Re: way to check an email without sending it??
Gary Kline wrote: write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the sendmail -bv ploy indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big deal; i was just wondering. Uh -- sendmail -bv doesn't do what you think it does. It only shows you what your local sendmail would do with the message as it tries to deliver it. If it's not for a local user, then all it says is 'send it to the SMTP server responsible' and nothing at all about what the other machine would do with it. The only way to find that out is by connecting to the remote sendmail, either by telnet or by actually sending an e-mail. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:48:09 -0500, Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, folks - I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost. I've added CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Addr=64.156.192.103, Name=MTA')dnl directly above the DAEMON_OPTIONS lines (after the FEATUREs), recompiled with make -C, and copied the domain-specific cf to sendmail.cf. CLIENT_OPTIONS() does not set options for clients connecting *to* Sendmail, but for Sendmail itself when it acts as a client to an other MTA. Sendmail starts correctly, so the m4 compilation was successful, but it is still only listening on 127.0.0.1:25 according to netstat -atn. This is often a configuration error that launches only a local Sendmail listener. Show us your `/etc/rc.conf' settings: # grep -i sendmail /etc/rc.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS
Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com wrote: I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost. I've added CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Addr=64.156.192.103, Name=MTA')dnl directly above the DAEMON_OPTIONS lines (after the FEATUREs), recompiled with make -C, and copied the domain-specific cf to sendmail.cf. You do not have to add anything to your .mc/.cf file. Just be sure to have this line in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable=YES then restart sendmail, and it will listen on all interfaces. Sendmail starts correctly, so the m4 compilation was successful, but it is still only listening on 127.0.0.1:25 according to netstat -atn. It's better to use sockstat -l | grep sendmail. It lists user, command and PID along with the IP address (* if all addresses) and port number, so you can easily match it with output from ps or top, using the PID number. If sendmail is listening only on localhost, it usually means that you don't have sendmail_enable=YES in rc.conf. In that case, the default is to run sendmail only on the localhost interface, so that local mail delivery does work (e.g. output mailed from cron jobs). A common error is to put an entry at the top of rc.conf, not noticing that another entry further down the file overrides it. The last entry takes effect. For example, if you have sendmail_enable=YES at the top, but there's sendmail_enable=NO somewhere near the end of the file, then the latter will take effect. grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf will tell you the truth. After any changes, don't forget to restart sendmail: /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart If you're extra paranoid, first do only stop instead of restart, then verify that no sendmail processes are running, then perform the start. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd In my experience the term transparent proxy is an oxymoron (like jumbo shrimp). Transparent proxies seem to vary from the distortions of a funhouse mirror to barely translucent. I really, really dislike them when trying to figure out the corrective lenses needed with each of them. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
BTX Halted
Dear all, I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see it from snapshot. I have following. Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM ESX 4.0 installed on R900 FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 What is this mean? Best regards, Tseveen. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BTX Halted
I dont know how anyone else but i don't see snapshot, can u please get it somewhere online and provide link ? With regards William Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu napsal(a): Dear all, I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see it from snapshot. I have following. Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM ESX 4.0 installed on R900 FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 What is this mean? Best regards, Tseveen. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
windoz, how do i install it last
So I have a FreeBSD system. Is their a way to install windoz? Say, XP-pro? Or whatever... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: windoz, how do i install it last
