Re: NGE Network Driver Problem.
On 25-Aug-06, at 14:37, Robert Huff wrote: After doing some digging, I've found that there was a patch applied to RELENG_6, modifying the sk driver to ignore my revision of card, and instructing the re driver to attach. This is probably why it works for Robert and not for me; he's probably running 6 something, while I'm still on 5 STABLE. That machine is -CURRENT, and was at the time of the hardware change. NB: at the time this happened, the pci scan code did not automagically connect the card to the re driver; however, forcing the loading of if_re.ko did the trick. Just for archival purposes, in case others need this; I solved my problem by pulling the modifications from RELENG_6 into my local source, and recompiling my kernel with the drivers included. I don't seem to require the kernel module like Robert does, as the driver attaches and initializes when compiled right in. The files to look at are: if_re.c, if_sk.c, if_skreg,h, and if_rlreg.h. Thanks for your help Robert. -- Jeremy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Commercial Software
Hi, I quote you from your page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also encouraged to contact us. I am a software writer, my website is http://www.shankar-software.org I want to port my business software to other operating systems. Linux seemed the obvious first choice. After studying it for the past one month I am completely vexed by the gnu licenses covering their glibc libraries. It seems that if I want to port my software to linux, I have to write my own libc libraries (which is a highly time consuming effort) or not-object to giving my software under terms that almost strips me of all rights. Some of the frustrating aspects of the LGPL terms are: a) I must allow the end user to modify my work for their own use (should picasso allow the buyers of his paintings to alter it if it doesn't suit their taste?) b) I must allow reverse engineering for debugging even if source is not provided. (should or would an artist allow his artwork to be corrected by his customers?) I want to port my software to the freebsd os. Now my question to you are these. 1) Can I keep my software closed source, proprietary? 2) Do you have any C library that will ease the porting of my software to freebsd that I can statically link to, which is not covered by LGPL or any such nonsense. After the royal treatment that we commercial developers receive under windows, entering other oses seem prohibitively time consuming because: 1) Commercial interests are discouraged. One linux user said if I copy protect my system, I will have no takers under linux. So I said fine, linux then does not need me I will go where I am welcome and where I am allowed to protect my interests. The price of anything depends on its need. If my software is very much needed people will take it even if it is closed source and proprietary and copy protected. After all there are a lot of buyers for my closed source, proprietary, copy protected windows version of my software. If it is not needed then people will not take it even if it is free and open source. Ask business users about their ERP source code customization project disasters and if they still would like to have the source code. They will vehemently say no. They want software that will work, that will solve their headaches, that will solve their problems. All these does not necessarily come with free source code. The popularity of an operating system depends on the number of applications (commercial or otherwise) that are available for it. Microsoft understands this very very well. When windows 3.0 was released Bill Gates rolled in a big trolley full of software packages that would run on windows 3.0 on to the stage. That led to the success of windows 3.0 where windows 1.0 and windows 2.0 failed due to lack of applications on it. 2) Porting help like libraries, programming documentation like MSDN is next to non existent or are most difficult to find. 3) There is no Platform SDK complete with all libraries, compilers, header files that encourages developers without stripping them naked. In fact the windows operating system is itself one huge library with thousands of functions that we can call directly. Compared to that huge library of functions, glibc libraries and even the entire linux system seems pitiful, in addition to being unusable by commercial entities. Please let me know if you have a c library for interacting with your operating system that is under the BSD license or something similar. Let me know even if it is still under development, maybe I can lend an helping hand with its completion. Shankar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail and Proper Authentication
Go into sendmail.cf set DSmail.example.org (where mail.example.org = the hostname of your ISP's mailserver) Let me put it this way for you. ISP's these days are taking a lot of steps to prevent people from setting up little servers in their homes and directly sending SMTP mail from them. One way of doing this is by not setting up PTR records for IP numbers assigned to end users. Users can setup hostnames in their own domains at places like dydns.org and such, and have all the forward records they want - but more and more large ISP's like gmail are refusing to accept mail from IP addresses without PTR records. There are many other ways besides the admittedly crude method above. The upshot is that it's better for the rest of us on the Internet to force end users as much as possible to relay outbound mail through their ISP's. If you want to directly process outbound mail yourself, then your going to have to do a LOT more reading up on current spamfighting methods before you attempt to do this. Receiving inbound e-mail is the easy part. No ISP cares if any of their customers setup to receive mail directly. (or at least, no decently run ones does) Hell, if you take mail directly it frees up their CPU power and disk space on their mailserver. But sending it is a whole different animal. Within another 5 years it is going to get to the point that the only inter-domain e-mail that will flow on the Internet is from ISP to ISP. Save yourself a huge headache and pass your outbound mail to your ISP's mailserver, that's what it's there for. Ted - Original Message - From: Nicholas Ink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: Sendmail and Proper Authentication Hello all. I have been using FreeBSD for several months now, and have been configuring it as a multipurpose server. I've installed a web server, database, and a handful of other utilities. I also have now been attempting for some time to configure an e-mail service - with Sendmail. Although everything seems to work fine with receiving e-mail, I have had significant trouble with sending it. For example, I have been trying to send an e-mail from my FreeBSD server to my Gmail account. The first problem I experienced was that there a host name lookup failure for gmail.com, which I have subsequently corrected by adding the line: gmail.com smtp:[smtp.gmail.com] to /etc/mail/mailertable. However, there is still a problem, when I try to send an e-mail, /var/log/maillog says: Aug 23 23:18:08 arches sm-mta[1049]: k7O3I7K2001049: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=397, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv6, relay=localhost [IPv6:::1] Aug 23 23:18:16 arches sm-mta[1051]: STARTTLS=client, relay=gmail-smtp.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA, bits=168/168 Aug 23 23:18:16 arches sm-mta[1051]: k7O3I7K2001049: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1007/0), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:08, mailer=smtp, pri=30397, relay=gmail-smtp.l.google.com. [66.249.83.111], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable Aug 23 23:18:16 arches sm-mta[1051]: k7O3I7K2001049: k7O3IGK2001051: DSN: Service unavailable where arches is my host name. I can't understand why it continues to say Service unavailable when I know Gmail is not experiencing any downtime or anything else. Is this some sort of spam filter? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Sincerely, Nicholas Ink ___ 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: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000
Give it up. First, you need to set Windows or DOS in the BIOS setting not SCO. SCO sets up the SMP table all wrong. that should also fix the mem reporting problem. But the big problem is that the ida driver crapped up support for EISA cards some time ago. I keep meaning to setup a test Proliant and bug the ida driver author to fix it, but I have never got round tuit. If you can find a PCI compaq raid card you might get somewhere. Ted - Original Message - From: Lee Shackelford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:27 AM Subject: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000 Good morning dear FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a Compaq Proliant 5000. The computer is equipped with four Pentium Pro processors clocked at 200 mhz and with a Smart 2/P hardware-RAID array. The BIOS indicates that the first two processors have failed. They are actually okay, but there is something wrong with their socket on the motherboard. The following sequence is being quoted from human memory. I ran SmartStart with the request to install S.C.O. OpenUnix. Of the operating systems supported by SmartStart, this one sounded the most similar to FreeBSD. Then I rebooted with the CD containing FreeBSD 6.1 in the SCSI CD-ROM reader. To my surprise, the computer booted off of the CD-ROM. Initially, the screen displayed in black-and-white. When a list box appeared, I entered the request for a command prompt. The monitor immediately displayed a command prompt. I entered the following commands: load ida load sym set Hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set Hw.physmem=1048576K boot The fourth command was entered because the boot program does not correctly interpret the memory size from the information transferred to it from the BIOS. Then a lengthy list of device drivers either installed, or failed-to-install, scrolled down the face of the monitor, still in black-and-white. Then the screen displayed a blue background, and a colored message appeared saying probing for devices. Then it displayed a message to choose a country code. The display delayed response to keyboard entries by two minutes or more for each keystroke. I selected United States. Several minutes later, the list box disappeared, and screen became blank blue. One-half hour later, another list box displayed which gave the user choices of the type of install desired. There was absolutely no response on the screen to any keyboard entry. What am I doing wrong? Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. Yours truly, Lee ___ 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: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved.
