Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

[Rob]

Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:43, Jay Moore wrote:

2) What is the "best way" to allow ordinary users to mount cd's?



The best way is inevitably a matter of opinion.
But it can be done without installing any additional ports.
First:
# sysctl vfs.usermount=1
allows users to mount and then unmount drives provided other things 
are in order. You can make this happen during the normal boot by adding 
  vfs.usermount=1
to /etc/ sysctl.conf
Remotely, I was following this discussion; I'm suprised by this solution
and I wonder how I ever would be able to find out myself about this misterious
sysctl-magic.
I did 'apropos usermount', 'man sysctl' and 'man sysctl.conf', and all did not
give me any hint to the above vfs.usermount solution.
Also 'sysctl -ad | grep vfs.usermount' outputs no info.
Actually, I had this feeling with other answers on this list: 'set this-or-that
sysctl variable'. I never could find any info on my FreeBSD box, to help me
further understand.
What is this sysctl-black-magic about and where is more information?

Thanks,
Rob.
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Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:04:43PM +0900, Rob wrote:

> Remotely, I was following this discussion; I'm suprised by this solution
> and I wonder how I ever would be able to find out myself about this 
> misterious
> sysctl-magic.
> 
> I did 'apropos usermount', 'man sysctl' and 'man sysctl.conf', and all did 
> not
> give me any hint to the above vfs.usermount solution.
> Also 'sysctl -ad | grep vfs.usermount' outputs no info.
> 
> Actually, I had this feeling with other answers on this list: 'set 
> this-or-that
> sysctl variable'. I never could find any info on my FreeBSD box, to help me
> further understand.
> 
> What is this sysctl-black-magic about and where is more information?

You're right that finding which sysctl is required to achieve whatever
purpose can be tricky.  Finding what sysctls exist is as easy as
typing 'sysctl -a', but working out what they actually do -- that's a
different story.  sysctls are generally documented in man pages which
may or may not have a title related to the name of the sysctl.  Plus
they are usually documented in the *programming* section of the
manual, rather than the user or system administration commands
sections, whose man pages come up by default if there's more than one
page under the same name.

Let's take the vfs.usermount sysctl as an example.  That is actually
documented in mount(2) -- the page describing the mount() (and
umount()) syscall, not mount(8) -- the program for mounting
partitions.  If you type 'man mount' you'll get the mount(8) man page
by default.  However if you type 'man 2 mount' you find this timeless
wisdom hidden within that page:

 By default only the super-user may call the mount() function.  This
 restriction can be removed by setting the sysctl vfs.usermount to a non-
 zero value.

How do I know where vfs.usermount is documented? Only by the rather
unsatisfactory means of grepping the whole collection of man pages:

% cd /usr/share/man
% find . -name '*.gz' -print | xargs zgrep -l vfs.usermount

(It would be really nice if the text produced by 'sysctl -d' gave you
a reference to the man page(s) where the sysctl was documented.)

There is a project underway to create better documentation for sysctls
-- see

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2004-January/003315.html

See also sysctl(3) and the various header files referenced from there.


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Fwd: Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

[Malcolm Kay]

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Subject: Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:20:36 +0930
From: Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Sunday 28 March 2004 17:34, Rob wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:43, Jay Moore wrote:
> >>2) What is the "best way" to allow ordinary users to mount cd's?
> >
> > The best way is inevitably a matter of opinion.
> > But it can be done without installing any additional ports.
> >
> > First:
> > # sysctl vfs.usermount=1
> > allows users to mount and then unmount drives provided other things
> > are in order. You can make this happen during the normal boot by adding
> >   vfs.usermount=1
> > to /etc/ sysctl.conf
>
> Remotely, I was following this discussion; I'm suprised by this solution
> and I wonder how I ever would be able to find out myself about this
> misterious sysctl-magic.
>
> I did 'apropos usermount', 'man sysctl' and 'man sysctl.conf', and all did
> not give me any hint to the above vfs.usermount solution.
> Also 'sysctl -ad | grep vfs.usermount' outputs no info.
>
> Actually, I had this feeling with other answers on this list: 'set
> this-or-that sysctl variable'. I never could find any info on my FreeBSD
> box, to help me further understand.
>
> What is this sysctl-black-magic about and where is more information?

I'm certainly no Guru that knows all about sysctl, and can't recall how I
discovered this. However in /usr/share/doc/en/books/faq I find:

9.15. How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other
  removable media?

Malcolm

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Re: Help with pam and ldap please [SOLVED]

[Per olof Ljungmark]

I have successfully configured four hosts with ldap/pam/nss on 5.2.1.
Now, on a fifth one, it simply does not work.
- Configuration files are identical
- ldap directory is identical and works
but:
as soon as I apply nsswitch.conf and ldap settings in /etc/pam.d/ 
authentication ceases to work.

Anybody with some experience from this has an idea? What information do 
I need to supply?

/etc/passwd and group are identical to the four working hosts

ldap.conf and nss_ldap.conf are very basic and identical to the four 
working hosts.
openldap21-server portrevision was bumped to 2.1.28 in between and 
apparently that broke my nss configuration. Install of openldap21-server 
2.1.27 fixed the problem.
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Re: Help with pam and ldap please [SOLVED]

[Antoine Jacoutot]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 12:58, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> openldap21-server portrevision was bumped to 2.1.28 in between and
> apparently that broke my nss configuration. Install of openldap21-server
> 2.1.27 fixed the problem.

Yes, I sent an email about this to the port maintener but got no answer yet.
I guess we'll have to wait until the next port revision to see this issue 
fixed.

Antoine
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["Андрей Омельченко"]

 Hello,could you tell me how can adjust modem Conexant HSF 56000 Data/Fax/Voice 
(he is internal on pci bus)for my FreeBSD 5.2.1.
 And as it is possible how to switch on support of built - in sound card AC ' 97 
(SoundMAx) in motherboard Asus P4PE.
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IDE RAID

[carmoda]

does anyone have any experience with onboard IDE RAID set-ups with
freeBSD 5.X?
my hardware vendor has an Intel mainboard with an on-board  Promise*
Technology SATA150TX4 4-Port Serial ATA RAID controller (PDC20319)
i love to know if it'd work.


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Re: Problem compiling code in freeBSD 4,9 strtof related.

[Malcolm Kay]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 16:29, Eric De la Cruz Lugo wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to compile the BhPos software (Point of Sale for Linux.
>
> But I need the strtof function , but FreeBSD 4,9 does not have this
> function, it is possible to install it taking the source code from the 5.X
> FreeBSD branch?
>

C standard C89 had strtod but not strtof.
Strtof appears in the C99 standard.
The strtod returns a double type while strtof returns a float.
For most practical purposes you can substitute (float)strtod(...)
for strtof(...). There might be a difference in what happens on errors,
particularly if the converted result won't fit in a float variable, 
but this is not a likely problem if the author has chosen to use float 
rather than double. In most cases the cast (float) can be omitted.

I suggest you edit the application source to use strtod.

Malcolm

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Testing groups.

[Tim Hawkins]

I would like to make some contribution back to the freebsd project, in the 
form of time testing. Is there any groups that are organising testing 
activites that I can contact?


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Re: problem with belgian keyboard in X

[Malcolm Kay]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 20:50, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed FreeBSD on a machine with a Belgian (azerty) keyboard.  It
> works fine in console, but not in X: all keys are mapped correctly, except
> for the "<>\" key.  I have keymap="be.iso" in rc.conf and Option
> "XkbLayout" "be" both in XF86Config X0-Config.keyboard.  I've tried several
> variants to the "be" keyboard layout (iso, deadkeys, ...) but none of them
> maps the < > \ key correctly.
>

I believe the keyboard interpretation is defined in the files:
  /etc/X11/xkb/...
or
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/...
dependent on the particular version of X you're running (or they
may be lisked to the same set of files.

I think symbols/be may be the particular file of interest in your case.
But I don't know or understand the syntax; so I'd take an easier approach and 
patch the key mapping using xmodmap in each users X login script.
Take a look at the manual page xmodmap(1).

Malcolm
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Portuguese keymap - Some questions

[Nuno Almeida]

Hy.

I am portuguese newcomer to the world of bsd and have installed FreeBSD 5.2.

In "sysinstall" I have selected the portuguese keymap with accents.
Nevertheless, in the console I can't get the "â" symbol or the "Â" among
others, and I can't get the accents to work correctly: I can get the
accents, but not above the letter (ex: instead of "Ã" I get "~a").

I've read some man pages, namely kdmap, and in the kbd map I am using
(pt.iso.acc.kbd) the euro symbol is set correctly (code 164). What am I
doing wrong? Has anyone has a clue?

