Lowell Gilbert writes:
> gahn writes:
>
>> I am behind firewall and only pass ftp sessions are allowed. With that, most
>> ftp sessions of portupgrade would not be able to connect to remote FreeBSD
>> sites.
>>
>> Could I reconfigure the my FreeBSD 7.3
gahn writes:
> I am behind firewall and only pass ftp sessions are allowed. With that, most
> ftp sessions of portupgrade would not be able to connect to remote FreeBSD
> sites.
>
> Could I reconfigure the my FreeBSD 7.3 in a way so that it would only start
> ftp sessions in PASV mode?
That s
o...@aloha.com writes:
> Note that the handbook does not show -a and -R being used together. My
> thinking is that without the -R a new version of an existing port that
> requires something new -- that you do not already have -- will fail. Rather
> unlikely, to start with portupgrade -a --batch an
Antonio Kless writes:
> if_rum.o(.text+0x3868):/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_rum.c:2324: undefined
> reference to `ieee80211_free_node'
At a guess, you've got the rum device without wlan.
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in dhclient-script(8) to do this, assuming you
have some way for the system to recognize where it is programatically.
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produce halting of system with this symptoms, if I sure that
> nobody could just type "shutdown" or "halt" in root console?
Signal 15 is SIGTERM. That's the signal normally used by kill(1).
In practice, you really only see it coming from user actions of some sort.
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;s the problem here?
You seem to have a bunch of unique problems. Have you customized your
compiler usage? Do you have any settings in make.conf or other
relevant /etc files?
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sounds like you don't actually need that USB disk for
booting. You might need to use glabel to make sure only that one disk
is mounted automatically.
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than knowing my car's top speed would tell you anything about how
long it takes me to drive to work.
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a minuscule amount
> of space. Why has it increased so dramatically in 8.0/amd64?
New modules, mostly.
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number of FreeBSD hosts?
I have a small number, but I still follow the build server approach...
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Fbsd1 writes:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Fbsd1 writes:
>>
>>> But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin.
>>
>> By default, it does not. You have to enable the "Install into /usr and
>> /etc/postfix" configuration option for
at option back
off and you'll be fine.
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and (for official
branches) then automatically exported into the cvs tree. The cvs tree
is distributed via the cvsup protocol to the hubs, and other mirrors can
pick it up from there. The cvsup protocol (whether implemented in the
cvsup program or csup) is the main way these things are distributed,
more than an hour after it hit cvsweb. If
you're wondering about a particular hub, you could track down its
manager and ask. I remember that being public information, but I can't
seem to find it at the moment.
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t) turning it off is a good idea in my book.
I consider it polite for firewalls to actively refuse to open the
connection (TCP reset) rather than just dropping the request, though.
There's really no downside to doing so.
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of your sshd and seeing what it tells you.
Looks like the server is where the connection gets closed.
As has already been suggested, you should update your ports to use the
libiconv that new ports are already trying to use on your system, and
get rid of the old one. I find it really unlikely t
) session. Even just redirecting the output is
enough to let the script run through while still keeping any potential
error information
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> his stinking law!
Murphy never said anything about *when* things go wrong...
Sorry if I've gone overboard in following your jocular tone. I realize
that you might be feeling desperate by now, particularly if the machine
really is critical.
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Carmel writes:
> Is 'pm-utils" <http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/wiki/> available in the
> ports system? I am unable to locate it if it does exist.
I don't think it is.
I suspect it would be a big porting job;
it looks thoroughly Linux-centric these days.
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Mario Lobo writes:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 19:03:03 Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> First, you'll need a precise definition of what you mean by "free memory".
>
> Free physical memory available.
Not precise enough to have a clear answer. Does it have to be zeroed
seen:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FREE-MEMORY-AMOUNT
by any chance?
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's reporting the architecture of the OS,
not of the CPU, and that's what you actually need to know.
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Programmer In Training writes:
> On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Programmer In Training writes:
>>
>>> OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat
>>> it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default
8), right?
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krad writes:
> On 15 March 2010 13:34, Lowell Gilbert <
> freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
>> Tsu-Fan Cheng writes:
>>
>> >I need to limit my sftp session bandwidth to 20K, can someone show me
>> how
>> > to do it
Tsu-Fan Cheng writes:
>I need to limit my sftp session bandwidth to 20K, can someone show me how
> to do it? thank you!
