Re: make buildworld
Doug Hardie schrieb: I am upgrading a server to 6.0 and encountered an error in make buildworld. However, I don't know what the error was as I piped stdout to a file, but not stderr. It was fairly near the end so I really hate to restart from the beginning again. The master server is a fairly slow machine. When something like this happens, is there a way to restart the make where it died? Is there an easy way to build the specific module that failed to get the complete errors? In this case the module was /usr/libexec/telnet. I went to /usr/src/ libexec/telnet and did a make. It completed without any problems. So, I ended up restarting the make from the top again, but would like to know for future situations. Thanks. Try make -DNO_CLEAN buildworld next time. This prevents the build script from deleting object files in /usr/obj. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3D Hardware Graphics
Jon schrieb: Hello all, I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going under FreeBSD. I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled driver and a radeon driver for xorg.conf, AGP was built into my kernel. What else can I try to get this going? Thanks FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE - ATI Radeon 9800 Pro This is almost not possible because ATI doesn't provide a driver for FreeBSD and the driver that comes with X.org supports only models up to Radeon 9000 concerning 3D capabilities; you'll find more information about supported cards in the radeon manpage of the xorg-server package. There is an open source project that aims 3D support for more recent cards: http://r300.sourceforge.net/R300.php Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel options
Imran Imtiaz schrieb: where can i find all the customization options of ther kernel? See src/sys/conf/NOTES for platform-independent options and for example src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES for i386-specific options. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BSD Question's.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 6:28 PM To: Beech Rintoul; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Question's. --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 07:24 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote: There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work with Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with firefox but that doesn't always work even with firefox on XP. NO site should be designed to work with IExplorer. I know it's done, but it should not! Why do we have W3C? If we could all just do things by the book the internet would be a much nicer place to visit. People who design for IExplorer are bad! They have microsoft in mind and _not_ the visitors. I hate it when choice gets violated! It should be called a crime against freedom. No, you're wrong here. You're letting your religious philosophy cloud your business sense. You develop to service the highest percentage of your expected viewer base. The truth is that the vast majority of visitors to most web sites are going to be using IE. While using unnecessary features as a primary component of your site that ONLY work with IE is foolish, you can't compromise your design just so that it will work with the 3% of religious fanatics that refuse to install IE on thier machines. Business is about numbers, and the numbers say that your site HAS to work with IE, and its nice if it works with others. I generally test with IE, Firefox and Netscape and I don't care much about much else. I have a friend in the travel biz who gets an unusual amount of traffic from AOL, because most of his customers are not computer people. His site needs to be well tested on AOL, where I couldn't really give a rat's behind if my commercial site works with AOL or not. You have to make sure your site works with the greatest majority of browsers available that will be accessing any given site. Its unfortunate that MS does what they want rather than following the standards, but in reality the standards should follow MS, because its really the only way to make everything work. Much of Microsoft's extra stuff is pretty useful and arguably better; its time the unix geeks get over it and stop whining about the big bad bully for the good of the big picture. MS isn't going away anytime soon. The truth is that anything MS does is a de-facto standard, whether you like it or not. DT I guess we should just throw out w3c and assign the task to microsoft. While wer'e at it lets get rid of all net standards. After all microsoft is so far ahead we'll never catch up. Beech Cisco makes their own standards for networking, and if you want to play in the game you have to be compatible. They do - however they clearly delineate between their standard (for example IGRP) and the public standard (ie: OSPF) and when they support both, they endeavor to adhere to the public standard, in their implementation of it. There would not be a problem if Microsoft inserted a switch in IE where the user could select M-HTML (Microsoft HTML) or W3C-HTML (actual HTML). The problem is that Microsoft intermixes the two. It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. If W3C adopted all the Microsoft changes to HTML it would not help, Microsoft would break them in future versions. Even in the Microsoft way, there is no consistency in Microsoft's own so-called standards. A guy I used to work with used to say at least once a day The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. I think a lot of people would be happy to go with the Microsoft standard if it wasn't a constantly changing target. It defeats the purpose of a standard to begin with. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If the time to download and upload when both DSL lines are connected is half the time it takes when 1 DSL line is connected, then your load-balancing. If not, then you are not - although if it makes you feel like you haven't wasted your money claim your per session load balancing then I suppose it would be uncharitable to make you feel bad by pointing out that this is purely a marketing term with no networking significance. Oops. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Winelfred G. Pasamba Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Loren M. Lang; Yance Kowara; Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router two DSL connections ted, danial, and the rest, i'm learning a lot in this thread. i have a pfsense (freebsd) router that has two connections to the same ISP and one connection to a linux squid (another server). i use the ported openbsd packet filter in freebsd for (whatever) load balancing. i can paste the freebsd-/etc/pf.conf and give you a sample of 'pfctl -s state' which looks like a firewall state table (i'm not sure though). i can also capture traffic graphs on all three interfaces of the pfsense router. just want to know what's happening in the (freebsd) pfsense router. is it route balancing, packet round-robin'ing, connection-round-robining, or what? one thing is that both these isp lines don't have any CIR. one is up to 128kbps and the other is up to 256 kbps. and i don't know which is which, hehe. here are the graphs and dump: http://geocities.com/winelfredpasamba/is_this_load_balancing_or_what/ On 12/26/05, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 3:47 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Loren M. Lang Cc: Yance Kowara; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections Ted the incompetent, wrong on all counts once again: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:56 AM To: Loren M. Lang; Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Yance Kowara; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router two DSL connections All upstream ISPs are connected to everyone on the internet, so it doesn't matter which you send your packets to (the entire point of a connectionless network. They both can forward your traffic to wherever its going. They aren't going to forward your traffic unless it's sourced by an IP number they assign. To do otherwise means they would permit you to spoof IP numbers. And while it's possible some very small ISP's run by idiots that don't know any better might still permit this, their feeds certainly will not. Yes they will. I assure you they will not. Routers route based on dest address only. Are you somehow suggesting that an ISP can't be dual homed and use only one link if one goes down, since some of the addresses sent up the remaining pipe wouldn't have source addresses assigned by that upstream provider? ISP's that are dual-homed have to register their subnets with both providers. For example, suppose I'm a small ISP and I go get a Sprint connection and get assigned a range of 11 IP subnets, 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.10.0 These are Sprint-owned IP addresses of course. As I source traffic from 192.168.1.x, Sprint recognizes it as valid traffic and allows it to pass Sprint's ingress filter to me. Now I get a bit bigger and decide I need a redundant connection. So I contact ARIN and buy an AS number, then contact ATT and get a connection to them, then setup BGP between myself and ATT Sprint. When ATT and I are setting up BGP, ATT's techs will ask me what subnets I'm advertising, I tell them 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.10.0 ATT then checks with ARIN's whois server to make sure Sprint has entered a record for that list of subnets that says I'm authorized to use them. If all that checks out OK then ATT adjusts their ingress filters so I can source traffic to them from those subnets. Now I get even bigger and need more IP's than what Sprint will provide, so I go to ARIN and buy them. Then all my feeds have to adjust their ingress filters to the new subnet. Now I get even more bigger and I start trying to setup peering relationships with other networks, so I don't have to pay them directly. Well now guess what, those networks are now monitoring
Re: BSD Question's.
On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before we'll live in a jungle (happely ever after ? ;-) It's the decease of this era that lost of people find it diffcult to honor rules except their own. I know the saying money makes the world turn around I disagree. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...
Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer). During boot I get the following error message: ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now If afterwards I try to fiddle around with ifconfig wepmode on ..., I get the following error message: ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not permitted Googling around and searching through the NOTES, UPDATING etc. I have discovered (low-level technical) bits and pieces but nothing I can really bit into. Some stuff about wpa, wpa_supplicant.conf ad infinitum, but before I start doing something major and messing up my system for good, I though I would drop this questions amongst the experts. Have there been any changes made to the wi0 which I should be aware of? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to dual boot
On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote: Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR. It will give you a choice as to which to boot. It works just fine. It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem it will identify it as ??? in the menu rather than MS-DOS as it identifies the FAT type file systems. That weirdness is over in 6.x NTFS partitions are under Fx DOS now and I must say I like this much better then ??? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...
On 12/27/05 18:22 Kiffin Gish said the following: Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer). During boot I get the following error message: ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now If afterwards I try to fiddle around with ifconfig wepmode on ..., I get the following error message: ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not permitted have you tried kldload wlan_wep ? :) -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Memory upgrade and resizing the /swap partition ...
I just upgraded my laptop from 512MB to 1024MB memory. It is said that the /swap partition has to be at least as much as the maximum available memory, but my current value is still based on the old 512MB size. Can I increase the size of the existing swap partition or do I have to create a new one? If I have to create a new one, how do I do this and how can I reclaim the unused old swap area? Thanks alot in advance. Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory upgrade and resizing the /swap partition ...
