Re: EOL
Am 29.03.2013 16:19, schrieb David Thurber: I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. RHEL: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/1/red-hat-enterprise-linux-stability-drives-demand-for-more-flexibility-in-long-term-operating-system-deployments If you don't need/want support, there is CentOS (a RHEL clone): http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d And another RHEL clone: https://www.scientificlinux.org/ cu, Uwe ___ 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: bash instead of csh (completely)
Am 04.06.2010 20:56, schrieb Stefan Miklosovic: title says it, i would like completely remove csh and install bash instead. As far I know, csh is build in system, could I remove it manually and install bash (of course, in reverse order :D) What do you want to achieve with this? Installing shells/bash from ports followed by a "chsh" or "vipw" is not sufficient? If you really want a system without csh please have a look at src.conf(5) which has the knob you want: WITHOUT_TCSH Set to not build and install /bin/csh (which is tcsh(1)). If you add "WITHOUT_TCSH=YES" to your /etc/src.conf you probably can get rid of csh after the next buildworld with the commands "make delete-old; make delete-old-libs" Uwe ___ 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: upgrading squeezeboxserver
Am 30.05.2010 20:46, schrieb Vincent Zee: I recently upgraded to the newest version of audio/squeezeboxserver. After the update the server is unable to rescan my music collection. Does anyone else encountered this problem? Yes, same problem here. I tried different versions of perl (5.8 and 5.10 both with or without threading) and gave up after several reinstalls due to lack of time. How can I revert to the previous version of squeezeboxserver (I'm using Portmaster to upgrade my ports)? There's a tool for this in ports-mgmt/portdowngrade. cu, Uwe ___ 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 Asus MicroATX Boards
Am 08.01.2010 16:43, schrieb Anselm Strauss: chips. I can't find real evidence on the supported hardware list whether the following chipsets are really working with FreeBSD 8.0 or not. Maybe I have an Asus "M4A785TD-M EVO" running with RELENG_8 and it works fine. There is/was a race condition in FreeBSD 7.2/8.0 that forces you to switch off the firewire device in the BIOS: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg221493.html Uwe ___ 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 for children
Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? I never tested it myself but I heard/read about it: http://www.squeak.org/ It's in the ports: lang/squeak (i386 only) Uwe ___ 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 painful is the nv driver supposed to be?
Pierre-Luc Drouin schrieb: an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get? NVidia will release an official driver for FreeBSD/amd64 in the near future: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=37 If you can't wait, and I guess that's the case, you culd try the free nv alternative named "nouveau". Uwe ___ 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: Default cannot install 8.0 rc2 in mobo P5QL-EM Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: sti
vuthecuong schrieb: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config and then 120, 180 etc. Anyone know whats wrong? thanks If there is a firewire port on your board you could try to disable firewire in the BIOS settings. This is a known problem. Uwe ___ 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: Multiple PostgreSQL 8.4 instances in FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Jails
Sam Fourman Jr. schrieb: I want to setup 5 postgreSQL 8.4 servers in separate jails on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 machine while searching the web for someone that has done this before I found this: my question is this... is this still relevant on FreeBSD 8.0 RC2(amd64) and postgreSQL 8.4 There seems to be a problem if postgres is running with the same user id in all jails. Dan Langille got it running a while ago. Please have a look at his (great) site: http://www.freebsddiary.org/jail-multiple.php Uwe ___ 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: migrating users from one machine to another machine
Daniel Bye schrieb: Or copy /etc/passwd from the old machine to the new one, and run pwd_mkdb, which is essentially what vipw does anyway. This would not work, the file that contains the passwords and that should be copied is /etc/master.passwd. pwd_mkdb generates the /etc/passwd from this file. /etc/passwd dows not contain the encrypted passwords. Uwe ___ 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: Can't install FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and 8.0-BETA4
Am 13.09.2009 14:11, schrieb Zbigniew Komarnicki: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xpt_config panic: run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks: waited too long cpuid=0 KDB: enter: panic [thread pid 0 tid 10] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3d: movq $0,0x68d1e0(%rip) db> and thats all. Is maybe also someone also have such problem? Yes, several people reported this problem. There is a workaround that might help: disable the firewire device (IEEE 1394) in the BIOS of your machine and try again. cu, Uwe ___ 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 based microBSD?
Michelle Konzack schrieb: Can someone recomment a RECENT microBSD Distribution based on FreebBSD? http://www.de.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/article.html Gruss, Uwe ___ 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: Disabling ssh timeouts?
Steve Kargl schrieb: Is there anyway to disable sshd from timing out a connection? I've tried setting ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval and TCPKeepAlive in sshd.conf, but no combination that I've tried has worked. Possibly it's not ssh that closes the connection. Are there any routers between your machine and the remote one? If this is the case it could be one of the routers that has a low timeout for recognizing a connection as "alive". This happens especially if NAT is used, because the router has to keep a table of ip:port pairs for each connection. This should happen only if there is no traffic on the connection within this timeout limit. Uwe ___ 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: Feedback on FreeBSD 7.1/fiber channel into EMC SAN?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:57:39PM +0100, Len Conrad wrote: > I would appreciate any comments from experience with this config. I don't have any experience with EMC-SANs, but... > Which specific fiber channel card have you had success? ...a card with QLogic-Chipset should work (HP FC1243 with QLogic 2422 chip for example (PCI-X)). Please have a look at isp(4) for more information. There seem to be more possible cards that are handled by mpt(4), but I have never seen one of those. You probably also want to have a look at gmultipath(8). disclaimer: I don't run FreeBSD in our SAN at this time, so I can't really say anything about production use of FreeBSD in FC-ЅANs. Uwe ___ 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: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
Chris Rees schrieb: Do you really mean sticky? Or do you mean sgid? Sgid directories are I mean the setgid bit (octal 2000). You are right, "sticky" is something different. :) For some reason I don't remember anymore I got used to using the term "sticky" for this. mea culpa! Uwe ___ 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: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS
Bobby Walker schrieb: So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? If it has to run on top of W2K3 server I would suggest VMware server 2.0 which can be used for free (as in free beer). Don't expect it to deliver high performance, but it should be fine for a small duty server. Another option would be VirtualBox (free for private use) but there have been serious problems with freebsd guests in the past. bye, Uwe ___ 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: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: > Your other proposed solution results in the same situation, correct? No No, it doesn't. Let's assume shannon is in the login group users, her home directory would look like this: drwx-x 2 shannon users 512 Feb 12 17:19 shannon This ensures that apache can enter /home/shannon which is necessary because that's where public_html is. It is not possible for apache to read the contents of /home/shannon because 'r' is missing. This would achieve the goal that other users including apache can not read the contents of the home dir. Ok, now apache needs read only access to public_html, so I would set permissions this way (2750 shannon:www): drwxr-s--- 2 shannon www512 Feb 12 17:30 public_html All directories under public_html should also have these permissions, all files should have 0640 or 0644. This would achieve the goal that apache can read everything it needs to but nothing more. > matter what, Apache needs read-access to any and all files, so no matter > what PHP will have access to read any user's files. There's no way around > that for a shared hosting situation that I know of... Sure there is: this way apache can not read any other files outside public_html. > Your solution doesn't work because the user "keith" could still do a "ls > /home/shannon/public_html/" and get the directory listing (shannon's > public_html directory is 0755, per your suggestion). Unless I'm missing > something...? You don't have to set it to 0755. If you set it to 2750 keith can no longer see the files in shannon/public_html as long as he isn't member of group www. And even if their homedirs contain a folder that belongs to group www, they don't have to be members of www themselves. I don't now your environment, but there other ways of getting things more secure, such as the use of jails, restricting shell access or forcing the use of a restricted shell and so on. bye, Uwe ___ 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: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:39:18AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: > Thanks so much, this solution works really well! It doesn't lock users out > of the entire system, but it does ensure that users can't view other > user's files via SFTP/SSH, which is fantastic. This solution enforces the switch of all user directories to group "www", which also means that any member of the group www gets access to these directories. This would be even more dangerous if your webserver runs with gid www and contains a php-module or something similar with a long tradition of security problems. Sorry, but you really, really should not do it this way. The sticky bit for group www on the public_html directories can be a good idea, though. bye, Uwe ___ 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: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: > I realize I can fix this by setting the permissions on the "/home/shannon" > directory to 700. *However* then Apache (running as user "www") won't > display the documents in "/home/shannon/public_html" from > "http://ip-address/~shannon/";, instead returning a "403 Forbidden" error. I did not see a correct answer to your question so far, so here you are: - set the permissions to the users homedir to 0700 - run "chmod o+x" on the homedir this sets the permissions to "drwx-x" which is exactly what you want: others can switch to this directory but _not_ read its contents - change the permissions to "public_html" to whatever you need for apache (0755 probably) done. cu, Uwe ___ 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 && 7-current && ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:39:33PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 Sorry, do you really run FreeBSD with xorg on this machine? This laptop must be at least 10 years old, right? > laptop, I get "no device found" at X -configure stage. It worked fine with > 7.3. The graphics device is Chips and Technologies. When I use vesa driver Do you have "[x] CHIPS" enabled when you run "make config" in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers? I guess this should install the right driver for your Armada. > instead I get to the graphics screen, but still no mouse or keyboard. Did you follow the hints in /usr/ports/UPDATING? Uwe ___ 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: CUPS, initial PATH environment
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the > /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the > FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using > the command line interface... > > I could rename /usr/bin/lp, lpr, lpq, lprm to e.g. lp.origfreebsd, etc.. > forcing the use of the /usr/local/bin versions > but this would oblige me to do that again after every FreeSBD upgrade. There is a flag for cups that should disable the commands in the base system. Before installing cups you can add the following line to your /etc/make.conf: CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=YES And to prevent reinstallation during a system upgrade you can add the following line to /etc/src.conf: WITHOUT_LPR=YES bye, Uwe ___ 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: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:34:46PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: > Thanks, but how do I reverse back to gdm 2.20? Is this possible with > the portupgrade tools? You could use ports-mgmt/portdowngrade for this or you could download http://www.laverenz.de/gdm-2.20.tar.gz and extract in in the /usr/ports/x11 directory. Uwe ___ 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: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb:
That's a really "thin" client and it seems to work (for me - I can logon
to my wifes Debian machine).
Yes, this works because Debian still uses GDM 2.20. :)
The new GDM 2.24 is broken on _both_ sides (local and remote):
- there is no XDMCP-Chooser anymore on the local side ("rewritten" ;))
- GDM does not listen to XDMCP requests on the remote side (this is
a bug I think, not "rewritten)
Uwe
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Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb: gdm-2.24.1_5 is not broken, else I couldn't have logged onto my gnome-desktop some minutes ago. But there are some feature-regressions Sorry, do you mean you logged into a _remote_ machine (via XDMCP) that is running GDM 2.24 and listens to UDP 177? Because this is the thing that doesn't work for us. When I said "broken", I meant that XDMCP does not work anymore (and a few other things that users were comfortable with). compared to 2.20 - developers say they have rewritten important parts of the code. Rewritten? Yes, that's what they call it these days when they remove features without getting the new stuff working. :-( Uwe ___ 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: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: > I tried to remove the directories that was not removed by deinstall > manually, and then installed again, now no complaints about not being > able to uninstall I can now start gdm again, with out any complaints, > but when I run sockstat I cannot see gdm-binary active nor any listen > on udp 177. > > Any suggestions? GDM 2.24 ist broken, not only on FreeBSD but also on other systems like Fedora. My personal workaround ist to keep using 2.20 for now, which seems to be the last working version that came from the gnome team. There is a thread about this at the freebsd-gnome mailing list. Uwe ___ 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: ddclient broken after portupgrade
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0100, Joris Lammers wrote: > I can't get ddclient to work. A "make deinstall; make reinstall" does not > work. Currently I am trying "portupgrade -a -f --batch" to try and rebuild > every port on my system. > > What could have been the original problem with git and how can I get out of > this nasty situation? Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING before starting portupgrade? As ddclient depends on several perl-modules I guess you didn't run "perl-after-upgrade -f" after upgrading perl. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptop suggestions, but wait there's more...
