Re: Festival 1.9.6_1 Port Successfully Running on FreeBSD 7.x - 8.x??
Update... Frustrated by unknown errors in what seemed initially a successful port install and hours searching for fixes decided to pkg_deinstalled festival 1.9.6_1 and all dependencies. After rebooting decided to download the latest version of festival-2.0.95-beta.tar.gz located at http://festvox.org/festival/ . After reading instructions and disabling certain sound device support, compiled required Festival files with gmake also installed voices, lexicons dicts After a few gmake tests, decided to test out text2wave hello.txt -o hello.wav to my freaking suprise it works like a charm! Have not tested any speech stuff, since all I need is text2wave to work properly. Totally stoked latest Festival 2.0.95 (Circa 2010) working on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE Cheers, Diego On 7 August 2010 09:52, Diego Montalvo dmonta...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy! Have installed festival 1.9.6_1 from the ports and everything seemed to install correctly but for the life of me can not get jack working on festival. can't find NAS server, get SIOD Error when running text2wave etc All I want to do is have text2wave convert text to an audio file, need no other functionality. Has anyone successfully installed 1.9.6_1 on FreeBSD and have it working properly especially the text2wave script. Thanks, Diego ___ 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
Gnus issue in FreeBSD (was: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?)
Carl Johnson writes: [...] Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. I use same .gnus in both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD and keep the mailboxen on the $HOME of both boxen sync-ed with each other, and works great for me. -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” (Weinberg's Second Law) pgp4sLdZSMtuM.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.
Hi.. For WebMail that has everything you want: www.opebwebmail.org For pop3 : qpopper For Spam: SpamAssassin Default sendmail is good. all the above is available from ports, I would recommend a manual install for openwebmail instead of ports so you can follow and know how things work. You can install spamassassin from ports, and follow the instructions. -Marwan Sultan Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:19:19 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jbiq...@icsmx.com Subject: Anti virus, anti spam step guide. Hello all. I am looking documentation for implementing, the easiest way anti virus and anti spam configuration for non tech users and out of the box after installing FreeBSD (actually using 7.3 Release). I have been working with it for some years but I am not an expert at all. I need to help some non-profit organizations that received some 2 year old computers as donation and they will use it for email services. They have not tech people, so the idea is that I can help them to implement that solution the easiest way so maybe one of the teacher there can try to replicate the solution. UNtil now I always have used Sendmail as it is installed, no filters besided the spamcop ones but that was enough for my personal use. I know some of you will tell that change to postfix or another MTA and that instead using POP3 that I have to use another tool (courier, fetchail, imap (any) etc etc). I ca do it for sur and I do not want to star a war , again, under what MTA is the best. I just would like to have the best and easiest solution for them. Once installed they only will be creating new accounts, changing paswords, deleting accounts. Nothing else. Ah, another thing if possible is to implement a webmail but that will be an extra gem if possible. Any resources? Any suggestions based in experience? (I have one machine of them that I will use for testing the solution). Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Good Terminal for X?
