Re: Cannot install php5-gd!!!
perikillo wrote: Hi people. I want to install some ports that depends this module php5-gd (phpmyadmin example), I update my ports every day, but I still getting this error: bacula# pwd /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd bacula# make install clean === php5-gd-5.2.8 has known vulnerabilities: = php5-gd -- uninitialized memory information disclosure vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/58a3c266-db01-11dd-ae30-001cc0377035.html = Please update your ports tree and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd. I have been trying today, but no success, someone knows anything about this? FreeBSD 6.1-p21 Thanks for your support!!! Well, it seems it suffers from an unpatched vulnerability. You can still install it if you really want to, using stg like: make install clean -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES but whether it would be wise to do so, is definitely questionable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing OpenSSL from ports, how to remove base-openssl?
Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org writes: For a certain customer that wants to use a later version of OpenSSL (base is at 'e' while ports is at 'j') I installed /usr/ports/security/openssl. This is all fine, but now I have two sets binaries and libraries of OpenSSL on that system. To build you ports with the openssl version in /usr/ports: # echo WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes /etc/make.conf What is the proper way to remove the base openssl? I looked with sysinstall distributions but it's not listed there as something that you can add or remove. # echo WITHOUT_OPENSSL=yes /etc/src.conf # cd /usr/src make check-old # make delete-old # make delete-old-libs Read src.conf(5). - Herbert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
ThinkDifferently wrote: Michael Powell-6 wrote: In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of the onboard controller. In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] 1. SCSI-0:: RocketRAID 3120 SATA C 2. Bootable Add-in Cards So what happens when you choose 2. Bootable Add-in Cards, save the setting and reboot with [Hard Disk] as First Boot Device? First Boot Device [CDROM] Second Boot Device [Hard Disk] Third Boot Device [USB-FDD] For grins, I tried making Hard Disk the first boot device and disabling the others. I also tried moving the card to another PCI slot. Finally, I tried shutting off any unnecessary devices on the mobo to include the unused serial parallel headers, usb, firewire, etc. Nothing changed. On reset... 1) The RocketRAID card beeps. 2) The motherboard BIOS screen is displayed. 3) The RocketRAID BIOS screen is displayed. 4) It shows all devices that are enabled and their interrupt settings. 5) It tries to boot from the Hard Disk, which is set to SCSI-0:: RocketRAID 3120 SATA C. 6) It resets and the above repeats. In the table of devices that I mention in #4, above, see the attached image. It shows up as RAID Cntrlr. In this screenshot, just about everything else is turned off. http://www.nabble.com/file/p21489832/P1158072.jpg Michael Powell-6 wrote: Also ensure that in the Highpoint card BIOS INT 13 is on, should be this way by default. Yes, that is enabled. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
can't work with a file starting with dash space '- ' ?
By mistake I saved an email attachmed as it was called, probably from MS world: - Reviewer Comments - FFEMS - Closure paper.pdf Now I cannot delete, or rename it. % cp -\ Reviewer\ Comments\ -\ FFEMS\ -\ Closure\ paper.pdf z cp: illegal option -- usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-lpv] source_file target_file cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-lpv] source_file ... target_directory % rm -\ Reviewer\ Comments\ -\ FFEMS\ -\ Closure\ paper.pdf rm: illegal option -- usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file % I can view it with xpdf, but that's about all. I tried wildcards and quotes, sh, csh, bash, tcsh and superuser but no luck. How can I delete or rename this file? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: can't work with a file starting with dash space '- ' ?
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:33:13AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: By mistake I saved an email attachmed as it was called, probably from MS world: - Reviewer Comments - FFEMS - Closure paper.pdf Now I cannot delete, or rename it. % cp -\ Reviewer\ Comments\ -\ FFEMS\ -\ Closure\ paper.pdf z cp: illegal option -- usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-lpv] source_file target_file cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-lpv] source_file ... target_directory % rm -\ Reviewer\ Comments\ -\ FFEMS\ -\ Closure\ paper.pdf rm: illegal option -- usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file % I can view it with xpdf, but that's about all. I tried wildcards and quotes, sh, csh, bash, tcsh and superuser but no luck. How can I delete or rename this file? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 Try cp/rm -- filename-with-dashes -- here denotes the end of command options. HTH, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:44 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? I don't know. It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a thing. If it's win32, my experience would have me recommend just booting from a floppy of a win boot disk to restore the MBR. It's just quick that way. If my memory serves right, even a win98 boot disk should work. If memory serves, I believe there is an option to simply go to cli and all the tools are there on the cd ready for you. I could be wrong or outdated though- probably both... :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sun sucks
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 03:47 +, RW wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:10:10 -0500 Ansar Mohammed ans...@gmail.com wrote: After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need to provide more information. I create another account. Same problem. After 3 months I finally get an email saying they want clarification on the acronym for my company. Well there's your problem. You gave them too much information in the first place. I usually just make-up a name as a matter of principle. Just create a new account for some made-up name, don't specify any company, download your file, and then (if you really care) go through the hoops afterwards. I'm finding that I'm actually running out of names... keeps coming back saying it already exists! I now keep a record of a crap name and reuse it every time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
est1 device_attach error 6
Similar to the age0 problem in my previous post the enhanced speed step on this laptop on the second core of the cpu has the same problem- athough this doesn't appear to be power related (ac or battery that is). Where does this place the issue- acpi? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant Not a chance- why do you think you have to install Window$ first? Gates and his cronies aren't going to make it easy for you to install free software, and so they make it as hard as possible hoping you'll install Window$ and give up. I haven't heard of anywhere that any of the freeloaders (pardon the pun) that can boot a M$ system- only paid for software like Bootmagic. Or use the M$ loader in window$ to boot other systems- strange that it should be able to do that, but then most of the OSS is KISS based rather than the rigmarole M$ go to. Again, I could be outdated and/or wrong on this, but I doubt it has changed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
iwn driver on 7.1
I've tried the driver on 7.0- 8.0 current is out of the question as it still doesn't fully function either- but I'm trying to sort out 7.1 (might as well, I have many other issues to work out so I might as well fix them on this :) ). The driver patches compiles (iwn-7 from gavin), but when I load it goes through the channels and errors and finally dies with a full page fault. SO, firstly what info is needed here to help resolve this issue? Second, the full functionality of the card is not there- no encryption in transmission (no wep, wpa, etc), a channels not working, etc. Again is there someone who I could work with to help get this card working? For reference (Wojciech will be happy to know his suspicions are indeed correct :) ) linux has gone to the crapper and even debian can barely hold its own with the intel 4965. Incidentally none of the linuxes have consistent success at all, and I failed miserably on debian and fedora. Although it did work somewhat with fedora 8- strange huh? And its not the only area, drivers, kernel, software all seems deeply flawed now: seems the project is starting to crumble! I'm struggling to keep my tv server up and running on fedora 10 - there appears I may have a light at the end of my tunnel in that I may be able to get drivers working for freebsd! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: programs...
What about Miro? On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:19 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ Music/audio only, or video too? When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! Ha! Well, I stand to inherit my daughter's MacBook in a few years. Okay, so if Apple has this, can I use it? I mean for-free, not having to sub to some monthly deal or whatever? This is an idea I thought up a couple years ago when all the audio podcasts began appearing. At any rate, seems to me that the open-* community could do at least as well as our brother hackers at Apple. Just a thought. Come Monday, OZ-time, I'll let everybody know my major idea. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
USB problem during install
I was just running a check to see if I could install FreeBSD on my tv server and check the driver situation, but the cdboot failed with a usb issue- address not found. This occurred for 7.1, 7.0, and even 6.4. In my search I found many different reasons why it could be, but they were several years old (related to 5.x etc). Its always the same address 0x7fef1620, and I believe its the same port too. Currently the usb devices connected are an APC UPS, a Shintaro usb wireless keyboard with builtin mouse, a multi card reader, and I have two dvico tuner cards (dual fusions) which a dual dibcomms on each card connected to the system via their own usb chip. Based on my observations its actually hard to say which port is the problem, as the drivers are loaded and fork their own processes, so the error can show up later. Any ideas? Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?
