Re: strange reboots
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:47:15PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. [ns:/u/zaa]uname -rs FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE For starters, make sure you have all of the security holes fixed. There is a list of advisories on the bottom right side of http://www.freebsd.org/ System are up to date [ns:/u/zaa]uname -v FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Sat Aug 16 14:42:35 MSD 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NS If you are up todate, then it is a function of noticing what is going on when it reboots. You usually have a clue but seeing it can be a problem. I suppose, reboot can cause incorrect work of ftp server. (we use standart out of the box ftpd). Maybe we should switch to another ftp server. Any recommendations which server should we choose? -- zhuravlev alexander u l s t u n o c ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange reboots
On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:11 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:47:15PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. [ns:/u/zaa]uname -rs FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE For starters, make sure you have all of the security holes fixed. There is a list of advisories on the bottom right side of http://www.freebsd.org/ System are up to date [ns:/u/zaa]uname -v FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Sat Aug 16 14:42:35 MSD 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NS If you are up todate, then it is a function of noticing what is going on when it reboots. You usually have a clue but seeing it can be a problem. I suppose, reboot can cause incorrect work of ftp server. (we use standart out of the box ftpd). Maybe we should switch to another ftp server. Any recommendations which server should we choose? One thing is to make sure you have a good boot. You don't want the message about / was not properly dismounted to be present. I don't have any other ideas. What I have seen on here are mostly things that were hardware. Cron would startup a job and the hardware would heat up or something and cause the system to panic. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: about using dd command to copy hard drives
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series I know that dd is good at copying block devices when they are at identical sizes. But if they're different sizes will it copy correctly? I want to copy my entire freebsd hard disk which is 6 GB to a new hard disk at 20 GB. I read the man pages but still can't understand it. I'm only a user not a programmer nor sys admin. If you have any comments or suggestions, I would surely appreciate it. You could copy your small disk image onto the beginning of your hard disk, fixup your partition tables by running fdisk and disklabel, and perhaps expand some of your old file systems with the growfs command, but I advise against it. It would be easier, though perhaps slower, to use fdisk, disklabel and newfs to create new partitions and file systems on the new drive and to copy the old file systems with dump/restore. If you do it this way, the files in the new file systems will be much closer to contiguous (a good thing). It will be much easier to expand the size of file systems other than the last one on your old disk. You will have the opportunity to reorganize your file systems and the new file systems will be better organized internally. I gather that the disk you intend to copy is a bootstrap disk. Don't forget to install the MBR bootstrap and the FreeBSD slice bootstrap. You might find it most convenient to create the new disk slices and FreeBSD partitions with /stand/sysinstall. I recall that there is an underdocumented W command that you can give when in the disk slice and partition creation menus that will cause the new partition tables and bootstraps to be written when you exit the menus so that you don't have to do an installation commit. I usually do this kind of thing when booted from FreeBSD installation media, but I gather that it works ok when running multiuser. The man page is sysinstall. Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange reboots
zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. anything in /var/log/messages that looks interesting? do you do any monitoring of the system at all? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun. -- Jeff Berner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions
I have been trying to get mod_perl and apache to play nicely together and they refuse. I have a couple of problems. 1. I can't build and install mod_perl 1.28. I get and Error 1 when make checks to see if any version is installed. I can then go into work/mod_perl-1.28 and make install, but something else seems to be wrong. I never get it to work with apache if I do that. [/usr/ports/www/mod_perl]# make install === Installing for mod_perl-1.28 === mod_perl-1.28 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found === mod_perl-1.28 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/LWP.pm - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if www/mod_perl already installed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_perl. [/usr/ports/www/mod_perl]# pkg_info | grep mod_perl mod_perl-1.28 Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache server I get the same error, whether or not it's installed. 2. I can install from the packaged version but it is built against perl 5.005 as best I can tell (I enable perl-status and check in a browser: Embedded Perl version 5.00503 for Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 DAV/1.0.3 process 12540 ) I'm running 5.8 and I'm not sure that's the best way to proceed. So ideally, I'd like to install from source through the ports system. As a side note, I have been through my ports/packages database with pkgdb: all seems to be clean, after after a few mismatches were cleaned up. I have also tried portinstall and port_upgrade: no joy there, either. Any help? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange reboots
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:29:13PM -0700, paul beard wrote: zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. anything in /var/log/messages that looks interesting? do you do any monitoring of the system at all? yes, sure. we use nagios. we have decided to redirect console output to COM port of another machine. I hope we could later analyse output of rebooted machine just before reboot. -- zhuravlev alexander u l s t u n o c ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0700, R B wrote: hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and BSD and it says to create boot floppies with fdimage i do everything im supposed to do and the I reboot off the kernel.flp disk that works fine then it says to put in msfroot.flp disk i do that and then hit enter the problem is i reboot and it gives a message saying something like this: /kernel default 0:fd(0,a)fd0 boot: i dont know what this is can you please help me so that i can actually get to the installation process Sounds to me like your mfsroot.flp disk didn't come out quite right. Floppies are not at all reliable, and a single bad sector will stop them working for the FreeBSD install -- the install floppies have to pack in a great deal of stuff and they need to use practically every available byte on the disks. Try again building a new mfsroot.flp disk, preferably on a brand new floppy. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Toshiba T2100 Install Trouble
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:53:06PM +1000, Aaron ILES wrote: I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba T2100 laptop. (That's a x486 with 8meg of RAM booting from floppies) The kernel and MFS root are uncompressed ok, however, when booting the kernel the boot pauses after just a few seconds, screens worth of something is printed and the machine reboots. All this happens to quickly for me to read most of the output. I did however read this line. fatal trap 12 ... I have also attempted this install with FreeBSD 4.7. A similar reboot occurs. No copious output is produced though. Does any one know how to log the install process so I can debug this further? Does any one know what fatal trap 12 is? That's a SIGSYS non-existent system call invoked. However, in this case it probably means that either there's some sort of hardware problem with your system or that your system is not capable of running a recent version of FreeBSD -- 8Mb is cutting it pretty fine: probably too fine. Check the archives, but I believe you need at least 12Mb to install 4.x. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: console bell visible
Yes OK I can just make a redirect /dev/audio0.* /dev/null but I want to have sound during my X sessions. The /dev/audio0.* /dev/null is a good idea if you only work in console mode. But in my case I use sometimes de X session and sometimes the console mode. [ On Thu, 21 Aug, 2003 at 9:58, Armand Passelac wrote: ] Armand Armand Hi, Armand I'm on FreeBSD 5.1 with shell bash. Armand As on my linux system, I try to avoid the bell in console mode (not X mode). Armand I realized the following stages : Armand Armand ~/.inputrc : Armand set bell-style visible Armand ~/.bashrc (which is linked with a ~/.bash_profile): Armand set bell-style visible Armand Armand Before to test, I quit my session, and then re open it. Armand Armand But it doesn't perfore ! Armand There is always the beep Armand Armand Why ? Armand Armand PS : whithin a X session, it's OK because I put the xset b off on my .xinitrc and .xsession Armand Armand Thanks a lot. Armand Armand Armand -- Armand No guts No glory Armand Armand =] PASSELAC Armand [= Armand ( @ @ ) Armand Ingenieur Systemes-Reseaux Securite Armand ORBYTES INGENIERIE Armand ___ Armand [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Armand http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions Armand To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ End of original mail from Armand Passelac ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup and restore advise sought
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:22:12PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: My proposed solution is this: dump each FBSD partition to backup device, and re-partition the drive. This time put the Windows stuff at the front of the HD, and FBSD at the rear. BTW, I'll recreate the FBSD slices at least as large the original slice. Sounds like a good plan to me. Since I've never used dump/restore I've got some questions. 1. I'm concerned that the FBSD partition names will change. i.e., / was ad0s3a may now become ad1s3a and so on. Yes, this will happen, but not in the way you've shown: ad0s3a is the first partition (a) on the 3rd slice (s3) of the primary master disk (ad0). ad1s3a is on the primary slave drive (ad1). What you should probably see is the current partitions are ad0s1a, ad0s1b, etc. And when you swap your FreeBSD and Windows slices, that should change to: ad0s2a, ad0s2b, etc. I recommend that when you copy the partitions, edit the /etc/fstab file and put in the new device names before you copy. Preferably restore the original fstab, and test that you can reboot using the new slices before you install WinME over the original FreeBSD slice. 2. I'm using GRUB as boot loader pointing at HD(0,0,a) for FBS and HD(0,1) for Win. That will probably change. Yes. 3. Is there anything else about dump/restore that may present a gotcha with this solution? Shouldn't be any problems given what you say about sizing everything above. Instead of using sysinstall, you might consider using the basic fdisk, disklabel and newfs commands -- they're more powerful and flexible than sysinstall but not so easy to use. 4. Is there a better way? I remember reading about an OpenBSD ghost for Unix. As far as I know, all of the Unix ghost programs are essentially scripts build around dump and restore. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT
I'm not an FreeBSD expert (as you I'm coming from linux). But when I installed my FreeBSD on my old PC, I used these commands to preparing boot floppies : (On linux ...) : dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/drivers.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b Then put the CDROM and the first floppy (kern.flp) And then follow the instructions (next floppy : mfsroot.flp) It should be work. Bye [ On Fri, 22 Aug, 2003 at 9:32, Matthew Seaman wrote: ] Matthew On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0700, R B wrote: Matthew hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux Matthew for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST Matthew x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that Matthew the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i Matthew read through the docs and BSD and it says to create Matthew boot floppies with fdimage i do everything im supposed Matthew to do and the I reboot off the kernel.flp disk that Matthew works fine then it says to put in msfroot.flp disk i Matthew do that and then hit enter the problem is i reboot and Matthew it gives a message saying something like this: Matthew Matthew /kernel Matthew default 0:fd(0,a)fd0 Matthew boot: Matthew Matthew i dont know what this is can you please help me so Matthew that i can actually get to the installation process Matthew Matthew Sounds to me like your mfsroot.flp disk didn't come out quite right. Matthew Floppies are not at all reliable, and a single bad sector will stop Matthew them working for the FreeBSD install -- the install floppies have to Matthew pack in a great deal of stuff and they need to use practically every Matthew available byte on the disks. Matthew Matthew Try again building a new mfsroot.flp disk, preferably on a brand new Matthew floppy. Matthew MatthewCheers, Matthew MatthewMatthew Matthew Matthew -- Matthew Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Matthew Savill Way Matthew PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Matthew Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK [ End of original mail from Matthew Seaman ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange reboots
zhuravlev alexander wrote: We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. Perhaps you're suffering from the 'PAE crashes'. Mike Silbersack posted a patch to the freebsd-stable list today to backout the PAE changes. You may want to try that patch. -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ipnet6.org/ This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bandwith limitations, NAT and transparent proxy
Hi ! I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed. There is IPFIREWALL, IPFIREWALL_FORWARD, IPDIVERT and DUMMYNET in my kernel configration. On my FBSD gateway to the Internet I would like to use NAT (of course :-))) ), transparent proxy and limit the outgoing traffic. xl0 (62.169.170.166/30) is the public interface, xl1 (192.168.1.1/24) is the private one. If my firewall rules look like: ipfw pipe 1 config bw 256Kbit/s queue 40Kbytes ipfw add 47 pipe 1 ip from any to any out via xl0 ipfw add 48 allow ip from 192.168.1.1 to any ipfw add 49 fwd 192.168.1.1,3128 tcp from 192.168.1.0/24 to any 80 ipfw add 50 divert 8668 ip from any to any via xl0 ... (the rest of OPEN firewall rules) nothing except http (because of transparent proxy, I think) goes through the gateway from the local net. If my firewall rules look like: ipfw pipe 1 config bw 256Kbit/s queue 40Kbytes ipfw add 47 pipe 1 ip from 62.169.170.166 to any out via xl0 ipfw add 48 allow ip from 192.168.1.1 to any ipfw add 49 fwd 192.168.1.1,3128 tcp from 192.168.1.0/24 to any 80 ipfw add 50 divert 8668 ip from any to any via xl0 ... (the rest of OPEN firewall rules) everything works fine except except the bandwith limitation. Do you have any ideas, how to get these three things (bandwith limitation, nat, transparent proxy) work together ? Thanks a lot in advance. GIGI ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem running make on ports
Hello, I'm having a peculiar problem running make on some ports. I'm getting an error saying: This account is currently not available *** Error code 1 Stop in /dir/I/was/working/in This has happened in /usr/ports/mail/exim and /usr/ports/net/cvsupit. I was directed on another list to run make -d A but unfortunately that's all gobbledygook to me. Here are the last 20 lines: /usr/ports/net/cvsupit/work/.extract_done.cvsupit-3.1:@ = /usr/ports/net/cvsupit/work/.extract_done.cvsupit-3.1 /usr/ports/net/cvsupit/work/.extract_done.cvsupit-3.1:* = /usr/ports/net/cvsupit/work/.extract_done.cvsupit-3.1 SuffFindDeps (fetch) No known suffix on fetch. Using .NULL suffix not adding suffix rules fetch:@ = fetch fetch:* = fetch SuffFindDeps (pre-everything) No known suffix on pre-everything. Using .NULL suffix not adding suffix rules pre-everything:@ = pre-everything pre-everything:* = pre-everything Examining pre-everything...non-existent...non-existent and no sources...out-of-date. pre-everything:? = pre-everything: = true This account is currently not available. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsupit. If that's not enough info and someone's willing to help, I can provide the full output. I just thought the full output would be too long to post here. I'm running FreeBSD 4.5 if that matters. Thanks for any help! Take care, Mike Oliveri [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Details
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Can you help me find a small (old ?) FreeBSD release?