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:04:37AM -0700, Modulok wrote: > Does anyone know of a laptop, preferably an older model so it's > inexpensive, (It doesn't have to be very fast.), that is: > > 1) FreeBSD friendly. > 2) Isn't a portable skillet? > 3) Is physically sturdy. Not bulletproof, but not creaking, sagging plastic. I would also recommend the IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42 (not T43p). bye, Uwe ___ 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: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows
Wojciech Puchar schrieb: it's faster on that benchmark. but i think low MAXPHYS may be a problem. i changed it to 1MB everywhere. I've found that increasing vfs.read_max increases read performance quite a bit in bonnie++ benchmarks. sysctl vfs.read_max=32 Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed > 3D. Who is "most freebsd users"? I agree that there are more important things to worry about than nvidia/amd64 support, but: if you want to buy a computer these days and want to use it as a desktop/workstation with our favourite operating system, you have a serious problem to find a graphics card that is both useable and buyable. > so simply don't use nvidia/ati Ok, what else then? Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
Frank Bonnet schrieb: I am on the way to setup a brand new Samba server with OpenLDAP backend I am very interrested by feedback of "real world" samba admins running it with FreeBSD or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeBSD so good arguments are welcome ( my boss is a smart guy , if I give enough litterature that says FreeBSD is better, he will be OK ) In the dark ages of FreeBSD 5.x ;) we've used Linux (Debian, RedHat) but nowadays I would certainly prefer FreeBSD again, because: - The software in the ports is close to what comes from "upstream", Linux-Distros often keep old versions or inhouse modifications which can lead to disasters like e.g. the Debian OpenSSL bug or unuseable LDAP-servers that are delivered with RedHat. - Linux-Distros are conservative in updating software versions or fixing bugs in their so called "stable" releases. In most cases (RedHat, Debian) the fixes are "backported" to older versions, in other cases (Ubuntu) fixes may break your system or bugs are simply ignored. If you need a newer version of a certain software, you will very soon find yourself using backports from foreign repositories or start rolling your own packages. But if you have to leave the package management system of your distro anyway, why not use the comfort of FreeBSD ports? - Once you are familiar with it, FreeBSD is easier to manage IMHO, it's clean and mostly well documented. - FreeBSD has jails. :) More seriously I'm also searching for eventuals benchmarks that compare those two configurations. I don't think that there are great performance differences nowadays. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:31:19PM -0400, Jeff Wheelhouse wrote: > - the free license has some major restrictions about what you can do > with it. Sorry, but I have to ask: could you please tell us what restrictions you mean? AFAIK there aren't any restrictions that keep you from using ESXi in production. thanks, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7
Eric Masson schrieb: http://vmware.com/products/esxi/ ESXi seems to be free, but not the entreprise administration tools. ESXi is free and can be administrated with the Virtual Infrastructure Client (also free and included in ESXi). You don't have to pay for a license to run ESXi or your virtual machines on it. You only need to buy a license if you want to integrate ESXi into a VCenter. So the only restrictions for ESXi are: - you have to register to get a serial number - you have to buy ESX(i)-compatible hardware bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: gantt/pert chart in ports ?
Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can anybody recommend a simple Gantt or PERT chart program from ports? /usr/ports/deskutils/ganttproject Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: error message when starting smartd: FAILURE - SMART status=51 ...
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:38:25PM +1200, Steven Samuel Cole wrote: > Also, the disks are SATA300, the controller supports SATA150 only; there > is a jumper on the disks that limits them to SATA150 which I removed. > Could that be relevant ? Yes, it could be relevant. Several controllers have shown problems without this jumper in the past (VIA, 3ware...). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: LDAP Authentication questions...
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:18:17PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: > configured services like ssh. Now, shouldn't it eventually fail over > to my secondary LDAP server? I've even tried adding timelimit 10 to > the ldap.conf file to set a timeout, to no avail. IIRC you have to change the parameter "bind_timelimit" to get what you want. The default is 30 seconds, which is too high. This is documented in the pam_ldap manpage. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: vmware timekeeping
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:23:41PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote: > option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have "hint.apic.0.disabled=1" > in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. This shouldn't be necessary in FreeBSD >= 6.2. > I used to have "kern.hz=100" in loader.conf, but that caused the guest > to gain time even faster. "100" is ok, I'm using this value on all virtual machines. > Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config? Is it possible to upgrade your ESX from 3.0.2 to 3.5x? If not, there is another setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD or Linux guests): change "Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod" from 400 to 100 (this is default on ESX 3.5x). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:52:27PM +1100, Terry Sposato wrote: > Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port > vmware-tools to FreeBSD. I don't know if somebody is actually preparing an official port of http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ but I don't think it's too difficult to compile and run them on FreeBSD 7.0. I hope I'll find the time to test this soon but I wouldn't be able to roll a port without some help. :) > As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are > being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers > follow as well. If you're using FreeBSD 6.x, you can use the vmware-tools that come with VMware server 1.04. I tested them with 6.2/amd64 and 6.3/amd64 and they work fine (vmmemctl.ko and vmware-guestd), including VMotion. > It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to > FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not No, it's not a licensing issue, since vmware-tools are released as open source now. I guess it's simply lack of interest and that there aren't many ESX users who are using FreeBSD as a platform. FreeBSD is not an "enterprise" system, you know... :-/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:44:12PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > - The only thing that VMWare tools are useful (on FreeBSD) is to get GUI > features like clipboard sharing and automatic mouse focus grab in X.Org. You're right, normally you don't need vmware-tools for running FreeBSD as a guest, but: if your host is an ESX server, you need vmmemctl and the vmware-guestd for the livemigration of your virtual machine from one ESX host to another. A while ago, VMware decided to release vmware-tools as open source, maybe someone wants to take a look at it: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ > VMWare tools on Linux seem to include a driver that does something with > memory management, but it's not available for FreeBSD. You don't need It is available, it's included in VMware server and also in open-vm-tools (see link above). bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: esx 3.0.2 Update 1 and BTX halted
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:39:51PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Has anyone in this list installed fbsd 6.2 or 6.3 to esx 3.0.2 update 1 > ?(I have also tried esx 3.0.2 without update 1 and has taken the same > error message). If yes have you done anything special for this system ? Yes, I have installed 6.2/amd64 and 6.3/amd64 on esx 3.0.x and esx 3.5, no special adjustments needed. As guest operating system I choose "Other (64bit)". On esx 3.0.2 I manually change "Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod" from 400 to 100 (default on 3.5) and set kern.hz="100" on the guest machines. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Duplicate existing FreeBSD Server in VM
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:46:09PM +1100, Terry Sposato wrote: > I have just installed a machine and have it setup running a web based CRM > solution. I want to have an exact duplicate of this machine running as a VM > for redundancy reasons. The best and easiest way I know of is using /usr/ports/net/rsync for this task. I often used it to move BSD or Linux systems to new hardware or transfer them into a VM. I usually make sure that the kernel supports all important hardware on the target machine and that /etc/fstab is correct. After that I start to transfer filesystem after filesystem with e.g.: # rsync -avxH --delete --exclude /etc/fstab / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ You might want to exclude other files (e.g. /etc/rc.conf) from being overwritten, I guess. The nice thing with rsync is that only diffs are transferred, so it would be easy and fast to keep your VM in sync with the source machine. Uwe P.S.: Yesterday I moved a FreeBSD 4.5 system from a Proliant 3000 (~7 years old) to a VMware Server VM using rsync. All I had to take care of was the use of a GENERIC kernel, a new /etc/fstab and a changed ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: WPA
