Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single processing machines (with some after thought payed to multiprocessing). 7.X is the beginning of the versions specifically designed with multiprocessing/cores in mind Will you please stop spouting nonsense? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [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: TCP/IP questions
On Thursday 08 November 2007 18:40:58 Bram wrote: Nikos Vassiliadis schreef: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:02:44 Bram wrote: Hi all, Can you change the timeout for a tcp connection ? I need to do the following: start a tcp connection , unplug the network cable (it's actually wifi but the effect is the same),send some data over the connection,wait 20 seconds , reinsert the network cable and just keep working. When you normally do this the connection will be dead. Is there a way in freebsd to change this ? are there parameters wich you can set so that the above would work (20 seconds without network can happen) ? TCP using the default FreeBSD settings, can survive 20 secs of inactivity. It can be an application forced timeout. What application/protocol are talking about? Nikos This is the more full explanation: I have setup a mobile pc to roam across our building. By reducing the dwell time and changing the channel list to only the channels I use roaming now works within ten seconds en sometimes within one or two seconds. The previous configuration was with fedora and there I was unable to get roaming time under 25 seconds. I do have one very annoying problem however and I have no idea how to solve it. The software uses psycopg (a python postgresql module) wich uses the standard system parameters for connections (At least that is what I think). -On fedora if the connection gets lost and it takes 30 seconds to remake a new connection operation is not interupted, after the 30 seconds you get the data you've been waiting for. -On freebsd however we get it a lot that the connection is lost, you can easily start a new connection wich works fine, but the old connection you wore using stops working and the app. hangs (If I had to guess I would say that roaming works about 95% of the time and the connection is lost about 5% of the time). I also get a lot of IFDOWN IFUP messages but this seems normal to me. I am now going to program something in twisted using udp to see if this works better. If your app is using SO_KEEPALIVE, you can increase sysctl net.inet.tcp.keepintvl. You could also trace the application to see what's going on. Something like: ktrace -i $application Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single processing machines (with some after thought payed to multiprocessing). 7.X is the beginning of the versions specifically designed with multiprocessing/cores in mind Will you please stop spouting nonsense? DES WTF? Dude... 7-CURRENT has several improvements to MP systems, but it's not meant to be the 'first non-SP designed OS'. Please, get your facts straight.. There are several other improvements coming with 7-CURRENT though, mainly dealing with Mac support, some security auditing (I believe), and other SoC / important developer project work, as well as improved hardware support for some items like SATA and HD audio I believe. And yes, there's the big [ULE] scheduler / giant lock removal improvement which helps MP systems scale better with 7-CURRENT. But that doesn't mean that the 4BSD scheduler doesn't do MP systems well. It just sucks at it compared to ULE =P. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:09 -0500, Leonard Lilla wrote: Wow, Talk about a horrible install. Install this CD, now that now this now that now this now that!!! It goes on and on. Please do think about people that are trying your install and are less knowledgeable and install using your 2 cd install. It is just horrible how many times I went from CD1 to CD2 and forth and back and back and forth. Just a killer. If I needed exercise I would have called my trainer. I hope that I will be able to say better things about the rest of the install or the OS. Well, I can. Install sucks. If I click on something there is no recourse. Just a next and no back. I did not have the right cd once and that port did not install, period. no retry or skip. Just done with it. There are simply no error handling or user fault anticipation in your install. Not friendly. Leo My niece (now 8 years old age) said, You are naughty boy! ;; -- Perhaps your grandchildren will become the new PEZZONOVANTI. -- Vito Corleone, Chapter 20, page 290 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help:how to install .diff files on FreeBSD 6.2
Hello, I am a freshman in FreeBSD OS. I have downloaded somelibcap_1.10-14.diff.gz http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=11494ResourceID=5757 and libcap-1.10.tar.bz2 http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=11495ResourceID=5757 .The instruction says it can be installed on FreeBSD. But I don't know how to install it as it seems different from Fedora Core.Could someone help me,and give me the entire code? Many thanks. -- Beyond4ever ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
Albert Shih wrote: Le 08/11/2007 à 19:32:39+0100, Roland Smith a écrit On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:48:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Concerning this, I've cvsuping to 6-CURRENT on a dual-core desktop. The system is running well, but I'd really like to move up to 7. Can it be done through cvsup from 6.2-STABLE to 7-CURRENT or is it wiser to install from scratch? any upgrade gotchas/procedure ? It _can_ be done. (I've done it). First, make a list of all your ports (portmaster -L works fine for that). Then csup to RELENG_7. Then follow the instructions from /usr/src/Makefile (the bit about 'upgrade their source'). I've outlined the process below, with my own additions marked with lowercase letters a. Make backups b. Read /usr/src/UPDATING 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). 2. `make buildworld' 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). [steps 3. 4. can be combined by using the kernel target] 5. `reboot'(in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt). 6. `mergemaster -p' 7. `make installworld' 8. `make delete-old' 9. `mergemaster' 10. `reboot' c. `pkg_delete -a' (delete all your ports) Be careful if you not using standard shell becauseif you using a shell come from ports 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) d. Reinstall all root and leaf ports. Dependencies will then be installed automatically. Wellwhat's the difference between what you say and make a new installation ? I've do this sometime ago because I don't have 7.0-Beta CD-rom, and I've install a 6.2 and make what you say...but for me rebuild all ports it's same thing to make a new-installation. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Jeu 8 nov 2007 23:11:56 CET Basically, that's the gist of what you need to do (what Roland said). The reason being that all of your software is dynamically linked vs old 6.x libs and you'll need to upgrade that functionality in order to access true 7.x use. Sure, you can run things linked against 6.x (for a period of time), but it'll result in really fubar'ed userland and ports apps. Pros of clean install: - Virgin clean system. - Don't have to rebuild ports and base system + kernel. Cons: - Have to take down the box while the install's going, plus any time spent on the upgrade process. - Have to backup data. Pros of in-place upgrade: - Data is kept as-is. - If planned properly, box downtime is minimized. Cons: - Can have orphan files laying around from old [ports/base] installs. - Time, time, time (assuming your system is slow / heavily loaded).. HTH, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help:how to install .diff files on FreeBSD 6.2
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:48 +0800, 冉俊秀 wrote: Hello, I am a freshman in FreeBSD OS. I have downloaded somelibcap_1.10-14.diff.gz http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=11494ResourceID=5757 and libcap-1.10.tar.bz2 http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=11495ResourceID=5757 .The instruction says it can be installed on FreeBSD. But I don't know how to install it as it seems different from Fedora Core.Could someone help me,and give me the entire code? Many thanks. For the diff file, use patch(1). -- You are the only person I felt any affection for, that I care about. -- Micahel Corleone, Chapter 25, page 361 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Rotate logs for openbgpd
Hi we use openbgpd-4.0 from ports. We would like to rotate its logs with newsyslog but if we send the daemon the HUP or USR1 signal it does not close its old, already-rotated log file. Does anyone by accident know the correct signal to get openbgpd close its old log file? Maybe we should use 'bgpctl reload'? Many thanks for your help Valerio Daelli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
Le 09/11/2007 à 06:12:48+0100, Roland Smith a écrit On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Be careful if you not using standard shell becauseif you using a shell come from ports Root should _never_ use a shell from ports. You can use the 'toor' account for that. I known but that's never so simple. I do the other, I active toor account with standard shell. Wellwhat's the difference between what you say and make a new installation ? If you re-install, you're stuck with a GENERIC kernel, unless you recompile that afterwards which is extra work. Well that's cost is not more than you make buildkernel ...on compilation. I would go for a new install if I wanted to change the relative sizes of my partitions. Otherwise I'd stick with the source upgrade, because it is not as much work IMHO. I agree but, do cp /usr/local/etc /safe_place cp /etc/ /safe_place make a re-install with format disk is not as much work too ;-) And with that I can sure I don't have some old thing (event now we have make delete-olds). But I agree with you : Every sys-admin have his own habit ;-) Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Ven 9 nov 2007 11:49:05 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems using ls with for_in (SH)
