Setting up RAID-1 on 2 unequal disks
Hi all, I unfortunately have 2 uneuqally sized SATA disks to set up a mirrored shared folder: 80GB and 120GB. On the 120GB I plan to set up this way: /temp2GB (double the system memory) /shared80GB / 38GB I plan to mirror /shared onto the 80GB. It won't be bootable, but I can always mount it onto another FreeBSD machine. I've read some articles on mirroring on non-equal disks, notably: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ My question is: is there an easier way to do this? The example looks quiet daunting for a noobie FreeBSD admin like me. Appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poptop - how to configure?
Dear poptop users - Selon Rob Hurle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Abdullah, Thanks for that information: can you make sure that you put the pppd program at that location? because you said that you already tried directly to /usr/sbin/pppd or may be you can copy it to /usr/local/sbin On FreeBSD, the pppd that comes with the system is installed in /usr/sbin/pppd, and I tried that with the same result. There is another optional pppd in the ports (/usr/ports/net/pppd23) and that one installs in /usr/local/sbin/pppd. So I have tried them both, with identical results. Thanks for the info about the Fedora box. I'll look at that carefully and compare with mine. Note that both of your Kernel AND PPPD needs to support the MPPE encryption and optionnaly the MPPC compression. There should be an option to activate in your FreeBSD Kernel to support it - for PPPD I guess that the option is also available by using the port (with some compile option). (Why do not you migrate to the wonderful world of OpenVPN ? ;)) Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 AinslieCell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kind Regards ;) Philippe Laquet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?
On 11/6/06, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 06:48:28AM -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur to me that perhaps this question had been asked on the mailing list, but unfortunately it occurred to me after I sent it. So, basically the Apple team took FreeBSD and the CM micro-kernel, combined them, made some improvements and added some additional code and then used it all as the MAC OS X core (without the GUI of course)? Yes, basically. FreeBSD is free for the taking, so Apple took. Steve Jobs' NeXT team had a lot of familiarity with Mach, so they took from there also too. A good number of well known FreeBSD people now work for Apple, there are a number of FreeBSD device drivers shipping with MacOS X. On a lark I put an Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100B in my G4 Mac and everything simply magically worked. No driver install, nothing. who are the people that works in apple and also a freebsd developer now? With this being said, then does anyone have any experience with the stability and performance? Millions of MacOS X users. My guess is that if it is really based upon FreeBSD then the performance should be pretty good from my readings about FreeBSD compared to other operating systems. Having both I'd say not. FreeBSD performs better at most server-oriented tasks than the non-server tuned MacOS X. Have not used MacOS X Server. Am not familiar with the tuning tweaks in plain old Darwin. Remember the MacOS/Darwin kernel is greatly different from FreeBSD. Believe it was McKusik who said to the effect, The differnce between Linuxes is they all have the same kernel, everything else is different. The difference between BSDs is that they all have different kernels, everything else is the same. Is not exactly true but contains a lot of truth. MacOS X/Darwin is a recognized BSD variant. -- 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no buffer space available PROBLEM
all possible values bumped higher, netstat -m shows big reserves but i still sometimes get this message. using nmap for whole subnet is quite likely to trigger this, but other programs too. ifconfig interface down and then up fixes the problem for some time. any idea? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel?
Wouldnt it be a usefull exercise on an old laptop with not much horsepower ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel?
Wouldnt it be a usefull exercise on an old laptop with not much horsepower ? it's always useful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poptop - how to configure?
Hi Philippe, Thanks for your comment: Note that both of your Kernel AND PPPD needs to support the MPPE encryption and optionnaly the MPPC compression. There should be an option to activate in your FreeBSD Kernel to support it - for PPPD I guess that the option is also available by using the port (with some compile option). Seems to be standard with FreeBSD. (Why do not you migrate to the wonderful world of OpenVPN ? ;)) Ah, if only. Unfortunately I'm in a Dilbert situation. The previous system was pretty well trashed by my predecessor responding to pressure from The Big Man. I'm trying to pick up the pieces :-((( Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 AinslieCell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: [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: network analyse tool? To debug IMAP related problems
In response to 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I would wish to have a tool that would do this kind of thing: 1. listen on imap port on localhost, connect to localhost with my email client; 2. forward the traffic from/to/between real imap server; 3. meanwhile, print everything being transfer-ed, so that I can have a good ovewview of server-client conversation; I don't know what such kind of tool is usually called and thus difficult to do an effective google search. I tried a few tools in ports/net but none of them seems to be working in this way... (admit that I didn't look into pkg-descr of every package) This may or may not help you, depending on what part of the IMAP conversation you're trying to debug, but programs like KMail and Sylpheed have excellent protocol debugging features built right in. There's basically a log window where you can watch the entire conversation occur. This doesn't help if you're trying to debug IMAP client problems, though. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
On Monday 11 December 2006 01:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: listvj wrote: I'm interested in upgrading from 4.11 to 5.x. I currently track 4.x stable using cvsup, but I've never done a major version upgrade. First, should I bother? My hardware has dual pentium 1.13 processors with 1G ram (I'm considering maxing it out at 4). I host email and web sites for a few domains on this machine and I have four jails configured on it which will have to be upgraded too. I have users counting particularly on mail service not being down for too long. Other than the obvious advice to start with a good backup, can anyone tell me: 1) Will I gain a major benefit from upgrading 2) Where should I look for instructions / advice on upgrading 3) Also any general advice from personal experience. 4) Just how risky is this? Uh -- why upgrade to a branch (5.x) that has already had it's last release and is worse performing than both 4.x and 6.x? You should really be looking at upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE just as soon as it comes out (Real Soon Now). As for risk -- for various reasons you will be better off doing a clean install of 6.x and rebuilding your server from the ground up. It's no more risky than installing any other server -- unless you have some legacy binary-only application that you absolutely have to run, it is virtually certain to succeed. You biggest problem would seem to be the downtime required to do the update -- if you can manage it, probably the least consumer impact method is building the upgraded system on fresh disks on a scratch box, and then finishing the upgrade by a disk-swap. Which also has the added benefit that you have a ready-made back out path. Cheers, Matthew Matthew, I agree with your advice to build the new server with a clean install, if only to prevent any sendmail issues. But I'm not so sure I understand your assessment that 5.x is worse performing than both 4.x and 6.x. While I agree that 6.x is a great improvement in functionality over 5.x, I was not aware of the poor performance record of 5.x. Do you know of any links to benchmark tests, or other data, which would provide some more background on this? That kind of data would greatly influence my opinion in this discussion. Without it I'd be pleased to recommend 5.X, regardless of it's pending drop dead date, wrt support. I certainly see no need to chain myself to any software release cycle, nor, it seems, does the original poster. I'm in awe of his patience, and clearly he is satisfied with the product if he remains on 4.11. Thanks, lane ~Still running 5.x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X server remote login
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 09 Dec Tony Shadwick wrote: On the xserver, if you want it to happen automatically, you would put startx in your .login file. So if you wanted that flag passed, you would place startx -listen_tcp in your .login file. On the client side, you're running an x-client, I presume that gets started from /etc/rc.conf. There's probably something like xorg_enable=YES, and xorg_flags=blah, and you would put it in your xorg_flags statement. Xserver/Xclient side is still a bit confusing to me. What happens is, when I logon to a solaris machine I get a login screen on which I also can logon to remote machines graphicaly. I can even chose from a list there, because these remote machines broadcast themselves? All solaris machines are seen; my FreeBSD machines are not. The latter I want changed, so I can chose to logon to a FreeBSD (remote) machine from my solaris desktop machine. Hope this will clear things up a bit. As another user pointed out; what you're looking for is xdm. xdm is xorg's remote login screen, for lack of a better description; it's what will allow you to directly login to X from other stations, rather than via shell/startx. You might want to take a look at alternatives too - I use kdm, which is KDE's implementation of xdm, allowing you a little easier and a little more control over the login screen/appearence via KDE''s graphical configuration setup, but functionally the same as xdm. -- Nathan Vidican [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: VPN Solution for my current Situation.
perikillo wrote: Hi people. I want to know which is the best VPN solution i need to my current situation: 2 Offices 1 Mexico-Tijuana 1 E.U.-Otay Mesa(both in the border). In E.U. Offices with have: DNS+Firewall+Proxy Linux Mail Server Linux Samba Linux PBX Altigen Win NT ERP DBA Linux Backup FreeBSD. Mexico PBX Same system Samba ERP DBA(This is the busies from both sites) Backup FreeBSD 65 User 55 Mexico 10 E.U. 40 user in Mexico have mail account only 15 Internet access all the users in E.U have mail account Internet access. We share files, E.U. users access the ERP system in Mexico. If the users in Mexico need Internet, they have to reach the proxy in E.U. Both PBX systems have communication for company internal calls, external calls. All this communication of Voice and Data goes over one private link, but next year our contract is going to finish, them we need to negotiate the next contract. Another thing, is that we are planning to start the VoIP solution and see is we can remove our current PBX system with Asterisk. My questions es this: Supposed that we continue with the same Private Line, and we add another public line to do some VPN between both facilities if one link fail the other can continue(backup) or have both sharing the workload, with this workload which VPN solution is the best for my situation: IPsec, OpenVPN, etc? Speaking of FreeBSD, because there is where i want to deploy the VPN solution in Mexico, in E.U. we have there Linux, this can be problematic? Hope you understand my layout english, any advice is welcome, thanks all for your time!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mpd for FreeBSD... it just works. -- Nathan Vidican [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: Example network protocol implementation
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Vishal Patil wrote: Could someone point me to an example that shows a SIMPLE network protocol implemented over TCP/IP inside the FreeBSD kernel. I think I could look at the NFS client driver but is there an example simpler than that. Also is there a guide explaining how to go about developing TCP/IP based network protocols for FreeBSD. Thanks Here are some consumers of sockets in the kernel: - NFS client, which creates and connects both UDP and TCP sockets, uses them for I/O, etc. - NFS server, which uses UDP and TCP sockets for I/O. Unlike the NFS client, it doesn't open the sockets in kernel, rather, it relies on a user process (nfsd) passing validated sockets into the kernel. - System V streams (dev/streams), which uses socket pairs to implement streams. Does creation and I/O. - fifofs, which implements POSIX fifos using a pair of UNIX domain sockets. Again, does creation and I/O. - portalfs, which implements the portal file system using sockets. - ng_ksocket, which provides a netgraph interface to sockets in the kernel. - netncp, which provides an NCP RPC interface over SPX/IPX for nwfs. - netsmb, which provides an SMB RPC interface over TCP/IP for smbfs. - rpclnt, which is used by the nfs4client, and is functionally similar to the NFS client RPC code for NFS2/NFS3 in nfsclient. - bootp_subr.c and krpc_subr.c, which are used by the NFS root code to set up NFS access during a diskless boot: they perform the bootp exchange to retrieve an IP address, and then the necessary RPC mount protocol to query a root file handle to set up the NFS client for the file system root. All of these examples have upsides and downsides, and vary in maturity. I'd probably start by looking at the NFS client and fifofs. One of the biggest questions you'll need to answer is what your event model is and how it will relate to any worker threads you may have. Many of the in-kernel socket consumers use socket upcalls to get direct notifications of socket events from within the network stack, allowing for fast socket draining and TCP acking. On the other hand, in the netisr/ithread context, you can't perform blocking memory allocation and disk I/O, so if that will be involved, you'll need worker threads in the style of the NFS server. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trying to install jre
Hi, I try to install jre. pkg_add -r jre does not find the file /usr/port/java/jre/make gives an error message like: shared library c.3 not found compat3x-i386-5... is forbidden What can I do? Thanks Karl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to install jre
On 12/11/06, Karl Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to install jre. pkg_add -r jre does not find the file /usr/port/java/jre/make gives an error message like: shared library c.3 not found compat3x-i386-5... is forbidden What can I do? Try this one: /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to install jre
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 09:32:36 (AM) Karl Sinn wrote: I try to install jre. pkg_add -r jre does not find the file /usr/port/java/jre/make gives an error message like: shared library c.3 not found compat3x-i386-5... is forbidden I am assuming the the path: /usr/port/java/jre/make is a typo. It appears that you are attempting to install from a package. Have you tried installing it via the ports? You also might want to try creating a more complete log file. Something along these lines might do. script -ak ~/jre.log pkg_add -rv jre -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up RAID-1 on 2 unequal disks
I'd say use gvinum. It's a bit trickyactually, it's VERY tricky. You have to get the geometry of the shared volume precisely right on the 120GB drive to match the 80GB drive, then you can allocate the rest of the free space. Honestly, you *could* cheat here. :) I think Set up your 80GB drive. We'll call it /dev/ad0. Plug in your 120GB drive but don't do anything to it. We'll call it /dev/ad1. dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 Now, set up gvinum as though they were of the exact same geometry, and get your mirror going. Then, go back and modify the drive label of ad1, and allocate the rest of the space on that disk. You'll want to have gotten the REAL drive geometry of /dev/ad1 ahead of time, because (if I recall...) you're going to have to change c: to the correct geometry, then add partitions using space above and beyond what you have on ad0. Does that make sense at all? Perhaps you should work through setting up a normal gvinum mirror before going this route... Foo JH wrote: Hi all, I unfortunately have 2 uneuqally sized SATA disks to set up a mirrored shared folder: 80GB and 120GB. On the 120GB I plan to set up this way: /temp2GB (double the system memory) /shared80GB / 38GB I plan to mirror /shared onto the 80GB. It won't be bootable, but I can always mount it onto another FreeBSD machine. I've read some articles on mirroring on non-equal disks, notably: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ My question is: is there an easier way to do this? The example looks quiet daunting for a noobie FreeBSD admin like me. Appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks. ___ 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: VPN Solution for my current Situation.
