The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-11-03 - 2002-11-23
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Re: Ports base?
Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. Is there a part of the handbook that explains how to do this? Or is there a single command line I can use to cvsup the ports base? I'm overdue. Copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to someplace convienent. Edit it and comment the ports-all and uncomment #ports-base and use it as the command argument to cvsup. It still sounds like you are trying to install the transmission and ignore the rest of the car. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Ports base?
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the ports collection, only the entire collection (which is about 9MB). Kris msg09960/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Logging transactions in MySQL
Hi! I have followed the instructions on the mysql.com site to set up mysql to log all changes to my data base. This works fine. But when I reboot the PC I have to manually restart the logging. How can I automate this? regards from Kjell/LA3SG To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?
Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:09:12PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FreeBSD support for ext2fs is a specific instance of the more general problem that features that very few people care about tend not to get maintained. FreeBSD already has a filesystem that is more complete and faster than ext2fs,[1] so the only people using both UFS and ext2fs are also running Linux. If you mount an ext2fs filesystem r/w, consider yourself a beta tester. Oh I am not comparing their relative merits. But the thing is there are people who for one reason or another run heterogenous networks. I mean it is not a crime to run both Linux and FreeBSD (or is it ?). My feeling is that it is a shame that is all. As for your scathing comment about the evolution of EXT2, I have no comment since it sounds like opinion rather than fact. The point of my post was to point out why nobody is interested in maintaining FreeBSD's ext2fs support. But ext2fs really is a simplified version of FFS! Basically, they took out support for fragments and vastly simplified the allocation policies. Some of the things they took out aren't even used anymore in FFS, like the code to take rotational offsets on the disk into consideration. On the other hand, they left out Kirk's realloc algorithm, which has been shown to significantly reduce fragmentation as filesystems age. (FYI, some people have expressed interest in porting ReiserFS to FreeBSD. Hans Reiser is willing to negotiate special exceptions to the license, as long as Microsoft can't build the next version of Windows on top of FreeBSD and be able to use his filesystem for free.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Disk copying
Thus spake Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are the disks the same size/geometry? If so: dd if=/dev/olddisk of=/dev/newdisk bs=32k Can dd also be used to copy to/fro my RAID disks (40G), to a single 40G disk? The latter is of a different brand, but has the same size. In other words: how identical does the geometry need to be? If I can use dd here, I think I will use dd to create a core system; and then use additional dumps to backup individual slices. If the drives have the same geometry as far as the BIOS is concerned, you should be okay. Basically, the partition table you copy has to be valid for the target drive. But it's much more reliable to just use dump/restore. If you want to have a spare `live filesystem', just restore the backup to the new disk. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
freebsd slice - 2 hdd's
My wife's business wants to have a freebsd server and they gave her a old computer to install freebsd on. The machine has 2 small hdd's ( seen as ad0 and ad1 ) and I was wondering if anyone sees any problem with putting the / , /var, /tmp , and swap slices on ad0 and putting all of the /usr slice on ad1 and installing the freebsd boot manager to ad0? Michael GnuPG Key: http://probsd.org/michael.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Serious problem installing freebsd into a...
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:59:10PM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote: I've a SIS 648 MAX motherboard, whit the SIS648 driver, a Seagate 80Gb 7200 rpm hard drive, Creative nvidia Ti4400 and a Pentium 4 2'4Mhz with 533 fsb. Well, when I try to install freebsd in it, I obtain this message: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices... In the hardware notes at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes-i386.html it states that the following SiS chipsets are known to work: SiS 530, 540, 620 SiS 630, 633, 635, 645, 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 750 SiS 5591 ATA100 which doesn't mention your particular model. Normally since a very similar one is mentioned there would be a reasonable chance yours would work too. However, it seems that other people are having the same problem you are --- http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=aodat1%242q1p%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.twoe=UTF-8output=gplain and there is no mention of 'SiS 648' in the 4-STABLE kernel sources as of yesterday, so I think you've unfortunately bought an unsupported motherboard. Try asking your vendor if they will swap it for an alternative model --- I think the Asus P4B533 is supported, and that looks compatible with the rest of your components. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Fwd: Re: Serious problem installing freebsd into a...
That is the thread about my question with Kent. TooManySecrets wrote: Hi!! My name is Manuel Trujillo, from Spain. First, I will apologize about my english... sorry :( Well, I use freebsd since february-2002, and I'm very happy with it. But my problem is now, when I change my pc hardware. I've a SIS 648 MAX motherboard, whit the SIS648 driver, a Seagate 80Gb 7200 rpm hard drive, Creative nvidia Ti4400 and a Pentium 4 2'4Mhz with 533 fsb. Well, when I try to install freebsd in it, I obtain this message: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices... Hola Manuel, Are you using ATA-100 or ATA-133 cables to hook your Maxtor to the SIS motherboard. Don't connect your CDROM on the same controller as your HD. What do you have in your /boot/loader.conf. The following are possible. ruby# m loader.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # userconfig_script_load=YES hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 ruby# sysctl -a | grep hw.ata hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 hw.ata.wc: 1 hw.ata.tags: 0 hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1 BTW, I have one of those motherboards but haven't tried to replace my gateway with it. I have 4 machines with SIS-645. Kent I cleared any conflict into kernel installation with the configure kernel in visual mode, but is the same :( I try something like the disable pciide into the openbsd, but don't work correctly. I was read the documentation (handbook), and I looked any cloud via Google, but my quest was unfruitful. I'm desesperate, because I don't want to install any other OS (maybe openbsd) and I don't want to install linux. I want FreeBSD. Please, help me please... -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html --- -- (Acentos y enyes han sido omitidos intencionadamente por el uso de un teclado ingles) Have a nice day :-) TooManySecrets To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Fwd: Re: Serious problem installing freebsd into a...
That is the thread about my question with Kent. TooManySecrets wrote: El Sáb 23 Nov 2002 23:17, escribió: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices... Hola Manuel, Are you using ATA-100 or ATA-133 cables to hook your Maxtor to the SIS motherboard. Don't connect your CDROM on the same controller as your HD. What do you have in your /boot/loader.conf. The following are possible. ruby# m loader.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # userconfig_script_load=YES hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 ruby# sysctl -a | grep hw.ata hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 hw.ata.wc: 1 hw.ata.tags: 0 hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1 BTW, I have one of those motherboards but haven't tried to replace my gateway with it. I have 4 machines with SIS-645. Hi Kent. First, thank you very much for your quickly answer to my question. The cable what I use is the same provided into the motherboard box. Is possible is a ATA-133, because the motherboard support this feature. The CDROM are in a sepparate cable and ide, and the hard disk isn't a Maxtor, is a Seagate ata100 80 Gb at 7200 rpm. My chipset isn't a sis645, is a sis648. Eintendo, yo tiene 4 computadores con 645's. One motherboard still in box with 648. Now, I try to put your configuration into the initial boot. Just a momment please... Well, I put the hw.ata.* like your config, and the result is the same... :( I didn't think about you trying to boot when I told you about that. I cannot put anything of your config into the loader.conf, because I cannot install the SO. I try with this config at the boot stage, with the set command. Please, any idea? Help me please. Did you install the motherboard. The ATA-100 cables have a blue (azul) connector and a black (negro). On my cables, the blue goes into the socket on the motherboard. I have some ATA-133 cables with ~green (verde) and negro. The negro connector HD. If you have the wrong color in socket on mother board, you will have problemas gigante. Also make sure your cables including power are pushed in all of the way. Maxtor doesn't always setup their HDs as standalone masters. I don't know what Seagate does. I have only used Seagate Baracuda scsis. Check your setup jumpers. FreeBSD does not like HDs setup as standalone slaves. Thank you very much for your help at this momments. I can't think of anything else that would cause the problem. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html --- -- (Acentos y enyes han sido omitidos intencionadamente por el uso de un teclado ingles) Have a nice day :-) TooManySecrets To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
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Possible SPAM (accuracy low): /kernel: arplookup x.x.x.x failed: host is not on local network
I've 2 DNS servers that are in different subnet. My freeBSD4.6.2 server is master and the other one is slave. Slave server connects to My freeBSD server for DNS updates but always FreeBSD gives the message: /kernel: arplookup x.x.x.x failed: host is not on local network How can I prevent this message? x.x.x.x is the ip of my slave dns server. Thanks. Özgür ÖZASLAN http://ozaslan.ifbim.itu.edu.tr To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names?
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:47:54AM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: But how can i make FreeBSD use NetBIOS-names, so that commans like the one below will work? ping winmachine I want my FreeBSD to resolve names this way: 1.) /etc/hosts 2.) NetBIOS names (probably managed by Samba) 3.) DNS How do i achieve this? Thx. That's not possible in FreeBSD 4.x: there's no general support for NetBIOS name resolution outside of the Samba code. Usually you can get along fine without it --- a good thing to do is ensure that the DNS and NetBIOS names of all your windows machines match up. If you use a Windows DHCP/DNS server with dynamic DNS, you may be able to automate that. Otherwise, you're going to have to lash something together with scripts or just manually keep your DNS in line with NetBIOS. In FreeBSD 5.x there will be support for Name Service Switch functionality, which will make it possible for someone to write an add-on to allow name resolution via NetBIOS. However, that doesn't help here and now. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How can I prevent this message?