Hello, I have the following situation: Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage of an automated creation of loggin in user via pam_mkhomedir. Creation should be done manually. My question: is it possible to use a FreeBSD tool/command like 'pw(8)' only for copying and initiating an existant user's home? I tried simply pw useradd USER -m -b /homes/ for that purpose, but pw errors me saying the user USER already exists (is a OpenLDAP user). Thanks in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:07 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed to fail writing to the hard drive. I got this during installation: Progress Extracting GENERIC into /boot directory... Message Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) /mtrt: write failed, filesystem is full. - I think I allocated decent size partitions for /, /var, swap, /tmp, /usr. I made multiple attempts. Kept getting errors. The 'filesystem is full' message might imply that the partition for root is too small. What were the filesystem sizes you chose? There should be an item in the main install menu to start a shell. If you take that option and use the 'df -h' command, you should see the sizes of the mounted partitions. What happens if you just make one giant partition? Roland Going back to the original issue- the rtl 8111E is not really supported. Buying another card does seem to be a bit redundant, but there is 6.x sources for this card which work (albeit on 6.x). So maybe try 6.4? For the developers out there, what is the difference between BSD versions? Why wouldn't a driver for 6.x work on later versions- I need technical detail or pointers to it not just a simple answer. I'm looking at resolving some of the driver issues but I'm really green- yes, I'm finally getting off my ass and doing something other than complaining... not that I have the time, but I have my own problems to resolve here which I can't wait on :) Now, if the filesystem is full have you redone all the filesystem through sysinstall or are you simply loading over the top of previous versions? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6
I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. Its on a laptop with an iwn device so I'm in for real hell - but thats for another post. The long and the short of it is: how do I fix it? What do I need to look at (source wise) to fix the issue and where can I find more precise info on it? Would an experienced developer (even the original who wrote the driver) be willing to guide me so I can fix more of these little issues with drivers until I can get the know how to write my own? Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to copy only skeleton files while creating a existing user's homes directory?
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:48:38 O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have the following situation: Users are stored in OpenLDAP. I need to create homes directories on new machine memebers in the pool of workstations and do not want the usage of an automated creation of loggin in user via pam_mkhomedir. Creation should be done manually. My question: is it possible to use a FreeBSD tool/command like 'pw(8)' only for copying and initiating an existant user's home? I tried simply pw useradd USER -m -b /homes/ for that purpose, but pw errors me saying the user USER already exists (is a OpenLDAP user). Try usermod instead of useradd. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
sysutils/gnome-power-manager fails to compile
Hi, During upgrading gnome, done exactly as described in /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20090110), during the phase of portupgrade -aOW the build process stops in sysutils/gnome-power-manager: . . . gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/gnome-power-manager/work/gnome-power-manager-2.24.2/docs' Making all in man gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/gnome-power-manager/work/gnome-power-manager-2.24.2/man' docbook2man gnome-power-statistics.sgml gnome-power-statistics.1 gmake[2]: *** [gnome-power-statistics.1] Error 8 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/gnome-power-manager/work/gnome-power-manager-2.24.2/man' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/gnome-power-manager/work/gnome-power-manager-2.24.2' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/gnome-power-manager. # I've tried to manually make deinstall followed by make reinstall - same result. Please note that I've cvsup-ed, pkgdb -fF-ed - always the same result. Even a make clean followed by a make in sysutils/gnome-power-manager didn't help. Is somebody else having similar problems? What can be done against it? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [Fwd: iwn driver on 7.1]
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: From: Da Rock rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au I've tried the driver on 7.0- 8.0 current is out of the question as [...] The driver patches compiles (iwn-7 from gavin), but when I load it goes through the channels and errors and finally dies with a full page fault. for what it is worth I too would very much like iwn working on freebsd 7.1, it works ok on 8-current See my previous post to stable@ in December, which was unfortunately unanswered: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-December/047142.html Short: The version from gavin crashes for me, too, but the initial version from perforce (before vap was introduced) works -- with some issues. There are only very few differences between those 2 versions. I guess someone with knowledge of vap would have to go through the perforce and current changes to find the stabilizing changes. Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Bios chip update suggestions
Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip and the bio's id string is 01/08/2002-694T-686-P6VXM2TC-00 All the internet bio's chip update url's found by Google search are customized for MS windows. Suggestions on how or where to purchase the correct bio's chip update? What do you mean the update url's are customised for windows? The bios doesn't know anything about operating system. Most likely you could download a dos boot disk image - google, there are plenty around - create a bootable floppy and copy your latest bios image and bios update program, eg awdflash.exe onto it. Just boot from the floppy and run the update. Just be sure the bios image is really intended for your motherboard and don't interrupt the update. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD USB Install
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Hello I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors of the pen drive it gets mad about it and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE... the first time, it complains, the second time it works fine I assume you have grub installed (pkg_add -r grub) I use the folowing procedure: 1) put the pen drive on the computer it finds at da0 2) dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=20 2) fdisk -BI /dev/da0 3) disklabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 4) fdisk -BI /dev/da0 5) disklabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 6) newfs -L FreeBSDstick /dev/da0s1a 7) mount -o async /dev/da0s1a /mnt 8) mkdir /mnt/boot/grub 9) cd /usr/local/share/grub/*/ 10 cp * /mnt/boot/grub 11) cat % /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst title FreeBSD on USB root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader % 12) umount /mnt 13) grub --batch % device (hd7) /dev/da0 root (hd7,0,a) setup (hd7) % = now just populate the /mnt with bsd and your system should come up... = Hope this will help... Here i use 4gb pen-drivers running FreeBSD 7 with zfs... it works fine and very fast... Sergio. This seems to be a bit of a sideline... but how does it work if you move the disk around? Assuming generic kernel, you should be boot that kernel on practically any machine- right? But I had trouble with it not finding the drive- boot manager ok, install fine, just won't boot. I assumed that the da0xxx was simply a pointer (programming speak) so that if you inserted the disk somewhere else (another port, another m/c, etc) it may not point to the same place for booting. Would this be right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
no browser starts, possible dbus-launch problem?
After recent upgrade of many ports I cannot start either firefox2 or kazehakase on alpha FBSD 6.4-release. (Both worked fine before the upgrade). When I try to launch either browser I see something like this: % ps ax|grep dbus 94452 ?? Ss 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi 94448 p0 S+ 0:00.05 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 94451 p0 S+ 0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 94463 p2 R+ 0:00.00 grep dbus % The dbus-launch processes never exit, which they should do according the man page. I wonder if this is the problem? With kazehakase I get a further error message when I try to kill unresponsive kazehakase process: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session) Please help. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 --8A9CA8FC08.1232111947/mx1.freebsd.org-- - End forwarded message - -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Runtime de/encryption
Hello List, i'am using the geom framework for quite a time. I'am happy about gbde/geli implementations(beside the race condition in geli) however, i wonder since some time, as the data may get exposed on a running server(as the partitions decrypted) is there a way to do some kind of runtime de/encyrption, with keys? so that only special users with the right handle can encrypt or decrypt data? so talking about another filesystem layer... Anyone? Best regards, Marco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
zfs on i386 trauma :P