Hi Selon Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED]: perikillo wrote: Hi people. I want to know which is the best VPN solution i need to my current situation: 2 Offices 1 Mexico-Tijuana 1 E.U.-Otay Mesa(both in the border). In E.U. Offices with have: DNS+Firewall+Proxy Linux Mail Server Linux Samba Linux PBX Altigen Win NT ERP DBA Linux Backup FreeBSD. Mexico PBX Same system Samba ERP DBA(This is the busies from both sites) Backup FreeBSD 65 User 55 Mexico 10 E.U. 40 user in Mexico have mail account only 15 Internet access all the users in E.U have mail account Internet access. We share files, E.U. users access the ERP system in Mexico. If the users in Mexico need Internet, they have to reach the proxy in E.U. Both PBX systems have communication for company internal calls, external calls. All this communication of Voice and Data goes over one private link, but next year our contract is going to finish, them we need to negotiate the next contract. Another thing, is that we are planning to start the VoIP solution and see is we can remove our current PBX system with Asterisk. My questions es this: Supposed that we continue with the same Private Line, and we add another public line to do some VPN between both facilities if one link fail the other can continue(backup) or have both sharing the workload, with this workload which VPN solution is the best for my situation: IPsec, OpenVPN, etc? Speaking of FreeBSD, because there is where i want to deploy the VPN solution in Mexico, in E.U. we have there Linux, this can be problematic? Hope you understand my layout english, any advice is welcome, thanks all for your time!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mpd for FreeBSD... it just works. The choice is up to you - We also use OpenVPN for site-to-site VPN SSL tunnels and it is also a good and easy solution. Authentication is based on X509 certificates for cross-authentication - With OpenVPN's multiple and fine-grained options. We have good performance with strong encryption options. The protocol (UDP) encapsulation is also a nice feature. The Linux-FreeBSD is not a problem at all. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philippe Laquet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
Lane wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 01:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: listvj wrote: I'm interested in upgrading from 4.11 to 5.x. I currently track 4.x stable using cvsup, but I've never done a major version upgrade. First, should I bother? My hardware has dual pentium 1.13 processors with 1G ram (I'm considering maxing it out at 4). I host email and web sites for a few domains on this machine and I have four jails configured on it which will have to be upgraded too. I have users counting particularly on mail service not being down for too long. Other than the obvious advice to start with a good backup, can anyone tell me: 1) Will I gain a major benefit from upgrading 2) Where should I look for instructions / advice on upgrading 3) Also any general advice from personal experience. 4) Just how risky is this? Uh -- why upgrade to a branch (5.x) that has already had it's last release and is worse performing than both 4.x and 6.x? You should really be looking at upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE just as soon as it comes out (Real Soon Now). As for risk -- for various reasons you will be better off doing a clean install of 6.x and rebuilding your server from the ground up. It's no more risky than installing any other server -- unless you have some legacy binary-only application that you absolutely have to run, it is virtually certain to succeed. You biggest problem would seem to be the downtime required to do the update -- if you can manage it, probably the least consumer impact method is building the upgraded system on fresh disks on a scratch box, and then finishing the upgrade by a disk-swap. Which also has the added benefit that you have a ready-made back out path. Cheers, Matthew Matthew, I agree with your advice to build the new server with a clean install, if only to prevent any sendmail issues. But I'm not so sure I understand your assessment that 5.x is worse performing than both 4.x and 6.x. While I agree that 6.x is a great improvement in functionality over 5.x, I was not aware of the poor performance record of 5.x. Do you know of any links to benchmark tests, or other data, which would provide some more background on this? That kind of data would greatly influence my opinion in this discussion. Without it I'd be pleased to recommend 5.X, regardless of it's pending drop dead date, wrt support. I certainly see no need to chain myself to any software release cycle, nor, it seems, does the original poster. I'm in awe of his patience, and clearly he is satisfied with the product if he remains on 4.11. Thanks, lane ~Still running 5.x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm on 4.11 because I'm lazy and chicken. The server is co-located so it isn't real convenient to do major upgrades. It might actually be easier and more cost effective (in terms of my time) to get a replacement box, set up 6.0 on it, and migrate. Btw, I'm sorry for posting this question twice. I posted the first one with the wrong email address. I was surprised (and disappointed) to see that the list accepted it as I did not subscribe to the list with that address. :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it safe to `make buildworld' while using ccache?
Dear list, I just got the 6.1-release stable src-tree merrily cvsup-ed, but it's weird the job of `make buildworld' stopped with some missing error related to the 'kvm'. (Forgive me, I can only offer this brief right now.) I've settled this problem with disabling the 'ccache' by purging its configuration lines from '/etc/make.conf' and afterwards everything is fixed. I wonder if somebody else also encountered with this frustrated combination. Regards, -- Zhongtao ZhuTel: 86 10 62796829 Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it safe to `make buildworld' while using ccache?
Zhongtao Zhu wrote: Dear list, I just got the 6.1-release stable src-tree merrily cvsup-ed, but it's weird the job of `make buildworld' stopped with some missing error related to the 'kvm'. (Forgive me, I can only offer this brief right now.) I've settled this problem with disabling the 'ccache' by purging its configuration lines from '/etc/make.conf' and afterwards everything is fixed. I wonder if somebody else also encountered with this frustrated combination. Regards, ccache has worked for me wonderfully on 3+ machines doing everything: ports, buildworld, kernels, etc. No issues at all does the ccache stuff show up first in your path statement? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X server remote login
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 09 Dec Tony Shadwick wrote: On the xserver, if you want it to happen automatically, you would put startx in your .login file. So if you wanted that flag passed, you would place startx -listen_tcp in your .login file. On the client side, you're running an x-client, I presume that gets started from /etc/rc.conf. There's probably something like xorg_enable=YES, and xorg_flags=blah, and you would put it in your xorg_flags statement. Xserver/Xclient side is still a bit confusing to me. What happens is, when I logon to a solaris machine I get a login screen on which I also can logon to remote machines graphicaly. I can even chose from a list there, because these remote machines broadcast themselves? All solaris machines are seen; my FreeBSD machines are not. The latter I want changed, so I can chose to logon to a FreeBSD (remote) machine from my solaris desktop machine. Hope this will clear things up a bit. As another user pointed out; what you're looking for is xdm. xdm is xorg's remote login screen, for lack of a better description; it's what will allow you to directly login to X from other stations, rather than via shell/startx. You might want to take a look at alternatives too - I use kdm, which is KDE's implementation of xdm, allowing you a little easier and a little more control over the login screen/appearence via KDE''s graphical configuration setup, but functionally the same as xdm. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not sure if this issue has been resolved, but I found that the 'Xstartup' file is missing from the xorg install of xdm ( /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm ). I found I needed this file to get xdm to properly login. If not, xdm will not allow remote connection to connect. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it safe to `make buildworld' while using ccache?
On Mon 11 Dec 2006 23:46, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zhongtao Zhu wrote: Dear list, I just got the 6.1-release stable src-tree merrily cvsup-ed, but it's weird the job of `make buildworld' stopped with some missing error related to the 'kvm'. (Forgive me, I can only offer this brief right now.) I've settled this problem with disabling the 'ccache' by purging its configuration lines from '/etc/make.conf' and afterwards everything is fixed. I wonder if somebody else also encountered with this frustrated combination. ccache has worked for me wonderfully on 3+ machines doing everything: ports, buildworld, kernels, etc. No issues at all does the ccache stuff show up first in your path statement? Nope! By wild guess did I point to 'ccache' and anyway the problem was solved, though. I also use the phenomenal 'ccache' all the time except this one. It's probably the 'ccache' isn't the scapegoat, maybe there's some other unsuitable setup in my system. I don't know whether or not I'm able to get it located. Thank you, Eric. Regards, -- Zhongtao ZhuTel: 86 10 62796829 Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it safe to `make buildworld' while using ccache?