Hi, My name is Dorin Scutarasu. I have an old computer (AMD 80486 DX2 @ 80MHz with 16 MB of RAM) an I want to install FreeBSD on it in a 50 MB partition. Can you help me find a small release that includes all the basic UNIX command line utilities and a compiler maybe? The bin distribution should be about 7-10 MB packed. The smallest release I could find is release 2.2.8 but it's too big so I need an older one. Thank you, Dorin Scutarasu - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying an entire tree
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:35, Dan Strick wrote: No, I hadn't thought of using rsync for a purely local copy. But now that I've tried it, add it to the list of utilities that lose the flags. (I'm particularly interested in preserving the schg and nodump flags.) So far, the only thing I know of that seems to do everything right is cvsup. But it's really a bit cumbersome to set up for a one-time copy. I have another program that might be a bit cumbersome to set up for a one-time copy. You would have to edit a Makefile to specify its installation directory and do make install. Since the program is designed to maintain identical (i.e. with a carefully managed set of differences) branches of file systems on possibly large numbers of different machines, the command syntax can be a bit messy. I routinely use a simple shell front-end to compare and copy file system branches on my machine(s). This program may be overkill. (Note: a command line flag is required to enable special file copies.) If you are desperate and have enough free space in the file system that is to contain the copy (which must not be the file system that contains the original), you could use dump/restore. Since the version of dump that comes with FreeBSD only seems to be willing to dump only entire file systems, you have to copy the whole thing and delete the parts you don't like. If the original and the copy have to be in the same file system or if you don't have enough free space there but you do have enough space somewhere else, you can make an intermediate copy and trim that one down before the final copy. This should work without intermediate storage; just pipe from dump to restore; eg # dump -0 -a -f - filesystem | restore -x -f - selected-tree Of course you need to be in the right place to get thr restore where you want it. Dump/restore is also the only technique I've found to retain the holes in holey files. Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can you help me find a small (old ?) FreeBSD release?
hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:46:40AM -0700, Dorin-Constantin Scutarasu wrote: Hi, My name is Dorin Scutarasu. I have an old computer (AMD 80486 DX2 @ 80MHz with 16 MB of RAM) an I want to install FreeBSD on it in a 50 MB partition. Can you help me find a small release that includes all the basic UNIX command line utilities and a compiler maybe? The bin distribution should be about 7-10 MB packed. The smallest release I could find is release 2.2.8 but it's too big so I need an older one. take a look at http://m0n0.ch/ cheers... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup problems
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network problem. Either the cvsup server, or something between your system and the cvsup server is causing the connection to be terminated. Kris ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature hmmm... to answer the other message, i've tried serveral servers, but they all give the same error. maybe i should take a look at adelphia and see what they have to say... what say you? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Problems
Does anyone know what this command, route delete default, did? After using it the box reboots but will not go online so I can log in remotely as this is not an on premise box. I need to tell the tech's what I need done in order to repair it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. From: Nils Vogels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP Problems Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 01:20:12 +0200 On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Ben Dover (BD) wrote: BD OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than BD what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and BD when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: BD arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: host is not on local network I've had the same message multiple times when my default route would be equal to the IP number of an interface of the box on a 4.8-REL box. For instance: Interface xl0 has IP address 192.168.2.2/24 configured on it locally Interface rl0 has IP address 10.0.5.1/24 configured on it locally The default route of the box is set to 192.168.2.2 This would cause a loop displaying the exact error message on the console, and the box would become dead slow. This for me was solved by simply typing: route delete default HTH HAND -- Simple guidelines to happiness: Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken and dance like no one can see you. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] HERE IS THE ORIGINAL POSTING OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: host is not on local network This peaked my curiosity so I pinged the bank of IP's I have in the range of that IP and I was able to ping them with a response. Something quick I can do to test to see if the IP will bind is compile an IRC bouncer. I found the bouncer would not bind to the IP 66.246.xx.185 as a normal account user and the bouncer would not function. If I SU to root and start the bouncer the IP would bind and the bouncer would function correctly. It should be noted that the bouncer was compiled as the normal account user. I have two different sets of IP's on my box and I have added them in the rc.conf in the following way: ifconfig_sis0_alias10=inet 209.123.xx.200 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig_sis0_alias11=inet 66.246.xx.185 netmask 255.255.255.255 Do I have the IP's added wrong in rc.conf? What am I doing wrong? Why do I receive the dmesg which appears to be an error? Any assistance would be appreciated. _ MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup and restore advise sought
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:57:35AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: 1. I'm concerned that the FBSD partition names will change. i.e., / was ad0s3a may now become ad1s3a and so on. Yes, this will happen, but not in the way you've shown: ad0s3a is the first partition (a) on the 3rd slice (s3) of the primary master disk (ad0). ad1s3a is on the primary slave drive (ad1). What you should probably see is the current partitions are ad0s1a, ad0s1b, etc. And when you swap your FreeBSD and Windows slices, that should change to: ad0s2a, ad0s2b, etc. I recommend that when you copy the partitions, edit the /etc/fstab file and put in the new device names before you copy. Preferably restore the original fstab, and test that you can reboot using the new slices before you install WinME over the original FreeBSD slice. Thank you. I'm hoping this will be faster than reinstall and I'll learn something to boot! 4. Is there a better way? I remember reading about an OpenBSD ghost for Unix. As far as I know, all of the Unix ghost programs are essentially scripts build around dump and restore. While eagerly awaiting your response, I did some more googling on unix ghost programs. NetBSD has a floppy-based program called g4u that appears to use dd then sends compressed image to network ftp server. I might use that as a back-up in case anything goes wrong with plan A. Thanks again for you help. -- Regards, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with fxp0: MII without any PHY
Hi, I'm having problems with my Intel Pro/100 onboard LAN (fxp(4) driver). It used to work just fine, but after I installed two rl(4) based NICs it stopped working, even after I removed the other NICs. I get this in dmesg: # dmesg | grep fxp fxp0: Intel Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x78c0-0x78ff mem 0xfebff000-0xfebf irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci1 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:06:29:5b:c8:79 fxp0: MII without any PHY! device_probe_and_attach: fxp0 attach returned 6 Is this a problem with the driver? Or is it some hardware problem? I don't know enough about the ethernet NIC driver structure (fxp / mii / phy) to understand exactly what's wrong. Thanks in advance for any input, Daniel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MozillaFirebird and Java
Hi, I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've installed both MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java enabled pages mozilla still doesn't use it. Get nag about needing application/x-java-vm. I don't see anything in the options that allows me to specify the exact path to Java. Wild guess, do I need to symbolic link the default Mozilla java location to /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/bin/java? or is there something else? Help. Much appreciated, Phil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clamav port not compiling properly
Hi When I have tried to install the port /usr/ports/security/clamav I get the following error: cc -O -pipe -march=pentium -o .libs/clamdscan options.o clamdscan.o client.o ../clamscan/getopt.o ../clamscan/others.o ./clamd/cfgfile.o -L/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60/libclamav /usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60/libclamav/.libs/libclamav.so -lz -lbz2 -lc_r -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libc.so: WARNING! setkey(3) not present in the system! /usr/lib/libc.so: warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe. /usr/lib/libc.so: warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp() /usr/lib/libc.so: WARNING! des_setkey(3) not present in the system! /usr/lib/libc.so: WARNING! encrypt(3) not present in the system! /usr/lib/libc.so: warning: tmpnam() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp() /usr/lib/libc.so: warning: this program uses f_prealloc(), which is not recommended. /usr/lib/libc.so: WARNING! des_cipher(3) not present in the system! /usr/lib/libc.so: warning: tempnam() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp() creating clamdscan gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60/clamdscan' Making all in clamav-milter gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60/clamav-milter' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60/clamav-milter' Making all in etc gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60/etc' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60/etc' gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav/work/clamav-0.60' kursk# Have you got any ideas? If I do a locate setket I get: kursk# locate setkey /usr/sbin/setkey /usr/share/man/cat3/des_setkey.3.gz /usr/share/man/cat3/setkey.3.gz /usr/share/man/cat8/setkey.8.gz /usr/share/man/man3/des_setkey.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/setkey.3.gz /usr/share/man/man8/setkey.8.gz kursk# So it looks like it is installed. I am running the following version of FreeBSD kursk# uname -a FreeBSD kursk.gdmckee.home 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #11: Fri Apr 4 14:57:05 BST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GDMCKEE i386 kursk# Thanks in advance Gordon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MozillaFirebird and Java