Hello all, We had a raid card die in a dell box and reinstalled FreeBSD 7 and restored from backups.. the problem is amd64 didn't boot on the box and the person doing the restore wanted to 'help' and changed from ufs2 to zfs.. while being a noble effort, he was testing on amd64 and didn't think that amd64 to i386 was that big a deal for zfs.. *sigh* So here we are.. if I can't figure out how to make this 'stable' I will dump and restore and reinstall i386 ufs2/gmirror.. So we have a box w/ 3G of ram running samba and squid for a few hundred people. I have tried to fix /boot/loader.conf: # cat /boot/loader.conf autoboot_delay=4 vm.kmem_size_max=1024M vm.kmem_size=1024M zfs_load=YES vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:tank/root accf_http_load=YES accf_data_load=YES and rebuilt the kernel with many device drivers disabled.. I found a script on the zfs tuning page on the wiki, but I do not understand what it is telling me.. TEXT=7031512, 6.70577 MB DATA=514754560, 490.908 MB TOTAL=521786072, 497.614 MB kldstat yeilds this output: Id Refs AddressSize Name 19 0x8040 55f3e8 kernel 21 0x8096 b23b0zfs.ko 32 0x80a13000 23bc opensolaris.ko 41 0x80a16000 191c accf_data.ko 51 0x80a18000 22d4 accf_http.ko 61 0x80a1b000 68394acpi.ko 71 0x87ecb000 3000 pflog.ko 81 0x87ed7000 32000pf.ko We have updated to 7.1-p2 with the hopes of fixing somethings.. So the problems that we are having is that the machine stops responding.. ping never stops, it just stops answering tcp requests. and we only have a few minor tweaks in sysctl.conf: security.bsd.see_other_uids=0 net.inet.ip.random_id=1 kern.randompid=32768 kern.coredump=0 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery=0 net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=1 net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto=1 and in rc.conf we have set some things on the bge0 interface: ifconfig_bge0=inet 10.20.0.230 netmask 255.255.254.0 rxcsum txcsum media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex polling Is there something that is set, that is making the system stop responding? is there something else that could be done? If stability and performace are the goals (in that order) would it just make sense to reinstall and go back to gmirror on ufs2? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zfs on i386 trauma :P
B. Cook wrote: Hello all, We had a raid card die in a dell box and reinstalled FreeBSD 7 and restored from backups.. the problem is amd64 didn't boot on the box and the person doing the restore wanted to 'help' and changed from ufs2 to zfs.. while being a noble effort, he was testing on amd64 and didn't think that amd64 to i386 was that big a deal for zfs.. *sigh* So here we are.. if I can't figure out how to make this 'stable' I will dump and restore and reinstall i386 ufs2/gmirror.. So we have a box w/ 3G of ram running samba and squid for a few hundred people. I have tried to fix /boot/loader.conf: # cat /boot/loader.conf autoboot_delay=4 vm.kmem_size_max=1024M vm.kmem_size=1024M zfs_load=YES vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:tank/root Try adding vfs.zfs.arc_max=100M (or less possibly, tuning as you require it.) I gather you've looked at the tuning guide on the wiki so cant really suggest anything further. The gains from zfs are nice and there are people running it in production, but its definitely still experimental. Vince accf_http_load=YES accf_data_load=YES and rebuilt the kernel with many device drivers disabled.. I found a script on the zfs tuning page on the wiki, but I do not understand what it is telling me.. TEXT=7031512, 6.70577 MB DATA=514754560, 490.908 MB TOTAL=521786072, 497.614 MB kldstat yeilds this output: Id Refs AddressSize Name 19 0x8040 55f3e8 kernel 21 0x8096 b23b0zfs.ko 32 0x80a13000 23bc opensolaris.ko 41 0x80a16000 191c accf_data.ko 51 0x80a18000 22d4 accf_http.ko 61 0x80a1b000 68394acpi.ko 71 0x87ecb000 3000 pflog.ko 81 0x87ed7000 32000pf.ko We have updated to 7.1-p2 with the hopes of fixing somethings.. So the problems that we are having is that the machine stops responding.. ping never stops, it just stops answering tcp requests. and we only have a few minor tweaks in sysctl.conf: security.bsd.see_other_uids=0 net.inet.ip.random_id=1 kern.randompid=32768 kern.coredump=0 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=0 net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery=0 net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=1 net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto=1 and in rc.conf we have set some things on the bge0 interface: ifconfig_bge0=inet 10.20.0.230 netmask 255.255.254.0 rxcsum txcsum media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex polling Is there something that is set, that is making the system stop responding? is there something else that could be done? If stability and performace are the goals (in that order) would it just make sense to reinstall and go back to gmirror on ufs2? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Upgrading Jails
I have a test system where I've accumulated a large number of jails. To update them (I'm not using the method outlined in the Handbook), I'd like to avoid mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj within each and then jexec-ing a shell but instead, perform everything on the host system directly. Would the following be appropriate? /etc/rc.d/jail stop cd /usr/src myjail=/home/jails/myjail mergemaster -p -t $myjail/var/tmp/temproot -D $myjail make installworld DESTDIR=$myjail mergemaster -t $myjail/var/tmp/temproot -D $myjail ... /etc/rc.d/jail start The second question relates to applying patches. One of the latest security advisories, for example, provides these instructions: cd /usr/src patch /path/to/patch cd /usr/src/lib/bind make obj make depend make make install cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named make obj make depend make make install /etc/rc.d/named restart Can the make install part be modified to include DESTDIR? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
Hi, For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I have the hard disk connected to the XP box? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
Michael Powell-6 wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] 1. SCSI-0:: RocketRAID 3120 SATA C 2. Bootable Add-in Cards So what happens when you choose 2. Bootable Add-in Cards, save the setting and reboot with [Hard Disk] as First Boot Device? No change. :-( -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-needed-w--HighPoint-RocketRAID-3120-on-FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE-tp21479839p21501771.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD USB Install
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: This seems to be a bit of a sideline... but how does it work if you move the disk around? Assuming generic kernel, you should be boot that kernel on practically any machine- right? But I had trouble with it not finding the drive- boot manager ok, install fine, just won't boot. I assumed that the da0xxx was simply a pointer (programming speak) so that if you inserted the disk somewhere else (another port, another m/c, etc) it may not point to the same place for booting. Would this be right? I haven't had an issue with it finding the loader yet (but I'm not using GRUB, I'm using the FreeBSD loader). And following the directions linked above, I used the geom label process, so I don't have to worry about /dev/daXs1d or whatever it was detected on...just use /dev/ufs/FreeBSDStick (or whatever you label it). --Brian _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me. -- Bill Murray, Ghostbusters ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant Not a chance- why do you think you have to install Window$ first? Gates and his cronies aren't going to make it easy for you to install free software, and so they make it as hard as possible hoping you'll install Window$ and give up. I haven't heard of anywhere that any of the freeloaders (pardon the pun) that can boot a M$ system- only paid for software like Bootmagic. Or use the M$ loader in window$ to boot other systems- strange that it should be able to do that, but then most of the OSS is KISS based rather than the rigmarole M$ go to. Again, I could be outdated and/or wrong on this, but I doubt it has changed. This primarily applies to Vista, although it might work with other versions of Windows. It is possible to install FreeBSD or Linux, and possibly other OS's prior to the installation of Microsoft's Windows. Check out these two URLs for further information. http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Linux http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/installing-grub-on-freebsd/ You will also need the sysutils/grub port installed. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I have the hard disk connected to the XP box? If you're happy to leave FreeBSD on its own disk (rather than importing into a .vmdk), simply create a new VM and tell VMware to Use a physical disk in the Select a Disk part of the configuration. Point it at the required drive and away you go. I have used this before to allow me to both boot my PC to FreeBSD, and to Windows with FreeBSD still available. The thing is, I want to give the whole setup from that disk to a friend to run as a server, and he's bent on running it under virtualization. I offered to clone this to a disk for him but he says he wants me to help him run it under VMWare as a guest OS. Is it possible to make a DVD out of an already running server, which can be used to install it anywhere you feel like? If I cannot do any of the two above, then I have to install everything afresh for him as a guest on his virtualization platform and that is time-consuming! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Did FreeBSD lose 83% of core developers?