Zhongtao Zhu wrote: On Mon 11 Dec 2006 23:46, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ccache has worked for me wonderfully on 3+ machines doing everything: ports, buildworld, kernels, etc. No issues at all does the ccache stuff show up first in your path statement? Nope! By wild guess did I point to 'ccache' and anyway the problem was solved, though. I also use the phenomenal 'ccache' all the time except this one. It's probably the 'ccache' isn't the scapegoat, maybe there's some other unsuitable setup in my system. I don't know whether or not I'm able to get it located. Thank you, Eric. Regards, check out the post install instructions for ccache and verify on your system. once you do that, it should work without issue. the ccache stuff has to be listed first in your path for it to work properly as far as i know. Good luck! Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to install jre
Hi, Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 16:16 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: Try this one: /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 In the ports collection is only diablo-jre13 which does not install. Error message like: diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_2 is forbidden. Vulnerabilities in the browser plugin What now? Karl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lveax wrote: On 11/6/06, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 06:48:28AM -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur to me that perhaps this question had been asked on the mailing list, but unfortunately it occurred to me after I sent it. So, basically the Apple team took FreeBSD and the CM micro-kernel, combined them, made some improvements and added some additional code and then used it all as the MAC OS X core (without the GUI of course)? Yes, basically. FreeBSD is free for the taking, so Apple took. Steve Jobs' NeXT team had a lot of familiarity with Mach, so they took from there also too. A good number of well known FreeBSD people now work for Apple, there are a number of FreeBSD device drivers shipping with MacOS X. On a lark I put an Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100B in my G4 Mac and everything simply magically worked. No driver install, nothing. who are the people that works in apple and also a freebsd developer now? There are quite a few, actually, that work for Apple and work on the FreeBSD project, and vice versa. The other day I was doing some random websurfing and came across an individual who did a significant amount of work porting over applications to Darwin for the Apple folks. This is just one of many devs who works for apple now and contributes back to the open-source community (note his accomplishments): http://www.advogato.org/person/wsanchez/ - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFfZb66CkrZkzMC68RAjAFAJ0ZByg0YvSjL/COBGJ4CZu5h0x+9ACbBoUu XZfVwy2BY7LcT4+5S+Qc6cY= =96BD -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to install jre
Hi, Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 16:20 schrieb Gerard Seibert: I am assuming the the path: /usr/port/java/jre/make is a typo. :-) This was maybenot clear. Of course I was in the path /usr/port/java/jre/ trying to execute make.. It appears that you are attempting to install from a package. Have you tried installing it via the ports? Both does not work. You also might want to try creating a more complete log file. Something along these lines might do. script -ak ~/jre.log pkg_add -rv jre I would like to but it's on another computer, and I don't want to copy the whole message. Is there any special part of the error message that you need? Karl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to install jre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Sinn wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 16:16 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: Try this one: /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 In the ports collection is only diablo-jre13 which does not install. Error message like: diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_2 is forbidden. Vulnerabilities in the browser plugin What now? Karl Why are you trying to install a Java 1.3.x package? Those are so horribly out of date (6-7 years old) that it's no wonder why it's been marked forbidden due to security issues. Try installing a 1.5 jre and a 1.4 jdk. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFfZep6CkrZkzMC68RAkh1AJ9mGNNlCw7IHJLtzar2Ti0iHXLwhwCfaCSl DtjE7Bce7NKXMFUkptQQyvM= =2z/K -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VPN Solution for my current Situation.
On 12/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Selon Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED]: perikillo wrote: Hi people. I want to know which is the best VPN solution i need to my current situation: 2 Offices 1 Mexico-Tijuana 1 E.U.-Otay Mesa(both in the border). In E.U. Offices with have: DNS+Firewall+Proxy Linux Mail Server Linux Samba Linux PBX Altigen Win NT ERP DBA Linux Backup FreeBSD. Mexico PBX Same system Samba ERP DBA(This is the busies from both sites) Backup FreeBSD 65 User 55 Mexico 10 E.U. 40 user in Mexico have mail account only 15 Internet access all the users in E.U have mail account Internet access. We share files, E.U. users access the ERP system in Mexico. If the users in Mexico need Internet, they have to reach the proxy in E.U. Both PBX systems have communication for company internal calls, external calls. All this communication of Voice and Data goes over one private link, but next year our contract is going to finish, them we need to negotiate the next contract. Another thing, is that we are planning to start the VoIP solution and see is we can remove our current PBX system with Asterisk. My questions es this: Supposed that we continue with the same Private Line, and we add another public line to do some VPN between both facilities if one link fail the other can continue(backup) or have both sharing the workload, with this workload which VPN solution is the best for my situation: IPsec, OpenVPN, etc? Speaking of FreeBSD, because there is where i want to deploy the VPN solution in Mexico, in E.U. we have there Linux, this can be problematic? Hope you understand my layout english, any advice is welcome, thanks all for your time!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mpd for FreeBSD... it just works. The choice is up to you - We also use OpenVPN for site-to-site VPN SSL tunnels and it is also a good and easy solution. Authentication is based on X509 certificates for cross-authentication - With OpenVPN's multiple and fine-grained options. We have good performance with strong encryption options. The protocol (UDP) encapsulation is also a nice feature. The Linux-FreeBSD is not a problem at all. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philippe Laquet. I see that OpenVPN is the first choice, i will try this port first latter continue with other ones. Thanks all for your answer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
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listvj wrote:
Lane wrote:
I agree with your advice to build the new server with a clean install,
if only to prevent any sendmail issues.
But I'm not so sure I understand your assessment that 5.x is worse
performing than both 4.x and 6.x. While I agree that 6.x is a great
improvement in functionality over 5.x, I was not aware of the poor
performance record of 5.x.
Do you know of any links to benchmark tests, or other data, which
would provide some more background on this?
That kind of data would greatly influence my opinion in this
discussion. Without it I'd be pleased to recommend 5.X, regardless of
it's pending drop dead date, wrt support. I certainly see no need
to chain myself to any software release cycle, nor, it seems, does the
original poster. I'm in awe of his patience, and clearly he is
satisfied with the product if he remains on 4.11.
Thanks,
lane
~Still running 5.x
I'm on 4.11 because I'm lazy and chicken. The server is co-located so
it isn't real convenient to do major upgrades. It might actually be
easier and more cost effective (in terms of my time) to get a
replacement box, set up 6.0 on it, and migrate.
Btw, I'm sorry for posting this question twice. I posted the first one
with the wrong email address. I was surprised (and disappointed) to see
that the list accepted it as I did not subscribe to the list with that
address. :(
As I was told, the list was open so they don't restrict email
addresses. They just have a fabulous spam catching system which only
admits spam on rare occasions it seems {gotta get a hold of their
spamassassin file :D).
Unfortunately, this is where having an uninstall and install
script would be more than handy on FreeBSD.. if someone could conjure up
a script like that, that would be safe to use-even remotely-then maybe
this wouldn't be so much of an issue.
- -Garrett
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help cvs server
hi all dear I need some help to setup cvs server whit laste update file in my Lan and other PC in my network use this server to update . which program can help my? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to install jre
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 12:35:21 (PM) Karl Sinn wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 16:16 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: Try this one: /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 In the ports collection is only diablo-jre13 which does not install. Error message like: diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_2 is forbidden. Vulnerabilities in the browser plugin What now? Karl I have /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 in my ports collection. When was the last time you updated the ports? -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmake upgrade
On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: gmake does not require gmake to build. If it did, how could you build it for the first time? At one point, someone had to do something like: for file in *.c do cc -O -c $file done cc -o gmake *.o What becomes more fun is trying to bootstrap something more fundamental to the compiler toolchain, such as the assembler... :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qemu Kqemu on FreeBSD 6.1
Unfortunately I need some stupid windows programs so I decided to install win2k in qemu on my laptop. It works well but I have a small question: when running qemu it gives an message it couldn't load kqemu. Allthough I did load the kernel module: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name snip 251 0xc3d78000 7000 aio.ko 261 0xc3e75000 1b000kqemu.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED] qemu -hda ~/qemu/win2k.qcom2 -localtime -net nic,vlan=0 -net user,vlan=0 Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /dev/ | grep kqemu kqemu0 As shown in the output from the last command, I do have a /dev/kqemu0 when starting qemu, when running it again I get a kqemu1 etc. But for some reason it seems the qemu expects a /dev/kqemu . What can I do about it ? -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question about gmirror?
Hi people. I have one system running FreeBSD 6.1-p11 i have there a Raid-1 setup with gmirror, is working very good stable, but i need to add another space not for the raid, is for the applicaction im running there like a temporal buffer, my doubt is: Can i add another disk to the system apart from the Raid? Example: Raid-1 -- ad0 + ad2 (/, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, swap) extra disk --ad3 (/buffer) I have this doubt only. Thanks all for your time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cannot Load FreeBSD 6.2 64 bit and maybe other versions as well
I am a newbie and have gone though past posts and have been looking at the last couple of weeks of posts go by. I have not seen anything similar to my problem. I cannot load an OS except under ACPI-Disabled. I can boot into safe mode, but cannot configure a working network interface. Therefore, I cannot send in a dmesg output. Here is some data I have gathered: Details a. SuperMicro X7DBR-8+ / X7DBR-I+ b. Intel 3.2 GHz Xeon dual core dual cpu, K8 class cpu c. BIOS - Phoenix (just upgraded to 1.2A from 1.1C) The upgrade has had no affect on this problem as far as I can tell. d. Dual Ethernet - Intel Pro/1000 Network Connection Version 6.2.9. em0 is IRQ 5 at device 0.0 on pci4. em1 is IRQ 11 at device 0.1 on pci4. Also, when I am booted in safe mode, in dmesg, there is an entry em IRQ 10 at device 2.0 on pci5. e. SCSI - Adaptec version 4.3. AIC 7902 Ultra 320, PCI-X ID=7 f. One 73 GB Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI hard drive, Model ST3207LC. I have tested this and another drive out without any media errors. The Adaptec adapter sees the drive and capacity fine. g. When I try to boot normally, the messages scroll by and the system freezes at: waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle h. When I disable ACPI either under the BIOS's settings or select Disable ACPI when loading FreeBSD, the system loads but I cannot get the ethernet interface to come up. ifconfig shows all the right values. I have also used route delete default and route add default ip of gateway - to no avail. There is a message which pops up saying em0: watchdog timeout - resetting Looking into dmesg output, I see: em0 link state changed to UP and em0 link state DOWN repeat over and over again. i. 1 GB ram and have tested it with memtest 86 without any errors. My Gut a. Something is causing a good old fashioned IRQ conflict. I have 1 drive and 1 cdrom on this machine. b. The SCSI ACPI79xx driver is not there or not loading Hoping I am looking for a nudge in the right direction. -- Yudhvir Singh Sidhu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up RAID-1 on 2 unequal disks