- Original Message - From: Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:46 AM Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved. At 12:50 25.08.2006, David J Brooks wrote: Back in the Jurassic era, when typewriters still roamed the earth, it was a convention to leave a double-space following a period so that the reader could more easily distinguish the end of a sentence. With the advent of word processors (and proportional fonts) this double-spacing convention lapsed. My guess is that the code for SSH was written by someone who learned to type on a typewriter, or was taught by someone who learned to type that way. David -- Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base. Thanks for the information Mr. Brooks, and I see you messed up the subject line :) I just hope somebody with the know-how can submit a patch. I'm sure that will get prioritized right up top with the patch to change the text color on the screen to green, to be more historically accurate for a UNIX console. Seriously, if someone were to make a large spelling error/typo patch with a hundred or so typo corrections on it, there might be some interest. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A webhosting script?
- Original Message - From: Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:44 AM Subject: RE: A webhosting script? At 19:09 25.08.2006, Tamouh H. wrote: There are many control panels that do these sort of things. Some are free, others are not. Check WebMin, cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, H-Sphere, RAQdevil.and tons more. Hello Tamouh, yeah I know man but this is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. Not only are the visual and cognitive designs of these solutions so bad I'd rather get shot in the head than using them, they're also highly unnecessary. I agree that some of the tasks they help people do might be too advanced for the average Joe but this is really not the way to go. Before you start shooting down these solutions let an old hand here give you some advice. I am the top technical dog at a regional ISP here. Recently we acquired a snaller ISP. This ISP was obviously run by someone who thought like you do. I am in charge of the integration of their systems into our systems. We use webmin as a front end for our adminstrative stuff. This ISP we bought uses a custom-written solution. It is your typical webinterface on PHP that yakks to a mysql database. A series of scripts on the back end run every few minutes, sucking changes out of the mysql database and distributing them to the various systems, like the mailserver, authentication servers, etc. Among one of the little gems I discovered a week after we bought them was that the smart guy that wrote the front end had made a very simple little programming error. It was buried in the transfer script that is supposed to keep the mail and radius servers in synchronization with the mysql server. This front end has been in operation for years. It is at the point now were the mysql system is so far out of sync with the actual devices that there are -HUNDREDS- of customers getting free service that were turned off for non-payment, there are even more hundreds of customers listed in the accounting system that aren't in the actual systems, yadda yadda yadda. It is a holy fucking mess. So bad that in fact I'm doing a complete rush job on ash-canning all their systems and getting the customer base folded into our systems as quickly as possible. When you consider that all these freeloaders affected the ISPs calculations of how much circuit capacity they needed to buy, you might begin to understand the gravity of the situation. We are talking many thousands of dollars spent on keeping pipes from being overloaded by buying ever more circuit capacity, while meanwhile the revenue coming in kept going down. The only good thing about it was that I am pretty sure all this was why we were able to buy the ISP at all. If it had been run properly, they would have been much less interested in selling, I am sure. It is very much for want of a nail the war was lost. Solutions like Webmin that everybody uses may not look pretty. But they have thousands of administrators like me in the world who are banging on them, finding these little mistakes and getting the corrections put into the maintainers. There is absolutely no fucking way in hell that you, working alone in your little office, can even hope to approach the level of debugging that a program like Webmin has gone through. Everybody that runs an ISP or web farm today that knows their ass from a hole in the ground has scrapped their custom-written solutions and gone to a widely-used solution, whether commercial or open source, unless they are maybe the size of AOL. And I'd much rather not be working for an ISP like AOL that's losing more money every year than all the readers of this list put together would make in a lifetime. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 6.1-RELEASE
I have one of these running mail right now. Here's what I found: 1) The onboard ethernet chip driver in 6.1-release is buggy and will panic the system. Install and don't enable ethernet. Download the current bge driver from CVS, copy to a floppy, copy from floppy to server, recompile kernel. 2) Turn off the onboard SATA raid in BIOS, it uses adaptec microcode that isn't supported. If you want mirrored raid, there's a procedure that you can do to get it. 3) for some weird reason the system will hang during boot for up to TWO MINUTES. After it gets done doing whatever it's doing, it will continue booting. Install normally, don't do anything special. BIOS settings should be normal. Ted - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 6:14 PM Subject: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 6.1-RELEASE Having problems booting my new 320 G4 after successfully installing from CD. The CD install went fine, the first boot was normal, but the second and all subsequent boots hang right after the WARNING setting entropy source to blocking mode. Keyboard is dead and the machine appears locked up. Right now it's on the screen wanting to enter the seed for SSHD, but it hangs on even when you don't enable SSHD during install. any suggestions? I've tried to disable ILo by turning off the Legacy USB support. FYI, VGA console and regular PS2 keyboard hooked up. Any help would be most appreciated. Just bought 4 of these guys for a project. Bill ___ 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: Code beautifiers, anyone?
On 8/26/06, James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
inbuffer = re.sub('\n +', '\n', inbuffer) # Strip trailing whitespace
This will strip spaces at the _beginning_ of line (leading spaces).
Except, possibly, lines that begin at the first byte of the buffer,
such as the first line of the file, and any other lines that happen to
land across the buffer boundary just so.
Nice catch. I hadn't thought about that.
-Matti
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Re: compress films
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:47:33AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi BSDers, I am running freebsd 6.1/amd64. I sometimes download films and they are quite large, like 1.4GB or something. I want to make it smaller by using mencoder, the script I use is as such: mencoder ddd.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=352:240 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=48 -o ggg.avi But sometimes the ggg.avi can still be a little larger than 700mB, is there any more optimization I can do, or use other app to do this better?? many thanks!! I use avidemux2 to compress videos. It has many options, one of which is to restrict the maximum size of the output video. Thanks, Tobias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When will KDE4 be in the ports tree?