There's no simple way to do that.
scp has such a capability, though; maybe using that is your easiest option?
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to update some other
library that also links to jpeg.
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> Is there a nice guide that explains how to install FreeBSD onto a
> headless system (such as one of these small devices) via serial port?
It's documented in the installation chapter of the Handbook.
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nstalled on my
> system. Am I right, sir? Or should I use amd64 version of FreeBSD?
Either one will work fine. If you have more than 3GB of memory, go for
amd64. If you have less than half of that, go for i386.
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he added electricity costs will more than cover the
cost of a new Linksys (or equivalent) router in a few months.
The answer to your question, though is that FreeBSD can certainly work
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> the extracted file is zero length.
>
> Maybe this is not supposed to work?
It does for me, but there are a number of problems with the zip
encryption (even aside from the fact that it's easy to break).
You might want to take a look at the extensive "DECRYPTION&qu
istake in
rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I cannot edit it because the
file system is read-only. What should I do?"
It's exactly what you need.
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fingerprints of the server prior the
>> first connection?
>>
>
> To clarify, we as users anyway do have shared secret with the server
> and that's the authentication password why we could not use that
> instead of or in addition to a key fingerprint?
Because we don&#x
"Aryeh M. Friedman" writes:
> See subject
See /usr/ports/games/gnome-games/pkg-install
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teaching portupgrade to handle this would be
a Simple Matter of Programming. Maybe even a strategy as simple as
adding the variable to the make command lines automatically any time
'-o' is specified.
I wonder whether I could write that change without actually learning ruby...
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error ?
> Please help
Look a little earlier in the output to see what the original problem was.
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you probably won't find it any easier to build the program from scratch.
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by the chip on any core in P0
state, no?
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to protect this link from being deleted?
When does it happen? Without knowing that, we're pretty much into
wild-guess territory.
That said, my wild guess is that it happens at installworld time and
there's something strange in your mtree file for var.
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rade -af' instead. [You can add the 'rR' if you like,
but they're redundant with '-a'.]
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you start building more pots). Your old ports are linked against the
old libraries, and if you get something linked against a mix of old
(e.g., 7.x) and new (e.g., 8.x) libraries, it won't work.
But then, that's covered in the upgrade instructions also...
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hen i run this script from cron.
>
> I tried it on sh and bash. Result
> is same.
> But this script worked on pre 8 versions.
The script got wrapped and apparently cut off.
I can't understand it, and probably nobody else could either.
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> Configured with: FreeBSD/amd64 system compiler
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]
and the port even uses that compiler (to my surprise; I thought the qt
ports were using gcc from later ports). I suppose you could try
reb
> Perhaps I was mistaken about this happening after every reboot.
> Perhaps it only happens when I upgrade my world (make buildworld, make
> installworld, etc.). I do this often (every time a release patch is
> released).
>
> So, perhaps this only happens during these upgrades?
nently, and
> how?
By default, there's nothing sensitive in that directory, so there's no
reason to protect it more thoroughly than the defaults. If you put
something in that directory, you might want to change the permissions,
but that would be up to you and your own knowledge of
t still works for me.
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"Aryeh M. Friedman" writes:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> *not* OT, I would say...
>>
>> "Aryeh M. Friedman" writes:
>>
>>
>>> I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove
>>> any files from the tre
*not* OT, I would say...
"Aryeh M. Friedman" writes:
> I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove
> any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list keep it
> else rm it)... any quick way to do this?
mtree(8)
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John writes:
> Could someone point me in the direction of enlightenment with regard
> to the value add of the "group per user" approach that adduser
> uses?
"man adduser"; about 60 lines in, there is a whole section titled
"UNIQUE GROUPS". This is the
x 1 root wheel 197348 Jan 14 14:52
/usr/local/lib/libnspr4.so.1*
[1002] (dhcptest) ~> pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/libnspr4.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libnspr4.so.1 was installed by package nspr-4.8.2
[1003] (dhcptest) ~>
But if you really rebuilt everything, that should've alr
Rob Farmer writes:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Lowell Gilbert
> wrote:
>> As the original poster observed, PowerPC, Sparc and IA64 are all capable
>> of being used in either endian setting.
