Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install
On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just don't find a way to see what arguments where used to install it the first time. With Linux I would look into config.status is there something similar with FreeBSD? Sorry for having to ask but I am using FreeBSD for the first days now after 5 years using Linux only :) -Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
Hi Paul, I am booting from a 512MB CF card, and run /var and /tmp from a RAM drive. Upon startup, the CF card /var and /tmp dir. are copied into the ram drives, the rest is Read Only. When it shuts down (not very often), the ram drive contents are copied back to the CF card. You could backup the ram drive to CF more frequently if required. I run off of 12V battery, so power failures don't affect me all that much. You could monitor the Battery/UPS for power failure conditions if needed etc. Running FreeBSD 6.0. Cool! Is there a proper way of copying from/to /var and /tmp at boot and at shutdown or did you make the scripts on your own? So far, my boxie has be running flawlessly, I have also hard-rebooted it during a file copy and everything was OK with the filesystem. However, I put in two flash drives and made a gmirror out of them for redundancy. Today I am putting it to a remote location and I hope everything will run there too. Thanks to all, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vt102 at home
Like Mr Wojciech Puchar, I have a VT100 clone here at home... that I use for kernel debug on a 9600 com1 port... and it works soo good.. May be when you are 55 (or 64 as the beatles song)... you will use konsole and the boys will use some kind of brain cortex wired interface and some will still use minimal interfaces because it's more functional. and i think my wyse will still work, because such old things works very long and doesn't fail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
default, window frames and titles removed, all screen available for ACTUAL USE. All easily attainable in E17. :) put a config for E17 for those interested. my .fvwm2rc, but it uses /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl with program menu. you may write it yourself or use my menugen program. set with assumption that it's 1024x768 screen WindowFont -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 MenuStyle white black white -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 fvwm OpaqueMoveSize 100 EdgeScroll 5 5 EdgeResistance 1 1 DeskTopSize 2x2 #ImagePath /usr/pkg/share/fvwm2/images/:/usr/pkg/include/X11/pixmaps/: Style * NoTitle, HintOverride, SmartPlacement, NoPPosition, BorderWidth 0, HandleWidth 0 Style Fvwm*Sticky, WindowListSkip Read /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl DestroyMenu StartMenu AddToMenu StartMenu + FreeBSD Apps Popup FreeBSD + Quit fvwm2Quit + Restart Fvwm2 Restart #AddToFunc Move-or-Raise M Move #+ M Raise #+ C Raise #+ D Maximize 100 100 Mouse 1 I A Iconify False Mouse 1 W C Maximize 100 100 Mouse 2 W C RaiseLower Mouse 3 WI C Close Mouse 1 W 4 Move Mouse 2 WI 4 Iconify Mouse 3 W 4 Resize Key Right A 4 Desk 1 Key LeftA 4 Desk -1 Key F1 A 4 Desk 0 0 Key F2 A 4 Desk 0 1 Key F3 A 4 Desk 0 2 Key F4 A 4 Desk 0 3 Key F5 A 4 Desk 0 4 Key F6 A 4 Desk 0 5 Key F7 A 4 Desk 0 6 Key F8 A 4 Desk 0 7 Key F9 A 4 Desk 0 8 Key F10 A 4 Desk 0 9 Key F11 A 4 Desk 0 10 Key F12 A 4 Desk 0 11 Key F1 A C Desk 0 21 Key F2 A C Desk 0 22 Key F3 A C Desk 0 23 Key F4 A C Desk 0 24 Key F5 A C Desk 0 25 Key F6 A C Desk 0 26 Key F7 A C Desk 0 27 Key F8 A C Desk 0 28 Key F9 A C Desk 0 29 Key F10 A C Desk 0 30 Key F11 A C Desk 0 31 Key F12 A C Desk 0 32 Key M A 4 Menu StartMenu Key MenuA A Menu StartMenu Key X A 4 Exec exec xterm -geometry 102x38+0+0 -ls Key W A 4 WindowList ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting mail to work
of SPF (Sender Policy Framewokr) would immediately identify it as a spoof, and will be blocked. To learn more about this system, see http://www.openspf.org/ if the same machine is for sending and receiving mail simply putting IN TXT v=spf1 mx -all is OK and enough ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
web browser works best with your recommendation? evilwm on xorg with xfmail and opera and an .xinitrc of: evilwm exec xsetroot -cursor_name ul_angle exec xset m 19/5 12 b 90 880 12 exec swisswatch -geometry -0+0 the best watch using least space on screen is the one hanging on the wall :) -- -- ___ 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]
Box reboots when X.org goes fullscreen
Hello. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2/i386 with X.org 6.9.0 on a box with an MGA G450 card. As soon as I launch any app that tries to go fullscreen (e.g. dosbox), this box will reboot without displaying any message or leaving a crash dump. Any hint on how to start diagnosing this? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
I am trying for several days now to get 3d acceleration working on FreebSD for my XFX 7800 GS. But nothing what I've tried worked :-( . Below is a collection of useful information I've gathered thus far. Who can help me? * # sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status* hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) *# glxinfo | fgrep direct* Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Error: unable to open display (null) *# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep nvidia* (II) LoadModule: nvidia (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (II) Module nvidia: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation *# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep NVIDIA* (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation (II) Module nvidia: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:23:45 PST 2006 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) NVIDIA(0): Option NvAGP 1 (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (**) NVIDIA(0): Use of NVIDIA internal AGP requested (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 7800 GS at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 262144 kBytes (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.71.22.21.0a (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 7800 GS at PCI:1:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0): PHILIPS 109S4 (CRT-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): PHILIPS 109S4 (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: NVIDIA (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0 (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) NVIDIA(0): 1280x1024 (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024 (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 96); computed from UseEdidDpi X config (--) NVIDIA(0): option (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode 1280x1024 (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled *# dmesg | grep nvidia* nvidia0: GeForce 7800 GS mem 0xfb00-0xfbff,0xe000-0xefff,0xfa00-0xfaff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] *# tail /boot/device.hints* [code]hint.ie.0.maddr=0xd hint.fe.0.at=isa hint.fe.0.disabled=1 hint.fe.0.port=0x300 hint.lnc.0.at=isa hint.lnc.0.disabled=1 hint.lnc.0.port=0x280 hint.lnc.0.irq=10 hint.lnc.0.drq=0 hint.agp.0.disabled=1 *# cat /boot/loader.conf* nvidia_load=YES linux_load=YES snd_emu10k1_load=YES *Motherboard:* Asus A8V deluxe ChipsetVIA K8T800 Pro North bridgeVIA K8T800 Pro South bridgeVIA VT8237 *# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf* Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 360 270 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName PHL ModelNamePHILIPS 109S4 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync30.0 - 92.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option HWcursor # [bool] #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option ShadowFB # [bool] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option Rotate# [str]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying for several days now to get 3d acceleration working on FreebSD for my XFX 7800 GS. But nothing what I've tried worked :-( . Below is a collection of useful information I've gathered thus far. Who can help me? *# glxinfo | fgrep direct* Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified try glxinfo as the user which runs the xserver not as root (and only when the x server is running) (or run xhost + as the user who runs the xserver before you use glxinfo as root or any other user - however i wouldn't recommend this version) -- Armin Pirkovitsch [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: Box reboots when X.org goes fullscreen
As soon as I launch any app that tries to go fullscreen (e.g. dosbox), this box will reboot without displaying any message or leaving a crash dump. Any hint on how to start diagnosing this? make debug kernel (makeoptions DEBUG=-g) and see in the crash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE
reboots from kernel panics. Replacing the NIC solved it. It's possible, but I've tried 3 different 3c905C's between the two (top-most) slots I'm using for them, and they all have the same symptom, set up speed and half/full duplex manually and it should fix a problem. at least did for me ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Assemblers for FreBSD
On Sunday 11 March 2007 18:52, Patrick Bowen wrote: If one wanted to learn Assembly Language Programming, would he be better served starting with as(1) or nasm(1)? as(1) is the assembler used in the building procedure, making it your logical choice for operating system programming. It uses the ATT syntax of UNIX heritage. It understands Intel's syntax as well. Keep in mind that the code in the tree is in ATT syntax. I guess that must be true for all Unix-like operating systems. Last time I checked, nasm was intel only. I think that nasm mainly served people coming from DOS, people that already knew the Intel syntax. If I was about to try assembly, I would learn ATT. I think there is more code in Intel syntax though, mainly in the graphics area. It depends on what your purpose is. Operating system programming is dominated by as(1). Also, are either of those applicable to AMD64, or just i386? Since as(1) is the only assembler in the tree, and FreeBSD can build itself... as(1) supports many machines... HTH, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
On 12/03/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: web browser works best with your recommendation? evilwm on xorg with xfmail and opera and an .xinitrc of: evilwm exec xsetroot -cursor_name ul_angle exec xset m 19/5 12 b 90 880 12 exec swisswatch -geometry -0+0 the best watch using least space on screen is the one hanging on the wall :) Something needs to be the key process, evilwm does not care to handle shutting down X. alt-tab to swisswatch, ctl-alt-esc and X closes down rather more neatly than ctl-alt-bkspc. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with kdm
Hi I have a little problem with kdm. When I try to sign on the screen reverts back to the login dialog after a few seconds. I can use xdm without any problems. The problem started when I switched my soundcard from an external soundblaster to the onboard Intel. I'm using the Intel HDA driver and it works! The KDE sound does not work but mplayer for example has sound. I've recompiled KDE but there's no change. I need suggestions on how to analyze this problem and to get kdm to work again. Thanks Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
for machines doing mostly fileserving and routing even 2 CPUs may be not well utilized That is only true if the process is giant locked. When look at dmesg, look for things that say GIANT-LOCKED and those will be ones confined to one processor. There has been a massive push since 5 to get ride of those. top shows giant-lock RARELY when i observe my machines. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language
Sort of. Great parts of FreeBSD, in fact the vast majority of the source code, is written in C. But it is not *completely* written in C. groff is in C++ AFAIK, lots of shell or perl code to support compiling, some assembly, adaptec microcode assembler etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...