Steven Lake wrote: Just curious when to start expecting to see KDE4 in the ports tree for Freebsd. From the reports I've been seeing, it's pretty close to being released soon. So the curiosity bug bit me and I decided to ask here. :) Most likely it will be available shortly after it is officially released. According to what is available on the KDE site, that might not be for quite a while yet. You would probably do better asking the KDE people regarding a release date. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Right-to-Left Language Support
In FreeBSD, is there good support for right to left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just a quick reminder to all those that have installed /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats ... pre-v3.0 clients no longer work, due to the changes that were made to the database ... please upgrade, and run, the new version available in ports ... Also, as another reminder, the first run of the script after upgrading will take ~15 minutes to run ... there is a 15 min sleep in the script that is enforced at the server end ... Right now, we are at ~40% of the hosts that we were before v3.0, and I'm still seeing database hits on the *old* database, indicating that ppl are still running the old client :( BTW, for those that haven't looked recently at http://www.bsdstats.org ... the US is, of course, leading the pack with ~20% of the installed FreeBSD servers (a whole 129 servers) ... Germany following a close second with ~15% ... And, Canada (my country) is woefully in 5th place with 4% ... come on folks, we need to get all of the numbers up ... Hi, I just upgraded the thing to v3.0_3 and when executing I get: : not found To protect against abuse, the initial challenge/response phase contains a 15 minute pause. Please be patient while this time limit elapses Not sure what happens with that : not found. I also commented sleep 900 line. Waiting for 15 mins is a bit too long. Oh, and Chile is missing again. Thanks for this project Marc! Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : not found To protect against abuse, the initial challenge/response phase contains a 15 minute pause. Please be patient while this time limit elapses Not sure what happens with that : not found. I also commented sleep 900 line. Waiting for 15 mins is a bit too long. That doesn't work. The server also enforces the limit, and your attempt to bypass it will result in you not being registered. See the archives, where this was already discussed once. Just background the job and work on something else until it finishes. -- Bill Moran Also, I can kill you with my brain. River Tam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When will KDE4 be in the ports tree?
On 8/26/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Lake wrote: Just curious when to start expecting to see KDE4 in the ports tree for Freebsd. From the reports I've been seeing, it's pretty close to being released soon. So the curiosity bug bit me and I decided to ask here. :) Most likely it will be available shortly after it is officially released. According to what is available on the KDE site, that might not be for quite a while yet. I would like to see a kde4-devel port... IIRC the first KDE4 developer builds have already been released. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
Bill Moran wrote: Not sure what happens with that : not found. I also commented sleep 900 line. Waiting for 15 mins is a bit too long. That doesn't work. The server also enforces the limit, and your attempt to bypass it will result in you not being registered. See the archives, where this was already discussed once. Just background the job and work on something else until it finishes. Thanks for the info. Uncommented those lines and re-executed the thing (no 15 mins of waiting though) and 3 out of 4 boxes managed to appear in the stats. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail
On 25 Aug 2006, at 19:20, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: If someone was to re-write a step by step guide for Sendmail on FreeBSD, it would take far more than a single email response. You should definitely start by reading, at least, the following: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ sendmail.html For available configuration options and the functionality they implement, you can also look at: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README The Sendmail FAQ is also a valuable resource, and it is available online at: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/index.html In general, what you have as a goal is something that works like this: work +--+ related+--+ | | messages | | | Sendmail | | Company's Mail | | | | Gateway | | Running| | | | as | +--+ | a local| | MTA | | | ==. | || other +--+ +--+| messages | | || Mail Gateway | `= | of your | | Internet | | Provider | | | +--+ This is very easy to do in FreeBSD. You just have to run `make' once in the `/etc/mail' directory. This will create two files, called: HOSTNAME.mc HOSTNAME.submit.mc where `HOSTNAME' is your local host name. You can configure Sendmail, by following the instructions in the Handbook, the help in the README file of the Sendmail macros, at `/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README', and making configuration changes to `HOSTNAME.mc'. You can direct all outgoing email from `localhost' to the mail gateway of your ISP, by reading the comments in `/etc/mail/HOSTNAME.mc' and enabling the `SMART_HOST' feature. Hey thanks a mill Giorgos Will read up on this. Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Software
shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a software writer, my website is http://www.shankar-software.org I want to port my business software to other operating systems. Linux seemed the obvious first choice. After studying it for the past one month I am completely vexed by the gnu licenses covering their glibc libraries. It seems that if I want to port my software to linux, I have to write my own libc libraries (which is a highly time consuming effort) or not-object to giving my software under terms that almost strips me of all rights. Some of the frustrating aspects of the LGPL terms are: a) I must allow the end user to modify my work for their own use (should picasso allow the buyers of his paintings to alter it if it doesn't suit their taste?) In many countries the buyer of a painting is already allowed to do that anyway. b) I must allow reverse engineering for debugging even if source is not provided. So what? How many of your customers can do that, and how many of those that can, care about what you allow or not? (should or would an artist allow his artwork to be corrected by his customers?) Why should the artist care after she got the money? I want to port my software to the freebsd os. Now my question to you are these. 1) Can I keep my software closed source, proprietary? Yes. 2) Do you have any C library that will ease the porting of my software to freebsd that I can statically link to, which is not covered by LGPL or any such nonsense. Depends on the definition of such nonsense, but in general the BSD licenses are less restrictive than the (L)GPL. After the royal treatment that we commercial developers receive under windows, entering other oses seem prohibitively time consuming because: 1) Commercial interests are discouraged. One linux user said if I copy protect my system, I will have no takers under linux. So I said fine, linux then does not need me There are more than one GNU/Linux users, the one you talked to doesn't speak for the rest of them. I will go where I am welcome and where I am allowed to protect my interests. The price of anything depends on its need. If my software is very much needed people will take it even if it is closed source and proprietary and copy protected. After all there are a lot of buyers for my closed source, proprietary, copy protected windows version of my software. If it is not needed then people will not take it even if it is free and open source. Ask business users about their ERP source code customization project disasters and if they still would like to have the source code. They will vehemently say no. They want software that will work, that will solve their headaches, that will solve their problems. All these does not necessarily come with free source code. But having the source code available is never a disadvantage. The popularity of an operating system depends on the number of applications (commercial or otherwise) that are available for it. Microsoft understands this very very well. When windows 3.0 was released Bill Gates rolled in a big trolley full of software packages that would run on windows 3.0 on to the stage. That led to the success of windows 3.0 where windows 1.0 and windows 2.0 failed due to lack of applications on it. 2) Porting help like libraries, programming documentation like MSDN is next to non existent or are most difficult to find. Are you only talking about GNU/Linux here? At least on the BSDs there is programming documentation available by default, and if you write clean C, porting shouldn't be a problem either. 3) There is no Platform SDK complete with all libraries, compilers, header files that encourages developers without stripping them naked. In fact the windows operating system is itself one huge library with thousands of functions that we can call directly. There are several cross-platform SDKs available that run on Windows, GNU/Linux and the BSDs. If you use one of them, porting should be easy or not even necessary. Compared to that huge library of functions, glibc libraries and even the entire linux system seems pitiful, in addition to being unusable by commercial entities. GNU/Linux seems to be usable enough for a lot of commercial entities. Some of them successfully sell proprietary dongled software that's even more expensive than yours is. If your software is as special as you think it is, you shouldn't have any problems finding new buyers. Please let me know if you have a c library for interacting with your operating system that is under the BSD license or something similar. Let me know even if it is still under development, maybe I can lend an helping hand with its completion. While FreeBSD's libc is BSD licensed, your program looks like it requires a lot of Windows specific functions. It's probably easier to port it to one of the cross-platform SDKs and have the program run on nearly every OS,
Re: [Mpd-users] pptp networking question
gahn wrote: wiht two default gateways, of course i could not connect to anywhere. how could i fix this? i just want to connect pptp server and get one ip address (192.168.2.10/24) with no default route on the pptp interface. This is a windows-side question.. I think windows does this (i.e., adding a default route for pptp connections) automatically. Not sure if there is any way to fix it (but I don't know much about windows). -Archie __ Archie Cobbs *CTO, Awarix* http://www.awarix.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why does a 15.5gb partition show up as 500MB?
