date:20031104

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0900, Rommel B. IKEDA wrote:

 Is it normal for a Port to be compiled for 3-4 days?  I was just wondering?
 I would really appreciate if anyone can help me how to verify that my 
 machine is indeed compiling the right way or it is just going in a loop...
 What if I would kill it...what would happen?  Can I start 
 again...compile from the Ports and encounter no problems?...Oh...by the 
 way, I am a Newbie...I do not know how to properly Kill it...

Nope.  I'd say that something has quite clearly gone wrong there.

You can kill the compilation using 'Ctrl-C' (maybe required several
times) -- that's the usual was to kill any misbehaving process under
Unix.

Before re-trying the compilation, cvsup(1) the latest version of the
ports to pick up any fixes that may have gone into the tree in the
mean time.

Cheers,

Matthew

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/dev/oncore.serial.%d for Motorola oncore GPS under FREEBSD 5.1

2003-11-04 Thread Chris Stenton

Can someone point me in the right direction on how to make
/dev/oncore.serial.1 and /dev/oncore.pps.1  under FREEBSD 5.1 now that
MAKEDEV has gone. 


Thanks


Chris


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RedHat 7.2 - Freebsd - BIG PROBLEN

2003-11-04 Thread bivol

Hi,
I'm trying to migrate my router from RedHat 7.2 to FreeBSD.
Please see the following scrit - it works fine under linux:
===
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
sleep 5
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
sleep 1
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
sleep 2
/sbin/route add -host 193.108.24.145 eth0
/sbin/route add default gw 193.108.24.145
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.17.0/24 eth0



I could never make that work for FREEBSD.

ifconfig fxp0 down
ifconfig fxp0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145 255.255.255.255
or
route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145

Looks impossible at freebsd...It says Network Unreachable. I read the man page 
of route; It says this happens when the host is more than one hop away. But it 
is working with my old RedHat.


Typing just:

route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145

works, but I need 255.255.255.255 mask to have inet access

I posted to the local group but  the only guy that anaswered me says that it 
is not possible.

Please help,
I just can't believe that freebsd can not do it.

Thanks in advance,
BIVOL

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Re: optimize with -O2 or -O?

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:20:41PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
 Hello. I'm running 5.1-RELEASE.
 
 I read the gcc man page. It is not clear what -O implys. Is -O equal to 
 -O1 or -O2? If I wish to optimize making does it make sense to add 
 CFLAGS=-O2 in the make.conf(5)?

-O is the same as -O1

Ah -- the shibboleth of cranking up the optimisation level to make
things run *really fast*.  First of all, for general purpose code, -O
gets you most of the available optimisation benefits without causing
any problems.  You can try CFLAGS=-O2 in /etc/make.conf if you like,
and most things will work OK but by no means all: some code will not
compile correctly under high optimization levels.  The immediate
response if you report this sort of thing as a bug will be to see if
the problem is repeatable using a lower optimisation level.

Secondly, you will achieve a much greater performance improvement by
setting the CPUTYPE variable appropriately.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: optimize with -O2 or -O?

2003-11-04 Thread Simon Barner

 I read the gcc man page. It is not clear what -O implys. Is -O equal to 
 -O1 or -O2? If I wish to optimize making does it make sense to add 
 CFLAGS=-O2 in the make.conf(5)?

Hi,

-O == -O1 (see `info gcc' - Invoking GCC - Optimize Options)

It is recommended not to use anything higher than -O since GCC is known to
procduce broken code on higher optimization levels.

Depending on what gcc version you are using, also specifing CPUTYPE=...
in /etc/make.conf might bring you troubles (for certain CPUs, e.g. 
athlon IIRC).

Post the output of `gcc --version' and people will be able to tell you.

What you could try is to use -O2 for some selected ports, but the question
is whether you will see a measurable performance gain.

Some ports that are known to build alright at -O2 (e.g. mplayer) have
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS knob.

Regards,
 Simon


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Re: vlc installation in /usr/ports/multimedia take too long...

2003-11-04 Thread Rommel B. IKEDA


Matthew Seaman wrote:

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0900, Rommel B. IKEDA wrote:



Is it normal for a Port to be compiled for 3-4 days? I was just 
wondering?
I would really appreciate if anyone can help me how to verify that 
my machine is indeed compiling the right way or it is just going in 
a loop...
What if I would kill it...what would happen? Can I start 
again...compile from the Ports and encounter no problems?...Oh...by 
the way, I am a Newbie...I do not know how to properly Kill it...

Nope. I'd say that something has quite clearly gone wrong there.

You can kill the compilation using 'Ctrl-C' (maybe required several
times) -- that's the usual was to kill any misbehaving process under
Unix.
Before re-trying the compilation, cvsup(1) the latest version of the
ports to pick up any fixes that may have gone into the tree in the
mean time.

Thank you very much...I tried Ctrl-C and with just one try it stopped 
and said You have Mail.
I do not know what happened...I do not use CVSup because I can 
not...with the networking configurations that we have in the office...I 
have been dowloading CTM deltas...I will try to ctm today...and use 
portsdb -Uu to update my ports...
Again, Thank you very much...

Rommel B. Ikeda

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Flash, FreeBSD and Opera

2003-11-04 Thread Martin Va

Hi,
I would like to enjoy Flash powered sites acros net with my FreeBSD 5.1 and Opersa 
7.21.
Is there a tutorial how to install flash?
Thank you
Martin


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ppp hangs and doesn't finish to return control to mgetty

2003-11-04 Thread Vladimir Melnik

Hello.

On my FreeBSD-box (FreeBSD .. 4.8-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD
4.8-RELEASE-p13 #4: Tue Oct 14 19:19:51 EEST 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/DIALUP1  i386) I has been
confronred with some difficulties.

A ppp process is starting, working, finishing and then hangs, it stays
in memory and doesn't return control to mgetty after connection with
remote peer is lost.

In my log I see such records:

Nov  4 08:02:04  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(187) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:02:04  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(187) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:02:16  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(188) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:02:17  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(188) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:02:29  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(189) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:02:29  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(189) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:02:41  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(190) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:02:41  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(190) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:02:53  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(191) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:02:53  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(191) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:03:05  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(192) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:03:05  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(192) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:03:17  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(193) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:03:17  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(193) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:03:29  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendEchoRequest(194) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:03:29  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoReply(194) state = Opened
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: RecvTerminateReq(11) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: LayerDown
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: SendTerminateAck(11) state = 
Opened
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: State change Opened -- Stopping
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: CCP: deflink: State change Stopped -- Closed
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: CCP: deflink: State change Closed -- Initial
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: deflink: open - lcp
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: IPCP: deflink: LayerDown: xxx.xx.xx0.66
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: IPCP: deflink: State change Opened -- Starting
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: IPCP: deflink: LayerFinish.
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: IPCP: Connect time: 2356 secs: 246763 octets 
in, 7602421 octets out
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: IPCP: 5365 packets in, 5387 packets out
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: IPCP:  total 3331 bytes/sec, peak 4685 
bytes/sec on Tue Nov  4 07:48:48 2003
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: IPCP: deflink: State change Starting -- Initial
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: bundle: Terminate
Nov  4 08:03:32  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Radius(acct): Accounting response 
received

And then also:

Nov  4 09:29:37  ppp[59631]: tun1: Warning: Packet too large (4102), discarding.

And after I tried to kill it with SIGTERM, I saw this:

Nov  4 10:39:23  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.
Nov  4 10:39:23  ppp[59631]: tun1: LCP: deflink: State change Stopping -- Closing
Nov  4 11:02:13  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.
Nov  4 11:02:27  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.
Nov  4 11:02:28  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.
Nov  4 11:02:29  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.
Nov  4 11:02:29  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.
Nov  4 11:02:29  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.
Nov  4 11:02:30  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 15, terminate.

SIGHUP is useless too:

Nov  4 11:03:24  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 1, terminate.
Nov  4 11:03:27  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 1, terminate.
Nov  4 11:03:28  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 1, terminate.
Nov  4 11:03:30  ppp[59631]: tun1: Phase: Signal 1, terminate.

All I can do with it - kill it with SIGKILL.

/etc/ppp/ppp.conf:

default:
set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
set speed 115200
set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER

dialin:
disable ipv6cp
disable chap
enable  pap
enable  lqr
accept  lqr
set lqrperiod 6
set timeout 600
set radius  /etc/ppp/radius.conf
set ifaddr xxx.xx.xx0.66 xxx.xx.xx0.128-xxx.xx.xx0.159 255.255.255.255
accept  dns
set dns xxx.xx.xx0.65 xxx.xx.xx0.2
!bg /usr/local/sbin/aon.pl -p PROCESSID

Kernel configuration is:

machine i386
cpu I386_CPU
cpu I486_CPU
cpu I586_CPU

Re: OpenOffice build

2003-11-04 Thread R.T.G. TAN

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:58:49AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:40:07AM +0100, R.T.G. TAN wrote:
  Hi,
  
  Im trying to install openoffice and am getting
  the folling:
  
  
  ../../dist/bin/xpidl -m typelib -w -I ../../dist/idl -I. -o _xpidlgen/nsrootidl 
  nsrootidl.idl
  ../../dist/bin/xpt_link _xpidlgen/xpcom_base.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIErrorService.xpt 
  _xpidlgen/nsIConsoleService.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIConsoleMessage.xpt 
  _xpidlgen/nsIConsoleListener.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIException.xpt 
  _xpidlgen/nsIExceptionService.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIInterfaceRequestor.xpt 
  _xpidlgen/nsIProgrammingLanguage.xpt _xpidlgen/nsISupports.xpt 
  _xpidlgen/nsIWeakReference.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIMemory.xpt _xpidlgen/nsrootidl.xpt
  ../../config/nsinstall -R -m 644 _xpidlgen/xpcom_base.xpt ../../dist/bin/components
  Can't locate File/Spec/Unix.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../../config 
  /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd 
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/File/Spec.pm 
  line 21.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/FindBin.pm line 79.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../config/make-jars.pl line 6.
  gmake[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
  gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
  `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla/work/mozilla/xpcom/base'
  gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
  gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
  `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla/work/mozilla/xpcom'
  gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
  gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
  `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla/work/mozilla'
  gmake: *** [default] Error 2
  *** Error code 2
  
  Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla.
  *** Error code 1
  
  Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
  *** Error code 1
  
  Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
  *** Error code 1
  
  Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
  ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa 
  /usr/home/rotan/tmp/portinstall49564.0 make
  ** Fix the problem and try again.
  ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed)
  ! editors/openoffice(unknown build error)
  
  
 
 Either install a more recent version of perl -- ie. one of lang/perl5
 (for perl-5.6.1) or lang/perl5.8 (for perl-5.8.1) ports, and don't
 forget to run:
 
 # use.perl port
 
 or install the devel/p5-File-Spec port.  The File::Spec module is a
 standard module in more recent versions of perl than the one the
 system provides.
 
   Cheers,
 
   Matthew
 
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Hi Matthew,

Thanks for your reply. Well I did as you
wrote. Updated perl as well as p5-File-Spec. I used
portupgrade -rf for this.

But Im still having the same problem. What more would
you suggest?


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printing setup

2003-11-04 Thread andy

What is the fastest and easiest way to get printing setup on 5.1 release?
I have a Brother 1440 connected to the printer port.  I want to be able
to print from the print sever and a few other BSD machines, and also to
setup samba to allow other machines on the local network to share the
printer.  I tried CUPS it did not work.  I also tried LPRng, but had
trouble getting it configured also.  I tried to download and compile
Printtool, but that didn't work either.  Is there a graphical printer
configuration tool for BSD?  Please cc
me with responses.


TIA,

Andy
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Re: RedHat 7.2 - Freebsd - BIG PROBLEN

2003-11-04 Thread bivol



Hi,
Actually this box has ONLY one ip, no aliases.
This line:
  /sbin/route add -net 192.168.17.0/24 eth0
Could be igonred.

I do not need them. I just need my primary IP to be with such mask..However 
I'll try to configure virtual interface. And forward the traffic through it.

BIVOL

Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
 On Tue,  4 Nov 2003 10:56:44 +0200
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom:
 
  Hi,
  I'm trying to migrate my router from RedHat 7.2 to FreeBSD.
  Please see the following scrit - it works fine under linux:
  ===
  touch /var/lock/subsys/local
  sleep 5
  /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
  sleep 1
  /sbin/ifconfig eth0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
  sleep 2
  /sbin/route add -host 193.108.24.145 eth0
  /sbin/route add default gw 193.108.24.145
  /sbin/route add -net 192.168.17.0/24 eth0
  
  
  
  I could never make that work for FREEBSD.
  
  ifconfig fxp0 down
  ifconfig fxp0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
  route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145 255.255.255.255
  or
  route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145
  
  Looks impossible at freebsd...It says Network Unreachable. I read the man
 page 
  of route; It says this happens when the host is more than one hop away. But
 it 
  is working with my old RedHat.
  