Sdävtaker wrote: Im trying to get a file with all the md5 hashes of one directory. My initial script was this: #!/bin/sh for file in $(ls) do echo $file md5 $file done The problem is with the file names who contains whitespaces becouse the for_in passed each word as one iteration and not the full filename, I'd tried using -B in ls, but doesnt help. Any idea what can i do? Thanks! Sdäv Use Quoting ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])$ls another file with spaces file with space no-spaces-here [11:08:54:/usr/home/jhary/tmp/spacetmp] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])$for file in * ; do echo $file ; md5 $file ; done another file with spaces MD5 (another file with spaces) = 40393f6dba09f89ef5cf32c3aec61f32 file with space MD5 (file with space) = 1de1a1be1433df2d7af11d839db3b0c1 no-spaces-here MD5 (no-spaces-here) = aaac9a687bd4ea9d2fc487e9cfb345f7 works for me. Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how can i install gnome2 through console
James A. Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 23:06 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:30 +0200, Ananias Uushona wrote: I was installing gnome2 through x interface but I realize that its very hard especially to beginners but I got it right is that I did n't have the hardware names and specifications right now I want to do it automatically so it can detect the automatically so where do I begin to install it through console should I remove xorg packages or what first Please use pkg_add/pkg_delete instead of ports. It's very easy. That's all the way I install/remove gnome2. Of course it works through console. Ananias, For install, at the command prompt type this command as root: pkg_add -v -r gnome2-lite However! There is a caveat here. I'd say, sure, use pkg_add at first, because it's simple. However, bear in mind that ports exist. And also bear in mind that you cannot mix packages and ports, unless you want an inconsistent system. Ports are well worth learning. I remember when I started using them, they were confusing. But after I got used to them, I never, ever used/use anything other than ports. They start making sense after a while ;) I agree with James. I use portinstall which makes compiling everything a snap. Other people prefer different methods though. Compiling something large like Gnome takes a while, though. If you don't have the time go with packages. One thing that does bug me about the compiling process is that just occasionally distcc will throw a wobbler about something and I have no clue how to fix it. :^) I think perhaps distcc is just a little buggy. But that's a thread for another mailing list. Ananias [hi, by the way!], just to answer your question, do not remove Xorg as you will need it to support Gnome. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
But, do install the ports tree - note, that's the ports tree/skeleton not the whole bunch of actual ports. With csup being a part of the base systems now don't install even this because csup will nuke most of it anyway and spew a bunch or warnings. This might be a little advanced for a complete beginner but the following procedure seems to work well for me: 1. Install nothing except base and kernels 2. Edit your /usr/share/example/cvsup/ports-supfile and .../standard-supfile a. Change the default host b. Depending on how current you are change RELENG_XXX to . in standard-supfile 3. Run: csup /usr/share/example/cvsup/standard-supfile 4. Depending on what version you have and what customizations you want edit /etc/make.conf and /usr/src/sys/XXX/conf/YYY where XXX is your arrch and YYY is the name of your custom kernel 5. Run: make buildworld buildkernel installkernel 6. Reboot in single user mode 7. mount your partitions (read/write) 8. run: cd /usr/src make installworld mergemaster 9. Reboot your machine is now the latest of what ever branch your making for ... For a desktop system I install the following in order: x11/xorg x11/gnome2 editor/gnome2-office mail/engimail-thunderbird multimedia/vlc audio/rhymbox print/cups print/lyx For development machines (only one): java/jdk16 java/jdk16-doc database/mysqlXX-clientwhere XX is what ever version you want www/apache-22 lang/php5 -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems using ls with for_in (SH)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:49:24PM -0300, Sdvtaker wrote:
Im trying to get a file with all the md5 hashes of one directory.
My initial script was this:
#!/bin/sh
for file in $(ls)
do
echo $file
md5 $file
done
The problem is with the file names who contains whitespaces becouse
the for_in passed each word as one iteration and not the full filename,
I'd tried using -B in ls, but doesnt help.
Any idea what can i do?
Thanks!
Sdäv
You could use find which avoids the subdirs:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print -exec md5 {} \;
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Re: What kind of audio device is this?
P.U.Kruppa wrote: dmesg says I have got ugen0: vendor 0x0d8c PnP Audio Device, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.10, addr 4 on uhub0 on board. What is this? Do we have a driver for it? snip Of course I tried # kldload snd_driver but all I get is # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64) Installed devices: I am running FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sat Nov 3 17:55:42 CET 2007 amd64 Hi Peter, I also have a USB sound device which wouldn't detect until I loaded snd_uaudio. Now I can play my CDs through my 5.1 system, but I had to install both OSS and eSound to do it. I think the idea is everything goes to eSound, which is piped through the OSS mixer. My sound device now identifies [on FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE] as: uaudio0: vendor 0x0c45 USB Audio, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 uaudio0: audio rev 1.00 pcm0: USB Audio on uaudio0 which is every bit as dull as yours. By the way I don't have a /dev/dsp either. It doesn't seem to be required. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?
Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from 6.3-PRE to 7.0-PRE, right? I just need to change my src-supfile from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 and build/install world/kernel as normal, right? I /need/ that wpi driver... :) Nervously, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thunderbird eats all memory and dies
Yuri wrote: Hi, Beginning from the time I last reinstalled FreeBSD from scratch I have my thunderbird dying with the following message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Abort trap (core dumped) This is after it grows in memory to over 1GB in a few hours of idle existence. I even forcibly reinstalled all dependent packages so that all shared libs used by thunderbird are refreshed. But no improvement. Thunderbird was recently upgraded to 2.0.0.8 but the problem didn't go away. Anyone has the same issue? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Yuri, Thunderbird has always been a resource hog on my systems whether I'm running Windows or FreeBSD. IMO it's something to do with XUL - Firefox chugs on my (reasonably) beefy systems too. It's too pretty to delete though. :/ Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
Ang utong ko ay sasabog sa sarap! exclaimed [EMAIL PROTECTED] while reading this message on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:00 and then responded with: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:42:08 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Roland Smith wrote: But if you're starting in single user mode, only / will be mounted. So if you have /usr or /usr/local on a separate partition, you'd be screwed. That is why root should only use a shell that's in the / partition. And since you control the machine that should be easy to do. Put the programs YOU need in a directory on / - even if those are elsewhere in the standard distribution. Yoy may find that you want something that is not there normally. Probably a rare occurance but you won't break anything - particularly if you 'cp' it and not move 'mv' it. You'll be prompted for a shell if your default isn't available. I've used bash for the root shell for years. Doesn't mean that you will never have a problem but this paticular situation just means you'll have to hit enter to accept /bin/sh or enter another shell when booting into single user. -Darren I've been using ksh [not the pd verison but the REAL Korn Shell] for years - even on all the commercial Unix systems I used to maintain. But on FreeBSD I always copy it to /bin/ksh [dropping the 93 extension in the default install] and being of the belt suspendors mentality I ALWAYS compile it statically - and just checking /bin I find only pgrep and pkill NOT statically linked. Old habits die hard but I surely won't be bitten by a corrupt library. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: STILL cannot login as kline!
Gary Kline wrote: This is what is in my ~/.xsession-errors file: (process:1038): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. snip file '/var/tmp/gconfd-kline/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory) Can't remove file (null): Bad address gconf-sanity-check-2 did not pass, logging back out [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/kline# Clues, people?? I'm plumb out of ideas. gary Hi Gary. Your username is kline and the system's name is also kline? Which would make you [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps the system doesn't like this kind of thing. Is it possible that kline is some sort of reserved word (eg. k-line)? Does it still fail if you change to another user, perhaps garyk? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using 2M/4M pages
Hello, Does anyone know if there is support for using the large page sizes with the x86 CPUs? Thanks, Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pkgdb failure
After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports . .. - 17746 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb! (/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db)] /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument Any ideas on what is causing this? Thanks Jim Ballantine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cmos clock to utc time code?
