Re: junk in remote mutt
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32:24PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:23:43AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:03:54PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> > I'm not sure that's a very good title for this email, but it's what I've > >> > got. > >> > > >> > Since configuring my environment to use UTF-8, I've had a problem while > >> > checking email on a server. I log into the server via SSH, then enter > >> > the `mutt` command. As I page through the inbox, open and close emails, > >> > et cetera, I get a bunch of junk on the screen -- characters from the > >> > previous screen appearing on the current screen. I have to use Ctrl + L > >> > to clear it up and return the appearance of the screen to the way it's > >> > supposed to look. > >> > > >> > What can I do to eliminate this problem? I don't want to have to force a > >> > screen redraw every time I switch between views, scroll down a page in > >> > mutt, and so on. I also don't want to go back to a character set limited > >> > to plain ol' ASCII (there's a reason I use rxvt-unicode instead of rxvt). > >> > >> Don't see it here. If you are sure that mutt uses UTF-8 charset (ie, > >> forced it with 'set charset="utf-8"'), make sure it's linked against > >> ncursesw library (and not just ncurses) - need to use WITH_NCURSES_PORT > >> on 6.2 and earlier or build it using WITH_SLANG. > > > >I finally got around to checking the settings in the Makefile and > >recompiling mutt. End result: same problem. If anyone else has any > >ideas what might be causing this problem, please let me know. > > > >addendum: The computer I'm using as a client to access mutt on another > >machine doesn't have this same problem locally. When I open a local mutt > >instance, there's no junk on the screen. I decided to try using SSH > >through the remote system where I'm encountering this issue, then from > >there using SSH to get back to the local machine, and opened mutt inside > >this contrived SSH loop. Still no problem. Thus, whatever the problem > >is seems to be particular to the remote machine. > > > > What is your TERM environment variable setting? Are the terminfo > files on the remote system current? The TERM environment variable on both systems is set to `rxvt`. I'm not sure what I should be looking for to be sure the terminfo file is correct. > > I'm reasonably sure that mutt uses ncurses, and if it is not > built correctly, that could also cause problems. I have tried both the default (WITH_SLANG=yes) and WITH_NCURSES_PORT=yes on the remote system. Otherwise, I haven't mucked about with the Makefile of mutt at all. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Distcc + cross compiling
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Re: junk in remote mutt
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Chad Perrin wrote: >On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:23:43AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:03:54PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: >> > I'm not sure that's a very good title for this email, but it's what I've >> > got. >> > >> > Since configuring my environment to use UTF-8, I've had a problem while >> > checking email on a server. I log into the server via SSH, then enter >> > the `mutt` command. As I page through the inbox, open and close emails, >> > et cetera, I get a bunch of junk on the screen -- characters from the >> > previous screen appearing on the current screen. I have to use Ctrl + L >> > to clear it up and return the appearance of the screen to the way it's >> > supposed to look. >> > >> > What can I do to eliminate this problem? I don't want to have to force a >> > screen redraw every time I switch between views, scroll down a page in >> > mutt, and so on. I also don't want to go back to a character set limited >> > to plain ol' ASCII (there's a reason I use rxvt-unicode instead of rxvt). >> >> Don't see it here. If you are sure that mutt uses UTF-8 charset (ie, >> forced it with 'set charset="utf-8"'), make sure it's linked against >> ncursesw library (and not just ncurses) - need to use WITH_NCURSES_PORT >> on 6.2 and earlier or build it using WITH_SLANG. > >I finally got around to checking the settings in the Makefile and >recompiling mutt. End result: same problem. If anyone else has any >ideas what might be causing this problem, please let me know. > >addendum: The computer I'm using as a client to access mutt on another >machine doesn't have this same problem locally. When I open a local mutt >instance, there's no junk on the screen. I decided to try using SSH >through the remote system where I'm encountering this issue, then from >there using SSH to get back to the local machine, and opened mutt inside >this contrived SSH loop. Still no problem. Thus, whatever the problem >is seems to be particular to the remote machine. > What is your TERM environment variable setting? Are the terminfo files on the remote system current? I'm reasonably sure that mutt uses ncurses, and if it is not built correctly, that could also cause problems. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Capitalism works primarily because most of the ways that a company can be scum end up being extremely bad for business when there's working competition. -rra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: junk in remote mutt
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:23:43AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:03:54PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > I'm not sure that's a very good title for this email, but it's what I've > > got. > > > > Since configuring my environment to use UTF-8, I've had a problem while > > checking email on a server. I log into the server via SSH, then enter > > the `mutt` command. As I page through the inbox, open and close emails, > > et cetera, I get a bunch of junk on the screen -- characters from the > > previous screen appearing on the current screen. I have to use Ctrl + L > > to clear it up and return the appearance of the screen to the way it's > > supposed to look. > > > > What can I do to eliminate this problem? I don't want to have to force a > > screen redraw every time I switch between views, scroll down a page in > > mutt, and so on. I also don't want to go back to a character set limited > > to plain ol' ASCII (there's a reason I use rxvt-unicode instead of rxvt). > > Don't see it here. If you are sure that mutt uses UTF-8 charset (ie, > forced it with 'set charset="utf-8"'), make sure it's linked against > ncursesw library (and not just ncurses) - need to use WITH_NCURSES_PORT > on 6.2 and earlier or build it using WITH_SLANG. I finally got around to checking the settings in the Makefile and recompiling mutt. End result: same problem. If anyone else has any ideas what might be causing this problem, please let me know. addendum: The computer I'm using as a client to access mutt on another machine doesn't have this same problem locally. When I open a local mutt instance, there's no junk on the screen. I decided to try using SSH through the remote system where I'm encountering this issue, then from there using SSH to get back to the local machine, and opened mutt inside this contrived SSH loop. Still no problem. Thus, whatever the problem is seems to be particular to the remote machine. I'm going to poke around some more and see if I can figure out what's up while I wait for a response from anyone else who might have something to offer, now that I've confirmed it seems to be specific to that machine. Hopefully it's not related to the fact that the remote system is running 6.1-RELEASE while the system I'm using as a client is running 6.2-RELEASE, since that would pretty much mean I'm stuck with the problem for quite some time (no desire to upgrade the FreeBSD version number on the server). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life doesn't give you any sugar? ___ 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 automake110
El día Monday, March 24, 2008 a las 05:49:49PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: > > Hello, > > I want to port some application (Ekiga) directly from their SVN to > FreeBSD 7.0R which is using > > $ ./autogen.sh --with-pwlib-dir=/usr/local > > to generate the configure / Makefiles and which fails; the problem seems > to be that 'aclocal' or some of the M4 macros used are not working as > they should: > > $ LANG=C aclocal --dry-run > /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of > AM_PATH_SMPEG > /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' > /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: or see > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal > /usr/local/bin/gm4:/usr/local/share/aclocal/pilot-link.m4:1: ERROR: end of > file in string > autom4te-2.61: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1 > aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 > $ the problem concerning '/usr/local/share/aclocal/pilot-link.m4' goes away by deleting the port /usr/ports/palm/pilot-link (maintainer Cc'ed); matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
Sorry about the delay in my response. I got tied up in lots of unrelated
matters for several days.
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:55:43 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Scott Bennett wrote:
>> Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wishing that I hadn't done it.
>> ...
>> I'm still discovering more and more broken stuff in 7.3 each day. It's
>> only partially usable. ...
>
>Did you check the integrity of your libraries? Are you maybe using portupgrade
>that keeps copies of old libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg ? Maybe some
>things are still linked against these, this can lead to a load of trouble.
>
>You can install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run pkg_libchk to check the
>integrity of your system.
>
Thank you for that suggestion. I tried running it, and it did produce
some messages like
diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_3: /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/lib/i386/libdcpr.so misses
libjvm.so
However, xscreensaver{,-demo} did not appear in the output, nor did firefox.
The only package with a name beginning "xorg-" that appeared got this message:
xorg-printserver-6.9.0_2: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt misses libXdmcp.so.0
I'm not sure what to do about these or the others that were listed, but in any
case, the bsdadminscripts package of scripts appears to deal only with packages
and not with ports installed as ports rather than packages. Because the X.org
upgrade process builds essentially all of the X.org core software from ports,
the scripts have limited applicability to the current situation.
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Mysql 51 Server port patch
I submitted a PR on this. In short the problem that I'm having is that
mysqld becomes a daemon and returns control the rcorder subsystem
before it has established it unix domain listening socket. On my
system the next daemon to run is jabberd. Jabberd (from the jabberd2
port) has a component sm which depends on mysql for it's data storage.
Since it takes a second on my system for mysqld to establish it's
listening socket sm fails which takes down all of jabberd I
patched the mysql-server startup script to wait for up to 15 seconds
before termination. This fixes the problem on my side. According to
the email I just got this went in as PR ports/122063
-- Chris
PR follows
Problem:
The rc.d script shipped with the port of mysql server exits
immediately after mysqld starts. This normally wouldn't be a problem
but the mysql daemon exits about a second before it has established
it's unix domain listening socket: "/tmp/mysql". The problem here is
that the rc startup system can queue the next daemon to start before "/
tmp/mysql" is available. If the next daemon needs mysql it will fail
and exit. On my system rcorder starts mysql-server and then
immediately follows up with jabberd. Since mysql doesn't appear ready
for about a second jabberd fails and exits.
I've attached a patch which waits for up to 15 seconds for the /tmp/
mysql socket to appear in the filesystem and exits as soon as it's
available. This allows the next daemon in line to startup properly if
it needs mysql. Note that I have had this problem with postfix up
until I removed my mail information from mysql.
Repeat:
Build a system that uses mysql and jabber or postfix. Ensure that
jabberd starts after mysql by hacking /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd's ##
REQUIRES line. Assuming you're not on some hot rod of a machine check
your logs for jabberd2's failure line in the service manager.
Fix:
This may not adhere to the strictest rules of the rcorder system but
my solution is to hack the provider's (mysql-server) startup script.
The goal was to prevent the script from exiting until either the
listening socket is established or a 15 second timeout has passed.
A better solution would be for mysqld to establish the listening
socket first (even if it ignores incoming connections for a little
bit) but that's much higher effort.
Patch:
--- mysql-server.sh.in 2008-03-25 00:10:14.0 -0400
+++ mysql-server.sh.in.orig 2008-03-25 00:02:58.0 -0400
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
# Base database directory.
# mysql_args (str):Custom additional arguments to be passed
# to mysqld_safe (default empty).
-# mysql_conn_socket (str): Defaults to "/tmp/mysql.sock"
-# The unix domain socket the daemon listens
on.
