Jailed Apache1.3, processes won't die
Hi. I'm using a standard install of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. I have a minimal jail, configured in the usual manner (a minimal install into a directory). I installed Apache 1.3 from ports into the jail and all seemed to be well until I tried: # apachectl restart The error log said: [Sun Nov 27 20:51:23 2005] [warn] child process 59809 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Nov 27 20:51:23 2005] [warn] child process 59986 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Nov 27 20:51:23 2005] [warn] child process 6 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Nov 27 20:51:23 2005] [warn] child process 60075 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Nov 27 20:51:23 2005] [warn] child process 60140 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Nov 27 20:51:23 2005] [warn] child process 60147 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Nov 27 20:51:24 2005] [warn] child process 59809 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Sun Nov 27 20:51:24 2005] [warn] child process 59986 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Sun Nov 27 20:51:24 2005] [warn] child process 6 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Sun Nov 27 20:51:24 2005] [warn] child process 60075 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Sun Nov 27 20:51:24 2005] [warn] child process 60140 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Sun Nov 27 20:51:24 2005] [warn] child process 60147 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Sun Nov 27 20:51:28 2005] [error] child process 59809 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL [Sun Nov 27 20:51:28 2005] [error] child process 59986 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL [Sun Nov 27 20:51:28 2005] [error] child process 6 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL [Sun Nov 27 20:51:28 2005] [error] child process 60075 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL [Sun Nov 27 20:51:28 2005] [error] child process 60140 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL [Sun Nov 27 20:51:28 2005] [error] child process 60147 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL [Sun Nov 27 20:51:30 2005] [error] could not make child process 59809 exit, attempting to continue anyway [Sun Nov 27 20:51:30 2005] [error] could not make child process 59986 exit, attempting to continue anyway [Sun Nov 27 20:51:30 2005] [error] could not make child process 6 exit, attempting to continue anyway [Sun Nov 27 20:51:30 2005] [error] could not make child process 60075 exit, attempting to continue anyway [Sun Nov 27 20:51:30 2005] [error] could not make child process 60140 exit, attempting to continue anyway [Sun Nov 27 20:51:30 2005] [error] could not make child process 60147 exit, attempting to continue anyway [Sun Nov 27 20:51:30 2005] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Sun Nov 27 20:51:31 2005] [notice] Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Nov 27 20:51:31 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/sbin/suexec) [Sun Nov 27 20:51:31 2005] [notice] Accept mutex: flock (Default: flock) For some reason, the processes will not die. The old processes prior to the restart die by themselves in the usual way (when 'consumed' by an HTTP request) and the parent process creates new processes to fill the spots. All is apparently well. However, if I do this: # apachectl stop I get the same error message as above and the old child processes still occupy the port and the server cannot be restarted. Effectively, the http server will not shut down (and believes that it HAS shut down) and then will not be restarted. The only way to rectify the situation is to log into the host machine and kill the httpd processes running in the jail. What is going on here? Anybody experiencing this? M (please CC as I'm no longer subscribed to this list) -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt 0160 A46A 9A48 D3B0 C92F B690 17FB 4B72 0207 ED43 pgpT9ZPP8LRm8.pgp Description: PGP signature
suicidally ambitious compilation?
Hello. I'm thinking of setting up a jail specifically to try and compile an OpenBSD release on FreeBSD. No 'cross compiling' will be involved (same target hardware architecture). Has anybody here ever tried, or heard of anybody trying this? I don't expect the journey to be without large potholes... M -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpwSJYVMPFnT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: suicidally ambitious compilation?
I'm thinking of setting up a jail specifically to try and compile an OpenBSD release on FreeBSD. No 'cross compiling' will be involved (same target hardware architecture). Has anybody here ever tried, or heard of anybody trying this? I don't expect the journey to be without large potholes... That won't work. A jail is not something like vmware. It's just a FreeBSD inside a FreeBSD. I used emulators/qemu to install NetBSD into an image file from the installation cd. That worked for me as long as I did not try to start X inside qemu. So I think that OpenBSD will work too. (Interestingly the Knoppix live-cd runs emulated even in graphics mode!) Hi. I should have explained myself a little better. What I'm actually trying to do is compile a minimal OpenBSD snapshot so that I can distribute binaries to my very slow firewall machine (which also lacks a compiler, for security reasons). The jail is purely there because the OpenBSD compilation process seems to make the assumption that it's working in /usr/src so I thought it would be a good idea to partition the process off from the rest of the system. M -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpvDfESKi3gW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: suicidally ambitious compilation?