On Friday 09 March 2007 23:52, Modulok wrote: How do I work-around a situation where cp, hangs forever? You can try several things: 1) mount read-only and try to copy the data. dd(1) might be a better choice than cp(1), read more bellow. 2) unmount and dump(8) the filesystem. 3) use dd(1) to copy the filesystem to a file(use conv=noerror,sync to ignore I/O errors) I assume that: 1) your operating system lives in a healthy disk and 2) you have the needed space in this healthy disk to copy the data. Keep in mind the warning from the BUGS section in mount(8) manual page: It is possible for a corrupted file system to cause a crash. I would use method 3 first, which would give me the opportunity to try different things, without having to do them on the actual filesystem, but on the file- backed filesystem, for example fsck(8). HTH, Nikos -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 15:28, Modulok wrote: Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative and very much appreciated, but the underlying question remains un-answered: How do you kill a hanged process that (seemingly) cannot be killed because of the two conditions below? -It's hanged, so it's not ever going to self terminate. -It's a disk i/o process so not even root can kill it. As I said before disk I/O is irrelevant. The gentle shutdown solution doesn't work: Even during shutdown the process cannot be killed: it's hanged, it's disk i/o. How do you kill an un-killable process? What makes you believe there is another official way to kill a process? Perhaps you should ask How do I work-around a situation where my rm, cp, whatever hang forever?, if that's what you are looking for. -Modulok- On 3/9/07, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:49, Modulok wrote: To the best of my knowledge, most processes can be killed explicitly by kill -s KILL; There are a few which cannot, such as disk i/o processes. The idea here is data integrity. A process might be in cannot-be-killed condition while in kernel e.g. during a system call. That has to do with the completion of the system call, not with data integrity. The kernel tries to complete what was asked for. Also, Killing a process with SIGKILL is far from safe. To put it in another way data integrity can be guaranteed only by the program itself. For example it could have a defined behavior when it is signaled by e.g. SIGTERM, for example clean up data and exit. Or not. It's up to the programmer. Sending a SIGKILL will not give that chance. SIGKILL can not be handled. It will be terminated as soon as possible. Also, separate the meanings data integrity and filesystem data integrity. The filesystem will be in fine condition when a process gets killed by SIGKILL during file I/O, the data in the file most probably not. On the rare occasion however, (when attempting to recover data from corrupt disks for example), I've had a process invoked by the cp command, hang. This poses a significant problem as these processes are disk i/o processes, and as such cannot be terminated (even by root). So, other than physically hitting the reset button on the case, is there a more eloquent method of forcefully halting a hanged disk i/o process? The idea of you don't want to terminate a disk i/o process, it could corrupt the data isn't really a good argument, because if the process hangs and I have to punch the reset button anyway what's the difference? Pressing the button will leave your filesystem in a undefined state, you are risking filesystem integrity. Keep in mind that while in use (open files etc) a filesystem cannot be unmounted. Anyway, try to shut the computer down, it's far more gentle than pressing the button. At least the rest of the filesystems will be cleanly unmounted. Is there something in particular you want to achieve? Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
They're minimalistic and slick to use. If you should need to connect with a windows box there's Xming. Look in the archives! what is Xming? with grep -i xming /usr/ports/INDEX nothing found ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
I have used XFCE 3.* on all my free BSD boxes for years. It is a Simple GUI which I use on any Desktops I build. The video is clear and is simple. ( XFCE4* I did not like the concept.) Emails etc all work and install easily from ports. one of the best choices for those who want desktop. but is it needed at all? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:10:11 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used XFCE 3.* on all my free BSD boxes for years. It is a Simple GUI which I use on any Desktops I build. The video is clear and is simple. ( XFCE4* I did not like the concept.) Emails etc all work and install easily from ports. one of the best choices for those who want desktop. but is it needed at all? It is for someone who wants to work in that environment. -- Gerard When confronted by a difficult problem, you can often solve it quite easily by reducing it to the question, How would the Lone Ranger handle this? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 22:36 To: Vince Cc: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Vince wrote: Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for devfs.rules add something like [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 to /etc/devfs.rules you also need to add devfs_system_ruleset=system to rc.conf Vince Ok I will try that :-) Oh i forgot to mention you will have to restart devfs afterwards, /etc/rc.d/devfs restart Vince Ehm I can't find /etc/devfs.rules: ls /etc/ | grep dev devd.conf devfs.conf You need to create /etc/devfs.rules if you've haven't used it before. Vince has given you what you need to put in the file, modifying rc.conf to pull your custom ruleset in then restarting devfs. Please don't send HTML email. HTH. PLEASE NOTE: THE ABOVE MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE INTERNET. On entering the GSI, this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. In case of problems, please call your organisational IT Helpdesk. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk ** This document is strictly confidential and is intended only for use by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other action taken in reliance of the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Department for Work and Pensions. If you have received this transmission in error, please use the reply function to tell us and then permanently delete what you have received. Please note: Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications. ** The original of this email was scanned for viruses by Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSI this email was certified virus free. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with kdm
On 12/03/07, Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a little problem with kdm. When I try to sign on the screen reverts back to the login dialog after a few seconds. I can use xdm without any problems. The problem started when I switched my soundcard from an external soundblaster to the onboard Intel. I'm using the Intel HDA driver and it works! The KDE sound does not work but mplayer for example has sound. I don't think that these two are actually related. The Display Manager hasn't anything to do with the sound card, at least not after you entered username and password. So my guess is that you broke your KDM configuration somehow. The situation you describe usually means that the session you're trying to execute is invalid. This can have a variety of reasons. I can't help you here because I don't know what session you're trying to execute. Are you using KDE or Gnome, or do you have a ~/.xsession defined? If the latter is the case I doubt that kdm did work for you, because AFAIK KDM doesn't support Xsession. First check what session is execute upon login. There is a Session menu somewhere on the kdm login screen. Choose a session that you know does exist. I've recompiled KDE but there's no change. I need suggestions on how to analyze this problem and to get kdm to work again. HTH Christian Thanks Leslie ___ 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: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Running glxinfo as user works: $ glxinfo | fgrep direct direct rendering: Yes 3d acceleration still isn't working though :-( : $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install
Hello Alexander, There's /var/db/ports/name of port for the result of make configure, if that is what you mean? Otherwise most ports should have their .conf and other settings in /usr/local/etc. Good luck! Alexander Schlichting skrev: On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just don't find a way to see what arguments where used to install it the first time. With Linux I would look into config.status is there something similar with FreeBSD? Sorry for having to ask but I am using FreeBSD for the first days now after 5 years using Linux only :) -Alex ___ 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: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
