it's even being processed by amavis / clamav / spamassasin, saving up system resources. Configuration of this is really easy. Compile it from the ports, change flags in the rc.d script (See man page for more info) and put this in your main.cf. Note the space between sevice and inet. smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_policy_service inet:192.168.1.100:10023,reject_unauth_destination,permit Start postgrey from the rc.d script and you're ready to go. Cheers, Jorn Chad ___ 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: To compile or not to compile the system
On Sun, 1 May 2005 15:19:24 +, Vittorio wrote Using cvsup, after having issued make update, it takes a long time to recompile the OS sources and kernel by means of make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL and then.. mergemaster -p make installworld etc... If I frequently update the OS and ports this procedure becomes time- consuming indeed. Is there any way to know in advance if it is necessary to comply with the described procedure or if it can be skipped because there weren't changes between two close updating? Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you know when you should cvsup again and recompile the kernel (when exploits or other security issues are discovered and corrected). And you don't have to recompile all your ports every week ;) Once in a few months is a good approach I think. Jorn Ciao Vittorio ___ 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: 256 MB not enough RAM for Desktop-FreeBSD, a strange experience
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:59:18 +0200, Freek Nossin wrote Hello list-member :) I had the same experience with OpenOffice. I do have the same amount of RAM, but I think it is not related to the size the machine's memory, UNLESS the use of virtual memory is a problem. The thing is, the 256 of RAM is often used for 100% on my system and therefor it has to swap a lot. OO.org didn't even start in XFCE properly on my machine and I too couldn't kill the process. Even with kill -9. Unfortunately nobody was able to help, I did sent a message over this list but nobody came up with the cause of the problem or a solution. I do think it is BSD related because the process was unkillable. If you find the cause, or even better a solution, to this problem I'd like to hear about it. I am running FreeBSD with KDE 3.4 and OOo on a P3 700MHz with 192 MB ram. It's not really great performance, but it works all right. And it's not even swapping that much. Ok, it swaps for about 100MB, but it's still doing fine. And if I use XFCE in combination with OOo it performs just fine. It doesn't even need to swap. Ok, my AMD64 with 1 gig ram works better, but hey, it's workable. So it's not always BSD who is to blame ;) Good Luck, Freek Nossin -Original Message- From: Benjamin Thelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 27 april 2005 16:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 256 MB not enough RAM for Desktop-FreeBSD, a strange experience Hi list, I started using FreeBSD as a Desktop in December 04 with the hardware configuration below FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 Asus TUSL-C with PIII-1133 256 MB RAM WDC WD800JB KDE 3.3.2 OOo-1.1.4 Very often OpenOffice-1.4 died on starting, just showing the splash screen. I couldn't kill the process, even not with -9. So I had to reboot. Because of KDEs behavior to start applications, which have been used before, OpenOffice was started automatically on KDEs startup. Mostly successful. OpenOffice started a bit more reliable using XFCE4... In combination with this FreeBSD was hanging on the end of a shutdown: No buffers busy after final sync I didn't find very helpful information on the net, but since I added 256 MB of RAM I have never seen one of these errors. Does someone have any idea what that could have been caused? Adding more RAM, gaining stability, gaining speed, ok... Ben ___ 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: Jail security
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:04:41 +0100, Frank de Bot wrote Hi, I've set up a jail. But I don't have any idea how safe a jail is. Often is told chroot and jails can be escaped. How safe is it to give other people user access to a jailed environment? or maybe even root... A jailed process cannot leave its jail. Unless some exploit is being found in jail itself, but that's rather unlikely. A cracker can only mess up your jail and not your entire host. So if you build 4 jails for Apache, MySQL, Squid and Postfix for instance, each of those processes will only run in its jail and cannot interact with another jail or the host. Which is more secure then just putting everything on your host. Another major advantage of jails is that you can experiment at will without touching your production enviroment. Just create a jail and install apache in the other jail. Once you are finished and it works, just amend your firewall settings and you're ready to go. If you're experienced enough I'd encourage you to use them. It can be complicated for a newbie, but if you know your way around FreeBSD and the command line, you should really use jails. Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:00:31 +, Freminlins wrote But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week. Plans call for a gradual migration of more applications to Linux, but the timing and number will depend on how successfully the early work goes, Ng said. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801, 99901,00.html I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason I can think off is that they want support.Perhaps I missed a part, but I don't see the word FreeBSD in that article. Besides, the point of the article is not regarding a migration of Yahoo, but Linux and IT in general. It has nothing to do with Yahoo or FreeBSD. I think that the author of the article is simply mistaking. Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:42:14 +, Freminlins wrote On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:36 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason I can think off is that they want support.Perhaps I missed a part, but I don't see the word FreeBSD in that article. Although it doesn't state FreeBSD, I understand that Yahoo! runs stuff on FreeBSD. Yes, I was aware of that :-) Besides, the point of the article is not regarding a migration of Yahoo, but Linux and IT in general. It has nothing to do with Yahoo or FreeBSD. I think that the author of the article is simply mistaking. I'n not sure I agree with that. The author stated But in December, Yahoo started to port ... to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 That would suggest that Yahoo! is moving to Linux. Well, I can say that Microsoft is using illegal Warez stuff in their WMA extension, but who would believe me? I don't have any proof right? Point is, the author can say something like that, but I've never heard that Yahoo is migrating. If they would it would definitely be in the news if they would. I'd like to see a source where the author has gathered information. I am very interested in this as I have for several years used the argument we use the same OS as Yahoo!. We're not going to migrate to Linux if Yahoo! does. No, of course not :-) I vaguely recall a discussion like this on the list in the past. I'll look it up on Google if I have time. Jorn. Frem. ___ 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: Trouble with sshd in jail
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:18:40 -0500, ANISH MISTRY wrote Do you have your resolv.conf and hosts file setup correctly in the jail? I had the same problem yesterday when I moved my jailed system to a new network. Or you can just ssh to your host machine and execute the following command: jexec jail id /path/to/your/shell Cheers, Jorn -- Anish Mistry - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:35 am Subject: Trouble with sshd in jail I have some trouble with sshd in jail. This is description of the problem: I have host system based on FreeBSD 5.1 Release with IP 161.66.11.1 Futher I do these steps for creating jail on host system: cd /usr/src mkdir -p /jail make world DESTDIR=/jail cd etc make distribution DESTDIR=/jail mount_devfs devfs /jail/dev cd /jail ln -sf dev/null kernel OK. That's easy. Next step I edit /etc/rc.conf by adding/editing some lines: sendmail_enable=NO sshd_enable=YES syslogd_flags=-ss and /etc/ssh/sshd_config : ListenAddress 161.66.11.1 OK. I do #sockstat and get only: root sendmail 361 4 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25*:* root sshd 355 3 tcp4 161.66.11.2:22 *:* After this doing alias for jail: #ifconfig em0 alias 161.66.11.2 Then I start jail: #jail /jail testhost 161.66.11.2 /bin/sh /etc/rc Two problems: then jail startup, the message Starting sshd... stops for 10 min. That's one. Then booting proccess continies and finish successfull. Second problem is when I try to connect to jail (161.66.11.2) with ssh client. ---Connect 161.66.11.2... ---Login as: root AND STOPS!!! For 7-10 min. Than password field appears, but I have wait so much time... That's the problem. Please, help if you can! Thank you!!! - http://mobile.ngs.ru/games - Java- ??? ??? ? ?? ??... http://love.ngs.ru - ?? ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [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: Mail Server
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:12:21 +1000, Warren wrote How do i go about setting up a mail server on my gateway machine to collect and store all email locally from the outside world etc ? FreeBSD comes with sendmail, or you can install Postfix. Documentation can be found on the respective websites. Google is your friend :-) Cheers, Jorn. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ 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: Memory problems
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:54:23 -0200, Luís Vitório Cargnini wrote thanks, but the problem is that it's using and even when i kill process the memory usage remains ontouched and swap never been free. You're comparing the memory management with Windows. BSD and Linux do it completely different. As long as you still have free space in your RAM, it's not going to remove the program from your RAM. Unlike Windows, which kicks it out at the moment the program is being closed. If you run top, you have an memory overview. The active part is the RAM it's really using. The other ones are not really being used but are just stored in case you restart them again. It's kind of the same idea as the cache with an CPU. Why not use all the memory the system has? It's by far a better system then Windows does if you ask me. Jorn On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 07:06 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Luís Vitório Cargnini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Solve what? Nothing you've mentioned is a problem. See the FAQ entry Why does top show very little free memory even when I have very few programs running?: http://www.br.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM -- Thanks Regards Luís Vitório Cargnini Bsc. Computer Science ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free BSD 5.3 SMP Kernel
