Re: can FreeBSD run dos
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jud wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:51:50 -0500, fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to different OS's . Can this Os run Wordperfect 5.1 for dos??? It might be possible with Wine, but you would need a FAT partition, so that would definitely be the long way round - you might as well install Win9x in the FAT partition and run WordPerfect on DOS directly. FreeBSD has several good free word processing programs of its own that you may want to look at - see URL: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/editors.html. Jud There's also doscmd(1), but I doubt that it will be able to run WordPerfect. I recommend Jud's suggestion, to look at the FreeBSD ports. Best regards, Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a technical how to
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:51, homeyra g wrote: So, I hope this is the right address for this type of question. If not would you please forward this and/or let me know the correct address. Thanks, Here is the question: How to truncate a file from the begining to a certain point in the file? There's two commands that might be helpful: truncate(1) dd(1) Read about them in the man pages. Hope I was of some help! Best regards, Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen-x'
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Aaron Burke wrote:
3. Avoid using system() which I vaguely recall being described with a
lot of bad words in various places and use fork(), exec(), _exit(),
waitpid() and exit() instead.
How would I do this with exec. According to the man page for exec
I have only a few options.
int execl(const char *path, const char *arg, ...);
int execlp(const char *file, const char *arg, ...);
int execle(const char *path, const char *arg, ...);
int exect(const char *path, char *const argv[],
char *const envp[]);
int execv(const char *path, char *const argv[]);
int execvp(const char *file, char *const argv[]);
Can you point me to the right documentation to learn about
the exec functions provided by unistd.h?
Allthough I am not familiar with unistd.h at all, I did do
a little bit of expermentation.
Here is my new code:
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include unistd.h
int main(int argc, char* pszArgs[])
{
int result, result2;
result= execlp(/usr/bin/su, ppp, -m);
result2=execlp(/usr/local/bin/screen, -x);
return result + result2;
}
bash-2.05$ g++ run-ppp.c
bash-2.05$ ./a.out
bash-2.05$
I am a little supprised that nothing appeared to have happened.
Perhaps I am running these improperly. Am I using the correct
exec command? Can you demonstrate how this should work?
What else could execlp(args) needs to say?
- Giorgos
Thanks for your time.
I think execlp is writing over your current process. So first your
process is exchanged with ppp, then ppp is exchanged with screen. You
have to make a copy of your current process, a.out, by using fork, and
then exchange the process image in this copy using execlp.
I suggest you read more about those functions Giorgos mentioned: fork,
execlp, waitpid, and exit.
Best regards,
Paul
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RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen-x'
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: Found an error in my reply... On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: [big snip] I think execlp is writing over your current process. So first your process is exchanged with ppp, then ppp is exchanged with screen. You have to make a copy of your current process, a.out, by using fork, and then exchange the process image in this copy using execlp. Correction... Your a.out process is replaced with ppp, then nothing else happens, as screen never is called du to the replacement. Best regards, Paul Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
SunOS SPARC
Hi! Is it possible to run SunOS-binaries compiled on a SPARC on i386 FreeBSD? Are there some kind of emulation program for this? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: SunOS SPARC
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:21 +0100 (MET) Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a SPARC box, but thought of running proprietary SunOS-SPARC- binaries on a much better FreeBSD box (better because it's easier to maintain, upgrade packages and so on, on FreeBSD than SunOS). Guess I'll have to stick with the SPARC. Although not directly related to your original question, you might want to know that NetBSD's pkgsrc (the equivalent to FreeBSD's ports) runs on SunOS, it even runs on Linux. That could help you with having up to date software on the Sun box. Check: http://www.netbsd.org/zoularis/ I'll take a look at it! Thank you! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Bios not recognizing correct HD size
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:54 PM Stephen Hovey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're right. So should I just define the drive correctlt in fdisk? If so, what would be the proper settings. usually a drive has em on the drive on something - a sticker/label sorta thing with head, cyl, sect, etc Ok I found out the proper numbers: 39704 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. I defined it that way in the BIOS. When I get to the fdisk part of the install I did 'G'. I then set the geometry according to those numbers and told it to use the entire drive. When I go to define the slices, though, it still thinks the drive is only 2 gigs. What am I doing wrong? Mike Loiterman PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E http://www.ascendency.net Maybe this will work? Set it up in BIOS to be a 2 GB disk. Boot from the floppy/CD, and in fdisk you should give the proper numbers. Create two partitions. The first one to boot from, that should be less than 2 GB, and the second should be the rest of the disk. Now create your slices in the two partitions, and of course / should be on the first one. Maybe this layout could be sufficient for you? Partition 1 (2 GB): / 256 MB (swap) 2*RAM /var The rest of the available space... Partition 2 (18 GB): /usr 18 GB Also make sure the jumpers are correctly set on the drive. Sometimes the jumpers can be set to fake the disk size reported to the BIOS. Hope above information will make it work! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Drive Image / Cloning
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Mike wrote: Hi All What's a good way to clone / Image to another HD? I have 3 boxes that are the same and I have one that is done and ready and want to copy that install to the others. Cheers M;) # /bin/dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=16384 This I use in a cron-job to make an exact copy of my drive every month. You might have to change the ad4 and ad6. You should probably read 'man dd' before using it. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Bios not recognizing correct HD size
