Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
- Original Message - From: User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:48 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? My point isn't that I *liked* binary-only drivers ... my point is that I'd rather a company like Adaptec to *at least* supply a binary driver if they require their specs to be closed, then provide *no means* for me to use Adaptec products ... No, that's not the way of Open Source. You cannot advocate binary only drivers for an open source OS, it is a slippery slope. What is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander. It is philosophy bankrupt to demand binary support without the source code. You gave Adaptec a good shot - you gave them a chance to keep supporting you. They failed. It isn't your fault for upgrading, and it isn't FBSD's fault for changing so the binary blob doesen't work right anymore. How many out there are *still* running 4.x on their servers and desktops, for similar fears? I usually go gradually on upgrading, so I'll see problems like this long before I've changed over any significant percent of my servers. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install 6.1-release through serial terminal?
Hello. I'm a blind user, and was wondering how to get 6.1-release to install over serial. I've tried everything - hitting option 6, space, boot -h cr, but nothing happens. unplugging the keyboard, nothing happens. hitting space and typing boot -h - nothing. This is using a cdrom disc1. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Tyler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail rejected
On 26 Jul Richard Collyer wrote: On Wed, July 26, 2006 8:37 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: All of a sudden mail to this list is rejected. My IP can't be found. It always was, so this is weird. I checked with a dig @large.world.ns and a few others and they all resolved my name / IP OK. I send this mail through my provider (which works). Anybody else experiencing this change in behaviour of the freebsd.org mailer ? Have you checked your e-mail server against blacklists? Its possible that it could be thinking that you are spammer? In your mail server logs are you getting any errors. They ususally include a reason for deferal or delay. I'm sorry for the fuss, but it turns out that my isp provider indeed had changed my IP without any warning (which they are allowed to do). In the last five years or so they only did that twice but I never lost contact to the internet. I guess they wiped out a whole segment of their network now to replace it by something else. Anyway, all's well again. Took some time for my MailhopRelay to pick up the changes, but as you can see, the mail flows again too. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cant get to my shell!
Hello everyone, I was trying to install linux-flashplugin7 and in the same time was trying to play with libmap.conf then suddenly my system crush! after reboot, i got this error message Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: When i hit enter this error comes /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by -sh /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by sh and it comes again to Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: and nothing works, i cannot get into my shell, i tried to use fixit from sysinstall by using the emergency shell, to delete libmap.conf (asuming its cuzing the problem) but from the emergency shell u cannot see that file, I tried to /bin/csh/ and its giving the same error, single user mode, safe mode, all the same, giving the same error!! tried to google it but no results. the only place i can get is the emergency shell, from fixit. any help? Thank you Marwan. _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vpn connection users+server
Thank you people, for the many ideas, that have been giving, im in process of testing it. Again, thanks for the ideas, hint and answer. thats why freebsd rocks, there is a complete army behind it. Marwan On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello everyone, Well, because really i didnot get an answer from the list regarding release internet access based on time+auth. SO I thought of the VPN connection, i'm on fbsd 6.1R acting as internet gateway, i dunt want the users to randmly share the internet Is it possible (and how to) create a vpn connection thats the user need to use to authnticate to the gateway server by a valid user/password then the server will allow this user to have the internet, is it possible? the handbook scenario is for two networks sides, Is it possible between a user and the gateway server? Please your answers is highly appreciated. Marwan _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
On 7/27/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Burying your head in the sand is a common method used by stupid people that have no answer to the truth. I don't blame you; you guys don't want your employers to know that you've wasted man 1000s of their dollars because you don't know the performance characteristics of the hardware you've recommended. It must be thoroughly embarrassing. [snip] I do agree with Danial that most USERS on this list are burying their heads in the sand on this issue. But I will point out that there isn't really any reason they shouldn't be. What the market wants is features, not speed. And that is what the FreeBSD developers are working on. Features over speed is generally the right equation, yes. But I think you're being too generous to Danial. The quote of his above was in direct response to my assertion that many people refuse to listen to him because he frequently engages in cheap demagogy[1]. He does, but he is also right on this performance point. The truth can always be wrapped more palatably, but I think one of the differences between a system administrator and a user is that a user can't deal with the truth unless it's spoon fed in the nursery, an administrator should be approaching it as a professional, which means ignoring the irrelevant cheap demagogery and ignoring their own preconceptions of how things are supposed to work, and paying attention to the kernels of truth. I have to sort through giant piles of horseshit every time I look at the latest Cisco sales and marketing dreck, to find out what might be important in one of their new products, this isn't any different. And frankly I find the saccherine cloying marketingspeak to be far more disgusting and offensive then the lame kindergarden flames that Danial has so far been able to come up with. His response? Another whole boatload of cheap demagogy, questioning the intelligence, aptitude and moral character of anyone who doesn't listen to him, by way of accusations that are wholly unsupported by facts. I could probably rest my case right there, but I think his perception (and yours) that people are not receptive to claims of FreeBSD performance problems is quite simply false. Every time a performance question is brought up, I see a flurry of calls for clarification and for the formulation of repeatable tests which are generally agreed to be an accurate gauge of the problem. Calling for testing is pretty much a way of excusing the claim. People including Danial, have done the testing in the past, posted the results, then had armchair quarterbacks pick apart the test methodology claiming the tests were done wrong, thus irrelevant. So why even bother doing it anymore. But, you asked for it, you got it: Machine #1: Compaq 1600R, FBSD 6.1 Pentium 3 550Mhz freebsd-cvs# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 1 17:23:18 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERICNOUSBNOFIRE Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (548.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA, CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 671088640 (640 MB) avail memory = 647458816 (617 MB) MPTable: COMPAQ PROLIANT ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8 ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-34 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: MPTable Host-PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 pci0: display, VGA at device 11.0 (no driver attached) pcib1: MPTable PCI-PCI bridge at device 13.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 tl0: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 Proliant port 0x3800-0x380f irq 30 at device 7.0 on pci1 miibus0: MII bus on tl0 nsphy0: DP83840 10/100 media interface on miibus0 nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto tlphy0: ThunderLAN 10baseT media interface on miibus0 tlphy0: 10base2/BNC, 10base5/AUI tl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:8b:f1:82:17 sym0: 875 port 0x3000-0x30ff mem
KDE graphical interface ver3