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:56:44 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Brent Jones wrote: There's no time zone setting in a cmos clock. Just set the time to whatever UTC is, and you should be good to go. Ideally though, you should have the system do an ntpdate command first, which will take care of the clock issue for you. Just put: ntpdate_enable=YES in your rc.conf file, and it will run before ntpd starts. I have ntpd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf already, would there be a conflict? There's no conflict While this machine is being configured with all the functional software I want working, hub mail server with Cyrus, Apache/php/mysql. while I am getting everything set up and tested the machine will not be running 24/7 so ntpdate would probably be a better choice, Just run both. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?
Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. Conceptually frozen but there have been some fairly large changes since then... but your correct from about mid-oct the large changes almost always where just a matter of tuning or adding hw support. -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports problem
Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the procedure to upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1 Hi Desmond, When I was faced with this error I did the obvious thing and created a symlink, then restarted the install. Of course time will probably prove it to be an utterly boneheaded thing to do, but it seems to work for now. # mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-2 # ln -s /usr/X11R6-2 /usr/X11R6 # make install Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2
Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 /sbin/ldconfigis needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 But I can find /bin/sh and /sbin/ldconfig on my FreeBSD 6.2. How can I solve this problem,could anyone help me. Many thanks. --Beyond4ever ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on a Mac
James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments. I still have BSD on the box, but on another partition, i loved FreeBSD 7, was really getting the hang of it and testing out its web server capabilities, its a nightmare switching the PC on and off just to run a temp web server to test on. Is it possible or is there a better solution? Cheers http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html I haven't tried it out yet, but I plan on installing it on an old G4 I have that's currently running Yellow Dog. Best regards, Greg Groth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports problem
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the procedure to upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1 Hi Desmond, When I was faced with this error I did the obvious thing and created a symlink, then restarted the install. Surely the *obvious* thing was to follow the instructions and read UPDATING. Of course time will probably prove it to be an utterly boneheaded thing to do, but it seems to work for now. # mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-2 # ln -s /usr/X11R6-2 /usr/X11R6 # make install You should put it back and run the mergebase script. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help
Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm hoping some kind person here will know the answer before I e-mail the list mentioned in that section of UPDATING. Anyway, that's basically, what happened. I have kdm set to start on bootup and it complained that X failed to start. When I got to the point of portupgrade -aP in the UPDATING section for X.org 6.9 - 7.2; I decided to go with that command instead of portupgrade -a thinking that by now, even for amd64, the packages would be available. Perhaps a bad assumption. Anyway, once that completed, the stats reported by portupgrade were disconcerting but I thought that it was ok and continued. portupgrade reported that only 2 packages were porcessed, most were ignored with 50 some skipped and 1 failed. I then proceeded to the mergebase.sh script, ran that and when I was satisfied that all was done as expected, I rebooted my machine. Well, that's when X failed to start. So, how would I go about correcting this problem? Andy Hi Andy, I botched my 6.9-7.2 upgrade too. It's easy to do even if you follow the instructions. Can't remember what the problem was now, certainly it was something no one else had, typical. :^) Ah well, all fixed now anyway. It's easy to botch even a simple install of X. Took me a while to learn that you have to install 1) Xorg, 2) mesa-demos, 3) nVidia driver, in that order (assuming you want mesa-demos, of course). Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports problem
RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the procedure to upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1 Hi Desmond, When I was faced with this error I did the obvious thing and created a symlink, then restarted the install. Surely the *obvious* thing was to follow the instructions and read UPDATING. I didn't read it that way. You're right though. I'll check out mergebase.sh, see if it does anything I need. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Congratulations
Chris wrote: ... Does that mean I have to share the winnings with everyone on the list?! Yes. Hurry up, I'm broke. :P Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clocks and dualboot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the date correct on the vista side? - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHNG/YJ9+1V27SttsRAp/5AJ9P8Q4xscQVGAr7qfWBbwJfXpPdfwCffoCJ mBuXWNQK4JlOW2mO+3BWmEo= =V4Xx -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]
Fetch error for Port upgrade
I am trying to do a port upgrade and get the following error. ! x11-servers/xorg-server (xorg-server-6.9.0_5) (fetch error) How do I fix this? I have this problem on other packages as well. T.I.A. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange error when building cups
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution of arbitrary code. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-base. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-pstoraster. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHNHICJ9+1V27SttsRAiXyAJoCWlDpO6DEtpxQbtOMGUfXrDOqsQCfatHn MOPolbRjOxQttSox4ZAsq00= =66aR -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: clocks and dualboot
On Friday 09 November 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the date correct on the vista side? You must configure FreeBSD to keep the hardware clock to Local Time. However, I lack the knowledge on how to do that. I'm sorry. -- Mihai Donțu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange error when building cups
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution of arbitrary code. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-base. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-pstoraster. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups. Hi Aryeh, I can't tell you about the error, but: %pkg_info | grep cups cups-base-1.3.3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers Looks like the same versions. They do build ok. Perhaps a make clean distclean will shake out the bugs? 'Remote execution' is interesting. Do you use some sort of load balancer? HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 21:52 +0800, 冉俊秀 wrote: Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 /sbin/ldconfigis needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 But I can find /bin/sh and /sbin/ldconfig on my FreeBSD 6.2. How can I solve this problem,could anyone help me. Many thanks. Personally i don't know about GNU/Linux well ;; However, this section of FreeBSD Handbook can give you some helps ;; http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html Sincerely, ps. ah... by the way.. what is your name? may i know your name with romanized? only i know Chinese a little bit ;; -- I love your daughter with all respect. -- Enzo, Chapter 1, page 13 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clocks and dualboot
I have a dual boot vista and freebsd machine I use ntpdate on the FB machine but then when I go into vista it reports for a different time zone (sometimes UTC other times PST)... ntpdate always corrects this on reboot but how do I keep the date correct on the vista side? As Mihai Don\xc8\x9bu mentioned to tell the time routines that the computer clock is in localtime and not in universal tim, perform the following as root: # touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock --Mark. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on a Mac
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:03:30AM +, James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments. I still have BSD on the box, but on another partition, i loved FreeBSD 7, was really getting the hang of it and testing out its web server capabilities, its a nightmare switching the PC on and off just to run a temp web server to test on. Is it possible or is there a better solution? If you have enough disk space, you could either dual boot with MS-Win and FreeBSD, or you could run vmware and then install both FreeBSD and ms-win virtual machines on it. jerry Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-29 20:50, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. The suggested solution was to use a base shell (such as sh) and append 'bash -l' to .shrc to automatically enter bash. The quite annoying side-effect is having to type 'exit' twice to get out of a su shell or screen. Would it be a better idea to use the pre-compiled binary for bash? And if I did so, could I be alerted to updates as easy as using 'pkg_version -v' when checking if any ports need updating? I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l I know it doesn't work on slolaris^W some Unix flavors, but I've been quite happy with su -m. It changes workflow in many ways, but once you get a handle of it, it can really be useful. E.g. my zsh history is shared between root and the user who su'd into him. And if anything goes wrong, I just drop the -m key. It's another story when it comes to remote login (non-root)... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how can i install gnome2 through console