Kiffin Gish schrieb: I just upgraded my laptop from 512MB to 1024MB memory. It is said that the /swap partition has to be at least as much as the maximum available memory, [...] This is more an ancient rule of thumb. You can even have a working system without swap at all. Swap will be only used if you have to less memory available and it depends on the main purpose of the computer how much swap you need. For example I have a small server at home that acts as small web server, mail server, file server and many other things; the server has 768 MB RAM and 128 MB swap and ran for the last two years without out of memory failures. Can I increase the size of the existing swap partition or do I have to create a new one? [...] There is another solution: you can use a file that extends your swap partition. # create an empty 256 MB file dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swapfile bs=1024k count=256 # add an appropriate line to rc.conf echo 'swapfile=/usr/swapfile' /etc/rc.conf # add swap /etc/rc.d/addswap start 'swapinfo' shows information about your current swap partition and files. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible?
Hey guys. Basically in my situation I have a broken server in colo with no serial console. It works for the most part but write access to / is gone, and all attempts at repair are not coming about. I'd like to reinstall all but /home (has a seperate slice), however I would have to do so via SSH without the aid of a serial console, and with no CD in the drive. I know sysinstall can run from the OS, and it can install over the network, is it possible to run this full installation remotely in this way, given that it's starting from an installed and configured OS? Thanks, Elliot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote: Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are some half-assed alternatives for some of these, but if I have to use something inferior to use FreeBSD then thats a point against it. This is all a question of the applications you need. My game is full custom integrated circuit design and suitable CAD software is available, at a price, on most unix style systems including Solaris, HP-UX, various Linux distributions and FreeBSD. In this field it is the Windows half-assed alternatives that are distinctly inferior. Also, what you missed, was that I mentioned that you can be relatively sure that any hardware will have drivers for windows, while with FreeBSD you're never quite sure. Its also nice when you get a new printer or scanner to not have a 3 day project to get it to work. For sure Windows has drivers such as the WNT postscript driver that stuffs up scaling calculations for certain target resolutions of the photolithography machines so that art work generated from PCB layout packages is several percent out in size, and is therfore of course useless. It took much more than 3 days to track down the problem and generate a utility to post process the Microsoft postscript output to turn it into something usable. Eventually we discovered the problem was admitted somewhere in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and had been known for sometime without any upgrade or work around offered. Such simple known problems just do not persist in FreeBSD. The only point I made was that FreeBSD is focused on server functions and that is justified by the simple fact that it will never be as useful as windows; if for no other reason than there simply aren't the resources for FreeBSD to be a good server and also a competitive desktop. The Windows resources are really applied over a rather narrow range of popular applications. Go outside that range and and other systems are more than competitive. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory upgrade and resizing the /swap partition ...
=?windows-1252?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kiffin Gish schrieb: I just upgraded my laptop from 512MB to 1024MB memory. It is said that the /swap partition has to be at least as much as the maximum available memory, [...] This is more an ancient rule of thumb. You can even have a working system without swap at all. Swap will be only used if you have to less memory available and it depends on the main purpose of the computer how much swap you need. There is one caveat: you can't get a kernel dump unless you have enough non-filesystem disk space (normally your swap partition) to dump it on. This isn't a major issue, though, and you can force the kernel to recognize less memory if you really need to. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:03 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy to install/configure, and infinitely cheaper. Considering that WinXP usually comes on the computer, I don't see how installing and configuring FreeBSD can be easier than having to do nothing at all? Windows XP comes preinstalled, yes. Not preconfigured too. It so happens that configuring a Windows XP system to match one's preferences has the potential to: a) Screw the machine up so completely and utterly that a reinstall is required. b) Take a lot of time. A huge lot of time, because of all the different 'driver' installation processes. I have installed numerous sytems including various versions of MS-DOS and Windows, OS/2, OS/9, Linux distributions and large range of FreeBSD releases. There have been some difficulties from time to time but with one exception these all yielded to study+reason. The one exception was an XP diagnostic build on which I eventually admitted defeat. Ate you claiming that someone not familiar with how to configure FreeBSD can't screw it up beyond usefulness? I can point you at about 10% of my customers who've spent weeks just trying to compile a kernel and get basic networking working, much less a desktop with X. I would claim that XP is quite capable of screwing up its system without any real help from the user. I installed a HP all-in-one scanner-plotter on my a NEC laptop running XP professional and this worked fairly well until HP suggested I should update the software. Thereafter some minor annoyances/bugs appeared. I decided that I should go back to the original so I activated the system unistall utility on the HP software. After partly removing the software the utility reported errors; that it could not complete the uninstall. Nor would the original installation rerun because it thought it was already there. So now I don't have access to the all-in-one. Removing all the directories on the machine identified as from HP and registry entries in identified as HP allowed some reintallation to proceed but it is incomplete and doesn't run. I have never experienced this sort of lockout on a FreeBSD system. It is looking as though I will need to do a completely new XP installation -- which I am not looking forward to. It has been said before Windows is OK until something goes wrong; but then it is mostly unfixable. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to dual boot
On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote: Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR. It will give you a choice as to which to boot. It works just fine. It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem it will identify it as ??? in the menu rather than MS-DOS as it identifies the FAT type file systems. That weirdness is over in 6.x NTFS partitions are under Fx DOS now and I must say I like this much better then ??? Ah, good. I haven't had time to install the 6.0 that I downloaded yet. jerry -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: projector under FreeBSD?
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 09:37, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 9:35:07 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all can projectors be used under FreeBSD? Yes. if it could, how? What's the issue? Plug it in and it should work. yes, it does work just when I plug it and it works very well :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:35:04 AM Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Wrote these words of wisdom: I would claim that XP is quite capable of screwing up its system without any real help from the user. I installed a HP all-in-one scanner-plotter on my a NEC laptop running XP professional and this worked fairly well until HP suggested I should update the software. Thereafter some minor annoyances/bugs appeared. I decided that I should go back to the original so I activated the system unistall utility on the HP software. After partly removing the software the utility reported errors; that it could not complete the uninstall. Nor would the original installation rerun because it thought it was already there. So now I don't have access to the all-in-one. Removing all the directories on the machine identified as from HP and registry entries in identified as HP allowed some reintallation to proceed but it is incomplete and doesn't run. I have never experienced this sort of lockout on a FreeBSD system. It is looking as though I will need to do a completely new XP installation -- which I am not looking forward to. It has been said before Windows is OK until something goes wrong; but then it is mostly unfixable. Malcolm Kay * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Get a copy of JV16 Power Tools and run that. Then check the HP site for specific programs that DO totally uninstall their software. HP is notorious for this behavior. Even Symantec on occasion pulls this stunt. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before we'll live in a jungle (happely ever after ? ;-) It's the decease of this era that lost of people find it diffcult to honor rules except their own. I know the saying money makes the world turn around I disagree. Well if you're going to snip all of the context out then you can't possibly have a credible argument. You might as well go work for a newspaper. __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
--- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 7:50 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Winelfred G. Pasamba Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections As stated, even by Ted, you have to register ALL of your addresses with ALL of your ISPs, so you can send your packets to ANYONE you want, even if they are filtering. No, what I said is that any ISP that is an end-node AS and gets a feed from a network must tell that network what IP blocks they are using to send traffic from. You're a very sick person, Ted. If you use BGP, both of your providers have to know about all of your address blocks. So if they know about your address blocks, then you can load balance instead of using BGP. Its the same damn thing, you incompetent blob :) There's little point in being multi-homed if you can't send all of your traffic up EITHER pipe. If you couldn't, you'd be out of business if one of your pipes was down,which simply isn't the case. I really don't know what's wrong with you, except that you seem obsessed with being on the opposite side of whatever arguement I'm one. You're making a goddamned fool of yourself. DT __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
On 27 Dec Danial Thom wrote: --- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before we'll live in a jungle (happely ever after ? ;-) It's the decease of this era that lost of people find it diffcult to honor rules except their own. I know the saying money makes the world turn around I disagree. Well if you're going to snip all of the context out then you can't possibly have a credible argument. You might as well go work for a newspaper. I think my argument stands. The context is in the threat (as you well know, because it's been written by you). Furthermore you don't seem to think highly of people working for newspapers. Personally I don't look down on people, no matter their work nor social status. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 ++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a SED need
I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change full URLs to relative paths, in other words, chop off the http://www.example.com/; portion: From this: lia href=http://www.example.com/model/many.html; To this: lia href=model/many.html I think it is the slashes and quotes that are giving me fits as I'm very much a novice on SED(1) syntax. Would appreciate any tips on how to do the above so I can search and replace all of the hundreds of URLs. Many thanks and Happy New Year! Regards, Jack _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pf, pfil hooks and if_bridge
