RE: Calculating the load average in the freebsd kernel
This may help
http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg1.shtml
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kannan Varadhan
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 12:08 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Calculating the load average in the freebsd kernel
Hello,
I am staring at the code in kern/kern_synch.c that calculates the load
average of the system, and I cannot fully understand how the freebsd version
works. Specifically, it looks as:
/*
* Constants for averages over 1, 5, and 15 minutes
* when sampling at 5 second intervals.
*/
static fixpt_t cexp[3] = {
0.9200444146293232 * FSCALE,/* exp(-1/12) */
0.9834714538216174 * FSCALE,/* exp(-1/60) */
0.9944598480048967 * FSCALE,/* exp(-1/180) */
};
...
/*
* Compute a tenex style load average of a quantity on
* 1, 5 and 15 minute intervals.
* XXXKSE Needs complete rewrite when correct info is available.
* Completely Bogus.. only works with 1:1 (but compiles ok now :-)
*/
static void
loadav(void *arg)
{
int i, nrun;
struct loadavg *avg;
nrun = sched_load();
avg = averunnable;
for (i = 0; i 3; i++)
avg-ldavg[i] = (cexp[i] * avg-ldavg[i] +
nrun * FSCALE * (FSCALE - cexp[i])) FSHIFT;
...
And elsewhere, FSCALE is defined as 1FSHIFT, and FSHIFT is 11.
Focusing only the formula, then
avg-ldavg[i] = (cexp[i] * avg-ldavg[i] +
nrun * FSCALE * (FSCALE - cexp[i])) FSHIFT;
^^
Why do we have that extra FSCALE multiplier in the second term? If I do
some logical simplifications, this seems to get me:
(\alpha * FSCALE * ldavg[I] + nrum * FSCALE * FSCALE (1 - \alpha)) FSHIFT
I.e.
\alpha * ldavg[I] + nrun * FSCALE * (1 - \alpha)
What am I missing in this arithmetic?
Thanks,
Kannan
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IMAP Server suggestions
It's been a while since I've set up an IMAP server, but I would like to do so again. Can anybody recommend which IMAP server to install? Any suggestions on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! tdh -- +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | UIN: 17021091 -- AIM: tdh004 -ooO--(_)--Ooo--+- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
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Re: IMAP Server suggestions
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:27:54 -0400 Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while since I've set up an IMAP server, but I would like to do so again. Can anybody recommend which IMAP server to install? Any suggestions on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! dovecot supports maildir and mbox, has active development, a very responsive author, is available from ports, and quite easy to install (i'm happily running it for 6 months on 2 FreeBSD 5.4-REL mailservers) /usr/ports/mail/dovecot/ http://www.dovecot.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
I run courier-imap, works really well for me. On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:27:54 -0400 Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while since I've set up an IMAP server, but I would like to do so again. Can anybody recommend which IMAP server to install? Any suggestions on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I run courier-imap, works really well for me. I'm reading this thread because courier-imap works but I'm less than happy with maillog being flooded with: Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (dkelly) Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Error: Input/output error Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Check for proper operation and configuration Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd). Also MacOS X Mail.app often has connection problems. Suspect that problem has something to do with mutt modifying my Maildir between Mail.app connections as once Mail.app has a good connection it stays good. OTOH procmail delivers to my Maildir INBOX which isn't much different than what I do with mutt. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
Hi Tim, You can also check courrier-imap. Afnog has an excellent how to at the link http://ws.afnog.org/afnog2004/t1/mail/index.htm Enjoy! Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:27:54 -0400 Tim Holmes wrote: It's been a while since I've set up an IMAP server, but I would like to do so again. Can anybody recommend which IMAP server to install? Any suggestions on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! dovecot supports maildir and mbox, has active development, a very responsive author, is available from ports, and quite easy to install (i'm happily running it for 6 months on 2 FreeBSD 5.4-REL mailservers) /usr/ports/mail/dovecot/ http://www.dovecot.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez le ici ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
On 08/20/05 08:00 AM, David Kelly sat at the `puter and typed: On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I run courier-imap, works really well for me. I'm reading this thread because courier-imap works but I'm less than happy with maillog being flooded with: Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (dkelly) Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Error: Input/output error Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Check for proper operation and configuration Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd). Also MacOS X Mail.app often has connection problems. Suspect that problem has something to do with mutt modifying my Maildir between Mail.app connections as once Mail.app has a good connection it stays good. OTOH procmail delivers to my Maildir INBOX which isn't much different than what I do with mutt. Never seen these problems. IIRC, there was a thread about error messages coming from famd several months ago. As I understand the message, it's just a famd config issue, but I don't know for sure. I use procmail to pipe through SpamAssassin (spamd) and do some other sorting before delivering to maildirs, but I never have connection problems (unless I forget to recheck configs after upgrading the courier auth package). Of course, I haven't talked my wife into letting me buy that PowerBook yet . . . Courier-imap has been running flawlessly for me for around 3 years. I understand it can handle several hundreds (or thousands) of times more load than I can give it. It's not idiot proof, but running a mail server really shouldn't be, don't you think? Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers. -- Spock, Amok Time, stardate 3372.7 pgprVUvGRhSv1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Load Balancing - Nice and Easy - no BGP, no isp help.