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've installed both MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java enabled pages mozilla still doesn't use it. Get nag about needing application/x-java-vm. I don't see anything in the options that allows me to specify the exact path to Java. Wild guess, do I need to symbolic link the default Mozilla java location to /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/bin/java? or is there something else? What you need is the java plugin -- it's a loadable object that adds java capabilities to Netscape, Mozilla and (I think) Mozilla derived browsers like Firebird. The plugin is a standard part of the JDK, except that the FreeBSD build of the plugin is disabled for JDK14 -- no one has committed patches to the code to allow it to build correctly on FreeBSD. To make this work, either install JDK13 (which will sit quite happily alongside JDK14), or go for one of the Linux versions of JDK14 and install a linux version of Firebird. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MozillaFirebird and Java
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I sitll only have 1.3.1, but do you have a similar link in your browser_plugins directory? /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so Joey On August 22, 2003 09:59, Philip Payne wrote: Hi, I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've installed both MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java enabled pages mozilla still doesn't use it. Get nag about needing application/x-java-vm. I don't see anything in the options that allows me to specify the exact path to Java. Wild guess, do I need to symbolic link the default Mozilla java location to /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/bin/java? or is there something else? Help. Much appreciated, Phil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Rhm+0NQPEWppBZsRAqYyAKCuHgM0blLLTozPEg270dFbOaKqVQCg3lyW E7cf4lrggEHwv2XCm5FRXL0= =8tVM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MozillaFirebird and Java
I have exactly the same problem : I have installed the JDK of SUN (v 1.3.1) for my OpenOffice. I have the following link for Mozilla : /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so@ - /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so But it doesn't work. [ On Fri, 22 Aug, 2003 at 10:25, Joey Mingrone wrote: ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I sitll only have 1.3.1, but do you have a similar link in your browser_plugins directory? /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so Joey On August 22, 2003 09:59, Philip Payne wrote: Hi, I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've installed both MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java enabled pages mozilla still doesn't use it. Get nag about needing application/x-java-vm. I don't see anything in the options that allows me to specify the exact path to Java. Wild guess, do I need to symbolic link the default Mozilla java location to /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/bin/java? or is there something else? Help. Much appreciated, Phil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Rhm+0NQPEWppBZsRAqYyAKCuHgM0blLLTozPEg270dFbOaKqVQCg3lyW E7cf4lrggEHwv2XCm5FRXL0= =8tVM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ End of original mail from Joey Mingrone ] -- No guts No glory =] PASSELAC Armand [= ( @ @ ) Ingenieur Systemes-Reseaux Securite ORBYTES INGENIERIE ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MozillaFirebird and Java
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: I thought I would've been the millionth person to ask this but I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything so feel free to tell me to RTF relevant article. Can someone help me setup Java MozillaFirebird? I've installed both MozillaFirebird and JDK14 from ports but on java enabled pages mozilla still doesn't use it. Get nag about needing application/x-java-vm. I don't see anything in the options that allows me to specify the exact path to Java. Wild guess, do I need to symbolic link the default Mozilla java location to /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/bin/java? or is there something else? What you need is the java plugin -- it's a loadable object that adds java capabilities to Netscape, Mozilla and (I think) Mozilla derived browsers like Firebird. The plugin is a standard part of the JDK, except that the FreeBSD build of the plugin is disabled for JDK14 -- no one has committed patches to the code to allow it to build correctly on FreeBSD. To make this work, either install JDK13 (which will sit quite happily alongside JDK14), or go for one of the Linux versions of JDK14 and install a linux version of Firebird. Thanks... makes sense. I'll install JDK13. Cheers, Phil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions
KONDOU, Kazuhiro wrote: do you want to make mod_perl with Perl 5.[68] on 5.x system? you must rewrite PERL5/PERL5/PERL_VERSION/PERL_VER in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and rebuild mod_perl with portupgrade -f. /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk doesn't look like anything I want to mess with: it reads like it has the No User Serviceable Parts Inside label. if you execute cvsup/cvsync. these programs discards your changes. if you want to save your changes in bsd.port.mk, i recommend to use 'cvs up' from anonymous CVS repo. to sync ports tree. more easy way, use 5.x system. :) Well, I'm not ready for that yet. This is a production system for me, and I'm not tackling the 5.x learning curve just yet. People have been running mod_perl on 4.x systems, so there must be a way. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nVidia nForce2 chipset and on-board ethernet
Over the past few months, there have been a handful of posts on freebsd-net regarding the lack of support in FreeBSD for on-board ethernet interfaces using the nVidia nForce2 chipset. I have currently a network-impared machine with an Asus A7N8X motherboard, which uses this chipset, with FBSD 5.1-RELEASE installed. In one exchange on freebsd-net, Mr. Bill Paul requested information from other users (which I was glad to provide) that he could pool together in order to justify a demand for related drivers. He indicated that the response was great, but I've not since noticed any further report of results and was wondering if it had gotten anywhere (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/001016.html) . I've posted my question on freebsd-net without gaining a response. Asus support is basically useless when it comes to BSD, and nVidia offers FreeBSD drivers only for graphic chipsets, although they _do_ offer a unified driver for Linux. I wonder if anyone has acheived any success with this unified driver, either in porting it or with Linux emulation. I'd love to get this box on the network and on the 'Net with FreeBSD, without adding another NIC interface, which would affect the other OSes I have multi-booting on this particular box (and which support this interface without trouble). Any updates on drivers, patches, or work-arounds would be most welcome. Thanks, ~John __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logitech usb camera driver and setup howto
Hey folks, New to freebsd and it's architecture, i would like to know if there is any howto ( rtfm) for setting up a logitech webcam. Apparently the device has been recognized as ugen0. I just need a link or a howto. I will the rest. I did not find any clear howto and i suppose i am missing something crucial. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How create /dev/apm* ???
This is better suited towards freebsd-questions, so I'm going to copy this to that list. It is my understanding that ACPI depreciates APM, and that APM was mainly used in the 4.x branch. If anyone is the wiser, please correct me. -- Eric - Original Message - From: Armand Passelac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:10 AM Subject: How create /dev/apm* ??? Hi, I have installed a FreeBSD 5.1 on my Laptop (Compaq Armada E500). I have a problem with the power management : - I can't use the ACPI module : the kernel can't be loaded. OK no problem ! As I saw within many FAQs, it's normal (it depends on the type of the laptop). - I would like to use APM so ! I realize the following stages (see http://freebsd.unixtech.be/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/x61.html) : * I build my kernel with device apm * /boot/device.hints : hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 #hw.acpi.ec.event_driven=1 hint.apm.0.disabled=0 hint.apm.0.flags=0x20 * /boot/loader.conf : apm_load=YES * /etc/rc.conf apm_enable=YES But during the boot I get an error : can't open /dev/apm Indeed, there is no device with apm* name within /dev How can I create this device (In the freebsd-questions list somebody tails me that's not possible with 5.X there is no possibility to use a kind of makedev). Thanks a lot. -- No guts No glory =] PASSELAC Armand [= ( @ @ ) Ingenieur Systemes-Reseaux Securite ORBYTES INGENIERIE ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logitech usb camera driver and setup howto
jens, As far as I know there is no current running application or device driver for the USB Camera from Logitech. They (Logitech) have not been forthcoming with their support for other operating systems then the usual. The SDK's are for Win32 systems and don't really help too much besides give you some possible ioctl() calls... ugen# is the generic device driver for USB and picks up the wording Logitech Camera from the device using general USB commands. I also believe that the traditional Linux stuff runs on FreeBSD in this case does not apply, at least for me... I am working on a driver but have been very frustrated with the lack of Logitech's support and information crucial to interfacing with this device. If someone has already cut code or is willing to work with me or me with them please let me know. R. On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, jens wrote: Hey folks, New to freebsd and it's architecture, i would like to know if there is any howto ( rtfm) for setting up a logitech webcam. Apparently the device has been recognized as ugen0. I just need a link or a howto. I will the rest. I did not find any clear howto and i suppose i am missing something crucial. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How create /dev/apm* ???