Hello everyone, bsdconferen...@youtube (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0) presents a talk of Jason Dixon (BSD is Dying, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2007) mentioning what I ask within the subject: Did FreeBSD lose 83% of core developers? I never heard about that. What's the background of this message? Or is it just a joke? Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheu...@gwdg.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:20:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant Not a chance- why do you think you have to install Window$ first? Gates and his cronies aren't going to make it easy for you to install free software, and so they make it as hard as possible hoping you'll install Window$ and give up. I don't think you read what he wrote carefully. You are right in your statement about MS having to be first and not accomodating any other system. But, for those very reasons, his statement is correct. He has Win already on the disk. He wants to use the _FreeBSD_ system to write the _FreeBSD_ MBR which will happily boot both MS-Win and FreeBSD. I boot MS quite regularly with the FreeBSD MBR. It is the standard recommended way of doing a dual boot. The machine on which I am presently typing is dual boot with MS-XP and FreeBSD and it uses only the FreeBSD MBR with no problem. jerry I haven't heard of anywhere that any of the freeloaders (pardon the pun) that can boot a M$ system- only paid for software like Bootmagic. Or use the M$ loader in window$ to boot other systems- strange that it should be able to do that, but then most of the OSS is KISS based rather than the rigmarole M$ go to. Again, I could be outdated and/or wrong on this, but I doubt it has changed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:08:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant Not a chance- why do you think you have to install Window$ first? Gates and his cronies aren't going to make it easy for you to install free software, and so they make it as hard as possible hoping you'll install Window$ and give up. I haven't heard of anywhere that any of the freeloaders (pardon the pun) that can boot a M$ system- only paid for software like Bootmagic. Or use the M$ loader in window$ to boot other systems- strange that it should be able to do that, but then most of the OSS is KISS based rather than the rigmarole M$ go to. Again, I could be outdated and/or wrong on this, but I doubt it has changed. This primarily applies to Vista, although it might work with other versions of Windows. It is possible to install FreeBSD or Linux, and possibly other OS's prior to the installation of Microsoft's Windows. Check out these two URLs for further information. http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Linux http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/installing-grub-on-freebsd/ You will also need the sysutils/grub port installed. You can make it happen, but it is much more straightforward and less troublesome to leave the MS stuff as the first slice on the disk and put the other things after it reguardless of which MBR you use. jerry -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I have the hard disk connected to the XP box? If you're happy to leave FreeBSD on its own disk (rather than importing into a .vmdk), simply create a new VM and tell VMware to Use a physical disk in the Select a Disk part of the configuration. Point it at the required drive and away you go. I have used this before to allow me to both boot my PC to FreeBSD, and to Windows with FreeBSD still available. The thing is, I want to give the whole setup from that disk to a friend to run as a server, and he's bent on running it under virtualization. I offered to clone this to a disk for him but he says he wants me to help him run it under VMWare as a guest OS. Is it possible to make a DVD out of an already running server, which can be used to install it anywhere you feel like? If I cannot do any of the two above, then I have to install everything afresh for him as a guest on his virtualization platform and that is time-consuming! While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html DAve -- The whole internet thing is sucking the life out of me, there ain't no pony in there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I have the hard disk connected to the XP box? If you're happy to leave FreeBSD on its own disk (rather than importing into a .vmdk), simply create a new VM and tell VMware to Use a physical disk in the Select a Disk part of the configuration. Point it at the required drive and away you go. I have used this before to allow me to both boot my PC to FreeBSD, and to Windows with FreeBSD still available. /JMS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE
Another user wrote: Try to reload a boot manager with the new boot order. It may be the bios is renumbering the drives with the boot order. I have several plug in cards and have had to to this. Boot manager is on ad0 but boot order looks to ad6 first. You could use another manager like GAG, my fav. You may need to force file system mount and edit the fstab after moving everything around. (Another user sent the above to me in e-mail, but I had trouble replying to him, and I didn't see it on Nabble.) OK, this is interesting, but I admit I don't know much about boot managers. Can you please elaborate a little more on this? Is this something I can do from the FixIt shell? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-needed-w--HighPoint-RocketRAID-3120-on-FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE-tp21479839p21502779.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6
On 1/16/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. What is its output on battery and on ac? pciconv -lvc -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6
On 1/16/09, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. What is its output on battery and on ac? pciconv -lvc s/pciconv/pciconf/ -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html I can't remember why I didn't use this when I last did P2V on a FreeBSD box, but I ended up just creating a VM with a new vmdk of the correct size and then using dd over nc to copy the disk from the physical machine, which worked fine too. An important gotcha is if the host is IDE but you create your VM with SCSI disks (e.g. for ESX) and the disk devices change name :) /JMS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html I can't remember why I didn't use this when I last did P2V on a FreeBSD box, but I ended up just creating a VM with a new vmdk of the correct size and then using dd over nc to copy the disk from the physical machine, which worked fine too. An important gotcha is if the host is IDE but you create your VM with SCSI disks (e.g. for ESX) and the disk devices change name :) Hi JMS, Could you kindly share the steps you followed? It looks like that's what I have to do, as this app is commercial and I don't have that money now:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
DAve wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html DAve VMware Converter on supports source physical machines running 64-bit Windows XP/2003, WinNT SP4+, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003. If you want to convert a FreeBSD machine, it's going to take some additional work. There is probably a simpler way, but one option is to: * Put the disk in a machine running VMWare Server * Create a VM with both access to the physical disk and an appropriately sized virtual disk * Boot a hard drive cloning ISO such as G4U inside the virtual machine * Clone the physical disk to the VM's virtual disk * Reconfigure the VM to use only the virtual disk; it should boot just fine * Ship off the contents of the VM folder to your friend. -Steve Polyack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, James Seward james...@gmail.com mailto:james...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com mailto:dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html I can't remember why I didn't use this when I last did P2V on a FreeBSD box, but I ended up just creating a VM with a new vmdk of the correct size and then using dd over nc to copy the disk from the physical machine, which worked fine too. An important gotcha is if the host is IDE but you create your VM with SCSI disks (e.g. for ESX) and the disk devices change name :) Hi JMS, Could you kindly share the steps you followed? It looks like that's what I have to do, as this app is commercial and I don't have that money now:-) Nope, the starter edition is free. Believe me, if we had to pay for it, my boss wouldn't let me use it 8^( DAve -- The whole internet thing is sucking the life out of me, there ain't no pony in there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Nope, the starter edition is free. Believe me, if we had to pay for it, my boss wouldn't let me use it 8^( What are the restrictions on the starter version? Maybe one of those is why I ended up not using it. If it will do it, it will definitely be the most efficient route. /JMS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant Not a chance- why do you think you have to install Window$ first? Gates and his cronies aren't going to make it easy for you to install free software, and so they make it as hard as possible hoping you'll install Window$ and give up. That is completely off the wall wrong. You can install FreeBSD first and then Windows and you CAN fix the boot issue yourself with the cd OR you can add it to windows loader. you're just wrting the bootsector. not hard to do. I haven't heard of anywhere that any of the freeloaders (pardon the pun) that can boot a M$ system- only paid for software like Bootmagic. Or use the M$ loader in window$ to boot other systems- strange that it should be able to do that, but then most of the OSS is KISS based rather than the rigmarole M$ go to. Again, I could be outdated and/or wrong on this, but I doubt it has changed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Could you kindly share the steps you followed? It looks like that's what I have to do, as this app is commercial and I don't have that money now:-) Here's a page that describes the process: http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html The only change I'd suggest to that is adding something like bs=1M to the dd command on the source to speed up reading a bit. You can also achieve this with dump instead of dd if you want to change the disk size, for example. When I did it I believe I booted both sides off a FreeSBIE disc/ISO since it offers a nicer environment than e.g. the recovery console. The LiveCD option in sysinstall may also be a good way to go. /JMS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Did FreeBSD lose 83% of core developers?