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 06:41:11PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:12:47PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it does handle unicode well. It's a lot lighter than xterm. And it has transparancy or backgrounds if you like that. It's not a lot lighter - I made a table recently to investigate. See http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_rxvt Thanks for the research. I had no idea rxvt-unicode had gotten so big. The base size has certainly increased well beyond the original rxvt. The total size seems to be from the transparency support. One thing that surprised me in collecting the data was noting the terminals which are mostly implemented as libraries. Their main programs can be quite small. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgppysGjK6He4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:33:58 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, So if I delete the file /etc/rc.local and make a file ~/.login, make it executable (chmod +x ~/.login), and add the line [ -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx in that file and I will have the same result but without loggin in as root? Correct. The user specified by the autologin directive will be the user who runs the startx command, so no need for using su. Here's an example from a working FreeBSD 5 system: /etc/ttys: ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25l1 on secure Intead of Pc, the profile to be used is named autologin. /etc/gettytab: autologin:\ :al=praxis:tc=Pc: The name praxis is the user's account name for the user to be logged in automatically. All capabilities defined in Pc will also be incorporated. /home/praxis/.login: mesg y [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx This makes sure the same username can be used for an SSH login (and it WON'T try to start another X then), or it can be used to log in via text mode console. When X is shut down, the user will be dropped to the text mode CLI. If you don't want to do that, add logout as the next line in ~/.login, or enclose the whole startx line in a loop. But this can lead to problems when X is not working properly. -- 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: forwarding ssh
Thanks for that Steven. Connecting this way is only a deviation from the usually connection we use. I have several users you have X-win32 configured on their laptops on the road. I was hoping to make this change invisible to each existing user and their setup since we will be going back to the previous direct X-Win32 ssh connection soon. I'll look at the -R option that you mentioned which I was not aware of. On 8/7/2010 8:27 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote: On 08/07/10 16:23, David Banning wrote: I presently am using Putty and X-Win32 and I am connecting to a remote machine successfully. I now need to connect using SSH over the internet -through- one machine, but have my SSH with a second machine on the same site - something like so; ssh-site1 --(internet)--- site2-(also 192.168.1.1)-- loc2-(192.168.1.50) I need to bridge the connection from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.50 so I've tried in ipnat; If I hear you right, you're trying to connect to site2 over the internet, and also connect to loc2 through the connection on site2. SSH can create a tunnel itself. You could use something like: 'ssh -L 2200:loc2:22 u...@site2' This would connect you to a shell on site2. Then on your machine open another terminal and type: 'ssh -p 2200 u...@localhost' which would connect to loc2 port 22 using the connection on site2. If you try to close the connection to site2, it won't work since you're still connected to loc2. ssh also supports forwarding a port on the remote server using -R, but I'm led to believe you are trying to limit the connections that get through the site2 to loc2 and -L requires you (or someone else) to be on local system. In putty this same feature is configured under Connection SSH Tunnels. ___ 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 on the RouterBoard 450G
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zfs question
Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under VirtualBox). All works very well and smooth so I'm going to transfer this VM to a real seperate harddisk. I have a couple of questions: [1] Transfering the VM is best done using dump/restore I guess? (This after a smallest creation of fbsd81 on the new harddisk) ? My server has five disks: 1 PATA (160Gb), 2 SATA2 (500Gb) and 2 SATA2 (1Tb) The fist is disabled at the moment and the others are ZFS mirrors under opensolaris. they are not usable for freebsd because the zfs versions don't match. I will have to rebuild. ;-) However, I'm a bit worried about the status of ZFS on FreeBSD-8.1 I don't want my system to boot off ZFS like I have now on OpenSolaris-b134 I think it is wisest to have the 160Gb IDE drive installed for FreeBSD system drive w/ UFS2 and after that create two ZFS mirrors from my SATA drives. Is ZFS (v14) ready for production on FreeBSD-8.1 and if yes, will I still need special settings? The server system is 64bits and has 3Gb memory. I hope to get some answers or good reading points. ___ 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: zfs question
