Re: bogus No protocol specified message
CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: On 01/10/2013 05:09 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote: When trying to open an X application on a remote display, I am getting No protocol specified Error: cannot open display: 192.168.200.61:0 The No protocol specified message is bogus: the display is specified correctly*, and the same operation -- with exactly the same setting of DISPLAY -- was working yesterday ... What does that message actually mean, and how do I fix it? The error is with regards to the X protocol, not the TCP or UNIX socket protocol. Check that both sides have compatible and matching X authority information using xauth(1), or that the connecting host or user was allowed to connect using xhost(1). The problem does indeed have something to do with authority/permission, since xhost + fixes it. (Not the best solution, but sufficient to demonstrate where the trouble lies.) I still claim that the message is bogus. It's now perfectly clear that both ends know exactly what protocol to use, and they are using it -- else telling the server to accept all remote connections would have made no difference. The message should mention authority and/or permission, instead of pretending that the client can't figure out what protocol to use because none was specified. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about my new Dell 3010
perryh@fbsd61:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 Build Date: 24 March 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Nov 17 17:04:29 2011 (==) Using config file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout X.org Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (**) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.8 X.Org XInput driver : 0.5 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so (II) Module bitmap: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.so (II) Module pcidata: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8 (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7190 card , rev 03 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,7191 card , rev 03 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7110 card , rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 8086,7111 card , rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 8086,7112 card , rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 8086,7113 card , rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 1011,0024 card , rev 03 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 10b7,9055 card 1028,0082 rev 24 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1002,4742 card 1028,4082 rev 5c class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:09:0: chip 134d,7891 card 134d,0001 rev 02 class 07,03,04 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,2), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0088 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0xe000 - 0xefff (0x1000) IX[B] (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xfc00 - 0xfeff (0x300) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xf600 - 0xf6ff (0x100) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:15:0), (0,2,2), BCTRL: 0x0002 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus 2 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0xd000 - 0xdfff (0x1000) IX[B] (II) Bus 2 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xfb00 - 0xfbff (0x100) MX[B] (II) Bus 2 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xf500 - 0xf5ff (0x100) MX[B] (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X rev 92, Mem @ 0xfd00/24, 0xfcfff000/12, I/O @ 0xec00/8 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xf000
Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. This would be your problem. How so? Surely virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse, and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.) Fbsd8 fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com wrote: I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to install XP in the second half and have a duel boot config. Then I find out XP has to be install first on the HD ... The easiest solution might be to dd the first 100gb (containing the FreeBSD installation) to the second 100gb, mark the first 100gb as unused, and install XP there if it needs to be in the lowest- addressed part of the disk. Back up the FreeBSD installation first! Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: To access the XP graphics interface, you NEED a graphics environment! XP itself, when running directly on the hardware, provides its own graphics environment. It should be able to do the same running on a VM with a virtualized keyboard, mouse, and display. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: way way off topic
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent that I had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that either. here is the problem as best I can remember it. let's say that john is 8 and his older friend, jim, is 22. how much older is exact percentage terms is jim? That should be 22/8=2.75 Jim is 275% older than John No, a subtraction is needed if we wish to use the term older. Suppose Jim were 9; the above approach would give 9/8 = 1.125 so Jim is 113% older than John, which is clearly wrong (although one could correctly say in that case that John's age is 113% of Jim's age). I think the OP is probably looking for ((22 - 8) * 100 + (8/2)) / 8 which will give the answer directly as a correctly-rounded integral percentage. (For a fractional percentage, use floats instead of ints and omit the (8/2) part -- but in that case you probably also want to express the ages in something other than whole years.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts
Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? If I understand your question correctly, then AFAICT the only way to access serial ports over the network is with a piece of additional hardware, like a terminal server, for instance: http://www.perle.com/products/Terminal-Server.shtml?utm_source=ppcutm_medium=cpcutm_campaign=server I believe the OP wants to use a FreeBSD machine, that has several serial ports and a network connection, _as_ a terminal server. I can think of no reason why such an arrangement could not be made to work; the question is whether someone has already written the necessary FreeBSD code to accept a telnet/ssh/whatever connection, initiated by a Windows terminal-server driver, and _transparently_ connect the session to a serial port on the FreeBSD machine via tip(1) or some such. (If all that's needed is access from a Windows Command window, it is a simple matter of ssh-ing to the FreeBSD box and then running tip(1).) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question, I know :) Finding a Windows driver that will work with an existing FreeBSD program is certainly one possible approach. Another, which I understood to be the intent of the original inquiry, is finding a FreeBSD solution that will work with an existing Windows driver. There's surely no reason why a FreeBSD system _can't_ support a protocol originally developed by a hardware terminal server manufacturer, as vpnc does for the Cisco VPN protocol. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: MSDOS/PCDOS had no _documented_ functions to directly access the disks, bypassing the file system, but the functions _did_ exist. I'm sure you can provide the DOS 'function number' for those calls, and cites to published data confirming. They may have involved a dedicated INT or two, e.g. INT 25H and/or INT 26H, rather than INT 21H with a function number in AX. I could have provided specifics 25 years ago :) when I was involved with this stuff on a daily basis. I have no idea whether it was ever published, but it was well known to those of us who were using it in system-level utilities. The debugger's read sector and write sector commands used them, and I suspect chkdsk, scandisk, and format probably also used them although I never had occasion to verify one way or the other. My experince in porting MSDOS 3.1 to a non pc-clone architecture was that fdisk, format, chkdsk, debug, and sys all invoked INT 13H directly. I've got you beat in seniority :) I was mostly working on 2.x, and got out of the business somewhere around 3.1 or 3.2. I think I'd remember if our stuff had quit working when 3.x came along, but it's possible that those interfaces were only retained for compatibility -- to avoid breaking old 3rd-party code -- and that the MS userland had been revised to call the BIOS directly (since by then the market consisted almost entirely of PCs and clones -- decidedly not the case in the 2.0-2.1 timeframe). BTW fdisk _would_ always have had to use BIOS calls, or some other platform-specific mechanism, since the direct disk access in DOS was restricted to the DOS partition(s). The parameters were something like buffer address, logical drive number (0 = A:, 2 = C:, etc.), starting sector within the logical drive, and number of sectors. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: MSDOS/PCDOS had -no- O/S functions to directly access actual disk devices. The ONLY fuctionality provided to the user, by the O/S was filesystem based access. To get 'raw' device access, one had to bypass the O/S entirely, and use direct BIOS calls (INT 13h). FALSE TO FACT. MSDOS/PCDOS had no _documented_ functions to directly access the disks, bypassing the file system, but the functions _did_ exist. The debugger's read sector and write sector commands used them, and I suspect chkdsk, scandisk, and format probably also used them although I never had occasion to verify one way or the other. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: anoncvs password
Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: ... one should use today better svn, not cvs; Does svn work for (parts of) the ports collection, and is there a writeup somewhere on how to use it? It doesn't seem to have found its way into http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
anoncvs password
What is one supposed to enter when anoncvs prompts for a password? I have tried: * my email address, as I would use for anon FTP * ftp, as was once conventionally used for anon FTP * cvs (same idea, but mentioning the transport in use) * nothing -- just hit return None of these works. I get Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/anoncvs.html seems to say that anoncvs either should not require a password (Example A-2), or it should accept any password at all (the other examples). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?
Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com wrote: What I have been completely unable to find is a linux boot disk that has a version of restore that supports ext4. It's unclear to me how a version of restore that supports ext4 would differ from a version of restore that supports UFS. AFAIK restore (unlike dump) is FS-agnostic: it must understand the format of the dumpfile, but it needs no knowledge of how the FS is represented on disk because it uses ordinary system calls (open, write, etc.) to access the FS. What you _do_ need on that recovery disk -- along with a generic restore -- are ext4-aware versions of the kernel, fsck, mkfs, mount, and (arguably) dump. I am very hesitant to use a backup scheme that doesn't have a clear recovery path. +1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is ZFS production ready?