Ovidiu Ene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello friends I am trying for a while to make a load balancer under FreeBSD I would have: 3 nics, ISP1 nic, ISP2 nic and LAN nic. What i've done until now, after reading lots of posts, googling for a while: - I've suceeded to setup an outgoing load balancer with pf, it works perfectly but only for outgoing traffic; - I've noticed that almost everybody thing that it cannot be done load balancing with BSD of incoming and outgoing without help of that both ISP (BGP) - I find hardware with proprietary OS/firmware that can do load balancing without support of ISP. Some are cheap (300$), but at review does not know to load balance incoming traffic (break functionality of some pages accessed, since some of load is on one interface, some of other, works corectly only if i setup to come some type of traffic on one interface, some of other (for example trafic via port 80 on one nic, ftp traffic on the other), also are expensive hardware load balancers (over 1000$) that... i am asking myself how it works, without help of isp. - I've found somewhere that it can be done load balancing but not with one box with that 3 nics, but with 3 boxex, because (that article i am insipring said that every box has just one routing table) because can be created a virtual server that with handle routes from that 2 boxes. - People told me that in Linux load balancing cand be done, 3 nics, 2 external, one to Lan, with iptables. Here is a short article: http://linux.com.lb/wiki/index.pl?node=Load%20Balancing%20Across%20Multiple%20Links So, my question is, if some people made it (in expensive hardware that did have the same OS, maybe even FreeBSD, and proprietary algorythms) and in Linux it can be done (people told me, i've read articles and also so it here, where i live) why it cannot be done under FreeBSD? I guess it can be done, I want to do it with FreeBSD, and want to obtain same performances as with Linux. The only specific example you gave was the Linux one. And that one *is* doing load balancing on the outgoing side. I doubt it's very different from what you did with pf. What is your opinion about that? What should I do? Anybody suceed in making load balancing work that way? I don't believe anyone has. Or can, for that matter. Aside from choosing addresses for outgoing connections, you have no control over what incoming link a peer outside your network will use to communicate with you. Unless the upstream providers are cooperating, of course. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 08/20/05 08:00 AM, David Kelly sat at the `puter and typed: On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: I run courier-imap, works really well for me. I'm reading this thread because courier-imap works but I'm less than happy with maillog being flooded with: Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (dkelly) Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Error: Input/output error Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Check for proper operation and configuration Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd). Also MacOS X Mail.app often has connection problems. Suspect that problem has something to do with mutt modifying my Maildir between Mail.app connections as once Mail.app has a good connection it stays good. OTOH procmail delivers to my Maildir INBOX which isn't much different than what I do with mutt. Never seen these problems. IIRC, there was a thread about error messages coming from famd several months ago. As I understand the message, it's just a famd config issue, but I don't know for sure. I use procmail to pipe through SpamAssassin (spamd) and do some other sorting before delivering to maildirs, but I never have connection problems (unless I forget to recheck configs after upgrading the courier auth package). Of course, I haven't talked my wife into letting me buy that PowerBook yet . . . Courier-imap has been running flawlessly for me for around 3 years. I understand it can handle several hundreds (or thousands) of times more load than I can give it. It's not idiot proof, but running a mail server really shouldn't be, don't you think? Lou I also use courier-imap which just sit's back and does it's job nicely. Can I ask to take a look at your .procmailrc as I've had some issue's with procmail not filtering my mail into the inbox's properly (all over folder's were find thou) Cheers - -- ++ | | Glyn Tebbutt | | +--+ | www: http://www.plasticmongoose.com| | GPG: http://www.plasticmongoose.com/d3c3it/misc/d3c3it.gpg | | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | Damn you, vile woman! You've impeded my work since the| | day I escaped from your wretched womb. - Stewie Griffin| ++ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDB0luMmCtbXGg1+4RAt0NAKDyhNKpx/ptkxXHYohxRojnYJZDkgCbB1lP CzF2pF6IeYsG6yyX6MkKgYA= =v8Hg -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
I recommend Courier IMAP, largely for it's easy mysql database support. - Original Message - From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 2:27 PM Subject: IMAP Server suggestions It's been a while since I've set up an IMAP server, but I would like to do so again. Can anybody recommend which IMAP server to install? Any suggestions on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! tdh -- +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | UIN: 17021091 -- AIM: tdh004 -ooO--(_)--Ooo--+- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACID documentation
--On August 20, 2005 11:47:55 AM +0300 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to setting-up my freebsd box with ACID - snort , mysql, apache+php and i want to help me with some links with good documentation. i have freebsd FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE Dump ACID and use BASE instead. ACID is no longer being actively developed. BASE is based upon the codebase of ACID but is under active development and performs much better than ACID ever did. BASE is in security/base, and the website is secureideas.sourceforge.net. I have requested that ACID be deprecated and removed from ports. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
On 08/20/05 04:17 PM, Glyn Tebbutt sat at the `puter and typed:
Louis LeBlanc wrote:
On 08/20/05 08:00 AM, David Kelly sat at the `puter and typed:
On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
I run courier-imap, works really well for me.
I'm reading this thread because courier-imap works but I'm less than
happy with maillog being flooded with:
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Failed to create cache file:
maildirwatch (dkelly)
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Error: Input/output error
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Check for proper operation and
configuration
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd).
Also MacOS X Mail.app often has connection problems. Suspect that
problem has something to do with mutt modifying my Maildir between
Mail.app connections as once Mail.app has a good connection it stays
good. OTOH procmail delivers to my Maildir INBOX which isn't much
different than what I do with mutt.
Never seen these problems. IIRC, there was a thread about error
messages coming from famd several months ago. As I understand the
message, it's just a famd config issue, but I don't know for sure.
I use procmail to pipe through SpamAssassin (spamd) and do some other
sorting before delivering to maildirs, but I never have connection
problems (unless I forget to recheck configs after upgrading the
courier auth package). Of course, I haven't talked my wife into
letting me buy that PowerBook yet . . .
Courier-imap has been running flawlessly for me for around 3 years. I
understand it can handle several hundreds (or thousands) of times more
load than I can give it. It's not idiot proof, but running a mail
server really shouldn't be, don't you think?
Lou
I also use courier-imap which just sit's back and does it's job nicely.
Can I ask to take a look at your .procmailrc as I've had some issue's
with procmail not filtering my mail into the inbox's properly (all over
folder's were find thou)
Cheers
No problem. You'll find it attached. Hopefully the commentary is
clear enough what my intention is.
Lou
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FOLDER = $1
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/cyrus/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/include:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:.
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/.Maildir
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail_log
DEFAULT=$HOME/.Maildir
# VERBOSE=on
VERBOSE=off
LOGABSTRACT=all
NL=
TIMEOUT=1200
VIRDIR=$MAILDIR/.virus
NIGDIR=$MAILDIR/.spam
PORNDIR=$MAILDIR/.spam
# Need to remove the bogus 'From ' header if it's there.
:0hfw
| formail -I From
#
##NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE ON YOUR OWN##
#
# Place any antispam or other filtering recipes here.
# Don't write to files or pipe to programs unless you
# are ABSOLUTELY SURE you know what you are doing!
:0
* $ ^To:.*add2list
{
# whitelist - subject with add2white [EMAIL PROTECTED] will add the email
# address to my SA whiltelist. Make sure the whitelistpasswd is in the body.
:0
* ^Subject:.*add2white[]*\/[^ ].+
{
ADDR=$MATCH
:0Bi:whitelist.lck
* ^whitelistpasswd
|nice -n 20 spamassassin --add-addr-to-whitelist=$ADDR
:0
/dev/null
}
# blacklist - subject with add2black [EMAIL PROTECTED] will add the email
# address to my SA blacklist. Make sure the whitelistpasswd is in the body.
:0
* ^Subject:.*add2black[]*\/[^ ].+
{
ADDR=$MATCH
:0Bi:blacklist.lck
* ^whitelistpasswd
|nice -n 20 spamassassin --add-addr-to-blacklist=$ADDR
:0
/dev/null
}
}
# I have many honeypot addresses which I seeed into newsgroups when I'm
# bored. They are all aliased to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This catches
# them and automagically teaches them to the bayes db. Make sure any posting
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# what is done with messages recieved.