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:06:35AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > having trouble to get the wi0 interface up with WPA. below is the relevant > information. can somebeody explain what the problem is? thanks... I think I can. > device = 'PRISM 2.5 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless Controller' Your wireless card probably does not support WPA, maybe you can solve this with a newer firmware. If not you would have to stick with WEP encryption or buy a new card. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Backup Solution
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:40:52AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote: > I will be very grateful for suggestions or ways people have tackled this > kind of problem in a production environment. I'd use a separate machine with a set of cheap SATA disks and connect my tape drives to this machine. Then I would mirror the data from the virtual machines to this backup server with rsync and write them to tape. This would be a quick solution and has worked well for me in the past. If you need more features and have some spare time you should have a look at amanda or bacula. http://www.amanda.org/ http://www.bacula.org/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:30:49PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Does 6.2 still have that time- and ACPI issue in ESX3? No. > - disable ACPI in the VM This is not necessary with ESX 3 and FreeBSD 6.2 at least. > - kernel frequency at 100 hz This is recommended, I'm not sure if it's really necessary. There is one more setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD or Linux guests): change "Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod" from 400 to 100. With "timing problems" I mean the guests system clock running too fast/slow here. I had this problem with RHEL4 guests, this setting fixed it for me. > - the vmxnet-driver (even the one from workstation 6) crashes freebsd, but > IIRC this driver can be replaced with e1000 in esx3. I've never bothered with vmxnet, I use le(4) on i386 guests and em(4) on amd64 guests. The only kernel module I found helpful is vmmemctl.ko. The good news is that VMware releases "VMware Tools" as open source, I hope this will improve the support for FreeBSD guests. http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:23:49AM -0500, Bret J. Esquivel wrote: > Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I Yes, I have successfully installed FreeBSD i386 and amd64 on ESX 3.x. The only problem I know of is that SMP only works with FreeBSD/amd64. > to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow > an install. When creating a new virtual machine I always choose "Other" or "Other(64-bit)" as guest OS. The virtual SCSI Controller is "LSI Logic", FreeBSD is version 6.x. Once the virtual system is running, I install the VMware Tools from VMware Server 1.x. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Good RSS Feed Aggregator / Reader ...
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 09:40:33AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Is anyone using a better reader, that will 'filter out' duplica coming from > the > same feed source? I think net/liferea does what you want. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:46:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check > ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... If you want a professional and well supported system, but don't need commercial support, CentOS is the way to go: http://www.centos.org CentOS is a free version of Redhat's Enterprise Linux and is available for several platforms, including amd64. Everything that is certified for RHEL will run without problems on CentOS. The current version is 4.4 but a new version of RHEL is expected to be released during the next weeks (which will be followed by a new version of CentOS). If you want an entirely free system with a large software repository and don't care for certifications from software or hardware vendors, I'd strongly recommend Debian Etch (will be the "stable" release in a short while). Commercial support is available from Hewlett Packard IIRC. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:03:20AM -0700, Mark Edwards wrote: > So, how about it? Is the concept of running this off of Ubuntu being > easier than FreeBSD just a pipe-dream? I have messed with Debian and > Ubuntu, but never tried to run a server off of either. I would love > to hear from people who have been down both roads, whether there is > some sense to it, or if I should just stick with FreeBSD. A good way to make the right decision would be intensive testing of the systems you don't know (Debian/Ubuntu). Install them, read about them, see how they fit your needs. >From my experience, running a server using a Debian-based system is a lot easier and safer (as long as you choose one of their "stable" releases). You get a well-tested set of software that does not change if you don't want it. Installing the latest security fixes is as easy as typing "apt-get update" followed by an "apt-get upgrade". The downside with running "stable" is that after a while the software will be somewhat outdated. This is not a problem for servers, but many people don't like "old" software on their desktops (Debian-Stable aka "Sarge" comes with Gnome 2.8, for example). This is one of the problems that Ubuntu tries to solve: they try to get a new release done twice a year. A quite common answer to the question "which distribution?" is: Debian-Stable for servers, Ubuntu for workstations. hth, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mounting nfs share
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:24:47PM +0500, Imran Imtiaz wrote: > what is the command to mount NFS share? # mount -t nfs server:/path/on/server /path/local Please have a look at the man page: man mount_nfs and the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pear problem
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:25:12PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: > On a FreeBSD 5.4-p8 I've a problem to install pear ports. Do you use nss-ldap/pam-ldap on this machine? > the ports install stop with core dump (php.core). > > Anyone have this problem ? Several people have reported problems like this, all of them use nss-ldap. I could get around the problem when I disabled 2 php4-modules: imagick and xslt (just commented them out in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: No openGL, glxgears, glxinfo - libm.so.3 not found
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:07:46PM -0800, Joseph Vella wrote: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libm.so.3" not found, required by > "libGL.so.1" You have to install misc/compat5x from ports and add compat5x_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: PHP junk pointer error with imagick.so
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:11:22AM -0800, Justin Meyer wrote: > Has anyone else encountered this issue? Does anyone have any > suggestions as to how I might resolve it? I have similar problems with imagick and also with xslt. These two modules make php segfault e.g. when installing pear-ports. The problem seems to exist only on machines with ldap-setup (nss_ldap, pam_ldap). Do you run your machine with nss_ldap? I know of two other users who reported similar problems, both with nss_ldap. Solutions? I have mailed the php-maintainer about the problem but got no response. I don't think it would help to additionally make a PR, so for me there are 2 possible ways to solve this: 1) don't use imagick or xslt 2) don't use FreeBSD for PHP-development Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6, WPA-PSK, wpa_supplicant and a IBM a31p
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:04:03PM -0700, Daniel Hanson wrote: > Thoughts, ideas? directions. From my reading of the man pages, ap_scan Yes, probably WPA-encryption is simply not supported by your wireless card/chipset. AFAIK there is no way to use WPA with a wi-card. You either stick to WEP-encryption or buy a newer wireless card (ath or iwi would do WPA-PSK). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem installing devel/pear
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:29:06PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > Uwe, I've seen the thread on the ports@ mailing list but there doesn't seem > to It seems nobody else has this problem and nobody else cares. > be any mention of a solution there yet. Have you managed to fix the problem > on your machines yet? Sorry, I've no solution so far. I get devel/pear installed with brute force, when I install it before php4-extensions: # pkg_delete php4-* pecl-* pear-* # portinstall lang/php4 # portinstall devel/pear # cd /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions # make rmconfig # portinstall lang/php4-extensions But this does not really help, because as soon as I start to install other pear-ports (pear-File_Passwd, pear-Auth...), I get: ===> Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/File_Passwd. install ok: channel://pear.php.net/File_Passwd-1.1.5 Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 I've wasted several hours now, I give up. :-( Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem installing devel/pear
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:12:24PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > Stop in /ports/devel/pear. > > Can someone please tell me how to fix this? I have the same problem on two machines and I don't have a solution for this, but there's a thread about this in the @ports mailing list. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Is there /etc/groups limits?