I was reading about the new if_bridge driver, and the ability of any packet filter to interface with it that uses pfil hooks. But I can't seem to find any documentation that says whether pf is such a packet filter? Would someone enlighten me if pf is useable with the new if_bridge driver? Thanks, Aaron ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a SED need
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Jack Stone wrote: I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change full URLs to relative paths, in other words, chop off the http://www.example.com/; portion: From this: lia href=http://www.example.com/model/many.html; To this: lia href=model/many.html I think it is the slashes and quotes that are giving me fits as I'm very much a novice on SED(1) syntax. Would appreciate any tips on how to do the above so I can search and replace all of the hundreds of URLs. Many thanks and Happy New Year! Regards, Jack _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try this: sed s/http:\\/\\/www.example.com// your_file -- Dmitry Sidorov PEM QA Engineer SWsoft, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 864582 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote: Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are some half-assed alternatives for some of these, but if I have to use something inferior to use FreeBSD then thats a point against it. This is all a question of the applications you need. My game is full custom integrated circuit design and suitable CAD software is available, at a price, on most unix style systems including Solaris, HP-UX, various Linux distributions and FreeBSD. In this field it is the Windows half-assed alternatives that are distinctly inferior. No, its a point of applications that one would reasonably need to run a business. I can't run a business from your CAD workstation. I can't live without accounting software. I would hardly call apps such as Cadence half-assed, even if you prefer something else. In fact, Candence runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris but NOT FreeBSD, and its by far the most used product the market in that genre. DT __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Dec Danial Thom wrote: --- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote: It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one that *most* people are using. Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before we'll live in a jungle (happely ever after ? ;-) It's the decease of this era that lost of people find it diffcult to honor rules except their own. I know the saying money makes the world turn around I disagree. Well if you're going to snip all of the context out then you can't possibly have a credible argument. You might as well go work for a newspaper. I think my argument stands. The context is in the threat (as you well know, because it's been written by you). I think you mean thread here? I didn't start the thread. But you can't ignore reality. Reality is that most people use IE. So if you ignore that fact, then you are not good at your job of designing websites, because it is a key factor. They don't make seats in busses 3' wide because some people are really fat. They make them so that the majority of people can fit comfortably in them (well, reasonably comfortably anyway). If you worry about every case, then you cheat the majority, and your product is less useful. Furthermore you don't seem to think highly of people working for newspapers. Personally I don't look down on people, no matter their work nor social status. My point is that newspapers are spinsters, as they often take a word or phrase out of context to make a story fit their agenda. It has nothing to do with the status of the people who work there, only their ethics and motivations, which are to make things appear the way they think will generate the most interest; not the truth. DT __ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
--- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If the time to download and upload when both DSL lines are connected is half the time it takes when 1 DSL line is connected, then your load-balancing. If not, then you are not - although if it makes you feel like you haven't wasted your money claim your per session load balancing then I suppose it would be uncharitable to make you feel bad by pointing out that this is purely a marketing term with no networking significance. Oops. Ted Ted seems incapable of grasping how things work, so I don't recommend wasting your time on anything he says. As I stated, you cannot control how traffic comes into your network, so Ted's little download test is sure not to work. Traffic is routed to whichever ISP has the best route. You can only control how traffic goes OUT of your network. So load-balancing can only increase your upload speeds, not your download speeds. If you are hosting this is useful. If you have mostly download traffic, then its probably not worth is. I don't know if Ted is trying to boondoggle you into thinking his view is correct, or he just doesn't understand it. I suspect its a bit of both. You should really try the freebsd-isp list, as there are at least some people on there that have a clue. Although even Ted's resume looks good on paper, so you really can't tell. Incompetence is widespread. DT __ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a SED need
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:18:56AM -0600, Jack Stone wrote: I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change full URLs to relative paths, in other words, chop off the http://www.example.com/; portion: From this: lia href=http://www.example.com/model/many.html; To this: lia href=model/many.html I think it is the slashes and quotes that are giving me fits as I'm very much a novice on SED(1) syntax. Am sure sed is the right high power production tool for getting the job done but I get such things done easier in awk. Am sure many say the same about perl. Sed, awk, perl, is the evolutionary order. Save this as something like example.awk and chmod +x to make it executable for easy reuse. Or you could awk -f example.exe input output By saving to a file you bypass the need to escape characters from the shell (which will be different depending on csh vs. sh) and yet again from the RE parser. The escapes below are to make sure the literal character is used for regular expression rather than a possible RE interpretation. Contains two patterns to match. The first matches the thing you are looking to change. The match regular expression is repeated in gsub() where its replaced with the plain text you desire. Print causes the line to be outputed, and next ends the processing of that input line so the next pattern isn't tried. Therefore the next match-all pattern prints everything the first skipped. #!/usr/bin/awk -f /a href=\http:\/\/www.example.com\// { gsub(/a href=\http:\/\/www.example.com\//, a href=\) print next } { print } -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quick Install Question
Dear FreeBSD- I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install Question? What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment on a single HDD using GAG (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os, is there a resource for this answer published somewhere anyway???) Thank you, Daniel Goldberg Daniel Franklin Goldberg IT | Post-Production Systems Engineer Avid ACSR (Unity/Windows) Apple ACHDS Microsoft MCP Cisco CCNA emailmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile 847.400.7949 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3D Hardware Graphics
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 06:28, Jon wrote: I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going under FreeBSD. I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled driver and a radeon driver for xorg.conf, AGP was built into my kernel. What else can I try to get this going? FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE - ATI Radeon 9800 Pro As far as I understand things, support for that card is still experimental, so make sure you have recent versions of 6.0-stable, x11-servers/xorg-server-snap and graphics/dri-devel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a SED need
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Jack Stone wrote: I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but every syntax I've tried has not worked. Here is what I'm trying to do: Change full URLs to relative paths, in other words, chop off the http://www.example.com/; portion: From this: lia href=http://www.example.com/model/many.html; To this: lia href=model/many.html I think it is the slashes and quotes that are giving me fits as I'm very much a novice on SED(1) syntax. Would appreciate any tips on how to do the above so I can search and replace all of the hundreds of URLs. Many thanks and Happy New Year! Regards, Jack _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sed will allow other characters than '/' as its delimiter, which makes it much easier to get escape sequences right, or avoid them altogether. sed -e 's=/http=/https=g' is an example ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD- I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install Question? What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment on a single HDD using GAG (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os, is there a resource for this answer published somewhere anyway???) Thank you, Daniel Goldberg Daniel Franklin Goldberg 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition. If you want FreeBSD to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 format instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the entire disk as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to resize the existing Windows partition. 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Palm (Zire) and /dev/ucom0 on 6.0
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:15:11PM -0500, DW wrote: [...] I do all this on my new 6.0 machine. When I hit the sync button on zire, I get the expected dmesg output (detecting the palm device), but there is no /dev/ucom0 device in /dev. Why? Aside from adding uvisor, you don't have to change any other configuration files for 6.0; the USB tty support files have changed from /dev/ucom* in 5.0 to /dev/cuaU* in 6+. Cheers. Thanks. I tried this, but am still having no luck syncing either through Jpilot interface or directly at console using pilot-xfer. When I hit the hotsync button on my Zire, I get: ucom0: PalmOne, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2 ucom0: PalmOne, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.10, addr 2 I then type: # pilot-xfer -p /dev/cuaU0 -b backup and I get: Listening to port: /dev/cuaU0 Please press teh HotSync button now then *nothing* either I cancel on my zire, or it times out, and my dmesg output: ucom0: ucomreadcb: IOERROR ucom0: at uhub1 port2 (addr 2) disconnected All threads purged from cuaU0 All threads purged from ttyU0 ucom0: detached Of cource if I try to pilot-xfer the same command above *before* hitting hotsync on the zire, I get: The device /dev/cuaU0 does not exist.. Possible solution: mkdnod /dev/cuaU0 c major minor Unable to bind to port: /dev/cuaU0 I'm doing all of this as *root* right now, just to get this working before I tackle the usual permissions issues that crop up when I do this as my regular user. For laughs and giggles, I also tried all of this with /dev/ttyU0 as well, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Thanks for any help. -DW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Quick Install Question
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Goldberg Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Quick Install Question Dear FreeBSD- I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install Question? What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment on a single HDD using GAG (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os, is there a resource for this answer published somewhere anyway???) Welcome to FreeBSD! By all means read the Handbook before going any further. Also, the FAQ's (both on freebsd.org) are very helpful to newbies. One very nice thing about FreeBSD is the huge number of resources available on the web. Google for them. The quick answer to your question is install XP first, then FreeBSD. The reason is that Windows is very impolite relative to coexisting with other OS's, and it overwrites the MBR! -gayn Bristol Systems Inc. 714/532-6776 www.bristolsystems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...