Hello, When mounting the 15,5GB root partition of an old 17GB ATA harddrive, df -h tells me it is only 479MB. This is what I did: I installed FreeBSD on the 17GB ATA harddrive, so I later could copy some files onto it from my main 150GB S-ATA. The plan is to retire the 17GB ATA at this Pentium 133MHz over at the form. So I plugged the 17GB ATA into my Pentium 3,2GHz's DVD-ROM IDE cable, which is the only IDE cable available other than that of my DVD-RW. I installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE using the network install via boot floppies. I made a 1500MB swap partition, and the remaining 15,5GB into root /. I know jamming all that space into one single partition is a big no no, but for this purpose I let it slide. FreeBSD, minimum installatino, installed without any difficulties. Then it was time to copy the files I needed from the 150GB S-ATA. I can only boot the 150GB S-ATA, the 17GB ATA doesn't want to boot as long as the 150GB S-ATA is attached. I managed to mount the 17GB ATA, however df -h informs me that it is only 479MB? How can this be? It might be a geometry issue, yeah? But how do I fix it? Thanks, Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Not sure what happens with that : not found. I also commented sleep 900 line. Waiting for 15 mins is a bit too long. That doesn't work. The server also enforces the limit, and your attempt to bypass it will result in you not being registered. See the archives, where this was already discussed once. Just background the job and work on something else until it finishes. Thanks for the info. Uncommented those lines and re-executed the thing (no 15 mins of waiting though) and 3 out of 4 boxes managed to appear in the stats. Yes -- so long as more than 15 minutes has gone by since your first attempt to register, the second one will proceed instantaneously using the same token. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Errors with Dovecot
FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE Dovecot 1.0 rc2 Postfix 2.4 I recently installed Dovecot on my system to act as an LDA and POP server. I have a simple mbox setup running with Postfix. Dovecot works as a POP server, but will not operate an an LDA. When I attempt to use it as such the mail gets hung up in the mail queue. This is from the dovecot log file: deliver(jerry): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.whitehat.football.net.1928.e70d4dd9d14583ce) failed: Permission denied deliver(jerry): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/jerry: Permission denied This log continues with the same error message for each message it attempts to deliver. Postfix can deliver the mail without any problems however. I cannot seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. I assume someone else in this forum is also using Dovecot as an LDA. Perhaps they can enlighten me. Thanks! Jerry __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: : not found To protect against abuse, the initial challenge/response phase contains a 15 minute pause. Please be patient while this time limit elapses Fixed ... Not sure what happens with that : not found. I also commented sleep 900 line. Waiting for 15 mins is a bit too long. Oh, and Chile is missing again. Because you removed the 15 minute delay :) Run it now and you'll see Chile pop back up ... the 15 minute delay is enforced on the server side :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Software
On 8/26/06, shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I quote you from your page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also encouraged to contact us. I am a software writer, my website is http://www.shankar-software.org I want to port my business software to other operating systems. Linux seemed the obvious first choice. After studying it for the past one month I am completely vexed by the gnu licenses covering their glibc libraries. It seems that if I want to port my software to linux, I have to write my own libc libraries (which is a highly time consuming effort) or not-object to giving my software under terms that almost strips me of all rights. Use QT: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt If you buy a commercial license from trolltech you can do whatever you want with your software, plus QT runs on every popular OS; Qt/Windows, Qt/X11, and Qt/Mac. The KDE project uses QT. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I915 3d acceleration - picture shifts
В сообщении от 26 августа 2006 03:58 вы написали: vvp wrote: I use FreeBSD 6.1 on HP nx6110 laptop. After fresh installation the drm module for i915 didn't work. I've found a patch for i915 to make it work. After that 3d acceleration is works, but I've got another issue:when running KDE screensavers, picture is shifted up. That is probably not a drm driver issue as I saw similar thing on a SuSE linux box with i810 graphics chipset. Have anyone ever seen a solution? You gotta be more specific with what you do and what you have: Did you update sources? when? have you tried to load the load modules? (should be in /boot/kernel.old/). Version of X? updated? did it work before updating? It might be a passing error, try to update again and see if it has been resolved. Things can also be related to xorg. Versions? updates? I use i915/drm xorg loads the modules automatically, I don't even need to think, it just works, from a fresh install of 6.1 and since then regular updates - to solve other problems. I don't know about 3D accelleration - I don't even know if it is enabled, but things look good... and supposedly I can share memory to make use of RAM, I don't know if I have that - really I don't care as long as things look good... Cheers, Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Figured it out
Don't you just hate it that when you type out a long question you figure it out for yourself ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: : not found To protect against abuse, the initial challenge/response phase contains a 15 minute pause. Please be patient while this time limit elapses Fixed ... Not sure what happens with that : not found. I also commented sleep 900 line. Waiting for 15 mins is a bit too long. Oh, and Chile is missing again. Because you removed the 15 minute delay :) Run it now and you'll see Chile pop back up ... the 15 minute delay is enforced on the server side :) Thanks for that Marc. I've got another issue. I registered 4 machines but only 3 appear on the list. One of them is being behind another one through NAT. Could this be the problem? Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail
On Friday 25 August 2006 16:00, eoghan wrote: Hello Im using sylpheed for my mail (its work mail). Having some issues sending from their smtp server to non-work accounts. I have sendmail installed but I have never used it before and am wondering if I can use this through my local machine to send my mail? Thanks Eoghan You can, but I would advise you not to do it if you are sending from an ordinary isp account ip address, i.e. one where the reverse dns shows something clearly autogenerated rather than an meaningful server name. About 70% of all spam, and very little legitimate mail, comes from such addresses, so it's becoming a very easy target for aggressive spam filtering. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Racoon - Disable debug loggin?
Hi, I've compiled racoon (IPSec-Tools / FreeBSD Ports) various times with --disable-debug Debug messages keeps ending up in syslog :( How can I disable the debug output??? Regards, Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Thanks for that Marc. I've got another issue. I registered 4 machines but only 3 appear on the list. One of them is being behind another one through NAT. Could this be the problem? Check /var/db/bsdstats, let me know what the KEY value is for the 4 machines ... before you do, try re-running all 4, to make sure that the '4th' didn't get re-run within the 15 minute period ... NAT won't (or, rather, shouldn't) be a factor, since we aren't basing things on the IP itself ... but, all 4 KEYs for your machines should be distinct ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ports cvsup failure
I just set up a new cvsup server, using the cvsup-mirror port. I can use it to update everything that I need but the ports collection. It fails like this: Parsing supfile ports-supfile Connecting to cvsup.meadwestvaco.com Connected to cvsup.meadwestvaco.com Server software version: SNAP_16_1h Negotiating file attribute support Exchanging collection information Establishing passive-mode data connection Running Updating collection ports-all/cvs Detailer failed: Network write failure: Connection lost Will retry at 16:07:17 This happens both on remote machines, and locally on the cvsup machine itself. I see the following in dmesg: pid 1618 (cvsupd), uid 1002: exited on signal 10 Can anyone sugest where to start looking for this problem? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Building ports with sorces on a local mirror?