Ohhh yah that was usefull and I re-installed freebsd desktop wich is very easy I don thing this BSD desktop is for the administration by the way, u guys does anyone have UNIX exercise that one can use to practice coz I ran out of exercises on wht else to do am willing to learn am use to CCNA so I real need focusing areas on UNIX and what is the best EXAM to write about UNIX for the beginners? Yah thanks,\ ananias -Original Message- From: Adam J Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how can i install gnome2 through console James A. Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 23:06 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:30 +0200, Ananias Uushona wrote: I was installing gnome2 through x interface but I realize that its very hard especially to beginners but I got it right is that I did n't have the hardware names and specifications right now I want to do it automatically so it can detect the automatically so where do I begin to install it through console should I remove xorg packages or what first Please use pkg_add/pkg_delete instead of ports. It's very easy. That's all the way I install/remove gnome2. Of course it works through console. Ananias, For install, at the command prompt type this command as root: pkg_add -v -r gnome2-lite However! There is a caveat here. I'd say, sure, use pkg_add at first, because it's simple. However, bear in mind that ports exist. And also bear in mind that you cannot mix packages and ports, unless you want an inconsistent system. Ports are well worth learning. I remember when I started using them, they were confusing. But after I got used to them, I never, ever used/use anything other than ports. They start making sense after a while ;) I agree with James. I use portinstall which makes compiling everything a snap. Other people prefer different methods though. Compiling something large like Gnome takes a while, though. If you don't have the time go with packages. One thing that does bug me about the compiling process is that just occasionally distcc will throw a wobbler about something and I have no clue how to fix it. :^) I think perhaps distcc is just a little buggy. But that's a thread for another mailing list. Ananias [hi, by the way!], just to answer your question, do not remove Xorg as you will need it to support Gnome. Regards, Adam J Richardson __ NOD32 2648 (20071109) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l I know it doesn't work on slolaris^W some Unix flavors, but I've been quite happy with su -m. Heh, putting the Solaris bashing (sic) aside, I can see how the -m option can be useful some times. After all, it was implemented because *someone* thought it would be neat to have around :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange error when building cups
Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution of arbitrary code. *** Error code 1 It means that installing cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden, and that the reason is a security problem allowing for remote execution of arbitrary code. To fix it, you can wait for the update to cups-base-1.3.4 to hit the tree, or update the port yourself, or (if you're willing to leave your system vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable bug; e.g., if the machine isn't on the Internet) comment the FORBIDDEN line out of the Makefile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange error when building cups
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:18:20PM +, Adam J Richardson wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution of arbitrary code. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-base. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-pstoraster. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups. Hi Aryeh, I can't tell you about the error, but: %pkg_info | grep cups cups-base-1.3.3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers Looks like the same versions. They do build ok. Perhaps a make clean distclean will shake out the bugs? 'Remote execution' is interesting. Do you use some sort of load balancer? This means that there is a security flaw outstanding with the print/cups-base package. It could potentially be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary code on your print server. The warning is being emitted by the following line in the print/cups-base Makefile: FORBIDDEN= remote execution of arbitrary code The fix would be to find the vulnerability and patch it, or failing that, contact the maintainer and see what he says. As a workaround, if you don't care about the vulnerability, you can set NO_IGNORE in the make environment and try again. ports(7) has more detail. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpi7uPpLhiOQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: strange error when building cups
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:18:20 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution of arbitrary code. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-base. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-pstoraster. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups. Hi Aryeh, I can't tell you about the error, but: %pkg_info | grep cups cups-base-1.3.3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers Looks like the same versions. They do build ok. Perhaps a make clean distclean will shake out the bugs? 'Remote execution' is interesting. Do you use some sort of load balancer? The print/cups-base was marked FORBIDDEN due remote execution of arbitrary code on 2007-11-08, see: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200711081832.lA8IWv3T075088 You can read more about the vulnerability at: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/portaudit/8dd9722c-8e97-11dc-b8f6-001c2514716c.html If you decide that your risk is acceptable you still wish to install/update at this time, you can comment ( # ) the particular line in the ports/print/cups-base/Makefile: #FORBIDDEN= remote execution of arbitrary code I would presume that cups-base-1.3.4 is going to be committed shortly since there are quite a few ports that depend on it. HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?
Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from 6.3-PRE to 7.0-PRE, right? I just need to change my src-supfile from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 and build/install world/kernel as normal, right? I /need/ that wpi driver... :) Nervously, Adam J Richardson Adam, I would consult archives (as of late) the list for the exact steps necessary to upgrade from 6.x to 7-PRE. It's a fairly painless process if done correctly, but it will take a while to complete, depending on what all you have installed on your laptop ports wise. Best of luck, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb failure
J. W. Ballantine wrote: After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports . .. - 17746 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb! (/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db)] /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument Any ideas on what is causing this? Thanks Jim Ballantine That generally means that for whatever reason the pkgdb couldn't be read, which may mean that you need to rebuild ruby and all affected libraries to call up 7.x libs (at least based on experience that's what's happened with me). Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetch error for Port upgrade
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I am trying to do a port upgrade and get the following error. ! x11-servers/xorg-server (xorg-server-6.9.0_5) (fetch error) How do I fix this? I have this problem on other packages as well. T.I.A. Most likely you just updated your ports (which are severely out of date based on that error message). I highly suggest reading /usr/ports/UPDATING around April of 2007, in particular about the X.org 6.x - 7.x migration notes. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l I know it doesn't work on slolaris^W some Unix flavors, but I've been quite happy with su -m. Heh, putting the Solaris bashing (sic) aside, I can see how the -m option can be useful some times. After all, it was implemented because *someone* thought it would be neat to have around :-) Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup
Hello, Apolgies for the slightly OT post, but I'm hoping that some of the ammased expertise might be able to suggest a solution. I've a FreeBSD fileserver, a solid state router (Linksys box running OpenWRT) and a couple of gigabit switches that I'd like to move onto a UPS (I'm primarily looking at the APC Smart-UPS line). The requirements for the FreeBSD system are pretty simple, it's not likely to be of any use if the power's out, so after a few minutes to allow any files open over the network to be saved, it should perform an orderly shutdown and remain off until the power returns. However, the router is a little different. It maintains some state information in RAM (dhcp leases etc) that I'd prefer not to lose during a short power outage, and it would also be useful to retain internet access, so ideally I'd like the router and switches to stay up for as long as the battery lasts in the UPS. Space and budget are limited, so ideally I'd like to achieve all this with a single UPS, which is where the problems arise. As I understant it, when the UPS wants to wake the attached machines up, it power cycles its output. This however will reset the router, which was what I was hoping to avoid. I've thought around the problem for some time, but not come up with any convincing solutions: 1) Use some sort of WOL command from the router to the FreeBSD system rather than having the UPS power cycle its output. How does the router know the power's returned? Can the UPS be set not to power cycle its power output when the power returns? 2) Use a second cheap UPS to 'protect' the router whilst the primary UPS cycles its power output. This seems rather crude, and would presumably reduce the battery life of the primary UPS due the losses in the second UPS. 3) Have the UPS wake the PC via some other means. USB would seem to ideal choice, but the motherboard won't do a wake on USB from S5, and I'm can't find a UPS with an ethernet interface. 4) KISS. Buy two smaller, cheapers UPS units. Does anyone have any clever ideas for a solution? Any thoughts much appreciated. -- Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange error when building cups
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam J Richardson wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some tell me what this means and how to fix it: === cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - not found ===Verifying install for cups.2 in /usr/ports/print/cups-base === cups-base-1.3.3 is forbidden: remote execution of arbitrary code. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-base. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups-pstoraster. *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/print/cups. Hi Aryeh, I can't tell you about the error, but: %pkg_info | grep cups cups-base-1.3.3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers Looks like the same versions. They do build ok. Perhaps a make clean distclean will shake out the bugs? attempted that before I posted (just distclean and I have no idea what the clean would do that distclean doesn't) 'Remote execution' is interesting. Do you use some sort of load balancer? No it is a single machine via a router to a cable modem - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHNIwWJ9+1V27SttsRAi5/AJ9OGeSoLqdgOHKpxDfmUANdiaOLiwCffWS3 i/+DtnajgDuSDNsomdoMgI8= =H9v9 -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]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