I have KDE installed with portuguese language selected. There I have none of
the problems stated above.

TIA
Nuno Almeida
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FreeBSD Apache Perl port

[Marc]

Hi folks,

For more than 3 years, I have been using FreeBSD. At present, I'm using the
5.2.1-RELEASE version. Different release of Apache have been installed with
it. 
Installing Perl from the ports or compiling from the source, utilisation of
most the packages are impossible to be use because of an error "Out of
memory!" has been generated utilising Apache Suexec or not.
By the console, using the same script without any problem. Without using
Perl package, a simple script run perfectly.
So I thought the problem came from Apache, but it is not the case up to now,
the solution has been functionning perfectly by using the Linux
compatibility and to install the Activestate Perl distribution.
Only I found this stupid to have to use the Linux compatibility to avoid
trouble with Perl and its packages, and to double the installation on the
server because of dependency of certain ports.
I haven't found the right solution.

Have somebody experience the problem and found a better solution?

Marc

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Some questions about 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3

[Dixx]

Good time of the day!

I have FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 installed on Compaq Armada E500 laptop. Because
of some problems on this system, i so have some questions about this.

First, i've got a kernel panic when i hear music using mp3blaster:
> kernel trap 19 with interrupts disabled
>
> Fatal trap 19: non-maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mode
> instruction pointer   = 0x8:0xc08251bc
> stack pointer = 0x10:0xc8f32c50
> frame pointer = 0x10:0xc8f32c58
> code segment  = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
>   = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags  = IOPL = 0
> current process   = 11 (idle)
> trap number   = 19
> panic: non-maskable interrupt trap

Second, when i tried to compile kernel with more optimization than default
(-O changed to -O3 in COPTFLAGS variable of /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.pre.mk)
i've got error during compile:

> % make clean depend all
>
> .
>
> cc -c -O3 -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstri
> ct-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -fform
> at-extensions -std=c99  -nostdinc -I-  -I. -I../../.. -I../../../contrib/dev/acp
> ica -I../../../contrib/ipfilter -I../../../contrib/dev/ath -I../../../contrib/de
> v/ath/freebsd -I../../../contrib/ngatm -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -fno-comm
> on -finline-limit=15000 -fno-strict-aliasing  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferre
> d-stack-boundary=2 -ffreestanding -Werror  ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:660: warning: called from here
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:684: warning: called from here
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:735: warning: called from here
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/Notebook.

Is this normal? With -O2 options compilation of kernel was successfull.
And, because this kernel is working on my laptop at moment, may be kernel
panic i've got is result of setting -O2 option?

Third, during boot i have next error messages from ACPI (see attachments for
dmesg):
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005.C00B] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005.C00F] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005._CRS] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-0226: *** Error: Return object type is incorrect [\\_SB_.C005._CRS] (No
> can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C005 - AE_TYPE

Dmesg, kernel and loader configuration files of my laptop you can see in
attachments to this letter. If you needs any additional information, i can
give it.

P.S. Sorry, if my english is very bad.

Sincerelly yours,
Dmitry Novikov.
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Some questions about 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3

[Dixx]

Good time of the day!

I have FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 installed on Compaq Armada E500 laptop. Because
of some problems on this system, i so have some questions about this.

First, i've got a kernel panic when i hear music using mp3blaster:
> kernel trap 19 with interrupts disabled
>
> Fatal trap 19: non-maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mode
> instruction pointer   = 0x8:0xc08251bc
> stack pointer = 0x10:0xc8f32c50
> frame pointer = 0x10:0xc8f32c58
> code segment  = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
>   = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags  = IOPL = 0
> current process   = 11 (idle)
> trap number   = 19
> panic: non-maskable interrupt trap

Second, when i tried to compile kernel with more optimization than default
(-O changed to -O3 in COPTFLAGS variable of /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.pre.mk)
i've got error during compile:

> % make clean depend all
>
> .
>
> cc -c -O3 -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstri
> ct-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -fform
> at-extensions -std=c99  -nostdinc -I-  -I. -I../../.. -I../../../contrib/dev/acp
> ica -I../../../contrib/ipfilter -I../../../contrib/dev/ath -I../../../contrib/de
> v/ath/freebsd -I../../../contrib/ngatm -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -fno-comm
> on -finline-limit=15000 -fno-strict-aliasing  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferre
> d-stack-boundary=2 -ffreestanding -Werror  ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:660: warning: called from here
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:684: warning: called from here
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:735: warning: called from here
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/Notebook.

Is this normal? With -O2 options compilation of kernel was successfull.
And, because this kernel is working on my laptop at moment, may be kernel
panic i've got is result of setting -O2 option?

Third, during boot i have next error messages from ACPI (see attachments for
dmesg):
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005.C00B] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005.C00F] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005._CRS] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-0226: *** Error: Return object type is incorrect [\\_SB_.C005._CRS] (No
> can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C005 - AE_TYPE

Dmesg, kernel and loader configuration files of my laptop you can see in
attachments to this letter. If you needs any additional information, i can
give it.

P.S. Sorry, if my english is very bad.

Sincerelly yours,
Dmitry Novikov.
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Some questions about 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3

[Dixx]

Good time of the day!

I have FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 installed on Compaq Armada E500 laptop. Because
of some problems on this system, i so have some questions about this.

First, i've got a kernel panic when i hear music using mp3blaster:
> kernel trap 19 with interrupts disabled
>
> Fatal trap 19: non-maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mode
> instruction pointer   = 0x8:0xc08251bc
> stack pointer = 0x10:0xc8f32c50
> frame pointer = 0x10:0xc8f32c58
> code segment  = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
>   = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags  = IOPL = 0
> current process   = 11 (idle)
> trap number   = 19
> panic: non-maskable interrupt trap

Second, when i tried to compile kernel with more optimization than default
(-O changed to -O3 in COPTFLAGS variable of /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.pre.mk)
i've got error during compile:

> % make clean depend all
>
> .
>
> cc -c -O3 -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstri
> ct-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -fform
> at-extensions -std=c99  -nostdinc -I-  -I. -I../../.. -I../../../contrib/dev/acp
> ica -I../../../contrib/ipfilter -I../../../contrib/dev/ath -I../../../contrib/de
> v/ath/freebsd -I../../../contrib/ngatm -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -fno-comm
> on -finline-limit=15000 -fno-strict-aliasing  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferre
> d-stack-boundary=2 -ffreestanding -Werror  ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:660: warning: called from here
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:684: warning: called from here
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:580: warning: inlining failed in call to `cluster_wb
> uild_wb'
> ../../../kern/vfs_cluster.c:735: warning: called from here
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/Notebook.

Is this normal? With -O2 options compilation of kernel was successfull.
And, because this kernel is working on my laptop at moment, may be kernel
panic i've got is result of setting -O2 option?

Third, during boot i have next error messages from ACPI (see attachments for
dmesg):
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005.C00B] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005.C00F] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C005._CRS] (Node 0xc13
> ACPI-0226: *** Error: Return object type is incorrect [\\_SB_.C005._CRS] (No
> can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C005 - AE_TYPE

Dmesg, kernel and loader configuration files of my laptop you can see in
attachments to this letter. If you needs any additional information, i can
give it.

P.S. Sorry, if my english is very bad.

Sincerelly yours,
Dmitry Novikov.
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Nvidia v9520 video-in

[Kristofer Jarl]

Hi there.
I wrote a similar q to freebsd-multimedia a few days ago, and I haven't
gotten any response yet, so I'll try my luck here instead. 

I have an Nvidia v9520 graphics card with a 5200 chipset and video-in
function. 
The only application I've seen for video in on this card is RivaTV, but
as I can see it, that hasn't been ported (yet). I'm comfortable with my
BSD, and I don't want to switch to Linux (and definitely not
Wine-doughs), so if anyone has any tips on how to get the video-in
function working on FreeBSD, I'd be one happy potato!

Cheers!

/Jalle
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gtk20 brokenness

[Frank Laszlo]

apparently the gtk20 port is broken. Someone else brought this to my 
attention, And I could also recreate the problem locally. Here is the 
error from configure I recieved:

checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
configure: error: *** libX11 not found. Check 'config.log' for more details.
===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Attached is my config.log.
Thanks
P.S. I have the latest XFree86-libraries from ports.

Frank Laszlo
VonOstin Group
laszlof at vonostingroup dot com
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Re: gtk20 brokenness

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 12:37, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> apparently the gtk20 port is broken. Someone else brought this to my 
> attention, And I could also recreate the problem locally. Here is the 
> error from configure I recieved:
> 
> checking for connect... yes
> checking for remove... yes
> checking for shmat... yes
> checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
> checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
> configure: error: *** libX11 not found. Check 'config.log' for more details.
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> 
> Attached is my config.log.
> Thanks
> 
> P.S. I have the latest XFree86-libraries from ports.