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:12:57 +, Robert Slade wrote Hi, I am new to Free BSD ( and Linux) and have just setup a rather old Proliant 5000 as a test machine. It has Quad PII processors and I would like to make use of them. The Install CDs only come with the 'Standard' kernel. Looking through the handbook implies that support for multiple processors in 5.3 was removed due to problems. I have seen references to a 5.3 SMP kernal though, is it possible to get hold of this, or do I have to wait for 5.4 to be released? If so when is this likely to be released. Sorry if this is a simple question. You'll have to recompile the kernel with SMP support. If you don't want to compile your own kernel, you can use SMP, located in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. If you don't have that, you don't have your kernel sources installed. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable. html for more information. Do read every page of that chapter. Jorn Thanks Rob ___ 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: UT2004 on FreeBSD
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:31:33 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:50:19PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: I know there were some people on the list asking about running Unreal Tournament 2004 on FreeBSD a while back. Mainly, the c++ libraries were what was missing in linux_base. Now that linux_base-rh9 is out, all the required libraries are easy to install. Also, x11/linux-XFree86-libs will be needed. I have UT2004 running in freebsd, but some of the images and player models don't show up and, while the mouse works in the menus, once I get in game, I can't do anything. Any ideas on how to fix this? It seems the keyboard doesn't work either once I'm in game except for alt-enter when windows the screen from fullscreen. It's like it's not able to access the keyboard or mouse using what ever raw access it's trying to do, but they both work elsewhere when it's just using the regular X protocol to access them. I'm using linux_base-7.1, and I don't have linux-XFree86-libs installed either (Perhaps that's not required since I'm use x.org.) And UT2004 works just fine with me. Though the performance is somewhat worse then it was at Windows, but that's probably because of the Nvidia drivers. Of course, one should not expect too much from an GeForce 4 MX440 :) Jorn -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] org -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ 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: commercial OSS drivers
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:18:43 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote Does free bsd use this drivers http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi ? Anyway they give you surround 5.1 and spdif / AC3, they are free for home use but they told me they can not give me support using them. Who of you is using them and can tell me how they work ? I just installed them yesterday. It works quite easy, though you have to make sure you unload your kernel module, or strip your kernel. Follow the installer and it works like a charm. The unregistered version required an reinstall every 4 months, but that's not too bad. And you get some screen when you boot the unregistered version. It's rather annoying since increases boot time. Jorn ___ 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: UT2004 on FreeBSD
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:02:42 -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote On Friday 28 January 2005 05:25, Loren M. Lang wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:15:38AM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:31:33 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:50:19PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: I know there were some people on the list asking about running Unreal Tournament 2004 on FreeBSD a while back. Mainly, the c++ libraries were what was missing in linux_base. Now that linux_base-rh9 is out, all the required libraries are easy to install. Also, x11/linux-XFree86-libs will be needed. I have UT2004 running in freebsd, but some of the images and player models don't show up and, while the mouse works in the menus, once I get in game, I can't do anything. Any ideas on how to fix this? It seems the keyboard doesn't work either once I'm in game except for alt-enter when windows the screen from fullscreen. It's like it's not able to access the keyboard or mouse using what ever raw access it's trying to do, but they both work elsewhere when it's just using the regular X protocol to access them. I'm using linux_base-7.1, and I don't have linux-XFree86-libs installed either (Perhaps that's not required since I'm use x.org.) And UT2004 works just fine with me. Though the performance is somewhat worse then it was at Windows, but that's probably because of the Nvidia drivers. Of course, one should not expect too much from an GeForce 4 MX440 :) When I was using linux_base-7 I had several linux programs missing certain versions of libstdc++ libraries. The installed version was something like libstdc++.so.3 and the program needed something like libstdc++.so.9. Since I installed linux_base-rh-9, they now run, though UT2004 has problems in-game. Before I upgraded linux_base, it didn't even start. Also, linux-XFree86-libs isn't needed for linux_base-7, there already part of it, but they seperated it out for rh-9 I guess. And UT2004 runs just fine in Linux with my GeForce4 MX440 and since Doom 3 runs pretty good in both linux and freebsd with my geforce 4, I'd say the nvidia drivers are probably pretty good. Jorn Where can I get the installer? It's located on the CD or DVD. I have the DVD version, so it's on the first DVD. I think the linux installer is located on the first CD as well. Jorn -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ 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: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:08:25 -, Armando Fusco wrote I too have this slow transfer speed problem. Any suggestions? Mando What exactly do you call slow? Make sure you've enabled UDMA5 and have chosen the right PIO mode in the BIOS. Also, check your ATA cables. If you have ATA33 cables, it's no miracle that it's slow :) Jorn ___ 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: Enemy-Territory for Linux run Problem on FreeBSD 5.3 Release
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:20:26 -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote I am running FreeBSD 5.3 Release on a AMD Athlon 2800+ with Linux compatibility installed. I have just installed Linux-EnemyTerritory from ports and I tried to run it: ./et in /usr/compat/linux/usr/games/et . I then get this error message: ...loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed - CL_Shutdown - RE_Shutdown( 1 ) --- - CL_Shutdown - --- Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem I have located libGL.so.1 in my /usr/X11R6/lib/ . I read the handbook page on Linux Compatibilty, however that didn't seem to help. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure where it searches for its required libs. You can try making an symbolic link to /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib if it's not there. Or perhaps /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/lib. Jorn Can you run an OpenGL screen saver? I am guessing that OpenGL is not enabled for your video for whatever reason. You might check your config file. That doesn't matter too much AFAIK. I've been running Gentoo for quite a while, and I could run OpenGL screen savers without a problem, but once I started UT2004 or any other OpenGL app it said that it couldn't find the libs. And I don't think it's platform dependant. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course :) Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enemy-Territory for Linux run Problem on FreeBSD 5.3 Release
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:04:56 -0500, Kevin Coles wrote Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.3 Release on a AMD Athlon 2800+ with Linux compatibility installed. I have just installed Linux-EnemyTerritory from ports and I tried to run it: ./et in /usr/compat/linux/usr/games/et . I then get this error message: ...loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed - CL_Shutdown - RE_Shutdown( 1 ) --- - CL_Shutdown - --- Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem I have located libGL.so.1 in my /usr/X11R6/lib/ . I read the handbook page on Linux Compatibilty, however that didn't seem to help. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure where it searches for its required libs. You can try making an symbolic link to /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib if it's not there. Or perhaps /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/lib. Jorn Thanks, Kevin Coles ___ 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: OpenGL hardware acceleration with FreeBSD 5.3
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:02:50 -0600, Michael Madden wrote This thought just came to me... Do I need Linux Binary Compatibility packages to get the acceleration? Right now I don't have it setup since I didn't think I'd need it. Of course. You want to use Linux drivers, so you need Linux compatibility. Jorn. Thanks, 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: Problem with FastTrak S150 SX4-M
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:43:40 -0600, Travis L. Leuthauser wrote I'm trying to load 5.3 Release on a P3 1GHz machine with the FastTrak S150 installed. Attached is the output from a failed boot. It appears the card is being detected and probed, but when the drives are probed there is a panic. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -Travis [snip] Your card is probably not supported. See hardware notes for more info, which is located on www.freebsd.org Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenGL hardware acceleration with FreeBSD 5.3
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:48:23 -0600, Michael Madden wrote I have a Matrox G400, and I cannot figure out how to get hardware acceleration setup for it. glxinfo still displays direct rendering: No, and OpenGL apps like glxgears are slow. I've made sure I've got the dri and glx modules loaded, and I've added the DRI section to xorg.conf. If it helps, here is my xorg.conf file. Thanks for the help. [snip] Are you using Matrox's Linux drivers? If so, are you sure that you are using the right driver for xorg? I have no experience with the cards though, so I don't know what drivers they use. Jorn ___ 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: Daily run output message