  
  Typing just:
  
  route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145
  
  works, but I need 255.255.255.255 mask to have inet access
  
  I posted to the local group but  the only guy that anaswered me says that
 it 
  is not possible.
  
  Please help,
  I just can't believe that freebsd can not do it.
  
  Thanks in advance,
  BIVOL
 
 Hello,
 
 If I understand what it is that you are trying to do I think you need to
 have a bit of a read of the following 
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-
virtual-hosts.html
 
 
 This might clear things up for you.
 
 Cheers
 
 LK
 
 
 



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Re: RedHat 7.2 - Freebsd - BIG PROBLEN

2003-11-04 Thread bivol


-
lan 192.168.1.0
-
LAN  |
 |
 |
--
rl0 192.168.1.1

ROUTER

fxp0 193.108.24.75

LAN  |
 |
 |
---
ISP 193.108.24.145


Once again:

Forget about
  /sbin/route add -net 192.168.17.0/24 eth0
It was used for lan provided by isp. I never use it I do not need it.

So the situation is the following.
Internal LAN - Router - ISP LAN
The connection between me and the provider is 100Mb LAN.
The other users in the *ISP LAN* use VPN to connect to him. I do not use VPN 
that is why he gave this ip and this strange mask. And it is working with 
RedHat 7.2

BIVOL

 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 OK , now I am really [EMAIL PROTECTED] what about trying something like
 this ?
 
 ifconfig fxp0 inet 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
 route add default -interface fxp0
 route add -host 193.108.24.145 -interface fxp0
 route add -net 192.168.17.0/24 -interface fxp0
 
 
 Are you using one NIC in this machine to run your ppp sessions as well
 as route to the local net ? If you are using a DSL/Cable connection and
 have ppp setup then there should be a ppp interface either ppp or tun in
 which case the best way to set the default gateway is
 
 route add default -interface tun0
 
 if you can take the time to create a simple diagram of what you are
 doing I might be able to help more. 
 
 HTH
 LK
 
 
 On Tue,  4 Nov 2003 11:22:21 +0200
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom:
 
  Hi,
  Actually this box has ONLY one ip, no aliases.
  This line:
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.17.0/24 eth0
  Could be igonred.
  
  I do not need them. I just need my primary IP to be with such mask..However
 
  I'll try to configure virtual interface. And forward the traffic through
 it.
  
  BIVOL
  
  Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  
   
   On Tue,  4 Nov 2003 10:56:44 +0200
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom:
   
Hi,
I'm trying to migrate my router from RedHat 7.2 to FreeBSD.
Please see the following scrit - it works fine under linux:
===
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
sleep 5
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
sleep 1
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
sleep 2
/sbin/route add -host 193.108.24.145 eth0
/sbin/route add default gw 193.108.24.145
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.17.0/24 eth0



I could never make that work for FREEBSD.

ifconfig fxp0 down
ifconfig fxp0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145 255.255.255.255
or
route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145

Looks impossible at freebsd...It says Network Unreachable. I read the
 man
   page 
of route; It says this happens when the host is more than one hop away.
 But
   it 
is working with my old RedHat.


Typing just:

route add -host 193.108.24.75 193.108.24.145

works, but I need 255.255.255.255 mask to have inet access

I posted to the local group but  the only guy that anaswered me says
 that
   it 
is not possible.

Please help,
I just can't believe that freebsd can not do it.

Thanks in advance,
BIVOL
   
   Hello,
   
   If I understand what it is that you are trying to do I think you need
 to
   have a bit of a read of the following 
   
   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-
  virtual-hosts.html
   
   
   This might clear things up for you.
   
   Cheers
   
   LK
   
   
   
  
  
 
 
 
 



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Re: printing setup

2003-11-04 Thread Miguel Mendez

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 06:09:53 -0500 (EST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

 What is the fastest and easiest way to get printing setup on 5.1
 release? I have a Brother 1440 connected to the printer port.  I want
 to be able to print from the print sever and a few other BSD machines,
 and also to setup samba to allow other machines on the local network
 to share the printer.  I tried CUPS it did not work.  I also tried
 LPRng, but had trouble getting it configured also.  I tried to
 download and compile Printtool, but that didn't work either.  Is there
 a graphical printer configuration tool for BSD?  Please cc
 me with responses.

I use a Brother 1430 in FreeBSD 5.1, and it works very well. I connected
it to the USB port and installed CUPS. Then I downloaded the
foomatic-rip script from http://www.linuxprinting.org and the HL1250 ppd
for CUPS. Works like a charm. Install the ppd file and the foomatic
stuff and then start cupds (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start). Point
your browser to http://localhost:631 and enter the user when prompted
(root and its password). Your files should like this:

/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-gswrapper
/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
/usr/local/share/cups/model/Brother-HL-1430-hl1250.ppd

Create a new printer and choose the Brother model. Should just work.
Also check www.linuxprinting.org, it has a lot of info of the matter.

Cheers,
-- 
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http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org
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I need help restoring my /usr partition!

2003-11-04 Thread Mark

I need some urgent help! Trying to restore my /usr partition (FreeBSD 4.7R),
I get the following errors:

% restore -N -rf ./usr.back
expected next file 1125, got 7
expected next file 1125, got 8
expected next file 1125, got 529
expected next file 1125, got 530
expected next file 6995, got 6872
expected next file 6995, got 6873
expected next file 8502, got 8483
expected next file 8502, got 8484
expected next file 8828, got 8736
expected next file 8828, got 8737
expected next file 22844, got 9619

Etc. This is the result of the fsck:

% fsck /usr
** /dev/ad0s1g (NO WRITE)
** Last Mounted on /usr
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
UNREF FILE I=7  OWNER=nobody MODE=100644
SIZE=1744 MTIME=Nov  3 14:33 2003
CLEAR? no

UNREF FILE I=8  OWNER=nobody MODE=100644
SIZE=6952 MTIME=Nov  4 10:52 2003
CLEAR? no

UNREF FILE I=529  OWNER=root MODE=100660
SIZE=0 MTIME=Nov  3 00:08 2003
CLEAR? no

UNREF FILE I=530  OWNER=root MODE=100660
SIZE=1521 MTIME=Nov  3 09:13 2003
CLEAR? no


I have no idea what these file are, or how to get rid of them. Somebody,
please help!

- Mark

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Re: RedHat 7.2 - Freebsd - BIG PROBLEN

2003-11-04 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik


 ifconfig fxp0 193.108.24.75 netmask 255.255.255.255 up

 Looks impossible at freebsd...It says Network Unreachable. I read the man page
 of route; It says this happens when the host is more than one hop away.

Which it is - your netmask specifies tht just  193.108.24.75 is on that
wire. You propably want 255.255.255.0.

 But it is working with my old RedHat.

Either RH is wrong or you are using something like an aliased interface.

Dw
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Re: ipfilter on 5.1 CURRENT

2003-11-04 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:13, Olivier Nicole wrote:
 Hi,

 I'd like to run ipfilter on a 5.1 CURRENT box but my problems are many.

 1) I discovered that /sys/i386/conf/LINT has disappeared

See NOTES


 2) I find no mention of any IPFILETER, ipfilter, ip-filter or
whatsoever option to add to the kernel

See /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES.

Since 5.x supports more hardware architectures the NOTES have been splitted in 
general and machine specific parts


 3) I guessed that it may have been automatically build in, but when I
try to run ipf, it complains about a missing device, I bet it is
/dev/ipl

Don't understand that


 4) The usual way to build devices, MAKEDEV does not exist anymore

5.x has device file system. Devices are generated on thy fly by the kernel. No 
need for MAKEDEV anymore. See man devfs.


 5) The documentation about devfs is quite limited (to say the least)

Hmmm, can't copy


 6) mknod refuses to create any device, always returning file not found

 So why breaking something that was running fine?

Also don't understand


 And how to run ipf on 5.1

Perhaps you should read _more_ more carefully

-Harry


 Bests

 Olivier
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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables notavailable--

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:09:56 -0500, nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

- Original Message -
From: Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; peter lageotakes 
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables 
notavailable--

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:57:38 -0500, nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What version of FreeBSD are you using?
 Did you compile amp into the kernel?

 I think you're not understanding what I posted @
 http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing

 The first line has what version I'm running.  The entire document @
 http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing
 implies; this was a
 running system with no serious issues; meaning; the sysctl items I'm
 speaking of were in
 fact available and working.

 If i can figure out how to make these sysctl variables available, I 
can
 set them like they
 were before, hence my overheating problem is solved.

 See what I mean?

 --- nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The problem can be viewed @:

 http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing

  Basically, the machine is overheating (I believe)
  because the cpu's aren't cycling down.
  Previously I was able to cycle the processors down
  with the following sysctl variables:

  machdep.apm_suspend_delay:
  machdep.apm_standby_delay:

  however, for some reason those variables currently,
  aren't any where to be found by the
  up_and_running system.  Please use the hyperlink
  above for details.

  Thanks for reading.  All feedback is welcome.

You may want to have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/fvcool.  (If you'd 
like
a script to run it on startup, Dr. Matthew Seaman posted one to the
mailing list some months ago - January?)
[Please don't top post - makes reading long threads more difficult.]

I'm interested in those missing sysctl variables I posted @
http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing.  
Using a Third party
application/script to fix something that was natively working or under 
control, I don't
think, is the way to go and causes another level of complexity.

Wouldn't you think?
Ah - I thought you were interested in effectively and easily lowering your 
AMD CPU temperatures by 10-20 degrees Celsius, rather than in getting help 
searching for sysctl variables that had been more or less effective for 
you in the past.

BTW, if you wish to do natively what the fvcool port does, the 
technical documentation at fvcool's site goes some way toward explaining 
that.

Sorry, my mistake.

Jud
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Re: OpenOffice build

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:38:35AM +0100, R.T.G. TAN wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:58:49AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
  On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:40:07AM +0100, R.T.G. TAN wrote:
   Hi,
   
   Im trying to install openoffice and am getting
   the folling:
   
   
   ../../dist/bin/xpidl -m typelib -w -I ../../dist/idl -I. -o _xpidlgen/nsrootidl 
   nsrootidl.idl
   ../../dist/bin/xpt_link _xpidlgen/xpcom_base.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIErrorService.xpt 
   _xpidlgen/nsIConsoleService.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIConsoleMessage.xpt 
   _xpidlgen/nsIConsoleListener.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIException.xpt 
   _xpidlgen/nsIExceptionService.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIInterfaceRequestor.xpt 
   _xpidlgen/nsIProgrammingLanguage.xpt _xpidlgen/nsISupports.xpt 
   _xpidlgen/nsIWeakReference.xpt _xpidlgen/nsIMemory.xpt _xpidlgen/nsrootidl.xpt
   ../../config/nsinstall -R -m 644 _xpidlgen/xpcom_base.xpt 
   ../../dist/bin/components
   Can't locate File/Spec/Unix.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../../config 
   /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 
   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd 
   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at 
   /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/File/Spec.pm line 21.
   BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/FindBin.pm line 
   79.
   BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../config/make-jars.pl line 6.
   gmake[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
   gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
   `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla/work/mozilla/xpcom/base'
   gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
   gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
   `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla/work/mozilla/xpcom'
   gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
   gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
   `/usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla/work/mozilla'
   gmake: *** [default] Error 2
   *** Error code 2
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice/work/mozilla.
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
   ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa 
   /usr/home/rotan/tmp/portinstall49564.0 make
   ** Fix the problem and try again.
   ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed)
   ! editors/openoffice(unknown build error)
   
   
  
  Either install a more recent version of perl -- ie. one of lang/perl5
  (for perl-5.6.1) or lang/perl5.8 (for perl-5.8.1) ports, and don't
  forget to run:
  
  # use.perl port
  
  or install the devel/p5-File-Spec port.  The File::Spec module is a
  standard module in more recent versions of perl than the one the
  system provides.

 Thanks for your reply. Well I did as you
 wrote. Updated perl as well as p5-File-Spec. I used
 portupgrade -rf for this.
 
 But Im still having the same problem. What more would
 you suggest?

