Re: MS exchange alternatives for FreeBSD
Cheffo wrote: Hi list, I have server running postfix + courier-imap, and I'm looking for someway to add possibility to exchange calendars/contacts/meeting invitations/etc between mail clients. Can someone recommend calendar, that is compatible with windows clients and can be run under FreeBSD? Thanks in advance. P.S. Please CC me on reply as I'm not subscribed to -questions. Hello Cheffo, I wanted to do what you asked and after a lot of research I was able to achieve this by installing on the FreeBSD server openldap for the email addresses and a WEBDAV folder in Apache for the calendar. My setup has my email address in the ldap server and these addresses can be accessed by Outlook and Thunderbird. I use Sunbird as the calendar and publish the calendar to the webdav folder. The ldap server can be maintained by phpldapadmin http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ This setup allows all users to have access to a common email address book and a common calendar. The only thing I was unable to do was setup an imap server to allow access to Common emails. I am interested in being able to set up an imap server. Regards, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache13 apache13 with ssl support
zigniew szalbot wrote: Hello, Hi, I installed apache13 once upon a time and would like now to try out https. My question is how do I go about it? Should I uninstall apache and then install apache13-modssl or apache13-ssl? You may try: # portupgrade -f -o www/apache13-modssl apache (modulo ports' names, it's straight out of my head :) Or 'manually': # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl make # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 make deinstall # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl make [install|package] (so that apache can run while apache-modssl port is compiling) First method keeps backup package, so it may be better. Is there a better way like installing the missing ssl modules? IIRC, Apache must be patched to use mod_ssl, recompilation is required. HTH, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski karol.kwiat at gmail dot com OpenPGP 0x06E09309 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
crontab configuration in FreeBSd -6.2
Hi all I need to configure a crontab for a FreeBSD -6.2 box . To test it , as root user I entered a line into the /etc/crontab by using easyeditor as follows 50 21 * * * root/root/testcron and I saved this.(cat /root/testcron is touch /root/desktop/Myfile) and I tried to do as root user this # /etc/rc.d/cron restart got O/P as Stopping cron. Starting cron. Then I tried to give #crontab -lBut Output is as this don# crontab -l crontab: no crontab for root why this message is it working fine ? ya not how can I list crontab -l (the cronjobs for root) Pls provide your suggestions any way the Myfile is created by crontab , butwhy the message no cronjob for root ? _ Millions of Matrimonial Profiles @ Shaadi.com. Join Now! http://www.shaadi.com/ptnr.php?ptnr=mhottag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gvim can't find a valid font
Hi, I'm having a problem trying to get gvim 7.0.224 working. Every time I try to start it I get the following error: E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found|16H|8H|4H|31H and I get the console vim instead. I think I've messed up my xorg fonts somehow after upgrading to 7.2. I followed all of the steps in /usr/ports/UPGRADING, but I didn't have the xorg metaport installed so I installed it after upgrading. The first time I started it there was an error message that said I needed to run a program in the fonts directory (I forget which one), but I'm pretty sure I didn't fix the module path before running the command. I'm using the terminal in Xfce 4.4.1 to try and start gvim. Here's part of my xorg.conf (now) in /etc/X11 that seems to be related to fonts: # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype #Loadxtt # This loads the GLX module #Load glx # This loads the DRI module #Load dri EndSection # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. #RgbPath/usr/local/share/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ # The module search path. The default path is shown here. ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules EndSection Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Neil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bondbind like for FreeBSD ?
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 26), Frank Bonnet said: Hello Is there a FreeBSD tool that is equivalent of bondbind for Linux ( ethernet load balancing or trunking that use the Cisco's etherchannel ) ? You can use the lagg device in 6-stable and -current; mmh interresting , does this works for the amd64 version too ? I use an IBM x3650 which is a native 64 bits bi-proc machine. if you're running 6.2 or older you can use ng_fec or ng_one2many, but they both use static configuration and aren't as nice. Yes I read about this but it is far to be as useful as the Linux bonding module Anyway thanks for you answer Dan :-) -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet InBSDWeTrust ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bondbind like for FreeBSD ?
In the last episode (Jun 27), Frank Bonnet said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 26), Frank Bonnet said: Is there a FreeBSD tool that is equivalent of bondbind for Linux ( ethernet load balancing or trunking that use the Cisco's etherchannel ) ? You can use the lagg device in 6-stable and -current; mmh interresting , does this works for the amd64 version too ? I use an IBM x3650 which is a native 64 bits bi-proc machine. It it doesn't say, you can assume that it works on all supported FreeBSD platforms. -- Dan Nelson [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: Starting again from Scratch
On 2007-06-25 18:27, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:16:59 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The base system and ports are separate. The base system is built from /usr/src, while ports are built under /usr/ports. Concerning ports, I would install them from an _updated_ ports tree if your system isn't too slow. Start with what you really need, and add things if you miss them. If you build a high-level port like e.g. firefox, it will built the stuff it requires automatically. But I would start with building the xorg meta-port, to get X sorted first. Is it considered OK to update the ports and build up your worktop *without* bothering with building world? Also, building a kernel but leaving world at release? Yes. The latest ports tree should work fine for the supported release branches of FreeBSD. There are ports which may be broken for versions of FreeBSD which are too old (i.e. 3.X at this point), but in general if you stick with one of the supported branches, you should be fine. Can you clue me up on xorg 'meta-port' ??? The ports which are called 'meta-ports' don't really have sources of their own, but they have a list of dependencies which pulls in a set of tools, libraries or other programs. The /usr/ports/x11/xorg port is one of these 'meta-ports'. It doesn't really have anything to 'build', as can be seen by the NO_BUILD=yes assignment of its 'Makefile': $ cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg $ grep NO_BUILD Makefile NO_BUILD= yes $ But if you try to install this port, it will pull in lots of other ports as 'runtime dependencies'. This way, by asking the Ports Collection to install x11/xorg for you, you essentially end up with a full install of all the ports needed for a very basic X11 desktop. - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: how to increase RAID space
Hi, I know this is not specific of FreeBSD, but I have a server with hardware RAID 5 disk (4x35 GB). Is there a way to change to bigger disks, except copying all the RAID to a temporary disk, and replacing my RAID? Best regards Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verifying PHP support
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:49:51 -0400 (CLT) Daniel Molina Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Mar, 26 de Junio de 2007, 10:38, Darryl Hoar escribió: Greetings, I have a machine with 6.2 release installed on it. I have apache 1.3.37 installed and am using it for my personal website. I want to install Gallery2 for doing photo albums. The pkg info in ports says it needs php support. I did a pkg_info -a and did not see php installed on my system. How should I add php support so that I can install Gallery2 ? Ok, it depends on which version of php do you want. I can't remember exactly where is the port, but you can search for it on /usr/ports and make search: # cd /usr/ports # make search name=php4 # make search name=php5 If the port is in lang # cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 # make config install clean Yes, remembering to turn ON the Apache module during make config; it's been turned off by default (for some bizarre reason) a couple of years. The php extensions are installed separatelly. Yes, but not the Apache module, which can only be installed from ports. If you want binary packages, look for the available package version at the Makefile in the port directory and install with pkg_add: # pkg_add -r 'php5' Which, because building the Apache module is not enabled by default, as above, will only provide PHP CLI and CGI support, but not the desired Apache module .. presumably the reason most people install PHP at all. This will keep on bamboozling folks expecting pkg_add php5 (or php4) to provide PHP support for Apache, until either default build options are changed, or a specific php5-apache port (thus package) is created. thanks, Darryl Good luck... BTW, on a different machine a while ago, I tried installing php after the fact and had a bit of a mess on my hands, thus the question. [SNIP] Exactly. This will keep on coming up on -questions regularly. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab configuration in FreeBSd -6.2
On Wednesday 27 June 2007, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi all I need to configure a crontab for a FreeBSD -6.2 box . To test it , as root user I entered a line into the /etc/crontab by using easyeditor as follows 50 21 * * * root/root/testcron and I saved this.(cat /root/testcron is touch /root/desktop/Myfile) and I tried to do as root user this # /etc/rc.d/cron restart got O/P as Stopping cron. Starting cron. Then I tried to give #crontab -lBut Output is as this don# crontab -l crontab: no crontab for root why this message is it working fine ? ya not how can I list crontab -l (the cronjobs for root) Pls provide your suggestions any way the Myfile is created by crontab , butwhy the message no cronjob for root ? Because that's a different crontab. Each user (including root) has their own crontab. What you have just edited is the system wide crontab. The message stating root's crontab for freebsd in /etc/crontab is kind of confusing. HTH, Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rerecording a cdrw?
Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Jun 26), Dave said: Hello, Ive got freebsd 6.2 and cdrtools installed via ports. I want to make some custom cd's, but i will not get them right the first time, so i want to use cdrw's until i do. I was wondering how to rerecord over existing content? looking at the cdrecord manpage, blank=fast or one of the other blanking options should do what you need. That won't work for CD+RW DVD's /CD's They can be rewritten without blanking first. You're right though for CD-RW disks. Burncd is OK, but if you want 'more', then cdrecord is unbeatable, I guess. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: device polling on 6.2-stable..use? yes/no?
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, JD Bronson wrote: Anyone using device polling on 6.2stable (i386) ? I have been using it. I have been reading up on this and seen some good and some bad but nothing definitive. Basically you improve efficiency at the cost of latency, so expect lower CPU usage. To reduce latency one can increase HZ. I have bge NICs in these machines and they are running as routers, and running pf. When I enabled it in the kernel and then via rc.conf (since sysctl use is depreciated now) ...I can see a difference in vmstat -i presuming thats the correct way to check. Yes that would work. With polling DISABLED...vmstat shows ever increasing values for example: vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq4: sio0 3 0 irq6: fdc010 0 irq14: ata012210 0 irq15: ata178834 2 irq22: bge0 430416 11 irq23: bge1 917826 24 cpu0: timer 75098549 2000 cpu1: timer 75092636 1999 Total 151630484 4038 and when I do a large network operation (like ftp an ISO) it increases and increaseshowever, with device polling compiled and configured (all default values though in sysctl) - I do not see an increase in vmstat numbers for the nics...I figured thats good...but I might be wrong? Yup that's good. With polling off, you should never see it increase much beyond ~8000 interrupts/sec, the theoretical limit for an 100mbit connection with 1500 mtu while doing a big transfer. You can also check with systat -vmstat 1. I dont do anything higher than WAN(10MB) and LAN(100MB). But if anyone has any suggestions or comments -especially values to adjust in sysctl, please chime in. If you want lower latency (or if you experience packet loss) you could set the kern.hz tunable (in loader.conf) to something higher than the default 1000. I believe that people have been using 1 for busy routers. Note that this will increase CPU load when the system has no packets to process. TIA -JD Cheers, Pieter de GOeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing linux libraries not in /usr/ports
Hello all, I'm testing the latest skype beta for linux from skype's site (1.4 ), ideally viewing to update the port while learning in the process. I've resolved all dependencies so far (listed after my sig), except for : libsigc-2.0.so.0 = not found I do have libsigc++ 2. installed in my system, but I believe I need the linux version , correct? Now, linux-libsigc doesn't exist in ports. I'm faced with 2 options: 1) installing libsigc from FC4 (the linux subsystem version I'm using) via RPM , but it seems only 1.5 has been packaged - i can't seem to find 2.0 anywhere. 2) installing libsigc from source from chroot in /usr/compat/linux - does this make sense? advisable? What ports would be needed to build? i cant seem to find linux-gcc or similar? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated :) TIA!! B _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. $ ldd ./skype ./skype: libasound.so.2 = /lib/libasound.so.2 (0x29087000) librt.so.1 = /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/librt.so.1 (0x29156000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x29169000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x29172000) libXi.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x2918c000) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x29194000) libXrandr.so.2 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x2919c000) libXfixes.so.3 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x291a1000) libXcursor.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x291a6000) libXinerama.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x291b) libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x291b3000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x2921b000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x29245000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x29255000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x29328000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libpthread.so.0 (0x2932c000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 = not found libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x2937f000) libm.so.6 = /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libm.so.6 (0x2945b000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x29482000) libc.so.6 = /lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libc.so.6 (0x2948c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x29068000) libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x295ab000) libexpat.so.0 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x295be000) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
Hi, I'm trying to replace my current arrangement for email, and though I have read as much as possible on it, I just want to check if I am on the right lines with what I'm planning. (Is that a legitimate use of this list?) It's the same old story, when you're a beginner it is very hard to take even small steps until you have a grasp of the 'big picture', and know what direction you should be going. So I'd be glad of any opinions, pointers, or How-Tos that I may not have spotted. If you read the rest of this, you may think that I'm trying to implement something way too heavyweight for what I need at the moment, and you'd be right! However, I want to learn, and enjoy trying to master the big boys' toys. OK, so here's where I am: 8 users 3 or 4 Windows machines including a laptop - users may use any/all of these New FreeBSD server so far only operating as a Samba server (PDC). Email is downloaded by individual clients from ISP via POP3 - user must be at specific machine to access their local mail folders. If elsewhere, they must use webmail, but of course sent messages, replied flags etc are then inconsistent, besides which messages are only left on the (ISP) server for a limited time. Here is where I want to get to: IMAP server on my FreeBSD box (and using Maildir is my instinctive preference.) Ultimately, but not yet, I want to start using the FreeBSD machine as a proper mailserver - i.e. get a static IP address and point the MX record hosted by my provider at it. For now though I am happy to fetch from the existing mailboxes that they host for me. Again, not necessarily now, but when I am fully up and running, run spam and virus checking (that's done for me now, but inevitably could be improved on.) What I _think_ I want to do is this: Install Fetchmail to get mail from my various hosted mailboxes Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer Install Procmail to deliver messages in Maildir format (to users' home directories?) Install Courier IMAP as the IMAP server Ultimately, then drop Fetchmail and reconfigure Sendmail for receiving mail directly, and add anti- spam and virus tools. Have I got this about right? Do I really need 4 separate tools to do this? Have I overlooked something more obvious/elegant? Where are my big pitfalls going to be? If replying, please keep in mind my embarrassing level of inexperience!! Thanks Barnaby Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: how to increase RAID space
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:30:09 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to change to bigger disks, except copying all the RAID to a temporary disk, and replacing my RAID? ... and the obvious one of adding new drives and mounting them as part of your tree...? that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do - they abstract the hardware storage layer. I believe work is being done to further abstract geom so that an vol manager is doable in latest versions of FreeBSD... It may be possible to do it now with geom, but I really dont know how. B _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough Richard Feynman I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
Install Fetchmail to get mail from my various hosted mailboxes Yes. For testing purpose, why don't you create a temporary mail account at your ISP, at yahoo, gmail, etc. provided they have IMAP, and try retreiving emails from that account. Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer Does fetchmail need sendmail? I never used fetchmail, so I am not sure about that one. Install Procmail to deliver messages in Maildir format (to users' home directories?) Yes and yes, Courrier IMAP expects the mailbox to be in the user home directory in ~user/Maildir and procmail is a good place to plugin several features for sorting emails. Install Courier IMAP as the IMAP server Yes As I said, test everything on a temporary email account. When you start deploying it for your users, do not delete the messages from the ISP server while you fetchmail them to your local server, that will avoid messages getting lost: users are very touchy about lost mail. Try to keep long time log of everything, so you can show them thy are complaining for no good reason. One month of /var/log/mailog may be a good start. Email is downloaded by individual clients from ISP via POP3 - user must be at specific machine to access their local mail folders. If elsewhere, they must use webmail, but of course sent messages, replied flags etc are then inconsistent, besides which messages are only left on the (ISP) server for a limited time. This would not change, only displace the problm. If you read your email with POP3, you better always use the same machine, because the sent folder is local to the POP3 client machine. Again, not necessarily now, but when I am fully up and running, run spam and virus checking (that's done for me now, but inevitably could be improved on.) Don't wait too much, especially for anti-virus, if you have the feeling that the service provided to you so far is leaking some viruses. If the architecture is Fetchmail/sendmail/procmail, install the amavid plugin while you are building the new infrastructure. Improved antivirus may be a good way to sell the new email procedure to your users (users don't like to change the way they read email, you need incentives :). Spam is touchy question, no one like spam, but every one may have a very different definition of what is spam or not. On this issue, when I started with SpamAssassin, I let the system running for a couple of months, just tagging the spam messages, so people get used to it. Only after that period, I started to quarantine the spam messages. Good luck, email is certainly a big and touchy subject. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: how to increase RAID space