[ On Fri, 22 Aug, 2003 at 9:22, Eric wrote: ] This is better suited towards freebsd-questions, so I'm going to copy this to that list. In freebsd-questions or freebsd-current ??? As somebody point the mistake out to me : I'm working on 5.1 which is the current. So I have just posted this question in freebsd-current. That's good or not ? It is my understanding that ACPI depreciates APM, and that APM was mainly used in the 4.x branch. If anyone is the wiser, please correct me. I'm newcomer on freebsd (before I work several years on Linux). I have no personal preference between ACPI and APM. ACPI is more recent and more powerfull than APM. But with some kind of BIOS the ACPI using, it seems to be impossible. So I try to use APM. APM seems to be usable on FreeBSD 5.X. The HandBook explains how to use it. But I have always a problem. -- Eric - Original Message - From: Armand Passelac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:10 AM Subject: How create /dev/apm* ??? Hi, I have installed a FreeBSD 5.1 on my Laptop (Compaq Armada E500). I have a problem with the power management : - I can't use the ACPI module : the kernel can't be loaded. OK no problem ! As I saw within many FAQs, it's normal (it depends on the type of the laptop). - I would like to use APM so ! I realize the following stages (see http://freebsd.unixtech.be/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/x61.html) : * I build my kernel with device apm * /boot/device.hints : hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 #hw.acpi.ec.event_driven=1 hint.apm.0.disabled=0 hint.apm.0.flags=0x20 * /boot/loader.conf : apm_load=YES * /etc/rc.conf apm_enable=YES But during the boot I get an error : can't open /dev/apm Indeed, there is no device with apm* name within /dev How can I create this device (In the freebsd-questions list somebody tails me that's not possible with 5.X there is no possibility to use a kind of makedev). Thanks a lot. -- No guts No glory =] PASSELAC Armand [= ( @ @ ) Ingenieur Systemes-Reseaux Securite ORBYTES INGENIERIE ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ End of original mail from Eric ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Embedded epiphany
Hi all, I have 2 servers runnig freebsd 4.8, however the other server is running freebsd on a 256MB flashcard. I installed epiphany from ports on the first server, and I need to know how can I copy all the necessary files over to the flashcard. I used ldd epiphany-bin to get all required libraries, but it seems i'm missing more files. I'm running wmaker. These are the error when I run epiphany (epiphany-bin:1989): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 729 (gdk_pix f_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1510 (gtk_icon_se new_from_pixbuf): assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 192 (gtk_icon_fac ry_add): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1551 (gtk_icon_se unref): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1337 (g_object_ ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 729 (gdk_pix f_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1510 (gtk_icon_se new_from_pixbuf): assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 192 (gtk_icon_fac ry_add): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1551 (gtk_icon_se unref): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1337 (g_object_ ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** (epiphany-bin:1989): WARNING **: Could not get the chrome registry! (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktypeutils.c: line 42 (gtk_type_unique assertion `GTK_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (parent_type)' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktypeutils.c: line 99 (gtk_type_new): sertion `GTK_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (type)' failed ** (epiphany-bin:1989): WARNING **: Failed to get singleton embed object! (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_ nnect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MozillaFirebird and Java
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Philip Payne wrote: What you need is the java plugin -- it's a loadable object that adds java capabilities to Netscape, Mozilla and (I think) Mozilla derived browsers like Firebird. The plugin is a standard part of the JDK, except that the FreeBSD build of the plugin is disabled for JDK14 -- no one has committed patches to the code to allow it to build correctly on FreeBSD. To make this work, either install JDK13 (which will sit quite happily alongside JDK14), or go for one of the Linux versions of JDK14 and install a linux version of Firebird. Just FYI to the list. I can confirm installing JDK13 instead of JDK14 allows MozillaFirebird to use java. Thanks, Phil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba 2.2.8 vs 2.2.8a on 4.8 Release
Hi all, In the process of debugging my SAMBA installation, I discovered I've compiled SAMBA v 2.2.8a on my 4.8 RELEASE box. The 2.2.8a is listed in the ports collection as being for 4.8 STABLE, while 2.2.8 is for RELEASE. Should I uninstall and make the 2.2.8 or just leave things as they are? [I know I should upgrade to STABLE but that has to wait a bit] Thanks, Roy __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't build kernel with 4GB of memory (MAXDSIZE)
Mike Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't seem to get a new kernel working with increased memory parameters: I tried adding the following to my KERNCONF: options MAXDSIZ=(4096UL*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(2048UL*1024*1024) On 5-current (as of about 6 months ago) this produced an ungraceful init.conf bomb-out. I tried again yesterday with a 4.8 box uname -a FreeBSD mynewserver.net.berkeley.edu 4.8-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p3 #1: Tue Aug 19 14:24:09 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/raeu i386 (cvsup'd some time after August 11) It gave me a similar but slightly more graceful bomb-out I'm not going anywhere without my init!\n\nRebooting in 15 seconds) So, I think I'm missing something here :) The machine in question has 4GB of ram, and I'd like to be able to use all of it for some nasty number-crunching I'm trying to do. Any suggestions? I'm sorry, but you need to leave some space for the kernel and its data structures. I'm not sure how close to the edge you can tune it, but much beyond 3GB or so will probably need some real hacker knowledge... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changed root alias/unusual system events
Redmond Militante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all i have a general question, probably no big deal. a while ago, i edited /etc/aliases and did 'new aliases', so that root's email account now points to one of my email accounts - i have logcheck set up as a cron job every fifteen minutes to notify me of unusual system events. ever since this happened, the great majority of emails to root have looked like -- Subject: my.hostname.com 08/19/03:14.00 system check X-UIDL: 4%\!![P/!lU=!!4=N!! Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Aug 19 13:45:01 chronicle sm-mta[28345]: h7JIj1ZT028345: +from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=1061, class=0, nrcpts=1, +msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, +daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Aug 19 13:45:01 chronicle sm-mta[28346]: h7JIj1ZT028345: [EMAIL PROTECTED], +ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, +mailer=esmtp, pri=31400, relay=relay.my.mailserver [111.222.333.444], dsn=2.0.0, +stat=Sent (Mail accepted) -- can someone interpret this message for me? i'm guessing that it's telling me that it just forwarded root's mail to my regular email account, which would be normal behavior, but i'm not sure... That's sure what it looks like. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cvsup script question
Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm cvsup'ing from a script in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily. Here 'tis: #!/usr/local/bin/bash Echo Echo Output of cvsup: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile Echo Echo Output of portsdb: /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu Echo Echo Output of portversion: /usr/local/sbin/portversion It works, but (1) produces a ton of output, (2) I'm seeing a lot of lines in the output of portsdb that say, (some port) non-existent, dependency list incomplete. Are those lines in the output of portsdb coming from STDOUT or STDERR, or are they completely normal? How about we alter the script as follows to keep the output down a little? #!/usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 0 /etc/cvsupfile # Keep quiet except for errors /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu /dev/null # Hopefully, show only errors Echo Echo Updated ports: /usr/local/sbin/portversion | grep # Show only changed ports Will these changes break anything? No. If in doubt, redirect to files instead of to /dev/null. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: about using dd command to copy hard drives
I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series I know that dd is good at copying block devices when they are at identical sizes. But if they're different sizes will it copy correctly? If you are copying to a bigger disk you can make it work. But, for what you seem to want to do, it is not the best way. I want to copy my entire freebsd hard disk which is 6 GB to a new hard disk at 20 GB. I read the man pages but still can't understand it. I'm only a user not a programmer nor sys admin. If you have any comments or suggestions, I would surely appreciate it. First of all, you are right. The man page entries are not helpful, especially the one for fdisk. It doesn't even document all of its switches and parameters!! You have to get some of that by reading the examples in the disklabel man page and guessing. But, it is eventually possible to do it. Two things you didn't mention are if the old 6 GB disk is you system/boot disk or not and how the old disk is divided in to partitions or if it is just one big filesystem. Also, does the new disk need to become the boot disk? NOTE: You can do the fdisk/disklabel/newfs stuff via /stand/sysinstall and it works pretty well and painlessly, especially if you intend to use the whole disk for FreeBSD. But then you wouldn't have the thrill of learning to use fdisk/disklabel/newfs and really they work very well. The documentation is just garbled. What you want to do is fdisk to create one slice on the whole disk, partition with disklabel, newfs in each partition (except swap) and then use dump/restore to copy the filesystems from the old to the new disk. At this point you could change Lets say for example you are doing this to a - SCSI disk and that - it is the second disk (da1) and you intend to - move it in to the first position after you are done and boot from it. - Finally, assume that you intend to have partitions for root, swap, /tmp and /home. You may have filesystems divided up differently, but the process is exactly the same - just with different numbers and names. fdisk -BI -v -b /boot/mbr da1/makes one large FreeBSD slice/ disklabel -r -e -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 da1s1 Edit the disklabel so it looks something like: Adjust sizes to suit you. Leave all the header stuff as is. Don't worry about fsize bsize, etc 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 104857604.2BSD 1024 8192 22 # (Cyl.0 - 65*) b: 2097152*swap c:*0unused 0 0 # (Cyl.0 - 2212*) e: 1048576*4.2BSD f:**4.2BSD This gives a 512 MG root, 1GB swap, 512 /tmp and all the rest to /home newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/da1s1a( / (root) partition ) newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/da1s1e( /tmp partition ) newfs -b 16384 -f 2048 -i 2048 /dev/da1s1f ( /home partition ) Fix up your /etc/fstab to add the following # Disk da1 /dev/da1s1a /newroot ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da1s1f /newhome ufs rw 2 2 fsck the new filesystems (just to be thorough) fsck -f /newroot fsck -f /newhome Mount the new files systems mount /newroot mount /newhome Now do the dump and restore to copy the file systems. Again, this presumes you have this current disk structure - eg essentially a root and home directory. (/tmp and swap) don't have to be moved) If you have more partitions/filesystems you will have to adjust the disklabel edit, add appropriate newfs-s, add more fstab entries and do the additional dump/restores. cd /newroot dump -0f - / | restore -xf - This will take a while cd /newhome dump -0f - /home | restore -xf - This may take even longer Make sure the /etc/fstab on the new disk is right, do: vi /newroot/etc/fstab It needs to have mounts for: # Disk da0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0s1b none swapsw 0 0 /dev/da0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da0s1f /home ufs rw,userquota2 2 # Disk da1 # /dev/da1s1a /newroot ufs rw 2 2 # /dev/da1s1f /newhome ufs rw 2 2 Comment out or delete the lines added for /newhome and /newroot When it is all done, shut down, switch the drives and reboot. jerry Thanks David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: mbuf clusters exhausted
Andreas Widerøe Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What can I do to get rid of these problems? I think you need to pay attention to the messages: All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7). You are hitting very large network buffer usage at some point during the day -- much larger than your average use. You need to allocate more mbufs or figure out why you need so many resources at once. Or, preferably, both. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba 2.2.8 vs 2.2.8a on 4.8 Release
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:24:51AM -0700, RA Cohen wrote: Hi all, In the process of debugging my SAMBA installation, I discovered I've compiled SAMBA v 2.2.8a on my 4.8 RELEASE box. The 2.2.8a is listed in the ports collection as being for 4.8 STABLE, while 2.2.8 is for RELEASE. Should I uninstall and make the 2.2.8 or just leave things as they are? [I know I should upgrade to STABLE but that has to wait a bit] The ports collection and the base system aren't that closely tied. Ports getupdated as and when their authors release new versions and their maintainers update the port to include that new code. The RELENG_x_y tags in the ports CVS tree just mark the state of the tree at the time the release was made -- hence, they show exactly what versions of ported or packaged code went onto disks 3 and 4 or the release set. To reiterate: the RELENG_x_y tags don't indicate the version that you *should* run on a particular release, just the version that was *available* at the time the release was made. If an update to the port has become available since the OS release, then you can certainly upgrade to it, and in many cases you clearly should upgrade as it may fix security or other bugs. Ports are intended to compile and work on any supported version of the OS (at the moment 4.7-RELEASE, 4.8-RELEASE, 4.8-STABLE, 5.1-RELEASE, 5-CURRENT, although a few ports won't work on all those versions for various reasons) Ports will quite often compile/work on just about any version of the OS. Similarly the packages built from ports should work on any version with a compatible set of shared libraries, although all things being equal, the packages tend to work best on the suported OS versions. Hence packages built for 4-STABLE should work on any 4.x version since about 4.4-RELEASE, and packages built for recent 5.x should work on any 5-CURRENT or 5.x-RELEASE -- 5-CURRENT is a far more elusive target than 4.x at the moment, due to some fairly large scale ongoing work, and portability isn't necessarily up to the usual high standard. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Embedded epiphany
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have 2 servers runnig freebsd 4.8, however the other server is running freebsd on a 256MB flashcard. I installed epiphany from ports on the first server, and I need to know how can I copy all the necessary files over to the flashcard. I used ldd epiphany-bin to get all required libraries, but it seems i'm missing more files. I'm running wmaker. Do a make package-depends for epiphany, then make packages for all the dependencies, and install them on your FlashCard. Optionally, you can go through all the pkg-plist's of the dependencies, and copy all the files by hand. There are too many to list here. Joe These are the error when I run epiphany (epiphany-bin:1989): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 729 (gdk_pix f_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1510 (gtk_icon_se new_from_pixbuf): assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 192 (gtk_icon_fac ry_add): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1551 (gtk_icon_se unref): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1337 (g_object_ ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 729 (gdk_pix f_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1510 (gtk_icon_se new_from_pixbuf): assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 192 (gtk_icon_fac ry_add): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkiconfactory.c: line 1551 (gtk_icon_se unref): assertion `icon_set != NULL' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1337 (g_object_ ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** (epiphany-bin:1989): WARNING **: Could not get the chrome registry! (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktypeutils.c: line 42 (gtk_type_unique assertion `GTK_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (parent_type)' failed (epiphany-bin:1989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktypeutils.c: line 99 (gtk_type_new): sertion `GTK_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (type)' failed ** (epiphany-bin:1989): WARNING **: Failed to get singleton embed object! (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (epiphany-bin:1989): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_ nnect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: PCM on my laptop is broken
Chipp Zanuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problem with my laptop;it freezes/crashes on BOOT when I compile device pcm into the kernel. I tried loading snd_pcm, but nothign happens. kldstat shows snd_pcm, but no entries in /dev also, there aren;t any messages in /var/logs/messages when i kldload the sound module. i tried inserting snd_neomagic_load=YES into loader.conf but that only nets the same result as if i compiled device pcm in the kernel. yes, sound does exist. it is a neomagic sound chip. 256AV. sound detection is where it freezes at in the broken kernel. I read the sound documetation, (no help), posted the problem on a few forums (no help). Maybe someone here is better? Sounds like you're running 5.x. If so, the -CURRENT list is the place to go. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I subnetting my network ?