Yes I have. I also added it to the loader.conf file, the kernel configuration file, done a buildkernel etc. but no luck. # /boot/loader.conf wlan_wep_load=YES # /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC device wlan_wep But still no luck. What am I forgetting? Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands - Original Message - From: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:06 Subject: Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc... On 12/27/05 18:22 Kiffin Gish said the following: Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer). During boot I get the following error message: ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now If afterwards I try to fiddle around with ifconfig wepmode on ..., I get the following error message: ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not permitted have you tried kldload wlan_wep ? :) -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: That Drive Geometry Bug
At about the time of 12/26/2005 5:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated the following: I am trying to back up the drive I have been using (which is now full) onto a 60GB Seagate IDE drive - ST360020A. After a bunch of failures at configuring the disk, I did some searching on the web and found some info on the drive geometry bug. I followed the directions I found there - essentially, go into my BIOS at boot time, write down the drive geometry that the BIOS thinks I have and then plug those numbers into FreeBSD fdisk at the beginning of installation. What happened: 1. FreeBSD complained that the drive geometry it was seeing was wrong, and was using its own best guess: 7297/255/63. 2. I hit G and edited the C/H/S to that which the BIOS reported: 28733/16/255. 3. I hit Enter; the installer said `Nope, you're wrong! I'm going to use my best guess instead!' No matter how many times I try to enter the info, it changes it back to whatever it thinks is more correct. I tried switching the head and sector info (trying 28733/255/16). but no joy. Is there a way to coax the installer into cooperating? Thanks - -- paz. I just recently ran into this problem myself. Just use FreeBSD's best guess and it will work fine. If you set the BIOS to LBA mode, you will find that matches FreeBSD's best guess. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible?
You might want to check out ethercons, but you'll probably have to roll your own boot CD with this included. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elliot Crosby-McCullough Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 07:13 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall full install remotely with no serial console, possible? Hey guys. Basically in my situation I have a broken server in colo with no serial console. It works for the most part but write access to / is gone, and all attempts at repair are not coming about. I'd like to reinstall all but /home (has a seperate slice), however I would have to do so via SSH without the aid of a serial console, and with no CD in the drive. I know sysinstall can run from the OS, and it can install over the network, is it possible to run this full installation remotely in this way, given that it's starting from an installed and configured OS? Thanks, Elliot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. ** ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD- [..] 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition. If you want FreeBSD to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 format instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the entire disk as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to resize the existing Windows partition. 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Perhaps I am missing something here, but I have WinXP installed on one of my computers. The HD is formatted with NTFS, not fat32. Using Samba, i can both read and write to this disk. Maybe I am missing something from the original posters message. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burning GUI
+++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [freebsd] [26-12-05 16:15 -0200]: | Hi Nicolas, | | I forget to say that I'm using Gnome, does k3b work with it? Yes. KDE libraries will be installed. -- pgp1hNi1iCyyY.pgp Description: PGP signature
dvd drive
Hello Im wondering how to tell freeBSD about my 2 dvd drives. k3b automatically detects them but it hasnt found either. Thanks Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing lib
Hi all, My system (FBSD 5.4, Xorg, Gnome2), started to show the following message. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexif.so.10 not found, required by nautilus I indeed, could not find libexif.so.10. How can I fix that? - Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
--- Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If the time to download and upload when both DSL lines are connected is half the time it takes when 1 DSL line is connected, then your load-balancing. If not, then you are not - although if it makes you feel like you haven't wasted your money claim your per session load balancing then I suppose it would be uncharitable to make you feel bad by pointing out that this is purely a marketing term with no networking significance. Oops. Ted Ted seems incapable of grasping how things work, so I don't recommend wasting your time on anything he says. As I stated, you cannot control how traffic comes into your network, so Ted's little download test is sure not to work. Traffic is routed to whichever ISP has the best route. You can only control how traffic goes OUT of your network. So load-balancing can only increase your upload speeds, not your download speeds. If you are hosting this is useful. If you have mostly download traffic, then its probably not worth is. I don't know if Ted is trying to boondoggle you into thinking his view is correct, or he just doesn't understand it. I suspect its a bit of both. You should really try the freebsd-isp list, as there are at least some people on there that have a clue. Although even Ted's resume looks good on paper, so you really can't tell. Incompetence is widespread. DT To sooth the nerves of the OP, the truth about this is that it might work and it might not. Ted's assertion that all ISPs do ingress address filtering is simply wrong. Not even close. My assumption that none do isn't right either. IF when one of your lines goes down you are still online then you can load-balance outbound. IF you are multi-homed or have a working backup scenario, then you can load balance outbound. There is much discussion on the trade-offs of ingress address filtering, and many believe its the old cut off your nose to spite your face. It reduces the cpu power of your router by causing it to test every packet coming in, it makes multi-homing not work, and it makes changing addresses on a large network extremely more difficult, in order to thwart an unlikely event. I recommend that my customers isolate co-location customers so when worms hit they can find the problem easier. Few do because its easier to have everyone on the same wire. My cable company, for example, changes their networking scheme every few months, and if they had to change ingress filters on 100s of routers manually it would be ridiculously difficult to do. So they don't address filter. Ted is somehow in denial that 100s of people load balance to different destinations. Since he doesn't know the terms (such as round-robin, etc) you can be sure he's never done any of it. The simple truth is that you have to try things. You never know what your upstream is doing. DSL is a strange animal that requires muxes in often very complicated meshes. If you can move your default router to your other router then you are likely not filtered. There are many issues more important than address-spoofing, such as stability and performance. I have customers that are so disorganized that they can't isolate any known address group to any specific router, and others that require that you register your MAC address with them or nothing will work at all. You can't postulate what your situation is. You have to do testing and figure out what you can and can't do. The more you know about how things REALLY work, the more innovative you can be in your implementation. DT __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:21:26 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD- [..] 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition. If you want FreeBSD to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 format instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the entire disk as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to resize the existing Windows partition. 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Perhaps I am missing something here, but I have WinXP installed on one of my computers. The HD is formatted with NTFS, not fat32. Using Samba, i can both read and write to this disk. Maybe I am missing something from the original posters message. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions residing on a FreeBSD computer.) The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same computer. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox 1.5 complains that it is already running
Hi, I compiled Firefox 1.5 from ports but when attempting to start it I get the error message: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I could not find any Firefox or Mozilla type of process running. I am starting it from a terminal and I get no error messages there. Ending Xorg and then starting it again does not help. Finally Firefox was compiled with -o -pipe -mtune=pentium4, so I doubt if there would be any problem with the build. Thank you. Rob Lytle ps. Mozilla runs OK, but I had to turn off java and javascript, and also block pop-up windows in order to stop the occasional 100% cpu usage and zombie processes. -- -- http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 Rob Lytle Home Page ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 1.5 complains that it is already running
On 12/27/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled Firefox 1.5 from ports but when attempting to start it I get the error message: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I could not find any Firefox or Mozilla type of process running. I am starting it from a terminal and I get no error messages there. Ending Xorg and then starting it again does not help. Finally Firefox was compiled with -o -pipe -mtune=pentium4, so I doubt if there would be any problem with the build. Thank you. Rob Lytle ps. Mozilla runs OK, but I had to turn off java and javascript, and also block pop-up windows in order to stop the occasional 100% cpu usage and zombie processes. There is probably a file named lock somewhere under the .mozilla directory in you home directory. Usually these are left behind when firefox has exited uncleanly. Remove the lock file and all should be back to normal... Aaron find ~/.mozilla -iname lock ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dlink wireless adapter
Imran Imtiaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can i make my dlink DWL-G122 wireless usb adapter work with freebsd? IIRC it's supported by the ural driver. With that knowledge and the wireless networking chapter in the Handbook, you should be fine. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ First, we kill all the spammers The Usenet Bard, Twice-forwarded tales ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions residing on a FreeBSD computer.) The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same computer. Andrew Gould * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to both of the WinXP machines without any problems. I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however. It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when FreeBSD was in this type of configuration. Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too bad that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it instead of dual booting. Just my 2¢. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] famous programmer quotation: you'veprobable made a mistake ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Sendmail to add headers to mail
On Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:23:28 PM Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using Sendmail to add headers to mail Wrote these words of wisdom: I am not sure if this is possible or not. Is it possible to add custom 'X-' headers to mail using Sendmail? For instance, suppose I wanted to add the Habeas Headers http://www.habeas.com/ to all my outgoing email. Is it possible to do via Sendmail, or can this only be accomplished via my MUA? I noticed on the Habeas site that there was a configuration for Exim, if that means anything. -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, to answer my own question, I found out that I could use LOCAL_CONFIG along with the 'H' macro to add the headers in the {domain}.mc file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unattended ports upgrade possible?