that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do - they abstract the hardware storage layer. That is hardware RAID. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with php5-curl scripting
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:16:20 -0400 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use php5-curl to fetch a remote server login page, load the form with id pw and post form. Looking for sample php5-curl script to use as guide to custom my own from. Hi Bob, try asking in a PHP specific mailing list of forum . _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Bug: a feature that can't be turned off. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: how to increase RAID space
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:07:32 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do - they abstract the hardware storage layer. That is hardware RAID. yes, i realise you mentioned it . You'd imagine some raid card manufacturers would have something as flexible as LVM built into their cards by now... maybe someone does already.. ? _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
editing the search path for '#include' preprocessor
hello, i want to add new search path's for including more directories for header files, for that i need to edit the makefile that my gcc compiler uses, however i cant figure out where to find that file, kindly help..i'm a newbie who has just started out regards, sameer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UPS enabled Shutdown
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007 07:18:56 Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, How do I setup FreeBSD 6.2 to allow a UPS to shutdown a system via a USB port. I may be using a Powerware UPS, I'm not sure which one yet. Thanks, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you havent made your UPS purchase yet (and as long as you dont have a prewired hatred of APC), sysutils/apcupsd works flawlessly for me, for both serial and USB interface'd APCs. cheers, I haven't purchased a UPS yet. Does apcupsd send shutdown messages to Windows users logged into the server via Samba or does it only send it to users logged directly into FreeBSD? Reading the apcusbd manual I noticed it said that to access the RETURNCHARGE setting in the ups you need to be connected via a serial port. Do you use a Serial or USB connection? I am thinking of purchasing an APC SUA1500I model. Thanks, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UFS2 optimization for many small files
Greetings, We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO. I'd be happy if anyone can suggest what does fragment (block/8) in the ufs2 mean and how this parameter works. I know It's better to read the full ufs2 specification, but hope that someone here can give a hint. Please advice with optimizations or tricks. Thank you very much. -- With best regards,| The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: patches for the 6.2-RELEASE kernel
Le 26/06/2007 à 19:40:29+0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez a écrit Hi Folks. I am FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE user. i'm learning FreeBSD. Some times, i see people have a system named 6.2-RELEASE-pxx, where xx is a number. I know that -pxx are security patches, or not only security and too are patches for solve bugs?. You must update you source tree by using csup (it's integrate in FreeBSD now), with some config file like *default host=cvsup5.fr.freebsd.org compress *default release=cvs *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default delete use-rel-suffix *default tag=RELENG_6_2 src-all After that you can read the file /usr/src/UPDATING wich containt the problem each patch level fix. And it's your «job» to known if this problem affect you. My dude is: is very convenient have upgraded the kernel to this patches. I'm a home user, not a bussiness. Nothing important depend on my system. I think you're Linux user ;-) The source tree containt all systeme. What's mean the kernel and the userland (like cd/ls/etc.). Well you need to known if the patch-level is affect the userland or/and kernel. But if you've a modern PC, you can make world. For that you can do: cd /usr/src make -DNO_PROFILE buildworld make buildkernel (add KERNELCONF=you_config_name, if you've custom kernel config) make installkernel (add KERNELCONF= etc) reboot when you'r in boot menu choose item 4 for boot in single mode when you obtaint something like shell press Return, you are in single mode with only / mounted. Type : mount -a -t ufs cd /usr/src make -DNO_PROFILE installworld (this thing install all userland) mergemaster (this thing make all etc_file in /tmp and do a big diff and ask you if you want install the new file or keep the old one). logout After that you have a fresh kernel, and fresh userland. Hope that's help Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Mer 27 jui 2007 13:18:13 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: patches for the 6.2-RELEASE kernel
Le 26/06/2007 à 16:18:36-0400, Jerry McAllister a écrit On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:03:05PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: Hi Folks. I am FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE user. i'm learning FreeBSD. Some times, i see people have a system named 6.2-RELEASE-pxx, where xx is a number. I know that -pxx are security patches, or not only security and too are patches for solve bugs?. My dude is: is very convenient have upgraded the kernel to this patches. I'm a home user, not a bussiness. Nothing important depend on my system. My second dude is: how is the upgrade process?, are there this patch files in any concrete web site and the user must download it and apply?, are there any automatized mechanism for get it?. Check out csup (previously called cvsup) in the handbook. Then csup your system to RELENG_6_2 or even RELENG_6 and your ports to the latest. For the ports it's better to use portsnap. It's work very fine. Be carreful with RELENG_6 it's stable version (something like unstable in Debian). But if it's for your home computer you can use-it. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Mer 27 jui 2007 13:30:55 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS exchange alternatives for FreeBSD
WebCalendar (*webcalendar*.sourceforge.net) can do the job of shared schedule for iCal compatible clients The problem is that M$ Outlook is not compatible with the standard... :-( Last time I'm looked, some opensource plugins could be used for partial compatibility of Outlook with iCal. Regards, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim can't find a valid font
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:12:39 -0700 Neil Gruending [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem trying to get gvim 7.0.224 working. Every time I try to start it I get the following error: E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found|16H|8H|4H|31H and I get the console vim instead. I think I've messed up my xorg fonts somehow after upgrading to 7.2. I followed all of the steps in /usr/ports/UPGRADING, but I didn't have the xorg metaport installed so I installed it after upgrading. The first time I started it there was an error message that said I needed to run a program in the fonts directory (I forget which one), but I'm pretty sure I didn't fix the module path before running the command. I'm using the terminal in Xfce 4.4.1 to try and start gvim. Here's part of my xorg.conf (now) in /etc/X11 that seems to be related to fonts: # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe# Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype #Loadxtt # This loads the GLX module #Load glx # This loads the DRI module #Load dri EndSection # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. #RgbPath /usr/local/share/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ # The module search path. The default path is shown here. ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules EndSection Hello Neil, This is strange because gVim uses built-in X fonts (i.e. 7x13) if can't find anything else; and your X is running normally, which couldn't be without any font available. So: (1) 'xlsfonts' gives what? (2) Could you please send here a relevant part of ~/.gvimrc? (Also try to start gVim without it.) (3) How did you compile gVim, with WITH_GTK2, or? It's certainly not related to your gVim problem, but as of your xorg.conf, do you have any special reason for commenting out RgbPath and Type1 FontPath? Nikola Lečić ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
In response to Nguyen Tam Chinh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO. I'd be happy if anyone can suggest what does fragment (block/8) in the ufs2 mean and how this parameter works. I know It's better to read the full ufs2 specification, but hope that someone here can give a hint. Please advice with optimizations or tricks. Thank you very much. Read the newfs man page. Based on your assessment of your files, I'd go with a block size of 4K and a frag size of 500 bytes. Blocks are broken in to frags when a file doesn't fill an entire block. Make sure to set -i to about 250 or so. An inode is needed for each file or directory on the filesystem, so you're liable to run out of inodes with the default values. Make sure your files are organized in a directory hierarchy. No filesytem that I know of performs well with huge numbers of files in a single directory. Please don't cross-post. I see no reason to copy stable@ with this message. -- 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: UFS2 optimization for many small files
Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: [snipped] Please advice with optimizations or tricks. [...] Did you already looked at 'man 7 tuning'? HTH, Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RELENG_6 + usb audio ?