I've 2 DNS servers that are in different subnet. My freeBSD4.6.2 server is master and the other one is slave. Slave server connects to My freeBSD server for DNS updates but always FreBSD gives the message: /kernel: arplookup x.x.x.x failed: host is not on local network How can I prevent this message? x.x.x.x is the ip of my slave dns server. Thanks. Özgür ÖZASLAN http://ozaslan.ifbim.itu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: DHCP and an internal web server
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:02:52PM -0800, Gary D Kline wrote: I understand that there are hardware solutions that allow a host to run a web server thu DHCPD, but is there a way of configuring one of my behind-the-firewall server to serve pages. zen.thought.org is an example; i is an older 4.7 system hardwired as 10.0.0.247. Is there a way of configuring things to let http://zen.thought.org serve miscellaneous essays and references, e.g., for my profs. thanks for ny clues... i'm new to dhcp... obviously! Errr... Are you by any chance confusing DHCP with NAT? All that DHCP will do for you is assign IP numbers etc. for machines on your local network and tell them where to find various services. For foreign machines trying to access your systems, it won't do anything. In fact, you really, really don't want foreign machines to be able to access your DHCP server at all. Now zen.thought.org has an RFC1918 address. That's fine for you, on your intranet, but it can't be accessed from the Internet at large. If you're going to publish stuff via HTTP from that machine you need to somehow give it access to a registered internet IP. One way of doing that is by using natd(8) to forward packets to port 80 on one of your Internet visible machines to a machine on your private network: natd -n fxp0 -redirect_port 10.0.0.247:80 80 Another way is to use a web server running apache on an internet visible machine to reverse-proxy requests for particular URI's to your internal web server. There a good discussion about using mod_rewrite to do that sort of thing in the apache manual: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html Both of these solutions will require you to hardwire the address of your internal server in the dhcpd(8) config, so that you don't run into problems if the lease doesn't get renewed with the same IP number. (You might want to investigate using some DNS trickery with views to hide your internal addresses from the outside world, whilst still letting your internal machines operate normally. But that's just icing on the cake.) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: freebsd slice - 2 hdd's
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 06:29:15AM -0500, Michael Sharp wrote: My wife's business wants to have a freebsd server and they gave her a old computer to install freebsd on. The machine has 2 small hdd's ( seen as ad0 and ad1 ) and I was wondering if anyone sees any problem with putting the / , /var, /tmp , and swap slices on ad0 and putting all of the /usr slice on ad1 and installing the freebsd boot manager to ad0? That should work fine. You don't even need to install the boot manager on ad0 --- the default MBR should work perfectly well. You only need the boot manager when you've got several different OS's on the same machine --- not when there's just the one OS, even if spread over several disks. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: freebsd slice - 2 hdd's
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-24 06:29:15 -0500: I was wondering if anyone sees any problem with putting the / , /var, /tmp , and swap slices on ad0 and putting all of the /usr slice on ad1 and installing the freebsd boot manager to ad0? I do: you don't need to install a boot manager just because you have the system spread over more than one disk. :) Seriously: no problem, but the boot manager prompt (and delay) is going to turn into a nuisance. Install the standard mbr (unless, of course, you want to boot more than one system on the box). -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-23 18:23:05 -0900: I'm learning how the FreeBSD upgrade process works. I've got cvsup working and can grabe 4-stable. What I don't understand is the ports tree. Does it get updated when I do make buildworld etc...? no. it gets updated when you update it. how that is done depends on details of your setup: you can either run cvsup with the right supfile by hand, or you can have your ports tree updated by issuing make update in /usr/ports or /usr/src (this is how I do it). look in /etc/defaults/make.conf for details. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names?
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:47:54AM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: But how can i make FreeBSD use NetBIOS-names, so that commans like the one below will work? ping winmachine I want my FreeBSD to resolve names this way: 1.) /etc/hosts 2.) NetBIOS names (probably managed by Samba) 3.) DNS How do i achieve this? Thx. That's not possible in FreeBSD 4.x: there's no general support for NetBIOS name resolution outside of the Samba code. Usually you can get along fine without it --- a good thing to do is ensure that the DNS and NetBIOS names of all your windows machines match up. If you use a Windows DHCP/DNS server with dynamic DNS, you may be able to automate that. Otherwise, you're going to have to lash something together with scripts or just manually keep your DNS in line with NetBIOS. In FreeBSD 5.x there will be support for Name Service Switch functionality, which will make it possible for someone to write an add-on to allow name resolution via NetBIOS. However, that doesn't help here and now. Please tell me more, i use FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. Has this made the way into the handbook yet? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
SCSI Disk question
Hi I have a chance to get at a good price a IBM 73LZX 18GB 160 drive I know there was a mechanical problem with one of the IBM SCSI ranges. Does anyone know anything about this particular model ? -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
adding ca_ES locale to FreeBSD
Hi, I'd like to have the ca_ES locale added to FreeBSD. In my -STABLE src tree I find: grummit:/usr/src$ find . -name es_ES* ./share/colldef/es_ES.ISO8859-1.src ./share/colldef/es_ES.ISO8859-15.src ./share/monetdef/es_ES.ISO8859-1.src ./share/msgdef/es_ES.ISO8859-1.src ./share/numericdef/es_ES.ISO8859-1.src ./share/timedef/es_ES.ISO8859-1.src I've reviewed all of these and the only one which would need changing would be share/timedef/*.src (and probably share/*/Makefile) which I attach to this message. What would be the fastest way to get this commited? Are there any other files which would need some changes? Should I file a PR? Should I make a patch to create all the files (hints to obtain a perfect patch are welcomed)? To whom should I send it? tks -- pica ca_ES.ISO8859-1.src Description: WAIS Source
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Re: dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages
On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:48 am, David Daugherty wrote: It's not much to go on but you might be able to find something under 'man dhclient.conf' BTDT. /log results in no hits in man dhclient.conf. Same results for /verb looking for verbose. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Kelly Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages For the last year or so something changed in dhclient and/or my ISP resulting in dhclient being way too chatty with syslog and flooding /var/log/messages with this about every 75 minutes, when my DHCP lease is renewed: Nov 21 05:43:00 Frisket dhclient: New Network Number: 24.214.110.0 Nov 21 05:43:00 Frisket dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 24.214.110.255 I don't see any ready way to configure dhclient to mute this output. Placing a sed filter in /etc/syslog.conf would be one way to stifle the chattyness but that should be the avenue of last resort. How might I convince dhclient to be quiet and/or log elsewhere? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] === == The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RPM with FreeBSD
Hi. I'm trying to install the full version of VMWare using RPM on my FreeBSD system. I'm experiencing this problem: aegis# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm vmware-workstation-3.2.0-2230.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by VMwareWorkstation-3.2.0-2230 Is anyone familiar with this? Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Janine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: RPM with FreeBSD
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-24 17:45:15 +0100: Hi. I'm trying to install the full version of VMWare using RPM on my FreeBSD system. I'm experiencing this problem: aegis# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm vmware-workstation-3.2.0-2230.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by VMwareWorkstation-3.2.0-2230 Is anyone familiar with this? Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you. Looks like it wants /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/perl. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: RPM with FreeBSD
Hi. Unfortunately I have no /compat/linux/bin/perl, nor a /usr/compat/linux/bin/perl. By the way, how do I tell RPM where perl is located? And why won't it use /usr/bin/perl? --janine On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:49:26 +0100 Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-24 17:45:15 +0100: Hi. I'm trying to install the full version of VMWare using RPM on my FreeBSD system. I'm experiencing this problem: aegis# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm vmware-workstation-3.2.0-2230.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by VMwareWorkstation-3.2.0-2230 Is anyone familiar with this? Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you. Looks like it wants /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/perl. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
jumping sound with maestro3 card
Hi, Can anyone comment on their experience with Maestro3 cards under FreeBSD and XFree86? I've just recently set mine up. I'm finding sound output (xmms) incredibly jerky. Anyone else experienced the same thing? Any help appreciated. Thanks, Aragon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Logging transactions in MySQL
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:12:24AM -, Kjell wrote: Hi! I have followed the instructions on the mysql.com site to set up mysql to log all changes to my data base. This works fine. But when I reboot the PC I have to manually restart the logging. How can I automate this? regards from Kjell/LA3SG How did you go about setting up MySQL to log? You can generally put a script of your own making in /usr/local/etc/rc.d if you want have something occur on every boot. `man rc` - look for rc.d. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names?