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Konrad Heuer kheu...@gwdg.de wrote: Hello everyone, bsdconferen...@youtube (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0) presents a talk of Jason Dixon (BSD is Dying, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2007) mentioning what I ask within the subject: Did FreeBSD lose 83% of core developers? It actually says 93% ;) I never heard about that. What's the background of this message? Or is it just a joke? Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheu...@gwdg.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Runtime de/encryption
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:59:34PM +0100, Marco wrote: Hello List, i'am using the geom framework for quite a time. I'am happy about gbde/geli implementations(beside the race condition in geli) however, i wonder since some time, as the data may get exposed on a running server(as the partitions decrypted) On-disk encryption is not meant to secure access on a running machine. File and directory contents are only decrypted in memory, not on disk when you read them. You should use normal file permissions and possibly ACL's to restrict access to mounted filesystems. There are of course data structures in the kernel that contain decrypted information about the volume. But if an attacker can grab that info from a running kernel you've got bigger problems... is there a way to do some kind of runtime de/encyrption, with keys? so that only special users with the right handle can encrypt or decrypt data? so talking about another filesystem layer... I don't think there is something like that can be easily done. You'd have to alter the semantics of systems calls like open(2) and read(2) to use passwords. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpQa6d2OJ0Zj.pgp Description: PGP signature
RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram www# uname -a FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 r...@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its last boot. It looks like as the Free line trends down, the Inact value trends up to keep the total Mem used at the installed 12G I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. Is anyone familiar with this or if it means trouble or what might be the cause? Thanks Tim last pid: 67240; load averages: 0.16, 0.14, 0.10 up 5+22:44:26 12:32:54 109 processes: 1 running, 107 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU 0: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.5% idle CPU 1: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.9% idle CPU 2: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.8% interrupt, 98.1% idle CPU 3: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 383M Active, 9507M Inact, 424M Wired, 129M Cache, 214M Buf, 1447M Free Swap: 2014M Total, 2014M Free ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
BUG or FEATURE
Здравствуйте, Questions. I have two routing tables, three LAN: one internal, two external. I have connected VIA VPN to server through internal LAN. if in firewall I add: setfib 1 all from internal.lan.ip to any The packet inside VPN tunnel is marked to have fib 1 and will leave router acording routing table 2 (fib 1) If client IP is 10.0.0.2 and router IP is 10.0.0.1 and LAN interface is rl2 If VPN interface on router is ng0 and framed IP for VPN client is 192.168.0.2 it seems that setfib 1 all from internal.lan.ip to any in recv rl2 is equivalent to setfib 1 all from 192.168.0.2 to any in recv ng0 Is this feature or bug that packet inside tunnel is also marked to have same fib as tunnel/transport packet has? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu writes: My Machine: Dell 2850 PE w/ 12 GB of Ram www# uname -a FreeBSD www 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 6 19:24:57 EST 2009 r...@www:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL64 amd64 When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its last boot. It looks like as the Free line trends down, the Inact value trends up to keep the total Mem used at the installed 12G I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. Is anyone familiar with this or if it means trouble or what might be the cause? Thanks Tim last pid: 67240; load averages: 0.16, 0.14, 0.10 up 5+22:44:26 12:32:54 109 processes: 1 running, 107 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU 0: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.5% idle CPU 1: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 98.9% idle CPU 2: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.8% interrupt, 98.1% idle CPU 3: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 383M Active, 9507M Inact, 424M Wired, 129M Cache, 214M Buf, 1447M Free Swap: 2014M Total, 2014M Free See the FreeBSD FAQ entry titled Why does top show very little free memory even when I have very few programs running?. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu wrote: I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it doesn't free memory as long as there's a better use for it. It just maintains a few percent free for interrupt handling. It's in the FAQ. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7.1, PF errors - Cannot allocate memory
Hello, We've recently upgraded our PF firewalls from FreeBSD 6.3 to FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2. Since doing so, we are receiving intermittent errors on reloading the PF configuration. At first, we receive Cannot allocate memory errors on specific table names. These tables worked properly on FreeBSD 6.3, and are less than 60,000 entries each. Sometimes, flushing the table will work, but recently, we started getting the following error, even with every table cleared: DIOCADDRULE: Cannot allocate memory The server has plenty of memory, and again, was running fine under 6.3. Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks, Mike Sweetser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: vipw and bash login shell
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Kurt Bigler k...@breathsense.com wrote: Hi, When I used vipw to change the login shell to /usr/local/bin/bash (which is listed in /etc/shells, and was built from ports), subsequent ssh login attempts fail (password rejected). If I change the shell back to /bin/sh or /bin/csh then login works again. If I instead use webmin Users and Groups to set the login shell to bash (or any other shell), everything is fine. There is a delay of quite a few seconds for the webmin Save operation to complete, whereas after ZZ the vipw completes without any perceptible delay. Kurt, What happens if you change the shell via chsh? What happens if you attempt to set a different shell, like /bin/tcsh? Do you get the same result when you log in from within the shell using login or su? What does the user's login line look like in /etc/master.passwd after either vipw or webmin? Are you certain you aren't doing something silly with your editor like a line wrap or DOS newlines? If you want to debug, you can try doing ssh -v and / or sshd -d. Good luck! Sincerely, -daniel -- http://dannyman.toldme.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
Thanks to all who responded. I am familiar with the FAQ and what it says about memory handling. This is my first time with installed RAM over 8 Gig in an AMD environment so I was just making sure there wasn't something going on that looked odd to anyone else. Tim RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu wrote: I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it doesn't free memory as long as there's a better use for it. It just maintains a few percent free for interrupt handling. It's in the FAQ. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot install php5-gd!!!
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.comwrote: perikillo wrote: Hi people. I want to install some ports that depends this module php5-gd (phpmyadmin example), I update my ports every day, but I still getting this error: bacula# pwd /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd bacula# make install clean === php5-gd-5.2.8 has known vulnerabilities: = php5-gd -- uninitialized memory information disclosure vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/58a3c266-db01-11dd-ae30-001cc0377035.html = Please update your ports tree and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd. I have been trying today, but no success, someone knows anything about this? FreeBSD 6.1-p21 Thanks for your support!!! Well, it seems it suffers from an unpatched vulnerability. You can still install it if you really want to, using stg like: make install clean -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES but whether it would be wise to do so, is definitely questionable. Thanks men. This is a internal server, will not be reachable from outside, but I need some ports that need this package. Thanks for again for your advised, greetings!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
skype permissions
I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its last boot. It looks like as the Free line trends down, the Inact value trends up to keep the total Mem used at the installed 12G ALL unused memory is used as disk cache in FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. Rem What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: skype --resources=/usr/local/share/skype Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. Also try chmod a+rx /usr/local/share/skype/skype Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:02:30PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. I have never used skype, (might try one of these days) but is it possible you have to set the Set-UID bit? eg chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/skype ?? That's a little nasty, but... jerry Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore it, leave it alone - anyway as long as MS-SP isn't bothered by it. jerry I have a HP laptop which came with a recovery partition. I don't have windows on the laptop now but I used to and: a) somewhere there is a utility to make recovery dvds which do the same job so you can remove the recovery partition. b) there is a HP backup and recovery utility - you might have to install it from the HP software. There is an option to remove the recovery partition with it. The dvd creation utility might be part of the back and recovery partition. I've used the recovery dvd's 2 or 3 times, they work fine, including recreating the recovery partition. Sorry i can't give you more exact details, HTH. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore it, leave it alone - anyway as long as MS-SP isn't bothered by it. jerry I have a HP laptop which came with a recovery partition. I don't have windows on the laptop now but I used to and: a) somewhere there is a utility to make recovery dvds which do the same job so you can remove the recovery partition. b) there is a HP backup and recovery utility - you might have to install it from the HP software. There is an option to remove the recovery partition with it. Sure, you can nuke the vendor maintenance slice if you want to and get rid of the MS stuff as well at the same time. But, the OP seemed to want to keep those and add FreeBSD to the system. jerry The dvd creation utility might be part of the back and recovery partition. I've used the recovery dvd's 2 or 3 times, they work fine, including recreating the recovery partition. Sorry i can't give you more exact details, HTH. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:19 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 1/16/09, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. What is its output on battery and on ac? pciconv -lvc pciconf -lvc: snip a...@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x14e51043 chip=0x10481969 rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)' device = 'L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass= ethernet cap 01[40] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 05[48] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit cap 10[58] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint cap 03[6c] = VPD /snip dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 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 is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Jan 15 16:27:55 EST 2009 ad...