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jud wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:50:45 -0600 Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Also make sure the jumpers are correctly set on the drive. Sometimes the jumpers can be set to fake the disk size reported to the BIOS. [snip] Perhaps you've answered this and I didn't catch it: How are your jumpers set? Hmmm... That one I've forgotten. It was quite a long itme I tried to do this. Anyway, as the BIOS is only used when booting they probably should be set to report the disk as smaller than it actually is. After booting the BIOS isn't involved so that restriction should not apply. But I'm not sure. You could maybe make some trial-and-error investigation on what works and what does not? As Mike (I think it was him) wrote, you could also buy an ATA board with BIOS. That I've done that several times and it works great! Good luck! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: entropy
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:51:35AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: [big snip] Did you actually have to MOVE your browser from in front of the mail program to AVOID searching for this on the web?!? You DO know that it is quite possible to be able to send and receive e-mail while not being directly connected to the Internet and therefore not being able to check the WWW? (Granted, this is quite unusual today, but still a possibility.) Maybe even more usual and a possibility today than before, as mobile phones are able to send/recieve e-mails (if I only could get my own phone to work as it should :-). All the good things are not available by WAP though, and hence it could be hard to search for the documents describing entropy. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
WAP-server [Was Re: entropy]
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Maybe even more usual and a possibility today than before, as mobile phones are able to send/recieve e-mails (if I only could get my own phone to work as it should :-). All the good things are not available by WAP though, and hence it could be hard to search for the documents describing entropy. Try http://wap.google.com/ It's not perfect, but it doesn't a reasonable job of converting web pages to WML for display on a WAP device. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out the URL format it uses so you can go directly to the page you want, without all that tedious searching :-) Scott Will take a look at it! Anyway I would guess a page describing entropy is not something one would want to view on a phone. :-) Do anyone by the way know if a special web-server is required for serving wap-pages, i.e. can one use Apache? If not, what's out there? Will take a look in the ports tree to see if I find anything. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: WAP-server [Was Re: entropy]
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Do anyone by the way know if a special web-server is required for serving wap-pages, i.e. can one use Apache? If not, what's out there? Will take a look in the ports tree to see if I find anything. A wap page is nothing more than content that has been marked up with WML, the wireless mark-up language. You can serve WML content with any webserver, including apache. Just add a line like this to the httpd.conf file: AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml Where .wml is the file extension you use for your WML pages. Thank you Anand! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Possible attack?
Alex wrote: Dear/Beste Bill, Friday, January 17, 2003, 4:01:43 PM, you wrote: I've seen the anonymous FTP denied off and on. I think that some folks just randomly attempt to connect to any FTP server they find in the hopes that there's cool stuff there. Or in the hopes that the can place some cool stuff there. Hmmm... Why not open up ones FTP for anonymous access, without any contents on it, then just sit and wait... Then, when there are some cool stuff uploaded, one closes the anonymous access and the uploader who tried to take advantage of you is screwed while you have got all the free (probably illegal though) stuff. :-) Have a nice weekend all! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Scanner Epson Perfecton 1260
Hi! Has anyone successfully used the scanner Epson Perfection 1260 with FreeBSD (Sane)? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Scanner Epson Perfecton 1260
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-01-21T10:38:01Z, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone successfully used the scanner Epson Perfection 1260 with FreeBSD (Sane)? Yes, via USB. Thank you, Kirk Strauser! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problems with Netatalk 1.6
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to have netatalk 1.6 to run on it. But after ./configure comes only: error Berkeley DB3 not found What can I do? Helmut Are you installing it from the ports-system? Did you go to /usr/ports/net/netatalk and run make? If you want to install the app not using the ports-system you could try to install /usr/ports/databases/db3 and then once again try to ./configure Netatalk. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Installing Stripped System
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jens Haeusser wrote: On 1/23/03 2:30 AM, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jens Haeusser wrote: I'd like to install a system lacking some of the binaries you can specify as make.conf knobs, such as NO_I4B= true NO_IPFILTER= true NOGAMES= true NOUUCP= true NO_SENDMAIL= true I have been thinking that those knobs should have their own pkg-plist which one could use for deleting the binaries. Also one must take in concern dependencies of those knobs... I've always thought that the entire base system should have it's own package/port system. That way, you could easily remove the bits you don't want (remove UUCP from a fileserver, remove gcc from a firewall, etc). As well, this would make security/other upgrades much easier. Telnet has a remote hole? Simply upgrade the base-telnet port. This can already be easily done: # cvsup -g -L2 cvs-src # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/telnet # make # make install The hard part is removing the bits and pieces you don't want, as a running system expects some parts to just be there. The system requires sendmail for an example, but if you exchange sendmail with another MTA, you do not need sendmail and hence it could be removed. But which bits and pieces makes up sendmail? That's why some sort of pkg-plist would be nice. Also the question arise, if you remove sendmail to use another MTA, then remove that newly installed MTA, you end up with a system without any MTA at all. Hence it would be very easy to break a system if one were allowed to remove things from the base system. It would anyway be nice if the possibility was there for sysadmins who knows their way. Jens Haeusser Network Manager Zoology, UBC Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: WILKO.NET