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:46:32 +, Mark Ovens wrote I see this in the daily run output on a 4.10-R box: Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache: purgestat: no mapping in /etc/mail/mailer.conf What is the mapping that is missing? The machine is running postfix, not sendmail BTW. Mine looks like this, and I'm also running Postfix. # # Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail Perhaps you're missing something? Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:55:39 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett wrote On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:26:49 -0500 daniel quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On January 19, 2005 03:06 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fac I think the junky old PC market is just what the current FreeBSD team Fac is targeting. At least someone is thinking of it. There are a lot of PCs out there that are still in perfect working order, but are too slow to run the hugely bloated desktop operating systems (and the server versions thereof) that are popular today. Efficient operating systems like UNIX can give these machines new life and purpose and save tremendous resources in the process. Indeed, someone in the Third World without the means to buy a new PC and an expensive Windows license could find a junk PC and install FreeBSD on it for nothing, and be up and running in no time. While UNIX doesn't have the advantages of Windows on the desktop, you can't beat the price, and it'll run on anything. not to mention the huge environmental implications of producing newer hardware every year to support said bloated hardware. if the same job can be done with a 10 year old box, i'm glad freebsd is here to help me do it. The recent discussion in this thread causes me to wonder whether FreeBSD's performance on older, slower equipment could be a contributing factor to why hardware vendors like Dell and ATI are willing to provide only limited support for LINUX and none at all for FreeBSD. After all, if FreeBSD lets a Pentium II w/MMX handle, for example, a moderately loaded web site or large network firewall or some other reasonable use and thereby obviating many purchases of hardware upgrades, why would they want to encourage its use? AFAIK Dell only provides support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Which is a company. There's probably profit in it for Dell as well. So why would a company that want more money give support for an operating system where is no money to be gained from? Of course, I could be completely wrong in here. So feel free to correct me if I am :) Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I do not understand kernel modules
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote Hello friends. I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include the driver for my sound card. I added the following lines to the kernel config file device sound device snd_es137x and compiled the kernel perfectly. (long time ;-) ) But there is something that I do not understand well. When I look at the contents of /boot/kernel/ directory, I found that there are kernel sound modules *.ko for every sound card the kernel supports. Should not there be my sound card module alone? Does It mean that you have to compile all the stuff, even if you are going to use only one kind of sound card? Am I missing something? Your sound card has been build into the kernel itself (which is /boot/kernel/ kernel AFAIK). The *.ko are kernel modules, which you can load using the kldload command. So in case you get a new sound card, find out what driver it supports and you can use kldload yourdriver.ko to get support for your sound card without recompiling your kernel. Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Torrent Program
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:25:50 +1000, Warren wrote Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not QTorrent) ABC has a Linux version, though it's still in alpha fase. Jorn. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ 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: PHP 4.3.10 bug?
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 02:21:10 GMT, Mark wrote Dear people, I recently saw PHP 4.3.10 bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31332 That thread is closed, unfortunately. I would like to know, though, how long execution of the mentioned reproduction code is supposed to take? On my system, it took: 0.44177293777466 seconds. Does that mean I am affected too? I run FreeBSD 4.10R, with PHP 4.3.10. Thanks, Why don't you ask your question to the PHP folks? Jorn - Mark ___ 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: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:14:22 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote Xian writes: X I installed FreeBSD on a machine with an Athlon 3200 that I accident under X clocked to 1.4GHz. I didn't notice for quite a while as the performance was X amazing any way. It didn't half go some when I put the clock speed up to X 2.2GHz. I think people nowadays forget how fast computers are. Remember, UNIX was designed long ago, at a time when a computer that could hit one million integer instructions per second was nearly science fiction. UNIX was therefore designed to be fast, and even today, despite the gradual evolution that the OS has undergone, it still is extremely fast compared to certain very bloated operating systems that were written at a later time, when increasing hardware speeds could conceal laziness on the part of systems programmers. Given what older hardware used to support under UNIX, I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could support 1000 simultaneous timesharing users on FreeBSD with a modern PC. If you add X then you naturally gobble up resources and bring UNIX closer to Windows or the Mac, but if you run a straight text-only OS, it can be hard to ever come close to the machine capacity with any kind of real-world load (meaning a realistic load of the type for which UNIX was intended). I never seen less than about 97% idle my machine, and the average over time is closer to 99.9% idle. The machine is definitely working, but with a streamlined OS and straightforward applications that don't have to drive GUIs or play music or animate movies, it flies. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on my server and it has periods it's just 100% idle. I'm running some perl scripts every five minutes, but that doesn't put too much load in the machine either. As a matter of fact, it's rare that the machine has a higher load of 0.15. And I'm running quite a bit of things on that machine (Apache, MySQL, Postfix, amavisd with spamassassin and clamav, RRDtool, SNMP, samba and some more stuff). Though it's a Pentium 4 2 Ghz with 512 MB ram, but I don't have any other hardware. Figured I might as well make it a relatively fast machine. Either way, I never want another server OS again. This is great. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia driver problem
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:07:21 +0100, craig wrote hi all, i am having a problem getting the nvidia-provided freebsd drivers to work correctly. specifically, although the bsd-provided nv drivers work (albeit without any accel), when i switch to the nvidia-provided nvidia drivers, xorg loads into 8bit colour mode - which looks terrible! looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log doesnt provide any clues (to me, at least!). there are no terrible errors or dire warnings that seem related. (find attached) and, as best as i can tell, my /etc/X11/xorg.conf seems just fine. (also find attached) what else would be useful to tell... i have an Intel 2.4Ghz on a Gigabyte GT motherboard, with 1GB ram. the card is an nVidia GeForce4Ti with 128MB also, i have removed agp from my kernel. and i have also attached sysctl -a hw.nvidia output Adding the following in the screen section of xorg.conf might do the trick: DefaultDepth 24 any help would be greatly appreciated! much ta, -- [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: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:41:50 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth the effort, as if you install the entire suite of programs you have a very powerful front end mail system. True enough, but I never managed to get it up and running. It's a very nice suite indeed, if you can get it running. I'm using Open Webmail. A powerful webmail client based on Neomail. It uses speedycgi, and requires suid to be compiled in your perl enviroment. You probably have to recomple perl, but it's still alot easier then IMP. Jorn. IMP is what we use and if you want my notes from the last installation your welcome to them. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rene C. Mendoza Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:10 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes. I'm in the process of looking for a webmail frontend to my Postfix mail server setup installed on FreeBSD 5.3. I use cyrus-imap as well. What would you recommend? I've heard of Squirrel Mail and IMP, but I don't know what to choose. thanks, Rene ___ 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: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:50:05 +, Ganael Laplanche wrote [This is a repost from the amd64 list] Hi all, I've just bought an ASUS K8N-E mobo. I'm using FreeBSD-5.3-Stable (amd64) and suffering from *very* slow disk transfer rates. The chipset is an nforce3 and is correctly detected at boot : # dmesg [...] atapci0: nVidia nForce3 Pro UDMA133 controller port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 8.0 on pci 0 [...] My disk is an UDMA100 one, everything seems to be correct : # atacontrol mode 0 Master = UDMA100 Slave = BIOSPIO Are you sure that the BIOS is using the correct PIO mode? You can try setting it yourself though. However, I don't have too much experience with that. I do know that the incorrect PIO mode can make your PC extremely slow. Jorn # sysctl -a [...] hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1 hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 [...] I use a new 80 lead ATA cable (shipped with my mobo)... Evrything should be okay, but the whole system is very very slow. Copying a 600 MB takes about 10 minutes (1 MB/sec) and makes the system nearly unusable during the copy. Do you have any idea ? Ganaël LAPLANCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.martymac.com Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. ___ 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: SCSI Hardware problem?