>>
>> I checked endian.h, and it looks as though FreeBSD uses S
whatever it picks up
from gcc (probably big-endian, since the architecture does funny things
with alignment in little-endian mode.
My best advice, though, is to suggest that Mr. Farmer shouldn't assume
that the application will work anywhere without actually trying it.
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tainly work if you want to do that.
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; yet tried this myself, but I plan on testing it sometime.
>
> I use agent. All that agent does is cache your password so you do not
> have to re-enter it each time you make a connection.
The agent can be forwarded with the connection.
In your case, it would remove the need for a second
ou could get out of blocking off
applications one at a time. The jails don't need compilers in the first
place. Disabling the compiler is pretty much useless if the web
server's users are going to be allowed to copy their own files onto the
machine anyway.
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nutes to be posted to the list. According to Thunderbird the mail is
> sent (at least to my mail server @ Bluehost), and the time-stamp on the
> message reads as the time I sent it. Didn't think anyone else was having
> this problem.
Sounds like that's just graylisting. Th
the new name, so it's both
stable (i.e., if you run it again you get the same results) and sorts
into proper order.
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ure you're doing "make buildworld"? It looks like you're
building kernel modules. These messages seem pretty strange to me for
buildworld.
Other possibilities to make sure you avoid: something stale in the obj
tree, a clock that's off...
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y reading the click.h data file it seems
> everything would go much faster.
Faster, yes, by multiple microseconds.
Save your time, not the computer's.
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h
0x07, 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xf8, 0x1f, 0xfc, 0x3f,
>0xfe, 0x7f, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xf8, 0x1f, 0xf8, 0x1f, 0xf8, 0x1f};
>
> Are there tools to do the same with a .au or .wav file?
od(1), but that would be silly. Just have your program open the file
and read it in.
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lar, more context around where
that error shows up.
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overkill most of the time.
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Modulok writes:
> Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R?
Not that I would trust, even if it existed.
Heavy duty office shredders do the job for me.
A blowtorch is more fun, though (and I actually own one).
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gnome2
Do you need mapi? You can build gnome without it. Otherwise, you'll
need to install 3.x to a non-standard prefix, or use 4.0.
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the other order, it would've refused to install. apache20 is the
default, so the official package was built depending on that.
I think this should be entered as a bug, but I'm not quite positive...
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e isn't legally encumbered by the port it depends on, so I don't
make my built packages available to the public.
However: the biggest reason people find packages missing is that they're
working with the latest ports tree, and the ports cluster hasn't rebuilt
the port since it w
il
>
> jail_vm2_rootdir="/vm2" # jail's root directory
> jail_vm2_hostname="vm2.localdomain" # jail's hostname
> jail_vm2_ip="192.168.0.12" # jail's IP address
> jail_vm2_devfs_enable="YES" # mount d
full; only errors on write indicate that. If you can try
manufacturer's drive diagnostics, do that. If you can't, then it's
harder to fix things up, but not impossible; write back if you
really can't use a low-level diag.
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quot;show" in the loader says "console=comconsole" so that
> seems to be fine. However all kernel output goes to the VGA console. I
> *do* get a login prompt after a while on the serial console though.
>
> If I boot the same kernel over PXE on the ALIX, the kernel messages
&
>
> maybe they don't exists or i am "too blind" to find them; is there anybody
> that can post hostnames or links to souch kind of servers?
>
> obviously i can "workaround" using an IPv4-&-IPv6 intermediate-host,
> but the goal is a "pure"
Yuri writes:
> Adam Vande More wrote:
>> Did you remove devel/libusb
>
> It's installed: libusb-0.1.12_4
That's your problem, then. You need to remove it and rebuild the ports
that depended on it.
This was mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING and /usr/src/UPDATING.
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gt; $ which m4
>> /usr/bin/m4
>
> Evidently my package database is corrupt in some way, because it shows m4 as
> an installed port. I wonder how that happened, how to fix it, and if it
> will bite if I leave it alone.
The port one is the Gnu version. The base sys
> system?
No. Your old configuration works just fine if you still want to keep
using it. You won't get the advantages of ZFS, but having it in FreeBSD
didn't bre
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works well on recent software, even when I deliberately try to confuse
the terminal emulation the way you did. Unfortunately, my memory isn't
good enough to remember all of the relevant implementation details that
have changed in the intervening eight years.