On Monday 11 December 2006 03:47, Foo JH wrote: Hi all, I unfortunately have 2 uneuqally sized SATA disks to set up a mirrored shared folder: 80GB and 120GB. On the 120GB I plan to set up this way: /temp2GB (double the system memory) /shared80GB / 38GB I plan to mirror /shared onto the 80GB. It won't be bootable, but I can always mount it onto another FreeBSD machine. I've read some articles on mirroring on non-equal disks, notably: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ My question is: is there an easier way to do this? The example looks quiet daunting for a noobie FreeBSD admin like me. I would use gmirror. The example page you cite is very thorough and covers multiple scenarios. I have found gmirror to be extremely easy to use and set up; much more so than gvinum or even ataraid. Gmirrror allows you to use any geom provider as a member (consumer) of a mirrored set. That includes entire disks (e.g. ad4), slices (e.g. ad4s1), partitions (e.g. ad4s1a), or even other complex structures (such as a gstripe set). The only hard part is going to be labeling the 120GB disk correctly. You will most likely want to do it manually using bsdlabel. One approach would be something like the following. Assume ad4 is the 120GB disk and ad6 is the 80GB disk. Boot up using a FreeBSD install disk and go into Fixit mode. # fdisk -BI /dev/ad6 (it's safe to ignore the warning here) # bsdlabel -Bw /dev/ad6s1 # sysctl kern.module_path=/dist/boot/kernel # gmirror load # gmirror label -b load shared /dev/ad6s1a (shared is the name of your volume.. you can use whatever you want) # gmirror list (will show you details about your new broken mirror. Make a note of the Mediasize number listed under the consumer.) # fdisk -BI /dev/ad4 (it's safe to ignore the warning here) # bsdlabel -Bw /dev/ad4s1 (these are only needed if you don't like/don't know how to use vi) # EDITOR=ee # export EDITOR # bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1 Now comes the tricky part. The number shown on the c: line of the label is the number of 512-byte sectors on the disk. It's good practice to leave 16 sectors unused at the beginning of the disk; you can see this in the default whole-disk a: line. Figure out how big you need to make the slice for the other side of the mirror by dividing the Mediasize number you noted previously by 512. Then figure out how big you want your swap (if any--you didn't mention any above) and /temp partitions by multiplying out to the number of bytes then dividing by 512. Add all of that up plus the 16-sector space at the beginning and subtract from the size (c: line) to determine how much is left for /. Calculate all the offsets and put in the fstype (either 4.2BSD or swap), and put zeroes in the other columns. As a reference, here is one of my disks: # /dev/ad4s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 6291456 10485024.2BSD0 0 0 b: 1048486 16 swap c: 1563125130unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 117266625 390458884.2BSD0 0 0 e: 31705930 73399584.2BSD0 0 0 Save the label and exit the editor. Now to finish up: # gmirror insert shared /dev/ad4s1e (be sure to use the actual partition device you set up above) # newfs -U /dev/mirror/shared ( /shared ) # newfs -U /dev/ad4s1a ( / ) # newfs -U /dev/ad4s1d ( /temp ) Then exit fixit mode and do a Standard installation. Don't let sysinstall re-label or newfs anything, just specify the mount points for your / and /shared filesystems. You'll have to mount the mirror after you're done with setup (just put it in /etc/fstab manually). Obviously, you should understand what all of the above does before you do any of it, and may need to make changes. Good luck, and feel free to ask additional questions. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:26:02PM -0500, listvj wrote: Lane wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 01:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: listvj wrote: I'm interested in upgrading from 4.11 to 5.x. I currently track 4.x stable using cvsup, but I've never done a major version upgrade. First, should I bother? My hardware has dual pentium 1.13 processors with 1G ram (I'm considering maxing it out at 4). I host email and web sites for a few domains on this machine and I have four jails configured on it which will have to be upgraded too. I have users counting particularly on mail service not being down for too long. Other than the obvious advice to start with a good backup, can anyone tell me: 1) Will I gain a major benefit from upgrading 2) Where should I look for instructions / advice on upgrading 3) Also any general advice from personal experience. 4) Just how risky is this? Matthew, I agree with your advice to build the new server with a clean install, if only to prevent any sendmail issues. But I'm not so sure I understand your assessment that 5.x is worse performing than both 4.x and 6.x. While I agree that 6.x is a great improvement in functionality over 5.x, I was not aware of the poor performance record of 5.x. Do you know of any links to benchmark tests, or other data, which would provide some more background on this? That kind of data would greatly influence my opinion in this discussion. Without it I'd be pleased to recommend 5.X, regardless of it's pending drop dead date, wrt support. I certainly see no need to chain myself to any software release cycle, nor, it seems, does the original poster. I'm in awe of his patience, and clearly he is satisfied with the product if he remains on 4.11. I just remember seeing a number of posts about reduced performance due to major changes and lots of debug stuff left in for the time being. Thanks, lane ~Still running 5.x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm on 4.11 because I'm lazy and chicken. The server is co-located so it isn't real convenient to do major upgrades. It might actually be easier and more cost effective (in terms of my time) to get a replacement box, set up 6.0 on it, and migrate. Well, if you can really do that, it is a nice way of going -- especially jumping to 6.xx because you really want to do a clean install of 6.xx because it has some file system improvements what you won't get by just doing an upgrade without rebuilding the file systems (it would just keep using the old file systems if you don't do a clean install - it is not a devastating loss, but you might as well get the full treatment now). So, install 6.2 on a new machine and then move over your working files. I always recommend arranging file systems to make it easy to keep your own stuff separate from system stuff and ports, but some things don't seem to encourage that behavior, unfortunately. Go all the way to 6.2 for the new system. 6.xx is good. I haven't had any trouble with it. My only problem is that no-one has upgraded an AFS client to run on it yet - not ARLA nor OpenAFS so I had to put together a separate machine running 5.5 to have an AFS client. The 6.2 RELEASE is supposed to be out any minute now. The date has been slipping. I haven't tried to follow what is being waited on. Btw, I'm sorry for posting this question twice. I posted the first one with the wrong email address. I was surprised (and disappointed) to see that the list accepted it as I did not subscribe to the list with that address. :( Don't worry about it. The FreeBSD questions allows all posts except it does have some spam filtering on it. The rationale is that the questions must get through regardless of whether someone is subscribed; that the few spam misses are less of a problem than potentially blocking legitimate questions. jerry ___ 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]
processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )
Did this problem start before you made port2file run with rtprio? Yes. I only added rtprio because it wasn't working. Can you please include a copy of your kernel configuration file and dmesg? I think you asked that before: :-) OK, that's correct. Can you also provide details of your disk hardware (e.g. dmesg) and kernel configuration? FreeBSD 6.0 Kernel is stock except for addition of: deviceatapicam# needed to burn dvd /boot/loader.conf: console=comconsole hw.ata.wc=0 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 kern.ipc.nmbclusters=256000 Mainboard: Tyan Tomcat k8e 2865 CPU: AMD64 3000+ Chipset: Nvidia nforce4 ultra Memory: 2 GB DDR400 ECC Disks: 4x Seagate 7200 rpm SATA 1x Seagate 7200 rpm PATA 1x LG CD/DVD atapci0: nVidia nForce4 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe000-0xe00f at device 6.0 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 atapci1: nVidia nForce4 SATA150 controller port 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem 0xfebfb00 0-0xfebfbfff irq 10 at device 7.0 on pci0 ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci1 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci1 atapci2: nVidia nForce4 SATA150 controller port 0x9e0-0x9e7,0xbe0-0xbe3,0x960-0x967,0xb60-0xb63,0xb800-0xb80f mem 0xfebfa00 0-0xfebfafff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci0 ata4: ATA channel 0 on atapci2 ata5: ATA channel 1 on atapci2 acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A301 at ata0-master UDMA66 ad2: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAC at ata1-master UDMA100 ad4: 238475MB Seagate ST3250823AS 3.03 at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 238475MB Seagate ST3250823AS 3.03 at ata3-master SATA150 ad8: 238475MB Seagate ST3250823AS 3.03 at ata4-master SATA150 ad10: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata5-master SATA150 cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Since then I added another Seagate 7200 rpm PATA, connected via a PATA-to-USB. The idea being to get a different controller path to a disk. Although I think all I/O has to go through the nforce one way or another. This USB disk writes at about 15 MB/s instead of the 6-7 MB/s, but otherwise they interfere with each other same as two disks connected directly to the nforce. Perhaps a clue in there somewhere? umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. ATAPI-6 Bridge Controller, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: ST332062 0A 3.AA Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 305245MB (625142449 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 38913C) The Ethernet is on the mainboard: pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 13.0 on pci0 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 bge0: Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101 mem 0xfe4f-0xfe4f irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci5 miibus1: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus1 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto The only stuff that says Giant or GIANT-LOCKED is atkbd0 only used with firmware usb the new disk, otherwise not used nve not in use fwe not in use Is Giant the only mutex/lock that could be a bottleneck across disks? I can't figure out anything else that would create a common bottleneck across drives. The nforce can read from all four SATA drives at once as fast as the disks can go, 65-70 MB/s per drive at the fast end of the platter. I assume that the nforce doesn't care about read vs write, and is not the bottleneck. The filesystem has to allocate blocks and such, but that shouldn't be common across drives. It does this without the CPU being maxed out, assuming you believe the numbers from systat -vmstat or top. Memory buffer cache? However they do that these days... I was thinking maybe part of port2file's circular buffer was getting paged out, so I added mlock(2) of the buffer. Still fails. :-( Writing to disk doesn't seem to hurt the Ethernet. If I direct the output of port2file to /dev/null it works fine. I don't suppose you happen to know how to enable SATA's NCQ queuing? I did some experiments with rtprio and dd. rtprio reduces the effect of other disk activity somewhat, but not enough. I noticed that the transfer rates as reported by systat -vmstat varied more than I would expect. First one disk would be faster for a few seconds, then the other. Sometimes they would be about equal. The sum of the two drives looked to be approx constant. The sum was only slightly higher than a single drive by itself. It certainly smells like there is *some* single resource for writing that all the disks have to share. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dowload FreeBSD 6.1 via bittorrent
Hi Koro, don't be insulted but your answer was not very satisfactory for me. I will try to contact the webmaster directly. With regards -Original Message- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:22:54 +0100 Subject: Re: Dowload FreeBSD 6.1 via bittorrent From: Abdullah Koro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Stevan Why don't you download via official freebsd ftp server. you can also download the ISO file right? regards, koro On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello, does somebody knows why the torrents for FreeBSD 6.1 is not working? Will it ever works in the future? With regards ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is microsoft-ds port 445?
What is microsoft-ds port #445? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about gmirror?
Sure..just mount it as /newdisk or something. On 12/11/06, perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people. I have one system running FreeBSD 6.1-p11 i have there a Raid-1 setup with gmirror, is working very good stable, but i need to add another space not for the raid, is for the applicaction im running there like a temporal buffer, my doubt is: Can i add another disk to the system apart from the Raid? Example: Raid-1 -- ad0 + ad2 (/, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, swap) extra disk --ad3 (/buffer) I have this doubt only. Thanks all for your time. ___ 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: trying to install jre
What now? Looks like you forgot to update your ports collection. Easiest way to update them: # portsnap fetch extract Or you can use cvsup following the handbook (portsnap is also documented there): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Also, you may have to first download the Java binaries and place them in /usr/ports/distfiles (though I am not sure if this a requirement still, since Java is now open sourced). Update your ports using portsnap and then attempt to install /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15; the Java binary downloads can be found here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml -David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fortune Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives
I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based backups. It is important that this drive be useable on different FreeBSD servers that we have. I got it working on a test server ok, but I noticed that the sysinstall utility labeled the device as: /dev/da0s1d Since the test server only has an IDE drive, that's fine, but this external USB drive needs to be able to work on productions servers that already have SCSI and SAS devices, one of which already uses that label for its active /usr partition. Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: /dev/da1s1d on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is microsoft-ds port 445?
On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is microsoft-ds port #445? Mildly off-topic for this list, but it's used by directory-services, aka Active Directory -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?
On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:27 AM, lveax wrote: who are the people that works in apple and also a freebsd developer now? Jordan Hubbard and Wilfredo Sanchez come to mind, and maybe Garance Drosihn would also qualify, as I think he was part of Apple's darwin- developers, IIRC. There are others. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd dbus / hal
El lunes 11 de diciembre a las 00:37:58 CET, felix.schalck escribió: José G. Juanino wrote: El domingo 10 de diciembre a las 14:13:22 CET, José G. Juanino escribió: El domingo 10 de diciembre a las 13:57:06 CET, felix.schalck escribió: Hi, Does someone know a good how-to to set up dbus and hal under freebsd ? Im trying to run gnome 2.16 , and it always claims not finding the dbus-socket to connect to... Add the following in the .xinitrc file: eval `dbus-launch` export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID I forget that is also necessary start dbus-daemon. The best way is in rc.conf: dbus_enable=YES Thank you for your help, but it's still not working: got the same error. Is there any way to get it verbose ? Perhaps I'm missing some package/config. You need devel/dbus port. Try to execute in a shell: $ dbus-launch after /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus forcestart The response must be something like: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/tmp/dbus-HQmF4igtIW,guid=e0379946424efaa98000457dac03 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=1919 This variables need to be known by the applications which are using dbus. Regards pgpwaXs229PiA.pgp Description: PGP signature
dd mini-iso image to USB pendrive?