Hi, Am Dienstag, 06. Okt 2009, 07:05:23 -0400 schrieb Henry Olyer: So I have a FreeBSD system. Is their a way to install windoz? Say, XP-pro? Or whatever... Replace or dual boot? The standard FreeBSD boot manager offers a choice which of the slices 1-4 you want to boot from. Just install #...@% into the first slice and FreeBSD into the second. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote: Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com wrote: I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost. I've added CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Addr=64.156.192.103, Name=MTA')dnl directly above the DAEMON_OPTIONS lines (after the FEATUREs), recompiled with make -C, and copied the domain-specific cf to sendmail.cf. You do not have to add anything to your .mc/.cf file. Just be sure to have this line in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable=YES then restart sendmail, and it will listen on all interfaces. Sendmail starts correctly, so the m4 compilation was successful, but it is still only listening on 127.0.0.1:25 according to netstat -atn. It's better to use sockstat -l | grep sendmail. It lists user, command and PID along with the IP address (* if all addresses) and port number, so you can easily match it with output from ps or top, using the PID number. If sendmail is listening only on localhost, it usually means that you don't have sendmail_enable=YES in rc.conf. In that case, the default is to run sendmail only on the localhost interface, so that local mail delivery does work (e.g. output mailed from cron jobs). A common error is to put an entry at the top of rc.conf, not noticing that another entry further down the file overrides it. The last entry takes effect. For example, if you have sendmail_enable=YES at the top, but there's sendmail_enable=NO somewhere near the end of the file, then the latter will take effect. grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf will tell you the truth. After any changes, don't forget to restart sendmail: /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart If you're extra paranoid, first do only stop instead of restart, then verify that no sendmail processes are running, then perform the start. Best regards Oliver Oliver, Gorgios, Bernt - You all hit the nail right on the head. I had added the sendmail_enable line before, but in my pushing and shoving in emacs I seem to have deleted it again. Many thanks to all of you for your patience and support! :D -- -- Don Wilde Engineering the Future http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BTX Halted
On 10/6/09, Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu tseveend...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see it from snapshot. I have following. Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM ESX 4.0 installed on R900 FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 What is this mean? Best regards, Tseveen. BTX - BooT eXtender, the process of moving from 16-bit real mode to 32-bit (or 64-bit?) protected mode. The system was unable to do this conversion. Happens on buggy chipsets (in quotes because this is on ESX). Go back to VM properties and double, triple check everything, go into the BIOS and disable any window-isms like PnP OS, power management, etc. You might have a corrupt download, check your MD5/SHA1 and redownload if applicable. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: windoz, how do i install it last
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: So I have a FreeBSD system. Is their a way to install windoz? Say, XP-pro? Or whatever... Depending on your usage of said OS, virtualbox might be a good alternative. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: windoz, how do i install it last
Message: 30 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 07:05:23 -0400 From: Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com Subject: windoz, how do i install it last To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 1d7089c40910060405k3ac6f53bx252ade8183f1f...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 So I have a FreeBSD system. Is their a way to install windoz? Say, XP-pro? Or whatever... From the subject I gather you want to shrink the BSD slice, or have room, then install Windows. The fact you are asking the question suggests you don't have your work backed up, and won't listen when told to backup your work (takes one to know one). The other possibility is that you want to install BSD now, but Windows later. SNIPPED BACK-UP BOOT SECTOR SUGGESTION (decided it was more trouble than it was worth) I any case, you need a way to boot FreeBSD without the bootsector, such as the installation CD. As I am not familiar with the gory details, I will refer you to Chapter 2 of the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html If you can't get the Windows Boot manager to boot FreeBSD, you will want to use the FreeBSD boot manager, mentioned in section: 2.6.3 Install a Boot Manager. Regards, James Phillips __ 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BTX Halted