Please wrap your lines at a reasonable length, about 70 characters. On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?The Portal?= wrote: Dear Sir/madam, WILKO.NET -US $ 490 Please note that after years, the registration on the domain name WILKO.NET was not renewed and this domain became available to register. [snip] With so many companies that would benefit from using this domain, along with what many would consider to be a genuine investment, we expect to find an interested party for this excellent .net. Why would anyone want wilko.net as domain name? What is so special with that??? Is wilko.net more special than dilko.net or bilko.net or even zilko.net and milko.net? [big snip] We thank you for your attention and sincerely apologise if this e-mail has not been of interest to you. Apologise accepted, but please do not send such mails to this list again. :-) Sincerely Yours, Suzanne Marketing ThePortal.net Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
re: Apache 5.0 - release
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Roger Bate wrote: I've looked through your documentation and can't seem to find anything. Does 5.0 Come with Apache and all other tools needed to set up a fully functioning web server? I would have expected this to be true since that's what the majority seem to use it for. I've d/l the two .iso files from your ftp server, but I'm a little afraid of installing it without knowing all the tools are on the two disks. I have to kill my current version of Mandrake to make some disk space!. I would appreciate it if you could get back to me =) Roger Bate [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have a cable connection (something I suspect as you're going to run a web server) every tool needed is in the FreeBSD system itself. Just install FreeBSD, then... # cd /usr/ports/www/your favourite apache distribution # make # make install This retrieves the sources and dependencies, compiles it and installs the web server. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html for even more easily installed applications/servers. If you on the other hand do not have a cable connection I'm not sure of what's on those CD's. :-) Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-25T14:33:09Z, Charlie Schluting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess ...i'm a christian speaks for itself. On the behalf of Christian FreeBSD users everywhere: screw you. Isn't that a sin, to screw (anything other than screws)? Is it ok to be a Christian and encourage sin? :-) Also... I've always thought Christian people should be nice to all people, even those who don't deserve it (and hence deserve it even more). ;-) Have a nice day/night! (And now I hope no one will take these small jokes to build a giant flame war.) Best regards, Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Christian too. I go to church in the DFW area, and have friends in the Internet business that are also Christians using FreeBSD for their web servers, mail servers, etc. Nothing in the Bible says you cannot use FreeBSD. When the bible was written I don't think anyone had heard about servers and FreeBSD, hence there's nothing there to say you should not use FreeBSD. :-) The only caveat I can think of is in 1st Corinthians 10:31-33 where it says Do not cause anyone to stumble... Again, I do not display the little Daemon logo anywhere, so I think I'm OK. You're OK. If I display it when ever I can I'm not? :-) Just had to write a response to your e-mail, and I hope there's no hard feelings. I whish you a wonderful day/night! Best regards, Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?
Denis Troshin wrote: Hi! Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora, Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move toFreeBSD? Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows? I have two servers at home, and a third computer on my desk, with FreeBSD, and my girlfriend is using FreeBSD at her shop. As most companies still uses MS Windows I do also have a fourth computer at home, running Win2k, for developing purposes. I guess most people use different OS:s for different purposes. And I must say that MS for once has succeeded, with Win2k. It's quite a good OS, although it seems to be full of security holes. I'm VERY satisfied with FreeBSD and it's the OS I prefer for a lot of tasks! Still Win2k has it benefits some times. Also most drivers and games are developed for MS Windows, and hence people who like to play games often has to stick with that OS. Hope this answered your question. Best regards, Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE startup slow
Hi all!
After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes
very long time. It stops at Initializing System Services,
then after a while the splash screen disappears, and after
some more waiting (about two minutes) the Desktop appears.
It almost looks like a DNS query timeout, but I'm not sure,
as I really do not know what Initializing System Services
actually do. Do anyone know?
Anyone who have had the same problem and solved it, or who
can help me out in some way?
Thank you in advance!
Below are info about the system and configuration files.
Best regards,
Paul
**
FreeBSD version is 4.8-RC2.
X version is XFree86 4.3.
KDE version is 3.1.
rc.conf
---
Firewall is set to allow everything...
# --- Internet
hostname=comp.primavera.homeip.net
network_interfaces=lo0 fxp0
ifconfig_fxp0=DHCP
firewall_enable=YES
firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.rules
tcp_keepalive=YES
dhclient.conf
-
interface fxp0 {
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers;
}
resolv.conf
---
domain primavera.homeip.net
nameserver 10.0.0.1
nameserver 10.0.0.2
More configuration files are available upon request! I just don't
know which other files could be of interest.
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Re: KDE startup slow
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
How do you start your ppp connection over ADSL? Is your modem
internal, USB or Ethernet?
Anthony
Thank you for your answer!
The modem is external with an Ethernet connection to the computer. I
use DHCP to configure the network as PPPoE didn't seem to work. After
dhclient is started, and the interface has got an IP, one has to surf
to the internal 10.0.0.0-network address to login.
Best regards,
Paul
On Monday 31 March 2003 14:20, Paul Everlund wrote:
Hi all!
After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes
very long time. It stops at Initializing System Services,
then after a while the splash screen disappears, and after
some more waiting (about two minutes) the Desktop appears.
It almost looks like a DNS query timeout, but I'm not sure,
as I really do not know what Initializing System Services
actually do. Do anyone know?