Is there any way to fully automate the upgrade of all installed ports? Typically ncurses screens prompt for compile options. Is there any way to instruct portupgrade to use default compile values? -- Peter __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
port tree fetch errors
My ports-supfile is: *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all i do: cvsup -g -z -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile and get this: Updating collection ports-all/cvs Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/boost/pkg-plist: Input/output error Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/clint/files/patch-python.h: Input/output error Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/crossgo32-djgpp2/pkg-plist: Input/output error Checkout ports/devel/Makefile Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/elib/files/patch-aa: Input/output error Need to mention that after cvsup ends i cannot compile php4 and get this errors: Makefile, line 125: warning: -q MPM_NAME returned non-zero status Something happened to ports tree ? I've also tried different cvsup servers also, but had no success. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
troubles while cvsuping ports
ms# uname -a FreeBSD ms.gltcall.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 ms# ms# cat /etc/ports-supfile *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all ms# i do cvsup and get a lot of errors: Updating collection ports-all/cvs Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/boost/pkg-plist: Input/output error Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/clint/files/patch-python.h: Input/output error After cvsup ends i cannot install php4 port.Seems like Makefile is broken: Makefile, line 125: warning: -q MPM_NAME returned non-zero status Something happened to ports tree ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port tree fetch errors
Tofik Suleymanov píše v út 27. 12. 2005 v 22:24 +: My ports-supfile is: *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all i do: cvsup -g -z -L 2 /etc/ports-supfile and get this: Updating collection ports-all/cvs Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/boost/pkg-plist: Input/output error Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/clint/files/patch-python.h: Input/output error Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/crossgo32-djgpp2/pkg-plist: Input/output error Checkout ports/devel/Makefile Cannot calculate checksum for /usr/ports/devel/elib/files/patch-aa: Input/output error Can you read the content of those files? I'd bet you got either corrupted filesystem, or your hard drive is dying. -- Pav Lucistnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] With a 10 MHz 386 the downloading speed would most likely drop to a crawl or stop with the decoding process etc. I think most 10MHz 386 users are quite accustomed to things dropping to a crawl. signature.asc Description: Toto je digitálně podepsaná část zprávy
Re: unattended ports upgrade possible?
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:20:07PM -0500, Peter wrote: Is there any way to fully automate the upgrade of all installed ports? Typically ncurses screens prompt for compile options. Is there any way to instruct portupgrade to use default compile values? Add a `BATCH=yes' to /etc/make.conf. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. I want to achieve it through not dying - Woody Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing lib
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi all, My system (FBSD 5.4, Xorg, Gnome2), started to show the following message. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexif.so.10 not found, required by nautilus I indeed, could not find libexif.so.10. How can I fix that? There are several ways how this could happen, but I don't want to speculate about the reasons. I guess you have installed nautilus 2.10 and a newer or older version of libexif. Make sure that you have either latest versions of both pieces of software, i.e. libexif 0.6.12_1 and nautilus2 2.12.2, or install both as packages from the same source FTP directory. If you are still unsure then show pkg_version -v. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scanner in FBSD
Hello?! I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 which I belive is the first parallelport. Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How? Scanner: Primax 4800 Direct Driver: plustek_pp OS: FreeBSD 5.4 -- NB. This is NOT a life supporting system ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade by hand
In all the searches I've done about upgrade from a Rel4.x to Rel6. all the info seems to center on using cvsup and port upgrade, and using Rel5 is an intermediate step to get to Rel6. Maybe I just like pain, but are there any instructions for 'manually' upgrading from 'most any prior freebsd' to latest production release? In other words, what files MUST be backed up and restored (master.password, etc) and what CANNOT be reused (changes to current password/group files or other files are too much to allow an upgrade of this type) I'm just concerned about Freebsd base -- I only use 3 items from the ports collection and I don't mind rebuilding these. (perhaps I'm stuck on the word 'upgrade' when there is a better word for a format and reload but preserve user/group/file system mode bits etc) -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New IDE drive in old PC
I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. This PC is working well for me and I don't want to upgrade it. However I would like to add a lot of disk space. So my question is, can I go out and buy a new 300 GB (or whatever) IDE disk and attach it to the secondary IDE controller and hope to use all 300 GB? I will still use the old disk for booting and to hold the OS. The new disk will be just for data. If this will just work how do I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanner in FBSD
Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello?! I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 which I belive is the first parallelport. Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How? Scanner: Primax 4800 Direct Driver: plustek_pp OS: FreeBSD 5.4 The last time I tried, plustek_pp required libieee1284 for parallel port access. Libieee1284 is unsupported in FreeBSD (at least the 5 series FreeBSD). Your best bet is to go out and get a supported USB or SCSI scanner or install your scanner on a Linux SANE server. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
Gerard Seibert wrote: On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to both of the WinXP machines without any problems. I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however. It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when FreeBSD was in this type of configuration. Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too bad that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it instead of dual booting. Unfortunately, NTFS is not documented by Microsoft so non-Microsoft drivers cannot write to that file system reliably. See http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ -- they've put a lot of work into discovering how to use NTFS. So 'out-of-the-box', FreeBSD OS can mount and read from NTFS partitions, but not write. Samba allows computers to exchange files, but uses each computer's local OS to access a filesystem. There are GUI tools that use the linux-ntfs utility 'ntfsresize' to resize an NTFS partition, so you can add a FreeBSD partition even if you have a pre-built NTFS install. I keep a copy of 'SystemRescueCD' around for just that purpose, since it has those tools already. Some of the WinXP recovery' disks will wipe out your entire drive when you 'recover', so as most people will recommend, install Windows first(!) because it's install utilities are very presumptuous and you can easily waste all your previous effort on a different OS. I have read that there is a way to use the WinXP NTFS driver from within Linux (and probably FreeBSD) to provide NTFS write support, but I have not tried that yet. In any case, Welcome Daniel! Good luck with your install. If you are installing on a machine whose BIOS is a few years old, you may find the 1024-cylinder limitation: the BIOS will not boot from a partition whose start is beyond that limit. If it's a new machine, then you probably don't need to worry about it. If you do, create a small NTFS partition for WinXP, then the FreeBSD partition, then a larger NTFS partition if you need it (it will appear as drive 'd:'). I always keep a reasonably sized FAT32 partition so I can transfer files between the two OS's (that's the only 'common' read/write FS). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question
Good morning ! Sorry for my bad English. I'm write from Russia. I have some problem with installing FreeBSD 6 amd64 ! You my last chance ! No one dont give me a answer for my question. I put CD to cdrom and after some second I press 1 to install default settings. After some second I see that Vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 221134344311z quality 800 Timecounter tuck every 1.000 msec What's wrong what I do wrong ?? Please say !! Thank s ! Good bye ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3D Hardware Graphics
Hello all, I'm wondering how to get 3D Hardware graphics going under FreeBSD. I tried both the LibGL.so that came with the driver for my graphics card and the default LibGL.so that came with FreeBSD '/usr/X11R6/lib' but no go, still slow software mode. I have a DRI radeon enabled driver and a radeon driver for xorg.conf, AGP was built into my kernel. What else can I try to get this going? Thanks FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE - ATI Radeon 9800 Pro This is almost not possible because ATI doesn't provide a driver for FreeBSD and the driver that comes with X.org supports only models up to Radeon 9000 concerning 3D capabilities; you'll find more information about supported cards in the radeon manpage of the xorg-server package. There is an open source project that aims 3D support for more recent cards: http://r300.sourceforge.net/R300.php Regards Björn --- Hello, I managed to get r300 to compile and installed into 'usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri - r300_dri.so'. I found a nice source package under the FreeBSD ports 'dri-6.2.20050719,1' that downloded the source for r300, Mesa3D and drm, it built and installed fine. I ran Xmoto as a test GL game and it was still slow 2 FPS mode, I did a glxinfo command and it said dri is not enabled. Any more suggestions to get this going? Thanks! Xorg.conf: -- Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection - Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Identifier Card0 Driver ati VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800] BusID PCI:1:0:0 --- __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment on a single HDD using GAG (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os, is there a resource for this answer published somewhere anyway???) first install the Microsoft-OS, and then FreeBSD (and make sure there's 1 primary partition left for FreeBSD to install on) see also : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Logo Contest -- whom to contact about?