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* FOLDER ?? ^^trap^^
{
# VERBOSE=off
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LOGFILE=$HOME/.honeypot_hits
LOG=.
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail_log
# VERBOSE=on
# Report spam
:0c:honeypot.lock
| nice -n 20 /usr/local/bin/spamassassin -r
:0:salearn.lock
| nice -n 20 /usr/local/bin/sa-learn --spam --no-rebuild
:0
/dev/null
}
# VERBOSE=on
# Check for some obvious virii - YAVR adaptations
# this never gets anything since I installed clamav and f-prot
INCLUDERC=/usr/local/etc/mail/procmail/nkvir-rc
# VERBOSE=off
# If the message isn't too big, hasn't already been scanned, and isn't a direct
# dump, scan it.
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Re: IMAP Server suggestions
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Louis LeBlanc wrote:
On 08/20/05 04:17 PM, Glyn Tebbutt sat at the `puter and typed:
Louis LeBlanc wrote:
On 08/20/05 08:00 AM, David Kelly sat at the `puter and typed:
On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
I run courier-imap, works really well for me.
I'm reading this thread because courier-imap works but I'm less than
happy with maillog being flooded with:
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Failed to create cache file:
maildirwatch (dkelly)
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Error: Input/output error
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: Check for proper operation and
configuration
Aug 20 07:41:12 Grumpy imapd: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd).
Also MacOS X Mail.app often has connection problems. Suspect that
problem has something to do with mutt modifying my Maildir between
Mail.app connections as once Mail.app has a good connection it stays
good. OTOH procmail delivers to my Maildir INBOX which isn't much
different than what I do with mutt.
Never seen these problems. IIRC, there was a thread about error
messages coming from famd several months ago. As I understand the
message, it's just a famd config issue, but I don't know for sure.
I use procmail to pipe through SpamAssassin (spamd) and do some other
sorting before delivering to maildirs, but I never have connection
problems (unless I forget to recheck configs after upgrading the
courier auth package). Of course, I haven't talked my wife into
letting me buy that PowerBook yet . . .
Courier-imap has been running flawlessly for me for around 3 years. I
understand it can handle several hundreds (or thousands) of times more
load than I can give it. It's not idiot proof, but running a mail
server really shouldn't be, don't you think?
Lou
I also use courier-imap which just sit's back and does it's job nicely.
Can I ask to take a look at your .procmailrc as I've had some issue's
with procmail not filtering my mail into the inbox's properly (all over
folder's were find thou)
Cheers
No problem. You'll find it attached. Hopefully the commentary is
clear enough what my intention is.
Lou
FOLDER = $1
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/cyrus/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/include:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:.
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/.Maildir
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail_log
DEFAULT=$HOME/.Maildir
# VERBOSE=on
VERBOSE=off
LOGABSTRACT=all
NL=
TIMEOUT=1200
VIRDIR=$MAILDIR/.virus
NIGDIR=$MAILDIR/.spam
PORNDIR=$MAILDIR/.spam
# Need to remove the bogus 'From ' header if it's there.
:0hfw
| formail -I From
#
##NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE ON YOUR OWN##
#
# Place any antispam or other filtering recipes here.
# Don't write to files or pipe to programs unless you
# are ABSOLUTELY SURE you know what you are doing!
:0
* $ ^To:.*add2list
{
# whitelist - subject with add2white [EMAIL PROTECTED] will add the email
# address to my SA whiltelist. Make sure the whitelistpasswd is in the body.
:0
* ^Subject:.*add2white[]*\/[^ ].+
{
ADDR=$MATCH
:0Bi:whitelist.lck
* ^whitelistpasswd
|nice -n 20 spamassassin --add-addr-to-whitelist=$ADDR
:0
/dev/null
}
# blacklist - subject with add2black [EMAIL PROTECTED] will add the email
# address to my SA blacklist. Make sure the whitelistpasswd is in the body.
:0
* ^Subject:.*add2black[]*\/[^ ].+
{
ADDR=$MATCH
:0Bi:blacklist.lck
* ^whitelistpasswd
|nice -n 20 spamassassin --add-addr-to-blacklist=$ADDR
:0
/dev/null
}
}
# I have many honeypot addresses which I seeed into newsgroups when I'm
# bored. They are all aliased to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This catches
# them and automagically teaches them to the bayes db. Make sure any posting
# is presented with a very clear warning that the address is a honeypot and
# what is done with messages recieved.
:0
* FOLDER ?? ^^trap^^
{
# VERBOSE=off
# ls -l ~/.honeypot_hits tells you how many you've caught
LOGFILE=$HOME/.honeypot_hits
LOG=.
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail_log
# VERBOSE=on
# Report spam
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# If the message isn't too big, hasn't already been scanned, and isn't a