I am trying to install KDE to lauch athe graphical interface at start up. I am recieving the following errors X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Uable to fire up local display :0; disabling I have tried several variations to over for a several days trying get it to work. Any ideas based on the errors privided - Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help installing FreeBSD
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors are the better 80 conductor ones. Thanks John but how do I do that?? There are some pictures at the end of this article: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable80-c.html -- HTH, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Locate updatedb
Elijah Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running 6.1 fresh install one of my routines after installing is updating the locate database but I am getting errors and it is not fulling updating. locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027 locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027 You have paths that are over 1024 characters long. Tell updatedb not to use them (/etc/locate.rc exists for this). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs
Don't top-post, please. Rob Connon (Info) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The system completly locks up, attached keyboard is useless.. and as mentioned no errors.. the only pattern is tuesday/wednesday it freezes.. other days of the week it's fine under heavy load.. buildworlds are not a problem.. So you tried a debugging kernel and couldn't break to the debugger? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vr0 interface and VLAN tagging
Hi list, I'm trying to get a FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (running GENERIC kernel) to do vlan tagging. I want to have several 'vlan interfaces' that can talk to their local subnet and also use a default route. On the switch side of things I'm using a Cisco 3550 runing layer3 code, I've had this working before with a em driver (on another box) but my setup was a little different then so I'm pretty sure the switch isnt at fault? My rc.conf looks like: cloned_interfaces=vlan100 vlan200 vlan233 ifconfig_vr0=up ifconfig_vlan100=inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 100 vlandev vr0 ifconfig_vlan200=inet 192.168.200.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 200 vlandev vr0 ifconfig_vlan233=inet 10.233.233.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 233 vlandev vr0 ifconfig_vr0=inet 10.254.254.252 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt ull-duplex defaultrouter=10.254.254.254 and my switch config looks like this: interface FastEthernet0/12 switchport access vlan 254 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan 100,200,233 switchport mode trunk logging event trunk-status duplex full speed 100 end I'm getting to the point that the vlan interfaces (100,200,233) can talk to machines on their subnet but I cannot seem to ping anything on the 10.254.254.0/24 subnet (ip address applied to vr0 interface) or anythnig via the default route. If anyone can assist me I'd appreciate it, please contact me off list as I am not subscribed to -questions. Cheers, Will ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing windows XP at home.
I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are thousand answers to this question. Here's a quick URL which can help decide on which Window Manager one might use. It has a comprehensive list of many WM with descriptions and screenshots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
How many out there are *still* running 4.x on their servers and desktops, for similar fears? We still have some old Compaq ML530 machines running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p17. They provide essential web services, mainly authentication and MySQL databases. FreeBSD 5.x and 6.0 can't boot on this hardware because of ACPI related problems. I recently gave 6.1 a try and it works. The ACPI error is still there, but the system can bypass this problem and it runs fine. But since the services that the 4.x boxes provide are critical, I'm still not comfortable to switch them to 6.1. So for security reasons (4.x is getting old...) I've isolated the 4.x machines in their own DMZ. I'll wait for new hardware to replace these machines instead of upgrading them to another version of FreeBSD. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Replacing windows XP at home.
Thank you to everyone who gave me some ideas. That was a great help. It looks like I am going to need to install more then one WM and just figure out which one suits my needs the best. Thanks again. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Promise Technology RAID Controller
Hey all, I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology. I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew weather or not anyone knew if there exists a driver that works for FreeBSD. Many Thanks. --Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Calling for testing is pretty much a way of excusing the claim. People including Danial, have done the testing in the past, posted the results, then had armchair quarterbacks pick apart the test methodology claiming the tests were done wrong, thus irrelevant. So why even bother doing it anymore. No, testing is the only way to isolate the root cause and get it fixed. And there must be consensus that the testing methodology is in fact valid vs. the hypothesis. Without consensus on its validity, then yes, that test /is/ irrelevant and proves nothing. That's not a reason to forego pursuit of forming an accepted test methodology, and certainly not a reason to demonize those saying that a particular test is not valid. Saying so is just another hypothesis. I'm not saying there aren't problems (and I really don't think many others are either). I'm just saying that finding the root cause is not a simple matter, and that calling for consensus-approved tests and positing alternative theories isn't any kind of evasion, even if it seems on the face of it to question the very validity of the claim that there is a problem. Testing and the search for the real root cause actually must question the validity of the hypothesis and propose alternative explanations and tests. Otherwise the earth would still be flat, and we'd all be lucky to eat every day, much less work on computers! =) So, Occam's Razor just cuts and cuts and cuts, /because it has to/. Thus, anyone making a hypothesis has to be prepared to have umpteen other people attempt to shred all of their precious assumptions. Only assumptions that by consensus survive repeated attempts to shred them are actually considered to be valid. Trolls tend to cling to shredded assumptions as if they were still valid. They begin to regard the wielders of Occam's Razor as their enemies, and this causes conflict that is wholly unproductive. That's where the process really goes wrong in a big way, and the people who would be allies (in that they are in fact eager to test, isolate and fix any validated problem) will start to walk away. Shredded assumptions need to be abandoned and new testable assumptions need to be asserted. Then the shredding effort needs to start all over again. Lather, rinse, repeat until there is consensus that valid testing has in fact isolated the truth, because Occam's Razor just can't slice things any thinner. There is no other way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help installing FreeBSD
I'm sorry, I think I didn't explain it very well... When I choose the media type, a message is shown warning that '...this is the last chance... we can take no responsabillity. I hit 'ok' and then a message appears saying 'writing partitions...' and a few seconds later appears one message saying 'Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36' (sometimes the 'Command returned status 1'). I hit 'ok' and then appears: 'Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting'. And finally the last message I receive is 'Instalation completed with some errors. You may wish to scroll through...' At this point is where I press Alt+F2 and the errors (the WRITE_DMA errors) are shown. Is not necessary to press Alt+F2 but I read it somewhere. I hope you know now where do these errors are shown, if not please respond me again and I'll try to explain it better. By the way, I don't think is the checksum because I was trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 at first and the same error occured, but I will check the checksum, is just that... excuse my ignorance, but what is the checksum of my ISO image and how do I verify it Sorry I know that is a stupid question... As somebody already mentioned, it could very well be an issue with your hard drive - but the simplest thing to do is first verify that your ISO and, thus, your CDROM image aren't corrupt. A checksum is basically a value generated from a data file using some sort of calculation method (in this case, using an md5 hash). This value can then be later used to verify nothing has changed in the data file and that you have downloaded it with no errors. This is a common thing to see in the open source world. If you want more information on this, more can be found from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum . If you are downloading on a Windows machine, you can use the md5sum utility (download here http://www.etree.org/md5com.html ). Once you have the ISO file, you can simpy place both the md5sum.exe utility and ISO in the same directory and run it like so: C:\Documents and Settings\dstanford\Desktop*md5sum.exe 6.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso* This will generate a value which you can then compare with what the valueshould be, hereftp://ftp1.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/CHECKSUM.MD5. If the two values match up, then you know the downloaded file (ISO) is the same as the one on the server and that there were no errors while downloading. Good luck! -David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fortune Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Corrupt pkgdb