Edward M eam1edw...@gmail.com wrote: That reply was not meant for you, so why do you care? If it wasn't meant for everyone on the list, why was it sent to the list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing
Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: 3) the directories were moved at reboot by journal recovery, fsck or something else I think it's *extremely* unlikely that fsck was involved, because it just doesn't do things like that. It might move an orphaned directory (or file) to lost+found, but nowhere else. That's in addition to the fact that, as someone already mentioned, it asks before doing anything. I don't know enough about the details of journal recovery to comment on it as a suspect. That is what worries me, is that it wasn't just some random bit or cosmic ray, but the potential of happening again ... Any chance that your base system -- rather than one of the jails -- has somehow been cracked; maybe even that the cracker precipitated the crash? It might be wise to restore the whole system from backup, the base from a moderately old one since it doesn't change anyway, rather than trying to recover. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: System initialization
Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: I have several nearly identical servers in my network, and would like to control their configurations entirely from one file ... You might find sysutils/puppet useful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mounting ext2fs
Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: what does lsvfs show ? Maybe try: dd if=/dev/da0s1 count=20 of=/tmp/t ; file /tmp/t (it show interesting stuff on my /xp anyway ). Easier: file -s /dev/da0s1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mounting ext2fs
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: the problem with (this) cardreader seems to be that the card must already inserted at boot time; a later switch to another card, for example from a card with 'msdosfs' to a card with 'ext2fs', gives the problem in my first mail; don't know if this is a bug or feature :-) Try forced retasting after loading a card. true /dev/da0 and/or unplugging/replugging the reader, if it is hot-pluggable (e.g. USB). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:29:42 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 04/10/12 21:32, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mark Felderf...@feld.me wrote: Python on Planes is the future, mn. Shouldn't that be spelled plains, as in the places where the snake-containing grass grows? :-) Ha! One would think so, but with ruby on rails one would think that python on plains wouldn't sound anywhere near as exciting or appear too quick. That and a shaded reference to a certain similarly titled movie with Samuel L Jackson- corny! :D Should we modernize programming languages by putting them on something? Like awk on a anchor, C on a chimney or Java on Jambalaya? :-) Sather on sabattical? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Token Ring (really)
Jay West jw...@ezwind.net wrote: this is for a historical re-creation project ... I guess I'll have to see how tough it would be to yank the TR code from 7x and get it running under 9x. Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that corresponds to the historical era being re-created? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity
Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: Python on Planes is the future, mn. Shouldn't that be spelled plains, as in the places where the snake-containing grass grows? :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Music production on FreeBSD
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: And lately, even some of the timidity++ stuff isn't working right. The Xaw interface refuses to build/install properly, ever since the removal of X11BASE from the ports infrastructure. That should only require replacing X11BASE with LOCALBASE in the 3 port files where it appears: timidity++/Makefile.interface (3 places) timidity++-motif/Makefile timidity++-xaw/pkg-plist (2 places) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Questions about Jail
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: In most cases your jail environment will function ok as long as its the same base release level. Example, host=8.0 jail1=8.1 and jail2=8.2 IIUC, a better example would be host=8.2, jail1=8.1 and jail2=8.0. A point release is not supposed to make any incompatible changes to the kernel ABI, but it might add new interfaces not present in the older kernel. But host=8.2 and jail1=9.0 will have unknown reliability. I would say it is only an accident if (jail major kernel major) works, because the KABI will likely have changed between N.x and (N+1).x. However, host=9.0, jail1=8.x should work if the host kernel includes the COMPAT_FREEBSD8 option. Technically there is no checks stopping someone from doing this and from the outside all will look correct, but it will fail and you may lose both the host and jail. You may indeed lose the jail, but if _anything_ done in the jail is able to corrupt the host there is by definition a bug in the host's jail support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printer recommendation please
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Furthermore, there are means of encrypting print data ... Utterly irrelevant to the topic under discussion, which is the additional malware exposure that a PDF-accepting printer has relative to a printer that accepts only PCL and/or PS. FROM YOUR ORIGINAL POST: All the more reason to avoid wireless. (I had been thinking more along the lines of someone intercepting sensitive print files, e.g. tax returns, as they were being sent to the printer.) I think you must have missed the parentheses, and the had been. When I initially stated my distrust of wireless (in a post prior to the one you quoted here), I didn't specify a particular security- related reason, just general concern that it effectively bypasses the firewall. Here I note that Poly's concern about a printer being corrupted by receiving a malicious firmware update job is important, and acknowledge that my original concern about sniffing pales by comparison. I again restate my original statement that there exists means of encrypting data sent to a printer. Yes, provided the printer supports the corresponding decryption operation, but that capability is still irrelevant to the question of whether the printer's firmware can be corrupted by a malicious firmware update job. According to the report that Poly linked to, there are at least some printers that are vulnerable to that kind of attack. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: current pids per tty
ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote:
(there is an executable named /usr/bin/jobs, but . . .
well run cat /usr/bin/jobs see for yourself).
Whoa! Does /usr/bin/jobs even work?
$ cat /usr/bin/jobs
#!/bin/sh
# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/alias/generic.sh,v 1.2.10.1.4.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06
kensmith Exp $
# This file is in the public domain.
builtin ${0##*/} ${1+$@}
It looks as if generic.sh intends to have the same effect as the
builtin matching the name under which the script is run, but at
least for jobs I don't think it will DTRT because it will run
in the wrong context:
* The builtin jobs command will report all background jobs known
to the shell in which it is issued.
* Because it is a shebang script, running /usr/bin/jobs will cause
the shell in which it is run to fork/exec an instance of /bin/sh,
and that instance will execute the /usr/bin/jobs script, thus it
will will be the new /bin/sh instance that executes _its_ builtin
jobs command -- reporting nothing, since _that_ instance has not
put anything into the background (and has no knowledge of what-all
its parent shell may have put in the background).
