Account access
Hi there Just hoping I can hear back from someone on the process to unlock one of my clients accounts with http://freedns.afraid.org/ please. Her previous web developer is no longer in contact and we need to put in place some domain redirects and access a mailing list. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards Jacqueline ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Freebsd without swap
Hi there. Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap - related configurations. Ξ ~ → gpart show = 34 234441581 ada0 GPT (111G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 234441453 2 freebsd-zfs (111G) Ξ ~ → pstat -T 3857/12328 files 0M/0M swap space And all work perfectly or that seems to me :). My working machine is ThinkPad T61 with 4G ram. I'm typically desktop user. And the question is: Does it correct to use freebsd like this? Or I need specific setup? Option NO_SWAPPING if I understand right not for this purpose. Sysctl vm.swap_enabled=0 seems to be useful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
USB device activity when not mounted
I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd and safe to unplug? I assume when the umount returns, but what's going on after that? Gary ___ I had that problem/quirk with a SanDisk Cruzer 8 GB USB stick. Light would slowly blink in all OSes (FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux) I use, but not in FreeDOS. This even happened before mounting and persisted after umounting. I just tested on the new computer, running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #10 amd64, got the slow blink even without mounting. No other USB sticks ever did this in my experience, though I can't speak for brands I've never used. USB sticks are not all created equal. One lot of Kingston Data Travelers would not work in NetBSD but were good in Linux and FreeBSD, and even FreeDOS and OpenIndiana on the new computer. Other USB sticks, including Kingston Data Travelers, worked in NetBSD as well as Linux and FreeBSD. But I was not able to install OpenIndiana on the new computer because it couldn't access a GPT-partitioned hard drive, neither could FreeDOS. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity
Hi Cordula, Good points you made. The sooner it's blocked the easier to block. *BSD, + *Linux, Solaris etc people could start contacting their local anti monopoly / anti free trade, government departments to give them time to look into the issues. If eg EU commision found it a monopolist conspiracy, imposed swingeing fines like on Microsoft last time, that could persuade Asian mainboard manufacturers not to monopolise with Microsoft. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Trigger action on link state change
Hi all, i was wondering if there is any ready-made method to trigger an action as soon as a link changes state. Along the lines of onifdown_em0=/run/this/script in rc.conf Background: Discussing physical data security with a client yesterday: The machine has to run 24/7. The filesystem is encrypted on boot, but this doesn't help a lot if anybody brings an AC generator to steal the machine *AND* the UPS. Best point in time to lock the machine I could think of was when somebody pulls the NIC cable. Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Trigger action on link state change
El día Friday, June 15, 2012 a las 12:32:15PM +0200, Michael Ross escribió: Hi all, i was wondering if there is any ready-made method to trigger an action as soon as a link changes state. Along the lines of onifdown_em0=/run/this/script in rc.conf Hi, check the man pages of devd(8) and devd.conf(5) HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card
On 14/06/2012 23:35, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, David Demelier wrote: I have an old SB Live! card with a 5.1 speaker set, but i can't get sound from center and rear speakers with mplayer. I'm using the snd_emu10kx driver and when I try to play a DVD I get sound only through the front speakers (and LFE) like a 2.1 Adding -channels 6 to the mplayer args does not help. Does the DVD source material actually have 5.1 sound? Silly question, I know, but it has to be asked. Yes it has I think, Dolby digitial is written on it, but it also works on Linux and Windows. You may also want to pose this question to multimedia@ I did, but no one answered :(. Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Trigger action on link state change
On 6/15/12 12:32 PM, Michael Ross wrote: Hi all, i was wondering if there is any ready-made method to trigger an action as soon as a link changes state. Along the lines of onifdown_em0=/run/this/script in rc.conf Background: Discussing physical data security with a client yesterday: The machine has to run 24/7. The filesystem is encrypted on boot, but this doesn't help a lot if anybody brings an AC generator to steal the machine *AND* the UPS. Best point in time to lock the machine I could think of was when somebody pulls the NIC cable. Regards, Michael Aside from Matthias' suggestion of devd, you may want to also look up ifstated. We actually use it in production to send nagios passive alerts on CARP status change and LAGG interface loss of fault tolerance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card