On 10/06/2009 01:36 AM, Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu wrote: Dear all, I've found something strange I have never seen before. When start booting FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 from ISO image in ESX 4.0 then error occurs. You can see it from snapshot. I have following. Dell R900 with 4 CPU, 64GB RAM ESX 4.0 installed on R900 FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 What is this mean? Did you create the guest with a 64-bit CPU? -- Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
FBSD 7.2 - ports blocked but no firewall
Hi- I'm running 7.2 GENERIC and installed the unrealirc port. I've started it up and can connect from localhost just fine. But when attempting to connect from the outside world (eg. from another box on the lan) I get connection refused. I've tried both with and without ipfilter running (with appropriate rule). Other ports are reachable including a non-standard port used for ssh. The question: Could there be any reason that port 6667 might be blocked? (Unrealircd questions can be taken up elsewhere). IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Dmitry Marakasov amd...@amdmi3.ru wrote: * Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) wrote: The author orginally contacted us with a legal threat because we were not in compliance with the 28-day clause. A long, acrimonious disucssion ensued. In that discussion, the author was asked if we agree to meet that condition going forward, would you guarantee that this would remove any further legal threat? and he said yes ... for now. But that he reserved the right to change his mind later. *depending* on what we did or did not do in the future -- not just in adhering to the *existing clauses* like the significant clause or renamed clause -- both of which he mentioned would be part of any lawsuit. Legally indefensible? Of course. Would that prevent a lawsuit being filed? No. Anyone can sue anyone for anything. Well, if you insist I of course won't commit it. But the whole thing disappoints me greately, cause I was pretty sure at least FreeBSD developers won't be affected by a mere FUD. Do you honestly think the probability of Tuomo suing us is higher of, say, me suing, well, us? And that anything will change by us not providing a port we have absolutely totally utterly 100% right to provide? That is just silly. The port from now on is available here (removed from people.freebsd.org): http://mirror.amdmi3.ru/ports/ion3-20090110.port.tar You can start a fork of it, change its name, its license, and keep it as a separate project... people will use the same software with another name. Everybody will be happy and we won't have a Tuomo's software inside ports collection again. -- Renato Botelho ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD 7.2 - ports blocked but no firewall
Gene wrote:
I'm running 7.2 GENERIC and installed the unrealirc port. I've started it up
and can connect from localhost just fine. But when attempting to connect from
the outside world (eg. from another box on the lan) I get connection refused.
I've tried both with and without ipfilter running (with appropriate rule).
Other ports are reachable including a non-standard port used for ssh.
The question: Could there be any reason that port 6667 might be blocked?
(Unrealircd questions can be taken up elsewhere).
It's possible you've configured Unrealircd to only listen on localhost
and not on *.
Look for something like:
| listen *:6697
| {
| ...
| };
And make sure it's * and not 127.0.0.1.
--
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley
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FreeBSD Projects
Hello, I recently stumbled across The FreeBSD GNOME Project webpage which is filled with detail and great instructions. It is located at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html Q1: Where can I find the FreeBSD page that links to The FreeBSD GNOME project webpage? Q2: Where can I find a list of other such projects? Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Projects
Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, I recently stumbled across The FreeBSD GNOME Project webpage which is filled with detail and great instructions. It is located at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html Q1: Where can I find the FreeBSD page that links to The FreeBSD GNOME project webpage? Q2: Where can I find a list of other such projects? http://www.freebsd.org/projects/projects.html Some content may be old, outdated, or stale. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Projects
Hi Chris, I recently stumbled across The FreeBSD GNOME Project webpage which is filled with detail and great instructions. It is located at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html Q1: Where can I find the FreeBSD page that links to The FreeBSD GNOME project webpage? Q2: Where can I find a list of other such projects? For both questions, I think this is the page you're looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ Kind regards, Maks Verver. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: way to check an email without sending it??