#
. %%RC_SUBR%%
@@ -32,17 +30,15 @@
: ${mysql_enable="NO"}
: ${mysql_limits="NO"}
: ${mysql_dbdir="/var/db/mysql"}
-: ${mysql_conn_socket="/tmp/mysql.sock"}
: ${mysql_args=""}
mysql_user="mysql"
mysql_limits_args="-e -U ${mysql_user}"
pidfile="${mysql_dbdir}/`/bin/hostname`.pid"
command="%%PREFIX%%/bin/mysqld_safe"
-command_args="--defaults-extra-file=${mysql_dbdir}/my.cnf --user=$
{mysql_user} --datadir=${mysql_dbdir} --pid-file=${pidfile} $
{mysql_args}"
+command_args="--defaults-extra-file=${mysql_dbdir}/my.cnf --user=$
{mysql_user} --datadir=${mysql_dbdir} --pid-file=${pidfile} $
{mysql_args} > /dev/null &"
procname="%%PREFIX%%/libexec/mysqld"
start_precmd="${name}_prestart"
-start_cmd="${name}_start"
mysql_install_db="%%PREFIX%%/bin/mysql_install_db"
mysql_install_db_args="--ldata=${mysql_dbdir}"
@@ -64,19 +60,4 @@
fi
}
-mysql_start()
-{
- local timeout=15
-
- echo "Starting ${name}"
-
- ${command} ${command_args} < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &
- while [ ! -S "${mysql_conn_socket}" -a ${timeout} -gt 0 ]; do
- timeout=$(( timeout - 1 ))
- sleep 1
- done
-
- return 0
-}
-
run_rc_command "$1"
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Serial access to a Extreme Nwtworks Switch
hello, I am Running FreeBSD 7.0, I am trying to gain console access to my Extreme Networks Switch, the command cu -l /dev/cuad0 -s 9600 , Says Connected and then does nothing What am I doing Wrong? I have a Straight through serial cable connected to com1, Does someone know a quick way to do this From FreeBSD? the machine is a Dell 1650 if that matters Thank you in advance for any help Sam Fourman Jr. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: USB printer
Bernt Hansson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Ted Mittelstädt wrote , at 2008-03-19 05:24: CUPS <> Ghostscript. gs and all the foomatic stuff runs just fine with LPR/LPD, no CUPS needed. Can one use a ppd-file with lpd/lpr? Of course. A sample printcap file lp|OfficeJet:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :af=/etc/foomatic/HP-OfficeJet_4110-hpijs.ppd:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/OfficeJet:\ :sh: I'm not using foomatic but the ppd-file from HP for LJ2100, 2200, 4050 and 8000 is that still possible? They all speak postscript. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Well if you want to use your printers in PostScript mode you can just send row .ps file and it should print i.e. you can remove the af and if lines from the printcap and should work. Now what about other file types? Lets have a second look for instance at LJ2100. According to Linux Printing Database (which is the one we also use in BSD world) http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_2100 the recommended way of using for instance LJ2100 is via Printer Command Language 5 or 6 i.e. you need a driver. The recommended driver for LJ2100 is pxlmono which is build in Ghostscript. If you use printer with Apsfilter you can just select the driver. Files of any type should be printed no question asked. If you use PPD file and fomatic-rip filter as in the above printcap example the jobs would be passed through pxlmono driver. You may send to printer ps or non ps files (pdf, dvi, gif, html) and everything should work no question asked. The printer will work eight other drivers. Now the final question is probably that there is custom PPD vile for PostScript mode according to the same Database. I think that that one is only relevant for CUPS as PPD files are used via IPP (only spoken by CUPS) to fake real communication with the device and show things like printer status. I am not 100% sure but I think that PPD file is what one would call CUPS-PPD file. If you send let say .pdf file that PPD file probably will tell CUPS how to pass pdf file through GhostScript and create ps version and then print it. I am not sure if it going to be useful with LPD. Of course in the case you do not have any filters in your printcap you can send only ps files to printer. You can play on the following way. Remove the if (input filter line from your printcap file) and keep af but put that particular custom PPD file which is used for PostScript mode. Try to send ps and pdf file. If it prints only ps file that means that PPD does nothing for LPD if it can print pdf files that means that is usable with LPD. I personally use most printers in PCL mode just because I have lots of different mish-mash printer non of which speaks full PostScript language. Cheers, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:09:54 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X restarts, kicking me out of my session. Does it restart by itself? Or simply crash on a signal 11? It just restarted, I had to logon again, but it has already been solved: I removed all the 'Acceleration' stuff from the conf file. Apparently my hardware didn't like that. 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: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:33:30 -0400
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Respectfully, the list of things WINE will not - by its own
> documentation - run and has no expectation of running in the
> foreseeable future is immense. Seasonal example for Americans:
> TurboTax.
sure. and neither does our Australian Tax office software. which I run on a
win32 box or a win32 VM under qemu.
but wine has come a huge way from when I started to track it, back in '98 or so.
anyway, choice is the key word here , i think :)
cheers,
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Re: Is this safe? Copying a complete install from one HD to another
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:59:34 -0400
"Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a 6.2 machine I just upgraded to 7.0. I did a fresh install on
> the second HD. I'm almost to the point where I'm sure the install is
> at least as functional as the previous install (i.e. I didn't break
> anything). The second HD has always seemed a bit chintzy to me (and
> you can hear the drive heads when it is active), so I'd just as soon
> get the 7.0 OS off of there, and onto the main drive. I also prefer to
> use the main HD, because it's partitioned nicer. I heard you can tar
> data from an old drive to a new one, and have it work properly,
> provided the MBR is set up to boot that partition, is this correct?
yup, this has been discussed several times in the list. I've used it countless
times to replicate my laptop to a separate disk before a major upgrade.
tar or dump | restore , etc... as long as the different file types (normal,
links, sockets,etc) are transferred correctly. the same for user permissions.
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Re: libggi
On 24/03/2008, Mitja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to compaile a libggi but I got: > > ===> libggi-2.2.2_2,1 requires unknown xorg module (xsxt). > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/libggi. > Well, Rosie told me to google it, so I googled it. Nothing apropos. Did it maybe mean textproc/libxslt? Did you get a transitory ports tree with the dependancies all mired an' mucked? > pkg_info -r /var/db/pkg/libggi-2.2.2_2,1/ Information for libggi-2.2.2_2,1: Depends on: Dependency: xf86dgaproto-2.0.3 Dependency: xextproto-7.0.2 Dependency: kbproto-1.0.3 Dependency: inputproto-1.4.2.1 Dependency: svgalib-1.4.3_5 Dependency: pkg-config-0.22_1 Dependency: xtrans-1.0.4 Dependency: xproto-7.0.10_1 Dependency: libXdmcp-1.0.2_1 Dependency: libXau-1.0.3_2 Dependency: libX11-1.1.3_1,1 Dependency: libXext-1.0.3,1 Dependency: libXxf86dga-1.0.2 Dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_4 Dependency: libgii-1.0.2_2 is all I gots, hombre. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)
On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Patrick C wrote: Another option would be to dig out the associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. What is used in pine (now alpine) is the c-client libraries already mentioned in another post. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: RAID on HP ML110 G5
Tom Munro Glass wrote: I would like to run FreeBSD 7 on a HP ML110 G5. I understand from past posts to this list that the ML110 series is FreeBSD friendly, but what about RAID 1 using the on-board SATA controller? Will this work and how do you set this up? Regards Tom Munro Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" i would recommend to build RAID1 using gmirror instead as then you can use smartd to monitor drives what isnt possible (AFAIK) with hardware RAID on those boxes. -- bEsT rEgArDs| "Confidence is what you have before you tomasz dereszynski | understand the problem." -- Woody Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How do I add search paths to gcc
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:31:54 -0400 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > mdh wrote: > > --- Eduardo Cerejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include > >> for libraries and hearders and I added the paths > >> /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc > >> file: > >> > >> set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games > >> /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib > >> /usr/local/include $HOME/bin) > > > > PATH in the environment is where your shell searches > > for programs to run from the command line, system(), > > etc. This allows you to type, say, `sh` instead of > > having to type out `/bin/sh` or risking having > > `/home/somekiddie/sh` run instead when you type it. > > > >> but I still have to use gcc with -I and -L switch > >> for a program to compile or else it will fail. > >> > >> I'm using tcsh. > > > > There are two ways to set up alternate places to find > > libraries. The first is ldconfig, and you can see > > ports run this when you install a port containing > > shared libraries for example. The other is to use the > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to set alternate > > paths at run-time. > > > > Well, that might be taken as confusing, even though your info is technically > quite correct. Both those methods WILL get those added dirs searched for > loading the libraries at run time, BUT it will NOT get your compiler to find > the > new paths, when linking the program during the build. I'm fairly sure that's > what the person wanted, don't you think so? > > Because, if I'm wrong, you can delete this email right here and now, read no > more. > > BUT you were quite correct, there are definitely *at least* two methods to set > up your *compiler* library search paths. In fact, I think I can show you 3 > methods right now. > > First, you can list the full path of the library on the command line, when you > use your compiler to link your program. > ] > Second, you can (as the person suggested himself) you can use the -l/-L > options > to bring in libraries & paths. The -L should come first, it adds the path, > and > the -l afterwards adds the specific library. > > The 3rd method is the use the variables LDFLAGS and LDADD. These variables > are > NOT 100% reliable to use, although they are fairly reliable on BSD systems. > The > LDFLAGS is where you put your "-LExtraPath" and the LDADD is where you stick > the -lExtraLibrary, like this (from a Makefile example): > LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/local > LDFLAGS+=-lgtk > > If you are using the BSD make util, the you use "+=" to add to your variables, > instead of replacing them, in case they had some values in them to begin with. > "Make" automatically adds in the obvious spaces, so your definitions don't > have > a train wreck for you. > > > The 'ldconfig(1)' man page has more info for you. > > > > Take care, mdh After searching quite a bit I found someone looking for same thing running tcsh (not freebsd) and the solution was running or adding these lines to .cshrc. setenv C_INCLUDE_PATH "/usr/local/include" setenv LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/local/lib" this did the trick for gcc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RAID on HP ML110 G5
I would like to run FreeBSD 7 on a HP ML110 G5. I understand from past posts to this list that the ML110 series is FreeBSD friendly, but what about RAID 1 using the on-board SATA controller? Will this work and how do you set this up? Regards Tom Munro Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:09:54 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> The other thing I've noticed is, on my box at least, that the problem >> always starts when I move the mouse (not every time of course) so could >> it be Xorg 7.3 not playing nicely with the mouse driver - or the USB >> driver since my mouse is a USB one? Which may explain why some people >> see the problem and others don't? > >My mouse is on USB, still no problems. > My trackball is a USB 2.0 device, but the touchpad and pencil eraser thingy are built into the machine. >> >> This is really becoming a big PITA. >> > >So I wonder how we can help the port maintainer to fix the issue. Maybe >it's an idea to collect some data on installed ports (including >versions), used hardware and whether or not one has problems? Well, here's my info for starters then. Computer: Dell Inspiron XPS CPU: 3.4 GHz P4 w/HTT enabled RAM: 1 GB Graphics card: ATI Radeon JN R420 Mobility M18 (*) Built-in pointing devices: Synaptics Touchpad, GlidePoint eraserhead thingy External pointing device: Logitech USB Trackball (**) (*) When X is started, the following messages appear in /var/log/message: info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map info: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs However, near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log this is apparently reconsidered: (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Mapped 32 vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 16 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel GART heap manager, 5111808 (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ... (WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0xefffe000 is: 0xefffe000 (WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffc0 is: 0xf07ff000 (II) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (II) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0xefffe000 0xefffe000 (II) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0xf07ff000 (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer. (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion Solid Lines Scanline Image Writes Offscreen Pixmaps Setting up tile and stipple cache: 32 128x128 slots 32 256x256 slots 16 512x512 slots (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled ...and a bit later... (II) RADEON(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message. (--) RandR disabled ...and several "Initializing " lines later... (II) Loading sub module "GLcore" (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so (II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) GLX: Initialized MESA-PROXY GL provider for screen 0 (**) The driver identifies the trackball as having 5 buttons, though in fact, it only has 4. This has been the case as long as I've been running FreeBSD (i.e., since 5.2.1) and is not new to 6.3. > >The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just >remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X >restarts, kicking me out of my session. > Does it restart by itself? Or simply crash on a signal 11? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cpu