I should have explained myself a little better. What I'm actually trying to do is compile a minimal OpenBSD snapshot so that I can distribute binaries to my very slow firewall machine (which also lacks a compiler, for security reasons). The jail is purely there because the OpenBSD compilation process seems to make the assumption that it's working in /usr/src so I thought it would be a good idea to partition the process off from the rest of the system. Although I think it is possible, to build OpenBSD under FreeBSD, I wouldn't try it. The problem is to correctly re-create the _complete_ OpenBSD build environment. That means compiler, linker, make, and other tools that may be used for building. For the compiler, that means to build a cross compiler. The cpu may be the same, but gcc is always configured for a combination of operating system/target cpu/binary format. And you have to find out what gcc version OpenBSD is usually been built with. Other tools may differ in behaviour or command line options. For example, may be FreeBSD is using a gnu tool while OpenBSD is using a non-gnu tool. What about e.g. make? There is make and gmake under FreeBSD. So again I suggest you try the qemu solution (or buy an additional computer ;-). Well, that has certainly been an education. Thanks! I'll try qemu then. M -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpBanTsa3rxC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FW: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:17:57PM -0700, whistles wrote: On 7/21/05, markzero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:23:56PM -0400, ender wrote: Stephen Major wrote: You are correct; I made a mistake on that one. Sudo should not be forced upon anyone. I do not care if sudo is part of the base system I just 100% disagree with you wanting to replace su with sudo Look the other post that came from the dude before is 100% correct this is a dumb argument. If sudo offered the opportunity for more features, but by default behaved exactly the same way as su, I would see no disadvantages to replacing su with sudo. Am i missing something? What happens if you maintain systems that don't need sudo? M You get an _uneeded_ setuid binary Do a few extra built in features for some outweigh everyone gettting another setuid binary? I say no myself my 2cents That was the point that I was not-so-subtly making. :) M -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpwHcn2CHkcD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes
(WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in (WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy (WW) drivers. Please visit (WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more (WW) information. The 1.0-7667 NVIDIA driver will ignore this (WW) GPU. Continuing probe... (EE) No devices detected. The NVIDIA Legacy drivers magically fail to exist on the NVIDIA site and there appears no be no port for them either. I was exploring the latest nvidia driver and came across this page. http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_archive.html Isn't 7174 or 6113 the legacy driver you are after? --Alex Well, yes they are the older drivers that would work, but the above message gave me the impression that NVIDIA were going to be maintaining a seperate set of legacy drivers. Not that it really matters now, the nv driver seems to be more solid and allows me to run my monitor at the resolution I'm actually supposed to be able to run it at (the proprietary drivers had a long unfixed bug that limited my maximum resolution). I get no apparent performance decrease on glxgears either (which is about the limit of my GL usage nowadays!). Cheers, M -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpYT0lP8T8fv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:53:43PM -0400, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: glxgears works for you with the nv driver? I cannot get it to work for me (I have a RIVA TNT as opposed to your RIVA TNT 2). Could you post your xorg.conf? I have the line Load glx in the Module Section. Perhaps the nv driver works much better than for the TNT 2 as opposed to the TNT? Thank you for your help and thank you to the whole list for the support and replies. $ uname -smr FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 i386 $ X -version X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.4 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 5.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 #1: Sun Jun 12 16:17:58 BST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LOGIK006 i386 Build Date: 30 June 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present $ glxgears -info GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS=4096/4096 GL_RENDERER = Mesa GLX Indirect GL_VERSION= 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.1) GL_VENDOR = Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org much data snipped 858 frames in 5.0 seconds = 171.600 FPS Xorg.conf follows... --- Section ServerLayout Identifier x1 Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Buttons 5 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc101 Option XkbLayout gb EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 320 240 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName MAX ModelNamebe0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option HWcursor # [bool] #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option ShadowFB # [bool] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option Rotate# [str] #Option VideoKey # i #Option FlatPanel # [bool] #Option FPDither # [bool] #Option CrtcNumber# i #Option FPScale # [bool] #Option FPTweak # i Identifier Card0 Driver nv VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] BusID PCI:2:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection --- M -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpqNb4tTcojp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes
Can you use the x.org nv driver instead? I've never really figured out what the binary driver buys you over the standard one, but then all I do is run X with fvwm2, mainly for software development, so I have never needed any fancy features. (I've never had a TNT2, but I believe it's supported). Man nv says under supported cards: RIVA TNT2 NV5 Alternatively, can you just spring for a newer video card? (I know, that feels like giving in, but if you don't need the latest, fanciest thing then there should be something cheapish out there. Ge4 cards seem to be about ?20, assuming *they* are supported by nvidia of course). Final alternative, downgrade your driver back to what you had. I believe there is a portdowngrade but have never used it. You can tell portugrade never to upgrade that port (see HOLD_PKGS or similar in /etc/pkgtools.conf) and probably keep a copy of the port directory and driver around just in case. Thanks for the suggestions, Alex. I decided to go with the nv driver as I don't use the glx extensions any more. I decided to reinstall xorg-libraries as the nvidia drivers fiddle with them and after tweaking xorg.conf, I seem to be up and running again. Cheers, Mark -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpZIPeoZNNYk.pgp Description: PGP signature
NVIDIA TNT2 woes
Oh the joys of binary drivers. I awake from a peaceful slumber after a portupgrade to find that I suddenly no longer have X. The playful and exciting words dance across my colourless and tormented screen: (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in (WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy (WW) drivers. Please visit (WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more (WW) information. The 1.0-7667 NVIDIA driver will ignore this (WW) GPU. Continuing probe... (EE) No devices detected. The NVIDIA Legacy drivers magically fail to exist on the NVIDIA site and there appears no be no port for them either. Please advise, good sirs, of what this dweller of CrappyOldGPULand should do. Mark -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpvG7YLmXtnP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: epoch-calendar date(1) wizardry
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:32:37PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-05-30 03:35, markzero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How may one pretty print an epoch timestamp using date(1)? The date manual page gives me a headache. Essentially, I have the timestamp in a file: $ cat t 1117417465 $ date -j -f '%s' 1117417465 '+%Y/%m/%d %T %z' 2005/05/30 04:44:25 +0300 The -j and -f options, when combined together, can help you convert practically any format that strptime(3) can read and parse to any time strftime(3) can print. Sounds good. I think the main problem was the fact that I had everything upside down and back to front. Cheers! Mark -- pgp: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9dD1 pgpHkApMQIvWX.pgp Description: PGP signature
epoch-calendar date(1) wizardry
Hello, How may one pretty print an epoch timestamp using date(1)? The date manual page gives me a headache. Essentially, I have the timestamp in a file: $ cat t 1117417465 ..and I want to print it in a standard UK format, such as: +%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y Anybody? (before anybody screams Perl or C, I would rather stick to plain old sh for this). Thanks, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpeydrM35tIz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: epoch-calendar date(1) wizardry
How may one pretty print an epoch timestamp using date(1)? The date manual page gives me a headache. Essentially, I have the timestamp in a file: $ cat t 1117417465 ..and I want to print it in a standard UK format, such as: +%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y date -r $(cat t) +%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y Oh my, it's really that simple? I think I must have tried just about everything ELSE as my twenty minutes of Failed conversion of ``1117417465'' using format ``%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y'' date: illegal time format ...suggest. 02:44:25 30/05/05 Thank you! -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpMG56Kx6uhV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: set http port 80 to a no root user
On Thu, 05 May 2005 16:23:38 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions hello , i would like to know how can i set a permission to a non root user to use the http public port 80 . portacl is excellent for this purpose. I have been using it for some time and it has never let me down. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mac-portacl.html -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpmoRDUe4UHv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: discarded oversize frames
Have you found a solution to this? I am having the same problems on a machine very recently updated (cvsupped + buildworld on 4/14/2005): kernel.log:Feb 25 13:46:40 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 3db4 flags 3 len 8381 max 1514) kernel.log:Apr 10 14:27:37 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 5a84 flags 3 len 2614 max 1514) kernel.log:Apr 18 16:17:53 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 1867 flags 3 len 16941 max 1514) After the message, the machine becomes completely unresponsive and I have to do a power-off, power-on reset. -Kyle I recieved these messages a day before my unbranded rl0 died. It didn't freeze my system but it did refuse to send/recieve packets... Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpogvycHtlIX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and forcible unmounts
Plug a USB mass-storage-type still camera, mount it, unplug it, and try to forcibly unmount it using 'umount -f'. The whole system hangs right away. Is it a known bug ? I can confirm this. FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE-p9. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgp1AMPSiYpvp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Lowest common denominator for buildworld/kernel
Hello, I would like to set up a machine with which to build world and kernels for an assortment of slightly different machines. The machines are an assortment of Pentium IIs', IIIs' and AMD K6s'. What CPU type should I build for in order to safely accomodate the slight differences? i386? Also, as a side note, is there any better way to distribute the compiled binaries and kernel than NFS mounts? I *really* don't get along with NFS... Thanks, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpqLnd1qs6DK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lowest common denominator for buildworld/kernel