Written by Leonard Lilla on 11/08/07 10:09 Wow, Talk about a horrible install. Install this CD, now that now this now that now this now that!!! It goes on and on. Please do think about people that are trying your install and are less knowledgeable and install using your 2 cd install. It is just horrible how many times I went from CD1 to CD2 and forth and back and back and forth. Just a killer. If I needed exercise I would have called my trainer. I hope that I will be able to say better things about the rest of the install or the OS. Well, I can. Install sucks. If I click on something there is no recourse. Just a next and no back. I did not have the right cd once and that port did not install, period. no retry or skip. Just done with it. There are simply no error handling or user fault anticipation in your install. Not friendly. Leo I know this thread has had many responses already, but it would seem to me that you were installing packages from the CDs. Packages are installed in dependency order, not necessarily in alphabetical or CD location order. It is apparent to me that the CD distribution design has been done in such a way that as many of the most common packages that can be squeezed into the first CD have been, followed by CD2, CD3, and CD4. The more packages you want to install from CD, the more often you will be playing disc jockey as the dependency chains weave between discs ;) As others have said, if you want to avoid the CD changing dilemma, it's a good idea to install software using the ports collection, or through packages fetched over the network connection from a distribution mirror on the web. I've been using FreeBSD for about 8 years now, and I can give you one piece of advice that will help you avoid massive amounts of frustration, should you choose to stick with it: the community will not abide complainers. This is especially true when complaints are abusive, derogatory, or condescending in tone and even more so when such complaints are not accompanied by solutions. The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be accommodated in the rafters, and what relative orientation it should have to the earth's magnetic field; yet the most vocal of these people naturally have no contributions to make towards the installer's actual codebase. In the grand scheme of things, you'll probably also find the attitude towards the installer is that it works well enough for our needs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on a Mac
Hi, Has anybody had success using Parallels on the Mac? I have been using it to support windows but had GUI problems with FreeBSD (with X and xfce4). They do not support FreeBSD 6.2 (according to their documentation). Thanks, Arend Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:03:30AM +, James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments. I still have BSD on the box, but on another partition, i loved FreeBSD 7, was really getting the hang of it and testing out its web server capabilities, its a nightmare switching the PC on and off just to run a temp web server to test on. Is it possible or is there a better solution? If you have enough disk space, you could either dual boot with MS-Win and FreeBSD, or you could run vmware and then install both FreeBSD and ms-win virtual machines on it. jerry Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
On 2007-11-09 16:34, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ discussing `su -m' option ] Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). It should be possible to type: su username i.e. here's an ftp session on my laptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# fgrep ftp: /etc/passwd ftp:*:1003:1003: user:/home/ftp:/usr/sbin/nologin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# su ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ id uid=1003(ftp) gid=1003 groups=1003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ Good idea, though :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
recurring kernel panic
I'm getting daily kernel panics. The server was running fine for about a month, the only changes I've made recently have been to update all my ports. It's running on older i386 hardware, no special devices attached. Here's the console message I'm getting (copied by hand): - Fatal trap 30: reserved (unknown) fault while in kernel mode cupid = 0; apic id = 00 instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0b41129 stack pointer = 0x28:0xd0225cd8 frame pointer= 0x28:0xd0225cd8 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0 current process = 10 (idle: cpu0) trap number = 30 panic: reserved (unknown) fault cupid = 0 Uptime 19h28m38s Cannot dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds – press a key on the console to abort Rebooting… Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown - A few questions to help diagnose: (1) how do I use my hard disk as a dump device for these kernel panics? (2) why does the keyboard reset not work, leaving the panic'ed machine hanging indefinitely? (I've tried two different PS/2 keyboards... no luck) (3) any other information I can provide, such as ports I have installed? I am running FreeBSD my.server.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 (with all security patches except FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb failure
Thanks, I thought it was something like that, that's why i rebuilt th pkgdb. -- In Response to your message - Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:30:47 -0800 To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pkgdb failure J. W. Ballantine wrote: After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument ] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports . .. - 17746 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb! (/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db)] /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument Any ideas on what is causing this? Thanks Jim Ballantine That generally means that for whatever reason the pkgdb couldn't be read, which may mean that you need to rebuild ruby and all affected libraries to call up 7.x libs (at least based on experience that's what's happened with me). Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW show format question...
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, everything I've read says that ipfw show displays rule number, packets caught, bytes matched, and rule. The problem I'm having is that it seems that the bytes, at least on some rules, is way out of whack. I'm capturing this data for cacti, and trying to display accumulated ipfw traffic. If I zero my counters and download a file via FTP, the downloaded sizes don't even compare. 61MB into the download, if I convert the ipfw show from the supposed bytes into MB, it says I've downloaded 155MB. Catching up on a few days' digests, and seeing noone else having a go: It helps to show rather than tell about your rules, but I'll guess that you're not distinguishing between inbound and outbound traffic, ie your rules are counting packets both on the way in (pass 1) and out (pass 2) Eg allowing traffic using 'via' (qualified neither by 'in' nor 'out') allows (so, counts) a packet on both passes .. as may stateful rules. Separate counts before allowing traffic can be best for accounting, eg add $n1 count ip from $outthere to $inhere in recv $some_if add $n2 count ip from $inhere to $outthere out xmit $some_if [..] add allow $whatever .. HTH, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I just go ahead on 7.0?
Garrett Cooper wrote: Adam J Richardson wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: You should be fine now (pending any bugs found in the beta/release process), because 7-CURRENT's source has been essentially frozen since August I believe.. -Garrett Hi Garrett, It should be ok to upgrade straight from 6.3-PRE to 7.0-PRE, right? I just need to change my src-supfile from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 and build/install world/kernel as normal, right? I /need/ that wpi driver... :) Nervously, Adam J Richardson Adam, I would consult archives (as of late) the list for the exact steps necessary to upgrade from 6.x to 7-PRE. It's a fairly painless process if done correctly, but it will take a while to complete, depending on what all you have installed on your laptop ports wise. Best of luck, -Garrett Thanks. I'll check the archives. Regards, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 complaints are not accompanied by solutions. The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be accommodated in the rafters, and what relative orientation it should have to the earth's magnetic field; yet the most vocal of these people naturally have no contributions to make towards the installer's actual codebase. I think the only change needed for the time being (immediate fix) is to move to DVD being the prefered medium (the rest can wait) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHNJ3DJ9+1V27SttsRAsRCAJ4tY5yMJEk5kNLfQfMW9sOL+WS/fQCfURmx iPrcJgnGbHL88I1uGwIyOxE= =lwpN -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: shell programming
On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using perl, it's quite complicated. In short, with sh, simply use the built-in date command: #!/bin/sh weekday=`date +%A See also man 3 strftime - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shell programming
I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? -- --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recurring kernel panic
Kelly Martin wrote: I'm getting daily kernel panics. The server was running fine for about a month, the only changes I've made recently have been to update all my ports. It's running on older i386 hardware, no special devices attached. Here's the console message I'm getting (copied by hand): - Fatal trap 30: reserved (unknown) fault while in kernel mode cupid = 0; apic id = 00 instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0b41129 stack pointer = 0x28:0xd0225cd8 frame pointer= 0x28:0xd0225cd8 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0 current process = 10 (idle: cpu0) trap number = 30 panic: reserved (unknown) fault cupid = 0 Uptime 19h28m38s Cannot dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds – press a key on the console to abort Rebooting… Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown - This looks pretty suspicious to me, I'd guess your hardware has failed. A few questions to help diagnose: (1) how do I use my hard disk as a dump device for these kernel panics? (2) why does the keyboard reset not work, leaving the panic'ed machine hanging indefinitely? (I've tried two different PS/2 keyboards... no luck) (3) any other information I can provide, such as ports I have installed? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shell programming
At 11:46 AM 11/9/2007, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? I do this in ksh, but it should work in sh too: DATE=/bin/date TODAY=`$DATE +%m-%d-%Y` TIME=`$DATE +%H:%M:%S` echo Backups started $TODAY at $TIME -Derek -- --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shell programming
thanks Eric Crist wrote: On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using perl, it's quite complicated. In short, with sh, simply use the built-in date command: #!/bin/sh weekday=`date +%A See also man 3 strftime - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2007-11-09 16:34, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ discussing `su -m' option ]
Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user
with no real shell (true, nologin etc).
It should be possible to type:
su username
i.e. here's an ftp session on my laptop:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# fgrep ftp: /etc/passwd
ftp:*:1003:1003: user:/home/ftp:/usr/sbin/nologin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# su ftp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ id
uid=1003(ftp) gid=1003 groups=1003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$
Good idea, though :)
Must be new, because in 5.4 I get:
100 {root @ cartman} # fgrep ftp: /etc/passwd
ftp:*:6000:6000:Anon FTP:/home/ftp:/usr/sbin/nologin
101 {root @ cartman} # su ftp
This account is currently not available.
102 {root @ cartman} # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel)
103 {root @ cartman} # su -m ftp
([EMAIL PROTECTED])1% id
uid=6000(ftp) gid=6000(ftp) groups=6000(ftp)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])2% exit
104 {root @ cartman} # /usr/sbin/nologin
This account is currently not available.
