Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xn Well, after 15 hours of experimenting, I have 1024x768 working! Xn Getting PreferredMode to work was the main thing, I think. It was Xn literally on my last try, before I reinstalled Ubuntu, that I got it Xn to work, lol. Maybe these note will be of value to another nooby. Xn thanks again! Xn There 3 things that I needed: Xn 1) A modeline from the Modeline Calculator website Xn 2) To use the RefreshRate in the PreferredMode option Xn 3) To use the RefreshRate in the Modes line Xn Section Monitor Xn Identifier Monitor0 Xn VendorName Monitor Vendor Xn ModelNameMonitor Model Xn Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 64.56 1024 1056 1296 1328 768 783 791 807 Xn Option PreferredMode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xn EndSection Xn DefaultDepth 24 Xn SubSection Display Xn Viewport 0 0 Xn Depth 24 Xn Modes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xn EndSubSection This is great, congrats :). -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- pgpU7gHarYvTr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: pIII coppermine?
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 02:20, Chris Maness wrote: I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it would be nice to be able to boost the power of this box. Chris Maness I have 2 PIII coppermine dual cpu boxes here, neither have sequential numbered cpus ... dont 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 7.0 ISO disk3 question
Dear All, I noticed that 7.0 and 6.3 release candidates consist of three iso images. What is the content of the ISO disc3. (Additional language support or additional packages or something else?) Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 7.0 ISO disc3 question
Dear All, I noticed that 7.0 and 6.3 release candidates consist of three iso images. What is the content of the ISO disc3. (Additional language support or additional packages or something else?) Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 3945 wpi driver doesn't seem to work ('cause of license problems???)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 vittorio wrote: legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 is in /boot/loader.conf BUT 1) it seems that sysctl is unable to find it and I have to set it via kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 Shouldn't this variable be set by sysctl or by loader.conf? 2) dhclient is unable to get an IP address (trying to set wpi0 up with a fixed IP makes wpi0 not associated to any AP) Hmmm I have a similar setup. In my case, it's a Dell D800 using iwi: % grep iwi /var/run/dmesg.boot iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xfafee000-0xfafeefff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 [...] and a ZyXEL 660HW router: Menu 24.2.1 - System Maintenance - Information Name: gate.infracaninophile.co.uk Routing: IP ZyNOS F/W Version: V3.40(ACI.7) | 10/18/2006 ADSL Chipset Vendor: DMT FwVer: 3.4.1.0_A_TC, HwVer: T14F7_+ Standard: Multi-Mode However I have no problems setting legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 from /boot/loader.conf -- it could be something as stupid as no newline at end of file. Try running 'od -c /boot/loader.conf' or 'cat -e /boot/loader.conf' to verify. On the question of the DHCP service provided by this combination router and wlan hardware, and indeed the whole performance at providing wireless lan connectivity -- I'm not particularly impressed. I'd restart the laptop and everything would be fine for a few hours, but leave it running overnight and it would lose the lease and end up without an IPv4 address. IPv6 addresses autoconfigured with rtadvd and rtsol seem quite a lot more stable but I've seen every combination of being able or not to ping or ping6 the laptop from a wired machine. In the end I found that setting the ZyXEL to do DHCP Relay and running isc-dhcpd on a FBSD box with the lease times increased as so: default-lease-time 3600;# 1 hour max-lease-time 86400; # 1 day plus moving the laptop to within about 2m of the ZyXEL seems to have made quite an improvement. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHe1w38Mjk52CukIwRCLkmAJ9VIYUgB1SHW+AUkvE7949OFnlbgACfUf4V r8g3taRYYcBHLv9GIdOsKmc= =+AU+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 ISO disc3 question
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, I noticed that 7.0 and 6.3 release candidates consist of three iso images. What is the content of the ISO disc3. (Additional language support or additional packages or something else?) Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The third disk contains packages. By the way, this page: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tigner/bsddvd.html describes an easy way to create a complete DVD from the CDs to avoid disk swapping (assuming you will install packages from the disks) A FreeBSD machine is used to create the DVD, but the procedure can be easily adjusted for Linux. Needs only a minor tweak to accommodate for disc3. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 ISO disc3 question
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, I noticed that 7.0 and 6.3 release candidates consist of three iso images. What is the content of the ISO disc3. (Additional language support or additional packages or something else?) Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The third disk contains packages. By the way, this page: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tigner/bsddvd.html describes an easy way to create a complete DVD from the CDs to avoid disk swapping (assuming you will install packages from the disks) A FreeBSD machine is used to create the DVD, but the procedure can be easily adjusted for Linux. Needs only a minor tweak to accommodate for disc3. Thanks a lot for the info and the link. I will use FreeBSD machine to create a DVD. No Linux around here :-) Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: corporate backers of freebsd
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Smithe Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: corporate backers of freebsd Good Day All and Happy New Year, I'm not looking to incite anyone, but here comes a BSD vs Linux question. Yes, I tried searching the archives and found nothing. I used FreeBSD back in 2000 for a few firewalls, but due to certain influences I switched to Linux after a couple of years. I'm interested in getting back to the BSD's but have just one big concern. As most users Unix and it's clones, I prefer the free as in beer licensing model, but want to know that someone else is paying the big bills. In short, here's my question: Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into the free community, so that all can benefit from full-time developers and the money that supports them. I've seen where Cisco and Juniper are using FreeBSD, and assuming there are other big names, do they directly fund or contribute to the community? Gary, FreeBSD USED TO HAVE a single large corporate sponsor. Walnut Creek. Well, while the upside of this is that you have a pot of money that can be used to fund advertising ventures, fund a position to act as the public face of the project, etc. the downside is that this ties the project to the fortunes of that big money pot. When Walnut Creek went downhill it caused a LOT of people who were using FreeBSD very much consternation. This is why today the project basically operates as a completely distributed project. You might as well ask who the corporate sponsor of the Gnutella network is. Nobody, and Everybody. Yet, that network carries billions of bytes of pirat... I mean, valuable video data, and is dependended on by many bootleggers.. I mean enterprenuers. ;-) People look at Linux and say how great it is that Linux has RedHat to make Linux look legitimate to the corporate world. They forget that as RedHat is a corporation, it is under a mandate to make a profit every year. Well, what happens if the day ever comes that RedHat starts losing money? Don't you think that people will suddenly start thinking that Linux has run out of steam? I do. There is no single corporation that is ever guarenteed to exist forever, last forever, and remain profitable forever. History is littered with large, rich companies that people once upon a time thought would never ever go out of business - yet they did anyway. By contrast, MOVEMENTS in history NEVER run out of steam. There are still, today, billions of people dumping billions of dollars every year into the Catholic Church - despite it's sordid history and current coverups of pedophiles - and that particular religious movement has been around more than 2000 years. We want to keep FreeBSD operating as a movement. As long as 1 person still believes and maintains it, it won't die. No matter how profitable or unprofitable it is to run. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panic on umount -f
