Re: Gnome FreeBSD
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to take into consideration everything everyone wrote. Michael --- P.U.Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? There is a minimal gnome installation in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite you can start with that and - if you like it - add all the the other stuff. One caveat: First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2) and check if your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly. Greetings, Uli. I'd suggest you also give xfce a try (http://xfce.org), it's also GTK based, and lighter than gnome/kde, while still having plenty of features. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:51:18AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or directory ... ... Looks like it might be a broken symlink. Why are you updating to 5.5 though? You should be using 6.2. If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 and then to 6.2? OK. It may have been easier (and still could be) to just do a binary upgrade instead. Any ideas where I can check this symlink? Use find(1) to look for libmalloc.so.1.1 Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:06:19AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:51:18AM +0200 Martin Schweizer schrieb: Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or directory ... ... Looks like it might be a broken symlink. Why are you updating to 5.5 though? You should be using 6.2. If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 and then to 6.2? Any ideas where I can check this symlink? In /etc/defaults/rc.conf I find some pathes which are not valid: ldconfig_local_dirs=/usr/local/libdata/ldconfig /usr/X11R6/libdata/ldconfig # Local directories with ldconfig configuration files. ldconfig_local32_dirs=/usr/local/libdata/ldconfig32 /usr/X11R6/libdata/ldconfig32 # Local directories with 32-bit compatibility ldconfig Is this the problem? No, shouldn't be. You have something left behind on your system that is causing problems. Perhaps it was from an even older version than 4.11, if you had done previous upgrades from e.g. 3.x. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5
Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:31:04AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or directory ... ... Looks like it might be a broken symlink. Why are you updating to 5.5 though? You should be using 6.2. If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 and then to 6.2? OK. It may have been easier (and still could be) to just do a binary upgrade instead. Any ideas where I can check this symlink? Use find(1) to look for libmalloc.so.1.1 The files are all located in /usr/lib/compat/aout. The path is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf [snip] ldconfig_paths_aout=/usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout [snip] Any ideas? -- Regards Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; pgpCA1LHylS4f.pgp Description: PGP signature
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ps2ascii. c.
Guys, If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions. Anyway, where are the pdf and pd and other ghostscript converters? I thought these utilities were in the default distribution, but I can't find them. pdfps, pdftoascii, and so forth. thanks in advance for any help, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps2ascii. c.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:47AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
Guys,
If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions.
Anyway, where are the pdf and pd and other ghostscript converters?
I thought these utilities were in the default distribution, but I
can't find them. pdfps, pdftoascii, and so forth.
thanks in advance for any help,
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They are in print/ghostscript-{afpl,gnu,gpl}, though ghostscript-gpl is
preferred one.
HTH,
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Ports build parameters (knobs)
Hello, During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages. When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get : WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support [snip] and for libiconv : WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932, adds EUCJP-MS) GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of supported build options ? Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not supposed to be in make.conf but in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if so please let me know :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps2ascii. c.
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions. Anyway, where are the pdf and pd and other ghostscript converters? I thought these utilities were in the default distribution, but I can't find them. pdfps, pdftoascii, and so forth. thanks in advance for any help, gary I use ghostscript-gpl-8.57 which is in print. The commands are actually ps2pdf and pdf2ps. I am not using acscii converter but I the command is ps2ascii. Are you sure you are using right commands? The other converters like dvips, dvipdfm are in print. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GEOM, Vinum difference
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Another (related) question: both gvinum and the geom utilities like gmirror and gstripe etc provide for RAID0, RAID1, and RAID3. Any advantages/ disadvantages of using one instead of the other? There has been a polemic between Greg Lehey and PJ Dawidek about the comparative advantages of raid3 and raid5. You can find the exchanges on Google. One example being: http://arkiv.freebsd.se/?ml=freebsd-performancea=2004-08t=227183 As far as i remember there are arguments showing that raid3 is better than raid5 both in terms of speed and of data security. It seems that raid5 has mostly a hype factor for him, but i may err. Anyways it is for such reasons that in the modern geom system, raid3 has been implemented and not raid5. But vinum has been ported to the geom framework for the benefit of old users, or of people who like it. For example if you are using FreeBSD-4 or DragonFlyBSD, vinum is the standard tool, and you may prefer getting expertise in just one tool. Finally none of these raid systems is really good, both for performance and security. If you are concerned with your data and want good write speed, you must buy enough disks and use raid 10. Another important factor is ease of use. The geom tools, gmirror, gstripe, graid3, etc. are *very* easy to use. The documentation in the man pages is clear, sufficient for doing work, and not too long. On the contrary, vinum was traditionaly documented in a very hermetic way. But more recently, Greg Lehey has provided a very clear chapter of his book on his web site which can be recommanded, but is not short. Note the documentation is a critical aspect of such systems because its lack may bite you in case a disk crashes and you need to adopt correct procedures under stress. Also for some time the gvinum stuff was extremely buggy, and was completely non functional when i tried it. I hope it is fixed now. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's top shows wrong load percent?
Hello, Recently we got some trouble on some FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE servers (GENERIC kernel). Some python scripts are working on these servers and after a day or two we get 0% idle in the CPU states. After sometime, the operating system will unable to do even simple task like resolving DNS name and the zabbix process can not send outbound packets to the remote monitoring server. Maybe the top is showing wrong load percent? vmstat -i shows that some kind of irq0: clk has a maximum value of 1000. Does this matter? Please advice how to debug this overload problem. Thank you very much! -- %top last pid: 12901; load averages: 8.68, 8.65, 8.65up 1+20:44:06 04:15:12 1438 processes:9 running, 1429 sleeping CPU states: 38.8% user, 0.0% nice, 60.1% system, 1.2% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 191M Active, 784M Inact, 141M Wired, 4K Cache, 112M Buf, 824M Free Swap: 3883M Total, 3883M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 893 test 1205 200 283M 158M kserel 746:23 0.83% python 878 test 207 960 59864K 39912K select 139:48 0.00% python 693 zabbix 1 1015 1876K 1180K RUN 0:31 0.00% zabbix_agentd 699 zabbix 1 1015 1876K 1308K RUN 0:15 0.00% zabbix_agentd 719 zabbix 1 1015 1876K 1308K RUN 0:14 0.00% zabbix_agentd 717 zabbix 1 1015 1876K 1308K RUN 0:14 0.00% zabbix_agentd 718 zabbix 1 1015 1876K 1316K RUN 0:14 0.00% zabbix_agentd 666 root1 960 3504K 2936K select 0:04 0.00% sendmail 660 root1 960 3524K 2692K select 0:02 0.00% sshd %vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0: clk 161045527 1000 irq8: rtc 20609989127 irq10: fxp0 84315079523 irq14: ata0 341080 2 Total 266311675 1653 %netstat -m 1100/2485/3585 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 1092/1730/2822/96000 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 1092/1724 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 2459K/4081K/6540K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 0/7/16896 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 0 calls to protocol drain routines From dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2007 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 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Prosussor (1994.95-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x6a0 Stepping = 0 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc0400800SYSCALL,MMX+,3DNow+,3DNow real memory = 2080309248 (1983 MB) avail memory = 2029355008 (1935 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: KM266P AWRDACPI on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 acpi_button1: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: VIA 8235/8237 (Apollo KM400/KM400A) host to PCI bridge mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) fxp0: Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0xd000-0xd03f mem 0xeb02-0xeb020fff,0xeb00-0xeb01 irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on fxp0 inphy0: i82555 10/100 media interface on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:02:b3:ee:78:48 isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 17.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: VIA 8235 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe000-0xe00f at device 17.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] -- With best regards,| The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org
Ethernet controllers
Dear Both, Could you help me to check IBM x3250 server Ethernet controllers which can support FreeBSD? And the Server Ethernet is Broadcom NetXtreme. THX! Best Regards, King Wong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. It was designed for a computer architecture that was already obsolete when Squid was first written. It wouldn't be unreasonable to limit datasize to 3 GB on such a machine, assuming that nothing you run will ever need to grow larger... ...actually, maxdsiz is meaningless in FreeBSD 7, because the new allocator uses mmap(2) instead of brk(2) / sbrk(2), so malloc() counts towards the resident set size (ulimit -m), not the data segment size (ulimit -d). (unless, of course, your application has its own allocator, in which case you can kiss performance goodbye) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? thanks, Ganbold It was designed for a computer architecture that was already obsolete when Squid was first written. It wouldn't be unreasonable to limit datasize to 3 GB on such a machine, assuming that nothing you run will ever need to grow larger... ..actually, maxdsiz is meaningless in FreeBSD 7, because the new allocator uses mmap(2) instead of brk(2) / sbrk(2), so malloc() counts towards the resident set size (ulimit -m), not the data segment size (ulimit -d). (unless, of course, your application has its own allocator, in which case you can kiss performance goodbye) DES -- Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:54:08AM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote:
Hello,
During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered
laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and
so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages.