Supote Leelasupphakorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I will assign public IP address to all interfaces, is it neccessary that I must inform the upstream router's administrator to add my subnet in routing table of upstream router ? Yes; if you actually own your own subnet and the upstream administrator will agree to route it at all. If not, you'll need NAT. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Problems
Does anyone know what this command, route delete default, did? After using it the box reboots but will not go online so I can log in remotely as this is not an on premise box. I need to tell the tech's what I need done in order to repair it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. It's not related to this problem, but using 5.x for a remotely located box is a really bad idea. Stick with production releases for that purpose. Deleting the default route from the command line like that should not have any remaining effect after a reboot. Something else is probably wrong, and you need more information. HERE IS THE ORIGINAL POSTING OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: host is not on local network This peaked my curiosity so I pinged the bank of IP's I have in the range of that IP and I was able to ping them with a response. Something quick I can do to test to see if the IP will bind is compile an IRC bouncer. I found the bouncer would not bind to the IP 66.246.xx.185 as a normal account user and the bouncer would not function. If I SU to root and start the bouncer the IP would bind and the bouncer would function correctly. It should be noted that the bouncer was compiled as the normal account user. I have two different sets of IP's on my box and I have added them in the rc.conf in the following way: ifconfig_sis0_alias10=inet 209.123.xx.200 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig_sis0_alias11=inet 66.246.xx.185 netmask 255.255.255.255 Do I have the IP's added wrong in rc.conf? What am I doing wrong? Why do I receive the dmesg which appears to be an error? Any assistance would be appreciated. You probably have the aliases added wrong, but we can't know without knowing what you *do* have configured for your primary addresses, and what the networks connected are supposed to be. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient denied
Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I posted about this a while ago, but I haven't been able to
find the cause. I'm getting the following message:
Aug 21 13:00:03 kongemord dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied
DHCP seems to work fine; I'm getting and maintaining DHCP leases
properly. But these messages are filling up my messages file and
causing my curiosity to drive me crazy. I initially thought that
my firewall was blocking DHCP packets, but I've tried various ipfw
rule changes, including some suggested here, with no effect. My
current DHCP rules are:
${fwcmd} add allow udp from any bootps to any bootps keep-state out via
${oif}
${fwcmd} add allow udp from any 68 to 255.255.255.255 67 keep-state out
via ${oif}
I know the second line is redundent. I was grasping at straws when I
put it in.
They're not redundant. 67 is bootps and 68 is bootpc. Furthermore,
not all DHCP messages go out to the IP broadcast address.
Generally, a failed connection attempt generates a message with
the IP address and port at each end. This message doesn't have that,
so that and the failure of firewall changes to end the message make
me think that the blocked packets aren't getting as far as the firewall.
Does anybody have any idea what is causing this?
You don't get IP addresses listed when you don't have one yet.
I'd recommend trying something like this for your DHCP support:
$fwcmd add pass udp from any to any bootps keep-state out xmit ${oif}
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Cron job question
I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here? X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root X-Cron-Env: USER=root Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:05:00 +0200 (CEST) root: not found Thanks! Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:00:33PM +, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:58, stan wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:16:15PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:09, stan wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:01, stan wrote: I'm trying to get Gnome 2 up and running on a TABLE machine. I've built the gnome2 port, and I'm getting gdm2 as a login screen. I'm able to log in as a normal user. But when I change something. it thinks it's changing roots Gnome config. And indeed all changes I make are affecting all users. What changes? There are a lot of configurable options in GNOME. Care to narrow it down a bit? additions to the panel. Additions to the panel (like adding a launcher) only affect the current user. I've tested this. The only difference would be if you're running as root. Then, you can actually edit the /usr/X11R6/share/gnome space, and you could make global panel changes. You may want to verify you haven't set anything setuid to root, you're not actually logged in as root, and you don't have any write permissions under /usr/X11R6/share/gnome. We agree that is how things _should_ be. However it's not how things _are_ on this box. Actually I just started checking around, and when I log in as myself (non root account), I have now found that if I bring up a terminal, and type who am i the answer is _root_!. So perhapsh this is a gdm bug? What version of gdm do you have installed? Are you using the default configuration? I use gdm on all my GNOME 2 machines (4 in all), and I have never seen this problem. Did you setuid root any of your gdm binaries? I decided to rebuld gdm. When the rebuild was finished, I noticed a note telling me _NOT_ to run gdm from /etc/ttys, but instead to use the supplied shell script in /usr/X11R6/etc/init.d. I had missed this on the rebuild to switch from Gnome 1 to 2. So I did as instructed, which fixed the problme. Thanks for the help on this. I must say this seems like a reather huge security hole! -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron job question
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:18:16PM +0200, Rick Hoekman wrote: I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here? X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root X-Cron-Env: USER=root Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:05:00 +0200 (CEST) root: not found You've made the classic mistake of confusing the system crontab (/etc/crontab) and the user specific crontabs that live in /var/cron/tabs. These are quite different files. The system crontab /etc/crontab is not user specific: thus it has an extra column defining which user ID the command should be run as. In general you shouldn't need to touch this file at all -- it's where standard stuff like the 'at' queue, newsyslog and the daily/weekly/monthly periodic functions are run from. If you must alter this file, just edit it directly: cron(8) will pick up the changes in a minute or so. In particular you do not need to use crontab(1) to manage this file. The per-user crontabs are what you would expect if you're familiar with the SysV or Linux style cron(8) daemon. Each user has their own crontab file, which is managed using the crontab(1) command. In general it's a good policy to use the per-user crontab stuff to add any new cron jobs for any user (including root) and leave the system /etc/crontab in it's default state. The error you're seeing suggests to me that what you've done is run crontab(1) on /etc/crontab, and the extra column containing the userid is being interpreted as a command that cron should run. However, there is no command 'root', hence the error message. To fix, make sute that /etc/crontab contains the default contents by copying over /usr/src/etc/crontab or running mergemaster(1). Backup and delete the root crontab you've generated: # crontab -l -u root /tmp/root.crontab # crontab -r -u root Now, if root.crontab contains substantively the same as /etc/crontab, you're done. Otherwise, if you need to add some extra root cron jobs, edit /tmp/root.crontab to strip out the default stuff, leaving only you extra jobs. Don't put a username in column 6 of the file: rather that should be the last column and contain the command to run, as per crontab(5). Once edited to your liking load the new crontab file into the system: # vi /tmp/root.crontab # crontab -u root /tmp/root.crontab Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re[2]: Cron job question
Hello Matthew, Thank you for taking the time explaining it to me! Rick Friday, August 22, 2003, 7:41:59 PM, you wrote: MS On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:18:16PM +0200, Rick Hoekman wrote: I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here? X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root X-Cron-Env: USER=root Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:05:00 +0200 (CEST) root: not found MS You've made the classic mistake of confusing the system crontab MS (/etc/crontab) and the user specific crontabs that live in MS /var/cron/tabs. These are quite different files. MS The system crontab /etc/crontab is not user specific: thus it has an MS extra column defining which user ID the command should be run as. In MS general you shouldn't need to touch this file at all -- it's where MS standard stuff like the 'at' queue, newsyslog and the MS daily/weekly/monthly periodic functions are run from. If you must MS alter this file, just edit it directly: cron(8) will pick up the MS changes in a minute or so. In particular you do not need to use MS crontab(1) to manage this file. MS The per-user crontabs are what you would expect if you're familiar MS with the SysV or Linux style cron(8) daemon. Each user has their own MS crontab file, which is managed using the crontab(1) command. In MS general it's a good policy to use the per-user crontab stuff to add MS any new cron jobs for any user (including root) and leave the system MS /etc/crontab in it's default state. MS The error you're seeing suggests to me that what you've done is run MS crontab(1) on /etc/crontab, and the extra column containing the userid MS is being interpreted as a command that cron should run. However, MS there is no command 'root', hence the error message. To fix, make MS sute that /etc/crontab contains the default contents by copying over MS /usr/src/etc/crontab or running mergemaster(1). Backup and delete the MS root crontab you've generated: MS # crontab -l -u root /tmp/root.crontab MS # crontab -r -u root MS Now, if root.crontab contains substantively the same as /etc/crontab, MS you're done. Otherwise, if you need to add some extra root cron jobs, MS edit /tmp/root.crontab to strip out the default stuff, leaving only MS you extra jobs. Don't put a username in column 6 of the file: rather MS that should be the last column and contain the command to run, as per MS crontab(5). Once edited to your liking load the new crontab file into MS the system: MS # vi /tmp/root.crontab MS # crontab -u root /tmp/root.crontab MS Cheers, MS Matthew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: My details
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Something rotten in the OS?