On 15/06/2012 05:43, Edward M wrote: On 06/14/2012 09:03 AM, David Demelier wrote: I have an old SB Live! card with a 5.1 speaker set, but i can't get sound from center and rear speakers with mplayer. I'm using the snd_emu10kx driver and when I try to play a DVD I get sound only through the front speakers (and LFE) like a 2.1 Adding -channels 6 to the mplayer args does not help. Cheers, Sounds like the DVD surround audio is encoded in AC-3 Dolby Digital or DTS. So a decorder is needed. That's what mplayer says: == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000-576000) Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3) == AO: [oss] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) What do you mean by a decoder is needed? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card
On 2012-06-15 10:06, David Demelier wrote: On 15/06/2012 05:43, Edward M wrote: On 06/14/2012 09:03 AM, David Demelier wrote: I have an old SB Live! card with a 5.1 speaker set, but i can't get sound from center and rear speakers with mplayer. I'm using the snd_emu10kx driver and when I try to play a DVD I get sound only through the front speakers (and LFE) like a 2.1 Adding -channels 6 to the mplayer args does not help. Cheers, Sounds like the DVD surround audio is encoded in AC-3 Dolby Digital or DTS. So a decorder is needed. That's what mplayer says: == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000-576000) Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3) == AO: [oss] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) What do you mean by a decoder is needed? Have you tried vlc or xine? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Error in latest KDE4 install attempt
Hi FreeBSD - I have just updated my Ports again this morning and I still have the same problem installing KDE4. When verifying libphonon.so in /multimedia/phonon [phonon-4.6.0-1][from the numbers it appears to be KDE4 4.8.4] my machine does not find library qzeitgeist.1 so it begins verifying the install of qzeitgeist-0.8.0 . The installer then determines that this version of qzeitgeist is not compatible. Since the master site seems to be unavailable much of the time how can I determine the tar.gz from the version number so that I may have an for instance //ftp1.freebsd.org/ to put in the the master site change in the make fetch command? Thanks - Steve -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd without swap
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300 mbsd wrote: Hi there. Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap - related configurations. .. And the question is: Does it correct to use freebsd like this? Or I need specific setup? Option NO_SWAPPING if I understand right not for this purpose. Sysctl vm.swap_enabled=0 seems to be useful. NO_SWAPPING builds-out code related to paging to swap along with the related sysctl options, and is probably what you are after. vm.swap_enabled enables actual swapping in addition to normal paging when short of memory, and isn't relevant if you have no swap space. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd without swap
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:48:13 +0100 RW wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:37 +0300 mbsd wrote: Hi there. Now I'm using FreeBSD 9 without swap, and without additional swap - related configurations. .. And the question is: Does it correct to use freebsd like this? Or I need specific setup? Sorry, missed this bit. No, you don't have to do anything. Option NO_SWAPPING if I understand right not for this purpose. Sysctl vm.swap_enabled=0 seems to be useful. NO_SWAPPING builds-out code related to paging to swap along with the related sysctl options, and is probably what you are after. vm.swap_enabled enables actual swapping in addition to normal paging when short of memory, and isn't relevant if you have no swap space. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
libreoffice package and port troubles
Hi, FreeBSD 9.0. I can not build a port of LibreOffice: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168717 I can not install package too: # pkg_add -r libreoffice Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest libreoffice.tbz...lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program/libunopkgapp.so: bzip decompression failed ... 123 errors about dependencies out of sync due to prior ports updates ... pkg_add: warning: package 'libreoffice-3.4.4' requires 'libwpg-0.2.0_1', but 'libwpg-0.2.1_1' is installed # Could we somehow improve on this process ? jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 14 22:56:16 2012 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:51:45 -0500 From: Mark Felder f...@feld.me Cc: Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Uptime [OT] FreeBSD REDACTED 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 15 16:29:10 CST 2006 root@REDACTED:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/IPFW-POLING-ALTQ i386 Theres no way I'm giving out the organization name or hostname haha. We're slowly moving customers away from this device, but not forcing anyone. I wonder if the technician who compiled that kernel considered how long it would run Heh. check out -this- one: % uname -a ** *** ** *** Kernel #0: Thu Mar 20 16:40:01 CST 1997 :/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL i386 The build date _is_ accurate, the hardware it's running on is old enough to vote. wry grin It's publicly accessible on the Internet, It's not quite as ridiculous as it looks, the (limited) apps running on it _are_ up-to-date. Uptime is nothing to brag about -- no UPS, combined with 'unreliable' public utility power, does have an impact. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On 06/15/2012 05:51 AM, Mark Felder wrote: FreeBSD REDACTED 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 15 16:29:10 CST 2006 root@REDACTED:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/IPFW-POLING-ALTQ i386 Theres no way I'm giving out the organization name or hostname haha. We're slowly moving customers away from this device, but not forcing anyone. I wonder if the technician who compiled that kernel considered how long it would run Oh, perhaps this thread should be renamed to Why are you using FreeBSD? to fit in with the others... Nice. Here's another one. Used mainly for imap proxy and ipfw. Too bad it will be moved to another physical location in a week or two. $ uptime 2:38PM up 2266 days, 20:43, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Disclaimer: http://www.ose.nl/email ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
milter wants erase sendmail
hello! i use bundle sendmail and milter greylist on my e-mail freebsd server. every time I want upgrade milter-greylist it wants install sendmail port. But I use sendmail+tls+sasl2 port. There is conflict. I should deinstall sendmail+tls+sasl, install milter-greylist, deinstall sendmail and then install sendmail+tls+sasl2. Every time doing so I think something going not elegant. Is there more simple path to upgrade milter-greylist? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: milter wants erase sendmail
Andrey S. Rybak wrote: hello! i use bundle sendmail and milter greylist on my e-mail freebsd server. every time I want upgrade milter-greylist it wants install sendmail port. But I use sendmail+tls+sasl2 port. There is conflict. I should deinstall sendmail+tls+sasl, install milter-greylist, deinstall sendmail and then install sendmail+tls+sasl2. Every time doing so I think something going not elegant. Is there more simple path to upgrade milter-greylist? IMHO creating multiple ports is horrible way for managing different configurations... You can build mail/sendmail with SENDMAIL_WITH_TLS and SENDMAIL_WITH_SASL2. This way you will get exactly the same package originating from mail/sendmail. You can simply alter package +CONTENTS to originate it from mail/sendmail. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: milter wants erase sendmail
On 15/06/2012 13:17, Andrey S. Rybak wrote: i use bundle sendmail and milter greylist on my e-mail freebsd server. every time I want upgrade milter-greylist it wants install sendmail port. But I use sendmail+tls+sasl2 port. There is conflict. I should deinstall sendmail+tls+sasl, install milter-greylist, deinstall sendmail and then install sendmail+tls+sasl2. Every time doing so I think something going not elegant. Is there more simple path to upgrade milter-greylist? Have you added this to /etc/make.cnf? WITH_SENDMAIL_PORT= yes That makes milter-greylist depend on the sendmail port, rather than the base version of sendmail: % cd /usr/ports/mail/milter-greylist % make -V BUILD_DEPENDS /usr/local/lib/libmilter.so.4:/usr/ports/mail/sendmail The mail/sendmail port is odd in that it changes package name depending on what configuration options you select. So if you go into /usr/ports/mail/sendmail and: # make config You will be able to enable tls and sasl2 (amongst a whole bunch of other stuff) giving you the correct functionality. This should not result in the ports trying to reinstall sendmail constantly, but it may confuse some tools that rely on the data in /usr/ports/INDEX-N. If that's a problem for you, then you will need to build your own INDEX. But it probably isn't. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: libreoffice package and port troubles
Hi, a couple of days ago I had the same issue. Install via pkg_add -r did result in the same error you reported. But building LIbreOffice from the ports worked well. The pkg_add issue only appeared on i386 system for me, it worked on amd64 so I guess the i386 packages are corrupted? Kind regards, Matthias Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2012 14:27 CEST, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, FreeBSD 9.0. I can not build a port of LibreOffice: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168717 I can not install package too: # pkg_add -r libreoffice Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/L atest libreoffice.tbz...lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program/libunopkgapp.so: bzip decompression failed ... 123 errors about dependencies out of sync due to prior ports updates ... pkg_add: warning: package 'libreoffice-3.4.4' requires 'libwpg-0.2.0_1', but 'libwpg-0.2.1_1' is installed # Could we somehow improve on this process ? jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: libreoffice package and port troubles