Well that is helpful thank you. I have 2 GB RAM and am running i386 on my Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe. So this is probably the right thing to do. Thanks. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 05:09:51PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > > > >> I have a computer with this processor: Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe > ( > >> 2.4GHz, 4MB, 1066MHz FSB). > >> I'm running i386. Is this right? I had no idea about this AMD64 > business. > >> I'm confused as to why you run an AMD OS on an Intel CPU. > >> > > > > For similar reasons as why you can run an "Intel OS" (i386) on an AMD > CPU. > > > > AMD64 (aka x86-64) refers to AMD's 64-bit extension to the x86 > architecture. > > Most (all?) of Intel's recent x86 CPUs also implement this extension. > > > > When I first started exploring the issue with my "new" (about 6 months > old now) machine (e6850 3GHz dual core intel w/ 4 GB RAM) the rule of > thumb I learned was if you have <2GB of RAM i386 if more then AMD64. > Sure you can use PAE on i386 but it is really a workaround. Now there > are about 10% of the ports out there that will not run on AMD64 with the > most important "everyday" one being the nvidia driver for xorg (note > though contrary to the man page nv does support the max resolution of > your card/monitor [well almost I ca get 1400x1050 but not 1600x1050 on > my 8400GS and 21" wide screen]). > > > > > > > > > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: > >>> > Hi! > > I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? > > >>> AMD64 or > >>> > I386? > > >>> AMD64. > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
libggi
I tried to compaile a libggi but I got: ===> libggi-2.2.2_2,1 requires unknown xorg module (xsxt). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/libggi. Thanks. -- Sailors in ships, sail on! Even while we died, others rode out the storm. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:01:28 + Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter Boosten wrote: >> Ken Gunderson wrote: >>> [snip] Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues you describe anyway. Peter >>> >>> So how would you explain that I am seeing same type of behaviors in >>> straight "startx" with default twm, i.e. bundled Xorg wm? >>> I'm using WindowMaker (wmaker). Firefox hangs something in a way that I can't get any response whatsoever from the keyboard, touchpad, keyboard pointer thingy that looks like a pencil eraser, or trackball. Because I have no other box from which to log in remotely, my only option is to power the system down, turn it back on, reboot, wait for fsck, etc. Many xscreensaver modules cause the *server*, not the window manager, to die on a signal 11. >> >> Dunno. But the troubles cannot originate from the xorg ports, or >> everyone would see the same behaviour, right? >> > > > Maybe some other port, or hardware (maybe your video card? - just > > guessing), or the driver for that particular piece of hardware. > > > >One would expect so, but it would appear not to be the case. I'm having >the same problem - if I ssh in from another box I see the Xorg process >sucking >100% CPU and the state is *GIANT > >I'm using an ATI card but people are having the same issue with nVidia >and Matrox cards. My box has run every version of Xorg since it replaced >XFree86 on FreeBSD and many versions of XFree86 before that without this >problem. Mine is a Mobility Radeon 9800. > >Also, the problem seems to come and go for me as I update my ports, i.e. >the box has the problem, I run ``portmaster -a'' and the problem goes >away. sometime later I run ``portmaster -a'' again and the problem >re-appears. Only seems to happen when X-related stuff gets updated. I haven't noticed the intermittency you describe here, but that is likely due to the fact that updating the various parts of X and X applications takes so long that I try to avoid doing it very often. > >The other thing I've noticed is, on my box at least, that the problem >always starts when I move the mouse (not every time of course) so could >it be Xorg 7.3 not playing nicely with the mouse driver - or the USB >driver since my mouse is a USB one? Which may explain why some people >see the problem and others don't? That's a thought. The Firefox problem always seems to occur when I make the first button click anywhere in the Firefox window, but maybe I should try simply moving the cursor into the window and wait a few seconds to see what happens before pressing a button. > >This is really becoming a big PITA. > I concur. Since the "upgrade"--downgrade is more like it--to 7.3 from 6.9, I only have access to a functioning web browser when I shut down FreeBSD and boot Windows XP, a very sad state of affairs. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Xorg crashing randomly
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:21:04 +0200 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lately Xorg (log file says X.Org X Server 1.4.0') seems to crap out randomly,
That's the server in X.org 7.3.
>sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a few days.
>
>I'm running 7.0-RELEASE, custom kernel (ULE scheduler and unneeded drivers
>removed, everything else is default), and nvidia driver (latest).
>
>There's nothing in messages, nor in the xorg log file, except:
>
>---
>Fatal server error:
>Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>---
>
>I don't know what other info i should give, there isn't much (if anything) in
>the log files.
>
>I might add that i've tested the RAM, plus the rest of the system is ok.
>
>Any ideas are appreciated.
>
Are you running xscreensaver? Many of the various screen saver modules
cause X.org 7.3 crashes with exactly the messages you cited above when they
begin execution in full-screen mode. The ones I've tried so far do not cause
crashes when they are displayed only in the demo window of the preferences
panel in xscreensaver-demo, but full-screen mode gets a very different result
for some modules.
If you are using xscreensaver{,-demo}, try setting it to "blank screen
only" rather than running the modules that produce the pretty patterns on the
screen.
There may be other applications that cause the same sort of crashes, but
the screen saver routines are the only ones I know do it for certain. Firefox
2.x under X.org 7.3 gets an impenetrable hang, not a crash.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
**
* Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu *
**
* "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good *
* objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments *
* -- a standing army." *
*-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 *
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Re: cpu
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 05:09:51PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: I have a computer with this processor: Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe ( 2.4GHz, 4MB, 1066MHz FSB). I'm running i386. Is this right? I had no idea about this AMD64 business. I'm confused as to why you run an AMD OS on an Intel CPU. For similar reasons as why you can run an "Intel OS" (i386) on an AMD CPU. AMD64 (aka x86-64) refers to AMD's 64-bit extension to the x86 architecture. Most (all?) of Intel's recent x86 CPUs also implement this extension. When I first started exploring the issue with my "new" (about 6 months old now) machine (e6850 3GHz dual core intel w/ 4 GB RAM) the rule of thumb I learned was if you have <2GB of RAM i386 if more then AMD64. Sure you can use PAE on i386 but it is really a workaround. Now there are about 10% of the ports out there that will not run on AMD64 with the most important "everyday" one being the nvidia driver for xorg (note though contrary to the man page nv does support the max resolution of your card/monitor [well almost I ca get 1400x1050 but not 1600x1050 on my 8400GS and 21" wide screen]). On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: Hi! I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? AMD64 or I386? AMD64. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cpu
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 05:09:51PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > I have a computer with this processor: Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe ( > 2.4GHz, 4MB, 1066MHz FSB). > I'm running i386. Is this right? I had no idea about this AMD64 business. > I'm confused as to why you run an AMD OS on an Intel CPU. For similar reasons as why you can run an "Intel OS" (i386) on an AMD CPU. AMD64 (aka x86-64) refers to AMD's 64-bit extension to the x86 architecture. Most (all?) of Intel's recent x86 CPUs also implement this extension. > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? > > AMD64 or > > > I386? > > > > AMD64. > > > > -- 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: cpu
I have a computer with this processor: Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe ( 2.4GHz, 4MB, 1066MHz FSB). I'm running i386. Is this right? I had no idea about this AMD64 business. I'm confused as to why you run an AMD OS on an Intel CPU. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? > AMD64 or > > I386? > > AMD64. > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: USB printer
> Ted Mittelstädt wrote , at 2008-03-19 05:24: > >> CUPS <> Ghostscript. gs and all the foomatic stuff runs just fine >> with LPR/LPD, no CUPS needed. > > Can one use a ppd-file with lpd/lpr? > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > Of course. A sample printcap file lp|OfficeJet:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :af=/etc/foomatic/HP-OfficeJet_4110-hpijs.ppd:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/OfficeJet:\ :sh: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app
I want advice for old DOS app on Windows PC, that I need to make on 2 PC-s fault tolerant. Any advice for working solution on FreeBSD? Yep...rewrite the database in SQL with a PHP front end. Import the data from the old system. Use a Radware/F5 Load Balancer for the web and Slony-I for the database replication. Welcome to 2008. and have all "modern apps" problems and 1000 times higher hardware requirements to do the same. my CA-Clipper apps running under DOS are still in use after 15 years, because it work well. there is no better language for such things, there are CA-Clipper ports for unix, but not very good. clip (ports/databases/clip) is an exception, except it's screen handling is quite a mess. but will a little of work it's good, i ported few program to clip. clip is 5-20 times faster on the same machine than CA-Clipper :) for now - i don't know anything better to write database-processing programs than this. no "database engines" and other strange things - fortunately. it uses "ancient" technology - simply stores tables as flat files, and indexes as other files. there is quite a big chance this old DOS program was written in CA-Clipper. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: USB printer
Ted Mittelstädt wrote , at 2008-03-19 05:24: CUPS <> Ghostscript. gs and all the foomatic stuff runs just fine with LPR/LPD, no CUPS needed. Can one use a ppd-file with lpd/lpr? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cpu
Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: Hi! I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? AMD64 or I386? AMD64. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
cpu
Hi! I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? AMD64 or I386? Thanks... Hajdu Irodatechnika Kft. Debrecen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Powerpc port
K. Bradford wrote: I have installed 7.0-RELEASE on an old Mac G4. I have cvs'ed the latest sources (using the RELENG_7 tag) in order to track 7.0-STABLE. The problem: I can boot only off the FreeBSD install CD, by breaking into open firmware upon bootup like this: 0 > boot mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,\boot\boot.tbxi Open firmware loads this boot loader which then automagically loads and runs the FreeBSD loader. Then, I interrupt using the space bar to get to the loader prompt and explicitly set the root device to be the hard drive partition. OK set rootdev=mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 (My FreeBSD root partition is 3). Kernel boots up, mounts / off the hard drive and the system runs fine. Can someone advise me how to set up everything correctly on the hard drive so I don't have to jump through all these hoops? I'm guessing boot.tbxi is needed somewhere under /boot, but I don't think open firmware can read a BSD partition anyway. Documentation on the powerpc port seems sparse. Could someone please point me in the right direction, or provide brief instructions here. As always, any help/advice is greatly appreciated. Since Open Firmware doesn't understand UFS you have two options - you can either use the CD as a first-stage loader, or use an OS X partition to boot from. Since I got rid of my OS X partition when I installed FreeBSD on my G4 I use the first option. The simplest way is to just leave the CD in the drive and type: > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:3 There are more instructions about booting Macs at http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [6.3/vi] European characters?