I am setting up a new system and ran a portupgrade -a. Unfortunately I also in my arrogance tried to run XDM while the portupgrade was running. Well to make a long story short I could not exit out of XDM and get back to my console and had to reboot the system. Now I get an error that my pkgdb is corrupt when I try to rerun the portupgrade. Is there a way to rebuild that DB or do I have to reinstall the whole OS? I don't know how that pkgdb gets created so I don't know if it is created during the install or when I installed portupgrade. Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
- Original Message - From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:36 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Calling for testing is pretty much a way of excusing the claim. People including Danial, have done the testing in the past, posted the results, then had armchair quarterbacks pick apart the test methodology claiming the tests were done wrong, thus irrelevant. So why even bother doing it anymore. No, YES. Calling for testing is bullcrap. If you want to refute a statement then do your own damn testing. testing is the only way to isolate the root cause and get it fixed. And there must be consensus that the testing methodology is in fact valid vs. the hypothesis. Without consensus on its validity, then yes, that test /is/ irrelevant and proves nothing. That's not a reason to forego pursuit of forming an accepted test methodology, and certainly not a reason to demonize those saying that a particular test is not valid. Saying so is just another hypothesis. The above paragraph is all true. Your attaching a true paragraph to a false no with a comma in order to imbue a false statement (your no) with truthfulness. Basic debating tactic. I'm not saying there aren't problems (and I really don't think many others are either). OK, now your negating everything you just said? I'm just saying that finding the root cause is not a simple matter, I never said it was. and that calling for consensus-approved tests and positing alternative theories isn't any kind of evasion, even if it seems on the face of it to question the very validity of the claim that there is a problem. It is an evasion if all your doing is calling for testing and not doing even some very basic basic testing - like I did - to attempt to refute or support the statement. Testing and the search for the real root cause actually must question the validity of the hypothesis and propose alternative explanations and tests. Otherwise the earth would still be flat, and we'd all be lucky to eat every day, much less work on computers! =) Testing and the search for the root cause doesen't question the validity of the hypothesis, why don't you understand this? testing RESULTS are what question or support the validity of the hypothesis. Until you start doing the research, gathering facts, then your just blowing air up someone's ass. So, Occam's Razor just cuts and cuts and cuts, /because it has to/. Thus, anyone making a hypothesis has to be prepared to have umpteen other people attempt to shred all of their precious assumptions. Which they do by - what? Posting test results as I have done. Not by just lazily calling for test results Only assumptions that by consensus survive repeated attempts to shred them are actually considered to be valid. Trolls tend to cling to shredded assumptions as if they were still valid. They begin to regard the wielders of Occam's Razor as their enemies, and this causes conflict that is wholly unproductive. That's where the process really goes wrong in a big way, and the people who would be allies (in that they are in fact eager to test, isolate and fix any validated problem) will start to walk away. If they aren't interested in testing they are idiots. If a troll makes a claim like the newer versions of freeBSd are slower, and all these people who would be allies as you term them, already have test results they have made that prove the opposite, then it is fine for them to walk away. But, in this case, they don't. They just are walking away because they don't like the message or how it's presented. Shredded assumptions need to be abandoned and new testable assumptions need to be asserted. Then the shredding effort needs to start all over again. Lather, rinse, repeat until there is consensus that valid testing has in fact isolated the truth, because Occam's Razor just can't slice things any thinner. There is no other way. Fine, then start by shredding the assumption that the newer versions of FreeBSD are faster. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
On 7/27/06, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-07-26 18:59, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: Do you see that if support in 4.x had been based on open specs from Adaptec that this issue would not exist? Adaptec is controlling your ability to use their product, and that's the real problem. It's consumer-hostile, unless you fit their perfect picture of consumer. You don't, so you're left in the cold. I think you are missing the point here. It is 'THEIR PRODUCT'. They can do with it as they wish. If you are unhappy with their product, then don't use it. Darrin is not missing the point. He is just making a different point, which is (for many people, including me) quite valid. Most corporation are primarily interested in profits. Nothing wrong with that. I like making money, as I assume you do. Obviously they have weight the cost of producing FSBD compatible products and concluded that it would not be profitable to do so. Unless you could produce enough evidence to show them otherwise, I fear that you are simply beating a dead horse here. If the technical specifications are open, there is *zero* support cost for the hardware vendor. They don't even _have_ to make a driver for their hardware. What they *can* do though is reply to requests for an open source driver with: ``Piss off! We have you the technical specs, so you can write your own. Our development and support costs would not be justified, but here's the spec... give it your best shot.'' *This* is the point Darrin is trying to make :) and if i may add, if they don't provide FreeBSD drivers for their products, its their loss, they won't earn anything from FreeBSD users coz we won't buy or stay away from their products. and i also think the reason they are discontinuing support for FreeBSD 6 onwards coz they feel we are just few and won't make a significant increase in their profit driven company, one way of making us heard is by letting them know how many we are, why not bombard them with request for support, IMO once they notice how many we are, i'm pretty sure they'll give in. just my 2 cents worth. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Corrupt pkgdb
On Thursday 27 July 2006 07:05, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am setting up a new system and ran a portupgrade -a. Unfortunately I also in my arrogance tried to run XDM while the portupgrade was running. Well to make a long story short I could not exit out of XDM and get back to my console and had to reboot the system. Now I get an error that my pkgdb is corrupt when I try to rerun the portupgrade. Is there a way to rebuild that DB or do I have to reinstall the whole OS? I don't know how that pkgdb gets created so I don't know if it is created during the install or when I installed portupgrade. Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis Just rm or mv /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and it will be rebuilt the next time you run portupgrade. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --- pgpJjrPfMjEIB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Configure postfix to forward to isp smtp server?