Anyone who have had the same problem and solved it, or who
can help me out in some way?
Thank you in advance!
Below are info about the system and configuration files.
Best regards,
Paul
**
FreeBSD version is 4.8-RC2.
X version is XFree86 4.3.
KDE version is 3.1.
rc.conf
---
Firewall is set to allow everything...
# --- Internet
hostname=comp.primavera.homeip.net
network_interfaces=lo0 fxp0
ifconfig_fxp0=DHCP
firewall_enable=YES
firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.rules
tcp_keepalive=YES
dhclient.conf
-
interface fxp0 {
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers;
}
resolv.conf
---
domain primavera.homeip.net
nameserver 10.0.0.1
nameserver 10.0.0.2
More configuration files are available upon request! I just don't
know which other files could be of interest.
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Re: KDE startup slow
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
ok...
Do you have an internal network on your machine, or do you just plug
your ADSL into your network card?
It's hooked up like this... (The UTP is crossed wired)
Phoneline -ADSL-modemUTP-cableFreeBSD
I have no internal 192.168-network...
If you just plug straight into your network card, then you can
disable dhcp if you want, it is not necessary. What you need to do
is configure /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and /etc/rc.conf (using
/etc/defaults/rc.conf as reference, but don't change the defaults
file).
you have to add:
ppp_enable = yes
ppp_mode = dial
(and another one about the connection name in you ppp.conf file but
I forget.)
Anyway, I don't have my ppp.conf file here, but I can get it for
tomorrow...If you have done all this, then make sure you have
enable dns as the last entry in ppp.conf.
I did try ppp.conf at first, as I use it myself at home with an ADSL
provider that uses PPPoE. The provider for this particular ADSL does
not seem to use PPPoE, even though it for MS Windows, in the manual,
mentions PPP.
As I know the IP's of the DNS's, and they're static, I should not have
to have enable dns, or? At least I do not use that at home.
In ppp.conf I did 'set device PPPoE:fxp0'. Maybe I should try to drop
the PPPoE?
Anyway it seems the provider isn't like other providers, as there
exists an application that is called LF Connection Keeper, just to
keep the connection open, and this application is only made for this
ISP provider.
Best regards,
Paul
On Monday 31 March 2003 15:33, Paul Everlund wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
How do you start your ppp connection over ADSL? Is your modem
internal, USB or Ethernet?
Anthony
Thank you for your answer!
The modem is external with an Ethernet connection to the computer. I
use DHCP to configure the network as PPPoE didn't seem to work. After
dhclient is started, and the interface has got an IP, one has to surf
to the internal 10.0.0.0-network address to login.
Best regards,
Paul
On Monday 31 March 2003 14:20, Paul Everlund wrote:
Hi all!
After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes
very long time. It stops at Initializing System Services,
then after a while the splash screen disappears, and after
some more waiting (about two minutes) the Desktop appears.
It almost looks like a DNS query timeout, but I'm not sure,
as I really do not know what Initializing System Services
actually do. Do anyone know?
Anyone who have had the same problem and solved it, or who
can help me out in some way?
Thank you in advance!
Below are info about the system and configuration files.
Best regards,
Paul
**
FreeBSD version is 4.8-RC2.
X version is XFree86 4.3.
KDE version is 3.1.
rc.conf
---
Firewall is set to allow everything...
# --- Internet
hostname=comp.primavera.homeip.net
network_interfaces=lo0 fxp0
ifconfig_fxp0=DHCP
firewall_enable=YES
firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.rules
tcp_keepalive=YES
dhclient.conf
-
interface fxp0 {
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers;
}
resolv.conf
---
domain primavera.homeip.net
nameserver 10.0.0.1
nameserver 10.0.0.2
More configuration files are available upon request! I just don't
know which other files could be of interest.
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Re: which script will be executed when the adsl IP up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have use the adsl to connect the internet. As the ppp link will be disconnect, I want the gateway the send me the new IPaddress to my mail box. Could u tell me, when the ADSL link is up, which scripts will be executed. In linux that shoud be /etc/ppp/ip-up, I donnot know what is in FreeBSD. Thanks, Fred Zhang Not quite a direct answer to your question, but... You haven't thought of using some dynamic dns that are provided by for an example DynDNS? In that way you can always refer to your computer by name instead of IP number. The IP number can very well change, and then DynDNS is up- dated automatically, and the name will allways point to the correct number. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Using free BSD in medical equipment
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for a medical company situated in Andover England. We are currently looking at various software packages that we could use as a platform for a graphical user interface on a piece of medical equipment that is in an early design stage. I have considered various Microsoft and UNIX based packages and consequently found FreeBSD suitable for our requirements. However I have one obstacle in my way, in order to convince my colleges I need to find documented evidence of some commercial ventures (not internet hosting or similar activity), typical examples: customer information service, domestic satellite receiving equipment, pocket PC etc. Regards Andy Pike Development Engineer Integra NeuroSciences Newbury Road Andover Hants SP10 4DR Tel 01264 345717 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! At Lund University Hospital we're currently using a FreeBSD system that is a middlestation between a Toshiba nuclear modality and our PACS archive. It's purpose so far is to convert between various image formats to DICOM, using a slightly modified application from Eric Nolf (XMedcon). A Modality Worklist Query is asked to Mitra's BROKER, for insertion of data in the DICOM object using a modified package of CTN from Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. After the DICOM object has been created it is send to our PACS archive. Everything works really good, and no one could be happier than me, as it was due to my suggestion we did chose FreeBSD. As I also be- came fully responsible for the project, it was a comfort using this great OS. This FreeBSD server will eventually be a gateway between other im- age systems as well, and I have no worries that it will not be able to handle this too! To summarize it all... The OS fully serves our purpose. If it will serve your is another story though. Good luck! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Cron leaving a zombie
Hi!