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 03:00:09PM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: In FreeBSD 5.x there will be support for Name Service Switch functionality, which will make it possible for someone to write an add-on to allow name resolution via NetBIOS. However, that doesn't help here and now. Please tell me more, i use FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. Has this made the way into the handbook yet? See the nsswitch.conf(5) man page for how to configure NSS. In theory the software you want is already written as part of the Samba project --- see: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/wbinfo.1.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html however at the moment it seems that the net/samba port doesn't install either of those executables, or any sort of libnss_* modules (I suspect that naming convention may be a Linux-ism: no idea what the equivalent under FreeBSD is, if it's different). So I guess there's a job of porting to do there. There was a thread on this subject in [EMAIL PROTECTED] back in July, starting with this message: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=187816+0+archive/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020728.freebsd-hackers Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: lsof: help understanding output
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:01:13PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I installed the BIND daemon as chroot to /chroot/mamed, does the following lsof output show that named is not chroot'ed? FreeBSD 4.6.2, BIND 9.2.1 syslogd80root4u unix 0xca5d0e000t0 /chroot/named/dev/log named 470 named cwd VDIR 13,131072512 16715 /chroot/named/etc/namedb named 470 named rtd VDIR 13,131072512 16305 /chroot/named named 470 named txt VREG 13,1310723337414 16966 /chroot/named/named named 470 named txt VREG 13,131079 80756 175176 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 named 470 named txt VREG 13,131079 580520 336941 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 named 470 named0u VCHR2,20t0 16948 /chroot/named/dev/null (like character special /dev/null) named 470 named1u VCHR2,20t0 16948 /chroot/named/dev/null (like character special /dev/null) named 470 named2u VCHR2,20t0 16948 /chroot/named/dev/null (like character special /dev/null) named 470 named3u unix 0xca5d0bc00t0-0xca5d0ec0 named 470 named4u IPv4 0xca65fc800t0UDP candyman.i.inter-sonic.com:domain named 470 named5u IPv4 0xca6eee800t0TCP candyman.i.inter-sonic.com:domain (LISTEN) named 470 named6u IPv4 0xca65fb000t0UDP localhost.i.inter-sonic.com:domain named 470 named7u IPv4 0xca6eec600t0TCP localhost.i.inter-sonic.com:domain (LISTEN) named 470 named8u IPv4 0xca65fa400t0UDP *:domain named 470 named9u IPv6 0xca65fbc00t0UDP *:1064 named 470 named 10r VCHR2,30t0 16949 /chroot/named/dev/random (like character special /dev/random) No --- that's fine. named dynamically links against libc.so.4 before the call to chroot(2), so you don't need to copy great chunks of /usr/lib into your chroot area. Then when it daemonizes, it reopens file descriptors 0, 1, 2 onto /dev/null (SOP for a well behaved daemon process: see daemon(3)), and you can see that because of the chroot(2) call, it's actually redirecting to /chroot/named/dev/null. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Kernel - Error Code 1
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 08:42:50 -0800 (PST) Casey Luttrull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled my new kernal and called in MYKERNEL. Then I issue the command make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL. Everything seems to go fine until the end of the process it gives my this error: linking kernel umass.o: In function `umass_cam_attach_sim': umass.o(.text+0x12bf): undefined reference to [...] umass.o(.text+0x1999): undefined reference to `xpt_done' *** Error code 1 The error is caused by having umass but no scsi... device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da ^^^ umass requires the scbus and da scsi drivers, which you commented on your kernel config. Enable them and it should work fine. Cheers, --- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Kernel - Error Code 1
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:42:50AM -0800, Casey Luttrull wrote: I compiled my new kernal and called in MYKERNEL. Then I issue the command make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL. Everything seems to go fine until the end of the process it gives my this error: [...] # SCSI peripherals #device scbus # SCSI bus (required) #device da # Direct Access (disks) [...] deviceumass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da ^ Please read the instructions carefully. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ugen0: Lucent ORiNOCO USB Client
Hi! Does anybody know if ugen0: Lucent ORiNOCO USB Client is working under FreeBSD? dmesg: usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ugen0: Lucent ORiNOCO USB Client, rev 1.01/0.01, addr 2 dmesg| grep wi: nothing usbdevs -d: addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA uhub0 addr 2: ORiNOCO USB Client, Lucent ugen0 I thought that i would use pccardd because the usb client consists a pcmcia card... but: pccardd[173]: fatal error: no PC-CARD slots what should i do to get it work? thx Bela Pesics - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -] CovySoft Networks Ltd. [- http://www.covysoft.net -] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: RPM with FreeBSD
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:45:15 +0100 Janine C.Buorditez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, aegis# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm vmware-workstation-3.2.0-2230.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by VMwareWorkstation-3.2.0-2230 VMware 3.x doesn't work on FreeBSD due to lack of suitable kernel modules. However, 2.x does, and it's even in the ports tree, under the emulators section. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-11-03 - 2002-11-23
6-Nov : Postfix - virtual domains This is easier than it sounds http://freebsddiary.org/postfix.php?2 Wonderfull for ISPs etc, but I wish you would also bring something like sendmail.cf for dialup users, things that could go into the faq, or sendmail.cf with auth, for smarthosts that need that. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
cvs server takes al lot of cpu time and memory
Hello, I have a problem with the cvs server which comes with freebsd. When a user connects my cvs server, inetd creates a cvs process as usual but when that process is finished with its job, it doesn't stop anymore and it takes a lot of cpu time and memory! It looks like that this problem has been appeared after I did a make world to 4.7-STABLE. I also added IPv6 to the kernel and enabled it in /etc/rc.conf, may'be this has something to do with it... Thanks in advance, Sven. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sound panic (was: recording from line input)
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Vladimir Kushnir wrote: Subject: Re: Sound panic (was: recording from line input) Hi, I had the same problem under -CURRENT On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Richard Tobin wrote: Following up my own question: I want to record audio from my sound card's line in. I'm then going to record the output onto a CD. I'm familiar with writing CDs, but what's the easiest way to get the input? I tried the audacity port, and to my surprise pressing on the record button produced a panic. Trying something simpler, I also get a panic with aurecord -rate 44000 -file aiff -data AuFormatLinearSigned16MSB /tmp/rec ~ Here seems to be a problem. Yamaha (at least YMF724) for some reason doesn't like any rate but 48000. With this rate, all the resorders I tried work fine. snip Yep, things get panicky if you try an unsupported sample rate. Find one that works (as above) and Audacity should work fine. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
disabling ultradma
Hi! Anybody know howto disable ultradma at initial install for freebsd 4.7??? Thank you very much. -- (Acentos y enyes han sido omitidos intencionadamente por el uso de un teclado ingles) Have a nice day :-) TooManySecrets To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Kerberos is set up - now what?
Hi all, as it seems to me, Kerberos5 is mostly unsupported in FreeBSD. Yes, this is going to be a rant. If you have an appropriate Kerberos support, no rsh, rlogin, ftp, telnet or elsewhat will ever ask you for a password, if you login to an account where you are allowed to do so via its .klogin file. This means, that support for Kerberos5 needs to be built into the servers and clients for ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, etc. It is not enough to just run a kerberos5 server (aka kdc) and make logins kerberos-aware via PAM. This was already implemented with FreeBSD 2.2 and kerberos4 at least for rsh and rlogin, but now(*) with Kerberos5, if I connect to the kshell port, I just get: rshd[8654]: usage: rshd [-alnDL] Furthermore, it is possible to do session encryption based on the principal, so essentially we could throw ssh etc. and all that crap completely into the wastebasket, and instead had a third-party based authentication scheme with single-sign-on over the whole network and a central (and replicateable) server that can optionally be adminstered remotely. (Supposed the crypt stuff inside kerberos5 is hardened enough for today's purposes.) Ok, I do not know of any unix distribution that actually engages these possibilities, but they are there. Well, AIX got fairly far with 4.3.3, telnet and ftp and all the rsh stuff actually works without passwords there, and K4 and K5 and standard logins all do work simultaneously. But when I asked the support how to run telnet with session encryption based on my DCE/K5 principal (aka packet-level privacy as documented for DCE and practically used in DFS), they shrugged and suggested me to install ssh! (*) now means FreeBSD 4.4, I didnt get the time to upgrade further yet. No doubt the PAM integration has evolved since then, but it doesnt look like a really substantial progress to what I described above. PMc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7
Hello, I installed 4.7 on a new box and when I try to add users (by running adduser) I smack into a roadblock; the system asks that I enter the username, which I do, and it continues to insist that I enter the username again, over and over... It seems the regular expressions feature is balling me up and I am unsure how this fits into the scheme. Man adduser and pw haven't helped me much. -- Best regards, KevinG mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7
At 10:14 AM 11.24.2002 -0800, KevinG wrote: Hello, I installed 4.7 on a new box and when I try to add users (by running adduser) I smack into a roadblock; the system asks that I enter the username, which I do, and it continues to insist that I enter the username again, over and over... It seems the regular expressions feature is balling me up and I am unsure how this fits into the scheme. Man adduser and pw haven't helped me much. -- Best regards, KevinG mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The system will first ask you to set the regexpressions and all you should do is press enter to each one if you agree with its offering to set up. Then, onec that is done, it will ask for the user to set up. I suspect you are trying to enter the user too soon in the process... that is the usual problem. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
.sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
Trying to write a little watch-dog/keep-alive script for a couple of related daemons, an MTA and an SMTP AV scanner. This snippet works fine... if ( ps aux | grep -i ^root.*master ) /dev/null then echo then: exit code equal 0 exit 0 else try to run the daemon ... when run from the command line, the echo text displays. But, when run from crontab every 10 minutes, the if fails, and the else clause runs. I've tried every syntax I know, but still can't get this logic to work. Upstream in the same script, there is another if with same syntax that also checks a related daemon, and that IF works as expected, both interactively and from crontab. suggestions? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7
Hi, In /etc/adduser.conf The line usernameregexp should look like usernameregexp = '^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_-]*$' If not replace it with the above line and then add a user. on running the adduser script it will first ask for Usernames must match regular expression: [^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_-]*$]: JUST HIT ENTER ON THE PROMPT. Cheers - Original Message - From: KevinG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7 Hello, I installed 4.7 on a new box and when I try to add users (by running adduser) I smack into a roadblock; the system asks that I enter the username, which I do, and it continues to insist that I enter the username again, over and over... It seems the regular expressions feature is balling me up and I am unsure how this fits into the scheme. Man adduser and pw haven't helped me much. -- Best regards, KevinG mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-11-03 - 2002-11-23
On 24 Nov 2002 at 18:03, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: 6-Nov : Postfix - virtual domains This is easier than it sounds http://freebsddiary.org/postfix.php?2 Wonderfull for ISPs etc, I assure you, not just ISPs use that. Many people using FreeBSD in non-ISP situations use this stuff. Hopefully you aren't grouping them into the 'etc' category. :) but I wish you would also bring something like sendmail.cf for dialup users, things that could go into the faq, or sendmail.cf with auth, for smarthosts that need that. The article is about Postfix, but sendmail.cf is for Sendmail. I don't think I will be writing about Sendmail anytime soon because I don't use it for my mail servers. Thanks for the feedback. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
problem to init irssi
good, when I init irssi, it don't init: [root@x]/root(111): irssi /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach/auto/Irssi/Irssi.so: Undefined symbol signal_add_full [root@x]/root(112): an idea for solvent this problem? thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Manage, centralize and backup configuration files
Hi. You are a true genious. It is like I've found something I've been looking for all my life. And for that I am grateful. This sure beats the RCS-only method with tons of RCS directories spread across the system with little or no control. If I get this right, critical will copy the listed files into its location and manage them from there? Simply put. I haven't tested it yet as: ::: janine[aegis] [~/cvs] % ./critical [19:54] ./critical: Command not found. I made the file executeable, and tried installing ksh, obviously to no good. What do I do to get going? By the way, how do you create those fancy directory listings? I have to say I loved them. It seems to me you're quite taken with systemized neat design as I am. Keep up the good work. Let me know what other goodies you have, except the ones available at your site. That'd be great! THANK YOU! *hugs* Sincerely, Janine On 22 Nov 2002 16:49:36 -0500 Karl Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:53:48 +0100, Janine C.Buorditez [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: J I was thinking better back up my configuration files. Then I thought, J what if they were regularly backed up into a centralized directory where J I also could manage them from? Like, when I'm done modifying a file it J is compied from the config repository into its original directory. You can do that. I prefer to modify them in place and let the system worry about putting them under revision control. J What about a combination of rsync and CVS? Rsync is a good idea if you want your files backed up on a separate server. CVS is a bit inflexible with directories, so I prefer RCS. J I'm not even sure this is possible. Which is why I'm open for advices J from anyone who has a working model of how to set up such a convenient J way of administering your system. http://www.dnaco.net/~vogelke/Software/Configuration_Management/System_Files describes my setup. All it does is keep a chosen set of files under RCS control. -- Karl Vogel ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnaco.net/~vogelke I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumping sound with maestro3 card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.24.2002 @ 0812 PST): Aragon Gouveia said, in 0.4K: Hi, Can anyone comment on their experience with Maestro3 cards under FreeBSD and XFree86? I've just recently set mine up. I'm finding sound output (xmms) incredibly jerky. Anyone else experienced the same thing? end of jumping sound with maestro3 card from Aragon Gouveia Yes. I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, p3/1.2Ghz, half a gig of RAM. When I play streaming mp3s the sound is fine, but playing tracks locally is a mess. I was going to use this laptop for my band's live shows... boot a custom kernel that would dedicate the system solely to becoming a sampler, but the blips and skips were too ridiculous. # Adam - -- Adam Weinberger vectors.cx[EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bayer Berkeley[EMAIL PROTECTED] #vim:set ts=8: 8-char tabs prevent tooth decay. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE94Rquo8KM2ULHQ/0RAnyIAJ9COOufNUUBQBE3W3dyIyOeaV8O8QCfcYRb xAYZi5NEcyld0IDDySjwTms= =8Yid -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail to News software suggestions?