Err -- you only needed to do one of those things.  Still, it shouldn't
cause any problems having done both.

Did you run:

# use.perl port

You need to do that, or the ports system will simply ignore the
updated perl you've installed.  Now when you type 'perl -v' it should say:

This is perl, v5.6.1

or

This is perl, v5.8.1

depending on which perl port you installed.  You should also be able
to run this command without errors:

% perl -MFile::Spec -e 'print $File::Spec::VERSION, \n;'

(which returns 0.86 on my system, but anything reasonable will do).

You should probably do a:

# make clean

in the OpenOffice port directory and start again from scratch with the
compilation. 

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, DavidB wrote:

 First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for
   more than a few years.  I like the ports system, I like compiling from
 source so I can get the compile time features I want.  Portupgrade
 really helps with maintaining ports.

 My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux and
 am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same time I
 started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check them out.

 I had in my list of potentials, slackware, debian, and I was wondering
 what was thought of gentoo(I read that this was started by a former?
 freebsd developer)[I hope there is no bad blood there].
Another 2c:
Although its quite a time ago, as Konrad Heuer mentioned,
slackware looks much like FreeBSD.
My personal favourite would be debian, because it is very
open-sourcish like FreeBSD (ie. good documentation, good
availability via http and ftp).

I was very disappointed of SUSE, which is popular here in
Germany. Their distributions are quite expensive and
you will need to buy their books, if you want to build up
something more complex than a stand-alone workstation.


Regards,

Uli.

+---+
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| Wuppertal |
|  Germany  |
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FreeBsd , I REALLY need some help :-)

2003-11-04 Thread Nic Bergen

Hi,

I'm trying to install freebsd on an old i486 (75mhz) with 40mb ram
I have two harddrives 260 and 349mb.
I am booting with the kern and mfsroot floppies.
I can get everything right and working following the documentation on 
the site up to making the root,swap,...etc.
But when I finish this and the installation begins I get an error about 
no such device or media.
It appears that the program can't find my cd-rom drive.
It is a rather old 24x mitsumi cd-rom drive and it is set as slave to 
the primary harddrive.

I cannot find a solution on this site.
What should I do,where do I begin.
Have you got any other suggestion considering my pc.

By the way what kind of userinterface will I get with a minimum install??

Cheers

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kde + libc

2003-11-04 Thread Zsolt Erdei


Hi!

Unfortunatelly I am really new with FBSD... so, I installed a 4.7 and
upgradet with cvsup to 4.9
after this compiled the base system.. the X server and the KDE 3.1.4.

There were some problem during the compile of KDE, and cause of time I
installed from binary...

Now, If I wanna use any Save/As / Open Dialog box, and type to the
filename the application segfaults, and here is the output.

(no debugging symbols found)...0x28f24900 in __sys_poll ()
   from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
#0  0x28f24900 in __sys_poll () from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
#1  0x28f23e4c in _thread_kern_sched_state_unlock () from
/usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
#2  0x28f23811 in _thread_kern_scheduler () from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
#3  0x0 in ?? ()

What should I do ?
I am not on the list, so please to private.


thanks,
woodi


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Re: mountd/nfs export options

Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Lowell Gilbert wrote:
  Is there a trick or anything I could use to exports 2 directories
  on the same filesystem, but with different options ?
 
 For exemple, I have /dev/ad2s1d mounted on /exports.
  I would like to export /exports/share1 read-only and
  /exports/share2 read-write.
 
  It's not possible, because there's no way to enforce it...
 
 
 Oh, man, that is to bad :(
 I've got to find a way to do this or I'll have to use Linux instead,
 IIRC it allows that kind of sharing.

The limitation is in the NFS protocol, not in the FreeBSD
implementation, so if Linux lets you do this, you're fooling
yourself about the security involved.
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RE: Mounting USB drives and PCI USB and ieee1394 drives

2003-11-04 Thread Alexander P. Goldhammer

Toni,

Thanks for your help.

camcontrol stop 0:0:0:0 and camcontrol eject 0:0:0:0 give me Unit
stopped successfully  When I unplug the USB cable, FreeBSD recognizes
the fact and gives me:
#umass0: at hub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0): lost device
umass0: detached

When I plug the USB cable back in I am back to the same ol' problem:
umass0: In system Design USB Storage Adapter, rev 2.00/11.05, addr 2
umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT
umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
over and over again then
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry

I was reading through the rest of the man page for camcontrol but it is
not clear to me that there is another command in camcontrol.

Any ideas?

-Alex

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:50:13PM -0500, Alexander P. Goldhammer wrote:

i am really no scsi, usb, firewire specialist but i think for
some of your questions i can give an answer :-)

 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Read(6)/write(6) not supported, increasing the
 minimum_cmd_size to 10.

this is normal. 4.8 first tried 6 byte scsi commands. as the
messages says, for this device 10 byte scsi commands are required.
the default changed in 4.9 from 6 to 10 bytes for usb devices.

 #umass0: at hub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0): lost device
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0): removing device entry
 umass0: detached
 
 My intuition tells me this is not good.

you should stop the drive before removing it (camcontrol stop
0:0:0). see camcontrol(8).

 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
 
 Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this/fix this?

when you stop the device (camcontrol), then remove it,
reattaching should work.

 b) If/when I plug it a USB/Firewire drive into this card how is the
 device name specified?  Or is there a command to figure this out? 

man 8 camcontrol

 c) Is msdos the correct filesystem designation?

if you share your data between windows and freebsd msdosfs is the
right fs. but be aware i had problems with huge partitions
and msdosfs see:

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2003-May/000950.ht
ml
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2003-October/00470
1.html

hth
toni
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at 
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environment variables and hostname...

2003-11-04 Thread Xpression

Hi list, there is a way to list or know the environment variables,
in fact, I want to know if my hostname is stored in a variable, and all
variables that maintain the system...thanks...

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Trouble with a DLT7000 tape drive

2003-11-04 Thread Jason Lavigne

Hello all,

I have found some errors that I get on my tape drive. I am wondering if
anyone would know if this is SCSI card, cable, tape drive or tape issue,
or maybe something different all together. I am using DLT Type-IV tapes
and this is on a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE system.

TIA,

Jay

dmesg output

ahc0: Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xd000-0xdfff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0
aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
sa0: QUANTUM DLT7000 2565 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
ch0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
ch0: ADIC VLS DLT 0305 Removable Changer SCSI-2 device
ch0: 3.300MB/s transfers
ch0: 7 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 1 portal
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 2 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:c,0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Write error
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s)
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:a000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:a000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:2000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:a000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM
command to clear this state.

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Re: mountd/nfs export options

2003-11-04 Thread Antoine Jacoutot

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
The limitation is in the NFS protocol, not in the FreeBSD
implementation, so if Linux lets you do this, you're fooling
yourself about the security involved.
Allright then... but I'm forced to find way to do this anyway.
I guess I have to find another way of sharing those directories...
I though about samba, although it feels strange to configure samba for 
directories sharing between Unices :)

Antoine

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Re: environment variables and hostname...

2003-11-04 Thread Scott Hiemstra

You can use the env command to see a list of Environment variables.  On my
system, it doesn't appear the hostname is in there but it may be on yours.

Scott

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Re: Trouble with a DLT7000 tape drive

2003-11-04 Thread Konrad Heuer


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jason Lavigne wrote:

 I have found some errors that I get on my tape drive. I am wondering if
 anyone would know if this is SCSI card, cable, tape drive or tape issue,
 or maybe something different all together. I am using DLT Type-IV tapes
 and this is on a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE system.

 TIA,

 Jay

 dmesg output

 ahc0: Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
 0xd000-0xdfff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0
 aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
 sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
 sa0: QUANTUM DLT7000 2565 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
 sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
 ch0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
 ch0: ADIC VLS DLT 0305 Removable Changer SCSI-2 device
 ch0: 3.300MB/s transfers
 ch0: 7 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 1 portal
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 2 0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:c,0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Write error
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s)
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:a000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:a000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:2000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND info:a000 csi:0,0,1,40 asc:44,89
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): Vendor Specific ASCQ
 (sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM
 command to clear this state.

I had a similar problem with my DLT4000 drive. It was caused by unsuitable
media. Although the tapes seemed to be suitable for DLT4000 drives there
were preformatted in some kind; I bought tapes from diffferent
manufacturer, and they do fine.

I studied the documentation of my drive which explains the Vendor
Specific ASCQ im some way so that I got the idea to use other tapes.

Best regards

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Re: environment variables and hostname...

Xpression [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi list, there is a way to list or know the environment variables,
 in fact, I want to know if my hostname is stored in a variable, and all
 variables that maintain the system...thanks...

How to get the environment variable list depends on your shell.
On sh-style shells, it's usually set.  
On csh-style shells, I think it's env.
But for getting your hostname, the canonical method is hostname(1).
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What support for USB2/Firewire External HDD in 4.8

2003-11-04 Thread Martyn Hill

Hi

I have been trying to evaluate the support offered under 4.8 for external
USB2/Firewire drives. I've browsed the firewire mailing list archive but am
still left unsure.

In particular, has anyone had experience or knowledge on the Adaptec
DuoConnect AUA3020 PCI card (dual USB2 and Firewire) and an Amacom 40GB
EZ2Disk (again, USB2 and Firewire) with FreeBSD? I wouldn't expect to be
unmounting regularly - its really as part of a backup solution.

Apologies if this has been answered before, I have scanned the questions
list but didn't find quite the thing...

TIA
Martyn Hill
Network Administrator
St James Independent School
London

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Re: FreeBsd , I REALLY need some help :-)

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Nic Bergen wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm trying to install freebsd on an old i486 (75mhz) with 40mb ram
 I have two harddrives 260 and 349mb.
First of all: it is absolutely possible to install a basic
FreeBSD on this kind of hardware. I never had any problems with
mitsumi cd-drives.
Do you have a possibility to check if the cd drive still works
correctly? (Perhaps with windows or on a different machine?)

Regards,

Uli.

 I am booting with the kern and mfsroot floppies.
 I can get everything right and working following the documentation on
 the site up to making the root,swap,...etc.
 But when I finish this and the installation begins I get an error about
 no such device or media.
 It appears that the program can't find my cd-rom drive.
 It is a rather old 24x mitsumi cd-rom drive and it is set as slave to
 the primary harddrive.

 I cannot find a solution on this site.
 What should I do,where do I begin.

 Have you got any other suggestion considering my pc.

 By the way what kind of userinterface will I get with a minimum install??

 Cheers

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Re: mountd/nfs export options

2003-11-04 Thread Antoine Jacoutot

Nathan Kinkade wrote:
  Must they be two separate exports, or could you simply export /exports
and then control read/write access to /exports/share1 and
/exports/share2 using regular unix file permissions?  For example:
dr-xr-xr-x  2 user  group  4096 Nov  4 08:34 share1/
drwxrwxrwx  2 user  group  4096 Nov  4 08:35 share2/
This seems like an overly simple solution to work in your case, but
sometimes the simple things get overlooked.
I can do this, unfortunately, what I would like to do is not a 
read/write permission export option but this:

--
/exports/share1 -maproot=nobody:nobody -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 
255.255.255.0
/exports/share2 -mapall=root:users -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
--

Regards,
Antoine
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XFree86 config problems

2003-11-04 Thread Luke Kearney

Hi,

I am having a devil of a time getting an ATi Radeon 7500/64Mb to work
properly with my monitor ( a sony lcd monitor ).  X will start but the
amount of flicker on the screen is unbearable. At times the whole screen
looks like it is under a couple of mm of water.

My X config as follows:

#
Section Module

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Loaddbe   # Double buffer extension

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection  extmod
  Optionomit xfree86-dga   # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Loadtype1
Loadspeedo
#Loadfreetype
#Loadxtt

# This loads the GLX module
#Load   glx
# This loads the DRI module
Load   dri

EndSection

# **
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **

Section Files

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like .txt or .db).  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
# If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other
# programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory
# to the end of this list (or comment them out).
#

FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/
#FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/

# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.

#ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules

EndSection

# **
# Server flags section.
# **

Section ServerFlags

# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
# received.  This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging

#Option NoTrapSignals

# Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltFn VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12).  This allows clients to receive these key
# events.

#Option DontVTSwitch

# Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.

#Option DontZap

# Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching
# sequences.  This allows clients to receive these key events.

#Option Dont Zoom

# Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
# it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
# but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
# receive a protocol error.

#Option DisableVidModeExtension

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client.

#Option AllowNonLocalXvidtune

# Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
# (mouse and keyboard) settings.