Hello, I would like to set up a machine with which to build world and kernels for an assortment of slightly different machines. The machines are an assortment of Pentium IIs', IIIs' and AMD K6s'. What CPU type should I build for in order to safely accomodate the slight differences? i386? Also, as a side note, is there any better way to distribute the compiled binaries and kernel than NFS mounts? I *really* don't get along with NFS... Thanks, Mark I don't know what sort of accomodation you mean. The binaries can all be perfectly portable, or, at your option, you can put in various extra options to optimize for your processor. To tell you the trush, if you don't play with the flags, then I see no problem with slight differences. Ok, thanks for the affirmation. I was pretty sure that this would be the case but as I'm not familiar with the build process under the hood, I wasn't sure if the makefiles tweaked themselves implicitly depending on the build platform. I'm glad this isn't the case, that would be quite a pickle. ssh works great for a lot of applications that need to send products to foreign lands ... it's the scp command, in particular, I mean. ssh was the first thing that sprang to mind but it also raised some further questions, like what exactly to copy. /usr/obj would obviously have to go over but what about all the makefiles required for a 'make installworld' etc? I wondered if I would end up just copying over /usr/src entirely, which seems very innefficient. Hmm, it's certainly something to think about. Thanks, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpurY6kCqWae.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lowest common denominator for buildworld/kernel
ssh was the first thing that sprang to mind but it also raised some further questions, like what exactly to copy. /usr/obj would obviously have to go over but what about all the makefiles required for a 'make installworld' etc? I wondered if I would end up just copying over /usr/src entirely, which seems very innefficient. Hmm, it's certainly something to think about. What I have done to cover that situation is place /usr/obj and /usr/src in their own 1.5GB partitions. Then, when you nfs_mount them on the other system, they have the same path as when you did the build. You don't need 3GB to cover the build but HDs are cheap and rebuilding a slice is not. I have the kernel config file for each of the other systems on the build machine. When you do a buildkernel, you can have the build machine build the kernel for all of them at one time. Veering slightly off topic now but how reliable/secure is NFS these days? I stopped using it years ago as I got tired of the problems I used to have with it (probably my own fault). Is there a decent, lightweight distributed filesystem that's stable on FreeBSD? My main criteria are: 1. Lightweight - small and simple is best. 2. Cryptographically secure - we are very strict about cleartext protocols over the network here. I have seen Coda in ports but it labels itself as 'experimental' and I'm not really up for debugging my filesystem... Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgprvBTwyM7lF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lowest common denominator for buildworld/kernel
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:01:23AM +0100, markzero wrote: ssh was the first thing that sprang to mind but it also raised some further questions, like what exactly to copy. /usr/obj would obviously have to go over but what about all the makefiles required for a 'make installworld' etc? I wondered if I would end up just copying over /usr/src entirely, which seems very innefficient. Hmm, it's certainly something to think about. A small filing cabinet at the back of the brain creaks open, rust falling from its hinges. A piece of paper catches upon a passing breeze. It is pulled gracefully upwards and as it arcs into the field of vision, it can be seen to read: rsync-over-ssh With the right permissions on /usr/src and /usr/obj, a pair of SSHv2 keys and Kens idea about disk slices, we could be onto a winning solution! Cheers, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpyT2TbUB2kP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any way to log all process launches?
If you need more detailed information some patches at garage.freebsd.pl might be interesting - especially lrexec. It may be a bit outdated but it provides you with the information standard utilities don't. Michal Thanks for the interesting link. How much of this is committed to the tree (perhaps -CURRENT)? Quite a few of those patches seem to provide zero-cost security (like the setgid crontab) and I for one would certainly like to see them in FreeBSD in the future... Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpiJvySUzAWW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: quick uname question
(accidentally didn't CC the list...) That's the counter of how many times you have recompiled the kernel. In this example you are running the default kernel that is installed from cd. Actually, this is a fresh recompilation but it's the first (and hopefully only) one of 5.3p6. Thanks for the info anyway, I've been wondering what that actually meant for quite some time... Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpXO43T7G6MY.pgp Description: PGP signature
quick uname question
$ uname -v FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p6 #0: Thu Mar 31 01:41:53 BST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/L05 What exactly does the #0 signify? Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpoQ3y827fBB.pgp Description: PGP signature
openntpd UTC problem
Has anybody had any luck with getting OpenNTPD (net/openntpd) to work with anything other than UTC? I'm on GMT and recently we moved into daylight savings. As OpenNTPD has decided that I'm on UTC, I'm now an hour out (which is causing a few problems, as you can probably guess). Any help would be appreciated, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpQMFRWD6P3z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: openntpd UTC problem
On 2005-03-29, markzero scribbled these curious markings: Has anybody had any luck with getting OpenNTPD (net/openntpd) to work with anything other than UTC? I'm on GMT and recently we moved into daylight savings. As OpenNTPD has decided that I'm on UTC, I'm now an hour out (which is causing a few problems, as you can probably guess). It's Just Worked[tm] for me, on all three of my systems (OpenBSD 3.6/3.7-current, FreeBSD 4.10-stable (yes, I know, but after tonight that installation will be history), and FreeBSD 5-STABLE). I'm in EST. Isn't there a setting for your timezone that configures whether your system clock is set to UTC? Hmm, the closest I can get is to symlink /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT with /etc/localtime. I'm still an hour off though, as the ntpd isn't taking daylight savings into consideration. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpqX4n3AvWI3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why not?