On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under VirtualBox). All works very well and smooth so I'm going to transfer this VM to a real seperate harddisk. I have a couple of questions: [1] Transfering the VM is best done using dump/restore I guess? (This after a smallest creation of fbsd81 on the new harddisk) ? Yes, that would be a pretty good way of doing your vtophys migration. My server has five disks: 1 PATA (160Gb), 2 SATA2 (500Gb) and 2 SATA2 (1Tb) The fist is disabled at the moment and the others are ZFS mirrors under opensolaris. they are not usable for freebsd because the zfs versions don't match. I will have to rebuild. ;-) % zpool list -H -o version zroot 14 % zfs list -H -o version / 3 Those are the latest available under 8-STABLE -- 8.1-RELEASE will be the same. However, I'm a bit worried about the status of ZFS on FreeBSD-8.1 I don't want my system to boot off ZFS like I have now on OpenSolaris-b134 I think it is wisest to have the 160Gb IDE drive installed for FreeBSD system drive w/ UFS2 and after that create two ZFS mirrors from my SATA drives. Hmmm... well, booting FreeBSD off ZFS works perfectly well. Apart from the lack of support in sysinstall, I can't see any good reasons to avoid it. However, it's your system, and booting from UFS also works very well, so do whatever pleases you. There's more of a question over whether it's a good idea to put swap onto zfs -- I think the recommendation is still to prefer using a raw partition or gmirror for that. Is ZFS (v14) ready for production on FreeBSD-8.1 and if yes, will I still need special settings? The server system is 64bits and has 3Gb memory. Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to tweak some loader.conf or sysctl parameters to get the best results. But that's hardly unique to ZFS. I hope to get some answers or good reading points. The FreeBSD Wiki entries on ZFS are very useful to read: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS (and the links from that page) especially the recipes for installing various different ZFS based configurations: eg. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: virtualbox
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: When running Xorg under VirtualBox, I had to add the following to xorg.conf to get the keyboard and mouse to respond: Section ServerFlags Option AutoAddDevices off EndSection As with a physical machine, that is only needed to disable hal input device detection. One of my FreeBSD 8 VMs has dbus and hal enabled, virtualbox-ose-additions installed, and runs without an xorg.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zfs question
On 8 August 2010 13:27, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under VirtualBox). All works very well and smooth so I'm going to transfer this VM to a real seperate harddisk. I have a couple of questions: [1] Transfering the VM is best done using dump/restore I guess? (This after a smallest creation of fbsd81 on the new harddisk) ? Yes, that would be a pretty good way of doing your vtophys migration. My server has five disks: 1 PATA (160Gb), 2 SATA2 (500Gb) and 2 SATA2 (1Tb) The fist is disabled at the moment and the others are ZFS mirrors under opensolaris. they are not usable for freebsd because the zfs versions don't match. I will have to rebuild. ;-) % zpool list -H -o version zroot 14 % zfs list -H -o version / 3 Those are the latest available under 8-STABLE -- 8.1-RELEASE will be the same. However, I'm a bit worried about the status of ZFS on FreeBSD-8.1 I don't want my system to boot off ZFS like I have now on OpenSolaris-b134 I think it is wisest to have the 160Gb IDE drive installed for FreeBSD system drive w/ UFS2 and after that create two ZFS mirrors from my SATA drives. Hmmm... well, booting FreeBSD off ZFS works perfectly well. Apart from the lack of support in sysinstall, I can't see any good reasons to avoid it. However, it's your system, and booting from UFS also works very well, so do whatever pleases you. There's more of a question over whether it's a good idea to put swap onto zfs -- I think the recommendation is still to prefer using a raw partition or gmirror for that. Is ZFS (v14) ready for production on FreeBSD-8.1 and if yes, will I still need special settings? The server system is 64bits and has 3Gb memory. Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to tweak some loader.conf or sysctl parameters to get the best results. But that's hardly unique to ZFS. I hope to get some answers or good reading points. The FreeBSD Wiki entries on ZFS are very useful to read: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS (and the links from that page) especially the recipes for installing various different ZFS based configurations: eg. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW if you want an easy zfsroot install use the pcbsd installer as it supports zfs installation and can install plain freebsd ___ 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: zfs question
On Sunday 08 of August 2010 14:43:48 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under VirtualBox). All works very well and smooth so I'm going to transfer this VM to a real seperate harddisk. I have a couple of questions: [1] Transfering the VM is best done using dump/restore I guess? (This after a smallest creation of fbsd81 on the new harddisk) ? That's the way I've done it once. It worked for me, so I believe everything will go fine to you, too. My server has five disks: 1 PATA (160Gb), 2 SATA2 (500Gb) and 2 SATA2 (1Tb) The fist is disabled at the moment and the others are ZFS mirrors under opensolaris. they are not usable for freebsd because the zfs versions don't match. I will have to rebuild. ;-) However, I'm a bit worried about the status of ZFS on FreeBSD-8.1 I don't want my system to boot off ZFS like I have now