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:57:55PM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > For example, is there a limit which would stop apache to work because > the www user is member of 1 groups? Apache wouldn't stop working, but there is a limit of 16 groups that a user can be member of. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: nssswitch - anyone using nss_X ? nss/freebsd complete?
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > avail have I found any definitive answer as to if nssswitch works correctly > and completely under FreeBSD. I use nss_ldap (and pam_ldap), it is supported since 5.1_RELEASE. At this time only passwd and group can be used via nsswitch. It works without problems. > Personal interest being drawn from my own issues using, configuring, and > updating/compiling nss_ldap. Issues in the code, issues with making new I never tried to compile them on my own, I always use nss_ldap and pam_ldap from the ports. > Sparing one problem, current version from FreeBSD/ports/current seems to > work correctly, but problem is quite an issue and potential security risk - Do you have an URL about this security risk? Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Samba or something more lightweight ...
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:39:33PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: > Do I need to install Samba or is there another more lightweight > alternative? There still is /usr/ports/net/sharity-light, but I'm not sure if it still works, it seems to be quite outdated. More Information: http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/index.html Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: XFig and more?
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > (For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or > something?) Gnuplot maybe? http://www.gnuplot.info/ It's in the ports: /usr/ports/math/gnuplot bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Can't get pc-card working under 5.4
I have spent several hours now trying to get a Netgear MA 401 pccard running on my Acer Aspire 1310 with FreeBSD 5.4. It worked fine with 5.4 on another laptop of mine and the card is still working perfectly with Ubuntu Linux, so it seems that either my Laptop does not like 5.4 or I have configured something wrongly. I have used both the GENERIC and a customized kernel. The pccard itself seems to be identified fine. Dmesg says: cbb0: <02Micro 0Z6912/6972 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xc00-0xc000fff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on dbb0 But the card is not recognised (actually it seems that no Pccard is recognised). When I do: # pccardc dumpcis 0 slots found When I try to kldload if_wi I get warnings of this type: module_register: module pccard/wi already exists! Module pccard/wi failed to register: 17! module_register: module pci/wi already exists! Module pci/wi failed to register: 17! I have googled for hours and tried very many different things but I can't find the right hint to why pccards are not found/registered. I would be so happy if someone could give me a clue on what I should do. Thanks, Uwe. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pccard, wi0, wep and DHCP
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:34:55PM +0200, Maarten Sanders wrote:
> 'ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"' this works and brings up wi0. Since my town is
> crowded with wardrivers I would like to use wep. Because my wife often
It's better than nothing, but WEP wouldn't stop a serious wardriver
these days. :)
> /etc/start_if.wi0 is not interpretted and the WEP key is not set so
> dhclient fails.
You could add something like this to your /etc/dhclient.conf:
interface "wi0" {
media "ssid wepmode on wepkey ";
}
Uwe
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Re: Problem with irq and printing system
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:19PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: > Interrupt storm detected on "irq7: lpt0"; throttling interrupt source > > What is the meaning of this message?. Have this problem a solution?. This is a very annoying "feature" in FreeBSD: printing causes a high rate of interrupts and the kernel tries to reduce this. AFAIK there are two possible ways to solve this: 1. To increase the threshold for this interrupt storm detection just add the following line to your /etc/sysctl.conf: hw.intr_storm_threshold=4096 2. Let the parallel port run via polling instead of interrupts (this causes high loads), add the following line to your /boot/devices.hints: hint.ppc.0.flags="0x28" HTH, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:11:38PM -0600, Tom Vilot wrote: > I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to > them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer > laptops and what might be recommended. I can recommend the IBM Thinkpad R51, especially the models with Ati 7500 or 9000 graphics, because these chips are supported by the free drivers that come with Xorg. I run FreeBSD 5.4 on my R51 and I am very happy with it. I have also heard positive statements about the Samsung X20 XVM 1600. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Backup Products
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:30:17PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > This Cross-Platform works wonderfully. However I was wondering if > anyone had any successs with an open source backup product that would be > able to control 2 tape librarys on the same scsi chain, with each tape > having a bar code, and be able to backup and restore the systems above. I don't think that there is a free solution for your special setup, but you could have a look at http://www.bacula.org. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems with postfix ldap
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:53:55PM +0200, fire67 wrote: > Anyone have a solution ? Postfix has to be built and configured for the use of LDAP, pam+nss ist not enough. Please have a look at: http://www.postfix.org/LDAP_README.html Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:18:09AM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: > passwd: files ldap > group: files ldap This is correct and sufficient for local files + ldap. > On my 5.4-Release system, the default nsswitch.conf is: AFAIK there never was a "default" nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I always had to create a new one from scratch. > group: compat > group_compat: nis > hosts: files dns > networks: files > passwd: compat > passwd_compat: nis > shells: files Nope, delete this. > Using the 'compat ldap' version, I get errors in /var/log/messages: > May 13 22:42:26 daemon -csh: NSSWITCH(nsparser): /etc/nsswitch.conf line 1: > 'compat' used with other sources > May 13 22:42:26 daemon -csh: NSSWITCH(nsparser): /etc/nsswitch.conf line 5: > 'compat' used with other sources man nsswitch.conf cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Netgroups and LDAP?
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:59:24PM -0500, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > I only want certain (large, broad) groups of people to be able to login to > a given server, and I believe I'm looking to implement netgroups to do > that, but I haven't been able to find any documentation on how to do that > with FreeBSD. You can't use netgroups with FreeBSD/ldap, only passwd and group databases can be used with ldap AFAIK. > Any pointers (to config examples, ldif-format schemas that incorporate > netgroups, etc) or other ideas would be greatly appreciated. If there's > another way to limit logins via LDAP, I'd be interested in hearing about > that, too. If your users have "objectClass: account" there is an attribute "host" that can be used for limiting access to certain machines. You need the entry "pam_check_host_attr yes" in your ldap.conf for pam and perhaps some modifications of the files in /etc/pam.d. I have never used or tested this but it is a standard feature of pam-ldap and I guess it should work. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: route entries after ICMP redirect
Sergey Matveychuk wrote: I've got some problem with route entries that was created after ICMP redirect messages. They are never expired. Our default gateway (it's a HP switch) send ICMP redirect messages if it see a short path to destination. It's makes it not so overloaded. But pathes sometime changed. There is no problem with Windows workstations, they are rebooted daily. But my FreeBSD boxes hold dinamic route entries forever. I've looked through RFCs and Stevens' books and found no answer on what TTL for this entries. Now I just add route flush as cron job. But may be there is another way? This has been fixed in CVS in MAIN (rev. 1.52) and MFC'ed to RELENG_4 (rev. 1.37.2.5) and RELENG_5 (rev. 1.51.4.2) a couple of weeks ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/in_rmx.c So either syncing to one of these branches or applying the relevant patch manually to your kernel sources ought to solve the problem. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Fast and reliable /tmp partition.