I want to read busy mailing lists with nn or trn. I have space to store the messages as news articles locally. I'm looking for a system that will take incoming list mail and deposit it in newsgroups I create for them on this machine. I use procmail, so it would be fine to pass off list mail messages to this system via procmail recipes. I also hope to find an easy way to expire/delete articles easily after I read them, individually or (more likely) in bulk after each of my nn/trn sessions. Note that these pseudo-newsgroups are for my use only and will not be seen outside of my system, so a read article never need be kept at all, really, unless I decide to keep an archive. Also, I do not handle real newsgroups here at all (I don't have THAT much space); if I ever use nn/trn locally to read real news, I'll find an NNTP server. Does anyone know a good way to do this? http://tack.fukui-med.ac.jp/NetBSD/en/mail2news.html I've been very happy with this package. I gateway about 4000 list messages per day into INN and auto-expire them after 90 days. --J Jason George, P.Eng. Calgary, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Default Quotas and Regex Searches
Hi all, A while back I set something somewhere so that when I add a new user, the OS (FreeBSD 4.4) sets a default user quota for that new user. I have since decided to give users more space, but can;t remember where I set up the default *sigh*. Does anyone know where new user default quotas are set? I need to set up some scripts, but an reletively new to shell scripting. I was wondering if anyone could give me a primer on how to search through text files (example httpd.conf) and add /delete / replace lines based on matching the strings ServerName /VirtualHost. For example, If I want to write a script to set up new Webalizer logs, I would make the script add a file in the webalizer dir to add a conf file (domain.ext.conf) then would need to add the TransferLog directive to a specific VirtualHost ... /VirtualHost directive. -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
packages settings and portupgrade
Hi, How can I best set (and store for future use) local package settings like 'no_gui' etc. for frequent cvsup and portupgrade usage ? regards, Hans Lambermont -- http://lambermont.webhop.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Fwd: Re: Serious problem installing freebsd into a...
On 2002-11-24 14:00, TooManySecrets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the thread about my question with Kent. TooManySecrets wrote: Hi!! My name is Manuel Trujillo, from Spain. First, I will apologize about my english... sorry :( Well, I use freebsd since february-2002, and I'm very happy with it. But my problem is now, when I change my pc hardware. I've a SIS 648 MAX motherboard, whit the SIS648 driver, a Seagate 80Gb 7200 rpm hard drive, Creative nvidia Ti4400 and a Pentium 4 2'4Mhz with 533 fsb. Well, when I try to install freebsd in it, I obtain this message: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices... I was seeing exactly this sort of thing too, after replacing my old Pentium 133 workstation with a newer machine. Then, FreeBSD would freeze and stop responding even to CTRL-ALT-ESC that should bring up the kernel debugger :/ Hola Manuel, Are you using ATA-100 or ATA-133 cables to hook your Maxtor to the SIS motherboard. Don't connect your CDROM on the same controller as your HD. What do you have in your /boot/loader.conf. The following are possible. ruby# m loader.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # userconfig_script_load=YES hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 ruby# sysctl -a | grep hw.ata hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 hw.ata.wc: 1 hw.ata.tags: 0 hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1 BTW, I have one of those motherboards but haven't tried to replace my gateway with it. I have 4 machines with SIS-645. I have a Gigabyte Titan 667 Series motherboard on my Celeron @ 1800. The model of the motherboard is GA-8ST667. The dmesg output includes the following: % dmesg | grep -i sis atapci0: SiS 5591 ATA33 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 2.5 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pcm0: SiS 7012 port 0xe400-0xe47f,0xe000-0xe0ff irq 10 at device 2.7 on pci0 ohci0: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xef001000-0xef001fff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci0 usb0: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci0 uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 ohci1: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xef002000-0xef002fff irq 9 at device 3.1 on pci0 usb1: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci1 uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 ohci2: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xef003000-0xef003fff irq 7 at device 3.2 on pci0 usb2: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci2 uhub2: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 I could only boot my installed -CURRENT by disabling hw.ata.atapi_dma :/ Try setting hw.ata.ata_dma=0 and hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 at the loader prompt, and see if you can at least boot your system. Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Kernel - Error Code 1
On 2002-11-24 17:52, Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 08:42:50 -0800 (PST) Casey Luttrull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: umass.o(.text+0x1999): undefined reference to `xpt_done' *** Error code 1 The error is caused by having umass but no scsi... deviceumass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da ^^^ umass requires the scbus and da scsi drivers, which you commented on your kernel config. Enable them and it should work fine. Add pass (Pass through) to the list of required devices too. : keramida@gothmog:/home/keramida grep scbus /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES : device scbus #base SCSI code : # needs CAM to be present (scbus pass) This is a relatively hidden dependency of umass too. I recall discussing this on IRC with someone a few days back :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: freebsd slice - 2 hdd's
On 2002-11-24 14:20, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-24 06:29:15 -0500: I was wondering if anyone sees any problem with putting the / , /var, /tmp , and swap slices on ad0 and putting all of the /usr slice on ad1 and installing the freebsd boot manager to ad0? I do: you don't need to install a boot manager just because you have the system spread over more than one disk. :) Seriously: no problem, but the boot manager prompt (and delay) is going to turn into a nuisance. Install the standard mbr (unless, of course, you want to boot more than one system on the box). Right. As long as the standard MBR can locate and boot the slice that contains your root fs, you don't need to worry about putting /var, /usr or /home or any other partition on a second disk. Just edit your /etc/fstab with the right entries and you'll be set to go (sysinstall should do that for you, if this is a new installation). - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail to News software suggestions?
On 2002-11-24 09:51, Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:12:45PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote: Now, if you know of a mail reader sporting an nn/trn-style UI, I'm all ears! :) I am not sure whether this would do what you want, and I have never tried it, but I believe there is a Mutt patch somewher that gives Mutt news reading capabilities. I know squat about it, I just pass this on for your information. The mutt-devel port has this patch integrated: % grep NNTP /usr/ports/mail/mutt-devel/Makefile | head -1 # WITH_MUTT_NNTP I've used it for a while, and you will most certainly find the following bindings very useful in your .muttrc file if you use it too: bind index C change-newsgroup bind pager C change-newsgroup This is similar to 'c' which changes mail folders, and I find it very easy to remember. The port dumps core on me on -current while it attempts to close the nntp connection, and I have started using Emacs + gnus to read some Usenet stuff, because right now I have no time to debug the problems it appears to have... but I thought I'd post this anyway. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip This snippet works fine... if ( ps aux | grep -i ^root.*master ) /dev/null then echo then: exit code equal 0 exit 0 else try to run the daemon ... when run from the command line, the echo text displays. But, when run from crontab every 10 minutes, the if fails, and the else clause runs. I've tried every syntax I know, but still can't get this logic to work. It works for me, and I suspect that it's working for you, too. However, you may not see the results expected if you are piping the cron output through sendmail, because the 'echo then: ...' could be interpreted as a mail header. Make certain that you output a blank line, eg., echo , *before* any lines that contain 'some-word:' so that sendmail stops looking for headers. Just a guess. Also, make sure that you're running the expected shell. Check the SHELL= line in crontab, or force the script to run via the expected shell by running 'sh script' instead of just 'script', or tell the script what shell to run by adding something like the following on the first line: #!/bin/sh Although this isn't related to your problem , you might find it simpler to use the -q option on grep instead of redirecting the output. For example, if ( ps -aux | grep -q -i ^root.*master ); then instead of, if ( ps aux | grep -i ^root.*master ) /dev/null; then Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Kernel - Error Code 1
I compiled my new kernal and called in MYKERNEL. Then I issue the command make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL. Everything seems to go fine until the end of the process it gives my this error: linking kernel umass.o: In function `umass_cam_attach_sim': umass.o(.text+0x12bf): undefined reference to `cam_simq_alloc' umass.o(.text+0x12e5): undefined reference to `cam_sim_alloc' umass.o(.text+0x12fe): undefined reference to `xpt_bus_register' umass.o(.text+0x130e): undefined reference to `cam_simq_free' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_rescan_callback': umass.o(.text+0x1327): undefined reference to `xpt_free_path' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_rescan': umass.o(.text+0x1371): undefined reference to `xpt_periph' umass.o(.text+0x137a): undefined reference to `xpt_create_path' umass.o(.text+0x138d): undefined reference to `xpt_setup_ccb' umass.o(.text+0x13a8): undefined reference to `xpt_action' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_detach_sim': umass.o(.text+0x145f): undefined reference to `xpt_bus_deregister' umass.o(.text+0x147d): undefined reference to `cam_sim_free' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_detach': umass.o(.text+0x14be): undefined reference to `xpt_create_path' umass.o(.text+0x14df): undefined reference to `xpt_async' umass.o(.text+0x14e7): undefined reference to `xpt_free_path' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_action': umass.o(.text+0x1805): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o(.text+0x1815): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_cb': umass.o(.text+0x1911): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o: In function `umass_cam_sense_cb': umass.o(.text+0x1988): undefined reference to `xpt_done' umass.o(.text+0x1999): undefined reference to `xpt_done' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. I have attached the new kernel. Thanks for your help. Casey Luttrull __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com # # MYKERNEL -- Casey's custom kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # #http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html # # The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook # if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the # FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the # latest information. # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is also present in the ./LINT configuration file. If you are # in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first in LINT. # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.246.2.43 2002/05/23 17:04:01 obrien Exp $ machine i386 #cpuI386_CPU #cpuI486_CPU cpu I586_CPU #cpuI686_CPU ident MYKERNEL maxusers0 #makeoptionsDEBUG=-g#Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols #optionsMATH_EMULATE#Support for x87 emulation options INET#InterNETworking #optionsINET6 #IPv6 communications protocols options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT#FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support #optionsUFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device #optionsNFS #Network Filesystem #optionsNFS_ROOT#NFS usable as root device, NFS required #optionsMSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=15000#Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options UCONSOLE#Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options P1003_1B#Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options ICMP_BANDLIM#Rate limit bad replies options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev # To make an SMP kernel, the next two
Re: Mail to News software suggestions?