I was under the impression that kernel.org was the authoritative source for the Linux kernel. What people are doing on the side was their own project. *shrug* I could be wrong :-) kernel.org is the official source of straight vanilla linux, but no distros use vanilla linux, they all have tons of patchs applied to it, some more than others. Even source code device drivers sometimes have trouble compiling with these heavily patch kernels. Each distro has too worry about what security patches their version of the kernel needs. It's not nearly as clean as the way the BSDs do it. Slackware Linux uses a vanilla kernel, it's famed for it. Interestingly enough, you can use NetBSD pkgsrc on Slackware. It's probably the only distro that's clean and plain enough for it to work on... Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgp1EVlQ24LvZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
standard math lib question
Where on earth is double log(double) actually defined? I'm talking about the one in /usr/include/math.h. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpcsW14XlGLf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: standard math lib question
markzero wrote: Where on earth is double log(double) actually defined? I'm talking about the one in /usr/include/math.h. See /usr/src/lib/msun/src/w_log.c. Or are you asking which library defines that symbol? It'd be in libm.a: 6-sec# nm -g /usr/lib/libm.a | grep log i387_s_logb.o: D __arch_logb U __generic_logb 0074 T __i387_logb 006c T logb w_logf.o: U __ieee754_logf T logf w_log10f.o: U __ieee754_log10f T log10f w_log10.o: U __ieee754_log10 T log10 w_log.o: U __ieee754_log T log U ilogbf U ilogb [ ... ] I was talking about the source, which you correctly pointed to. Thank you! Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgphPYFylm8NA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: feedback on a good DNS server
Oh, and c) djbdns isn't Free or Open Source by any definition of either phrase. That's not important to some people, but others consider it kind of important. Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. The only restriction is that you may not distribute any modified code (enterprising people could modify and distribute the source with deliberately placed bugs in order to try to claim the djb 'Security Guarantee' - at least that's the theory). http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgppLEHvBV8dN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: feedback on a good DNS server
Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html: For a program to be open source, you must be able to, among other things, change the source and redistribute it. DJB prohibits distribution of modified code and so programs which are so-licensed are not open source. In other words, people who aren't the Free Software Foundation or OSI also agree that Dan's license isn't an Open Source license. As I said, though, whether that's good, bad, or irrelevant is up to the administrator. It's just something that many people aren't aware of but would be interested in. Good point. I suppose it's also a matter of the definition of 'Open Source'. For me, open source equates to 'I can read the code to see if it's trustworthy and can compile it so I know that I got what I read' but you're right, it doesn't pass the 'official' definition. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpdK93RGWXnK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
I'm currently struggling with the Xfce environment and I'd like to install Firefox, but neither the Firefox site nor anywhere else I've looked thus far has comprehensive installation instructions for the product on FreeBSD (or any flavor of UNIX, apparently). Is there a page somewhere that describes how it is done? The installer is complaining about a library that I don't have (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0), even though I thought I had everything I needed. -- Anthony # pkg-add -r firefox or # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox make install clean distclean That's what ports and packages are there for, after all. -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpVl7gjpXtrJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DSL modem recommendation
What is your DSL provider, what telephone company are they using? Are you running bridged or ppp mode DSL? DSL modems all use proprietary implementations of the DMT protocol, while many will interoperate with different DSL providers and DSLAMS, not all will. Ted Hi Ted, the relevant info: ISP: Pipex UK - www.pipex.net TelCo: British Telecom I am currently connecting to them via PPPoA (I assume this is what you're referring to, I'm not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be about DSL). Cheers, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpels71s8CqU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DSL modem recommendation
This is a really good universal combination. Many DSL modems will work fine. But there's 1 modem that I would strongly recommend in this instance over any other modem: Westell C90-36R516-01 Why? Here's why: 1) These are dumb bridged modems so they aren't interfereing with your BSD box. 2) Westell has updated firmware and a diagnostic utility that talks to the modem, and has a secret command key sequence that will tell all of the good line stats (signal to noise ratio, received and transmitted power, etc.) which are vital to troubleshooting. 3) Since these modems were obsoleted and were used by Bell Atlantic, there are tons of them on the used market for very cheap. 4) Other ISP's I've talked to have said these things are rock solid reliable. I have never had one of them fail in service for any of our customers either. 5) It has an honest-to-god Alcatel DSL chipset in it, not the globespan which is becoming more popular (primariarly because it's cheaper) Now, note the following: if you have a very spotty DSL line, then get the following: Westell B90-36R515 NOT the B90-36R515-01!!! Why? Because the 36R515 has a design flaw in it- it massively overexceeds the transmitted power allowable for DSL - this is why Bell Atlantic quickly switched over to the -01 model - that will sometimes allow you to punch though a crummy line and get a stable connection. But the downside is it's DSP microcode is non-upgradable. You don't want to use it unless you have to. Now because this is NOT a PPPoA modem, you must run PPP on your FreeBSD box. The big advantage is that since your FreeBSD box is the PPP terminator - not the DSL modem/router - you get a legal public number on the ppp interface in the BSD box, which means if you want to set it up as a server your in business. The only possible problem is that these Westells were sold only in the US, they take 24 volt AC (NOT DC!) and come with a 24 volt AC adapter. But, you can just go to any junk store and buy a 24 volt UK style AC adapter and cut off the useless US-style adapter from it's cord and solder the cord onto your adapter. (or use a voltage converter from 220-to-110) The adapter is NOT AUTOSENSING so don't attempt to just plug into UK power or you will blow the modem up. The modem isn't particular about 50-60 hertz so no worries there. I also don't think you would have a problem with the UK/US phone line voltage difference either. You also will need to change the VPI/VCI setting to 0/38 it is normally 0/35, westell has a utility for that. If you are a bit sqeamish about this, then looking at the PIPEX recommendation page, go for a ZyXEL Prestige 630 STAY AWAY from ANY dsl modem that does NOT have an ethernet jack on it!!! Such as the USB speedtouches that Pipex was handing out for free!! There's a reason they are free!! You can't pay people (who know anything) to take them!!! Ted Thanks for the recommendations and the detailed info! I will probably give both a try and I definitely not be touching those sorry USB things (I've recently been trying to get one up and running on my friends BSD box and have pretty much given up in disgust). I'll be trawling eBay within the hour. :) Thanks again, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpKm0G7MdFcn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