I have this little script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start, stop and
restart a daemon: adac.sh
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
start)
echo -n ' adac'
/usr/local/sbin/adac /dev/null
;;
stop)
/bin/kill `/bin/cat /var/run/adac.pid 2 /dev/null` 2 /dev/null
/bin/rm -f /var/run/adac.pid
;;
restart)
/bin/kill `/bin/cat /var/run/adac.pid 2 /dev/null` 2 /dev/null
/bin/rm -f /var/run/adac.pid
sleep 5
/usr/local/sbin/adac /dev/null
;;
*)
echo
echo Usage: adac.sh {start|stop|restart}
echo
exit 64
;;
esac
Then I did put this in roots crontab:
10 0 * * * /usr/local/etc/rc.d/adac.sh restart
The adac-daemon is restarted, but everytime the job runs it leaves a
sh-zombie from the cron-job. By killing the cron-job, the sh-zombie
disappears (as it should).
Do anyone know why this is happening?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Paul
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Re: Cron leaving a zombie
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Danny Pansters wrote: Thanks for your reply! On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:30, Paul Everlund wrote: case $1 in start) echo -n ' adac' /usr/local/sbin/adac /dev/null ^ [SNIP] restart) /bin/kill `/bin/cat /var/run/adac.pid 2 /dev/null` 2 /dev/null /bin/rm -f /var/run/adac.pid sleep 5 /usr/local/sbin/adac /dev/null ^ Then I did put this in roots crontab: 10 0 * * * /usr/local/etc/rc.d/adac.sh restart sidenote Hmmm. IMHO an rc restart script shouldn't be cron'd like this. Or don't call it a daemon. But hey, it's your box :) /sidenote Yup! :-) It's something like a daemon, but it stops after it has received 2048 images, and that's why I want to restart it every 24th hour. Before it hits the limit though, it acts just like a daemon. The adac-daemon is restarted, but everytime the job runs it leaves a sh-zombie from the cron-job. By killing the cron-job, the sh-zombie disappears (as it should). Do anyone know why this is happening? I think I do. It's not cron, it's your rc script. See ^^ above. I know it's my script, and not cron. :-) The sh is waiting because you tell it to redirect stdout from a background process it had to spawn to /dev/null (in the restart case). Then the child gets killed, turning the sh process into a zombie. Hard to test without the actual adac script/program though. Removing redirections to /dev/null did not help. It still leaves a zombie. HTH, Dan Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: I'm New, Help, regarding Installation
Mooney Potter wrote: To the Support Group, When I download the iso images for freebsd5, do I just burn them tot he CD? Like do I need something else to read the iso-images when I boot or does my computer? ISO-images should not be burned to a CD as data, but as an ISO. If burning as data you will end upp with one big file with extension .iso and you will not be able to boot. If burning as an ISO you will end up with a CD with a lot of files on it. I do not know what kind of burner software you are using, but Easy CD Creator, among many others, are able to burn ISO's. Do I just need the ISo images to install FREEbsd? Yep. -xachen _ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Secure Web Email for Canadians Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: program to create partial invisable gifs
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, David Banning wrote: Is there anything in the ports to create a gif image with invisable edges? Maybe ImageMagick, in graphics, is what you're looking for? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How i can force a stream socket to wait as limited time in accept()function?
alireza mahini wrote: I am a C++ programmer and the platform that i develop my project on it is FreeBSD4.4 .I am aplaying the setsocketopt()function for seting the timeout into the stream socket that blocked in accept() function but i can't successful. You must include (at least part of) your source code for people here to be able to answer your question. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
aclocal.m4: AM_CONFIG_HEADER error
What does this mean, and how can one solve it? I'm using automake14 and autoconf213. I know little information is given, but someone must have seen this (and maybe know what's going on), or? aclocal.m4: 4716: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_ HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' configure.in: 4716: required file `./$@)].in' not found Thanks in advance! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: looking for a lightweight web server
On 10/30/02 at 9:38 AM Rotaru Razvan wrote: I am looking for a lightweight web server with php support to set up on my FreeBSD system. It is very likely that the only use for that web server will be phpMyAdmin so it should be multithreading and all that stuff. I want something small and very fast (i have a k6-2 500MHz system). If somebody knows can recommend me one i'll be thankfull. All this searching gives me a headache... :) I'm running Samba, and Apache with PHP/MySQL, on an old 486 DX-2 (66 MHz) with 40 MB RAM and 2,5 GB HDD. It works as a charm! So I guess Apache isn't that resource demanding even with mod_php. At least one is still able to login to the system. :-) But I would recommend you to set spawned Apache-processes to a mini- mum. I have set it to... MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 ...while you probably could set it to 2 and 2 I guess. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Separating the OS from the data - tough to do?