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, martinko wrote: also, could other submitted designs be seen somewhere? (at least top 5 of them) I'd like to see them as well. I suppose, if bold enough, one could mail the authors found at http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/ . I've come to belive that this http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/640.png was one of the entries. -- Martin P. Hansen | () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | /\ Against HTML Email! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanner in FBSD
Micah wrote: Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello?! I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 which I belive is the first parallelport. Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How? Scanner: Primax 4800 Direct Driver: plustek_pp OS: FreeBSD 5.4 The last time I tried, plustek_pp required libieee1284 for parallel port access. Libieee1284 is unsupported in FreeBSD (at least the 5 series FreeBSD). I've noticed that. /Frustation A Frustration/ Your best bet is to go out and get a supported USB or SCSI Vell i've been looking at some agfa skanners. scanner or install your scanner on a Linux SANE server. That's a no op HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Segment Fault w/ PHP
I'm getting segment faults on all 3 of my webservers. I upgraded all of my packages thinking that would fix the offending program; however, php is throwing segment faults. For example, when trying to INSTALL pear_DB. I get seg faults when updating # cd /usr/ports/databases/pear-DB # make (goes though its thing) # make install === Installing for pear-DB-1.7.6,1 === pear-DB-1.7.6,1 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pear/PEAR.php - found === pear-DB-1.7.6,1 depends on executable: pear - found === Generating packing list === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if databases/pear-DB already installed === Installing documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/pear/DB. === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/DB. install ok: channel://pear.php.net/DB-1.7.6 Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/pear-DB. /var/messages shows: (php), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) ALSO: portupgrade -f pear-Mail_Queue --- Reinstalling 'pear-Mail_Queue-1.1.3' (mail/pear-Mail_Queue) --- Building '/usr/ports/mail/pear-Mail_Queue' === Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2_1 ... blah blah blah ... === Checking if mail/pear-Mail already installed === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/Mail. install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Mail-1.1.9 Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/pear-Mail. *** Error code 1 And when stopping or restarting Apache it generates an HTTP segment fault (httpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) When I rem out from apache things are happy! Every port is now current. I have even rebuilt several ports. This one's got me. Any hints? Thanks, Brent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some problem with installing FreeBSD 6 amd64 ! ... I put CD to cdrom and after some second I press 1 to install default settings. After some second I see that ... Vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 221134344311z quality 800 Timecounter tuck every 1.000 msec What you see it the kernel diagnostic messages. In my diagnosticmessages ``Timecounters'' appear near the end, just before the harddisk controller initialization. If your system stops with the message you wrote, it might be some compability issues between your hardware and the kernel. You might narrow the problem down by experimenting with various compability options in the bios. One example could be to enable (or disable) SATA compability mode, PATA I think. -- Martin P. Hansen | () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | /\ Against HTML Email! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote: Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are some half-assed alternatives for some of these, but if I have to use something inferior to use FreeBSD then thats a point against it. This is all a question of the applications you need. My game is full custom integrated circuit design and suitable CAD software is available, at a price, on most unix style systems including Solaris, HP-UX, various Linux distributions and FreeBSD. In this field it is the Windows half-assed alternatives that are distinctly inferior. No, its a point of applications that one would reasonably need to run a business. I can't run a business from your CAD workstation. I can't live without accounting software. I would hardly call apps such as Cadence half-assed, even if you prefer something else. In fact, Candence runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris but NOT FreeBSD, and its by far the most used product the market in that genre. Cadence have a wide range of products some of which run on Windows platforms. But you will be struggling to do much with Full Custom on XP. There are some alternatives offered on FreeBSD -- admittedly inferior to the top Cadence products but also at less than 10% of the licensing costs. I thought the discussion was about desktop software not business software; but even so if your business is IC design then I would think a good CAD suite was pretty essential. Malcolm Kay DT __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
Quoting Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 7:50 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Winelfred G. Pasamba Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections As stated, even by Ted, you have to register ALL of your addresses with ALL of your ISPs, so you can send your packets to ANYONE you want, even if they are filtering. No, what I said is that any ISP that is an end-node AS and gets a feed from a network must tell that network what IP blocks they are using to send traffic from. You're a very sick person, Ted. If you use BGP, both of your providers have to know about all of your address blocks. My VERY FIRST response to the original poster was that their scheme would not work UNLESS they were running BGP. So if they know about your address blocks, then you can load balance instead of using BGP. Its the same damn thing, you incompetent blob :) There's little point in being multi-homed if you can't send all of your traffic up EITHER pipe. If you couldn't, you'd be out of business if one of your pipes was down,which simply isn't the case. I really don't know what's wrong with you, except that you seem obsessed with being on the opposite side of whatever arguement I'm one. You're making a goddamned fool of yourself. I think you are arguing with a series of straw men. Perhaps you might try READING THE RESPONSES for a change? Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
Quoting Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If the time to download and upload when both DSL lines are connected is half the time it takes when 1 DSL line is connected, then your load-balancing. If not, then you are not - although if it makes you feel like you haven't wasted your money claim your per session load balancing then I suppose it would be uncharitable to make you feel bad by pointing out that this is purely a marketing term with no networking significance. Oops. Ted Ted seems incapable of grasping how things work, so I don't recommend wasting your time on anything he says. As I stated, you cannot control how traffic comes into your network, so Ted's little download test is sure not to work. Danial, once again your having trouble reading. That little test was for BOTH a download AND an upload test. So, are you sure that the upload component of my little test WILL work? Perhaps we might have the poster I responded to actually RUN the test and report the results? Traffic is routed to whichever ISP has the best route. You can only control how traffic goes OUT of your network. So load-balancing can only increase your upload speeds, not your download speeds. If you are hosting this is useful. If you have mostly download traffic, then its probably not worth is. Once again Danial you flee to arguing from theory and not reality. Until the second poster tries the test I proposed and reports the results, you are really wasting time. As I said before, try the test. If your download speed is doubled with both DSL lines turned on, your load balancing. If your upload speed is doubled with both DSL lines turned on then your load balancing. If your download speed is NOT doubled YET your upload speed IS doubled with both DSL lines connected, then you are also load balancing - after a fashion - although the reason this works is that one of the ISP's is not properly ingress filtering. (assuming the DSL lines are connected to different ISPs, presumably if they are connected to the same ISP you would have already got multilink PPP or some other kind of real load balancing setup with that ISP) And if that is the case, then the ISP that isn't ingress filtering, has a network full of spoofed traffic from DDoS trojans and such, and it is unlikely you would find their bandwidth that useable in the first place. Additionally, since your making use of the failure of one of the ISP's to properly ingress filter, this sort of 'load balance' could disappear without warning. It is not something you would depend on for production use and few ISP's are like this anymore. In any case, I think chances that the second poster would observed doubled upload speed with both lines connected, on the file test I illustrated, are virtually zero. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make buildworld
On 2005-12-26 23:49, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am upgrading a server to 6.0 and encountered an error in make buildworld. However, I don't know what the error was as I piped stdout to a file, but not stderr. I usually keep them both, with something like: # cd /usr/src/ # cvs -q up -APd | logfile.cvs # make buildworld buildkernel 21 | tee logfile.build It was fairly near the end so I really hate to restart from the beginning again. The master server is a fairly slow machine. Then, someone could argue that the problem is not a build that's failing, but the fact that you're using a slow machine as the build server :-/ I'm afraid there's no way to recover data that has scrolled off the scrollback buffer of syscons or screen(1), when the same data wasn't saved in a file. When something like this happens, is there a way to restart the make where it died? You can try using -DNO_CLEAN, but this will do a fair bit of work too. Is there an easy way to build the specific module that failed to get the complete errors? In this case the module was /usr/libexec/telnet. I went to /usr/src/ libexec/telnet and did a make. Then the error was somewhere else. Were you using make -j XXX with a non-default XXX number? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?
Two part question here ... first leads into the second, and the second might answer the first ... 1. What variables on a server should be monitored to determine how busy a server is? For instance, I've always been taugth that 'loadavg' is not an indication of how busy a server is, since a high loadavg on a single CPU server might be an overloaded server, but moderately loaded on a dual CPU server ... disk i/o, cpu usage, ethernet throughput ... what else? 2. Are there any tools that I can run to give me a point in time summary of how busy a server is based on these several factors? Basically, I'd like to keep track of multiple servers and be able to say this server is running 75% of capacity, time to upgrade or move things off of it ... if its possible ... ? thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alpha 6.0 Install...
