what ports to open in firewall for bitlord
Want to allow the bitlord progran to pass through my firewall. Does anyone know the port numbers it uses for out bound and inbound packets. Thanks ___ 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: update/upgrade question
* Matthew Seaman schrieb: Alex Huth wrote: Yes. If you want to track one of the development branches (HEAD, RELENG_N) then you have to update sources by csup(1) or various other mechanisms and then compile your kernel+world yourself. Alternatively you can track release branches (RELENG_N_M) in the same way, or so long as the release branch is still in support, you can use freebsd-update(8) to pull down pre-built binary updates. thx, this was a good explanation. Maybe one last (hopefully ;) ) question to this topic. How can i see if a update has a kernel update, to prevent unnessecary reboots? thx Alex ___ 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: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:40:52AM -0800, Ivo Karabojkov typed: I'm sharing this experience to bring your attention to major advice in the update procedure - to take full backup. While not very new, that's allways good advice ;) My question is: how can I guess the result - Glory or Sorrow BEFORE starting the update? Before starting: read the relnotes and errata and search for possible problems, especially with your particular hardware. Then, if you decide to go ahead, install the new kernel and try to boot it in single user mode. This won't destroy anything and if you experience problems like missing devices you can easily back out by booting kernel.old. Ruben ___ 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 is too filesystem errors sensitive
cronfy wrote: Hello. Please forgive me for probably a very stupid question. But why is FreeBSD so sensitive to filesystem errors that it ends up with panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc'? I just can't get it. Failed to allocate vnode? Go allocate another one! Freeing free block? Leave it free then! I understand these situations should never happen, but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything that would be working happily even if something very disasterous happen to /backup partition, in example? Would be very appreciated if someone could explain that... thanks. Probably because UFS is not designed to be a backup file system but a working one :) All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the kernel panics. ___ 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: Why do I need a bunch of mappings for ld-elf.so in FreeBSD 8?
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:35:47PM -0800, Paul Hoffman typed: Greetings. I upgraded a 7.2 system to 8.0 using 'freebsd-update install'. At some time during the process, I could no longer log in remotely because bash could not start due to /libexec/ld-elf.so not finding the right libraries. I added a bunch of lines to /etc/libmap.conf so that I could continue, and did a full 'portupgrade -af'. 'freebsd-update fetch' reports nothing to fetch, but I can't remove the lines from /etc/libmap.conf. How do I get a /libexec/ld-elf.so that has up-to-date mappings internal to it? These mappings are not internal to ld-elf.so. Could you post the contents of your libmap.conf and the output of ldd /usr/local/bin/bash ? Also the errors bash gives when started without the mappings in libmap.conf. Ruben ___ 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 is too filesystem errors sensitive
Ivan Voras wrote: cronfy wrote: ... but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything that would be working happily even if something very disasterous happen to /backup partition, in example? All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the kernel panics. ...and (hopefully) reboots, determines that there were filesystem errors, and attempts to correct them with fsck(8) -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net cyber...@cyberleo.net Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ 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 is too filesystem errors sensitive
Please forgive me for probably a very stupid question. But why is FreeBSD so sensitive to filesystem errors that it ends up with panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc'? I just can't get it. Failed to allocate vnode? Go allocate another one! Freeing free block? Leave it free then! I understand these situations should never happen, but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything that would be working happily even if something very disasterous happen to /backup partition, in example? Probably because UFS is not designed to be a backup file system but a working one :) All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the kernel panics. To protect us against terrorists our government do strange things too ;-) After panic data *is* getting corrupted anyway - MySQL tables that were open are broken, soft-updates are unsync'ed etc etc. Server is required to reboot, fsck, time is wasted while this occurs. Why all this should happen because of a single vnode fail? Why not just throw message in /var/log/messages, return oh, I failed to save a file to the process that initiated the operation and just go on? Are consequences of attept to free already free block *so* dangerous that it is needed to give up on EVERYTHING? Let's say it was not /backup partition, ok, it was /var/tmp/some-php-session or even /var/cron/tabs/someuser file that failed. So what? Even /boot/kernel/kernel corruption is not critical if you are not going to reboot right now (or if you have /boot/kernel.old :) Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Thanks. ___ 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
set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
Hi Thanks in advance for any replies. I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. On the windows XP systems the printer is identified by a port entry in the form [my_device].[my_domain].[my_tld]:HP LaserJet 2200 in the printer properties. The HP JetDirect Configuration report includes the following info: Model Number: J4169A Firmware Version: L.20.24 Under TCP/IP we have: Hostname: [mydevice] Domain Name: [my_domain].[my_tld] # The following all show correct entries: Ip Address: Subnet Mask: Default Gateway: DNS Server: Despite reading the documentation I seem to be having difficulty setting up the printer from the server. So far I have not been able to get the beast to print-- I have scrapped all attempts at configuring the server and would appreciate some guidance before I trying again!! Thanks David ___ 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 is too filesystem errors sensitive
.. but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything that would be working happily even if something very disasterous happen to /backup partition, in example? All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the kernel panics. ...and (hopefully) reboots, determines that there were filesystem errors, and attempts to correct them with fsck(8) Why isn't it possible to do the same without a reboot? ___ 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: Why do I need a bunch of mappings for ld-elf.so in FreeBSD 8?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote: Greetings. I upgraded a 7.2 system to 8.0 using 'freebsd-update install'. At some time during the process, I could no longer log in remotely because bash could not start due to /libexec/ld-elf.so not finding the right libraries. I added a bunch of lines to /etc/libmap.conf so that I could continue, and did a full 'portupgrade -af'. 'freebsd-update fetch' reports nothing to fetch, but I can't remove the lines from /etc/libmap.conf. How do I get a /libexec/ld-elf.so that has up-to-date mappings internal to it? I usually think that including COMPAT_FREEBS7 in your new kernel during the upgrade process would save one from such agony. I have never used freebsd-update ever, and might never, because I prefer to build a new system from scratch, but perhaps you could try it and see if it does resolve your problem. There is always this instruction that you need to recompile all installed ports, which I think you did not do. That instruction makes me sick, given the time it would take on a critical server. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!. -- Lucky Dube ___ 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 is too filesystem errors sensitive
cronfy wrote: ... Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Drop to DDB, fix it, and 'continue'? -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net cyber...@cyberleo.net Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
Hi David, Despite reading the documentation I seem to be having difficulty setting up the printer from the server. So far I have not been able to get the beast to print-- I have scrapped all attempts at configuring the server and would appreciate some guidance before I trying again!! Maybe you should tell us what facility you are trying to configure: configuring cups or lpd is not exactly the same same. I have had success for many years, with many models of HP printers, through a Perl script, used as output filter for lpd, the script would connect to the printer on TCP port 9100. Bests, 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
Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:40:02 + David Southwell wrote: Despite reading the documentation I seem to be having difficulty setting up the printer from the server. So far I have not been able to get the beast to print-- I have scrapped all attempts at configuring the server and would appreciate some guidance before I trying again!! Please, show your configuration files and diagnostic messages. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive
... Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Drop to DDB, fix it, and 'continue'? If I type 'continue' kernel says 'Dumping... rebooting...'. What magic am I missing that you probably meant under fix it? ___ 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: Why do I need a bunch of mappings for ld-elf.so in FreeBSD 8?