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:20:31PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-11-24 09:51, Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:12:45PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote: Now, if you know of a mail reader sporting an nn/trn-style UI, I'm all ears! :) I am not sure whether this would do what you want, and I have never tried it, but I believe there is a Mutt patch somewher that gives Mutt news reading capabilities. I know squat about it, I just pass this on for your information. The mutt-devel port has this patch integrated: Um, this is all very interesting... but the reverse of what I'm looking for. grin I read mail with Mutt and, at the moment, don't read newsgroups at all. I want a more news-like interface for mail, not a more mail-like interface for news. But some cool suggestions have come from this thread. Not sure any will do what I want though, so I'm still watching replies... -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com The very smart may feel they have nothing to learn from anyone; The very wise will find something to learn from everyone. (7/14/01) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Bad IP version for 1.44.2.5
Strange, I kill -HUP inetd and get the following: Nov 24 20:44:50 host inetd[201]: bad IP version for 1.44.2.5 Any clues? (FreeBSD 4.4) -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Network connection dropping during file transfers
Hi Matthew. Thanks for your response. Pending more tests, the problem has been resolved. Special thanks to Stacey Roberts and his girlfriend. :) A while back I expanded our subnet from 255.255.255.224 to 255.255.255.0. Long story short: Samba was binding to the wrong broadcast address. That is, 192.168.1.31 instead of 192.168.1.255. It was an oversight of mine -- a setting I forgot to changed during the subnet expansion extravaganza. I haven't done any real sniffing to see what was actually going on when the interface timed out. I'm just glad it works now. I'll celebrate 50 hours of overtime with a beer or two...or three, maybe four 5 6 7... I'll answer some of your questions below. i) Is there any chance of meeting your deadline given the current state of your system? I will be able to meet the deadline now. Yay! (The citizens of Custom Film Effects -- after much deliberation -- decide to acknowledge System Administrator Day) ii) Have you ever had this hardware setup working well under this sort of load? Not really. I've added render engines and workstations recently. Also, the new version of Digital Fusion seems to be more efficient at using processor time and memory so I really cranks out frames. iii) Do you really need 1000baseTX network speeds? Absolutely. We're dealing with 12MB cineon images. Some comp'd shots render very quickly -- load, save, load, save, load, save, load, save ... Thanks for taking an interest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Network connection dropping during file transfers
On Sunday 24 November 2002 15:28, David Smithson wrote: Hi Matthew. Thanks for your response. Pending more tests, the problem has been resolved. Special thanks to Stacey Roberts and his girlfriend. :) Glad you got it all working. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
cannot access floppy drive
Hi, though I have configured floppy access into kernel I cannot access floppies on my -CURRENT box. Neither 'cat /dev/fd0.1440 /dev/null' works nor 'mdir a:'. dmesg output: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Nov 23 07:42:32 CET 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOGTHROB Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc04a9000. Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter TSC frequency 334093026 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (334.09-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x660 Stepping = 0 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR real memory = 268369920 (255 MB) avail memory = 255668224 (243 MB) Initializing GEOMetry subsystem Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled VESA: v3.0, 16384k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc0424122 (122) VESA: NVidia acpi0: GBTAWRDACPI on motherboard Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fded0 acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model. Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 acpi_cpu0: CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0x5000-0x500f,0x4000-0x4041,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 initial configuration \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.3 before setting priority for links \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC: interrupts: 3 4 5 6 71011121415 penalty: 1660 1660 660 1660 1660 1260 1260 1660 10660 10660 references: 6 priority: 0 before fixup boot-disabled links - \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC: interrupts: 3 4 5 6 71011121415 penalty: 1660 1660 660 1660 1660 1260 1260 1660 10660 10660 references: 6 priority: 19680 after fixup boot-disabled links -- arbitrated configuration - \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 5: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 5: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.3
Re: cannot access floppy drive
Jens Rehsack wrote: Hi, though I have configured floppy access into kernel I cannot access floppies on my -CURRENT box. Neither 'cat /dev/fd0.1440 /dev/null' works nor 'mdir a:'. What I have forgotten: on the same machine the floppy access works using DOS (by boot disk!) or 4.7-STABLE Jens dmesg output: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Nov 23 07:42:32 CET 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOGTHROB Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc04a9000. Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter TSC frequency 334093026 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (334.09-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x660 Stepping = 0 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR real memory = 268369920 (255 MB) avail memory = 255668224 (243 MB) Initializing GEOMetry subsystem Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled VESA: v3.0, 16384k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc0424122 (122) VESA: NVidia acpi0: GBTAWRDACPI on motherboard Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fded0 acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model. Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 acpi_cpu0: CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0x5000-0x500f,0x4000-0x4041,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 initial configuration \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.10.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.11.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.7.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 0: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.1.3 before setting priority for links \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC: interrupts: 3 4 5 6 7101112 1415 penalty: 1660 1660 660 1660 1660 1260 1260 1660 10660 10660 references:6 priority:0 before fixup boot-disabled links - \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC: interrupts: 3 4 5 6 7101112 1415 penalty: 1660 1660 660 1660 1660 1260 1260 1660 10660 10660 references:6 priority:19680 after fixup boot-disabled links -- arbitrated configuration - \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKA irq 11: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.1 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 5: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.2 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKD irq 10: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.8.3 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKB irq 9: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.0 \\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.LNKC irq 5: [ 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15] low,level,sharable 0.9.1
Re: packages settings and portupgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.24.2002 @ 1309 PST): Hans Lambermont said, in 0.3K: Hi, How can I best set (and store for future use) local package settings like 'no_gui' etc. for frequent cvsup and portupgrade usage ? end of packages settings and portupgrade from Hans Lambermont portupgrade will honor settings in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. Specifically, you will want to be altering the MAKE_ARGS variable. # Adam - -- Adam Weinberger vectors.cx[EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bayer Berkeley[EMAIL PROTECTED] #vim:set ts=8: 8-char tabs prevent tooth decay. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE94UWro8KM2ULHQ/0RAjn5AJ4jrWaCzwFhB/4NEk3tfQboi5Er5wCgu+Kv jikqBidwcdCfDAH/iwcaBIA= =CAfx -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
setiathome port: Can't open file temp.sah
Hello,
I've installed the astro/setiathome port, but when I run it (using
rc.d/setiathome.sh register or just setiathome -login), it fails to
work:
Welcome to SETI@home.
We use your email address to identify you.
Please type:
1 to set up a new account (first-time users);
2 to log into an existing account (returning users).
Your choice (1 or 2): 2
Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't open file temp.sah
If you need help or have questions,
please check the FAQ at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
Please type:
1 to set up a new account (first-time users);
2 to log into an existing account (returning users).
It always says Can't open file temp.sah and asks again for account
setup. It's not filesystem/rights problem, it does even when run as root.
I don't have a public IP (10.0.0...) and I am connected to internet via
NAT, but I believe it doesn't matter (internet communication works OK, and
setiathome is AFAIK using only http).
I've tried to run strace on it, but it was not very helpful:
...
connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80),
sin_addr=inet_addr(66.28.250.122)}}, 16) = 0
close(4)= 0
write(1, Can\'t open file temp.sah\n, 25Can't open file temp.sah
) = 25
write(1, If you need help or have questio..., 96If you need help or have
questions,
please check the FAQ at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
) = 96
write(1, Please type:\n1 to set up a n..., 142Please type:
1 to set up a new account (first-time users);
2 to log into an existing account (returning users).
Your choice (1 or 2): ) = 142
read(0,
...
My system is 4.7-STABLE, few weeks old.
Thanks
Tomas Pluskal
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Re: Kerberos is set up - now what?