Hello, freebsd-questions. After the following actions: 1. Insert USB Flash 2. mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt 3. Remove USB Flash 4. umount -f /mnt I have kernel panic every time. Is this a known issue? My system is FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 from 1.01.2008. -- Best regards, Michael mailto:[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: Panic on umount -f
Michael Lednev wrote: Hello, freebsd-questions. After the following actions: 1. Insert USB Flash 2. mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt 3. Remove USB Flash 4. umount -f /mnt I have kernel panic every time. Is this a known issue? My system is FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 from 1.01.2008. Yes, long-standing issue with unexpected mounted device removal. Don't do that :) Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Dills Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:52 PM To: Colin Percival Cc: Pollywog; Giorgos Keramidas; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd) Over the next 2-3 years, as cheap commodity hardware continues to explode with numerous processors with numerous cores and several gigs of memory, fast busses and standard multiple gige ports, inexpensive solid state disks...down the road I think it will become best common practice to setup any service on a virtual server, if for no other reason than to abstract the operating environment from the hardware to enable greater levels of redundancy and to better leverage the unused horsepower of these boxes in such a way that doesn't increase exposure and vulnerability. I don't. In the entire history of computers every time there has been a horsepower increase, the normal software that people run on the system has bloated to consume all available additional horsepower. What you are doing is akin to saying that since the modern CPU can virtualize hundreds of 1MB 8086 real-mode sessions that we ought to be able to run hundreds of instances of WordPerfect for DOS on a typical modern PC. Well guess what - WE COULD! If someone wrote the software to do it, of course. In the future I predict that ordinary standard desktop software is going to require: numerous processors with numerous cores and several gigs of memory, fast busses and standard multiple gige ports, inexpensive solid state disks as a MINIMUM system configuration, and people will think NOTHING of it. Code always bloats to fill all available machine power. We seem to be very close to having the ability to completely segregate the control-plane from the data-plane (using router terminology). We had that ability with commodity cheap desktop hardware a decade ago. But, nobody wrote software to take advantage of the commodity cheap desktop hardware to do this back then, for the same reasons that the jail developer lost interest today. This is such a huge improvement over the status quo that I'm a little bit sad and confused why it seems to be such a low priority with the developers. But they have their hands full and nobody seems to be driven to steer that particular ship. In short, and don't take it wrongly, your a young pup. You have not had the experience with the computer business that someone older and more jaded has. Once you have another 20 years under your belt and you start seeing that it's the same old, same old, you will understand why this is a pipe dream. The day will never come that a corporation can go to Kmart and buy a $299 PC and use it as a server to run their entire 1000 person operation. Yet, a $299 commodity PC that you buy from Kmart today, has about 100 times more power than a mainframe that this same corporation was using 2 decades ago to run their entire 1000 person operation. Using your logic, the sensible thing would be to take that 20 year old software and run it on the $299 PC today. Yet, nobody's doing this. Think for a while about why this is and you might begin to understand what is really going on. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Panic on umount -f
Hello, Kris. On 2 ?? 2008 ?., 14:07:36 you wrote: KK Yes, long-standing issue with unexpected mounted device removal. Don't KK do that :) Thanks, already found this PR, it's already 5 yo, wow :) -- Best regards, Michael mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Panic on umount -f
Michael Lednev wrote: Hello, Kris. On 2 ?? 2008 ?., 14:07:36 you wrote: KK Yes, long-standing issue with unexpected mounted device removal. Don't KK do that :) Thanks, already found this PR, it's already 5 yo, wow :) There have been some recent partial workarounds committed in current, but this issue is quite difficult to fix completely. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Dienstag, 1. Januar 2008 14:15:40 schrieb O. Hartmann: I use OpenOffice 2.3.1 on several hardwareplatforms running FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64 and since I upgraded OpenOffice from OO 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 I have massive problems, rendering OO unusuable! Before doing a PR I would like to aks whethere there is a solution out. Whenever I try to save a document in OO writer, OO gets stuck and I have to kill it. The document gets saved, but I never can load it again without rendering OO unusuable. Opening M$ Word docs or OO docs doesn't matter. Just to chime in: the problem has been identical for me since I upgraded to FreeBSD 7 some two months ago. Any OpenOffice.org build I did (2.3.0 and 2.3.1) fails to save and load any form of documents with the exact same symptoms that you describe (i.e., the UI not being responsive anymore after trying to save or load from a file). I used the Sun JDK source build (1.5) to compile OpenOffice.org, not the Diablo JDK by the way, and if anybody is willing to look at this problem deeper, search this list to see a post of mine where I attached gdb to the running (and hung) OpenOffice.org process and gave a backtrace of where the (100%) CPU time is being spent. IIRC it was in some input filter, but I don't really know anymore. I've since moved on to KOffice, but if there's some fix for this, I'm more than happy to try it out. Try upgrading your ports, it worked for me on i386. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing work directory of port for make
Yeah, Freebsd documents much better than most Unix's... if you know where to look. I read through the make man pages a hundred times thinking I missed something in there. Thanks for the help... Chad On Jan 1, 2008 7:09 PM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:35:43PM -0500, Chad Kellerman wrote: Hey guys, I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured the /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be plenty. Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for i386, looks like I have to compile it myself. No big deal, except when I go to compile it I run out of disk space on /usr. Is there a way I can tell make to create it's work directory someplace else? I have more space in home, so if I make a /home/work, can I compile OpenOffice to use the /home/work directory instead of /usr/port/editors/openoffice.org-2? I tried creating a link for the work directory but that appears to be over ridden. Sure. Just set the WRKDIRPREFIX make variable in /etc/make.conf to point to the desired directory. This (and much else) is documented in the ports(7) manpage. -- 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: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD
Folks: If there's a problem with OpenOffice - and there surely is - complaining here may feel good. Complaining on [EMAIL PROTECTED], however, is _much_ more likely to get the attention necessary to get things fixed. (Which may still take a while, but hopefully a shorter while.) Follow-ups redirected, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:20:22PM +, James Jeffery wrote: Before i end the toipic, anyone got any feeback on the Asus Eee (mini laptops) with FreeBSD? It works, but no drivers exist for the wireless or wired Ethernet ports. The wireless is a newer Atheros part and ath(4) should gain support for it, but I have no idea what the timeline will be. The wired Ethernet is an Atheros (formerly Attansic) L2 10/100, and I'm not aware of any concrete plans for a driver for it. I've used a Linksys USB200M USB ethernet (axe(4) driver) with mine and that works well. -Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
Michael Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day ... Yesterday, I setup nagios to do some system monitoring ... installed the latest version from ports into a jail, so that I could easily move it around between machines as I upgrade, without losing data ... after about 30 minutes running, I get a second nagios process running (fork?) that takes up ch CPU time as is available, and just hangs there until I kill -9 it ... [ .. ] After searching the 'Net a bit, came across this thread: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html?tx_maillisttofaq_pi1%5Bmode%5D=1tx_maillisttofaq_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=7694 That recommends modifying libmap.conf with: [/usr/local/bin/nagios] libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 libpthread.so libthr.so Thanks for pointing this out. I've had similar problems with nagios but hadn't found a solution until I saw your pointer. Sadly, my expertise with both thread libraries is sufficiently lacking that I have no clue where to start looking for the cause :-( I have also seen this issue, but have always put it down to the way that we manage our nagios deployments with cfengine. I will try to deploy this change and monitor for the problem to see if it persists. On a side note if you want to use broker modules with nagios from port you need to change the following in the port Makefile in order to make them load properly: From: USE_AUTOTOOLS= autoconf:259 To: SE_AUTOTOOLS= autoconf:259 libltdl:15 I sent an email to the maintainer but got no response and my email did not seem to have affected the last commit to upgrade to 2.10. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howcome mail deletion time varies?
In response to Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use, for my imap-based mail, a combination of postfix, dovecot, thunderbird, enigmail (for gnupg), and openssl for browser security. When I delete mail messages, the majority of them delete (what seems to me to be) instantaneously, but a small minority of mails takes quite a bit longer, about maybe 20 seconds. Any idea what might be occurring on those mails, to trigger this really long delete time? In my experience, this is most commonly caused by network glitches. Keep in mind that most (perhaps all?) mailers do not delete an email in a single step. Have a look at how Sylpheed deletes an email on a Cyrus-IMAP server: [10:49:24] IMAP4 2697 UID COPY 137056 INBOX.TrashDontDelete [10:49:25] IMAP4 2697 OK [COPYUID 1181242467 137056 39152] COPY completed. [10:49:25] IMAP4 2698 UID STORE 137056 +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted) [10:49:25] IMAP4 2698 OK STORE completed. [10:49:25] IMAP4 2699 EXPUNGE [10:49:25] IMAP4 * 258 EXPUNGE [10:49:25] IMAP4 * 257 EXISTS [10:49:25] IMAP4 * 0 RECENT [10:49:25] IMAP4 2699 OK EXPUNGE completed [10:49:25] IMAP4 2700 STATUS INBOX.TrashDontDelete (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [10:49:25] IMAP4 * STATUS INBOX.TrashDontDelete (MESSAGES 39146 RECENT 0 UIDNEXT 39153 UIDVALIDITY 1181242467 UNSEEN 26099) [10:49:25] IMAP4 2700 OK STATUS Completed. This is a lot of back/forth between the two systems. If you network is busy or lossy, you could easily get an odd delay in the overall process. So, I'd start by investigating/ruling out network issues first. Second, if the server in question is doing other things (it looks like it is from your post) then you never know when an incoming email via postfix has something locked, or the drives are busy, etc. So, if your network investigations come up empty, you may want to investigate just what's going on with this machine and whether it may be more heavily loaded than you think. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question about a patch
Hi I am about to send a patch about a port. I would like to move a file of the port, located in the 'files/' directory. Basically the file now is called netdisco.sh.in and I would like to call it netdisco.in. If I use a normal 'diff -ruN' command to generate the patch, after I apply the patch the new file is created but the old file (netdisco.sh.in) is still there, with zero size. I wonder if I should generate a shar archive for this port instead of a patch. Sorry if this question is so simple. Bye Valerio Daelli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about a patch
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Valerio Daelli said: Hi I am about to send a patch about a port. I would like to move a file of the port, located in the 'files/' directory. Basically the file now is called netdisco.sh.in and I would like to call it netdisco.in. If I use a normal 'diff -ruN' command to generate the patch, after I apply the patch the new file is created but the old file (netdisco.sh.in) is still there, with zero size. I wonder if I should generate a shar archive for this port instead of a patch. Sorry if this question is so simple. Bye Valerio Daelli That's normal. A unified diff is the preferred way. Whoever commits it will remove the file. You might make mention of the file in the comments just to be nice :-) 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]
Re: Question about a patch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Valerio Daelli wrote: Hi I am about to send a patch about a port. I would like to move a file of the port, located in the 'files/' directory. Basically the file now is called netdisco.sh.in and I would like to call it netdisco.in. If I use a normal 'diff -ruN' command to generate the patch, after I apply the patch the new file is created but the old file (netdisco.sh.in) is still there, with zero size. I wonder if I should generate a shar archive for this port instead of a patch. Sorry if this question is so simple. Just send in the 'diff -Nur' output, but make a note in your PR that the filename has been changed. The committer will be able to make it all right in CVS. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHe78R8Mjk52CukIwRCMHAAKCDaQvbVkhCLBDw/Eb3yfKviT6dQgCeK3Bi SIR3eFVV5Cn37PLMvST4JoI= =5+GC -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
I'm hoping I have missed something simple, but I am experiencing a problem compiling OpenLDAP. My BerkeleyDB files are in a non-standard location and I trying to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to point to the correct location. I am logged in as a normal user, and I am using the following commands to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. $ export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/BerkelyDB/include $ export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/BerkelyDB/lib However, OpenLDAP still fails to compile with the following message. Checking Berkeley DB version for BDB/HDB backends... no configure: error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB version incompatible Am I correctly setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS so they can be seen by OpenLDAP's configuration script? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I don't. In the entire history of computers every time there has been a horsepower increase, the normal software that people run on the system has bloated to consume all available additional horsepower. Really? So how has the amount of horsepower required to handle centralized radius authentication, or provide DNS resolution, or static web service grown over the years? I'm not talking about the normal software that people run on a system. I've watched for a decade as the load generated by certain services has stayed flat, however for security considerations they should not be combined onto the same operating envrionment. Are you trying to tell me that your shell server's utilization has just continued to grow over the years, that you've had to continuously upgrade the hardware to keep up with the demands of pine, tin, emacs, mutt, vim, irc, eggdrop, ezbounce, or whatever your customers are running? Please. What you are doing is akin to saying that since the modern CPU can virtualize hundreds of 1MB 8086 real-mode sessions that we ought to be able to run hundreds of instances of WordPerfect for DOS on a typical modern PC. Well guess what - WE COULD! If someone wrote the software to do it, of course. I'm talking about professionally hosted services, you're talking about WordPerfect. Amateur hour starts at 5PM, the signups are over there. In the future I predict that ordinary standard desktop software is going to require: numerous processors with numerous cores and several gigs of memory, fast busses and standard multiple gige ports, inexpensive solid state disks as a MINIMUM system configuration, and people will think NOTHING of it. Code always bloats to fill all available machine power. Desktop software? Shouldn't you be posting on a linux mailing list? We seem to be very close to having the ability to completely segregate the control-plane from the data-plane (using router terminology). We had that ability with commodity cheap desktop hardware a decade ago. But, nobody wrote software to take advantage of the commodity cheap desktop hardware to do this back then, for the same reasons that the jail developer lost interest today. Actually, somebody was paying the jail developer, and then wasn't. More to the point, no, we didn't have the ability a decade ago to seperate CP from DP. A decade ago we were dealing with silly things like the maximum size of a partition, how to handle USB, how to scale to multiple processors, how to acheive line rate on gige, etc. This is such a huge improvement over the status quo that I'm a little bit sad and confused why it seems to be such a low priority with the developers. But they have their hands full and nobody seems to be driven to steer that particular ship. In short, and don't take it wrongly, your a young pup. You have not had the experience with the computer business that someone older and more jaded has. Once you have another 20 years under your belt and you start seeing that it's the same old, same old, you will understand why this is a pipe dream. In short, don't take it wrongly, but you're an arrogant has-been. If you were as wise as you claim, you would be more quick to consider one of the more interesting trends in professional computing: Legacy systems in a corporate envrionment that don't need to be upgraded whatsoever, but are running on failing hardware with no possible replacements, running on top of an ancient operating system. What are the smart technologists doing to resolve this? They're moving these services to a virtual environment running on top of some other platform. The day will never come that a corporation can go to Kmart and buy a $299 PC and use it as a server to run their entire 1000 person operation. Yet, a $299 commodity PC that you buy from Kmart today, has about 100 times more power than a mainframe that this same corporation was using 2 decades ago to run their entire 1000 person operation. Using your logic, the sensible thing would be to take that 20 year old software and run it on the $299 PC today. Yet, nobody's doing this. Think for a while about why this is and you might begin to understand what is really going on. It's clear from your post that you have no idea what I'm talking about. If you really think what I'm suggesting is that bad of an idea, help me understand why the CTO of F5 immediately posted asking for a quote on developing this feature? Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: corporate backers of freebsd
On Jan 2, 2008 4:56 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Smithe Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: corporate backers of freebsd Good Day All and Happy New Year, I'm not looking to incite anyone, but here comes a BSD vs Linux question. Yes, I tried searching the archives and found nothing. I used FreeBSD back in 2000 for a few firewalls, but due to certain influences I switched to Linux after a couple of years. I'm interested in getting back to the BSD's but have just one big concern. As most users Unix and it's clones, I prefer the free as in beer licensing model, but want to know that someone else is paying the big bills. In short, here's my question: Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into the free community, so that all can benefit from full-time developers and the money that supports them. I've seen where Cisco and Juniper are using FreeBSD, and assuming there are other big names, do they directly fund or contribute to the community? Gary, FreeBSD USED TO HAVE a single large corporate sponsor. Walnut Creek. Well, while the upside of this is that you have a pot of money that can be used to fund advertising ventures, fund a position to act as the public face of the project, etc. the downside is that this ties the project to the fortunes of that big money pot. When Walnut Creek went downhill it caused a LOT of people who were using FreeBSD very much consternation. This is why today the project basically operates as a completely distributed project. You might as well ask who the corporate sponsor of the Gnutella network is. Nobody, and Everybody. Yet, that network carries billions of bytes of pirat... I mean, valuable video data, and is dependended on by many bootleggers.. I mean enterprenuers. ;-) People look at Linux and say how great it is that Linux has RedHat to make Linux look legitimate to the corporate world. They forget that as RedHat is a corporation, it is under a mandate to make a profit every year. Well, what happens if the day ever comes that RedHat starts losing money? Don't you think that people will suddenly start thinking that Linux has run out of steam? I do. There is no single corporation that is ever guarenteed to exist forever, last forever, and remain profitable forever. History is littered with large, rich companies that people once upon a time thought would never ever go out of business - yet they did anyway. By contrast, MOVEMENTS in history NEVER run out of steam. There are still, today, billions of people dumping billions of dollars every year into the Catholic Church - despite it's sordid history and current coverups of pedophiles - and that particular religious movement has been around more than 2000 years. We want to keep FreeBSD operating as a movement. As long as 1 person still believes and maintains it, it won't die. No matter how profitable or unprofitable it is to run. Ted Thank you all for the responses. I've tried to track down ways to contribute funds, as my programming skills are just above that of an intoxicated monkey. I found the FreeBSD foundation, which seems like the best place to start. I can't find, however, that any book, T-Shirt, or CD purchase from any vendor (including BSDmall) will send money back to the project. I understand there is value in evangelism from promoting FreeBSD via T-Shrits, stickers etc., as well as showing the profitability of books on BSD related topics to publishers (like No Starch). Have I missed an avenue of getting monetary support to FreeBSD? Thanks again. GS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Future development of Jail (was Re: corporate backers of freebsd)
On Jan 2, 2008 9:28 AM, Andy Dills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really think what I'm suggesting is that bad of an idea, help me understand why the CTO of F5 immediately posted asking for a quote on developing this feature? Just for the record, I'm not the same person as the CTO of F5. I had someone ask this questions the other day as well. I'm happy as I am. I hope this doesn't dilute any arguments being put forth. Cheers, Karl. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix
While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if the problem is still there. -Derek I did try that too. Didn't work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howcome mail deletion time varies?