direct
# dump, scan it. Also, don't scan anything from the SpamAssassin list, since
# it often includes tags that might skew my bayes DB.
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Re: Ntpd problems
This is my ntpd and i haven't got ipv6 connection but i want that ntpd uses ipv4 and not ipv4 and ipv6. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ntpd problems
In my rc.conf , i have that : xntpd_enable=YES xntpd_program=/usr/sbin/ntpd xntpd_flags=-p /var/run/ntpd.pid In ntp.conf , i have that : server 62.4.16.80 prefer server 195.220.94.163 server 134.214.100.6 driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift restrict 127.0.0.1 mask 255.255.0.0 nomodify notrap nopeer notrust restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix 2.1.5 sasl2 on 5.4
--On August 19, 2005 6:44:46 PM -0400 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up a new mailserver, config below, on a freebsd 5.4 box. I'm using chroot for the postfix processes and am going to introduce postfix-style virtual domains when i get sasl/tls working. Currently, i can connect, but authentication fails. I've got in my rc.conf lines starting postfix and sasl2 both installed from ports, i do not see my error, the sasl_flags is set to -a pam, i'm trying to authenticate against the system's master password file and am ensuring sasl2's state file is starting within the postfix chroot so postfix can access it. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Thanks. Dave. The only thing I see different in your setup from my (working) setup is the chroot. I would remove that and see if it works. If it does, then something is wrong with your jail. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ntpd problems
# ifconfig xl0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::20a:5eff:fe3e:ebf7%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:0a:5e:3e:eb:f7 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active vr0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::205:5dff:fe64:5a87%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:05:5d:64:5a:87 media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active vr1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.3.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255 inet6 fe80::205:5dff:fea2:98ef%vr1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ether 00:05:5d:a2:98:ef media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 pfsync0: flags=0 mtu 2020 pflog0: flags=141UP,RUNNING,PROMISC mtu 33208 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1492 inet6 fe80::20a:5eff:fe3e:ebf7%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 inet 62.212.96.206 -- 62.4.16.246 netmask 0x Opened by PID 272 tap0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::2bd:41ff:fe06:0%tap0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 ether 00:bd:41:06:00:00 Opened by PID 493 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ntpd problems
On 8/20/05, fire67 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello , i'm on freebsd 5.4 and i tried to configure ntpd but i have this problem : ntpd[546]: bind() fd 16, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:9::2bd:a0ff:fe08:0, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address Anyone knowns this problem ? I never was able to configure ntpd to run on FreeBSD 5.x. Thought that was a widely noticed bug but seems I was wrong. Anyway, now I am using ntpdate in the startup scripts and so far so good. -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements We live less by imagination than despite it - Rockwell Kent, N by E ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ntpd problems
At 12:37 PM 8/20/2005, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 8/20/05, fire67 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello , i'm on freebsd 5.4 and i tried to configure ntpd but i have this problem : ntpd[546]: bind() fd 16, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:9::2bd:a0ff:fe08:0, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address Anyone knowns this problem ? I never was able to configure ntpd to run on FreeBSD 5.x. Thought that was a widely noticed bug but seems I was wrong. Anyway, now I am using ntpdate in the startup scripts and so far so good. I've got ntpd running under 5.4 without any problems, but my config is very simple. Below is the configuration I use, maybe it'll help, maybe it won't. ntp.conf: server 217.204.76.170 server 64.112.189.11 server 66.69.112.130 server 66.187.233.4 server 80.85.129.25 server 80.237.234.15 server 130.60.7.44 server 134.99.176.3 server 198.144.202.250 server 202.74.170.194 server 204.17.42.199 server 204.87.183.6 server 213.15.3.1 server 213.239.178.33 server 217.114.97.97 clientlimit 100 and in rc.conf: ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_flags=-A -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift If you don't want just anyone to be able to connect, drop the -A from the flags. -Glenn -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements We live less by imagination than despite it - Rockwell Kent, N by E ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?
People, Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s) to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week) in both ASCII and HTML to people who subscribe to my list from my website. I can certainly cobble together the cgi/perl or php code that gets a person's email; I might as well use majordomo or mailman, for the list management. But what then? Specifically, I want to mail out a brief, neatly formatted file that might be (in html). E.g: CENTER Existence precedes essense P ALIGN=right -- J-P. Sartre /CENTER I would like to include a small graphic at the bottom of my html file. Maybe this is overkill. At any rate, the file would have to be readable by non-GUI mail programs as well. (Like mutt/elm/Mail). I created test files and read them with evolution and mutt. nO luck. The tests were fully html-complient, but showed up in raw/source mode... so it's time to ask the experts. [[ I did google around but didn't find anything that looked like what I want. So any help will be greatly appreciated! ]] thanks for help or pointers to help, c., gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?
At 01:08 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: People, Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s) to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week) in both ASCII and HTML to people who subscribe to my list from my website. I can certainly cobble together the cgi/perl or php code that gets a person's email; I might as well use majordomo or mailman, for the list management. But what then? Specifically, I want to mail out a brief, neatly formatted file that might be (in html). E.g: CENTER Existence precedes essense P ALIGN=right -- J-P. Sartre /CENTER I would like to include a small graphic at the bottom of my html file. Maybe this is overkill. At any rate, the file would have to be readable by non-GUI mail programs as well. (Like mutt/elm/Mail). I created test files and read them with evolution and mutt. nO luck. The tests were fully html-complient, but showed up in raw/source mode... so it's time to ask the experts. [[ I did google around but didn't find anything that looked like what I want. So any help will be greatly appreciated! ]] thanks for help or pointers to help, c., You could MIME encode it. Make the first part text/plain and the second part text/html. -Glenn gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need some Help
Currently have a not too successful install of FBSD 5.4. Tried both XFree and Xorg for a GUI to replace my obsolete earlier installs for Qmail, Apache Web, DNS and X-Windows. Looking for some budget tech assist at getting X-Windows on a computer here in Ventura County, CA. Any takers? AMD Sempron, native VGA, little luck except with Win2K (ughhh) and Knoppix. -- Ev Batey -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805 340-6471 / 800 545-6998 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need some Help
Currently have a not too successful install of FBSD 5.4. Tried both XFree and Xorg for a GUI to replace my obsolete earlier installs for Qmail, Apache Web, DNS and X-Windows. -- cut -- AMD Sempron, native VGA, little luck except with Win2K (ughhh) and Knoppix. whenever i have problems with configuring X i take a knoppix-3.8-cdrom, boot it, and then save the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, copy it to my FreeBSD (5.x or 6.x) as /etc/X11/xorg.conf comment out the line # Option XkbRules xfree86 change the mouse-section into this : Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/sysmouse Option Protocol SysMouse # OptionEmulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 and ... that always does it! :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:40:38PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 01:08 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: People, Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s) to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week) in both ASCII and HTML to people who subscribe to my list from my website. I can certainly cobble together the cgi/perl or php code that gets a person's email; I might as well use majordomo or mailman, for the list management. But what then? Specifically, I want to mail out a brief, neatly formatted file that might be (in html). E.g: CENTER Existence precedes essense P ALIGN=right -- J-P. Sartre /CENTER I would like to include a small graphic at the bottom of my html file. Maybe this is overkill. At any rate, the file would have to be readable by non-GUI mail programs as well. (Like mutt/elm/Mail). I created test files and read them with evolution and mutt. nO luck. The tests were fully html-complient, but showed up in raw/source mode... so it's time to ask the experts. [[ I did google around but didn't find anything that looked like what I want. So any help will be greatly appreciated! ]] thanks for help or pointers to help, c., You could MIME encode it. Make the first part text/plain and the second part text/html. Are there any mime-encoding utilities? or is this something you just learn how to do? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ACID documentation