#Option DisableModInDev

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
# change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset).

#Option AllowNonLocalModInDev

EndSection

# **
# Input devices
# **

# **
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **

Section InputDevice

Identifier  Keyboard1
Driver  Keyboard

# For most OSs the protocol can be omitted (it defaults to Standard).
# When using XQUEUE (only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris),
# uncomment the following line.

#Option Protocol  Xqueue

Option AutoRepeat 500 30

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#Option Xleds  1 2 3

#Option LeftAlt Meta
#Option RightAltModeShift

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#Option XkbModelpc102
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#Option

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Nicolai P Guba

On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 12:29, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, DavidB wrote:

  My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux
  and
 am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same
  time I started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check them out. 
  I had in my list of potentials, slackware, debian, and I was wondering
  what was thought of gentoo(I read that this was started by a former?
  freebsd developer)[I hope there is no bad blood there].

Debian gets my vote. 
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Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Jeff MacDonald

Gentoo. Period :)

I started out with slackware about 7 years ago, ran it for 2 years, then
ran freebsd for 5ish, but i wanted something with a bit more main
stream/weird hardware/software support so i decided to give a Linux a
try.

I must say that Gentoo is probably one of the most pleasurable linux
experiences i've had to date, the package management is pretty sweet.

Jeff.

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:09, Nicolai P Guba wrote:
 On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 12:29, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
  On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, DavidB wrote:
 
   My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux
   and am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same
   time I started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check them out. 
   I had in my list of potentials, slackware, debian, and I was wondering
   what was thought of gentoo(I read that this was started by a former?
   freebsd developer)[I hope there is no bad blood there].
 
 Debian gets my vote. 

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Re: mountd/nfs export options

2003-11-04 Thread Antoine Jacoutot

Selon Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Hmmm ... again, certainly this is an option that has crossed your mind
 already, but would it be impossible or impractical to move
 /exports/share2 to a diff filesystem, such that you could then export
 with different options.  If for some reason share1 and share2 must both

The thing is that I cannot move share1 or share2 away from this filesystem
because of different reasons... the main one would be money.

 /exports/share1 -maproot=nobody:nobody -network 192.168.0.0
 /diff/filesys/share2 -mapall=root:users -network 192.168.0.0

I thank you so much for trying to help me.
Unfortunately, I don't see any resolution to this problem but I'm not desperate,
I'm sure there's a way to do what I need.

One thing I though about:
is it possible to force every writes under /exports/share2 to be GID=users ? I'm
not an expert when it comes to setgid, but maybe I should have a look at it.
Then I could just use:
/exports/share1 /exports/share2 -maproot=nobody:nobody -network 192.168.0.0

And every created files to /exports/share2 would be GID=users... I guess... ?

Antoine
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Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread Nico Meijer

Hi all,

Debian gets my vote. 
Hear, hear.

Anybody tried Crux (http://www.crux.nu/) BTW? It has a ports system.

Will try soon, methinks... Nico

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mail never gets sent

2003-11-04 Thread chip . wiegand

I just set up a new box with fbsd-5.1 and it appears that the email never 
leaves the box, or at least it never arrives at its intended destination. 
I have set up previous versions of freebsd and never had a problem sending 
mail with out any configuration of sendmail. The machine does connect and 
browse the internet. My rc.conf has sendmail_enable=NO. So it should be 
able to send, but not receive, which is what I want.I have included the 
mail -v messages below. I have tried to send to 4 different addresses, 
including the freebsd-test list, no messages show up at any addresses.
Any idea why mail is not being sent?

Thanks
Chip W
Simrad, Inc
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EOT
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220 simradusa.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.9; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:33:17 
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250-simradusa.com Hello localhost.simrad.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet 
you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
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250 2.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok
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250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself
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250 2.0.0 hA4GXHwG000641 Message accepted for delivery
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Re: freebsd port for MRTG

2003-11-04 Thread Wout A.

# cd /usr/ports
# make update
# make search name=mrtg

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Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:00 AM
Subject: freebsd port for MRTG


 Is there a port for MRTG?   Also a step by step instruction for setup
 for FREEBSD only.
 Dan

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multimedia/avifile won't compile, stopping builds of x11/gnome2

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Seniura

I'm seeing the exact same compiler problem that bento has been showing
for multimedia/avifile.  This is bento's log for this app:
http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-latest/avifile-0.7.34.20030319,2.log
This is stopping portupgrade --new --recursive --upward-recursive x11/gnome2 from 
finishing.
I have been staying current via CTM due to firewall issues here
(political... don't ask ;) .
I've read thru the long discussion about breaking gnome2 up into
more managable separate collections of apps, but for now the gnome2
collection is the only thing portupgrade knows how to keep track of,
so it is broken as far as it is concerned.
Also, apparently no one else has seen this compile problem with avifile
as I've searched thru every mail-list here to no avail.
Please help me with this -- should I file a bug? or is there a workaround?
If I file a bug, I will recommend upgrading avifile to the latest version as shown on 
their project site at Sourceforge,
but gnome2 is broken until this is fixed.  Thank you very much.

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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables notavailable--

2003-11-04 Thread Technical Director

= I doubt hardware manufactuers put out equipment that can't run at 100% at
= least.

FWIW, I doubt the accuracy of that last paragraph, and don't think
this is so seemingly far fetched at all. :-)

Considering the high demand for consumer's purchasing 'their' products, a
mishap like My server can't run at high cpu due to it crashing is part
and parcel to shooting yourself in the foot as a manufactuer.

If you buy a MB/PROC that cooks just by operating as a server, which in
most cases what FreeBSD will be used for, and you know that it 'may'
crash or lockup due to heat, don't use FreeBSD.

- or -

Buy hardware that won't cook out.

Have you both tried to run 4.#-[CURRENT/STABLE/RELEASE] to see if the
problem goes away?

I have a related problem. In my case, it's a borrowed laptop on which
I installed FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT (quite a while ago, but last
{build,install}{kernel,world} was circa July 2003). Also installed on
the system is Windows 2000 Professional. The related problem I have
is that I can fairly easily get the laptop to power off due to
thermally-initiated shutdown using FreeBSD (complete with current
temperature has exceeded system limits type messages on the console
beforehand), but can't seem to do so via Win2K. :-(

Now I know that in a sense this is apples and oranges, because I don't
do precisely the same things under both operating systems. But, it
seems that high-CPU/system activity under FreeBSD will ultimately lead
to a thermal shutdown, but not on Win2K (no so far as I've been able
to manage, anyway). This is inconvenient, to say the least. For
example, a FreeBSD buildworld or buildkernel will not complete; it'll
get part way through before the machine becomes too hot and shuts
itself down. Similarly, building big ports like Mozilla won't
complete, which makes portupgrade a bit of fun. Needless to say, this
system doesn't get updated much. :-)

Now I'm not saying the machine doesn't become physically hot when
running Win2K, too. It does (e.g., when playing CPU-intensive games,
etc.). But somehow, Win2K is able to manage things so that the system
does not become so hot that the shutdown kicks in.

So, I'm wondering if there's some sysctl or other knob that can be set
in FreeBSD that will ameliorate this problem. (I thought
laptop/mobile CPUs generally were able to step down to lower clock
speeds to conserve power/run cooler, for example.) If I could do
system rebuilds and port builds without having to restart that'd be a
big improvement! :-)

Unlike the original poster, this is an Intel-based system, not Athlon.
It's a Gateway Solo 450 laptop. If I didn't know better, I'd think
that Gateway engineered (pah!) this system so it would run Windows
okay and that's it as far as they're concerned. ;-) FWIW, attached
at the end of this message is a copy of /var/run/dmesg.boot in case
anyone can suggest something to help.

Cheers,

Paul.

PS: I'm glad I'm only borrowing this laptop and didn't buy it!! The
owner of the laptop only uses Windows, so this is only a problem for
me running FreeBSD.

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deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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/var/run/dmesg.boot
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #1: Sat Jul 19 19:25:09 EDT 2003
root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP
Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc056f000.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/if_fxp.ko at 0xc056f26c.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/miibus.ko at 0xc056f318.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_maestro3.ko at 0xc056f3c4.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko at 0xc056f478.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/radeon.ko at 0xc056f524.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/firewire.ko at 0xc056f5d0.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/cbb.ko at 0xc056f680.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/exca.ko at 0xc056f728.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/cardbus.ko at 0xc056f7d4.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko at 0xc056f880.
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter TSC frequency 1994125864 Hz
CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz (1994.13-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7

Features=0xbfebf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
real memory = 536346624 (511 MB)
avail memory = 514928640 (491 MB)
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
npx0: math processor on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: GATEWA 450 on motherboard
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 11 entries at 0xc00fdf10
acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model.

Re: FreeBsd , I REALLY need some help :-)

2003-11-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn

At 1:47 PM +0100 11/4/03, Nic Bergen wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to install freebsd on an old i486 (75mhz) with
40mb ram I have two harddrives 260 and 349mb.
Which version of FreeBSD are you trying to install?

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Re: mail never gets sent

2003-11-04 Thread chip . wiegand

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if DNS is not working, I would not be able to 
do a traceroute to a domain name, right? But rather only to an ip address? 
But I can do traceroute to a domain name, and browse the web, by name. Is 
this right or not?
Thanks,
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Steve Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/04/2003 09:04:26 AM:

 Looks to me like you dont have DNS workin right - everything resolves to
 your local host instead of gettin the correct MX records.
 
 
 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I just set up a new box with fbsd-5.1 and it appears that the email 
never 
  leaves the box, or at least it never arrives at its intended 
destination. 
  I have set up previous versions of freebsd and never had a problem 
sending 
  mail with out any configuration of sendmail. The machine does connect 
and 
  browse the internet. My rc.conf has sendmail_enable=NO. So it should 
be 
  able to send, but not receive, which is what I want.I have included 
the 
  mail -v messages below. I have tried to send to 4 different addresses, 

  including the freebsd-test list, no messages show up at any addresses.
  Any idea why mail is not being sent?
  
  Thanks
  Chip W
  Simrad, Inc
  --
  -bash-2.05b$ mail -v -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  testing again.
  .
  EOT
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
  220 simradusa.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.9; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 
08:33:17 
  -0800 (PST)
   EHLO simradusa.com
  250-simradusa.com Hello localhost.simrad.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to 
meet 
  you
  250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
  250-PIPELINING
  250-8BITMIME
  250-SIZE
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  250-ETRN
  250-DELIVERBY
  250 HELP
   MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=58
  250 2.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok
   RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   DATA
  250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok
  354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself
   .
  250 2.0.0 hA4GXHwG000641 Message accepted for delivery
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent (hA4GXHwG000641 Message accepted for 
  delivery)
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Re: printing setup

2003-11-04 Thread Miguel Mendez

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:48:36 -0500 (EST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[Please, keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC'd]

 Request Entity Too Large
 The request is too large for this server to process.HTTP/1.1 413
 Request Entity Too Large Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:35:45 GMT Server:
 CUPS/1.1 Content-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Upgrade: TLS/1.0,HTTP/1.1
 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 168
 Request Entity Too Large
 The request is too large for this server to process.

Ok, a quick search on google reveals there used to be more people with
that problem. So, what version of cups do you have installed? If it's an
old one, you should cvsup your ports tree and install the latest
version. The one I'm using:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg_info | grep -i cups
cups-1.1.19.0   The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple
cups-base-1.1.19.0  The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs,  daemons
cups-lpr-1.1.19.0   The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility binaries (lp* comma
cups-pstoraster-7.07 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS prin

Cheers,
-- 
Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org
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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables notavailable--

Jud, Annotated below
- Original Message - 
From: Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; peter lageotakes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables notavailable--

 On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:09:56 -0500, nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  - Original Message -
  From: Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; peter lageotakes
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:53 PM
  Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables
  notavailable--

  On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:57:38 -0500, nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   What version of FreeBSD are you using?
   Did you compile amp into the kernel?

   I think you're not understanding what I posted @
   http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing

   The first line has what version I'm running.  The entire document @
   http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing
   implies; this was a
   running system with no serious issues; meaning; the sysctl items I'm
   speaking of were in
   fact available and working.

   If i can figure out how to make these sysctl variables available, I
  can
   set them like they
   were before, hence my overheating problem is solved.

   See what I mean?