Hello Family, I'm trying to get my server to boot off my Sandisk Cruzer 1-gig pen drive with an ISO image dd'd to the pendrive. It fails and the same ISO image will boot off the USB CDROM with no issues. Is there any specific howto on doing this? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:05:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based backups. It is important that this drive be useable on different FreeBSD servers that we have. I got it working on a test server ok, but I noticed that the sysinstall utility labeled the device as: /dev/da0s1d Since the test server only has an IDE drive, that's fine, but this external USB drive needs to be able to work on productions servers that already have SCSI and SAS devices, one of which already uses that label for its active /usr partition. Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: /dev/da1s1d on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices? You don't have to do that unless you are worried about getting confused. If you put the drive on a machine that already has da0 used up, it will magically become da1. The label doesn't have anything to do with whether it is da0 or da1. That is determined by its position on the controller. I think, in FreeBSD SCSI device stuff, you can force it to be something, but I have never done it and don't know how - and since it doesn't matter, don't see the reason to try. jerry TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = ___ 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: Qemu Kqemu on FreeBSD 6.1
Frank Staals wrote: Unfortunately I need some stupid windows programs so I decided to install win2k in qemu on my laptop. It works well but I have a small question: when running qemu it gives an message it couldn't load kqemu. Allthough I did load the kernel module: See this thread for some info: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2006-April/001973.html Someone claims that is does work, despite some devfs weirdness. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: OOPS www proxy
Wojciech Puchar wrote: is anybody using it with success. for me it works. and works really fast, much faster than squid but after maybe 8-12 hours it crashes. is it buggy or i'm doing something wrong? I used it for several years and am still using it, but not on high loads. It works without crashing on the default install (ports) settings. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:26:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:05:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based backups. It is important that this drive be useable on different FreeBSD servers that we have. I got it working on a test server ok, but I noticed that the sysinstall utility labeled the device as: /dev/da0s1d Since the test server only has an IDE drive, that's fine, but this external USB drive needs to be able to work on productions servers that already have SCSI and SAS devices, one of which already uses that label for its active /usr partition. Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: /dev/da1s1d on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices? You don't have to do that unless you are worried about getting confused. If you put the drive on a machine that already has da0 used up, it will magically become da1. The label doesn't have anything to do with whether it is da0 or da1. That is determined by its position on the controller. I think, in FreeBSD SCSI device stuff, you can force it to be something, but I have never done it and don't know how - and since it doesn't matter, don't see the reason to try. jerry Cool! Thanks! Of course, you have to keep track of the different device labels when you mount the file systems and/or put them in /etc/fstab on whichever machine so they mount the right device for that machine. jerry James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
easy question
I hope. Looks like xorg remaps the arrow keys for it's own uses - how do I get command history in an xterm instead of ctrl-key like gibberish. I'd like to edit, like you do in a vtty with the up-arrow, not just !!enter. I'm sure the answer exists, I just can't format a seach to find it on my own...;) Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X server remote login
I'm a noob myself, but I just did this, so: 1) edit etc/ttys, so the 8th one has xdm and change the no to yes in the second to last field (test by rebooting, should go to an x login, after a slight pasue) ctrl-alt-fn will still get you back to the text terminals. 2) edit the .Xaccess file in the location specified for xdm in the handbook, add a LISTEN * line. 3) edit the xdm-config file, and uncomment that last line that says xdm shouldn't look outside. 4) We use Xming and OpenSSH to connect from windows - configure Xming for the ssh login method, and tell it to run a program, namely gnome-seesion, xfce4-session, or xterm depending on how much X you want. I'll send you my Xming launcher file if you like. Thoughts - make sure you can run startx normally on the machine, and logon once with raw ssh so it can do the key thing and store it - doesn't seem to work from Xming that first time. I'm aauming you are connecting from windows. On another freebsd box, one would assume it's easier thanconfiguring xming. best, Steve On 12/9/06, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run solaris and FreeBSD. In solaris I can login on a remote machine with an X session. I can't see my freebsd machine though. I have no idea where the config to make this possible resides on FreeBSD. I guess X runs without broadcasting itself on fbsd. How can I change this? -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help cvs server
I think you're missing a reply due to a lack of info from your end. I run cvsnt. It's current, stable, and cross-platform without apparent quirks. It can be found under packages/devel or ports/devel in freebsd, and cvsnt.org has windows versions. I think most native english speakers find it polite to sign your message with your name as well, unless you are restricted from doing so by your political or employment situation. Steve On 12/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all dear I need some help to setup cvs server whit laste update file in my Lan and other PC in my network use this server to update . which program can help my? ___ 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: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: /dev/da1s1d on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices? I think, in FreeBSD SCSI device stuff, you can force it to be something, but I have never done it and don't know how - and since it doesn't matter, don't see the reason to try. A imho better solution is to load the geom_label class. Then either give the device itself a label: da3s1d - label/usbstick42s1d or set the UFS Label field of the filesystems via 'tunefs -L', this will give you for example da5s1a - ufs/ustick5data da5s1d - ufs/ustick5keys or whatever you set the label to, obviously. If geom_label is loaded, you have unique device names on all servers (if you don't mix things up when you label them). Regards, Joerg -- | /\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against |0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | XHTML in email |.the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie.| signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: help cvs server
On 2006-12-11 21:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all dear I need some help to setup cvs server whit laste update file in my Lan and other PC in my network use this server to update . which program can help my? There are dozens of online guides which can help you set up and configure a CVS server. A quick search in Google, and a careful read of the Info documentation of CVS will help you a lot. Some useful online links are: http://durak.org/cvswebsites/howto-cvs/node37.html http://www.pointless.nl/~peter/stuff/cvs-server.html http://www.uta.edu/oit/how-to/docs/cvs.php http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfref_library/detail.php?reference_id=623 http://michael-amorose.com/articles/computers/cvs/index.html http://www.prima.eu.org/tobez/cvs-howto.html My favorites have always been the following two though: 1. CVSBook http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ 2. CVS online manual http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/ [ especially the section 'The Repository', starting at: http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs_2.html ] 3. Setting up a CVS repository - the FreeBSD way http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0100, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: /dev/da1s1d on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices? I think, in FreeBSD SCSI device stuff, you can force it to be something, but I have never done it and don't know how - and since it doesn't matter, don't see the reason to try. A imho better solution is to load the geom_label class. Then either give the device itself a label: da3s1d - label/usbstick42s1d or set the UFS Label field of the filesystems via 'tunefs -L', this will give you for example da5s1a - ufs/ustick5data da5s1d - ufs/ustick5keys or whatever you set the label to, obviously. If geom_label is loaded, you have unique device names on all servers (if you don't mix things up when you label them). OK. But, that really sounds like more work than just making your fstab file relevant to the machine it is on and not worrying about the rest. jerry Regards, Joerg -- | /\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against |0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | XHTML in email |.the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie.| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: easy question
Steve Franks wrote: I hope. Looks like xorg remaps the arrow keys for it's own uses - how do I get command history in an xterm instead of ctrl-key like gibberish. I'd like to edit, like you do in a vtty with the up-arrow, not just !!enter. I'm sure the answer exists, I just can't format a seach to find it on my own...;) Frank, what kind of keyboard are you using? The xorg server does not remap the arrow keys by default. However, if you have misconfigured your keyboard, then you might not use your arrow keys. Try to look at the documentation of xmodmap(1). If you are not sure how to change this in xorg.conf, you can first try to download an xmodmap file for your keyboard layout, and execute this command: xmodmap filename Then you can try to use your arrow keys. Another problem might be that you are using the wrong TERM environment variable inside your xterm. Well, this is very unlikely. You can also try this: setenv TERM xterm-color # c shell set TERM=xterm-color # bash shell export TERM I hope this will help. Best, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: easy question
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:58:24PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I hope. Looks like xorg remaps the arrow keys for it's own uses - how do I get command history in an xterm instead of ctrl-key like gibberish. I'd like to edit, like you do in a vtty with the up-arrow, not just !!enter. I'm sure the answer exists, I just can't format a seach to find it on my own...;) The up-arrow in xterm with XOrg works for me when using tcsh. What shell are you using? -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error ouput of fsck
Hello Jerry, I'm not responding no, the fsck -y asuming no ! in fact i do fsck -y then all goes auto.. regards. - Marwan CLEAR? no Hmmm. RECONNECT? no ADJUST? no CLEAR? no Why are you responding 'no' to each prompt to fix things? If you keep doing that it will never get the file systems cleared up. jerry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade - 4.11 to 5.x
On Sunday 10 December 2006 15:41, Valen Jones wrote: I'm interested in upgrading from 4.11 to 5.x. I currently track 4.x stable using cvsup, but I've never done a major version upgrade. First, should I bother? My hardware has dual pentium 1.13 processors with 1G ram (I'm considering maxing it out at 4). I host a few domains on this machine and I have four jails configured on it which will have to be upgraded too. I have users counting particularly on mail service not being down for too long. Other than the obvious advice to start with a good backup, can anyone tell me: 1) Will I gain a major benefit from upgrading 2) Where should I look for instructions / advice on upgrading 3) Also any general advice from personal experience. Beech's advice is sound. I would stress that the simplest and easiest by far is indeed a clean install. And take two backups, if you have customers counting on things going right. Make sure your backups are readable, usable and complete (no bad spots on tape media, no files inadvertently omitted, etc.). If at all possible, leave the production system running and begin the new installation on separate hardware. If you have a fast new machine to migrate onto, do that. However your current hardware sounds adequate for the light load you describe. If you have just a spare machine of nearly the same horsepower and configuration, you could do the new installation on the spare machine, get it configured and tested, and then backup the old machine twice, wipe the drive and re-partition, and then transfer the newly-built configuration onto your production hardware. Watch out for /etc/fstab gotchas, like if the test machine has an ad0 ATA drive and the production is da0 SCSI. This will allow you to do a lot of migration, testing and tweaking off-line, without your customers noticing much downtime, except for the final changeover. How current are your installed ports? Review the ports you do have installed, and see whether you're really still using them. It will save you a little time on the new machine by not having to build ports you don't really need anymore. Look at your key applications, and where there are significant version changes between what you're running and what's current, familiarize yourself with the upgrade issues (if any) that each port presents. Be prepared to test any new features you hope to use, or to regression test to make sure that legacy functionality still works the way you expect. This might be the time to switch to Apache 2, for example, if you want to. But some things that worked under 1.3 will have to be adjusted to work under 2. At the least, it would be good to upgrade to the latest 1.3.x, to use Apache as an example. As for #3, I have grown fond of using a FreesBIE or other live CD for steps like booting the migration/test box to create a backup image of the new 6.X filesystem, and then also to boot the production box for the final changeover to transfer that backup image onto the production disk. That way your file system in an off-line (inactive) state, where you can cleanly backup the old production filesystem (twice!), then wipe and re-partition, and transfer the new configuration image onto the production drive likewise in a clean state. If you haven't already, spend some time just experimenting on a test machine, and make friends with FreesBIE and/or the Fixit live CD mode of FreeBSD installation media. Good luck! Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error ouput of fsck
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:19:48PM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Jerry, I'm not responding no, the fsck -y asuming no ! in fact i do fsck -y then all goes auto.. Hmmm. I don't know what is happening then. jerry regards. - Marwan CLEAR? no Hmmm. RECONNECT? no ADJUST? no CLEAR? no Why are you responding 'no' to each prompt to fix things? If you keep doing that it will never get the file systems cleared up. jerry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is microsoft-ds port 445?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is microsoft-ds port #445? Elisej Babenko Next time, please google. There are a plethora of documents on this topic. See http://www.petri.co.il/what's_port_445_in_w2k_xp_2003.htm for starters. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFfbv+6CkrZkzMC68RAl6aAJ9V5lgDY+3d9GO4A0YOLgdPey9JdQCfYYwC BY8v5XeyeTblmFhmTYgO3XQ= =PP6L -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fonts on X.Org...