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 01:45:59PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington typed: There is always this instruction that you need to recompile all installed ports, which I think you did not do. That instruction makes me sick, given the time it would take on a critical server. That's why you don't do this on a critical server ;) Set up a build-, test-, acceptance environment. If you do all this on the server it can't be that critical. Ruben ___ 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 is too filesystem errors sensitive
panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc' Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Afaik you can't do this. And you shouldn't do if it'd be possible. The file system errors you mention above should not happen under any normal circumstances. They may happen after a crash caused by other reasons but should get repaired by fsck. The kernel cannot continue with such errors because the whole file system metadata cannot be trusted anymore until repaired. Thanks. What I can definitely state is that after reboot nothing will get any better. I will have same filesystem with same errors + new errors that appeared because soft-updates were not synced, and I will have fsck running in background. I'd prefer to just start fsck in background, skipping that annoying reboot phase ;-) Am I willing strange? ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
Hi David, Despite reading the documentation I seem to be having difficulty setting up the printer from the server. So far I have not been able to get the beast to print-- I have scrapped all attempts at configuring the server and would appreciate some guidance before I trying again!! Maybe you should tell us what facility you are trying to configure: configuring cups or lpd is not exactly the same same. I have had success for many years, with many models of HP printers, through a Perl script, used as output filter for lpd, the script would connect to the printer on TCP port 9100. Bests, Olivier Hi Olivier Thanks for taking the time to come back to me. I really do not mind which facility to use provided I get the results!!! chuckles. I do need to use as many of the printer features as possible. I have enable the following: IPP Printing : Enabled FTP Printing : Enabled LPD Printing : Enabled 9100 Printing: Enabled SLP Config : Enabled EWS Config : Enabled So I should be able to use a similar approach to you. Is the script readily available and what do I need to do to install and configure it? Thanks again David David ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
Sorry List, this is for David Southwell. Please, be informed that your mail server does not accept messages you may be interested in: - The user nvidi...@envieweb.net does not accept mail from your address. The headers of the message sent from your address are show below: ... - -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:40:02 + David Southwell wrote: Hi Thanks in advance for any replies. I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. On the windows XP systems the printer is identified by a port entry in the form [my_device].[my_domain].[my_tld]:HP LaserJet 2200 in the printer properties. The HP JetDirect Configuration report includes the following info: Model Number: J4169A Firmware Version: L.20.24 Under TCP/IP we have: Hostname: [mydevice] Domain Name: [my_domain].[my_tld] # The following all show correct entries: Ip Address: Subnet Mask: Default Gateway: DNS Server: Despite reading the documentation I seem to be having difficulty setting up the printer from the server. So far I have not been able to get the beast to print-- I have scrapped all attempts at configuring the server and would appreciate some guidance before I trying again!! Please, show your configuration files and diagnostic messages. Unfortunately as I said I have scrapped the configuration attempts and files and cleaned the logs ready for a new start...I felt it was a mess and the history had become part of the problem!! So I cleaned the decks and am ready to start again !! ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:17:24 + David Southwell wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:40:02 + David Southwell wrote: Please, show your configuration files and diagnostic messages. Unfortunately as I said I have scrapped the configuration attempts and files and cleaned the logs ready for a new start...I felt it was a mess and the history had become part of the problem!! So I cleaned the decks and am ready to start again !! Then do start! After doing so, show your configuration files and diagnostic messages. We will be glad to help you. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive
cronfy wrote: ... Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Drop to DDB, fix it, and 'continue'? If I type 'continue' kernel says 'Dumping... rebooting...'. What magic am I missing that you probably meant under fix it? That's the point. Once you have the requisite knowledge and understanding of the innards of the kernel and the intricacies of the filesystem, and how these two interact, then you will know how to 'fix it'. With that understanding, you may also know when it is safe to tell the kernel to ignore a panic that occurs to inform you of a critical problem that could cause far more damage were it left alone. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net cyber...@cyberleo.net Furry Peace! - http://.fur.com/peace/ ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
David, So I should be able to use a similar approach to you. Is the script readily available and what do I need to do to install and configure it? I can share, but right now I have to go back home, I'll send it to you tomorrow. If you simply: telnet your.printer 9100 and type some text you will get that text printed! 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
Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:09:03PM +0300, cronfy wrote: panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc' Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Afaik you can't do this. And you shouldn't do if it'd be possible. The file system errors you mention above should not happen under any normal circumstances. They may happen after a crash caused by other reasons but should get repaired by fsck. The kernel cannot continue with such errors because the whole file system metadata cannot be trusted anymore until repaired. Thanks. What I can definitely state is that after reboot nothing will get any better. I will have same filesystem with same errors + new errors that appeared because soft-updates were not synced, and I will have fsck running in background. I'd prefer to just start fsck in background, skipping that annoying reboot phase ;-) Am I willing strange? Background fsck can only handle a few, very specific, filsystem problems. (Basically situations where blocks are marked as being in use, even though they are not really used by anything. Softupdates is supposed to guarantee that those are the only types of filesystem errors that can occur, but in reality that guarantee does not always hold.) If you have other instances of filesystem corruption (which includes everything which can trigger a kernel panic) you need to use a foreground fsck to fix it. Personally I would recommend not using background fsck at all unless you know exactly what you are doing and why. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ 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 is too filesystem errors sensitive
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, cronfy wrote: Please forgive me for probably a very stupid question. But why is FreeBSD so sensitive to filesystem errors that it ends up with panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc'? I just can't get it. Failed to allocate vnode? Go allocate another one! Freeing free block? Leave it free then! I understand these situations should never happen, but the hell why is it required to panic and kill everything that would be working happily even if something very disasterous happen to /backup partition, in example? Probably because UFS is not designed to be a backup file system but a working one :) All those errors indicate file system corruption. To protect other data from getting corrupted (e.g. by invalid pointers or calculations), the kernel panics. To protect us against terrorists our government do strange things too ;-) After panic data *is* getting corrupted anyway - MySQL tables that were open are broken, soft-updates are unsync'ed etc etc. Server is required to reboot, fsck, time is wasted while this occurs. Why all this should happen because of a single vnode fail? Why not just throw message in /var/log/messages, return oh, I failed to save a file to the process that initiated the operation and just go on? Are consequences of attept to free already free block *so* dangerous that it is needed to give up on EVERYTHING? Let's say it was not /backup partition, ok, it was /var/tmp/some-php-session or even /var/cron/tabs/someuser file that failed. So what? Even /boot/kernel/kernel corruption is not critical if you are not going to reboot right now (or if you have /boot/kernel.old :) Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Afaik you can't do this. And you shouldn't do if it'd be possible. The file system errors you mention above should not happen under any normal circumstances. They may happen after a crash caused by other reasons but should get repaired by fsck. The kernel cannot continue with such errors because the whole file system metadata cannot be trusted anymore until repaired. I use FreeBSD with UFS for more than 15 years now; partially on heavily loaded and i/o-bound systems. I never had any serious filesystem problems as long as the disks or the storage area network (san) didn't fail. In the worst case, after a san crash, I had to run fsck three times (one run immediately after the other) in single user mode on large partitions until all errors were repaired. Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheu...@gwdg.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: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:09:03PM +0300, cronfy wrote: panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc' Is there a way to say Dear kernel, don't panic, I'am holding your hand, keep working please-please-please? If so, can it lead to complete filesystem corruption indeed or it is not so serious? Afaik you can't do this. And you shouldn't do if it'd be possible. The file system errors you mention above should not happen under any normal circumstances. They may happen after a crash caused by other reasons but should get repaired by fsck. The kernel cannot continue with such errors because the whole file system metadata cannot be trusted anymore until repaired. Thanks. What I can definitely state is that after reboot nothing will get any better. I will have same filesystem with same errors + new errors that appeared because soft-updates were not synced, and I will have fsck running in background. I'd prefer to just start fsck in background, skipping that annoying reboot phase ;-) Am I willing strange? Background fsck can only handle a few, very specific, filsystem problems. (Basically situations where blocks are marked as being in use, even though they are not really used by anything. Softupdates is supposed to guarantee that those are the only types of filesystem errors that can occur, but in reality that guarantee does not always hold.) If you have other instances of filesystem corruption (which includes everything which can trigger a kernel panic) you need to use a foreground fsck to fix it. That's true. You should go down to single user mode by entering shutdown now, unmount your filesystems (umount -a -t ufs) and check your filesystem by fsck -y. Please read man fsck before since implicitly answering all questions with yes by -y may cause loss of data !!! (To tell the truth: You probably have to do so anyway.) Personally I would recommend not using background fsck at all unless you know exactly what you are doing and why. Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheu...@gwdg.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: update/upgrade question
2009/12/8 Alex Huth a.h...@tmr.net: * Matthew Seaman schrieb: Alex Huth wrote: Yes. If you want to track one of the development branches (HEAD, RELENG_N) then you have to update sources by csup(1) or various other mechanisms and then compile your kernel+world yourself. Alternatively you can track release branches (RELENG_N_M) in the same way, or so long as the release branch is still in support, you can use freebsd-update(8) to pull down pre-built binary updates. thx, this was a good explanation. Maybe one last (hopefully ;) ) question to this topic. How can i see if a update has a kernel update, to prevent unnessecary reboots? You can just csup your base system -- csup prints what files are being patched as it goes, if it doesn't list anything, then you already are at the latest revision of the branch you chose. But basically, if you're using -RELEASE, the sources won't change much -- only when a patch is released (for instance, 8.0-RELEASE-p1, p1 meaning first patch for 8.0-R) or when a new minor or major is released -- both will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list and usually on the forums as well. If you're tracking -STABLE or -CURRENT, the sources are likely to change often, so if you update after some reasonable time (a few days, perhaps hours -- just don't expect there to be anything new each five minutes), you'll always get something new. ~ Ondra ___ 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