I use, for my imap-based mail, a combination of postfix, dovecot, thunderbird, enigmail (for gnupg), and openssl for browser security. When I delete mail messages, the majority of them delete (what seems to me to be) instantaneously, but a small minority of mails takes quite a bit longer, about maybe 20 seconds. Any idea what might be occurring on those mails, to trigger this really long delete time? Suggestion: Thunderbird does local compacation of the mailstor, and deletions that hit the threshold and trigger this may be slower than others. (I have a vague sense thunderbird does this; I could be wrong. Assuming the server is using Maildir I don't see why this should happen on the serverside, nor have I had that experience even with large folders (large enough that no mail client can handle them properly)). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0
Your last hint suggests that this is, in fact, a dns reverse resolution issue. Log into your server which is slow and try to resolve the ip address of the host you trying to connect from (for instance, if you trying to connect from 10.0.0.1 to 199.1.1.1, log into 199.1.1.1 and execute something like nslookup 10.0.0.1). If the command times out, you found the issue. hth On Jan 1, 2008 4:03 PM, Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, thank you to others who posted about this issue. I altered /etc/ssh/sshd_config for UseDNS no, and noticed I get the prompt right away, however it still takes about 15 seconds after authentication to get a shell prompt. This is FreeBSD version: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #7: Sat Dec 22 11:12:15 EST 2007 I noticed this behavior after the last system build and install. Prior to that, I didn't see problems like this. I don't see this problem with httpd (apache) etc. The DNS servers my ISP provides are quickly reachable and appear to be caching very well, so I doubt that's the issue. Conversely, and perhaps this is a hint, the GW I log in to has this problem, but if I log in from there to an internal system using the same exact version of FreeBSD, I don't have any problems like this at all. The difference being I also use internal DNS as well as /etc/hosts entries. Thanks. ___ 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: sendmail is broken, how do I fix
At 03:03 PM 1/2/2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if the problem is still there. -Derek I did try that too. Didn't work. Have you tried telnet to the IP and port 25? If it is sendmail, you can see that from the banner, also you can watch the maillog file in /var/log. I suspect you have another process tying up that port. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
On 03/01/2008, at 1:56 AM, Tom Judge wrote: I have also seen this issue, but have always put it down to the way that we manage our nagios deployments with cfengine. I will try to deploy this change and monitor for the problem to see if it persists. I hope I can confirm your frustrations. There is a threading issue with Nagios when it's binaries are linked against libpthread(3) threading library, the default on recent FreeBSD 5.x releases and all 6.x releases. The issue is random and extremely difficult to track down with the symptoms being a second Nagios process sitting on the system hanging a CPU. Be rest assured that I have been working on it, and have seen it on one system of mine. Changes have been submitted for net-mgmt/nagios-devel (aka Nagios 3.0.r1)) to force the build process to link against libthr(3) where available, removing the need to map libpthread() out with /etc/ libmap.conf. If this goes well, as stated in the PR, i'll back-port it to net-mgmt/nagios (aka Nagios 2.10) in the next few days. If anyone out there is running net-mgmt/nagios-devel and feels like trying it for me, see ports/119246 and drop me an email with a before and after ldd /usr/local/bin/nagios. On a side note if you want to use broker modules with nagios from port you need to change the following in the port Makefile in order to make them load properly: From: USE_AUTOTOOLS= autoconf:259 To: SE_AUTOTOOLS= autoconf:259 libltdl:15 I sent an email to the maintainer but got no response and my email did not seem to have affected the last commit to upgrade to 2.10 I did receive that email and the changes went in with the last commit of net-mgmt/nagios-devel to test. No issues have arisen so i'll be back-porting it to net-mgmt/nagios soon for you. There also has been a rather large ports freeze which delayed the upgrade to Nagios 2.10, that PR was submitted on the 1st of November and committed on the 13th of December. Unfortunately your email fell somewhere in the middle, apologies for not letting you know. Jarrod. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD question
Hello I am Polish FreeBSD system administrator, I would like to participate in the course and get a certificate of achievement of FreeBSD system and in the future, if possible, I would like to become a trainer of FreeBSD. What do I have to do to get a certificate of an administrator and how can I become a trainer? Best regards, Michal Lewandowski ZSK Poznan Poland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 3945 wpi driver doesn't seem to work ('cause of license problems???)