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:48:22AM +0100, Peter Much wrote: From: Peter Much [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kerberos is set up - now what? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 05:48:22 +0100 (CET) Hi all, as it seems to me, Kerberos5 is mostly unsupported in FreeBSD. It's not very correct(it's totally incorrect). If kerberos is installed (port or one in the base system) you have all services that you want to use. They are not enabled by default but it isn't mean that FreeBSD hasn't support for kerberos. Scroll down in inetd.conf and look for kerberos services. I use pam_krb5 and MIT Kerberos for a year without any problems, with single login to workstation and access to other computers via telnet, rlogin etc. If you can't configure kerberos services to work then ask for help and don't make conclusion has or hasn't FreeBSD support for something. BTW Kerberos5 access control file is .k5login(5) not .klogin. Yes, this is going to be a rant. If you have an appropriate Kerberos support, no rsh, rlogin, ftp, telnet or elsewhat will ever ask you for a password, if you login to an account where you are allowed to do so via its .klogin file. This means, that support for Kerberos5 needs to be built into the servers and clients for ftp, telnet, rsh, rlogin, etc. It is not enough to just run a kerberos5 server (aka kdc) and make logins kerberos-aware via PAM. This was already implemented with FreeBSD 2.2 and kerberos4 at least for rsh and rlogin, but now(*) with Kerberos5, if I connect to the kshell port, I just get: rshd[8654]: usage: rshd [-alnDL] Furthermore, it is possible to do session encryption based on the principal, so essentially we could throw ssh etc. and all that crap completely into the wastebasket, and instead had a third-party based authentication scheme with single-sign-on over the whole network and a central (and replicateable) server that can optionally be adminstered remotely. (Supposed the crypt stuff inside kerberos5 is hardened enough for today's purposes.) Ok, I do not know of any unix distribution that actually engages these possibilities, but they are there. Well, AIX got fairly far with 4.3.3, telnet and ftp and all the rsh stuff actually works without passwords there, and K4 and K5 and standard logins all do work simultaneously. But when I asked the support how to run telnet with session encryption based on my DCE/K5 principal (aka packet-level privacy as documented for DCE and practically used in DFS), they shrugged and suggested me to install ssh! (*) now means FreeBSD 4.4, I didnt get the time to upgrade further yet. No doubt the PAM integration has evolved since then, but it doesnt look like a really substantial progress to what I described above. PMc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Regards, D. Penev To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: setiathome port: Can't open file temp.sah
Tomas Pluskal wrote:
Hello,
I've installed the astro/setiathome port, but when I run it (using
rc.d/setiathome.sh register or just setiathome -login), it fails to
work:
Welcome to SETI@home.
We use your email address to identify you.
Please type:
1 to set up a new account (first-time users);
2 to log into an existing account (returning users).
Your choice (1 or 2): 2
Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't open file temp.sah
If you need help or have questions,
please check the FAQ at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
Please type:
1 to set up a new account (first-time users);
2 to log into an existing account (returning users).
It always says Can't open file temp.sah and asks again for account
setup. It's not filesystem/rights problem, it does even when run as root.
I don't have a public IP (10.0.0...) and I am connected to internet via
NAT, but I believe it doesn't matter (internet communication works OK, and
setiathome is AFAIK using only http).
That doesn't matter either. I use a 192... convention.
It has to be a permission problem. I generate about 25 wu's a day on
FreeBSD machines and have no problems. Make sure your directory
permissions are consistant with your user access rights.
I created a user called seti and I get into trouble when I do
something as root because seti can't modify files created by root.
Kent
I've tried to run strace on it, but it was not very helpful:
...
connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80),
sin_addr=inet_addr(66.28.250.122)}}, 16) = 0
close(4)= 0
write(1, Can\'t open file temp.sah\n, 25Can't open file temp.sah
) = 25
write(1, If you need help or have questio..., 96If you need help or have
questions,
please check the FAQ at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
) = 96
write(1, Please type:\n1 to set up a n..., 142Please type:
1 to set up a new account (first-time users);
2 to log into an existing account (returning users).
Your choice (1 or 2): ) = 142
read(0,
...
My system is 4.7-STABLE, few weeks old.
Thanks
Tomas Pluskal
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Re: setiathome port: Can't open file temp.sah
NAT, but I believe it doesn't matter (internet communication works OK, and setiathome is AFAIK using only http). That doesn't matter either. I use a 192... convention. I think so. It has to be a permission problem. I generate about 25 wu's a day on FreeBSD machines and have no problems. Make sure your directory permissions are consistant with your user access rights. Well, I've checked everything twice, made new dir for setiathome few times, tried to run it as root as well as normal user, tried to make blank temp.sah manually.. It is _definitely_ not a permission problem (and neither a disk space problem). Tomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: setiathome port: Can't open file temp.sah
Tomas Pluskal wrote: NAT, but I believe it doesn't matter (internet communication works OK, and setiathome is AFAIK using only http). That doesn't matter either. I use a 192... convention. I think so. It has to be a permission problem. I generate about 25 wu's a day on FreeBSD machines and have no problems. Make sure your directory permissions are consistant with your user access rights. Well, I've checked everything twice, made new dir for setiathome few times, tried to run it as root as well as normal user, tried to make blank temp.sah manually.. It is _definitely_ not a permission problem (and neither a disk space problem). This is a working seti drwxr-xr-x 2 seti staff 512 Nov 21 10:43 ruby3 ruby#seticd ruby3 ruby#setill total 675 -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 132 Nov 24 14:00 key.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 0 Apr 10 2000 lock.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 828 Nov 24 13:11 outfile.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 6 Nov 24 12:48 pid.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 160 Nov 21 10:43 result_header.sah -rwxr-xr-x 1 seti staff 299008 Dec 26 2000 setiathome -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff4065 Nov 24 14:00 state.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 405 Apr 10 2000 temp.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 366 Nov 21 10:43 user_info.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 32 Dec 27 2000 version.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 356282 Nov 21 10:43 work_unit.sah ruby#setistate 3 ncfft=7368 cr=1.020013e+01 fl=131072 cpu=3884.564995 prog=0.23630062 potfreq=-1 potactivity=0 outfilepos=828 bs_power=182.312408 bs_score=0.658756 Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ATI SVGA and the X window
Hello everyone, Im sending this email after hell of times of trying and after many days of trying.. Im on PIII 733, FreeBSD 4.3-R fresh installation. Im trying to Install the X-WIndow system thro the FreeBSD CD I have I faild! When I choose Setup xf86cfg The graphical mode, and I choose my VGA Card... (which not specified exactly) it says (Unable to start X) My VGA is ATI - Rage 128 Pro, AGP 4X and the cards in list is (ATI-Rage 128 (generic)) anyway i tried many cards its faild.. also i installed the SVGA MACH and many others but still the same.. Please anyhelp is appreciate it Thank you very much. Please CC me when you email the list. Marwan Sultan _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: setiathome port: Can't open file temp.sah
Well, this is a non-working seti :) [root@eddie tmp]# l /tmp/seti total 320 -rw-r--r-- 1 plusik wheel 0 24 lis 22:53 lock.sah -r-xr-xr-x 1 plusik wheel 299008 24 lis 22:24 setiathome The /tmp/seti dir has these permissions: drwxr-xr-x 2 plusik wheel 512 24 lis 22:53 seti There are no .sah files, because I was unable to login to seti@home. (Of course I've tried to remove lock.sah, create new fresh dir etc.) I've tried to connect to the seti@home server manually and there is no problem with connection. Tomas This is a working seti drwxr-xr-x 2 seti staff 512 Nov 21 10:43 ruby3 ruby#seticd ruby3 ruby#setill total 675 -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 132 Nov 24 14:00 key.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 0 Apr 10 2000 lock.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 828 Nov 24 13:11 outfile.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 6 Nov 24 12:48 pid.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 160 Nov 21 10:43 result_header.sah -rwxr-xr-x 1 seti staff 299008 Dec 26 2000 setiathome -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff4065 Nov 24 14:00 state.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 405 Apr 10 2000 temp.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 366 Nov 21 10:43 user_info.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 32 Dec 27 2000 version.sah -rw-r--r-- 1 seti staff 356282 Nov 21 10:43 work_unit.sah To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
if ( ps aux | grep -i ^root.*master ) /dev/null then echo then: exit code equal 0 exit 0 else try to run the daemon ... when run from the command line, the echo text displays. But, when run from crontab every 10 minutes, the if fails, and the else clause runs. I've tried every syntax I know, but still can't get this logic to work. It works for me, and I suspect that it's working for you, too. well, it's really not. The crontab execution is trying to run the daemon even when the daemon shows up in ps aux. However, you may not see the results expected if you are piping the cron output through sendmail I'm not, and anyway the echo is after the IF condition fails. Also, make sure that you're running the expected shell. Check the SHELL= line in crontab, or force the script to run via the expected shell by running 'sh script' instead of just 'script', or tell the script what shell to run by adding something like the following on the first line: #!/bin/sh already there, and /etc/crontab also contains SHELL=/bin/sh Although this isn't related to your problem , you might find it simpler to use the -q option on grep instead of redirecting the output. For example, if ( ps -aux | grep -q -i ^root.*master ); then instead of, ok. thanks Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] It works for me, and I suspect that it's working for you, too. well, it's really not. The crontab execution is trying to run the daemon even when the daemon shows up in ps aux. Well, it was just a guess. :) I tested against my 'named' daemon, using the code you supplied and it works fine. What version of FreeBSD? Are you using the 'stock' shell? Did you look at the output from grep to see what you get? How about splitting the test onto more than one line so that you can echo and then test the status code. ps -aux | grep -i ^root.*master STATUS=$? echo got $STATUS if [ $STATUS = 0 ] ; then That might tell you something if you get a status 2. If you'd like, send me your exact script, and crontab entry; I'll test it here. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
Well, it was just a guess. :) I tested against my 'named' daemon, using the code you supplied and it works fine. same code works fine for my AV daemon, but not for the MTA daemon What version of FreeBSD? 4.5 Are you using the 'stock' shell? yes Did you look at the output from grep to see what you get? I forgot to mention, I'm blue in the face How about splitting the test onto more than one line so that you can echo and then test the status code. done that :)) ps -aux | grep -i ^root.*master STATUS=$? echo got $STATUS if [ $STATUS = 0 ] ; then here's what I get from the command line: ps -aux | grep -i ^root.*master STATUS=$? echo got $STATUS if [ $STATUS = 0 ] ; then #if ( ps aux | grep -qi ^root.*master ) #then #echo then: exit code equal 0 exit 0 else gives: # /usr/local/bin/watchdog.sh root 48701 0.0 0.9 1012 572 ?? Is5:01PM 0:02.30 /usr/libexec/postfix/master got 0 ... but your version, or my multiple versions, have never mishaved from the command line, it's running from crontab that does comes out inverted. I´ll see what happens in 10 min with next crontab run thanks Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumping sound with maestro3 card
| By Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [ 2002-11-24 20:28 +0200 ] Yes. I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, p3/1.2Ghz, half a gig of RAM. When I play streaming mp3s the sound is fine, but playing tracks locally is a mess. Mine's an Inspiron 8000, p3/1GHz, same ammount of RAM. I've found streaming (over LAN) and locally played files to both be jumpy. Sound from movie playback as well, which in turn is causing the video to jump too. I've only tried xmms and mplayer so far, but with my past experience of getting sound working properly on this system, all apps will probably do the same thing. I had the same problems even in windows - sound playback only became smooth after *alot* of BIOS and driver updates. I'm convinced the Maestro3 is just a crap card. :) *sigh* I was going to use this laptop for my band's live shows... boot a custom kernel that would dedicate the system solely to becoming a sampler, but the blips and skips were too ridiculous. Yea. I was hoping to wipe Windows from my notebook. Been setting up and playing with FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 this weekend and have been VERY pleased with how it runs on my notebook. Version 4 has always been useless for me because of no cardbus support. The latest nvidia drivers even work pretty darn well too. I guess Windows will have to stay until I get a notebook with decent sound hardware. Thanks, Aragon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
I forgot to mention, I'm blue in the face Sorry, didn't know what you'd already done. Thought I had to ask. ... but your version, or my multiple versions, have never mishaved from the command line, it's running from crontab that does comes out inverted. What does your crontab entry look like? Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
What does your crontab entry look like? */10* * * * root/usr/local/bin/watchdog.sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail to News software suggestions?
