Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show that it is starting his jobs at the correct times. It is far more likely that there is a problem with the scripts. A very common cause of problems with scripts run from cron is that they do not inherit your environment. Do the scripts run from the command line? If the do, then the problem is most likely something in your environment that the scripts need. I'm a complete idiot, and I feel embarrassed. Everything was fine, except that I had missed out '/bin' in the paths of the jobs. I had: /home/walterh/exports.sh /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh which should of course have been: /home/walterh/bin/exports.sh /home/walterh/bin/backup_etc.sh /home/walterh/bin/systemcheck.sh /home/walterh/bin/backup_bsd.sh What a stupid mistake! Thanks for all the replies, but I must say sorry for wasting your time. Sorry! WH ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show that it is starting his jobs at the correct times. It is far more likely that there is a problem with the scripts. A very common cause of problems with scripts run from cron is that they do not inherit your environment. Do the scripts run from the command line? If the do, then the problem is most likely something in your environment that the scripts need. I'm a complete idiot, and I feel embarrassed. Everything was fine, except that I had missed out '/bin' in the paths of the jobs. I had: /home/walterh/exports.sh /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh which should of course have been: /home/walterh/bin/exports.sh /home/walterh/bin/backup_etc.sh /home/walterh/bin/systemcheck.sh /home/walterh/bin/backup_bsd.sh What a stupid mistake! Thanks for all the replies, but I must say sorry for wasting your time. Sorry! WH ... Damned those full path names. -- Keep well, 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On 11/06/2012 23:10, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron $ I have a syntactically valid crontab: $ crontab -l #min hr dom month dow command SHELL=/bin/bash Pitfall: Even if bash is installed, it's not usually under /bin, but under /usr/local/bin PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ daddy/bin HOME=/home/walterh 00 02 * * * /home/walterh/exports.sh 05 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh 10 02 * * * /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh 15 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh $ So what is wrong? Why is nothing happening? I have consulted the handbook but see nothing. Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. What's in your shell scripts? - M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the hair-tearing that =will= ensue when using it bites you. Any other info on this? I've never heard of this before and I've never seen an issue using leading zeroes on the minutes value. ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the hair-tearing that =will= ensue when using it bites you. Any other info on this? I've never heard of this before and I've never seen an issue using leading zeroes on the minutes value. I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect (like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal. ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:36:37 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect (like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal. Suppose we could always ask Paul Vixie :-) ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the hair-tearing that =will= ensue when using it bites you. Any other info on this? I've never heard of this before and I've never seen an issue using leading zeroes on the minutes value. There are some specific interpretations that _may_ be interpreted according to the C rules, e. g. prefix 0x- for hexadecimal or 08- for octal notation. For example, 083 != 83, just as 0x83 != 83. As it has been mentioned, spaces also have a significant meaning in crontabs, so they cannot be used everywhere to align data columns. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the hair-tearing that =will= ensue when using it bites you. Any other info on this? I've never heard of this before and I've never seen an issue using leading zeroes on the minutes value. There are some specific interpretations that _may_ be interpreted according to the C rules, e. g. prefix 0x- for hexadecimal or 08- for octal notation. For example, 083 != 83, just as 0x83 != 83. As it has been mentioned, spaces also have a significant meaning in crontabs, so they cannot be used everywhere to align data columns. The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show that it is starting his jobs at the correct times. It is far more likely that there is a problem with the scripts. A very common cause of problems with scripts run from cron is that they do not inherit your environment. Do the scripts run from the command line? If the do, then the problem is most likely something in your environment that the scripts need. ___ 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
Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron $ I have a syntactically valid crontab: $ crontab -l #min hr dom month dow command SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ daddy/bin HOME=/home/walterh 00 02 * * * /home/walterh/exports.sh 05 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh 10 02 * * * /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh 15 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh $ So what is wrong? Why is nothing happening? I have consulted the handbook but see nothing. ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron $ I have a syntactically valid crontab: $ crontab -l #min hr dom month dow command SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ daddy/bin HOME=/home/walterh 00 02 * * * /home/walterh/exports.sh 05 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh 10 02 * * * /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh 15 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh $ So what is wrong? Why is nothing happening? I have consulted the handbook but see nothing. Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. What's in your shell scripts? - M ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. What's in your shell scripts? Thanks for the quick response. $ pkg_info|grep bash bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell $ which bash /bin/bash $ $ less $HOME/bin/exports.sh #!/bin/bash LOG=$HOME/log/exports.log logger -t walterh-cronjob Exports started echo Exports started at `date` $LOG rm $HOME/postgresql/* psql packages -f $HOME/sql/exports.sql cd $HOME/postgresql tar cfz postgresql.tgz * rm *csv echo Exports finished at `date` $LOG logger -t walterh-cronjob Exports finished /home/walterh/bin/exports.sh (END) ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: cat /etc/shells ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does /var/log/cron say? $ file /bin/bash /bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash' $ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity) Jun 12 01:55:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1780]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/ atrun) Jun 12 02:00:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1823]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 12 02:00:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1825]: (operator) CMD (/usr/ libexec/save-entropy) Jun 12 02:00:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1824]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/ atrun) Jun 12 02:00:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1836]: (walterh) CMD (/home/ walterh/exports.sh) Jun 12 02:01:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1849]: (root) CMD (adjkerntz -a) Jun 12 02:05:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1874]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/ atrun) Jun 12 02:05:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1875]: (walterh) CMD (/home/ walterh/backup_etc.sh) Jun 12 02:10:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1912]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/ atrun) Jun 12 02:10:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1913]: (walterh) CMD (/home/ walterh/systemcheck.sh) Jun 12 02:11:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1924]: (operator) CMD (/usr/ libexec/save-entropy) Jun 12 02:15:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1981]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/ atrun) Jun 12 02:15:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[1982]: (walterh) CMD (/home/ walterh/backup_bsd.sh) Jun 12 02:20:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[2013]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/ atrun) Jun 12 02:22:00 jupiter /usr/sbin/cron[2025]: (operator) CMD (/usr/ libexec/save-entropy) ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: cat /etc/shells $ cat /etc/shells # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $ # # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using # one of these shells. /bin/sh /bin/csh /bin/tcsh /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/rbash $ ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
On 6/11/2012 9:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base. What's in your shell scripts? Thanks for the quick response. $ pkg_info|grep bash bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell $ which bash /bin/bash $ $ less $HOME/bin/exports.sh #!/bin/bash LOG=$HOME/log/exports.log logger -t walterh-cronjob Exports started echo Exports started at `date` $LOG rm $HOME/postgresql/* psql packages -f $HOME/sql/exports.sql cd $HOME/postgresql tar cfz postgresql.tgz * rm *csv echo Exports finished at `date` $LOG logger -t walterh-cronjob Exports finished /home/walterh/bin/exports.sh (END) ___ 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 I tend to use full path names in my shell scripts. So for shits n giggles, try that. Instead of tar cfz postgresql.tgz * Try /bin/tar cfz postgresql.tgz * etc, etc, etc Use the paths for all commands such as rm, psql, logger etc. -- Keep well, 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux). FreeBSD9 on x86_64. Cron is running: $ ps -ax|grep cron 1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s 2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron $ I have a syntactically valid crontab: 'Syntactically valid', yes, but I believe it does not mean what you think it does applies. more below. $ crontab -l #min hr dom month dow command SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ daddy/bin HOME=/home/walterh 00 02 * * * /home/walterh/exports.sh 05 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_etc.sh 10 02 * * * /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh 15 02 * * * /home/walterh/backup_bsd.sh $ So what is wrong? Why is nothing happening? I have consulted the handbook but see nothing. It _appears_ that there is whitespace _before_ the purporte 'minutes' value on each line that you intend to invoke a command. If so, -THAT- is probably what is causinng the unexpected behavior. I believe cron is looking for the 'minutes' value _before_ any white space, and using a value of '0' when it finds 'nothing' before the white-space Field-separator. That, thus, the all the commands run at 'zero minutes' past the various hours, on the -second- day of the month, and that command-line that cron would -attempt- to execute on the 2nd looks like, * /home/walterh/systemcheck.sh, which, of course will have *wildly* unexpected results, epecially if the first element of the '*' expansion _is_ marked as executable. Remove the leading white-space and things should work the way you 'expect'. Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the hair-tearing that =will= ensue when using it bites you. ___ 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
Question about FreeBSD for IA-64 software
Dear FreeBSD Team, Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your really good job and the best system for us, small IT staff. Second, I would like to ask you about some problem with FreeBSD source. I've downloaded .iso Image from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/following .iso file: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-release.iso And when I tried to install it I have nothing I did it many times, but have no result. When I've downloaded 8.3 version Installation was completed successfully. Dear FreeBSD Team, could you, please, check your .iso file for IA-64 systems or maybe consult me what I need to do? Thanks and Best regards, Denis. ___ 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 FreeBSD for IA-64 software
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Denis Guzanov guzanov...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD Team, Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your really good job and the best system for us, small IT staff. Second, I would like to ask you about some problem with FreeBSD source. I've downloaded .iso Image from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/following .iso file: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-release.iso And when I tried to install it I have nothing I did it many times, but have no result. When I've downloaded 8.3 version Installation was completed successfully. Dear FreeBSD Team, could you, please, check your .iso file for IA-64 systems or maybe consult me what I need to do? Thanks and Best regards, Denis. From your question , it is not possible to understand which 8.3 version is used . It is very unlikely that 9.0 fails completely but 8.3 succeeds completely . ia64 is for Itanium 64 processor , amd64 is Intel and AMD 64-bit capable desktop or notebook processors . They are different processors , and one can not execute code for the other . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ 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 FreeBSD for IA-64 software
Hi, Reference: From: Denis Guzanov guzanov...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:45:54 +0400 Message-id: CAMUH=P1HGivtRUsgSz9_XYt-wLBh-8cFvq=i5fs6hn1ittk...@mail.gmail.com Denis Guzanov wrote: Dear FreeBSD Team, Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your really good job and the best system for us, small IT staff. Second, I would like to ask you about some problem with FreeBSD source. I've downloaded .iso Image from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/following iso file: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-ia64-release.iso did you check the MD5 ? And when I tried to install it I have nothing You'll need to be more specific. I did it many times, but have no result. When I've downloaded 8.3 version Installation was completed successfully. Dear FreeBSD Team, could you, please, check your .iso file for IA-64 systems or maybe consult me what I need to do? Thanks and Best regards, Denis. ___ 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 Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ 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: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question
On 06/07/2012 12:19 AM, Parv wrote:
in message4fcf48af@tundraware.com,
wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly...
...
Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in:
FOO = bar.
The problem is that 'bar' may also be know as, say, bar.sh.