You did not include the config.log.  chances are you're missing another
library.

Joe

> 
> Frank Laszlo
> VonOstin Group
> laszlof at vonostingroup dot com
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Re: gtk20 brokenness

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 12:46, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 12:37, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>apparently the gtk20 port is broken. Someone else brought this to my 
> >>attention, And I could also recreate the problem locally. Here is the 
> >>error from configure I recieved:
> >>
> >>checking for connect... yes
> >>checking for remove... yes
> >>checking for shmat... yes
> >>checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
> >>checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
> >>configure: error: *** libX11 not found. Check 'config.log' for more details.
> >>===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> >>
> >>Attached is my config.log.
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>P.S. I have the latest XFree86-libraries from ports.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You did not include the config.log.  chances are you're missing another
> >library.
> >
> >Joe
> >
> >  
> >
> >>
> >>Frank Laszlo
> >>VonOstin Group
> >>laszlof at vonostingroup dot com
> >>
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> Hmm, thats strange. I'll attach it inline. Thanks

You need to upgrade expat2, freetype2, fontconfig, and libXft first.  I
highly suggest you follow the expat2 instructions in
/usr/ports/UPDATING, and do a portupgrade -rf expat before going any
further.

Joe

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.htaccess file disables virtual hosts :(

[Bill Schoolcraft]

Hello Family,

I'm running Server version: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) and things were
working fine with all my virtual servers till I added a
.htaccess file to one of my NON virtual host directories.

In order to get the challenge to work I had to edit the main
stanza to:

AllowOverride All

When the challenge works, none of the virtual hosts work.  When
I change the following to:

AllowOverride None

All the webpages and subdirectories work but the .htaccess
challenge does not work for the directory in my NON virtual
host.

I've tried setting the above to:

"Options", "FileInfo", "AuthConfig", and "Limit" and the virtual
hosts will not work.

Any help here is greatly appreciated, I've searched GOOGLE for
quite some time with different params and found nothing on this.

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Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Joe Falcone]

Dear Freebsd creaters and developers,

Freebsd is an amazing Operating System Enviornment and
it is used in apple's mac os X and i have something to
make this already powerful operating system even
better than it already is. With your help your os will
become a alternetive to all operating systems on the
market. If you will make WINE a hidden component in
the operating system and tell everyone about the new
compatability you will make a difference in operating
systems of future computing. Make a difference and
change the way operating systems work by taking this
advice of mine and you will have a flawless operating
system of sorts. YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM WILL DO IT ALL
if you make this a special component in the operating
system. We can acomplish! The world needs windows
programs without the "blue screen of death" So do this
and you will be rewarded inside af how you changed the
world!

Sincerily,
Joseph Nicholas Falcone

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make world doesn't build nslookup

[Toni Heinonen]

For some reason, after make installworld, my whole system seems complete except for 
nslookup, which is still the old version. I have NO_BIND=true in make.conf, does that 
also mean client tools and libraries aren't built?

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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Chris]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 01:09 pm, Joe Falcone wrote:
> Dear Freebsd creaters and developers,
>
> Freebsd is an amazing Operating System Enviornment and
> it is used in apple's mac os X and i have something to
> make this already powerful operating system even
> better than it already is. With your help your os will
> become a alternetive to all operating systems on the
> market. If you will make WINE a hidden component in
> the operating system and tell everyone about the new
> compatability you will make a difference in operating
> systems of future computing. Make a difference and
> change the way operating systems work by taking this
> advice of mine and you will have a flawless operating
> system of sorts. YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM WILL DO IT ALL
> if you make this a special component in the operating
> system. We can acomplish! The world needs windows
> programs without the "blue screen of death" So do this
> and you will be rewarded inside af how you changed the
> world!
>
> Sincerily,
> Joseph Nicholas Falcone

WINE is in the ports. Why bloat the OS with something that perhaps only a few 
will use. 

Next - FreeBSD (while a great desktop OS) is really more of a server OS. I 
don't know the particulars as to how that is, but I'm sure you can find that 
out by searching this list.  

Lastly, giveing the users the choice to install Wine (again, via the ports) 
give the user more control over his/her environment. 

To me, why tamper with an already great OS by putting something like Wine in 
there as a default?  If you want bloat - install it, but it's YOUR choice to 
have it there.

Just my thoughts of course.

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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Jorn Argelo]

The idea is alright, but Wine is far from perfection. In fact, many large 
programs and 3D applications won't even run with wine. Why? First because 
it's still in Alpa fase. Secocond,  they depend on DirectX, and Wine only 
emulates the API part of Windows. You could use WineX, but that is an 
commercial program, so it cannot be shipped with FreeBSD. Third, Microsoft 
constantly changes the API code, and sometimes they don't publish 
documentation regarding the code.

Besides, who needs Windows programs anyway? You have everything you want for 
free, except for games.

Cheers,

Jorn.

On Sunday 28 March 2004 21:09, Joe Falcone wrote:
> Dear Freebsd creaters and developers,
>
> Freebsd is an amazing Operating System Enviornment and
> it is used in apple's mac os X and i have something to
> make this already powerful operating system even
> better than it already is. With your help your os will
> become a alternetive to all operating systems on the
> market. If you will make WINE a hidden component in
> the operating system and tell everyone about the new
> compatability you will make a difference in operating
> systems of future computing. Make a difference and
> change the way operating systems work by taking this
> advice of mine and you will have a flawless operating
> system of sorts. YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM WILL DO IT ALL
> if you make this a special component in the operating
> system. We can acomplish! The world needs windows
> programs without the "blue screen of death" So do this
> and you will be rewarded inside af how you changed the
> world!
>
> Sincerily,
> Joseph Nicholas Falcone
>
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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Chris]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 01:18 pm, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> The idea is alright, but Wine is far from perfection. In fact, many large
> programs and 3D applications won't even run with wine. Why? First because
> it's still in Alpa fase. Secocond,  they depend on DirectX, and Wine only
> emulates the API part of Windows. You could use WineX, but that is an
> commercial program, so it cannot be shipped with FreeBSD. Third, Microsoft
> constantly changes the API code, and sometimes they don't publish
> documentation regarding the code.
>
> Besides, who needs Windows programs anyway? You have everything you want
> for free, except for games.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jorn.
>

... and games ought to be played on a games console (PS/2, X-Box, etc.)

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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Chuck McManis]

At 11:18 AM 3/28/2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
Besides, who needs Windows programs anyway? You have everything you want for
free, except for games.
Hmm, how about something that can do what PhotoShop can do? How about 
something that can do what AutoCAD or TurboCAD can do? How about something 
that can do what Protel or Cadence can do?

There is unfortunately lots that Windows can do, especially in the design 
space, that FreeBSD cannot.

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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Chris]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 01:31 pm, Chuck McManis wrote:
> At 11:18 AM 3/28/2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> >Besides, who needs Windows programs anyway? You have everything you want
> > for free, except for games.
>
> Hmm, how about something that can do what PhotoShop can do? How about
> something that can do what AutoCAD or TurboCAD can do? How about something
> that can do what Protel or Cadence can do?

Hmm, I use Gimp and I can do what I did in PhotoShop (then again, I'm a novice 
at graphics anyways). 

Your point is taken, but I think what the posted wanted to point out is that 
most MS apps (used in the work place) are there. Meaning, OpenOffice, 
AbiWord, K-Office, K-Mail, Evolution etc.

Granted, it's not an ideal OS for the likes of CAD etc, but still - for free, 
you just can't beat it.

> There is unfortunately lots that Windows can do, especially in the design
> space, that FreeBSD cannot.
>
> --Chuck

... Again, just my thoughts.

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Re:Soundcard and modem issues (Subject line added)

[Chris]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 04:42 pm, "Андрей Омельченко"  wrote:
>  Hello,could you tell me how can adjust modem Conexant HSF 56000
> Data/Fax/Voice (he is internal on pci bus)for my FreeBSD 5.2.1. And as it
> is possible how to switch on support of built - in sound card AC ' 97
> (SoundMAx) in motherboard Asus P4PE. Beforehand thanks!

For onboard sound - add this line to the bottom of your kernel
device  pcm

Recompile your kern, install your kern, reboot. As to your other issues, Sorry 
mate. I can't help ya there.

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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Jorn Argelo]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 21:31, Chuck McManis wrote:
> At 11:18 AM 3/28/2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> >Besides, who needs Windows programs anyway? You have everything you want
> > for free, except for games.
>
> Hmm, how about something that can do what PhotoShop can do? How about
> something that can do what AutoCAD or TurboCAD can do? How about something
> that can do what Protel or Cadence can do?
>
> There is unfortunately lots that Windows can do, especially in the design
> space, that FreeBSD cannot.