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carstea Catalin Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 1:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ACID documentation I want to setting-up my freebsd box with ACID - snort , mysql, apache+php and i want to help me with some links with good documentation. i have freebsd FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___ I believe ACID is no longer being maintained. It has been replaced by BASE. Google for BASE MYSQL SNORT APACHE and you'll get several HowTo's. The only tricky part is getting mysql to work correctly, and you might want to get good at that first. I'd also recommend a dedicated machine, upgraded to 5.4. -gayn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to capture screen dump
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Ryan Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:49 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to capture screen dump Hi All Is there anyway I can capture the screen dump mentioned below to help with de-bugging... We have a microstar model ms9211 1ru server with p4 1.3 512mb ram... Mobo ms 9129 Ver 1 It boots all other cd's inc many other os's inc freeBSD 4.10 [ which was running fine for a long time on this box ] With 5.4 it doesn't even boot the CD WB Fasttrack lite Bios 2.00.1030.27 Scans ide drives etc etc and starts all normally until the boot from CD:. Btloader starts I think [ very quick before panic] then screen dumps..looks like int 000d err I have run this with hyper threading enabled and disabled. Any suggestions Thanks in advance Cheers Chris Hi Chris, If you've checked the following: 1. CD is readable and has the right bits 2. It boots on another machine Then I'd use a digital camera to record the screen and ship the .jpg with a problem report. -gayn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD and projects for kids
I'm building a PC with my 10 year old niece. Actually we are building several PC's out of junk parts that we have laying around the office. We are trying various OS's, including FreeBSD, on them. We are trying to get various devices to work: printers, scanners, sound cards, microphones, video boards, etc. We're having fun (so far, at least.) She's learning a lot. I've been looking around for a web site (or two) for young girls interested in computers. I came across LinuxChix.org (and its defunct special interest group BSDchix.) It has plenty of female role models, but, like FreeBSD-questions, it is a little too advanced for my niece. Googling a bit hasn't hit any gold mines for her. But see below. Thus my questions: any ideas for very elementary reading on computers for a 10 year old? Any ideas for an appropriate web site for her? Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?Can anyone advise me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports? Other advice/ideas? TIA, -gayn P.s. found: http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/computer/lesson.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids
On 8/18/05, Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus my questions: any ideas for very elementary reading on computers for a 10 year old? Any ideas for an appropriate web site for her? Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?Can anyone advise me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports? Other advice/ideas? Not sure if you wanted to get her started on programming, but if so you might check out http://www.squeakland.org/ Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any mime-encoding utilities? or is this something you just learn how to do? metasend in the mail/metamail port should do the trick. /David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?
At 03:01 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:40:38PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 01:08 PM 8/20/2005, Gary Kline wrote: People, Can any one on-list clue me in on what kind of file(s) to create that will let me mail one file a day (or week) in both ASCII and HTML to people who subscribe to my list from my website. I can certainly cobble together the cgi/perl or php code that gets a person's email; I might as well use majordomo or mailman, for the list management. But what then? Specifically, I want to mail out a brief, neatly formatted file that might be (in html). E.g: CENTER Existence precedes essense P ALIGN=right -- J-P. Sartre /CENTER I would like to include a small graphic at the bottom of my html file. Maybe this is overkill. At any rate, the file would have to be readable by non-GUI mail programs as well. (Like mutt/elm/Mail). I created test files and read them with evolution and mutt. nO luck. The tests were fully html-complient, but showed up in raw/source mode... so it's time to ask the experts. [[ I did google around but didn't find anything that looked like what I want. So any help will be greatly appreciated! ]] thanks for help or pointers to help, c., You could MIME encode it. Make the first part text/plain and the second part text/html. Are there any mime-encoding utilities? or is this something you just learn how to do? There's a variety of utilities in /usr/ports/mail. There's also libraries for a variety of languages. -Glenn gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix --- was it the same cat? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD and projects for kids
I'm building a PC with my 10 year old niece. Actually we are building several PC's out of junk parts that we have laying around the office. We are trying various OS's, including FreeBSD, on them. We are trying to get various devices to work: printers, scanners, sound cards, microphones, video boards, etc. We're having fun (so far, at least.) She's learning a lot. I've been looking around for a web site (or two) for young girls interested in computers. I came across LinuxChix.org (and its defunct special interest group BSDchix.) It has plenty of female role models, but, like FreeBSD-questions, it is a little too advanced for my niece. Googling a bit hasn't hit any gold mines for her. But see below. Thus my questions: any ideas for very elementary reading on computers for a 10 year old? Any ideas for an appropriate web site for her? Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?Can anyone advise me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports? Other advice/ideas/pointers? TIA, -gayn P.s. found: http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/computer/lesson.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids
Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS? PicoBSD is almost certainly not what you're looking for. All of the useful PicoBSD documentation is pretty-much in the manpage and in a few files under /usr/src/release/picobsd/; it's just a way of building a FreeBSD OS that is stripped way down. Can anyone advise me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports? With X and the lang/python port, the games/pysol port has a many dozens of solitare card games that I would have liked at 10, but it might not do much for today's kids. And games/scrabble is about the only other one I've tried except xboing which would be fun but no longer works for me. games/xbill could be considered educational, I suppose. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:12:12 -0700 Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a PC with my 10 year old niece. Actually we are building several PC's out of junk parts that we have laying around the office. We are trying various OS's, including FreeBSD, on them. We are trying to get various devices to work: printers, scanners, sound cards, microphones, video boards, etc. We're having fun (so far, at least.) She's learning a lot. I've been looking around for a web site (or two) for young girls interested in computers. I came across LinuxChix.org (and its defunct special interest group BSDchix.) It has plenty of female role models, but, like FreeBSD-questions, it is a little too advanced for my niece. Googling a bit hasn't hit any gold mines for her. But see below. Thus my questions: any ideas for very elementary reading on computers for a 10 year old? Any ideas for an appropriate web site for her? Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?Can anyone advise me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports? Other advice/ ideas? TIA, -gayn P.s. found: http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/computer/lesson.html My grandson found the various chess games interesting, especially the 3D, rotatable boards. You could also use the computer to host bulletin boards or chat rooms that she and her friends could use. The advantage here is that you could control membership and monitor the environment to keep it safe. If she's interested, she could learn the ropes of being a moderator. Would she like her own blog? Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the best way to set up an ASCII and HTML maillist list?