...
Is there a simple way to determine which form bar or bar.sh on
on a given system *at the time the make is run*? If both exist, I
will pick one arbitrarily,
...
For example I don't think this works when both are there:
FOO = $(shell `which bar bar.sh)
Modify the subshell command to ...
which bar bar.sh | head -n 1
... as in (for FreeBSD make) ...
shell=`which zsh sh tcsh csh 2/dev/null | fgrep -v 'not found' | head -n 3`
all:
@printf %s\n ${shell}
- parv
Thanks. I came up with something similar, but I think your recipe is a bit
more elegant ...
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Re: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question
in message 4fd0adfb.8030...@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... On 06/07/2012 12:19 AM, Parv wrote: in message4fcf48af@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... ... Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in: FOO = bar. The problem is that 'bar' may also be know as, say, bar.sh. ... Is there a simple way to determine which form bar or bar.sh on on a given system *at the time the make is run*? If both exist, I will pick one arbitrarily, ... For example I don't think this works when both are there: FOO = $(shell `which bar bar.sh) Modify the subshell command to ... which bar bar.sh | head -n 1 ... as in (for FreeBSD make) ... shell=`which zsh sh tcsh csh 2/dev/null | fgrep -v 'not found' | head -n 3` ... Thanks. Happy to help. I came up with something similar, but I think your recipe is a bit more elegant ... It was If both exist, I will pick one arbitrarily ... that helped much in modification of the original. - parv -- ___ 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
Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question
Not strictly FBSD, but ... Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in: FOO = bar. The problem is that 'bar' may also be know as, say, bar.sh. Worse still both bar and bar.sh can exist with one linked to the other. Is there a simple way to determine which form bar or bar.sh on on a given system *at the time the make is run*? If both exist, I will pick one arbitrarily, I just don't want the detection mechanism to fail when this is the case. For example I don't think this works when both are there: FOO = $(shell `which bar bar.sh) Thanks, -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ 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: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question
in message 4fcf48af@tundraware.com,
wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly...
...
Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in:
FOO = bar.
The problem is that 'bar' may also be know as, say, bar.sh.
...
Is there a simple way to determine which form bar or bar.sh on
on a given system *at the time the make is run*? If both exist, I
will pick one arbitrarily,
...
For example I don't think this works when both are there:
FOO = $(shell `which bar bar.sh)
Modify the subshell command to ...
which bar bar.sh | head -n 1
... as in (for FreeBSD make) ...
shell=`which zsh sh tcsh csh 2/dev/null | fgrep -v 'not found' | head -n 3`
all:
@printf %s\n ${shell}
- parv
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Re: question on SYN_SENT
On May 11, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: 'Should not' does not mean 'is not'. and unfortunately, it -is- attempting to go out. There are at least a couple of possible explanations, none of them good. 1) the jail is attempting a DoS (or participating in DDoS) against an Israeli _government_ network/machine. 2) the jail is 'owned' by a botnet, and is trying to 'phone home' for instructions. Sorry for the delay in response. Did not mean to ignore this. Was busy figuring out and correcting this (and then the other normal day to day stuff that comes up). Yes, it looks like a customer's JBOSS installation had been hacked. It was running in its own jail with RO mounting of /usr (except /usr/local) and /bin /sbin and other system directories. It was basically scanning for more open JBOSS stuff. The attack had just barely happened (the server had just been installed). I disabled the JBOSS and cleaned everything up and scanned the jail for problem files etc. Customer fixed the JBOSS vulnerability (well known one) and decided to leave it off for now. Thanks for all the help on this Chad -- ___ 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: Hardware compatability question
Hi, it's not really about the machines but more the hardware. FreeBSD is quite diverse in what it can run on so best bet check the HCL's off the www.freebsd.org website as that would give you the best idea! Otherwise just install and see what works and doesn't. FreeBSD is pretty comprehensive of H/W support. I would say if you were moving away from MS, FreeBSD is a great choice and probably the best out there providing you don't need something specific - you will need to get used to the CLI environment but once that's worked out it's a sinch. I am now introducing *BSD to my company too and trying to move them away from Linux which has it's own caveats. Good luck with the move, I'd love to give you a full-blown sales pitch but unfortunatley don't have time right now. - though it would be kinda useless as FreeBSD really sells itself if you know what it can do for you! Regards, Kaya On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:23 PM, phnxcs_...@lycos.com wrote: Hello, I am moving away from MS products due to security and stability concerns. Below are the machines I use and would like to know which version of FreeBSD will work best with each. The compu ters are used at home and away, for e-mail, preparing documents, databases , and spredsheets, as well as, web browsing and some begining programing (Perl, C, HTML, and Assembely I think). Here are the notes on my machines: HP Compaq CQ5300Y MOBO M2N68-LA (Narra5) AMD Sempron LE-1300 2.30GHz Vidio Card NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 RAM: PC2-6400 MB/sec 2 Gigs RAM HD: WDC WD32 00AAJS-65M0A SCSI 320 Gig HD Toshiba Satel lite A205-S5880 Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86 GH Vidio Card: Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset RAM: 3 Gigs HD: Toshiba MK2046GSX ATA Both where bought new and are stock off the shelf models. Thank you for your fine efforts and your time in this, Phnxcs_rep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Bsdtech QUESTION
Hi, We have managed to secure the domain Bsdtech.com for one of our web apps however we have decided to change the name and secure a different name that suits out project better. If you would be interested in purchasing this domain please don't hesitate to contact us. Thanks Alex Verdea NameConsultants LLC. PO BOX 1522 Enka, NC 28728 828-367-7030 (mobile) ___ 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
question about milter software
Does anyone know milter software (or maybe anything else) to add to sendmail that can rewrite outgoing mail and add HTML footer automatically? Please do not tell me about how stupid HTML mail is at all - i know it, it is not my idea. thanks ___ 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
Somewhat OT: CVS Question
Forgive the OT nature of this, but FBSD tends to be a big CVS user, so I am hoping someone has an answer for this. Feel free to reply privately if you do not wish to inflict your answer up on the whole list... Is there a way to checkout a project from a CVS repo *into the current directory*? If I do this: cvs co -d . foo Or this: cvs co -d ./ foo I get this: cvs checkout: existing repository /usr/cvs/... does not match /usr/cvs/.../foo cvs checkout: ignoring module waccess Ideas? -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ 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: Somewhat OT: CVS Question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/25/12 11:59 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Forgive the OT nature of this, but FBSD tends to be a big CVS user, so I am hoping someone has an answer for this. Feel free to reply privately if you do not wish to inflict your answer up on the whole list... Is there a way to checkout a project from a CVS repo *into the current directory*? If I do this: cvs co -d . foo Or this: cvs co -d ./ foo I get this: cvs checkout: existing repository /usr/cvs/... does not match /usr/cvs/.../foo cvs checkout: ignoring module waccess Ideas? Hi Tim, Yes, that's possible, and I do it with the ports tree on my development machine when I only want to work on a small portion of the tree, e.g.: mkdir ~/FreeBSD cd ~/FreeBSD cvs co -l -d . ports cd ports cvs co -l -d . ports/www cd www cvs co -d . ports/www/zend-framework [or just zend-framework because of the alias in CVSROOT/modules] The error you're receiving makes me thing something is wrong with your CVSROOT setting. Can you show it, as well as the full command line? The module waccess message doesn't make sense with the command line you provided. Thank you, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+/vToACgkQ0sRouByUApDqLQCgxwuLL9PveIzGkT6B9lXcO2iM Z6gAoIgO0BIfMW9AR+tGfe3n75wTOsJl =DK17 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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 milter software
I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. But what you're looking for is pretty complicated when you start having to deal with multipart messages; the messages have to be completely processed and separated into respective parts, and then once the rich part is found, you've got to parse the HTML and insert the footer into the right spot, and then recompile the message. And if the message is plain text only, you can't insert HTML and have it be displayed as such. In short, I doubt you'll have much success in doing this well. It would be better to configure this in the email client and lock that down somehow. Patrick On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Does anyone know milter software (or maybe anything else) to add to sendmail that can rewrite outgoing mail and add HTML footer automatically? Please do not tell me about how stupid HTML mail is at all - i know it, it is not my idea. thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: question about milter software
I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. you are actually wrong in that statement. In spite of hype that postscript started with, i am still using sendmail because it is actually easiest if you learn it. But what you're looking for is pretty complicated when you start having to deal with multipart messages; the messages have to be this is unfortunately true, because i could quickly do myself a filter that would trivially append footer, but it will not work. That's the reason of my question - IF such (quite complex) software is already written. ___ 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 milter software
At 08:21 AM 5/25/2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Does anyone know milter software (or maybe anything else) to add to sendmail that can rewrite outgoing mail and add HTML footer automatically? Please do not tell me about how stupid HTML mail is at all - i know it, it is not my idea. thanks I have used milter with sendmail. You can add an outgoing email footer. If you need more information, email me directly. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ 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 milter software
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I think you'll find Postfix to be much more modern and easy to work with for that kind of message rewriting. you are actually wrong in that statement. In spite of hype that postscript started with, i am still using sendmail because it is actually easiest if you learn it. I guess it's pretty subjective, which is how I should have originally prefaced my statement. I used sendmail for a long time, and always hated working with m4 or direct sendmail configuration files. For me, Postfix is so much easier, but to each his own. For your immediate need, I'd look at http://www.ledge.co.za/software/disclaimermilter/ or MIMEDefang (http://www.mimedefang.org/) which appears to be able to add disclaimers. Patrick ___ 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 milter software
I guess it's pretty subjective, which is how I should have originally prefaced my statement. I used sendmail for a long time, and always hated working with m4 or direct sendmail configuration files. well i just used README file and sometimes google. For me, Postfix is so much easier, but to each his own. it's mostly personal preferences. both are rather configurable, just different way. ___ 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
I have a question.
Dear Sir, I would be a FreeBSD open source committer. But I don't know how to do. Could you teach me ? Best regards. ___ 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: I have a question.
On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:42:56 +0900, JAEHO LEE wrote: Dear Sir, I would be a FreeBSD open source committer. But I don't know how to do. Could you teach me ? Check out the FreeBSD home page, especially the article about contributing to FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html You'll find more information on the FreeBSD web page, e. g. the Porters Handbook and other development resources. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: I have a question.