I don't see why not.
When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get :
WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols
WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation
WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation
WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support
WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support
[snip]
and for libiconv :
WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets
WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932, adds
EUCJP-MS)
GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and
EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of
supported build options?
Look at the port Makefile.
Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not
supposed to be in make.conf but in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if
so please let me know :)
If they aren't OPTIONS, just list them in make.conf like this;
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/x11-wm/fluxbox}
WITH_IMLIB2=yes
.endif
This way the variables are only defined when make is called from a
directory that ends in x11-wm/fluxbox.
Roland
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FreeBSD MBRs
Hello, I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR. After booting off various USB flash drives to try and update the BIOS on my machine, it got into a state where during startup, it would display 'Missing operating system' and hang. What seems to have been happening is that it was trying to boot from one of my data store drives, despite the boot order of the disks set in the BIOS. The only solution that I found was to start booting from a USB flash drive with a boot0 MBR, and to hit F5 to change to booting from my first drive After this, the machine then reboots quite happily until I hit F5 again, in which case I get the same 'Missing operating behavior'. This persists even while power cycling the machine. I had imagined the boot process to be entirely stateless, certainly across power cycles. The BIOS executes the MBR on the first drive in its boot boot. The boot0 MBR then allowed you to either execute the boot sector from any of the slices on the current drive, or to execute the MBR from the next drive in the list. However, this clearly isn't what's happening. Is it boot0 remembering my F5 key stroke, or is it more likely that the BIOS is remembering something? Does anyone have any recommendations to avoid this in the future? Is putting boot0 on all three drives a good idea perhaps? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? Varnish. http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration
One other question -a bit silly: If I use that configuration as the gateway, can it be left on and working 24x7? I mean, regarding the _hardware_, how often does it need to be powered off: once a day, once a week, ... to prevent hardware failures such as HDD crash? Bahman On 8/21/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: You need two LAN cards: One for the outside connection and one to your internal network. (You probably already know that, but since you referred to 'LAN Card' in the singular I thought I should mention it anyway.) Yes, the machine has 2 D-Link cards. More than enough. I use a Pentium I @ 133MHz w/ 64MB RAM as a gateway with a faster Internet connection (8Mbps down / 1Mbps up) and it has no problem keeping up. Earlier I had only 512 Kbps connection, and at that time used a 386sx @ 33MHZ w/ 8MB RAM as gateway. It had no problem handling that speed. Then my configuration is not minimal I'd say :-) Thanks. Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:17:17 +0200
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:54:08AM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote:
Hello,
During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered
laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS
and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages.
I don't see why not.
Because I was thinking that everything possible was included
in /usr/ports/KNOBS, which is not the case, I know now.
When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get :
WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols
WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation
WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation
WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support
WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support
[snip]
and for libiconv :
WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets
WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932,
adds EUCJP-MS)
GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and
EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of
supported build options?
Look at the port Makefile.
That's an idea, but I was looking for a list similar
to /usr/ports/KNOBS, if such a list exists. If not, I guess I will have
to run grep on /usr/ports :)
Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not
supposed to be in make.conf but
in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if so please let me know :)
If they aren't OPTIONS, just list them in make.conf like this;
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/x11-wm/fluxbox}
WITH_IMLIB2=yes
.endif
This way the variables are only defined when make is called from a
directory that ends in x11-wm/fluxbox.
Thanks for this precision !
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RE: SATA to PCI cards
From: Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SATA to PCI cards Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:39:01 +0330 Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. Thanks in advance, Bahman Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. HTH Jack _ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
Michael S skrev: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A while back on this list I read about fluxbox so I decided to try it out. I like it very much, it's very lightweight and very flexible. It's in the ports tree if you want to have a look. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AMD64 vs i386
Hi All, I have a general question. We have access to some new AMD64 based Dell Servers with 2 Core Duo Xeons. We are currently using i386 Dell Servers with a core duo processor. I recall from my MS Windows days that when there was the shift from 16-bit to 32-bit processors it did take a while for applications to support 32 bit. Sometimes 16-bit applications actually ran slower on the 32-bit hardware. I know this is a loaded question: - Will the AMD64 based FreeBSD 6.2 distribution with applications such as Postgresql, Apache, Python, Tomcat and SBCL be able to take advantage of the 64-bit quad processor? Thanks, Arend ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration
Bahman M. wrote: One other question -a bit silly: If I use that configuration as the gateway, can it be left on and working 24x7? I mean, regarding the _hardware_, how often does it need to be powered off: once a day, once a week, ... to prevent hardware failures such as HDD crash? Bahman You will be pleasantly surprised to find out that with adequate cooling and a good quality power supply, most standard PCs can go on for ages without a single problem, no shutdowns, no reboots. A UPS is also recommended but definitely not required if the machine will not have mission critical data (as I understand, yours will not have any data at all...). In fact, from my experience, the 24/7 machines may be more reliable than others since they will not go the endless power up / down cycles that actually stresses components, both electronic and mechanical (like disks). Hard disks mostly wear out from constant head movement and not just by simply spinning idly. Low load machines, where IO bound processes are few, will have no problems with disk reliability. Just test the components (ie memtest, disk surface etc. esp. if old), install, turn on and forget. FreeBSD will happily do the rest... forever that is :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
beryl dell x300 intell 845i blues
xorg.conf at bottom of email.. I Followed these instructions, http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-47986.html except without nvidia driver cause i have intel 855i or somthing chipset. ps. i dont have compat5 enabled in rc.conf I try to start emerald... i receive no errors, just sits there at command line. I try to start beryl... the 'style' dissappears off my windows that are open (you know, cant click or move it or anything) and then it goes white... if i do the zoom out thing, moving mouse to top right corner, it stays white, but i can see my terminal icon, click it, and hit ctrl +c to stop beryl. here is output of term after starting and killing beryl. $ beryl ** * Beryl system compatiblity check* ** Detected xserver: AIGLX Checking Display :0.0 ... Checking for XComposite extension : passed (v0.3) Checking for XDamage extension : passed Checking for RandR extension: passed Checking for XSync extension: passed Checking Screen 0 ... Checking for GLX_SGIX_fbconfig : passed Checking for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap: passed Checking for non power of two texture support : passed Checking maximum texture size : passed (2048x2048) beryl: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, falling back on visinfo. Reloading options beryl: Error int SHM creation # File generated by xorgconfig. # # Copyright 2004 The X.Org Foundation # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # The X.Org Foundation BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of The X.Org Foundation shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from # The X.Org Foundation. # # ** # Refer to the xorg.conf(5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype Loadextmod Loadrecord Loadxtrap #Loadxtt # This loads the GLX module Load glx # This loads the DRI module #Load dri EndSection # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. #RgbPath/usr/local/share/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/
Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:07:42PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: One other question -a bit silly: If I use that configuration as the gateway, can it be left on and working 24x7? I mean, regarding the _hardware_, how often does it need to be powered off: once a day, once a week, ... to prevent hardware failures such as HDD crash? As long as it doesn't overheat (and as long as you do not care overly much about increasing the electricity bill) you can pretty much leave it on all the time. Bahman On 8/21/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: You need two LAN cards: One for the outside connection and one to your internal network. (You probably already know that, but since you referred to 'LAN Card' in the singular I thought I should mention it anyway.) Yes, the machine has 2 D-Link cards. More than enough. I use a Pentium I @ 133MHz w/ 64MB RAM as a gateway with a faster Internet connection (8Mbps down / 1Mbps up) and it has no problem keeping up. Earlier I had only 512 Kbps connection, and at that time used a 386sx @ 33MHZ w/ 8MB RAM as gateway. It had no problem handling that speed. Then my configuration is not minimal I'd say :-) Thanks. Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:44:31AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:31:04AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or directory ... ... Looks like it might be a broken symlink. Why are you updating to 5.5 though? You should be using 6.2. If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 and then to 6.2? OK. It may have been easier (and still could be) to just do a binary upgrade instead. Any ideas where I can check this symlink? Use find(1) to look for libmalloc.so.1.1 The files are all located in /usr/lib/compat/aout. The path is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf [snip] ldconfig_paths_aout=/usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout [snip] Any ideas? Are you missing aout support from your kernel? I think it's COMPAT_AOUT. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64 vs i386