True. However, so far you've just mentioned the CAD programs. I don't think 
that that is a large group when you compare it with the Office users for 
instance. 

FreeBSD offers many options for almost every kind of computer user. I believe 
that that is important as well. 

Cheers,

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RAID - can a mirrored disk be used on a non-RAID controller?

[Dan Langille]

I had a hard disk failure this weekend.  I had been considering RAID 
mirroring but this has brought the issue forward.

My plan is to create a box with two drives and use a RAID card to 
mirror them.  Should the RAID card die, can I move a drive to another 
box with a standard IDE controller and run the system from there?  In 
short, I'm asking, does the RAID controller create a drive image 
which cannot be used by an IDE controller?

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Re: RAID - can a mirrored disk be used on a non-RAID controller?

[Chris]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:11 pm, Dan Langille wrote:
> I had a hard disk failure this weekend.  I had been considering RAID
> mirroring but this has brought the issue forward.
>
> My plan is to create a box with two drives and use a RAID card to
> mirror them.  Should the RAID card die, can I move a drive to another
> box with a standard IDE controller and run the system from there?  In
> short, I'm asking, does the RAID controller create a drive image
> which cannot be used by an IDE controller?

Dan, 
I assume the RAID card is IDE? If not, then SCSI cant be hooked up to an IDE 
cable - but you knew that.


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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Chuck McManis]

At 11:58 AM 3/28/2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
True. However, so far you've just mentioned the CAD programs. I don't think
that that is a large group when you compare it with the Office users for
instance.
Come on, lets be fair, if we wanted to limit the application to simply 
"emacs" guess what? Freebsd is craploads better than Windows! Whippee! 
We're #1!

FreeBSD offers many options for almost every kind of computer user. I believe
that that is important as well.
The above statement is not accurate, and believing it to be accurate will 
limit where FreeBSD can go. FreeBSD offers an option to a small population 
of users, those who use Windows to do "Office" tasks. Its also a great 
environment for the nerdly types who endlessly reinvent computer languages 
or window system widgets. Unfortunately those same windows users are the 
most clueless of computer users and cannot appreciate what FreeBSD does 
differently.

The technical community however, THEY can appreciate the difference and 
they would be able to adopt FreeBSD if it had the tools they needed. These 
are the folks that made Sun Microsystems what it is today. And if FreeBSD 
wants a toe hold in the market that is where it will have to establish 
itself first.

Just my 0.02,
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portupgrade upgrading ports i don't want

[dave]

Hello,
I've got a system i'm using portupgrade on. I've got a pkgtools.conf
file with make_args defined for ports. I'm using combinations of
portupgrade -arR and various ways of that, yet when it gets to the mod_php4
port portupgrade is trying to install mysql4 which i do not want. Anyone
know which of the -rR switches is responsible for this? Also can i have a
make arg like:
packagename => 'install clean'
That does not appear to be working.
Thanks.
Dave.

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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Chris]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:23 pm, Chuck McManis wrote:
> At 11:58 AM 3/28/2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> >True. However, so far you've just mentioned the CAD programs. I don't
> > think that that is a large group when you compare it with the Office
> > users for instance.
>
> Come on, lets be fair, if we wanted to limit the application to simply
> "emacs" guess what? Freebsd is craploads better than Windows! Whippee!
> We're #1!
>
> >FreeBSD offers many options for almost every kind of computer user. I
> > believe that that is important as well.
>
> The above statement is not accurate, and believing it to be accurate will
> limit where FreeBSD can go. FreeBSD offers an option to a small population
> of users, those who use Windows to do "Office" tasks. Its also a great
> environment for the nerdly types who endlessly reinvent computer languages
> or window system widgets. Unfortunately those same windows users are the
> most clueless of computer users and cannot appreciate what FreeBSD does
> differently.
>
> The technical community however, THEY can appreciate the difference and
> they would be able to adopt FreeBSD if it had the tools they needed. These
> are the folks that made Sun Microsystems what it is today. And if FreeBSD
> wants a toe hold in the market that is where it will have to establish
> itself first.
>
> Just my 0.02,
> --Chuck

Well - perhaps the next step might be to look at what tech-apps there are for 
Linux? Would they run under Lin-Emu? 

After that, would be to take the bull by the naughty-bits and port an app of 
your liking to FBSD. 

I too can sit and bad-yack, but it's like politics - if you don't vote, you 
have no right to complain about how the country is ran.

I'm not a coder - I don't complain (much). So, I praise all the good things 
that FBSD has done thus far and anticipate all the good still to come.

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slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

[Gary Kline]

People,

For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals
seems to be bounced.  Mail fom this list, however, 
and spam (of course :-|) gets through.

I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that
may have been causing problems.  The only "hint" is from
a networking student who said that typing "reply" got a 
bounce while sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (note: no 't')
worked.

Any ideas on this?

thanks much,

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Re: portupgrade upgrading ports i don't want

[Dan Langille]

On 28 Mar 2004 at 15:20, dave wrote:

> Hello,
> I've got a system i'm using portupgrade on. I've got a pkgtools.conf
> file with make_args defined for ports. I'm using combinations of
> portupgrade -arR and various ways of that, yet when it gets to the mod_php4
> port portupgrade is trying to install mysql4 which i do not want. Anyone
> know which of the -rR switches is responsible for this? Also can i have a
> make arg like:
> packagename => 'install clean'
> That does not appear to be working.

My guess: try a make rmconfig in the mod_php4 directory.  By default 
PHP wants to give you MySQL support.

Or try installing mod_php4 manually.
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Re: RAID - can a mirrored disk be used on a non-RAID controller?

[Dan Langille]

On 28 Mar 2004 at 14:15, Chris wrote:

> On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:11 pm, Dan Langille wrote:
> > I had a hard disk failure this weekend.  I had been considering RAID
> > mirroring but this has brought the issue forward.
> >
> > My plan is to create a box with two drives and use a RAID card to
> > mirror them.  Should the RAID card die, can I move a drive to another
> > box with a standard IDE controller and run the system from there?  In
> > short, I'm asking, does the RAID controller create a drive image
> > which cannot be used by an IDE controller?
> 
> Dan, 
>   I assume the RAID card is IDE? If not, then SCSI cant be hooked up to an IDE 
> cable - but you knew that.

Right you are.  We're talking a RAID IDE card here.
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Re: RAID - can a mirrored disk be used on a non-RAID controller?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 28), Dan Langille said:
> I had a hard disk failure this weekend.  I had been considering RAID
> mirroring but this has brought the issue forward.
> 
> My plan is to create a box with two drives and use a RAID card to
> mirror them.  Should the RAID card die, can I move a drive to another
> box with a standard IDE controller and run the system from there?  In
> short, I'm asking, does the RAID controller create a drive image
> which cannot be used by an IDE controller?

Depends on where the metadata is stored.  If the controller uses the
last xx sectors of the disk, then you're okay.  If it uses the first,
then your MBR and partition table won't be in the right place if you
look at it outside of the RAID card.  My guess is that it uses the
first xx sectors, since that makes it easier to blank disks when you
move then from machine to machine, and also prevents people from
accidentally doing what you're trying to do if their array is RAID-1,
RAID-5, or concatenated RAID-0 (all of which will partially work but
fail spectacularly at some point if you try and access disk 1 outside
of the RAID array)

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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Jorn Argelo]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 22:23, Chuck McManis wrote:
> At 11:58 AM 3/28/2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> >True. However, so far you've just mentioned the CAD programs. I don't
> > think that that is a large group when you compare it with the Office
> > users for instance.
>
> Come on, lets be fair, if we wanted to limit the application to simply
> "emacs" guess what? Freebsd is craploads better than Windows! Whippee!
> We're #1!

True enough. 
> >FreeBSD offers many options for almost every kind of computer user. I
> > believe that that is important as well.
>
> The above statement is not accurate, and believing it to be accurate will
> limit where FreeBSD can go. FreeBSD offers an option to a small population
> of users, those who use Windows to do "Office" tasks. Its also a great
> environment for the nerdly types who endlessly reinvent computer languages
> or window system widgets. Unfortunately those same windows users are the
> most clueless of computer users and cannot appreciate what FreeBSD does
> differently.

However, what I was trying to say is that FreeBSD provides a wide array of 
appliations to do your daily work on (Unless you're a graphics designer). I 
mean, what purpose do most desktop computers have at a workplace? Office 
applications. You can control your servers if you're an system administrator, 
and you can do everything else one can request from an average workstation 
(e-mail, internet, etc). So that is what I was trying to say. 