Steve Warwick wrote: Hi, Hi Steve! -- Problem: Separating OS from underlying data. Which parts of the BSD OS are not part of the initial, never modified OS? Or, which pieces of the OS change due to useage. -- Goal: To have a slightly modified BSD OS structure where the OS can be upgraded, yet the variable data remains the untouched (DNS, websites, mail etc), on another partition or disk, allowing an OS upgrade that can be as plug play as possible. -- THEORY -- See reference below for BSD file system details. At first glance it looks like I can just move and soft link a few directories, /etc, /usr/local, /usr/home (websites) and /var. However if one upgrades the OS, is it possible to have all the installed apps separate? For example, I have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed. By moving/ linking /usr/local to another partition or disk, is it possible that these apps will run properly once the OS is upgraded and the soft link re-setablished? Will /var still function properly? Will MySQL re-write the DB files somewhere else next time it is optimized or repaired? All thoughts, ideas and input gratefully received. Hopefully this discussion will be of use to a few more people that just me :) [...snip...] Not a direct answer to your question, as I assume you want to reformat the disk for every new installation, but... The easiest way to upgrade the OS is by using cvsup. Then you'll get the changes of the source files, and after you've cvsup'ed you just compile the sources and install them. It's as easy as this... cvsup sources make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL mergemaster -p make installkernel reboot make installworld mergemaster reboot(?) (If I remember the steps correct) No need to reformat the disk, no need to recreate symbolic links and all is updated. It's all in the handbook! :-) Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Separating the OS from the data [Addendum]
Steve Warwick wrote: [Addendum] Cvsup / makeworld: I apologize for missing that piece of information Yes, I could use the usual update procedure, however, this is a production machine. So my thought is: build a new OS on a staging machine, add required symlinks, pull the drive (sled) and slot it into the production machine. In THEORY it should be possible to do an upgrade in the time it takes to do a reboot. For server farms this would be a big benefit... Steve So... Would the following be an option? The production server have two disks: one with the OS on (A) and some symbolic links to another disk where /usr/local is (B). You have another computer with an identical disk (C) as disk A, where you can do the upgrade. Do the upgrade on disk C, pick it out, shutdown the production server, replace disk A with C, and boot the production server. Then put disk A into the other computer and upgrade that disk, then disk A and C will be identical again. Next time, upgrade A and swap it with C. It would be good if you, on the upgrade build computer, could have an exact copy of disk B so you could test, that everything went as expec- ted. Also, it's not necessary to have the mySql database tables in /var. I've put them in /usr/local/mysql, and hence I do not care if anything happens to /var when upgrading. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The traditional devil horns derive from goats, which if you have ever been around goats, seen how they can climb, eat all vegetation in sight, climb trees, get on roofs, etc., how kids gambol, is understandable. But it alienates so many. But as it alienates so many Christians, Jews and Muslims as a little Satan symbol, really limits the widespread use, public and tax paid support and availability of BSD. A better symbol might be the statue of liberty, or the creator of the first Library, Aristotle. The Penguin symbol is LINUX' best advantage over BSD, not to mention all the public hostility towards Berkley. Please read http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html. And if the little cute daemon alienates Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone else, my personal opinion is that they should grow up. Take care and I whish you a nice day! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: simple question
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: On 11/6/02 1:43 AM, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wrote: What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know its finished? thanks guys tar -xzf ports.tar.gz Turn off the verbose and to background it. Kent That will work unless tar has stderr output (error messages) which might then cause the tar command to suspend, or cause the error messages to appear on the screen, depending upon your stty tostop setting. Also, by turning off the verbose option you won't see the list of files extracted. A better way (IMHO) would be to leave the verbose option on, and capture both stdout and stderr output to a file, while running the whole thing in background. Then when you're notified that the command completed, you can peruse the file to see both the list and any errors. The way to do this depends on the shell you're running. With 'sh' and its derivatives use: tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz tarlog.txt 21 With 'csh' and its derivatives use: tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz tarlog.txt When the background command finishes, all the output will be in tarlog.txt Hope this helps, Paul A. Scott Just a shot in the dark, but how about... # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz ...? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: simple question
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul A. Scott wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but how about... # script tarout tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz Actually, that won't work. The 'script' command will redirect the output to a file, but it still outputs to the terminal, which is not what was originally requested. My previous explanation is the correct solution. # script tarout tar -xvf ports.tar /dev/null But it doesn't seem to work with the , as it says something about suspended tty output. Your solution, while teaching people the magic of shells, is correct and working. As I wrote, it was just a shot in the dark. :-) Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Can I delete /usr/src ?