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:58:34AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: Hi All, I have a general question. We have access to some new AMD64 based Dell Servers with 2 Core Duo Xeons. We are currently using i386 Dell Servers with a core duo processor. I recall from my MS Windows days that when there was the shift from 16-bit to 32-bit processors it did take a while for applications to support 32 bit. Sometimes 16-bit applications actually ran slower on the 32-bit hardware. I know this is a loaded question: - Will the AMD64 based FreeBSD 6.2 distribution with applications such as Postgresql, Apache, Python, Tomcat and SBCL be able to take advantage of the 64-bit quad processor? This is a very frequently asked question, so you might like to do a bit of research in the archives or on google. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring OpenLDAP and FreeBSD 6.2R
Hi all, I have been trying to get openLDAP up and running before I decide to integrated into a number of aplications. The port currently install are: openldap-sasl-client-2.4.3.aopenldap-server-2.4.3.a db4-4.0.14_1,1 After restarting the service and looking at the logs, I am getting some warnings, can someone elaborate what they mean with the following. Aug 22 09:16:00 sce2 slapd[32190]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.3alpha (Oct 18 2006 03:27:53) $[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/work/a/ports/net/openldap24-server/work/openldap-2.4.3alpha/servers/slapdAug 22 09:16:00 sce2 slapd[32190]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, passwd, endpwent, not foundAug 22 09:16:00 sce2 slapd[32190]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, group, setgrent, not foundAug 22 09:16:00 sce2 slapd[32190]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, group, getgrent_r, not foundAug 22 09:16:00 sce2 slapd[32190]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, group, endgrent, not foundAug 22 09:16:00 sce2 slapd[32190]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, group, endgrent, not foundAug 22 09:16:00 sce2 slapd[32191]: slapd starting I have added the following entries to my rc.conf. # Configuration for OpenLDAPslapd_enable=YESslapd_flags='-h ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/ ldap://0.0.0.0/;'slapd_sockets=/var/run/openldap/ldapi I have also change my nsswitch settings to reflect the following. group: files ldap compatgroup_compat: nishosts: files dnsnetworks: filespasswd: files ldap compatpasswd_compat: nisshells: files Thank you in advance for your input. FreeBSD sce2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 08:43:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64 _ Find a local pizza place, movie theater, and more….then map the best route! http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2ss=yp.bars~yp.pizza~yp.movie%20theatercp=42.358996~-71.056691style=rlvl=13tilt=-90dir=0alt=-1000scene=950607encType=1FORM=MGAC01___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)
On 8/22/07, Gabriel Linder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered
laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and
so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages.
When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get :
WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols
WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation
WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation
WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support
WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support
[snip]
and for libiconv :
WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets
WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932, adds
EUCJP-MS)
GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and
EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of
supported build options ? Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not
supposed to be in make.conf but in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if
so please let me know :)
My experience has shown that it's always best to look at the Makefile
of any port you are about to install. That's the most reliable way to
learn about the port and the knobs it supports. However, this can be
rather tedious when installing something with a few hundred
dependencies (like gnome), so I actually came up with a solution to
speed things up.
First of all, you should install portconf from ports-mgmt and use it
to specify port-specific options. It's a much cleaner way of doing
things than using if statements in make.conf. You can also easily
transfer the configuration to other systems. In addition to
port-specific options, you can use * to set global knobs. Here's the
start of my ports.conf file just to give you an idea:
*:WITHOUT_BDB|\
WITHOUT_DEBUG |\
WITHOUT_DEBUGGING |\
WITHOUT_IPV6 |\
WITHOUT_NLS|\
WITHOUT_PROFILE|\
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS |\
WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED
converters/libiconv: WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS
lang/php5:WITHOUT_CGI|\
WITH_MULTIBYTE
And so on... Now as far as actually discovering what knobs are
available, I wrote a simple script to do this. The contents are below,
save them as /usr/local/sbin/getknobs or something similar. The idea
is this; when you are about to install a port, run getknobs from the
port's directory. The script uses 'make missing' to determine all the
other ports that are about to be installed, then goes through their
port directories and searches all the files for WITH/WITHOUT_*
patterns. You then get a nice print out of all the knobs that you can
configure before running make install for the current port.
Since this script is using make missing you will not get the knobs for
ports that are already installed. The script was meant to be used from
the very beginning (i.e. starting from a clean system), so that on
each step you are only shown knobs for ports that aren't already
configured. You can easily modify this behavior if you want. You may
also need to adjust the regular expression used to find the knobs.
- Max
#!/bin/sh
cmd='make missing'
regex='WITH(OUT)?_[^[:space:]=)}\?]+'
dir=`pwd`
dir=`dirname $dir`
dir=`dirname $dir`
if [ /usr/ports != $dir ]; then
echo 12 This script must be run for a port's directory.
exit 1
fi
ports=`$cmd` `pwd | sed 's/\/usr\/ports\///'`
for port in $ports; do
knobs=`grep -Eho $regex /usr/ports/$port/* | sort | uniq`
if [ -z $knobs ]; then
continue
fi
echo --- ${port}:
for knob in $knobs; do
echo $knob
done
echo
done
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Servers Crash every few days
or directory ... ... What did I wrong or what did I forget? Any hints are welcome. -- Regards Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20070822/a6 044428/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 8 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:37:25 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or directory ... ... What did I wrong or what did I forget? Any hints are welcome. Looks like it might be a broken symlink. Why are you updating to 5.5 though? You should be using 6.2. Kris -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20070822/0b 313884/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 9 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:42:30 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wildcard usage in fetch To: Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I get logged in but get file not found or not available error message. Is wildcard usage not allowed in ftp? How would you suggest to accomplish downloading source file directory structure and their contents? You might look into curl. I know it has some wildcarding capabilities. I haven't done ftp'ing around in a while. But a long time ago, when I did, I used ncftp. That does wildcarding iirc. Regards, - Rakhesh http://rakhesh.com/ -- Message: 10 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:51:18 +0200 From: Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5 To: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or directory ... ... Looks like it might be a broken symlink. Why are you updating to 5.5 though? You should be using 6.2. If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 and then to 6.2? Any ideas where I can check this symlink? -- Regards Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20070822/d6 7a2fd9/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 11 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:51:09 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GEOM, Vinum difference To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that if I want
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
Alexandre Biancalana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... What the options for forward proxy/cache with user authentication and access control ? I'm not really into forward proxies, but there are a few (mod_proxy, privoxy, wwwoffle). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
On 8/22/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... What the options for forward proxy/cache with user authentication and access control ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pam _start: system error
Hi! After installing (in the jail) mysql-server-5.0.45 from ports, I can`t get up and running my mysql server. I have to point out that this problem is only inside the jail. All I have is: 1) clean mysql-server install 2) default my.cnf (small systems) 3) mysql_enable=YES After this server should run, but it didn`t, so I get this: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start Starting mysql. su: pam_start: system error # In the logs there is: su: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_unix.so found su: pam_start: system error In fact pam_unix.so file is present in /usr/lib directory. I`m sure this is because of jail, but I can`t figure out what could be the problem. I`ve allready googled and did some search on this but without success:( Any help would be apriciated. Best Regards -- Edmunds aka Kalnz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Servers Crash every few days
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:06:50PM +0800, amin wrote: Hi, I have six servers running FreeBSD 6.2 and all of them have the same config. My servers are configured to run as a socks5 proxy server. Lately the servers are going down without any good reasons. How do I check what are the errors or processes or the state of the server before it goes down. All of them are running quite well without any reboots for the last few weeks. My sysctl.conf is as follows: You need to characterise going down. Is it panicking? Is it rebooting? Is it hanging? Consult the developers handbook for tips on how to obtain sufficient debugging information to identify and debug a panic or hang. Kris pgpHIZF7Yemgk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Snapshots fail on busy filesystem