What I really need is an explanation **step by step** on how to set up a wpi connection. Step by step . Ciao Vittorio Il Wednesday 02 January 2008 10:41:11 Matthew Seaman ha scritto: vittorio wrote: legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 is in /boot/loader.conf BUT 1) it seems that sysctl is unable to find it and I have to set it via kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 Shouldn't this variable be set by sysctl or by loader.conf? 2) dhclient is unable to get an IP address (trying to set wpi0 up with a fixed IP makes wpi0 not associated to any AP) Hmmm I have a similar setup. In my case, it's a Dell D800 using iwi: % grep iwi /var/run/dmesg.boot iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xfafee000-0xfafeefff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 [...] and a ZyXEL 660HW router: Menu 24.2.1 - System Maintenance - Information Name: gate.infracaninophile.co.uk Routing: IP ZyNOS F/W Version: V3.40(ACI.7) | 10/18/2006 ADSL Chipset Vendor: DMT FwVer: 3.4.1.0_A_TC, HwVer: T14F7_+ Standard: Multi-Mode However I have no problems setting legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 from /boot/loader.conf -- it could be something as stupid as no newline at end of file. Try running 'od -c /boot/loader.conf' or 'cat -e /boot/loader.conf' to verify. On the question of the DHCP service provided by this combination router and wlan hardware, and indeed the whole performance at providing wireless lan connectivity -- I'm not particularly impressed. I'd restart the laptop and everything would be fine for a few hours, but leave it running overnight and it would lose the lease and end up without an IPv4 address. IPv6 addresses autoconfigured with rtadvd and rtsol seem quite a lot more stable but I've seen every combination of being able or not to ping or ping6 the laptop from a wired machine. In the end I found that setting the ZyXEL to do DHCP Relay and running isc-dhcpd on a FBSD box with the lease times increased as so: default-lease-time 3600;# 1 hour max-lease-time 86400; # 1 day plus moving the laptop to within about 2m of the ZyXEL seems to have made quite an improvement. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD question
In response to Administrator ZSK [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I am Polish FreeBSD system administrator, I would like to participate in the course and get a certificate of achievement of FreeBSD system and in the future, if possible, I would like to become a trainer of FreeBSD. What do I have to do to get a certificate of an administrator and how can I become a trainer? This seems to be the best place for certification at this time: http://www.bsdcertification.org/ You may want to join their mailing list and ask there. I'm sure the group would love to have some instructors in Poland. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
Jarrod Sayers wrote: On 03/01/2008, at 1:56 AM, Tom Judge wrote: I have also seen this issue, but have always put it down to the way that we manage our nagios deployments with cfengine. I will try to deploy this change and monitor for the problem to see if it persists. I hope I can confirm your frustrations. There is a threading issue with Nagios when it's binaries are linked against libpthread(3) threading library, the default on recent FreeBSD 5.x releases and all 6.x releases. The issue is random and extremely difficult to track down with the symptoms being a second Nagios process sitting on the system hanging a CPU. Be rest assured that I have been working on it, and have seen it on one system of mine. Not sure if this is related at all but out of the 3 nagios deployments we have here I have only ever seen it on one (It currently has 2 nagios threads spinning CPU time atm). The differences on that server are: * It is amd64 compared to i386 * It also runs ndo2db from ndoutils 1.4b7 All the systems run 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and nagios-2.9_1, they are also all patched with gnu libltdl patch below. Don't know if that info is of any use to you. Changes have been submitted for net-mgmt/nagios-devel (aka Nagios 3.0.r1)) to force the build process to link against libthr(3) where available, removing the need to map libpthread() out with /etc/libmap.conf. If this goes well, as stated in the PR, i'll back-port it to net-mgmt/nagios (aka Nagios 2.10) in the next few days. If anyone out there is running net-mgmt/nagios-devel and feels like trying it for me, see ports/119246 and drop me an email with a before and after ldd /usr/local/bin/nagios. On a side note if you want to use broker modules with nagios from port you need to change the following in the port Makefile in order to make them load properly: From: USE_AUTOTOOLS= autoconf:259 To: SE_AUTOTOOLS= autoconf:259 libltdl:15 I sent an email to the maintainer but got no response and my email did not seem to have affected the last commit to upgrade to 2.10 I did receive that email and the changes went in with the last commit of net-mgmt/nagios-devel to test. No issues have arisen so i'll be back-porting it to net-mgmt/nagios soon for you. There also has been a rather large ports freeze which delayed the upgrade to Nagios 2.10, that PR was submitted on the 1st of November and committed on the 13th of December. Unfortunately your email fell somewhere in the middle, apologies for not letting you know. Thanks for this, I currently maintain the patch on our build servers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 22:54:33 + Tom Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is related at all but out of the 3 nagios deployments we have here I have only ever seen it on one (It currently has 2 nagios threads spinning CPU time atm). The differences on that server are: * It is amd64 compared to i386 I never tried on i386, but in my case it was an amd64 system as well ... not sure if that is relevant or not ... has anyone seen this problem *with* i386? - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHfB0s4QvfyHIvDvMRAudqAKCuiXkAYPL5goXbmlvJjylpMlqUIwCgiRfM m15NQlmqpRtO/MtEXR7m+RU= =utJ9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pIII coppermine?
Chris Maness wrote: I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it would be nice to I assume you mean BP6. It's best that they be the same stepping number; this is like an engineering revision level in Intelese. Usually looks like SLQ7 or similar. But it wasn't required on those boards. Of course Intel never sanctioned Dual Celerons, which is what made it so cool :) I still have one of those with very low hours that I keep thinking I should dust off and recommission for sumpthin'. I hope you're not using this machine for any critical applications. All the ABIT boards of that day (circa 1999) had really low quality electrolytic capacitors in the voltage regulators that are notorious for failing. And the BP6 had one cap that got a totally wrong value installed on the board. Google BP6 capacitors and you'll find lots. Also www.BP6.com Have fun. -Rob [don't cc me; this is a bit-bucket address] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pIII coppermine?
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:11:42PM -0500, Rob wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it would be nice to I assume you mean BP6. Why? The Abit BP6 and Abit VP6 both exist, and are two different motherboards, with the VP6 being newer and supporting faster CPUs. I see no reason to not believe he did mean VP6. It's best that they be the same stepping number; this is like an engineering revision level in Intelese. Usually looks like SLQ7 or similar. But it wasn't required on those boards. Of course Intel never sanctioned Dual Celerons, which is what made it so cool :) I still have one of those with very low hours that I keep thinking I should dust off and recommission for sumpthin'. I hope you're not using this machine for any critical applications. All the ABIT boards of that day (circa 1999) had really low quality electrolytic capacitors in the voltage regulators that are notorious for failing. And the BP6 had one cap that got a totally wrong value installed on the board. Google BP6 capacitors and you'll find lots. Also www.BP6.com Have fun. Both the BP6 and VP6 have a reputation for bad capacitors (the VP6 even more so than the BP6.) -- 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: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:24:28PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: - --On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 22:54:33 + Tom Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is related at all but out of the 3 nagios deployments we have here I have only ever seen it on one (It currently has 2 nagios threads spinning CPU time atm). The differences on that server are: * It is amd64 compared to i386 I never tried on i386, but in my case it was an amd64 system as well ... not sure if that is relevant or not ... has anyone seen this problem *with* i386? Yes. We run Nagios on an i386 machine (dual Athlon MP 1800+), and I first saw this problem with a build of 6-STABLE as of 2007-10-04, and it continues (if I don't use the libmap.conf settings) with the running system of 6.3-PRERLEASE as of 2007-12-18 and nagios-2.10 (from ports of same date). -- greg byshenk - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Leiden, NL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Tom Judge wrote: Jarrod Sayers wrote: I hope I can confirm your frustrations. There is a threading issue with Nagios when it's binaries are linked against libpthread(3) threading library, the default on recent FreeBSD 5.x releases and all 6.x releases. The issue is random and extremely difficult to track down with the symptoms being a second Nagios process sitting on the system hanging a CPU. Be rest assured that I have been working on it, and have seen it on one system of mine. Not sure if this is related at all but out of the 3 nagios deployments we have here I have only ever seen it on one (It currently has 2 nagios threads spinning CPU time atm). The differences on that server are: * It is amd64 compared to i386 * It also runs ndo2db from ndoutils 1.4b7 All the systems run 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and nagios-2.9_1, they are also all patched with gnu libltdl patch below. Don't know if that info is of any use to you. That's actually good to know, as you're now (unless I am mistaken) the first user to contact me about this problem on non-i386 systems. One user, plus myself, have also seen the issue under Nagios 3.x, both on i386 systems though. I also have a net-mgmt/ndoutils port in the works (less the database support for now) which also has the same issue so using broker modules doesn't seem to affect the outcome. My gut feeling is that it's not an architecture issue but more an interoperability issue between the Nagios threading code and the libpthread() threading library. [yoink] I did receive that email and the changes went in with the last commit of net-mgmt/nagios-devel to test. No issues have arisen so i'll be back-porting it to net-mgmt/nagios soon for you. There also has been a rather large ports freeze which delayed the upgrade to Nagios 2.10, that PR was submitted on the 1st of November and committed on the 13th of December. Unfortunately your email fell somewhere in the middle, apologies for not letting you know. Thanks for this, I currently maintain the patch on our build servers. No worries, I will look at bundling in the change with the libthr() fix over the next few days. Thanks for pointing that out too as it was a bug instead of a feature request, as on systems where the library was available, the build process would link to it. Hmm... Jarrod. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pIII coppermine?