on OpenSolaris-b134 I think it is wisest to have the 160Gb IDE drive installed for FreeBSD system drive w/ UFS2 and after that create two ZFS mirrors from my SATA drives. Is ZFS (v14) ready for production on FreeBSD-8.1 and if yes, will I still need special settings? The server system is 64bits and has 3Gb memory. I hope to get some answers or good reading points. I have a FreeBSD amd64 machine that is ZFS-only since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. ZFS Pool was in v13 then. It still works fine, even after the update to FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with ZFS Pool v14. I have no problems, even though I pulled the plug off by accident (twice...). The system runs fine and the boot partition is also in ZFS. There is no problem if you want to use UFS for the boot partition. I think is a matter of taste. Whatever is your choice I believe that you'll stay happy using ZFS Best regards Elias ___ 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 on the RouterBoard 450G
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2010-June/000890.html appears doable google FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.comwrote: Did anyone manage to install, and use/test FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G? Or does anyone has a howto for it, how to do it? Thank you in advance. ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:33:58 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, So if I delete the file /etc/rc.local and make a file ~/.login, make it executable (chmod +x ~/.login), and add the line [ -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx in that file and I will have the same result but without loggin in as root? Correct. The user specified by the autologin directive will be the user who runs the startx command, so no need for using su. Here's an example from a working FreeBSD 5 system: /etc/ttys: ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25l1 on secure Intead of Pc, the profile to be used is named autologin. /etc/gettytab: autologin:\ :al=praxis:tc=Pc: The name praxis is the user's account name for the user to be logged in automatically. All capabilities defined in Pc will also be incorporated. /home/praxis/.login: mesg y [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx This makes sure the same username can be used for an SSH login (and it WON'T try to start another X then), or it can be used to log in via text mode console. When X is shut down, the user will be dropped to the text mode CLI. If you don't want to do that, add logout as the next line in ~/.login, or enclose the whole startx line in a loop. But this can lead to problems when X is not working properly. -- Polytropon et all, I apologize, but the change to put the code: [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx my home directory /home/olivares/.login apparently does not work, why I see pam errors: Aug 8 08:07:32 myhostname login: pam_authenticate(): conversation failure login: in_prompt_echo_off(): tcgetattr(): Device not configured error repeats itself. I want to use your solution, since the one with rc.local, the mouse takes a while to respond :( Thanks for helping me fix this. Regards, Antonio ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:12:51 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com
wrote:
I apologize, but the change to put the code:
[! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx
Oh good, added the missing !in the condition. Maybe I should
have written the code more clearly in the first place:
if [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ]; then
/usr/local/bin/startx
fi
my home directory /home/olivares/.login apparently does not work, why
I see pam errors:
Aug 8 08:07:32 myhostname login: pam_authenticate(): conversation failure
login:
in_prompt_echo_off(): tcgetattr(): Device not configured
It's great to use FreeBSD - man tcgetattr tells us that this
function is used to retrieve terminal capability data. In my
opinion, this indicates that there's something wrong with the
format or content of /etc/gettytab.
Checking this on my side reveals something strange: I have put
the profile name autologin as shown in my working (!) example
right after the default entry in /etc/gettytab; the fixed speed
entries then follow. Then, later on, near the file's end, there's
another entry with the same name. Strange... but works!
I would only guess a gettytab issue...
--
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Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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File System Performance on FreeBSD
Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 Regards, GB ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:12:51 -0500, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
I apologize, but the change to put the code:
[! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx
Oh good, added the missing !in the condition. Maybe I should
have written the code more clearly in the first place:
if [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ]; then
/usr/local/bin/startx
fi
my home directory /home/olivares/.login apparently does not work, why
I see pam errors:
Aug 8 08:07:32 myhostname login: pam_authenticate(): conversation failure
login:
in_prompt_echo_off(): tcgetattr(): Device not configured
It's great to use FreeBSD - man tcgetattr tells us that this
function is used to retrieve terminal capability data. In my
opinion, this indicates that there's something wrong with the
format or content of /etc/gettytab.