@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz (2194.51-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6fb Stepping = 11 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0xe3bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 usable memory = 1051660288 (1002 MB) avail memory = 1013219328 (966 MB) ACPI APIC Table: A_M_I_ OEMAPIC FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: _ASUS_ Notebook on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) unknown: I/O range not supported unknown: I/O range not supported acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 3f70 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: High Precision Event Timer iomem 0xfed0-0xfed003ff on acpi0 Timecounter HPET frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xfeb0-0xfebf,0xd000-0xdfff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: Intel GM965 SVGA controller on vgapci0 agp0: detected 7676k stolen memory agp0: aperture size is 256M vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0xfe90-0xfe9f at device 2.1 on pci0 uhci0: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB-D port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 16 at device 26.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB-D on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB-E port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 21 at device 26.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB-E on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB 2.0 controller USB2-B mem 0xfeaff400-0xfeaff7ff irq 18 at device 26.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci0: [ITHREAD] usb2: EHCI version 1.0 usb2: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB 2.0 controller USB2-B on ehci0 usb2: USB revision 2.0 uhub2: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb2 uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ugen0: Syntek Semiconductor USB 2.0 Image Capture Controller, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.05, addr 2 on uhub2 pci0: multimedia at device 27.0 (no driver attached) pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 17 at device 28.1 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 18 at device 28.2 on pci0 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 age0: Attansic Technology Corp, L1 Gigabit Ethernet mem 0xfdcc-0xfdcf irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3 age0: master reset timeout! age0: reset timeout(0x)! age0: PCI device revision : 0x00b0 age0: Chip id/revision : 0x age0: invalid chip revision : 0x -- not initialized? device_attach: age0 attach returned 6 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 19 at device 28.3
Re: skype permissions
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. Rem What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: skype --resources=/usr/local/share/skype Beech Yeah, I tried 755 earlier, and a+rx. No dice. Regardless of how I set the permissions (so far) when I try to launch as user I get the same Permission denied routine. Weird. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:02:30PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. I have never used skype, (might try one of these days) but is it possible you have to set the Set-UID bit? eg chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/skype ?? That's a little nasty, but... jerry It was worth a shot, but nothing doing. What's interesting is that on another system that had PC-BSD installed the program would play alright, but if you closed down the system and rebooted it would ask for root's password in order for Skype to play. Something's definitely weird here. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:05 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore it, leave it alone - anyway as long as MS-SP isn't bothered by it. jerry I have a HP laptop which came with a recovery partition. I don't have windows on the laptop now but I used to and: a) somewhere there is a utility to make recovery dvds which do the same job so you can remove the recovery partition. b) there is a HP backup and recovery utility - you might have to install it from the HP software. There is an option to remove the recovery partition with it. Sure, you can nuke the vendor maintenance slice if you want to and get rid of the MS stuff as well at the same time. But, the OP seemed to want to keep those and add FreeBSD to the system. jerry Thats how I read it too. That said I'll recognize you guys as the experts- its been years since I had to dual boot! I seem to have forgotten a lot of it... :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. Rem This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and shouldn't require any permission changes. Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? Beech The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. Rem What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: skype --resources=/usr/local/share/skype Beech Oops. I forgot to post this (gulp)...when I do the above this results: ELF interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found Abort trap Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Freebsd standards compliance
I'm just in the middle of researching the core of Freebsd (for want of a better term) so I can understand how to fix and create software and drivers. Can people clarify my understanding here? According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? From what I can tell ANSI C is the standard, and POSIX is an implementation(?) of that standard (threads, i/o, etc)? Which version of these standards is Freebsd at- c89, c90, c99, POSIX 1(b,c, etc)? Excuse my ignorance- for reference I am reading the Developers guidebook and the architecture book atm :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Help with: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6
I need help with this. I'm trying to create a software RAID1. I followed the instructions in man page http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrolsektion=8apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE atacontrol(8) atacontrol(8) wrote: [snip] A quick and dirty way to create such a mirrored array on a new system is to boot off the FreeBSD install CD, do a minimal scratch install, abort out of the post install questions, and at the command line issue the com- mand: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 then immediately issue a reboot and boot from the installation CD again, and during the installation, you will now see ar0 listed as a disk to install on, and install on that instead of ad4, ad6, etc. [snip] I did the above exactly as stated, except when I reboot ar0 just disappears. What went wrong? Or, please point out what I missed. :confused: I've tried setting the SATA type in BIOS to either Native IDE or AHCI modes. If I set it to RAID mode, the installation says no disks found. When I boot up, either from the CD or from ad4, I see both disks, ad4 ad6. When I do the atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 command and then atacontrol status ar0, it reports that ar0 is READY, but when I reboot, it's gone. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-with%3A--atacontrol-create-RAID1-ad4-ad6-tp21511186p21511186.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command prompt. I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the following: @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ -- Joakim Fogelberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command prompt. I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the following: @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Joakim... Which version of freebsd are you using? With all of the chmods that I've been doing things began to get a little bunged up. Couldn't even bring Skype up as root. So I deinstalled Skype via pkg-cutleaves and reinstalled. In the process I had to also do a deinstall/reinstall of linux_base-fc6. So now I'm back to the original setup. I assume that you followed the directives of UPDATING 20080318 in order for you to get Skype to work. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command prompt. What happens if you do: /usr/local/share/skype/skype as a normal user? I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the following: @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ copytree_share does create the dir first if it doesn't exist. FWIW, I loaded xfwm and tried to reproduce this, but it works fine as a normal user on my -current box. I doubt if it would be any different on a 7.x box. I've seen this problem once or twice before, but both me and Skype are at a loss to explain why it's happening. I'll chat with the Skype devs later this evening and see if one of them has any suggestions. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore it, leave it alone - anyway as long as MS-SP isn't bothered by it. jerry I have a HP laptop which came with a recovery partition. I don't have windows on the laptop now but I used to and: a) somewhere there is a utility to make recovery dvds which do the same job so you can remove the recovery partition. b) there is a HP backup and recovery utility - you might have to install it from the HP software. There is an option to remove the recovery partition with it. Sure, you can nuke the vendor maintenance slice if you want to and get rid of the MS stuff as well at the same time. But, the OP seemed to want to keep those and add FreeBSD to the system. jerry I meant to suggest that you can put the recovery slice onto DVD to reclaim an additional 5gb disk space. So my whole procedure would be - create backup dvd's (with the HP backup and recovery manager software if I'm right in thinking that's where this utility lives). Test them! - get rid of the recovery slice using the backup and recovery manager. XP should now be the first slice (primary partition) if it wasn't already - use gparted or other suitable utility to shrink the XP slice - install FreeBSD in the new free space. If the laptop is still under warranty you probably need to be able to reinstall it to factory state before you can talk to them about a warranty claim - hence the recovery dvd's. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command prompt. What happens if you do: /usr/local/share/skype/skype as a normal user? Same thing: Permission denied. I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the following: @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ copytree_share does create the dir first if it doesn't exist. FWIW, I loaded xfwm and tried to reproduce this, but it works fine as a normal user on my -current box. I doubt if it would be any different on a 7.x box. I've seen this problem once or twice before, but both me and Skype are at a loss to explain why it's happening. I'll chat with the Skype devs later this evening and see if one of them has any suggestions. Beech Thank you! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Friday 16 January 2009 15:32:47 Rem P Roberti wrote: Beech Rintoul wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command prompt. What happens if you do: /usr/local/share/skype/skype as a normal user? Same thing: Permission denied. Wierd, and you're sure that binary is executable by all? I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the following: @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ copytree_share does create the dir first if it doesn't exist. FWIW, I loaded xfwm and tried to reproduce this, but it works fine as a normal user on my -current box. I doubt if it would be any different on a 7.x box. I've seen this problem once or twice before, but both me and Skype are at a loss to explain why it's happening. I'll chat with the Skype devs later this evening and see if one of them has any suggestions. Beech Thank you! -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
What happens if you do: /usr/local/share/skype/skype as a normal user? Same thing: Permission denied. Wierd, and you're sure that binary is executable by all? -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 78 Jan 16 16:15 skype Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. -- Joakim Fogelberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd standards compliance