Greetings to all, I'm trying to set up an automated system wherein snapshots of the file system are taken prior to a backup run. The problem I'm running into can best be described by the following bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=100365cat= I get this same problem completely at random, and thus is most likely caused by the busy file system, I just don't have anything in place to prove it as the bug submitter does. Has this bug ever been *really* fixed? The bug report seems to try to call it fixed. I even contacted the bug reporter about this and he admitted that the bug had never been fixed, but that he'd moved on and never found a way around this. If the bug has never been fixed, has someone developed a work around? My primary goal is to make sure that I have a good backup of the databases running on our servers when we run a backup with Bacula. If there is a method other than snapshots to make absolutely sure that my databases are backed up correctly, I would consider that as well. Please help. My backup system is running perfectly except for this nagging sensation that my databases aren't being backed up correctly. Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you, Chris Morris -- S i x F e e t U p | Nowhere to go but open source Silicon Valley: +1 (650) 401-8579 x609 Midwest: +1 (317) 861-5948 x609 Toll-Free: 1-866-SIX-FEET mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sixfeetup.com | Zope/Plone Custom Development ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:32:34 -0400 Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Gabriel Linder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages. When I run make fetch-recursive for fluxbox, I get : WITH_DEBUG=yes Build with debugging symbols WITH_DOCHTML=yesInstall the HTML documentation WITH_DOCPDF=yes Install the PDF documentation WITH_GNOME=yes Enable GNOME support WITH_IMLIB2=yes Enable Imlib2 (pixmap themes) support [snip] and for libiconv : WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS=yes Disable extra character sets WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES=yes Apply extra patches (fixes cp932, adds EUCJP-MS) GNOME and DEBUG are listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS, but IMLIB2 and EXTRA_PATCHES are not... Is there a way to have the full list of supported build options ? Or maybe I am wrong and these settings are not supposed to be in make.conf but in /var/db/ports/portname/options, if so please let me know :) My experience has shown that it's always best to look at the Makefile of any port you are about to install. That's the most reliable way to learn about the port and the knobs it supports. However, this can be rather tedious when installing something with a few hundred dependencies (like gnome), so I actually came up with a solution to speed things up. First of all, you should install portconf from ports-mgmt and use it to specify port-specific options. It's a much cleaner way of doing things than using if statements in make.conf. You can also easily transfer the configuration to other systems. In addition to port-specific options, you can use * to set global knobs. Here's the start of my ports.conf file just to give you an idea: *:WITHOUT_BDB|\ WITHOUT_DEBUG |\ WITHOUT_DEBUGGING |\ WITHOUT_IPV6 |\ WITHOUT_NLS|\ WITHOUT_PROFILE|\ WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS |\ WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED converters/libiconv: WITHOUT_EXTRA_ENCODINGS lang/php5:WITHOUT_CGI|\ WITH_MULTIBYTE I did not know this tool, thanks :) And so on... Now as far as actually discovering what knobs are available, I wrote a simple script to do this. The contents are below, save them as /usr/local/sbin/getknobs or something similar. The idea is this; when you are about to install a port, run getknobs from the port's directory. The script uses 'make missing' to determine all the other ports that are about to be installed, then goes through their port directories and searches all the files for WITH/WITHOUT_* patterns. You then get a nice print out of all the knobs that you can configure before running make install for the current port. Since this script is using make missing you will not get the knobs for ports that are already installed. The script was meant to be used from the very beginning (i.e. starting from a clean system), so that on each step you are only shown knobs for ports that aren't already configured. You can easily modify this behavior if you want. You may also need to adjust the regular expression used to find the knobs. Wow, this is a great idea with a wonderful script. Thanks you ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Snapshots fail on busy filesystem
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:01:35AM -0400, Chris Morris wrote: Greetings to all, I'm trying to set up an automated system wherein snapshots of the file system are taken prior to a backup run. The problem I'm running into can best be described by the following bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=100365cat= I get this same problem completely at random, and thus is most likely caused by the busy file system, I just don't have anything in place to prove it as the bug submitter does. Has this bug ever been *really* fixed? The bug report seems to try to call it fixed. I even contacted the bug reporter about this and he admitted that the bug had never been fixed, but that he'd moved on and never found a way around this. Sounds like you both need to talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course as long as he thinks the problem is fixed he is not going to work on fixing it :) Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 20:54:36 N. Harrington wrote: Hello I feel stupid, but I am confused about kern.maxdsiz (or datasize via limits command) on FreeBSD amd64. I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this only applies to i386. By default, on servers I have with 4G of physical memory, and 2X that of swap, I am showing a reported datasize limit of 33554432KB. far in excess of even my physical and swap combined! I have seen suggestions from mysql for maxdsize to be set to 1G. Obviously no such problem with amd64? on amd64 when maxdsiz not set it stops at 512 limit but soon you set it to 1G it appearently is able to use more this is not the case on i386 - but I would say don't worry about it on i386 your machine could hang at boot when setting maxdsiz higher than installed physical memory but that never happened to me with amd64 I have some server running squid for caching perfect with 4, 8 and 16G of RAM I set maxdsiz do 3G on machines with 4Gigs of RAM but I do not run anything else so then I adjust cache_mem with maximum_object_size_in_memory to use the most possible amount of memory without doing swap. anyway you set it in boot.loader there is no need to compile something into the kernel -- João A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64 vs i386
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:58:34AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: - Will the AMD64 based FreeBSD 6.2 distribution with applications such as Postgresql, Apache, Python, Tomcat and SBCL be able to take advantage of the 64-bit quad processor? Yes, if you compile them natively on AMD64. Whether this results in speedups depends on a lot of factors. Instruction words on AMD64 are longer than i386, so binaries tend to be bigger, but on the other hand you've got more general purpose registers. The general consensus seems to be that you _need_ AMD64 if you routinely run out of address space. In other situations it can be nice to have, but it depends on the apps and the workload. I've been using an AMD64 system as my main desktop machine for years without problems. There are some ports that won't work, but that's mostly x86 binaries like the flash plugin and nvidia drivers. Both of which I can well live without. 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) pgpfMxLXAP3eR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5
Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:20:51AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: - lmalloc.1.1: trailing characters ignored. No such file or directory ... ... Looks like it might be a broken symlink. Why are you updating to 5.5 though? You should be using 6.2. If I'm understanding /usr/src/UPDATING correct I should first update to 5.5 and then to 6.2? OK. It may have been easier (and still could be) to just do a binary upgrade instead. Any ideas where I can check this symlink? Use find(1) to look for libmalloc.so.1.1 The files are all located in /usr/lib/compat/aout. The path is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf [snip] ldconfig_paths_aout=/usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout /usr/local/lib/aout [snip] Any ideas? Are you missing aout support from your kernel? I think it's COMPAT_AOUT. As described in /usr/src/UPDATING I compiled my kernel with this option. -- Regards Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; pgpsMLyBCGkoe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Natd statistics
Hello everyone :) I'm trying to get some natd stats such as number of active connections List of active connections and originating IP Destination ports Destination IPs... I would grab those informations from 5 to 5 minutes or so... Even better would be to be able to grab those through snmp... Thanks for any help you could provide :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck strangeness
On 20/08/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this first check is run whilst the file system is mounted, and is hence run in NO WRITE mode, a second check doesn't find block errors. If I then unmount the file system and check the disk, it's fine, as indeed it is if I unmount, remount, then check. However, if I then reboot, the process repeats, and an fsck immediately after reboot will find errors again. If I bring the system up in single user mode, and run fsck either before or after mounting /var, it finds no errors. I'm running 6.2_RELEASE with a custom kernel based upon generic-smp, but with a lot of unecessary bits removed, and geom_mirror compiled in. I don't think it's the drive that's at fault, all the other partitions in the slice are fine, it's a fairly new drive, and it passes a self test quite happily. Included below is a transcript that attempt to show what's going on in detail, is there anything else relevant? Can anyone suggest what might be going on and how to fix it, or suggest some slightly better diagnostics? Apologies if this is an RTFM issue, I have had a good dig through the handbook, but can't seem to find anything that helps. Running fsck on a file system that has been mounted read/write will almost always report spurious errors and can really screw up the disk if it tries to 'correct' those errors. I'm a bit confused by this. I've been running 'fsck -n' over FreeBSD systems since 2.2.6, and modulo seeing the at-the-time inconsistencies on those filesystems in /etc/fstab that are mounted, as Chris reported and as are expected, I've never had a problem with it, nor seen the sort of inconsistent results between runs that Chris is reporting. You should normally not run fsck on a mounted filesystem and you should *NEVER* run fsck on a filesystem that has been mounted read/write. This seems to imply that using the -n switch may have different results than not using it and having fsck determine 'NO WRITE' itself from the fact that it's noticed that the fs is mounted? Are you suggesting by can really screw up the disk if it tries to 'correct' those errors that fsck might WRITE to a mounted fs that it's showing as 'NO WRITE'? I've never had any screwups with it, but then I've always specified -n. Later Bill Moran said: Don't run fsck on mounted filesystems unless they're mounted read-only. Although, it's possible I misunderstood your description of the problem. so I'm still curious, and am wondering if Chris using SMP kernel and/or geom_mirror might have anything to do with this? Or whether his use of 'umount -f' might be (or cause) the problem indicated by his results? # umount -f /var # mount /var Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Servers Crash every few days
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:06:50PM +0800, amin wrote: Hi, I have six servers running FreeBSD 6.2 and all of them have the same config. My servers are configured to run as a socks5 proxy server. Lately the servers are going down without any good reasons. How do I check what are the errors or processes or the state of the server before it goes down. All of them are running quite well without any reboots for the last few weeks. Do what Kris mentioned, but check for hardware issues as well; overheating, voltage drops etc. The mbmon port running from cron and logging to another machine can be helpfull here. 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) pgpYXxsle56zT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: wildcard usage in fetch
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:04:47PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I get logged in but get file not found or not available error message. Is wildcard usage not allowed in ftp? How would you suggest to accomplish downloading source file directory structure and their contents? I have used wildcards with no problem with FTP, but only within a single directory at a time. I have never used it in a recursive situation like you indicate, so, don't know about that. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW Questions.
Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering what the concensus is on using dynamic rules in IPFW. Every once in a while, I suppose there is a DoS attaclk that causes me to see hundreds of: +ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules in my security log. I am sure i read somewhere that many people are skipping the dynamic rules and just relying on the line by line rules. You thoughts please. You shouldn't allow people outside the network to invoke a dynamic rule; that's a limited resource that they can overwhelm, as you see. Usual practice is to set up state only on already-confirmed connections; in my case, that means only outbound packets that didn't match any previous state. Any while your up, does anyone really know what this means? ipfw: pullup failed I dont see that often maybe 1 or 2 times a month. A pullup is just advancing deeper into the packet. If it failed, that probably means the packet was too short. Truncated packets can happen for a number of benign reasons, but if they happen frequently they're probably a sign of a problem in your network equipment. By frequently I mean several orders of magnitude more than you're seeing them. Don't worry about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata1 probe causes lockup
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:40:05AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Hi, Having a problem installing 5.5 on a Toshiba 2805-S301 laptop. (I *HAVE* to load 5.5 on it for various reasons). I can load 5.4 perfectly, but as soon as I go to 5.5, the kernel won't boot. If I boot in 5.4 with verbose, I get [snip] I'm seeing the same problem that you are. I upgraded from 5.4 to 5.5 (via make buildworld, etc) and now the kernel boot hangs in exactly the same place that it did for you. FYI, I'm booting off a SCSI drive, I have one IDE device -- a CDROM configured as the master on the secondary channel and I have two SATA drives. The weird thing is it booted the first time and will _very_ occasionally boot but most of the time it hangs. I've tried removing the CDROM drive, disabling IDE altogether but nothing seems to help. I've also been able to boot 6.2 from the CD but I have not tried upgrading to it yet and I'd prefer not to at this point. Have you resolved this issue and if so, how? -- Paul Keusemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4266 Joppa Court (952) 894-7805 Savage, MN 55378 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD MBRs
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR. After booting off various USB flash drives to try and update the BIOS on my machine, it got into a state where during startup, it would display 'Missing operating system' and hang. What seems to have been happening is that it was trying to boot from one of my data store drives, despite the boot order of the disks set in the BIOS. The only solution that I found was to start booting from a USB flash drive with a boot0 MBR, and to hit F5 to change to booting from my first drive After this, the machine then reboots quite happily until I hit F5 again, in which case I get the same 'Missing operating behavior'. This persists even while power cycling the machine. I had imagined the boot process to be entirely stateless, certainly across power cycles. The BIOS executes the MBR on the first drive in its boot boot. The boot0 MBR then allowed you to either execute the boot sector from any of the slices on the current drive, or to execute the MBR from the next drive in the list. However, this clearly isn't what's happening. Is it boot0 remembering my F5 key stroke, or is it more likely that the BIOS is remembering something? Does anyone have any recommendations to avoid this in the future? Is putting boot0 on all three drives a good idea perhaps? I am having a little trouble following the narrative here, but maybe I can comment on a couple of specific questions. The system does record your most recent menu choice and the next time it will be the default if you don't hit another one during the countdown. This makes it default to trying to boot the way it last booted. You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only disks, but it can garbage up you menu with non-functional choices. Those other disk with an MBR show up as an F5 and maybe F6, etc (I've never had more than two at a time) in the menu, but then if you hit F5, it won't be able to go anywhere, because there is no real boot stuff on that disk. jerry Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:07:42PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: One other question -a bit silly: If I use that configuration as the gateway, can it be left on and working 24x7? I mean, regarding the _hardware_, how often does it need to be powered off: once a day, once a week, ... to prevent hardware failures such as HDD crash? On average, the less you power it off the better. Power cycling is more stressful than running. The exception would be if it is getting too hot while running and that is a totally different problem, not fixable by powering it off and on. jerry Bahman On 8/21/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: You need two LAN cards: One for the outside connection and one to your internal network. (You probably already know that, but since you referred to 'LAN Card' in the singular I thought I should mention it anyway.) Yes, the machine has 2 D-Link cards. More than enough. I use a Pentium I @ 133MHz w/ 64MB RAM as a gateway with a faster Internet connection (8Mbps down / 1Mbps up) and it has no problem keeping up. Earlier I had only 512 Kbps connection, and at that time used a 386sx @ 33MHZ w/ 8MB RAM as gateway. It had no problem handling that speed. Then my configuration is not minimal I'd say :-) Thanks. Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 08:32:05 Claus Guttesen wrote: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? Varnish. http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ that certainly is a really hotty for caching :) -- João A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. It was designed for a computer architecture that was already obsolete when Squid was first written. This could be said of a lot of software, including many Unix flavors. :-) I can think of several things to criticise about Squid-- a config file which falls between Apache's httpd.conf and a sendmail.cf in terms of complexity is probably close to the top of my list, but for the simple purpose of saving limited network bandwidth using on-disk or in-memory caching, squid does just fine. I'd be happy to look at Varnish when I get a chance, though. It wouldn't be unreasonable to limit datasize to 3 GB on such a machine, assuming that nothing you run will ever need to grow larger... ...actually, maxdsiz is meaningless in FreeBSD 7, because the new allocator uses mmap(2) instead of brk(2) / sbrk(2), so malloc() counts towards the resident set size (ulimit -m), not the data segment size (ulimit -d). OK. Nicole, the OP, mentioned amd64, not -CURRENT, but I'll keep this in mind for future reference. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: It's top shows wrong load percent?
On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: Please advice how to debug this overload problem. Thank you very much! -- %top last pid: 12901; load averages: 8.68, 8.65, 8.65up 1 +20:44:06 04:15:12 1438 processes:9 running, 1429 sleeping Look at the number of processes you've got-- most likely you've got some scripts leaving zombie processes around, or one of the server programs you are running isn't cleaning up after it's children properly. Do a ps aux and look for excessive numbers of processes -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Servers Crash every few days
Thanks. But the servers are dedicated servers rented from a datacenter. I'm not sure if it hangs or panic. The provider just keep rebooting when we said servers not responding. Will try to use mbmon. Is there any ports I can use to log what actually happened before it hangs or crashes? -Original Message- From: Roland Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:59 PM To: amin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Servers Crash every few days On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:06:50PM +0800, amin wrote: Hi, I have six servers running FreeBSD 6.2 and all of them have the same config. My servers are configured to run as a socks5 proxy server. Lately the servers are going down without any good reasons. How do I check what are the errors or processes or the state of the server before it goes down. All of them are running quite well without any reboots for the last few weeks. Do what Kris mentioned, but check for hardware issues as well; overheating, voltage drops etc. The mbmon port running from cron and logging to another machine can be helpfull here. 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) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need to edit rc.conf, but FS won't allow.