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Re: Printer recommendation please
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Obviously you are not aware of the latest trend towards the movement to standardize PDF as the standard print format. I would recommend you start by reading the documentation located at: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting and continue on from there. That page seems to be concerned with using PDF, rather than PS, as a common intermediate print language in CUPS. I see nothing there relevant to sending PDF directly to a printer. While there might be some rational for your security concerns on a business network in regards to wireless networks, they are not really relevant on a home networks. The simple ease of use that a wireless network gives a user on a home network far outweigh any pseudo claims of espionage. Following that line of reasoning to its logical conclusion would lead one to believe that home networks have no need of any malware protection, e.g. anti-virus. Any ISP which has had to deal with incidents precipitated by customers' infected machines -- including but likely not limited to DDoS and spambots -- would likely disagree. Furthermore, there are means of encrypting print data ... Utterly irrelevant to the topic under discussion, which is the additional malware exposure that a PDF-accepting printer has relative to a printer that accepts only PCL and/or PS. I maintain that an attacker can more easily trick a less-than- paranoid user into sending a malware print file to a PDF-accepting printer than to a non-PDF-accepting printer, simply because PDF is such a commonly used distribution format. If someone prints a malware PDF file that they have downloaded, and the process of printing it does not require that it be transformed in any way (such as conversion to PS) before being sent to the printer, their only protection from disaster is whatever validation may be built into the printer itself. (Keep in mind that what started the malware discussion was Poly's link to a report stating that some printers do not sufficiently validate an update firmware job.) Granted the identical exposure exists for a PS printer if the downloaded malware file is identified as a PS file, however the risk is much less in practice because distribution of PS files is sufficiently uncommon that most unsophisticated users would have no idea what to do with one if they were to come across it. By the way, since you seem so concerned over your printers security, I assume that you all ready have it at least password protected. No need. I have no wireless at all -- everything is hardwired -- and I trust my firewall. There's no way for anyone to either sniff or inject anything from outside (i.e. without physical access to the network on the secure side of the firewall). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printer recommendation please
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:01:43 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I personally don't trust wireless, because it's well nigh impossible to truly secure it. In that case, one should also pay attention to secure the printer. Wait - secure the printer? What am I talking about? Firmware attacks! Yes - malware has already reached printers ... All the more reason to avoid wireless. (I had been thinking more along the lines of someone intercepting sensitive print files, e.g. tax returns, as they were being sent to the printer.) A printer connected to a hard-wired network, behind a firewall with no tunnelling to it allowed, is not going to get anything sent to it from outside. Granted this does not protect against malware jobs sent from a local machine, but it at least avoids having malware sent wirelessly to the printer by someone parked out front, thus there's one less pathway needing to be secured. It may also be a reason to _avoid_ printers that accept PDF directly. Since PDFs are often downloaded and printed, an attacker could post a bogus firmware download under an innocent-sounding name like manual.pdf leading someone to do $ fetch http://.../manual.pdf lpr manual.pdf Oops. However if said PDF has to first be locally converted to PS (e.g. by xpdf) before being sent to the printer, an attacker would have to (somehow) formulate a PDF that would cause xpdf to emit a PostScript file that looked to the printer like a firmware download. I don't know enough about either PDF or xpdf to say whether that's possible, but I imagine it would at least be a whole lot more difficult than in the direct PDF case. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printer recommendation please
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:38:36 +0200, Karel Miklav wrote: Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox Phaser 6500 looks nice ... Allow me to mention some things that are worth investing in. 1. Network connection. Don't bother with USB stuff. Buy a printer that offers Ethernet +1 and maybe also WLAN, I personally don't trust wireless, because it's well nigh impossible to truly secure it. 2. Standard language. Postscript and PCL. Make sure the printer understands at least one of them. or, alternatively, PDF (which some of the newer printers are reputed to take directly, rather than requiring the host to convert it to PS or PCL). 3. Laser printer. Don't believe that inkpee printers are genereally cheaper. They are not. +1, especially if used only occasionally. If I needed a monochrome printer this weekend, I'd head for the local Fry's where they're advertising the (network duplex capable) Samsung ML-2955ND for $80. I haven't used that model, but it looks very similar to the (network-capable, but no duplex) ML-2571N that's been working just fine since I got it a few years ago. The only excuse for using them is that you need photo quality color prints (requiring the proper paper, too). I've gotten quite adequate printing of digital-camera photos from a Xerox Phaser 6130 (about $400 a few years ago IIRC). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: When it comes to speech recognition, the only two applications that seem to work reliably at all levels are Siri on iPhone 4S and Dragon NaturallySpeaking, neither of which are obviously available on FreeBSD. I don't believe that there is even a *nix/BSD version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking in production. The Windows version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking is, however, reputed to work well on wine, which is in ports. One of the D-NS developers (or maybe it was a tech support person) was helping out on the wine-users forum for a while; I don't recall having seen her post there recently, but this _might_ be because D-NS is working so well with recent wine versions that no one needs help with it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: ... we're talking about almost 1000 systems here. That's a whole bunch of configuration... Had you considered using something along the lines of sysutils/puppet? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ?
jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: How can I edit the menus ? Also, how to rename Applications Menu to e.g. just Menu as it would better reflect applications and system (utilities) components ? FB9-release, XFCE 4.8 Dunno how FreeBSD's XFCE port does this since I don't use XFCE, but it could be using x11-wm/wmconfig. The manpage is reasonably descriptive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Brother Printer
Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: If you want to avoid such problems the only solution is to buy a printer with postscript or pdf support and direct network connection, that is an expensive one ... I've been using a Samsung ML-2571N for something like a couple of years now. It has a direct net connection, supports PostScript, directly supports both lpd and Bonjour (Mac) protocols, and cost something like $60 or $70 (US) at Fry's. Granted that was a sale price -- regular was probably around $100 -- but even $100 does not seem all that expensive. I don't see the ML-2571N on frys.com today -- the closest is the ML-2545 ($70, I think it uses the same engine but without network support and may not have PostScript). If I were choosing from today's Fry's list, I would probably pick the ML-2955ND ($130) which does duplexing. (They also have wireless models, but I would not trust wireless unless the printer and all its clients were inside a Faraday cage :) And no, I don't work for either Fry's or Samsung. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Converting C++ to C
Some early implementations of C++ operated as preprocessors that emitted C code. Is there any current tool that will do that? I didn't recognize any such option in the g++ manpage, although I suppose it's possible that one of the -fdump-tree- options would come close enough. Reason: I want to make what I think would be a fairly minor change to a small (1100-line) C++ program, but I don't know C++ -- only C -- and I don't understand the program well enough to mess with it. I suspect I would be able to figure out an equivalent C program. In case it matters, I'm using FreeBSD 8.1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: /usr/home vs /home
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:53:10 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: The RK05 had one removable platter in a plastic housing. Please compare the images of the drive and the media. Does it look similar? Removable platters types EC 5269 in plastic cartridge: http://www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/komponenten/datentraeger.htm#wechselplatte That looks like pictures I've seen of an RL cartridge. (I never dealt with actual RL hardware.) The RK-05 was front-loaded, not top-loaded. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the BIOS supports GPT/UEFI -- would surely keep it from booting into Windows. You'd probably have to take the drive out, and connect it to a different machine (since this one's BIOS seems hardwired to boot only from the hard drive). Another possibility would be to clear the machine's CMOS, if there's a way to do that. Desktop mainboards usually have a jumper for the purpose; dunno about Samsung laptops but removing the CMOS battery and giving it a few minutes for the stray capacitance to discharge should suffice. (Getting to the CMOS battery may involve taking the case apart.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing directly to IP address
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: I know it is possible; however, I cannot find any actual documentation under the printing section in the FreeBSD manual. If anyone could provide a link to such documentation, it would be appreciated. Provided the printer supports lpd protocol, i.e. it looks like a remote BSD machine operating as a print server, the setup is covered in the Networked Printing handbook section (as of 6.1 -- I don't seem to have any newer doc package installed). The comments in /etc/printcap are also useful, and there's some coverage in the Corporate Networker's Guide: Setting up LPR/LPD on FreeBSD and Printing from UNIX. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 'rm' Can not delete files
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:34:20AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote: I use bash 4. OK. So?? If you had read the thread before posting, you would have known that someone asked which shell Henry was using (and he answered). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 'rm' Can not delete files
Matthew Seaman freebsd-questi...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: ls -1 | xargs rm but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. True. Can't do that using ls to generate the list of filenames as there is no option to generate a null-separated list amongst ls's multitudinous collection. It can, however, be done indirectly :) $ ls -1 | tr '\012' '\000' | xargs -0 rm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror
Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: 1. The Guided partitioning doesn't suggest any more to create /var, /tmp, /usr, etc. file systems. Is it really the recommendation to go with just / ? Depends on who you ask :) and on your intended usage. 2. Is there a way to use the old sysinstall to install FreeBSD 9? Not using the standard distribution IIUC. You might want to look at http://druidbsd.sf.net/ 3. It seems that setting up gmirror is more involved with GPT (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1071); now I have a mirror for each of the filesystems /, /var, /tmp, etc. Is it OK to use gmirror in this way at all? Yes, indeed it is the only way to combine GPT and gmirror without getting into trouble of one sort or another. (The conflict between GPT and a full-disk gmirror is actually not new.) 4. Also, with GPT, one has to be in single user mode to synchronize disks - correct? Dunno about this one. 3. Assuming one has enough RAM, is zfs mirror or raidz recommended over gmirror? Same situation as with #1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fbsd safety of the ports
David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: TWiki is a nightmare to update ... TWiki was replaced with Foswiki (which is also in ports) at $WORK a while back. Dunno why, or how much of a job the changeover was for the admins, but there must have been some expected benefit to justify the effort. The change was largely transparent to users. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: perl mail problems
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Anything that works by connecting to an IMAP server and downloading all the new messages to hold and read locally really is missing the point. ... or is working around administrative issues, e.g. the mail recipient wants the mail stored locally, and the mail-server provides IMAP but not POP. BTW fetchmail is the canonical (although not the only) solution to this problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clang - what is the story?