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:13:30AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the sendmail -bv ploy indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big deal; i was just wondering. Uh -- sendmail -bv doesn't do what you think it does. It only shows you what your local sendmail would do with the message as it tries to deliver it. If it's not for a local user, then all it says is 'send it to the SMTP server responsible' and nothing at all about what the other machine would do with it. The only way to find that out is by connecting to the remote sendmail, either by telnet or by actually sending an e-mail. Cheers, Matthew Yes, indeed. The only other thing is to mess with the whitepages, but not now. The future is coming too quickly, and I'm pretty sure that we'll all have some sort of ID tags embedded ... _somewhere_. thanks for the clue, gary -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
zfs on root and zpool.cache importance
Hello I'm a bit confused about zpool.cache file. I've got a configuration with /boot sitting on a usb drive (UFS) and everything else on internal ZFS hard drive. I'm booting my system off the usb drive so zpool.cache file is there (usb drive). Basic zfs root + ufs boot setup. Everything works like a charm no problems so far and I would like to keep it that way hence my question. I've noticed that zpool.cache on ZFS drive is being updated from time to time and it is different from zpool.cache file on usb drive. Even when I remove zpool.cache file on hard disk then it gets recreated automatically and system still boots and works fine because it starts with zpool.cache on usb drive which is intact. Now how important it is to keep them in sync and what I'm risking by not doing that? Am I stomping on a thin ice? Should I copy zpool.cache from hard drive to usb boot disk every day or should I leave it how it is? I know that zpool.cache is critical to boot and it keeps some informations about pool configuration but don't quite understand implications of having it outside of the pool itself (without zfs even knowing about that). Michal -- Every man dies, not every man really lives. -William Wallace ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7.2-stable amd64 / Gnome2
Hello, I have a question about my Gnome2 install. It stopped when it was installing Alacarte. Error was : wrong pygobject version. After that, I restarted, and x11 came up surprisingly. My portstree is up to date, and googl'in I found similar problems. Anyone know if there is a problem with FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64) and gnome2 ? This problem didn't occur with FreeBSD 7.2 i386 iso. Regards, Roy Stuivenberg. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
follow up
ps This is the output building gnome2 : gnomelogalyzer said something like no problem found. checking for ALACARTE... yes checking for pygobject 2.15.1 installed for python required_python_abi... not found configure: error: required pygobject version not found === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please run the gnomelogalyzer, available from http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/gnomelogalyzer.sh;, which will diagnose the problem and suggest a solution. If - and only if - the gnomelogalyzer cannot solve the problem, report the build failure to the FreeBSD GNOME team at gn...@freebsd.org, and attach (a) /usr/ports/deskutils/alacarte/work/alacarte-0.12.1/config.log, (b) the output of the failed make command, and (c) the gnomelogalyzer output. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (i.e. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). Put your attachment up on any website, copy-and-paste into http://freebsd-gnome.pastebin.com, or use send-pr(1) with the attachment. Try to avoid sending any attachments to the mailing list (gn...@freebsd.org), because attachments sent to FreeBSD mailing lists are usually discarded by the mailing list software. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/deskutils/alacarte. *** Error code 1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD 7.2 - ports blocked but no firewall
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Chris Cowart wrote
Gene wrote:
I'm running 7.2 GENERIC and installed the unrealirc port. I've started it
up
and can connect from localhost just fine. But when attempting to connect
from
the outside world (eg. from another box on the lan) I get connection
refused.
I've tried both with and without ipfilter running (with appropriate rule).
Other ports are reachable including a non-standard port used for ssh.
The question: Could there be any reason that port 6667 might be blocked?
(Unrealircd questions can be taken up elsewhere).
It's possible you've configured Unrealircd to only listen on
localhost and not on *.
Look for something like:
| listen *:6697
| {
| ...
| };
And make sure it's * and not 127.0.0.1.
Checked and it's correct.
--
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And a time to every purpose under heaven.