I've been running a local NPR affiliates streaming server (darkice + lame + shoutcast) on RELENG_5 for quite some time on an older dell PE server (with an AudioPCI ES1370) . They've purchased a new dell PE; but it only has pci-e slots in it (and none currently available). So...I'm thinking USB audio. Would this be stable under RELENG_6 ? I'm considering having them purchase an external (USB) Creative External Sound Blaster Live! SB0490. Thoughts ? --- Robin P. Blanchard Systems Integration Specialist The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center Hotel fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.1587 --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: editing the search path for '#include' preprocessor
Written by sameer gupta on 06/27/07 05:05 hello, i want to add new search path's for including more directories for header files, for that i need to edit the makefile that my gcc compiler uses, however i cant figure out where to find that file, kindly help..i'm a newbie who has just started out regards, sameer If you're wanting to add system include paths permanently to gcc, AFAIK you'll have to edit /usr/src/contrib/gcc/cppdefaults.c and add the paths you want to the cpp_include_defaults array. However, cpp already has a non-invasive way of supplying extra include paths with the -I flag, or you can set the CPATH environemtn vairable to the paths you would like to search (its form is exactly like that of PATH). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RELENG_6 + usb audio ?
I've been running a local NPR affiliates streaming server (darkice + lame + shoutcast) on RELENG_5 for quite some time on an older dell PE server (with an AudioPCI ES1370) . They've purchased a new dell PE; but it only has pci-e slots in it (and none currently available). So...I'm thinking USB audio. Would this be stable under RELENG_6 ? I'm considering having them purchase an external (USB) Creative External Sound Blaster Live! SB0490. Thoughts ? --- Robin P. Blanchard Systems Integration Specialist The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center Hotel fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.1587 --- ___ 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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please help me when I try to install freebsd 6.2(when make partition) I got this message No disk found ! Please verify that the disk controller is being probed properly during boot time pleease help me my Motherboard is Asus P4P8X, harddisk IDE Samgsung 160Gb,please help me... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab configuration in FreeBSd -6.2
See the FAQ entry titled Why do I keep getting messages like “root: not found” after editing my crontab file? http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk not found? [ WAS Re: (no subject) ]
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:17:15 +0700 erik freaks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please help me when I try to install freebsd 6.2(when make partition) I got this message No disk found ! Please verify that the disk controller is being probed properly during boot time pleease help me my Motherboard is Asus P4P8X, harddisk IDE Samgsung 160Gb,please help me... Hi Erik, please provide an appropriate subject to your email. - is your harddrive properly connected? - Is your HD detected in the BIOS of your computer? _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. Charles, Count Talleyrand I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around WINE. We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, some members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly rounded group. In order to avoid having this all mixed in, and lost, with other software discussions, the work is happening on a private list, but if anyone feels that they can contribute *programming knowledge* to the effort, email me and I'll add you to the list ... we aren't looking for testers on this list, see below about that ... To the real reason for this post, we have been slowly making headway ... If you go to: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine You will find several patches, both against FreeBSD and wine, that get the latest wine working under both 7.x and 6.x ... under 6.x, the only 'gotcha' is don't apply the signal patch yet, as it does break things ... For testing, Tijl is running 7.x and I am running 6.x ... in my case, with all patches applied, except the signal patch, I can get Freecell running ... in his case, with all patches applied, he can get MT4 running (MT4 is an online financial trading piece of software) ... For those that are interested in Wine, and are going to test the above patches, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... it will also let us gauge how big/small the 'wine users' population happens to be ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGgnEP4QvfyHIvDvMRAp1rAJ9rJqQQs+8NtWis2g/YzpNSpWDPTwCgiSRZ tRIk8JJPJdkSUG4fVLbhqZ0= =rM6G -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:27:56AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: What I _think_ I want to do is this: Install Fetchmail to get mail from my various hosted mailboxes Fetchmail works fine. Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer I'd go for postfix. It's much easier to configure. I've heard it said that it's easier and less painfull to amputate your own leg with a pocket knife then to hack sendmail.cf. :) Install Procmail to deliver messages in Maildir format (to users' home directories?) Procmail is nice if you want to tie-in anti-spam or anti-virus tools on a per user basis. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. Sendmail and postfix can deliver directly to user's mailboxes. Install Courier IMAP as the IMAP server Ultimately, then drop Fetchmail and reconfigure Sendmail for receiving mail directly, and add anti- spam and virus tools. Don't forget to open port 25 in your firewall, otherwise you won't receive a lot of mail. :) Have I got this about right? Do I really need 4 separate tools to do this? Have I overlooked something more obvious/elegant? Where are my big pitfalls going to be? -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgprBRCsINeic.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 11:15 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around WINE. We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, some members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly rounded group. In order to avoid having this all mixed in, and lost, with other software discussions, the work is happening on a private list, but if anyone feels that they can contribute *programming knowledge* to the effort, email me and I'll add you to the list ... we aren't looking for testers on this list, see below about that ... To the real reason for this post, we have been slowly making headway ... If you go to: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine You will find several patches, both against FreeBSD and wine, that get the latest wine working under both 7.x and 6.x ... under 6.x, the only 'gotcha' is don't apply the signal patch yet, as it does break things ... For testing, Tijl is running 7.x and I am running 6.x ... in my case, with all patches applied, except the signal patch, I can get Freecell running ... in his case, with all patches applied, he can get MT4 running (MT4 is an online financial trading piece of software) ... For those that are interested in Wine, and are going to test the above patches, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... it will also let us gauge how big/small the 'wine users' population happens to be ... I wasn't aware there was such a big problem with Wine + FreeBSD - is it just chance that I've experienced absolutely no errors at all running Lotus Notes R5 with wine from ports? FreeBSD zoot.mintel.co.uk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Jun 5 14:39:27 BST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOOT i386 $ wine --version wine-0.9.36 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: editing the search path for '#include' preprocessor
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:35:46PM +0530, sameer gupta wrote: hello, i want to add new search path's for including more directories for header files, for that i need to edit the makefile that my gcc compiler uses, however i cant figure out where to find that file, kindly help..i'm a newbie who has just started out You can set environment variables to help GCC find include files and libraries in your shell's startup script. For include files you can set CPATH, for libraries you'll need to set LIBRARY_PATH. See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html Both can contain different paths separated by a colon (:). How to set environment variables depends on the shell you use. csh uses the 'set' command, while sh and bash use 'export'. See your shell's manual page for details. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpvbEXPsmQ7m.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:27:56AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: What I _think_ I want to do is this: Install Fetchmail to get mail from my various hosted mailboxes Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer I'd go for postfix. It's much easier to configure. That's your POV. I've run sendmail, postfix and courier for quite some time and lately I've returned to sendmail. I just like it. Working with mc files is a breeze. You don't hack a cf file unless you're a hacker. But _IF_ you are, hacking is easy too. I've heard it said that it's easier and less painfull to amputate your own leg with a pocket knife then to hack sendmail.cf. :) Depends on your hacking skills.. Writing / adjusting a mc file is easier. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exabyte VXA tape drives - anyone using?