On 7/27/06, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Chris T. wrote: I am trying to create a home mail gateway. First thing is getting it to relay messages to my ISP as if I had connected directly to the isp in the first place. Set: relayhost = [mailserver.isp.net] ...in main.cf. That is without adding any information to headers to reveal that it went through my smtp server. It's a requirement for MTAs to add Received: headers as the mail passes through them to avoid mailing loops. Trying to subvert this is a bad idea... I also want to create a repositry of sent email for logging purposes. I'm trying to look up the documentation and searching for messages that would answer what I want to do but it's a chicken and egg senerio in that I don't know the correct terms for the answers to search to find the answers. Any help is appreciated. Normally, your mail client will keep track of all Sent messages if you configure it properly. That's a better choice than having the MTA do it, but you can look into the content_filter mechanism to archive mail which passes through if you really want to do so. also make sure that your isp allows mail forwarding. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Corrupt pkgdb
From man portupgrade... 1) Try a pkgdb -fu 2) If it doesn't work, remove the database file at (/var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db) and 3) Rerun pkgdb -fu Hope this helps... -- Bryan Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting up a new system and ran a portupgrade -a. Unfortunately I also in my arrogance tried to run XDM while the portupgrade was running. Well to make a long story short I could not exit out of XDM and get back to my console and had to reboot the system. Now I get an error that my pkgdb is corrupt when I try to rerun the portupgrade. Is there a way to rebuild that DB or do I have to reinstall the whole OS? I don't know how that pkgdb gets created so I don't know if it is created during the install or when I installed portupgrade. Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis ___ 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]
very strange sockets problem
im running bas 6.1, java 1.5 and jboss 4. i have a servlet that interfaces with a bank over a socket connection. pretty basic setup. everything works fine for the current two banks that we interface with. i am in the process of trying to bring up a third bank. the socket opens correctly, transmitts the transaction correctly, the bank correctly receives it, processes it, and sends me a response. the moment that the response hits my read buffer, the connection drops and i recieve no data. i have eliminated all hardware in between the two systems. i dumped the traffic with tcpdump and the machine does actually receive the data. me and my team of developers are stumped, jboss support is stumped, i was wondering if any of you guys could think of something. thanks wilie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
- Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:38 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? On 7/27/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Burying your head in the sand is a common method used by stupid people that have no answer to the truth. I don't blame you; you guys don't want your employers to know that you've wasted man 1000s of their dollars because you don't know the performance characteristics of the hardware you've recommended. It must be thoroughly embarrassing. [snip] I do agree with Danial that most USERS on this list are burying their heads in the sand on this issue. But I will point out that there isn't really any reason they shouldn't be. What the market wants is features, not speed. And that is what the FreeBSD developers are working on. Features over speed is generally the right equation, yes. But I think you're being too generous to Danial. The quote of his above was in direct response to my assertion that many people refuse to listen to him because he frequently engages in cheap demagogy[1]. He does, but he is also right on this performance point. The truth can always be wrapped more palatably, but I think one of the differences between a system administrator and a user is that a user can't deal with the truth unless it's spoon fed in the nursery, an administrator should be approaching it as a professional, which means ignoring the irrelevant cheap demagogery and ignoring their own preconceptions of how things are supposed to work, and paying attention to the kernels of truth. I have to sort through giant piles of horseshit every time I look at the latest Cisco sales and marketing dreck, to find out what might be important in one of their new products, this isn't any different. And frankly I find the saccherine cloying marketingspeak to be far more disgusting and offensive then the lame kindergarden flames that Danial has so far been able to come up with. His response? Another whole boatload of cheap demagogy, questioning the intelligence, aptitude and moral character of anyone who doesn't listen to him, by way of accusations that are wholly unsupported by facts. I could probably rest my case right there, but I think his perception (and yours) that people are not receptive to claims of FreeBSD performance problems is quite simply false. Every time a performance question is brought up, I see a flurry of calls for clarification and for the formulation of repeatable tests which are generally agreed to be an accurate gauge of the problem. Calling for testing is pretty much a way of excusing the claim. People including Danial, have done the testing in the past, posted the results, then had armchair quarterbacks pick apart the test methodology claiming the tests were done wrong, thus irrelevant. So why even bother doing it anymore. But, you asked for it, you got it: Machine #1: Compaq 1600R, FBSD 6.1 Pentium 3 550Mhz freebsd-cvs# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 1 17:23:18 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERICNOUSBNOFIRE Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (548.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA, CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 671088640 (640 MB) avail memory = 647458816 (617 MB) MPTable: COMPAQ PROLIANT ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8 ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-34 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: MPTable Host-PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: PCI
Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller
PATRICK CARTER wrote: Hey all, I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology. I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew weather or not anyone knew if there exists a driver that works for FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/5-STABLE/hardware/i386/support.html#DISK change 5-STABLE for OS of choice and take a look. I'd hazard a guess at it is simply by the number of other adaptec cards listed. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: very strange sockets problem
Steel City Phantom wrote: [ ... ] i have eliminated all hardware in between the two systems. i dumped the traffic with tcpdump and the machine does actually receive the data. me and my team of developers are stumped, jboss support is stumped, i was wondering if any of you guys could think of something. Lack of data. Post a verbose tcpdump trace, anonymizing the IPs if you feel you must...and double-check your firewall logs, especially if NAT is involved anywhere in the network topology. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller
I did not see it listed and afaik there is no official support. The nearest thing I saw was a manual entry on ataraid from quite a while back suggesting that RAID 5 wasn't supported, but I was wondering if anyone had managed to get any success with the card (since from my understanding ataraid is for OS controlled RAID and I'm looking at a hardware/firmware controller). Also, I did forget to mention that the system in question is FreeBSD 6.1 and I'm looking to boot off of this array (although if anyone was a working system that won't boot from the array I'm still interested). Thanks --Patrick - Original Message - From: Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:52 am Subject: Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller PATRICK CARTER wrote: Hey all, I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology. I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew weather or not anyone knew if there exists a driver that works for FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/5- STABLE/hardware/i386/support.html#DISK change 5-STABLE for OS of choice and take a look. I'd hazard a guess at it is simply by the number of other adaptec cards listed. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smb issue