Matthias Petermann matthias at d2ux.net writes: Hi, a couple of days ago I had the same issue. Install via pkg_add -r did result in the same error you reported. But building LIbreOffice from the ports worked well. The pkg_add issue only appeared on i386 system for me, it worked on amd64 so I guess the i386 packages are corrupted? Yes, it is a i386 system. I am just wondering, is there any way to pkg_add -r libreoffice and ask to restore (download/install) all its dependencies (that is, the old deps that were there prior to ports updates that replaced them with newer ones) ? Actually, I read the PKG_ADD(1) and see this: 3. Scan all the package dependencies (from @pkgdep directives, see pkg_create(1)) are read from the packing list. If any of these required packages is not currently installed, an attempt is made to find and install it; if the missing package cannot be found or installed, the installation is terminated. Is this not what I want it to do ? These old deps (packages) should be still available - I am still on FB 9.0 and its original repo. Or can I request the same (old package with old deps) with portmaster ? portmaster some options libreoffice jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Issuing ACPI calls or Nvidia Optimus support
Hello. I have an Asus U36JC laptop which has two graphic cards (NVIDIA Optimus technology): an Intel integrated card and GeForce 310M. To save power on Linux I use acpi_call module to disable nvidia card completely. This acpi_call module (https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call) enables an interface to pass ACPI methods. Then when I issue echo '\_SB.PCI0.PEG1.GFX0._OFF' /proc/acpi/call I'm disabling the nvidia card. Is something like that possible with FreeBSD? I'd like to use it on my laptop, but unfortunately it gets too hot when both Intel and Nvidia card are powered on. Are there any plans on supporting nvidia optimus? Or at least an option to disable the nvidia card and use the intel one? Regards, -- Bartek Krawczyk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:20:19PM -0600, Steve Bertrand wrote: I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Hmm. My longest uptime system right now -- basically just an SSH-accessible store of digital audio files ripped from CD and attached to speakers in the living room -- is at 500 days uptime today. My oldest build date on a running system is Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006. Obviously, neither of these is set up for public access. They're just neglected single-purpose machines. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 07:49:49AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Heh. check out -this- one: % uname -a ** *** ** *** Kernel #0: Thu Mar 20 16:40:01 CST 1997 :/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL i386 The build date _is_ accurate, the hardware it's running on is old enough to vote. wry grin It's publicly accessible on the Internet, It's not quite as ridiculous as it looks, the (limited) apps running on it _are_ up-to-date. Uptime is nothing to brag about -- no UPS, combined with 'unreliable' public utility power, does have an impact. No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Account access
Jacqueline Parlane wrote: Hi there Just hoping I can hear back from someone on the process to unlock one of my clients accounts with http://freedns.afraid.org/ please. Her previous web developer is no longer in contact and we need to put in place some domain redirects and access a mailing list. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards Jacqueline ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org This is the wrong place to be asking about this. You should be asking this question of the people at http://freedns.afraid.org I would say unlock is the wrong word. What you want is to login to an existing account at their website. Like it says to recover your account ID and or password you need to know the email address used to sign up with. If you dont know it or can not guess it then you are SOL. You could alway contact them and ask for help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
If you read Fedora's page they were planning to tighten their boot sequence to then only boot their approved binary kernels. Save your old copies of lilo and grub. You're gonna need them if you want to stay on Intel Mafioso hardware. Risk of key revocation later If hardware manufacturer ships new bios or uefi, or user upgrades to new UEFI (eg I as a user must upgrade a uefi soon as a laptop overheats). + if MS get away with this intrusion, next they'll consider requiring a Call Home demon No, this doesn't run on the OS. It runs from UEFI in the BIOS. Internet connectivity is already part of the UEFI spec. Your box doesn't even to have to be running. As long as it's plugged in, you're at their beck and call. Say NO to the WinTel Mafia! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card
On 06/15/2012 01:06 AM, David Demelier wrote: That's what mplayer says: == Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/9.72% (ratio: 56000-576000) Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3) == AO: [oss] 48000Hz 6ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) What do you mean by a decoder is needed? A decorder is either a special plugin/codex that gets installed into the OS ( codex called a52dec) and decoding happens internally. or a hardware device like a stereo receiver that is able to understand Dolby Digital signals from the DVD through S/PDIF connector from the sound card to decorder. however, it only appears you are only missing a52dec? Have you installed a52dec from ports/audio/gstreamer-plugins-a52dec/ ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On 06/15/2012 08:30, Bernt Hansson wrote: Aha.A pissing contest and it's fridaycount me in... FreeBSD fqdn 4.11-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p20 #0: Mon Aug 28 07:21:42 CEST 2006 user@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HPNETSERVERFW i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I'll bite. Here's an internal machine. Old timers should appreciate the name ref1. I remember the original ref machine. I got to kick it in the head a few times. firewall0# uname -a FreeBSD firewall0.dev.vicor.com 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #5: Thu Nov 1 14:57:38 PST 2001 jul...@ref1.dev.vicor-nb.com:/usr/home/julian/checkout_test/prod/kernel/external_source/compile/VICOR i386 -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) da...@vicor.com david.robi...@fisglobal.com _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Free space in ZFS