It is for someone who wants to work in that environment. exactly, but it would be handy to define what desktop is. could someone provide me a definition? is X server alone a desktop? i think no. is KDE a desktop? i think yes from what i heard. is XFCE a desktop? i think too. so is my X server+fvwm2 having no visible icons, windows, frames etc. (but having a menu under keypress) a desktop or not? if yes - then we can define desktop as any software able to run graphics mode programs on graphics capable machine. like bash or csh for text mode. if no - what part of say KDE make it a desktop? i'm not trying to start any war, just want to hear a definition of so commonly used term today. Wojtek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Post DST changes
I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 And the command date gives the correct time. But until I restart some applications, I dont see the right times logged in syslog ?! e.g # date Mon Mar 12 08:17:06 EDT 2007 And looking at BIND's entries to syslog, I see the correct timestamps Mar 12 08:17:42 granite named[16080]: denied recursion for query from [198.73.192.129].1364 for 119.64.22.72.in-addr.arpa IN Mar 12 08:17:42 granite named[16080]: denied recursion for query from [198.73.192.129].1364 for 119.64.22.72.in-addr.arpa IN Mar 12 07:17:43 granite /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 199.212.xx.x:995 from 74.97.26.112:53911 flags:0x02 Mar 12 08:17:50 granite named[16080]: denied update from [64.7.xx.90].2163 for xxx.com IN Mar 12 08:17:50 granite named[16080]: denied update from [64.7.xx.90].2163 for xxx.com IN yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !? if I restart syslogd, it corrects it for the kernel entry, but not for other applications. They all seem to log the time one hour back. Most applications seem this way. On my more recent boxes this didnt happen, but for some legacy RELENG_4 and older RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 boxes, the same odd behavior. /etc/localtime looks the same on all the boxes # md5 /etc/localtime MD5 (/etc/localtime) = 82980b1345aab5a97d90307edfefb6da [smtp1]% md5 /etc/localtime MD5 (/etc/localtime) = 82980b1345aab5a97d90307edfefb6da [smtp1]% yet different behaviour. Any idea whats up ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
Hi, Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? Thanks. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
Hello Wojciech, ...If you should need to connect with a Windows box...(to a FreeBSD machine running X). A part of Xming is a remote desktop client for Windows. You will find more information at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Good luck! Wojciech Puchar skrev: They're minimalistic and slick to use. If you should need to connect with a windows box there's Xming. Look in the archives! what is Xming? with grep -i xming /usr/ports/INDEX nothing found ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
Sunnz wrote: Hi, Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? Probably nothing bad will happen if you don't, but if you start getting weird errors this is the first thing you should do. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:28:15 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is for someone who wants to work in that environment. exactly, but it would be handy to define what desktop is. could someone provide me a definition? is X server alone a desktop? i think no. is KDE a desktop? i think yes from what i heard. is XFCE a desktop? i think too. so is my X server+fvwm2 having no visible icons, windows, frames etc. (but having a menu under keypress) a desktop or not? if yes - then we can define desktop as any software able to run graphics mode programs on graphics capable machine. like bash or csh for text mode. if no - what part of say KDE make it a desktop? i'm not trying to start any war, just want to hear a definition of so commonly used term today. Wojtek Before you ask so many questions, why don't you invest a little time in RTFM, or perhaps STFW. Check out this URL for starters: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html -- Gerard Fortune's current rates: Answers .10 Long answers.25 Answers requiring thought .50 Correct answers $1.00 Dumb looks are still free. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
On 03/12/2007 03:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: default, window frames and titles removed, all screen available for ACTUAL USE. All easily attainable in E17. :) put a config for E17 for those interested. Unfortunately the config files are now in a binary format. So to post them would be less than enlightening. :P However, it is certainly possible to have all windows borderless and full screen, each on their own desktop. You can navigate desktops with keybd or mouse strokes. You never have to touch a menu as you can launch apps via keybindings (do most other things as well.) You should give it a try. Its very fast and very lightweight. my .fvwm2rc, but it uses /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl with program menu. you may write it yourself or use my menugen program. set with assumption that it's 1024x768 screen WindowFont-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 MenuStyle white black white -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 fvwm OpaqueMoveSize 100 EdgeScroll 5 5 EdgeResistance 1 1 DeskTopSize 2x2 #ImagePath /usr/pkg/share/fvwm2/images/:/usr/pkg/include/X11/pixmaps/: Style * NoTitle, HintOverride, SmartPlacement, NoPPosition, BorderWidth 0, HandleWidth 0 Style Fvwm*Sticky, WindowListSkip Read /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl DestroyMenu StartMenu AddToMenu StartMenu + FreeBSD AppsPopup FreeBSD + Quit fvwm2Quit + Restart Fvwm2Restart #AddToFunc Move-or-Raise M Move #+ M Raise #+ C Raise #+ D Maximize 100 100 Mouse 1IAIconify False Mouse 1 W C Maximize 100 100 Mouse 2WCRaiseLower Mouse 3 WI C Close Mouse 1W4Move Mouse 2WI4Iconify Mouse 3W4Resize Key RightA4Desk 1 Key LeftA4Desk -1 Key F1A4Desk 0 0 Key F2A4Desk 0 1 Key F3A4Desk 0 2 Key F4A4Desk 0 3 Key F5A4Desk 0 4 Key F6A4Desk 0 5 Key F7A4Desk 0 6 Key F8A4Desk 0 7 Key F9A4Desk 0 8 Key F10A4Desk 0 9 Key F11A4Desk 0 10 Key F12A4Desk 0 11 Key F1ACDesk 0 21 Key F2ACDesk 0 22 Key F3ACDesk 0 23 Key F4ACDesk 0 24 Key F5ACDesk 0 25 Key F6ACDesk 0 26 Key F7ACDesk 0 27 Key F8ACDesk 0 28 Key F9ACDesk 0 29 Key F10ACDesk 0 30 Key F11ACDesk 0 31 Key F12ACDesk 0 32 Key MA4Menu StartMenu Key MenuAAMenu StartMenu Key XA4Exec exec xterm -geometry 102x38+0+0 -ls Key WA4WindowList ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
On 12/03/07, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/2007 03:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: default, window frames and titles removed, [...] However, it is certainly possible to have all windows borderless and full screen, each on their own desktop. You can navigate desktops with keybd or mouse strokes. You never have to touch a menu as you can launch apps via keybindings (do most other things as well.) You should give it a try. Its very fast and very lightweight. Hm, sounds like installing ion3 would be an easier task. ion3 is the WM of my choice, and it does exactly (or nearly) what you describe, and some more. You can additionally set up different layouts of your taste, for example with two columns or even more complex ones. (I've a special layout for gimp where most windows fit into their own frame.) Never touch a window title bar anymore. No resizing, no moving around... Simply brilliant. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? tell me what base system do you have now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. Probably will upgrade the base system soon, but at the same time I wanted to know if it should be something need to be done as quickly as possible. Thanks 2007/3/13, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? tell me what base system do you have now. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
In response to Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? 99% of the time, the answer is yes. The real answer is that it depends on which version your going from and to and what sort of changes have been made to kernel interfaces between those versions. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
the one i was looking for very long! as i don't have windoze anywhere close now could you tell me if: 1) this X server can use font server or Xorg format fontsets (.pcf.gz or .pcf) 2) does it work with xdm on server (just for sure, as naturally it should) 3) what keybinding will be blocked because it's used by windows alone? can it be used fullscreen with just one or two key combinations reserved to minimizing/iconizing it's display in windows. i tried cygwin's X server (mostly doesn't work) some time ago. i tried others, and only vnc works but it's not X server/client but bitmap differentiation. and vnc X server wasn't able to accept -fp right. at least when i tried. no polish fonts etc... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Best OS