keeping system base update and problems with CPUTYPE
i've read the manual section, and there's really not much informations on this. i've looked into /usr/src/Makefile and Makefile.incl i've seen there are options to update /usr/src using svn (wich would be my preferred option) or cvs, but i haven't been able to configure it in any way. i think i could just do: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ /usr/src but i wanted to keep it clean and organized using make in /usr/src can someone point me to some informations about this or help me sorting this out? i think i've also found an unexpected behaviour in make buildworld, i've put src.conf and makefile.conf in /etc/ CPUTYPE?=pentium-m CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe buildkernel and ports build with the cflags and added -march=pentium-m buildworld builds with the cflags i've specified without adding -march. that's a strane behaviour since i think buildworld should build with CPUTYPE defined in /etc/make.conf, if you don't define another CPUTYPE variable. i've also tried to do: make CPUTYPE=pentium-m buildworld and also this way -march isn't added to cflags i wanted to ask if it's my fault before filling a PR about this. only way i found to get -march=pentium-m on buildworld is to add it myself to CFLAGS in make.conf. regards ocean ___ 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
set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
David Southwell writes: I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. I recently used CUPS to connect to a LaserJet 6 series with a non HP (but supposedly HP-compatible) print server. After some help, I entered socket://IP address in the appropriate field ... and everything Just Works. Robert Huff ___ 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
Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
Hi, I have a 6.4-STABLE machine running in command line only for my Apache webserver. I'm thinking of installing a Gnome desktop on it for my 5 y/o grandson and grown daughter to use so they won't be pestering me to use my pc. The 5 y/o won't need anything except Firefox, some disk-based games and Parental Controls. For the Parental Controls, I need to limit the websites he can visit, and the time of day he can use the computer. The daughter will only need Firefox and a decent word processor. The computer is a P3 600, 256mb ram, ATI 3D Rage IIc video, plenty of disk space. Will Gnome2 or gnome-lite be faster? What is available for Parental Controls? Should I forget it because it will be too slow based on the machine's hardware? -- Later, Charles ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
David, So I should be able to use a similar approach to you. Is the script readily available and what do I need to do to install and configure it? I can share, but right now I have to go back home, I'll send it to you tomorrow. If you simply: telnet your.printer 9100 and type some text you will get that text printed! Olivier That worked Thank you v much . I look forward to that BTW Does the script handle raw PCL/postscript? David ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
David Southwell writes: I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. I recently used CUPS to connect to a LaserJet 6 series with a non HP (but supposedly HP-compatible) print server. After some help, I entered socket://IP address in the appropriate field ... and everything Just Works. Robert Huff Hi Robert Seasons greetings Thanks v. much. With help from Olivier Nicole I was able to telnet to the printer 9100 and text types got printed. My questions now are: 1. How do I manage to print single/double sided and determine the page orientation for different jobs? 2. How do I print images/ PCl /postscript. Olivier has a script which he will be sending me tomorrow but I do not know whether that deals with those issues. Warm regards david ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
i think it could go fine on this computer, use gnome lite and also add the needed ports to have a fairly nice system (gnome-backgrounds etc...). compile from ports with some optimizations (-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing and consider if -pipe could be used or not based on your ram memory). for firefox consider you'll have probably to use also linux compatibility layer with flash (don't know if it's on 6.4) for parental control check this thread in ml: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-June/152543.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-July/152728.html regards ocean Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I have a 6.4-STABLE machine running in command line only for my Apache webserver. I'm thinking of installing a Gnome desktop on it for my 5 y/o grandson and grown daughter to use so they won't be pestering me to use my pc. The 5 y/o won't need anything except Firefox, some disk-based games and Parental Controls. For the Parental Controls, I need to limit the websites he can visit, and the time of day he can use the computer. The daughter will only need Firefox and a decent word processor. The computer is a P3 600, 256mb ram, ATI 3D Rage IIc video, plenty of disk space. Will Gnome2 or gnome-lite be faster? What is available for Parental Controls? Should I forget it because it will be too slow based on the machine's hardware? -- Later, Charles ___ 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
Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.netwrote: David Southwell writes: I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. I recently used CUPS to connect to a LaserJet 6 series with a non HP (but supposedly HP-compatible) print server. After some help, I entered socket://IP address in the appropriate field ... and everything Just Works. Robert Huff Hi Robert Seasons greetings Thanks v. much. With help from Olivier Nicole I was able to telnet to the printer 9100 and text types got printed. My questions now are: 1. How do I manage to print single/double sided and determine the page orientation for different jobs? 2. How do I print images/ PCl /postscript. Olivier has a script which he will be sending me tomorrow but I do not know whether that deals with those issues. install CUPS. regards, usleep Warm regards david ___ 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
Re: keeping system base update and problems with CPUTYPE
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:23:51 +0100 ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: i think i've also found an unexpected behaviour in make buildworld, i've put src.conf and makefile.conf in /etc/ CPUTYPE?=pentium-m CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe You don't normally set CFLAGS in FreeBSD, it's set automatically according to CPUTYPE. I suspect that by explicitly defining it you may be preventing the make files from adding the -march setting in buildword. ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. -Original Message- From: ocean [mailto:ocean_i...@yahoo.it] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:30 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions' Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o i think it could go fine on this computer, use gnome lite and also add the needed ports to have a fairly nice system (gnome-backgrounds etc...). compile from ports with some optimizations (-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing and consider if -pipe could be used or not based on your ram memory). for firefox consider you'll have probably to use also linux compatibility layer with flash (don't know if it's on 6.4) for parental control check this thread in ml: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007- June/152543.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007- July/152728.html regards ocean Charles Howse wrote: Hi, I have a 6.4-STABLE machine running in command line only for my Apache webserver. I'm thinking of installing a Gnome desktop on it for my 5 y/o grandson and grown daughter to use so they won't be pestering me to use my pc. The 5 y/o won't need anything except Firefox, some disk-based games and Parental Controls. For the Parental Controls, I need to limit the websites he can visit, and the time of day he can use the computer. The daughter will only need Firefox and a decent word processor. The computer is a P3 600, 256mb ram, ATI 3D Rage IIc video, plenty of disk space. Will Gnome2 or gnome-lite be faster? What is available for Parental Controls? Should I forget it because it will be too slow based on the machine's hardware? -- Later, Charles ___ 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
Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. Please don't top post, thanks. No there is no OOBE w/ flash. To get a reasonable experience with flash, you'll need to upgrade to 8(freebsd update) add in packages compiled for 8(don't forget the libusb stuff) then install flash-10 However if you're only goal is run flash stuff, this is probably not the OS for you. -- 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
flash alternative
I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is lighter whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? TIA PJ ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
-Original Message- From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:56 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. Please don't top post, thanks. My apologies to the group, I forgot. :) ___ 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: flash alternative
PJ wrote: I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is lighter whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? TIA PJ ___ 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 Could F3 be the alternative/replacement? http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/f3:_a_replacement_for_flash%3F http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/ I'd like to hear some opinions on this. ___ 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: flash alternative
From: millenia2...@hotmail.com To: af.gour...@videotron.ca Subject: RE: flash alternative Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:22:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:00:01 -0500 From: af.gour...@videotron.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: flash alternative I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is lighter whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? TIA PJ if yer refering to gnash then yes it is lighter, but I have had issues where it does not work for every flash based website. ___ 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: flash alternative
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: PJ wrote: I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is lighter whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? I think you are referring to Silverlight, right? Silverlight on FreeBSD is extremely lightweight. regards, usleep TIA PJ ___ 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 Could F3 be the alternative/replacement? http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/f3:_a_replacement_for_flash%3F http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/ I'd like to hear some opinions on this. ___ 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
webdav
Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x or fuse-dav)? Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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
Postfix and vacation on FreeBSD 7.2 ?
Hello Since I migrated my mailhub to FreeBSD 7.2-R, the messages send through the vacation program are From MAILER-DAEMON and not from the original account that it has been sent ... Anyone has this problem ? Postfix problem or FreeBSD misconfiguration ? Thanks a lot for any info ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, David Southwell wrote: I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. Graphics, text, and duplexing are all determined by the contents of the file to be printed. Despite reading the documentation I seem to be having difficulty setting up the printer from the server. So far I have not been able to get the beast to print-- I have scrapped all attempts at configuring the server and would appreciate some guidance before I trying again!! If you just want to manually print files, netcat (nc) is the lowest overhead. Where printer is the printer DNS hostname and printfile is the file to be printed: nc printer 9100 printfile There's no spooling with that. You mention server, but don't say whether other machines will be submitting print jobs through the server. For that you'd need spooling. Lots of people use CUPS, while I prefer lpd. One or the other may be preferable depending on the clients doing the printing. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ 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: Why do I need a bunch of mappings for ld-elf.so in FreeBSD 8?