After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports: ichsmb0: Intel 82801DC (ICH4) SMBus controller port 0x1880-0x189f irq 10 at device 31.3 on pci0 ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED] smbus0: System Management Bus on ichsmb0 smb0: SMBus generic I/O on smbus0 Then, mbmon -d -S gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ mbmon -d -S SMBus[Intel8XX(ICH/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6)] found, but No HWM available on it!! InitMBInfo: Device not configured smbmsg -p gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ smbmsg -p Probing for devices on /dev/smb0: Device @0x2c: rw *waiting, and waiting* ^C dmesg then shows hundreds of these: ichsmb0: device timeout, status=0x41 Any clue? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
On 7/27/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/06, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-07-26 18:59, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: Do you see that if support in 4.x had been based on open specs from Adaptec that this issue would not exist? Adaptec is controlling your ability to use their product, and that's the real problem. It's consumer-hostile, unless you fit their perfect picture of consumer. You don't, so you're left in the cold. I think you are missing the point here. It is 'THEIR PRODUCT'. They can do with it as they wish. If you are unhappy with their product, then don't use it. Darrin is not missing the point. He is just making a different point, which is (for many people, including me) quite valid. Most corporation are primarily interested in profits. Nothing wrong with that. I like making money, as I assume you do. Obviously they have weight the cost of producing FSBD compatible products and concluded that it would not be profitable to do so. Unless you could produce enough evidence to show them otherwise, I fear that you are simply beating a dead horse here. If the technical specifications are open, there is *zero* support cost for the hardware vendor. They don't even _have_ to make a driver for their hardware. What they *can* do though is reply to requests for an open source driver with: ``Piss off! We have you the technical specs, so you can write your own. Our development and support costs would not be justified, but here's the spec... give it your best shot.'' *This* is the point Darrin is trying to make :) and if i may add, if they don't provide FreeBSD drivers for their products, its their loss, they won't earn anything from FreeBSD users coz we won't buy or stay away from their products. and i also think the reason they are discontinuing support for FreeBSD 6 onwards coz they feel we are just few and won't make a significant increase in their profit driven company, one way of making us heard is by letting them know how many we are, why not bombard them with request for support, IMO once they notice how many we are, i'm pretty sure they'll give in. Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open documentation. What we really need is score card to keep track of the good and bad companies. Someone with initiative could have this up and running in a day or less... After it's up we can put a BIG HONKING LINK on the FreeBSD main page. The second thing everyone (All who use X) needs to do is get AMD to force ATI's hand into releasing documentation. This should not be hard to do because ATI's lead counsel is on the way out. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller
PATRICK CARTER wrote: I did not see it listed and afaik there is no official support. The nearest thing I saw was a manual entry on ataraid from quite a while back suggesting that RAID 5 wasn't supported, but I was wondering if anyone had managed to get any success with the card (since from my understanding ataraid is for OS controlled RAID and I'm looking at a hardware/firmware controller). Also, I did forget to mention that the system in question is FreeBSD 6.1 and I'm looking to boot off of this array (although if anyone was a working system that won't boot from the array I'm still interested). best bet is a 3ware card or Areca. Both work well from what i have seen on the list and I use 3ware cards in a few of the machines i manage. They work out of the box. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise Technology RAID Controller
On 7/27/06, PATRICK CARTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I was looking at getting a hardware RAID controller (that supports RAID 5) for my system and I saw the FastTrak SX4100 from Promise Technology. I didn't see FreeBSD listed under their list of supported operating systems and I was wondering if anyone knew weather or not anyone knew if there exists a driver that works for FreeBSD. Promise does not have a very good relationship with FreeBSD. It would be better if you found another vendor to work with. Areca HighPoint, and 3ware come to mind. Also stay way from Adaptec. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:50:57PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open documentation. What we really need is score card to keep track of the good and bad companies. Someone with initiative could have this up and running in a day or less... After it's up we can put a BIG HONKING LINK on the FreeBSD main page. It's not FBSD specific, but there's http://www.vendorwatch.org/, which is trying to do exactly that. They've got some good info, and I believe they would welcome any updates or info on companies that they don't have. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Don't top-post, please. LOL sorry, it came from my cell phone, i updated to 6.1 - Release, hopefully i'll have better luck, i'll keep you posted. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Xircom Cardbus ethernet 10/100+Modem 56
Hi, As anyone been successful at using xircom cardbus cards under freebsd ? When the system boots, the modem gets detected, the network card also (as DC0) but I get a bunch of these messages: CARDBUS1 Ressource Not Specified in CIS No Station address in CIS If I remove the card while booting and insert it after the system is booted, the computer crash and reboots It's strange because the card is in the compatibility list... The card works fine on windows and linux also Anyone has a clue on how to fix this ? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID cards. On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open documentation. I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support *BSD. Amitabh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smb issue
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports: ichsmb0: Intel 82801DC (ICH4) SMBus controller port 0x1880-0x189f irq 10 at device 31.3 on pci0 ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED] smbus0: System Management Bus on ichsmb0 smb0: SMBus generic I/O on smbus0 Then, mbmon -d -S gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ mbmon -d -S SMBus[Intel8XX(ICH/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6)] found, but No HWM available on it!! InitMBInfo: Device not configured smbmsg -p gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ smbmsg -p Probing for devices on /dev/smb0: Device @0x2c: rw *waiting, and waiting* ^C dmesg then shows hundreds of these: ichsmb0: device timeout, status=0x41 Any clue? kldload smb? cheers Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
user permissions
Hi I have a user that I use for doing the odd bit of work on my freebsd-6.1-RELEASE machine. I wanted to set apache to work from: /home/user/public_html/ instead of the default location. I can create these folders no problems but i have to do it as root: mkdir /home/user/public_html/ How do I ensure my user can copy files from gui (gnome) to this folder. Im told I dont have permission to copy to this folder. Also apache tells me I dont have permission when I change the DocumentRoot to point to /home/user/public_html/ Just not sure how to go about giving a user permissions on files/ folders I want them to be able to edit. Any pointers? Thanks Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing windows XP at home.