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:03:38AM +0530, Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B) OpenBSD C) FreeBSD Which project has good Support and Active Development ? Well, gee, someone has to say - of course, the best one is FreeBSD. As others have said, any of them can work. FreeBSD is well supported and has all the extra software available that you might need for that but is still lean and not bloated up with junk you don't need. So, it makes a good choice.The fact that it just works is in its favor too. jerry Please help me to choose THANKS IN ADVANCE SUSANTH K ___ 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: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
Check out this URL for starters: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html A desktop environment can mean anything ranging from a simple window manager to a complete suite of desktop applications, such as KDE or GNOME. can mean is very far from definition. further reading shows that desktop is where data and applications can be placed. i always though that data and application are on disk. still no definition of desktop, but looks like desktop=ability to display icon symbols of files and programs (which are files too) and ability to provide panel for starting programs and doing some other maintenance. do i say right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
You should give it a try. Its very fast and very lightweight. faster than fvwm2. so i will :) my .fvwm2rc, but it uses /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl with program menu. you may write it yourself or use my menugen program. set with assumption that it's 1024x768 screen WindowFont-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 MenuStyle white black white -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 fvwm OpaqueMoveSize 100 EdgeScroll 5 5 EdgeResistance 1 1 DeskTopSize 2x2 #ImagePath /usr/pkg/share/fvwm2/images/:/usr/pkg/include/X11/pixmaps/: Style * NoTitle, HintOverride, SmartPlacement, NoPPosition, BorderWidth 0, HandleWidth 0 Style Fvwm*Sticky, WindowListSkip Read /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl DestroyMenu StartMenu AddToMenu StartMenu + FreeBSD AppsPopup FreeBSD + Quit fvwm2Quit + Restart Fvwm2Restart #AddToFunc Move-or-Raise M Move #+ M Raise #+ C Raise #+ D Maximize 100 100 Mouse 1IAIconify False Mouse 1 W C Maximize 100 100 Mouse 2WCRaiseLower Mouse 3 WI C Close Mouse 1W4Move Mouse 2WI4Iconify Mouse 3W4Resize Key RightA4Desk 1 Key LeftA4Desk -1 Key F1A4Desk 0 0 Key F2A4Desk 0 1 Key F3A4Desk 0 2 Key F4A4Desk 0 3 Key F5A4Desk 0 4 Key F6A4Desk 0 5 Key F7A4Desk 0 6 Key F8A4Desk 0 7 Key F9A4Desk 0 8 Key F10A4Desk 0 9 Key F11A4Desk 0 10 Key F12A4Desk 0 11 Key F1ACDesk 0 21 Key F2ACDesk 0 22 Key F3ACDesk 0 23 Key F4ACDesk 0 24 Key F5ACDesk 0 25 Key F6ACDesk 0 26 Key F7ACDesk 0 27 Key F8ACDesk 0 28 Key F9ACDesk 0 29 Key F10ACDesk 0 30 Key F11ACDesk 0 31 Key F12ACDesk 0 32 Key MA4Menu StartMenu Key MenuAAMenu StartMenu Key XA4Exec exec xterm -geometry 102x38+0+0 -ls Key WA4WindowList ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
Hm, sounds like installing ion3 would be an easier task. ion3 is the WM of my choice, and it does exactly (or nearly) what you describe, and some more. You can additionally set up different layouts i am always open for making my workplace more productive and easier to use. so i will have a try of E17 and ion3, while second looks like more designed to my needs. i tried ratpoison but i was unable to do single-key switching to other desktops and manage well subwindows in some apps like gimp, which always needs multiple windows on one desktop. PS. Because i don't get definition of desktop i used there and in other posts: desktop is one complete full screen workspace. be it text or graphics doesn't matter. PS2. still waiting for precise desktop definition, because i think that this term is regularly misused. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. my question was what version of base system you have in /bin, /sbin, /lib etc. now so i could answer if you HAVE to compile 6.2, should or don't need to, just put the kernel if your system binaries is 6.0 or later you don't need to update ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Mar-2007 12:56 Subject: Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots... To: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/03/07, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/2007 03:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: default, window frames and titles removed, all screen available for ACTUAL USE. All easily attainable in E17. :) put a config for E17 for those interested. Unfortunately the config files are now in a binary format. So to post them would be less than enlightening. :P yuck, yuck, yuck Jeff -- Q: What will happen in the Aftermath? A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath. http://latedeveloper.org.uk -- Q: What will happen in the Aftermath? A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath. http://latedeveloper.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The FreeBSD7
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:07:04PM +0530, Susanth K wrote: Wikipedia says, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd FreeBSD 7.0 is on Improved scheduler and locking scalability for 32+ CPU systems (prototyping) Does Any One know How Many CPU Does FreeBSD 6.2 Supports ? People on the list just discussed this - not too meaningfully - but... I don't know if there is a coded in limit in either 6.xx or 7.xx. People were more talking about a practical limit, meaning how many could be efficiently handled. For 6.xx they seemed to think that something between 4 and 8 were practical limits. But, this is assuming all CPUs were being used on the same task. Having multiple tasks might increase this. Again, I don't know if somewwhere there is a coded in or configurable limit to how many CPUs it will talk to. Someone who knows the code should answer that. No one has attempted to respond in terms of V 7.xxx as far as I have noticed. jerry THANKS IN ADVANCE ___ 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]
Old things do work.
As I said some emails ago I have a 200 machines all freebsd network that runs 24/7 with a mtbf of 15 years... how I got the numbers? well I have an issue every 3 or 4 weeks... (the machine hangs, stops, the power supply explodes) the machines are aways on... if you count 200 machines and one machine crashes once every 200 days, I will have a 200 day running time on each machine... well I have almost once a month problem... that is 30 times 200 days - 6000 days for each machine... the machines have now 3 to 5 years old... Now I am replacing the machines for AMD64 with mainboard ECS that proved the more reliable hardware... (asus k8v is also a good choice) (gateway is bad...) 98% of the machines are AMD, some are cyrix It continues to run even with the cpu cooler stopped by dust (yes!!! some machines are in rural areas, gas stations and have no way to offer maitenance) and I have not seen them for years... but sometimes the machines emails me.. (when they finally get dial up connection... and have some issue like: no space, no swap...) it is like sending them to mars... You can see some pictures of the running system on FreeBSD + gnome + windowmaker... at http://www.k1.com.br/images/sistemas these are old pictures, but you can have an idea. the new versions have more enhancements It is all coded in FreeBSD with python + gtk + postgres... and runs in windows too... Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. my question was what version of base system you have in /bin, /sbin, /lib etc. Check the Subject line :) Cheers, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski karol.kwiat at gmail dot com OpenPGP 0x06E09309 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:17:38 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out this URL for starters: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html A desktop environment can mean anything ranging from a simple window manager to a complete suite of desktop applications, such as KDE or GNOME. can mean is very far from definition. further reading shows that desktop is where data and applications can be placed. i always though that data and application are on disk. still no definition of desktop, but looks like desktop=ability to display icon symbols of files and programs (which are files too) and ability to provide panel for starting programs and doing some other maintenance. do i say right? Every time I reply to one of your posts, you reply directly back to me. That is incorrect. You should be directing your reply back to the FreeBSD mail forum. Others might be in a position to assist you if they viewed your post. -- Gerard /) ,-^ ^-. // / \ .---| |--/ __ __ \---.__ |WMWMWMW| | | /\ /\ |: `---| |--| \__/ \__/ |---'^^ \\ \/|\/ \) \ \_/ / | | |+H+H+H+| \ / ^-^ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Old things do work.