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ntinue to use the older version {GNU
> assembler 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23} or are they updating to the latest
> version. If the obsolete version is all ready causing compiler
> problems, it would seem like the logical thing to do.
Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license.
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looking at the core files.
I'm assuming you're not used to using a debugger on a core file,
on the theory that you would have done that already if you were
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not the software.
Aflatoon Aflatooni writes:
> From: Lowell Gilbert
> To: Aflatoon Aflatooni ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 10:12:56 AM
> Subject: Re: usenet configuration
>
> Odhiambo Washington writes:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2
gt;>
>> Brill!!
> OK
>
> One problem
>
> How about ports that are not installed?
>
> Is there another route that will deal with stuff not on the system?
>
> David
You can search the pkg-plist files in the ports tree. This won't work
for ports that build a dy
net
Or better yet, "nntp".
I think cnews is still the standard server software, but there are a
bunch of alternatives that might be easier for a small installation.
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that you're satisfied with. spamassassin works well with pretty
much any MTA, as far as I'm aware.
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or?
>
> I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store
> multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file?
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properly. You *are* remembering to do a buildworld before a
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ks failed--saving rejects to src/xcb_auth.c.rej
>>> => Patch patch-src-xcb_auth.c failed to apply cleanly.
>>> => Patch(es) patch-Makefile.in applied cleanly.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/libxcb.
>>
>> Hm
erious. You can look in that directory, see what's
left, and either submit a fix for the port to remove it, or perhaps find
out that there is local configuration that the port *shouldn't* be
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ate
> output set to that reference value. IN Linux, -r should be
> followed by a file name and it gives you the formatted date
> as read from the mtime of that reference file.
The *only* standardized option for date is -u...
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.
You're not likely to see anything like that until something new happens
in display technology. The screen, small as it is, is already most of
the parts cost of those netbook units, so putting a big screen on one
would make it as expensive as a low-end "real" notebook.
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nd making it in to swapspace. I have used that
> a couple of times when I needed to add some swap space temporarily. But
> isn't the command he is trying to use (mdconfig) for creating a memory
> filesystem - eg use a chunk of memory and make a file from it (then use it
>
against going this route so I've
> decided to stick with increasing the size of the swap partition.
It's easy to *try* the swap files. Then measure the performance.
If the behaviour is really as specific to your custom application
as you indicate, then general advice may not app
which are otherwise
> identical, would produce very similar checksums. So the closer the
> checksums are, the more similar two given images are.
>
> Does anyone know of anything like this?
It turns out this is a remarkably hard problem.
You can look at p5-Image-Compare, but be prepare
6 architecture. A lot of people run amd64 because the
> hardware supports it, not because they need* it.
>
> (* 'need' in this case means that you are regularly running out of address
> space on i386.)
Also note that it is possible to have an i386 port-building
oader.
There is a discussion in "man 8 loader" that will tell you
everything you need to know.
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the dependent ports.
See bsd.gecko.mk for more information, or just keep an eye on it to see
when the changes come into the tree.
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per...@pluto.rain.com writes:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Kelly Martin writes:
>> > I just experienced a hard drive failure on one of my
>> > FreeBSD 7.2 production servers with no backup!
> ...
>> First, try copying the entire disk, *without* mounting it.
&
ad-only and start backing it up? I am hoping most of my data is
> still there, but also don't want to damage it further. I desperately
> need to salvage the data, what do the kind people on this list
> recommend?
First, try copying the entire disk, *without* mounting it. Use dd(1) to
g
Lowell Gilbert writes:
> Howard Goldstein writes:
>
>> It's like the cat dragged in firefox2 despite use of 3.5 for actual
>> browsing :( Is there a good way to resolve these dependencies through
>> firefox3 or 3.5 short of ditching gnome?
>
> Yeah,
d.gecko.mk, I think you could add something like the following to
make.conf to do what you need:
USE_GECKO= firefox3<->firefox
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(not in all situations, but in many). Integrity checks on
files will catch damage to files; ZFS does this automatically, but
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t. Make sure
you know what you're doing when you enable a debug flag.
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