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? There are parts of FreeBSD that are deliberately BSD compliant instead of POSIX compliant, because this is how they traditionally worked. I am not a standards' expert, so if you want more details it may be better to ask by email to the freebsd-standards mailing list. From what I can tell ANSI C is the standard, and POSIX is an implementation(?) of that standard (threads, i/o, etc)? Which version of these standards is Freebsd at- c89, c90, c99, POSIX 1(b,c, etc)? ISO/IEC 9899:1999 is the standard for the C programming language (ANSI C is a bit ambiguous, because it may refer to an older standard depending on the context). This standard has a non-zero intersection with more than one standard of the IEEE 1003 series (what is commonly referred to as POSIX), but they are not the same, and it is nto correct to say that one of them is just an `implementation' of the other. There is a bit of information about 'c89', 'c90' and 'ANSI C' in the Texinfo manual of GCC. It may help clarify some of the terms: % info '(gcc)' and look at the ``Language Standards Supported by GCC'' section. Most of FreeBSD compiles in 'c90' mode. There are a few parts of the kernel and userland source that use GCC extensions. There are also parts that use C99 features, i.e. (a) declaration of local variables in the block they are used, instead of the start of a function, (b) the C99 syntax for partially initializing structures, and so on. Then there are ISO/IEC 9899:1999 features that are not available in the combination of GCC version and our system libraries. So you can't really say that the entire FreeBSD source is `at c90' or `at c99'. The `FreeBSD C99 and POSIX Comformance Project' is an effort to work on these issues. More information is available online at: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its last boot. It looks like as the Free line trends down, the Inact value trends up to keep the total Mem used at the installed 12G ALL unused memory is used as disk cache in FreeBSD. Although, looking at the output of top, most of the memory is in the inactive state. As I understand it cache pages go from active to cached, and the inactive queue contains pages that need to be written out to swap before they can be reused. The very high level of inactive memory looks suspiciously like a memory-leak to me. Hopefully someone who knows more about this will step in - don't take my word for it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command prompt. I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the following: @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Joakim... Which version of freebsd are you using? With all of the chmods that I've been doing things began to get a little bunged up. Couldn't even bring Skype up as root. So I deinstalled Skype via pkg-cutleaves and reinstalled. In the process I had to also do a deinstall/reinstall of linux_base-fc6. So now I'm back to the original setup. I assume that you followed the directives of UPDATING 20080318 in order for you to get Skype to work. Rem 7.1-RELEASE-p2 will-try [~] sysctl compat.linux.osrelease compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16 linux_base-f8-8_10 linproc mounted OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE=f8 in /etc/make.conf I didn't follow the directives in UPDATING, as I just recently reinstalled all ports. Since I had to recompile many of them due to gnome-2.24 anyway, I took the opportunity get a fresh installation. However, looking at the entry in UPDATING I see that I have followed the directives. -- Joakim Fogelberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the Mem: line I've been watching the number and it has been slowly decreasing over the 5 days since its last boot. It looks like as the Free line trends down, the Inact value trends up to keep the total Mem used at the installed 12G ALL unused memory is used as disk cache in FreeBSD. Although, looking at the output of top, most of the memory is in the inactive state. As I understand it cache pages go from active to cached, and the inactive queue contains pages that need to be written out to swap before they can be reused. No. It just means they're not active -- nothing has touched them recently. They may be dirty. They may not be. Recently means the last 20 seconds to a minute, depending. The very high level of inactive memory looks suspiciously like a memory-leak to me. Hopefully someone who knows more about this will step in - don't take my word for it. I have no data on the system in question, but it's very common for a machine to have large amounts of inactive memory, particularly one that's not under any sort of memory pressure. My basically idle workstation has 1.5 GB of memory, 5 MB free, and over a gig inactive. Since I'm not doing anything with it (I'm writing this from another machine), and its just hanging out, this is what I'd expect. Should it do something that requires memory, the pager will toss clean inactive pages to the free list, and they'll be reused. Of course, if what they're required for is something they already have in them (like the code segments of recently terminated application that's restarted), they'll get reused, saving having to read them from disk. The only time you'll large amounts of memory on the Free list is when a machine is first booted and hasn't touched that memory for anything, or when an application that's got a large dyanmically allocated block of memory terminates. The rest of the time, the free list should be small. If the machine isn't swapping, there's usually nothing to worry about. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd standards compliance
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 03:21 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:39 +1000, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: According to wikipedia Freebsd is only mostly compliant with POSIX, yet BSD/OS is fully- why would this be? There are parts of FreeBSD that are deliberately BSD compliant instead of POSIX compliant, because this is how they traditionally worked. I am not a standards' expert, so if you want more details it may be better to ask by email to the freebsd-standards mailing list. From what I can tell ANSI C is the standard, and POSIX is an implementation(?) of that standard (threads, i/o, etc)? Which version of these standards is Freebsd at- c89, c90, c99, POSIX 1(b,c, etc)? ISO/IEC 9899:1999 is the standard for the C programming language (ANSI C is a bit ambiguous, because it may refer to an older standard depending on the context). This standard has a non-zero intersection with more than one standard of the IEEE 1003 series (what is commonly referred to as POSIX), but they are not the same, and it is nto correct to say that one of them is just an `implementation' of the other. There is a bit of information about 'c89', 'c90' and 'ANSI C' in the Texinfo manual of GCC. It may help clarify some of the terms: % info '(gcc)' and look at the ``Language Standards Supported by GCC'' section. Most of FreeBSD compiles in 'c90' mode. There are a few parts of the kernel and userland source that use GCC extensions. There are also parts that use C99 features, i.e. (a) declaration of local variables in the block they are used, instead of the start of a function, (b) the C99 syntax for partially initializing structures, and so on. Then there are ISO/IEC 9899:1999 features that are not available in the combination of GCC version and our system libraries. So you can't really say that the entire FreeBSD source is `at c90' or `at c99'. The `FreeBSD C99 and POSIX Comformance Project' is an effort to work on these issues. More information is available online at: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html I'm glad I asked that and got the right answer otherwise I would have started on the wrong preposition. That clarifies it for me nicely- I'll have a look into those areas then... knowing my nature I'll probably come back with a few more questions :P Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
OK...get this. As stated earlier I did a complete reinstall of Skype. I shut down the system for a while, and when I brought it back up and called Skype from a user's command line the licensing window came up, followed by the sign on window . But when I try to log on it tells me that another instance of Skype may be running. That's as far as it goes. But, of course, if I call Skype from root's command line the program loads perfectly. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 15:15:13 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Joakim Fogelberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul be...@freebsd.org wrote: What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype and start with: This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome menu. Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling Skype from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using Xfce as my desktop. Rem Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command prompt. What happens if you do: /usr/local/share/skype/skype as a normal user? No problem for me. Skype is started without any problems. I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the following: @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} @cd ${WRKSRC}/${COPYTREE_SHARE} avatars icons sounds lang ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ copytree_share does create the dir first if it doesn't exist. FWIW, I loaded xfwm and tried to reproduce this, but it works fine as a normal user on my -current box. I doubt if it would be any different on a 7.x box. I've seen this problem once or twice before, but both me and Skype are at a loss to explain why it's happening. I'll chat with the Skype devs later this evening and see if one of them has any suggestions. I have 7.1-RELEASE-p2 installed. compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16 linprocfs mounted linux_base-f8-8_10 I changed to root (su -) before I installed skype. root's shell is /bin/csh. umask is 22. I can\t recall that I should have done anything creative with the root account. I just removed skype, checked that /usr/local/share/skype were removed, and reinstalled skype (this time I actually logged in as root instead of using 'su -'. I also checked that the umask was 22) with: make WITH_NVIDIA_GL=yes make WITH_NVIDIA_GL=yes install and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/|grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:03 skype I'm not really sure if I understand the COPY_SHARE routine in bsd.port.mk: COPYTREE_SHARE= ${SH} -c '(${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 | ${CPIO} -dumpl $$1 /dev/null \ 21) \ ${CHOWN} -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} $$1 \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type d -exec chmod 755 $$1/{} \; \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type f -exec chmod ${SHAREMODE} $$1/{} \;' -- but it seems to me that the 4:th row change the permission on all directories below /usr/local/share/skype/. However, the permissions for the directory /usr/local/share/skype are not changed. I also made a quick test with cpio, to simulate how /usr/local/share/skype are created: will-try# ls -lR total 0 will-try# mkdir subdir will-try# find subdir | cpio -dumpl rootdir/ 0 blocks will-try# ls -lR total 4 drwx-- 3 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:24 rootdir drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:24 subdir ./rootdir: total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:24 subdir ./rootdir/subdir: total 0 ./subdir: total 0 It seems that the directory created by cpio do indeed get the wrong permissions. Maybe there should be an explicit change of the permission in COPYTREE_SHARE ? (chmod 755 $$1) Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --- -- Joakim Fogelberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Joakim Fogelberg joafog.li...@gmail.com wrote: COPYTREE_SHARE= ${SH} -c '(${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 | ${CPIO} -dumpl $$1 /dev/null \ 21) \ ${CHOWN} -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} $$1 \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type d -exec chmod 755 $$1/{} \; \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type f -exec chmod ${SHAREMODE} $$1/{} \;' -- Sorry for the line wrappings. I'll give it another try... COPYTREE_SHARE= ${SH} -c '(${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 | ${CPIO} -dumpl $$1 /dev/null \ 21) \ ${CHOWN} -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} $$1 \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type d -exec chmod 755 $$1/{} \; \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type f -exec chmod ${SHAREMODE} $$1/{} \;' -- -- Joakim Fogelberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype permissions