Checking this on my side reveals something strange: I have put
the profile name autologin as shown in my working (!) example
right after the default entry in /etc/gettytab; the fixed speed
entries then follow. Then, later on, near the file's end, there's
another entry with the same name. Strange... but works!
I would only guess a gettytab issue...
--
Polytropon,
I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but
the machine stays at the Password:
prompt. But above it there is a line that says:
554 5.3.0 host localhost unknown
Aug 8 09:02:49 grullahighschool sm-mta[1090]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
host localhost unknown
Starting cron.
..
I had to add a localhost name and I added grullahighschool since I am
going to work there and I am getting this machine prepared for work.
Otherwise, I would see the error message when starting xfce:
Could not load up Internet address for .
This will prevent XFce from operating correctly,
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding to the file
/etc/hosts on your system
when it had no hostname :(, I can go back to the /etc/rc.local
solution, but would prefer to get this one working, the other has an
advantage that once I log out, I can shutdown immediately, but this
does not matter much.
Thanks for your help and advice.
And for others that might wonder, I did my a bit of searches, here's
some to prove my point
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/042040.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/042074.html
Regards,
Antonio
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Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:11:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but the machine stays at the Password: prompt. That's strange. The user praxis in my working example has a password set, and the user will be asked for it when logging in interactively (e. g. on text mode console or via SSH); it WON'T ask for a password in the autologin setting. Meanwhile, I've changed the profile name autologin because of its double presence. It's now praxis (as the user's name) and still works, so this doesn't seem to be a problem. By the way, what's the $SHELL of the user you use for autologin? Maybe that's the reason - ~/.login belongs to the C shell, the default dialog shell, but if you use bash, for example, a different file is needed, MAYBE. I'm not a bash expert on this, as I'm using the C shell as primary dialog shell properly. :-) But above it there is a line that says: 554 5.3.0 host localhost unknown Aug 8 09:02:49 grullahighschool sm-mta[1090]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): host localhost unknown Starting cron. .. I had to add a localhost name and I added grullahighschool since I am going to work there and I am getting this machine prepared for work. This again is a message from the system's MTA. Such messages are often related to missing data in /etc/hosts. Check your settings there, and just for fun check /etc/mail's scripts (e. g. make all install). Otherwise, I would see the error message when starting xfce: Could not load up Internet address for . For empty string - something seems to be missing. This will prevent XFce from operating correctly, It may be possible to correct the problem by adding to the file /etc/hosts on your system As I did guess. :-) Make sure the setting, for example, hostname=something.local is in /etc/rc.conf and has a CORRESPONDING entry in /etc/hosts. when it had no hostname :(, I can go back to the /etc/rc.local solution, but would prefer to get this one working, the other has an advantage that once I log out, I can shutdown immediately, but this does not matter much. You can do this using the user's ~/.logout to contain shutdown -p now, but that might be bad if X crashes. :-) Still, Xfce offers a menu entry to perform a shutdown. -- 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: zfs question
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to tweak some loader.conf or sysctl parameters to get the best results. But that's hardly unique to ZFS. Yes, you're quite right. ;-) But now you mention it: my virtual installation under virtualbox is i386. So, I guess it's better to reinstall, because the server is amd64. I also think that will be better in future use of ZFS (needs 64bits to be happy. Am I right in believing I need the amd64 version (w/ ZFS) above the i386 one? ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