Is it possible to install multiple X servers on the same machine so that one can fire up whichever one strikes one's fancy at a given time? I don't see why not, although it'd probably be more common to simply kill one wm session and start another to save resources. Maybe it's possible. I don't know if, since you've just one DISPLAY (in theory, anyhow) you would configure it. Hmm, just tested. No can do, because just one DISPLAY. Maybe some X guru has a solution. GNOME on ttyv1, fluxbox on ttyv2, term on ttyv3 etc., etc Would be pretty cool. This is certainly possible. You need to start X via something other than startx as you must manually set DISPLAY vars. I have run two X servers on my machine many times - one running a local desktop environment and the other running a WM from a remote box over SSH (for no particular reason other than that it's fun). -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgp8ro58RVHFP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Different OS's? Marketshare
This is certainly possible. You need to start X via something other than startx as you must manually set DISPLAY vars. I have run two X servers on my machine many times - one running a local desktop environment and the other running a WM from a remote box over SSH (for no particular reason other than that it's fun). I figured there was a way. Most times there is. I was thinking two Xservers, one monitor. CTL-ALT-F2 is Desktop B, CTL-ALT-F3 is desktop C, etc. How 'bout that? Of course, I really have no idea *why*, either; but it does at least sound fun. Kevin Kinsey Yes, that's it, except they were on F7 and F8... :) Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpNvl8fBuDBx.pgp Description: PGP signature
DSL modem recommendation
Hello, Could anybody recommend a good, solid DSL modem that is supported nicely by FreeBSD? An internal modem would be preferred but I would consider otherwise. My main requirements are stability and a lack of any kind of external management (I want my box to be solely in control, not a proprietary web or telnet interface). I have suffered for far too long with an awful DSL router/firewall that goes down at the slightest provocation and offers no real authentication! Cheers, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpR0QTiHukTq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ssh key authentication
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:27:03AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: i've followed the howto exactly and it still doesn't work. i don't know wtf i'm doing wrong. here is the output i get in verbose mode the files i have in the remote host ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 timothy wheel 241 Feb 18 22:44 authorised_keys -rw-r--r-- 1 timothy wheel 621 Feb 19 11:12 authorised_keys2 You're going to kick yourself. It should be authorized keys, with a 'z'. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpFh4u2cejY6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]
* Erik Trulsson [2005-02-05 23:55 +0100] Also keep in mind that if you leave the computer running all the time it will show up on your electricity bill, so if you wish to save power you should shut down your computer over night. Given that your house needs to be warmed up (a presumption I think is correct for Sweden as you appears to be sending from; it sure does for Norway, I don't know about the OP), it does not matter where that heat comes from. If your other heating is termostatically controlled, then running your computer all night long uses no less electricity than leaving your heating on. Eventually, all those kWhs ends up as heat. You might just as well use it for something usefull in the way from electric to thermic energy, and not just send your electrons through an electric resistance for nothing (except heat-generation)! Actually, I've found that five machines, each with two disks, onboard graphics and sound, an average 700mhz P3 with a 250w power supply haven't really made a dent on my electricity bill. In the summer of last year, however, I bought an air conditioner and this added £40 (roughly $75) to my bill. I see I'm not the only one that thought of using the servers AS the heating! Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpG6wXSp08xX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Electricity bill [was: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?]
Since the computers are necessary for both work and play, I consider running them to be electricity wisely used. I do turn the monitors off when I'm not home, but since they are all flat panels now, that represents only a trivial amount of electricity. That reminds me: Please also consider fire hazards! I have had a CRT-monitor catching on fire. Of course, I forgot to mention that all the machines are connected to a KVM switch arrangement - one monitor which is constantly off (emergency console access only). The KVM switch arrangement is an exciting exercise in spaghetti cable contortion, being two four port switches attached to a two port switch. These switches should technically not be able to work without a power supply but evidently they work just fine. I don't question the arrangement, I just observe it from across the room. We get along fine. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpFu0k8tYCq1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: favor
In that case, this email is absolutely copyrighted by me (along with ... my recipie for coffee) Hah! Bad move kiddo! *slurp* *twitch* I'll make a fortune! Hahaha... Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpnnQq0NmTBB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: favor
Actually, I have a question. I'm in the middle of upgrading my dataserver, and I'm building ports on ttyv2,35. I have xdm running on ttyv8. I just finished installing wdm (on ttyv4) and I edited /etc/ttys to run wdm on ttyv8 instead of xdm. Is there a way to reset ttyv8 so that it loads wdm without rebooting (or otherwise mess up what I'm doing on the other v consoles)? Thanks, Mike Have you tried just killing xdm? Otherwise, the handbook says that # kill -HUP 1 will cause init to re-read /etc/ttys but as I've never needed to do this I'm not sure if it will disrupt anything. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpiRaAsJucI7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LAN chat server?