At 11:05 AM +0100 12/8/09, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:35:47PM -0800, Paul Hoffman typed: Greetings. I upgraded a 7.2 system to 8.0 using 'freebsd-update install'. At some time during the process, I could no longer log ... ...snip... ... t remove the lines from /etc/libmap.conf. How do I get a /libexec/ld-elf.so that has up-to-date mappings internal to it? These mappings are not internal to ld-elf.so. Ah, I interpreted that from the error message. Could you post the contents of your libmap.conf These are the four I needed to get the normal packages working on my system. My concern is that there may be more: libcrypt.so.4 libcrypt.so.5 libncurses.so.7 libncurses.so.8 libutil.so.7libutil.so.8 libcrypto.so.5 libcrypto.so.6 and the output of ldd /usr/local/bin/bash ? /usr/local/bin/bash: libncurses.so.7 = not found (0x0) libintl.so.8 = /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x2811f000) libiconv.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28131000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28227000) Also the errors bash gives when started without the mappings in libmap.conf. Just commenting out the libncurses line, then trying to log in as a user whose shell is bash: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libncurses.so.7 not found, required by bash Removing the commmenting immediately changes this back to working. In looking more closely, I can see that bash was *not* remade by 'portupgrade -af'. I suspect it is because I installed it from binary during the initial installation. If that's true, it completely sucks and is a serious bug in portupgrade. There was no work directory in /usr/ports/shells/bash. Doing a 'make; make deinstall; make reinstall' makes it so I don't need the map any more. At 1:45 PM +0300 12/8/09, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I usually think that including COMPAT_FREEBS7 in your new kernel during the upgrade process would save one from such agony. I have never used freebsd-update ever, and might never, because I prefer to build a new system from scratch, but perhaps you could try it and see if it does resolve your problem. I'm using the GENERIC kernel, never re-built. There is always this instruction that you need to recompile all installed ports, which I think you did not do. That instruction makes me sick, given the time it would take on a critical server. I *did* do it, as I said in my earlier message. It takes forever, but it doesn't cause any interruption on the server (which, in my case, is only semi-critical). --Paul Hoffman ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
2009/12/8 Charles Howse cho...@charter.net -Original Message- From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:56 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. Please don't top post, thanks. My apologies to the group, I forgot. :) ___ 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 you probably also want java as well, a lot of those children's game sites use all kind of horrible stuff. ___ 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
semi-problem starting sendmail
When I start sendmail, this: STARTTLS=server, error: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific information on the cause? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ 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: semi-problem starting sendmail
On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Robert Huff wrote: STARTTLS=server, error: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific information on the cause? Make sure none of the directories in that path have 022 perms (go+write). From the main sendmail README: Sendmail often gets blamed for many problems that are actually the result of other problems, such as overly permissive modes on directories. For this reason, sendmail checks the modes on system directories and files to determine if they can be trusted. For sendmail to run without complaining, you MUST execute the following command: chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue chown root / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue You will probably have to tweak this for your environment (for example, some systems put the spool directory into /usr/spool instead of /var/spool). If you set the RunAsUser option in your sendmail.cf, the /var/spool/mqueue directory will have to be owned by the RunAsUser user. As a general rule, after you have compiled sendmail, run the command sendmail -v -bi to initialize the alias database. If it gives messages such as WARNING: writable directory /etc WARNING: writable directory /var/spool/mqueue then the directories listed have inappropriate write permissions and should be secured to avoid various possible security attacks. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.netwrote: David Southwell writes: I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. I recently used CUPS to connect to a LaserJet 6 series with a non HP (but supposedly HP-compatible) print server. After some help, I entered socket://IP address in the appropriate field ... and everything Just Works. Robert Huff Hi Robert Seasons greetings Thanks v. much. With help from Olivier Nicole I was able to telnet to the printer 9100 and text types got printed. My questions now are: 1. How do I manage to print single/double sided and determine the page orientation for different jobs? 2. How do I print images/ PCl /postscript. Olivier has a script which he will be sending me tomorrow but I do not know whether that deals with those issues. install CUPS. Installed and configured cups but cannot get the online login system to work. It refuses to accept username/password combination. Here are the relevant lines in cupsd.conf: # Show shared printers on the local network. Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow all BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS # Default authentication type, when authentication is required... DefaultAuthType Basic # Restrict access to the server... Location / Order Deny, Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from 62.49.197.50 /Location # Restrict access to the admin pages... Location /admin AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order Deny, Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from 62.49.197.50 /Location # Restrict access to configuration files... Location /admin/conf AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order Deny, Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from 62.49.197.50 Order allow,deny /Location Relevant ports: dns1# pkg_info |grep cups cups-base-1.4.2_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Server cups-client-1.4.2_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cups cups-image-1.4.2_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cupsimage cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_4 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers cups-samba-6.0_2The Common UNIX Printing System: MS Windows client drivers cups-smb-backend-1.0_2 A CUPS backend for printing to Windows servers gnome-cups-manager-0.31_10,1 Admistration tool for cups gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_4 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_2,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration py26-cups-1.9.46CUPS bindings for Python ___ 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
DNP3 Protocol to CellularGSM/GPRS
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Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:11:17 +, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: I really do not mind which facility to use provided I get the results!!! chuckles. I do need to use as many of the printer features as possible. I have enable the following: IPP Printing : Enabled FTP Printing : Enabled LPD Printing : Enabled 9100 Printing: Enabled SLP Config : Enabled EWS Config : Enabled If you already have LPD printing enabled in your printer, your computer's LPD subsystem should be able to hand the data over to the printer. For example, you can configure APSFILTER (a printer filter, similar to CUPS, but without the browser games and tons of dependencies) to create output for your printer. This depends on what your printer's language is. If it's already the standard, which is PS (Postscript), you don't need a filter at all, simply because PS is the default output format for printing. If it is PCL, you can easily setup APSFILTER (through its dialog driven install program) to output in form of PCL. Instead of specifying a local connection for the printer, you simply give its IP or name (if, for example, you have it in /etc/hosts). It's quite easy. If you then run lpr, lpq or lprm, inquiries and actions will be processed on the printer (by his lpd implementation). I'll share my working configuration for a HP Laserjet 4000 including duplexer. I've setup the printer name Laserjet in /etc/csh.cshrc: setenv PRINTER Laserjet Now all lp* command default to this printer name, instead the need of specifying -Pprinter or using lp, the default. After installing apsfilter, I've run the setup program: # /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP and configured the printer as needed. Note that if you don't find your specific model, you can choose a compatible one. The file SETUP.cfg contains: INTERFACE='parallel' DEVICE='/dev/lpt0' For your network printer, you would have different settings here. As I mentioned, those can be interactively set by the setup program. You will probably see something like rm='192.168.200.100' rp='raw' in this file. This created the directory /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/Laserjet with a file apsfilterrc, which I modified to run the duplexer by default. (If I really intend to NOT use it, I switch it off with the printer's controls.) GS_FEATURES='-q -dBATCH -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD -sDeviceModel=HP LaserJet -dDuplex=true -dIjsUseOutputFD -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r600' DUPLEX=duplex BINDING=long Keep in mind that those settings have to be on one line, I just broke them up for better readability here. You can, by the way, easily setup two printers, one for duplex and one for no duplex, e. g. Laserjet and Laserjet-nodup. Both have the same settings, but differ in the GS_FEATURES line, e. g. GS_FEATURES='-q -dBATCH -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD -sDeviceModel=HP LaserJet -dIjsUseOutputFD -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r600' See the -dDuplex=true is missing, so no duplex here. Finally, the APSFILTER setup program will adjust the system file /etc/printcap, which now contains an entry for the new printer called Laserjet, e. g. Laserjet|ljet4d;r=600x600;q=high;c=full;p=a4;m=auto:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/Laserjet:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/Laserjet/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/Laserjet/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: Again, for a network printer you would see rm= and rp= statements in this file, but not the lp= statement. If you've setup everything correctly, you should be able to: % lpq no entries % lpr /etc/rc.conf % lpq Laserjet is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stpoly483 /etc/rc.conf 2050 bytes % lprm - dfA483blahblah dequeued cfA483blahblah dequeued Of course, you will be able to print from any application now. Even piping to lpr is possible, e. g. % grep bla /some/files* | lpr Note that programs like Gimp require you to setup the printer again (in Gutenprint); you'll possibly have to set format and duplex and other things. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: # diskinfo -v da1 da1 512 # sectorsize 1133104128 # mediasize in bytes (11T) 23437369344 # mediasize in sectors 1458908 # Cylinders according to firmware. 255 # Heads according to firmware. 63 # Sectors according to firmware. Y08210901E792700BAB9# Disk ident. We want to create a BSD slice to cover the entire drive. My plan was to use the fdisk -I option: # fdisk -I da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** fdisk: Class not found # fdisk -p da1 # /dev/da1 g c1458908 h255 s63 p 1 0xa5 63 1962532467 a 1 but as you can see, the partition size that this creates is only 1TB (1962532467*512=1004816623104 bytes). The fdisk command clearly knows how large the disk really is: # fdisk da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1458908 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1458908 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) If I compute 1458908*255*63*512 this gives me 1126794240, which is the correct size. But the -I option doesn't create a full sized partition. How do we resolve this? We want a full size partition spanning the entire disk, and we need a scriptable solution since the configuration of these servers is handled through an automated process. ___ 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: what ports to open in firewall for bitlord