kpn...@pobox.com wrote: Lattice C Later bought out by Microsoft IIRC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update and archs
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 21/01/2012 10:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my new Mac mini G4 ... If that's not an Intel based Mac, then your definition of new is, well, contrary to all accepted usage. s/new/newly acquired/ (I suspect). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fstab problem
Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: This is an old machine (1997), not sure it will boot from usb. I'll check. If it can boot from floppy, Plop will boot it from USB. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ?
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: For a nice backup system that works using rsync and that preserves filesystem history in a space efficient way by cunning use of hard links, take a look at rsnapshot -- http://rsnapshot.org/ Also in ports: sysutils/rsnapshot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?
Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: I accessed the sshd from the new install screen as an option when I loaded it on the test box. I had to set up the lan manually to first get it up. Then you should be able to use ssh. I take it you either arranged for ssh to accept a direct root login, or added a non-root username. Does the new installer do one of these automatically, or is there more manual configuration involved? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive
Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: ... no matter which computer I chose, and no matter how I setup the Slave/Master drive, as long as this drive which I had installed FreeBSD-9.0-amd64 was in the loop, the computer would lockup at the bios screen. I could not get anything to boot if this drive was in the loop. If you have an oldish machine with a spare PCI slot, you could try plugging in a PCI-IDE controller card and connect the drive to that. Many of the older BIOS won't look for drives on add-in controllers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
nss_ldap and the linuxulator
Forwarding to emulation@, which is where the linuxulator gurus hang out (AFAIK). Please keep Da Rock in the Cc: Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:59:57 +1000 From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nss_ldap and the linuxulator I've just run into this snag again which I've resolved back in 7.x/8.1: the linuxulator cannot handle nss lookups from ldap. I ran a search for nss_ldap fedora 10 and simply extracted from the rpm the libnss_ldap*.so* in the usr/lib into the corresponding directory under /compat/linux. One then only has to copy or setup the ldap.conf in /compat/linux/etc/ and change /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf so the it will check files and ldap as in the base. It works a charm when you have issues like the missus with acroread and others not working inexplicably. Run acroread from the command line will give you the clue: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id. This solution does fix this categorically. I hope this helps others, but I do have one question: why isn't this included in the ports already? I still haven't yet figured out cups and printer selection yet, but I have made some progress... :) Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reduce partition size. HELP
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: # cd /var # dump -0 -L -a -u -f - /dev/ad0s1a | restore -r -f - Make sure /var does _not_ contain directory names identical to those found on the / partition! As I said, maybe use /scratch. :-) Unless using a freshly newfs-ed partition, it will likely be safer to use restore -x instead of -r; see the description of -r in the restore(8) manpage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8 LiveFS - How To Start SSHD?
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: Jeff == Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com writes: Jeff It is the default behavior of sshd to reject root ... Jeff Just access your server with Jeff ssh your-login-name@your-server-ip-or-dns-address, Jeff and then issue su command to become root ... Or better yet, install sudo, which doesn't require you to share the root password with a group of people, reducing auditability. It makes all kinds of sense to avoid direct root logins to an installed system, but the OP was asking how to use ssh to connect to a system booted from a LiveCD -- which doesn't have any user logins. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AHCI driver and static device names
CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: On 12/14/2011 03:18 PM, Rob wrote: Case in point. I have a system with 15 drives in it. I decided I wanted to install on the 2nd device instead of the 1st, but I partitioned all the other 14 drives. I completed installation and when to boot the system and it failed. Stupid me, the GPT boot loader found disk1 with a partitioning scheme but no fs. So, I popped out disk 1 and when to boot again. Hey, now it starts to boot only to fail to find the root fs because it's looking on ada1 and the fs is on ada0. That is a mess. Sounds like a bug in the BIOS or boot loader. The boot loader should be able to ask the BIOS for the device from which it read the boot code, and use that instead of just naively using the first available device in the system ... The BIOS does pass the BIOS disk number (0x80, 0x81, ...) to the bootloader. That's fine as long as the bootloader is using BIOS calls to read the disk, but how does the BIOS disk number get mapped, reliably, to an OS device identification? The BIOS can't do it, because it knows nothing about the OS, so the OS would have to do it = the OS must know a lot of detail about every BIOS on which it will ever run. This does not seem very practical, and that's at least part of the reason why labels were invented. I suppose if someone wanted to track down the official way of solving this problem, they could look into how Windows handles it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installation difficulties
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version ... What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the -release package sets? 8.1 _is_ still supported (until sometime in 2012 IIRC), but ftp.freebsd.org seems to contain only 8.2-release and 8-stable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?
Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org!ch...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: ... that's a still image, a screenshot. Above that is a link labeled go to live camera - when you click on that, do you see live motion video? I don't even see that link. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: At least this gives me confidence that it can be done. I am still somewhat at a loss to know exactly _how_ it can be done however. For me, it just works. I installed 8.1-RELEASE (not all that long after it was released), installed FF and some other ports (using packages), and haven't done anything that I remember to get FF to work. However, as Chris Hill pointed out, I am only seeing the still image. I don't even see the link for a video stream. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'. ... http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/traffic/cameras/ Works for me on 8.1-RELEASE with FF 3.5.10 and these packages: ORBit2-2.14.18_1 libXxf86vm-1.1.0 OpenSSH-askpass-1.2.4.1libart_lgpl-2.3.21,1 Tee-3.4libdaemon-0.14 a2ps-letter-4.13b_4libdrm-2.4.12_1 aalib-1.4.r5_5 libexecinfo-1.1_3 atk-1.30.0_1 libffi-3.0.9 augeas-0.7.1_2 libfontenc-1.0.5 avahi-app-0.6.25_3 libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 base64-1.5_1 libgpg-error-1.7_1 bash-4.1.7 libiconv-1.13.1_1 bison-2.4.1_1,1libmikmod-3.1.11_2 bitstream-vera-1.10_4 libmodplug-0.8.8.1 bsdadminscripts-6.1.1 libogg-1.2.0,4 cairo-1.8.10_1,1 libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 cdrtools-2.01_8libutempter-1.1.5_1 chexedit-0.9.7 libvolume_id-0.81.1 comconsole-0.1 libvorbis-1.3.1,3 compat6x-i386-6.4.604000.200810_3 libxcb-1.6 compositeproto-0.4.1 libxml2-2.7.7 consolekit-0.4.1_3 m4-1.4.14_1,1 cups-client-1.4.3 mkfontdir-1.0.5 damageproto-1.2.0 mkfontscale-1.0.7 dbus-1.2.24_1 mtools-4.0.10_1 dbus-glib-0.86_1 nspr-4.8.2 dd_rescue-1.14 open-motif-2.2.3_6 ddrescue-1.11 openoffice.org-2.4.3_2 desktop-file-utils-0.15_2 p5-Algorithm-Diff-1.1902 diskcheckd-20010823_5 p5-Date-Manip-5.56 dmidecode-2.10 p5-FileHandle-Unget-0.1623 dosbox-0.74p5-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser-1.5002_1 dri2proto-2.2 p5-Text-Diff-1.37 eggdbus-0.6_1 p5-TimeDate-1.20,1 en-freebsd-doc-20100625pango-1.28.0_1 encodings-1.0.3,1 pciids-20091229 etcmerge-0.4 pcre-8.02 expat-2.0.1_1 perl-5.10.1_1 facter-1.5.8 physfs-2.0.1 firefox-3.5.10,1 pixman-0.16.6 fixesproto-4.1.1 pkg-config-0.23_1 flac-1.2.1_2 pkg_tree-1.1_2 font-bh-ttf-1.0.1 png-1.4.3 font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.1 policykit-0.9_6 font-misc-meltho-1.0.1 polkit-0.96_2 font-util-1.0.2portmaster-2.32 fontconfig-2.8.0,1 printproto-1.0.4 freetype2-2.3.12 pstree-2.33 fvwm-2.5.30_1 psutils-letter-1.17_2 gamin-0.1.10_4 puppet-2.6.4 gconf2-2.28.1_1python26-2.6.5 gdbm-1.8.3_3 randrproto-1.3.1 gettext-0.18_1 rdate-1.3 ghostscript8-8.71_2renderproto-0.11 ghostview-1.5_2rsync-3.0.7 gio-fam-backend-2.24.1_1 ruby-1.8.7.302,1 glib-2.24.1_1 ruby18-gems-1.3.7 gnome-mime-data-2.18.0_4 ruby18-iconv-1.8.7.302,1 gnome-vfs-2.24.3_1 rubygem-ruby-augeas-0.3.0 gnome_subr-1.0 rxvt-2.6.4_5 gnomehier-2.3_12 samba34-libsmbclient-3.4.8 gnutls-2.8.6_1 screen-4.0.3_7 gobject-introspection-0.6.14 scripts-1.0.1 grepmail-5.3033sdl-1.2.14_1,2 gsfonts-8.11_5 sdl_net-1.2.7 gtk-2.20.1_2 sdl_sound-1.0.3_4 hal-0.5.14_8 shared-mime-info-0.71_1 heirloom-mailx-12.4_3 smartmontools-5.39.1 hicolor-icon-theme-0.12smiley-4.0 ical-2.2_3 smpeg-0.4.4_8 inputproto-2.0 speex-1.2.r1_3,1 jasper-1.900.1_9 sudo-1.7.3 jbigkit-1.6t1lib-5.1.2_1,1 jpeg-8_3 talloc-2.0.1 kbproto-1.0.4 tcl-8.4.19_3,1 lcms-1.19_1,1 tiff-3.9.4 lftp-4.0.9 timidity-0.2i_1 libGL-7.4.4tk-8.4.19_2,2 libGLU-7.4.4 traceroute-991603 libICE-1.0.6,1 tree-1.5.3 libIDL-0.8.14_1unzip-6.0 libSM-1.1.1_1,1unzoo-4.4_2 libX11-1.3.3,1 vim-lite-7.2.411 libXau-1.0.5 wget-1.12_1 libXaw-1.0.7,1 wgetpaste-2.17 libXcomposite-0.4.1,1 wine-1.2,1 libXcursor-1.1.10 xauth-1.0.4 libXdamage-1.1.2 xbitmaps-1.1.0 libXdmcp-1.0.3 xcb-util-0.3.6_1 libXext-1.1.1,1xextproto-7.1.1 libXfixes-4.0.4xf86vidmodeproto-2.3 libXft-2.1.14 xineramaproto-1.2 libXi-1.3,1
Re: Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?
Hugh bo...@gmail.com wrote: A question i've got is where i can find the default PACKAGESITE value? It seems to be hardcoded in usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c (line 318 in the 8.1 version). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Command which does not work anymore?
Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: dd with a bs= option tells dd to use read() syscalls with a 10mb size, but ssh is going to feed it data in much smaller chunks ... Try using a smaller blocksize (8k or 4k), or use a buffering program like ports/misc/team or misc/buffer just in front of your dd command, so that dd always sees block-sized writes from its stdin stream. or specify something along the lines of obs=126b instead of bs=, so that dd will reblock the data itself. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AHCI driver and static device names
CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: You cannot combine GPT with glabel (or any other geom class that writes data to the first or last 34 sectors of a disk, like gmirror) due to layout conflicts. This is overstated. Since a GPT ordinarily is intended to be booted from, and so must be recognized by the BIOS, it must be written directly on the actual drive -- the rank 1 provider in GEOM terms -- because that is the only way for the GPT metadata to be located where the BIOS expects to find it (at both the beginning and the end of the drive). It is, however, possible to combine GPT with gmirror, gjournal, etc. by using GPT partitions, rather than drives, as providers for the other geoms. For example, create a mirror from ad0p1 and ad2p1 rather than from ad0 and ad2. Similarly, it should be possible to glabel a GPT partition -- although this seems unlikely to be useful in practice since GPT provides its own labelling scheme. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Whats the difference between password+RSA, and password-protected RSA ?
Mm Bsd mmbsd1...@yahoo.com wrote: Let's say I'd like to add a small amount of extra security to my SSH login process. Let's say I decide the way I want to do this is by requiring BOTH a password and an RSA key ... So to log in, I would be required to enter a normal unix password, but I would ALSO be required to hold a proper RSA public key. My question is this: In terms of security (and correctness ?) what's the difference between this (unix password + SSH RSA key) and simply generating my RSA key *with* a password ? Both ways require me to have something and know something, but they are obviously different, technically. Suppose you are a bank branch manager, and consider your RSA key as the combination to the vault. (Also suppose that you are the only person authorized to open the vault, and that the combination is complicated enough that you can't just remember it -- it has to be written down.) Normal file security (chmod 400) is like storing the paper, on which the combination is written, inside your locked (personal) office. Someone other than you, e.g. the janitor, may have a key to your office. Protecting the RSA key with a password is like locking the paper in your desk (which is in your locked office). Only you have a key to the desk. Requiring a login password in addition to the RSA key is like adding a second, interior door -- to which you have the only key -- to the vault. That second door is nowhere near as strong as the main vault door, but it does provide some additional protection. There's no reason in principle why you can't protect your RSA key with a password, and also require a (different) password for login in addidion to the RSA key. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?
Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted filesystems on your machine. $ mount | grep proc procfs on /proc (procfs, local) *NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem. It is merely a _directory_ with a bunch of 'special' files in it. I'm confused here. In what way isn't /proc a separate filesystem? It's even called procfs. It's Bonomi who is confused. I suspect he doesn't have procfs configured -- so of course its mountpoint is just a directory -- *on his system*. The OP _does_ have procfs configured, or the question wouldn't have arisen. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Webmail for local system mail
Errol Sayre esa...@olemiss.edu wrote: Does anyone know of a webmail product that can provide access to local system accounts? Even if it's just a script that runs /usr/bin/mail on behalf of the user. I'd like a simple way to access local system emails without having to forward them to an actual mailbox somewhere. Er, /var/mail/$USER _is_ an actual mailbox. Depending on what mechanism the webmail client(s) use to access mailboxes, you might need to install a POP or IMAP server. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to login to my jail from host itself (normal user)
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: If you can rely on your user to follow instructions, then you can just tell them to 'ssh jailhost' immediately they login to the host ... Might it work equally well, and avoid the dependency on following instructions, to put exec ssh jailhost in this user's .login on the real host? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?