Hi all, I was playing around with rc.conf under /etc and accidentally didn't quote properly one of my YES entries, now the system won't boot. I tried booting into single user and re-editing the file, yet the time I tried saving it it tells me that the root files systm is read only. Is ther a way around this. Thanks in advance. _ Learn. Laugh. Share. Reallivemoms is right place! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHMloc=us___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need to edit rc.conf, but FS won't allow.
Lisandro Grullon escribió: Hi all, I was playing around with rc.conf under /etc and accidentally didn't quote properly one of my YES entries, now the system won't boot. I tried booting into single user and re-editing the file, yet the time I tried saving it it tells me that the root files systm is read only. Is ther a way around this. / is read-only in single user mode. Use mount -u / to remount / witht the default options in /etc/fstab after booting into single user mode. You should be able to edit rc.conf now. Regards, -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .:|:. [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?
Hi all I have desktop computer to our user access to use eg: web browser. office ls there any way to limit the server resource per user? thank you Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Need to edit rc.conf, but FS won't allow. [Thank you, Solved]
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:36:02 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to edit rc.conf, but FS won't allow. Lisandro Grullon escribió: Hi all, I was playing around with rc.conf under /etc and accidentally didn't quote properly one of my YES entries, now the system won't boot. I tried booting into single user and re-editing the file, yet the time I tried saving it it tells me that the root files systm is read only. Is ther a way around this. / is read-only in single user mode. Use mount -u / to remount / witht the default options in /etc/fstab after booting into single user mode. You should be able to edit rc.conf now. Regards, -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .:|:. [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ See what you’re getting into…before you go there http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_preview_0507___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?
ann kok wrote: Hi all I have desktop computer to our user access to use eg: web browser. office ls there any way to limit the server resource per user? Have a look a login.conf (man 5 login.conf) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building UNSTRIPPED binaries in ports?
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello, I am encountering a bug with named-9.4.1-P1 that I am attempting to work with ISC on, that I have built from ports (dns/bind94). That's great, every little bit helps. :) You might also be interested to know that they have a new beta out for 9.4.2. ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2b1/bind-9.4.2b1.tar.gz You should probably download that and take a look at the changelog to see if your issues are covered. However, I need a non-stripped version of the binary to get a backtrace. I can't roll my own binary because it may be related to some way that the port is built so I need to maintain a similar build environment. I purposely do not do anything exotic with the port, so I doubt that's related. However, you can easily replicate the port's build environment by doing 'make config ; make -V CONFIGURE_ARGS' then running configure with that output and building it yourself. Of course, the advice you got on WITH_DEBUG is also good if you want to use the port anyway. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD MBRs
Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR. After booting off various USB flash drives to try and update the BIOS on my machine, it got into a state where during startup, it would display 'Missing operating system' and hang. What seems to have been happening is that it was trying to boot from one of my data store drives, despite the boot order of the disks set in the BIOS. The only solution that I found was to start booting from a USB flash drive with a boot0 MBR, and to hit F5 to change to booting from my first drive After this, the machine then reboots quite happily until I hit F5 again, in which case I get the same 'Missing operating behavior'. This persists even while power cycling the machine. I had imagined the boot process to be entirely stateless, certainly across power cycles. The BIOS executes the MBR on the first drive in its boot boot. The boot0 MBR then allowed you to either execute the boot sector from any of the slices on the current drive, or to execute the MBR from the next drive in the list. However, this clearly isn't what's happening. Is it boot0 remembering my F5 key stroke, or is it more likely that the BIOS is remembering something? Does anyone have any recommendations to avoid this in the future? Is putting boot0 on all three drives a good idea perhaps? The boot process isn't completely stateless at the best of times; it uses the partition (as in slice) table to tell it what to boot by default. I think that explains the behaviour when you boot from the flash drive, but not when you try to boot from the SATA disk. It won't hurt, and might help, to put the FreeBSD boot manager on more of the disks. You could also try other boot managers; at the expense of having a boot manager that doesn't fit completely into the MBR, you could get something more user-friendly. Good luck. -- [Greetings to Cambridge; I spent a term in the city as a teenager (fifth form), and I loved the place.] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
syslog redundancy
Can syslogd provide failover redundancy to another box? Should I configure my devices to send to two different syslogd servers? (if the devices allow more then one syslogd box to log to. If not I would like to know if the first option is available.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syslog redundancy
On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:29 PMAug 22, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: Can syslogd provide failover redundancy to another box? Should I configure my devices to send to two different syslogd servers? (if the devices allow more then one syslogd box to log to. If not I would like to know if the first option is available.) Sure, why not? Try man syslog.conf, or read what's already within your /etc/syslog.conf file. You'd just have to set up a rule to send off to another server, and configure that server to listen those requests, of course. We do this very thing for our public boxen so that there's less worry with log tampering, etc. HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Servers Crash every few days
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:19:10AM +0800, Aminuddin wrote: Thanks. But the servers are dedicated servers rented from a datacenter. Then get their tech support involved. See if they can log in on the console. I'm not sure if it hangs or panic. The provider just keep rebooting when we said servers not responding. Which service doesn't respond anymore? Are you sure that the problem isn't in the datacenter's hardware. e.g. faulty router or switch. Will try to use mbmon. Is there any ports I can use to log what actually happened before it hangs or crashes? Syslogd(8) from the base system can log to a syslogd on another machine. Set the services that you use to log more than normal. That might make it easier to catch the event that causes the problems. Does it hang or does it crash? Those are different things. If the kernel panics, there's not a lot you can do remotely. Obviously it can't log it to another machine. Enable crashdumps and analyze them as the machine comes up. I'm guessing a lot here because I don't know your setup. If you want better help, provide more information. 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) pgpZd9OY52KnC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Servers Crash every few days
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:06:50PM +0800, amin wrote: Hi, I have six servers running FreeBSD 6.2 and all of them have the same config. My servers are configured to run as a socks5 proxy server. Lately the servers are going down without any good reasons. How do I check what are the errors or processes or the state of the server before it goes down. All of them are running quite well without any reboots for the last few weeks. My sysctl.conf is as follows: You need to characterise going down. Is it panicking? Is it rebooting? Is it hanging? Consult the developers handbook for tips on how to obtain sufficient debugging information to identify and debug a panic or hang. Kris I had the same issue, kernel panic and server reboot after tuning to high sysctl variable (like maxsockbuf, but others too) but having only 1 GB of RAM. Another rebooting problem was caused by running tcpdump on high used router. Other problem can be caused by hardware problems (I had those too). I disabled once creation of coredump by kernel, and I had problem (with 6.2), when an userland app crash, the kernel panicked because of that. Last, some userland apps. can cause kernel panic and reboot. ovi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need to edit rc.conf, but FS won't allow.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:32:30PM -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Hi all, I was playing around with rc.conf under /etc and accidentally didn't quote properly one of my YES entries, now the system won't boot. I tried booting into single user and re-editing the file, yet the time I tried saving it it tells me that the root files systm is read only. Is there a way around this. Thanks in advance. Yes, when you boot single user, it comes up with root mounted read-only and no other file system mounted. You need to remount root. At minimum do: mount -u / Actually, from long habit, when I boot single user, I do the whole schmear as follows: fsck -p mount -u / mount -a swapon -a and then go on to fix up what I need. jerry freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xdm fails! can't find pcidata
I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error message in /var/lob/Xorg.0.log says exactly:: (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: pcidata (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata (II) UnloadModule: pcidata (EE) Failed to load module pcidata (module does not exist, 0) How can I fix this? I find pcidata deep in the /usr/sys/src.../dev directory. Nothing in my KERNCONF=GENERIC file. Insights, anybody?? tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?
thank you Can I limit the bandwidth by user what they use any program to download and upload? thank you --- Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ann kok wrote: Hi all I have desktop computer to our user access to use eg: web browser. office ls there any way to limit the server resource per user? Have a look a login.conf (man 5 login.conf) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm fails! can't find pcidata
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:11:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error message in /var/lob/Xorg.0.log says exactly:: (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: pcidata (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata (II) UnloadModule: pcidata (EE) Failed to load module pcidata (module does not exist, 0) How can I fix this? I find pcidata deep in the /usr/sys/src.../dev directory. Nothing in my KERNCONF=GENERIC file. Insights, anybody?? tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix Could you show us what is your ModulePath set to? (either from xorg.conf or from Xorg.0.log, should be /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules). Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm fails! can't find pcidata
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:11:47 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error message in /var/lob/Xorg.0.log says exactly:: (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: pcidata (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata (II) UnloadModule: pcidata (EE) Failed to load module pcidata (module does not exist, 0) How can I fix this? I find pcidata deep in the /usr/sys/src.../dev directory. Nothing in my KERNCONF=GENERIC file. Insights, anybody?? I've seen something like this after Xorg-6.9 to Xorg-7.1 update. Seems that I succeeded after deletting my old xorg.conf file, creating a new one and fitting it. WBR -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps2ascii. c.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:47:15AM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:47AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
Guys,
If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions.