Other then that, you are quite correct saying about the other Windows users. 
The problem is though, everybody grows up with Windows. Most people don't 
even know that any other OS then Windows exists. 

By the way, I don't think that "nerdly" is an appropiate way to adress the 
folks. They do great work. Perhaps I always saw it wrong, but I find nerd a 
negative way to describe a person who has interests in computers. I know it's 
not interesting for the discussion, but I just had to get that from my chest.

Thanks for sharing your opinion Chuck. I am always open for other point of 
view on things.

Cheers,

Jorn.
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Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

[Jay Moore]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 12:44 am, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:43, Jay Moore wrote:
> > I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system; I am also running KDE...
> >
> > I'm building this system for my son (college student)  ...
> >  ...  how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices
> > usable without requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these
> > devices.

> > 1) Should I automount cd's?
>
> Depends what you mean by auto-mount

Good point... I guess what I'd really meant is automount in the Windoze sense 
of the word; i.e. if I put a music cd in I can play music, if I put a data cd 
in I can read the files. I (regular joe user) don't have to su, or sudo to 
mount the device, and if I put a music cd in I don't cause a panic by trying 
to mount the device as a file system. In short, I want an automount that can 
figure out whether I've got a music cd or a file system, and "do the right 
thing".

> > 2) What is the "best way" to allow ordinary users to mount cd's?
>
> The best way is inevitably a matter of opinion.
> But it can be done without installing any additional ports.

I found a fairly complete (although slightly dated) recipe for using the amd 
and sysctl functions to handle automounting for regular users at this URL:

http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html

But there are two things that concern me:
1) once the file system cd is mounted, a fixed amount of "no activity" time 
must pass before it is umount'd
2) security implications ?!!

Item 1) is a concern mostly 'cause it's just kind of kludge ("oh yeah, I have 
to wait for 60 seconds before I can eject my data cd"). Item 2) is a concern 
'cause college campuses are the most hostile network environments I've ever 
seen.

I don't mean to sound critical (really)... maybe there's just no good way to 
do this in FreeBSD. If that's the case, maybe WinXP is the best route for the 
"average user".

Thanks,
Jay

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Firewall + Sendmail...how to make them happy...

[JP]

Hi,

I have just got my firewall up and running. 
Everything is running great except for inbound
sendmail connections.  It appears my firewall is
blocking port 25 traffic.  I can telnet localhost 25
and it works fine internally.  From the outside world,
all I get is a connection refused.  Can someone tell
me what I am doing wrong please.  Here is a copy of my
firewall config file:

# Define the firewall command (as in /etc/rc.firewall)
for easy reference.
#Helps to make it easier to read.

fwcmd="/sbin/ipfw"

# Force a flushing of the current rules before we
reload.

$fwcmd -f flush

# Divert all packets through the tunnel interface.

$fwcmd add divert natd all from any to any via tun0

# Allow all data from my network card and localhost.
Make sure you change
#your network card (mine was xl0) before you reboot.
:)

$fwcmd add allow ip from any to any via lo0
$fwcmd add allow ip from any to any via dc0
$fwcmd add allow ip from any to any via ed0

# Allow all connections that I initiate.

$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any out xmit tun0
setup

# Once connections are made, allow them to stay open.

$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any via tun0
established

# Everyone on the internet is allowed to connect to
the following services
#on the machine. This example shows that people may
connect to ssh and
#apache.

$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 5800 setup #VNC
Services
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 5900 setup #VNC
Services
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 4661 setup
#Edonkey 2000
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 4662 setup
#Edonkey 2000
$fwcmd add allow udp from any to any 4665 setup
#Edonkey 2000
$fwcmd add allow udp from any to any 11611 setup
#Edonkey 2000
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 1214 setup #Kazaa
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 23 setup
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 80 setup
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 22 setup
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 21 setup
$fwcmd add allow udp from any to any 21 setup
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 110 setup
$fwcmd add allow udp from any to any 110 setup
$fwcmd add allow tcp from any to any 25 setup
$fwcmd add allow udp from any to any 25 setup

# This sends a RESET to all ident packets.

$fwcmd add reset log tcp from any to any 113 in recv
tun0

# Allow outgoing DNS queries ONLY to the specified
servers.

$fwcmd add allow udp from any to xx.xx.x.x 53 out xmit
tun0

# Allow them back in with the answers... :)

$fwcmd add allow udp from xx.xx.x.x 53 to any in recv
tun0

# Allow ICMP (for ping and traceroute to work). You
may wish to disallow
#this, but I feel it suits my needs to keep them in.

$fwcmd add 65435 allow icmp from any to any

# Deny all the rest.

$fwcmd add 65435 deny log ip from any to any





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Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

[Jay Moore]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote:

>   For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals
>   seems to be bounced.  Mail fom this list, however,
>   and spam (of course :-|) gets through.
>
>   I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that
>   may have been causing problems.  The only "hint" is from
>   a networking student who said that typing "reply" got a
>   bounce while sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (note: no 't')
>   worked.
>
>   Any ideas on this?

either your DNS records are/were hosed, or your MTA is mis-config'd.

Try http://www.dnsstuff.com to scope out your DNS records, and remember that 
changes take some time to propogate.

Is your MTA sendmail, exim, or what? Are you set up to use a smart host to 
relay outgoing mail, or are you sending from your host? Are you receiving on 
your host, or POP'ing/IMAP'ing another host?

Jay Moore
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Re: OT - OpenOffice Mail list

[Jay Moore]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 10:17 pm, Chris wrote:

> Sorry all - I just wanted to see if anyone else on this list subscribes to
> the OOo lists. If so - have you noticed what's going on? Is it me or did
> the list just go nutzoid and it hasn't been fixed yet?

I think they're whacked... the website returns an error on all the links, and 
messages haven't been getting through (or maybe they just ignored me :)

Jay
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Re: Firewall + Sendmail...how to make them happy...

[Remko Lodder]

Hi JP,

JP wrote:
Hi,

I have just got my firewall up and running. 
Everything is running great except for inbound
sendmail connections.  It appears my firewall is
blocking port 25 traffic.  I can telnet localhost 25
and it works fine internally.  From the outside world,
all I get is a connection refused.  Can someone tell
me what I am doing wrong please.  Here is a copy of my
firewall config file:
did you try `netstat -an |grep -i list` ? if there is an 127.0.0.1:25 
listening then only localhost is listening on the sendmail interface. I 
though that it was a setting in the default install.
You should look for freebsd.mc and edit the listen settings there and 
build a new cf file...

Cheers

Kind regards,

Remko Lodder
Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the 
hackerscene
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Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

[Jay Moore]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
>   People,
>
>   For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals
>   seems to be bounced.  Mail fom this list, however,
>   and spam (of course :-|) gets through.
>
>   I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that
>   may have been causing problems.  The only "hint" is from
>   a networking student who said that typing "reply" got a
>   bounce while sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (note: no 't')
>   worked.
>
>   Any ideas on this?
>

Some more info: here's what I got from my earlier response to your posting:

Returned mail: see transcript for details  (Mail Delivery Subsystem,  Sun Mar 
28 15:07:23 2004)

The original message was received at Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:07:20 -0600 (CST)
from localhost.cullmail.com [127.0.0.1]

   - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    (reason: 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied)

   - Transcript of session follows -
... while talking to ns1.thought.org.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)

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install.cfg disklabel failure when PXE booting

[Don]

I am attempting to set up network installs of FreeBSD 5.2.1 for a project
I am working on.

I can boot kern.flp and mfsroot.flp over the network with no problems and
do a manual install.

I can configure install.cfg to automatically set the distribution, network
card, install method and so on.

What I can not get working right is automatic disk partitioning.

No matter what I have set up, the installer just will not set up
partitions for me.

install.cfg looks like:
# Now set the parameters for the partition editor on ad0
disk=ad0
partition=all
bootManager=standard
diskPartitionEditor
#diskPartitionWrite

# All sizes are expressed in 512 byte blocks!
ad0s1-1=ufs 199 /
ad0s1-2=swap 6485760 none
ad0s1-3=ufs 2097152 /var
ad0s1-4=ufs 0 /usr
# Let's do it!
diskLabelEditor
#diskLabelCommit

Can anyone tell me where I am screwing up? I have tried several variations
on the above config file all without success. There is also the somewhat
related problem of sysinstall refusing to accept the BIOS definition of
the drive geometry but I believe I was able to get beyond that problem.