Timothy Luoma wrote: If not Jabber, what else? You could give 'silc' a try. It's in the ports tree: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/silc-server/pkg-descr There are clients for most operating systems, both graphical and not. --Tim Erlin I once used an IRC server for this purpose. It was hidden from the outside world and could only be accessed via an SSH server: [ irc ]--[ ssh ]---[ fw ]- | [ lan ] I would recommend UnrealIRCd and Anope services (both are in ports). Jabber is a good choice, the only downside being that there seems to be a distinct lack of text-only clients. -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpbjjeg6ZWnH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10
what's the output of ulimit -d? What's the trick to running ulimit? command not found yet whereis sez it is a shell builtin command. Jack What about limits? -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpXZZaTvjCl5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10
This is the output of my ulimit: #ulimit -a | grep data data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 # So what is next? Is it possible to embed that information in the kernel? Or, how is this information set by default? Is there any specific .conf file I should edit? Thank you all! You'll want to change your default segment size in /etc/login.conf. You'll need to re-generate the database after editing with cap_mkdb too. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgp7xUO3xDToy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BSD
but what about: **BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ? taken from www.bsd.org I have also heard 'Berkeley Systems Derivative' but that doesn't make it correct... :) Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpTFs5n4cGdb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Xdm Securelevels revisited
Some time ago, I mused upon the possibility of running Xorg in a securelevel 0 environment (and I forgot to thank Lowell Gilbert for his advice, sorry!). http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/069141.html I actually tried it on a test machine about five minutes ago and hit a problem. If I specify securelevel 0 (raised to 1 automatically in /etc/rc.conf, the securelevel is raised before xdm can start which causes fireworks. (getty repeating too quickly on port %s, sleeping) Where would be the best place to raise the securelevel after xdm has started? Thanks, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpLV6U7HzSW4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xdm Securelevels revisited
securelevel is raised before xdm can start which causes fireworks. just a thought: if you raise the securelevel after xdm has started and it dies, would you get fireworks again? I'm leaving the text consoles open for that very reason. If xdm dies, tries to restart (it will try every 30 seconds as init will sleep) I can drop to single user and disable xdm. The only problem with this is that I won't then be able to get X back without rebooting to securelevel -1. Correct me if I am wrong but all the documentation seems to suggest that the securelevel cannot be lowered even in single user mode? I am relying on xdm to be stable, which it does seem to be (I have used it at the default securelevel on other machines). -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgph5xJLQOWE8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OpenGL + TNT2 + NVIDIA binary drivers
This is more of a followup for completeness than anything. I reinstalled the driver but this time from ports. This fixed the GLX problem but brought up the new error: agp.ko detected, aborting setup of nvagp Luckily, this was documented and it was a simple matter of recompiling the kernel without agp. I'm now sitting here with an up-to-date box, xscreensaver and a lot of smoothly bouncing cows. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpnef7WPpDzE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)
My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't recall who suggested it): find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting the last modification time, even if it didn't actually change anything. This reset the last modification dates for every file on my site, which wasn't much fun. Is there another command I could put between find and xargs that would filter only the names of files containing the string? (grep would do it, but grep outputs the lines found to stdout, so that won't do.) Completely off the top of my head: #!/bin/sh for i in `find $PWD -type f`; do grep foo $i 1/dev/null; if [ $? -ne 0 ] then #do something with sed here fi done; Not *exactly* a one liner but it *could* be if you want to make it less readable... :) Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpJbOKCUbxmN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)
Hmm ... maybe I found it: grep -R -l xxx /www/htdocs | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/xxx/yyy/g' Does that look okay? Seems to work in my test. -- Anthony Looks good! Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgp3P5CmbgLH3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?)