   --- nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem can be viewed @:

   http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing

Basically, the machine is overheating (I believe)
because the cpu's aren't cycling down.
Previously I was able to cycle the processors down
with the following sysctl variables:

machdep.apm_suspend_delay:
machdep.apm_standby_delay:

however, for some reason those variables currently,
aren't any where to be found by the
up_and_running system.  Please use the hyperlink
above for details.

Thanks for reading.  All feedback is welcome.

  You may want to have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/fvcool.  (If you'd
  like
  a script to run it on startup, Dr. Matthew Seaman posted one to the
  mailing list some months ago - January?)

 [Please don't top post - makes reading long threads more difficult.]

  I'm interested in those missing sysctl variables I posted @
  http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing.
  Using a Third party
  application/script to fix something that was natively working or under
  control, I don't
  think, is the way to go and causes another level of complexity.

  Wouldn't you think?

 Ah - I thought you were interested in effectively and easily lowering your
 AMD CPU temperatures by 10-20 degrees Celsius, rather than in getting help
 searching for sysctl variables that had been more or less effective for
 you in the past.

 BTW, if you wish to do natively what the fvcool port does, the
 technical documentation at fvcool's site goes some way toward explaining
 that.

 Sorry, my mistake.

No problem, I am interested in any and all *sane/reasonable feedback.  I haven't been 
to
much a fan of using third party applications to fix something the original code or
hardware should be able to handle.

Thanks for your input.

 Jud

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Recursive renice?

2003-11-04 Thread Zev Thompson

Hi all,

I'm curious whether there's an easy way to renice(8) a process and all 
of its children in one simple command. For example, I might start a 
recursive make, which spawns lots of processes, and want them all to 
change priority at once.

The command I want is this:

renice +10 -r process-ID

Except for the fact that -r is not a valid flag. The pstree utility, in 
the ports, seems like it might be a good start to hack this 
functionality in. I searched google for recursive renice and found 
someone had made a sed script, but it's for linux, where the pstree 
output is different. Here's some example pstree output:

 | \-+- 14187 zevt gmake
 |   \-+- 14189 zevt gmake all-recursive
 | \-+- 14190 zevt /bin/sh -c set fnord ;
 |   \-+- 14807 zevt /bin/sh -c set fnord ;
[etc.]
Google result that's relevant:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-10/msg00033.html
Any hints? Thanks in advance to any answers.

Zev

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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variablesnotavailable--

Paul mather,
Thanks for your response ...
See comments below (annotated)
- Original Message - 
From: Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variablesnotavailable--

 On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 21:07:45 -0700 (MST), Technical Director [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 = Forgive me for saying:
 =
 = If this system is borked with FreeBSD due to the cpu's not cycling
 = 'down', then use a different operating system. FreeBSD is not responsible
 = for your trouble if you can solve the problem by moving on. Doing so and
 = solving the problem is more important than holding the OS and the
 = contributors to it accountable to something so seemingly far fetched.
 =
 = One way to test overall integrity of your hardware is to boot to bios and
 = leave it. Does it bake out on you? Then there is definitely something
 = wrong with your hardware, perhaps a fan is spinning less rpms than when
 = new.
 =
 = In my humble opinion this is probably not associated with the OS, but,
 = that doesn't solve 'your' problem. So besides seeing it for myself I can't
 = see an absolute need to use FreeBSD, in your words the problem, and not
 = use some other [$]NIX.
 =
 = One last thing, if your CPU's are baking out and crashing, are you not
 = nervous that under load this will happen no matter what the OS? Tweaking
 = system variables will not help you if your server is working ultra-hard,
 = at some point you will reach a mark that your system should still be able
 = to do which currently it can't.
 =
 = I doubt hardware manufactuers put out equipment that can't run at 100% at
 = least.

 FWIW, I doubt the accuracy of that last paragraph, and don't think
 this is so seemingly far fetched at all. :-)

 I have a related problem.  In my case, it's a borrowed laptop on which
 I installed FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT (quite a while ago, but last
 {build,install}{kernel,world} was circa July 2003).  Also installed on
 the system is Windows 2000 Professional.  The related problem I have
 is that I can fairly easily get the laptop to power off due to
 thermally-initiated shutdown using FreeBSD (complete with current
 temperature has exceeded system limits type messages on the console
 beforehand), but can't seem to do so via Win2K. :-(

These are the same two (2) operating systems I am using.  FreeBSD will cause my 
AMD-MP's
to overheat while only idling --depending on the room temperature.

 Now I know that in a sense this is apples and oranges, because I don't
 do precisely the same things under both operating systems.  But, it
 seems that high-CPU/system activity under FreeBSD will ultimately lead
 to a thermal shutdown, but not on Win2K (no so far as I've been able
 to manage, anyway).

Exactly what I'm experiencing unless and until I set the following:

machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0

If i have the above two (2) lines set to:
machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 1
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 1

Its just a matter of time before one or more of the processors overheat and the box 
shuts
down --without notice.
This is inconvenient, to say the least.  For
 example, a FreeBSD buildworld or buildkernel will not complete; it'll
 get part way through before the machine becomes too hot and shuts
 itself down.  Similarly, building big ports like Mozilla won't
 complete, which makes portupgrade a bit of fun.  Needless to say, this
 system doesn't get updated much. :-)

You may want to try and set those above variables to '0'
machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0

 Now I'm not saying the machine doesn't become physically hot when
 running Win2K, too.  It does (e.g., when playing CPU-intensive games,
 etc.).  But somehow, Win2K is able to manage things so that the system
 does not become so hot that the shutdown kicks in.

Same here

 So, I'm wondering if there's some sysctl or other knob that can be set
 in FreeBSD that will ameliorate this problem.

Once again try:
machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0

(I thought
 laptop/mobile CPUs generally were able to step down to lower clock
 speeds to conserve power/run cooler, for example.)  If I could do
 system rebuilds and port builds without having to restart that'd be a
 big improvement! :-)

 Unlike the original poster, this is an Intel-based system, not Athlon.
 It's a Gateway Solo 450 laptop.
This is strange, in comparison to my setup.  The machine that's giving this overheat
problem is the build_box (AMD-MP).  we have client machines that are all intel based; 
P72,
P200 and a 1Ghz processor -- these machines mount via NFS to the problem machine and
installworld and kernel using the same src, as the NFS mount implies, --none of the 
client
machines needs the following variables/knobs set:
machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0
as those intel based machines never overheat or exhibit and instability.  Granted,
currently those intel

Minimal JAIL install?

2003-11-04 Thread Chris

Hello,

If one follows the directions given in man jail(8), a make world is done. I'm 
building jails to run websites, and don't believe I need the world in there. If I do 
it that way, each jail takes about 138 megs of space, BEFORE services and web files 
are installed.

Is there a better way to make the jail, with only the minimum needed to support things 
like apache, a smtp and pop server, sshd, etc?

4.9-RELEASE

Thanks,
Chris

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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variablesnotavailable--

annotated below
- Original Message - 
From: Technical Director [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variablesnotavailable--

  = I doubt hardware manufactuers put out equipment that can't run at 100% at
  = least.

  FWIW, I doubt the accuracy of that last paragraph, and don't think
  this is so seemingly far fetched at all. :-)

 Considering the high demand for consumer's purchasing 'their' products, a
 mishap like My server can't run at high cpu due to it crashing is part
 and parcel to shooting yourself in the foot as a manufactuer.
I'm not sure if your addressing the original poster of this thread (me) or Paul, who 
has a
similar problem.

 If you buy a MB/PROC that cooks just by operating as a server, which in
 most cases what FreeBSD will be used for, and you know that it 'may'
 crash or lockup due to heat, don't use FreeBSD.

 - or -

 Buy hardware that won't cook out.

I disagree with both of your suggestions above.
Just dropping an item, in this case the OS, because its contributing to a specific 
problem
is not my idea of building or refining.  Up until this point, I thought it was more an 
AMD
issue until I heard from *Paul Mather --who uses intel based hardware.  Paul Mathers'
issue, with his *laptop seems to be more severe than my overheating with the *server.

Yes = there are some tricks more knowledgable people in the community can do to work
around issues such as this, but I'm hoping to bring the issue to the attention of 
whomever
needs to see this in order to get a permenant fix.  Having to set the following to '0':
machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0
just for the machine to *not overheat while idling --doesn't seem correct.

The issue at hand may very well be explainable in its current state, but after hearing
from *Paul Mather and working closely with a lead tech @ AMD and Tyan; I'm confident 
I'm
in one of the correct forum to discuss this.

Personally; I shouldn't have to buy my way out of this problem, and I will not leave
FreeBSD for another OS becaue of this. :-)  Lets find out what we can do to remedy this
within FreeBSD instead of pushing people away from the project.

 R.

 PS

 Have you both tried to run 4.#-[CURRENT/STABLE/RELEASE] to see if the
 problem goes away?

  I have a related problem.  In my case, it's a borrowed laptop on which
  I installed FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT (quite a while ago, but last
  {build,install}{kernel,world} was circa July 2003).  Also installed on
  the system is Windows 2000 Professional.  The related problem I have
  is that I can fairly easily get the laptop to power off due to
  thermally-initiated shutdown using FreeBSD (complete with current
  temperature has exceeded system limits type messages on the console
  beforehand), but can't seem to do so via Win2K. :-(

  Now I know that in a sense this is apples and oranges, because I don't
  do precisely the same things under both operating systems.  But, it
  seems that high-CPU/system activity under FreeBSD will ultimately lead
  to a thermal shutdown, but not on Win2K (no so far as I've been able
  to manage, anyway).  This is inconvenient, to say the least.  For
  example, a FreeBSD buildworld or buildkernel will not complete; it'll
  get part way through before the machine becomes too hot and shuts
  itself down.  Similarly, building big ports like Mozilla won't
  complete, which makes portupgrade a bit of fun.  Needless to say, this
  system doesn't get updated much. :-)

  Now I'm not saying the machine doesn't become physically hot when
  running Win2K, too.  It does (e.g., when playing CPU-intensive games,
  etc.).  But somehow, Win2K is able to manage things so that the system
  does not become so hot that the shutdown kicks in.

  So, I'm wondering if there's some sysctl or other knob that can be set
  in FreeBSD that will ameliorate this problem.  (I thought
  laptop/mobile CPUs generally were able to step down to lower clock
  speeds to conserve power/run cooler, for example.)  If I could do
  system rebuilds and port builds without having to restart that'd be a
  big improvement! :-)

  Unlike the original poster, this is an Intel-based system, not Athlon.
  It's a Gateway Solo 450 laptop.  If I didn't know better, I'd think
  that Gateway engineered (pah!) this system so it would run Windows
  okay and that's it as far as they're concerned. ;-)  FWIW, attached
  at the end of this message is a copy of /var/run/dmesg.boot in case
  anyone can suggest something to help.

  Cheers,

  Paul.

  PS: I'm glad I'm only borrowing this laptop and didn't buy it!!  The
  owner of the laptop only uses Windows, so this is only a problem for
  me running FreeBSD.

  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
   deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Re: which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)

2003-11-04 Thread andi payn

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:20, DavidB wrote:
 My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux and 
 am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same time I 
 started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check them out.

My personal favorite distro is Mandrake--not because it's easy to use,
but because it's easy to use as a development box. My next choice is
Debian, for all the usual reasons. Mandrake and Debian also have by far
the best user/community support networks.

As for what's best for you, it really depends on what your goal is. Are
you looking to get exposure as a user, an admin, or a developer? Is this
to flesh out your resume, or to make you a better open source
contributor, or just for fun?

Without knowing all that, the best I can do is list the pros and cons of
the distros I've ever played with that aren't defunct (I'll start with
the ones you mentioned): Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Redhat, Mandrake,
SuSE, Crux, Elfstone, Conectiva, TurboLinux, Lindows.

Also, you may want to take a look at
http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html before making a decision.
Apparently, there are 146 English-language, i386-platform,
currently-maintained distros, and I've only tried a little over a
dozen

Slackware
-
Slackware is the most FreeBSD-like in administration. However, for my
taste, it's too barebones. Not barebones as in secure by default, but
as in missing things you need. You have to know exactly what you want
to install, and how to configure it, to get into Slackware. The
advantage is that if you _do_ know all of this, it's easier to get a
slimmed-down system (to run as fast as possible, in as little disk space
as possible). The disadvantage is that you probably don't know all of
this.

Still, some of the problems that linux people have with Slackware
probably won't affect a FreeBSD user as much. For example, last I
checked, they still don't follow the FHS, so nothing's where you expect
it to be--but then that's going to be true on _any_ linux for a
FreeBSDer. Similarly for initscripts, again irrelevant to a newcomer
from the FreeBSD world.