Thanks in advance,
-Don
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Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:07:18PM -0600, Jay Moore wrote:
> On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals
> > seems to be bounced.  Mail fom this list, however,
> > and spam (of course :-|) gets through.
> >
> > I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that
> > may have been causing problems.  The only "hint" is from
> > a networking student who said that typing "reply" got a
> > bounce while sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (note: no 't')
> > worked.
> >
> > Any ideas on this?
> 
> either your DNS records are/were hosed, or your MTA is mis-config'd.
> 
> Try http://www.dnsstuff.com to scope out your DNS records, and remember that 
> changes take some time to propogate.
> 
> Is your MTA sendmail, exim, or what? Are you set up to use a smart host to 
> relay outgoing mail, or are you sending from your host? Are you receiving on 
> your host, or POP'ing/IMAP'ing another host?
> 

The long-and-short of it is that I did a grep -r -w though.org
after my network friend mentioned how he finally got mail
thru to me.  sendmail (/etc/mail/* and /etc/namedb/*, and, for
that matter, /etc)  were okay.  This was on my primary
nameserver, ns1.thought.org.  I 2-checked on other platforms,
in /etc/mail/* and same deal.  

I'll add dnsstuff.com to my hotlist.  Right now I use (I believe)
dnsreport.com which I check infrequently.  *Too* infrequently,
obliously!  ...I just made some updates and fixed things that
were flagged in red.  So I'll see how much e-homework I get now;
or if my profs got pissed and flunked me for this

thank you for your time,

gary

PS:  I'be got a pop/imap question...but that can wait




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nVidia chipset - ethernet support?

[Brian Candler]

I have installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 on my brand new Soltek EQ3702A machine, which
has an nVidia chipset. I have got most of the on-board hardware to work:
  kldload snd_ich  -- pcm
  kldload firewire \ to mount my ipod
  kldload sbp  /

but I don't seem to be able to get ethernet to work. A google shows that
this is a long-standing issue:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-August/016739.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/001016.html

but I don't see anything else posted since August last year.

I did come across this driver against FreeBSD-5.1:
http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/   [1]

Anyone have any experience with it? It claims to be in the official ports
tree under net/nvnet, but I don't find it there (not in the 5.2.1-RELEASE
ports tree anyway). Well actually, I did find something here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net/nvnet   [2]

Unfortunately the driver page [1] doesn't link to the Linux driver it
requires, and the port at [2] links to a different version of nvnet than the
one at [1].

If anyone has this working with FreeBSD-5.2.1 (and either an up-to-date
port, or a pointer to the correct Linux module required), that would save me
some random hacking.

Incidentally, my machine has two VGA ports. If anyone knows how to get both
of those working together with XFree86, that would be appreciated too!

Cheers,

Brian.
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transcode problem (fwd)

[Tsu-Fan Cheng]

Hi people, I was using transcode to convert/shrink a movie.mdf into a
movie.mpg, and here is what I got:
--
/home/tfcheng/disk2/BNR2/done > transcode -i movie.mdf -y mpeg -F 11 -E
48000 -b 56 -q 1 -o movie
transcode v0.6.12 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg
[transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms
[transcode] auto-probing source movie.mdf (ok)
[transcode] V: import format| Digital Video  (V=dv|A=null)
[transcode] V: import frame | 720x480  1.50:1  encoded @ 4:3
[transcode] V: bits/pixel   | 0.174
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 29.970,4
[transcode] A: import format| 0x1 PCM  [   0,16,0]
[transcode] A: export format| 0x50MPEG layer-2 [48000,16,0]   56
kbps
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 29.970,4
[transcode] A: bytes per frame  | 0 (0.00)
[transcode] A: adjustment   | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[transcode] V: IA32 accel mode  | 3dnow (3dnow mmxext mmx asm)
[transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x480
[import_null.so] v0.2.0 (2002-01-19) (video) null | (audio) null
[import_dv.so] v0.3.1 (2003-10-14) (video) DV | (audio) PCM
[export_mpeg.so] v1.2.3 (2003-08-21) (video) MPEG 1/2 | (audio) MPEG 1
Layer II
[import_dv.so] tcextract -x dv -i "movie.mdf" -d 1 | tcdecode -x dv -y
rgb -d 1 -Q 5

INFO: using reference profile (MPEG1)
INFO: profile type is (PAL)
Floating exception (core dumped)
/home/tfcheng/disk2/BNR2/done > (decode_dv.c) NTSC video: 720x480
framesize=12 sampling=1

Ummm I am not an expert on this kind of thing, basically just trial
and error. Any help is appreciated! thanks in advance!


Best Regards, :-)

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Re: FreeBSD and Internal IDE 100M ZIP drive

[Rowdy]

Shawn Guillemette wrote:

Looking to eject my 100M iomega ZIP deive from with in my shell script.
URL's, Pasted examples, anything.. Im searching the net too... not much luck
yet...
Shawn

There is no place like 127.0.0.1
There is an eject utility in ports that purports to be able to eject 
removable media, but so far I have not been able to convince it to eject 
my internal IDE Zip media.  Works fine on the IDE CD-ROM drive tho.

Dave

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Re: Wine: user_ldt not recognized?

[Stefan A. Deutscher]

Thanks! Saves me another kernel build, but I probably should submit that
as a documentation PR, shouldn't I?

  Cheers, Stefan

 Cheers, Stefan

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:56:15PM +, Alistair Sutton wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 23:56, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> >  trying to install wine on 5.1Release the build of Wine-20030508.tar.gz
> > from ports went fine but told me to rebuild the kernel, among other
> > options, with
> > 
> >   USER_LDT
> > 
> > Now, the kernel build tells me
> > 
> >CAMSOUNDWINE: unknown option "USER_LDT"
> >make: don't know how to make depend. Stop
> > 
> > What gives?
> 
> USER_LDT is included in the kernel by default on 5.x systems so there is
> no need to specify it in your kernel config.
> 
> Al
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Re: portupgrade upgrading ports i don't want

[dave]

Hello,
Thanks, i tried make rmconfig in lang/php4 and www/mod_php4 and in both
cases it said i had no user defined options. I have also tried using only
the -a and the -ar options to portupgrade, and adding to the make args line
for mod_php4 -DWITH_MYSQL=no all of this has not worked it is still trying
to install mysql. Please keep the suggestions coming.
Dave.

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hard disk recover

[freebsd]

I'm getting the dreaded "ad1s1a: hard error reading fsbn 524543 of 96-127
(ad1s1 bn 524543; cn 520 tn 6 sn 5) status=59 error=40" errors.  Based on
what I've read, it means my drive's going bye-bye.  As it is, it won't
even boot - fortunately I have another FBSD drive to boot from, and I get
these errors while trying fsck it.  Shame on me for not noticing the
errors sooner and an even bigger shame for not having a proper backup.

In any case, the milk is spilled and I need to mop it up as best I can. 
While I can mount the partition, I can't cd to it (more "hard errors..."),
and since fsck isn't apparently helping, what can I do to recover what's
left?  I'm thinking dd's the tool to use, but I'm not really sure how to
go about it.  Here's what I get when I try to read from the beginning on
the partition:

# dd if=/dev/ad1s1a bs=64k
dd: /dev/ad1s1a: Input/output error

However, when I add "skip=1", the drive spits back data.  That leads me to
believe that if I skip over the bad sectors, I can read what's left.

I've got a spare drive I can use as a sandbox, but how should I dump the
data?  Should I label the second drive with the same partition size and
"dd if=/dev/ad1s1a of=/dev/ad2s1a"?  Is there any chance of recovering
filesystem data going this route?

Or should I just create a new, empty partition and dump everything from
the bad drive into a huge file and sift through it manually?  This doesn't
appeal to me at all, but there's a few pieces of data on this whose loss
appeals even less.

Help and/or suggestions are most definitely appreciated.

Brad Waite
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Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:58:01PM -0600, Jay Moore wrote:
> On Sunday 28 March 2004 12:44 am, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:43, Jay Moore wrote:
> > > I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system; I am also running KDE...
> > >
> > > I'm building this system for my son (college student)  ...
> > >  ...  how to make the cd-rw & cd-rom devices
> > > usable without requiring him to start a root shell and mount/umount these
> > > devices.
> 
> > > 1) Should I automount cd's?
> >
> > Depends what you mean by auto-mount
> 
> Good point... I guess what I'd really meant is automount in the Windoze sense 
> of the word; i.e. if I put a music cd in I can play music, if I put a data cd 
> in I can read the files. I (regular joe user) don't have to su, or sudo to 
> mount the device, and if I put a music cd in I don't cause a panic by trying 
> to mount the device as a file system. In short, I want an automount that can 
> figure out whether I've got a music cd or a file system, and "do the right 
> thing".
> 
> > > 2) What is the "best way" to allow ordinary users to mount cd's?
> >
> > The best way is inevitably a matter of opinion.
> > But it can be done without installing any additional ports.
> 
> I found a fairly complete (although slightly dated) recipe for using the amd 
> and sysctl functions to handle automounting for regular users at this URL:
> 
> http://www.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html
> 
> But there are two things that concern me:
> 1) once the file system cd is mounted, a fixed amount of "no activity" time 
> must pass before it is umount'd
> 2) security implications ?!!
> 
> Item 1) is a concern mostly 'cause it's just kind of kludge ("oh yeah, I have 
> to wait for 60 seconds before I can eject my data cd"). Item 2) is a concern 
> 'cause college campuses are the most hostile network environments I've ever 
> seen.
> 
> I don't mean to sound critical (really)... maybe there's just no good way to 
> do this in FreeBSD. If that's the case, maybe WinXP is the best route for the 
> "average user".