This doesn't answer your question but let me be the first to congratulate you on your wisdom of not posting this to m...@openbsd.org ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question
Thanks for the pointers and hints, I'm over that hurdle. On 5/19/2012 5:28 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: 3. The Xorg man page notes that ctrlaltbksp should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why ctrlaltbksp doesn't cause it to exit? This is also a new default to _not_ work anymore. You have more than two (if I remember correctly) options in making it work. You'll find them in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html One possibility when X has been compiled _without_ HAL support (and no hald running), placing Option DontZap false into the ServerLayout section should work. Additionally, I see that I have Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp in the InputDevice section of Keyboard0. It just works. :-) This should work whether or not HAL is installed or running. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question
Gary Aitken writes: Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. I do not have this card/chip; I have a HD3300. Having installed xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0.5, 'device radeon' works for me. Does this help? Robert Huff ___ 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: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd, but this info is over 2 years old and http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx only allows choices of drivers for windoze. Can anyone point me to a useable driver, or if these cards are essentially unusable, make a suggestion for a reliable card suitable for non-gaming (2-D) X work? The radeon driver wants KMS for cards later than the 4000 series. A few of the 5000 series may somewhat work with the existing UMS driver, but most do not. KMS for Intel video is being worked on and already being used, but AFAIK work has not even begun for the Radeons. Should one use an Nvidia card with the Linux 295.53 driver? A Radeon 4650 works fine with the current radeon driver. The Nvidia cards are faster with the FreeBSD version of their proprietary driver, ...but it's a proprietary driver. ___ 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: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question
Ok... I tried the xf86-video-radeonhd driver, to no avail. Then tried xf86-video-ati-6.14.3 with marginally better results. Using the ati driver, which reports that it works for the HD5500, Xorg hobbles and writes a config file. When it attempts to start, the log shows a boatload of information stuff, a few warnings, and finally (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed (II) Acceleration disabled After which I'm left with the tail of the log file on the display, but no prompt, and X is still running. That is the only EE posted. Questions: 1. Since the driver notes that Acceleration was disabled, but there are no other errors, shouldn't the driver work in dumb frame buffer mode? (Hoping to get something hobbling along...) Or is this the result of the need for KMS and I'm SOL? 2. Since the server didn't exit, is it actually pretending to run? Shouldn't I be seeing the standard X grey hatched background? Or is the server running, but the driver isn't passing bits on appropriately? 3. The Xorg man page notes that ctrlaltbksp should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why ctrlaltbksp doesn't cause it to exit? On 5/19/2012 8:00 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd, but this info is over 2 years old and http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx only allows choices of drivers for windoze. Can anyone point me to a useable driver, or if these cards are essentially unusable, make a suggestion for a reliable card suitable for non-gaming (2-D) X work? The radeon driver wants KMS for cards later than the 4000 series. A few of the 5000 series may somewhat work with the existing UMS driver, but most do not. KMS for Intel video is being worked on and already being used, but AFAIK work has not even begun for the Radeons. Should one use an Nvidia card with the Linux 295.53 driver? A Radeon 4650 works fine with the current radeon driver. The Nvidia cards are faster with the FreeBSD version of their proprietary driver, ...but it's a proprietary driver. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:59:03 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 1. Since the driver notes that Acceleration was disabled, but there are no other errors, shouldn't the driver work in dumb frame buffer mode? (Hoping to get something hobbling along...) Or is this the result of the need for KMS and I'm SOL? Do you have drm/dri (direct renering) installed, port and kernel module? I've been using that with a ATI Radeon 9200 (I think, RV250, no HD) with excellent 2D and 3D results both with XFree86 and X.org - tested with excessive gaming. :-) 2. Since the server didn't exit, is it actually pretending to run? Check using ps or top. Shouldn't I be seeing the standard X grey hatched background? No. The default new background is plain black. Nothing to see. No grey pattern, no twm, nothing. And in case HAL and DBUS _or_ xorg.conf settings don't really match, you don't even see the X-shaped mouse cursor. 3. The Xorg man page notes that ctrlaltbksp should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why ctrlaltbksp doesn't cause it to exit? This is also a new default to _not_ work anymore. You have more than two (if I remember correctly) options in making it work. You'll find them in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html One possibility when X has been compiled _without_ HAL support (and no hald running), placing Option DontZap false into the ServerLayout section should work. Additionally, I see that I have Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp in the InputDevice section of Keyboard0. It just works. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: 3. The Xorg man page notes that ctrlaltbksp should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why ctrlaltbksp doesn't cause it to exit? This is also a new default to _not_ work anymore. You have more than two (if I remember correctly) options in making it work. You'll find them in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html One possibility when X has been compiled _without_ HAL support (and no hald running), placing Option DontZap false into the ServerLayout section should work. Additionally, I see that I have Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp in the InputDevice section of Keyboard0. It just works. :-) This should work whether or not HAL is installed or running. ___ 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
ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question
Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd, but this info is over 2 years old and http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx only allows choices of drivers for windoze. Can anyone point me to a useable driver, or if these cards are essentially unusable, make a suggestion for a reliable card suitable for non-gaming (2-D) X work? Should one use an Nvidia card with the Linux 295.53 driver? Thanks, Gary ___ 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
question on SYN_SENT
it is my understanding that SYN_SENT is when MY SIDE sends out a request and is awaiting a reply? One of the jails we run for a customer had hundreds (if not thousands) of attempts to connect from the 147. address you see below. It was exhausting resources so that new tcp connections could not be made until some closed. I added that address to a pf block statement to stop it but now we get a rolling connections in a netstat -a as show below (host. being a generic name used in place of actual host on our side). I am wondering if this shows something on our side trying to connect out? That is what it appears to me to be, which does not make sense. tcp4 0 0 host.52562 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52561 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52560 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52559 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52558 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52557 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52556 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52555 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52554 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52553 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52552 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52551 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52550 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT thanks Chad ___ 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 on SYN_SENT
On May 11, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On May 11, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
it is my understanding that SYN_SENT is when MY SIDE sends out a request and
is awaiting a reply?
That's right.
One of the jails we run for a customer had hundreds (if not thousands) of
attempts to connect from the 147. address you see below. It was exhausting
resources so that new tcp connections could not be made until some closed.
You have/had your jail opening connections to the webserver at IP
147.237.76.155, not that IP trying to connect to you.
I added that address to a pf block statement to stop it but now we get a
rolling connections in a netstat -a as show below (host. being a generic
name used in place of actual host on our side). I am wondering if this
shows something on our side trying to connect out? That is what it appears
to me to be, which does not make sense.
tcp4 0 0 host.52562 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT
tcp4 0 0 host.52561 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT
Yes, your side is trying to connect out.
Unless you know better, it seems reasonable to gather that it's doing a DoS
attack against:
Hi Chuck!
Thanks. I am investigating as this side should not be going out at all, but
the SYN_SENT made me think it was.
Thanks
Chad
% whois 147.237.76.155
[ ... ]
inetnum: 147.237.0.0 - 147.237.255.255
netname: IL-GOVT-NET
descr:Israeli Government Network
country: IL
admin-c: AT979-RIPE
tech-c: TT441-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PI
mnt-by: GOV-IL-DNS
mnt-lower:GOV-IL-DNS
mnt-routes: AS8867-MNT { ANY }
mnt-routes: AS9116-MNT { 147.237.232.0/24^24-24 }
source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Admin Tehila
address:Israel Ministry Of Finance
address:1 Netanel Lorech st
address:Jerusalem Israel
phone: +972 2 6664666
fax-no: +972 2 6664650
remarks:For ABUSE and security issues please contact
remarks:email: ab...@tehila.gov.il
remarks:or contact CERT.gov.il at rep...@cert.gov.il
nic-hdl:AT979-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered
Regards,
--
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Re: question on SYN_SENT
On May 11, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
it is my understanding that SYN_SENT is when MY SIDE sends out a request and
is awaiting a reply?
That's right.
One of the jails we run for a customer had hundreds (if not thousands) of
attempts to connect from the 147. address you see below. It was exhausting
resources so that new tcp connections could not be made until some closed.
You have/had your jail opening connections to the webserver at IP
147.237.76.155, not that IP trying to connect to you.
I added that address to a pf block statement to stop it but now we get a
rolling connections in a netstat -a as show below (host. being a generic
name used in place of actual host on our side). I am wondering if this
shows something on our side trying to connect out? That is what it appears
to me to be, which does not make sense.
tcp4 0 0 host.52562 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT
tcp4 0 0 host.52561 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT
Yes, your side is trying to connect out.