Anyway, where are the pdf and pd and other ghostscript converters?
I thought these utilities were in the default distribution, but I
can't find them. pdfps, pdftoascii, and so forth.
thanks in advance for any help,
gary
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They are in print/ghostscript-{afpl,gnu,gpl}, though ghostscript-gpl is
preferred one.
HTH,
It prob'ly will. Maybe I can select which things to build from
the Makefile. It's been awhle.
gary
Yuri
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Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:34:22PM -0700, ann kok wrote: thank you Can I limit the bandwidth by user what they use any program to download and upload? The pf firewall can do this. Filter packets by user, then assign them to an appropriate queue. Read pf.conf(5). You'll have to rebuild the kernel with altq(4), since it's not in the generic kernel and it's not available as a module. 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) pgpkUIRddwKGd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ps2ascii. c.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:12:06AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions. Anyway, where are the pdf and pd and other ghostscript converters? I thought these utilities were in the default distribution, but I can't find them. pdfps, pdftoascii, and so forth. thanks in advance for any help, gary I use ghostscript-gpl-8.57 which is in print. The commands are actually ps2pdf and pdf2ps. I am not using acscii converter but I the command is ps2ascii. Are you sure you are using right commands? On my Ubuntu server (which is starting to fail big time) there is pdf2ascii. It takes severa flags, so it may be a custom script from the Debian guys. Here (FBSD) the scripts are similar, but much simpler; fewer flaf.s. --Of course I haven't upgraded ghostscript-gnu for months. BTW, I was looking for the ps/pdf stuff in converters Live and learn! The other converters like dvips, dvipdfm are in print. thanks, gents; it helps to have all this expertise gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.2 on new Mac mini
I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 on a new (i.e. Core 2 Duo) Mac mini. It was generally remarkably painless, except for getting up-to-date with Xorg. I used Boot Camp Assistant to partition the disk, but I didn't install rEFIt so I have to select windows' to boot FreeBSD. I got a double fault when exiting the FreeBSD installer but everything seems ok. Both cores are recognised and appear to work. I haven't bothered to get the wired ethernet working because the wireless works adequately. I had to use 915resolution to get my 1680x1050 display working properly with X. I haven't installed the Macbook patches (http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook) as they seem to be for current, and I'm running 6.2. Many of them are irrelevant to the mini anyway (backlight etc). The one thing I don't seem to have is sound: kldload snd_driver doesn't seem to find any sound devices. Is there a solution to this? -- Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var or /usr for data?
It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few issues that keep coming up. A lot of the ports use /var for data dirs. MySQL, Qmail, dspam are a few that I've had issues with. Is there a canonical place to put data files on a modern FreeBSD server? Figuring out the sizes for each partition is an exercise in frustration when I don't know how big /var or /usr are going to grow. For now, I've changed the default config files for MySQL and dspam to use /usr/local for data dirs, but is this the right thing to do? I used to put everything on /, but that created problems when I couldn't fsck the single large partition and I had to boot from CD to fix things. That's an issue when the server's not in the same state. A Solaris associate of mine is of the opinion that /usr should be able to be mounted RO for security purposes. If /var was the default for all add-ons and data, I could see that, but that wouldn't work the ways things are now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var or /usr for data?
On 8/22/07, Brad Waite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few issues that keep coming up. A lot of the ports use /var for data dirs. MySQL, Qmail, dspam are a few that I've had issues with. Is there a canonical place to put data files on a modern FreeBSD server? Figuring out the sizes for each partition is an exercise in frustration when I don't know how big /var or /usr are going to grow. For now, I've changed the default config files for MySQL and dspam to use /usr/local for data dirs, but is this the right thing to do? I used to put everything on /, but that created problems when I couldn't fsck the single large partition and I had to boot from CD to fix things. That's an issue when the server's not in the same state. A Solaris associate of mine is of the opinion that /usr should be able to be mounted RO for security purposes. If /var was the default for all add-ons and data, I could see that, but that wouldn't work the ways things are now. I put all the server-related data such as databases, mail, websites, subversion/mercurial repositories under /srv. It's part of the FHS, but I don't think many people use it. You should not be using /usr for this. I think of /usr as the place where software gets installed to (and from), but there shouldn't be your own data under it with the exception of configuration files. If I had to use something other than /srv I would go for /var, but in my opinion that's also messy. Especially so if you have /var/tmp on the same partition. As far as partition sizes go, I tend to follow a rather simple model. I give 1GB to /, even though that's usually an overkill, 2xRAM for swap, 1-4GB for /var depending on what I plan to use the machine for, 5-20GB for /usr (20 is mostly for workstations where you plan to run an X server with many other apps), and the rest either for /srv or /home. For a server I use /srv, for a workstation I use /home. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange rsync issue
I am experiencing a very strange issue when I sync up my FreeBSD file server with my windows box using rsync. It seems as though the windows files end up read only in a way that I can't change back to read write using the standard windows tools, even if I delete it and create it again, very wierd. I can use the --no-p flag to keep it from copying these perms over to the FreeBSD box. Thanks, -- Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... DES We are using several squid machines (6 machines, each have all others as a siblings) for transparent caching/proxying using gre tunnel and wccp2 (with Cisco router). Can varnish work in such situation? thanks, Ganbold -- A [golf] ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. Hitting a tree is simply bad luck and has no place in a scientific game. The player should estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there, preferably atop a nice firm tuft of grass. -- Donald A. Metz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mplayer, vlc, gimp issues in the past week
Hi, not 100% sure where this is coming from, but in the past 7-10 days (my port update times) something has triggered the following. mplayer foo.flv results in it crashing with: X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: decode_video vlc foo.flv results in it playing the clip, but with the following error: (.:80554): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device) and starting up the gimp causes: (gimp:80561): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device) (gimp:80561): Gimp-Plug-In-WARNING **: shmget() failed: No space left on device Last time I saw this was in June, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1705036+1708586+/usr/local/www/db/text/2007/freebsd-questions/20070701.freebsd-questions There was a bug in x11/libX11, which was fixed with /usr/ports/x11/libX11/files/patch-src::GetMoEv.c (IIRC around June 22) Any suggestions/ideas/hints? -- If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. --- --- --- Solving Today's Problems Tomorrow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.
I think it may be a problem there, do you have any how to for that configur= ation, in case I can double check. Off course besides the info provide at o= penldap.org. Thanks in advance. Sorry, I am pretty new with LDAP too :) I have no documentation beside the one I found from Googling around. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer, vlc, gimp issues in the past week
mplayer foo.flv results in it crashing with: X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: decode_video Hey, I started getting that too. The only thing *I* linked it to was I had installed nsplayer. Weird that they'd be associated, but was the only thing I changed recently. As soon as I exit my web browser that stops. Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: /var or /usr for data?