Icewm since noone else mentioned it. It is small and light, very attractive (I think) and is quite windows like in its look so windows users find it quite accessible. Fluxbox is also nice if you want something light but I chose icewm over fluxbox when setting up pentium 1 desktops for windows users because of its more windows-ish look Chris Joshua Lewis wrote: Thank you to everyone who gave me some ideas. That was a great help. It looks like I am going to need to install more then one WM and just figure out which one suits my needs the best. Thanks again. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis ___ 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]
(no subject)
On the switch side of things I'm using a Cisco 3550 runing layer3 code, I've had this working before with a em driver (on another box) but my setup was a little different then so I'm pretty sure the switch isnt at fault? Is the vr interface capable of sending 1500 byte MTUs? Its not in the vlan(4) man page. This could be one area to look at, or, if its one of the other causes below, you may have issues with big packets. My rc.conf looks like: cloned_interfaces=vlan100 vlan200 vlan233 ifconfig_vr0=up ifconfig_vlan100=inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 100 vlandev vr0 ifconfig_vlan200=inet 192.168.200.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 200 vlandev vr0 ifconfig_vlan233=inet 10.233.233.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 233 vlandev vr0 ifconfig_vr0=inet 10.254.254.252 netmask 255.255.255.0 media100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex defaultrouter=10.254.254.254 This looks reasonable. However, your first ifconfig_vr0 line will get overridden by the second, and is therefore redundant. Does ifconfig -a confirm that everything gets set up ok? and my switch config looks like this: interface FastEthernet0/12 switchport access vlan 254 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan 100,200,233 switchport mode trunk logging event trunk-status duplex full speed 100 end The switchport access vlan 254 looks suspect. A trunking port shouldn't have access port parameters. You're also missing vlan 1. See below... I'm getting to the point that the vlan interfaces (100,200,233) can talk to machines on their subnet but I cannot seem to ping anything on the 10.254.254.0/24 subnet (ip address applied to vr0 interface) or anythnig via the default route. Well, if you can't ping anything on the subnet, that would assume you can't reach the default gateway, and therefore, its not surprising you can't ping anything further upstream :) From what I see here, you never allow vlan1 to travel on your trunk. vr0, as an unvlan'ed interface, will default to vlan1 with dot1q. If anyone can assist me I'd appreciate it, please contact me off list as I am not subscribed to -questions. Cheers, Will ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing windows XP at home.
On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. I use KDE, a large part of the reason is the apps. Opera, Amarok, K3B, Qalculate, Quanta Plus, Koffice 1.5, Kaffeine, Konsole, Kate/Kdevelop, KPatience. I could keep going... anyways... I came to KDE in a round about way, my general path looks something like this: Apple IIgs -- DOS/Win3.x/Win9x/WinNT -- RadHat 5 -- SuSE -- Win2k -- Linux -- Gnome/FreeBSD 4.7 -- XFCE/FreeBSD -- KDE/FreeBSD 5.3+/6.x. I should also add that I regularly use Mac OS X by choice at work. I think the best suggestion I can offer you is to try everything. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing windows XP at home.
Joshua Lewis wrote: Would I be better off just going with Gnome or KDE? I realize once I start installing apps that I will probably wind up installing something that uses Gnome or KDE libraries so I am going to wind up bloating my system any ways right? Look at them both and make a choice if you like either. I tried both in the past, but found they were not for me for various reasons, so I went looking, also tried Xfce as has been mentioned, but I decided I wanted to try something really different from things that seemed Windows like. Tried WindowMaker and have been using it now for a long time. Here is the url www.windowmaker.info if you are interested. As you requested lean and fast, little slow getting started, only because it is very different in the approach of say Gnome, KDE, or Xfce, but once you get used to it, works great. I also like dock apps, which you can get more info at http://dockapps.org/ Good Luck, Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: user permissions
On 7/28/06, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a user that I use for doing the odd bit of work on my freebsd-6.1-RELEASE machine. I wanted to set apache to work from: /home/user/public_html/ instead of the default location. I can create these folders no problems but i have to do it as root: mkdir /home/user/public_html/ How do I ensure my user can copy files from gui (gnome) to this folder. Im told I dont have permission to copy to this folder. Also apache tells me I dont have permission when I change the DocumentRoot to point to /home/user/public_html/ Just not sure how to go about giving a user permissions on files/ folders I want them to be able to edit. Any pointers? Thanks Eoghan the default permission for apache assuming you are using apache22 is 755, changing it to 777 will have security repercusions, why not add that user to group that owns/runs apache or give that user sudo power. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing windows XP at home.
doug wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, RW wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the trick. Would I be better off just going with Gnome or KDE? I realize once I start installing apps that I will probably wind up installing something that uses Gnome or KDE libraries so I am going to wind up bloating my system any ways right? KDE is mostly application modules, which you don't need to install if you dont want them. These days, though, the avoidance of bloat is mostly just a fetish. I've not noticed any speed difference between KDE and the lighter window managers for years. And as far as disk space is concerned we are talking about pennies. I've tried fluxbox and the like off-and-on, but I always miss some KDE feature within minutes. Personally I don't like Gnome, it's less polished than KDE by a sustantial margin; and while upgrading KDE is always easy, Gnome's complex depencies mean that a special script has to be run, and even that doesn't always work. I agree with this thought. There is a wrapper port/package kde-lite. I run kde on a 400Mhz laptop and mostly can not tell the difference between using that and my new thinkpad. OpenOffice is much, much, ..., better the kdeoffice. The ultimate lightweight window manager is twm. It is built into X. I use it to install KDE. All of this is very personal. It is well worth finding the one you like. If kde-lite is too much, you can just install kde-base, kde-libs, kde-admin kde-utils and end up with kde having close to the functionality of new XP install. I think the only thing that's missing are the games, Media Player and a messenger client. Greg Groth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smb issue
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports: : Erik Nørgaard wrote: kldload smb? What did I just say? (quoted as a hint :-P) Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: user permissions
eoghan wrote: Hi I have a user that I use for doing the odd bit of work on my freebsd-6.1-RELEASE machine. I wanted to set apache to work from: /home/user/public_html/ instead of the default location. I can create these folders no problems but i have to do it as root: mkdir /home/user/public_html/ How do I ensure my user can copy files from gui (gnome) to this folder. Im told I dont have permission to copy to this folder. Also apache tells me I dont have permission when I change the DocumentRoot to point to /home/user/public_html/ Just not sure how to go about giving a user permissions on files/folders I want them to be able to edit. Any pointers? Thanks Eoghan To change a directory ownership use chown user /home/user/public_html obviously substituting user for the desired username. As for your public_html issues, you need to search your apache configuration file for the UserDir module section and if it's disabled, enable it. Mine looks like this: IfModule userdir_module UserDir public_html UserDir disabled root toor daemon operator bin tty kmem games news man sshd bind proxy _pflogd _dhcp uucp pop www nobody$ # # Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example # for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only. # Directory /home/*/public_html AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND Order allow,deny Allow from all /Limit LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND Order deny,allow Deny from all /LimitExcept /Directory /IfModule ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: smb issue