I made a three disk zraid ZFS pool yesterday from three new 1 TB disks, which I'm using for backup. Then I did a backup and made a zfs volume. The free space numbers don't make sense. This is on 8.3, ZFS version 15. # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT backup2 2.72T 310G 2.42T11% ONLINE - Given that it's zraid, the total available space should be a little under 2TB since the third disk is for parity. But zpool gives me a total of 2.72T, as though the third disk was for data. # zfs list NAMEUSED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT backup2 206G 1.58T 31.3K /backup2 backup2/20120615206G 1.58T 206G /backup2/20120615 Well, that makes more sense, total is 1.78Tb. # df -g Filesystem1G-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on backup216180 1618 0%/backup2 backup2/20120615 1825 206 161811%/backup2/20120615 Now the total is 1.82Tb. Huh? The backup filesystems are compressed, but surely they're showing me the actual size, not the uncompressed size. Or are they? R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: openoffice doesn't work - any ideas?
___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Google find many things with javaldx failed. Is a problem with java, but different solutions (wrong xml, home permission, java- version ...). Hope you find a solution. thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ipfw subnetting
can anyone suggest what i'm doing wrong here. Desired:drop everything from 180.0.0.0 to 180.255.255.255 ipfw -q add 137 deny all from 180.0.0.0/8 to any nothing wrong. all is fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On Friday 15 June 2012 09:49:49 Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 14 22:56:16 2012 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:51:45 -0500 From: Mark Felder f...@feld.me Cc: Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Uptime [OT] FreeBSD REDACTED 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 15 16:29:10 CST 2006 root@REDACTED:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/IPFW-POLING-ALTQ i386 Theres no way I'm giving out the organization name or hostname haha. We're slowly moving customers away from this device, but not forcing anyone. I wonder if the technician who compiled that kernel considered how long it would run Heh. check out -this- one: % uname -a ** *** ** *** Kernel #0: Thu Mar 20 16:40:01 CST 1997 :/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL i386 The build date _is_ accurate, the hardware it's running on is old enough to vote. wry grin It's publicly accessible on the Internet, It's not quite as ridiculous as it looks, the (limited) apps running on it _are_ up-to-date. Hi; This is from a colleague Alex Moura at our brazilian bsd list. FreeBSD helm 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Dec 13 16:19:46 BRST 2000 11:47AM up 3532 days, 3:43, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 3532 days before now Friday, July 13, 2001 9 years, 8 months, 3 days, 16 hours ref. http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-chat@freebsd.org/msg02477.html -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
print woes
got my hp officejet 8500 connected to network working a while ago but now I notice the following: 1. Using gv, pdf files in portrait orientation print fine. pdf files in landscape orientation cause the printer to wake up but nothing prints. No errors in the log. Same behavior using lp or lpr. 2. lpoptions shows no printers. 3. lp -o landscape -o fit-to-page foo.pdf does the same (printer wakes up but prints nothing) 4. lpoptions -d lp (or any other printer name from /etc/printcap) says Unknown printer or class. Not sure where to look from here. Not sure how to tell what protocol is being used. lpd is running but no cupsd. Hints? Thanks, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS of the non-enterprise variety can actually make reliability *worse*. I've found that standby-type UPSs (like the popular APC BackUPS and SmartUPS units) will drop the load at the slightest power blip once the batteries go bad, while machines connected directly to utility power will often ride out short blips. It's especially insidious on the BackUPS units because the only way to test the battery is to hit the test button and see if the load drops. ;) When I lived in a place that had a power outage once a week, I used a UPS. Now that I live in a place where I get maybe one power outage a *year*, I'm better off without out. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS of the non-enterprise variety can actually make reliability *worse*. Err, meant to say if your utility power is very reliable... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47:55PM +, David Brodbeck wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS of the non-enterprise variety can actually make reliability *worse*. I've found that standby-type UPSs (like the popular APC BackUPS and SmartUPS units) will drop the load at the slightest power blip once the batteries go bad, while machines connected directly to utility power will often ride out short blips. It's especially insidious on the BackUPS units because the only way to test the battery is to hit the test button and see if the load drops. ;) These bargain-basement throw-away UPSes you mention are not the kinds of UPSes that give you power conditioning, and thus (I hope) obviously not the kinds of UPSes I meant. When I lived in a place that had a power outage once a week, I used a UPS. Now that I live in a place where I get maybe one power outage a *year*, I'm better off without out. I don't consider the ability to stay up for a few minutes when there's a brief blackout to be the most important function of a good UPS, even though that's kinda the reason the things were invented in the first place. The most important function of such a thing is power conditioning, which eliminates the problems of spikes and brownouts in the supply of power from the utility company even when nothing dramatic enough happens to actually crash a running machine right away. Such variability in power can be bad for both hardware and consistent, stable running of software. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Uptime [OT]
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I don't consider the ability to stay up for a few minutes when there's a brief blackout to be the most important function of a good UPS, even though that's kinda the reason the things were invented in the first place. The most important function of such a thing is power conditioning, which eliminates the problems of spikes and brownouts in the supply of power from the utility company even when nothing dramatic enough happens to actually crash a running machine right away. Such variability in power can be bad for both hardware and consistent, stable running of software. Hard to get unless you have several kilobucks to spend on an online type UPS, though. I actually had one I got surplus, several years back, but the constant inverter buzz got old fast in a home environment. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:23 AM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Only if they fully follow the spec. This is rather unlikely. Even today, there are still many broken DMI/SMBIOS tables out there that contain barely enough stuff for Windows to boot successfully. What makes you think UEFI BIOS makers will go all the trouble to implement such a complex spec, if all they have to do is to ensure compliance with MS requirements? I wouldn't count on an option or switch to override this system. Any server manufacturer who chooses to only support MS products is going to find they don't get much business from the academic market. So I suspect this may crop up on some desktop machines and laptops, but most servers will probably allow installing whatever OS you like. And the market will probably reject even desktop machines with this problem quickly, just like it quickly forced manufacturers to add a way to turn off Intel's CPU ID feature when it became a privacy concern. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB device activity when not mounted
On 06/15/12 03:23, Thomas Mueller wrote: I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd and safe to unplug? I assume when the umount returns, but what's going on after that? I had that problem/quirk with a SanDisk Cruzer 8 GB USB stick. Heh. My 4 gig one does it too. However, so does my seagate usb hard drive, so it's not specific to one mfg. On 06/14/12 07:49, Daniel Feenberg wrote: Is it possible that there is volitile memory buffering in the stick that may not have been written to flash when umount thinks it is complete, and the flashing light is an indication that power is still required to complete the write to non-volitile memory? I'm pretty sure that's not it. My devices (memstick and usb disk) will blink happily for hours. Well, minutes, anyway. I haven't got the patience to wait it out beyond that... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: print woes
On 06/15/12 17:12, Gary Aitken wrote: got my hp officejet 8500 connected to network working a while ago but now I notice the following: 1. Using gv, pdf files in portrait orientation print fine. pdf files in landscape orientation cause the printer to wake up but nothing prints. No errors in the log. Same behavior using lp or lpr. 2. lpoptions shows no printers. 3. lp -o landscape -o fit-to-page foo.pdf does the same (printer wakes up but prints nothing) 4. lpoptions -d lp (or any other printer name from /etc/printcap) says Unknown printer or class. more questions... Where does the image rotation occur? I'm using gv for an input filter. Does gv get PS with embedded instructions to rotate, so gv rotates the image before sending on to the printer? Or does gv send to the printer and let the printer do the rotation? How does gv get its instructions to rotate the image? I'm not sure where to look... I've always been befuddled by UI interfaces that have print dialogs with orientation in them, and then printer config dialogs which are sub-dialogs of those that do the same. Two horizontals sometimes do seem to make a vertical. I guess if you beat it long enough, like three times, maybe you get what you want... Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