El día Monday, March 24, 2008 a las 10:33:29PM +0100, Gilles escribió: > Hello > > vi can't display Euopean characters on my 6.3 setup. For instance, it > shows "Cr\xe9er" instead of "Créer". > > Am I missing the right font, or is it some wrong setting somewhere? Hello Gilles, What will it give you with: $ LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-1 vi matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: A general purpose LDAP solution?
I'd be interested in a read. I am currently using NIS/YP with FreeBSD servers and Linux clients... makes things very interesting. I've been meaning to exploit PAM for a more modern solution but it hasn't been a huge priority. Is there any support for built-in redundancy on the server level? I just need changes replicated, CARP can handle failover. -Patrick On 24/03/2008, Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > I asked this on freebsd-net@ but got no replies. So now I ask the same > > question here. > > > >> Hi list! > >> > > > > > > I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my > > > sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do it. > > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-Release with some different server > applications > > > - Samba PDC > > > - Virtual mail server (Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP) > > > - VPN (currently with mpd4) > > > - Apache-2.2.8 web server (with PHP and MySQL) > > > I would like to implement LDAP for: > > > - authentication of UNIX/login users > > > - authentication of Samba users > > > - authentication/authorization of virtual mail users > > > For the first part, I got useful information from a previsous thread > > > ( > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-02/msg01047.html > ) > > > and for the second part, i guess there is sufficient howtos to make > it > > > work. > > > My biggest question right now is if is possible to combine all three > > > things in one data structure. And which in which order I should make > > > the different implimentions. > > > Excuse my total lack of understanding, but is it possible to have a > > > structure with a superior unit such as OU= which > > > could contain several virtual domains and the actual doamin for my > > > PDC? > > > > > > -- > > > Jon Theil Nielsen > > > > Oh, i forgot one more thing: I would also like to be able to > > authenticate VPN users the same way. > > -- > > Jon Theil Nielsen > > > > > It's easy to find out if LDAP is a global solution for you. See if LDAP > is an available option in each port's config. > > I just finished setting up a LDAP-based email system. Samba is capable, > unix logins are capable. There's a good chance everything is. > > I liked the virtual part of everything, so I stopped after getting email > working. I didn't want to open up my system to all sorts of unix/samba > logins that might exploit or give me problems. > > The email system I documented isn't ready for publishing. I'm having > some select friends review it and proofread it first. > > If there's any interest here, I will provide a 2nd publishing to the > general public as a draft. Not to be used exclusively yet. > > Jon, you should be able to get most if not all of it working though. > > > --Tim > > ___ > 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: A general purpose LDAP solution?
Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: I asked this on freebsd-net@ but got no replies. So now I ask the same question here. Hi list! > > I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my > sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do it. > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-Release with some different server applications > - Samba PDC > - Virtual mail server (Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP) > - VPN (currently with mpd4) > - Apache-2.2.8 web server (with PHP and MySQL) > I would like to implement LDAP for: > - authentication of UNIX/login users > - authentication of Samba users > - authentication/authorization of virtual mail users > For the first part, I got useful information from a previsous thread > (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-02/msg01047.html) > and for the second part, i guess there is sufficient howtos to make it > work. > My biggest question right now is if is possible to combine all three > things in one data structure. And which in which order I should make > the different implimentions. > Excuse my total lack of understanding, but is it possible to have a > structure with a superior unit such as OU= which > could contain several virtual domains and the actual doamin for my > PDC? > > -- > Jon Theil Nielsen Oh, i forgot one more thing: I would also like to be able to authenticate VPN users the same way. -- Jon Theil Nielsen It's easy to find out if LDAP is a global solution for you. See if LDAP is an available option in each port's config. I just finished setting up a LDAP-based email system. Samba is capable, unix logins are capable. There's a good chance everything is. I liked the virtual part of everything, so I stopped after getting email working. I didn't want to open up my system to all sorts of unix/samba logins that might exploit or give me problems. The email system I documented isn't ready for publishing. I'm having some select friends review it and proofread it first. If there's any interest here, I will provide a 2nd publishing to the general public as a draft. Not to be used exclusively yet. Jon, you should be able to get most if not all of it working though. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Is this safe? Copying a complete install from one HD to another
I have a 6.2 machine I just upgraded to 7.0. I did a fresh install on the second HD. I'm almost to the point where I'm sure the install is at least as functional as the previous install (i.e. I didn't break anything). The second HD has always seemed a bit chintzy to me (and you can hear the drive heads when it is active), so I'd just as soon get the 7.0 OS off of there, and onto the main drive. I also prefer to use the main HD, because it's partitioned nicer. I heard you can tar data from an old drive to a new one, and have it work properly, provided the MBR is set up to boot that partition, is this correct? Planned method: use sysinstall to reformat the old /, /usr, /var and /tmp mount the old /, /usr, /var, and as /old, /old/usr, /old/var respectively. (in /old) $ tar -cf - -exclude /old -exclude /tmp / | tar -xf - edit /old/etc/fstab appropriately reboot. Should this work? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: List replies
RW wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100 > Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD >> would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups - >> something like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea. > > You can access the FreeBSD mailing lists through the gmane newserver: > news.gmane.org. I find it very useful for lists I only rarely read - > particularly for lists related to ports. Most list will accept posts > through the server. > > You still need a valid email address to post though - the first post > made through the news server needs to be validated by an email reply. Thank you for this information. I have monitored some of the lists through interfaces like muc.lists.freebsd.* and others, but they all seem to miss some posts. Hopefully, gmane is better. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
A general purpose LDAP solution?
I asked this on freebsd-net@ but got no replies. So now I ask the same question here. > Hi list! > > I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my > sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do it. > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-Release with some different server applications > - Samba PDC > - Virtual mail server (Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP) > - VPN (currently with mpd4) > - Apache-2.2.8 web server (with PHP and MySQL) > I would like to implement LDAP for: > - authentication of UNIX/login users > - authentication of Samba users > - authentication/authorization of virtual mail users > For the first part, I got useful information from a previsous thread > > (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-02/msg01047.html) > and for the second part, i guess there is sufficient howtos to make it > work. > My biggest question right now is if is possible to combine all three > things in one data structure. And which in which order I should make > the different implimentions. > Excuse my total lack of understanding, but is it possible to have a > structure with a superior unit such as OU= which > could contain several virtual domains and the actual doamin for my > PDC? > > -- > Jon Theil Nielsen Oh, i forgot one more thing: I would also like to be able to authenticate VPN users the same way. -- Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
Excellent choice... But so far it looks like I'll be going for http://www.m5hosting.com. "Small is the new big", might wanna Google that. Besides, they look so simple! Kyrre - Original Message - From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:28 am Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers? To: Kyrre Nygård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In response to "Kyrre Nygård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with > the downtime. > > > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git > projects, an IRC server as well as an internet radio channel. > > > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None > of that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with > simple text files the way it's meant to be done. > > > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > pair.com ? > > -- > 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 "freebsd-questions- > [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: fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:36 +0200, B. Bonev wrote: > I want advice for old DOS app on Windows PC, that I need to make on 2 PC-s > fault tolerant. Any advice for working solution on FreeBSD? Yep...rewrite the database in SQL with a PHP front end. Import the data from the old system. Use a Radware/F5 Load Balancer for the web and Slony-I for the database replication. Welcome to 2008. ~BAS P.S. In reality you could likely do a HA-VMWare GSX virtual machine with synchronized failover, but that's off-topic here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [6.3/vi] European characters?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > vi can't display Euopean characters on my 6.3 setup. For instance, it > shows "Cr\xe9er" instead of "Créer". > > Am I missing the right font, or is it some wrong setting somewhere? > > Thank you. It's your locale setting (man locale). What I have set in bash, for example: export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' export LC_COLLATE='C' Your terminal needs to match. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Build: mtree: line 48: unknown group games
"Kyrre Nygård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mtree: line 48: unknown group games > *** Error code 1 > > Is the games account really that important? It isn't very important in itself, but having the group and user present for a gid and uid that are in use is a bad idea. Having them there when not in use is relatively innocuous. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: make readmes errors
"fire jotawski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Lowell Gilbert < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "fire jotawski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE#3: >> > Fri Mar 7 03:20:47 ICT 2008 >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SITING >> > i386 >> > i try making README.html for all ports but get errors at the last state >> as >> > >> > Creating README.html for all ports >> > /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes : Permission denied >> > *** Error code 126 >> > >> > please help me in makeing readme.html >> > thanks in advance for any hints. >> >> Sounds like the user running the command doesn't have permissions to >> write into the port directories. >> > > > no sirs, i use root account for running that command. anywym i try running > again with user root. Even for the root user, there are other possible privilege problems. You could be running over NFS, with the UID getting remapped. There could be file flags set on some of the files you are changing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
[6.3/vi] European characters?