Hey All, I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. It looks like this is some kind of overflow This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages. I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some kind of log rotation. I caught the machine a couple of months ago with nearly all the swap used (800meg out of 1 gig) and rebooted which kept the machine happy. I recently noticed the kernel log messages had the config fragments again and was going to to a reboot - but alas too late. The machine is down, HD is damaged and we are trying to get data off the drive... This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. Has anyone seen this before? Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? Should I give up and use Linux? A frustrated sysadmin Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient denied
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:07AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I posted about this a while ago, but I haven't been able to
find the cause. I'm getting the following message:
Aug 21 13:00:03 kongemord dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied
DHCP seems to work fine; I'm getting and maintaining DHCP leases
properly. But these messages are filling up my messages file and
causing my curiosity to drive me crazy. I initially thought that
my firewall was blocking DHCP packets, but I've tried various ipfw
rule changes, including some suggested here, with no effect. My
current DHCP rules are:
${fwcmd} add allow udp from any bootps to any bootps keep-state out via
${oif}
${fwcmd} add allow udp from any 68 to 255.255.255.255 67 keep-state out
via ${oif}
I know the second line is redundent. I was grasping at straws when I
put it in.
They're not redundant. 67 is bootps and 68 is bootpc.
My error.
Furthermore,
not all DHCP messages go out to the IP broadcast address.
Generally, a failed connection attempt generates a message with
the IP address and port at each end. This message doesn't have that,
so that and the failure of firewall changes to end the message make
me think that the blocked packets aren't getting as far as the firewall.
Does anybody have any idea what is causing this?
You don't get IP addresses listed when you don't have one yet.
I have an IP address. I have never received the message at a time
when I didn't have an IP address.
I'd recommend trying something like this for your DHCP support:
$fwcmd add pass udp from any to any bootps keep-state out xmit ${oif}
I tried it and it had no effect. The only difference between out via
and out xmit is that out via checks both incoming and outgoing packets,
while out xmit checks only outgoing. In theory, there may be a difference
between from any bootps and from any, but in practice it has made
no difference in behaviour. I got the same message either way.
Bob Hall
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How can I get sound working on a Compaq EVO n410C
I would swear that Iasked this question, and got an answer a couple of weeks ago. I got sidetrakced from the project of making this machine work, and I can't find in my mail archive for the FreeBSD list what the answer was ;-( Sorry. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I get sound working on a Compaq EVO n410C
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:25:17 -0400
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would swear that Iasked this question, and got an answer a couple of
weeks ago. I got sidetrakced from the project of making this machine
work, and I can't find in my mail archive for the FreeBSD list what
the answer was ;-(
Sorry.
Here it is.. :)
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-July/001302.html
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FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT { 0+02:01:39, 78M/1018M }
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HP Netserver E60, SCSI question...
Hi, I have a netserver with 4.8-stable installed. Whatever I do the freebsd finds my scsi drives as 10mbyte/sn huh... Any suggestions? ahc0: Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xfc10-0xfc100fff irq 5 at device 5.0 on pci0 ahc0: Using left over BIOS settings aic7895C: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs ahc1: Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xfc101000-0xfc101fff irq 5 at device 5.1 on pci0 ahc1: Host Adapter Bios disabled. Using default SCSI device parameters aic7895C: Ultra Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da0: HP 36.4G ST336706LW HP04 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 11.626MB/s transfers (5.813MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 34732MB (71132960 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 34732C) sync tranfer rate mb/sn :40 initiate wide negotiation: yes enable disconnection : yes send start unit command : yes enable writeback cache : n/c ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something rotten in the OS?
On 8/22/03 at 10:13 AM Steve Warwick wrote: ... | |This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it |down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. | |Has anyone seen this before? | |Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? | |Should I give up and use Linux? = I can say based upon my experience that FreeBSD does not need to be rebooted each month. I'll also suggest that you need to provide some more specifics (OS version, hardware, etc.) before you can get the assistance you expect. Whether you should give up and use Linux is a question only you can answer. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NATD Firewall Rules Setup
I'm configuring a firewall (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE). I've got the firewall
locked down as I need it to be but am having issues getting NAT working.
The firewall config file is included below.
Note that if I add the allow all rule to the end of the file NAT works
fine. I'm certain its an IPFW issue but haven't been able to figure it
out--as I'm a bit new to IPFW and FreeBSD, pointers to documentation
(preferably with examples of usage) would be very helpful. I haven't
been able to find a lot of info outside of the Handbook and what I do
find regarding NAT includes three rules: 1) flush, 2) divert, 3) allow
all traffic.
# Internal network variables
iif=rl1
inet=192.168.20.0
iip=192.168.20.2
imask=255.255.255.0
# External network variables
oif=rl0
onet=216.161.174.0
oip=216.161.174.7
omask=255.255.255.0
# Clear current rules
/sbin/ipfw -f flush
# Allow TCP in, if setup succeeded
/sbin/ipfw add pass tcp from any to any established
# Allow all local traffic
/sbin/ipfw add pass all from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1
# Stop spoofing
/sbin/ipfw add deny all from ${inet}:${imask} to any in via ${oif}
/sbin/ipfw add deny all from ${onet}:${omask} to any in via ${iif}
# Stop RFC1918 nets on the external interface
/sbin/ipfw add deny all from 10.0.0.1:255.0.0.0 to any via ${oif}
/sbin/ipfw add deny all from 127.16.0.0:255.240.0.0 to any via ${oif}
/sbin/ipfw add deny all from 192.168.0.0:255.255.0.0 to any via ${oif}
# Allow internal network traffic
/sbin/ipfw add pass all from ${iip} to any
/sbin/ipfw add pass all from ${inet}:${imask} to ${iip}
# Allow NAT traffic out.
/sbin/ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via ${oif}
# Allow setup of SSH connections
/sbin/ipfw add pass tcp from any to ${oip} 22 setup
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Kandalfs useful tips
Where can I get a printer version of Kandalfs tips for Free BSD 5,1 Thank you ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something rotten in the OS?
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. I think that you've just been unlucky in buying two hard drives or whatever which have failed prematurely. I think if there was such a bug in FreeBSD, a lot more people than you would be complaining and heaven and earth would be being moved in order to fix it. It looks like this is some kind of overflow The only time I ever saw something similar, it was a Linux box and one of the onboard chipsets (northbridge, southbridge -- I can never remember which is which) tended to overheat in the particular customized chassis those machine came in. In about 4--5 machines out of 80, the boxes developed a failure mode where the hard drive would be rather scrambled, with portions of one file appearing mixed into other files, and the whole FS garbaged. Swapping out the broken motherboards and fitting a suitable heat-sink sorted out the problem. This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages. I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some kind of log rotation. I caught the machine a couple of months ago with nearly all the swap used (800meg out of 1 gig) and rebooted which kept the machine happy. That can be an indication of a disk on the verge of failure. Were there any other indications? Messages on the console? Unexplained program core dumps? I recently noticed the kernel log messages had the config fragments again and was going to to a reboot - but alas too late. The machine is down, HD is damaged and we are trying to get data off the drive... This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. Has anyone seen this before? Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? Should I give up and use Linux? A frustrated sysadmin Yup. I know the feeling. However, I don't think you can blame FreeBSD for the problem here -- it smells of hardware failure to me. This could certainly be the result of overheating even if you have moved the machine to a better environment. Some hardware is more equally ventilated than others. Heat stress is exactly the sort of thing that can cause a machine to go tits-up after a few months. Another candidate is electrostatic discharge, but unless you're in the habit of opening up the box and working on the innards without using a proper ground strap, that's probably not a concern. Besides, ESD doesn't usually destroy hard drives. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Can not rmdir
Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to remove a directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do that: When I type rmdir -p dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir: dir_name: Directory not empty When I try rmdir -rf dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir: illegal option --r usage: rmdir [-p] directory ... I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with Linux CD magazine Maybe something's wrong with this CD ? Thanks in advance for your answer Edward - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something rotten in the OS?
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: Hey All, I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. It looks like this is some kind of overflow This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages. I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some kind of log rotation. I caught the machine a couple of months ago with nearly all the swap used (800meg out of 1 gig) and rebooted which kept the machine happy. I recently noticed the kernel log messages had the config fragments again and was going to to a reboot - but alas too late. The machine is down, HD is damaged and we are trying to get data off the drive... This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. Has anyone seen this before? Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? FBSD has a growing niche with businesses where a small number of admins manage large numbers of hosts under continuous and heavy use. So no, it usually doesn't have to be re-booted every month. And I doubt the problem is the OS. You haven't said what hardware you're using or what you are using FBSD for. FBSD seems to be more susceptible to having random bits reset by voltage fluctuations than other OSs. That fact that the problem recurred on another machine doesn't rule out hardware problems; I've seen lots of defective desktop machines. If you are moving from one lowest-bidder machine to another, you could easily be moving from one collection of incompatible parts to another. And you haven't said anything about what software you are running or what your are using it for. Some software is more prone to problems than others, your software may be misconfigured in some subtle way, or you may be using it in ways it doesn't like. And finally, every OS has its own unique set of weaknesses, so sometimes you can fix a problem by changing the OS. Whether the new OS is better or worse is irrelevant, as long as it isn't susceptible to the problems that are crashing the current OS. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron job question
cause perusal of the documentation, which is plenty for seeking mind, is not you nature, sir... crontab(1) i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] man 1 crontab I am getting this message every 5 minutes. Can somebody explain to me why root apparently is not found here? X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root X-Cron-Env: USER=root Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:05:00 +0200 (CEST) root: not found Thanks! Rick ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NATD Firewall Rules Setup
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:40:50AM -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: I'm configuring a firewall (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE). I've got the firewall locked down as I need it to be but am having issues getting NAT working. The firewall config file is included below. Note that if I add the allow all rule to the end of the file NAT works fine. I'm certain its an IPFW issue but haven't been able to figure it out--as I'm a bit new to IPFW and FreeBSD, pointers to documentation (preferably with examples of usage) would be very helpful. I haven't been able to find a lot of info outside of the Handbook and what I do find regarding NAT includes three rules: 1) flush, 2) divert, 3) allow all traffic. All NAT does is translate your IP addresses. If it works with the allow all rule, then it works. It's the firewall, not NAT, that you need to adjust. When I set up my current firewall, I ran tcpdump for about a week, saving the output to a (huge) file. Then I analyzed it with nstreams to get an idea of what the traffic was like and what rules were needed. I still needed to do some tweaking; e.g. Windows vs. FBSD traceroute, but nstreams got me 90% of the way there. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something rotten in the OS?