Unless you know better, it seems reasonable to gather that it's doing a DoS
attack against:
% whois 147.237.76.155
[ ... ]
inetnum: 147.237.0.0 - 147.237.255.255
netname: IL-GOVT-NET
descr:Israeli Government Network
country: IL
admin-c: AT979-RIPE
tech-c: TT441-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PI
mnt-by: GOV-IL-DNS
mnt-lower:GOV-IL-DNS
mnt-routes: AS8867-MNT { ANY }
mnt-routes: AS9116-MNT { 147.237.232.0/24^24-24 }
source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Admin Tehila
address:Israel Ministry Of Finance
address:1 Netanel Lorech st
address:Jerusalem Israel
phone: +972 2 6664666
fax-no: +972 2 6664650
remarks:For ABUSE and security issues please contact
remarks:email: ab...@tehila.gov.il
remarks:or contact CERT.gov.il at rep...@cert.gov.il
nic-hdl:AT979-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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Re: question on SYN_SENT
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 11 17:19:29 2012 From: Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC c...@shire.net Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:15:48 -0600 To: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on SYN_SENT On May 11, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 11, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: it is my understanding that SYN_SENT is when MY SIDE sends out a reques t and is awaiting a reply? That's right. One of the jails we run for a customer had hundreds (if not thousands) o f attempts to connect from the 147. address you see below. Correction. As Chuck pointed out it is your box attempting to connect *TO* that address. It was exha usting resources so that new tcp connections could not be made until som e closed. You have/had your jail opening connections to the webserver at IP 147.237 .76.155, not that IP trying to connect to you. I added that address to a pf block statement to stop it but now we get a rolling connections in a netstat -a as show below (host. being a ge neric name used in place of actual host on our side). I am wondering i f this shows something on our side trying to connect out? That is what it appears to me to be, which does not make sense. tcp4 0 0 host.52562 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT tcp4 0 0 host.52561 147.237.76.155.httpSYN_SENT Yes, your side is trying to connect out. Unless you know better, it seems reasonable to gather that it's doing a D oS attack against: Hi Chuck! Thanks. I am investigating as this side should not be going out at all, bu t the SYN_SENT made me think it was. 'Should not' does not mean 'is not'. and unfortunately, it -is- attempting to go out. There are at least a couple of possible explanations, none of them good. 1) the jail is attempting a DoS (or participating in DDoS) against an Israeli _government_ network/machine. 2) the jail is 'owned' by a botnet, and is trying to 'phone home' for instructions. The webserver on the IP address listed has -extremely- 'suspicious' content, to wit; html body script document.cookie='fff=ee0333b9fff_ee0333b9; path=/'; window.location.href=window.location.href; /script /body /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: question regarding geom labels
On Fri Mar 30 12, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote: i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 i get the following warning: GEOM: da1: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA. which is obvious, because the label is being written into the last LBA and thus the backup GPT header gets written into the last-1 LBA. Right. Don't do that, the GPT backup header needs to be at the end of the physical device. If you're using that whole disk for swap, there's no need for a partition anyway. if i create the partitioning scheme before labeling the device, like this: gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 or gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0p1 the label gets written into da0 or da0p1 and is at constant risk of being overwritten by userdata. No. The swap device entered in /etc/fstab would be /dev/label/swap, which is one block smaller than da0p1. That's the last-block metadata, it's safe. thanks for the info. :) But if the whole disk is for swap, skip the partitioning entirely. ___ 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
Fast question abount EDITOR
Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: emacs -nw exited with status 1 Is there a way I can easily achieve the above? Do I really need a script which in turns call emacs -nw? bye Thanks av. ___ 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 question abount EDITOR
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:57:55 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: emacs -nw exited with status 1 Is there a way I can easily achieve the above? Do I really need a script which in turns call emacs -nw? According to crontab's source, the editor is invoked by an execlp() call, usr/src/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.c in line 404: execlp(editor, editor, Filename, (char *)NULL); The synopsis of this function can be found in man 3 exec: int execlp(const char *file, const char *arg, ... /*, (char *)0 */); The manpage contains this information: The initial argument for these functions is the pathname of a file which is to be executed. and: The first argument, by convention, should point to the file name associated with the file being executed. as well as: The functions execlp(), execvp(), and execvP() will duplicate the actions of the shell in searching for an executable file if the specified file name does not contain a slash ``/'' character. For execlp() and execvp(), search path is the path specified in the environment by ``PATH'' variable. If this variable is not specified, the default path is set according to the _PATH_DEFPATH definition in paths.h, which is set to ``/usr/bin:/bin''. That means that $EDITOR has to contain the file name of the editor (as its location will be determined automatically). When options are added, this requirement isn't met anymore. This seems to imply that you cannot use an alias - you'd have to provide a script as you initially did assume. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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 question abount EDITOR
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: emacs -nw exited with status 1 Is there a way I can easily achieve the above? Not 'directly', the EDITOR variable has to be the name of an _executable_, it is passed to exec and friends, as the executable to load. There -may- be annother environment variable that emacs _itself_ looks at for start-up switch settings, (the 'minimal' manpage I have access to doesn't mention any, but I'm _not_ an emacs user and don'k have full docs available) If all else fails, put the 'command' equivelent of '-nw' in your emacs start-up file. Do I really need a script which in turns call emacs -nw? Authoritative answer: 'maybe'. grin See above for some 'possible' alternatives. cite classic advice concerning the 'fine manual' /cite ___ 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 question abount EDITOR
Do I really need a script which in turns call emacs -nw? Authoritative answer: 'maybe'. grin There may be an alternative to the obvious one line shell script, but that's what one line shell scripts are for. One of the strengths of Unix is that its design encourages people to solve problems by composing existing tools rather than by adding ever more options to every program. R's, John PS: I realize that over the decades we have strayed somewhat from this ideal. ___ 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
question regarding geom labels
hi there, i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 i get the following warning: GEOM: da1: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA. which is obvious, because the label is being written into the last LBA and thus the backup GPT header gets written into the last-1 LBA. if i create the partitioning scheme before labeling the device, like this: gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 or gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0p1 the label gets written into da0 or da0p1 and is at constant risk of being overwritten by userdata. cheers. alex ___ 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 regarding geom labels
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote: i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 i get the following warning: GEOM: da1: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA. which is obvious, because the label is being written into the last LBA and thus the backup GPT header gets written into the last-1 LBA. Right. Don't do that, the GPT backup header needs to be at the end of the physical device. If you're using that whole disk for swap, there's no need for a partition anyway. if i create the partitioning scheme before labeling the device, like this: gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 or gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap /dev/da0 glabel label -v swap /dev/da0p1 the label gets written into da0 or da0p1 and is at constant risk of being overwritten by userdata. No. The swap device entered in /etc/fstab would be /dev/label/swap, which is one block smaller than da0p1. That's the last-block metadata, it's safe. But if the whole disk is for swap, skip the partitioning entirely. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:58:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:30 +1000 From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me the linksoffline i f you think it wise to spare the bandwidth. Just to make a note: This is the card I'm using. The model name is Haupauge WinTV and the tuner chip is Brooktree 878. It is well supported by FreeBSD (and has been for many years). A problem may be that it is a PCI card. The programs mplayer and mencoder can be used to address the tuner and video-in functions of that card, as well as displaying and storing the received content. You need a HF line to the card (or an antenna maybe), except you provide the video feed from a satelite receiver via video-in. In that case, you also need to provide the audio signal from the receiver to your sound card's line-in. With mencoder, both sources can be combined and the result can be stored as a video file in any format and container you want. This is the card: bktr0@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x04 card=0x13eb0070 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Conexant (Was: Brooktree Corp)' device = 'Bt878/Fusion 878A Mediastream Controller' class = multimedia subclass = video The card provides HF-in both for TV and radio, video-in, audio-out and... not sure what it is. :-) You need the kernel modules loaded per bktr_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, and the card will work out of the box. No need to manually and interactively install a driver. :-) The player command is something like % mplayer tv://1 -vo x11 -ao sdl -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0 and similarly mencoder can be used (-ovc and -oac need to be adjusted accordingly) to encode to a file. I'm not sure how to handle TV (antenna) input as I've always been using a raw video feed (from VTR or camera). However, there's documentation that may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html It also contains an example to record to file, which will implement the software video tape recoder functionality. Brooktrees would be nice - if you could find them. Given the move to DVB is nearly over, there aren't many analog cards available - or need for them. The new cards use incompatible chipsets (learnt the hard way), including analog and especially DVB; you have to use the cx88 port to use them. Or if you come across a different chipset ensure the card is USB based and use webcamd. Following all that, FBSD works beautifully as a HTPC. GAAWK! This is far, far out of my comfort zone thst i wsill just skip it for now. i have my feed from my local telco, not an antenna thanks for all the datapoints, guys, but i can vedry well live without the card. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Voice By Computer (for Universal Access): http:/www.thought.org/vbc The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On 03/15/12 05:30, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:58:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:30 +1000 From: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me the linksoffline i f you think it wise to spare the bandwidth. Just to make a note: This is the card I'm using. The model name is Haupauge WinTV and the tuner chip is Brooktree 878. It is well supported by FreeBSD (and has been for many years). A problem may be that it is a PCI card. The programs mplayer and mencoder can be used to address the tuner and video-in functions of that card, as well as displaying and storing the received content. You need a HF line to the card (or an antenna maybe), except you provide the video feed from a satelite receiver via video-in. In that case, you also need to provide the audio signal from the receiver to your sound card's line-in. With mencoder, both sources can be combined and the result can be stored as a video file in any format and container you want. This is the card: bktr0@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x04 card=0x13eb0070 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Conexant (Was: Brooktree Corp)' device = 'Bt878/Fusion 878A Mediastream Controller' class = multimedia subclass = video The card provides HF-in both for TV and radio, video-in, audio-out and... not sure what it is. :-) You need the kernel modules loaded per bktr_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, and the card will work out of the box. No need to manually and interactively install a driver. :-) The player command is something like % mplayer tv://1 -vo x11 -ao sdl -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0 and similarly mencoder can be used (-ovc and -oac need to be adjusted accordingly) to encode to a file. I'm not sure how to handle TV (antenna) input as I've always been using a raw video feed (from VTR or camera). However, there's documentation that may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html It also contains an example to record to file, which will implement the software video tape recoder functionality. Brooktrees would be nice - if you could find them. Given the move to DVB is nearly over, there aren't many analog cards available - or need for them. The new cards use incompatible chipsets (learnt the hard way), including analog and especially DVB; you have to use the cx88 port to use them. Or if you come across a different chipset ensure the card is USB based and use webcamd. Following all that, FBSD works beautifully as a HTPC. GAAWK! This is far, far out of my comfort zone thst i wsill just skip it for now. i have my feed from my local telco, not an antenna thanks for all the datapoints, guys, but i can vedry well live without the card. gary Sorry Gary; It wasn't entirely for your sake that this came up. For your instance I'd suggest becoming very familiar with mplayer/mencoder and friends. You can then pick up the stream and re-encode to your liking. There are some addons in web browser that can help grab the video as well. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:30:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:58:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:30 +1000 From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me the linksoffline i f you think it wise to spare the bandwidth. Just to make a note: This is the card I'm using. The model name is Haupauge WinTV and the tuner chip is Brooktree 878. It is well supported by FreeBSD (and has been for many years). A problem may be that it is a PCI card. The programs mplayer and mencoder can be used to address the tuner and video-in functions of that card, as well as displaying and storing the received content. You need a HF line to the card (or an antenna maybe), except you provide the video feed from a satelite receiver via video-in. In that case, you also need to provide the audio signal from the receiver to your sound card's line-in. With mencoder, both sources can be combined and the result can be stored as a video file in any format and container you want. This is the card: bktr0@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x04 card=0x13eb0070 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Conexant (Was: Brooktree Corp)' device = 'Bt878/Fusion 878A Mediastream Controller' class = multimedia subclass = video The card provides HF-in both for TV and radio, video-in, audio-out and... not sure what it is. :-) You need the kernel modules loaded per bktr_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, and the card will work out of the box. No need to manually and interactively install a driver. :-) The player command is something like % mplayer tv://1 -vo x11 -ao sdl -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0 and similarly mencoder can be used (-ovc and -oac need to be adjusted accordingly) to encode to a file. I'm not sure how to handle TV (antenna) input as I've always been using a raw video feed (from VTR or camera). However, there's documentation that may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html It also contains an example to record to file, which will implement the software video tape recoder functionality. Brooktrees would be nice - if you could find them. Given the move to DVB is nearly over, there aren't many analog cards available - or need for them. The new cards use incompatible chipsets (learnt the hard way), including analog and especially DVB; you have to use the cx88 port to use them. Or if you come across a different chipset ensure the card is USB based and use webcamd. Following all that, FBSD works beautifully as a HTPC. GAAWK! This is far, far out of my comfort zone thst i wsill just skip it for now. i have my feed from my local telco, not an antenna The BrookTree TV tuner component doesn't make a big difference here. Both the antenna and the cable will deliver a frequency conglomerate of the available TV programs which the tuner chip can select from. If you require a specific cable receiver with video-out, you can send its signal to the card's video-on (and the audio-out of the receiver to your computer's sound card's line-in), skipping the part where the TV card has to select a TV program. Both methods work fine. thanks for all the datapoints, guys, but i can vedry well live without the card. In that case, try to find a web presence that allows you to down- load or to stream (and in conclusion, to download) the TV programs. This makes you independent of airing time (which probably is a good thing). Maybe there's also a service like OnlineTVRecorder.com (Your personal multichannel tv recorder) available for you, providing downloads for the programs you want in AVI or OTRKEY format. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
/usr/lib32 question
Hi, I have four files in /usr/lib32 - libc.so.7, libcrypt.so.5, librt.so.1, libthr.so.3 that are 444 root. Seems like i am unable to change permissions or remove... any idea why? or really, how to delete those files. it's an amd64 machine. Thanks, Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ 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/lib32 question
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have four files in /usr/lib32 - libc.so.7, libcrypt.so.5, librt.so.1, libthr.so.3 that are 444 root. Seems like i am unable to change permissions or remove... any idea why? or really, how to delete those files. it's an amd64 machine. Thanks, Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA oops, duh sorry it's late. figured it out. :) chflags noschg Thanks Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ 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/lib32 question
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:49:50 -0700, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I have four files in /usr/lib32 - libc.so.7, libcrypt.so.5, librt.so.1, libthr.so.3 that are 444 root. Seems like i am unable to change permissions or remove... any idea why? or really, how to delete those files. it's an amd64 machine. I'm on i386 here, so I can't check, but: See if the files have additional flags set, especially the system immutable flag (schg): # ls -lo /usr/lib32 If neccessary, use: # chflags noschg /usr/lib32/* and continue trying to change permissions or remove the files in that directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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/lib32 question
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:49:50 -0700, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, I have four files in /usr/lib32 - libc.so.7, libcrypt.so.5, librt.so.1, libthr.so.3 that are 444 root. Seems like i am unable to change permissions or remove... any idea why? or really, how to delete those files. it's an amd64 machine. I'm on i386 here, so I can't check, but: See if the files have additional flags set, especially the system immutable flag (schg): # ls -lo /usr/lib32 If neccessary, use: # chflags noschg /usr/lib32/* and continue trying to change permissions or remove the files in that directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... cool, thank you. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USa ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
doesn't VLC do that too? On 11 mrt 2012, at 21:28, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Voice By Computer (for Universal Access): http:/www.thought.org/vbc The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
Bernt Hansson schreef op 13-03-2012 12:12: On 2012-03-11 21:28, Gary Kline wrote: or is that illegal, too? Depends on jurisdiction. Indeed, Dutch and Belgium legislation, for example, permit making copies for personal use, which originates from recording the radio with a tape deck, which is basically what you are trying to do. I think US legislation is more strict and only allows personal copies where one has both the original and the copy, e.g. copying a CD to your (licensed) MP3 player. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:52:36PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:52:36 -0500 From: Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 3/11/2012 3:28 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray For capturing, I believe linux is your best bet. I had tried using the bktr driver, but I couldn't get it to work properly with the card I had. It could work somewhat from what I remember. The card was my brother's and he used it under linux, but he upgraded to a better one. Legality should be the same as a VCR/DVR, personal use only and don't redistribute. if it means buying a card, then, nope. i assumed that the bits were streaming thu my cable to firefox and that thedre was some program that could collecte these data and stash them in, say , /tmp. i'm using linux as a desktop, and FBSD as my server. maybed i'll find where pbs has these films stashed ... or maybe they were only for pledge week gary ps:: fwiw, that capmbell stuff was about half of the original. i've got all 6 hours of audio, tho. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Voice By Computer (for Universal Access): http:/www.thought.org/vbc The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:39:38PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:39:38 +1000
From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au
Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[ ...]
Additionally, there may be an option to download some kind of media
streams. There are tools for that available.
There is cx88 in the ports which will cover a lot of pci devices, and
webcamd covers just about all the rest. Then use mplayer or another
tool to record the stream.
And if you're real tricky you can set it to record at a specific time
and shut off at another specified time... :) I wrote a script for
this; a bit hackish, but it gets the job done. I have to clean it up
someday when I have the spare time.
No one suggesting MythTV? I haven't used a tuner card but I thought
MythTV was the one to use.
Pah! Too much bloat - especially for this use.
A lot of setup and configuration is required, and for a one off why bother?
so that's it. i messed around with mythtv last fall on my
ubuntu distro. couldn't get anywhere and finally realized
that =you need some kind of HARDWARE=. well, bleep that. i
de-installed and got back to whatever.
sinced early december i've been working on an accessibility
app for the speech impaired. it won't work on the berkeley
distros natively. it should given our linux stuff. i'll
tell you: i haven't have this much of a challenge since i
was studying data structures. Danm, gtk is hard. but
super fun. my application is as lean as i can make it,
Especially since it is aimed an people who have never used
computers before. i'm copying as much of gespeaker's
layout as i can because that is very lean and clean.
---this is a long-winded way of saying to da rock that i
hope you clean up your script[s] and publish the code in
/usr/ports.
{a final rant about copyright:: i woulnd never touch any
commercial station because they sneak in those bloody
commerc*als on you. before you know it, you've watched
a minute of babes trying to sell you your Zippy-Do sports
van. i dont have the energy to get mad. i just dont watch
anything but pbs or npr.}
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Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On 3/13/12 4:06 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:39:38PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: so that's it. i messed around with mythtv last fall on my ubuntu distro. couldn't get anywhere and finally realized that =you need some kind of HARDWARE=. I have an HDHomeRun...The original classic two-tuner model, from http://www.silicondust.com. It's a stand-alone DTV streamer. I use it with an antenna; apparently you can get versions that work with antennas or cablecard/cable TV as well. Works great. I use it with Windows Media Center for scheduling recordings, but they work great with MythTV, VLC and others for recording. Using VLC, I've recorded some videos of a local band on a morning show that have ended up on YouTube...I can send links if you want to see how it looks, although that station only broadcasts in 480i. For what it's worth, I've successfully used three BT848/878/878+ cards---all of which were PixelView or STB cards---in the same machine running FreeBSD with the bktr driver and Motion to handle surveillance-camera duties. mplayer/mencoder could only use bktr0 cause they hard-code bktr0 in the source and seemed thoroughly uninterested in fixing this oversight, even though the change would be fairly minor. Hope that helps someone. Cheers, Josh -- Josh Tolbert h...@puresimplicity.net || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:14:52 -0500 From: Josh Tolbert h...@puresimplicity.net Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 3/13/12 4:06 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:39:38PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: so that's it. i messed around with mythtv last fall on my ubuntu distro. couldn't get anywhere and finally realized that =you need some kind of HARDWARE=. I have an HDHomeRun...The original classic two-tuner model, from http://www.silicondust.com. It's a stand-alone DTV streamer. I use it with an antenna; apparently you can get versions that work with antennas or cablecard/cable TV as well. Works great. I use it with Windows Media Center for scheduling recordings, but they work great with MythTV, VLC and others for recording. Using VLC, I've recorded some videos of a local band on a morning show that have ended up on YouTube...I can send links if you want to see how it looks, although that station only broadcasts in 480i. For what it's worth, I've successfully used three BT848/878/878+ cards---all of which were PixelView or STB cards---in the same machine running FreeBSD with the bktr driver and Motion to handle surveillance-camera duties. mplayer/mencoder could only use bktr0 cause they hard-code bktr0 in the source and seemed thoroughly uninterested in fixing this oversight, even though the change would be fairly minor. Hope that helps someone. hey, josh, you just gave me an idea. my sister is giving me a used computer that is in good shape. i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me the linksoffline i f you think it wise to spare the bandwidth. Q: i have [i think] hi-def in the used computer, so want a hi-def card yours in geezer-geeekdom, gary PS: i was a kernel hacker, a porter, and an OS TEster. pix, tv, [movies], audio are strictly over my head. Cheers, Josh -- Josh Tolbert h...@puresimplicity.net || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Voice By Computer (for Universal Access): http:/www.thought.org/vbc The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:02:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: if it means buying a card, then, nope. i assumed that the bits were streaming thu my cable to firefox and that thedre was some program that could collecte these data and stash them in, say , /tmp. i'm using linux as a desktop, and FBSD as my server. There are download helper plugins available for Firefox that allow you to capture streaming content to a file. maybed i'll find where pbs has these films stashed ... or maybe they were only for pledge week Regular file downloads are something you'll hardly find on the modern web. But that doesn't mean you cannot turn streams into files. After all, the data _is_ trans- ferred to your computer. It's just a question to use the proper program. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me the linksoffline i f you think it wise to spare the bandwidth. Just to make a note: This is the card I'm using. The model name is Haupauge WinTV and the tuner chip is Brooktree 878. It is well supported by FreeBSD (and has been for many years). A problem may be that it is a PCI card. The programs mplayer and mencoder can be used to address the tuner and video-in functions of that card, as well as displaying and storing the received content. You need a HF line to the card (or an antenna maybe), except you provide the video feed from a satelite receiver via video-in. In that case, you also need to provide the audio signal from the receiver to your sound card's line-in. With mencoder, both sources can be combined and the result can be stored as a video file in any format and container you want. This is the card: bktr0@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x04 card=0x13eb0070 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Conexant (Was: Brooktree Corp)' device = 'Bt878/Fusion 878A Mediastream Controller' class = multimedia subclass = video The card provides HF-in both for TV and radio, video-in, audio-out and... not sure what it is. :-) You need the kernel modules loaded per bktr_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, and the card will work out of the box. No need to manually and interactively install a driver. :-) The player command is something like % mplayer tv://1 -vo x11 -ao sdl -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0 and similarly mencoder can be used (-ovc and -oac need to be adjusted accordingly) to encode to a file. I'm not sure how to handle TV (antenna) input as I've always been using a raw video feed (from VTR or camera). However, there's documentation that may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html It also contains an example to record to file, which will implement the software video tape recoder functionality. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me the linksoffline i f you think it wise to spare the bandwidth. Just to make a note: This is the card I'm using. The model name is Haupauge WinTV and the tuner chip is Brooktree 878. It is well supported by FreeBSD (and has been for many years). A problem may be that it is a PCI card. The programs mplayer and mencoder can be used to address the tuner and video-in functions of that card, as well as displaying and storing the received content. You need a HF line to the card (or an antenna maybe), except you provide the video feed from a satelite receiver via video-in. In that case, you also need to provide the audio signal from the receiver to your sound card's line-in. With mencoder, both sources can be combined and the result can be stored as a video file in any format and container you want. This is the card: bktr0@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x04 card=0x13eb0070 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Conexant (Was: Brooktree Corp)' device = 'Bt878/Fusion 878A Mediastream Controller' class = multimedia subclass = video The card provides HF-in both for TV and radio, video-in, audio-out and... not sure what it is. :-) You need the kernel modules loaded per bktr_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, and the card will work out of the box. No need to manually and interactively install a driver. :-) The player command is something like % mplayer tv://1 -vo x11 -ao sdl -tv driver=bsdbt848:device=/dev/bktr0 and similarly mencoder can be used (-ovc and -oac need to be adjusted accordingly) to encode to a file. I'm not sure how to handle TV (antenna) input as I've always been using a raw video feed (from VTR or camera). However, there's documentation that may help: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html It also contains an example to record to file, which will implement the software video tape recoder functionality. Brooktrees would be nice - if you could find them. Given the move to DVB is nearly over, there aren't many analog cards available - or need for them. The new cards use incompatible chipsets (learnt the hard way), including analog and especially DVB; you have to use the cx88 port to use them. Or if you come across a different chipset ensure the card is USB based and use webcamd. Following all that, FBSD works beautifully as a HTPC. ___ 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 SMTP-authentication (2nd )
Dear Matthew, According to your recommendation (as following). When I do make at /usr/src/sur.sbin/sendmail it show as following. ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake clean rm -f sm_os.h sendmail alias.o arpadate.o bf.o collect.o conf.o control.o convtime.o daemon.o deliver.o domain.o envelope.o err.o headers.o macro.o main.o map.o mci.o milter.o mime.o parseaddr.o queue.o ratectrl.o readcf.o recipient.o savemail.o sasl.o sfsasl.o shmticklib.o sm_resolve.o srvrsmtp.o stab.o stats.o sysexits.o timers.o tls.o trace.o udb.o usersmtp.o util.o version.o mailq.1.gz newaliases.1.gz aliases.5.gz sendmail.8.gz mailq.1.cat.gz newaliases.1.cat.gz aliases.5.cat.gz sendmail.8.cat.gz ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake ln -sf /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include/sm/os/sm_os_freebsd.h sm_os.h cc -O2 -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include -I. -DNEWDB -DNIS -DTCPWRAPPERS -DMAP_REGEX -DDNSMAP -DNETINET6 -DSTARTTLS -D_FFR_TLS_1 -I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL=2 -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -c /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:135:25: error: sasl/sasl.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:136:29: error: sasl/saslutil.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:607: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before ':' token /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:691: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'sasl_conn_t' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail. then I try to find where is sasl.h ns1:kamolpat:/usrfind . -name sasl.h ./local/include/sasl/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h What should I do next? Shold I just copy the sasl.h to /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail ? Thanks Kamolpat On 3/9/2012 12:34 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 08/03/2012 15:55, kamolpat wrote: Setup Reference == 1. I read the how to setup from FreeBSD Handbook (online)- Chapter 29 Electronic Mail - 29.10 SMTP Authentication from freebsd.org 2. setup for cyrus-sasl2 was fine (setup via usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2) 3. setup for openssl was 90% fine (setup via port) reference to FreeBSD Handbook (online)-Chapter 15 Security - 15.8 OpenSSL accept the STARTTLS line doesn't appear as mention on the last part of article. Did you rebuild sendmail with the right flags so that it would enable all the SASL bits? Apart from that you seem to have done all the right stuff that I can see. You need to add this to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 and then rebuild sendmail -- assuming you have system sources installed: # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail # make clean # make # make install If you haven't got the system sources installed, then you can get them easily enough with csup(1) or freebsd-update(8) or several other ways. Or you could just install sendmail from ports -- obviously, make sure to choose the option to enable SASL in the config dialogue. If you use the ports sendmail, so long as you set up mailer.conf(5) to point to the ports version -- like so: lucid-nonsense:/etc/mail:% cat mailer.conf # $FreeBSD: stable/8/etc/mail/mailer.conf 93858 2002-04-05 04:25:14Z gshapiro $ # # Execute the real sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail hoststat/usr/local/sbin/sendmail purgestat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail and put the following in /etc/make.conf so it uses the latest configuration file bits: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf MAKEMAP=/usr/local/sbin/makemap then the ports sendmail is pretty much a drop-in replacement for the system one, and you can use all the config bits in /etc/mail in exactly the same way as normal. Cheers, Matthew E-mail message checked by Internet Security (7.0.0.508) Database version: 6.19440 http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ ___ 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 SMTP-authentication (2nd )
On 12/03/2012 13:26, kamolpat wrote: According to your recommendation (as following). When I do make at /usr/src/sur.sbin/sendmail it show as following. ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake clean rm -f sm_os.h sendmail alias.o arpadate.o bf.o collect.o conf.o control.o convtime.o daemon.o deliver.o domain.o envelope.o err.o headers.o macro.o main.o map.o mci.o milter.o mime.o parseaddr.o queue.o ratectrl.o readcf.o recipient.o savemail.o sasl.o sfsasl.o shmticklib.o sm_resolve.o srvrsmtp.o stab.o stats.o sysexits.o timers.o tls.o trace.o udb.o usersmtp.o util.o version.o mailq.1.gz newaliases.1.gz aliases.5.gz sendmail.8.gz mailq.1.cat.gz newaliases.1.cat.gz aliases.5.cat.gz sendmail.8.cat.gz ns1:kamolpat:/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmailmake ln -sf /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include/sm/os/sm_os_freebsd.h sm_os.h cc -O2 -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/include -I. -DNEWDB -DNIS -DTCPWRAPPERS -DMAP_REGEX -DDNSMAP -DNETINET6 -DSTARTTLS -D_FFR_TLS_1 -I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL=2 -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -c /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:135:25: error: sasl/sasl.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:136:29: error: sasl/saslutil.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/alias.c:14: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:607: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before ':' token /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail.h:691: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'sasl_conn_t' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail. then I try to find where is sasl.h ns1:kamolpat:/usrfind . -name sasl.h ./local/include/sasl/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h ./ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/include/sasl.h What should I do next? Shold I just copy the sasl.h to /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/sendmail ? No. Don't do that. It won't help anything. You need to follow my instructions correctly. Specifically this line needs to be in /etc/make.conf in order to pick up the SASL header files: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 Where, you will note, this does *not* say /usr/local/include/sasl, which is what appears in your compiler output. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: question about SMTP-authentication (3rd )
Dear Matthew, Ok, I got sendmail complied. Thanks. But seem like ... POP3 still working in clear text usr/pwd sending to Server (but it work, I can get mail from server normal). When I chose option in ThunderBird to another mode, it doesn't work (accept connection security: none, authentication method: password transmitted insecurity this is the option that TB dectected during setting mail account) SMTP doesn't work it declare from Thunder Bird: Send Message Error The Kerberos/GSSAPI ticket was not accepted by the SMTP server mail.dmaccess.co.th Please check that you are logged in to the Kerberos/GSSAPI realm. (event I change authentication method: Kerberos/GSSAPI, it still inform this message) from /var/log/maillog Mar 12 22:38:04 ns1 sendmail[93331]: q2CMc4jF093331: ppp-58-8-130-33.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.130.33] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA this is my test on server = ns1:kamolpat:/etctelnet dmaccess.co.th 25 Trying 202.170.122.33... Connected to dmaccess.co.th. Escape character is '^]'. 220 ns1.dmaccess.co.th ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.4/8.14.4; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:23:14 GMT ehlo dmaccess.co.th 250-ns1.dmaccess.co.th Hello ns1.dmaccess.co.th [202.170.122.33], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP quit 221 2.0.0 ns1.dmaccess.co.th closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. this is my /etc/mail/freebsd.mc = Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=78 dnl Uncomment the first line to change the location of the default http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=78down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=78up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=79 dnl /etc/mail/local-host-names and comment out the second line. http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=79down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=79up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=80 dnl define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=80down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=80up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=81 define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=81down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=81up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=82 http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=82down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=82up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=83 dnl Enable for both IPv4 and IPv6 (optional) http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=83down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=83up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=84 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv4, Family=inet') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=84down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=84up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=85 DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=85down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=85up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=86 http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=86down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=86up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=87 define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=87down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=87up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=88 define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=88down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=88up=1 *Define* http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=89 define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=89down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=89up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=90 http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=90down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=90up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=91 GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericdomains'); http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=91down=1http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/move.cgi?idx=91up=1 Other http://202.170.122.33:10099/sendmail/edit_feature.cgi?idx=92
Re: question about SMTP-authentication (3rd )