105 {root @ cartman} # alias su
106 {root @ cartman} # which su
/usr/bin/su
I find the behaviour you get definitely undesirable. There are
occasionally accounts have special purpose shells which do work in some
restricted fashion which you *might* want to use (in which case you can
su) or which you might not (so you su -m). I don't know off hand of any
PD examples, but I maintain some proprietary software which has an
account which uses a shell which understands various keywords and
commands, which restricts what you can do over ssh, for example. But
for maintenance you sometimes just want to be that user with a regular
shell. I can't see how to achieve that given the behaviour you seem to
get with su.
I seem to recall mharc being a bit like this - certainly needed the
Linux equivalent su -s /bin/csh when doing stuff with it.
There's no indication in the online man pages that su should behave the
way you've shown it, unless I'm missing something (a distinct
possibility :-)). Even the page from FreeBSD-7 says The invoked shell
is the one belonging to the target login. Your /usr/sbin/nologin isn't
a real shell, is it? Or you have some alias for su? Who knows, maybe
it's because I run csh - there does seem to be special case code for it
in su.c but I can't see how it would have this effect!
Confused.
--Alex
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sata gives: taskqueue timeout, followed by reboot
FreeBSD 6.2 running on AMD64 ad6 is sata disk connected to nforce4-ultra Moving a filesystem via dump|restore pipeline, source is ad6 (mounted read-only), dest is a sata-via-usb disk. ad6 also has root and var, so there could have been other disk activity, but dump would have been the lion's share of i/o. After grinding away for a few hours, I get: kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly 1 hour 4 minutes later it rebooted, and did not cleanly unmount the filesystems. (any of them, not just the ones on ad6) No panic message found anywhere. I haven't seen this message before, this disk has been running fine for about 7 months. What exactly does this warning message mean? Shouldn't I have gotten a panic message? Assuming that the kernel decided to reboot without unmounting the ad6 filesystems, why didn't it at least sync/unmount the filesystems on other disks? Did it decide to not trust the controller, or perhaps itself? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recurring kernel panic
On Nov 9, 2007 10:41 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks pretty suspicious to me, I'd guess your hardware has failed. This same hardware has run OpenBSD for years. Not sure how to track down a hardware failure, unfortunately. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Thanks, I've setup a dump directory now for the next kernel panic... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recurring kernel panic
Kelly Martin wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:41 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks pretty suspicious to me, I'd guess your hardware has failed. This same hardware has run OpenBSD for years. Not really relevant. When something makes the transition from working to broken there will be a first time when it fails. No-one wants to believe it is happening to them, but hardware fails *all the time*. Not sure how to track down a hardware failure, unfortunately. There is plenty of documentation online about this (also hundreds of discussions in the archives), but it basically involves making use of the modularity of your PC to swap out components and attempt to isolate the fault. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What kind of audio device is this?
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: dmesg says I have got ugen0: vendor 0x0d8c PnP Audio Device, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.10, addr 4 on uhub0 on board. What is this? Do we have a driver for it? snip Of course I tried # kldload snd_driver but all I get is # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64) Installed devices: I am running FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sat Nov 3 17:55:42 CET 2007 amd64 Hi Peter, I also have a USB sound device which wouldn't detect until I loaded snd_uaudio. Now I can play my CDs through my 5.1 system, but I had to install both OSS and eSound to do it. I think the idea is everything goes to eSound, which is piped through the OSS mixer. My sound device now identifies [on FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE] as: uaudio0: vendor 0x0c45 USB Audio, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 uaudio0: audio rev 1.00 pcm0: USB Audio on uaudio0 Yes, great thanks Adam! For the records: As you said I have installed audio/oss and audio/esound. I couldn't start snd_uaudio at runtime, so I put snd_uaudio_load=YES into /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. After that everything worked fine. On my FreeBSD 7.0 I can even see /dev/dsp and when I do a # cat /dev/sndstat I get FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: USB Audio at ? kld snd_uaudio [GIANT] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) mode 1:(output) 8ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100,48000Hz mode 2:(output) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100,48000Hz mode 3:(output) 4ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100,48000Hz mode 4:(output) 6ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100,48000Hz mode 5:(output) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 48000Hz mode 1:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100,48000Hz That's it! Thanks again, Uli. which is every bit as dull as yours. By the way I don't have a /dev/dsp either. It doesn't seem to be required. HtH, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Autoattach geli device but not at startup
Hi RW, RW wrote: I think it would just be easier to write a script to handle the attach, fsck, and mount. yeah, seems to be the best solution, thx for the tip. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: complaints are not accompanied by solutions. The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be accommodated in the rafters, and what relative orientation it should have to the earth's magnetic field; yet the most vocal of these people naturally have no contributions to make towards the installer's actual codebase. I think the only change needed for the time being (immediate fix) is to move to DVD being the prefered medium (the rest can wait) This is *not* a fix for most FreeBSD users; rather it would be a retrograde step. If you have a decent enough internet connection to download a DVD, then you will use less bandwidth by downloading CD 1 and installing all your software from packages or ports. If you install more than a week after the medium was created, then you'll also get up-to-date versions of that software rather that whatever version happened to be current when the CD was made (or the port freeze went into effect). DVDs might be the norm for Linux distributions like Fedora where the versions of all the software you get are defined by the particular release, but with FreeBSD and ports/packages that has never been the case. For users with poor internet, then yes, I can see the advantage of a DVD over 4 CDs, but is that a majority requiring an immediate fix and a change of preferred medium? I think not. Me, even with several reasonably fancy PCs, have no DVD burning capability whatsoever, and I doubt I'm alone in that. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
Reid Linnemann wrote: The installer has been a bikeshed for many years; everyone seems to know what color it should be, how many windows it should have, how many doors to install, what type of lighting it needs, how many penguins should be accommodated in the rafters, and what relative orientation it should have to the earth's magnetic field; yet the most vocal of these people naturally have no contributions to make towards the installer's actual codebase. You didn't mention that everyone has different answers to each of those questions, and different ideas about which questions are the most important (but sill no code to contribute). I'm strongly in favour of 3.5 finely sliced (but not diced) penguins and a relative angle of 23 degrees, but I don't expect many people to agree :-) Like many people I'm happy to see experienced developer time go on features I might actually use often, as opposed to an installer that gets used almost never, especially when the current one does appear to work and do what I want. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Ƚ¿¡Ðã wrote: Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 /sbin/ldconfigis needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 But I can find /bin/sh and /sbin/ldconfig on my FreeBSD 6.2. How can I solve this problem,could anyone help me. Many thanks. They are hidden behind /compat/linux/... Sometimes it might help to use --nodeps option with rpm . (also often needed: --ignoreos and --ignorearch . Good luck, Uli. --Beyond4ever ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: disk clone app
Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- Now that I really need I can find it for the life of me- I've been scouring through sourceforge and can seem to find it- Anyone out there can shed some light for me? thx Jean-Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recurring kernel panic
Kelly Martin wrote: I'm getting daily kernel panics. The server was running fine for about a month, the only changes I've made recently have been to update all my ports. It's running on older i386 hardware, no special devices Like the others said -- I'd seriously suspect hardware problems. Memory is a good place to start. Try MemTest: http://www.memtest86.com/ -Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: disk clone app
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- g4u? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: disk clone app