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KDE broke after portupgrade
Hi - I upgraded ports and, as usual, kde4 broke. What I'd like to do is simply remove the existing remains of kde and reinstall. BUT since kde4 is just a metaport deinstalling doesn't seem to work. Is there another way to delete and reinstall kde4? Thanks, IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Updating the ports collection
The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? Q2: Is this explained in the handbook? If so, where? Thank you, Chris PS: I uses sysinstall to obtain the ports collection from the CD during OS install ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating the ports collection
Chris Stankevitz wrote: The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? You can use csup as explained in section 4.5.1. This will update the Ports Collection you installed from CD/DVD by fetching only the required newer files Or, you can use portsnap too like this: First time: portsnap fetch extract Subsequent times: portsnap fetch update If you are starting with an empty Ports tree (for example you skipped installing it from CD during sysinstall) portsnap will be faster than csup. (Note you can start with an empty tree and csup as well) Anytime you decide to switch from csup to portsnap, always perform an 'extract' Q2: Is this explained in the handbook? If so, where? In section 4.5 as you noticed already. Portsnap is also revisited in chapter 24: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-portsnap.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Salvage files from harddrive
Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with /var. Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I best go about this? system is FreeBSD v6.2 Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions. JK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating the ports collection
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:43:56 -0700 Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com wrote: The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I'd suggest that you don't use the tree from sysinstall, unless your intent is not to update the tree until the next release. If you use portsnap the tree gets overwritten with the extract, so you might as well not bother with the on-disk version. If you use csup then the steps are 1. Set the tag to match the port snapshot on the disc and run csup 2. Set the tag to . (the current tree) and run csup again Step 1 does nothing to the tree, but if you skip it you may end with some stale files left in your tree, which could cause serious problems. IMO this is more trouble than it's worth unless you have a dialup connection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Salvage files from harddrive
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011, jeffry killen wrote: Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with /var. Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I best go about this? system is FreeBSD v6.2 Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions. It shouldn't be a problem. If you stick the broken drive in a new system it will show up as a new device to the 2nd system. You will then manually mount the 1st system via the device node to wherever you want. It will not auto-mount that to /var . So, for example your 2nd system has /dev/ad4s1 as its main disk. When you plig the 2nd disk (from the old box) it will show up as /dev/ad5s1 or similar. YOu would then just mount the /var/ slice to wherever you want. For example: mount /dev/ad5sa6 /mnt/oldvar or similar. Please note that your device nodes and slice numbers will most likely be different. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net - God, root, what is difference? Pitr; UF ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Salvage files from harddrive
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:14 -0800, lists@ wrote:
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011, jeffry killen wrote:
Hello;
I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that
will not boot.
In single user mode I can mount /var.
I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and
try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place.
The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with
/var.
Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I
best go about this?
system is FreeBSD v6.2
Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions.
It shouldn't be a problem. If you stick the broken drive in a new
system it will show up as a new device to the 2nd system.
You will then manually mount the 1st system via the device node to
wherever you want. It will not auto-mount that to /var .
So, for example your 2nd system has /dev/ad4s1 as its main disk.
When you plig the 2nd disk (from the old box) it will show up as
/dev/ad5s1 or similar. YOu would then just mount the /var/ slice to
wherever you want.
For example:
mount /dev/ad5sa6 /mnt/oldvar
or similar. Please note that your device nodes and slice numbers
will most likely be different.
Henrik
I think (correct me if I am wrong) he is trying to describe that glabel is
being used on both systems and that he is worried that a label of var
that would be in /dev/ufs/var on two separate disks would be conflicting
and which one would be mounted first as he does not wish for the disk he
is trying to save the contents of to be mounted and be used as the var of
the system he is placing the said disk he wants to recover.
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Re: Salvage files from harddrive
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:07 -0700, jekillen@ wrote:
Hello;
I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that
will not boot.
In single user mode I can mount /var.
I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and
try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place.
The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with
/var.
Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I
best go about this?
system is FreeBSD v6.2
Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions.
JK
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If you can mount this disk in single user mode your best bet to be safe is
just glabel it to something else that your second system is not before you
take the disk out of the machine.
Even though I don't think it should/would be a problem I can not speak of a
authoritative nature on this subject because I have not had to test such
cases.
Best regards.
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Re: Updating the ports collection
Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: - you re-run sysinstall and install cvsup from the CD (Configure/Packages/Net/CVSup) - or, since you installed the port tree, you go to /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and you make, make install, make clean Q2: Is this explained in the handbook? If so, where? Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all You may change the default host accordingly. Then I use the command cvsup name_of_that_file Best, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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Re: Updating the ports collection
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup; it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment. Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all I do the same, and run csup as: csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports ...where /etc/supfile.ports is pretty much as above. In that case, it doesn't matter what default host is set to, since the -h option to csup overrides the default. The '-c us' part applies to me, but it might not for you; see the man page. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BTX Halted
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