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:18:04 -0700, Tom Vilot wrote This looks to me like I've got a hardware problem. SCSI drive 0:4:0 - - or is this perhaps something else? I had to manually type this in ... :) copying it off the screen since I don't see this stuff in a log anywhere. FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual 450MHz Xeon with SCSI and IDE. GENERIC kernel. There was stuff above this, but it had scrolled off the screen and the console was locked up. da1 (scsi 4 on bus 0) is my boot drive. --- Dump Card State Ends (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): SCB 0x3 - timed out sg[0] - Addr 0x2574b000 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Queuing a BDR SCB (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): no longer in timeout, status = 24a ahc1: Timedout SCBs already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning. (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a, 0 0 47 49 23 0 0 4 0 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,1 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Power on occurred (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Retrying Command (per sense Data) (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a, 0 0 47 49 23 0 0 4 0 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): CAM Status: Check Condition (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,1 (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Power on occurred (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): Retries Exhausted (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): lost device (da1:ahc1:0:4:0): invalidating pack panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started Uptime: 3d12h50m3s Make sure your SCSI controller is supported by the driver you're using. If it is, it's probably a faulty disk. --- I'm guessing I will want to copy this entire drive over to another one. What's the best way dd? Doesn't matter too much AFAIK. As long as you can access the disk properly. Oh, one other question ... I'm used to runlevels on Linux. When I reset this machine, I'm presented with the prompt asking me for the default shell (/bin/sh). I hit enter, and I'm in sh where I can fsck the other drives and mount them. Cool. But once I have done that, how do I tell BSD to basically continue where it left off (i.e. run /etc/netstart sshd, httpd, psqld, zope, etc) without manually invoking each of those items? I assume you boot in single user mode. I would just reboot the machine again and boot normally (multi-user mode) after you're finished with fsck and stuff. Cheers, Jorn Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:53:07 -0800, Paul Krill wrote This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 or email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks. Where did you get this information? ___ 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: Does freeBSD have CORBA specs and does it have J2sdk1.4.2 ?
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:25:38 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:31:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been told it does have both already, but I can't find it in any of documentations. I'm specifically talking about freebsd on emulab.net. Yes, freebsd has had both corba and sun java for a long time. corba is needed by the gnome desktop which is very well supported on freebsd plus many gnome app even if you don't use the gnome desktop. Your pretty much guaranteed that freebsd will have corba already installed and running because of this. It uses ORBit, the same implementation used on linux and so all the same docs apply to freebsd, just check out orbits website. For java, freebsd can use ibm or sun's java implementation. ibm runs under linux emulation and sun can run under linux emulation or natively. There are also a few open source jvm's like kaffe available. Also, you have the blackdown-java project. AFAIK it's open source as well, and it uses the Linux compatibility. Last time I compiled Java you required a working Java enviroment before you were able to compile Sun's Java implementation. Might be handy to keep that in mind. Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java question.
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:15:31 -0800, Gary Kline wrote On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be able to build/rebuild everything Java?? Well, I can't say for sure. You have to make sure that your system is indeed using the proper executable and the proper libs. If you have things mixed you can have a serious problem. AFAIK everything is put in /compat/linux ... so deinstalling it wouldn't bring in too much problem. However, unless you have serious disk space problems, I can't see why risk to break stuff if it is not needed. Correct me if any of the above things are wrong, of course :) Cheers, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few questions regarding sound drivers
Hi all, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64 a few days ago. However, I am having sound problems. I have an Ensoniq 5880 as specified by lspci and dmesg: 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 13.0 (no driver attached) For example, when I try to load a random kernel module for sound, it says no such file or directory. So when I take a peek in /boot/kernel, it indeed shows up no sound modules. My FreeBSD server (which hasn't even have sound support compiled in the kernel) does have them though. Can I use those? I've compiled the kernel with COMPAT_IA32, COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_LINUX32. Also, I am not certain which driver I should have, though. It does not appear to be in the hardware notes of the AMD64 port as well, so does FreeBSD even support it then? Thanks alot, Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble upgrading PHP
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:11:34 +0100, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote Hi, I hope someone can help me here. Today I upgraded Apache to the latest version (apache+mod_ssl- 1.3.33+2.8.22 - which works fine) and PHP to 4.3.10 (which doesn't). I'm running a few sites on my server that relies on the Apache/PHP and mySQL. Now, only static content seems to be working. I belive it is because the options-screen that used to pop up when installing from Ports is now gone. I probably haven't got support for Ie. mySQL and others that I need. I know I need these: - zlib compression support Unavailable - XML support Unavailable - MySQL support Unavailable Is the options screen gone or how can I make it appear? Are there instead other ways of adding what I need from a ports-install? You might want to install php4-extensions, found in /usr/ports/lang/php4- extensions. Note that this is a meta port; it installs quite a bunch of extensions. Take a look at what I've installed: pkg_info | grep php mod_php4-4.3.10,1 PHP Apache Module php4-bz2-4.3.10 The bz2 shared extension for php php4-ctype-4.3.10 The ctype shared extension for php php4-extensions-1.0 A meta-port to install PHP extensions php4-mysql-4.3.10 The mysql shared extension for php php4-openssl-4.3.10 The openssl shared extension for php php4-overload-4.3.10 The overload shared extension for php php4-pcre-4.3.10The pcre shared extension for php php4-posix-4.3.10 The posix shared extension for php php4-session-4.3.10 The session shared extension for php php4-tokenizer-4.3.10 The tokenizer shared extension for php php4-xml-4.3.10 The xml shared extension for php php4-zlib-4.3.10The zlib shared extension for php Cheers, Jorn Thanks, Andreas --- Norsk Smalfilm Andreas Widerøe Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.smalfilm.no Tel:(+47) 38 17 99 16 Fax:(+47) 38 02 33 84 Mob:(+47) 90 92 61 21 ___ 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: Answers: Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:14:16 -0500, Richard Bejtlich wrote Three weeks ago I posted notification of my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date. Today I am happy to announce the publication at TaoSecurity.com of Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date: http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html The new article takes the same case-based approach I used in the first paper. The article's sections include: - Introduction - Installation Using Source Code - Installation Using the FreeBSD Ports Tree - Installation Using Precompiled Packages - Updating Applications Installed from Source Code - Updating Packages by Deletion and Addition - Updating the Ports Tree, Part 1 - Manually Updating a Package Using the Ports Tree - Updating Packages with Portupgrade, Part 1 - Updating Packages with Portupgrade, Part 2 - Updating the Ports Tree, Part 2 - My Common Package Update Process - Creating Packages on One System and Installing Them Elsewhere - Addressing Security Issues in Packages - Conclusion - Acknowledgements - References Sections show commands to run, explanations of what they do, sample output, applications versions, and pros and cons of each upgrade method. Please send feedback to taosecurity at gmail dot com. Thank you, Richard Bejtlich Hi Richard, It looks good. It's nice to have a piece of documentation regarding this subject all on one page. However, you should be aware that most information, if not all, can be found in the handbook as well. I truely praise the handbook, but it's size can be rather annoying when to find something. It has an online search function, of course, but for offline use it can be a little maze from time to time. So I like things like this. It has similair quality of the handbook but all subjects in one page. Great. However, it would be nice if you actually wrapped the text to make it readable. Preferably based on resolution if possible. And it requires some cosmetic attention as well. Type commands in differen colours, for example. Make important notes larger, use a different colour again, or give them a special font. Also, it would be nice if you went a little bit deeper into the commands. For example, you use portugrade -varR. Elaborate what they do. At least, I would like to know it if I was the newbie reading it. Other then that, it looks fine. I didn't read everything though, but from what I've seen it looks nice. Cheers, Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3 with only remote access
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:33:43 +, Chris Hastie wrote Hi I'm sure there must be documentation on this, but I just can't find it. Plenty of stuff on upgrading from 4.x to 5.3, but nothing on upgrading from 5.2.1 The situation is that I have a remote, leased server running 5.2.1. I have ssh access only, no console access or terminal server, so anything involving single user mode is not an option. I believe the original installation was a binary installation, though I have since installed some of the source (using sysinstall) so that I could customise the kernel. I never did an make installworld in single user mode, and it always went fine. It's probably not the right thing to do, though. You could ask the personnel there to do the steps required in single user mode. They can probably hook up a monitor on it. Cheers, Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] rrdtool examples
Hi all, I've been playing around with rrdtool for quite a while, but I still don't really get it. I've been trying to find some example scripts for rrdtool, but I really can't find much of them. I have found Erik de Mare's perl scripts already. However, the author does not reply to his mail, and only a few of his scripts work. Unfortunately I don't have any perl knowledge, so I cannot fix them myself. So my question is, do you guys know where I can find some other RRDtool example scripts? Preferably something involving with CPU load, apache stats and MySQL stats. All examples are welcome though :) Thanks alot, Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: distfiles first instead of fetch?