Hello vi can't display Euopean characters on my 6.3 setup. For instance, it shows "Cr\xe9er" instead of "Créer". Am I missing the right font, or is it some wrong setting somewhere? Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Xorg crashing randomly
Maybe try the vesa or vga driver for a while and see what happens? Did you set the video ram correct? Cheers herbs On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:21:04 +0200 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > Lately Xorg (log file says X.Org X Server 1.4.0') seems to crap out randomly, > sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a few days. > > I'm running 7.0-RELEASE, custom kernel (ULE scheduler and unneeded drivers > removed, everything else is default), and nvidia driver (latest). > > There's nothing in messages, nor in the xorg log file, except: > > --- > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > --- > > I don't know what other info i should give, there isn't much (if anything) in > the log files. > > I might add that i've tested the RAM, plus the rest of the system is ok. > > Any ideas are appreciated. > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > Ghirai. > ___ > 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: List replies
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100 Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD > would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups - > something like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea. You can access the FreeBSD mailing lists through the gmane newserver: news.gmane.org. I find it very useful for lists I only rarely read - particularly for lists related to ports. Most list will accept posts through the server. You still need a valid email address to post though - the first post made through the news server needs to be validated by an email reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app
I want advice for old DOS app on Windows PC, that I need to make on 2 PC-s fault tolerant. Any advice for working solution on FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ports fetch timeout
"Sys Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been trying to install a bunch of packages on a freshly built > 7.0-REL machine. The ports "make install" command has been > consistently failing to download files from ftp servers on Internet. > I can however ftp to the servers and "get" the files manually into > /usr/ports/distfiles directory, and then the port installation is able > to continue just fine. > > I have no firewall on my network and as seen above, am able to FTP > files down using the command-line "ftp" client. > > Is there any "fetch" related setting that's preventing the downloads? > Or are there any environment variables to be configured for this to > work? Any config for the ports sub-system? Fetch can be affected by a number of environment variables. See the manuals [fetch(1) and fetch(3)] for more information on that. You may find it informative to use fetch from the command line, instead of ftp. If the same problems occur in interactive mode, you will probably find it much easier to determine why. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Xorg crashing randomly
Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello list, > > Lately Xorg (log file says X.Org X Server 1.4.0') seems to crap out randomly, > sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a few days. > > I'm running 7.0-RELEASE, custom kernel (ULE scheduler and unneeded drivers > removed, everything else is default), and nvidia driver (latest). > > There's nothing in messages, nor in the xorg log file, except: > > --- > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > --- > > I don't know what other info i should give, there isn't much (if anything) in > the log files. > > I might add that i've tested the RAM, plus the rest of the system is ok. > > Any ideas are appreciated. Can you connect the symptoms to anything that happens on the system? Does it only happen when the server is in active use? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mac osX drivers
On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? Drivers for doing what? This is all on a current project I'm working on... Go study the available Darwin code from http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ This is good advice, but if you check this link and actually look at the OSX drivers under there, you'll discover that they are generally written in C++ using something called the I/O Kit, documented here: http://developer.apple.com/reference/HardwareDrivers/ http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/IOKitFundamentals I believe you will discover many of the drivers in MacOS X came from FreeBSD. Not really, no. The OS X drivers originated from the Mach project at CMU and NeXT Computer back in the early 90's [1], with a significant rewrite by Apple after they acquired NeXT circa 1998 to add numerous drivers to support Apple's hardware in particular. -- -Chuck [1]: NeXT started in the late 80's (1987 or so), but the driver source code actually in use in OSX now had some origins back to 1994 or so, and almost all of it was updated significantly around 1998-2000 (aka Rhapsody through 10.1 or so timeframe), with smaller changes being made since... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mac osX drivers
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the > drivers be portable? Drivers for doing what? > This is all on a current project I'm working on... Go study the available Darwin code from http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ I believe you will discover many of the drivers in MacOS X came from FreeBSD. That doesn't mean changes were not needed, it means the developers thought it easier to make the changes rather than write from scratch. Many of the key developers came from FreeBSD. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Email processing in Python
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:12:03 -0400, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Giorgos Keramidas writes: >>> No, there's no library for `email processing' in the C standard. You >>> can probably find a lot of non-standard ones, by Googling however :) >>> >>> It's worth writing that plain C is the wrong language for this >>> sort of thing, if you ask me. There are excellent high-level >>> libraries in Perl, and Python to do this sort of thing. >> >> On one hand, that's probably true. >> >> On the other hand: I know zero Python and this much > < Perl. I tried >> Perl, actually, and couldn't find the functions I needed. > >Heh, fair enough. It may be a good chance to start learning Python >though. It's always a lot more fun to have a *real* task to do, instead >of fictional `exercises'. > Python has quite a few routines that handle e-mail which are well documented in the Python Library Reference: http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html The ``email'' module does much the same as the perl Mail::Internet modules (I've written a wrapper for python's email library that basically implements the perl API to make porting my old perl routines to python :-). The ``poplib'' and ``imaplib'' modules make accessing POP and IMAP servers pretty easy as well. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Democracy Is Mob Rule with Income Taxes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Email processing in Python
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:12:03 -0400, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas writes: >> No, there's no library for `email processing' in the C standard. You >> can probably find a lot of non-standard ones, by Googling however :) >> >> It's worth writing that plain C is the wrong language for this >> sort of thing, if you ask me. There are excellent high-level >> libraries in Perl, and Python to do this sort of thing. > > On one hand, that's probably true. > > On the other hand: I know zero Python and this much > < Perl. I tried > Perl, actually, and couldn't find the functions I needed. Heh, fair enough. It may be a good chance to start learning Python though. It's always a lot more fun to have a *real* task to do, instead of fictional `exercises'. I have written a few Python scripts to process email myself, so if you decide to go that route, please feel free to show me what you've done, describe what you want to do, and I will try to help as much as I can. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)
Le Mon 24/03/2008, Patrick C disait > Searching real quick shows the existence of both libmime and libmbox... > don't know if they're maintained. Another option would be to dig out the > associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. > > -Patrick libPAN (or is it libEtPAN ?) is also a C library for mail processing -- Erwan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)
Giorgos Keramidas writes: > No, there's no library for `email processing' in the C standard. You > can probably find a lot of non-standard ones, by Googling however :) > > It's worth writing that plain C is the wrong language for this > sort of thing, if you ask me. There are excellent high-level > libraries in Perl, and Python to do this sort of thing. On one hand, that's probably true. On the other hand: I know zero Python and this much > < Perl. I tried Perl, actually, and couldn't find the functions I needed. (Plus the documemtation was aimed at a more experienced audience.) I can fumble my way around a decent C packagei less time ad with less hair-rending. I do have the advantage I know more-or-less exactly what the message will look like. 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: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)
Searching real quick shows the existence of both libmime and libmbox...
don't know if they're maintained. Another option would be to dig out the
associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail.
-Patrick
On 24/03/2008, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:32:02 -0400, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I need to write a quick and not-too-dirty C program to process some
> > e-mail. (Including dealing with mbox files.)
> >
> > Is there a standard library to do this? Respectfully,
>
> No, there's no library for `email processing' in the C standard. You
> can probably find a lot of non-standard ones, by Googling however :)
>
> It's worth writing that plain C is the wrong language for this sort of
> thing, if you ask me. There are excellent high-level libraries in Perl,
> and Python to do this sort of thing. Email processing is going to
> require a log of string processing, and C is notoriously 'tricky' for
> this sort of thing.
>
> As an example of the expressiveness of using a higher level language,
> you can display the authors of all the messages in a UNIX mailbox with
> the following short Python script:
>
> import mailbox
> m = mailbox.mbox('/home/keramida/mbox')
> for message in m:
> author = m['from]
> print author
>
> This is not just a `readable pseudo-code-like example'. It's *real*
> Python code, that you can run _now_ in your Python shell.
>
> To perform a similar task in plain C you will need several dozens of
> lines of code, and it won't necessarily be as readable. It _may_ be
> faster, in some cases, but it will probably won't be as 'safe'.
>
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Re: e-mail processing in C
In the last episode (Mar 24), Robert Huff said: > > I need to write a quick and not-too-dirty C program to process > some e-mail. (Including dealing with mbox files.) > Is there a standard library to do this? You can use the c-client library for this; it's what the pine email client uses. http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/internal.txt.html lists all the functions available, and I believe there are sample programs in the imap-uw source package that demonstrate how to read and write messages to mailboxes. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:32:02 -0400, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to write a quick and not-too-dirty C program to process some
> e-mail. (Including dealing with mbox files.)
>
> Is there a standard library to do this? Respectfully,
No, there's no library for `email processing' in the C standard. You
can probably find a lot of non-standard ones, by Googling however :)
It's worth writing that plain C is the wrong language for this sort of
thing, if you ask me. There are excellent high-level libraries in Perl,
and Python to do this sort of thing. Email processing is going to
require a log of string processing, and C is notoriously 'tricky' for
this sort of thing.
As an example of the expressiveness of using a higher level language,
you can display the authors of all the messages in a UNIX mailbox with
the following short Python script:
import mailbox
m = mailbox.mbox('/home/keramida/mbox')
for message in m:
author = m['from]
print author
This is not just a `readable pseudo-code-like example'. It's *real*
Python code, that you can run _now_ in your Python shell.
To perform a similar task in plain C you will need several dozens of
lines of code, and it won't necessarily be as readable. It _may_ be
faster, in some cases, but it will probably won't be as 'safe'.
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possible bug in mysql-server.sh
Hi. I've installed from ports mysql-server-5.0.45_1 on FreeBSD 7.0 and see what happens: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start Starting mysql. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ #I will hit now CTRL+D [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# So, a shell from the user "mysql" is started, and boot process Doesn't continue till y "logout" that shell.. ¿What's happenning? ¿Any idea? Thanks a lot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
Guys, careful on the "reply to all" on this message :-) If you're looking for FreeBSD hosting, I have had very good luck with m5hosting.com. It's a small company but they host in a very nice datacenter with good connectivity, and their support is awesome. The owner (Mike) is very knowledgeable with *BSD and is one of the few hosts to offer FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu dedicated servers. I can highly recommend them. We migrated all our hosting needs from Rackspace to our own equipment at Quality (Globix) and have never looked back. There have been some recent high-profile outages but their reliability is still very good, we just found that it was much cheaper to host ourselves especially when we looked at adding additional equipment for redundancy like load balancers. If you don't need managed hosting I don't see any place for Rackspace. I also have a personal FreeBSD box with The Planet, things have gotten more professional there (ev1) since becoming The Planet and it's a decent host. -Patrick On 24/03/2008, "Kyrre Nygård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the > downtime. > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, an IRC > server as well as an internet radio channel. > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of that > cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple text files the > way it's meant to be done. > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > And is there a place that reviews dedicated server providers? > > Thanks, > Kyrre > > ___ > 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: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
In response to "Kyrre Nygård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the downtime. > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, an IRC > server as well as an internet radio channel. > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of that cpanel > bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple text files the way > it's meant to be done. > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? pair.com ? -- 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: e-mail processing in C
On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Robert Huff wrote: I need to write a quick and not-too-dirty C program to process some e-mail. (Including dealing with mbox files.) Is there a standard library to do this? You probably want to invoke formail, which is part of the mail/ procmail port. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Fork bomb immune to limits for user.