On 12/03/2012 15:47, kamolpat wrote: Dear Matthew, Ok, I got sendmail complied. Thanks. But seem like ... POP3 still working in clear text usr/pwd sending to Server (but it work, I can get mail from server normal). When I chose option in ThunderBird to another mode, it doesn't work (accept connection security: none, authentication method: password transmitted insecurity this is the option that TB dectected during setting mail account) SMTP doesn't work it declare from Thunder Bird: Send Message Error The Kerberos/GSSAPI ticket was not accepted by the SMTP server mail.dmaccess.co.th Please check that you are logged in to the Kerberos/GSSAPI realm. (event I change authentication method: Kerberos/GSSAPI, it still inform this message) from /var/log/maillog Mar 12 22:38:04 ns1 sendmail[93331]: q2CMc4jF093331: ppp-58-8-130-33.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.130.33] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA what are you using as the authentication method for sasl? there are multiple authentication mechansims available for sasl(2), simplest is probably saslauthd *In /etc/rc.conf *saslauthd_enable=yes In /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf have: pwcheck_method: saslauthd make sure its running /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd start add a user with saslpasswd2 Test your u/p locally with testsaslauthd testsaslauthd -u user -p PASS (if thats not working it won't work over the network either) have TB set to conn security to STARTTLS and password security set to normal password, (for non encrypted password obv) Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546PLEASE NOTE NEW MOBILE e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA - ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On 12/03/2012 10:16, Da Rock wrote: On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree (Haupauge WinTV) PCI card for capturing from TV which worked very good using the standard programs mplayer and mencoder. For capturing TV programs, there may be some service like the Online TV Recoder which I occassionally use. Maybe this works also for radio programs? Additionally, there may be an option to download some kind of media streams. There are tools for that available. There is cx88 in the ports which will cover a lot of pci devices, and webcamd covers just about all the rest. Then use mplayer or another tool to record the stream. And if you're real tricky you can set it to record at a specific time and shut off at another specified time... :) I wrote a script for this; a bit hackish, but it gets the job done. I have to clean it up someday when I have the spare time. No one suggesting MythTV? I haven't used a tuner card but I thought MythTV was the one to use. -- Shane Ambler FreeBSD (at) ShaneWare (dot) Biz http://ShaneWare.Biz ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On 03/13/12 12:27, Shane Ambler wrote: On 12/03/2012 10:16, Da Rock wrote: On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree (Haupauge WinTV) PCI card for capturing from TV which worked very good using the standard programs mplayer and mencoder. For capturing TV programs, there may be some service like the Online TV Recoder which I occassionally use. Maybe this works also for radio programs? Additionally, there may be an option to download some kind of media streams. There are tools for that available. There is cx88 in the ports which will cover a lot of pci devices, and webcamd covers just about all the rest. Then use mplayer or another tool to record the stream. And if you're real tricky you can set it to record at a specific time and shut off at another specified time... :) I wrote a script for this; a bit hackish, but it gets the job done. I have to clean it up someday when I have the spare time. No one suggesting MythTV? I haven't used a tuner card but I thought MythTV was the one to use. Pah! Too much bloat - especially for this use. A lot of setup and configuration is required, and for a one off why bother? ___ 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
oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Voice By Computer (for Universal Access): http:/www.thought.org/vbc The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On 3/11/2012 3:28 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray For capturing, I believe linux is your best bet. I had tried using the bktr driver, but I couldn't get it to work properly with the card I had. It could work somewhat from what I remember. The card was my brother's and he used it under linux, but he upgraded to a better one. Legality should be the same as a VCR/DVR, personal use only and don't redistribute. ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray Aloha, Most Public Radio stations have the programs in podcast form from their websites. I have had TV stations send me dvd's of broadcasts that my Wife has been on here in Hawaii. I think asking the media will get you results. Many of us on the FreeBSD questions list seem to have writing backgrounds and are interested in Joseph Campbell and his developments in writing and storytelling audio and video process. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree (Haupauge WinTV) PCI card for capturing from TV which worked very good using the standard programs mplayer and mencoder. For capturing TV programs, there may be some service like the Online TV Recoder which I occassionally use. Maybe this works also for radio programs? Additionally, there may be an option to download some kind of media streams. There are tools for that available. or is that illegal, too? Yes, it is. It's also illegal to listen to MP3 in the US. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree (Haupauge WinTV) PCI card for capturing from TV which worked very good using the standard programs mplayer and mencoder. For capturing TV programs, there may be some service like the Online TV Recoder which I occassionally use. Maybe this works also for radio programs? Additionally, there may be an option to download some kind of media streams. There are tools for that available. There is cx88 in the ports which will cover a lot of pci devices, and webcamd covers just about all the rest. Then use mplayer or another tool to record the stream. And if you're real tricky you can set it to record at a specific time and shut off at another specified time... :) I wrote a script for this; a bit hackish, but it gets the job done. I have to clean it up someday when I have the spare time. ___ 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
question about SMTP-authentication
To whom it may concern: Hello, may I need your help about SMTP authentication? Problems: = SMTP-authen doesn't functioning, when I use ThunderBird I try to set authentication method as Kerberos/GSSAPI or Encrypted password, it doesn't work. Background: === I'm intermediate FreeBSD sysadmin. I used to run only normal mail service in my company, which use POP3 on myserver and SMTP from ISP. Now my ISP always get problem, so I prefer to set SMTP service on my server and provide to staffs in company. However to set pure SMTP is not safe, then I prefer to use SMTP-authenicate. Setup Reference == 1. I read the how to setup from FreeBSD Handbook (online)- Chapter 29 Electronic Mail - 29.10 SMTP Authentication from freebsd.org 2. setup for cyrus-sasl2 was fine (setup via usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2) 3. setup for openssl was 90% fine (setup via port) reference to FreeBSD Handbook (online)-Chapter 15 Security - 15.8 OpenSSL accept the STARTTLS line doesn't appear as mention on the last part of article. Raw info for considers from /var/log/maillog --- revip2.asianet.co.th is my provider , the dmaccess.co.th is my server Mar 8 22:35:35 ns1 sendmail[18640]: q28MZZ4l018640: ppp-58-8-163-248.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.163.248] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 Mar 8 22:37:29 ns1 sendmail[18644]: q28MbSv3018644: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=kamol...@dmaccess.net, relay=ppp-58-8-163-248.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.163.248], reject=550 5.7.1 kamolpa Mar 8 22:37:34 ns1 sendmail[18644]: q28MbSv3018644: from=smtpt...@dmaccess.co.th, size=778, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=ppp-58-8-163-248.revip2.asianet.co.th [58. Mar 8 22:38:31 ns1 sendmail[18646]: q28McVl2018646: ppp-58-8-163-248.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.163.248] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 Mar 8 22:39:55 ns1 sendmail[18650]: q28MdsOC018650: ppp-58-8-163-248.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.163.248] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 Mar 8 22:40:57 ns1 sendmail[18688]: q28MevLw018688: ppp-58-8-163-248.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.163.248] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 Mar 8 22:42:05 ns1 sendmail[18689]: q28Mffbd018689: ppp-58-8-163-248.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.163.248] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 from /etc/mail/freebsd.mc -- dnl set SASL options TRUST_AUTH_MECH (`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl dnl SSL Options define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/etc/ssl')dnl define(`confCACERT',`/etc/ssl/dm_new.crt')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/etc/ssl/dm_new.crt')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY',`/etc/ssl/dm_ca.key')dnl define(`confTLS_SRV_OPTIONS',`V')dnl MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) Thanks in advance Kamolpat E-mail message checked by Internet Security (7.0.0.508) Database version: 6.19420 http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ ___ 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 SMTP-authentication
On 08/03/2012 15:55, kamolpat wrote: Setup Reference == 1. I read the how to setup from FreeBSD Handbook (online)- Chapter 29 Electronic Mail - 29.10 SMTP Authentication from freebsd.org 2. setup for cyrus-sasl2 was fine (setup via usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2) 3. setup for openssl was 90% fine (setup via port) reference to FreeBSD Handbook (online)-Chapter 15 Security - 15.8 OpenSSL accept the STARTTLS line doesn't appear as mention on the last part of article. Did you rebuild sendmail with the right flags so that it would enable all the SASL bits? Apart from that you seem to have done all the right stuff that I can see. You need to add this to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 and then rebuild sendmail -- assuming you have system sources installed: # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail # make clean # make # make install If you haven't got the system sources installed, then you can get them easily enough with csup(1) or freebsd-update(8) or several other ways. Or you could just install sendmail from ports -- obviously, make sure to choose the option to enable SASL in the config dialogue. If you use the ports sendmail, so long as you set up mailer.conf(5) to point to the ports version -- like so: lucid-nonsense:/etc/mail:% cat mailer.conf # $FreeBSD: stable/8/etc/mail/mailer.conf 93858 2002-04-05 04:25:14Z gshapiro $ # # Execute the real sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail hoststat/usr/local/sbin/sendmail purgestat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail and put the following in /etc/make.conf so it uses the latest configuration file bits: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf MAKEMAP=/usr/local/sbin/makemap then the ports sendmail is pretty much a drop-in replacement for the system one, and you can use all the config bits in /etc/mail in exactly the same way as normal. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: question about SMTP-authentication
kamolpat wrote: To whom it may concern: I hope you get a more useful reply than mine later, no time here, sorry but I've had SASL-1 running fine for years FreeBSD both ends. Documented here, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sasl.html There's various URLs there to SASL-2 Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ 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
realpath(3): a curiosity question
I'm just wondering if anyone knows the rationale behind the differing return codes from realpath() for non-existent paths, depending on whether the non-existent element of a path is at the end of the path or if it occurs somewhere further up the chain. Not asking that it be changed, mind you. Just wondering why it was decided to distinguish between these two cases. From the programmer's perspective, this is something of a minor annoyance, as running a non-existent path through realpath() may or may not return NULL, and therefore still requires additional code to further validate the path returned in the non-NULL case. Granted, the stated purpose of this function is not to verify a path's existence, but nonetheless, having a function that might be called non-deterministic in the results it returns just seems, well, *bad* to me (for lack of a better word at the moment). Does anyone have any idea what the reasoning is behind this design? -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Simple question about pkg_add ...
Hey. I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. From upgt(4) ... This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of the firmware which can be installed via pkg_add(1) is available: http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz pkg_add http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz Fetching http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz... Done. pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a package? Best wishes. ___ 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: Simple question about pkg_add ...
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:52:13 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hey. I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. From upgt(4) ... This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of the firmware which can be installed via pkg_add(1) is available: http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz pkg_add http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz Fetching http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz... Done. pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a package? Did you have a look at what's inside the .tar.gz file? A directory upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0 with the following files: Makefile, distinfo, pkg-descr, and pkg-plist. Obviously, that's not a binary package for pkg_add use. It's a port. Extract the file and use it with the port infrastructure (i. e. make install). Seems that the instruction in man 4 upgt is just missing the proper terminology... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Simple question about pkg_add ...
Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. I'm so unfamiliar with pkg_add I'm not sure if that is normal. I'm very new here. Certainly it's not in a suitable format for pkg_add to deal with. I guess pkg_add is the preferred option for firmware installation. I'll contact the maintainer. On 29/02/2012, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:52:13 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hey. I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. From upgt(4) ... This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it will work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of the firmware which can be installed via pkg_add(1) is available: http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz pkg_add http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz Fetching http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz... Done. pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a package? Did you have a look at what's inside the .tar.gz file? A directory upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0 with the following files: Makefile, distinfo, pkg-descr, and pkg-plist. Obviously, that's not a binary package for pkg_add use. It's a port. Extract the file and use it with the port infrastructure (i. e. make install). Seems that the instruction in man 4 upgt is just missing the proper terminology... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Simple question about pkg_add ...