C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote: ... Linux uses System V style Init. It's BASED on SunOS. Linus Torvalds said that when he started working on Linux, his reason for doing so, was that he wanted to run on HIS computer, the same thing he had been using at the University, which, was SunOS. He said his early inspiration for Linux was SunOS. Just because it uses System V init doesn't mean it's actually based on it... Yes, but I guess that Linus probably used early versions of SunOS 4 which were not only BSD-based, but also not yet SysV-ied. If the inspiration for Linux was SunOS, it had to have been one of SunOS 3.x, SunOS 4.x aka Solaris 1.x, or SunOS 5.x aka Solaris 2.x. * SunOS 3.x and 4.x are ports of BSD 4.2 and/or 4.3 to Sun hardware. * SunOS 5.x is a port of System V Release 4 to Sun hardware -- and SVR4 was supposed to be the integration of BSD with the ATT code base (although there's wide belief that BSD got the short end of the stick). Either way that leaves Linux as inspired by BSD, directly or indirectly. Whatever the inspiration, my understanding is that the detailed _specification_ came from SysV -- the original Linux having been Linus' independent reimplementation of the System V Interface Definition -- and that's the reason for it having used the SysV initialization approach. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: My assumption still is: Not _every_ keyboard manufacturer does code the layout into the USB identification. If you tell me I'm wrong with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-) Folks are supposed to use a different product ID for different devices, so you can uniquely identify them. I can't promise that every vendor handles this perfectly, any more than folks always ensured that PCI ids uniquely identified a specific hardware version, but one should blame the vendor for being brain-damaged in such cases; it isn't a fault of the USB standard If someone manufactures a single type of keyboard -- using only one type of ASIC, one PCB/keyswitch layout, one kind of housing, etc. -- I'd say it is very much open to interpretation whether snapping on a different collection of keycaps makes it into a different product. Even if the manufacturer tried to cover for the possibility, e.g. by providing a jumper on the PCB which is supposed to be set according to the installed set of keycaps, there will still be cases where an end user replaces or rearranges the keycaps to change the layout and doesn't change the jumper setting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sed vs gnu sed
Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1]) appends a newline when writing to standard out, gnu sed doesnt. The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from -- Tanenbaum is there any easy way to make our sed do the same as gnu sed here? As long as it is OK to remove _all_ newlines -- which seems to be the case here -- you could pipe the output through tr -d '\012' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Burning CD
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:59:23 -0800 (PST), C Horman bjh...@yahoo.com wrote: Pentium 4, with 400MB of RAM and 2G harddrive. There is no other operating system on the computer. When I put the CD in to boot I get the message Non System disk - disk error ... The _first_ thing to check is the list of 'boot devices' in the computer's BIOS. Make sure the CD Drive islisted. Not just listed, but listed _ahead_ of the hard drive in the boot sequence. That Non System disk ... message is what an empty or data-only disk will produce if it is booted. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want
Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: the protocol used by OpenVPN would not work whatsoever with Cisco equipment ... That's what security/vpnc is for :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: The ports are really funcional?
Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: I have always suspected that unknowingly utilizing the already out-of-date tree from the initial install is probably what causes most newcomers' problems with ports. My experience is exactly the opposite. The biggest problem I've had with ports came from trying to follow the recommended approach of updating the tree after installing, before trying to build anything. In retrospect, I'm not at all sure why anyone would be surprised at this finding -- or why update it first would be recommended. The ports tree is known to be buildable and self-consistent when packages are built for a release, and that version of the tree is distributed with the release. If something won't build on a freshly-installed -RELEASE, but the build cluster _was_ able to build the package, there pretty much has to be something wrong with the local installation. Updating the ports tree can't possibly fix such a problem, whatever it may be, and just complicates the situation by introducing more variables. My approach is to install using the known-good ports tree from the release, get the system operational, and _then_ consider updating. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: idletime in login.conf
Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey thus spake: Suggestion: use send-pr to submit a diff to add SEE ALSO ports/sysutils/doinkd to man login.conf I don't believe it is the correct place in a base man page for mentioning a port in the FreeBSD tree, or in at least this case. Perhaps the Handbook would be a better place. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is questions mail down?
Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote: On 11/01/11 21:48, Al Plant wrote: I havent recieve any FreeBSD questions Sunday Monday tuesday. No nov reminder either. Is the service broken? Works like charm here. Did you try to subscribe again just to check your account was not accidentaly unsubscribed? And of course you checked your spam bucket? Might be worth logging into the subscription page to see if delivery got suspended due to bounces. A notification is sent when this happens, but it might also bounce :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The program stops responding to further input until the printer has received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that they came up with lpd/lpr ... Back when lpr/lpd were first written, it was not just a matter of the printer receiving the entire print job but of (nearly) the entire job being completely printed. Few printers had more than a one-line buffer in those days. There was also the matter of sharing the printer among a considerable number of concurrent users, those being the days of multiuser PDP-11's and VAXen. BTW there was nothing particularly innovative about lpr/lpd -- mainframes like IBM 360's and even 7090's had been using print spoolers for years. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Companies that develop printers want money. They need to continuously sell printers ... This seems to be becoming less and less accurate. It has long been the case that consumer-grade ink-blot printers are sold below cost -- the money being made by selling ink cartridges. In recent years, some manufacturers of laser printers seem to be adopting this business model also. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: strange behavior of restore(8)
Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: if there are a lot of files, restore needs quite a bit of RAM. It might need less to extract (restore -x) than to restore (restore -r) -- but that only works if there's no need to load an incremental afterwards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD
Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Why would you post about freebsd on opensolaris' list is beyond me. Presumably because opensolaris is the ZFS upstream. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: need to check for hex in C: how/
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: '32/' is not any sort of syntax I've ever seen before to indicate hexadecimal. I suspect it's a typo, intending '32.' My fingers are forever mixing up slashes and periods, since the keys are adjacent (on a US/English keyboard, dunno about other arrangements). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8.1/amd64: Boot from eSATA drive (external)?
Martin Schweizer lists_free...@bluewin.ch wrote: I'v got a notebook (HP Elite 2560p) which can boot from an exteral eSATA drive. Can FreeBSD boot from there? Is it supported? It seems as if it should work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Very large swap
Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com wrote: This is a proof-of-concept project ... I am doing it on the cheap ... I have committed to the project five machines. Three run over clocked Phenom II x6 processors with 16GB of RAM, 1TB disk for the OS, 1TB disk for Junk, and a 3-2TB disk RAIDz array ... These machines are liquid cooled ... A data manipulation server is running an i7 x4 with 24GB of fast RAM. It has 12 2TB disks, 2 1TB disks (OS), plus a few SSDs ... A repository server is an i7 x6 3.3GHz with 24GB of RAM, several volumes, two of which are RAIDz, SSDs, and other junk ... If that's on the cheap, I shudder to think what would be considered expensive. I've seen a whole server room with less horsepower and disk than that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )
free...@top-consulting.net wrote: C. TEST3 ( sequential writing ): bonnie++ -d /data -c 10 -s 8088 -n 0 -u 0 1. UFS + gjournal crashed the box This _might_ have been caused by a too-small journal provider. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?
Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote: Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=107491647 That message is reporting a problem in communication between the drive and the controller (or, perhaps, between the controller and main memory), not a problem reading the media, so the LBA is likely not all that useful (esp. since, if you got no other messages, the retry succeeded so no data was lost). What does egrep 'ad[0-9]|ata' /var/run/dmesg.boot report? # dd if=/dev/ad6 of=/dev/null bs=1m seek=107491647 count=1 dd: /dev/null: Inappropriate ioctl for device Another question: why does it fail? seek= applies to the output file, so it tried to do a seek on /dev/null :) You probably wanted skip= (or iseek=). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?
Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote: Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=107491647 ... What does ??egrep 'ad[0-9]|ata' /var/run/dmesg.boot report? atapci0: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port 0x20b8-0x20bf,0x20cc-0x20cf,0x20b0-0x20b7,0x20c8-0x20cb,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0xe0284000-0xe02843ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 atapci0: [ITHREAD] ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata3: [ITHREAD] ad4: 238475MB Seagate ST9250315AS 0001SDM1 at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA ad6: 476940MB Seagate ST9500325AS 0001SDM1 at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad6s1a Different hardware than mine, so my w/a may not help. If it's only happened the one time, you may want to just write it off as a glitch. If it happens frequently, or you start getting unrecovered failures, you could _try_ atacontrol mode ad6 UDMA66 Slowing down the transfer rate may make it more tolerant of electrical noise, bad cabling, etc. This approach worked for me, but on a PATA (not SATA) port and using a different type of controller (a VIA 6421). smartd also reports this: Aug 31 10:41:04 da smartd[886]: Device: /dev/ad6, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 184 End-to-End_Error. I found this explanation: http://kb.acronis.com/content/9119 So disk is dying? Or is it cable. I have no physical access to the server at the moment. I'll leave the SMART analysis to those who are familiar with it :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=107491647 ... I looked at bsdlabel a it's partition f, /home. But what is the file name? There's *no* easy way to find out. You'll have to grovel through all the filesystem metadata, and the layers of index blocks for every file until you find the 'rgiht' one. This is what icheck -B was for, but icheck(8) no longer exists and that particular bit of functionality does not seem to be provided in fsck(8). One current userland utility (other than fsck) which does know how to grovel through the metadata and index blocks is dump(8), but you'd have to hack on it to report which inode was using a particular block. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
editors/zim
Forwarding to ports@, which seems more likely to yield an answer to this particular inquiry than questions@ Please keep the OP, who is probably not subscribed to ports@, in the Cc: list. Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:52:12 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com To: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: editors/zim Hi, I have a problem with Zim which I wrote to the author about he replied and said; I'm afraid version 0.29 is no longer supported. This was the last version in the Perl branch, since we moved to Python there have been already 10 more releases. So please try the latest version (0.52). Are there any plans to bump it to Python and a recent release? I emailed the maintainer a while back but got no response. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bridged wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2
Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com wrote: After some more head scratching, it sounds like what I want is a bridge. Reading if_bridge(4), the first example looks a lot like what I am trying to do. ... Did I misread this? Does sending packets between two physical interfaces require a bridge? It requires either a bridge or a router. Which one you need depends on your and your ISP's setups. One thing to check is your terms of service (or whatever your ISP calls it). Unless you're paying commercial rates, they most likely limit you to a single IP address, in which case you _have_ to have a router* -- and almost certainly NAT -- somewhere between your LAN and the ISP. A bridge connects two (or more) segments of a single subnet: from an IP-addressing standpoint it's not much different from a hub or a switch. BTW, for your own protection, you also need a firewall. Home gateways like the WRT54G are usually set up to provide NAT, routing, and firewalling. * unless you have only one IP-addressed device on your LAN, in which case it can just go ahead and use the one IP address. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Support for Bigfoot Killer E2100?
Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com wrote: Does FreeBSD support this chipset? http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/assets/Company/Media-Center/Datasheets/Final-Killer-E2100-Datasheet.pdf That has got to be the most pathetic excuse for a Datasheet I have ever seen. (Any of the major suppliers would have called it a Product Brief or some such.) Vastly more technical detail would be needed to even contemplate writing a driver. The only drivers I found on their site are for Windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? Yes, provided the existing filesystem is not using the last block of its provider (partition), but you'll have to put the journal on a separate provider from the data. See the explanation of the -s switch in gjournal(8) to determine the necessary size of the journal provider, but don't specify -s in the gjournal label command because the size of the journal is implicitly set by the the size of its provider when separate from the data provider. (-s is used when a single provider is used for both journal and data.) Also read the explanation of the -f switch, but don't actually specify -f unless you are sure you know what you're doing :) Something like this [untested]: # umount [existing filesystem] # gjournal label [existing filesystem] [journal provider] # tunefs -J enable -n disable [existing filesystem].journal # mount -o async [existing filesystem].journal [mountpoint] and edit /etc/fstab accordingly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: new to os
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: You might, for example, still have your copy of WP 5 -- I do. But printers that work with the printer drivers are now museum pieces ... With the notable exception of PostScript printers. WP5 probably had a driver for the Apple LaserWriter, and -- while actual LaserWriters from that era are in the museum category -- the output from a LaserWriter driver will usually work on newer PostScript printers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Group permissions are broken?
Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: User john is a member of both webcamd and vboxusers: # grep john /etc/group webcamd:*:145:john vboxusers:*:920:john When the file /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john can touch it ok: $ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch ?/tmp/my-test -rw-rw ?1 vboxusers ?vboxusers ?0 Aug 15 12:54 /tmp/my-test But when /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john gets an error: $ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch ?/tmp/my-test -rw-rw ?1 webcamd ?webcamd ?0 Aug 15 13:02 /tmp/my-test touch: /tmp/my-test: Permission denied Why does this error occur? Two groups seem identical. Just different group ids. /tmp has the sticky bit set. man 8 sticky On my 8.1 system, sticky(8) says: A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes ... a directory in which the _deletion_ of files is restricted. A file in a sticky directory may only be _removed_ or _renamed_ if ... [emphasis added] Nothing there about the sticky bit changing the permissions required to _overwrite_ a file, which is the subject of the current inquiry. Even if the sticky bit _did_ have some effect on overwriting a file, how would that explain the _different_ behavior of the two cases shown? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MFP recommendations
Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/11 Michael cada...@tucu.net On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:51 AM, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2011/8/10 Jon Theil Nielsen jonth...@gmail.com ... my main goal is to be able to print over the network via my FreeBSD station ... If you buy something like an Lexmark X543, you'll get all the features you want and it connects directly to your LAN ... ... both the physical size and the price are too much. Small, inexpensive, networked laser that works well with FreeBSD: Samsung ML-2571N. Being a PostScript printer it should work with pretty much anything -- if an OS has no entry for it, the entry for Apple LaserWriter should work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: more information
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Do I get a cookie? Only if you visit a web site that uses them, and have them enabled in your browser :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg at 100%CPU when browser is on
C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: ... when mplayer plays some (rare) video files. Xorg then stays at 100% CPU, and it is impossible to kill it, neither from the inside, nor from the outside (logged in via ssh) with SIGKILL. Only a reboot helps here. An unkillable process is almost certainly hung in a driver, and in this case I would strongly suspect it is a video driver. Can you break to KDB (or get a dump) and get a ps listing and a traceback of the hung process? That may enable someone familiar with the particular driver involved to debug it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot
Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com wrote: A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing list that is available via an online archive... your terms are violated just by sending an email to this mailing list. Not necessarily. It says [emphasis added]: The contents of this eMail ... should not be disclosed to, ... anyone _other than the intended addressee(s)_ ... Any _unauthorized_ review ... is strictly prohibited ... I don't see a problem provided the archived mailing list is considered to be among the intended addressee(s) and the sender is considered, by the act of sending it to an archived list, to have authorized the archiving (and implicitly any subsequent use of the archive). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ATA troubles
Jerome Herman jher...@dichotomia.fr wrote: Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel: ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=1671887488 Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel: g_vfs_done():stripe/backup[READ(offset=1712012836864, length=131072)]error = 5 ... since they are ATA drives make sure you are using 80pins ribbons and that DMA is properly activated in BIOS. You can also try to reduce DMA level, it must be on UDMA5 by default, try using UDMA 4 (aka UDMA/66) or UDMA 3. I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller -- a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed from UDMA133 to UDMA100. Evidently it is possible, under some circumstances, for a device and controller to negotiate a speed that's too high to actually work :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ATA troubles
Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: On 07/25/11 16:03, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller -- a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed from UDMA133 to UDMA100. ... I don't know if this is really effective with SATA... Nor do I; my problem involved a PATA device. Dmesg reports for SATA devices include a UDMAxx notation in addition to the SATA speed notation, but I don't know its significance. ad0: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLAT80 V54OA4NA at ata0-master UDMA66 ad1: 32253MB MAXTOR 6L040L2 A93.0500 at ata0-slave UDMA66 ad4: 61136MB PATRIOT MEMORY 64GB SSD 02.10104 at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s acd1: DVDR PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-212D/1.24 at ata3-master UDMA66 SATA 1.5Gb/s ad8: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLAT80 V54OA4NA at ata4-master UDMA133 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings it might be somewhat useful to me ... There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved in setting it up, but if someone were sufficiently motivated it would presumably be possible to develop an app to provide access to bash (and thence any other desired command-line tools). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to add sio to 8.2 ?