Also, some of the admin tasks that I found difficult and poorly
documented turned out to be pretty close to the FreeBSD way (which _is_
well documented--plus, you already know it). So, if you already know how
to administer a FreeBSD box, you'll probably have less to learn on
Slackware, although there will be less guidance in learning it. 

Overall, I wouldn't recommend Slackware to anyone who hasn't already
been using Slackware.

Debian
--
Debian is the most FreeBSD-like in philosophy. For example, they have a
STABLE branch that always works, period, even if it has to be a bit
behind the times to do so. They have the least-patched kernel, gcc,
glibc, etc. of all the major distros, and they put the most work into
making sure everything integrates properly.

Whenever Redhat seems to be going the wrong way, most of the other
distros try to copy them and then fix what they screwed up--but Debian
instead ignores them and spends the time findind a better solution.
They've come up with some unique innovations, like the menu system and
update-alternatives, which have turned out to be useful even on top of
Redhat-based distros.

The main disadvantage of Debian is that it's less like other distros
than most distros, so if you're looking for general linux experience, it
may not be the way to go. Also, even on UNSTABLE, Debian tends to be
further behind some other distros (old versions of some packages, other
packages not even there yet, etc.).

But, if neither of these issues bothers you, then go with Debian.

Supra-Debians
---
There are a number of Debian-based distros that will install a complete
system ready to go as a workstation, server, etc., but that can be
administered from there just like any other Debian system.

For example (this is a while back, so it may be out of date), I used
Libranet in teaching linux, because it installs a complete KDE
workstation out-of-the-box, but whenever you want (or need) to play with
something, it's just like a stock Debian box. 

But don't use Xandros--although it's Debian-based, it's heavily modified
in peculiar ways.

Gentoo
--
Gentoo is the most FreeBSD-like on the surface. It's based around
portage (emerge), which is essentially ports without a base system. The
fact that everything is a port--even the kernel--seems really nifty at
first, but it also seems to lead to serious problems keeping the whole
distro in sync. (Or maybe it's just that they don't have as large of a
following as FreeBSD?) 

Also, there aren't nearly as many packages for gentoo as for FreeBSD
(much less Redhat or Debian), and portagifying a package given an RPM
specfile (or even a FreeBSD port) is generally non-trivial. Plus, I've
played with gentoo a few times, and each time I have lots of fun until I
run into some dependency problem that takes days to sort out.

And, while it's nice to be

Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctlvariablesnotavailable--

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:26:40 -0500, nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 Paul mather,
 Thanks for your response ...
 See comments below (annotated)
 - Original Message - 
 From: Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:45 AM
 Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl
 variablesnotavailable--

  On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 21:07:45 -0700 (MST), Technical Director [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  = Forgive me for saying:
  =
  = If this system is borked with FreeBSD due to the cpu's not cycling
  = 'down', then use a different operating system. FreeBSD is not responsible
  = for your trouble if you can solve the problem by moving on. Doing so and
  = solving the problem is more important than holding the OS and the
  = contributors to it accountable to something so seemingly far fetched.
  =
  = One way to test overall integrity of your hardware is to boot to bios and
  = leave it. Does it bake out on you? Then there is definitely something
  = wrong with your hardware, perhaps a fan is spinning less rpms than when
  = new.
  =
  = In my humble opinion this is probably not associated with the OS, but,
  = that doesn't solve 'your' problem. So besides seeing it for myself I can't
  = see an absolute need to use FreeBSD, in your words the problem, and not
  = use some other [$]NIX.
  =
  = One last thing, if your CPU's are baking out and crashing, are you not
  = nervous that under load this will happen no matter what the OS? Tweaking
  = system variables will not help you if your server is working ultra-hard,
  = at some point you will reach a mark that your system should still be able
  = to do which currently it can't.
  =
  = I doubt hardware manufactuers put out equipment that can't run at 100% at
  = least.

  FWIW, I doubt the accuracy of that last paragraph, and don't think
  this is so seemingly far fetched at all. :-)

  I have a related problem.  In my case, it's a borrowed laptop on which
  I installed FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT (quite a while ago, but last
  {build,install}{kernel,world} was circa July 2003).  Also installed on
  the system is Windows 2000 Professional.  The related problem I have
  is that I can fairly easily get the laptop to power off due to
  thermally-initiated shutdown using FreeBSD (complete with current
  temperature has exceeded system limits type messages on the console
  beforehand), but can't seem to do so via Win2K. :-(

 These are the same two (2) operating systems I am using.  FreeBSD will
 cause my AMD-MP's
 to overheat while only idling --depending on the room temperature.

  Now I know that in a sense this is apples and oranges, because I don't
  do precisely the same things under both operating systems.  But, it
  seems that high-CPU/system activity under FreeBSD will ultimately lead
  to a thermal shutdown, but not on Win2K (no so far as I've been able
  to manage, anyway).

 Exactly what I'm experiencing unless and until I set the following:

 machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
 machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0

 If i have the above two (2) lines set to:
 machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 1
 machdep.apm_standby_delay: 1

 Its just a matter of time before one or more of the processors overheat
 and the box shuts
 down --without notice.
 This is inconvenient, to say the least.  For
  example, a FreeBSD buildworld or buildkernel will not complete; it'll
  get part way through before the machine becomes too hot and shuts
  itself down.  Similarly, building big ports like Mozilla won't
  complete, which makes portupgrade a bit of fun.  Needless to say, this
  system doesn't get updated much. :-)

 You may want to try and set those above variables to '0'
 machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
 machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0

  Now I'm not saying the machine doesn't become physically hot when
  running Win2K, too.  It does (e.g., when playing CPU-intensive games,
  etc.).  But somehow, Win2K is able to manage things so that the system
  does not become so hot that the shutdown kicks in.

 Same here

  So, I'm wondering if there's some sysctl or other knob that can be set
  in FreeBSD that will ameliorate this problem.

 Once again try:
 machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 0
 machdep.apm_standby_delay: 0

 (I thought
  laptop/mobile CPUs generally were able to step down to lower clock
  speeds to conserve power/run cooler, for example.)  If I could do
  system rebuilds and port builds without having to restart that'd be a
  big improvement! :-)

  Unlike the original poster, this is an Intel-based system, not Athlon.
  It's a Gateway Solo 450 laptop.
 This is strange, in comparison to my setup.  The machine that's giving
 this overheat
 problem is the build_box (AMD-MP).  we have client machines that are all
 intel based; P72,
 P200 and a 1Ghz processor -- these machines mount via NFS to the problem
 machine and
 installworld and kernel using the same src, as the NFS mount implies,
 --none of the client
 machines needs the following

Re: Recursive renice?

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:25:54AM -0800, Zev Thompson wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I'm curious whether there's an easy way to renice(8) a process and all 
 of its children in one simple command. For example, I might start a 
 recursive make, which spawns lots of processes, and want them all to 
 change priority at once.
 
 The command I want is this:
 
 renice +10 -r process-ID
 
 Except for the fact that -r is not a valid flag. The pstree utility, in 
 the ports, seems like it might be a good start to hack this 
 functionality in. I searched google for recursive renice and found 
 someone had made a sed script, but it's for linux, where the pstree 
 output is different. Here's some example pstree output:
 
  | \-+- 14187 zevt gmake
  |   \-+- 14189 zevt gmake all-recursive
  | \-+- 14190 zevt /bin/sh -c set fnord ;
  |   \-+- 14807 zevt /bin/sh -c set fnord ;
 [etc.]
 
 Google result that's relevant:
 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-10/msg00033.html
 
 Any hints? Thanks in advance to any answers.

That's what 'renice -g pgrp' is for.  It's perhaps not quite as
flexible as you might like, as the only option is to renice a whole
process group -- however, this is the only way to renice a process
based on what it's parent processes are, other than by writing a
script to parse the output of ps(1) and applying renice several times
to affect a number of PIDs.

Generally for an interactive login, the process group includes your
login shell as process group leader and anything else you start up as
members of the process group.  The only exceptions are processes that
call setsid(2), which is commonly called as part of daemonizing a
process.  Under X, each xterm generally exists in it's own process
group, as do most X applications.  Use 'ps -j to obtain PGID values.

Cheers,

Matthew 

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Re: Minimal JAIL install?

2003-11-04 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:29:47PM -0600, Chris wrote:

 Is there a better way to make the jail, with only the minimum needed
 to support things like apache, a smtp and pop server, sshd, etc?

In principle yes, in practise it's difficult to figure out exactly
what your applications expect to be present on the system.

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Re: font in xfterm4

2003-11-04 Thread Sham Khalil



On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Michael A. Smith wrote:

 I edited the command for xfterm (right-click on the button on the launch
 bar) to xfterm -sb -sl 2000 -fa bitstream_vera_sans_mono -fs 10 to get
 the options I like (-sb for scrollbar, -sl 2000 for a 2000-line scroll
 buffer).

 Note: the above command is on my XFCE3 system. I'm not at my XCFE4
 system, so I don't know if the main command is xfterm or xfterm4. Either
 way the parameters are the same.

 Good luck! Enjoy XFCE4.


TQ, It works on xfterm4.
i only had xfce3 for a while before i migrated to xfce4
i enjoy it though

sham khalil


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lan bandwidth issue

2003-11-04 Thread silent slim

This has gotta be a software issue... it seems logically impossible for
it to be otherwise.  I have my windows box running off a nat on my fbsd
box, it transmits to my isp at a max of about 160k down 70k up.
Transfering files between the two boxes can be done at a max of 1.6M down
and 130k up. Hense its physcially impossible for it to be a hardware
problem.  This is all quite annoying as both boxes are connected by
http://www.startech.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm?tab=bProductID=ST100Stopbar=topbara.htm
10/100 nics and a 50' crossover cable.  Anyone have any ideas on what is
causing this issue and how it could possibly be resolved?
Here is the output from ifconfig on the bsd box:
rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
   inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
   inet6 fe80::250:fcff:fe71:a11b%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
   ether 00:50:fc:71:a1:1b
   media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex
   status: active
rl1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
   inet6 fe80::250:bfff:fe17:63a2%rl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
   inet 142.59.160.131 netmask 0xf800 broadcast 142.59.167.255
   ether 00:50:bf:17:63:a2
   media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
   status: active
lp0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384
   inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
   inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
   inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00
ppp0: flags=8010POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST mtu 552
faith0: flags=8002BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500
And here is the output from ipconfig /all on the the win box:
Windows IP Configuration
   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : FAMILY
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast 
Ethernet NIC
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-FC-71-A1-31
   Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 209.115.131.51
   209.115.152.150
   216.123.198.243
   209.115.152.130

Thanks,
ryan
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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables notavailable--


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:05:02 -0500, nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[snip]
   I'm interested in those missing sysctl variables I posted @
   http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing.
   Using a Third party
   application/script to fix something that was natively working or under
   control, I don't
   think, is the way to go and causes another level of complexity.
[snip]
 No problem, I am interested in any and all *sane/reasonable feedback.  I
 haven't been to
 much a fan of using third party applications to fix something the
 original code or
 hardware should be able to handle.

FVCool isn't a third party application as I understand the term. 
Perhaps a portion of the README file will make things clearer:

As is well known AMD's Athlon/Duron is a 'hot' CPU.  It really produces
a lot of heat.  This is mainly because it consumes a lot of electric
power.  However, there is an another reason: Generally CPU goes into
power-save mode when it is in the idle state, but in almost all the
mother boards this is prohibited in the case of Athlon/Duron mother
boards in their original BIOS settings.  This software changes the PCI
configuration data of the chipset (north bridge), and allow Athlon/Duron
to go into power-save mode.  The principle is very simple if you have
information.  Actually, you can do exactly the same thing as this
software
manually by using the 'pciconf' command in FreeBSD.

  Why mother board vendors release their products with such BIOS
  settings?
Well, there is a reason: There is a possibility to get the system
unstable
and/or even to hang or crash the system.  Therefore, this software is
somewhat dangerous in this respect, and I will not take any
responsibilities for problems caused by using this software.  Please
check the original Martin Peters's VCool web site for learning more of
technical details:

 http://vcool.occludo.net/;

So what FVCool does is utilize the 'pciconf' command to encourage AMD
CPUs to go into power-save mode when idle, a function most motherboard
manufacturers turn off for the stability reasons mentioned by FVCool's
author.  As the documentation says, you can manually make these changes
with the 'pciconf' command, but why not save typing by installing the
port and running the 'fvcool' command, or run it automatically with a
script?