ÑÐÐÐÑ ÐÐÑÐÐÑÐÐÐ wrote: Hello Freebsd Questions, I'm using DVD-R to back up our Perforce SCM server. The size of backup data is 13Gb now and increase ~ 1Gb in two months. The full backups was made every week, incrementary - every day. I have made a custom script to start archiver, split on the fly results to adequate sized files (< 1Gb), evaluate checksum and burn it onto DVD. The script also verify burned DVD by using stored checksums, and burn DVD again if needed. The problem is: i can't compose DVD's on the fly, i need to save them somewhere. I need to have a big, fast and reliable temporary filesystem. It doesn't needed to survive reboots. It must be fast writing. (RAID5 vinum array which i have is slow performs writes) And even if one of the disks in server computer will broke (i have a vinum on them), the backup procedure must still works. Does anybody have expirience with temporary fast filesystems ? You could use striping and mirroring (RAID 0+1). This is both fast with writes and fail-safe. And if the partition doesn't have to be crash resilient you could mount a UFS/UFS2 filesystem asynchronously. With hard disk drives that's about as fast as it gets, I'd guess. Of course, a RAM disk would be even faster, but the data volume you're dealing with is way too high for normal system memory. There are RAM disks on the market that you can add to the system as a physical (hardware) device, in the form of a hard disk drive or a PCI card, but these are usually pretty expensive. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help Renaming Multple Files
Phusion wrote: I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are named like reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat, reports_hijklm_MMDD.dat, and reports_nopqrs_MMDD.dat. Here is an example. Original Filename: reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat New Filename: abcdef_MMDD.dat Let me know how I can do this. Thanks. You may want to take a look at the 'mmv' package (ports/misc/mmv). Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 4.9 - clearing local DNS cache
Danny wrote: How does one go about clearing local DNS cache? In case you don't have a 'named' process running on that very machine there is no local DNS cache. Applications (DNS clients) just query the DNS server every time, and if it is remote and out of your reach there is nothing you can do about it, short of using a different DNS server. However, if there is a local 'named' process you can get rid of its cache contents only by restarting it (AFAIK). As user 'root', try ndc restart and check '/var/log/messages' for the new startup message. That should do the trick. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Good rentable servers?
bsdnooby wrote: Instead of getting a fixed IP address at my house, and having a noisy machine running all the time - I think I might want to try renting a dedicated FreeBSD server. It would be used for running Apache, phpBB, email, listserv, and a few other services. I found several places that have dedicated FreeBSD machines to rent, their prices seems to all be $99 a month. Is there a cheaper or better option? Maybe a virtualized server or a jail? There are indeed less expensive solutions available. For instance, you may want to take a look at my signature below. ;-) Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Unexpected resolver behavior
Jamie Ostrowski wrote: I'm running 4.10-p5 on my workstation at home, and I can't understand why I cannot get www.foo.com to resolve to an IP I am specifying in /etc/hosts (I want to over-ride the IP returned by the nameserver I query by default). in /etc/hosts: 199.xx.xx.24www.foo.com. in /etc/host.conf: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file /etc/hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncom (I have no nsswitch.conf file in /etc) But when I try to resolve www.foo.com from the command line, I am getting the IP address from the nameserver from the outside world rather than the IP from /etc/hosts. I am not running a local named on this machine, either. Any ideas? Only programs that use gethostbyname(3) and friends (system library functions) can be expected to take heed of '/etc/host.conf', and therefore '/etc/hosts'. Now, the utility commands that are part of the Bind package, like 'host', 'nslookup' etc., talk to the DNS server directly and ignore what you have in '/etc/hosts'. This can also be true for some applications (MTAs come to mind) that have their own DNS query code because they need DNS information that is not available through system library functions. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: log viewer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking for a good log viewer. It would be a plus if it comes with a gui but not a must. Do any of you guys use or have heard of a good log viewer tool for FreeBSD? In case you mean a program for monitoring log files, possibly several of them on one screen, you may want to take a look at 'multitail'. It's a curses application, but with 'xterm' you can use it on a GUI as well. Regards, Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:17:50PM +, Jason Henson wrote: > Here is an interview with ati. The sad part is they give a solid no to > bsd support. Oh, that's not a problem, their drivers suck anyway. At least I wouldn't like to have them on one of my machines. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 06:51:49PM -0500, Sean wrote: > Well that is a real problem!! > Recommend any alternative office packages? The Gnome-Stuff: Abiword, Gnumeric... Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration?
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:17:04PM -, John Conover wrote: > Should PNP OS = NO in the PC system bios configuration be used for > freeBSD? Yes, it should be set to "NO" for any operating system. The only exception is Windows 95/98. > How about assigning IRQs of the PCI devices in system bios? This should not be necessary. You could try to load "setup defaults" in your BIOS and use FreeBSD 5.3 instead of 5.2.1. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 03:09:14AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > When I try it with Linux it worked, in fact, here is a patch for kernel > 2.6.7: > https://kilobyte.dyndns.info/linux/armada_1700_dsdt_linux-2.6.7.diff.bz2 Ok, I will test this on my 1750 right after christmas, as soon as I find the time. merry christmas! Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:05:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > How?, I added it to my kernel "device apm", "device pmtimer", and > "device amp_saver" and rebuilt it and in rc.conf I added > apm_enable="YES", apmd_enable="YES" and I greped though I think you would also have to disable ACPI. This could be done by adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints. > I want ACPI!, APM is a last ditch hack to me, the name says it all > "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" there is a reason they > switched to it. The 440BX chipset has full support for ACPI and > therefore should work with FreeBSD and is a critical problem, what do > you think might happen if you disable all your fans on your computer???. As I said: I might be wrong, but I think the Armada simply is too old for a correct implementation of ACPI, it was build for APM. So, the problem is not FreeBSD, it's the Armada. > Please note that I'm not trying to diss FreeBSD in anyway for it being > broken as I understand the issues with the DSDT, AML, and ASL stuff, I > just want it to work. Other system would also show this problem, the fan never starts to work under Linux (tested FC3 a few weeks ago). I really don't know if it's possible to get ACPI+FreeBSD 5.x+Armada 1750 to work, I can only say that it worked perfectly with FreeBSD 4.x and APM. And I can say that FreeBSD+ACPI works great on newer notebooks (evo N160, IBM Thinkpad...). cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:25:05AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Any help would be appreciated on ether fixing this problem or a way to > use ACPI but disable the thermal monitoring so the system can control > the fan? I might be wrong, but I think on the 1750 you should use APM instead of ACPI. I had a 1750 running with FreeBSD 4.x and APM and it worked very well. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
David Gerard wrote:
Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop?