2009/12/8 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com: Want to allow the bitlord progran to pass through my firewall. Does anyone know the port numbers it uses for out bound and inbound packets. Thanks Why don't you look on the BitLord website? Or better, use a more neighbourly program, that isn't adware such as Transmission or μTorrent? This link might help: http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB344GB344sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=bitlord+ports Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:36:54 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: [...] We want to create a BSD slice to cover the entire drive. My plan was to use the fdisk -I option: [...] How do we resolve this? We want a full size partition spanning the entire disk, and we need a scriptable solution since the configuration of these servers is handled through an automated process. Why not directly formatting the whole device? In the subject line, you wrote large partition, so I assume you won't want to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead. Correct me if I'm wrong. I am often using disks without slice if I don't boot from them, but use them for storage. # newfs /dev/da1 would be the command to create a partition with file system that covers the whole disk. It will be /dev/da1c (which is /dev/da1), and you can easily mount it: # mount /dev/da1 /bigstorage Of course, this solution is completely scriptable, given the fact that you know which device to newfs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: # diskinfo -v da1 da1 512 # sectorsize 1133104128 # mediasize in bytes (11T) 23437369344 # mediasize in sectors 1458908 # Cylinders according to firmware. 255 # Heads according to firmware. 63 # Sectors according to firmware. Y08210901E792700BAB9 # Disk ident. We want to create a BSD slice to cover the entire drive. My plan was to use the fdisk -I option: [snip] You cannot use fdisk for this, because fdisk creates MBR partition tables and these partitions are limited to 2 TB. You have three options: 1. Use GPT instead of MBR. This is handled by gpt (FreeBSD 7) and gpart (FreeBSD 8) commands. 2. Use a dangerously dedicated partitioning scheme. 3. Bypass all partitioning issues and do what Polytropon suggested. The third option will only work if you don't need to boot from the array and are happy with a single 11TB file system. The second option gives you partitions and the ability to boot FreeBSD, but no other operating system will recognize the array. Device names will be da1a, da1b, etc. To do this run the following commands: bsdlabel -w -B da1 bsdlabel -e da1 edit your partitions newfs /dev/da1a newfs -U /dev/da1d ... I've never used GPT, but that's what you would have become familiar with if you want these arrays to be recognized by operating systems other than FreeBSD. - Max ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
In the subject line, you wrote large partition, so I assume you won't want to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead. Correct me if I'm wrong. For simplicity I didn't include all the details. In fact we need three slices, one for the OS, one for swap, and the rest for data. I can create the first two slices the way I normally do using fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs. But I'm stumped on how to create the large third slice. ___ 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
named needs restart after a reboot
Greetings, uname: FreeBSD example.com 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 6 11:23:52 PST 2009 ryal...@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRODO amd64 I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I reboot the machine, I need to manually restart named to get it listening on the proper interfaces as by default it is listening on 127.0.0.1 interfaces only. A simple /etc/rc.d/named restart fixes it which seems like it would be configured correctly, but I have had to do this on a install before. Anyone have a guess as to what could be wrong? Thanks. ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
David Southwell writes: Installed and configured cups but cannot get the online login system to work. It refuses to accept username/password combination. Not the CUPS expert. (Sorry.) Robert Huff ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
You cannot use fdisk for this, because fdisk creates MBR partition tables and these partitions are limited to 2 TB. You have three options: 1. Use GPT instead of MBR. This is handled by gpt (FreeBSD 7) and gpart (FreeBSD 8) commands. We're running 8.0. I'll have to check out gpart. 2. Use a dangerously dedicated partitioning scheme. 3. Bypass all partitioning issues and do what Polytropon suggested. The third option will only work if you don't need to boot from the array and are happy with a single 11TB file system. We do need to boot from these drives so this is not an option. The second option gives you partitions and the ability to boot FreeBSD, but no other operating system will recognize the array. Device names will be da1a, da1b, etc. To do this run the following commands: bsdlabel -w -B da1 When I run this command I get: # bsdlabel -w -B da1 bsdlabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported So that seems we are limited to option 1. We didn't anticipate this; hope there aren't unexpected gotchas lurking around the corner... ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it could just works (it's being discussed in the freebsd forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 gnash could also work but it's known to have some issues so i won't recommend it, possibilities are firefox+flash for windows under wine which someone says it works, or linux emulation and firefox+flash. for parental control there's also the opendns alternative that can block adult sites, though i don't know how good it works. you could also look at this (never tried it, don't know if/how it works): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1803 http://procon.mozdev.org/ also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run. if there aren't specific problems with drivers and similar, an upgrade to a newer freebsd version could be advisable for flash :) regards ocean ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:14:05 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: In the subject line, you wrote large partition, so I assume you won't want to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead. Correct me if I'm wrong. For simplicity I didn't include all the details. In fact we need three slices, one for the OS, one for swap, and the rest for data. Excuse me, you're mixing up terminology here. Let me explain: A SLICE is what Windows calls a DOS primary partition, often just named a partition. A PARTITION is a subdivision of a slice. It holds a file system. It is comparable (but not the same as) what Windows calls a logical volume inside a DOS extended partition. To re-express your requirements: You need one slice covering the whole disk. This slice should contain three partitions: One for the OS, one for swap, and one for data. What you will need to do is basically what Maxim suggested, which is a) use the dedicated approach, which means that you don't create a slice, just three partitions on the disk, or, b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, as I may assume by your statements. I can create the first two slices the way I normally do using fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs. But I'm stumped on how to create the large third slice. I'm not sure if I understood you correctly. You won't need to create three slices, just one slice, containin three partitions. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Geode Xorg Driver
On Monday 07 December 2009 14:48:37 rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All, I use the Alix 1d computer from pcengines to build a X terminal and a small mail server. The Xserver is working with the VESA driver. This is functional but a little bit slow. A Xorg driver for this graphic card (AMD Geode) exists but it is not available with FreeBSD. With FreeBSD 7.2, I was able to use the drivers compiled for OpenBSD. But due to a version mismatch, they are not usable with FreeBSD 8.0 which is installed now. I have lookup a many places since two days and I can see that some persons were able to compile the drivers for formers version of BSD. Could someone explain how to compile the drivers for FreeBSD 8.0 ? There is no port, but since a lot of similar drivers (like the VESA) are available, it should not be too complicated to compile the geode driver (I have got the source on the GIT repository of Xorg). I have started to compile VESA driver from ports but it fails at some points while not finding gdm-config. An other solution would be to get the drivers of a Linux distribution (normally this should work since Xorg modules are platform independents). Thanks for any help or ideas. regards, Alain Aubord ___ 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 Hi Alain; John_doe made a port for a vesa driver that works perfectly in FBSD 8 amd64. The driver is here: ftp://ftp.lissyara.su/users/Guest/vesa-kmod.diff instructions: To apply use $ cd /usr/ports $ patch -sp0 -i /path/to/vesa-kmod.diff $ cd misc/vesa-kmod; make install clean put vesa_load=YES into /boot/loader.conf Here is the thread where I picked it up. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6291 Regards, -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE) ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, as I may assume by your statements. GUID partitions are recognized by many more OS's than just FreeBSD although I admit I haven't tried such an endeavor. Is there some other gotcha? -- 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
Excuse me, you're mixing up terminology here. Let me explain: A SLICE is what Windows calls a DOS primary partition, often just named a partition. Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. Considering that fdisk uses partition interchangeably in cases with slice, I often do as well. I guess it can be confusing if one isn't careful with context. I'm not sure if I understood you correctly. You won't need to create three slices, just one slice, containin three partitions. We already have a configuration in place on our smaller 1U boxes which are divided into three slices, one for the OS (with 2 partitions), one for swap, and the third slice for data. The third slice is divided into two partitions, one UFS and one raw. The first two slices are gmirrored, the third slice is not. For consistency we want to use the same slice configuration for these large drives. We don't *have* to do it this way but it simplifies things for our legacy code. We're not using any gmirroring on these raid boxes of course, and we only need one partition on the third slice (no raw partition) but otherwise the layout will largely be the same. ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: You cannot use fdisk for this, because fdisk creates MBR partition tables and these partitions are limited to 2 TB. You have three options: 1. Use GPT instead of MBR. This is handled by gpt (FreeBSD 7) and gpart (FreeBSD 8) commands. We're running 8.0. I'll have to check out gpart. 2. Use a dangerously dedicated partitioning scheme. 3. Bypass all partitioning issues and do what Polytropon suggested. The third option will only work if you don't need to boot from the array and are happy with a single 11TB file system. We do need to boot from these drives so this is not an option. The second option gives you partitions and the ability to boot FreeBSD, but no other operating system will recognize the array. Device names will be da1a, da1b, etc. To do this run the following commands: bsdlabel -w -B da1 When I run this command I get: # bsdlabel -w -B da1 bsdlabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported I forgot about that one, sorry. So that seems we are limited to option 1. We didn't anticipate this; hope there aren't unexpected gotchas lurking around the corner... Not sure if you're able to do this, but I would advise you against using the same array for OS, swap, and data. For all the servers I've configured, I always use a two small (32-64 GB) drives in RAID 1 configuration for the first two functions. The data is always on a physically-separate array, which means that I'm free to use newfs on the entire thing and never have to deal with partitions. This setup is simpler, safer, and faster since your data drives are now performing just one function. - Max ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, as I may assume by your statements. That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives. ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run. An alternative would be IcecWM: Easily configurable menu, good window managing, no bloat. But I can second XFCE, too. Maybe you want to run XFCE 3 which has some look feel of CDE, is easily configurable and very fast. (I use it on a 300 MHz P2 with similar requirements as you mentioned, but without any Flash). There's a nice dock-like application for X which is used by the FreeSBIE live system CD. I've got no FreeSBIE at hand, nor can I remember the application's name, but I think this would be interesting to you, too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:43:41 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. Considering that fdisk uses partition interchangeably in cases with slice, I often do as well. I guess it can be confusing if one isn't careful with context. You're right - fdisk uses different terminology. We already have a configuration in place on our smaller 1U boxes which are divided into three slices, one for the OS (with 2 partitions), one for swap, and the third slice for data. The third slice is divided into two partitions, one UFS and one raw. The first two slices are gmirrored, the third slice is not. Okay, now I understand. It's much more complex than it seemed from your initial statement. :-) What you want in the end is e. g. /dev/da1s1a = / /dev/da1s1d = /usr (or maybe /usr/local) /dev/da1s2b = swap /dev/da1s3d = /bigstorage (or something similar) /dev/da1s3e = raw For consistency we want to use the same slice configuration for these large drives. We don't *have* to do it this way but it simplifies things for our legacy code. We're not using any gmirroring on these raid boxes of course, and we only need one partition on the third slice (no raw partition) but otherwise the layout will largely be the same. Then it looks to me that using gpt / gpart is the way to go... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: webdav
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x or fuse-dav)? Have a look at the sysutils/fusefs-wdfs port. :-) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp5Kx9if0Gcp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it could just works (it's being discussed in the freebsd forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 Please, not that horrible thread again. Just do what's in the Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html), and Flash 10 works fine with native Firefox on FreeBSD 8. possibilities are firefox+flash for windows under wine which someone says it works, It works well. And the Java plugin works too. The only problem I see with Windows Firefox on Wine is that it takes a double-click to close Firefox windows or tabs. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ 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: webdav
Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: Is there any way to mount webdav into the file system (like on OS-x or fuse-dav)? Have a look at the sysutils/fusefs-wdfs port. :-) That looks great! The command # make quicksearch key=webdav did not lead me there. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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: named needs restart after a reboot
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Derrick Ryalls wrote: uname: FreeBSD example.com 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 6 11:23:52 PST 2009 ryal...@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRODO amd64 I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I reboot the machine, I need to manually restart named to get it listening on the proper interfaces as by default it is listening on 127.0.0.1 interfaces only. A simple /etc/rc.d/named restart fixes it which seems like it would be configured correctly, but I have had to do this on a install before. Anyone have a guess as to what could be wrong? Only a guess: network interface comes up too late. If you're using DHCP to configure that interface, you could try SYNCDHCP. Or if it's an re(4) interface, there are patches in 8-STABLE that make it come up faster. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.netwrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: David Southwell writes: I am trying to set up a freebsd 7.2 p3 system to be able to print from an hp laserjet 2200dn equipped with a built in 10/100 jetdirect 610N. The printer is also used by a number of MS$ systems on the same subnet as the server so I know the printer is working and configured to print both text and graphics and to use the double sided facility. I need to use similar facilities from the server. I recently used CUPS to connect to a LaserJet 6 series with a non HP (but supposedly HP-compatible) print server. After some help, I entered socket://IP address in the appropriate field ... and everything Just Works. Robert Huff Hi Robert Seasons greetings Thanks v. much. With help from Olivier Nicole I was able to telnet to the printer 9100 and text types got printed. My questions now are: 1. How do I manage to print single/double sided and determine the page orientation for different jobs? 2. How do I print images/ PCl /postscript. Olivier has a script which he will be sending me tomorrow but I do not know whether that deals with those issues. install CUPS. Installed and configured cups but cannot get the online login system to work. It refuses to accept username/password combination. Here are the relevant lines in cupsd.conf: # Show shared printers on the local network. Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow all BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS # Default authentication type, when authentication is required... DefaultAuthType Basic # Restrict access to the server... Location / Order Deny, Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from 62.49.197.50 /Location # Restrict access to the admin pages... Location /admin AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order Deny, Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from 62.49.197.50 /Location # Restrict access to configuration files... Location /admin/conf AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order Deny, Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from 62.49.197.50 Order allow,deny /Location Relevant ports: dns1# pkg_info |grep cups cups-base-1.4.2_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Server cups-client-1.4.2_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cups cups-image-1.4.2_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cupsimage cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_4 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers cups-samba-6.0_2The Common UNIX Printing System: MS Windows client drivers cups-smb-backend-1.0_2 A CUPS backend for printing to Windows servers gnome-cups-manager-0.31_10,1 Admistration tool for cups gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_4 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_2,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration py26-cups-1.9.46CUPS bindings for Python have you tried logging in as root? i seem to remember something like this... regards, usleep ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it could just works (it's being discussed in the freebsd forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 Please, not that horrible thread again. Just do what's in the Handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html), and Flash 10 works fine with native Firefox on FreeBSD 8. And Flash 9 works on 7.2 too. Have not had any problems with it yet. regards, usleep ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run. An alternative would be IcecWM: Easily configurable menu, good window managing, no bloat. But I can second XFCE, too. Maybe you want to run XFCE 3 which has some look feel of CDE, is easily configurable and very fast. (I use it on a 300 MHz P2 with similar requirements as you mentioned, but without any Flash). There's a nice dock-like application for X which is used by the FreeSBIE live system CD. I've got no FreeSBIE at hand, nor can I remember the application's name, but I think this would be interesting to you, too. Like Poly I too use XFCE 3 on all my FreeBSD desktops. Its light and fast and anyone can learn it quickly. I have Gnome on a Linux HP netbook and it is a lot slower. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
2009/12/8 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:43:41 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. Considering that fdisk uses partition interchangeably in cases with slice, I often do as well. I guess it can be confusing if one isn't careful with context. You're right - fdisk uses different terminology. We already have a configuration in place on our smaller 1U boxes which are divided into three slices, one for the OS (with 2 partitions), one for swap, and the third slice for data. The third slice is divided into two partitions, one UFS and one raw. The first two slices are gmirrored, the third slice is not. Okay, now I understand. It's much more complex than it seemed from your initial statement. :-) What you want in the end is e. g. /dev/da1s1a = / /dev/da1s1d = /usr (or maybe /usr/local) /dev/da1s2b = swap /dev/da1s3d = /bigstorage (or something similar) /dev/da1s3e = raw For consistency we want to use the same slice configuration for these large drives. We don't *have* to do it this way but it simplifies things for our legacy code. We're not using any gmirroring on these raid boxes of course, and we only need one partition on the third slice (no raw partition) but otherwise the layout will largely be the same. Then it looks to me that using gpt / gpart is the way to go... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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 stay away from dangerously dedicated it seems as though they are being phased out ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run. An alternative would be IcecWM: Easily configurable menu, good window managing, no bloat. But I can second XFCE, too. Maybe you want to run XFCE 3 which has some look feel of CDE, is easily configurable and very fast. (I use it on a 300 MHz P2 with similar requirements as you mentioned, but without any Flash). There's a nice dock-like application for X which is used by the FreeSBIE live system CD. I've got no FreeSBIE at hand, nor can I remember the application's name, but I think this would be interesting to you, too. icewm is a nice lightweight wm (which I use) but with your hardware you might want to look at http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ it's an xfce4 based installation dvd which includes many precompiled package. There are notes for installing flash. 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: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:52:52 +, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: stay away from dangerously dedicated it seems as though they are being phased out I've followed the related discussion, but I'm not sure what to conclude from it... as far as I understood, creating an installation dangerously dedicated mode isn't possible from sysinstall anymore, but still possible via the command line tools. I don't see a reason why it is considered to be something bad, but the inclusion of a carrier slice for the OS's partitions has always been recommended. But for data disks where only one partition is intended, why create it inside a slice? By the way, the OP intends to create more than one slice and then create one or two partitions within each slice, so dangerously dedicated disks wouldn't be a solution for him anyway. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: semi-problem starting sendmail
Chuck Swiger writes: STARTTLS=server, error: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific information on the cause? Make sure none of the directories in that path have 022 perms (go+write). Checked, and not the problem. Robert Huff ___ 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: Tunning 8.0 for multiple VMs (VBox)