Based on the names of the sysctls you're after, I'd speculate they may
operate in much (or even exactly) the same way.  That is why I wondered,
in response to your advice to Paul Mather, whether those sysctl settings
would work with Intel CPUs.

Jud
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Reverse proxy question

2003-11-04 Thread Louis LeBlanc

Hey everyone.

Here's a question that may have been answered in the past, but I'm not
real satisfied with what I've found on Google.

I have been tasked with setting up a reverse proxy (open source,
probably squid) that is capable of handling 5000 requests per second
or more.  Yes, 5000/sec.  It's a world gone mad, I tell you.

Licensed products like iMimic and Volera are not options.  The OS is
flexible (I'm leaning toward a recent 4.x version of FreeBSD) and the
hardware is limited to what's on hand - either a Dell 2550 or 2650
with 1G Ram, 30G hard drive space, and varied CPU configurations.
What we have available are as follows: single 933MHz Xeon in the 2550,
single or dual 1.3 or 1.8 GHz Xeon in the 2650.

I realize that Squid relies more on disk seek times than actual
transfer rate or CPU power.  If I've been told right, the disks are
all mirrored 30G drives, but I don't have seek times on hand.

I know that most reverse proxies out there - both commercial and open
source are typically single CPU architectures, so that will be the
initial focus.

The problem I would like help with here is the version of FreeBSD that
would be more likely to handle this kind of load, particularly with
respect to Posix asynchronous I/O.  I've been told that 4.6 and
earlier didn't have great Posix A-I/O support, but is it better in
4.8, or should I jump to 5.0?

Also, if anyone knows of a reverse proxy that may be able to do better
than Squid, I'd certainly welcome the suggestion.  The benchmarks I've
seen online indicate I may need to improve squid by a factor of 10.
Not sure that's really an option unless the benchmark I've seen is
horribly biased.  Of course, if anyone has a web site that details
some of the finer tweaks that might at least get Squid close to the
requirements, that'd be great too.

Thanks in advance.

Lou
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securelevel problems

2003-11-04 Thread Wayne Pascoe

Hi all,

I'm trying to upgrade a 4.7-RELEASE machine to 4.9. The make buildworld
has gone ok, but installworld failed.

At first, it appeared that this was because the machine was running in
securelevel 1. I had the following in /etc/rc.conf:
kern_securelevel_enable=YES
kern_securelevel=1

I changed that to
kern_securelevel_enable=NO
kern_securelevel=-1

and rebooted the machine. sysctl -a | grep secure shows
kern.securelevel: -1

however a make installworld is still failing with:

Stop in /usr/src/include.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.

I then tried touching my kernel, which also fails, with:
# touch kernel
touch: kernel: Operation not permitted

I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to proceed as the only thing I could
think to do was to disable securelevel in /etc/rc.conf :(

does anyone know what I may have missed or how I might rectify this
issue ? 

Thanks,

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Network card problem

2003-11-04 Thread Alexander A. Chimento

Hi,

I have a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop, with a National Semiconductor DP83815/316, that 
uses the sis driver and I'm using FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I keep getting a sis0:watchdog 
timeout error. I've tried switching the cables, using different jacks and my card is 
in pci0. The network parameters are right. I don't know what to try now. I've tried 
everything I've found on the internet. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex Chimento 

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yppasswd fails

2003-11-04 Thread Guy Van Sanden

Yppasswd fails on my 5.1 box (has always worked on 4.5 to 5.0) with
yppasswd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module

There's also a syslog message:
Nov  4 22:54:54 *** yppasswd: in pam_sm_chauthtok(): yppasswd_local():
failed to connect to rpc.yppasswdd: ***: RPC: Program not registered

Yet rpcinfo -p shows:
191   udp821  yppasswdd
191   tcp   1010  yppasswdd


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OT:php error

2003-11-04 Thread M.D. DeWar

I am hoping someone might know what this issue is.
I really really don't want to have to join other lists.
I am reconfiguring php.
This is the ./configure I am using

./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --w
ith-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/local --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local
 --w
ith-gd=/usr/local



If configure fails try --with-freetype-dir=DIR
checking for gdImageString16 in -lgd... no
checking for gdImagePaletteCopy in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageCreateFromGif in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageGif in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageWBMP in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageCreateFromJpeg in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageCreateFromXpm in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageCreateFromGd2 in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageCreateTrueColor in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageSetTile in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageEllipse in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageSetBrush in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageStringTTF in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageStringFT in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageStringFTEx in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageColorClosestHWB in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageColorResolve in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageGifCtx in -lgd... no
checking for gdCacheCreate in -lgd... no
checking for gdImageCreate in -lgd... no


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Re: OpenOffice build

2003-11-04 Thread R.T.G. TAN

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:08:03PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:


 
 Err -- you only needed to do one of those things.  Still, it shouldn't
 cause any problems having done both.
 
 Did you run:
 
 # use.perl port
 
 You need to do that, or the ports system will simply ignore the
 updated perl you've installed.  Now when you type 'perl -v' it should say:
 
 This is perl, v5.6.1
 
 or
 
 This is perl, v5.8.1
 
 depending on which perl port you installed.  You should also be able
 to run this command without errors:
 
 % perl -MFile::Spec -e 'print $File::Spec::VERSION, \n;'
 
 (which returns 0.86 on my system, but anything reasonable will do).
 
 You should probably do a:
 
 # make clean
 
 in the OpenOffice port directory and start again from scratch with the
 compilation. 
 
   Cheers,
 
   Matthew
 
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Hi Matthew,

Got 0.86 as output from:

% perl -MFile::Spec -e 'print $File::Spec::VERSION, \n;'

as well as did the:

 % use.perl port

and cleaned out the openoffice port before portinstalling it
again, still failed the openoffice install, as before.

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detecting the size of a tarball

2003-11-04 Thread David Bear

I have a 100 mg zip drive that I'm writing to as a raw device -- no
file system -- just 'tar cvf /dev/afd0 stuff'.  I am curious if there
is a way to find out how big the tarball is on this kind of thing.
I'm guessing maybe some kind of seek to EOF but not sure how it might
be accomplished.  any idea's?

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Re: Recursive renice?

2003-11-04 Thread Simon Barner

 I'm curious whether there's an easy way to renice(8) a process and all 
 of its children in one simple command. For example, I might start a 
 recursive make, which spawns lots of processes, and want them all to 
 change priority at once.

In this special case with recursive makes you could also interrupt the
build and re-start it with appropriate nice settings:

e.g. /usr/bin/nice -n 20 make build

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OT samba and XP

2003-11-04 Thread george

I can connect to my samba shares reliably with 98/95/ME/2000 but when i try and connect
with XP pro the xp pro machine locks up like its waiting for something
and i eventually have to ctr/alt/del and reboot or log off of it.

Below is my config file.



can someone suggest a fix?



running version 2.2.8A
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)
# Date: 2003/11/04 16:11:39

# Global parameters
[global]
coding system = 
client code page = 850
code page directory = /usr/local/etc/codepages
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = 
netbios aliases = 
netbios scope = 
server string = Samba Server
interfaces = 
bind interfaces only = No
security = USER
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = No
allow trusted domains = Yes
hosts equiv = 
min passwd length = 6
map to guest = Never
null passwords = No
obey pam restrictions = No
password server = 
smb passwd file = /usr/local/private/smbpasswd
root directory = 
pam password change = No
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd
passwd chat = *\n*ew\spassword* %n\n *ew\spassword* %n\n 
*updating\sthe\sdatabase...\npasswd:\sdone\n
passwd chat debug = No
username map = 
password level = 0
username level = 0
unix password sync = No
restrict anonymous = No
lanman auth = Yes
use rhosts = No
admin log = No
log level = 0
syslog = 1
syslog only = No
log file = /var/log/log.%m
max log size = 50
timestamp logs = Yes
debug hires timestamp = No
debug pid = No
debug uid = No
protocol = NT1
large readwrite = Yes
max protocol = NT1
min protocol = CORE
read bmpx = No
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
acl compatibility = 
nt smb support = Yes
nt pipe support = Yes
nt status support = Yes
announce version = 4.9
announce as = NT
max mux = 50
max xmit = 16644
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
max ttl = 259200
max wins ttl = 518400
min wins ttl = 21600
time server = No
unix extensions = No
change notify timeout = 60
deadtime = 0
getwd cache = Yes
keepalive = 300
lpq cache time = 10
max smbd processes = 0
max disk size = 0
max open files = 1
name cache timeout = 660
read size = 16384
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
stat cache size = 50
use mmap = Yes
total print jobs = 0
load printers = Yes
printcap name = /etc/printcap
disable spoolss = No
enumports command = 
addprinter command = 
deleteprinter command = 
show add printer wizard = Yes
os2 driver map = 
strip dot = No
mangling method = hash
character set = 
mangled stack = 50
stat cache = Yes
domain admin group = 
domain guest group = 
machine password timeout = 604800
add user script = 
delete user script = 
logon script = 
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive = 
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = No
os level = 20
lm announce = Auto
lm interval = 60
preferred master = Auto
local master = Yes
domain master = Auto
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins proxy = No
wins server = 
wins support = Yes
wins hook = 
kernel oplocks = Yes
lock spin count = 3
lock spin time = 10
oplock break wait time = 0
add share command = 
change share command = 
delete share command = 
config file = 
preload = 
lock dir = /var/lock
pid directory = /var/run
default service = data
message command = 
dfree command = 
valid chars = 
remote announce = 
remote browse sync = 
socket address = 0.0.0.0
homedir map = 
time offset = 0
NIS homedir = No
source environment = 
panic action = 
hide local users = No
winbind uid = 
winbind gid = 
template homedir = /home/%D/%U
template shell = /bin/false
winbind separator = \
winbind cache time = 15
winbind enum users = Yes
winbind enum groups = Yes
winbind use default domain = No
comment = 
path = 
alternate permissions = No
username = 
guest account = nobody
invalid users = 
valid users = 
admin users = 
read list = 
write list =

Re: Mounting USB drives and PCI USB and ieee1394 drives

2003-11-04 Thread Toni Schmidbauer

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:45:20AM -0500, Alexander P. Goldhammer wrote:
 umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT
 umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
 umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
 over and over again then
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
 
 I was reading through the rest of the man page for camcontrol but it is
 not clear to me that there is another command in camcontrol.
 
 Any ideas?

sorry, but now i think we reached the point where we will need
an usb and/or scsi specialist :-(

i would play with camcontrol reset (but _read_ the manpage
before), camcontrol rescan ...

sorry
toni
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Re: detecting the size of a tarball

2003-11-04 Thread Erik Steffl

David Bear wrote:
I have a 100 mg zip drive that I'm writing to as a raw device -- no
file system -- just 'tar cvf /dev/afd0 stuff'.  I am curious if there
is a way to find out how big the tarball is on this kind of thing.
I'm guessing maybe some kind of seek to EOF but not sure how it might
be accomplished.  any idea's?
  this might work (probably reads whole file): cat  /dev/afd0 | wc -c

  or perhaps this one: du /dev/afd0

  you can try this:

perl -e '$filename = /dev/afd0; print siz eof [$filename] is [ . 
(stat($filename))[7] . ]\n;'

  not sure if that would be any different than ls -l though...

	erik

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Re: OT samba and XP

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Duvall

Check that your reverse DNS is set up correctly for both machines.  I had
the same problem earlier today, where my laptop running win98 worked fine
but the XP machine would time out.  I found my reverse DNS was wrong for the
samba server.  So, I fixed it and it works fine now.

Sincerely,

Rick Duvall
- Original Message - 
From: george [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:15 PM
Subject: OT samba and XP


I can connect to my samba shares reliably with 98/95/ME/2000 but when i try
and connect
with XP pro the xp pro machine locks up like its waiting for something
and i eventually have to ctr/alt/del and reboot or log off of it.