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:51:17 -0800, Noah wrote FreeBSD-4.9 well I am finding that a particular bz2 file is not fetched from a list of servers so I downloaded it locally. but the build is not looking in /usr/ports/distfiles - how do I control this behavior? --- snip = evolution-2.0.3.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/ gnome2. That's why =) It's expecting the file to be in /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2. Cheers, Jorn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD doesn't even boot!
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:38:43 +0100, jsha wrote Hello all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 (using the mini-installation ISO) on my new HP/Compaq stationary. It has to Serial-ATA harddrives, and I want one for FreeBSD and one for Windows. I installed FreeBSD along with BootMgr, but it does not want to boot. It just makes silly beeps. I am given two choices, F1 for FreeBSD and F4 for Drive1. More recently, I attempted to install Windows XP on this Drive1. It removed my MBR, but in turn it successfully booted Windows. So I reinstalled FreeBSD, but now whenever I select FreeBSD it just reboots my computer. Might be a conflict of Windows expecting its own MBR, but suddenly sees an unknown one. MBRs are nasty things. Scroll down for more info. When I select Drive1, it loads some kind of MAC addressing scheme by HP and then freezes. It isn't going to help us too much when you say some kind :) You have to be more specific. On other words, tell us exactly what you see. You might want to consider installing a standard MBR during the installation (so not the FreeBSD bootloader). Then only FreeBSD will boot if you have selected the drive as the primary drive in the bios (assuming you have two disks). If you need your machine badly but can't boot Windows yet? Just select the other drive in the bios and you're ready to go :) If everything is running, install GRUB or LILO, whatever you prefer. Works better in some cases, and looks nicer as well :) Cheers, Jorn Personally, I'm helpless. Virtually, I'm humble. Thanks. -- j. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: routing monitoring ?
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:35:38 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote Hi I've installed an old PC ( PII 350 Mhz ) as a router it works like a charm ;-) I wonder which tool I could install on it to monitor a bit the routing process. MRTG, Nagios or RRDtool would do the trick. I would prefer the latter. Nagios is handy if you have many machines to monitor, and RRDtool is basicly an upgraded version from MRTG. All of them require some research, especially Nagios and RRDtool. Cheers, Jorn Thanks a lot. -- Cordialement/Regards Frank Bonnet ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connect problems
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:13:40 -0500, John DeStefano wrote On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:08:48 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: select user, password, host from user; on 'mysql' returned 3 'root' entries using 2 different passwords (localhost, %, and the actual host name), 2 anon entries (localhost and host name), 2 'mtuser' entries (one on localhost w/o pw, one on '%'), and one 'wikiuser' entry (localhost w/o pw). I changed the root passwords so they all use the same one, and changed the 'mtuser' entry that didn't have a password so its password matches that of the other entry. Have you issued the command similair like GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Yes: I ran both of these commands as root: GRANT ALL ON wikidb.* TO wikiuser; GRANT ALL ON mtdb.* TO mtuser; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; AFAIK you must type '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (including the quotes). If that doesn't work, then I don't know it either. Perhaps somebody else on the list has an idea? Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connect problems
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:54:56 -0500, John DeStefano wrote
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:15:10 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:18:38 -0500, John DeStefano wrote
[snip]
At a prompt, if I try to connect to mysql using the '-p' option like
this:
# mysql -u root -p
... I can connect.
Which makes sense. Because the -p option is for entering a password. And I
don't think you'll have an empty root password ;)
I assumed p meant password in some respect, but didn't realize
until you pointed it out that it actually meant _prompt_ for
password, and that no password must inherently be assumed (which
doesn't sound very secure).
A little side note, you can always type mysql -u root -pyourpassword (note
that there is no space between the two) as well.
But if I try to connect without '-p' like this:
# mysql -u root
... I get an error:
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: 'root'@'localhost' (Using password:
NO)'
What you're trying to do now is connecting with an empty password, and
thus it
refuses to connect. You always have to imply the -p option unless the
password
of your user is empty, but you DON'T want that.
But this seems to work only for root: when I try the same command
specifying one of the users I created:
# mysql -u wikiuser -p
Enter password:
...it doesn't work:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user: 'mtuser'@'localhost'
(Using password: YES)
You have to make sure that the user has access to login. Unless you are using
this database on an important machine, you can always change the root password
like this:
set password = password(yournewpassword);
Like that, you won't have problems with permissions and such, but people who
put security at a top priority will not like this method.
From what I can gather, this has to do with setting passwords for
different aliases or incarnations of the host for a single user
(root). I've tried every solution I've found for adding additional
connection settings for root (including more than one method for
changing the root password). When I log into mysql as root, use the
mysql database, and run 'select user, password, host from user;' I
see multiple entries for root for different 'host' values
('localhost', the actual host name, and '%').
Well, I have checked it as well, and I have just the root user on
localhost
(with a different password then the one on the system though) and two
anonymous users (so no username and no password) for localhost and the
FQDM
without any permissions. So I'm not really sure if the % is good or not.
Perhaps you're running a different version then I am (I use 4.1.7).
Yes: I'm running 5.0.0-alpha (at least that's what I get back from
mysqladmin -u root -p version). So, do you recommend I try to
remove those extra root entries?
It's probably the best thing not to touch anything regarding the MySQL
configuration unless you're sure what you're doing.
Also, how do I get these Web-based clients to connect to the accounts
and databases they require? I have created a database for each
application, and a user and password for each, and tried to grant
permissions for each to connect to the respective database. But it's
not working: both Web clients return can't connect errors.
Probably the same problem as stated before. If you are going to use one global
root user, do make sure that you only use the web-based interface in a LAN
enviroment, or add mod_ssl to your apache configuration. You don't want to
send such sensible passwords over the net in plain text.
If you want more information regarding the MySQL console, I would suggest you
try the MySQL documentation located on their website. It's just as great as
the FreeBSD handbook is ;)
Cheers,
Jorn
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Re: Hardware support question
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:03:42 -0600, Jim wrote Hi, Can you tell me if this motherboard / chipset is supported. This is in a Microtel computer. Motherboard: CPU Type AMD Duron XP, 1212 MHz (12 x 101) Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7VKMLS (3 PCI, 2 DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN) Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8375 ProSavageDDR KM266 Thanks! It's just standard hardware. Only if you have exotic SCSI/RAID controllers you might have compatibility problems. See the hardware notes located on the FreeBSD website for more information. Cheers, Jorn Jim Driggers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connect problems
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:07:17 -0500, John DeStefano wrote
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:09:20 +0100, Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have to make sure that the user has access to login. Unless you are
using
this database on an important machine, you can always change the root
password
like this:
set password = password(yournewpassword);
Like that, you won't have problems with permissions and such, but people
who
put security at a top priority will not like this method.