I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of machines behind a very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is very slow). What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software to create a local mirror of the FreeBSD site, including the distfiles for the ports tree. Is thee a way to get the ports build system to look for distfiles on this local mirror? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipfilter on 6.1
I got a full load of 6.1p4 installed and all built. I have pppoe and ipfilter running almost perfect. Clients can use the machine (as a router) and get out perfectly! No issues with network performance at all. I am very pleased...until... I found out that the router itself cant get out 100%. My ipconfig is basically this: bge0 - 10.43.82.174 alias 10.43.82.171 - for bind9 views alias 10.43.82.51 - for bind9 views bge1 - connected to dsl modem well I cant even telnet from the machine to itself! 'destination unreachable' DNS requests from the server itself (to itself - it runs bind) are unanswered yet it is able to fully answer requests from internal or external clients...just not itself! If I use a public DNS server -or- use the IP of the machine I want to connect up to, the router is able to get out and uses the correct IP. I used the same configs from solaris on here (ipf.conf and ipnat.conf) and only needed to change sppp0 to tun0. this should take care of anything the machine itself needs: ipf.conf== # Pass LAN traffic to/from bge0 pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # Pass traffic to WAN and keep state pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp all flags S keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto udp all keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto icmp all keep state keep frags == I am totally baffled. Its like I am being blocked somehow but even with ipfilter WIDE open - traffic still wont pass. I am wondering if this is some quirk with the interface aliases...although running the basic same setup on solaris - it works perfectly. -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Software
On 2006-08-26 13:00, shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I quote you from your page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also encouraged to contact us. I am a software writer, my website is http://www.shankar-software.org I want to port my business software to other operating systems. Linux seemed the obvious first choice. After studying it for the past one month I am completely vexed by the gnu licenses covering their glibc libraries. It seems that if I want to port my software to linux, I have to write my own libc libraries (which is a highly time consuming effort) or not-object to giving my software under terms that almost strips me of all rights. Some of the frustrating aspects of the LGPL terms are: a) I must allow the end user to modify my work for their own use (should picasso allow the buyers of his paintings to alter it if it doesn't suit their taste?) No, you are not required to do this for all programs that merely use the services provided by the LGPL. Term (5) of the LGPL explicitly states that: A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or linked with it, is called a work that uses the Library. Such a work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and therefore falls outside the scope of this License. b) I must allow reverse engineering for debugging even if source is not provided. (should or would an artist allow his artwork to be corrected by his customers?) I don't agree with the parallel and comparison with artists, but what is the explicit part of the LGPL that makes you think this is a requirement? I want to port my software to the freebsd OS. Great :-) You are more than welcome, of course. Now my question to you are these. 1) Can I keep my software closed source, proprietary? Yes. 2) Do you have any C library that will ease the porting of my software to freebsd that I can statically link to, which is not covered by LGPL or any such nonsense. The system version of libc in FreeBSD is not distributed under the terms of the LGPL. Please see the copyright statements in our web site: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/index.html After the royal treatment that we commercial developers receive under windows, entering other oses seem prohibitively time consuming because: 1) Commercial interests are discouraged. One linux user said if I copy protect my system, I will have no takers under linux. So I said fine, linux then does not need me I will go where I am welcome and where I am allowed to protect my interests. The price of anything depends on its need. If my software is very much needed people will take it even if it is closed source and proprietary and copy protected. After all there are a lot of buyers for my closed source, proprietary, copy protected windows version of my software. If it is not needed then people will not take it even if it is free and open source. Ask business users about their ERP source code customization project disasters and if they still would like to have the source code. They will vehemently say no. They want software that will work, that will solve their headaches, that will solve their problems. All these does not necessarily come with free source code. All this is irrelevant in the context of the BSD license. You are, essentially, free to do whatever you wish, other than sell FreeBSD itself and say that you did all the work. The popularity of an operating system depends on the number of applications (commercial or otherwise) that are available for it. Microsoft understands this very very well. When windows 3.0 was released Bill Gates rolled in a big trolley full of software packages that would run on windows 3.0 on to the stage. That led to the success of windows 3.0 where windows 1.0 and windows 2.0 failed due to lack of applications on it. Most of FreeBSD users are highly uniniterested in what Windows wants or Windows users like paying for. We like getting the job done, and if a BSD OS can do it, that's what we use. For example, Windows can do whatever it pleases, as far as I am concerned. I don't really care about the reasons why other people like paying huge amounts of money for buing something that runs as part of Windows or on Windows itself. 2) Porting help like libraries, programming documentation like MSDN is next to non existent or are most difficult to find. Are you sure? The BSD operating systems are famous for their level of documentation and the support they provide to users who are programmers themselves too. 3) There is no Platform SDK complete with all libraries, compilers, header files that encourages developers without stripping them naked. In fact the windows operating system is itself one huge library with thousands
Re: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror?
Look at the cvs-mirror port... Regards, Chris. - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror? I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of machines behind a very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is very slow). What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software to create a local mirror of the FreeBSD site, including the distfiles for the ports tree. Is thee a way to get the ports build system to look for distfiles on this local mirror? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ 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: ipfilter on 6.1
On 2006-08-26 15:02, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a full load of 6.1p4 installed and all built. I have pppoe and ipfilter running almost perfect. Clients can use the machine (as a router) and get out perfectly! No issues with network performance at all. I am very pleased...until... I found out that the router itself cant get out 100%. My ipconfig is basically this: bge0 - 10.43.82.174 alias 10.43.82.171 - for bind9 views alias 10.43.82.51 - for bind9 views bge1 - connected to dsl modem well I cant even telnet from the machine to itself! 'destination unreachable' DNS requests from the server itself (to itself - it runs bind) are unanswered yet it is able to fully answer requests from internal or external clients...just not itself! If I use a public DNS server -or- use the IP of the machine I want to connect up to, the router is able to get out and uses the correct IP. I used the same configs from solaris on here (ipf.conf and ipnat.conf) and only needed to change sppp0 to tun0. this should take care of anything the machine itself needs: ipf.conf== # Pass LAN traffic to/from bge0 pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # Pass traffic to WAN and keep state pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp all flags S keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto udp all keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto icmp all keep state keep frags == I am totally baffled. Its like I am being blocked somehow but even with ipfilter WIDE open - traffic still wont pass. I am wondering if this is some quirk with the interface aliases...although running the basic same setup on solaris - it works perfectly. Don't show us the ipf.conf file you are using, but the output of: % ipfstat -hni % ipfstat -hno Then we can really know what rules you have loaded in IP Filter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Thanks for that Marc. I've got another issue. I registered 4 machines but only 3 appear on the list. One of them is being behind another one through NAT. Could this be the problem? Check /var/db/bsdstats, let me know what the KEY value is for the 4 machines ... before you do, try re-running all 4, to make sure that the '4th' didn't get re-run within the 15 minute period ... Yep, re-ran all 4 of them and these are the results: Machine #1: KEY='075cab6e3f3999dfc9d53ba9ba3fdee0' Machine #2: KEY='29da5d0f6b866d9e656448c5aff53da9' Machine #3: KEY='ce8011da3ce748c3e82cc4787e839ce7' Machine #4: KEY='d219c42fca591f6c82251722261b497a' Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror?