Hi All, We have an Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive that I'm planning to hook up to a FreeBSD server. It's been on different box running linux for a few years. Wondering if anyone has tried to run the vxaTool utility for this drive using Linux emulation on FreeBSD? It's just a simple utility for operating running diagnostics. Unfortunately, source isn't provided, nor a BSD binary. -Thanks, RW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xauth trusted vs ssh -X -Y
Hi list :) is either of 1) having a host added to .Xauthority as trusted, and then doing ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] cmd 2) ssh -X -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] cmd inherintly less secure than the other? (or more prone to becoming an attack vector to MY local computer? thanks! _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use hammer. IBM maintenance manual, 1975 I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around WINE. We have a few kernel hackers involved, some members of the wine group, some members of PC-BSD, and at least one DragonflyBSD developer ... a truly rounded group. just a big THANK YOU! you are incredible thnx! roman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS exchange alternatives for FreeBSD
On 6/26/07, Ivan Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheffo wrote: Hi list, I have server running postfix + courier-imap, and I'm looking for someway to add possibility to exchange calendars/contacts/meeting invitations/etc between mail clients. Can someone recommend calendar, that is compatible with windows clients and can be run under FreeBSD? Thanks in advance. P.S. Please CC me on reply as I'm not subscribed to -questions. Hello Cheffo, I wanted to do what you asked and after a lot of research I was able to achieve this by installing on the FreeBSD server openldap for the email addresses and a WEBDAV folder in Apache for the calendar. My setup has my email address in the ldap server and these addresses can be accessed by Outlook and Thunderbird. I use Sunbird as the calendar and publish the calendar to the webdav folder. The ldap server can be maintained by phpldapadmin http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ This setup allows all users to have access to a common email address book and a common calendar. The only thing I was unable to do was setup an imap server to allow access to Common emails. I am interested in being able to set up an imap server. Regards, Ivan While I don't have this kind of setup myself, I usually see either Cyrus or Dovecot mentioned for IMAP on the Postfix list as being one of the better choices. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
HI On 6/27/07, Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace my current arrangement for email, and though I have read as much as possible on it, I just want to check if I am on the right lines with what I'm planning. (Is that a legitimate use of this list?) It's the same old story, when you're a beginner it is very hard to take even small steps until you have a grasp of the 'big picture', and know what direction you should be going. So I'd be glad of any opinions, pointers, or How-Tos that I may not have spotted. If you read the rest of this, you may think that I'm trying to implement something way too heavyweight for what I need at the moment, and you'd be right! However, I want to learn, and enjoy trying to master the big boys' toys. OK, so here's where I am: 8 users 3 or 4 Windows machines including a laptop - users may use any/all of these New FreeBSD server so far only operating as a Samba server (PDC). Email is downloaded by individual clients from ISP via POP3 - user must be at specific machine to access their local mail folders. If elsewhere, they must use webmail, but of course sent messages, replied flags etc are then inconsistent, besides which messages are only left on the (ISP) server for a limited time. Here is where I want to get to: IMAP server on my FreeBSD box (and using Maildir is my instinctive preference.) Ultimately, but not yet, I want to start using the FreeBSD machine as a proper mailserver - i.e. get a static IP address and point the MX record hosted by my provider at it. For now though I am happy to fetch from the existing mailboxes that they host for me. Again, not necessarily now, but when I am fully up and running, run spam and virus checking (that's done for me now, but inevitably could be improved on.) What I _think_ I want to do is this: Install Fetchmail to get mail from my various hosted mailboxes Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer Install Procmail to deliver messages in Maildir format (to users' home directories?) Install Courier IMAP as the IMAP server I'd suggest dovecot over courier. Courier's not exactly under active development Ultimately, then drop Fetchmail and reconfigure Sendmail for receiving mail directly, and add anti- spam and virus tools. Have I got this about right? Do I really need 4 separate tools to do this? Have I overlooked something more obvious/elegant? Where are my big pitfalls going to be? IF you can just redirect the MX record it's easiest to get everything working first them the fetchmail won't need to run for long after you've moved DNS records. Depends if you can do this. yes you will need some sort of anti spam. I use Spamassassin and MailScanner at work - which BTW ain't that far from you ( www.solidstatelogic.com)..if want some one-to-one help drop me a line. If replying, please keep in mind my embarrassing level of inexperience!! Thanks Barnaby Scott -- Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 16:34:04 +0100 Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't aware there was such a big problem with Wine + FreeBSD - is it just chance that I've experienced absolutely no errors at all running Lotus Notes R5 with wine from ports? Very much so ... one of the biggest problems that we've been addressing is that FreeBSD's threading doesn't allow for cross process signally of threads ... we have a 'thr_kill()' function, but it only allows signalling a thread within the same process ... Wine uses a two process model (not sure when they changed to it) where there is a 'master' (ie. NT kernel) with chid processes that get started up for the applications ... current FreeBSD model has no way for the master to signal the children ... Tijl has created a patch for both FreeBSD and wine that adds a 'thr_kill2()' function that takes process id as an argument, allowing wineserver to talk to the application processes themselves ... Now, I'm not 100% certain in which cases this is needed ... Tijl would be able to explain better ... There are several other problems we've been able to address ... check out the URL I posted, Tijl explains what we've been able to accomplish so far ... - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGgpkc4QvfyHIvDvMRAlDsAJ9vavgk/5TFKLinSGrTYsKR4avR9ACg1Dw8 sNx+k7P/Nng3TP835CV2CA0= =9/bt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Canon PowerShot A40
I have two questions: 1. I have a problem with downloaded movies from my camera Canon PowerShot A40. If I try run Noatun under KDE 3.5.6 (FreeBSD 6.2) then it is stopped. I suppose that I haven't appropriate codecs for it. Could someone point me which codecs I should install to see my movies? 2. How to run digikam as normal user to download my photos or movies from camera? Thanks, Zbyszek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim can't find a valid font
Nikola Lecic wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:12:39 -0700 Neil Gruending [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem trying to get gvim 7.0.224 working. Every time I try to start it I get the following error: E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found|16H|8H|4H|31H and I get the console vim instead. I think I've messed up my xorg fonts somehow after upgrading to 7.2. I followed all of the steps in /usr/ports/UPGRADING, but I didn't have the xorg metaport installed so I installed it after upgrading. The first time I started it there was an error message that said I needed to run a program in the fonts directory (I forget which one), but I'm pretty sure I didn't fix the module path before running the command. I'm using the terminal in Xfce 4.4.1 to try and start gvim. Here's part of my xorg.conf (now) in /etc/X11 that seems to be related to fonts: # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe# Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype #Loadxtt # This loads the GLX module #Load glx # This loads the DRI module #Load dri EndSection # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. #RgbPath/usr/local/share/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ #FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ # The module search path. The default path is shown here. ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules EndSection Hello Neil, This is strange because gVim uses built-in X fonts (i.e. 7x13) if can't find anything else; and your X is running normally, which couldn't be without any font available. So: (1) 'xlsfonts' gives what? (2) Could you please send here a relevant part of ~/.gvimrc? (Also try to start gVim without it.) (3) How did you compile gVim, with WITH_GTK2, or? It's certainly not related to your gVim problem, but as of your xorg.conf, do you have any special reason for commenting out RgbPath and Type1 FontPath? Nikola Lečić Hi Nikola, xlsfonts gives: -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 -bh-luxi mono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 -bh-luxi mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 -bh-luxi mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 -bh-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1 -bh-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1 -bh-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-10 -bh-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-15 -bh-luxi