I logged into mysql as root over a PuTTy/SSH connection and performed
this command, specifying a new password. But the result was Query
OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec).
That is good, because you changed your password now :)
I believe this is because there are
multiple 'root' entries in the user table with different 'host'
values. I was able to change these values when I specified which
entry I wanted to change:
mysql UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD(''new_password')
- WHERE user='root' and host='host_entry';
Yes: I'm running 5.0.0-alpha (at least that's what I get back from
mysqladmin -u root -p version). So, do you recommend I try to
remove those extra root entries?
It's probably the best thing not to touch anything regarding the MySQL
configuration unless you're sure what you're doing.
Are these extra root user entries in the mysql database, which I
believe I've entered myself while trying different solutions,
considered part of the MySQL configuration?
Ah. I was not aware that you entered users yourself. Then you should delete
the amends you made yourself.
select user, password, host from user; on 'mysql' returned 3 'root'
entries using 2 different passwords (localhost, %, and the actual
host name), 2 anon entries (localhost and host name), 2 'mtuser' entries
(one on localhost w/o pw, one on '%'), and one 'wikiuser' entry
(localhost w/o pw). I changed the root passwords so they all use the
same one, and changed the 'mtuser' entry that didn't have a password
so its password matches that of the other entry.
Have you issued the command similair like GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/GRANT.html for more info.
'mtuser' can not log in to mysql locally:
# mysql -u mtuser -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user: 'mtuser'@'localhost'
(Using password: YES)
A similar error is returned by the Movable Type System Loader page
(which is to be expected, since he/she can't log in locally):
Access denied for user: 'mtuser'@'%' to database 'mtdb' at
/usr/www/mt-static/mt-load.cgi line 195.
'wikiuser' can log in to mysql locally, but the MediaWiki 1.3.8
installation page reports it Couldn't connect to database, no mater
whether I specify localhost, the actual host name, or leave the
'MySQL server' field blank.
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Re: RTL8139 Carbus Card fails to activate
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:49:43 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote I sent a request for help on this problem earlier, but with no luck in solving it. Now that I have some more information about it and a better understanding I hope this problem can be fixed. I have a 10/100 fast ethernet carbus card that uses the realtek 8139 chipset that I'd like to use with FreeBSD. I have 5.3-RELEASE installed on a PIII Celeron in a Compaq Presario Laptop. The card is reconized and the rl driver seems to load, but fails to map the card's memory or i/o ports. Here is the appropriate kernel messages: cbb alloc res fail cardbus0: Can't get memory for IO ports cbb alloc res fail re0: couldn't map ports/memory cbb alloc res fail rl0: couldn't map ports/memory cardbus0: network, ethernet at device 0.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: CardBus card activation failed Well, if you ask me, your card is simply not supported by the rl or the re driver (Correct me if I'm wrong). Or your card is broken. Can you confirm that the card is still 100% functional? Cheers, Jorn Intrestingly, it looks like two different realtek drivers are trying to access it, re and rl. Can this cause a problem and is there a way to determine the correct driver for it? I think rl is the one I need. Here's pciconf -vl for the card: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter' class= network subclass = ethernet Also, /dev/card0 does not exist, is this a legacy item from 4.x and earlier. If so, then pccardd and pccardc are also no longer needed? It seems like somewhere I saw a similar problem with another cardbus card and the solution was to set some sysctl like allow_unsupported something or another in the loader at boot. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smp related
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:10:47 -0800 (PST), Petersan Jean-Pierre wrote I have this old dual processor motherboard which comprise of two PIII - 1Ghz processor. I just finish installing FreeBSD 5.1 on there. After I loged in, I noticed the OS detected only one of the two processors. I would like to know how I can get the system to function as a multi-processor server. Well, FreeBSD 5.1 is a relatively old release. You should try 5.3, or even better, 4.10. The latter has better support for SMP then 5.3 has. Cheers, Jorn. Petersan Jean-Pierre __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: teamspeak server on 5.3-STABLE
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:38:49 -0500, Jason wrote installed teamspeak_server-2.0.19.40_1 from ports and when I start it up, the teamspeak sevrer starts, but the web admin interface does not. When I try to start the server manually as root, all It gives is monsterjam# /usr/local/lib/teamspeak_server/server_linux Error starting daemon. Aborted any idears? Not sure about your problem, but AFAIK the sound driver is only capable of accepting requests from a single program only. So if you start a game and then teamspeak, teamspeak will not work. I've been playing around with this too, but I never managed to get it working. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Cheers, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 01:33:43 -0800 (PST), angelito munez wrote Gud DAy.. I need help regarding on my freeBSD 4.9 i have it formated and i want to run as natting..or act as a router. ive got adsl 512kbps.. im just new about free bsd. what packgas do i want and and a rules to run to my existing 6 pc as a internet sharing.. pls.. i would be glad if anybody help me out,,,im trying for about a week now... thnks.. more power to u guys This will probably give you a few points: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing.html Cheers, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RTL8139 Carbus Card fails to activate
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:58:21 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:05:30AM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:49:43 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote I sent a request for help on this problem earlier, but with no luck in solving it. Now that I have some more information about it and a better understanding I hope this problem can be fixed. I have a 10/100 fast ethernet carbus card that uses the realtek 8139 chipset that I'd like to use with FreeBSD. I have 5.3-RELEASE installed on a PIII Celeron in a Compaq Presario Laptop. The card is reconized and the rl driver seems to load, but fails to map the card's memory or i/o ports. Here is the appropriate kernel messages: cbb alloc res fail cardbus0: Can't get memory for IO ports cbb alloc res fail re0: couldn't map ports/memory cbb alloc res fail rl0: couldn't map ports/memory cardbus0: network, ethernet at device 0.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: CardBus card activation failed Well, if you ask me, your card is simply not supported by the rl or the re driver (Correct me if I'm wrong). Or your card is broken. Can you confirm that the card is still 100% functional? A few months ago I tried getting this card working and couldn't, before then and after then it's been used in a linux laptop just fine with the rtl8139 and 8130too drivers. Now I just traded it with the linux laptop again and it still doesn't work with freebsd. I don't think that the Linux and FreeBSD drivers for the realtek cards are quite the same :) After all, they have to talk to different kernels. So I still think that your card is simply not supported by the drivers FreeBSD provides. Cheers, Jorn Intrestingly, it looks like two different realtek drivers are trying to access it, re and rl. Can this cause a problem and is there a way to determine the correct driver for it? I think rl is the one I need. Here's pciconf -vl for the card: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter' class= network subclass = ethernet Also, /dev/card0 does not exist, is this a legacy item from 4.x and earlier. If so, then pccardd and pccardc are also no longer needed? It seems like somewhere I saw a similar problem with another cardbus card and the solution was to set some sysctl like allow_unsupported something or another in the loader at boot. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connect problems
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:18:38 -0500, John DeStefano wrote
[snip]
At a prompt, if I try to connect to mysql using the '-p' option like
this:
# mysql -u root -p
... I can connect.
Which makes sense. Because the -p option is for entering a password. And I
don't think you'll have an empty root password ;)
But if I try to connect without '-p' like this:
# mysql -u root
... I get an error:
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: 'root'@'localhost' (Using password:
NO)'
What you're trying to do now is connecting with an empty password, and thus it
refuses to connect. You always have to imply the -p option unless the password
of your user is empty, but you DON'T want that.