As I said some emails ago I have a 200 machines all freebsd network that runs 24/7 with a mtbf of 15 years... how I got the numbers? well I have an issue every 3 or 4 weeks... (the machine hangs, stops, the power supply explodes) the machines are aways on... if you count 200 machines and one machine crashes once every 200 days, I will have a 200 day running time on each machine... well I have almost once a month problem... that is 30 times 200 days - 6000 days for each machine... the machines have now 3 to 5 years old... Now I am replacing the machines for AMD64 with mainboard ECS that proved the more reliable hardware... (asus k8v is also a good choice) (gateway is bad...) 98% of the machines are AMD, some are cyrix It continues to run even with the cpu cooler stopped by dust (yes!!! some machines are in rural areas, gas stations and have no way to offer maitenance) and I have not seen them for years... but sometimes the machines emails me.. (when they finally get dial up connection... and have some issue like: no space, no swap...) it is like sending them to mars... You can see some pictures of the running system on FreeBSD + gnome + windowmaker... at http://www.k1.com.br/images/sistemas these are old pictures, but you can have an idea. the new versions have more enhancements It is all coded in FreeBSD with python + gtk + postgres... and runs in windows too... Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
Hello Wojciech, May I suggest that you redirect these questions to the Xming forum? The link to the forum is at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Wojciech Puchar skrev: the one i was looking for very long! as i don't have windoze anywhere close now could you tell me if: 1) this X server can use font server or Xorg format fontsets (.pcf.gz or .pcf) 2) does it work with xdm on server (just for sure, as naturally it should) 3) what keybinding will be blocked because it's used by windows alone? can it be used fullscreen with just one or two key combinations reserved to minimizing/iconizing it's display in windows. i tried cygwin's X server (mostly doesn't work) some time ago. i tried others, and only vnc works but it's not X server/client but bitmap differentiation. and vnc X server wasn't able to accept -fp right. at least when i tried. no polish fonts etc... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Post DST changes
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK ... yet different behaviour. Any idea whats up ? This is the same thing I asked about yesterday (Daylight Savings Time -- /etc/localtime and what else?) w/o responses From what I could tell, virtually every process needed a restart. sshd, cron, sendmail, et al were running an hour off. I guess they have a time ref based on their original start-up. After I restarted them all, I ended up doing a reboot anyway -- I wasn't sure if everything had been caught and I didn't want a Monday morning surprise. Today -- all seems OK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manual updates
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:12:54PM -, Andy Kendall wrote: As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot of help. In my opinion it relies on far too high a plateau of knowledge by it's readers to be of initial use. Am I really that thick or does anyone else feel this way? Do the email list respondents find themselves answering the same questions over and over? Is there some way I can help to upgrade the manual entries with the detail I find necessary to get things working and understand how they work, thereby hopefully benefiting following newbs? You are welcome to submit improvements to the handbook or man pages. The procedure is well documented on the web page. Is there a FreeBSD for dummies? Probably a combination of the FAQ and numerous web pages with howto lists that are out there in web-land make up the FreeBSd for dummies.I don't know of any specific publshed book of that nature, but there are several good ones that might be called FreeBSD for smart people. jerry Thanks Andy (very frustrated) ___ 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: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
On 12/03/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, sounds like installing ion3 would be an easier task. ion3 is the WM of my choice, and it does exactly (or nearly) what you describe, and some more. You can additionally set up different layouts i am always open for making my workplace more productive and easier to use. so i will have a try of E17 and ion3, while second looks like more designed to my needs. i tried ratpoison but i was unable to do single-key switching to other desktops and manage well subwindows in some apps like gimp, which always needs multiple windows on one desktop. ion3 defaults configuration is a very basic one, so it might not look that promising on the first glimpse. But since everything is configurable, you can have your own shortcuts. IMO defining the right short cuts is the hardest part, because chances are high that the WMs shortcuts conflict with an application. I finally split Ctrl_R and Meta_R from their original keys, binding them to Mod3 and Mod4 (both where available on my machine). I can send you my config if you like. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html On Mon 12 Mar 2007 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running glxinfo as user works: $ glxinfo | fgrep direct direct rendering: Yes 3d acceleration still isn't working though :-( : $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: n/a (disabled) hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: n/a (disabled) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Travel important today; Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nss_ldap and openldap on the same server.
Hi, I have a small problem. On my central server we run an openldap server that contains the userdata for some systems. An the server uses this ldap server for authentication and nss. The problem is that when the server is booting slapd takes a very long time to start up. I think it's trying to get an answer from ldap for the user ldap. But user ldap is in /etc/passwd and in /etc/groups My nsswitch.conf looks like this. group: files ldap hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files ldap shells: files The system comes up but takes very long to do so (i think it's somekind of timeout) Mar 12 14:58:23 phobos slapd[584]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable As I see it, nss asks all sources even if the frist one allready knows the answer. Is there a way to change this. Bye Estartu Gerhard Schmidt| Nick : estartu IRC : Estartu | Fischbachweg 3 || PGP Public Key 86856 Hiltenfingen | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on request Germany|| pgpmmM9wgc5jS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Martin Tournoij wrote: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rebuilding world
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html This document says that after the make installkernel, you reboot in single user mode, and then run mergemaster -p. This gives me errors about a read-only filesystem. Can't create /var/tmp/temproot. Do the instructions need updating? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your document
I would be out of the country on a business trip till March 23rd with a very limited access to my voice messages and emails. If you need any immediate attention, please feel free to call my colleague KP @ 609 799 3762 x27. Alternatively, you may also contact me through [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I would respond you within 24 hours. I do apologize, if this has caused any inconvenience to you : Thanks Regards Solanki Ph # 609 799 3762 x 21 (Work), 609 865 7188 (Cell) Sr. Business Manager ISS Inc. (Integrated Software Solutions, Inc.) A Mercury Interactive Partner Company Email 1 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email 2 : [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: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?
Lol. Yes, all I have done is installing FBSD6.2-Release from a CD, then rebuilt the kernel using 6-stable sources. 2007/3/13, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wojciech Puchar wrote: 6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. my question was what version of base system you have in /bin, /sbin, /lib etc. Check the Subject line :) Cheers, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski karol.kwiat at gmail dot com OpenPGP 0x06E09309 -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diskonkey
Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
sorry for accidentally posting this publicly not just privately and polluting list Hello Wojciech, May I suggest that you redirect these questions to the Xming forum? The link to the forum is at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. . . . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskonkey
On 3/12/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does dmesg call it after you insert it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rebuilding world
In response to Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html This document says that after the make installkernel, you reboot in single user mode, and then run mergemaster -p. This gives me errors about a read-only filesystem. Can't create /var/tmp/temproot. fsck; mount -a Do the instructions need updating? Might not hurt to add that information to the docs. You could file a PR or submit an update to the doc projects. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html I believe it's enough to put this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . Have you installed the port or package nvidia-driver (or one of its siblings)? The documentation that comes with it will probably tell you what you need to know. On my own machine I have NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9631, and I get this: %sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Post DST changes
Hi Mike, It appears that certain daemons don't read tzdata except at startup. I'm not using bind or sendmail in production but I did notice this on a few development servers... Probably related to the way time zone info is read by libc. Because really, how often does it change? :) - Chris Mike Tancsa wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 And the command date gives the correct time. But until I restart some applications, I dont see the right times logged in syslog ?! e.g # date Mon Mar 12 08:17:06 EDT 2007 And looking at BIND's entries to syslog, I see the correct timestamps Mar 12 08:17:42 granite named[16080]: denied recursion for query from [198.73.192.129].1364 for 119.64.22.72.in-addr.arpa IN Mar 12 08:17:42 granite named[16080]: denied recursion for query from [198.73.192.129].1364 for 119.64.22.72.in-addr.arpa IN Mar 12 07:17:43 granite /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 199.212.xx.x:995 from 74.97.26.112:53911 flags:0x02 Mar 12 08:17:50 granite named[16080]: denied update from [64.7.xx.90].2163 for xxx.com IN Mar 12 08:17:50 granite named[16080]: denied update from [64.7.xx.90].2163 for xxx.com IN yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !? if I restart syslogd, it corrects it for the kernel entry, but not for other applications. They all seem to log the time one hour back. Most applications seem this way. On my more recent boxes this didnt happen, but for some legacy RELENG_4 and older RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 boxes, the same odd behavior. /etc/localtime looks the same on all the boxes # md5 /etc/localtime MD5 (/etc/localtime) = 82980b1345aab5a97d90307edfefb6da [smtp1]% md5 /etc/localtime MD5 (/etc/localtime) = 82980b1345aab5a97d90307edfefb6da [smtp1]% yet different behaviour. Any idea whats up ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike ___ 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: diskonkey
Hi. I see there ... umass0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 3 ... which means that I should mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/umass0 MNT_POINT as root ? Thanks and regards, Dima. On 3/12/07, Jeremy Gransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does dmesg call it after you insert it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskonkey
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:58:22 +0200 Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. Try this (just a hint): % mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /path/where ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskonkey
... umass0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 3 ... which means that I should mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/umass0 MNT_POINT as root ? see farther so da0 (or 1,2,3) will show in logs if it doesn't you may have not compiled da and scbus then /dev/da0 will be the device and /dev/da0s1 - dos partition Thanks and regards, Dima. On 3/12/07, Jeremy Gransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does dmesg call it after you insert it? ___ 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: Manual updates