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer Install Procmail to deliver messages in Maildir format (to users' home directories?) Install Courier IMAP as the IMAP server Have I got this about right? Do I really need 4 separate tools to do this? Have I overlooked something more obvious/elegant? Where are my big pitfalls going to be? For a new person, Sendmail and Procmail is a difficult mail system to learn (IMO). If you want to use Courier IMAP, you might look at using the full Courier suite it has the simplicity of doing everything in one package. I currently much prefer using Dovecot for IMAP, and Postfix for MTA. They are both quite easy to set up and customize to fit changing needs. -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gmirror
Quick question, I am configuring gmirror to mirror certain slices on my hard drives.. I want to mirror /dev/ad0s1 (700M) to another drive.. I am fine with configuring gmirror and getting it running but I am unsure of how I create the BSD slices with bsdlabel -e.. When I do a bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0s1 I get: # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 40960004.2BSD 2048 16384 25608 c: 14297220unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 1020122 4096004.2BSD 2048 16384 63760 When I initially create the mirror on the backup disk, I run a bsdlabel -e /dev/mirror/gm0s1 and this is what it shows: # /dev/mirror/gm0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1429705 16unused0 0 c: 14297210unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit My initial instinct was to mirror the bsdlabel output from ad0s1 but with just the 16 offset for the 'a' slice coming out with: # /dev/mirror/gm0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 409584164.2BSD 2048 16384 25608 c: 14297210unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 1020122 4095844.2BSD 2048 16384 63760 Is my assumption correct? Or am I missing something here? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reconfiguring a port
I installed mailman with the port and am getting the following: Jun 27 12:50:09 test Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group mailman, but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group mailnull. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group mailman, or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailnull'. I installed the port with 'make install clean'. How do I reconfigure it with the --with-mail-gid=mailnull? I am not sure where to put the options when installing from a port since they are new to me. Thanks. -- Scott Mayo System Administrator Bloomfield Schools Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Canon PowerShot A40
On 27-Jun-07, at 11:20 PM, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: I have two questions: 1. I have a problem with downloaded movies from my camera Canon PowerShot A40. If I try run Noatun under KDE 3.5.6 (FreeBSD 6.2) then it is stopped. I suppose that I haven't appropriate codecs for it. Could someone point me which codecs I should install to see my movies? 2. How to run digikam as normal user to download my photos or movies from camera? If you have sd card, you may try using card reader. shantanoo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reconfiguring a port
On 6/27/07, Scott Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed mailman with the port and am getting the following: Jun 27 12:50:09 test Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group mailman, but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group mailnull. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group mailman, or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailnull'. I installed the port with 'make install clean'. How do I reconfigure it with the --with-mail-gid=mailnull? I am not sure where to put the options when installing from a port since they are new to me. try out: make config -- PGP KeyID: 0xC730A079 Key fingerprint = F626 3C47 02F5 E43C 6620 8A1B E7A8 533B C730 A079 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys C730A079 ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML e-mail Microsoft Attachments FreeBSD Since 4.x unixbsd.blogspot.com maintainer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reconfiguring a port
On 6/27/07, Scott Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pablo Mora wrote: On 6/27/07, Scott Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed mailman with the port and am getting the following: Jun 27 12:50:09 test Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group mailman, but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group mailnull. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group mailman, or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailnull'. I installed the port with 'make install clean'. How do I reconfigure it with the --with-mail-gid=mailnull? I am not sure where to put the options when installing from a port since they are new to me. try out: make config make config brings me to a box to uncheck and check things. It has Postfix checked in it, but that is all I see. Do I actually make config --with-mail-gid=mailnull? I know that on the linux boxes I run ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailnull. make rmconfig make -DMAIL_GID=mailnull ?? -- PGP KeyID: 0xC730A079 Key fingerprint = F626 3C47 02F5 E43C 6620 8A1B E7A8 533B C730 A079 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys C730A079 ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML e-mail Microsoft Attachments FreeBSD Since 4.x unixbsd.blogspot.com maintainer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim can't find a valid font
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:20:24 -0700 Neil Gruending [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lecic wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:12:39 -0700 Neil Gruending [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem trying to get gvim 7.0.224 working. Every time I try to start it I get the following error: E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found|16H|8H|4H|31H and I get the console vim instead. I think I've messed up my xorg fonts somehow after upgrading to 7.2. I followed all of the steps in /usr/ports/UPGRADING, but I didn't have the xorg metaport installed so I installed it after upgrading. The first time I started it there was an error message that said I needed to run a program in the fonts directory (I forget which one), but I'm pretty sure I didn't fix the module path before running the command. I'm using the terminal in Xfce 4.4.1 to try and start gvim. Here's part of my xorg.conf (now) in /etc/X11 that seems to be related to fonts: [...] Hello Neil, This is strange because gVim uses built-in X fonts (i.e. 7x13) if can't find anything else; and your X is running normally, which couldn't be without any font available. So: (1) 'xlsfonts' gives what? (2) Could you please send here a relevant part of ~/.gvimrc? (Also try to start gVim without it.) (3) How did you compile gVim, with WITH_GTK2, or? It's certainly not related to your gVim problem, but as of your xorg.conf, do you have any special reason for commenting out RgbPath and Type1 FontPath? Nikola Lečić Hi Nikola, xlsfonts gives: [...] Looks good, gVim's last choice (7x13) is there. and here's my vimrc (running without a vimrc doesn't change the error): [...] Not ~/.vimrc, but ~/.gvimrc. However, I'd say this is window$ version, ('behave mswin' etc.). You should carefully rewrite this file. I compiled gvim from ports with the default options I think. I'm not sure how to get the options used for compiling after installing a port. You might want to recompile the port with gtk2 support, for example: # portupgrade -f -m 'WITH_GTK2=yes' vim (BTW, your vim is 7.0.224, whilst the last version is 7.0.241 -- not a bad idea to upgrade your ports first and then to upgrade vim.) There is gvimrc example, /usr/local/share/vim/vim70/gvimrc_example.vim. You can copy that file to ~/.gvimrc and edit it. Additionally, I attached the stripped version of my gVim config (gvimrc-nikola). You will see there several if clausules for default font setting since the syntax depends on how you compiled vim. In your case (with default options), gVim should read x11 section. As for the RGBpath and Type1 font path, that's how xorg made the file. Since I don't know much about configuring X, I figured it was smarter than me and it knew what it was doing. Ok. So, (1) try to use gvimrc I sent (of course, check if you actually have fonts that are listed there), or try the official example; (2) try to upgrade vim, consider enabling gtk2 support (gVim will behave as a full gtk2 app then) (3) try to remove all old config files you have, including system-wide ones. ':version' should show you where they are. Nikola Lečić gvimrc-nikola Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reconfiguring a port
Pablo Mora wrote: On 6/27/07, Scott Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed mailman with the port and am getting the following: Jun 27 12:50:09 test Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group mailman, but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group mailnull. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group mailman, or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailnull'. I installed the port with 'make install clean'. How do I reconfigure it with the --with-mail-gid=mailnull? I am not sure where to put the options when installing from a port since they are new to me. try out: make config make config brings me to a box to uncheck and check things. It has Postfix checked in it, but that is all I see. Do I actually make config --with-mail-gid=mailnull? I know that on the linux boxes I run ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailnull. Thanks. -- Scott Mayo System Administrator Bloomfield Schools PH: 573-568-5669 FA: 573-568-4565 Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549 Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim can't find a valid font