From what I can gather, this has to do with setting passwords for
different aliases or incarnations of the host for a single user
(root). I've tried every solution I've found for adding additional
connection settings for root (including more than one method for
changing the root password). When I log into mysql as root, use the
mysql database, and run 'select user, password, host from user;' I
see multiple entries for root for different 'host' values
('localhost', the actual host name, and '%').
Well, I have checked it as well, and I have just the root user on localhost
(with a different password then the one on the system though) and two
anonymous users (so no username and no password) for localhost and the FQDM
without any permissions. So I'm not really sure if the % is good or not.
Perhaps you're running a different version then I am (I use 4.1.7).
I'd appreciate any help at all with this. Thanks very much.
~John
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Re: i386 amd64
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:05:37 +0100, Albert Shih wrote Hi all My news computer just arrive ;-) The cpu is a AMD 64 FX 55. I've try to install FreeBSD 53-amd64 but the hard drive is SATA and the boot hang when he detect the drive. The install work with FreeBSD 53-i386. I think i can, with many effort, find a another DD with IDE interface, but my question is : If I install amd64 version where is the difference between i386 ? Well I forgot to say : I'm not programer, i'm just use : vi, mozilla, tex... Whit this very standard applications (and I think this application is not re-write to use 64 bits cpu) are there some difference betwen 386 version and amd64 ? Well, some things that are keeping me from the AMD64 version of FreeBSD is the lack of support for several programs. Including cvsup, and I don't know any other way to sync the ports-tree or the kernel sources. But that was with 5.2. 1. I am not sure if FreeBSD still lacks cvsup. Other then that, there are not that much differences AFAIK. The Athlon64 FX-55 is capable of running a 32 bit OS without any problems. Note that AMD64 is an architecture, and Athlon64 is a processor ;) Cheers, Jorn Thanks Regards -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) Heure local/Local time: Thu Dec 9 22:59:38 CET 2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need disk statistics
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:04:58 -0500, Brian McCann wrote Hi all. I need to get the percent busy for the disks in my servers, so that I can graph/monitor them. I've looked into the UCD-SNMP MIBs, but their % busy counters for disks don't appear to work. I know I can use iostat to get the close to instantaneous % busy, but I'm looking for a 5 minute average. Has anyone does this? Any ideas on how to get this done? MRTG, RRDtool or Nagios will do the trick. All of them can be found in the ports-tree. Be prepared for some work though, because it isn't that easy. Jorn Thanks, --Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fatal trap 9 on Freebsd 5.3/amd64
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 05:27:30 +0800 (CST), T.F. Cheng wrote Hi, please help. I just upgraded my CPU/mobo to amd64 /Asus A8V delux yesterday. Still running the 32-bit freebsd5.3 , everything worked except the NIC, I thought to myself that probably is because my source is not the latest, from what I understand, this issue has been solved. So with the help from another NIC, I upgraded the system by cvsup. then is make buildworld/buildkernel, etc. After the 2nd reboot into the default mode, my system hang on booting. I disable the ACPI in BIOS and chose 2 when booting, this Fatal trap 9 error showed up with some messages (sorry didn't copy all down), any advice is appreciated. thansk! Yes, I've had that same problem as well (the latter, that is). Where exactly does it hang during boot? The kernel panic is probably caused by a bug or something. Try disabling ACPI _completely_ in your BIOS and then try to boot without ACPI support. Perhaps that will work. Cheers, Jorn. TFC = Best Regards, Tsu-Fan Cheng _ Do You Yahoo!? µn°O§K¶Oªº @yahoo.com ¤¤¤å¹q¤l¶l¥ó @ http://chinese.mail.yahoo.com Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://chinese.mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems upgrading from 5.2.1-RELEASE-P9 to 5.3-RELEASE
Hi folks, I've been trying to upgrade my 5.2.1-P9 server to 5.3, but when I try to build the kernel it says: ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! config version = 500012, version required = 500013 Make sure that /usr/src/usr.sbin/config is in sync with your /usr/src/sys and install a new config binary before trying this again. If running the new config fails check your config file against the GENERIC or LINT config files for changes in config syntax, or option/device naming conventions So my friend google told me that I should do a make buildworld first. When I do that, it spits out this: cc -O -pipe -I. -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/config -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/ usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.sbin/config/mkoptions.c make: don't know how to make /destdir/usr/lib/libc.a. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 I haven't tried to upgrade to P-12 yet, should I do that first before upgrading to 5.3? And another question, I've been trying to recompile a 5.3-RELEASE kernel with pcm and sbc support. However, now it says that the device is unkown. But it always worked fine on a 5.2.1 machine. So what happened? Was it removed or something? I've been using kldload snd_maestro3.ko as well (which is the right driver for an ESS maestro I guess), but that doesn't seem to work. There is still no /dev/pcm0 after running the command. Thanks for the help, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems upgrading from 5.2.1-RELEASE-P9 to 5.3-RELEASE
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:58:08 +, Peter Risdon wrote Jorn Argelo wrote: [snip] You really do need to read /usr/src/UPDATING and follow the instructions in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Sorry Peter, my bad. You're right, I need to do some more investigation next time. Thanks, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange netstat output
Are you saying that you've used 172.168.1.2 for a host on your LAN? If so: 04:43 PM: whois -h whois.arin.net 172.168.1.2 OrgName:America Online OrgID: AOL Address:22000 AOL Way City: Dulles StateProv: VA PostalCode: 20166 Country:US NetRange: 172.128.0.0 - 172.191.255.255 CIDR: 172.128.0.0/10 The ipt machines are clients using AOL for connetivity, IIACI. I think you mean to use: 172.16.0.0 through 172.31.255.255 Ah, yes. No wonder. I changed the internal IP range and it's gone now. Thanks mate :) Cheers, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD won't install or boot on HP NX9110 notebook
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:54:37 +1100, Andrew Bird wrote G'day... I recently purchased a HP NX9110 Notebook - and it runs beautifully - anything except BSD... Windows Gentoo both run fine. Anyway, when I try and boot from one of the BSD install Cd's, it gets to the bit after the Daemon menu, does the acpi.ko thing, and then shuts down. Nothing more. When I try the other menu options, such as ACPI disabled, safe mode, etc, I get the exact same thing. Oh, and it doesn't matter what version of BSD I try and install - I happen to have CD's lying around for everything from 5.3-RELEASE to 3.5.1-RELEASE - all of which I have tried - and I get the exact same result. I even installed the HDD from another notebook into it and tried booting from a 5.2.1-RELEASE install on that - same problem. Have you tried disabling ACPI in your BIOS? If I boot without ACPI support, but it is enabled in the BIOS, I get a kernel panic during boot. A notebook without ACPI support is rather shabby though :/ Cheers, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange netstat output
Hi folks, Recently I took notice about a strange netstat output within my LAN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ netstat -ra Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire defaultACA80101.ipt.aol.c UGS 0 156153rl0 localhost localhost UH 2 539754lo0 ACA80100.ipt.aol.c link#1 UC 00rl0 ACA80101.ipt.aol.c 00:09:5b:a7:a4:3e UHLW1 3918rl0790 ACA80102.ipt.aol.c 00:10:a7:0d:6f:7f UHLW0 325rl0 1193 ACA80104.ipt.aol.c localhost UGHS00lo0 ACA801FF.ipt.aol.c ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 0 1091rl0 192.168.2.105 localhost UGHS00lo0 The ipt.aol.com is the one that's the problem. If I ping it, it returns this: PING ACA80102.ipt.aol.com (172.168.1.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 172.168.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.120 ms 64 bytes from 172.168.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.149 ms 64 bytes from 172.168.1.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.149 ms ^C --- ACA80102.ipt.aol.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.120/0.139/0.149/0.014 ms [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Which is my internal IP adress. If I ping ACA80104, it goes to 172.168.1.4. If I ping ACA80100, it says 172.168.1.100 and ACA801FF is the 172.168.1.255 address (the broadcast address, if I recall my Cisco classes correctly). The 192.168.1.105 address is rather strange as well, because I'm not using that range on the router's DHCP server (Netgear FVS318, in case you want to know) So my question is, what are these? My firewall log (on the router) is showing some major blocking on port 445 and 135. It's not like one IP address is doing all the bad stuff; most of them are just random grabs from virus infected machines. Thanks in advance, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:12:54 -0500 (PET), Richard Cotrina wrote Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting to post it to the list. A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused in data risk security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less breached OS in a sample of more that 200K computers permanently connected to the internet. I personally don't feel that any OS is safer then the other. It's just what the administrator does. A Linux guru can't secure a Windows machine as good as a Windows guru can, and vica versa. One can say that a particular OS attracks more experienced administrators. Perhaps. But again it's the administrator which is the crucial fact of an OS being secure or not. It's rather easy to say that Windows is less secure then Linux or BSD because there are more viruses/exploits for Window. Well, I think that services like Sendmail and Apache can contain more exploits then Windows, to be honest. Of course, I can't prove anything, but that's just my personal feeling about it. Cheers, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatible NIC