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. A port (as you can find it inside the archive) is a recipe for dealing with sources, e. g. where to obtain then, how to compile, where to install to and so on. The ports collection of the FreeBSD OS is used to deal with handling software based on sources: configure, patch, build, install, deinstall, upgrade and similar tasks. See man ports for a better explaination. I'm so unfamiliar with pkg_add I'm not sure if that is normal. The pkg_add utility installs programs from binary packages. Those packages are created by compiling a port - typically with its default options. Those packages are built for the FreeBSD ports collection and made available by the FreeBSD team. External packages, created outside the world of FreeBSD ports, are possible. See man pkg_add for details. I'm very new here. Certainly it's not in a suitable format for pkg_add to deal with. Correct. A pkg_add package typically contains compiled stuff, i. e. binaries, and a packaging list for installation and later removal. Additional tasks can also be scripted. I guess pkg_add is the preferred option for firmware installation. It's used to install programs (or libraries) to the FreeBSD system. The use with firmware is also possible. Basically, ports (from source) and packages (precompiled binaries) have the same purpose: Get things installed. If the maintainer would compile the port (that he provided for download) and give the proper URL of the result in the manpage, pkg_add would work as intended. I'll contact the maintainer. That would be a good idea as the description you quoted from the manpage is technically not correct. Option 1: Provide a pkg_add-able package. Option 2: Provide instructions on how to deal with the port. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
ZFS question
Good morning, On a small system using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, ZFS is reporting an issue on a pool, that I am not certain is really an issue, but I don't know how to investgate... Here is the situation: I have created a ZFS pool on an external 1TB Maxstor USB drive. The ZFS pool sees little or no activity, I haven't started using it for real yet. The drive spins down frequently because of lack of activity, and takes quite a few seconds to spin up. Now, I frequently get errors in the 'zpool status' thus (like, a couple of times per day): [denis@datasink] ~ zpool status -v pool: maxstor state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat Feb 18 08:49:41 2012 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM maxstor ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/64a30ca9-56ad-11e1-80c4-24ce7c30 ONLINE 1 0 0 errors: No known data errors [denis@datasink] ~ zpool iostat -v maxstor capacity operations bandwidth poolalloc free read write read write -- - - - - - - maxstor 1.10M 928G 0 0 455 1.11K gptid/64a30ca9-56ad-11e1-80c4-24ce7c30 1.10M 928G 0 0455 1.11K -- - - - - - - I know that this sounds bad for the drive, but I cannot find anywhere in my logs (/var/log/messages, dmesg, etc) a reference to this supposed 'unrecoverable error' that the drive has had, and the resilvering *always* works. I am wondering whether it might not simply be a timeout issue, that is: the drive is taking too long to spin up, which causes a timeout and a read error to be reported, which then disappears completely once the drive has spun up. Does anybody have a suggestion about how I could go about investigating this issue? Shouldn't there be a log of the 'unrecoverable error' somewhere? Thank you all, Denis ___ 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
Question regarding SPF records
I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different opinion of what should be included and what should not be included. Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help me out. My domain is: test.com My mailserver hostname is: mail.host.com which also has a MATCHING PTR record mail.host.com (for example) resolves to 50.1.1.1 and 50.1.1.1 resolves to mail.host.com This is a STANDALONE mail server which will receive and send email without any VIP's or load balancing. There is however one additional host that will send out mail from the domain but it wont be receiving mail, it will only be used as an SMTP (outbound only) server attached to a website automailer which is on a seperate webserver... It only generates error reports and sends them out... so technically it isn't a full mail server but it will be sending (outbound only) mail on behalf of the domain. The additional host is: mail2.test.com which resolves to 50.2.2.2 and there is a Matching PTR. These are the ONLY mail servers and IP addresses that will be sending out mail from the test.com domain. Some websites say I should use -all and others say -all will cause some MTA's to reject and ~all is better to use even if those are the only two hosts sending out mail. Would you be able to assist with a solid SPF record? ___ 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 regarding SPF records
On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com wrote: I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different opinion of what should be included and what should not be included. Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help me out. My domain is: test.com My mailserver hostname is: mail.host.com which also has a MATCHING PTR record mail.host.com (for example) resolves to 50.1.1.1 and 50.1.1.1 resolves to mail.host.com This is a STANDALONE mail server which will receive and send email without any VIP's or load balancing. There is however one additional host that will send out mail from the domain but it wont be receiving mail, it will only be used as an SMTP (outbound only) server attached to a website automailer which is on a seperate webserver... It only generates error reports and sends them out... so technically it isn't a full mail server but it will be sending (outbound only) mail on behalf of the domain. The additional host is: mail2.test.com which resolves to 50.2.2.2 and there is a Matching PTR. These are the ONLY mail servers and IP addresses that will be sending out mail from the test.com domain. Some websites say I should use -all and others say -all will cause some MTA's to reject and ~all is better to use even if those are the only two hosts sending out mail. Would you be able to assist with a solid SPF record? ___ 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 I usually choose soft fail because a user might decide to use a mobile device for email. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ 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 regarding SPF records
On 2/18/2012 12:18 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com mailto:juvi...@gmail.com wrote: I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different opinion of what should be included and what should not be included. Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help me out. My domain is: test.com http://test.com My mailserver hostname is: mail.host.com http://mail.host.com which also has a MATCHING PTR record mail.host.com http://mail.host.com (for example) resolves to 50.1.1.1 and 50.1.1.1 resolves to mail.host.com http://mail.host.com This is a STANDALONE mail server which will receive and send email without any VIP's or load balancing. There is however one additional host that will send out mail from the domain but it wont be receiving mail, it will only be used as an SMTP (outbound only) server attached to a website automailer which is on a seperate webserver... It only generates error reports and sends them out... so technically it isn't a full mail server but it will be sending (outbound only) mail on behalf of the domain. The additional host is: mail2.test.com http://mail2.test.com which resolves to 50.2.2.2 and there is a Matching PTR. These are the ONLY mail servers and IP addresses that will be sending out mail from the test.com http://test.com domain. Some websites say I should use -all and others say -all will cause some MTA's to reject and ~all is better to use even if those are the only two hosts sending out mail. Would you be able to assist with a solid SPF record? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailto: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 mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I usually choose soft fail because a user might decide to use a mobile device for email. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA Waitman, Fair enough statement. I also generated the following SPF using a wizard. Let me know if this looks correct: teamwarfare.com. IN TXT v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all I wouldn't need an include: or ptr statement in this right? I would told include: was to include OTHER domains that are allowed to send e-mail, but then again I see some people writing the domain again as an include. Also is PTR good to use or not? ___ 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 regarding SPF records
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:34:09 -0500 Jonathan Vomacka wrote: teamwarfare.com. IN TXT v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all I wouldn't need an include: or ptr statement in this right? I would told include: was to include OTHER domains that are allowed to send e-mail, but then again I see some people writing the domain again as an include. Also is PTR good to use or not? If you can specify the servers with ip addresses then that's all you need. ___ 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 question
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Denis Fortin for...@acm.org wrote: Good morning, On a small system using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, ZFS is reporting an issue on a pool, that I am not certain is really an issue, but I don't know how to investgate... Here is the situation: I have created a ZFS pool on an external 1TB Maxstor USB drive. The ZFS pool sees little or no activity, I haven't started using it for real yet. The drive spins down frequently because of lack of activity, and takes quite a few seconds to spin up. Now, I frequently get errors in the 'zpool status' thus (like, a couple of times per day): [denis@datasink] ~ zpool status -v pool: maxstor state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat Feb 18 08:49:41 2012 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM maxstor ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/64a30ca9-56ad-11e1-80c4-24ce7c30 ONLINE 1 0 0 errors: No known data errors [denis@datasink] ~ zpool iostat -v maxstor capacity operations bandwidth pool alloc free read write read write -- - - - - - - maxstor 1.10M 928G 0 0 455 1.11K gptid/64a30ca9-56ad-11e1-80c4-24ce7c30 1.10M 928G 0 0 455 1.11K -- - - - - - - I know that this sounds bad for the drive, but I cannot find anywhere in my logs (/var/log/messages, dmesg, etc) a reference to this supposed 'unrecoverable error' that the drive has had, and the resilvering *always* works. I am wondering whether it might not simply be a timeout issue, that is: the drive is taking too long to spin up, which causes a timeout and a read error to be reported, which then disappears completely once the drive has spun up. Does anybody have a suggestion about how I could go about investigating this issue? Shouldn't there be a log of the 'unrecoverable error' somewhere? Thank you all, Denis ___ 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 The power management settings put your drive to sleep after some time of inactivity. Unfortunately the only way I have found to adjust this is from a windows pc utility. (You can download it from their website) To solve the problem you can export the pool when you don't use it and import it back again. If that is not possible you can schedule a 5 minute cron job to query the status. Regards -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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: Technical Support Question
Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie the low level to a keyboard function, Like pressing F2 etc, at boot to access new BIOS functionality. Is this possible? On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: 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.) -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. ___ 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
On 02/17/12 19:58, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie the low level to a keyboard function, Like pressing F2 etc, at boot to access new BIOS functionality. Is this possible? I don't believe so. Its not really that hardwired to windows, not in my experience; it is a real PITA though. If you play your cards right and you know enough about BIOS you will get it. With the new laptops they really try hard to stick windows like shit on your laptop. But they can't _make_ you use it. New HP laptops (like the ones I use), can take a few goes to get it to install. Asus are about the same. Just watch your boot ordering and you will be fine. I keep reiterating using USB to install because it really does simplify matters. In the BIOS you usually find about 3 entries to set the boot order. One is to set the boot order (removable, hdd, or network), one for which removable (cdrom, usb cdrom, usb floppy, etc), and one for hdd priority (here is where your usb disk will show up, and you _will_ have to set it as boot every time, but it will boot). Set the boot order for removable, hdd, network (or disable if you like). Set the removable to cdrom. Set the hdd (temporarily because as I said it _will_ change) to the usb disk. Voila! it will start the install. I have found the cdrom to be fickle on the new laptops for booting, I'm not sure exactly why but I suspect the confusion of removable drives in the BIOS. I'm not a samsung expert, but most laptop BIOS are very similar (at least ones in the same era). #1 Get a BIOS expert to help if you can't get this figured. They will be able to show you exactly what to do in front of you in about 5-10 mins. Easier to understand if its visually shown to you rather than described. Once you jump this hurdle you will do just fine. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM,per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Oakleysilverskymus...@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: Processor question
Hi, On Thursday 16 February 2012 17:20:23 krad wrote: On 14 February 2012 20:28, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Mike Dockery wrote: Greetings, Aloha, I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros seem to be getting away from freedom... which is why I chose it in the first place. They seem intent on forcing things that do not work well (like pulseaudio and nouveau) on everyone. Freedom of choice is always best. Yeah, I used to use Linux but they became a bunch of Freedom Nazis controlled by big companies. Happily using FreeBSD for 10 years. My question is: Should I try the amd64 version of FreeBSD with my Intel Core i7-2600 processor or should I use the i386? Generally, for an x86 machine with 4GB or greater memory use amd64. Memory less than that use i386. I would actually say 3GB or more, as if you have a machine at 4gb and run a 32bit os you waste the best part of a gig or more due to pci addressing etc I would use the amd64 version in any case. I was forced once to switch because I needed more than 4GB memory for a single application. I noticed then that most things went smoother then. Erich ie. you almost certainly want to use amd64, I should think. I hope to give FreeBSD a try later this month. Excellent. Best of luck and any problems not covered in the handbook or google, post here. Welcome to FreeBSD! Thanks, Mike Dockery Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.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 ___ 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