Nikola Lecic wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:20:24 -0700 Neil Gruending [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lecic wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:12:39 -0700 Neil Gruending [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem trying to get gvim 7.0.224 working. Every time I try to start it I get the following error: E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found|16H|8H|4H|31H and I get the console vim instead. I think I've messed up my xorg fonts somehow after upgrading to 7.2. I followed all of the steps in /usr/ports/UPGRADING, but I didn't have the xorg metaport installed so I installed it after upgrading. The first time I started it there was an error message that said I needed to run a program in the fonts directory (I forget which one), but I'm pretty sure I didn't fix the module path before running the command. I'm using the terminal in Xfce 4.4.1 to try and start gvim. Here's part of my xorg.conf (now) in /etc/X11 that seems to be related to fonts: [...] Hello Neil, This is strange because gVim uses built-in X fonts (i.e. 7x13) if can't find anything else; and your X is running normally, which couldn't be without any font available. So: (1) 'xlsfonts' gives what? (2) Could you please send here a relevant part of ~/.gvimrc? (Also try to start gVim without it.) (3) How did you compile gVim, with WITH_GTK2, or? It's certainly not related to your gVim problem, but as of your xorg.conf, do you have any special reason for commenting out RgbPath and Type1 FontPath? Nikola Lečić Hi Nikola, xlsfonts gives: [...] Looks good, gVim's last choice (7x13) is there. and here's my vimrc (running without a vimrc doesn't change the error): [...] Not ~/.vimrc, but ~/.gvimrc. However, I'd say this is window$ version, ('behave mswin' etc.). You should carefully rewrite this file. I compiled gvim from ports with the default options I think. I'm not sure how to get the options used for compiling after installing a port. You might want to recompile the port with gtk2 support, for example: # portupgrade -f -m 'WITH_GTK2=yes' vim (BTW, your vim is 7.0.224, whilst the last version is 7.0.241 -- not a bad idea to upgrade your ports first and then to upgrade vim.) There is gvimrc example, /usr/local/share/vim/vim70/gvimrc_example.vim. You can copy that file to ~/.gvimrc and edit it. Additionally, I attached the stripped version of my gVim config (gvimrc-nikola). You will see there several if clausules for default font setting since the syntax depends on how you compiled vim. In your case (with default options), gVim should read x11 section. As for the RGBpath and Type1 font path, that's how xorg made the file. Since I don't know much about configuring X, I figured it was smarter than me and it knew what it was doing. Ok. So, (1) try to use gvimrc I sent (of course, check if you actually have fonts that are listed there), or try the official example; (2) try to upgrade vim, consider enabling gtk2 support (gVim will behave as a full gtk2 app then) (3) try to remove all old config files you have, including system-wide ones. ':version' should show you where they are. Nikola Lečić I did the portupgrade to 7.1.12 and now it works with my vimrc too! Thanks for the help. Neil ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very simple. I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and RELENG. All of which are up to date. Hopefully there will be no major problems. I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to build and install an AMD64 world and kernel. Right now all is working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. Any other suggestions appreciated. Maybe someone might recommend upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first? Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very simple. I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and RELENG. All of which are up to date. Hopefully there will be no major problems. I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to build and install an AMD64 world and kernel. Right now all is working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. Any other suggestions appreciated. Maybe someone might recommend upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first? Thanks, ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very simple. It is possible to cross-build for amd64, but you'll need a seperate partition to put the 64-bit environment on. Look at the mailing list archives. This question has come up before. But to keep things simple, I'd advise you to backup your files, configuration files from /etc and possible /usr/ports/distfiles, reinstall from an amd64 CD and then rebuild your kernel, world and ports to your liking. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpE5Lad6GZcr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Starting again from Scratch
Special thanks to Roland, Nikola, Manolis, Peter, Giorgos, Jonathon for some great replies on this thread. I have now done a re-install from scratch. Essentially I have done a 'minimal' install (no ports/pkgs)- wow, this took literally just a few minutes. Next I 'portsnap fetch' and 'portsnap extract' I then did 'make install' first for Xorg then next for Xfce4 metas. And, yes, this took quite some time :) Afterwards I have used the fetched ports for adding all the dekstop stuff I like / use. And on advice I will use portmaster to track events on these softs. So, now I am happy with my new FreeBSD desktop. There are a few small glitches though. audacious - where did the plugins go? The site seems down as do the alternatives. I tried the plugins src from OpenBSD altho slightyly behind by 0.0.1 but cant get any sound? I am using xmms now, I mainly play audio streams (www.somafm.com or www.swissgroove.ch) Is there any other player I 'should know about' ie is more actively developed / supported? Beep? Zinf? Suggestions invited :) And ... I cant mount my (other os) msdosfs as a user, Im sure I have done this before, driving me nuts, cant think what I havent done? --fstab entry-- /dev/ad0s5 /mnt/dosdmsdosfs rw 22 /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/doscmsdosfs rw 22 /mnt etc is 666 owned by root:wheel and my user is part of wheel group? And lastly, cups webmin:631 refuses my root password ... is this a cupsd.conf setting ? As usual any advice on above greatly appreciated. Greetings from not so sunny North West UK ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim can't find a valid font
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:39:37 -0700 Neil Gruending [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did the portupgrade to 7.1.12 and now it works with my vimrc too! Thanks for the help. Nice :) But you still might want to create a separate .gvimrc since there are options you don't want in plain terminal vim. Also, your font directive is still in m$ format (set guifont=Courier_New:h8:cANSI). Nikola Lečić ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting again from Scratch
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:51:16PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: audacious - where did the plugins go? The site seems down as do the alternatives. I tried the plugins src from OpenBSD altho slightyly behind by 0.0.1 but cant get any sound? They're in a seperate port now; multimedia/audacious-plugins. If you can't fetch the tarball, I've got audacious-plugins-1.3.5.tgz sitting in distfiles. And ... I cant mount my (other os) msdosfs as a user, Im sure I have done this before, driving me nuts, cant think what I havent done? --fstab entry-- /dev/ad0s5 /mnt/dosd msdosfs rw 22 /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/dosc msdosfs rw 22 /mnt etc is 666 owned by root:wheel and my user is part of wheel group? The directory where you want to mount must be _owned_ by the user. And lastly, cups webmin:631 refuses my root password ... is this a cupsd.conf setting ? I've got the following in cupsd.conf, which Works For Me; LogLevel info Port 631 Browsing Off Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 /Location Location /admin AuthType Basic AuthClass System Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 /Location Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpIaa910FSil.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Quoting Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very simple. It is possible to cross-build for amd64, but you'll need a seperate partition to put the 64-bit environment on. Look at the mailing list archives. This question has come up before. But to keep things simple, I'd advise you to backup your files, configuration files from /etc and possible /usr/ports/distfiles, reinstall from an amd64 CD and then rebuild your kernel, world and ports to your liking. Hi Roland. Boy am I glad that I asked. That is probably the last thing I would have done. Plus thanks for the answer, I must not have done a proper search. I hope that the apps will run after reinstalling. I assume that the source tree will somehow recognize that I will be building world and the kernel on a AMD64. I'm downloading a copy of disk2 from FreeBSD now. Have a great day. ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing linux libraries not in /usr/ports