Erik Trulsson wrote: I assume you mean BP6. Why? The Abit BP6 and Abit VP6 both exist, and are two different motherboards, with the VP6 being newer and supporting faster CPUs. I see no reason to not believe he did mean VP6. Yes, thanks, I stand corrected. I googled and found the VP6. Hadn't heard of that one. By about that time (2001) I'd come full circle and was disgusted with ABIT's products, and was building AMD systems anyway. -Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: I never tried on i386, but in my case it was an amd64 system as well ... not sure if that is relevant or not ... has anyone seen this problem *with* i386? When I read about it, I was in the middle of upgrading the problem machine to 7-stable - which now reports as follows: FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Jan 1 22:12:02 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AARON Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (701.59-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 Features=0x387f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,PN,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 1073479680 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1041297408 (993 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: INTEL TR440BXA on motherboard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHfDKWQv9rrgRC1JIRAgTzAJ0T4HwQcR8kSj+iuKL90S2oz5EWMACeLPqd pBkMfN9J08zv+ibT3TgcYHA= =vmkg -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:05:16 +1030 Jarrod Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's actually good to know, as you're now (unless I am mistaken) the first user to contact me about this problem on non-i386 systems. One user, plus myself, have also seen the issue under Nagios 3.x, both on i386 systems though. I also have a net-mgmt/ndoutils port in the works (less the database support for now) which also has the same issue so using broker modules doesn't seem to affect the outcome. My gut feeling is that it's not an architecture issue but more an interoperability issue between the Nagios threading code and the libpthread() threading library. As noted in my original report, this isn't a nagios issue per se ... my first experience with this issue was with Azureus/java ... so its a 'threading issue in general' ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHfDm94QvfyHIvDvMRAtZkAKCf4z6csc+YaXBS1/UMurQ3NIqXDgCeLCif jplg0JQzX4xKQEgJsVy/nGY= =dA7G -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Swap partition
Hello, I have FreeBSD installed on my desktop, with 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB swap partition and this swap partition is very seldom touched by the system and then only 2-3% used. I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a hard disk of 100 GB. Should I waste 8 GB for a swap partition, as it is recommended in the handbook? Thanks for any advice, Eugen Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap partition
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:13:28 -0800 (PST) Eugen Udma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a hard disk of 100 GB. Should I waste 8 GB for a swap partition, as it is recommended in the handbook? Probably not. The twice the ram rule is for people who may need to debug kernel panics. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pIII coppermine?
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:11:42PM -0500, Rob wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it would be nice to I assume you mean BP6. Why? The Abit BP6 and Abit VP6 both exist, and are two different motherboards, with the VP6 being newer and supporting faster CPUs. I see no reason to not believe he did mean VP6. It's best that they be the same stepping number; this is like an engineering revision level in Intelese. Usually looks like SLQ7 or similar. But it wasn't required on those boards. Of course Intel never sanctioned Dual Celerons, which is what made it so cool :) I still have one of those with very low hours that I keep thinking I should dust off and recommission for sumpthin'. I hope you're not using this machine for any critical applications. All the ABIT boards of that day (circa 1999) had really low quality electrolytic capacitors in the voltage regulators that are notorious for failing. And the BP6 had one cap that got a totally wrong value installed on the board. Google BP6 capacitors and you'll find lots. Also www.BP6.com Have fun. Both the BP6 and VP6 have a reputation for bad capacitors (the VP6 even more so than the BP6.) I built the machine in 2000 and used it with no problems all the way up to 2005. I lucked out. It just so happens they have the same stepping number, so they should work perfect together. I am going to be using it as a file server/backup server. If it runs stable, I might make it my main server, because with both processors running it will be better than the other oldie I have as my main server. I used the VP6 as my main desktop for 5 years before Photoshop got too bloated to run fast enough for my photography business. If something was going to give as far as the caps on the board, would they still be a high risk if the board has been very reliable thus far? I just use the main server to host a couple of small traffic web sites from my house. It has been running fine for almost 8 years, and I only recently added a hard drive as a precaution. 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]
What's in boot.catalog?
What information do the ISO files' boot.catalog contain, and how does the boot code use it? Because they're differing in a couple of bytes (-bootonly.iso VS -disc1.iso VS -livefs.iso)... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mplayer and x11 libs
Hello, I've installed the mplayer port previously i used the WITHOUT_X11 option because i didn't want x11 support as well as didn't want gtk2 and the libs it brings in. Yet, a porgupgrade of this box pulled in those libs. I've corrected this by uninstalling mplayer and it's dependencies with pkg_cutleaves and reinstalling. How do i prevent this in the future? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mplayer and x11 libs
Dave writes: I've installed the mplayer port previously i used the WITHOUT_X11 option because i didn't want x11 support as well as didn't want gtk2 and the libs it brings in. Yet, a porgupgrade of this box pulled in those libs. I've corrected this by uninstalling mplayer and it's dependencies with pkg_cutleaves and reinstalling. How do i prevent this in the future? If you are using portupgrade, then man pkgtools.conf. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?