I think that you've just been unlucky in buying two hard drives or whatever which have failed prematurely. I think if there was such a bug in FreeBSD, a lot more people than you would be complaining and heaven and earth would be being moved in order to fix it. I would have to agree that it's probably a heat issue if you're sure the hard drives are made by a good manufacturer. I have had hard drives go with basically the same behavior because they didn't have any air movement around them. Make sure those things are properly ventilated. I doubt VERY seriously that this is a FreeBSD problem. I've been using FreeBSD on all my own machines for roughly 6 years now, and have never seen anything go wrong that wasn't related to bad hardware. FreeBSD is also used in several very busy places such as yahoo.com and sony japan's websites, and I doubt either of those companies would put up with what you're seeing. Basically to sum it up, your hardware is broken and you can be almost totally sure it's not FreeBSD's fault. (I'd suspect overheating damaging ur hd's or other components) Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem running make on ports
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:33:40AM -0500, Charlie ROOT wrote: Hello, I'm having a peculiar problem running make on some ports. I'm getting an error saying: This account is currently not available *** Error code 1 id(1) cannot find your account. Did you accidentally destroy your password file? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Samba 2.2.8 vs 2.2.8a on 4.8 Release
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:52:57PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Ports are intended to compile and work on any supported version of the OS (at the moment 4.7-RELEASE, 4.8-RELEASE, 4.8-STABLE, 5.1-RELEASE, 5-CURRENT, although a few ports won't work on all those versions for various reasons) Ports will quite often compile/work on just about any version of the OS. Not quite..only the most recent release (and later stable/current) is officially supported. It's true that in most cases you can continue to use it successfully on older releases. Similarly the packages built from ports should work on any version with a compatible set of shared libraries, although all things being equal, the packages tend to work best on the suported OS versions. Hence packages built for 4-STABLE should work on any 4.x version since about 4.4-RELEASE, and packages built for recent 5.x should work on any 5-CURRENT or 5.x-RELEASE -- 5-CURRENT is a far more elusive target than 4.x at the moment, due to some fairly large scale ongoing work, and portability isn't necessarily up to the usual high standard. This isn't guaranteed: in many cases (e.g. OpenSSL, ports like lsof that depend on kernel structures, ...) packages built for later releases cannot be run on earlier systems. FreeBSD doesn't provide this kind of forwards compatibility, although it's only occasionally broken. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can not rmdir
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:00:52PM -0700, Edouard Saksonov wrote: Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to remove a directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do that: When I type rmdir -p dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir: dir_name: Directory not empty This is presumably correct. When I try rmdir -rf dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir: illegal option --r usage: rmdir [-p] directory ... This is also correct (rmdir does not have the -r option). I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with Linux CD magazine Maybe something's wrong with this CD ? No, you're just misusing it :-) To remove a directory and all its contents, you want to use rm -r. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Can not rmdir
I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with Linux CD magazine Could you please provide a URL where I can get more information on Linux CD magazine? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not rmdir
On Friday 22 August 2003 14:00, Edouard Saksonov wrote: Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 5.1, everything is fine, but when I wanted to remove a directory(with only one file in it), the system do not want to do that: When I type rmdir -p dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir: dir_name: Directory not empty When I try rmdir -rf dir_name, it gives me as an output : rmdir: illegal option --r usage: rmdir [-p] directory ... And if you don't want it to prompt you, do: rm -rf dir_name Be careful though..this can and will wipe your whole system if you accidentally type: rm -rf / and then tap the enter key :) and yes, I've done it both on purpose to see what happens and not on purpose. The former is kinda cool, the latter makes you say a few choice words. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] `If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.' --Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not rmdir
From: Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edouard Saksonov [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: Can not rmdir And if you don't want it to prompt you, do: rm -rf dir_name Be careful though..this can and will wipe your whole system if you accidentally type: rm -rf / and then tap the enter key :) and yes, I've done it both on purpose to see what happens and not on purpose. The former is kinda cool, the latter makes you say a few choice words. Henrik A few choice words!? You are indeed a mild-tempered gentleman ... ;-) KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not rmdir
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:44:43 -0500 Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.1 from the CD-ROM which comes with Linux CD magazine Could you please provide a URL where I can get more information on Linux CD magazine? http://www.journaux.fr/revue.asp?revue=L4880 http://www.dppresse.com/linuxcd.htm Don't ask me why a french linux magazine promotes FreeBSD 5.1 :) Maybe some day, we'll have a BSD one... clem ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying an entire tree
--On Friday, August 22, 2003 20:17:07 +0930 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dump/restore is also the only technique I've found to retain the holes in holey files. cpio can handle sparse files. I think that was the reason I changed from a tar/tar pipe to a find/cpio pipe as my standard method many years ago. (It's been long enough that I don't remember for certain.) Now, I'll probably use cpdup; since it handles the flags properly. Although, now that you mention it, the docs don't say anything about sparse files; so I may have to be careful which I choose for a given hierarchy... or at least find a test case... -Pat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something rotten in the OS?
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:13:30 -0700 Steve Warwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. More info on this would be handy. Such as what version of FBSD, what file system, and ect. Personally I would the blame somewhere else than FreeBSD. I have only had 3 HD problems with FBSD in the three years I have been using it and all of them have been actual problems with the HD and not FBSD. It looks like this is some kind of overflow What is it doing? Just saying a HD crash does not say much. What type of error messages. This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages. I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some kind of log rotation. More info would be useful. I caught the machine a couple of months ago with nearly all the swap used (800meg out of 1 gig) and rebooted which kept the machine happy. Sounds like a problem with one of the apps on it. I recently noticed the kernel log messages had the config fragments again and was going to to a reboot - but alas too late. The machine is down, HD is damaged and we are trying to get data off the drive... The HD is damaged? That sounds more like a hardware related problem than software. This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. Has anyone seen this before? Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? LOL, no it does not. I have no problem racking up massive uptimes on my rueter which is running BSD. The only time I have to reboot is after making a massive after cvsuping and doing a makeworld and rebuilding the kernel. Should I give up and use Linux? I truely doubt you would get any improvement over BSD from switching to linux. I personally advoid it due the hackishly thrown together nature of most distros and many parts in general. Any ways... it sounds like you have seriously misconfigured something, bad hardware, or some really crappy piece software. The 1st and 2nd thought do not make any sense in the damaged HD, so it would be most likely bad hardware. BTW is you seriously want help, try to provide more info. A frustrated sysadmin Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something rotten in the OS?
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages. I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some kind of log rotation. Someone else mentioned the same problem with dmesg and periodic daily kernel log message output very recently on this list. What the person replied to your original message about this said sounds like the most likely reason for the seemingly garbled output from the daily periodic kern message run. You can get the problem occuring very easily if you have a stack of messages written to the kernel message buffer - say for example you fill up a disk inadvertently (or otherwise) and the kernel constantly complains about 'not enough disk space' to write files. This happened to me just the other day: output from dmesg: pt: file system full pid 83041 (mysqldump), uid 0 on /opt: file system full snip 555 lines snip fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled So what Dan Nelson said to your earlier question here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questionsm=105890452032133w=2 sounds to be correct. I caught the machine a couple of months ago with nearly all the swap used (800meg out of 1 gig) and rebooted which kept the machine happy. In that case you would want to be looking at what is eating away at all your memory using tools like vmstat perhaps or using a graphing utility to keep track of memory over time? I recently noticed the kernel log messages had the config fragments again and was going to to a reboot - but alas too late. The machine is down, HD is damaged and we are trying to get data off the drive... Again I think the 'fragments' issue is probably a side issue. Such 'fragments' can be caused by something as (relatively) harmless as a disk being filled up or a large number of ICMP packets being limited by the kernel for a few minutes. This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. Or just a badly behaved daemon that doesn't handle memory too well...? snip Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? NO! :) Should I give up and use Linux? NO!! :) As you and others have said this kind of thing is very frustrating and I know what it's like. A lot of the time though if you take away all the major services and just revert back to the minimal OS you started out with, things go along fine. It's just hard work figuring out which component is going bad on you - stick with it! :) -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error at start up
I have been able to install freebsd, however, I get this error at boot up: acpi 1287: error: method execution failed, ae_aml_region_limit cbb0: unsupported card type detected Any thoughts, Raine From: Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing from CD-ROM (was Re: your mail) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:43:58 -0600 (MDT) On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, James Igoe wrote: I am unable to install freebsd with the ISOs that were provided on the freebsd ftp site. I have burned them onto a cd and I have attempted to boot from them. However, I have found that they will not boot. I am working on a i386 architecture, using both a p3 450mhz, 384MB RAM, ameritech bios box and a celeron 1ghz 384MB RAM with a dell bios laptop. I have checked the boot sequences and have corrected them so thatg they boot fromt he cd rom. Most likely you just copied the .iso files to the CD-ROM, instead of burning them as an image. You can verify this by checking the contents of the CDs; if there's only one large file, that's the problem. How to restore a .iso file to a CD is dependent on your CD-recording software; for example, with Roxio software on Windows, you should be able to right-click on the .iso file and choose Record to CD. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient denied
I'd recommend trying something like this for your DHCP support:
$fwcmd add pass udp from any to any bootps keep-state out xmit ${oif}
I tried it and it had no effect. The only difference between out via
and out xmit is that out via checks both incoming and outgoing packets,
while out xmit checks only outgoing. In theory, there may be a difference
between from any bootps and from any, but in practice it has made
no difference in behaviour. I got the same message either way.
surely you mean to any bootps?