On 8/22/07, Brad Waite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few issues that keep coming up. A lot of the ports use /var for data dirs. MySQL, Qmail, dspam are a few that I've had issues with. Is there a canonical place to put data files on a modern FreeBSD server? Figuring out the sizes for each partition is an exercise in frustration when I don't know how big /var or /usr are going to grow. For now, I've changed the default config files for MySQL and dspam to use /usr/local for data dirs, but is this the right thing to do? I used to put everything on /, but that created problems when I couldn't fsck the single large partition and I had to boot from CD to fix things. That's an issue when the server's not in the same state. A Solaris associate of mine is of the opinion that /usr should be able to be mounted RO for security purposes. If /var was the default for all add-ons and data, I could see that, but that wouldn't work the ways things are now. I usually move the data directories (/usr/home, /usr/local/pgsql, /var/db/mysql, etc) to a separate, hard drive mounted at /data and create symbolic links back at the default locations. If you run out of space, you can move the data to a larger hard drive and either adjust the links or have the new drive mount at /data (or wherever you choose). I hope this helps. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GEOM, Vinum difference
Michel Talon wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Another (related) question: both gvinum and the geom utilities like gmirror and gstripe etc provide for RAID0, RAID1, and RAID3. Any advantages/ disadvantages of using one instead of the other? There has been a polemic between Greg Lehey and PJ Dawidek about the comparative advantages of raid3 and raid5. You can find the exchanges on Google. One example being: http://arkiv.freebsd.se/?ml=freebsd-performancea=2004-08t=227183 As far as i remember there are arguments showing that raid3 is better than raid5 both in terms of speed and of data security. It seems that raid5 has mostly a hype factor for him, but i may err. Anyways it is for such reasons that in the modern geom system, raid3 has been implemented and not raid5. But vinum has been ported to the geom framework for the benefit of old users, or of people who like it. For example if you are using FreeBSD-4 or DragonFlyBSD, vinum is the standard tool, and you may prefer getting expertise in just one tool. Finally none of these raid systems is really good, both for performance and security. If you are concerned with your data and want good write speed, you must buy enough disks and use raid 10. Another important factor is ease of use. The geom tools, gmirror, gstripe, graid3, etc. are *very* easy to use. The documentation in the man pages is clear, sufficient for doing work, and not too long. On the contrary, vinum was traditionaly documented in a very hermetic way. But more recently, Greg Lehey has provided a very clear chapter of his book on his web site which can be recommanded, but is not short. Note the documentation is a critical aspect of such systems because its lack may bite you in case a disk crashes and you need to adopt correct procedures under stress. Also for some time the gvinum stuff was extremely buggy, and was completely non functional when i tried it. I hope it is fixed now. Great, thanks Michael! :) That's just the sort of info I was looking for ... Regards, - Rakhesh http://rakhesh.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA to PCI cards
Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? Bahman Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. Thanks in advance, Bahman Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. HTH Jack _ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration
Thank you all! Very surprising! I didn't know that. Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client
Hi, I built it by doing: cd /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server make install the version = isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2 for both, could their be code changes if the _2 did not change? There should not be any change BUT... I imagine the aplied patches could be different depending on FreeBSD version? The port maintener would know about that. it is started via supplied shell script isc-dhcp3, I just renamed to isc-dhcp3.sh I tried setting authoritative on and off in the dhcpd.conf file and that had no effect. It is almost like dhcpd does not even recognize the packets coming from win2k, but WinXP and FreeBSD clients seem okay. I haven't tried other clients yet (Linux / Mac) but do have them. Have you tried to examine the W2K packets with something like wireshark (/usr/ports/net, formerly known as etherreal), if the w2k packets are illy formed, it should tell you. Silly question but, you are sure that there is no rogue DHCP server floating around, and that it is not a problem with wyour w2k client? It is NOT running in a jail. The weird thing is that if I set IPAutoConfiguration in the win2k registry to 0 ( turning it off ), win2k get the gateway and dhcp server configured, but not it's IP address. I am using 6.2p7 and isc-dhcpd.3.0.5_2 without any probelm. Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck strangeness
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: On 20/08/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this first check is run whilst the file system is mounted, and is hence run in NO WRITE mode, a second check doesn't find block errors. If I then unmount the file system and check the disk, it's fine, as indeed it is if I unmount, remount, then check. However, if I then reboot, the process repeats, and an fsck immediately after reboot will find errors again. If I bring the system up in single user mode, and run fsck either before or after mounting /var, it finds no errors. I'm running 6.2_RELEASE with a custom kernel based upon generic-smp, but with a lot of unecessary bits removed, and geom_mirror compiled in. I don't think it's the drive that's at fault, all the other partitions in the slice are fine, it's a fairly new drive, and it passes a self test quite happily. Included below is a transcript that attempt to show what's going on in detail, is there anything else relevant? Can anyone suggest what might be going on and how to fix it, or suggest some slightly better diagnostics? Apologies if this is an RTFM issue, I have had a good dig through the handbook, but can't seem to find anything that helps. Running fsck on a file system that has been mounted read/write will almost always report spurious errors and can really screw up the disk if it tries to 'correct' those errors. I'm a bit confused by this. I've been running 'fsck -n' over FreeBSD systems since 2.2.6, and modulo seeing the at-the-time inconsistencies on those filesystems in /etc/fstab that are mounted, as Chris reported and as are expected, I've never had a problem with it, nor seen the sort of inconsistent results between runs that Chris is reporting. You should normally not run fsck on a mounted filesystem and you should *NEVER* run fsck on a filesystem that has been mounted read/write. This seems to imply that using the -n switch may have different results than not using it and having fsck determine 'NO WRITE' itself from the fact that it's noticed that the fs is mounted? Are you suggesting by can really screw up the disk if it tries to 'correct' those errors that fsck might WRITE to a mounted fs that it's showing as 'NO WRITE'? I've never had any screwups with it, but then I've always specified -n. Later Bill Moran said: Don't run fsck on mounted filesystems unless they're mounted read-only. Although, it's possible I misunderstood your description of the problem. so I'm still curious, and am wondering if Chris using SMP kernel and/or geom_mirror might have anything to do with this? Or whether his use of 'umount -f' might be (or cause) the problem indicated by his results? # umount -f /var # mount /var If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to foreground fsck, and I still don't know why running it on a mounted fs is 'bad' when fsck runs in 'NO WRITE' mode anyway when it finds a fs is mounted, hence my query above. My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corrections are woven back into the live fs later is still a mystery to me, but that's because I still have an only barely superficial understanding of how snapshots work .. I still feel that your 'umount -f /var' seems potentially hairy, but can't say if that might explain the behaviour you were reporting. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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How can I upgrate source code to 7.0-CURRENT with cvsup? Currently I'm using 6.2p5. Btw could anyone post here your cvsup-file to update your source code to 7.0 CURRENT? Tnx you very much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Please read the sample cvsup-file (in /usr/share). A detail instruction is already there in that sample file. On 8/23/07, Truong Minh Hanh - FPT Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I upgrate source code to 7.0-CURRENT with cvsup? Currently I'm using 6.2p5. Btw could anyone post here your cvsup-file to update your source code to 7.0 CURRENT? Tnx you very much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- With best regards,| The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: It's top shows wrong load percent?
On 8/23/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: Please advice how to debug this overload problem. Thank you very much! -- %top last pid: 12901; load averages: 8.68, 8.65, 8.65up 1 +20:44:06 04:15:12 1438 processes:9 running, 1429 sleeping Look at the number of processes you've got-- most likely you've got some scripts leaving zombie processes around, or one of the server programs you are running isn't cleaning up after it's children properly. Do a ps aux and look for excessive numbers of processes Thank you for your reply, we actually initialized over 1200 python threads on each server. I'll try to low down the thread number for tracking the problem. -- With best regards,| The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsupfile-current was (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org)
On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Truong Minh Hanh - FPT Software said: How can I upgrate source code to 7.0-CURRENT with cvsup? Currently I'm using 6.2p5. Btw could anyone post here your cvsup-file to update your source code to 7.0 CURRENT? Tnx you very much *default tag=. *default host=cvsup6.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all doc-all Cheers, Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, August 23, 2007 07:19, Truong Minh Hanh - FPT Software wrote: How can I upgrate source code to 7.0-CURRENT with cvsup? Currently I'm using 6.2p5. Btw could anyone post here your cvsup-file to update your source code to 7.0 CURRENT? Tnx you very much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may want to edit the host to a host near you. *default host=cvsup4.de.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
On 8/23/07, Martin Tournoij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, August 23, 2007 07:19, Truong Minh Hanh - FPT Software wrote: How can I upgrate source code to 7.0-CURRENT with cvsup? Currently I'm using 6.2p5. Btw could anyone post here your cvsup-file to update your source code to 7.0 CURRENT? Tnx you very much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may want to edit the host to a host near you. *default host=cvsup4.de.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all IMO, a cvsup server from jp, tw or sg regions will be the best fit for Vietnam. PS. Why don't FPT, as a lead ISP, create mirrors for FreeBSD and other OSS projects? )) I do think that this would be a very good PR campaign :) -- With best regards,| The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