Hi list, how can I add some fonts to the system, for instance: Arial, Courier New, and so others. I know there are some fonts that cost to acquire them, but isn't an implementation of these fonts for the open source arena ??? PS: I've some docs made in a Windows environment that use fonts I don't have on FreeBSD, the replacement is very bad, so OpenOffice offers system fonts rather than their fonts (if it has a set), a problem for portability/compatibility but indeed better for availability. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:26:02 -0500 From: listvj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Btw, I'm sorry for posting this question twice. I posted the first one with the wrong email address. I was surprised (and disappointed) to see that the list accepted it as I did not subscribe to the list with that address. :( Why are you disappointed that the list accepts email from anyone who needs FreeBSD support? Personally, I dislike some of the lists where you have to join the club before you can ask a question to receive support. By the way, that is why it is customary to Cc: both the person and and the list when replying. It doesn't do any good to send a response to the list if the person who asked the question isn't subscribed. Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shmmax tops out at 2G?
uname -a FreeBSD db00.lab00 6.2-BETA3 FreeBSD 6.2-BETA3 #1: Fri Dec 8 09:27:37 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DB-2850-amd64 amd64 sysctl kern.ipc.shmmax=22 kern.ipc.shmmax: 21 - -2094967296 Looks like an unsigned 32-bit int. That doesn't seem to scale as well as would be expected on 64-bit arch. Is this a mistake, or intentional? I'm working with some big memory systems, and I sure would like to allocate more than 2G for PostgreSQL to use ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: dd mini-iso image to USB pendrive?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill-Schoolcraft Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 6:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd mini-iso image to USB pendrive? Hello Family, I'm trying to get my server to boot off my Sandisk Cruzer 1-gig pen drive with an ISO image dd'd to the pendrive. It fails and the same ISO image will boot off the USB CDROM with no issues. Is there any specific howto on doing this? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx Try the minibsd sites for more info as they target building bootable flash images 4.X https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html 5.X http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=86 6.X http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=125 HTH mjt --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
squid: no buffer space available - after tuning!
average loaded site (about 1000 users), fast machine, lots of ram, fxp interfaces (no realteks), squid reports 32768 filedescriptors available [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# limits -U squid Resource limits for class squid: cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kB datasize infinity kB stacksizeinfinity kB coredumpsize0 kB memoryuseinfinity kB memorylocked infinity kB maxprocesses 64 openfiles 32768 sbsize infinity bytes vmemoryuse infinity kB [ /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.ipc.somaxconn=65535 kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 net.inet.icmp.icmplim=500 vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts=1 net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536 kern.ipc.shmseg=128 kern.ipc.shmall=16384 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 kern.ipc.nmbclusters=131072 net.inet.ip.portrange.last=65535 vfs.lorunningspace=3145728 vfs.hirunningspace=6291456 net.inet.tcp.msl=5000 vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad0a kern.cam.scsi_delay=1000 kern.ipc.msgseg=1024 kern.ipc.msgssz=128 kern.ipc.msgtql=8192 kern.ipc.msgmnb=65536 kern.ipc.msgmni=100 kern.ipc.msgmax=8192 kern.maxproc=1000 kern.maxbcache=134217728 kern.dfldsiz=2147483648 kern.maxdsiz=2147483648 in dmesg i found lots of ipfw: pullup failed CPU load is always 10%, it's P4 machine with 2GB ram (much more than squid uses) running FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, 3 interfaces - out output, 2 for different connections, ipfw is used with only 1 line. any more ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
James Long wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:26:02 -0500 From: listvj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Btw, I'm sorry for posting this question twice. I posted the first one with the wrong email address. I was surprised (and disappointed) to see that the list accepted it as I did not subscribe to the list with that address. :( Why are you disappointed that the list accepts email from anyone who needs FreeBSD support? Personally, I dislike some of the lists where you have to join the club before you can ask a question to receive support. By the way, that is why it is customary to Cc: both the person and and the list when replying. It doesn't do any good to send a response to the list if the person who asked the question isn't subscribed. Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the clarification. I'm not disappointed in the list's policies. I'm disappointed that I didn't know what they were and that I wasn't a bit more careful with my email addresses. I'm sure the information about how the list works is posted somewhere and I just didn't read it. Oh well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid: no buffer space available - after tuning!
On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: in dmesg i found lots of ipfw: pullup failed CPU load is always 10%, it's P4 machine with 2GB ram (much more than squid uses) running FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, 3 interfaces - out output, 2 for different connections, ipfw is used with only 1 line. The IPFW message implies that you are seeing low-level network problems with truncated packets. What does netstat -i and -s reveal, and, if possible, do you have any switch-based statistics...? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
On Monday December 11, 2006 at 05:09:01 (PM) James Long wrote: By the way, that is why it is customary to Cc: both the person and and the list when replying. It doesn't do any good to send a response to the list if the person who asked the question isn't subscribed. Maybe it is just me, but I hate that Cc crap. I always end up with two copies of the same message. Unless the individual specifically requests to be Cc'd, I never utilize it. Besides, how hard is it to subscribe to a list, post your question and hopefully receive a satisfactory response and then terminate your association with the list if you are so inclined. I joined the 'Apache' forum just to get one simple answer, then exited. Not a big deal at all. Just my 2¢. -- Gerard When in doubt, cop an attitude. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is microsoft-ds port 445?
On Monday, 11 December 2006 at 11:06:12 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is microsoft-ds port #445? Mildly off-topic for this list, but it's used by directory-services, aka Active Directory I don't know that it's that off-topic. I don't use Microsoft, but people bombard me with packets on port 445. Of course, the way to find this out is: $ grep 445 /etc/services microsoft-ds445/tcp microsoft-ds445/udp $ On Monday, 11 December 2006 at 12:13:50 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Next time, please google. There are a plethora of documents on this topic. See http://www.petri.co.il/what's_port_445_in_w2k_xp_2003.htm for starters. You can find lots of things on Google, including false leads and (especially) other people asking the same question. Many of them (hopefully not the false leads) refer to messages that have gone by on this list. Come back tomorrow and you'll probably find this exchange there. In summary: I think this message was on-topic. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpLGfmzIhr8O.pgp Description: PGP signature
onboard sound crard on intel D915GAG
envienme los driver de la Intel d915GAG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trying to install jre
Hi, Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 18:58 schrieb Gerard Seibert: I have /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 in my ports collection. When was the last time you updated the ports? Actually I did it this morning, but there seems to be a problem. Now I deleted everything and I did portsnap extract. Now I can find some new ports. But still the jre is not building with the same error message. Now I try diablo-jre-1.5. I hope it will work. I'll send a message when it's done. Thanks Karl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mount USB-Device
Hi, I would like to use one of my USB-MP3-Players. I plug it in and I can see with dmesg that the device is recognised by the kernel. mount /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message: incorrect superblock. mount -t fat /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message that mount_fat is not found in /usr/sbin I find only mout_* for nwfs, portalfs and smbfs. 1) Where are the other filesystem mounts? 2) do I have to give another device name like da0s1? 3) Is there something like automount? Thanks Karl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mount USB-Device
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Sinn Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 8:29 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mount USB-Device Hi, I would like to use one of my USB-MP3-Players. I plug it in and I can see with dmesg that the device is recognised by the kernel. mount /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message: incorrect superblock. mount -t fat /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message that mount_fat is not found in /usr/sbin I find only mout_* for nwfs, portalfs and smbfs. 1) Where are the other filesystem mounts? 2) do I have to give another device name like da0s1? 3) Is there something like automount? Thanks Karl Try: mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt Regards, Russell Wood DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: onboard sound card on Intel D915GAG
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amed Miranda Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 9:18 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: onboard sound crard on intel D915GAG envienme los driver de la Intel d915GAG I have no idea what you asked, but I'm assuming you'd like to get sound working for that chipset. Try (from memory): kldload sound That'll load all sound drives and whichever attaches is the drive you want. Regards, Russell Wood DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount USB-Device
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:29:14 +0100 (MET) Karl Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use one of my USB-MP3-Players. I plug it in and I can see with dmesg that the device is recognised by the kernel. mount /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message: incorrect superblock. mount -t fat /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message that mount_fat is not found try with msdosfs instead of fat. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is microsoft-ds port 445?
On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 11 December 2006 at 11:06:12 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is microsoft-ds port #445? Mildly off-topic for this list, but it's used by directory-services, aka Active Directory I don't know that it's that off-topic. A question which is independent of which OS you might use may still be relevant to a FreeBSD mailing list, but it does not seem to be highly relevant. A security list such as BugTraq or firewall-wizards is likely to provide more specific details or feedback about bursts of malware traffic on a particular port than freebsd-questions will... I don't use Microsoft, but people bombard me with packets on port 445. Agreed-- it is certainly true that port 445 experiences lots of malicious probes. I run a honeynet which gets between 500 and 1000 connection requests per day per IP on port 445; a histogram of TCP traffic over the past week suggests it is the most commonly targeted port, closely followed by 139/tcp: # count / port 59676 445 58527 139 1043 9988 383 80 357 135 285 22 223 5900 214 1433 182 4899 144 1080 Of course, the way to find this out is: $ grep 445 /etc/services microsoft-ds445/tcp microsoft-ds445/udp It seems likely that the original poster had gotten this far, judging from the question above. :-) Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: port 445/tcp is used to wrap a bunch of services that used to run over the NetBIOS/NetBEUI protocol, such as domain browse lists, network neighborhood, and CIFS/SMB services (ie, what Samba provides, workgroups, filesharing, user authentication)-- in short, directory services. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday December 11, 2006 at 05:09:01 (PM) James Long wrote: By the way, that is why it is customary to Cc: both the person and and the list when replying. It doesn't do any good to send a response to the list if the person who asked the question isn't subscribed. Maybe it is just me, but I hate that Cc crap. I always end up with two copies of the same message. Unless the individual specifically requests to be Cc'd, I never utilize it. Besides, how hard is it to subscribe to a list, post your question and hopefully receive a satisfactory response and then terminate your association with the list if you are so inclined. I joined the 'Apache' forum just to get one simple answer, then exited. Not a big deal at all. I agree that the list should only accept mail from subscribed members. Mainly to keep spam and other crap off the list. Most lists I am on (which are technical) require you to be a list member to post. So in this case the FreeBSD policies are not the norm. I am on one list for an MTA where if you CC the orig poster plus send to the list you get in trouble with some folks. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
FreeBSD FAMP on a mini-itx/embedded platform
Hi, I'm looking to make a light FreeBSD-Apache-MySQL-PHP system out of a VIA EN 5000 system. It would replace my home file/web server which currently runs 24h/7d with a silent and energy-wise bundle. I would also like to take advange of the C7 processor's Padlock feature (SSL encryption). I believe FreeBSD supports it? I'm not looking for 3D performance or the such for this file server, but I would expect it to atleast keep up with the current server network-wise. Are my expectations unfounded? Does anyone here run FreeBSD on a VIA EN system or other embedded C7-based machine? Thanks! Nicolas sidenote: This would be my 7th BSD machine in the house (and this is not counting my Vmware guests!) :) -- FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #12: Sat Dec 2 12:30:58 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A PGP? : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc pgpofF0C0kOw1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x
On Monday 11 December 2006 18:24, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday December 11, 2006 at 05:09:01 (PM) James Long wrote: By the way, that is why it is customary to Cc: both the person and and the list when replying. It doesn't do any good to send a response to the list if the person who asked the question isn't subscribed. Maybe it is just me, but I hate that Cc crap. I always end up with two copies of the same message. Unless the individual specifically requests to be Cc'd, I never utilize it. Besides, how hard is it to subscribe to a list, post your question and hopefully receive a satisfactory response and then terminate your association with the list if you are so inclined. I joined the 'Apache' forum just to get one simple answer, then exited. Not a big deal at all. I agree that the list should only accept mail from subscribed members. Mainly to keep spam and other crap off the list. Most lists I am on (which are technical) require you to be a list member to post. So in this case the FreeBSD policies are not the norm. I am on one list for an MTA where if you CC the orig poster plus send to the list you get in trouble with some folks. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net I dunno, Chad. I get some of my best Pharmaceuticals from SPAM posted to this list just kidding, of course. But the SPAM on questions- is minimal, and the trade-off is, I think, huge. While many of us track the list regularly, there are much more that just toss a question out, and then google the replies. I think, in terms of server load, it probably is better this way. Not to mention that it is more convenient for the questioners, and thus better for the larger FreeBSD community. I'm not claiming to be right, this is just my opinion, my stinky opinion. lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade - 4.11 to 5.x