Sounds like what you want is vold(8) and associated utilities:


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vold&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=SunOS+5.9&format=html

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone has ported it from Solaris yet,
although there is this:

http://vold.sourceforge.net/

There's also 'autodiskmount' on MacOSX which fulfils a similar
function, which might be an easier thing to port.

http://www.hmug.org/man/8/autodiskmount.html

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: portupgrade upgrading ports i don't want

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, dave wrote:

> Thanks, i tried make rmconfig in lang/php4 and www/mod_php4 and in both
> cases it said i had no user defined options. I have also tried using only
> the -a and the -ar options to portupgrade, and adding to the make args line
> for mod_php4 -DWITH_MYSQL=no all of this has not worked it is still trying
> to install mysql. Please keep the suggestions coming.

Manually make deinstall for mod_php4, then try it again:

make -DWITHOUT_MYSQL install

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: hard disk recover

[Lewis Thompson]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:25:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> # dd if=/dev/ad1s1a bs=64k
> dd: /dev/ad1s1a: Input/output error

Try:

dd if=/dev/ad1s1a of=? conv=noerror,sync bs=64k

  I recently ``recovered'' a disk from this error.  The sync is
critical, trust me ;)  (check the man page for what it does)

-lewiz.

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Updating mailman on 5.0

[Richard Stevenson]

Hi all

I'm in the process of trying to update Mailman from 2.1.1 to 2.1.4 on a
5.0 system, by doing "make; make deinstall; make reinstall" in
/usr/ports/mail/mailman.  I'm getting an error during the "reinstall"
phase:

Upgrading from version 0x20101f0 to 0x20104f0
getting rid of old source files
Updating mailing list: mailman
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/update", line 574, in ?
errors = main()
  File "bin/update", line 451, in main
errors = errors + dolist(listname)
  File "bin/update", line 187, in dolist
mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__
self.Load()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 623, in Load
self.CheckVersion(dict)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 648, in CheckVersion
self.Save()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 526, in Save
self.__save(dict)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 483, in __save
cPickle.dump(dict, fp, 1)
SystemError: frexp() result out of range
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman/work/mailman-2.1.4.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman.


Can anyone shed any light on why this might be happening and how I can fix
it?

Many thanks

Richard


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RE: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Dan MacMillan]

> From: Jorn Argelo
> Sent: March 28, 2004 13:43
> 
> ...
> 
> By the way, I don't think that "nerdly" is an appropiate way to 
> adress the folks. They do great work. Perhaps I always saw it
> wrong, but I find nerd a negative way to describe a person who
> has interests in computers.
> 
> ...

Agreed.  The correct term is "geeky".

-Dan
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dircmp?

[Shaun T. Erickson]

Is there a dircmp command for 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3? I can't find one ...

-ste
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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Mar 28, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Joe Falcone wrote:

With your help your os will
become a alternetive to all operating systems on the
market.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but...
a) the goal of FreeBSD isn't to become a marketed product, per se... and
b) FreeBSD already IS an alternative to marketed OS's.
If you will make WINE a hidden component in
the operating system and tell everyone about the new
compatability you will make a difference in operating
systems of future computing.
Disturbing...
a) why make Windows out of a system that isn't Windows?  If you need 
it...why not just run it?
b) I don't WANT invisible compatibility.  I don't need the virus 
propagations and hacks for one OS showing up in another one.

I *like* knowing that I can have a virus binary on my system sandboxed 
tightly in because it *can't* run on my platform.  I regularly test 
some of my mailscanners and AV implementations using files saved on my 
OS X system.

Make a difference and
change the way operating systems work by taking this
advice of mine and you will have a flawless operating
system of sorts.
Except that it runs Windows stuff. :-p

YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM WILL DO IT ALL

No OS is perfect if it aims to be all things for all people.  Focus on 
the strengths that work best for the OS niche, and you'll have a 
usable system for that segment...at least that's my philosophy.  I've 
been wrong many times before though :-)

if you make this a special component in the operating
system. We can acomplish! The world needs windows
programs without the "blue screen of death" So do this
and you will be rewarded inside af how you changed the
world!
Then wait for MS to fix their problems.  Me, I'm happy with my servers 
running FreeBSD and Linux and my notebook running OS X and I tolerate 
the servers the end users use with Win2k :-/

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Re: dircmp?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:28:31PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Is there a dircmp command for 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3? I can't find one ...

Not in the base system.  Maybe it's available in a port with a
different name.  What does it do?

Kris


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Re: automounting cd-rom & cd-rw devices

[Rob]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:04:43PM +0900, Rob wrote:
What is this sysctl-black-magic about and where is more information?


You're right that finding which sysctl is required to achieve whatever
purpose can be tricky.  Finding what sysctls exist is as easy as
typing 'sysctl -a', but working out what they actually do -- that's a
different story.  sysctls are generally documented in man pages which
may or may not have a title related to the name of the sysctl.  Plus
they are usually documented in the *programming* section of the
manual, rather than the user or system administration commands
sections, whose man pages come up by default if there's more than one
page under the same name.
Let's take the vfs.usermount sysctl as an example.  That is actually
documented in mount(2) -- the page describing the mount() (and
umount()) syscall, not mount(8) -- the program for mounting
partitions.  If you type 'man mount' you'll get the mount(8) man page
by default.  However if you type 'man 2 mount' you find this timeless
wisdom hidden within that page:
 By default only the super-user may call the mount() function.  This
 restriction can be removed by setting the sysctl vfs.usermount to a non-
 zero value.
How do I know where vfs.usermount is documented? Only by the rather
unsatisfactory means of grepping the whole collection of man pages:
% cd /usr/share/man
% find . -name '*.gz' -print | xargs zgrep -l vfs.usermount
(It would be really nice if the text produced by 'sysctl -d' gave you
a reference to the man page(s) where the sysctl was documented.)
There is a project underway to create better documentation for sysctls
Well, at a first glance I found the 'sysctl -ad' to be very incomplete.
Although a few entries here do provide an explanation, too many do not and
vfs.usermount is among them. Completing this table of explanations would
be a good thing to do! Is this related to the project about sysctls docs?
Regards,
Rob.
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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Rob]

Jorn Argelo wrote:
The idea is alright, but Wine is far from perfection. In fact, many large 
programs and 3D applications won't even run with wine. Why? First because 
it's still in Alpa fase. Secocond,  they depend on DirectX, and Wine only 
emulates the API part of Windows. You could use WineX, but that is an 
commercial program, so it cannot be shipped with FreeBSD. Third, Microsoft 
constantly changes the API code, and sometimes they don't publish 
documentation regarding the code.

Besides, who needs Windows programs anyway? You have everything you want for 
free, except for games.
Let me add my frustration to the beautiful world of free Unix software.

I'm working in physical chemistry environment at the university.
My M$-Window$ collegues use Microcal Origin for the graphical data analysis.
I must admit that this software is fantastic and I sometimes feel my style
of data analysis is from the stone age.
The problem is, there's no such thing available in the free software pool
and Microcal refuses to port Origin to Unix environment. I've tried running
it over Wine, but failed.
Don't tell me there's Grace (or equivalents); that's no comparison at all!

Now there is a commercial Unix alternative: Tecplot. But I'm unable to change
the minds of all my collegues to switch to Tecplot only for my sake. Spending
few thousand dollars for my Tecplot license, just because I stick to FreeBSD,
is not an option.
So not only the games-people, but also research environment can be in trouble
when embedded in a Windows oriented environment.
Regards,
Rob.
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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Al Johnson]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:09:36AM -0800, Joe Falcone wrote:

> ... make WINE a hidden component in
> the operating system and tell everyone about the new
> compatability...

I'll bet the folks at OpenBSD would LOVE to hear more ideas
like this one.

Make your suggestions on THEIR mailing list too! Their address
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Re: nVidia chipset - ethernet support?