On Sunday 29 November 2009 10:36:53 you wrote: And your question was? I would like to expose the hardware/settings I have now to the list, to see if what I've done is appropriate, over or under rated (or simply stupid), to squeeze every drop of performance FreeBSD can give with what I have. It is pretty fast as it is but it never hurts attempting to make it even better. This was the main idea, so people more knowledgeable and experienced could comment on it. I guess you could say the question was: Am i doing it right? or can I do it better? -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE) ___ 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: semi-problem starting sendmail
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:42:27 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: When I start sendmail, this: STARTTLS=server, error: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific information on the cause? Hi Robert, This article from Linux Journal may help a bit: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4823 It mentions generating the certificate with the -nodes option to avoid an error exactly like the one you are quoting. ___ 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: semi-problem starting sendmail
Hi-- On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Make sure none of the directories in that path have 022 perms (go+write). Checked, and not the problem. Well, the error is coming from /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/tls.c, and depends on openssl to deal with your cert. Does: openssl verify -verbose /etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem ...say anything interesting? What about: openssl x509 -in /etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem -text Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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
bridge filters ipv6
Hi all, I have 7.2-RELEASE and a bridge between ath0 and sis0 everything works fine except ipv6 including router advertisements. There is no filtering, just a L2 bridge without any address. rtadv comes from lan/sis. What could be missing? bridge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 0a:03:b2:xx:fe:xx id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 member: sis0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20 member: ath0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 370370 ath0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:80:48:xx:cd:xx inet6 fe80::280:48xx:fexx:%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g hostap status: associated ssid x channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:80:48:xx:cd:xx authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 22 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 pureg protmode RTSCTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 sis0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:0d:b9:xx:52:xx inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe03:52fc%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 172.23.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 172.20.0.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active ___ 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
fixit and gmirror
Hello: I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I moved /boot to /usr/ and create a symlink in / then I did make installkernel again and everything completed. Unfortunately I didn't move the necessary bits from /usr/boot back to / before rebooting and now the system won't boot. I'm trying to use the fixit option with the livefs cd to repair the system, but I'm having problems with gmirror. The disks are in software raid0. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get /usr and / mounted from the mirror using fixit? Thanks, Joey ___ 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: fixit and gmirror
On 12/8/09 5:00 PM, Joey Mingrone j...@mingrone.org wrote: Hello: I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I moved /boot to /usr/ and create a symlink in / then I did make installkernel again and everything completed. Unfortunately I didn't move the necessary bits from /usr/boot back to / before rebooting and now the system won't boot. I'm trying to use the fixit option with the livefs cd to repair the system, but I'm having problems with gmirror. The disks are in software raid0. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get /usr and / mounted from the mirror using fixit? in a recent situation which might be related, i was able to make progress with fixit only once i burned a 7.1 livefs cd. with 8.0 cds i got nowhere. with 7.1, it wasn't necessary to boot from cd1 and then insert livefs for fixit. the livefs disk booted str8 into sysinstall. ___ 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: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade
I have no problems with the hardware. In fact neither Release notes nor UPDATING says anything about my possible (and actually occured) problems. The only thing is: “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported. I never supposed that I'm using this mode. I format disks and install with sysinstall without any special tuning for fdisk or disklabel. I prefer standard options to ensure smooth future upgrades. So I'd like to know how to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or dangerously dedicated? Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:40:52AM -0800, Ivo Karabojkov typed: I'm sharing this experience to bring your attention to major advice in the update procedure - to take full backup. While not very new, that's allways good advice ;) My question is: how can I guess the result - Glory or Sorrow BEFORE starting the update? Before starting: read the relnotes and errata and search for possible problems, especially with your particular hardware. Then, if you decide to go ahead, install the new kernel and try to boot it in single user mode. This won't destroy anything and if you experience problems like missing devices you can easily back out by booting kernel.old. Ruben ___ 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 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/won%27t-boot-after-8.0-RELEASE-upgrade-tp26628661p26701709.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.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: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov i...@kit-bg.com wrote:
So I'd like to know how
to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or
dangerously dedicated?
If you've first created a slice on the disk, and then
partitions inside the slice, it's standard mode, e. g.
ad0 ab d e f g
{ [ (/) (swap) (/tmp) (/var) (/usr) (/home) ] }
s1
If you've omitted the slice, and created the partitions
on the disk device itself, it's dangerosly dedicated mode, e. g.
ad0
{ (/) (swap) (/tmp) (/var) (/usr) (/home) }
ab d e f g
You can tell by the existence of ad0s1[adefg] vs. ad0[adefg]
in /dev, or by trying to print the disks's slice table.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, ocean wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it could just works (it's being discussed in the freebsd forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 Please, not that horrible thread again. Just do what's in the Handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html), and Flash 10 works fine with native Firefox on FreeBSD 8. possibilities are firefox+flash for windows under wine which someone says it works, It works well. And the Java plugin works too. The only problem I see with Windows Firefox on Wine is that it takes a double-click to close Firefox windows or tabs. My child like flash games too, and I went with a vbox install as flash10 periodically dumps and hangs when running some of the more exotic flash games. I've seen the same thing happen on linux, but not as much on windows. Java plugin works great very stable but lacking some 3d stuff which makes gaming not as appealing(runescape). -- 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
OTish: Alternative to MS Live?
All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and internal corporate communications should stay internal - that'll do for a start...) I'm looking to stick an IM/Videoconference system in a DMZ instead. Does anyone know of a good alternative - preferably with a web interface, though that's not absolutely required? Thanks, Kurt ___ 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: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff wrote: All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and internal corporate communications should stay internal - that'll do for a start...) I'm looking to stick an IM/Videoconference system in a DMZ instead. Does anyone know of a good alternative - preferably with a web interface, though that's not absolutely required? Thanks, Kurt ___ Others may come up with better solutions, but you might want to look at OpenFire for your IM needs (I use it in my shop; it's secure and works great), and maybe dimdim for vidconf (both hosted - free for up to 20 conferees, and locally installed options). Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ 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: semi-problem starting sendmail
I just generated new keys using the method specified the the article recommended by Giorgos, and I get the same result. Robert Huff ___ 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: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Dimitri Yioulos dyiou...@firstbhph.com wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff wrote: All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and internal corporate communications should stay internal - that'll do for a start...) I'm looking to stick an IM/Videoconference system in a DMZ instead. Does anyone know of a good alternative - preferably with a web interface, though that's not absolutely required? Thanks, Kurt ___ Others may come up with better solutions, but you might want to look at OpenFire for your IM needs (I use it in my shop; it's secure and works great), and maybe dimdim for vidconf (both hosted - free for up to 20 conferees, and locally installed options). Dimitri The locally installed option would be what I'm interested in. I'll check those out. Thanks. Kurt ___ 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: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of krad Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:24 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o 2009/12/8 Charles Howse cho...@charter.net -Original Message- From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:56 AM To: Charles Howse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? Most of the games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. Please don't top post, thanks. My apologies to the group, I forgot. :) ___ 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 you probably also want java as well, a lot of those children's game sites use all kind of horrible stuff. I have an older Power Mac that I've decided to use instead. It's all configured and running well, and I don't use it much anymore since I have Windows 7 Ultimate now on the PC. It's already set up with Parental Controls for the grandson, and has everything the daughter will need as well. Thread closed as far as I am concerned. ___ 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: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
David,
Here it is:
- in /etc/printcap:
big:hp4300:\
:sd=/var/spool/big:\
:mx=0:rs:sh:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:if=/usr/spool/big_new:\
- in /etc/rc.conf:
lpd_enable=YES
- the script /usr/spool/big_new. The location of the script is not the
best one, it should ideally go into /usr/local/spool.
This script does much, much more than what you expect: it has a
print quota system, based on a LDAP directory; but also does what
you want:
- starting around the line Use Socket; is the part sending the
file to the printer;
- all the jobs are encapsulated in a PCL job that forces duplex
printing; note if the file you are printing specify that the job
shiould be printed single sided, then it will be single sided, but
if nothing is sayd, it is printed double sided;
- if the file is plain text (not PostScript, not PCL), the end of
lines are converted to \r\n;
- this script has several timeout when trying to connect to the
printer, and a general timeout of 20 minutes, so no job should
exceed that time once it started (which is theorically 1000 pages
on the newer/fastest printers);
- the script should be able to tell you how many pages were used by
a job (I did a minus one there because some of our users are
touchy regarding their print quota, and some jobs were reported to
be two pages while only printed on the recto, must be something
with CTRL-L at the end of the job);
- the script needs a number of Perl modules, all available from the
ports; it does a fair job at loging to syslog when $dbg is set to
1;
- in a previous version, I had been using this script with a HP
2200dn.