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, sorry for the off-topic, but im ready to pull the last hairs off my head- a few months I downloaded an open source disk clone program for a friend of mine but it was like 3 am, it worked great booted from floppy and cloned the drive- Now that I really need I can find it for the life of me- I've been scouring through sourceforge and can seem to find it- Anyone out there can shed some light for me? There's RIPLinux and another bootable disk that utilize Partimage...that's what we use for making images of partitions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About make release
Hi, All. release can be build by calling commands: make release.1 ... ... make release.7 ... etc. Why need to chroot and build world again ?, may be I do not understand all cobweb of release making process... May be exist any target-name that starts release build stages without chroot? -- With all regards, Victor M. Blood. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FTN: 2:5024/[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#3567656 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help:Install RPMS on FreeBSD 6.2
Hello Beyondran, On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:52:57 +0800 冉俊秀 wrote: Hello,I have just install rpm-3.0.6 via /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. And I get some ERROR like below when trying to install libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm via rpm. host# /usr/local/bin/rpm -Uvh libc5compat-1.0-5.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 /sbin/ldconfigis needed by libc5compat-1.0-5 But I can find /bin/sh and /sbin/ldconfig on my FreeBSD 6.2. How can I solve this problem,could anyone help me. Many thanks. The main idea is routher simple: # rpm2cpio the_package.rpm | cpio -id --quiet That's it. Mind some tips though: . better to use /compat/linux as a directory prefix; . linux binaries (not libraries!) should be branded (man(1) brandelf); . we use only i386.rpm packages (not i586.rpm); . it's always better to create a port, submit and use it. ;-) For some references you may look at /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-rpm.mk and linux ports (ex. /usr/ports/audio/linux-*, /usr/ports/graphics/linux-*). HTH and 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: Ports problem
Adam J Richardson wrote: RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the procedure to upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1 Hi Desmond, When I was faced with this error I did the obvious thing and created a symlink, then restarted the install. Surely the *obvious* thing was to follow the instructions and read UPDATING. I didn't read it that way. You're right though. I'll check out mergebase.sh, see if it does anything I need. From what I can see, ports used to respect the settings of X11BASE and LOCALBASE, but even though they are still supposed to do that, well, I can see from my own attempts here on my box, that they don't do that. I found a bunch of stuff that either assumed /usr/local, or got the install path by reading the pkgconfig .pc files. LONG time back, I showed folks that it was a fairly trivial (two code lines) thing that was needed to make the X11 stuff go wherever you wanted it to go, but those two lines were in the 'imake' shell wrapper, and folks felt that the imake wrapper was holy writ for some reason, and would not let me make any changes to it. Pity. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash -l I know it doesn't work on slolaris^W some Unix flavors, but I've been quite happy with su -m. Heh, putting the Solaris bashing (sic) aside, I can see how the -m option can be useful some times. After all, it was implemented because *someone* thought it would be neat to have around :-) Actually, there's another reason that root should just stay with sh. On a lot of systems, ones I have seen (and Linux is one of those), poor programming practices mean that many things will break if the root user isn't running sh (or in Linux's case, bash). Ask folks, they'll claim it's untrue, but that's because they themselves run bash, and never saw the breakage. I myself like tcsh, and the breakage is quite real, I finally had to give up using tcsh on those systems. It's not a really strong reason for a FreeBSD user, but for those of us who work among a lot of OSes, it's better to get used to it, because you just can't fight city hall. Trying to fix every single utility on those systems (which I did before I gave up trying) just means nightmares when you have to update stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper
I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? Is that easier? More likely to work? Does it perform almost as well as the native FreeBSD version? Any input would be appreciated. John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where did the peak mbuf stat go ?
FreeBSD 4.x, netstat -m: 70/4336/26624 mbufs in use (current/peak/max) Never any doubt - if peak=max, I hit the limit. Super useful. Furthermore, by watching the peak I can see when I am getting close, rather than waiting for denied requests to pile up after the fact. FreeBSD 6.x, netstat -m: 524/826/1350 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) So ... how do I see peak mbufs in FreeBSD 6.x ? Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper
John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? Is that easier? More likely to work? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html That will work just fine using flash7. When you need flash9, thats a different story. works on 6.2, 6.3, 7.0-current, 7.0-betaX, and 8.0-current. -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) o:703.549.2050x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? Is that easier? More likely to work? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6 ; make install clean There is now: cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 ; make install clean which you should use instead -- its newer :) -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) o:703.549.2050x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install problems on Dell Vostro
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting with ACPI disabled stops this but then no disk drives are found! I got around this by setting the SATA mode to RAID in the BIOS (this seems to make the disk appear as SCSI), then it doesn't crash with ACPI enabled (with ACPI disabled no disks are found still) and the disk is found. The system only has USB inputs (8 of them) and with the USB Controller set to 'High Speed' in the BIOS, the keyboard stops working once sysinstall starts (though it works in the boot menu), however setting it to 'Full/Low Speed' makes it work in sysinstall. I probably don't care about using High Speed USB devices any way, but it would be nice if they could work, but this isn't the major issue. Now finally I can get into sysinstall and partition the disk, but the network interface is not detected. It says it is an 'Intel 82562V-2' (on board), but I see no probes about it on booting FreeBSD. Is this interface supported? Any ideas on getting it detected? I feel the ACPI might be a problem? On booting it is reported as 'ACPI: Dell FX 09' Thanks! J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
On 2007-11-09 18:10, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: i.e. here's an ftp session on my laptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# fgrep ftp: /etc/passwd ftp:*:1003:1003: user:/home/ftp:/usr/sbin/nologin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# su ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ id uid=1003(ftp) gid=1003 groups=1003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ Must be new, because in 5.4 I get: [...] I find the behaviour you get definitely undesirable. There are occasionally accounts have special purpose shells which do work in some restricted fashion which you *might* want to use (in which case you can su) or which you might not (so you su -m). [...] False alarm. I had a desynced /etc/pwd.db when this happened. The correct behavior with nologin as the shell is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# su ftp This account is currently not available. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# Confused. I apologize for the confusion :/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install problems on Dell 'Vostro'
Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting with ACPI disabled stops this but then no disk drives are found! I got around this by setting the SATA mode to RAID in the BIOS (this seems to make the disk appear as SCSI), then it doesn't crash with ACPI enabled (with ACPI disabled no disks are found still) and the disk is found. The system only has USB inputs (8 of them) and with the USB Controller set to 'High Speed' in the BIOS, the keyboard stops working once sysinstall starts (though it works in the boot menu), however setting it to 'Full/Low Speed' makes it work in sysinstall. I probably don't care about using High Speed USB devices any way, but it would be nice if they could work, but this isn't the major issue. Now finally I can get into sysinstall and partition the disk, but the network interface is not detected. It says it is an 'Intel 82562V-2' (on board), but I see no probes about it on booting FreeBSD. Is this interface supported? Any ideas on getting it detected? I feel the ACPI might be a problem? On booting it is reported as 'ACPI: Dell FX 09' Thanks! J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd
Can anybody please explain to my what the differences are between nanobsd, picobsd and tinybsd. They all seem to be doing the same (creating a minimal FreeBSD image that can be used in embedded systems), or is this not right? I've searched the internet but can't really find a page that clearly explains the differences and similarities. Many thanks in advance, JJGS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Console?