I have 7.1-RELEASE-p2 installed. compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16 linprocfs mounted linux_base-f8-8_10 I changed to root (su -) before I installed skype. root's shell is /bin/csh. umask is 22. I can\t recall that I should have done anything creative with the root account. I just removed skype, checked that /usr/local/share/skype were removed, and reinstalled skype (this time I actually logged in as root instead of using 'su -'. I also checked that the umask was 22) with: make WITH_NVIDIA_GL=yes make WITH_NVIDIA_GL=yes install and: will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/|grep skype drwx--6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:03 skype I'm not really sure if I understand the COPY_SHARE routine in bsd.port.mk: COPYTREE_SHARE= ${SH} -c '(${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 | ${CPIO} -dumpl $$1 /dev/null \ 21) \ ${CHOWN} -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} $$1 \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type d -exec chmod 755 $$1/{} \; \ ${FIND} -d $$0 $$2 -type f -exec chmod ${SHAREMODE} $$1/{} \;' -- but it seems to me that the 4:th row change the permission on all directories below /usr/local/share/skype/. However, the permissions for the directory /usr/local/share/skype are not changed. I also made a quick test with cpio, to simulate how /usr/local/share/skype are created: will-try# ls -lR total 0 will-try# mkdir subdir will-try# find subdir | cpio -dumpl rootdir/ 0 blocks will-try# ls -lR total 4 drwx-- 3 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:24 rootdir drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:24 subdir ./rootdir: total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 17 04:24 subdir ./rootdir/subdir: total 0 ./subdir: total 0 It seems that the directory created by cpio do indeed get the wrong permissions. Maybe there should be an explicit change of the permission in COPYTREE_SHARE ? (chmod 755 $$1) Yes, when I change /usr/local/share/skype from drwx-- to drwxr-xr-x I am able to get some response as user. But, as posted earlier, it only goes so far, ending by telling me that another instance of skype may be running (which, of course, it isn't). Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:14:10 -0500 David Scheidt dsche...@panix.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: Although, looking at the output of top, most of the memory is in the inactive state. As I understand it cache pages go from active to cached, and the inactive queue contains pages that need to be written out to swap before they can be reused. No. It just means they're not active -- nothing has touched them recently. They may be dirty. They may not be. Do you know that for a fact, because it contradicts the description in Matt Dillon's VM-design article. The article say that clean pages go to the cache queue and dirty pages go to the inactive queue, and emphasizes the need to keep then separated. If clean pages do go to the inactive queue I'd be interested to know the reason. Since I'm not doing anything with it (I'm writing this from another machine), and its just hanging out, this is what I'd expect. Should it do something that requires memory, the pager will toss clean inactive pages to the free list, and they'll be reused. IIRC, according to the article when you're short of free memory (i.e. most of the time) it's allocated from the cache queue. The queues are rebalanced by flushing inactive pages and moving then to the cache queue, and by pages coming off the active queue. AFAIK pages are taken off the active queue when there is a significant need for rebalancing. I've seen memory hang about there pretty much indefinitely after I shut down kde/xorg - much longer than 20-60 seconds. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [Fwd: Re: programs...]
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:22:40PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: What about Miro? Somelike like miro is a start, but may need a special or different kind of interface. Say that you KNOW you want to hear a show on the BBC every week. [Sure, just set it up on Google, right...?] Have the same podcast-storing//link caching deal on miro. Or say that you missing a broadcast of NOVA on a few days,weeks back. You don't knoe if the show is webcast, it's name, it's date(s). Miro is one of the few streams that always just-works. Be great to have just-one-program whose stream never failed. If it were available for d/load, or if I could intercept/capture the stream somehow for when I had TIME to watch/listen... Outstanding. Feedback, anybody?? gary Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ Music/audio only, or video too? When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! Ha! Well, I stand to inherit my daughter's MacBook in a few years. Okay, so if Apple has this, can I use it? I mean for-free, not having to sub to some monthly deal or whatever? This is an idea I thought up a couple years ago when all the audio podcasts began appearing. At any rate, seems to me that the open-* community could do at least as well as our brother hackers at Apple. Just a thought. Come Monday, OZ-time, I'll let everybody know my major idea. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portupgrade - portmaster?
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Having used portupgrade for several years I'm thinking to make the switch to portmaster since both of them seem to be fully supported as far as upgrading ports is concerned. Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? Caveats/pitfalls? Is there also a way back, i.e. from portmaster to portupgrade? What are your experiences with portmaster, esp. in terms of stability, handling, features? Thanks much in advance, -ewald I'll be honest -- I've tried portupgrade, then portmaster, then dabbled with porteasy. Then a buddy mentioned pkg_replace. I never tried pkg_replace but the documented and recommended way to upgrade ports were not followed (in my eyes) by any of those... so I made my own based from the borne shell only. It relies 100% on the ports subsystem to do it's work and it doesn't try to shortcut the process. So what my system does (which isn't released, won't be released in the forseeable future)... Forces a warning of the upgrading process may loose some package if you cancel out of it Forces a display of the UPGRADING file... then the MOVED file. Asks the user if it's OK to proceed, given the UPDATING and MOVED files may have given special instructions for something. Scans for the outdated ports, optionally using the INDEX file Re-calls itself to upgrade each port in turn found above Gives options to do stages, such as building without installing Logs the process in memory, and logs the final result in a logfile and prints it to the screen Most importantly, I love the concept that it has no external prerequisites. In the end, I think it works really well but since I don't feel confident that it's bugfree and ready for dedicated and production servers -- I am not releasing it to the public (yet?). /soapbox But if I were to recommend anything, go through the ports-mgmt category and find something that works for you, or roll your own. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1060 Official bug to support it natively. Please register and vote for it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Replace SCSI Drive
Grant Peel wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable OS on a labeled disk, it seems silly. I propose: Do a typical install of FreeBSD 6.4/7.1 on this disk. Let it be as full as to boot an operating system (but maybe skip out on the networking blah blah setups). Bring this (verified) bootable disk to the NOC, install it as da0 Move the old, 73GB failing disk to da1 Boot the Dell, maybe running in single-user mode You've got a pristine format (or pristine enough) to restore the filesystems on top of it. Rebooting with da0 again to see if your network settings, startup, apps, etc etc etc all start as appropriate. Only if this method fails, do you use the Fixit CD and fix it This is good, especially if he wants to upgrade to the next version of FreeBSD at the same time. But IIRC the problem is not that the OS currently on the disk does not work, but that there are some problems with the disk itself - but that it is still readable. It is more about replacing the disk with another presumed more reliable than the current one. So, in that case, it is much easier to take the few minutes to build the disk slice partitions and then just do the dump/restores than to build everything new and then hand pick the things he wants to save from the old disk. But, if an upgrade is done at the same time - probably a good idea actually - then that hand picking will be done anyway, so might as well do it as you say. I took it straight from his original question rather than from the notion of doing an upgrade along the way. jerry Am I crazy to think this is the more logical, more straightforward way to perform this migration? If Grant has already done the job, more power to him, but I just found it a little confusing that one would label a drive, format it, and possibly spend more time with the slower CD-ROM based Fixit than running off a nice, new 10k/15k RPM drive to drive everything. If my method above is failing a point, I'd be more than happy to hear your statements and correct my procedures for it. My method above has only one tricky part, is to restore the 'a' partition from olddrive to newdrive. -- and that is probably a piece of cake. Grant, good luck (if you haven't done it yet). --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi Jerry, Since you original reply to my email is still my prefered method, could you please resent it (if you have a copy in your sent items mailbox). I am wrestling with Thunderbird (on freebsd) to import all my email folders from OE, with no success). I do understand all the various methods though and thanks to all for the replies! -Grant You can visit the mail archives. just attach the .txt file to an email to yourself. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: vipw and bash login shell
on 1/16/09 11:16 AM, Daniel Howard danny...@toldme.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Kurt Bigler k...@breathsense.com wrote: When I used vipw to change the login shell to /usr/local/bin/bash (which is listed in /etc/shells, and was built from ports), subsequent ssh login attempts fail (password rejected). If I change the shell back to /bin/sh or /bin/csh then login works again. If I instead use webmin Users and Groups to set the login shell to bash (or any other shell), everything is fine. [snip] What happens if you change the shell via chsh? What happens if you attempt to set a different shell, like /bin/tcsh? Do you get the same result when you log in from within the shell using login or su? What does the user's login line look like in /etc/master.passwd after either vipw or webmin? Are you certain you aren't doing something silly with your editor like a line wrap or DOS newlines? Apologies, I *was* doing something very silly. In vipw, I didn't actually do what I described. Instead I was inserting ba before sh to make bash. But bash doesn't live in /bin, so I had the wrong path as a result. Webmin just gives me a multiple-choice popup, and so I was unable to make the same mistake there. Thanks for your response, which somehow helped me to focus and discover my mistake. -Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org