find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \ xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g' When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase 'EL'), it will not print the matched lines. Only the name of the files that *do* match. Then, once you have a list of files that really do match with 'foo' as a pattern, you can xargs sed on the list to substitute whatever you want :-) Egh, I forgot about -l. There's me piping things into the bit bucket. *shuffles off into the shadows* -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgppIFjAziZMx.pgp Description: PGP signature
OpenGL + TNT2 + NVIDIA binary drivers
Hi, I've scoured the mailing lists and Google and can't seem to find a solution to this little problem. I'm using the binary nvidia drivers on my old 32mb TNT Riva 64 and from the framerates I'm getting from xscreensaver, I think it's safe to assume that I'm not getting any acceleration! I installed the drivers as per the included documentation and set things up as they suggested. X.org gives this error on startup: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX The relevant sysctls say: hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 4x 2x 1x hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: not supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: not supported hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f07:0x hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6113 Mon Aug 2 16:08:32 PDT 2004 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: ??.??.??.??.?? hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP My X.org config says: Section Device Option NvAGP 2 #try OS agp, fall back to nvagp Identifier Card0 Driver nvidia VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] BusID PCI:2:0:0 EndSection I have tried setting NvAGP to both 1 and 2 but neither makes any difference. kldstat says: d Refs AddressSize Name 1 11 0xc040 6b524c kernel 22 0xc0ab6000 1fb38linux.ko 31 0xc0ad6000 2890 mac_seeotheruids.ko 41 0xc0ad9000 4ad9c8 nvidia.ko 5 14 0xc0f87000 5d7f0acpi.ko 61 0xc1bb6000 2c000pf.ko So it hasn't loaded agp.ko (the documentation says that this is correct) and nvidia.ko is obviously loaded. I keep finding references to this problem but no definite resolution. Does anybody have any ideas about what to try next? Thanks, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgp642Q2spCfQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OpenGL + TNT2 + NVIDIA binary drivers
What about in Section Module - Load glx like: Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Yes, I already have that... Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype #Load speedo Load type1 EndSection Unfortunately, the log files aren't really much help: # grep -B 5 -A 5 Failed /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD There appears to be no earlier indication as to why it would fail to load GLX. -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpzHSLCbDHjL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any way to get an audio representation of packet flow?
D'oh...should be:
tcpdump -nl icmp |perl -e '$|=1;while(){print \a;}'
-Stephen
Great stuff. I can see some exciting things emerging upon piping this
into pure data!
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
Perhaps it's time to dig out my soundcard and put it in my desktop
machine.
Cheers,
Mark
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Re: Cheap, reliable mass storage
To clarify, I'm looking for long-term reliability, low cost and large space rather than high performance. I have a budget of around $600-900 to spend but I would not have to buy a PC as I have plenty of old machines (average spec: Intel P3 700mhz) laying around that would=20 probably be up to the job. You can buy lots of storage for $900... How much storage do you need? One way to do it. Take one machine, get 2 large drives for the data, one smaller drive for the OS and a CD-ROM drive. Send all the data to the first data drive and configure OS to sync second drive every 24 hours. If you have a pranoia about safety of the data on one machine, buy external drive enclosure. Attach external drive only when it is time to run a backup. Oops, that's quite an important bit of information to miss isn't it. I was hoping to grab around 1TB of storage, but I'm not sure how likely this is with the current budget. I was thinking of buying 4 x 300gb drives and a RAID card from Promise. I would then do as you'd advised and put a small 4gb drive in the machine with a mini-install of FreeBSD. Do you think there would be any problem with this? I'd like to get all issues ironed out before I go off spending... :) Mark pgpX8E4ZCfrvq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Cheap, reliable mass storage
Hi, this is possibly the most open question posted here to date. :) I'm looking to build/buy a large, low-access, long term storage solution for my home. I'm a musician primarily so my files mostly consist of lumps of audio. Ideally, I would like to be able to rsync files to it, so I think I'd probably be looking at a cheap old box with a stack of large hard disks and some kind of RAID controller, but can anybody suggest anything better? To clarify, I'm looking for long-term reliability, low cost and large space rather than high performance. I have a budget of around $600-900 to spend but I would not have to buy a PC as I have plenty of old machines (average spec: Intel P3 700mhz) laying around that would probably be up to the job. Obviously, I'd like it to be running FreeBSD... All suggestions welcome! Mark pgp7LH2qY8Uca.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 300GIG SATA drives
These Maxtor drives may well be flaky, but they are very widely available and frequently installed in commodity machines. Maxtor drives are flaky? Oh dear. How flaky? Mine is starting to get a bit noisy. Mark pgpvnwXSK9tOO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Formal question.
Hello! Good evening! My name is Tadeusz Polak and I from Poland. I'm studying the Informatics at www.pjwstk.edu.pl and I'm interested in publishing of the informations and advices about FreeBSD Operational System as a website. I'd like to ask about the publishing rights of the logo of the FreeBSD. 1. May I make some visual modifications of appearance of this logo on my own and used only on this website ? 2. What your requirements to be approved by you to have your official support and permission to do it ? The BSD daemon logo copyright is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick, details can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html As far as I know, he will not have any objection to you using the logo for your purposes, but obviously you should ask him. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpPchlbtZcqy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mac/FreeBSD shared drive, which filesystem to choose
I have an external firewire drive that I would like to use both with my Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.3.7) and FreeBSD 5.3. Ideally I would like read/write access from both machines. Both OSs support UFS. Mac OS X gives you the option to format your drive as UFS on installation but recommends HFS+. -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpHvHlFYSJhS.pgp Description: PGP signature