At 08:34 12/30/2007, Ian Smith, wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, W. D. wrote: At 08:49 12/22/2007, Ian Smith wrote: Warning: overlong message. access to only your LAN. Will this webserver later have a public IP address, or run behind NAT with port forwarding? Public IP. So will your LAN also have access to services on this machine? ie will this box have an address on your LAN also? alias on the same interface? Nope. Will have to go through the public IP. # FTP: add allow tcp from any to any ftp in setup add allow tcp from any to any ftp\-data in setup add allow tcp from any ftp\-data to any setup out Mmm, I prefer using and enforcing FTP passive mode, but YMMV. How would I do that? This guy doesn't think it's even possible: http://tinyurl.com/2z6ynr Mmm, ok. Passive mode needs allowing connections to this port range net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst: 49152 net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast: 65535 which is adjustable, but I'm unsure of my ground regarding ftp - pass. How would I write this as a rule? I did try to pass .. # ipfw add allow tcp from any to me 49152-65535 in setup but that's only safe if you'll run no other services in that range. Below in your new ruleset you specify as a range: # FTP Passive (Ports 1-65000): add allow tcp from me to any 1-65000 in setup but I think you mean 'any to me'?, and the range is unnecesarily larger than ftpd uses, ie .hifirst to .hilast and you can probably limit your range further - I'm unsure how hard passive mode ftpd hunts for free ports to bind to, or what. Maybe someone else can help out here .. ? OK: # FTP Passive (Ports 49152-65535): add allow tcp from any to me 49152-65535 in setup There seems to be very sparse documentation on these higher ports, passive FTP, and /etc/sysctl.conf. I am hoping that these settings for sysctl.conf are proper: net.inet.ip.portrange.lowfirst=1023 net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast=600 net.inet.ip.portrange.first=32768 net.inet.ip.portrange.last=49151 net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst=49152 net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast=65535 Am using this link, since man ipfw doesn't work on 6.2. (I dare someone to explain to me how to get it to work): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwsektion=8 That's weird. Does man work for others in section 8, eg man mount ? Nope. How to get working? (re)install the manpages and doc distributions from the distribution CD, or by FTP or whatever you used or want to use. You can use sysinstall / configure / distributions, select manpages and doc, select media when asked, visit options if you need to set anything else, then install. Don't go _anywhere near_ partitioning or labelling disks or mess with anything else, even for a peek, in my experience. Hmmm. I guess sysinstall didn't do this to begin with. Did this: sysinstall - Configure - Distributions - man - OK - FTP - Primary #12 (ftp12.freebsd.org) - Running multi-user, assume that the network is already configured? - Yes Extracting manpages into / directory... Exit out, then test: man ipfw # Stop, then restart ipfw: # ipfw disable firewall; /etc/rc.d/ipfw start Or '/etc/rc.d/ipfw stop; /etc/rc.d/ipfw start' which includes the dis/enabling. '/etc/rc.d/ipfw restart' probably works too, modulo caveats in ipfw(8) about doing these sorts of things remotely. Yeppers. What I use (ipfw disable firewall; /etc/rc.d/ipfw start) seems to not lock out my remote connection. The others do. # List firewall hits: # ipfw -a -S -N -t list -S is overkill/noise unless actually using sets. -N can be slow if any addresses prove hard to resolve, but I guess that info may be useful :) OK: # List firewall hits: # ipfw -a -N -t list # Zero out hits counter: # ifpw zero shudder I'd never use this command without including rule number/s, but then I use counters for um, accounting. Fine while testing .. OK: # Zero out hits for a specific rule number: ipfw zero 05200 # Zero out hits counter for ALL rules: ifpw zero Additions: # Log Viewing/Searching/Studying: #tail -f /var/log/ipfw/ipfw.log # Study: less -S /var/log/ipfw/ipfw.log* # With grep filtering: cat /var/log/ipfw/ipfw.log | grep 192.168.1.103 | grep UDP | more # Allow anything on the local loopback: add allow all from any to any via lo0 # Disallow Spoofers: = # For more info, see: # RFC3330 # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network # If you are actually using a particular # subnet, then be sure to comment out # the appropriate section. # # This Network: add deny log ip from any to 0.0.0.0/8 in add deny log ip from 0.0.0.0/8 to any in . . . # Class E Reserved: add deny log ip from any to 240.0.0.0/4 in add deny log ip from 240.0.0.0/4 to any
OSX NFS-Server FreeBSD NFS Client
I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 server to FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge 2850 server hardware). We use the StorNext distributed file system in which FreeBSD cannot participate straightly (sorry to say). But OS X can do using the XSAN software from Apple, so we integrated the OS X server into the StorNext environment. We want OS X to NFS export the filesystems to FreeBSD clients, which by itself for example act as SMB servers using Samba 3.0.x. After exporting and mounting, everything seems to work well. But when the system gets under some real life load, NFS-mounted file systems begin sporadically to hang on the FreeBSD clients without any error message. On the NFS clients, although some processes are blocked in kernel mode when accessing files, others still can work successfully. But with increasing time, the situation becomes worse and worse until we have to restart the operating system by ungently switching the power off and on again. The OS X server seems to be unimpressed by all this. I'd greatly appreciate any hint or idea what to do. Of course, I did some experimenting with NFS mount options (-rsize,-wsize,-L), but got no improvement. Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [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: How to not start syslogd
On 31/12/2007, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Small hint shown to me many years ago when enabling things in rc.conf. If I want to startup ipfilter for example (trimmed to avoid wrapping). bash-2.05b# cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter Returns the following, ipfilter_enable=NO# Set to YES to enable ipfilter ipfilter_program=/sbin/ipf# where the ipfilter program lives ipfilter_rules=/etc/ipf.rules # rules definition file for ipfilter, ipfilter_flags= # additional flags for ipfilter If it looks like what you want then write it into your running rc.conf, cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter /etc/rc.conf cat not needed, as grep accepts filenames and as in grep ^ipfilter /etc/defaults/rc.conf or the above with | $PAGER appended grep ^ipfilter /etc/defaults/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf grep ^allsc /etc/defaults/rc.conf | less sorry, just trying to prevent cat abuse -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