I hope you speak Perl :)
Bests,
Olivier
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $printer=hp4300dtn.cs.ait.ac.th;
my $timeout=20*60; # longest job in seconds
my $dbg=1;
use Unix::Syslog qw(:macros); # Syslog macros
use Unix::Syslog qw(:subs);# Syslog functions
openlog print_quota, LOG_PID, LOG_LPR;
use Mail::SendEasy ;
my $mail = new Mail::SendEasy(smtp = 'mail.cs.ait.ac.th') ;
syslog LOG_DEBUG, DBG staring with ARGV @ARGV if $dbg;
syslog LOG_DEBUG, DBG printer $printer if $dbg;
while ($#ARGV=0 $ARGV[0] ne -n) {
shift @ARGV;
}
our $user=$ARGV[1];
if ($user eq nobody) {
# Purge the print job
open IN, -;
while (IN) {
}
exit;
}
our $host=$ARGV[3];
use Net::LDAP;
our $ldap=Net::LDAP-new('ldaps://ldap.cs.ait.ac.th/');
if (! defined $ldap) {
syslog LOG_ERR, Cannot connect to LDAP server;
open IN, -;
while (IN) {
}
exit 1;
}
my
$mesg=$ldap-bind(cn=PrintQuotaAdmin,ou=Administrator,ou=csim,dc=cs,dc=ait,dc=ac,dc=th,
password=**);
if (! defined $mesg) {
syslog LOG_ERR, Cannot bind to LDAP server;
open IN, -;
while (IN) {
}
exit 1;
}
syslog LOG_DEBUG, DBG binding LDAP done if $dbg;
$mesg=$ldap-
search(base=ou=PrintQuota,ou=Resources,ou=csim,dc=cs,dc=ait,dc=ac,dc=th,
scope='one',
attrs=['ou', 'description'],
filter=(ou=*));
if ($mesg-code) {
syslog LOG_ERR, Error while reading PrintQuota base in LDAP:
.$mesg-error;
# Purge the print job
open IN, -;
while (IN) {
}
exit 1;
}
my $entry;
our %basequota;
foreach $entry ($mesg-entries) {
my $type=$entry-get_value('ou');
my $quota=$entry-get_value('description');
$basequota{$type}=$quota;
}
syslog LOG_DEBUG, DBG loading quota base done if $dbg;
$mesg=$ldap-
search(base=ou=people,ou=csim,dc=cs,dc=ait,dc=ac,dc=th,
attrs=['csimPrintQuotaType', 'csimPrintQuotaAdditional',
'csimPrintQuotaUsed'],
filter = (uid=$user));
if ($mesg-code) {
syslog LOG_ERR, Error while accessing user $user in LDAP: .$mesg-error;
# Purge the print job
open IN, -;
while (IN) {
}
exit 1;
}
if ($mesg-count() != 1) {
syslog LOG_ERR, Found more than one user $user in LDAP;
# Purge the print job
open IN, -;
while (IN) {
}
exit 1;
}
$entry=$mesg-entry(0);
if (! defined $entry) {
syslog LOG_ERR, Could not find the user $user in LDAP;
# Purge the print job
open IN, -;
while (IN) {
}
exit 1;
}
our $type=$entry-get_value('csimPrintQuotaType');
our $add=$entry-get_value('csimPrintQuotaAdditional');
our $used=$entry-get_value('csimPrintQuotaUsed');
$type=~s/^[^=]*=\s*//;
$type=~s/\s*,.*$//;
our $base=$basequota{$type};
syslog LOG_DEBUG, DBG user $user found and quota loaded if $dbg;
if ($type=~/blocked/i) {
# We could have a warning here, but I doubt people will read it
# print User $user is over quota: $used{$user} ($quot{$user})\n;
my $status = $mail-send(
from= 'dae...@cs.ait.ac.th' ,
from_title = 'Print Daemon',
to = $us...@cs.ait.ac.th ,
subject = Your print quota is blocked ,
msg = Your
Re: fixit and gmirror
On 12/8/09, Joey Mingrone j...@mingrone.org wrote: Hello: I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I moved /boot to /usr/ and create a symlink in / then I did make installkernel again and everything completed. Unfortunately I didn't move the necessary bits from /usr/boot back to / before rebooting and now the system won't boot. I'm trying to use the fixit option with the livefs cd to repair the system, but I'm having problems with gmirror. The disks are in software raid0. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get /usr and / mounted from the mirror using fixit? Because the livefs uses a MFSROOT system (allows you to make changes to the ram-based disk image after boot), you have to load kernel modules before the mfsroot is mounted. As an example.. boot cd escape to loader prompt load /boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko load /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko (if needed, i had to load two modules the time i had to use it) boot And I would like to note.. raid0 is striping, gstripe. raid1 is mirroring. I find it hard to recognize raid0 as your boot device. Let me know if you need further help. --Tim ___ 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: Chomium on FreeBSD?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:47:53PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Is there an effort to build a port of chromium for FreeBSD? I recently began using chromium on my Linux machine, and the HTML rendering speed is quite impressive. When it has the ability to synchronize bookmarks, I'll use it exclusively. I second this sentiment. I quite like Chrome/Chromium thus far, and would love to have it available on FreeBSD -- combining my browser of choice with my OS of choice. As things currently stand, I get to use a browser I like slightly less most of the time, and my browser of choice on an OS I quite dislike on the rare occasion I need to do cross-platform Web development testing. I don't know much about Chromium at this point, but has anyone tried to build the sources on FreeBSD? Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks ___ 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: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade
On 12/8/09 5:21 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov i...@kit-bg.com
wrote:
So I'd like to know how
to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or
dangerously dedicated?
If you've first created a slice on the disk, and then
partitions inside the slice, it's standard mode, e. g.
ad0 ab d e f g
{ [ (/) (swap) (/tmp) (/var) (/usr) (/home) ] }
s1
If you've omitted the slice, and created the partitions
on the disk device itself, it's dangerosly dedicated mode, e. g.
ad0
{ (/) (swap) (/tmp) (/var) (/usr) (/home) }
ab d e f g
You can tell by the existence of ad0s1[adefg] vs. ad0[adefg]
in /dev, or by trying to print the disks's slice table.
thank you. that's good to know.
now that i know that my machine was not using DD mode before the upgrade to
8.0, it seems there ought to be a chance to make it boot.
the boot loader can see the partitions ad4s1[abdef] but the 8.0 kernel that
was installed with freebsd-update can't. isn't there some trick with dd to
zero out the geom metadata and makes the partitions look like ordinary
again?
(i was about 30 hours into copying the data off the disk to another machine
when my router died so i'm back at square 1 now, which was described in my
email at 11.14am est on dec 3rd.)
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Re: set up of hp laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network
By the way, something forgot to mention: the script only copies a file from your computer to the printer; it does not do much magic appart from that. As far as I remember, HP 2200 do not understand image files, so you must use an external software (xv from ports?) to print your image. But you would need some software on Windows too. 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
Re: Chomium on FreeBSD?
Hi On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:47:53PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Is there an effort to build a port of chromium for FreeBSD? I recently began using chromium on my Linux machine, and the HTML rendering speed is quite impressive. When it has the ability to synchronize bookmarks, I'll use it exclusively. I second this sentiment. I quite like Chrome/Chromium thus far, and would love to have it available on FreeBSD -- combining my browser of choice with my OS of choice. As things currently stand, I get to use a browser I like slightly less most of the time, and my browser of choice on an OS I quite dislike on the rare occasion I need to do cross-platform Web development testing. I don't know much about Chromium at this point, but has anyone tried to build the sources on FreeBSD? This project [1] has been working on getting Chrom(ium) on FreeBSD for some time. I haven't used it recently (since I switched my main machine to amd64), but it was pretty stable on i386. [1] - http://chromium.jaggeri.com/ Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ 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
What is proper process for source installs?
We had been building systems from the binary release plus our custom kernel. In doing that we just used the base collection from the 8.0 binary release DVD and copied our kernel files to /boot/kernel. We are now doing both installworld and installkernel. The issue I'm having is figuring out what else is needed to complete the package. For example, /etc is not part of installworld, as well as a number of other text files. My inclination is to install the base package from the 8.0 binary release, and then update that set with whatever is produced by installworld. However, when I try to combine the trees I get these errors: bin/rcp: Can't unlink already-existing object: Operation not permitted lib/libc.so.7: Can't unlink already-existing object: Operation not permitted lib/libcrypt.so.5: Can't unlink already-existing object: Operation not permitted lib/libthr.so.3: Can't unlink already-existing object: Operation not permitted libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Can't unlink already-existing object: Operation not permitted and so on. So it's safe to say just merging the trees like this isn't the way to go. What is the proper process to finish a bsd image after installworld and installkernel is done? ___ 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