boot_osflags0,0 leads to: Unrecognized boot flag '0'. Unrecognized boot flag ','. Unrecognized boot flag '0'. NetBSD/alpha uses s single-user mode bootstrap. a (automatic) multi-user mode bootstrap. although FreeBSD may well use different flags. I can't seem to find an Alpha version of FreeBSD's boot(8) man page. :-( FreeBSD's x86 boot(8) man page says 's' is also single user, so... Perhaps try: boot -flags s dka400 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade by hand
On 2005-12-27 15:05, David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all the searches I've done about upgrade from a Rel4.x to Rel6. all the info seems to center on using cvsup and port upgrade, and using Rel5 is an intermediate step to get to Rel6. That's right. It should always be possible to use the latest version of RELENG_X to build and install version RELENG_Y when (Y = X + 1). The same is not always true for two major branches ahead. Maybe I just like pain, but are there any instructions for 'manually' upgrading from 'most any prior freebsd' to latest production release? I've upgraded systems from 4.7-RELEASE to 6.0-CURRENT in more than one steps: one for 4.7 == 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE == 5-STABLE, and then finally, 5-STABLE == 6.0-CURRENT. The process of building and installing everything is always the same: buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, boot single user, installworld, mergemaster. Any extra steps required every time are described in detail in /usr/src/UPDATING after the source tree is updated at each upgrade step. In other words, what files MUST be backed up and restored (master.password, etc) and what CANNOT be reused (changes to current password/group files or other files are too much to allow an upgrade of this type) A full backup is wise, at this point. If something goes wrong after 2 or 3 build install cycles, it's nice to be able to go back to a well-known, stable state. I'm just concerned about Freebsd base -- I only use 3 items from the ports collection and I don't mind rebuilding these. (perhaps I'm stuck on the word 'upgrade' when there is a better word for a format and reload but preserve user/group/file system mode bits etc) Are you installing 6.0-RELEASE from scratch or building from source? If you are installing from scratch, reformatting the partitions too (which is the only way to reformat the partitions to use UFS2 instead of UFS1), then it's still a good idea to start with a full backup. If you have the installation disks of the original FreeBSD version, and you don't mind a little extra downtime, you can even create 2 sets of backup files: - Original FreeBSD version of the base system - Your current base system installation Then go ahead and install FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. You can compare the files of the two backup sets, i.e. by looking at the output of commands like: # tar tzvf backup-freebsd-plain.tar.gz | sort -k +9 /tmp/before.txt # tar tzvf backup-freebsd.tar.gz | sort -k +9 /tmp/after.txt This should give you a good idea of what files are different in your current installation from the original FreeBSD files, and you can selectively restore on top of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE the changes that you want to keep :) - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 00:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-26 11:07, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead, I figure out another way to work around. 1.ifconfig bge0 delete % this would shut my local NIC down totally 2.kldload if_ath dhclient ath0 then I can enjoy the wireless internet surfing :) antway, thank you again! FWIW, On my laptop, which has to switch between a couple of wireless networks and my local LAN at home, I use custom shell scripts called ``/root/net/*.sh'' to encapsulate the changes I'd have to manually make. I have prepared working sets of files, like: /etc/resolv.conf_home /etc/resolv.conf_work and then run /root/net/home.sh which contains: #!/bin/sh if test -n $1 test -f /root/netstart-home-$1.sh ; then mode=$1 else mode=wlan fi echo ## Stopping local services /etc/rc.d/named stop /etc/rc.d/sendmail stop echo ## Setting up /etc and /usr/local/etc files ( cd /etc; cp resolv.conf_home resolv.conf; cp dhclient.conf_home dhclient.conf; cp namedb/named.conf_home namedb/named.conf; cd /usr/local/etc/postfix; cp main.cf_home main.cf; ) echo ## Bringing up the network connection /root/net/netstart-home-${mode}.sh echo ## Refreshing the firewall rules /etc/rc.d/pf reload echo ## Starting local services again /etc/rc.d/named start /etc/rc.d/sendmail start The real work is done by netstart-home-wlan.sh or netstart-home-wlan.sh. The wlan script is the one that sets up a wireless connection, and contains: #!/bin/sh # Default setup for my bge0 interface. export ifconfig_ath0=DHCP ssid 'gker' \ wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey '1:0xXX' export defaultrouter=192.168.1.2 /etc/rc.d/netif stop bge0 /etc/rc.d/netif stop ath0 echo -n Waiting for ath0 to associate _timeout=0 _associated=NO while [ $_timeout -lt 30 ]; do status=$( ifconfig ath0 21 | grep status: |\ awk '{print $2}' ) if [ X${status} = Xassociated ]; then _associated=YES break fi echo -n '.' sleep 1 _timeout=$(( $_timeout + 1 )) done if [ X${_associated} = XYES ]; then echo ok else echo '' echo Failed to bring up ath0. Aborting. /etc/rc.d/netif stop ath0 exit 1 fi # # The default route may be pointing to another interface. Find out # the IP address of the default gateway, delete it and point to the # default gateway of my home network. # if [ -n ${defaultrouter} ]; then _oldrouter=`netstat -rn | grep default | awk '{print $2}'` if [ -n ${_oldrouter} ]; then route delete default ${_oldrouter} unset _oldrouter fi route add default $defaultrouter fi This seems to work remarkably well so far. All I need to do once the laptop boots is to log in as root and run the proper /root/net/*.sh script :) thanks for your shell scripts. it is very appreciated. thanks again :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPv6: routing on the local LAN
On 25 Dec 2005 at 2:59, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:37:56 -0500 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gidday folks, I have an IPv6 routing problem within my LAN behind the gateway. I have an IPv6 tunnel supplied by Hurricane Electric. The tunnel is setup and working. From my gateway I can access various IPv6 websites (e.g http://www.kame.net). I have enabled rtadvd(8) on my gateway. For the netstat, ifconfig, etc, see [1]. From a computer inside my gateway, I cannot ping anything, not even the gateway. I suspect it's because the routing tables are not being set up on the gateway. I expected the system to do that automatically. I also expected fxp0 to get an IPv6 address out of this. Did I guess wrong? I suspect that if I can get fxp0 on the gateway, all will be well. If not, I think Ineed to set up static routes. Add a single 2001:470:1F00:1979::/64 address each for both fxp0/1. You don't even need rtadv.conf :) rc.conf:- ipv6_ifconfig_fxp0=2001:470:1F00:1979::1/64 ipv6_ifconfig_fxp1=2001:470:1F00:1979::2/64 Right you are! I just renamed /etc/rtadvd.conf to something else, rebooted the gateway, confirmed rtadvd was running, then I rebooted the workstation. It came back with: $ ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 10.55.0.23 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.55.0.255 inet6 fe80::204:acff:fed3:7823%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet6 2001:470:1f00:1979:204:acff:fed3:7823 prefixlen 64 autoconf ether 00:04:ac:d3:78:23 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active $ You suggested putting an IPv6 address on fxp0 (the NIC on my gateway that faces my ISP). Why? No IPv6 traffic should meet that NIC. It should all go out the tunnel on gif0. fxp1 is my LAN, so I can see why I need an IPv6 address there. Thank you. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...
On 2005-12-27 18:13, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have. I also added it to the loader.conf file, the kernel configuration file, done a buildkernel etc. but no luck. # /boot/loader.conf wlan_wep_load=YES # /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC device wlan_wep I think this is why you're getting the message: ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now Try removing it from your kernel config file and loading it through loader.conf only. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
Quoting Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it meet the test I already outlined? Download the FreeBSD iso then upload it to a remote server, with both lines connected. Time it. Disconnect 1 line, then repeat the test. If the time to download and upload when both DSL lines are connected is half the time it takes when 1 DSL line is connected, then your load-balancing. If not, then you are not - although if it makes you feel like you haven't wasted your money claim your per session load balancing then I suppose it would be uncharitable to make you feel bad by pointing out that this is purely a marketing term with no networking significance. Oops. Ted Ted seems incapable of grasping how things work, so I don't recommend wasting your time on anything he says. As I stated, you cannot control how traffic comes into your network, so Ted's little download test is sure not to work. Traffic is routed to whichever ISP has the best route. You can only control how traffic goes OUT of your network. So load-balancing can only increase your upload speeds, not your download speeds. If you are hosting this is useful. If you have mostly download traffic, then its probably not worth is. I don't know if Ted is trying to boondoggle you into thinking his view is correct, or he just doesn't understand it. I suspect its a bit of both. You should really try the freebsd-isp list, as there are at least some people on there that have a clue. Although even Ted's resume looks good on paper, so you really can't tell. Incompetence is widespread. DT To sooth the nerves of the OP, the truth about this is that it might work and it might not. Ted's assertion that all ISPs do ingress address filtering is simply wrong. I will concede this because of all the ISP's in the world, chances are that there is at least 1 that is run so incompetently, connected to a backbone network that is also unbelievably incompetent, that they are not filtering. Not even close. My assumption that none do isn't right either. Finally you are admitting that antispoofing filtering is a reality. I am glad to see that. However, you are wrong when you IMPLY that antispoofing access lists are not widespread. Anti spoof lists have a long history. Why even as far back as 1997 Cisco was unofficially offering to assist ISP's to put them in, this was in response to land.c, see here: http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/apnic-talk/archive/1997/11/msg2.html Then in 2000, the IETF decided to codify the requirements for this in the following RFC's: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2827.txt ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3013.txt We also saw then a pledge from the 9 founders of the Internet Security Alliance (http://www.isalliance.org/) to institute antispoofing on their networks, that article is here: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-518743.html We also saw calls for this from SANS: http://www.sans.org/dosstep/index.php and that gadfly, Steve Gibson: http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm This was 5 years ago. Today, the practice is firmly established, Cisco provides instructions for it: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_white_paper09186a00801a 1a55.shtml and the US Department of Homeland Security has recommended it: http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NIAC_HardeningInternetPaper_Jan05.pdf and yes, these are the same people that have installed the black boxes that the NSA has used to electronically eavesdrop on the Internet without a search warrant, as was just reported a week or so ago in the NYT, and caused Congress to kill the extension of the Patriot Act. So don't think that those large networks aren't listening to the Feds - by contrast they are actively helping the Feds to spy on us!!! To assert as Danial is doing that they aren't following the Feds when the Feds tell them to anti-spoof is absurd. IF when one of your lines goes down you are still online then you can load-balance outbound. IF you are multi-homed or have a working backup scenario, then you can load balance outbound. I am afraid though that none of that is useful to the OP who wanted to know if he could shoestring load balance to 2 different ISP's for an Internet Cafe. Unless I am quite mistaken, Internet Cafe's are mainly inbound bandwidth consumers. There is much discussion on the trade-offs of ingress address filtering, and many believe its the old cut off your nose to spite your face. There WAS much discussion about 5 years ago when the Land worm hit, as I recall. There is very little today. Anyone authoratative strongly recommends it, and I know that some neworks are even now requiring ISP customers to do it. MANY isp's (such as the one I work for) automatically
Re: Load Balancing: How Busy are the servers?