Darryl Hoar wrote: greetings, I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do that. I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? Currently it's consuming roughly 340 MB of space ? thanks, Darryl You can delete /usr/src, and also /usr/obj, but next time you want to do an upgrade I guess it will take longer to get all the sources. If you can manage by only delete /usr/obj it would be the best for you, if upgrading in the future. Also, if deleting /usr/src, and hence /usr/src/sys too, you can not compile your kernel if you change any hardware. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Net connection problem: sis, miibus
Hi all! I have a friend who decided to try FreeBSD 4.6.2 and it works just fine except one thing, his connection to the internet. He has a sis network card, which is compiled into the kernel, with miibus that is required. He gets a connection just fine, for about half a minute, then it doesn't work anymore, with long periods of wait time. A ping to an address works perfectly, next minute a ping to the same address does not work. Somehow, issuing kldstat, the miibus is there, which it should not, as it's compiled into the kernel. If I recall correct, it's not there when it's first working, but later it is, when not working. There is also an arp message, that looks as if some change of MAC- address has taken place, which seem to be strange. Also, one last thing, ifconfig says the sis is using full-duplex. Is that ok, if maybe not the other side can handle full-duplex? I can provide more information if needed to help me solve this pro- blem, so that he can start using FreeBSD full time. Thanks in advance for any reply! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Periodic mails and ipfw
Hi! After upgrading to 4.7 I do not get the log from my ipfw in my periodic mails. Is this as it should be, or is something wrong with my configuration (which I have not changed)? When I did mergemaster I did overwrite my old periodic config file with the new for 4.7 as this should be perfectly ok, as I had not changed the old one, and newer is better (sometimes). Thanks in advance! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Net connection problem: sis, miibus
Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! I have never used sis-based network adapter, so I skip the miibus stuff (it seems very weird indeed) I guess miibus will be loaded if needed. Also, one last thing, ifconfig says the sis is using full-duplex. Is that ok, if maybe not the other side can handle full-duplex? If the other side cannot handle full-duplex, then this is definitely *not* OK, and duplex mismatch can cause exactly the behaviour that you described. What is in the other end of the connection? Not a clue, but it is set as autoselect when doing ifconfig (see man sis). Anyway, try forcing the sis to the speed and duplex settings that match the other side and see if the problems go away. Saw something about setting mediaopt's manually in rc.conf and will take a closer look at that. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Changing IP and ports served on
Hi Jay! Jay wrote: Hello, I am using freebsd 4.4 stable. I am also not a complete newbie but I definitely am a neophyte when it comes to unix. I recently left my job where they let me colo a server there. Since I left, I had to take my server with me. I had help setting it up but that help isn't available anymore. I am pretty sure these are pretty simple things to do I just can't remember which files to edit to do it. 1. I need to re-assign the static IP that is on the box to an IP within my internal network at home. I know it is just as simple as changing the 12.x.x.x number to a 192.x.x.x number in a file, I just don't know which file. /etc/rc.conf Look for a line similar to: ifconfig_ed0=inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 inet should be chenged to your IP-address. 2. There weren't any blocked ports at work. So I could use the standard ports for ftp and http. But at home I have CoxCable and they block 21 and 80 and maybe some others that I am ot sure of. How do I change what ports ftp and http are served off of on my server. When I originally set up the box I actually have 2 ftp ports (16 and 21) I just can't remember where I changed that. And do I change the http in the same place? I guess it all depends on which ftp- and http-server you are using. In my config file for proftpd I've put: Port 2121 I'm hence using 2121 for my ftp-server. In my config file for Apache I've put: Port 80 I'm hence using 80 for my http-server, which of course could be changed to something different. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: is there a replace command ?
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Bülent wrote: On Freebsd4.x I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones For example a file touch /var/qmail/1 touch /var/qmail/2 touch /var/qmail/3 touch /var/qmail/4 touch /var/qmail/5 touch /var/qmail/6 I want to change touch with rm How can i replace a newones in stead of a lot of expressions in a file on FreeBSD ? Which command(s) do i have to use ? man sed(1) # cat file | sed s/touch/rm/ file.tmp Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: is there a replace command ?
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-9] Malik Bülent wrote:
On Freebsd4.x
I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones
For example a file
touch /var/qmail/1
touch /var/qmail/2
touch /var/qmail/3
touch /var/qmail/4
touch /var/qmail/5
touch /var/qmail/6
I want to change touch with rm
How can i replace a newones in stead of a lot of expressions in a file on
FreeBSD ?
Which command(s) do i have to use ?
Unfortunately I deleted your other mail, asking how to remove lines
containing some text in a file, but this might be one of many
solutions:
# perl -e 'open(FD,file); while(FD) { if(!($_ =~ /texttolookfor/)) { print $_;
}} close(FD);' file.tmp
This has not been tested, so use it at your own risk. :-)
Best regards,
Paul
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Re: is there a replace command ?