The charter of this list is for people who want answers about FreeBSD to be able to get them. I felt it necessary to join when I noticed that EVERYONE on the list cheerfully steers poor suckers into using 5.x, even though it appears, after having to beat it out of them, everyone pretty much admits that 5.x isn't better than 4.x at the moment, and that even 5.3 is going to be a lower performer. To me, spinning the tale of 5.x to those in search of real answers is violating the charter, unless the charter has changed to shamelessly steering everyone to use 5.x for internal, political purposes. Everyone? Who exactly is everyone? What value do your arguments have without facts? You should prove it, by means of a survey done by a professional company for instance. If it turns out that more then 75% of the FreeBSD users are unhappy with 5.x, then you have a valid argument. But now it is nothing more then saying that Osama Bin Laden is dead. You don't have any prove at all. I was asked for an explanation as to why I question drivers written by a certain developer, and I provided the info. Instead of credible counterpoint, I was told that I was wasting people's time. How am I wasting someone's time when I'm telling them not to use drivers that very likely have flaws? How are you helping someone by cheerfully recommending things known to be poorly done? To not hurt the developer's feelings? Is this forum about helping users or about coddling developers? Optimizing a driver is as important as making it bug free. If they do a half-assed job then criticism is warranted. If you don't like the driver, why don't you do a better job instead? It's fine with me to say that you don't like the driver, but why don't you do suggestions to the original author then? That will help alot more then complaining about it on the list. Or, even better, make your own driver. Its easy to dismiss people who ask hard questions as trolls. Its a lot more difficult to answer the questions credibly. Seems fairly obvious to me. You're claiming things without valuable arguments. I mean, for christ's sake, you're saying that a production release has better performance then a development release. Duh. Even my mom can come up with that. Why does 5.x make that automatically bad? If you don't like 5.x, or FreeBSD in particular, you should hook up with our friend Linus Torvalds, or even Mr. Gates if you prefer. It's all right with me to share your opinion, but you shouldn't do it this way. It's doing nobody any good. Hook up to the current list and elaborate why you feel that the driver is bad, and what you think that can be improved. Now you're doing nothing else then saying things without improving anything. Jorn (In case I'm double posting now, my mail server has been down a few days, so I might have missed something) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading KDE
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:42:38 -0700, Spiral Eyed Girl wrote Hello, I am trying to upgrade KDE, using make install in the ports directory, and I get this error: === kdelibs-3.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): kdebase-3.1.4 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). and I try to do a portupgrade kde and get this error: You should use portupgrade -Rr. Stale dependency: kde-3.1.4 -- openldap-client-2.1.23 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. Well, I suggest you do as it says. Run pkgdb -F ;) How do I upgrade KDE without using pkg_delete? Or is that the only way to do it? AFAIK, running pkg_delete with a huge port as KDE is going to give problems. I would suggest you try the above mentioned things first. Cheers, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portinstall question
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:44:33 -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under /usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among others are mysql323-server, mysql40-server, mysql41-server, and mysql50-server. In the Makefile for mysql41 it states PORTNAME?= mysql. But trying portinstall mysql or portinstall mysql41 or portinstall mysql41-server all result in a message that the port doesn't exist. The command that works is portinstall mysql-server, which I found with a basic google search, but I don't find that in the descriptions or Makefiles. Looking just at what is in the ports tree (or anywhere else on a 4.9 system), where would I properly find that name? You can better issue the following commands: # cd /usr/ports/the-port-you-want # make all install clean To be honest, I never knew a command like portinstall existed =/. I have always used the above mentioned commands. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Corrupted file system?
Hi folks, I've been installing the i386 port (5.2.1-P11) on my AMD64 (because I got sick of the cvsup problem). So that all went fine, I've compiled KDE from source and stuff, no problem. But now I wanted to start KDE (which has been working fine yesterday). So I tried to login and said that it could not find iceauth in its path. So I checked and I was sure the file was there. (/usr/X11R6/bin/) Rebooted into single user mode and fixed up a whole bunch of errors. Used /sbin/reboot to reboot the machine, and I still had the problem. So I tried it again, and again it fixed problems, but now in the root directory as well. So I booted again into normal mode, and I could still not login. I checked, and fsck was still picking things out. So when I reboot the FS seems to be being messed up or something (And yes, I used the -y option). I didn't unmount the drive cleanly one time because the machine locked up (problem with the nvidia-driver). I can't imagine that the entire filesystem got messed up because of one unclean unmount. So what can I do about it? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and GCC
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:01:07 +0100, Walker, Michael wrote Hi All, I'm not to familiar with what goes on behind the scenes during the FreeBSD install process. So please forgive me if this is a dumb question. Is there any way to install FreeBSD without gcc and later build from the ports tree, to enable me to keep upto date with the gcc project releases. Like I said, I don't know if this is possible, but any replies are gratefully accepted. Mick Walker NAAFI Finance International As far as I know, FreeBSD maintains their own version of GCC. They patch it theirselves while making sure it maintains its compatibility with the ports- tree. And no, you can't install FreeBSD without a compiler (correct me if I'm wrong) . It's just part of the OS. That is why you're way better off with the versions that come with original installation then one from the GCC project page. Your question could easily apply to Linux though, but FreeBSD is not like that. Cheers, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: passwordless ssh logins _STILL_ not working - help needed.
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I get a password prompt!!! You have to press enter ;) FreeBSD still asks for a password even if it's empty, unlike Linux. Cheers, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving from P3 to Xeon
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:36:35 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote Hello! I have a server running RELENG_4_9 on IBM eServer 220 (P3 CPU). I have 'CPUTYPE=p3' in /etc/make.conf and I've built world (and a lot of ports) using this CPUTYPE setting. Now, suppose I take the RAID controller with disks from this machine and put it into an eServer 225 which has a Xeon CPU. Would everything work OK? Well, that depends on the type of Xeon. There are Xeons build on the Coppermine core (the same as the P3), but if you are migrating to a newer type of Xeon (nocona, for instance) then you could run into problems. Even if your machine boots without problems, it will probably lead to reduced performance. After all, you compiled everything for a P3. Unless you don't have another choice, I would suggest you start over again and compile everything for your new Xeon. Cheers, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official wallpapers
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:25:27 +0200, Bartłomiej Rutkowski wrote HI, Yesterday, I was asking about chance to submit some gfx work, and to get is 'official' in some way. Today I want to submit one of that work, a wallpaper for incoming freebsd 5.3 disto.SO, heres the url: http://zeik.wns.amu.edu.pl/~r/freebsd53.png Is it good enough? If not, and if it may be in your opinion, please give any word on anything I should adjust. Of course I can submit that in variety of resolutions and formats. Best regars, r. That is really nice. You should create a 1280x1024 and perhaps even 1600x1200 version of it as well and post it at kde-look.org. There will be plenty of people who will like it. Cheers, Jorn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