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:35:32AM +0200, David Israelsson wrote: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any mime-encoding utilities? or is this something you just learn how to do? metasend in the mail/metamail port should do the trick. oUtstanding! Thanks, you've cleared up a lot other questions. I do have the mailman port working for my library/writing group, but MIME (ick), blackbox. Just one more thing, David, that you may know of-- if not, then somebody else on the list. Can I include a small graphic (IMG SRC=sartre.jpg) in the html mail? When people email photos I have to quit mutt, bring up evolution and then click on some display icon. What I'd like to do is have the icon just-appear at top or bottom of message. No mouse-clickng required. If the user//receient has to click to see my icon/picture/graphic, I'll drop it :) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
User admin question..
Hey guys I orgionally created my account with a username called greed. as root I ran chpass and changed my username from a lowercase g to an uppcase G so its not Greed. I rebooted and loged in and my prompt still shows me as a lowercase g. logging in with both a lower case g and uppercaser g works -- and this bugs me I checked my /etc/password file and it shows both greed's upper and lower case with all the same info..UID's..shell..ect.. How can I change this i can only use the uppercase Greed and how can I get it to show this in my prompt..along with not allowing me to log in with a lower case g.. Thakns ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids
| I'm building a PC with my 10 year old niece. Actually we are building | several PC's out of junk parts that we have laying around the office. | We are trying various OS's, including FreeBSD, on them. We are trying to | get various devices to work: printers, scanners, sound cards, | microphones, video boards, etc. We're having fun (so far, at least.) | She's learning a lot. | | I've been looking around for a web site (or two) for young girls | interested in computers. I came across LinuxChix.org (and its defunct | special interest group BSDchix.) It has plenty of female role models, | but, like FreeBSD-questions, it is a little too advanced for my niece. | Googling a bit hasn't hit any gold mines for her. But see below. | | Thus my questions: any ideas for very elementary reading on computers | for a 10 year old? Any ideas for an appropriate web site for her? | Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?Can anyone advise | me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before there are interesting | games for 10 year olds in the games ports? Other advice/ideas? | | TIA, | | -gayn | | P.s. found: | http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/computer/lesson.html | | | ___ | freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] `--- There are some decent games in the ports list. SuperTux isn't bad. It's a lot like Super Mario 3, can be pretty fun. I've played it with a keyboard, but it would be ideal with a controller. There's a network Monopoly game that I've played with my sister on rainy days that can be fun. There's of course Free Civ, though not so sure a 10 year old might enjoy. Frozen-Bubble is a lot of fun. A SDL game that FreeBSD should be able to handle. KDE has some games in their kdegames package that can be entertaining. There are a few network tetris or network tetris like games. Somebody else mentioned an IRC server or the like. Would be good for her and friends. Could even let other parents know about it, and they could use it for help on homework and the like. And I'm sure there's somebody around here that plays 3D accelerated games in FreeBSD that might offer up some info as well. I hope you find something that can capture her interests. And if you find something, put something together. I'm sure there are a number of parents and aunts and uncles that could benefit from what you find out. Good luck, I hope it goes well. tdh -- +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | UIN: 17021091 -- AIM: tdh004 -ooO--(_)--Ooo--+- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User admin question..
At 05:51 PM 8/20/2005, Eric Murphy wrote: Hey guys I orgionally created my account with a username called greed. as root I ran chpass and changed my username from a lowercase g to an uppcase G so its not Greed. I rebooted and loged in and my prompt still shows me as a lowercase g. logging in with both a lower case g and uppercaser g works -- and this bugs me I checked my /etc/password file and it shows both greed's upper and lower case with all the same info..UID's..shell..ect.. How can I change this i can only use the uppercase Greed and how can I get it to show this in my prompt..along with not allowing me to log in with a lower case g.. Use vipw and remove the lowercase version from your password file. -Glenn Thakns ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
External Modem Speaker
Hello everyone, Just wondered if there's a way to run my external modem without the speaker? It doesn't have a switch on it or anything, thought their might be a ppp command or FreeBSD command or something? Thanks Gareth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User admin question..
| At 05:51 PM 8/20/2005, Eric Murphy wrote: | | Use vipw and remove the lowercase version from your password file. Make sure you edit /etc/group as well. So your group won't be missing now that you've changed your userID. There used to be a vigr, but that's been done away with, so just edit it in whatever editor you like. | -Glenn | ___ | freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] `--- tdh -- +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | UIN: 17021091 -- AIM: tdh004 -ooO--(_)--Ooo--+- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package Names: gls import
I'm trying to get the command import and gls installed. I just recently installed 5.4, and can't remember which package gave me gls, along with some other GNU tools. I know there's gnuls, but the package I found had a number of basic GNU tools, and gls was amoung them. The other command is import. I've done a make search key=search for both gls and import and have gotten a lot of things that don't seem to be what I'm looking for. Can anybody possibley tell me which packages those commands reside in? Thanks for the help! tdh -- +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | UIN: 17021091 -- AIM: tdh004 -ooO--(_)--Ooo--+- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External Modem Speaker
At 06:07 PM 8/20/2005, Gareth Campbell wrote: Hello everyone, Just wondered if there's a way to run my external modem without the speaker? It doesn't have a switch on it or anything, thought their might be a ppp command or FreeBSD command or something? If it's a typical hayes compatible modem, send it atm0 to shut the speaker off, then send atw0 to save the setting. To send those commands to the modem you can use tip, or cu, or whatever you prefer. -Glenn Thanks Gareth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP Server suggestions