Marc G. Fournier wrote: 1. What variables on a server should be monitored to determine how busy a server is? For instance, I've always been taugth that 'loadavg' is not an indication of how busy a server is, since a high loadavg on a single CPU server might be an overloaded server, but moderately loaded on a dual CPU server ... If the load average is greater than the number of CPU's, it's likely that adding another CPU would improve throughput. If the load average is more than twice the # of CPU's it's extremely likeing that adding more CPUs would improve throughput. disk i/o, cpu usage, ethernet throughput ... what else? The primary resources are CPU, memory, and I/O. If you measure the ones you've listed and pay attention to the VM stats, you should have a starting point. Don't forget to pay attention to running out of disk space, SysV shmem semaphores, and anything else which is being used by the tasks being run. 2. Are there any tools that I can run to give me a point in time summary of how busy a server is based on these several factors? vmstat 5 and iostat 5 come pretty close, but you have to calibrate some of the I/O measurements it returns against the maximum throughput possible for each specific system. Basically, I'd like to keep track of multiple servers and be able to say this server is running 75% of capacity, time to upgrade or move things off of it ... if its possible ... ? Take a look at Big Brother, www.bb4.org?, it will at least give warnings for high load average, disk space, and so forth. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ker.ipc.maxpipekva error again and again
Imran Imtiaz wrote: I am getting the following messages again and again, why it is accuring and how can I correct and track it? Dec 27 00:48:00 darkstar kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) You might look at ps or top for lots of stuck processes generated by something which are blocking. Basicly, the system has a limit on how much memory can be used to connect stages of pipelines between processes. Take a look at sysctl kern.ipc, or more specificly: sysctl kern.ipc | grep kva -- -Chuck PS: man tuning is likely to be informative. :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ker.ipc.maxpipekva error again and again
Imran Imtiaz wrote: actually i am running some graph generating scripts this is because of them but it doesn't happened all the time so how can i correct it ? Adjust or serialize your scripts, or recompile the kernel with more KVA allocated to pipes. See the Handbook about rebuilding the kernel, and man tuning. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendmail X port
I don't see Sendmail X available as a port or package. I'm interested in trying this version because it's the first to eliminate the horribly cryptic system of m4 macros, classes, and address parsing rules that configured earlier versions. Is there a reason why it's not available as a package or port for FreeBSD? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: backups spanning tapes help
Hi Brent, The BSD tar that is in FreeBSD cannot span tapes, you have to use gtar. (GNU tar) the old original tar in FreeBSD was gtar, then they renamed tar to gtar, and added in a BSD tar (that is unencumbered code) man gtar should tell all you need. Also a note on your 8MM, 14gb compression is a salesman's fantasy. I think they use test files that must contain 100,000 binary 1's to get those numbers. Your more realistic to expect about 10GB with the tape hardware compression or even 9GB. Also, files like mp3's and jpgs are already compressed so you gain nothing with hardware compression on those. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brent Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 5:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: backups spanning tapes help We use a freebsd box that has a old 8mm library drive attached that we use for backups..my question is these tapes hold 7gigs native or 14 gig compressed ..One i cant seem to get compression going so i was wondering how do you span tapes using tar ? Unless theres another way to do this thank you for your help Merry Christmas -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC --RIP Brother Dime-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.7/214 - Release Date: 12/23/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pkg_delete question
hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other packages. how can I do it? can I pkg_delete -r xxx? thanks. -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_delete question
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other packages. how can I do it? can I pkg_delete -r xxx? thanks. yes you can, ls -al /var/db/pkg find your package name, and execute: pkg_delete -r package_name -- Dmitry Sidorov PEM QA Engineer SWsoft, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 864582 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_delete question
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other packages. how can I do it? can I pkg_delete -r xxx? thanks. yes you can, ls -al /var/db/pkg find your package name, and execute: pkg_delete -r package_name thanks for your reply. but doesn't pkg_delete -r xxx use to delete all packages that depend on the xxx? what I wanna delete are those packages that xxx depend on. any ideas? -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_delete question
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:10, Yuan Jue wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other packages. how can I do it? can I pkg_delete -r xxx? thanks. yes you can, ls -al /var/db/pkg find your package name, and execute: pkg_delete -r package_name thanks for your reply. but doesn't pkg_delete -r xxx use to delete all packages that depend on the xxx? what I wanna delete are those packages that xxx depend on. any ideas? To delete ports that none depend on try: sysutils/portmanager portmanager -slid -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BSD Question's.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malcolm Kay Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rod person; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Cadence have a wide range of products some of which run on Windows platforms. But you will be struggling to do much with Full Custom on XP. There are some alternatives offered on FreeBSD -- admittedly inferior to the top Cadence products but also at less than 10% of the licensing costs. I thought the discussion was about desktop software not business software; but even so if your business is IC design then I would think a good CAD suite was pretty essential. Frankly, Malcolm, I find it far more interesting to learn about the niche software that runs poorly on Windows and well on UNIX. Talking about programs like Acrobat that everyone uses is a pretty dull and worn out subject. We all know Acrobat works better on Windows, ho hum, can we please move on? As you so eloquently reminded us here, not every task done on a computer is done with the top 20 most popular programs in the world. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Palm (Zire) and /dev/ucom0 on 6.0
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:58:00AM -0500, DW wrote: I then type: # pilot-xfer -p /dev/cuaU0 -b backup and I get: Listening to port: /dev/cuaU0 Please press teh HotSync button now Works fine for me with Palm TE2. You need press HotSync button and wait a little. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:18, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions residing on a FreeBSD computer.) The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same computer. Andrew Gould * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to both of the WinXP machines without any problems. I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however. It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when FreeBSD was in this type of configuration. Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too bad that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it instead of dual booting. Just my 2¢. Gerhard, Just to clear up a point. In your case, Samba is not writing to NTFS. it is handling the communications between the 2 operating systems using the SMB protocol. The individual OS' handle to filing system input/outputs. The issue with FreeBSD reading and writing to NTFS directly is different. There is a driver that will allow FreeBSD to read NTFS, but because of the complexities of NTFS writing to it is dificult and whilst possible can cause the NTFS partition to become unreadable by XP. For info the best way of setting up dual booting of FreeBSD and XP is to use 3 partitions, 1 for XP using NTFS, 1 for FreeBSD and a 3rd Fat32 partition for data transfer. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop Note on FreeBSD?
On Monday 26 December 2005 01:09, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 01:35, Yuan Jue wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 00:15, you wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 00:54, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all is there any software that like Rainlender on Windows? I need to make some notes sometimes, and i think it would be much better if the notes could be always shown on the desktop to remind me. Kontact is great, but not at this point :( Do you perhaps mean something like kde's knotes? thanks for your reply. knotes does its work, but not that well as Rainlender. I mean its look and interface. can knote be transparent? Sure, kwin can make any application transparent. It appears that knotes on my system just magically is translucent, probably because it is a dock window, but you can set this more specifically for knotes by setting window specific settings for the window class knotes. Hope this helps, I have found some theme in superkaramba which exactly fulfill my demand. it is KaOrganizer. thank you all! -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New IDE drive in old PC
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. This PC is working well for me and I don't want to upgrade it. However I would like to add a lot of disk space. So my question is, can I go out and buy a new 300 GB (or whatever) IDE disk and attach it to the secondary IDE controller and hope to use all 300 GB? I will still use the old disk for booting and to hold the OS. The new disk will be just for data. If this will just work how do I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? Robert, If you had to jumper the boot disk for it to work with the BIOS of the motherboard, then the chances are that you would have to do the same with the 2nd hard drive. ISTR that ASUS produced updated BIOS' for most of their motherboards to get around this. Have a look at their website to see if there is and upgrade. There is also a area on the site for questions such as yours. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp nologin problem
I am running ProFTPD 1.2.10 on my bsd server but the problem is that if a user don't have a shell and I've defined his shell as nologin then the ftp server does not logon and give the following error C:\Documents and Settings\Asifftp 192.168.0.3 Connected to 192.168.0.3. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.10 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [192.168.0.3] User (192.168.0.3:(none)): db.backup 331 Password required for db.backup. Password: 530 Login incorrect. Login failed. ftp tell me how can I correct this problem cause I don't want to give user a shell. Regards, Imran Imtiaz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_delete question
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:21, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:10, Yuan Jue wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: hello, all I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other packages. how can I do it? can I pkg_delete -r xxx? thanks. yes you can, ls -al /var/db/pkg find your package name, and execute: pkg_delete -r package_name thanks for your reply. but doesn't pkg_delete -r xxx use to delete all packages that depend on the xxx? what I wanna delete are those packages that xxx depend on. any ideas? To delete ports that none depend on try: sysutils/portmanager portmanager -slid thanks. it works very well :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipwcontrol load firmware on boot
Dear lists; I tried to do network auto configuration by DHCP with integrated Intel Pro Wireless 2100 wlan device (ipw2100). I have trouble when load firmware with ipwcontrol on boot. Initialitation script (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ipw.sh) always execute after network init (specify in rc.conf). Is there any way to make ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f /usr/local/share/ipw-firmware/ipw.fw command execute before network init. ? Please help. regards reza ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]