On Saturday 26 August 2006 15:35, Chris Knipe wrote: Look at the cvs-mirror port... Regards, Chris. - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror? I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of machines behind a very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is very slow). What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software to create a local mirror of the FreeBSD site, including the distfiles for the ports tree. Is thee a way to get the ports build system to look for distfiles on this local mirror? The cvs-mirror port won't download the distfiles for all of the ports. Depending on how 'slow' your link is that could be a very daunting task. The MASTER_SITES environment variable is probably what you want. man ports for the details. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
port tk84 won't upgrade properly on AMD64 system
Hi all, I'm having problems upgrading my port tk84 on a amd64 machine. I'm using cvsup and portupgrade to accomplish that and it fails with: Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84/work/tk8.4.13/unix. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade4543.1 env PORT_UPGRADE=yes make ** Fix the problem and try again. --- Skipping 'math/R' (R-2.2.1_1) because a requisite package 'tk-8.4.11,2' (x11-toolkits/tk84) failed (specify -k to force) ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11-toolkits/tk84 (tk-8.4.11,2) (linker error) * math/R (R-2.2.1_1) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 16 ignored, 1 skipped and 1 failed What can I do to solve this? Brgds __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror?
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:53:36PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Saturday 26 August 2006 15:35, Chris Knipe wrote: Look at the cvs-mirror port... Regards, Chris. - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror? I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of machines behind a very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is very slow). What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software to create a local mirror of the FreeBSD site, including the distfiles for the ports tree. Is thee a way to get the ports build system to look for distfiles on this local mirror? The cvs-mirror port won't download the distfiles for all of the ports. Depending on how 'slow' your link is that could be a very daunting task. True, but at least it's automated (with the perl based mirror script). The MASTER_SITES environment variable is probably what you want. man ports for the details. OK, Ill check that out. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
At 03:40 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Don't show us the ipf.conf file you are using, but the output of: % ipfstat -hni % ipfstat -hno Then we can really know what rules you have loaded in IP Filter. # ipfstat -hni 2 @1 pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # ipfstat -hno 1 @1 pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags 1 @2 pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any flags S/FSRPAU keep state keep frags 1 @3 pass out quick on tun0 proto udp from any to any keep state keep frags 0 @4 pass out quick on sppp0 proto icmp from any to any keep state keep frags ...they seem to match exactly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
At 04:05 PM 8/26/2006, J.D. Bronson wrote: # ipfstat -hni 2 @1 pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # ipfstat -hno 1 @1 pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags 1 @2 pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any flags S/FSRPAU keep state keep frags 1 @3 pass out quick on tun0 proto udp from any to any keep state keep frags 0 @4 pass out quick on sppp0 proto icmp from any to any keep state keep frags ...they seem to match exactly. ahh..so I saw a typo aboveso I changed that from 'sppp0' to 'tun0' but it make no differenceI thought I was onto something. -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Booting gvinum fails: missing /dev/gvinum/* device entries
I'm running 6.1R (amd64) on a system, and recently added more drives. I decided I would eventually migrate my root system off the existing drive (/dev/ad0a) to use a gvinum root (/dev/gvinum/root) filesystem and eventually remove the old hard drive altogether. The two added drives (ad1 and ad2) are labeled (with bsdlabel) identically like this: # size offsetfstype a: 4194039 2814.2BSD b: 4194394 4194320 vinum c: 6251424480unused d: 4194304 16 vinum e: 616753824 8388624 vinum The gvinum configuration looks like: # Drives for the root gvinum RAID-1 volume: drive a1 device /dev/ad1d drive a2 device /dev/ad2d # # Drives for the swap gvinum RAID-1 volume: drive b1 device /dev/ad1b drive b2 device /dev/ad2b # # Drives for the usr gvinum RAID-1 volume: drive c1 device /dev/ad1e drive c2 device /dev/ad2e # # RAID-1 volume for root: volume root plex org concat sd length 0 drive a1 plex org concat sd length 0 drive a2 # # RAID-1 volume for swap: volume swap plex org concat sd length 0 drive b1 plex org concat sd length 0 drive b2 # # RAID-1 volume for usr: volume usr plex org concat sd length 0 drive c1 sd length 0 drive c2 Once the gvinum volumes were created, new filesystems created, and mounted temporarily on /mnt and /mnt/usr, I added a line to loader.conf in the new drives' future /boot directory containing 'geom_vinum_load=YES'. Oh, and the new drives' future /etc/fstab contains: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/gvinum/swap none swapsw 00 /dev/gvinum/root / ufs rw 11 /dev/gvinum/usr /usr ufs rw 22 Oh, boot blocks were also written to both drives before the gvinum volumes were set up using bsdlabel -b. Now for the test. I rebooted, changing the boot order in BIOS so the first drive, ad1 (instead of ad0) was the boot source. THE PROBLEM: No matter what I tried, booting always failed at the point of mounting the root filesystem. I would be kicked to a mountroot prompt. Any attempts at mounting root from ufs:/dev/gvinum/root failed. Even if I loaded geom_vinum.ko by hand during boot to be absolutely sure gvinum was loaded, this failed. At mountroot, the gvinum devices did not show up at all. So I fell back and mounted /dev/ad0a (my old non-gvinum drive) as root. That worked. kldstat showed that indeed geom_vinum.ko WAS successfully loaded. But when I looked in /dev nothing for gvinum showed up there. It was empty. The gvinum list command showed all my gvinum volumes working, but there were NO entries in /dev. No wonder I was unable to mount /dev/gvinum/root -- There was no device entry. So what's the deal? Any suggestions? Is there something I need to compile in my kernel? If I boot off my old drive and only load the geom_vinum.ko module by hand at the command-line by using the gvinum command, the entries in /dev/ DO appear normally. Puzzled, frustrated, Aaron out. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
On 2006-08-26 16:05, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:40 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Don't show us the ipf.conf file you are using, but the output of: % ipfstat -hni % ipfstat -hno Then we can really know what rules you have loaded in IP Filter. # ipfstat -hni 2 @1 pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # ipfstat -hno 1 @1 pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags 1 @2 pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp from any to any flags S/FSRPAU keep state keep frags 1 @3 pass out quick on tun0 proto udp from any to any keep state keep frags 0 @4 pass out quick on sppp0 proto icmp from any to any keep state keep frags ...they seem to match exactly. Weird. This doesn't seem ot include *ANY* block rules at all. Is this a standard 6.1 installation, or do you have local IP Filter modifications (like, for instance, a modified 'default' rule which blocks everything, instead of allowing everything)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: When will KDE4 be in the ports tree?