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:20:05 +1000 Norberto Meijome wrote: I'm testing the latest skype beta for linux from skype's site (1.4 ), ideally viewing to update the port while learning in the process. I've resolved all dependencies so far (listed after my sig), except for : libsigc-2.0.so.0 = not found I do have libsigc++ 2. installed in my system, but I believe I need the linux version , correct? Now, linux-libsigc doesn't exist in ports. I'm faced with 2 options: 1) installing libsigc from FC4 (the linux subsystem version I'm using) via RPM , but it seems only 1.5 has been packaged - i can't seem to find 2.0 anywhere. Well, it really simple here, just use http://www.rpmfind.net . And using libsigc-2.0.so.0 as a search pattern will give you an answer: it is an extra for FC4 (libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.i386.rpm). And here is the link at kernel.org: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/4/i386/libsigc++-1.2.7-2.fc4.i386.rpm PS. Seems that you have missed an extra category while searching. ;-) WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tftpd problems
Oliver Peter wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:04:56PM -0700, Mike Sweetser - Adhost wrote: I'm having problems setting up tftpd on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE - our Cisco routers cannot connect to the server, and only small files can be uploaded. Here's the line from inetd.conf: tftpdgram udp waitroot/usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -w -l -s /home/tftproot When TFTPing from a Cisco router, a zero-byte file is created, and then a timeout occurs and it errors out. When TFTPing from a Windows XP machine, only about 20-30 bytes of the file are uploaded. No error is received, it says it completes the upload. Any ideas? My first try would be to have a look into /var/log/xferlog . Mike, Once I had problems with FBSD6.0's standard tftp server (/usr/libexec/tftpd) ignoring the blksize option as specified by clients. The symptoms were similar: transfers 'completed', but no/partial/unusable file. inetd.conf #tftp dgram udp waitroot/usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -l -s /tftpboot #standard tftp server ignores client's blksize request (of 1432) and sends 512 byte blocks regardless #installed tftp-hpa-0.41 instead from port tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/local/libexec/in.tftpd in.tftpd -a 10.1.2.1:69 -T 50 -t 15 -v -s /usr/jail/usr/minibsd/boot /inetd.conf HTH Best wishes, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to 64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is concerned, it may go either way. Right now all is working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. They are compiled for i386; Intel and AMD both produce CPUs for both platforms. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing linux libraries not in /usr/ports
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:09:04 +0400 Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:20:05 +1000 Norberto Meijome wrote: I'm testing the latest skype beta for linux from skype's site (1.4 ), ideally viewing to update the port while learning in the process. I've resolved all dependencies so far (listed after my sig), except for : libsigc-2.0.so.0 = not found I do have libsigc++ 2. installed in my system, but I believe I need the linux version , correct? Now, linux-libsigc doesn't exist in ports. I'm faced with 2 options: 1) installing libsigc from FC4 (the linux subsystem version I'm using) via RPM , but it seems only 1.5 has been packaged - i can't seem to find 2.0 anywhere. Well, it really simple here, just use http://www.rpmfind.net . And using libsigc-2.0.so.0 as a search pattern will give you an answer: it is an extra for FC4 (libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.i386.rpm). And here is the link at kernel.org: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/4/i386/libsigc++-1.2.7-2.fc4.i386.rpm PS. Seems that you have missed an extra category while searching. ;-) oops thanks!!! and sorry :) Anyway, my actual problem wasn't with the rpm or not rpm (I was going to end up finding it anyway...it's been a while I *had* to go into rpm world), but what is the best approach to installing this - chroot to the linux subsystem and install from there? It seems rpm is already installed in my system (BSD, not linux subsystem) ... should I use that ? thanks , and sorry for waisting your time w/the rpm:) _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome FAST, CHEAP, SECURE: Pick Any TWO I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:27:56 +0100 Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimately, but not yet, I want to start using the FreeBSD machine as a proper mailserver - i.e. get a static IP address and point the MX record hosted by my provider at it. It may not be sufficient to get a static IP address. If you wish to send out mail directly, you really need one with control of reverse DNS, since that's the criterion for getting out of dynamic address blocklists. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help getting apache 22 working
Hi, I've installed apache 22 on my churches web server and am having some difficulty getting it working. I've figured out that I need something call accept filters accept_filter(9) for this as the server was complaining about a missing file named httpready (or something like this). I found from the Apache site linked in the handbook that I need to have a kernel module named accf_http loaded, which I have done. This has actually eliminated that error. However, the server still isn't working as a lynx localhost is denied and sockstat doesn't show any listening sockets on port 80. What else needs to be done to get apache 22 working? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help getting apache 22 working
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:42:11 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed apache 22 on my churches web server and am having some difficulty getting it working. I've figured out that I need something call accept filters accept_filter(9) for this as the server was complaining about a missing file named httpready (or something like this). I found from the Apache site linked in the handbook that I need to have a kernel module named accf_http loaded, which I have done. This has actually eliminated that error. accf_http is not compulsory for apache to work. However, the server still isn't working as a lynx localhost is denied and sockstat doesn't show any listening sockets on port 80. What else needs to be done to get apache 22 working? did you add the enabling line in /etc/rc.conf? For version 2.2 it should be apache22_enable=YES ( you actually need to check the startup script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, in this case /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 to see what _enable line is needed ) then you start the webserver with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start ( or 'forcestart' instead of start if you don't have the _enable line in rc.conf) Also, make sure you have no firewall in place stopping the traffic. _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Q. How do you make God laugh? A. Tell him your plans. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:49:45 -0600 Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently much prefer using Dovecot for IMAP, and Postfix for MTA. They are both quite easy to set up and customize to fit changing needs. I agree . adding clamav + amavisd.new + spamassassin to the mix would wrap up the setup. ping me if you need particular config details. _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. Hunter S. Thompson I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help getting apache 22 working
On 6/27/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: accf_http is not compulsory for apache to work. Ah, ok. That's good to know, though I did put the module to autoload in my loader.conf file. However, the server still isn't working as a lynx localhost is denied and sockstat doesn't show any listening sockets on port 80. What else needs to be done to get apache 22 working? did you add the enabling line in /etc/rc.conf? For version 2.2 it should be apache22_enable=YES Not yet. I was just trying to start it via /usr/local/sbin/apachectl. ( you actually need to check the startup script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, in this case /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 to see what _enable line is needed ) then you start the webserver with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start ( or 'forcestart' instead of start if you don't have the _enable line in rc.conf) Also, make sure you have no firewall in place stopping the traffic. Thanks for the info. I actually found that, apparently, apache 22 is much more of a stickler for an IP address to hostname than is apache 1.3. I did a little bit of slight of hand in /etc/hosts and then started apache and it actually started for me. I didn't think this was the problem because on my personal machine I'm running 1.3 and I get this same error, but the server still starts. Thanks everybody. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: how to increase RAID space
Quoting Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do - they abstract the hardware storage layer. That is hardware RAID. It depends on what you have. If you have a 5/6 RAID setup then you might get away with simply adding a disk. This will work from the RAID point, I just don't know how FreeBSD will feel about this. Perhaps the manufacture has special tools for this. -- Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]