Hello, Did You start start program via screen -m -d -s ~/kaboom ? This is important here. And I want ask You, how you can stop screen -m -d -s ~/kaboom via ctrl+c ? It's impossible with that bomb. (number of PIDs is going to infinity, you can't find that one 'root pid', which will kill all children). Regards... Bill Moran wrote: Michal Garbowski [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've the question, to the bug report: [2]http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121949 . Is there any limit, (which I didn't wrote in PR), which can stop gives memory for user (not root) in fBSD ? Can't help you much here because I can't reproduce the problem. I compiled your program and ran it and I was still able to use the system just fine as it was scrolling numbers past. I was also able to CTRL-C the program from the terminal and it stopped without any problems. Nor did I see any unusual memory usage. -- Asy i Cieniasy pilkarskiej ekstraklasy kliknij >> [3]http://link.interia.pl/f1d27 References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121949 3. http://link.interia.pl/f1d27 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
I have several FreeBSD machines rented from NTT Verio in London. I'm accessing them remotely with SSH and there is also a control-panel option available. Check if this is suitable for you. BR, Catalin Miclaus Senior Network/Security Administrator Starcomms Ltd. www.starcomms.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beech Rintoul Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 7:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kyrre Nygård Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers? On Monday 24 March 2008, Kyrre Nygård said: > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the > downtime. > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, > an IRC server as well as an internet radio channel. > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of > that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple > text files the way it's meant to be done. > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > And is there a place that reviews dedicated server providers? > > Thanks, > Kyrre Check out www.rootbsd.net, they support the FreeBSD project and use FreeBSD servers. 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/7.0R/announce.html --- ___ 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: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
This looks professional indeed... Thanks a lot for the great advice man :) Kyrre - Original Message - From: Patrick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:27 am Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers? To: Kyrre Nygård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Guys, careful on the "reply to all" on this message :-) > > If you're looking for FreeBSD hosting, I have had very good > luck with m5hosting.com. It's a small company but they host > in a very nice datacenter with good connectivity, and their > support is awesome. The owner (Mike) is very knowledgeable with > *BSD and is one of the few hosts to offer FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and > Ubuntu dedicated servers. I can highly recommend them. > > > We migrated all our hosting needs from Rackspace to our own > equipment at Quality (Globix) and have never looked back. There > have been some recent high-profile outages but their reliability > is still very good, we just found that it was much cheaper to > host ourselves especially when we looked at adding additional > equipment for redundancy like load balancers. If you don't > need managed hosting I don't see any place for Rackspace. > > > I also have a personal FreeBSD box with The Planet, things have > gotten more professional there (ev1) since becoming The Planet > and it's a decent host. > > -Patrick > > On 24/03/2008, "Kyrre Nygård" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the downtime. > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, an IRC > server as well as an internet radio channel. > > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of that cpanel > bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple text files the way > it's meant to be done. > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > > And is there a place that reviews dedicated server providers? > > Thanks, > Kyrre > > ___ > 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]"
e-mail processing in C
I need to write a quick and not-too-dirty C program to process some e-mail. (Including dealing with mbox files.) Is there a standard library to do this? Respectfully, 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: Daemon Daily News
Scott, Yes. There are hardware issues, and it is being addressed. I do apologize for any inconvenience, we will have things back online as soon as possible. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemonnews.org skype: mikel.king +--+ How do you spell cooperation? Pessimists use each other, but optimists help each other. Collaboration feeds your spirit, while competition only stokes your ego. You'll find the best way to get along. +--+ On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: whoops, I meant bsdnews.com and not .org On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 12:19 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: Anyone know what happened to bsdnews.org? The site has been down for several days now. Thanks, STH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- [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: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
Nah, actually, the website design (which can be used as a measure for the qualities of the rest of its services) kinda put me off. "The environment in which products and services are sold often have a greater impact than the products or services themselves." --designcouncil.org.uk Kyrre - Original Message - From: Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:26 am Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kyrre Nygård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 24 March 2008, Kyrre Nygård said: > > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the > > downtime. > > > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, > > an IRC server as well as an internet radio channel. > > > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of > > that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple > > text files the way it's meant to be done. > > > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > > > And is there a place that reviews dedicated server providers? > > > > Thanks, > > Kyrre > > Check out www.rootbsd.net, they support the FreeBSD project and > use > FreeBSD servers. > > 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/7.0R/announce.html > - > -- > > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [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: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
On Monday 24 March 2008, Kyrre Nygård said: > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the > downtime. > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, > an IRC server as well as an internet radio channel. > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of > that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple > text files the way it's meant to be done. > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > And is there a place that reviews dedicated server providers? > > Thanks, > Kyrre Check out www.rootbsd.net, they support the FreeBSD project and use FreeBSD servers. 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/7.0R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the downtime. Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, an IRC server as well as an internet radio channel. Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple text files the way it's meant to be done. So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? And is there a place that reviews dedicated server providers? Thanks, Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I'd like some help
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 18:03 +0100, Christian Zachariasen wrote: > On Windows, I can really recommend the freeware burner program CDBurnerXP: > > http://cdburnerxp.se/ > Christian Zachariasen > On Windows XP, I usuall recommend infrarecorder: http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ It's a nice FOSS CD burning application. James > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:58:24PM -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: > > > > > I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free > > > BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the instructions > > don't > > > make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you tell me how to download > > > Free BSD with it? > > > > Well, you generally want an ftp client. Use it to ftp to: > > ftp.freebsd.org > > > > Use 'anonymous' for login id and your email address for password. > > > > >From there cd to pub/FreeBSD/releases (NOTE that case is > > significant) > > > > At this point, you need to know the type of machine. It is most > > likely i386 or amd64. amd64 is for the AMD64 processor. i386 is for > > all of the regular INTEL type processors that regular PCs use and your > > most likely choice. > > > > So, cd to i386and thenISO-IMAGES > > > > Then you have to select the version. > > I would suggest starting with 7.0 > > > > cd cd to 7.0 > > > > So that ends you up in: > > > > pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0 > > > > Then download the necessary ISOs. > > > > > > If you have a reasonable internet connection, you can install over > > the net. That is really the best if you can do it. > > > > In that case, you only need the file 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.ISO > > > > If you hav a slow or unreliable network connection, then you may > > also need disc2 and even disc3. They have the ports' source code > > on them. > > > > Presuming disc1 is good enough, > > > > burn the file to a cd. Note that the file is already an ISO and > > doesn't need to be converted. It needs to be burned as a raw file > > to the CD. Some cd burner utilities make this a bit confusing. > > Each is a little different. > > > > > > You now need to decide how to divide the hard disk and if you will be > > putting only FreeBSD on the harddisk or sharing one with some other > > OS such as something from Microsloth (called dual booting). > > > > In any case, you have to have a slice dedicated to FreeBSD. > > Note that FreeBSD UNIX uses the term slice but Microsloth uses the > > term 'primary partition' to refer to a slice. The UNIX slice and > > the MS primary partition are essentially the same and are compatible. > > > > In BSD, a slice is further divided in to 'partitions'. Microsloth uses > > 'extended partitions'. But those MS extended partitions are completely > > different and incompatible with UNIX partitions. > > > > If you are sharing a disk, you will need to use some utility to > > shrink the existing disk allocation to make room for FreeBSD. > > > > Only 4 slices/primary partitions (names 1..4) are allowed on a disk in > > current systems. Typically a major vendor puts some proprietary > > diagnostic > > and hardware utilities in the first [small] slice and marks it hidden. > > Hidden is only meaningful to Microsloth systems. It remains visible to > > UNIX. > > > > Then they put the MS OS (XP or whatever) on slice 2 and make that slice > > contain all the rest of the disk, leaving slice 3 and slice 4 empty > > and unused.So, to fit FreeBSD on the disk, it becomes necessary to > > shrink that slice 2 to free up some space to allocate to another slice - > > most likely slice-3. > > > > I have used a commercial utility called Partition Magic successfully > > in the past to manipulate the slices and make room. That was with > > a version 7.0 of PM which was put out by a company called Power Quest. > > But, it got sold and the new owner put a version 8.0 which has not > > been as successful as far as I can see. I tried to use it to slice a > > USB disk and it would not talk to it, even though its promotional > > literature made a special point of advertising it would. So, I returned > > it for a refund. > > > > In consequence I get a utility called Gparted, made the boot floppy and > > was quite successful with using it to manipulate the disk. Just do a > > little search with google and find it and download it. It works fine. > > There are some other freeware utilities out there, but most will not > > work with the NTFS type Microsloth filesystem which is common nowdays. > > So, check on that. Gparted seems to handle it OK. > > > > Anyway, lets say you carve out a nice 40 GB of disk for FreeBSD and that > > is in slice 3 - a common circumstance.If you have a whole disk to > > decicate to FreeBSD the rest of this applies. You just don't need to > > go through the gyrations to make room on a shared disk and the disk name > > is slightly different - pr
Re: fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app
On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Ivailo Bonev wrote: I want advice for old DOS app on Windows PC, that I need to make on 2 PC-s fault tolerant. Any advice for working solution on FreeBSD? Sure. Tell us what the app you want to run does, and we might be able to give you advice on fault-tolerant alternatives on FreeBSD. You might find emulators/doscmd port usable for your circumstance, also... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Fw: fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app
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fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app
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Re: Daemon Daily News
whoops, I meant bsdnews.com and not .org On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 12:19 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: > Anyone know what happened to bsdnews.org? The site has been down > for several days now. > > Thanks, > STH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Daemon Daily News
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Re: I'd like some help