On Saturday 26 August 2006 07:37, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/26/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Lake wrote: Just curious when to start expecting to see KDE4 in the ports tree for Freebsd. From the reports I've been seeing, it's pretty close to being released soon. So the curiosity bug bit me and I decided to ask here. :) Most likely it will be available shortly after it is officially released. According to what is available on the KDE site, that might not be for quite a while yet. I would like to see a kde4-devel port... IIRC the first KDE4 developer builds have already been released. A Qt 4 port could be good as well. Qt 4 is very stable, and (finally) peacefully co-exists with earlier versions. -- David Johnson [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: ipfilter on 6.1
At 05:07 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Weird. This doesn't seem ot include *ANY* block rules at all. Is this a standard 6.1 installation, or do you have local IP Filter modifications (like, for instance, a modified 'default' rule which blocks everything, instead of allowing everything)? Yes and no. I did build a kernel with BLOCK as a default... but my IPF rules are pass it all with no specific blocking... My next step was to try a kernel without the block, but I cant see how that should matter...since I 'am' allowing it out...? -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Thanks for that Marc. I've got another issue. I registered 4 machines but only 3 appear on the list. One of them is being behind another one through NAT. Could this be the problem? Check /var/db/bsdstats, let me know what the KEY value is for the 4 machines ... before you do, try re-running all 4, to make sure that the '4th' didn't get re-run within the 15 minute period ... Fixed ... all four were in there, but one had '' listed for country code ... I've updated the database ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Racoon / IPSec-Tools, disable debug logging?
Hi, I've compiled racoon (IPSec-Tools / FreeBSD Ports) various times with --disable-debug Debug messages keeps ending up in syslog :( How can I disable the debug output??? Regards, Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
On 2006-08-26 17:10, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:07 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Weird. This doesn't seem ot include *ANY* block rules at all. Is this a standard 6.1 installation, or do you have local IP Filter modifications (like, for instance, a modified 'default' rule which blocks everything, instead of allowing everything)? Yes and no. I did build a kernel with BLOCK as a default... but my IPF rules are pass it all with no specific blocking... Well, there's your problem then. If you are using a modified kernel with block as the default action for IP Filter, hten you have to *EXPLICITLY* allow traffic to travese the loopback interface, which you haven't done. Your current ipf.conf includes: # Pass LAN traffic to/from bge0 pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # Pass traffic to WAN and keep state pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp all flags S keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto udp all keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto icmp all keep state keep frags Try reverting the local IP Filter changes that modify the default policy to block and use something like this instead: + # Block everything by default. + block in log from any to any + block out log from any to any + + # Allow everything on lo0. + pass in quick on lo0 from 127.0.0.1/32 to 127.0.0.1/32 + pass out quick on lo0 from 127.0.0.1/32 to 127.0.0.1/32 # Pass LAN traffic on bge0 interface. pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # Pass outgoing traffic to WAN and keep state pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp all flags S keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto udp all keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto icmp all keep state keep frags Please pay particular attention to the rules marked with '+' above. This may explain why in a previous post you wrote: On 2006-08-26 15:02, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clients can use the machine (as a router) and get out perfectly! No issues with network performance at all. I am very pleased...until... I found out that the router itself cant get out 100%. My ipconfig is basically this: bge0 - 10.43.82.174 alias 10.43.82.171 - for bind9 views alias 10.43.82.51 - for bind9 views bge1 - connected to dsl modem well I cant even telnet from the machine to itself! 'destination unreachable' DNS requests from the server itself (to itself - it runs bind) are unanswered yet it is able to fully answer requests from internal or external clients...just not itself! If I use a public DNS server -or- use the IP of the machine I want to connect up to, the router is able to get out and uses the correct IP. You are implicitly blocking all traffic on the lo0 interface (by the modified default policy to block all traffic, and missing an explicit rule to allow lo0 traffic). When a system tries to connect to itself, it uses lo0/127.0.0.1 and this is not possible with your setup. I hope this helps a bit, -- Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats Project: A quick reminder ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Thanks for that Marc. I've got another issue. I registered 4 machines but only 3 appear on the list. One of them is being behind another one through NAT. Could this be the problem? Check /var/db/bsdstats, let me know what the KEY value is for the 4 machines ... before you do, try re-running all 4, to make sure that the '4th' didn't get re-run within the 15 minute period ... Fixed ... all four were in there, but one had '' listed for country code ... I've updated the database ... Thanks! -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
At 05:19 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You are implicitly blocking all traffic on the lo0 interface (by the modified default policy to block all traffic, and missing an explicit rule to allow lo0 traffic). When a system tries to connect to itself, it uses lo0/127.0.0.1 and this is not possible with your setup. I hope this helps a bit, -- Giorgos Oh geezI cant believe I forgot lo0. HOW STUPID. I will edit this and take another look at it. once I have this working..I still want to figure out why pf was not happy. Thanks for pointing this out guys...I feel foolish, but glad someone told me. -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
On Saturday, August 26, 2006 at 8:02:10 PM, J.D. confabulated: I got a full load of 6.1p4 installed and all built. I have pppoe and ipfilter running almost perfect. Clients can use the machine (as a router) and get out perfectly! No issues with network performance at all. I am very pleased...until... I found out that the router itself cant get out 100%. My ipconfig is basically this: bge0 - 10.43.82.174 alias 10.43.82.171 - for bind9 views alias 10.43.82.51 - for bind9 views bge1 - connected to dsl modem well I cant even telnet from the machine to itself! 'destination unreachable' DNS requests from the server itself (to itself - it runs bind) are unanswered yet it is able to fully answer requests from internal or external clients...just not itself! If I use a public DNS server -or- use the IP of the machine I want to connect up to, the router is able to get out and uses the correct IP. I used the same configs from solaris on here (ipf.conf and ipnat.conf) and only needed to change sppp0 to tun0. this should take care of anything the machine itself needs: ipf.conf== # Pass LAN traffic to/from bge0 pass in quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags pass out quick on bge0 all keep state keep frags # Pass traffic to WAN and keep state pass out quick on tun0 proto tcp all flags S keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto udp all keep state keep frags pass out quick on tun0 proto icmp all keep state keep frags == I am totally baffled. Its like I am being blocked somehow but even with ipfilter WIDE open - traffic still wont pass. I am wondering if this is some quirk with the interface aliases...although running the basic same setup on solaris - it works perfectly. Did you build the kernel with the 'IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK'? If so, you would have to have two allowances at the end for anything else that didn't match the other rules: pass in all pass out all Being you are using 'quick', the processing stops when a match is found. If no match is found and you have IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK enabled, everything else would be blocked. I made this mistake when I set IPFilter up the first time and it was in a colo facility over 800 miles away. -- This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
On 2006-08-26 17:48, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:19 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You are implicitly blocking all traffic on the lo0 interface (by the modified default policy to block all traffic, and missing an explicit rule to allow lo0 traffic). When a system tries to connect to itself, it uses lo0/127.0.0.1 and this is not possible with your setup. I hope this helps a bit, Oh geezI cant believe I forgot lo0. HOW STUPID. I will edit this and take another look at it. Cool! If this is indeed the fix, let us know :) If you also feel like it and you are not limited by contract or other things, I'd be interested to see how you modified IP Filter to make it use a block by default policy. Regards, Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