On 08/20/05 06:51 PM, Glyn Tebbutt sat at the `puter and typed: Louis LeBlanc wrote: SNIP That's great thanks very much Very extensive :) I hope you find it useful. That rc has taken me years to tweak out - it used to deliver mail to Cyrus mailboxes until I moved to Courier 2 or 3 years ago. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 design, v.: What you regret not doing later on. pgprAZ07dEMYA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: problems mounting a DVD
David Syphers wrote: On Friday 19 August 2005 08:57 pm, Roshan wrote: On 8/19/05, David Syphers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a DVD+RW disc on my DVD-ROM drive, and not succeeding. Trying either 'mount_cd9660 /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' or 'mount -t udf /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' results in an 'Input/output error'. I've never tried mounting DVDs on this drive before, but I play DVD movies on it all the time, so I assume the problem has something to do with file systems. Any ideas? Thanks, -David What does dmesg show at bootup ? I should have mentioned: acd1: DVDROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502/1816 at ata1-slave UDMA33 and FreeBSD yggdrasil.seektruth.org 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 27 20:38:09 PDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YGGDRASIL i386 -David DVD movies do not need to be mounted; only data DVDs. Also, the majority of data DVDs are in UDF format, so make sure that you can mount UDF files. See if you can increase the verbosity of the mount at all. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
searching ports doesn work
Hi folks, well, I have just installed freebsd 4.11 . Then, I read through the freebsd handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-finding-applications.html the siete above explains how to search for ports. So, I went to /usr/ports and did make search lsof I get a notcie that says something of generating INDEX, please wait. And I waited, and waited..an well. After 3 cups of coffee I had 2 problems. First, I was toxicated with coffee *G* and my little bsd still said:...Pleas wait. running top showed me that the shell running make was waiting ...but waiting for what? Well, I then kille the process and tried again, without any luck. Can anyone help me with this issue? I would like to know, why this does not work or what I maybe did wrong. -- Thank you Marcel Lautenbach mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching ports doesn work
I think you did what I did. and it does take a while. There's a much easier and faster way to do this if you're online. I wasn't at the time, so I had to build it manually. When you do the make search keyblah and there isn't a /usr/ports/INDEX5 it builds one. I ~think~ it basically looks at all packages finds out info about it, and then builds the index. However if you download it, it's faster. make fetchindex Do that in /usr/ports and it will download the INDEX5, put it in /usr/ports and now when you type make seach key=blah it will have that to search. I think it took my PII 400 36 hours to build it's INDEX5. Poor machine. tdh | Hi folks, | | well, I have just installed freebsd 4.11 . Then, I read through the | freebsd handbook. | | http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-finding-applications.html | | the siete above explains how to search for ports. So, I went to | /usr/ports and did make search lsof | | I get a notcie that says something of generating INDEX, please | wait. | | And I waited, and waited..an well. After 3 cups of coffee I | had 2 problems. First, I was toxicated with coffee *G* and my little | bsd still said:...Pleas wait. | | running top showed me that the shell running make was waiting | ...but waiting for what? | | Well, I then kille the process and tried again, without any luck. | | Can anyone help me with this issue? I would like to know, why this | does not work or what I maybe did wrong. | | -- | Thank you | Marcel Lautenbach | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ___ | freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] `--- -- +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | UIN: 17021091 -- AIM: tdh004 -ooO--(_)--Ooo--+- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching ports doesn work
Marcel Lautenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/ports and did make search lsof Current handbook says make search name=lsof or make search name=lsof. I get a notcie that says something of generating INDEX, please wait. Looks like it just did make which is make index. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FireFox Thunderbird Hand on 5.4-RELEASE when dealing with files
Hi all, I've got a stock version of 5.4-RELEASE installed from the CDs using the GENERIC kernel. uname -a 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I've tried both the prebuilt package version of firefox and the lastest port version. port version: 1.0.6 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050815 I've only tried the package version for thunderbird. pkg version: 1.0.2 (20050404) I read somewhere that this is due to NFS mounted file systems and stat calls. I unmounted all but / /usr /tmp and /var which are all local. I unistalled _ALL_ extensions for firefox and thunderbird. So basically when ever I click a link in Firefox that is a download or view an email with attachments in thunderbird, they both hang in state kserel at least according to top. To the point that I have to crash or kill -9 them. I don't get this on a 7.0-current system w/ custom kernel I have, but I don't know how much I can compare the too. I'ved tried strace, ptrace, truss, trace, and ktrace/kdump. None of them show anything useful. Here is a ls /var/db/pkg [attached] not that I think its related to other packages. Yes, I know I have a lot installed. Thanks in advance. -- END What doesn't kill us can only make us stronger. Nothing is impossible. Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 301.254.5198 Consultant / http://p6m7g8.net/Resume/ Senior Developer / Liquidity Services, Inc. http://www.liquidityservicesinc.com http://www.liquidation.com http://www.uksurplus.com http://www.govliquidation.com http://www.gowholesale.com ./ ../ ORBit-0.5.17_2/ ORBit2-2.12.1_1/ OpenEXR-1.2.1_1/ WordNet-2.0/ aalib-1.4.r5_1/ abiword-2.2.5_2/ acroread7-7.0.0/ adns-1.1/ afterstep-2.00.00/ arts-1.4.0,1/ artswrapper-1.2.1_1/ asclock-1.0/ ascpu-1.9/ asfsm-1.0.p15/ asmem-1.10/ aspell-0.60.2/ aterm-0.4.2/ atk-1.9.1/ autoconf-2.59_2/ automake-1.9.6/ bison-1.75_2/ bitstream-vera-1.10_1/ boost-python-1.32.0_2/ cdparanoia-3.9.8_7/ cscope-15.5_1/ cups-base-1.1.23.0_3/ cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2/ cyrus-sasl-2.1.20_1/ db4-4.0.14_1,1/ db42-4.2.52_3/ desktop-file-utils-0.10_2/ docbook-sk-4.1.2_3/ docbook-xml-4.2_1/ docbook-xsl-1.68.1/ dri-6.2.1,2/ enchant-1.1.5_1/ esound-0.2.35_1/ etherape-0.9.1_6/ ethereal-0.10.10/ expat-1.95.8/ faces-1.7.7_5/ fam-2.6.9_6/ fftw3-3.0.1_4/ firefox-1.0.6_1,1/ flac-1.1.2/ fontconfig-2.2.3,1/ freetype2-2.1.9/ fribidi-0.10.4_1/ gaim-1.2.1/ gconf2-2.10.0/ gd-2.0.33_1,1/ gdbm-1.8.3_1/ gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0_3/ gettext-0.14.1/ ghostscript-gnu-7.07_12/ gimp-2.2.4_4,1/ gimp-print-4.2.7_1/ glib-1.2.10_11/ glib-2.6.3_1/ gmake-3.80_2/ gnome-icon-theme-2.10.0/ gnomehier-2.0_6/ gnomekeyring-0.4.2/ gnomemimedata-2.4.2/ gnomevfs2-2.10.0_1/ gnupg-1.4.0_1/ gnutls-1.0.24_1/ gpgme-1.0.2/ gsfonts-8.11_2/ gsm-1.0.10/ gtk-1.2.10_12/ gtk-2.6.4_1/ gtk-engines2-2.6.2/ gtkglarea-1.2.3/ gtkmm-2.2.12_3/ gtkspell2-2.0.10_1/ help2man-1.35.1/ hicolor-icon-theme-0.5/ host-991529/ howl-0.9.10/ imake-6.8.2/ intltool-0.34.1/ jackit-0.99.0/ jasper-1.701.0/ jpeg-6b_3/ lcms-1.14,1/ libIDL-0.8.5_1/ libXft-2.1.6_1/ libao-0.8.5/ libart_lgpl2-2.3.17/ libaudiofile-0.2.6/ libbonobo-2.8.1_1/ libbonoboui-2.8.1_2/ libcroco-0.6.0_1/ libexif-0.6.10/ libgcrypt-1.2.1/ libglade2-2.5.1_2/ libglut-6.0.1/ libgnome-2.10.0/ libgnomecanvas-2.10.0_1/ libgnomeui-2.10.0_1/ libgpg-error-1.0_1/ libgsf-1.11.1/ libiconv-1.9.2_1/ libidn-0.5.15/ libijs-0.35/ libmad-0.15.1b_1/ libmal-0.40/ libmikmod-3.1.11/ libmng-1.0.8/ libogg-1.1.2_1,3/ libpaper-1.1.14.3/ librsvg2-2.9.5_2/ libsamplerate-0.1.2/ libsigc++-1.2.7/ libsndfile-1.0.11/ libtheora-1.0.a4/ libtool-1.3.5_2/ libtool-1.5.18/ libungif-4.1.3/ libusb-0.1.7_1/ libvorbis-1.1.0_1,3/ libwmf-0.2.8.3/ libxml2-2.6.18/ libxslt-1.1.13/ linc-1.0.3_3/ linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_2/ linux-atk-1.2.0_3/ linux-expat-1.95.5_2/ linux-fontconfig-2.1_2/ linux-glib2-2.2.1_3/ linux-gtk2-2.2.1_5/ linux-jpeg-6b.15_4/ linux-pango-1.2.1_2/ linux-png-1.2.7_6/ linux-tiff-3.6.1_3/ linux_base-8-8.0_6/ lynx-ssl-2.8.5/ m4-1.4.1/ mDNSResponder-98_1/ mysql-administrator-1.0.22a/ mysql-client-4.1.10a/ mysql-server-4.1.10a/ mysqlcc-0.9.4/ nas-1.7/ ncftp-3.1.8/ neon-0.24.7/ net-snmp-5.2.1_1/ nspr-4.4.1_1/ nss-3.9.2/ ntop-3.1_1/ open-motif-2.2.3_1/ openldap-client-2.2.23/ openoffice-1.1.4_2/ openslp-1.0.11_1/ p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1/ p5-gettext-1.03/ pango-1.8.1/ pcre-5.0/ perl-5.8.6_2/ pilot-link-0.11.8_3/ pkgconfig-0.15.0_1/ png-1.2.8_1/ popt-1.7/ portaudio-18.1_2/ python-2.4_1/ qca-tls-1.0_1/ qmake-3.3.4/ qt-3.3.4/ rplay-3.3.2_2/ rpm-3.0.6_9/ rsync-2.6.3_1/ samba-libsmbclient-3.0.12_1/ scrollkeeper-0.3.14_1,1/ sdocbook-xml-4.1.2.5_2/ shared-mime-info-0.15_9/ speex-1.0.4_1,1/ startup-notification-0.8_1/ strace-4.5.1/ t1lib-5.0.1,1/ taglib-1.3.1/ tcl-8.4.7,1/ thunderbird-1.0.2_1/ tidy-2804_2/ tiff-3.7.1_2/
WinXP administration guide for unix guru
Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of /var/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf), where application data is stored, how printers, disks, etc are shared, how to book in fixit disk mode, how to backup/restore, how to configure swap space. And also questions like why XP is professional, etc. I know it's a bit off topic, but I'm having a hard time figuring the system to what's what in XP. Thanks, Kent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru
is this a joke? Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of /var/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf), where application data is stored, how printers, disks, etc are shared, how to book in fixit disk mode, how to backup/restore, how to configure swap space. And also questions like why XP is professional, etc. I know it's a bit off topic, but I'm having a hard time figuring the system to what's what in XP. Thanks, Kent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:09:52 +0300 Ovidiu Ene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a joke? Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of / var/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf), where application data is stored, how printers, disks, etc are shared, how to book in fixit disk mode, how to backup/restore, how to configure swap space. And also questions like why XP is professional, etc. I know it's a bit off topic, but I'm having a hard time figuring the system to what's what in XP. Thanks, Kent There are lots of WinXP administration books in the bookstores. Although there are several books for Windows users moving to Unix, I've not seen one for the other direction. There is an O'Reilly book called Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks. It may not help; but at least it has a cool title. ;-) Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems mounting a DVD
On Saturday 20 August 2005 06:32 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: David Syphers wrote: On Friday 19 August 2005 08:57 pm, Roshan wrote: On 8/19/05, David Syphers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a DVD+RW disc on my DVD-ROM drive, and not succeeding. Trying either 'mount_cd9660 /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' or 'mount -t udf /dev/acd1 /cdrom1' results in an 'Input/output error'. I've never tried mounting DVDs on this drive before, but I play DVD movies on it all the time, so I assume the problem has something to do with file systems. Any ideas? Thanks, -David What does dmesg show at bootup ? I should have mentioned: acd1: DVDROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502/1816 at ata1-slave UDMA33 and FreeBSD yggdrasil.seektruth.org 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 27 20:38:09 PDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YGGDRASIL i386 DVD movies do not need to be mounted; only data DVDs. Right, which is why I thought the problem is with file systems rather than the drive. Also, the majority of data DVDs are in UDF format, so make sure that you can mount UDF files. I should be able to. As I said, I'm running 5-STABLE, which has mount_udf. See if you can increase the verbosity of the mount at all. yggdrasil# mount_udf -v /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 mount_udf: /dev/acd1: Device busy yggdrasil# mount_udf -v /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 mount_udf: /dev/acd1: Input/output error It doesn't seem so, unfortunately. Are there tricks to get more verbosity? When I first put the disc in the access light flashes on and off for a while, and I get the 'Device busy' error during this time. After a while the access light just stays on and I get the I/O error. (With a CD or movie DVD, the access light will flash and then turn off until something is mounted/played.) -David -- What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? -Terry Pratchett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