First I would address the first question. Only you can really answer whether or not there is a benefit. Is there a specific need (e.g. software/hardware support) for you to upgrade? If not then I would recommend against the upgrade. If yes, I why not move to 6.x? I have been running FBSD since 4.0and have run every revision since and would not suggest using 5.x. Either stick with 4.x or move to 6.x based on your requirements. To answer your second question, the best place to look for help is the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html). Also make sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING as this may contain special instructions. It is a general rule of thumb to do a clean install between major revisions though. I have personally done them with success, but would not recommend doing it on a production server if it is your first time doing one (as it sounds to be). Stick to upgrading between minor revisions until you are familiar with the build/make process. Also these mailing lists are a great resource for help as is http://www.bsdforums.org/ (and a few others, use Google). Finally, as mentioned above, from personal experience it is best to stick with a clean install between major revisions. Good luck again, Chad On 12/11/06, James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 December 2006 15:41, Valen Jones wrote: I'm interested in upgrading from 4.11 to 5.x. I currently track 4.x stable using cvsup, but I've never done a major version upgrade. First, should I bother? My hardware has dual pentium 1.13 processors with 1G ram (I'm considering maxing it out at 4). I host a few domains on this machine and I have four jails configured on it which will have to be upgraded too. I have users counting particularly on mail service not being down for too long. Other than the obvious advice to start with a good backup, can anyone tell me: 1) Will I gain a major benefit from upgrading 2) Where should I look for instructions / advice on upgrading 3) Also any general advice from personal experience. Beech's advice is sound. I would stress that the simplest and easiest by far is indeed a clean install. And take two backups, if you have customers counting on things going right. Make sure your backups are readable, usable and complete (no bad spots on tape media, no files inadvertently omitted, etc.). If at all possible, leave the production system running and begin the new installation on separate hardware. If you have a fast new machine to migrate onto, do that. However your current hardware sounds adequate for the light load you describe. If you have just a spare machine of nearly the same horsepower and configuration, you could do the new installation on the spare machine, get it configured and tested, and then backup the old machine twice, wipe the drive and re-partition, and then transfer the newly-built configuration onto your production hardware. Watch out for /etc/fstab gotchas, like if the test machine has an ad0 ATA drive and the production is da0 SCSI. This will allow you to do a lot of migration, testing and tweaking off-line, without your customers noticing much downtime, except for the final changeover. How current are your installed ports? Review the ports you do have installed, and see whether you're really still using them. It will save you a little time on the new machine by not having to build ports you don't really need anymore. Look at your key applications, and where there are significant version changes between what you're running and what's current, familiarize yourself with the upgrade issues (if any) that each port presents. Be prepared to test any new features you hope to use, or to regression test to make sure that legacy functionality still works the way you expect. This might be the time to switch to Apache 2, for example, if you want to. But some things that worked under 1.3 will have to be adjusted to work under 2. At the least, it would be good to upgrade to the latest 1.3.x, to use Apache as an example. As for #3, I have grown fond of using a FreesBIE or other live CD for steps like booting the migration/test box to create a backup image of the new 6.X filesystem, and then also to boot the production box for the final changeover to transfer that backup image onto the production disk. That way your file system in an off-line (inactive) state, where you can cleanly backup the old production filesystem (twice!), then wipe and re-partition, and transfer the new configuration image onto the production drive likewise in a clean state. If you haven't already, spend some time just experimenting on a test machine, and make friends with FreesBIE and/or the Fixit live CD mode of FreeBSD installation media. Good luck! Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL
Mysql Max start on boot
Im in the middle of installing Mysql max on a bsd 6.2 box, anyone have an idea how to make it start on boot? the script is in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d file and the mysql_enable=YES is in the rc.conf file but it still isn't starting. since this is max i couldn't install it from the ports, i had to download the binary from mysql. thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up RAID-1 on 2 unequal disks
Hello John, Tony, Thanks for your responses. I think I will try to go with John's approach (ie via gmirror), as I've used it previously for a raiding on equally-sized disks. John, I will be trying out your suggestions in a while. Hope to get your help later down the road. :) Tony, I'm quite sure your trick will work. I'm just too noob on FBSD to trick vinum. :P John Nielsen wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 03:47, Foo JH wrote: Hi all, I unfortunately have 2 uneuqally sized SATA disks to set up a mirrored shared folder: 80GB and 120GB. On the 120GB I plan to set up this way: /temp2GB (double the system memory) /shared80GB / 38GB I plan to mirror /shared onto the 80GB. It won't be bootable, but I can always mount it onto another FreeBSD machine. I've read some articles on mirroring on non-equal disks, notably: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ My question is: is there an easier way to do this? The example looks quiet daunting for a noobie FreeBSD admin like me. I would use gmirror. The example page you cite is very thorough and covers multiple scenarios. I have found gmirror to be extremely easy to use and set up; much more so than gvinum or even ataraid. Gmirrror allows you to use any geom provider as a member (consumer) of a mirrored set. That includes entire disks (e.g. ad4), slices (e.g. ad4s1), partitions (e.g. ad4s1a), or even other complex structures (such as a gstripe set). The only hard part is going to be labeling the 120GB disk correctly. You will most likely want to do it manually using bsdlabel. One approach would be something like the following. Assume ad4 is the 120GB disk and ad6 is the 80GB disk. Boot up using a FreeBSD install disk and go into Fixit mode. # fdisk -BI /dev/ad6 (it's safe to ignore the warning here) # bsdlabel -Bw /dev/ad6s1 # sysctl kern.module_path=/dist/boot/kernel # gmirror load # gmirror label -b load shared /dev/ad6s1a (shared is the name of your volume.. you can use whatever you want) # gmirror list (will show you details about your new broken mirror. Make a note of the Mediasize number listed under the consumer.) # fdisk -BI /dev/ad4 (it's safe to ignore the warning here) # bsdlabel -Bw /dev/ad4s1 (these are only needed if you don't like/don't know how to use vi) # EDITOR=ee # export EDITOR # bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1 Now comes the tricky part. The number shown on the c: line of the label is the number of 512-byte sectors on the disk. It's good practice to leave 16 sectors unused at the beginning of the disk; you can see this in the default whole-disk a: line. Figure out how big you need to make the slice for the other side of the mirror by dividing the Mediasize number you noted previously by 512. Then figure out how big you want your swap (if any--you didn't mention any above) and /temp partitions by multiplying out to the number of bytes then dividing by 512. Add all of that up plus the 16-sector space at the beginning and subtract from the size (c: line) to determine how much is left for /. Calculate all the offsets and put in the fstype (either 4.2BSD or swap), and put zeroes in the other columns. As a reference, here is one of my disks: # /dev/ad4s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 6291456 10485024.2BSD0 0 0 b: 1048486 16 swap c: 1563125130unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 117266625 390458884.2BSD0 0 0 e: 31705930 73399584.2BSD0 0 0 Save the label and exit the editor. Now to finish up: # gmirror insert shared /dev/ad4s1e (be sure to use the actual partition device you set up above) # newfs -U /dev/mirror/shared ( /shared ) # newfs -U /dev/ad4s1a ( / ) # newfs -U /dev/ad4s1d ( /temp ) Then exit fixit mode and do a Standard installation. Don't let sysinstall re-label or newfs anything, just specify the mount points for your / and /shared filesystems. You'll have to mount the mirror after you're done with setup (just put it in /etc/fstab manually). Obviously, you should understand what all of the above does before you do any of it, and may need to make changes. Good luck, and feel free to ask additional questions. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount USB-Device SOLVED
Hi, Am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 00:43 schrieb Wood, Russell: mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt It worked. Thanks Karl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Seagate 4GB ATA-CF drive on IDE bus won't work
I have a microdrive that's finicky also. Seems the problem is it's a 1.8Vcard, which is not standard (standard appears to be 5V or 3.3V). It will not work, period, in a CF-IDE converter, or in a PCMCIA-CF converter. It works fine, however, in *some* USB card readers, namely the cheapo ones off ebay, but not the expensive ones I bought at the local office supply store. I suspect that is the problem, at least it was for me. Steve On 12/10/06, Albert Boeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install Freebsd 6.2 onto a seagate 4GB compact flash microdrive. Neither FreeBSD 6.1 or 6.2-RC1 installers seem to detect the ATA-CF card on the bus; although NetBSD was able to be installed on the drive and works OK. I have tried installing the drive as ata0 master in two different machines; both times NetBSD is able to boot off the drive -ie the hardware is working fine - however the FreeBSD insaller does not detect the drive. Fitting the microdrive in a working FreeBSD machine as ata1 master does not give any further debug info - no dmesg, sysctl seems to log the attachment as failing, although it is detected by BIOS as ST64022CF. FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #0: Thu Nov 16 05:12:08 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 # atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA6.4/A42.0400 ATA/ATAPI revision 4 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: no device present Slave: acd0 201H ATA/ATAPI revision 0 NetBSD atactl gives: NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006 # atactl wd0 identify Model: ST64022CF, Rev: 3.02, Serial #: 4NW03XLS Device type: ATAPI, removable Device capabilities: DMA LBA IORDY operation Command set support: NOP command (enabled) READ BUFFER command (enabled) WRITE BUFFER command (enabled) look-ahead (enabled) write cache (enabled) Power Management feature set (enabled) SMART feature set (enabled) FLUSH CACHE command (enabled) Advanced Power Management feature set (enabled) CFA feature set (enabled) Is there a simple fix to make FreeBSD ata recognize the drive? NB there is a simmilar question about using the same card in a pccard adapter, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061937.html which appears to have been resolved? Thank You Regards, Albert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade - 4.11 to 5.x
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Gross wrote: First I would address the first question. Only you can really answer whether or not there is a benefit. Is there a specific need (e.g. software/hardware support) for you to upgrade? If not then I would recommend against the upgrade. If yes, I why not move to 6.x? I have been running FBSD since 4.0and have run every revision since and would not suggest using 5.x. Either stick with 4.x or move to 6.x based on your requirements. To answer your second question, the best place to look for help is the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html). Also make sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING as this may contain special instructions. It is a general rule of thumb to do a clean install between major revisions though. I have personally done them with success, but would not recommend doing it on a production server if it is your first time doing one (as it sounds to be). Stick to upgrading between minor revisions until you are familiar with the build/make process. Also these mailing lists are a great resource for help as is http://www.bsdforums.org/ (and a few others, use Google). Finally, as mentioned above, from personal experience it is best to stick with a clean install between major revisions. Good luck again, Chad Bad way to look at things, given that 4.x isn't supported anymore by the FreeBSD group; so anything either userland or core system related that needs to be upgraded due to a security or performance issue would require an upgrade anyhow.. You should run at least 5.x, but it's highly recommended that you go to 6.x, due to performance improvements and the fact that you won't have to source upgrade your system again for a lot longer period of time (than if you moved to 5.x). The only issue is that you don't have direct access to the machine. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFfgzb6CkrZkzMC68RAq/mAJ9yI77ldLufgbAr31hMFUcvRantjQCfZ0MM MIoBYNgZJfui6Fnn1GlGRXU= =L/oJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disklabel and usb device
I am having trouble viewing my USB compact flash reader with my FBSD 5.5 system. I have done so in the past. For some reason I can no longer do so. This is what I'm getting: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found # fdisk /dev/da0s1 *** Working on device /dev/da0s1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=249 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=249 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 108 (0x6c),(unknown) start 1684955424, size 1701998624 (831054 Meg), flag a beg: cyl 368/ head 82/ sector 37; end: cyl 357/ head 97/ sector 35 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 110 (0x6e),(unknown) start 1998616933, size 544105832 (265676 Meg), flag 73 beg: cyl 97/ head 115/ sector 32; end: cyl 107/ head 121/ sector 32 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 121 (0x79),(QNX4.x 3rd part) start 538988361, size 538976288 (263172 Meg), flag 72 beg: cyl 356/ head 101/ sector 33; end: cyl 0/ head 13/ sector 10 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 83 (0x53),(DM6 Aux3) start 1394614304, size 21337 (10 Meg), flag 53 beg: cyl 333/ head 89/ sector 19; end: cyl 339/ head 68/ sector 15 From logs: kernel: umass0: SanDisk ImageMate 8 in 1, rev 2.00/91.44, addr 2 The card contains an OpenBSD filesystem. Peter __ 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: Major Version Upgrade - 4.11 to 5.x
On 12/11/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Gross wrote: First I would address the first question. Only you can really answer whether or not there is a benefit. Is there a specific need (e.g. software/hardware support) for you to upgrade? If not then I would recommend against the upgrade. If yes, I why not move to 6.x? I have been running FBSD since 4.0and have run every revision since and would not suggest using 5.x. Either stick with 4.x or move to 6.x based on your requirements. To answer your second question, the best place to look for help is the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html ). Also make sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING as this may contain special instructions. It is a general rule of thumb to do a clean install between major revisions though. I have personally done them with success, but would not recommend doing it on a production server if it is your first time doing one (as it sounds to be). Stick to upgrading between minor revisions until you are familiar with the build/make process. Also these mailing lists are a great resource for help as is http://www.bsdforums.org/ (and a few others, use Google). Finally, as mentioned above, from personal experience it is best to stick with a clean install between major revisions. Good luck again, Chad Bad way to look at things, given that 4.x isn't supported anymore by the FreeBSD group; so anything either userland or core system related that needs to be upgraded due to a security or performance issue would require an upgrade anyhow.. You should run at least 5.x, but it's highly recommended that you go to 6.x, due to performance improvements and the fact that you won't have to source upgrade your system again for a lot longer period of time (than if you moved to 5.x). The only issue is that you don't have direct access to the machine. - -Garrett I apologize, I didn't realize that 4.x was no longer supported (I thought RELENG_4 was still getting commits). In that case, I would make the move to 6.x being that 5.x wasn't exactly the best release performance-wise and it will be moving out of support sooner too. Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts on X.Org...