At 06:37 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Cool! If this is indeed the fix, let us know :) If you also feel like it and you are not limited by contract or other things, I'd be interested to see how you modified IP Filter to make it use a block by default policy. Regards, Giorgos This fixed it. WHEW! Simply adding this to my own kernel: options IPFILTER options IPFILTER_LOG options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK then: # ipf -V ipf: IP Filter: v4.1.8 (416) Kernel: IP Filter: v4.1.8 Running: yes Log Flags: 0 = none set Default: block all, Logging: available Active list: 0 Feature mask: 0xa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
On 2006-08-26 18:52, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:37 PM 8/26/2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Cool! If this is indeed the fix, let us know :) If you also feel like it and you are not limited by contract or other things, I'd be interested to see how you modified IP Filter to make it use a block by default policy. Regards, Giorgos This fixed it. WHEW! Great :) Simply adding this to my own kernel: options IPFILTER options IPFILTER_LOG options IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK Ok this was what I wanted to make sure :) then: # ipf -V ipf: IP Filter: v4.1.8 (416) Kernel: IP Filter: v4.1.8 Running: yes Log Flags: 0 = none set Default: block all, Logging: available Active list: 0 Feature mask: 0xa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
Ok guys...now that I have ipfilter working...I need to run a few commands in /etc/ppp/ppp;linkup and cant figure out the syntax... % cat /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup # It is no longer necessary to re-add the default route here as our MYADDR: ! sh -c /sbin/ipnat -CF -f /etc/ipnat.conf ! sh -c /sbin/ipf -F -f /etc/ipf.conf ! sh -c /sbin/ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.conf ! sh -c /sbin/ipf -y ...I also tried with !bg and that failed to. whats the best way to get these commands to run once my ppp link is up? thanks- -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
On 2006-08-26 19:46, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok guys...now that I have ipfilter working...I need to run a few commands in /etc/ppp/ppp;linkup and cant figure out the syntax... % cat /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup # It is no longer necessary to re-add the default route here as our MYADDR: ! sh -c /sbin/ipnat -CF -f /etc/ipnat.conf ! sh -c /sbin/ipf -F -f /etc/ipf.conf ! sh -c /sbin/ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.conf ! sh -c /sbin/ipf -y Watch out for that empty line, if it is *REALLY* part of your `ppp.linkup' script. Empty lines are section delimiters in ppp(8) config files. Thereis also no reason to run ipf _twice_! Please also note that I don't use sh -c to signal ntpd to start/stop from my ppp.linkup script and it all works fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# cat -n /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup 1 MYADDR: 2 ! /etc/rc.d/ntpd start [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# Maybe the whole sh -c and quoting stuff you are using is not really passed down to sh(1) but is parsed by ppp(8) when `ppp.linkup' is read? I am also not sure if it is a good idea to run ``ipnat -CF'' of ``ipf -Fa''. What about states of existing connections? If you momentarily lose the PPP connection, but it then comes up pretty fast, you are effectively dropping all previous connection information here, even though it may still be valid and useful. I'd go for the simpler syntax of: MYADDR: ! /sbin/ipf -y ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter on 6.1
At 07:59 PM 8/26/2006, you wrote: I'd go for the simpler syntax of: MYADDR: ! /sbin/ipf -y well that didnt work either. what a pain. :( tun0: Warning: /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup: ! /sbin/ipf -y: Invalid command perhaps its time to write a script and simply reference the script from ppp.linkup -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats
Figuring that for the purposes of these stats, driver stats might be too fine, I've just added a page breaking down hardware use by Vendor, eliminating the driver ... (ie. 161 3com devices in use, etc) ... there is a bug in the stats query used for this one, where I'm showing some 'blank lines' for devices ... not sure if its a missing device in pci_dev.txt or not, will investigate further ... Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... Really? Why is that neat? nVidia restricts your choices through their staunch refusal to provide open specs. They are not nice players in this game. At least there's some hope about ATI after the AMD deal. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 and FreeBSD 5.5
I tried installing FreeBSD 5.5 from the subscription CD on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300. I previously had FreeBSD 4.1 on this machine. All options in the boot menu hang at the same place (the last two are N/A in this case). I tried setting hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 and boot -v -c. Hangs. I tried loading the atapci_toshiba.ko module - same result. The last messages are: ata0:... ata0-master: stat=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata0-slave: stat=0x00 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata0: reset tp2 stat0=50 stat1=50 devices=0x1ATA_MASTER ata0: [MPSAFE] ata1: channel 1 on atapci0 atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid type 4 at 0x170 atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid type 4 at 0x376 -- hang forever or 10 minutes, whichever is longer. I remember reading something about the Satellite Pro models, but can't find it. Can anyone provide some information/guidance? tomdean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail to root
Hello: I have been getting this message in the mail box for root for the last several days. Can anyone tell me what this means. From operator@(host name) Sun Aug 27 08:11:00 2006 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:11:00 -0700 (PDT) -- the date and time is wrong, it is Sat the 26th. I've know his for a week or two but haven't changed it. From: operator@(host name) (Cron Daemon) To: operator@(host name) Subject: Cron operator@(host) /usr/libexec/save-entropy X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/ X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=operator X-Cron-Env: USER=operator ifconfig: not found ifconfig: not found I have eliminated the actual host name from the text. Unfortunately, there is not to my knowledge a comprehensive text that will offer an analysis of every possible mail message to root and what it means. I am learning. ifconfig is there, I used it to alias an interface as well as to display the current setup. The machine has been up as a web and dns server for 95 days and this message has just started showing up. I added the lines to rc.conf to set the aliases and rebooted the machine. The new aliases didn't show up with ifconfig so I added them with ifconfig ( I must have made a mistake in the rc.conf lines). The shell complained that using ifconfig rl0 inet (address) netmask (netmask) was a bad address. I removed 'inet' from the instruction and it was accepted. I assume that I have to remove that also from the rc.conf line. About this time the mail message came up again. Thanks in advance. JK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats
On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... Really? Why is that neat? nVidia restricts your choices through their staunch refusal to provide open specs. They are not nice players in this game. At least there's some hope about ATI after the AMD deal. Probably because the /good/ AMD boards use an nVidia chipsets. ( eg, the K8N) -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats
On 8/26/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... Really? Why is that neat? nVidia restricts your choices through their staunch refusal to provide open specs. They are not nice players in this game. At least there's some hope about ATI after the AMD deal. Probably because the /good/ AMD boards use an nVidia chipsets. ( eg, the K8N) What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how much overhead do they add to the project? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3
files. Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to 16k or 32k mp3 (or *.ogg or other format) audio files? thanks for any insights, sugggestions, or pointers, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3
On 8/27/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to 16k or 32k mp3 (or *.ogg or other format) audio files? thanks for any insights, sugggestions, or pointers, gary Normally voice files dont' need the sort of fidelity ur talking about. you can make do with a much lower bit rate though i can't give u a number. u have to test it with ur ears. there are plenty of tools out there that give u what u want. sox is one and ffmpeg is another. i am sure there are many other that do as good a job. if i were u i woudnt go for ogg since it causes transcoding losses. If you had a wav file, ogg is ok but since u already have an mp3, ogg doesnt have enuf info to do a good job. HTH, Girish -- Education is an admirable thing but it is good to remember from time to time that anything that is worth knowing cannot be taught. - Oscar Wilde ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