After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports: ichsmb0: Intel 82801DC (ICH4) SMBus controller port 0x1880-0x189f irq 10 at device 31.3 on pci0 ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED] smbus0: System Management Bus on ichsmb0 smb0: SMBus generic I/O on smbus0 Then, mbmon -d -S gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ mbmon -d -S SMBus[Intel8XX(ICH/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6)] found, but No HWM available on it!! InitMBInfo: Device not configured smbmsg -p gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ smbmsg -p Probing for devices on /dev/smb0: Device @0x2c: rw *waiting, and waiting* ^C dmesg then shows hundreds of these: ichsmb0: device timeout, status=0x41 Any clue? I've had that same problem on one machine, still unresolved. Someone else actually got it working by unloading smbus from kernel !! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amitabh Kant Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:28 AM To: Nikolas Britton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID cards. On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open documentation. I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support *BSD. Amitabh ___ 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: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote: Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to allocate our shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period! That is not as easy as you make it out to be. WHat one might in the short term see as the best tool may not be such in 2 years when support is dropped and you are in a forced obsolescence and have to replace it with something else... So making value judgments like tools that are known to be well supported on FReeBSD for example is part of determining the best tool for the job Chad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amitabh Kant Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:28 AM To: Nikolas Britton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? And this is what I always do. As a person responsible for recommending/approving/buying harware related stuff for few different companies, I make it a point that I *prefer* only those brands that have support for FreeBSD. For me, this is more so in case of RAID cards. On 7/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except most of the people using FreeBSD in a professional setting are pretty high up on the IT/IS/MIS food chain. If a product doesn't work on my platform of choice then there's no way in hell I'll approve it's uses on other platforms, FreeBSD is my litmus test. If a vendor doesn't support FreeBSD they can still pass my test by providing open documentation. I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support *BSD. Amitabh ___ 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 freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cant get to my shell!
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, at 09:03:41 +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello everyone, Hi Marwan. I was trying to install linux-flashplugin7 and in the same time was trying to play with libmap.conf then suddenly my system crush! after reboot, i got this error message Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: When i hit enter this error comes /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by -sh /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by sh and it comes again to Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: and nothing works, i cannot get into my shell, I had the exact same thing. In my case, the problem was that I uncommented some lines in libmap.conf, but forgot to uncomment the line with the path. It looked like this: # Flash6 with Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror #[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libz.so.1 libz.so.3 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3libstdc++.so.5 libm.so.6 libm.so.4 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so After uncommenting the second line above, everything was fine. i tried to use fixit from sysinstall by using the emergency shell, to delete libmap.conf (asuming its cuzing the problem) but from the emergency shell u cannot see that file, In order to edit libmap.conf, the partition where it lives needs to be mounted. If you booted from a CD, you'll need to mount the hard drive partition by hand. My /etc/libmap.conf is located in the root partition, my hard drive is ad0, and FreeBSD is on the first slice, so the device I needed is /dev/ad0s1a. Of course, yours may be different. From the emergency shell, mount your partition to some convenient directory, say it's /mnt: # mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt Then you can edit your libmap.conf at it's current, temporary location: # vi /mnt/etc/libmap.conf Reboot after it's fixed. Hope this helps, Dave pgpEYVQ6w6eF2.pgp Description: PGP signature
VIA EPIA VT310 DP
To whom may concern: My name is Jesus Granados, I write to you from Mexico and I want to ask you about VIA EPIA VT-310 DP. Do you know if it is certified or tested with FreeBSD? We want to install FreeBSD with PFsense as Firewall. I hope you can help me. Regards Jesus Granados El Valor de las personas esta dado por las acciones que se realizan en beneficio de los demás MATI Jesus F. Granados JESCO SOLUTIONS S.C. Consultor Lider Jalisco, Mexico Tel. / fax 011+52 (33) 3122-1313 [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTA: La información de este correo es de propiedad exclusiva y confidencial. Este mensaje es sólo para el destinatario señalado, si usted no lo es, destrúyalo de inmediato. Ninguna información aquí contenida debe ser entendida como dada o avalada por Jesco Solutions, sus subsidiarias o sus empleados, salvo cuando ello expresamente se indique. Es responsabilidad de quien recibe este correo de asegurarse que esté libre de virus, por lo tanto ni Jesco Solutions, sus subsidiarias ni sus empleados aceptan responsabilidad alguna. NOTE: The information in this email is proprietary and confidential. This message is for the designated recipient only, if you are not the intended recipient, you should destroy it immediately. Any information in this message shall not be understood as given or endorsed by Jesco Solutions, its subsidiaries or their employees, unless expressly so stated. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that this email is virus free, therefore neither Jesco Solutions, its subsidiaries nor their employees accept any responsibility. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cant get to my shell!
On 7/27/06, Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I was trying to install linux-flashplugin7 and in the same time was trying to play with libmap.conf then suddenly my system crush! after reboot, i got this error message Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: When i hit enter this error comes /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by -sh /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by sh and it comes again to Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: and nothing works, i cannot get into my shell, i tried to use fixit from sysinstall by using the emergency shell, to delete libmap.conf (asuming its cuzing the problem) but from the emergency shell u cannot see that file, I tried to /bin/csh/ and its giving the same error, single user mode, safe mode, all the same, giving the same error!! tried to google it but no results. the only place i can get is the emergency shell, from fixit. boot in single user mode and when prompted for a shell to use, use /rescue/csh . then you will be able to fix your problem. any help? Thank you Marwan. _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ 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]
icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?
Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them? second part ... is there a way of telling a cisco switch to drop all icmp packets, preferrably to all but an exception list, but to everywhere works as well ... I'm running a Cisco 2950-24 ... thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?
Just an appendum, but this is what I'm seeing in /var/log/messages right now: Jul 28 00:22:37 io kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 6255 to 200 packets/sec Jul 28 00:22:38 io kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 6515 to 200 packets/sec Jul 28 00:22:39 io kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 6646 to 200 packets/sec ^C And its been going on for several hours now ... :( On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them? second part ... is there a way of telling a cisco switch to drop all icmp packets, preferrably to all but an exception list, but to everywhere works as well ... I'm running a Cisco 2950-24 ... thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vsftpd uploading rate problem
Thanks for your kind reply and sorry for the delay :-) This speed issue has gone away after I upgrade my OS to FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. Anyway, thanks again. :-) On 6/6/06, N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Yuan, Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-06 18:31:43 +0800]: The situation is: a computer could download stuffs from my laptop via vsftpd at a rate of 10M/s. while uploading stuffs to my laptop at a rate of only 300K~400K :( Can you test with some other (non-ftp) protocol, and see if you get the same results? Try scp'ing a large file to and from your laptop. -- Best Regards Yuan, Jue @ http://www.yuanjue.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can not add partitions to existing 3ware RAID?