On Windows, I can really recommend the freeware burner program CDBurnerXP: http://cdburnerxp.se/ Christian Zachariasen On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:58:24PM -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: > > > I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free > > BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the instructions > don't > > make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you tell me how to download > > Free BSD with it? > > Well, you generally want an ftp client. Use it to ftp to: > ftp.freebsd.org > > Use 'anonymous' for login id and your email address for password. > > >From there cd to pub/FreeBSD/releases (NOTE that case is > significant) > > At this point, you need to know the type of machine. It is most > likely i386 or amd64. amd64 is for the AMD64 processor. i386 is for > all of the regular INTEL type processors that regular PCs use and your > most likely choice. > > So, cd to i386and thenISO-IMAGES > > Then you have to select the version. > I would suggest starting with 7.0 > > cd cd to 7.0 > > So that ends you up in: > > pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0 > > Then download the necessary ISOs. > > > If you have a reasonable internet connection, you can install over > the net. That is really the best if you can do it. > > In that case, you only need the file 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.ISO > > If you hav a slow or unreliable network connection, then you may > also need disc2 and even disc3. They have the ports' source code > on them. > > Presuming disc1 is good enough, > > burn the file to a cd. Note that the file is already an ISO and > doesn't need to be converted. It needs to be burned as a raw file > to the CD. Some cd burner utilities make this a bit confusing. > Each is a little different. > > > You now need to decide how to divide the hard disk and if you will be > putting only FreeBSD on the harddisk or sharing one with some other > OS such as something from Microsloth (called dual booting). > > In any case, you have to have a slice dedicated to FreeBSD. > Note that FreeBSD UNIX uses the term slice but Microsloth uses the > term 'primary partition' to refer to a slice. The UNIX slice and > the MS primary partition are essentially the same and are compatible. > > In BSD, a slice is further divided in to 'partitions'. Microsloth uses > 'extended partitions'. But those MS extended partitions are completely > different and incompatible with UNIX partitions. > > If you are sharing a disk, you will need to use some utility to > shrink the existing disk allocation to make room for FreeBSD. > > Only 4 slices/primary partitions (names 1..4) are allowed on a disk in > current systems. Typically a major vendor puts some proprietary > diagnostic > and hardware utilities in the first [small] slice and marks it hidden. > Hidden is only meaningful to Microsloth systems. It remains visible to > UNIX. > > Then they put the MS OS (XP or whatever) on slice 2 and make that slice > contain all the rest of the disk, leaving slice 3 and slice 4 empty > and unused.So, to fit FreeBSD on the disk, it becomes necessary to > shrink that slice 2 to free up some space to allocate to another slice - > most likely slice-3. > > I have used a commercial utility called Partition Magic successfully > in the past to manipulate the slices and make room. That was with > a version 7.0 of PM which was put out by a company called Power Quest. > But, it got sold and the new owner put a version 8.0 which has not > been as successful as far as I can see. I tried to use it to slice a > USB disk and it would not talk to it, even though its promotional > literature made a special point of advertising it would. So, I returned > it for a refund. > > In consequence I get a utility called Gparted, made the boot floppy and > was quite successful with using it to manipulate the disk. Just do a > little search with google and find it and download it. It works fine. > There are some other freeware utilities out there, but most will not > work with the NTFS type Microsloth filesystem which is common nowdays. > So, check on that. Gparted seems to handle it OK. > > Anyway, lets say you carve out a nice 40 GB of disk for FreeBSD and that > is in slice 3 - a common circumstance.If you have a whole disk to > decicate to FreeBSD the rest of this applies. You just don't need to > go through the gyrations to make room on a shared disk and the disk name > is slightly different - probably ad1 instead of ad0. > > Once you have space on the disk to fit FreeBSD, then boot up the > FreeBSD install CD. Choose the appropriate location to do the install. > That will probably be ad0s1 if you are making FreeBSD the only OS on the > machine or ad0s3 of a shared drive or ad1s1 of a dedicated second > drive. > > Choose that and then divide the slice as needed/desired. This becomes > almost a religi
mx1.freebsd.org timeout
Hi: I have a problem writing to this list from my usual address, my server logs a timeout: Mar 24 17:21:27 mimer postfix/smtp[18002]: connect to mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]: Operation timed out (port 25) Mar 24 17:21:27 mimer postfix/smtp[18002]: 375051C0847: to=, relay=none, delay=25112, delays=25082/0.14/30/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]: Operation timed out) I have no problems recieving mail, and I have no problem sending mail to other addresses. I recall that mail to lists should go to mx2. Can this be a problem caused by ipv6 (which I don't have)? how do I solve this? in resolv.conf I have nameserver 127.0.0.1, I run my own dns with ipv4 upstream forwarders (ISP). Thanks, Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
problems with automake110
Hello, I want to port some application (Ekiga) directly from their SVN to FreeBSD 7.0R which is using $ ./autogen.sh --with-pwlib-dir=/usr/local to generate the configure / Makefiles and which fails; the problem seems to be that 'aclocal' or some of the M4 macros used are not working as they should: $ LANG=C aclocal --dry-run /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_SMPEG /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' /usr/local/share/aclocal/smpeg.m4:13: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal /usr/local/bin/gm4:/usr/local/share/aclocal/pilot-link.m4:1: ERROR: end of file in string autom4te-2.61: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 $ Maybe something is mixed up in the various versions which have been installed by all the ports: $ pkg_info | fgrep automake automake-1.10_3 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.10) automake-1.4.6_4GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.4) automake-1.5_4,1GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.5) automake-1.6.3 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.6) automake-1.7.9 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.7) automake-1.8.5 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.8) automake-1.9.6_2GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.9) automake-wrapper-20071109 Wrapper script for GNU automake gnome-common-2.20.0 Common automake macros for GNOME and GNOME 2 Could someone pls give me an idea how to solve this? Thx in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I'd like some help
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:58:24PM -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: > I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free > BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the instructions don't > make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you tell me how to download > Free BSD with it? Well, you generally want an ftp client. Use it to ftp to: ftp.freebsd.org Use 'anonymous' for login id and your email address for password. >From there cd to pub/FreeBSD/releases (NOTE that case is significant) At this point, you need to know the type of machine. It is most likely i386 or amd64. amd64 is for the AMD64 processor. i386 is for all of the regular INTEL type processors that regular PCs use and your most likely choice. So, cd to i386and thenISO-IMAGES Then you have to select the version. I would suggest starting with 7.0 cd cd to 7.0 So that ends you up in: pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0 Then download the necessary ISOs. If you have a reasonable internet connection, you can install over the net. That is really the best if you can do it. In that case, you only need the file 7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.ISO If you hav a slow or unreliable network connection, then you may also need disc2 and even disc3. They have the ports' source code on them. Presuming disc1 is good enough, burn the file to a cd. Note that the file is already an ISO and doesn't need to be converted. It needs to be burned as a raw file to the CD. Some cd burner utilities make this a bit confusing. Each is a little different. You now need to decide how to divide the hard disk and if you will be putting only FreeBSD on the harddisk or sharing one with some other OS such as something from Microsloth (called dual booting). In any case, you have to have a slice dedicated to FreeBSD. Note that FreeBSD UNIX uses the term slice but Microsloth uses the term 'primary partition' to refer to a slice. The UNIX slice and the MS primary partition are essentially the same and are compatible. In BSD, a slice is further divided in to 'partitions'. Microsloth uses 'extended partitions'. But those MS extended partitions are completely different and incompatible with UNIX partitions. If you are sharing a disk, you will need to use some utility to shrink the existing disk allocation to make room for FreeBSD. Only 4 slices/primary partitions (names 1..4) are allowed on a disk in current systems. Typically a major vendor puts some proprietary diagnostic and hardware utilities in the first [small] slice and marks it hidden. Hidden is only meaningful to Microsloth systems. It remains visible to UNIX. Then they put the MS OS (XP or whatever) on slice 2 and make that slice contain all the rest of the disk, leaving slice 3 and slice 4 empty and unused.So, to fit FreeBSD on the disk, it becomes necessary to shrink that slice 2 to free up some space to allocate to another slice - most likely slice-3. I have used a commercial utility called Partition Magic successfully in the past to manipulate the slices and make room. That was with a version 7.0 of PM which was put out by a company called Power Quest. But, it got sold and the new owner put a version 8.0 which has not been as successful as far as I can see. I tried to use it to slice a USB disk and it would not talk to it, even though its promotional literature made a special point of advertising it would. So, I returned it for a refund. In consequence I get a utility called Gparted, made the boot floppy and was quite successful with using it to manipulate the disk. Just do a little search with google and find it and download it. It works fine. There are some other freeware utilities out there, but most will not work with the NTFS type Microsloth filesystem which is common nowdays. So, check on that. Gparted seems to handle it OK. Anyway, lets say you carve out a nice 40 GB of disk for FreeBSD and that is in slice 3 - a common circumstance.If you have a whole disk to decicate to FreeBSD the rest of this applies. You just don't need to go through the gyrations to make room on a shared disk and the disk name is slightly different - probably ad1 instead of ad0. Once you have space on the disk to fit FreeBSD, then boot up the FreeBSD install CD. Choose the appropriate location to do the install. That will probably be ad0s1 if you are making FreeBSD the only OS on the machine or ad0s3 of a shared drive or ad1s1 of a dedicated second drive. Choose that and then divide the slice as needed/desired. This becomes almost a religious issue and there are many reasons for doing it many different ways. The main ideas are: use a single partition, plus swap, or choose the defauly divisions, or a newer division scheme that takes in to consideration that sizes have grown in recent years. Note, the rule of thumb for swap is 2.2 X the RAM size, but some people use more or less of swap. There ar
Re: make readmes errors
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Lowell Gilbert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "fire jotawski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE#3: > > Fri Mar 7 03:20:47 ICT 2008 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SITING > > i386 > > i try making README.html for all ports but get errors at the last state > as > > > > Creating README.html for all ports > > /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes : Permission denied > > *** Error code 126 > > > > please help me in makeing readme.html > > thanks in advance for any hints. > > Sounds like the user running the command doesn't have permissions to > write into the port directories. > no sirs, i use root account for running that command. anywym i try running again with user root. thanks for your time psr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD 7: Xorg "Failed to load module "neomagic" (Module does not exist, 0) No drivers available
Hello I found this error after making a fresh install of freeBSD7 into my IBM THINKPAD600 that has a neomagic graphic card. I never had such problems with FreeBSD 6.3. Where I find the drivers for the card and how to implement that? Does this machine is only supported by 6.3? Thanks Pedro ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: splash screen on amd64?
I could never get this to work either and was wondering if I was doing something wrong. Thanks for clearing that up. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Omer Faruk Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Than is there a possibility that we can use to see picture on bootup > (kernel) without using splash (another driver ..) ? > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Monday 24 March 2008, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there a way to use splash screen on amd64 machines? Since whatever > I > > do > > > it was not possible with 6.3-RELEASE amd64. > > > > I believe you need i386 FreeBSD to do that, because "options VESA", > which > > splash(4) relies on, isn't supported by FreeBSD amd64. > > > > -- > > Pieter de Goeje > > > > > ___ > 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: make readmes errors
"fire jotawski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #3: > Fri Mar 7 03:20:47 ICT 2008 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SITING > i386 > i try making README.html for all ports but get errors at the last state as > > Creating README.html for all ports > /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes : Permission denied > *** Error code 126 > > please help me in makeing readme.html > thanks in advance for any hints. Sounds like the user running the command doesn't have permissions to write into the port directories. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: splash screen on amd64?
Than is there a possibility that we can use to see picture on bootup (kernel) without using splash (another driver ..) ? On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 24 March 2008, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to use splash screen on amd64 machines? Since whatever I > do > > it was not possible with 6.3-RELEASE amd64. > > I believe you need i386 FreeBSD to do that, because "options VESA", which > splash(4) relies on, isn't supported by FreeBSD amd64. > > -- > Pieter de Goeje > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: splash screen on amd64?
On Monday 24 March 2008, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to use splash screen on amd64 machines? Since whatever I do > it was not possible with 6.3-RELEASE amd64. I believe you need i386 FreeBSD to do that, because "options VESA", which splash(4) relies on, isn't supported by FreeBSD amd64. -- Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: instalation problem - unable to find device node
Don't top-post, please. javo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > of course, I have writen it down and mailed to the conference :) I asked because there is no such thing as /dev/x as far as I can tell. I thought it might have stood for something else. > 2008/3/22, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> javo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I'm newbie to FreeBSD, I tried to install it month ago and everything >> was >> > OK, freeBSD was the only system running, >> > >> > later, I've installed windows and gentoo, and I've left space for >> FreBSD, >> > now during the instalation I got this error after configuring my disk >> > partitions, >> > >> > unable to find device node for /dev/x in /dev! and instalation won't >> > continue >> >> >> Is that literally what it says? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cvsup will not speak to me :Connection refused
Jim Pazarena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a bank of 8 servers, all which do cvsup regularly for ports. > > I am recently going thru an upgrade to FreeBSD 7.0, and in a cvsup > with server #5, I get :Connection refused > > I cannot figure out why this machine would be refused, when the other > 4 upgrades to 7.0 work as expected. I use the same routine to do all my > cvsuping. > > I thought perhaps the IP # of this machine has been blackballed, so I changed > it, and I still get refused. > > I run: cvsup -g -L2 ports-supfile > > I use cvsup17.us.FreebBSD.org (altho I have tried many incantations > cvsup1, 2, etc). > > I receive every time: > Cannot connect to cvsup17.us.FreeSD.org: Connection refused > > I would appreciate anyone's suggestion on what to try. > signed: perplexed. Try netcat or telnet to see what you get when a connections to cvsupd is initiated... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
splash screen on amd64?