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:12:45PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote: Now, if you know of a mail reader sporting an nn/trn-style UI, I'm all ears! :) Hi, I use mutt for reading mail. From what I've read I'm quite sure that with some clever use of keybindings you could set all of that up easily. set sort=reverse-threads might be of use -- it groups all messages together much the same way as most newsreaders do. Tell me how you get on, if you decide to go down this route, I'd be interested to see what you come up with. Best wishes, -lewiz. -- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg10042/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ports base?
On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the ports collection, only the entire collection (which is about 9MB). Those were the days. I've just checked out the ports tree, and it's 314 MB! This is probably partially a consequence of the larger file system block size on modern systems, and also of course because of the CVS directories (each of which takes up 16 kB), for a total of 128 MB. Even without them, though, that leaves 186 MB. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Ports base?
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:48:31AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the ports collection, only the entire collection (which is about 9MB). Those were the days. I've just checked out the ports tree, and it's 314 MB! This is probably partially a consequence of the larger file system block size on modern systems, and also of course because of the CVS directories (each of which takes up 16 kB), for a total of 128 MB. Even without them, though, that leaves 186 MB. You're correct I was underestimating (I was thinking of the compressed ports.tar.gz file), but my CVS ports tree is only 204MB including CVS directories, so I think you're overestimating (perhaps you included the distfiles/ directory?) Kris msg10044/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mutt / NNTP_patch.
Hi, Like many of you I use mutt for email. I recently reinstalled mutt and included the NNTP patch allowing me to read news directly through mutt. However, I have the same home directory (and therefore muttrc) shared across many machines - not all of which have the nntp patch. Because I have nntp switches in my muttrc is there any way I can have these ignored and not throw errors if I am running a version of mutt without the patch? Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg10045/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ports base?
On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 16:51:07 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:48:31AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the ports collection, only the entire collection (which is about 9MB). Those were the days. I've just checked out the ports tree, and it's 314 MB! This is probably partially a consequence of the larger file system block size on modern systems, and also of course because of the CVS directories (each of which takes up 16 kB), for a total of 128 MB. Even without them, though, that leaves 186 MB. You're correct I was underestimating (I was thinking of the compressed ports.tar.gz file), but my CVS ports tree is only 204MB including CVS directories, so I think you're overestimating (perhaps you included the distfiles/ directory?) Nope, as I said, I checked out a completely new tree from the repository. FWIW, my real ports tree (including distfiles) runs to 3.1 GB. I'd guess that your file system block size is smaller than mine. The default for new file systems is now 16 kB block and 2 kB fragments, and since nearly every file in the Ports Collection is smaller than the old 512 bytes fragment size, this means that they are now 1.5 kB larger. My ports tree currently has 170,000 files in it (including distfiles, admittedly; I don't want to check out again), so that's in the right ball park. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: DHCP and an internal web server
Hey, I understand that there are hardware solutions that allow a host to run a web server thu DHCPD, but is there a way of configuring one of my behind-the-firewall server to serve pages. there are two ways actually, * get in touch with the person managing your dhcp server, supply them with the mac address of your machines network card and have them reserve a specific IP for your machine. Then have your dns admin point your domain name to that IP. This way whenever your machine requests an IP via DHCP it will get the same one. * email the admin of your dhcp/dns servers and have them setup dynamic dns updates. This is a lot more complex then the above suggestion, but it means that whenever your machine gets a new IP it automatically updates the dns server with your new IP. zen.thought.org is an example; i is an older 4.7 system hardwired as 10.0.0.247. Is there a way of configuring things to let http://zen.thought.org serve miscellaneous essays and references, e.g., for my profs. the only problem you will hit depends on how willing your dhcp/dns server admins are to reconfiguring your server. otherwise you should be fine. =) Michael Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: using 5.0-RELEASE
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:26:32AM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: Hi, just a question to the possibilies using 5.0-RELEASE. In the early adopters guide (chapter 1) it's written, that 5.0-RELEASE should be as stable as possible to getting a large number of users to test. But if it's not recommented to use it in production environments, what test results do you expect? I've been playing with 5.0-2 DR and so far, the only problem I've had was with OpenOffice--lazy sod that I am, I download the binaries from openoffice.org and install them. That's failed to install properly. On the other hand, I've not been using it in production, simply as a desktop. I don't have the courage (or the expertise) to try it in production. The basic workstation type stuff like opera, lbreakout2, sound and the like have all installed without problem. -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: What, your Mom doesn't know? Joyce: Know what? Buffy: That I'm, uh...in a band. A rock band...with Spike here. Spike: Right. She plays the-the triangle... Buffy: Drums. Spike: Drums, yeah. She's hell on the old skins, you know. Joyce: (to Spike) And what do you do? Spike: Well I sing. msg10048/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: using 5.0-RELEASE
Please do not cross-post to lists! On 2002-11-25 00:26, Jens Rehsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, just a question to the possibilies using 5.0-RELEASE. In the early adopters guide (chapter 1) it's written, that 5.0-RELEASE should be as stable as possible to getting a large number of users to test. But if it's not recommented to use it in production environments, what test results do you expect? That's very honest, in my opinion. The 5.0-RELEASE of FreeBSD brings many new and exciting features, which will definitely look inviting and interesting to the users who read the release notes. The people who wrote these features are always welcome for new comments, suggestions, or evenn complaints about the system works. They are honest though to admit that some of these things might cause problems that haven't been discovered yet, despite the tests done so far. Bearing that in mind, I am using FreeBSD-CURRENT at my workstation at home for over a year now. There were no serious problems, when I carefully read and kept notes of the changes that were daily going in. There were also occasions that I had to carefully reinstall the base system, paying attention not to delete any important data, after having broken it so horribly by `cvs up'-ing the wrong time. FreeBSD-CURRENT is a moving target, and 5.0-RELEASE is exactly what it says. A release for early adopters. Wouldn't it better to say: 5.0-CURRENT is not recommented for production environments (as it's said 'bout using -STABLE blindly), 5.0-RELEASE may be used in non-critical environment, but heavily use of backup tool is recommented? The exact wording might not be perfect. I'm sure that Bruce Mah and the folks who work on the release notes for 5.0 will welcome any help you can give in that area :) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cannot access floppy drive
On 2002-11-24 22:06, Jens Rehsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens Rehsack wrote: Hi, though I have configured floppy access into kernel I cannot access floppies on my -CURRENT box. Neither 'cat /dev/fd0.1440 /dev/null' works nor 'mdir a:'. What I have forgotten: on the same machine the floppy access works using DOS (by boot disk!) or 4.7-STABLE Floppy access works mostly fine here in a fairly recent snapshot: # uname -v FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 24 20:04:27 EET 2002 # grep fdc /var/run/dmesg.boot fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes transferred in 1.290642 secs (3967 bytes/sec) # disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 # newfs -i 65536 fd0.1440 /dev/fd0.1440: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 1 cylinder groups of 1.41MB, 90 blks, 128 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32 # mount /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt # df /mnt Filesystem1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0.1440 1374 16 1250 1%/mnt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cannot access floppy drive
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2002-11-24 22:06, Jens Rehsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens Rehsack wrote: Hi, though I have configured floppy access into kernel I cannot access floppies on my -CURRENT box. Neither 'cat /dev/fd0.1440 /dev/null' works nor 'mdir a:'. What I have forgotten: on the same machine the floppy access works using DOS (by boot disk!) or 4.7-STABLE Floppy access works mostly fine here in a fairly recent snapshot: # uname -v FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 24 20:04:27 EET 2002 # grep fdc /var/run/dmesg.boot fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes transferred in 1.290642 secs (3967 bytes/sec) # disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 # newfs -i 65536 fd0.1440 /dev/fd0.1440: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 1 cylinder groups of 1.41MB, 90 blks, 128 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32 # mount /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt # df /mnt Filesystem1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0.1440 1374 16 1250 1%/mnt Mine say: -bash-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10 dd: /dev/fd0: Device not configured 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000684 secs (0 bytes/sec) I think he hates me :-) I would try another floppy if it wouldn't work using a boot disk. Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack LW W W L i W W W W i nnnLiWing IT-Services L iW W W Wi n n g g i W W i n n g gFriesenstraße 2 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91ggg e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: cannot access floppy drive