Tonite I was going to allocate some more disk space to a 6.1 RELEASE system. I did it the same way I've done it for years: I went into sysinstall, selected Custom-Partition and added a new partition (twed0s3) using some of the remaining space. I then moved up to twed0s1 and did an S because sysinstall never remembers that the first slice was bootable and not doing this leaves one with an unbootable system. I then do a W to write out this information, say Yes to the warning since I am modifying an existing system and select the Standard Boot Manager. Instead of the normal response, I get ERROR: Unable to write data to disk twed0! and Disk partition write returned an error status! which is most disconcerting. No messages in the logs or on the (serial) console. Checking sysinstall again, the disk remains unchanged. Has something recently changed in this process? /\/\ \/\/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not add partitions to existing 3ware RAID?
On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Michael R. Wayne wrote: Tonite I was going to allocate some more disk space to a 6.1 RELEASE system. I did it the same way I've done it for years: I went into sysinstall, selected Custom-Partition and added a new partition (twed0s3) using some of the remaining space. I then moved up to twed0s1 and did an S because sysinstall never remembers that the first slice was bootable and not doing this leaves one with an unbootable system. I then do a W to write out this information, say Yes to the warning since I am modifying an existing system and select the Standard Boot Manager. Instead of the normal response, I get ERROR: Unable to write data to disk twed0! and Disk partition write returned an error status! which is most disconcerting. No messages in the logs or on the (serial) console. Checking sysinstall again, the disk remains unchanged. Has something recently changed in this process? Do you have a securelevel set in rc.conf kern_securelevel_enable=YES kern_securelevel=1 where the number is 0 This will cause the effect you state. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not add partitions to existing 3ware RAID?
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:45:07PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Do you have a securelevel set in rc.conf kern_securelevel_enable=YES kern_securelevel=1 where the number is 0 Good point, I neglected to mention that. No, I'm not running secure: sudo sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 /\/\ \/\/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Non blob frebsd raid 5 drivers...
I just wanted to get it straight. I think I read some post that said that 3ware actually has and uses commit access to the freebsd source tree. Can anyone comfirm this for me? I currently have a highpoint 2220 controller. I got it because of the Freebsd support what appeared to be available driver source code only to be humilitated to discover after the fact that what's labeled source is a blob module, and not source at all. Areca is a name I never heard before this list. They appartly support bsd but, what level of support? Binary Driver, blob, source, or docs? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non blob frebsd raid 5 drivers...
On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Telting wrote: I just wanted to get it straight. I think I read some post that said that 3ware actually has and uses commit access to the freebsd source tree. Can anyone comfirm this for me? I currently have a highpoint 2220 controller. I got it because of the Freebsd support what appeared to be available driver source code only to be humilitated to discover after the fact that what's labeled source is a blob module, and not source at all. Areca is a name I never heard before this list. They appartly support bsd but, what level of support? Binary Driver, blob, source, or docs? They appear to have a source driver. /usr/src/sys/dev/arcmsr /usr/src/sys/dev/arcmsr/arcmsr.c /usr/src/sys/dev/arcmsr/arcmsr.h arcmsr is the driver name for areca (man arcmsr) top of the .c file reads: /* ** **O.S : FreeBSD ** FILE NAME : arcmsr.c **BY: Erich Chen ** Description: SCSI RAID Device Driver for **ARECA (ARC1110/1120/1160/1210/1220/1260) SATA RAID HOST Adapter **ARCMSR RAID Host adapter[RAID controller:INTEL 331 (PCI-X) 341(PCI-EXPRESS) chip set] ** ** ** Copyright (c) 2004-2006 ARECA Co. Ltd. **Erich Chen, Taipei Taiwan All rights reserved. ** I have several Areca cards because they support both BSD and Solaris with their drivers and I run both and want my HW to be as versatile as possible... Have not actually run one in BSD yet though that will happen. I have several but none are yet in production, just testing. They do do quite well in reviews and bake-offs against other raid cards. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot and Install from USB?
Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in production. Why can't I do all this stuff with USB? If I got a USB flash, USB CD-ROM, and/or a USB floppy drive what could I do with it? * Boot into DOS to run BIOS updates? * Load the FreeBSD CD to a flash drive and boot / install from it? I see no reason to keeping buy them, there like tits on a bull. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question about ttys
Hi ! I'm new in FreeBSD and I made a mistake. In the file ttys I changed to insecure all the lines and now I cannot log on even as root. Only in single user I can log on but I cannot modify the file ttys is said something this is a read only file system. Please tell me how I can remediate my error, how I can modify back the file ttys ? If is possible of course. Best regards, Mihai ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot and Install from USB?
On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in production. Why can't I do all this stuff with USB? If I got a USB flash, USB CD-ROM, and/or a USB floppy drive what could I do with it? * Boot into DOS to run BIOS updates? * Load the FreeBSD CD to a flash drive and boot / install from it? I see no reason to keeping buy them, there like tits on a bull. None of my servers have floppies or cdrom or any optical drives. I keep a couple floppies and a dvd and a cdrom around and if I need on I plug it in for the duration of the need... Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot and Install from USB?
On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in production. Why can't I do all this stuff with USB? If I got a USB flash, USB CD-ROM, and/or a USB floppy drive what could I do with it? * Boot into DOS to run BIOS updates? * Load the FreeBSD CD to a flash drive and boot / install from it? I see no reason to keep buying them, there like tits on a bull. None of my servers have floppies or cdrom or any optical drives. I keep a couple floppies and a dvd and a cdrom around and if I need on I plug it in for the duration of the need... Been there done that. It's a pain in the butt: 1. Power down 2. Take cover off 3. Plug in drive 4. Put cover back on 5. Power on 6. Re-enable BIOS support for device. 7. Do what needs to be done 8. Power down 9. Take cover off 10. Unplug drive 11. Put cover back on 12. Power on 13. Disable BIOS support for device. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