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-03 11:13:39 +0100: On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Malik Bülent wrote: But my expression has / that is there is a / in a expression What shall i do ? my expression is new: 11 I want to change new: 11 with new/11 thanks # echo new: 11 | sed s/new\:\ 11/new\\/11/ you don't have to use slashes for the delimiters. see sed(1). roman@freepuppy ~ 1003:0 echo new: 11 | sed 's,: ,/,' new/11 roman@freepuppy ~ 1004:0 echo new: 11 | sed 's:\: :/:' new/11 roman@freepuppy ~ 1005:0 echo new: 11 | sed 's-: -/-' new/11 Thanks for the tip! I wasn't aware of that. When it comes to man sed(1): Reading a Kafka book is light weight reading compared to that man page. :-) Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Jail question
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hey, I'm a freebsd newbie. I was experimenting with jails. I've build an entire jail under /usr/local/jail/test which I'm accessing through the network using ssh. I thought that you can't grep any path or any information outside the jail but when I use the command df, I can clearly see the disk slice, partition and path to the jail. Is this normal? Thanks Didier This have been discussed earlier, and I even think some one did file a PR with a patch to correct it. Try to search the mailarchives. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
...changed from TIME to SPACE
Hi list! What does this mean? # sysctl kern.msgbuf [snip] 5/var: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE 118Dec 10 11:36:12 fw /kernel: /var: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE [snip] Thank you in advance! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ...changed from TIME to SPACE
Jens Rehsack wrote: Paul Everlund wrote: C J Michaels wrote: Some time in the recent past Paul Everlund scribbled: Hi list! What does this mean? # sysctl kern.msgbuf [snip] 5/var: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE 118Dec 10 11:36:12 fw /kernel: /var: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE [snip] It means that your /var filesystem is nearly full. The kernel is now trying to maximize the amout of free full blocks on the filesystem. From fs(5) manpage: === The element fs_optim specifies whether the file system should try to min- imize the time spent allocating blocks, or if it should attempt to mini- mize the space fragmentation on the disk. If the value of fs_minfree (see above) is less than 10%, then the file system defaults to optimizing for space to avoid running out of full sized blocks. If the value of minfree is greater than or equal to 10%, fragmentation is unlikely to be problematical, and the file system defaults to optimizing for time. === Some other good reads would be tunefs(8), newfs(8), and the mailing list archives. Thank you Chris and Jens for your replies! A full file system on /var triggered it? # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad1s1a 65470 40452 1978267%/ /dev/ad0s1e 2030062 801262 106639643%/usr /dev/ad1s1e 35230 17770 1464255%/var procfs 4 4 0 100%/proc It doesn't look full to me. Best regards, Paul Try 'df -ik' # df -ik Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad1s1a 65470 40452 1978267%1517 6801 18% / /dev/ad0s1e 2030062 801262 106639643% 110510 144464 43% /usr /dev/ad1s1e 35230 17512 1490054% 825 3653 18% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% 494839% /proc The i-nodes are fine too. Anyway, I guess it is as Bill Moran wrote, that a temporary file was created, that made it change, and somewere in the logs a change back should be found. Will check it later. Thank you all for your replies! In the future, now I know what TIME to SPACE and vice versa means! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Epson Perfection 1260 and SANE
Hi! Has anyone got this scanner to work with FreeBSD 4.7 and SANE? When issued sane-find-scanner it finds it, telling me it's on libusb:/dev/usb0:/dev/ugen0. It also seems to use the backend Plustek, and in the [usb] section I have entered the correct vendor- and product-id. I have tried various settings for device, such as auto, libusb:/dev/usb0:/dev/ugen0, /dev/ugen0 and so on. Executing scanimage -L just tells me it can not find the scanner. Also got some Device not found and I/O error's while testing various settings. If you who reads this managed to make it work, can you please give me some hints? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid
Hi Greg and list! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and makes the usual noises, but then it stalls with a katjing, katjing and so on. It seems like either the steering electronics, or the read/write-heads mechanics, have failed. I did contact a data recovery company and they say they need both disks to restore the raid, because of that the raid initializing might be corrupted. My questions is: Do they need both disks? Isn't it enough if they make a disk image of the failed drive, and I will then be able to restore the raid data initialization in vinum by a vinum create, or something similar? Will they be able to recreate the raid data without using vinum anyway? Thank you in advance for an answer! Best regards, Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: Hi Greg and list! Thank you for your reply! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? My vinum.conf looks like this, if this is to be more specific: drive ad5 device /dev/ad5s1e drive ad6 device /dev/ad6s1e volume raid0 plex org striped 127k sd length 0 drive ad5 sd length 0 drive ad6 I did contact a data recovery company and they say they need both disks to restore the raid, because of that the raid initializing might be corrupted. My questions is: Do they need both disks? That depends on your configuration. That is as above. Isn't it enough if they make a disk image of the failed drive, and I will then be able to restore the raid data initialization in vinum by a vinum create, or something similar? The command will be 'vinum start'. Thank you! Will they be able to recreate the raid data without using vinum anyway? Who knows? You at least know from this mail that I don't... :-) The real issue is the configuration of your volume (not raid). Sorry. If it only has a single plex, you're in trouble. Well, then I'm in trouble. In that case, you need your recovery company to get an image of the failed disk. Then you should put it on a similar disk, create a configuration entry and perform some other incantations, and you should be up and running again. Can you please be more specific? Is the configuration entry the one above, vinum.conf? Perform other incantations? If you have two or more plexes, you shouldn't need to do any of this. As I don't have two or more plexes it seems I have to do all of it. :-) Thank you for a reply in advance! Best regards, Paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swedish language...
Hi Marie! M. IsaLonewolf Mattsson wrote: Hi! I just wonder, if there is any version of FreeBSD in Swedish available. I do hope, there is!! Kindly Marie That depends on what you mean by Swedish... I suggest you read the following: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html If you're using X11 and KDE, there are a language pack for swedish you could install: /usr/ports/misc/kde3-i18n-sv Best regards, Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