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screen size is too large after freebsd install
Hello, My name is Joe and I am totally new to FREEBSD. I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big. If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the xf86config file it won't let me. Why is this so hard seriously its a pain. Can anyone out there with a step by step guide on how to fix this help me please? Thanks Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DHClient with Multiple ip's
I am attempting to have dhclient grab two ip's from comcast. I already have them allowing me two ip's for my account and dhclient is working so far grabbing the one ip. I know I have to set up the dhclient.conf with the pseudo section, but I am lost as what to do with the dhclient-script. It has to be different as to not drop the main interface ip configuration, but everything I do seems to just assign the same ip to the iface twice. Does it have to alias the second ip? Are there any suggestions you can give me? FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p13 #22 isc-dhcp3-3.0.1.r11 Thank you for any help you can give, Don --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'kldload snd' is not responding
Hello I am trying to get the sound on my freebsd 4.4 install to work. I am logged in as root and am trying to execute the command 'kldload snd' as part of the process to get sound working. However, this command does not respond and even pressing ctrl-c won't stop it. Once it rebooted the machine and the other time I had to do a manual reboot (ctrl-alt-delete) to get out of the stalled command. I've done some searching online but I can't really find any help other than how to get sound running using the kldload command. Can someone out there please tell me why 'kldload snd' is not working and what I can do to get it to work? Thanks in advance Desmond ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libchk
Hi all, I've installed libchk and read the man-page, but I'm not sure about what to do with it. I've got *lots* of unreferenced libraries: do I have to remove them ? More generally: what's your usage of libchk ? TIA, nicholas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup problems
--- Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network problem. Either the cvsup server, or something between your system and the cvsup server is causing the connection to be terminated. Kris ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature hmmm... to answer the other message, i've tried serveral servers, but they all give the same error. maybe i should take a look at adelphia and see what they have to say... what say you? there's nothing going on with my ISP that is causing this. is there any possiblility that something is wrong with the system itself? every single server i try i get the TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed error. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and he will sort things out for you. Don't send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? === Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In addition, the FreeBSD-newbies list caters
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Security question (simple).
Hi, I'm fairly new to network/machine security (but I know enough to write some firewall rules, just the basics. I guess I'm getting on for novice, or something ;) I'm running two jails on my box, which has a dialup connection to the 'net. It's all firewalled off and only certain things are available from outside. For incoming WWW I have some port-forwarding going on (natd), which bounces it to the httpd running in the jail. Am I right in thinking if I am running some inherently insecure application there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY anybody can exploit it if it's not listening on the dial-up interface? I mean, without rooting the host system first. Or, if it's not, it's still pretty hard, right? -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jab:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:http://lewiz.net |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: screen size is too large after freebsd install
I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big. If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the xf86config file it won't let me. Are you editing the file as root? Why is this so hard seriously its a pain. Getting X set up right can be frustrating. Here's what I usually do. 1) log in as root 2) XFree86 -configure 3) ee XF86Config.new 4) look in that file for the mouse section - replace /dev/sysmouse with /dev/psm0 - if you have a wheel mouse, add the line Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 5) look for the screen section - add the line DefaultDepth24 or DefaultDepth16 before the parts that say Subsection ... EndSubSection - in whichever section you choose (16 or 24) add a line Modes 1024x768 underneat the line that says Depth 24 (or 16) 6) save the file (by pressing ESC-ENTER-ENTER) 7) move the file in to position with cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config There is also a good page about this in the handbook: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Security question (simple).
I wonder if the better policy is to not run inherently insecure applications (Bto begin with. In theory if no-one can get to that box or make use of that (Bapplication from the internet then your only threats become internal ones. (B (BJust for curiosity sake what does nmap tell you about your box/interface (Bfrom an outside perspective ? Another great check is sockstat -4 which will (Blist the services running and the IP/port number there running on. (B (BHTH (B (BLukeK (B (B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Lewis Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BTo: "FreeBSD-questions" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BSent: 2003$BG/(B8$B7n(B23$BF|(B 9:08 (BSubject: Security question (simple). (B (B (B___ (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (Bhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions (BTo unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: cvsup problems
On Friday 22 August 2003 04:38 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now (the first error is VERY common): This is a network problem. Either the cvsup server, or something between your system and the cvsup server is causing the connection to be terminated. Kris ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature hmmm... to answer the other message, i've tried serveral servers, but they all give the same error. maybe i should take a look at adelphia and see what they have to say... what say you? there's nothing going on with my ISP that is causing this. is there any possiblility that something is wrong with the system itself? every single server i try i get the TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed error. Do you have a firewall that isn't permitting cvsup to talk both ways? Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen size is too large after freebsd install
Sorry about the top level reply. I missed the original posting. With respect to the plus and minus keys; are you using the ones on the keypad? I believe only the ones on key pad work. Sorry I am stuck on another machine (not fbsd), otherwise I would have tried it out. Pete --- Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big. If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the xf86config file it won't let me. Are you editing the file as root? Why is this so hard seriously its a pain. Getting X set up right can be frustrating. Here's what I usually do. 1) log in as root 2) XFree86 -configure 3) ee XF86Config.new 4) look in that file for the mouse section - replace /dev/sysmouse with /dev/psm0 - if you have a wheel mouse, add the line Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 5) look for the screen section - add the line DefaultDepth24 or DefaultDepth16 before the parts that say Subsection ... EndSubSection - in whichever section you choose (16 or 24) add a line Modes 1024x768 underneat the line that says Depth 24 (or 16) 6) save the file (by pressing ESC-ENTER-ENTER) 7) move the file in to position with cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config There is also a good page about this in the handbook: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wierd problems with rsync
Hi, (BI have managed to generate some weird errors over the last few years playing (Bwith *nix type systems but this one takes the cake. (B (BWhilst rsync'ing a directory I got the following error twice in a row (B (BDisconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input. (Brsync: connection unexpectedly closed (426487689 bytes read so far) (Brsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) (Brsync: connection unexpectedly closed (182042 bytes read so far) (Brsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) (B (BDoes anyone have any ideas ? (B (B-bash-2.05b$ uname -r (B4.8-RELEASE (B (B-bash-2.05b$ rsync -v (Brsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 (B (B Any pointers are really appreciated, This machine is a file server that has (Bsucessfully crashed four times in the last week with hardware issues and (Bjust when I thought I had that beat I get this lot. (B (BRegards, (B (BLukeK (B (B___ (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (Bhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions (BTo unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD licence and 'the advertisement clause'
On Wednesday, 20 August 2003 at 15:25:24 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Theo Markettos wrote: I'm looking to incorporate some source from FreeBSD into a project of mine under the GPL. I see that Berkeley dropped their requirement on the advertising clause which makes FreeBSD code compatible with the GPL. The main FreeBSD licence doesn't include the advertising clause. However, much of FreeBSD's source still includes the advertising clause. For example src/sys/net/if.h and src/sys/net/radix.h in source checked out of CVS a few days ago. Most of these are for Berkeley, although there are a few for other individuals. What is the licensing position? Code that is copyrighted by the Regents has the license change, everything else does not. Many FreeBSD contributors will be happy to drop the clause if you just ask, though. The FreeBSD core team is currently investigating the matter. We'd rather get rid of it, but we can't just change the copyright on code by other people. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Dual boot from Primary Slave
Hi, I'm trying to set up a dual boot system like so: ad0 = Windows XP (drive on primary master) ad1 = FreeBSD (drive on primary slave) Both OS's are installed now and working fine. But I have to use GAG from a floppy to do the dual boot. I want to use the NT loader instead, so I don't scare the machine's XP users. The FAQ says I need to put a copy of /boot/boot0 into the C: directory of XP and then rename to bootsect.bsd and edit the boot.ini and add the line. Well, once it's bootsect.bsd, I know how to get into boot.ini and do all that, but how in heck do I copy /boot/boot0 from the FreeBSD hard drive over to the XP hard drive in the first place? The FAQ says (with a very ominous warning) that I can't just copy the /boot/boot0 from the CD, or the machine will have a nervous breakdown. There must be a command to use in FreeBSD, but the FAQ conveniently sidesteps THAT issue. I just can't find it anywhere. Help? Please? And if you KNOW the command, can you also explain what its elements mean? As a relative newbie, I find FreeBSD's commands extremely cryptic. Thanks! OZ __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring GeForce FX 5200 in X?
Hi all. Just got a GeForce4 FX 5200 to install in a new Freebsd box and I'm trying to configure X to use it, but I don't see the card listed anywhere in the list of cards on the machine. What do I do in order to configure the card itself? I'd like to get it installed and running in there if possible. If it's not one that bsd will use, I'll just swap my GF3 out of my win box instead, but I'd rather get this going of possible. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to get this working or which driver to use? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring GeForce FX 5200 in X?
On Saturday, 23 August 2003 15:07, Dragoncrest wrote: Hi all. Just got a GeForce4 FX 5200 to install in a new Freebsd box and I'm trying to configure X to use it, but I don't see the card listed anywhere in the list of cards on the machine. What do I do in order to configure the card itself? I'd like to get it installed and running in there if possible. If it's not one that bsd will use, I'll just swap my GF3 out of my win box instead, but I'd rather get this going of possible. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to get this working or which driver to use? Install /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and then in your XF86Config swap your video card driver with nvidia. Reboot and hopefully you will have a working FX5200 on FreeBSD :-) HTH -Al ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Calendar program dates
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotations. On Thursday, 21 August 2003 at 10:43:17 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: OK, I jumped the gun here. After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I realize that it sends an event for tomorrow if no event for today exists. Sorry about that. :-) From the man page:- The calendar utility checks the current directory for a file named calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or tomor- row's. On the day before a weekend (normally Friday), events for the next three days are displayed. I read the man page before I posted, but didn't understand what either today's date or tomorrow's. meant before I browsed the calendar.* files. I thought it might be set to display tomorrow's date by default and I needed to set it to display today's date. Here's what I use for the same purpose: #!/bin/sh # # Go through the calendars and find out what happened today. cd /usr/share/calendar (for i in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.*; do calendar -W -1 -f $i 2/dev/null; done) | sort | uniq | mail -s Today's anniversaries grog Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
XFree86 question
Hello All: I'm trying to get XFree86 setup. I think that I have a driver problem but I don't know what to do to fix it. Here's the log file... XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 24 May 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Fri Aug 22 22:09:28 2003 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor My Monitor (**) | |--Device * Generic VESA compatible (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc101 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/). (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,3099 card 1106, rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,b099 card , rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:05:0: chip 1317,0985 card 1317,0574 rev 11 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:06:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,8064 rev 07 class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 07 class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1106,3147 card 1106, rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:1: chip 1106,0571 card 1106,0571 rev 06 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:2: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 23 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:3: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 23 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:00:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:01:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:02:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:03:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:04:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:05:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:06:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:07:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:08:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:09:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0a:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0b:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0c:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0d:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0e:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:0f:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:10:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:11:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:12:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00