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/03/07, Paulette McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot of help. what's missing? i think it's quite detailed . . . Yes, the handbook is quite detailed; however there are somethings missing. Not to start a flame war; these are just a few thoughts and they are in my humble opinion. . . . 1) Update ports 1a) CVS 2b) portsnap 2) Build INDEX (depends on the tool; identify tools). Also what are the pro's and con's of obtaining the index from the methods listed below. 2a) make index 2b) make fetchindex 2c) portsdb -Uu 3) Use Tool 'X' to update / upgrade your ports . . . Now, one other issue; off the top of my head: pkgtools.conf. How does pkgtools.conf interact with the makefile in their respective ports directory? 1) Does it completely override it? 2) Does if it take a diff between the two and build the app? portsdb is part of portupgrade, not at all part of the base system. Similarly, pkgtools.conf, being located in /usr/local/etc/ is used by portupgrade (and another ports management tool?) which is not at all part of the base system. portupgrade has quite a bit of documentation on its use, but I am not certain how this third party ruby script dovetails with a discussion of the (de)merits of FreeBSD's handbook. Obviously with enough time and effort a complete set of documents for 6.2 could be compiled and vetted for accuracy, although just like the current handbook and other documentation, it would fall out of date exactly as fast as new code would be added. Keeping up to date with third party applications (ruby scripts!) would exacerbate rather than ameliorate this effect. -- -- Hello illoai, With respect to you statement: My reply was how the handbook could be improved for new users. Nothing in the world is perfect; and if the FreeBSD experience can be improved for users, I am all for it. I did a little writing and was hoping for feed back so eventually I could submit that information back to the doc project. portupgrade has quite a bit of documentation on its use, but I am not certain how this third party ruby script dovetails with a discussion of the (de)merits The topic at hand was improving documentation and I put in my .02 cents worth when a question was posed. Perhaps this discussion should take place on another mailing list. But this discussion may add some interest of the skilled users on this list to potentially contribute. So, there may be a positive to this dovetail. :-) As it stands the FreeBSD Handbook is a great piece of documentation. In my humble opinion it can be better; and I am more than willing to spend the time. although just like the current handbook and other documentation, it would fall out of date exactly as fast as new code would be added. Portupgrade has been part of the upgrade (system admin) process for quite some time and the process of upgrading ports has been somewhat consistent over time. All I would like to see is the process identified for updating software. The topic of installing software and updating software is important; and should be expounded upon. Just my humble opinion. As I stated: This topic should be carried out on another list. Regards, Paulette McGee Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskonkey
Hi. Yes ! I see da0. Thanks for everybody meanwhile. (I should relogin as root, put myself in 'wheel' group, then I will check whether it works) Dima. On 3/12/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... umass0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 3 ... which means that I should mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/umass0 MNT_POINT as root ? see farther so da0 (or 1,2,3) will show in logs if it doesn't you may have not compiled da and scbus then /dev/da0 will be the device and /dev/da0s1 - dos partition Thanks and regards, Dima. On 3/12/07, Jeremy Gransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does dmesg call it after you insert it? ___ 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]
Anyone use KSH?
Just installed Release 6.2 on my workstation, and the first thing I did was installing (pd)ksh since I have been using it before... I found that a few things doesn't work, tab-completion, up/down arrow keys, ctrl-A ctrl-E to go to the beginning/end of a line. Does anyone uses ksh here who knows if this is normal behaviour? -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?
John L wrote: I phrased it wrong. You are not responsible for the content, but you are responsible for the mail domain and that includes verifying that mail is validly from your domain you are responsible for. Oh, OK. So if someone sends pump and dump with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] return address, and I do a callback and your MTA says yup! that's a 100% valid address! then I turn you in to the SEC, rignt? You have now confirmed that the mail is from you, after all. Or if you haven't, what purpose did the callback serve? There is some reasonable validation technology coming along, most notably DKIM which which I presume you are familiar. But callbacks are not it. I agree. callbacks are not enough, you can reach a false conclusion, that´s why I use SPF along with callbacks... on the same message, my MX concludes: you are sending email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], but shire.net says YOUR IP address is not allowed to send email on behalf of that domain, therefore YOU ARE FAKE/FORGED ..--- reject regards, -- MSc. Marcelo Maraboli Rosselott Jefe Area de Redes y Comunicaciones (Network UNIX Systems Engineer) Ingeniero Civil Electronico, CISSP (Electronic Engineer, CISSP, MSc.) Direccion Central de Servicios Computacionales (DCSC) Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria phone: +56 32 2654071 Chile.http://www.usm.cl http://elqui.dcsc.utfsm.cl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
I noticed a project called NanoBSD in the freebsd handbook that is intended for exactly this purpose. I compiled installed it just fine on 6.1 release, but my hardware wouldn't boot a CF card, so I was unable to verify that it worked. Sounds like NanoBSD is to FreeBSD what m0n0wall is to Linux? Steve On 3/9/07, Nejc Škoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says that this device is capable of 10,000 insertion/removal cycles I assume that I must minimize the number of writes to the drive. It is okay with me if I have to configure syslog to log to another machine. Any suggestions/instructions how to achieve this? Any experienced users regarding this matter? Thanks for ideas and help. Nejc ___ 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: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
My bad. Says right on the m0n0wall homepage that it is based on FreeBSD, not Linuxyea for us! Steve On 3/9/07, Nejc Škoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says that this device is capable of 10,000 insertion/removal cycles I assume that I must minimize the number of writes to the drive. It is okay with me if I have to configure syslog to log to another machine. Any suggestions/instructions how to achieve this? Any experienced users regarding this matter? Thanks for ideas and help. Nejc ___ 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: Anyone use KSH?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Sunnz wrote: Just installed Release 6.2 on my workstation, and the first thing I did was installing (pd)ksh since I have been using it before... I found that a few things doesn't work, tab-completion, up/down arrow keys, ctrl-A ctrl-E to go to the beginning/end of a line. My guess is that you're in vi mode by default (set -o vi), and would prefer it to be in emacs mode. Try ``set -o emacs'' to see if it does what you want. Personally I much prefer the vi mode as I've never been able to get my fingers to learn emacs. After using ksh for almost twenty years, I finally switched to bash from ksh several months ago when I found that tab completion works in vi mode on bash, and a simple alias r='fc -s' allows me to use the ksh style ``r'' commands to repeat previous commands. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Make no laws whatever concerning speech and, speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that ``freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license;'' and they will define and define freedom out of existence. - Voltarine de Cleyre (1866-1912) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem building php5-pcre
Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/php_pcre.o /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:102: warning: parameter has incomplete type /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: In function `PHP_GINIT_FUNCTION': /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:101: error: parameter name omitted /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:103: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:104: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:105: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:106: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: At top level: /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:110: warning: parameter has incomplete type /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: In function `PHP_GSHUTDOWN_FUNCTION': /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:109: error: parameter name omitted /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:111: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: At top level: /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:1776: error: syntax error before pcre /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:1777: error: syntax error before pcre /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:1778: error: syntax error before pcre *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre. -- Christopher M. Hobbs IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs [EMAIL PROTECTED], (479).524.5136 pgp5vdujPKxYl.pgp Description: PGP signature
problem building php5-pcre
Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/php_pcre.o /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:102: warning: parameter has incomplete type /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: In function `PHP_GINIT_FUNCTION': /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:101: error: parameter name omitted /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:103: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:104: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:105: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:106: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: At top level: /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:110: warning: parameter has incomplete type /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: In function `PHP_GSHUTDOWN_FUNCTION': /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:109: error: parameter name omitted /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:111: error: invalid type argument of `-' /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c: At top level: /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:1776: error: syntax error before pcre /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:1777: error: syntax error before pcre /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:1778: error: syntax error before pcre *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre. -- C. M. Hobbs, KD5RYO http://altbit.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to reinstall gcc
I seem to have broken gcc on my 6.2-RELEASE p2 system. I apparently did this by adding CPUTYPE?=c3 to /etc/make.conf and then a make buildworld and make install world. Everything seems to be working fine (though I haven't tested throughly), but now gcc is definitely broken. Most compile attempts end with something like internal compiler error: Illegal instruction: 4 I have been able to successfully compile hello.c, but a buildworld fails as described above as does the things I've tested in ports (pcre, curl, ispell). My question is without a functioning gcc, how do a install a functioning gcc? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting mail to work
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:27:52 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise apply if you have static ip service The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g. mail.example.com, you can stay off the dynamic lists. It doesn't help to have a static address if your reverse dns looks like 12-43-545-example.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 22:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. My reasons for this being a bad idea isn't so much from concerns about attack from outside, but it's more an issue of accountability. When I ran a computing facility at a University we had some paid student assistance, as well as faculty, that were reasonably entitled to have the root password on various machines. Inevitably, the root password would find it's way to some other student or some faculty member's assistant and they'd get on the machine and do something as root. In all cases they were trying to help, but in getting the features they were interested in getting to work, they unknowingly mucked something else up. We did not allow any frontline root logins so they had to sign in on one of the user's accounts and then su to root. Of course su logs this in the log files. So, we would take a look at the log files to see which users had su'd about the time the problem started occurring to ask them what they had done, or were trying to do. A couple of times that particular user was out of town and these machines weren't on the internet nor did they have a modem, so it was clear that user had given his account and root passwords to another person to work on their project when they were gone. By the way, faculty were the worst offenders at this. Some of them consider SysAdmin below them and would hand those tasks off to some student, but that's a whole different discussion. Anyway, there was never anything nefarious going on, but having root accesses logged in the log files was very helpful in allowing us to build a history of what might have been done on the machine, and who did it, to cause the failure. If you allow front line logins via telnet and friends you won't have that accountability, because you'll have no idea who it may have been that logged in so you can't ask them what they might have been up to. By the way once everyone involved realized that we weren't going to take them out back and have some thugs beat them up for giving out the root passwords everyone was very helpful and we got things fixed much faster then we would have if we had tried to blindly figure things out on our own. By the way, restricting su to wheel group is something I've always liked about the BSD's. Again, it helps with the accountability factor on a machine. I was flabbergasted when I first logged into a Linux box and created a user and then su'ed to root from that user without ever adding him to a wheel type group, I think Linux has a root group. This doesn't really apply to this topic that much, but it irks me so much, that Linux allows just any old user to su, I just wanted to vent a little bit about it. Maybe they do it in a different way that I just haven't needed to figure out yet. So, I would argue that you really don't want to allow frontline logins not so much for security reasons as for accountability reasons. Thanks Chris Kottaridis([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: Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .
On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: [ ... ] It would be nifty to make ndc/rndc smart enough to understand how to find the pidfile under the chroot location. rndc doesn't need to know where the pid is; it connects directly to named over the control port (953) to do its magic. Try running rndc status while named is running; if you get an error message complaining about midding rndc.conf or rndc.key files, you may need to configure that before rndc will work. rndc status works fine for me, but I recall that trying to use it to kill/restart named always fails when named is configured with chroot() -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem building php5-pcre
Christopher Hobbs writes: Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. Built and installed just fine for me five minutes ago on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Jan 22 16:56:10 EST 2007 i386 Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How Do I Find Find?
I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is built out, but when I went back to the former, it said there was a problem with my last shutdown (which I don't remember) and went into single user mode. I went to run a find and it complained it couldn't find the find command! I thought, what the heck, no great loss, I'll just rebuild this machine. But after re-installing FBSD, it *still* can't find the find command! Now I'm worried! It wasn't in /usr/bin/ What happened to this installation?? TIA, Drew3 - Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem building php5-pcre
Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Hobbs writes: Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. Built and installed just fine for me five minutes ago on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Jan 22 16:56:10 EST 2007 i386 Robert Huff does anyone know why, even tho pcre7 is installed, that when i install php5-pcre port my phpinfo shows this: PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support enabled PCRE Library Version3.9 02-Jan-2002 this is on BSD 6.1 with apache 2. why the heck would it be doing this? i did notice that my ldconfig -r was empty (no idea how), but i readded all the paths via ldconfig -m Ive reinstalled apache, php, extensions, pcre, etc over and over (trying different things) to no avail. Any ideas? Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firewall/proxy question
I am trying to find a way to stop some people on our network from accessing certain websites. We have been using Squid with SquidGuard on an older FreeBSD system. The Squid that was installed from ports doesn't seem to see https: connections. From what I can find, this appears to be normal behavior since https: connections are encrypted. Is there some way to set up ipfw to block access to port 443 if the URL/IP matches a certain address? These users are bypassing our filter rules by accessing a proxy site that is using https. The current ruleset on the box is 00049 allow tcp from filter machine IP to any 00050 fwd filter machine IP,3128 tcp from any to any 80 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 65000 allow ip from any to any 65535 deny ip from any to any Can someone help with some suggestions? Does the Linux firewall system have a similar way to block access to a particular IP if it were doing forwarding? We were experimenting with a new proxy machine but it is running Ubuntu. -Bart ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Post DST changes
On 3/12/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK [...] yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !? if I restart syslogd, it corrects it for the kernel entry, but not for other applications. They all seem to log the time one hour back. Most applications seem this way. On my more recent boxes this didnt happen, but for some legacy RELENG_4 and older RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 boxes, the same odd behavior. Restart any programs that aren't picking up the time change. From the tzsetup(8) man page: BUGS Programs which are already running when tzsetup creates or updates /etc/localtime will not reflect the updated timezone. - Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP 5.2.1 and the hard time with vbulletin 3.6.4 (solved)
Hi Abdullah! On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 2/27/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/07, Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you recompiled all PHP extensions too? I believe the php5-pcre extension might handle perl regular expressions (preg_replace) in PHP. Yes I did portupgrade -f php* There is a thread about it in vbulletin http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1312516#post1312516 -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ This how I got it fixed. portupgrade -frR pcre-utf8-7.0 portupgrade -frR php5-pcre-5.2.1_3 Could someone tell me please why did I need to do this to get it fixed? No idea here, but I believe I encountered the same issue under Gallery2 (http://gallery.menalto.com), and a similar solution fixed it. I'm just replying here in case anybody does a search... Cheers, Justin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskonkey
Hi. Thanks for resolving the case. diskonkey works fine. Dima. On 3/12/07, Wojciech Pucha wrote: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:18:25AM +0100, Alexander Schlichting wrote:
On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install
the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just
don't find a way to see what arguments where used to install it the first
time. With Linux I would look into config.status is there something similar
with FreeBSD? Sorry for having to ask but I am using FreeBSD for the first
days now after 5 years using Linux only :)
If the arguments are given on the command line when invonkig make in the
port directory, they are not saved.
A mechanism (called OPTIONS) was later added to the ports infrastructure
that does save the arguments. Not all ports have been completely
converted to using options, and some arguments cannot be set with
options. But if arguments are set with the OPTIONS mechanism, you can
find them in the file /var/db/ports/portname/options.
Additionally, arguments can be set in /etc/make.conf. Those should look
like this:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/graphics/povray}
WITH_OPTIMIZED_FLAGS=yes
.endif
This means that when make is invoked in a directory that ends in
graphics/povray, the variable WITH_OPTIMIZED_FLAGS is set.
HTH, Roland
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Re: Post DST changes
At 02:00 PM 3/12/2007, Bob Johnson wrote: On 3/12/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK [...] yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !? if I restart syslogd, it corrects it for the kernel entry, but not for other applications. They all seem to log the time one hour back. Most applications seem this way. On my more recent boxes this didnt happen, but for some legacy RELENG_4 and older RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 boxes, the same odd behavior. Restart any programs that aren't picking up the time change. From the tzsetup(8) man page: BUGS Programs which are already running when tzsetup creates or updates /etc/localtime will not reflect the updated timezone. - Bob Note self, Always read BUGS section from now on :( Thanks for pointing that out. ---Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
Hi. I experimented with the values: 1) On my machine 'maxusers' doesn't influence the maximum memory allowable for allocation for single process. 2) 'maxdsiz' - Yes, as long as I keep 'maxdsiz + maxssiz' below physical memory size - everything is fine. Single process allocates successfully up to 'maxdsiz'. When tried to put 'maxdsiz' phys mem size, indeed the system failed to boot, in all modes: multiuser, singleuser, safe. So I derive from here that there is no way to cause a _single process_ on FreeBSD to allocate more than physical memory size (?) Thank you and regards, Dima. On 3/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all the settings there are tuneable. In 6.X the allowable memory is somewhat automatic based on the max users. Your kernel is set to 384. You can try changing that. You can also make some kernel settings in: /boot/loader.conf You can see the possible variables to set in: /boot/defaults/loader.conf I think the one variable you may want to change is: kern.maxdsiz=to your actual real memory size Don't make this larger than the real memory, in my experience that will cause the system to not boot properly into multi-user. At 11:06 AM 3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
natd and jails for multipel IP addresses
I'm trying to add a second IP address to an existing jail
using natd and I must be missing something.