On 12/11/06, Ne'Bahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, how can I add some fonts to the system, for instance: Arial, Courier New, and so others. I know there are some fonts that cost to acquire them, but isn't an implementation of these fonts for the open source arena ??? PS: I've some docs made in a Windows environment that use fonts I don't have on FreeBSD, the replacement is very bad, so OpenOffice offers system fonts rather than their fonts (if it has a set), a problem for portability/compatibility but indeed better for availability. ___ Try installing x11-fonts/webfonts from the ports collection. Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Major Version Upgrade - 4.11 to 5.x
On Monday 11 December 2006 22:13, Chad Gross wrote: On 12/11/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Gross wrote: First I would address the first question. Only you can really answer whether or not there is a benefit. Is there a specific need (e.g. software/hardware support) for you to upgrade? If not then I would recommend against the upgrade. If yes, I why not move to 6.x? I have been running FBSD since 4.0and have run every revision since and would not suggest using 5.x. Either stick with 4.x or move to 6.x based on your requirements. To answer your second question, the best place to look for help is the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.htm l ). Also make sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING as this may contain special instructions. It is a general rule of thumb to do a clean install between major revisions though. I have personally done them with success, but would not recommend doing it on a production server if it is your first time doing one (as it sounds to be). Stick to upgrading between minor revisions until you are familiar with the build/make process. Also these mailing lists are a great resource for help as is http://www.bsdforums.org/ (and a few others, use Google). Finally, as mentioned above, from personal experience it is best to stick with a clean install between major revisions. Good luck again, Chad Bad way to look at things, given that 4.x isn't supported anymore by the FreeBSD group; so anything either userland or core system related that needs to be upgraded due to a security or performance issue would require an upgrade anyhow.. You should run at least 5.x, but it's highly recommended that you go to 6.x, due to performance improvements and the fact that you won't have to source upgrade your system again for a lot longer period of time (than if you moved to 5.x). The only issue is that you don't have direct access to the machine. - -Garrett I apologize, I didn't realize that 4.x was no longer supported (I thought RELENG_4 was still getting commits). In that case, I would make the move to 6.x being that 5.x wasn't exactly the best release performance-wise and it will be moving out of support sooner too. Chad Chad, What was the problem with performance in 5.x? I'm not challenging your assertion, not at all. But this is the second time in this thread that I've read comments about poor performance in 5.x, and ... well ... I've not experienced that - quite the contrary. I'm just curious - did I maybe miss some discussion about how poor 5.x was? Thanks for your time lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISO files...
I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Thanks, for all who replied, but this solution was very helpful and I'm now operational. Thanks again, Raul Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-02 22:05, Denise and Raul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have ISO files saved on cd's. 1) 6.1-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso 2) 6.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 3) 6.1-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso if you have saved these ISO images as files on a CD-ROM, there is something wrong here. These are meant to be written as raw images each on a separate CD-ROM disk. Most CD-burning software has two modes: * One that lets you select files from a disk directory, and burn these files as a collection of *files* on a CD-ROM disk. * One that lets you burn a CD-ROM disk *image* as an image. You have to use the second mode, and burn 6.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso on a disk of its own. Then 6.1-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso on a second disk. After you have done these two steps, you can insert the first disk in a CD-ROM drive, and you will see the _contents_ of the CD-ROM disk :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dummynet fragmenting packets
Having an issue on a 5.3 system using ipfw and dummynet to create a bandwidth limited and large latency pipe for a mpeg video stream. If I pass the packets between the two NICs without routing through a dummynet pipe, it's fine. If I route it through a pipe, it's fragmenting each packet (client requested 1468 byte packets) into two packets, the second packet with an offset of 1440 bytes. Does anyone have any idea why it's doing this, and have a solution to this problem? Thanks, Mike (please cc directly) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can I use perl substitution to handle hex chars?
To the tool wizards out there, Seems like lots of files I get off the net use \x80\x98 or the like to denote various non-ascii characters. Is there a way to use perl (or any other unix tool) to replace \xwhatever\xwhatever with, say whatever ASCII or ISO-8859-1 character or characters? thanks in advance, guys, 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]
Re: skype and other *phones
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:09:03 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, hapy holiday! i have a question about the internet phone apps, what is the major difference between skype and other *phone system? and I know that bsd has limited support of sound card that works with skype in the past, I wonder if the support is getting better these days? and also how is the driver support for other *phone apps? thank you for your time!! Been using it here with out a problem. :) Including calling out to regular phones. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: skype and other *phones
On 12/10/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, hapy holiday! i have a question about the internet phone apps, what is the major difference between skype and other *phone system? and I know that bsd has limited support of sound card that works with skype in the past, I wonder if the support is getting better these days? and also how is the driver support for other *phone apps? thank you for your time!! If you are open to suggestions on other phone systems, I have been very much enjoying my gizmo account. (gizmoproject.com) I generally use ekiga to connect to it, but the benefit of gizmo is that it uses the standard SIP protocol for accessing the service. Further, the rates are quite good. For free it gives services like incoming phone calls, voice mail, and free SIP-SIP calls. For a $.01/minute (for US numbers) fee it gives outgoing to-landline calls. Don't mean to sound like an advertisement, I just love open standards being used. Eric Kjeldergaard -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Seagate 4GB ATA-CF drive on IDE bus won't work
Thanks, Steve. My microdrive works fine on the IDE bus - just not with FreeBSD :( Works OK with NetBSD, OpenBSD and also Ubuntu linux...I will look closer at the ata driver and see what the differences are to the NetBSD version. Albert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Franks Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:48 PM To: Albert Boeve Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Seagate 4GB ATA-CF drive on IDE bus won't work I have a microdrive that's finicky also. Seems the problem is it's a 1.8V card, which is not standard (standard appears to be 5V or 3.3V). It will not work, period, in a CF-IDE converter, or in a PCMCIA-CF converter. It works fine, however, in *some* USB card readers, namely the cheapo ones off ebay, but not the expensive ones I bought at the local office supply store. I suspect that is the problem, at least it was for me. Steve On 12/10/06, Albert Boeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install Freebsd 6.2 onto a seagate 4GB compact flash microdrive. Neither FreeBSD 6.1 or 6.2-RC1 installers seem to detect the ATA-CF card on the bus; although NetBSD was able to be installed on the drive and works OK. I have tried installing the drive as ata0 master in two different machines; both times NetBSD is able to boot off the drive -ie the hardware is working fine - however the FreeBSD insaller does not detect the drive. Fitting the microdrive in a working FreeBSD machine as ata1 master does not give any further debug info - no dmesg, sysctl seems to log the attachment as failing, although it is detected by BIOS as ST64022CF. FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #0: Thu Nov 16 05:12:08 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 # atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA6.4/A42.0400 ATA/ATAPI revision 4 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: no device present Slave: acd0 201H ATA/ATAPI revision 0 NetBSD atactl gives: NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006 # atactl wd0 identify Model: ST64022CF, Rev: 3.02, Serial #: 4NW03XLS Device type: ATAPI, removable Device capabilities: DMA LBA IORDY operation Command set support: NOP command (enabled) READ BUFFER command (enabled) WRITE BUFFER command (enabled) look-ahead (enabled) write cache (enabled) Power Management feature set (enabled) SMART feature set (enabled) FLUSH CACHE command (enabled) Advanced Power Management feature set (enabled) CFA feature set (enabled) Is there a simple fix to make FreeBSD ata recognize the drive? NB there is a simmilar question about using the same card in a pccard adapter, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061937.html which appears to have been resolved? Thank You Regards, Albert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: skype and other *phones
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: If you are open to suggestions on other phone systems, I have been very much enjoying my gizmo account. (gizmoproject.com) I generally use ekiga to connect to it, but the benefit of gizmo is that it uses the standard SIP protocol for accessing the service. Further, the rates are quite good. For free it gives services like incoming phone calls, voice mail, and free SIP-SIP calls. For a $.01/minute (for US numbers) fee it gives outgoing to-landline calls. Don't mean to sound like an advertisement, I just love open standards being used. Eric Kjeldergaard Yes, but the gizmoproject is particularly onerous. Look at the EULA: http://www.gizmoproject.com/gizmo-end-user.html Michael Robertson is the head of that project, IIRC. Fairly nasty EULA for using such open terms. Can't even redistribute the software. Pity. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?
El Lun 04 Dic 2006 08:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:26:46AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. How does it work? $ ifconfig rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::202:44ff:fe92:1875%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 Maybe you are connected to your service provider by PPP-over-Ethernet? In that case, the PPP link (which doesn't need ARP) is your next-hop to the Internet, rather than the modem on the Ethernet link. Yes, you are right, I forgot about PPP. Many thanks. Also, the ARP table only contain info of your subnet maps ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