Hi, Is there a way to use splash screen on amd64 machines? Since whatever I do it was not possible with 6.3-RELEASE amd64. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: virtual machine software
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. > > > > -Jim Stapleton > > If it crashes with 'Bad system call' make sure you have aio support > loaded. I missed it when I recently installed it, but the pkg-message > does mention it: > > - qemu now uses aio at least for ide dma, so if you get `Invalid system > call' crashes that is because aio is not (kld)loaded. > > -- > Bruce I missed that, and as I recall, that was my error. I'll try that once I'm done rebuilding my system. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)
Norberto Meijome writes: > And dont forget WINE as well :) Respectfully, the list of things WINE will not - by its own documentation - run and has no expectation of running in the foreseeable future is immense. Seasonal example for Americans: TurboTax. 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: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:16:35 +0800 (HKT)
"Gelsema, P \(Patrick\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do agree that microsoft has the benefit of everything together where you
> will have to install port and port and package to end up with the same
> result.
the problem is that you get 'everything together' for all values of
'everything' that the MS teams in Redmond came up with. If you need something
slightly different, you either change your requirements, add other software
(MS upgrade , MS-other-product or added value tool from 3rd party) for $$ or
have to contract to a MS solution provider for a fix.
I've been working with OSS for over 13 years and I still haven't come across
something that I couldn't put together with OSS...maybe I am not original
enough..who knows.
Windows AD , policies,etc are being handled, AFAIK, by current versions of
Samba.I think they are even looking into implementing WMI.
And dont forget WINE as well :)
Nevertheless, you should use whichever tool best solves your problem. It may be
MS, no worries. It may be open source, great. It may be FreeBSD, even better :)
B
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Re: Laptop advice
Id go an ASUS low end or Lenovo, I actually have never had an issue with FreeBSD on an ASUS, except for built in web cam support, dells are nice but ive experienced issues with three of them under BSD so ive been avoiding them. I do have an ASUS W5A and a IBM Z60M Lenovo Thinkpad, both run linux and BSD fine. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Monday, March 24, 2008 a las 12:29:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt > escribió: > > > Unfortunately, it is quite common for laptop vendors to write specs > > that use different names than industry standard for the components, > > so it is difficult to figure this out in advance. > > > > What you want to do is get yourself a FreeBSD boot CD then go > > visit a computer vendor that has display models. Do not order a > > laptop online. Visit a brick and mortar vendor, and try booting > > fbsd on each of the display models. > > A good way is also to let it boot a Knoppix boot CD / DVD which is able > to detect nearly all hardware used to assemble the laptop. Then take the > /var/log/messages output of this and check it against the FreeBSD > hardware notes. > >matthias (running FreeBSD 7.0-R on laptop :-)) > -- > Matthias Apitz > Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH > Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - w http://www.oclc.org/ > http://www.UnixArea.de/ > b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ > Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is it such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? > ___ > 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]"
Tool for managing network settings?
Hi! I'm using FreeBSD 7 with XFce and I'm searching a tool for managing network settings (gui or cli doesn't matter). E.g at home I need a static IP, at work DHCP on my ethernet-card. The only tool I found 'til now is a kde-settings tool started through kcmshell dbsdnetworking but the footprint of that is a little bit too big for my slow machine. Niels ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I'd like some help
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:18:11 +1000 Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:51 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:10:04AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: > > > > I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to > > > > try Free BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the > > > > instructions don't make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can > > > > you tell me how to download Free BSD with it? > > > > > > Go to the download section of the site and download the iso > > > files. Once you have those, double click on them and burn them to > > > disk. > > Last I checked, the MS Windows built-in CD burning software didn't > > do burning from an image -- you'd need third-party software. > > Burning an ISO without such software would just result in a copy of > > the ISO on the CD, rather than a CD that would boot up an installer. > Which software were you using and how long ago? I've used Roxio, Nero, > and Easy CD Creator- all of which did that. Most bundled burning > software will do it automatically. They offer burn from cd/dvd image, > as well as data cd creation, so when you double click on an iso file > it sets up to burn the image for you. > > If you haven't got the bundled software installed I agree with you > though. Fairly uncommon though. You can get some free utilities here: http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] The thrill is here, but it won't last long You'd better have your fun before it moves along... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Laptop advice
Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices? From personal experience, getting a laptop to work under FreeBSD (or even Linux) is a hair pulling experience. It took me about six months of tinkering off and on to get a Broadcom(yuck!) wifi adapter to work in my HP laptop last year. In the interim, I found a work around that was about $30. I purchased a usb wifi adapter that used the rum driver. At the time, I had to run -current to get that particular driver, but I never had a problem with the computer or the adapter under -current. The most headaches I've gotten with laptops have always involved the wifi cards. Consequently, every laptop I've installed FreeBSD and Linux on had a Broadcom(yuck!) wifi chipset. Everything else has been well supported, graphics, sound, power management, pointing devices, and usb devices. I even managed to use FreeBSD to connect to the robots I had to use in one of my master's classes last year. That was pleasantly surprising. --Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Timezone problem
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 04:05:39PM -0400, fred wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> First of all, sorry for the terrible English I will do my best, also I don't
> have much programming knowledge only some PHP.
>
>
>
> I am having issues with a software that I run on my FreeBSD server
> (6.2-RELEASE). Here is a simple demonstration of the problem:
>
>
>
> This code:
>
>
>
> // CODE START
>
> #include
>
> #include
>
>
>
> int main() {
>
> extern long timezone1;
>
>
>
> tzset();
>
>
>
> printf("timezone is %d\n", timezone);
>
> printf("tzname[0] is %s\n", tzname[0]);
>
> printf("tzname[1] is %s\n", tzname[1]);
>
> return 0;
>
> }
>
> // CODE END
>
>
>
>
>
> Give this result:
>
>
>
> timezone is 134513672
>
> tzname[0] is EST
>
> tzname[1] is EDT
>
>
>
>
>
> The value of "timezone" should be "14400" which is the difference between my
> timezone (EDT) and UTC in seconds.
What makes you think that that should be the value of 'timezone'?
It should not be.
You have not declared any variable with that name, nor does there exist any
variable with that name in the standard library.
What does exist is a function timezone() (See the timezone(3) manpage for
information on that function. It is not very useful.)
Now, in C a function name all by itself is equivalent to a pointer to that
function. The value '134513672' you get is simply the value of that pointer.
If you had compiled your programs with all warnings enabled (use -Wall) then
the compiler would have complained that the argument to printf does not
match the format. ("%d" makes printf expect an integer, but you pass it a
pointer.)
Also, I am not sure that tzset(3) is guaranteed to initialize the tzdata[]
array, nor is tzset(3) all that portable (nor is usage of the tzdata[] array
very portable for that matter.)
A better (as in: working) version of your program would be the following:
#include
#include
int main() {
struct tm *lt;
time_t t;
t = time(NULL);
lt = localtime(&t);
printf("My timezone is %s\n", lt->tm_zone);
printf("timezone offset is %ld seconds\n", lt->tm_gmtoff);
return 0;
}
It is still not fully portable (the 'tm_zone' and 'tm_gmtoff' fields are
non-standard extenstions to 'struct tm'), but it makes use only of
documented features of FreeBSD.
A standard compliant solution would be to use localtime(3) in conjunction
with strftime(3), using the "%z" and "%Z" formats to strftime.
(The "%z" format is part of C99, but not of C89, so it will not be supported
by many older compilers.)
> This problem only appeared when we went
> from EST to EDT (daylight saving time) on march 9th. Anyone knows why I am
> getting "134513672" ?
>
>
>
> Here is some more information about my system:
>
>
>
> # date
>
> Sat Mar 22 15:24:42 EDT 2008
>
> # date -u
>
> Sat Mar 22 19:24:45 UTC 2008
>
> # gcc -v
>
> Using built-in specs.
>
> Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc
> version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
>
> # uname -a
>
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
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>
>
>
>
> Thank for the help!
>
>
>
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Re: Laptop advice
El día Monday, March 24, 2008 a las 12:29:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt escribió: > Unfortunately, it is quite common for laptop vendors to write specs > that use different names than industry standard for the components, > so it is difficult to figure this out in advance. > > What you want to do is get yourself a FreeBSD boot CD then go > visit a computer vendor that has display models. Do not order a > laptop online. Visit a brick and mortar vendor, and try booting > fbsd on each of the display models. A good way is also to let it boot a Knoppix boot CD / DVD which is able to detect nearly all hardware used to assemble the laptop. Then take the /var/log/messages output of this and check it against the FreeBSD hardware notes. matthias (running FreeBSD 7.0-R on laptop :-)) -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
pcm0: primary codec not ready!
Hi, While loading snd_ich, the kernel prints the message on the subject. I haven't noticed any problems; Is it something to worry about? That's on 7-STABLE and the hardware is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:31:5: class=0x040100 card=0xe0018086 chip=0x24d58086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '815B104D multimedia audio device (codec AC97) SoundMAX or VIA' class = multimedia subclass = audio Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Laptop advice
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred C > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:48 PM > To: Derek Ragona > Cc: Joe Demeny; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Laptop advice > > > On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: > > > At 04:56 AM 3/21/2008, Joe Demeny wrote: > >> I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: > >> > >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 > >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 > >> > >> Does anyone have experience with these? > >> > >> Any suggestions for other comparable choices? > > > > I would choose the Toshiba, much better quality and support. You > > may want to look at Lenovo's too. > > > > In a laptop I would look at the graphics if you plan to run X. > > In laptops you want to look at everything. If one of the chipset is > not supported or badly you cannot like on a desktop change a component > by an another. > > You want to go here http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html > and search if every component of you laptop is supported. > Unfortunately, it is quite common for laptop vendors to write specs that use different names than industry standard for the components, so it is difficult to figure this out in advance. What you want to do is get yourself a FreeBSD boot CD then go visit a computer vendor that has display models. Do not order a laptop online. Visit a brick and mortar vendor, and try booting fbsd on each of the display models. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Mac osX drivers
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Da Rock > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:26 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Mac osX drivers > > > I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the > drivers be portable? > MacOS X itself is not portable, it only runs on Apple hardware, for which it contains all needed drivers. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