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep traps? sio(4) was replaced by uart(4) as part of the Giant retirement. Depending on what you need that uart(4) does not currently have, it might be easier to improve uart(4) than to resurrect sio(4). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: The perfect computing device would fit in a pocket, have a screen the size of your wall, have a full (and full-sized) keyboard, and your choice of pointing devices. It would be able to play any game you wanted to play, hold every movie and song ever recorded along with your entire lifetime's collection of documents, and be able to access the Internet from anywhere. It would only need to be recharged as often as you sleep. (And would be able to recharge anywhere.) It would also be fully encrypted and keyed to your fingerprint or retinal scan, so that no thief would be able to extract anything from it, and the encrypted files would be backed up automatically whenever it was recharged to guard against data loss in case of loss, theft, damage, malfunction, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: scrpt help neded...
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I'm looking for a script that takes on arg and lets me vi/vim
into the r esults. Let's say that I'm looking for the string
201107 in a slew of files. the script find it with grep---not
grep -w, just grep. collect es the filenames and lines (grep -n)
and saves then temporarily, then points vim or vi at each
file+linenumbr and execs it for me. the fewer keystrokes, the
better.
To edit each file that contains 201107:
$ vi ` grep -l 201107 {files to be searched} `
That won't pre-position within the files, but since it's a single
invocation of vi, with each subsequent file being loaded by :n, a
search pattern will persist (unless/until you replace it by entering
a different search pattern). At the top of the first file, you enter
/201107
to find the first instance, n to find the second, etc. After :n
-- at the top of the second file -- n alone will find the first
instance.
OTOH if you want to bring up an xterm containing _the results of
the grep_ you can pipe it into the attached script. There is no
manpage, but the comments and the (straightforward) parameter
decoding should provide a start. (There are a few magic numbers,
which ideally should be tweaked for your X11 installation's font
dimensions, but nothing horrible will happen if they are slightly
off.)
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
# The maxl and maxw calculations involve magic numbers, which ideally
# ought to be extracted from xterm and window-manager settings rather
# than being hard-coded. Good luck figuring out a way to do that.
#
# The xterm font is 6w x 13h
#
# visible title bar height incl top frame = 29 pixels
# + xterm margin inside frame = 1 pixel
# + bottom frame margin = 8 pixels (same as frame widths below)
# + window-manager shadow = 1 pixel
# = height available for text = screen height - 39 pixels
#
maxl=`(xwininfo -root | sed -n -e 's/ Height: //p' ; echo 39 - 13 / p) | dc`
#
# visible frame width = 7 pixels
# + xterm margin inside frame = 1 pixel
# * 2 sides = total width of side frames = 16 pixels
# + window-manager shadow = 1 pixel
# = width available for text = screen width - 17 pixels
#
maxw=`(xwininfo -root | sed -n -e 's/ Width: //p' ; echo 17 - 6 / p) | dc`
# maxw should be used in conjunction with the max line length found in the
# file to automatically set the width (as is already being done for the length).
# Set defaults
w=80
l=0
n=stdin
flags=
n_is_default=1
w_is_default=1
# Handle flag params
while [[ $1 == -?* ]] ; do
case $1 in
-w )
shift
w=$1
w_is_default=0
;;
-w* )
w=${1#-w}
w_is_default=0
;;
-l )
shift
l=$1
;;
-l* )
l=${1#-l}
;;
-n )
shift
n=$1
n_is_default=0
;;
-n* )
n=${1#-n}
n_is_default=0
;;
* )
flags=$flags $1
esac
shift
done
# Check for no params = stdin, or 1st param of - (explicit stdin), and
# if so copy stdin to a file since there seems no way to get it passed to
# the less which will be running in the xterm. Note that - will not
# work as any but the first non-flag parameter.
if [ x$1 == x -o $1 == - ] ; then
cat /tmp/xless$$
shift
if [ $l == 0 ] ; then
l=`(head -$maxl /tmp/xless$$ | fold -w$w | wc -l ; echo \1 + d [$maxl p
q] sa $maxl a p q\) | dc`
fi
xterm -geometry ${w}x$l +sb -sl 0 -title $n - `pwd` -n $n $flags -e sh
-c less /tmp/xless$$ $* ; rm /tmp/xless$$
else
[ $n_is_default == 1 ] n=`basename $1`
if [[ $w_is_default == 1 $1 == *.w=* ]] ; then
w=`echo $1 | sed -e 's/^.*\.w=//'`
[ $n_is_default == 1 ] n=`echo $n | sed -e 's/\.w=.*$//'`
fi
if [ $l == 0 ] ; then
l=`(head -$maxl $1 | fold -w$w | wc -l ; echo \1 + d [$maxl p q] sa
$maxl a p q\) | dc`
fi
xterm -geometry ${w}x$l +sb -sl 0 -title $1 - `pwd` -n $n $flags -e
less $*
fi
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Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com wrote: If it's not connected at 1 gigabit or not full duplex you can force it with ifconfig. If there are too much errors check the cable. Last I heard, this does _not_ work with gigabit unless you can force-configure both ends of the link. The negotiation protocol is such that force-configuring just one end _guarantees_ a mismatch. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: ... can a HAL be developed that runs on BSD that emulates Winblow$ such that any driver written for Winblow$ will work on *BSD? ... Something in the back of my head says there was / is something along this line already available or in the works, but I can't recall for sure. I _think_ we may already have something along these lines for NDIS (network) drivers, but I don't know how well it works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergstr??m wrote: I hope gnome does [go Linux-only].. Maybe then more people would forget about it and focus on making KDE better ;) ... What about enlightenment? For us old-timers :) What's the advantage of any of these desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, enlightenment, Xfce) over ordinary X11 with (say) FVWM2 or TWM? Certainly there are some useful apps that, for better or worse, are built with gtk or the KDE toolkit, but what does the full-blown environment really contribute (other than bloat)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.comwrote: ... Name one cloud provider providing FreeBSD 8x or 9X to run as instances. I know of one coming... question is are there others There are plenty already. Rootbsd for one, among others ... Im pretty sure they are only XEN based and not cloud based per se, as there appears to be no elasticity on demand, Granted RootBSD is nice but on demand expansion of memory, cpu and disk under ones control is more what i would describe as FreeBSD in the cloud, Perhaps a Linux cloud instance can be depenguinated? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: snip specific suggestions re awk(1), file(1), find(1), grep(1), etc. All well and good for locating files of a certain format and/or with particular content, but it doesn't address the question of whether a specific copy is legal, i.e. did the user who put it there have the legal right to put it there? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