Setup:
HOST_IP The host, attached to fxp0
JAIL_IP The existing, working jail
2ND_IP The IP address I'm trying to natd to the jail
I've got ipfw rules to catch traffic to/from the new IP and nothing
blocking them:
00300 divert 8668 ip from any to 2ND_IP via fxp0
00310 divert 8668 ip from 2ND_IP to any via fxp0
natd is running with:
/sbin/natd -log -verbose -redirect_address JAIL_IP 2ND_IP -alias_address
JAIL_IP
But, natd seems to be translating the source, not the dest IP:
% ping 2ND_IP
yields:
Out {default}[ICMP] [ICMP] HOST_IP - 2ND_IP 8(0) aliased to
[ICMP] JAIL_IP - 2ND_IP 8(0)
Whereas, I would expect this to do:
HOST_IP - 2ND_IP
translated to
HOST_IP - JAIL_IP
and the reverse.
WTH am I missing here?
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choosing window manager
Hi. 1) How do I start KDE / FVWM2/ GNOME / TWM / Windowmaker ? ( I've choosed them during installation ) 2) Is there some nice welcome program, that allows to choose a session kind ? Dima. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386, startx-- starts TWM root gdm -- starts gnome desktop manager, which allows to start only GNOME (I was used that it allows to launch any WM, but in this case - only GNOME). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Dima Sorkin wrote: 2) 'maxdsiz' - Yes, as long as I keep 'maxdsiz + maxssiz' below physical memory size - everything is fine. Single process allocates successfully up to 'maxdsiz'. When tried to put 'maxdsiz' phys mem size, indeed the system failed to boot, in all modes: multiuser, singleuser, safe. So I derive from here that there is no way to cause a _single process_ on FreeBSD to allocate more than physical memory size (?) It is certainly possible to configure FreeBSD to allow a single process to access more memory than is phyiscally installed. For example, I have a machine with 512MB of RAM, and set: kern.dfldsiz=1G ...in /boot/loader.conf, and this works just fine. Admittedly, when a process does exceed 512MB in dsize, the system starts swapping quite a bit, but that's how virtual memory works. However, you cannot set maxdsiz greater than 4GB [1] if you are running a 32-bit version of FreeBSD. Enabling PAE will let the kernel access more than 4GB of physical RAM, but nothing is going to let a 32-bit system give more than 4 GB [1] to a single process...if you want to do that, then you'll need to switch to running a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. -- -Chuck [1]: Well, 3.5GB or 3GB, actually...due to the top portion of address space being occupied by PCI device space and the kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Do I Find Find?
In response to Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is built out, but when I went back to the former, it said there was a problem with my last shutdown (which I don't remember) and went into single user mode. I went to run a find and it complained it couldn't find the find command! I thought, what the heck, no great loss, I'll just rebuild this machine. But after re-installing FBSD, it *still* can't find the find command! Now I'm worried! It wasn't in /usr/bin/ What happened to this installation?? My first guess would be that when you rebooted into single user mode, your /usr partition wasn't mounted so find wasn't accessable. Not sure how you managed to rebuild the machine and still have find missing, but I can't really guess that without knowing what you meant by rebuilt. Is /usr mounted? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
Hi. Something is probably wrong. kern.dfldsiz on my machine does not influence. I.e. after booting I run $ limits and it shows me the old 500M. Now, a point about 'maxdsiz'= 3.0-3.5G instead of 4G - this one I must check. I tried 3.9G :) Thanks, Dima. On 3/12/07, Chuck Swiger wrote: It is certainly possible to configure FreeBSD to allow a single process to access more memory than is phyiscally installed. For example, I have a machine with 512MB of RAM, and set: kern.dfldsiz=1G ...in /boot/loader.conf, and this works just fine. Admittedly, when a process does exceed 512MB in dsize, the system starts swapping quite a bit, but that's how virtual memory works. However, you cannot set maxdsiz greater than 4GB [1] if you are running a 32-bit version of FreeBSD. Enabling PAE will let the kernel access more than 4GB of physical RAM, but nothing is going to let a 32-bit system give more than 4 GB [1] to a single process...if you want to do that, then you'll need to switch to running a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. -- -Chuck [1]: Well, 3.5GB or 3GB, actually...due to the top portion of address space being occupied by PCI device space and the kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choosing window manager
1) How do I start KDE / FVWM2/ GNOME / TWM / Windowmaker ? ( I've choosed them during installation ) $ startkde or put something like this in your ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session or exec wmaker etc. and start x $ startx 2) Is there some nice welcome program, that allows to choose a session kind ? You can use kdm (KDE) or gdm (GDM), they're display managers that allow you to log into different sessions/desktop environments. you may install /usr/ports/x11/gdm and put the following line in your /etc/rc.conf file: gdm_enable=YES GDM will be started automatically when you boot next time. Bye. ___ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choosing window manager
I didn't read to the end... root gdm -- starts gnome desktop manager, which allows to start only GNOME (I was used that it allows to launch any WM, but in this case - only GNOME). How do I add new GDM sessions? http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q16 HTH, bye. ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote:
Something is probably wrong.
kern.dfldsiz on my machine does not influence.
I don't believe you can change that value after the system has
booted-- you have to set it either in the kernel's config file, or
in /boot/loader.conf, for this to actually take effect.
I.e. after booting I run
$ limits
and it shows me the old 500M.
Now, a point about 'maxdsiz'= 3.0-3.5G instead of 4G - this one I
must check.
I tried 3.9G :)
Try using 3GB, agreed.
Also, please note that the dftdsiz keyword affects the hard limit,
not the soft limit...your shell might well have 500MB soft dsize
limit by default, but would permit you to change that upward to the
maximum set by the hard limit once you've changed that value.
See man getrlimit:
A resource limit is specified as a soft limit and a hard
limit. When a
soft limit is exceeded a process may receive a signal (for
example, if
the cpu time or file size is exceeded), but it will be allowed
to con-
tinue execution until it reaches the hard limit (or modifies
its resource
limit). The rlimit structure is used to specify the hard and
soft limits
on a resource,
struct rlimit {
rlim_t rlim_cur; /* current (soft) limit */
rlim_t rlim_max; /* maximum value for
rlim_cur */
};
Only the super-user may raise the maximum limits. Other users
may only
alter rlim_cur within the range from 0 to rlim_max or
(irreversibly)
lower rlim_max.
--
-Chuck
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Re: How Do I Find Find?
Yes, /usr is mounted. When I say rebuild, I mean I stuck the FBSD 6.2 CD erased the old installation and reinstalled. Drew3 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Drew Jenkins : I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is built out, but when I went back to the former, it said there was a problem with my last shutdown (which I don't remember) and went into single user mode. I went to run a find and it complained it couldn't find the find command! I thought, what the heck, no great loss, I'll just rebuild this machine. But after re-installing FBSD, it *still* can't find the find command! Now I'm worried! It wasn't in /usr/bin/ What happened to this installation?? My first guess would be that when you rebooted into single user mode, your /usr partition wasn't mounted so find wasn't accessable. Not sure how you managed to rebuild the machine and still have find missing, but I can't really guess that without knowing what you meant by rebuilt. Is /usr mounted? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Tore Lund wrote: I believe it's enough to put this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d support :-\ . Have you installed the port or package nvidia-driver (or one of its siblings)? The documentation that comes with it will probably tell you what you need to know. On my own machine I have NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9631, and I get this: %sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled I have installed the port nvidia-driver. I have followed all the step in the readme (including adding the line to /boot/device.hint see below). I wonder though is nvidia 3d acceleration supported under FreeBSD? From the readme: / The NVIDIA Accelerated FreeBSD Driver Set brings accelerated 2D functionality and high-performance OpenGL support to FreeBSD x86 with the use of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). These drivers provide optimized hardware acceleration for OpenGL and X applications and support nearly all recent NVIDIA graphics chips (please see Appendix A for a complete list of supported chips). TwinView, TV-Out and flat panel displays are also supported. / P.S. I also have ran ppracer. Results: *FreeBSD* *110 fps* *Gentoo Linux* *240 fps* Additional information: *# tail /boot/device.hints* /hint.ie.0.maddr=0xd hint.fe.0.at=isa hint.fe.0.disabled=1 hint.fe.0.port=0x300 hint.lnc.0.at=isa hint.lnc.0.disabled=1 hint.lnc.0.port=0x280 hint.lnc.0.irq=10 hint.lnc.0.drq=0 hint.agp.0.disabled=1/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