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 23:57 schrieb Brian Candler:
> I have installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 on my brand new Soltek EQ3702A machine,
> which has an nVidia chipset. I have got most of the on-board hardware to
> work: kldload snd_ich  -- pcm
>   kldload firewire \ to mount my ipod
>   kldload sbp  /
>
> but I don't seem to be able to get ethernet to work. A google shows that
> this is a long-standing issue:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-August/016739.htm
>l http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/001016.html
>
> but I don't see anything else posted since August last year.
>
> I did come across this driver against FreeBSD-5.1:
> http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/   [1]
>
> Anyone have any experience with it? It claims to be in the official ports
> tree under net/nvnet, but I don't find it there (not in the 5.2.1-RELEASE
> ports tree anyway). Well actually, I did find something here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net/nvnet   [2]

I tried the nvnet driver from the ports some days ago with a nforce2 and it 
worked flawlessly.

But you can also use the ProjectEvil ndis wrapper and use the WinXP driver.
I also did this with great success some weeks ago.

>
> Unfortunately the driver page [1] doesn't link to the Linux driver it
> requires, and the port at [2] links to a different version of nvnet than
> the one at [1].
>
> If anyone has this working with FreeBSD-5.2.1 (and either an up-to-date
> port, or a pointer to the correct Linux module required), that would save
> me some random hacking.
>
> Incidentally, my machine has two VGA ports. If anyone knows how to get both
> of those working together with XFree86, that would be appreciated too!

You need the proprietary nvidia driver (from ports/x11/nvidia-driver). See the 
docs in the working directory of the port for more info, if you need a sample 
dual-layout I can send you mine.

Best regards,

-Harry

>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian.
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Re: Hi I have a suggestion! To Imporve the perfect Freebsd!

[Kevin Kinsey]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:48:03PM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 
> On Mar 28, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Joe Falcone wrote:
> 
> >With your help your os will
> >become a alternetive to all operating systems on the
> >market.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but...
> a) the goal of FreeBSD isn't to become a marketed product, per se... and
> b) FreeBSD already IS an alternative to marketed OS's.
> 
> >If you will make WINE a hidden component in
> >the operating system and tell everyone about the new
> >compatability you will make a difference in operating
> >systems of future computing.
> 
> Disturbing...
> a) why make Windows out of a system that isn't Windows?  If you need 
> it...why not just run it?
> b) I don't WANT invisible compatibility.  I don't need the virus 
> propagations and hacks for one OS showing up in another one.
> 
> I *like* knowing that I can have a virus binary on my system sandboxed 
> tightly in because it *can't* run on my platform.  I regularly test 
> some of my mailscanners and AV implementations using files saved on my 
> OS X system.
> 
> >Make a difference and
> >change the way operating systems work by taking this
> >advice of mine and you will have a flawless operating
> >system of sorts.
> 

Bart brings up some good points.  Maybe we don't
need the OS to change as much as we need users to
change, and, of course, a few noticeable deficiencies
in available apps corrected.

It's possible to see the O.P.'s argument as,
"since Windows rules the world, if you do 
what they do you will rule instead"

Reminds me of a story about a snake, a chick, and
an apple...IIRC, that didn't work out too well ;-)

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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mplayer questions

[Tadimeti Keshav]

Hi,
I have a couple of questions:

1. I compiled mplayer with -DWITH_GUI.
   When I use gmplayer (GUI) to open a video file, I
get the error "...no video-out -vo available...".
However, when I use mplayer (CLI) with the foll.
options:
 mplayer -fs -zoom -x 70 -y 50 /home/abc.wmv
it works fine. COmpilation went fine w/o errors.

2. using the CLI mplayer, how can I play the video
file from a given place, say after 19 minutes and 30
seconds?

Thanks
Tk





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cannot mount vcd

[Tadimeti Keshav]

hi all,
I am able to mount ordinary data CDs, but not VCDs.
Hence cannot watch VCDs with mplayer. 
Am I missing something?
Thanks
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Installation & fdisk partitioning (slices)

[Russell E. Mayfield]

 I picked up a copy of the "FreeBSD Handbook 2nd Ed" the other day, it came
with a installation disk for version 5.1 Current and that is what I am
trying to install. This is my first attempt to do anything with FreeBSD.
 First let me describe my system, I have a pentium 200 MMX cpu with 128MB
Ram and two 20GB hard drives (ad0 & ad2).
 I am installing FreeBSD to ad2s2. I made room for fbsd with Partition Magic
so when installing fbsd all I had to do was make it bootable and format it.
The first time I installed fbsd everything went well but I remember
wondering about the C flag that came up with the A flag when I made the
slice bootable. Later I decided on a better way to arrange my partitions, so
I had to reinstall fbsd. I tried  for 4 days to get that C flag back in
there (which the online help says is the default) and couldn't. When ever I
went ahead wihtout the C flag it made the disk unusable to anything except
fbsd, also in the disklabel program the d partition was skiped the first
time, which the handbook cautions about using, but without the C flag I had
to make a fake partition then delete it to get ride of it.
 Finaly I decided to live dangerously an I changed the geometry of the drive
to match the bios figures. It seems to work, but I haven't gotten into it
very deep.

Can somebody shed some light on this, and should I make out a bug report?
Thanks Russ

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Re: dircmp?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 28), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:28:31PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> > Is there a dircmp command for 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3? I can't find one ...
> 
> Not in the base system.  Maybe it's available in a port with a
> different name.  What does it do?

It compares two directory trees and tells you which files exist in one
or both, and tells you which files are the same in both.  SUSv2
deprecated it and recommended people use "diff -r" instead.  SUSv3
doesn't mention it at all.

Shaun: if you have access to a Tru64 or Solaris system, you can use
their dircmp commands, since they are shell scripts.


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growfs on vinum volume

[Ludo Koren]

Hi list


on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3, I did:

fdisk -BI da2
fdisk -BI da3

and 
disklabel -e da2s1
disklabel -e da3s1

# /dev/da2s1:
8 partitions:
#size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a: 143363981   16unused0 0   
  c: 1433639970unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
  h: 1433639970 vinum



# /dev/da3s1:
8 partitions:
#size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a: 143363981   16unused0 0   
  c: 1433639970unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
  h: 1433639970 vinum

vinum create vinumgrow

vinumgrow:
drive d3 device /dev/da2s1h
drive d4 device /dev/da3s1h
sd name mirror.p0.s1 drive d3 plex mirror.p0 size 0
sd name mirror.p1.s1 drive d4 plex mirror.p1 size 0

after 

vinum -> start mirror.p0.s1

and 

vinum -> start mirror.p1.s1

I have

vinum -> l
6 drives:
D d1State: up   /dev/da1s1e A: 0/15452 MB (0%)
D rd1   State: up   /dev/da1s1h A: 0/1023 MB (0%)
D d2State: up   /dev/da0s1f A: 0/15452 MB (0%)
D rd2   State: up   /dev/da0s1h A: 0/1023 MB (0%)
D d3State: up   /dev/da2s1h A: 0/70001 MB (0%)
D d4State: up   /dev/da3s1h A: 0/70001 MB (0%)

2 volumes:
V mirrorState: up   Plexes:   2 Size: 83 GB
V root  State: up   Plexes:   2 Size:   1023 MB

4 plexes:
P mirror.p0   C State: up   Subdisks: 2 Size: 83 GB
P mirror.p1   C State: up   Subdisks: 2 Size: 83 GB
P root.p1 C State: up   Subdisks: 1 Size:   1023 MB
P root.p0 C State: up   Subdisks: 1 Size:   1023 MB

6 subdisks:
S mirror.p0.s0  State: up   D: d1   Size: 15 GB
S mirror.p1.s0  State: up   D: d2   Size: 15 GB
S root.p1.s0State: up   D: rd2  Size:   1023 MB
S root.p0.s0State: up   D: rd1  Size:   1023 MB
S mirror.p0.s1  State: up   D: d3   Size: 68 GB
S mirror.p1.s1  State: up   D: d4   Size: 68 GB
vinum -> 

which seems to be correct...

Than I did 

growfs /dev/vinum/mirror


It finished with the following error:

growfs: bad inode number 1 to ginode

I have searched the archives, but did not find any answer. Please,
could you point to me what I did wrong?

Thank you very much.

lk
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Re: mplayer questions

[Kirill Ponomarew]

Tadimeti Keshav wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. I compiled mplayer with -DWITH_GUI.
>When I use gmplayer (GUI) to open a video file, I
> get the error "...no video-out -vo available...".
> However, when I use mplayer (CLI) with the foll.
> options:
>  mplayer -fs -zoom -x 70 -y 50 /home/abc.wmv
> it works fine. COmpilation went fine w/o errors.

Try to use mplayer -vo help and choose the right video output
driver.

-Kirill

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