Hello, Firstly sorry for my recent double post mx1.freebsd.org was rejecting my mail for some reason.. I was wondering if there is any way to put the console on a USB port? Since serial and parallel ports are becoming things of the past and many systems don't come with them any more.. Serial console on USB? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? Is that easier? More likely to work? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6 ; make install clean There is now: cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 ; make install clean which you should use instead -- its newer :) And all that works fine with Firefox and FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? Is that easier? More likely to work? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6 ; make install clean There is now: cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 ; make install clean which you should use instead -- its newer :) btw, you don't need both native and Linux Firefox. Native Firefox an do flash just fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem of install 7.0 on notebook
7.0-beta2-amd64's boot stop at the same place as beta1.5. 2007/11/3, Zhang hw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you, David! The verbose logging messages: --- pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 4.0 on pci0 pcib2: domain 0 pcib2: secondary bus 16 pcib2: subordinate bus 16 pcib2: I/O decode 0xf000-0xfff pcib2: memory decode 0xcc00-0xcc0f pcib2: no prefetched decode pcib2: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for \_SB_.C08B.C24F - AE_NOT_FOUND pci16: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pci16: domain=0, physical bus=16 found- vendor=0x14e4, dev=0x1693, revid=0x02 domain=0, bus=16, slot=0, func=0 class=02-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 cmdreg=0x0006, statreg=0x0010, cachelnsz=16, (dwords) lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns) intpin=a, irq=10 powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit map[10]: type Memory, range 64, base 0xcc00, size 16, enabled pcib2: requested memory range 0xcc00-0xcc00: good pcib0: matched entry for 0.4.INTA pcib0: slot 4 INTA hardwired to IRQ16 pcib2: slot 0 INTA is routed to irq 16 -- This is the last screen shown, and I write it here handy. 2007/11/2, David Yeske [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/2/07, Zhang hw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now could work on my notebook with freebsd 6.2-release and 6.3-prerelease, but there are still some problems such as acpi. So I want to have a try of freebsd 7.0-beta-1.5, but I can't install it, the boot process stop at pci probing: pcib2:PCI-PCI brige at device 4.0 on pci0 pci16:PCI-PCI bus on pcib2 if acpi enable, it maybe show as: pcib2:ACPI PCI-PCI brige... pci16:ACPI... my cpu is athlon 64x2, I've tried both amd64 and i386 versions. Help! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What happens if you boot verbose? That might better indicate where the kernel is hanging. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install problems on Dell Vostro
Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, I'm having difficulties getting 6.2 installed on these new Dell 'Vostro' systems. The BIOS is a Phoenix - AwardBIOS and it reports the version as 1.0.3. With the SATA controller set to IDE mode (default) in the BIOS booting FreeBSD will hang just before entering sysinstall, booting with ACPI disabled stops this but then no disk drives are found! I got around this by setting the SATA mode to RAID in the BIOS (this seems to make the disk appear as SCSI), then it doesn't crash with ACPI enabled (with ACPI disabled no disks are found still) and the disk is found. The system only has USB inputs (8 of them) and with the USB Controller set to 'High Speed' in the BIOS, the keyboard stops working once sysinstall starts (though it works in the boot menu), however setting it to 'Full/Low Speed' makes it work in sysinstall. I probably don't care about using High Speed USB devices any way, but it would be nice if they could work, but this isn't the major issue. Now finally I can get into sysinstall and partition the disk, but the network interface is not detected. It says it is an 'Intel 82562V-2' (on board), but I see no probes about it on booting FreeBSD. Is this interface supported? Any ideas on getting it detected? I feel the ACPI might be a problem? On booting it is reported as 'ACPI: Dell FX 09' Thanks! J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was able to get 6.2 to install on a Vostro with stock BIOS settings but couldn't get the system to recognize the network card. network. Just for reference - Knoppix, Ubuntu, FreesBie live CDs, and a straight install of Ubuntu 7.04 didn't work either. There is something strange about this computer.Windows XP, ofcourse, works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkgdb failure
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:06:54 -0500 J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following error messages. The first once, the second multiple times, even after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu. [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports . .. - 17746 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb! (/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db)] /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument Any ideas on what is causing this? I got this as well, after portupgrade tried to register installation of new ruby version. A pkgdb -F seemed to correct it and i continued on with portupgrade with no more errors. Regards, Matti ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?
I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 16:39:25 CDT 2007 I was able to use gdmchooser on X.org 7.2, but after upgrade to 7.3 (and GDM 2.20.1) she says no serving hosts were found after scanning the local network When I first started this email, I got this from sockstat -l46 | grep 177 lholcombessh-agent 30601 8 udp4 *:177 *:* lholcombegnome-sess 30587 8 udp4 *:177 *:* root Xorg 30570 8 udp4 *:177 *:* root gdm-binary 30569 8 udp4 *:177 *:* root gdm-binary 29955 8 udp4 *:177 *:* Now, after monkeying with it (including a few reboots), I get root gdm-binary 33486 8 udp4 *:177 *:* so it seems that gdm is listening on 177, but the chooser doesn't list the local system as an X server. Instead the chooser reports no serving hosts were found I can log in using the greeter, but I'd really like to use the chooser, as I've got several machines running X, and I'm too cheap to buy extra keyboards, and too lazy to move around the office to do my work :) gdm was compiled WITHOUT IPv6 support, and I've got ipv6_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf It's gotta be something simple, 'cause I didn't spend much time setting up the chooser originally. But I think I need an extra set of eyes to see what I'm not seeing :) Here is the uncommented part of /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf: [daemon] Greeter=/usr/local/libexec/gdmgreeter RemoteGreeter=/usr/local/libexec/gdmgreeter [security] AllowRemoteRoot=true DisallowTCP=false NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=false CheckDirOwner=false [xdmcp] Enable=true [gui] [greeter] IncludeAll=true GraphicalTheme=happygnome-list GraphicalThemeRand=true GraphicalThemes=circles/:happygnome-list/:happygnome [chooser] [debug] Enable=true [servers] 0=Standard [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/local/bin/X -audit 0 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0 Thanks for being an extra set of eyes! lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:12:20PM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 16:39:25 CDT 2007 I was able to use gdmchooser on X.org 7.2, but after upgrade to 7.3 (and GDM 2.20.1) she says no serving hosts were found after scanning the local network When I first started this email, I got this from sockstat -l46 | grep 177 lholcombessh-agent 30601 8 udp4 *:177 *:* lholcombegnome-sess 30587 8 udp4 *:177 *:* root Xorg 30570 8 udp4 *:177 *:* root gdm-binary 30569 8 udp4 *:177 *:* root gdm-binary 29955 8 udp4 *:177 *:* Now, after monkeying with it (including a few reboots), I get root gdm-binary 33486 8 udp4 *:177 *:* so it seems that gdm is listening on 177, but the chooser doesn't list the local system as an X server. Instead the chooser reports no serving hosts were found I can log in using the greeter, but I'd really like to use the chooser, as I've got several machines running X, and I'm too cheap to buy extra keyboards, and too lazy to move around the office to do my work :) gdm was compiled WITHOUT IPv6 support, and I've got ipv6_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf It's gotta be something simple, 'cause I didn't spend much time setting up the chooser originally. But I think I need an extra set of eyes to see what I'm not seeing :) Here is the uncommented part of /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf: [daemon] Greeter=/usr/local/libexec/gdmgreeter RemoteGreeter=/usr/local/libexec/gdmgreeter [security] AllowRemoteRoot=true DisallowTCP=false NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=false CheckDirOwner=false [xdmcp] Enable=true [gui] [greeter] IncludeAll=true GraphicalTheme=happygnome-list GraphicalThemeRand=true GraphicalThemes=circles/:happygnome-list/:happygnome [chooser] [debug] Enable=true [servers] 0=Standard [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/local/bin/X -audit 0 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0 Thanks for being an extra set of eyes! lane Hi, Lane, please check gdm related issues (IPv6 only) at http://www.nabble.com/remaining-issues-with-gnome-2.20-t4721430.html (taken from thread on gnome@). And sorry if it's not related to your problem. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shell programming
On Friday 09 November 2007 20:02, Eric Crist wrote: On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using perl, it's quite complicated. Not really: use POSIX 'strftime'; my $day_of_week = strftime '%A', localtime; POSIX has always been a core module. To see this in action from a commandline, perl -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime q/%A/, localtime' Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 08:28 +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:12:20PM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 16:39:25 CDT 2007 snip gdm was compiled WITHOUT IPv6 support, and I've got ipv6_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf snip Thanks for being an extra set of eyes! lane Hi, Lane, please check gdm related issues (IPv6 only) at http://www.nabble.com/remaining-issues-with-gnome-2.20-t4721430.html (taken from thread on gnome@). And sorry if it's not related to your problem. Yuri Yuri, Thanks for your response. I've suspected this was an issue with IPV6, but poking around sysctl oids is like spelunking without a rope or a partner. As soon as the current CD finishes (Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation [cause I'm retro, like that]) I'm gonna reboot with these additions to /etc/sysctl.conf: net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0 net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 I thought there was a map sysctl oid that explicitly maps ipv6 to ipv4, but I can't find it now. Anyway, if I get anywhere with this I'll post the results. Otherwise ... I'll just whine some more :) lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:12 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work. It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox. So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox? Is that easier? More likely to work? http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6 ; make install clean There is now: cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 ; make install clean which you should use instead -- its newer :) And please keep an eye at /usr/ports/UPDATING (about linux_base port). 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]