I'm sure there are laptops, where sound might be a problem, but in
general it simply works. I never had a problem with FreeBSD's sound
support on a laptop. I even have an old Compaq Armada 1750 here, where
only NetBSD and FreeBSD 4.x support the soundcard without too much
tweaking ("options PNPBIOS" necessary).
I had so much trouble with FreeBSD on a laptop (an old Thinkpad 560X) that
I ended up resorting to Debian. Which works well.
Debian isn't too bad either. :)
cu,
Uwe
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Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
Dave Horsfall wrote: So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3? You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is quite necessary on a notebook. cu, Uwe (running 5.3 on a TP A31) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: php4-extensions
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:12:48AM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: > I searched the google and i found something about libmagic > and to reinstall it. But i cannot find such a package/port . Anyone bump IIRC libmagic is included in /usr/ports/sysutils/file . cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mozilla and courier-imap
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:52:39PM -0700, Reza Muhammad wrote: > When i'm using imap with mozilla mail, everytime i > sent email, mozilla mail idle with progrees tool bar > " Copy message to sent item" > is there any idea ? Please check your Mozilla-settings: "Edit->Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings->Copies & Folders". Does "Sent" point to an existing folder? If not, create the default folders or point Mozilla to different folders. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mozilla and courier-imap
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an > up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages in a > folder until I restart mozilla. I was convinced it was mozilla that was What do you mean with "a folder"? If you mean the normal INBOX, just increase the value of "MAXPERIP" in /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd. This value must be increased for use with mozilla (16 should be fine). If you mean "any" folder, you have to tell Mozilla to monitor this folder for new incoming mails (right-click on the folder...). Generally Courier-Imap works perfectly with Mozilla: I have several servers running it with many users of Mozilla-Mail. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: vim 6.3 pthread errors?
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:58:34PM +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > objects/os_unix.o: In function `get_stack_limit': > objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x3d2): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_init' > objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x3e6): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_get_np' > objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x3fc): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_getstacksize' > objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x40f): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_destroy' > *** Error code 1 Yes, same error here on several 5.2.1p9-machines. The build works fine without GTK2. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: identifying and fixing server I/O slowdowns
Jeff Kramer wrote: Oh great and wise FreeBSD gurus, I've been running FreeBSD boxes for about five years with great results (up to 6 at the moment), but recently one of my machines has started to seriously act up. Every time a heavy disk operation (say, tar'ing a 1 gig directory) occurs the system slows to a crawl, and requests to apache/php/mysql sites hosted on it just hang. The system is a dual p3 1.13ghz box with a gig of ram and mirrored 80 gig WD800BB drives on a Promise TX2 controller. The raid isn't degraded. There's a dedicated 1.5 gig swap partition and a swap file on the /usr partition. We had some apache processes go nuts one time, which is why I added the swap file. [...] This problem could be due to a disk drive that is about to fail. If there are (still recoverable) disk errors, retrying the affected I/O operations can keep a disk controller occupied for serveral seconds. Of course, all processes trying to do disk I/O during this time span will block. Since the errors are (eventually) recoverable the raid array is likely to _not_ drop into degraded mode by itself. After you've found out which of the disks it is you would have to force that disk into failed mode and would then replace it. The exact details depend on your raid controller. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I've experienced disk failures like these several times in the past, with the effect you've described. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problem in Linux-emulation and may be in NVidia drivers
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:08:19AM +0400, Roman Vasiliev wrote: > First run glxgears shows ~2000 fps but second ~10 fps. And whole OpenGL > application lags. > > Problem solves in changing on NVidia mx 4400. All works fine. I have the same problem with a GF4-Ti/4200: first run is fast, second is slow. An older GF2 works perfectly. I guess the only solution is to wait for the release of new NVidia drivers, which are said to be released "fairly soon". cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
problem found, not solved (was: NVidia vs. KT600)
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > Same problem here on FreeBSD 5.2 (recent -current), I have the same > nvidia card with an Asus A7M-266 board (AMD chipset). I haven't observed > it on 4.10 (yet?). Ok, I've been trying to find out the reason for this problem, I changed the hardware between several computers, tested older FreeBSD-versions and upgraded to Xorg. Finally I removed the GF4 and tested with an old GF2-pro, which works without problems in all tested systems. I still have no explanation, but I guess this must be another NVidia-bug?! I think we have to wait for a new release from NVidia. :-/ cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Richard Kaestner wrote: > I suspect settings in /etc/make.conf, but I have no idea where to start! > (CPUTYPE=i686 commented out - but didn't help) The VIA CPUs are not completely i686 compatible, so in your Kernel-Config you should have an I586_CPU entry: machine i386 cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident ME6000 ... > ME6000 /etc/make.conf > CPUTYPE=i586 > CPUTYPE=i686 The second entry overwrites the first one. I wouldn't set this variable at all on a VIA Epia/Eden, but it should work if you delete the i686 and keep the i586. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: User Accounts across multiple machines
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:46:57PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Were you able to make this work well with 4.x machines? It's been a while > since I tried, but I had problems with nss turning UIDs back into names. This would still be a problem, because there is no support for nss_ldap in FreeBSD 4.x. To get LDAP working with 4.x, you would need a workaround that translates user information into NIS or something that creates user-entries in the local passwd file. Support for nss_ldap/nsswitch.conf is available in FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE or newer. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
NVidia vs. KT600
Hi, I have a strange problem with the NVidia drivers on my machines: when I start a glx-application (glxgears, quake2...) the performance is normal. If I make another attempt a few minutes later, the performance is ridiculous slow. Example: glxgears, 1st run: 6400 FPS glxgears, 2nd run: 17 FPS FreeBSD-versions: 5.2.1-p9 and 4.10-STABLE Nvidia-cards: GF4-Ti/4200 Boards: Asus A7V-600 (Athlon XP) If have tried several combinations of AGP-Support (FreeBSD vs. NVidia), nvidia-sysctls, XF86Configs ... without success. The next strange thing: if I wait several minutes, the performance is normal again, but only for 1 attempt, the next one ist slow again. This makes playing Quake2 impossible, because connecting a server includes a "vid_restart" (-> slw). I guess that something gets "locked" somehow. The next thing I want to try is an older 4.x version. Could this be a problem with the VIA KT600 chipset? Does anybody else experience this problem or am I the only lamer playing Quake on FreeBSD? ;) thank you for any help, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD Hosting
Joseph Koenig wrote: Hi, I'm sure this question comes up, but I am looking at switching hosting companies and am considering going with a dedicated server or co-locating some servers somewhere. Regardless of which way I go, I want to make sure the hosting facility has technicians who have experience with FreeBSD, in especially with jails. If I go with a co-location set-up, I'd like to find somewhere that will manage security patches, OS updates, etc - whether it is through the hosting facility or through a 3rd party consultant. We are a small firm and do not have the time to effectively manage all aspects of the system, yet we are more than capable of handling the day-to-day basics of the system (installing software, supporting web, db, and e-mail, etc). I'd appreciate any recommendations anyone has on hosting facilities / consultants that would be able to effectively handle these issues for us. While I can't tell from your posting what exactly you would like to do with the server, going by your general requirements you may be interested in what we (EscapeBox) do. Please consider following the link in my signature. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Running processes...