Below is my config file.



can someone suggest a fix?



running version 2.2.8A
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)
# Date: 2003/11/04 16:11:39

# Global parameters
[global]
coding system =
client code page = 850
code page directory = /usr/local/etc/codepages
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name =
netbios aliases =
netbios scope =
server string = Samba Server
interfaces =
bind interfaces only = No
security = USER
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = No
allow trusted domains = Yes
hosts equiv =
min passwd length = 6
map to guest = Never
null passwords = No
obey pam restrictions = No
password server =
smb passwd file = /usr/local/private/smbpasswd
root directory =
pam password change = No
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd
passwd chat = *\n*ew\spassword* %n\n *ew\spassword* %n\n
*updating\sthe\sdatabase...\npasswd:\sdone\n
passwd chat debug = No
username map =
password level = 0
username level = 0
unix password sync = No
restrict anonymous = No
lanman auth = Yes
use rhosts = No
admin log = No
log level = 0
syslog = 1
syslog only = No
log file = /var/log/log.%m
max log size = 50
timestamp logs = Yes
debug hires timestamp = No
debug pid = No
debug uid = No
protocol = NT1
large readwrite = Yes
max protocol = NT1
min protocol = CORE
read bmpx = No
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
acl compatibility =
nt smb support = Yes
nt pipe support = Yes
nt status support = Yes
announce version = 4.9
announce as = NT
max mux = 50
max xmit = 16644
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
max ttl = 259200
max wins ttl = 518400
min wins ttl = 21600
time server = No
unix extensions = No
change notify timeout = 60
deadtime = 0
getwd cache = Yes
keepalive = 300
lpq cache time = 10
max smbd processes = 0
max disk size = 0
max open files = 1
name cache timeout = 660
read size = 16384
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
stat cache size = 50
use mmap = Yes
total print jobs = 0
load printers = Yes
printcap name = /etc/printcap
disable spoolss = No
enumports command =
addprinter command =
deleteprinter command =
show add printer wizard = Yes
os2 driver map =
strip dot = No
mangling method = hash
character set =
mangled stack = 50
stat cache = Yes
domain admin group =
domain guest group =
machine password timeout = 604800
add user script =
delete user script =
logon script =
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive =
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = No
os level = 20
lm announce = Auto
lm interval = 60
preferred master = Auto
local master = Yes
domain master = Auto
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins proxy = No
wins server =
wins support = Yes
wins hook =
kernel oplocks = Yes
lock spin count = 3
lock spin time = 10
oplock break wait time = 0
add share command =
change share command =
delete share command =
config file =
preload =
lock dir = /var/lock
pid directory = /var/run
default service = data
message command =
dfree command =
valid chars =
remote announce =
remote browse sync =
socket address = 0.0.0.0
homedir map =
time offset = 0
NIS homedir = No
source environment =
panic action =
hide local users = No
winbind uid =
winbind gid =
template homedir = /home/%D/%U
template shell = /bin/false
winbind separator = \
winbind cache time = 15
winbind enum users = Yes
winbind enum groups = Yes
winbind use default domain = No
comment =
path =
alternate permissions = No
username =
guest account = nobody
invalid users =
valid users =
admin users =
read list =
write list =
printer admin =
force user =
force group =
read only = No
create mask = 0744
force create mode = 00
security mask = 0777
force security mode = 00
directory mask = 0755
force directory mode = 00
directory security mask = 0777
force directory security mode = 00
force unknown acl user = 00
inherit permissions = No
inherit acls = No
guest only = No
guest ok = No
only user = No
hosts allow =
hosts deny =
status = Yes
nt acl support = Yes
profile acls = No
block size = 1024
max connections = 0
min print space = 0
strict allocate = No
strict sync = No
sync always = No
write cache size = 0
max print jobs = 1000
printable = No
postscript = No
printing = bsd
print command = lpr -r -P%p %s
lpq command = lpq -P%p
lprm command = lprm -P%p %j
lppause command =
lpresume command =
queuepause command =
queueresume command =
printer name =
use client driver = No

/usr/local/etc/rc.d

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Duvall

I am kind of curious as to if this issue has been resolved and what the
final resolution was.  I just started having the same exact issue as of
today on my little FreeBSD box at home.  I end up having to run the scripts
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d manually after bootup.  I am half tempted to just
call the scripts in /etc/rc.local to get around it.  But, it would be nice
if it would just work like normal like it is supposed to.

Sincerely,

Rick Duvall

On 5/7/03 10:56 AM, Weldon Godfrey weldon at excelsus.com wrote:


 I have a box running a version of FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (on or before Fri Jan
 31 11:32:06 ).

 For some reason, all of the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d don't run.

 * No errors are being seen during boot-up
 * All the scripts end in .sh
 * All are owned by root and mode 755
 * All are Borne shell scripts, all run from root's command line (when run
 in the numeric-alpha order they appear in the directory)
 * None except one does anything with start/stop, the one that takes
 start/stop is a typical postgresql startup script.
 * No over-ride for local_startup in /etc/rc.conf.  /etc/defaults/rc.conf
 has not been messed with
 * /etc rc has not been messed with.  I even stubbed the code from rc to
 see if it would run scripts with the names listed in the directory, and it
 will
 * 1st script is A00_mysql.sh, it looks like this (would the ldconfig
 cause a problem?  I have never seen that done before):
 #!/bin/sh

 /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/

 sleep 2

 /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql 


 Thanks in advance for any advice or what to check into next.

 Weldon


Try adding this to your /etc/rc.conf file:

local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d


Mike
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Is Java/Tomcat on FBSD practical?

2003-11-04 Thread Heath Volmer

Hi. I'm new to FreeBSD, my previous -nix experience coming from OSX and
Debian/Suse linux.  I've been generally very happy with the performance
and relative ease of setup on my 4.8 system.
 
My biggest problem has been Java.  I've done the diablo 1.3 package and
java seemed to work (java -v), but when I install Tomcat it won't start.
I've done the same install on mac and windows with no problem.  The
stack trace is completely alien to me and I can try to get it if it
would help.
 
I'm basically wondering if running Tomcat or any other java on this
machine is realistic or not.
 
Thanks, Heath
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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables not available--

Jud, (see below)
- Original Message - 
From: Jud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variablesnotavailable--

 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:05:02 -0500, nw1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 [snip]
I'm interested in those missing sysctl variables I posted @
http://69.3.136.141/freebsd/installation/sysctl_variables_missing.
Using a Third party
application/script to fix something that was natively working or under
control, I don't
think, is the way to go and causes another level of complexity.
 [snip]
  No problem, I am interested in any and all *sane/reasonable feedback.  I
  haven't been to
  much a fan of using third party applications to fix something the
  original code or
  hardware should be able to handle.

 FVCool isn't a third party application as I understand the term.
 Perhaps a portion of the README file will make things clearer:

I understand better now (FVCool).  Thanks for taking the time to explain that FVCool is
not a third party application.  I'm still questioning the difference in behavior 
--not
only between the two (2) OS's when idling, --overheating in FreeBSD, and *not 
overheating
in the non FreeBSD OS. whatsoever.

 As is well known AMD's Athlon/Duron is a 'hot' CPU.  It really produces
 a lot of heat.  This is mainly because it consumes a lot of electric
 power.  However, there is an another reason: Generally CPU goes into
 power-save mode when it is in the idle state, but in almost all the
 mother boards this is prohibited in the case of Athlon/Duron mother
 boards in their original BIOS settings.  This software changes the PCI
 configuration data of the chipset (north bridge), and allow Athlon/Duron
 to go into power-save mode.  The principle is very simple if you have
 information.  Actually, you can do exactly the same thing as this
 software
 manually by using the 'pciconf' command in FreeBSD.

   Why mother board vendors release their products with such BIOS
   settings?

What's the reason? nothing here

 Well, there is a reason: There is a possibility to get the system
 unstable
 and/or even to hang or crash the system.  Therefore, this software is
 somewhat dangerous in this respect, and I will not take any
 responsibilities for problems caused by using this software.  Please
 check the original Martin Peters's VCool web site for learning more of
 technical details:

  http://vcool.occludo.net/;

 So what FVCool does is utilize the 'pciconf' command to encourage AMD
 CPUs to go into power-save mode when idle, a function most motherboard
 manufacturers turn off for the stability reasons mentioned by FVCool's
 author.  As the documentation says, you can manually make these changes
 with the 'pciconf' command, but why not save typing by installing the
 port and running the 'fvcool' command, or run it automatically with a
 script?

 Based on the names of the sysctls you're after, I'd speculate they may
 operate in much (or even exactly) the same way.  That is why I wondered,
 in response to your advice to Paul Mather, whether those sysctl settings
 would work with Intel CPUs.

My suggestion to *Paul Mather was in fact a blind suggestion only based on the 
settings to
lower the usage of the cpu and not raise;  had it been the other way around, I'm not 
sure
I would have recommended he set those knobs to '1'.

The following fact/issue, i think, still remains outstanding; Using the setup I 
originally
posted, we can do somethings within the non FreeBSD OS that will rival a looping 'make
buildworld | buildkernel, utilizing both cpu's for encoding purposes while playing a
quake3, utII game and the like, never overheating or exhibit any instability.

Please don't take that above statement as a this OS is better than your OS.

What I've understood from this particular posting is this:
the motherboards used for the AMD Athlon/Duron(s) have a default BIOS setting --not
allowing the processors to go into 'Power Saving Mode' --while intel based --default 
BIOS
settings: *do allow 'Power Saving Mode' for the processor(s). y/n?

That seems to be just a bit disturbing.  If we could for the purposes of this paragraph
alone, suspend the notion of *over heating while idling*...  As someone stated earlier 
in
the thread, what about these cpu's under heavy load within FreeBSD? -- in our case,
without the air-conditioner on;-- will overheat and shutdown  I have put these cpu's
under heavy load in a non FreeBSD environment and the hardware refuses to break down,
overheat or shutdown

-- Unsuspend the notion of *over heating while idling*...  --

Should we turn our air-conditioner off and set:
machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 1
machdep.apm_standby_delay: 1
and let this dual AMD idle, the machine will overheat and shutdown in a matter of 
hours.
Once the room is at a tempurature warm enough to make the machine shutdown, the only 
way
to

Re: Dual Interface Server Setup

Bryce Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I need help with a server configuration.  I need to setup some FreeBSD
 servers that have dual interfaces.  I would like the servers to have one IP
 address, and I would like them to use both interfaces in a fault tolerant
 setup, so that a link or switch failure to either one can be sustained.  The
 interfaces are connected to separate switches and I would like them to be a
 member of the same VLAN and not have STP enabled if at all possible. TIA!

That's an awful lot of work you're going to.  If you really want to
shoot your foot off, it's not necessary to take such careful aim.

Most of what you're trying isn't really that hard; you want to
configure one of the interfaces, and keep the other down until the
first develops a problem, then bring the first one down and raise the
second with the same IP configuration.  The hard part is *detecting*
any problems, especially without running a spanning tree.  You'll need
to do some sort of hack, probably at the IP layer, to raise an alarm
when connectivity to some specific destination fails.
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Re: Sysinstall Hangs while probing hardware on 5.1-release

Joshua Dobbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi, I've got a p4 2.4 ghz on an MSI 865P board, Geforce4 TI 4200. I
 recently obtained 5.1 release and was excited to install, being
 dissapointed w/performance on Linux. Sysinstall hung while probing, it
 stopped at /dev/cuaa4 (Com 5) while running verbose mode. So, I ripped
 out my modem and 5.1 installed fine. I have a US Robotics PCI Hardware
 modem which has never given me a lick of trouble prior to this.  Does
 anyone know how I can either patch sysinstall or my boot system in order
 to not have to yank out hardware?

Please recall that 5.1 is recommended primarily for experts:
 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html

That said, I think you should be able to disable probing of the device
from a boot configuration screen.  I understand it works a bit
differently in 5.x than in earlier code branches, but you should still
be able to disable checking the modem.

If you want things to just work, however, I recommend you stick with
a production release (4.9 was released within the past week).
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Re: can't boot! - pls help

Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I sat the kern.ipc.nmbclusters=129536 in the loader.conf
 too high
 and now I can't boot

Boot from a fixit disk, mount your root partition, and fix loader.conf.
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Re: Is Java/Tomcat on FBSD practical?

2003-11-04 Thread Lee Harr

Hi. I'm new to FreeBSD, my previous -nix experience coming from OSX and
Debian/Suse linux.  I've been generally very happy with the performance
and relative ease of setup on my 4.8 system.
My biggest problem has been Java.  I've done the diablo 1.3 package and
java seemed to work (java -v), but when I install Tomcat it won't start.
I've done the same install on mac and windows with no problem.  The
stack trace is completely alien to me and I can try to get it if it
would help.
I'm basically wondering if running Tomcat or any other java on this
machine is realistic or not.
How did you install tomcat? Which version?

You say you are new to FreeBSD, so maybe this will help...

cd /usr/ports/
make search name=tomcat
I see 4 different versions in ports... and they all depend on the java-1.4
port (not 1.3) so that is probably one part of the problem.
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Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables not available--