On 2002-11-25 01:57, Jens Rehsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Floppy access works mostly fine here in a fairly recent snapshot: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes transferred in 1.290642 secs (3967 bytes/sec) Mine say: -bash-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10 dd: /dev/fd0: Device not configured Is this with a GENERIC kernel? If not, do you have 'device fdc' in your kernel config? It seems that your floppy hasn't been recognised by the running kernel. If you are running a kernel that *does* include support for floppy disks, this is probably a bug that we should address. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Manage, centralize and backup configuration files
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:49:36PM -0500 I heard the voice of Karl Vogel, and lo! it spake thus: J What about a combination of rsync and CVS? Rsync is a good idea if you want your files backed up on a separate server. CVS is a bit inflexible with directories, so I prefer RCS. Eh? CVS is a *LOT* more flexible with directories. I keep all my configs in one central repository, which I co on different machines using CVS-over-[rs]sh. Then I just have a set of Makefiles in the CVS tree to install the configs to the system directories. Simple. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages
On Sunday 24 November 2002 09:38 am, JoeB wrote: You have to change the level keyword in /etc/syslog.conf to select or not to select what type of messages you want to log. The level describes the severity of the message, and is a keyword from the following ordered list (higher to lower): emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info and debug. You may want to start with warning as notice, info, and debug generates the kind of general operational msgs you are seeing. For more details read the man page on syslog.conf Thank you but you missed the point. I don't want to change the messages syslogd traps and writes to files. Its just fine the way it is. OTOH something changed in the past year with dhclient and/or both ISP's I have systems connected via. Something changed which causes dhclient to spit out excess messages in such a way as to cause syslogd to write them to /var/log/messages. If I were to muffle the syslog levels logged I would then risk failing to log something I should not miss. In the case of dhclient its verbosity is predictable and redundant. So now that I've seen this message too much its time to put an end to this one source and leave everything else well enough alone. Considering how top-posting ruined this thread for proper continuance I'll repeat the original situation; /var/log/messages is being flooded with this: Nov 24 16:23:44 grumpy dhclient: New Network Number: 24.214.34.0 Nov 24 16:23:44 grumpy dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 24.214.34.255 Nov 24 17:36:47 grumpy dhclient: New Network Number: 24.214.34.0 Nov 24 17:36:47 grumpy dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 24.214.34.255 Nov 24 18:51:32 grumpy dhclient: New Network Number: 24.214.34.0 Nov 24 18:51:32 grumpy dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 24.214.34.255 Nov 24 20:05:52 grumpy dhclient: New Network Number: 24.214.34.0 Nov 24 20:05:52 grumpy dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 24.214.34.255 It is not a fault for syslogd to be recording these messages. It is an error in dhclient for claiming these parameters have changed when they have not changed. man dhclient and man dhclient.conf make no mention of how to control logging. No metion of what priority, facility, or level is used when writing log entries. Sadly this is a typical Unix documentation shortcoming. Is also a shortcoming in syslogd in that the logs it writes do not include any hint as to what parameter triggered its filter (syslog.conf) and caused the item to be written to a log file. The solution is to insert a specific sed filter in syslog.conf to delete this excessive verbosity. Or to fix dhclient either by patch or dhclient.conf. But once again the dhclient man pages fail to metion logging as a configurable parameter. Am I the only one who gets these messages every time dhclient renews my lease? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
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any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? Main thing I want to do is print PDF files, in batches. (Send a directory of 300 different PDF files to the printer at once.) Are there any command-line tools to do that? or do you need an X11 Adobe Acrobat app? Any advice appreciated. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 24 November 2002 09:45 pm, BSD baby wrote: Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? The most painless way to print within FreeBSD is with a Postscript printer which speaks lpd protocol on ethernet. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
Okay, I was able to duplicate your problem. It is due to the output of 'ps' being truncated to 80 columns, the default terminal size. You are likely running a wide terminal display on your interactive session (as I do) but cron will see the default 80 column terminal. This is the difference between the two. Try running 'ps' using the -w flag (wide column mode): if ( ps -auxw | grep -iq ^root.*master ) ; then I've tested this and it works. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Error on installing FreeBSD 4.4 on Dell Inspiron 2650 ( 2.0 GHz )
Hi I bought a laptop ( Dell Inspiron 2650 ) and want to install 4.4BSD on it . but when it is going to be installed after it ask for configuration when the kernel is going to probe the devices and write the devices on the screen , it says that pci0 unknown device (vendor=8086 ) IRQ ... pci0 unknown device (vendor=8086 ) IRQ ... pci0 unknown device (vendor=8086 ) IRQ ... and then it hanged up and never going to continue What can i do ??? I really love the FreeBSD ;) Thanx _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
Try to avoid any so-called winprinters, i.e. the one that rely specifically on the existence of Microsoft Windows OS to function. One good example of winprinters are some of the older HP series printers that uses Performance Printing Architecture (PPA), in which case much of the computational ability of the printer is being relegated to the OS instead of being done by the printer internally, much like dumb terminals. Although thru the use of special filters, and there's such filter, you can set up winprinters to function with FreeBSD, that's highly not recommended. As for printing batches and batches of PDF files, set up apsfilter on your printer, and write a script that automates the printing job, set up the printing daemon lpd to handle the job priorities, spooling, etc. The FreeBSD handbook described how to do all these tasks in great details. I assume you know at least some shell scriptings if you're using FreeBSD. X11 AcroReader is only needed when you need to view the PDF files without printing them. And, the most important of all, check the hardware compatibility list of printers suitable for FreeBSD. Fong From: BSD baby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:45:20 -0800 Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? Main thing I want to do is print PDF files, in batches. (Send a directory of 300 different PDF files to the printer at once.) Are there any command-line tools to do that? or do you need an X11 Adobe Acrobat app? Any advice appreciated. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mutt / NNTP_patch.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:24:45PM +, lewiz wrote: Hi, Like many of you I use mutt for email. I recently reinstalled mutt and included the NNTP patch allowing me to read news directly through mutt. However, I have the same home directory (and therefore muttrc) shared across many machines - not all of which have the nntp patch. Because I have nntp switches in my muttrc is there any way I can have these ignored and not throw errors if I am running a version of mutt without the patch? Several ways. One which springs to mind is a shell wrapper, say called runmutt, which tests the name of the machine and runs mutt as appropriate. Something like: #/bin/sh # NODE=`uname -n` if [ $NODE = muttandnews ]; then mutt -nntpflags else mutt fi adjusted as appropriate for your systems. There are several other ways of course, this is my 7 a.m. in the morning suggestion :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not
Okay, I was able to duplicate your problem. It is due to the output of 'ps' being truncated to 80 columns, the default terminal size. You are likely running a wide terminal display on your interactive session (as I do) yep, TeraTerm on Windows, very wide display. but cron will see the default 80 column terminal. This is the difference between the two. ugh, amazing! Try running 'ps' using the -w flag (wide column mode): if ( ps -auxw | grep -iq ^root.*master ) ; then I've tested this and it works. here, too, thanks!! Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:19:31PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 09:45 pm, BSD baby wrote: Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? The most painless way to print within FreeBSD is with a Postscript printer which speaks lpd protocol on ethernet. Sadly this is quite an expensive way. Avoid so called Windows printers, although some of them can be made to work, they are a pain in the neck since they rely on custom drivers. It may not be obvious when you look at a printer box and/or glossy whether it is one of these animals, so check in the usual places. Epson's are generally a good bet (although not all of them). I have no problems with USB support, and in fact many printers do come with both USB and Parallell ports so you can hedge your bets that way. I asked the list about PS printers the other day, I knew they should all work without problem but I wanted to see it in writing :). But since a PS printer is a very intelligent device, really a specialised computer with a Risc processor, they may require a second mortgage to buy .. luckily someone is going to sell me a second hand one :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: RELENG_5_0_DP2 as server
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-25 00:07:28 +0100: what would people say to using 5.0-DP2 as apache2, php, mysql and qmail server? Is it not safe yet? The problem is that its a server I cant get to physically after its install. I think I know the answer to this question to this already :) but please play along. Why should I not do this? Apache-2 / PHP combination is going to give you enough headache no matter what os you choose. See thw warning on http://www.php.net/manual/en/print/install.apache2.php -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
On Sunday, Nov 24, 2002, at 23:08 US/Pacific, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:19:31PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 09:45 pm, BSD baby wrote: Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? or is there some spec I need to look for? I assume parallel port is still the way to go or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? The most painless way to print within FreeBSD is with a Postscript printer which speaks lpd protocol on ethernet. Sadly this is quite an expensive way. If you can find one on eBay or somewhere, look into a Lexmark Optra Color 40 (or 45). Nice color inkjet printer, WITH Postscript. It comes with a fighting 2MB of memory, but add a 32 or 64MB SIMM and you're good to go; prints great from FreeBSD, WinXP, and Mac OS X. I've loved mine for two years, and recently acquired another NIB that I might, MIGHT be talked out of. Better yet, go find your own - should be less than $100. Recommended. KeS BTW, I was recently looking to see what else is out there, and the best I came up with is an HP 2280 at $450. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