Hi JJB, in the message Running processes fom Sat Feb 14 08:26:45 PST2004 it is writen in the artical that IPFILTER sample rule is available. I am interested to get a copy. Thank you. Kind regards, Uwe Uwe Klann Isensteinstr.3 80634 Munich/Germany Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: dhclient with reconfigured SSID
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 06:51:03PM +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
> Will this lock the ssid during reboots as well ? If not, that actually
> is what I am looking for.
You can put it into /etc/dhclient.conf, e.g.:
interface "wi0" {
media "ssid wepmode on wepkey ";
}
cu,
Uwe
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RE: IPFW log results analysis
> -Original Message- > From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 June 2004 11:34 AM > To: Uwe Kolsch > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IPFW log results analysis > > > On 2004-06-18 10:43, Uwe Kolsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a tool for FBSD like logwatch on Linux, which can provide > a detailed > > but still somehow summarized output based on the logging results of > IPFW. I mean > > more detailed than this from the daily security run: > > > > > 02010557 48486 deny log ip from any to any out > > > 1 1026 49716 deny ip from any to any in setup > > > 10003 3859828227 deny ip from any to any in > > > > ... and more like this. > > You can always write your own shell scripts to parse ipfw logs ;-) And how do I use a keyboard? > I haven't heard of any summarizing tools, but if you feel that scripting > your own is too much it shouldn't be too hard to roll a few custom > scripts if you tell me what you're looking for in such a report. > > - Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
IPFW log results analysis
Is there a tool for FBSD like logwatch on Linux, which can provide a detailed but still somehow summarized output based on the logging results of IPFW. I mean more detailed than this from the daily security run: > 02010557 48486 deny log ip from any to any out > 1 1026 49716 deny ip from any to any in setup > 10003 3859828227 deny ip from any to any in ... and more like this. ### Logged packets on interface eth0: From 4.10.38.220 (4.10.38.220). To 212.146.89.141 (212.146.89.141). Service: 2745 (tcp/2745) (,eth0,none) - 3 packet(s) Total of 3 packet(s). Total of 3 packet(s). From 4.10.95.247 (4.10.95.247). To 212.146.89.140 (212.146.89.140). Service: swat (tcp/901) (,eth0,none) - 1 packet(s) Total of 1 packet(s). To 212.146.89.141 (212.146.89.141). Service: swat (tcp/901) (,eth0,none) - 1 packet(s) Total of 1 packet(s). Total of 2 packet(s). ### Thanks Uwe Kolsch ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD ISDN Modem Support
Michael Hollmann wrote: does freebsd support this isdn-modem? ELSA MicroLink ISDN/TLV34 Yes, of course it will work, because it is an external modem/TA that is connected to a serial port. There is no need for a special hardware support. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UsersFiles and Quota
Chris Collins wrote: Hello All Is there a way to list files on my system that belong to a certain user. I have quotas enabled and cannot find out where all the space is being used. With quotas enabled this should be easy. Use 'repquota' and sort the list by allocated disk space: repquota -u /path/to/filesystem | sort -rn +2 -3 That's less taxing on the system than using 'find', and it also takes into account files that a user might have deleted but still holds open and therefore allocated. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Security run question
Edd wrote: I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have never seen before appeared: hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages: tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any ideas what this might be? That should probably read "database", and the message just got clipped for some reason. Some program apparently tried to access '/etc/aliases.db', failed to do so and logged an error message, which the security run scripts subsequently reported to you. You may want to investigate which of your software expects 'aliases.db' directly under '/etc'. Normally, this file lives under '/etc/mail' in FreeBSD, or at least in 4.x, and all software ported to FreeBSD properly should know about that. Did you install some programs directly from their original source, that is, not from the FreeBSD ports/packages collection? Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New work on installer? - Checked by AntiVir DEMO version -
Gary Kline wrote: I think we (theBSD's) are losing a lot of serious brain brainpower (and certainly lots of latent high-end talent) by not having a less-headbanging install. I've done it literally dozens of times; I still get flummoxed now and then. I've been using sysinstall for many years and quite often I think. I never thought that sysinstall or the installation of FreeBSD is a problem in any way. In my opinion, installing FreeBSD is easy and fast. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name?
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
How can I copy a group of files to a different name. I want to copy all
files starting with 'bacula*' to 'bacula*.old'. So I have these four
files:
blacklamb# ll bac*
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 949 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-barcodes
-rw-r- 1 root wheel 5792 May 17 16:52 bacula-dir.conf
-rw-r- 1 root wheel 763 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-fd.conf
-rw-r- 1 root wheel 1909 May 17 16:31 bacula-sd.conf
I want to have copies of these files with '.old' appended to their
names. I've tried 'cp -pv bac* bac*.old' but cp complains. Because
it's only 4 files, I'll do each one independently but I'd like to know
how to do this "right" for future reference.
You may want to take a look at the utility 'mmv' in the ports tree
('ports/misc/mmv' in CVS). For copying you would use the 'mcp' variant:
mcp -v 'bacula*' 'bacula=1.old'
It automatically preserves permissions and modification time. For a
test run in order to verify in advance what would happen, use the '-n'
option.
Great tool IMHO.
Uwe
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