Polytropon, On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:11:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but the machine stays at the Password: prompt. That's strange. The user praxis in my working example has a password set, and the user will be asked for it when logging in interactively (e. g. on text mode console or via SSH); it WON'T ask for a password in the autologin setting. Meanwhile, I've changed the profile name autologin because of its double presence. It's now praxis (as the user's name) and still works, so this doesn't seem to be a problem. By the way, what's the $SHELL of the user you use for autologin? Maybe that's the reason - ~/.login belongs to the C shell, the default dialog shell, but if you use bash, for example, a different file is needed, MAYBE. I'm not a bash expert on this, as I'm using the C shell as primary dialog shell properly. :-) This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh. There is a file called .login in my home directory /home/olivares/.login which has: $ $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login,v 1.17.2.1.5.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06 kensmith Exp % # # .login - csh login script, read by login shell after '.cshrc' at login. # # see also csh(1), environ(7), # if (-x /usr/games/fortune ) /usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips if [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ]; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi and it clearly says that is for 'csh login', so I would need something else? But above it there is a line that says: 554 5.3.0 host localhost unknown Aug 8 09:02:49 grullahighschool sm-mta[1090]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): host localhost unknown Starting cron. .. I had to add a localhost name and I added grullahighschool since I am going to work there and I am getting this machine prepared for work. This again is a message from the system's MTA. Such messages are often related to missing data in /etc/hosts. Check your settings there, and just for fun check /etc/mail's scripts (e. g. make all install). Otherwise, I would see the error message when starting xfce: Could not load up Internet address for . For empty string - something seems to be missing. This will prevent XFce from operating correctly, It may be possible to correct the problem by adding to the file /etc/hosts on your system As I did guess. :-) Make sure the setting, for example, hostname=something.local I have hostname=grullahighschool in /etc/rc.conf file and I have included it in /etc/hosts also is in /etc/rc.conf and has a CORRESPONDING entry in /etc/hosts. when it had no hostname :(, I can go back to the /etc/rc.local solution, but would prefer to get this one working, the other has an advantage that once I log out, I can shutdown immediately, but this does not matter much. You can do this using the user's ~/.logout to contain shutdown -p now, but that might be bad if X crashes. :-) Still, Xfce offers a menu entry to perform a shutdown. -- Thanks for your help and advice. Regards, Antonio ___ 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: zfs question
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and webserver mostly. Instead of using two ZFS mirrors I could also go for gmirror (I'm not familiar with it, but it's been around for quite some time so it should be very stable). I don't get the data integrity that way, but my files would be safe, no? Also, using gmirror I could use normal BSD UFS filesystems and normal swap files devided across all disks? Or am I wrong, thinking this way. I'm not into fancy stuff; it has to be robust, fast and safe. ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:33:30 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh. There is a file called .login in my home directory /home/olivares/.login which has: $ $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login,v 1.17.2.1.5.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06 kensmith Exp % # # .login - csh login script, read by login shell after '.cshrc' at login. # # see also csh(1), environ(7), # if (-x /usr/games/fortune ) /usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips if [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ]; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi and it clearly says that is for 'csh login', so I would need something else? Yes. According to man bash, section INVOCATION, mentiones other file names: Bash reads and executes ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile (in that order), so you can add the line [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx (short form is completely okay and valid) at the end of ~/.bash_login - or also .profile, but it makes more sense in putting it into something related to login rather than a profile, but that's debatable semantics. :-) The line [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx is correct C shell, sh (Bourne) and bash syntax. I have hostname=grullahighschool in /etc/rc.conf file Did you add a domain name (.local or .lan are okay)? Something like 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 grullahighschool.local grullahighschool 127.0.0.1 grullahighschool.local. should work if hostname=grullahighschool.local is given. Don't forget to assign an IP for localhost, too (can be the same). See man host for details. -- 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: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.
Its www.openwebmail.org NOT opewebmail - typo :) If you need any help setting things up for your non-profit organization, let me know. Hi.. For WebMail that has everything you want: www.opebwebmail.org For pop3 : qpopper For Spam: SpamAssassin Default sendmail is good. all the above is available from ports, I would recommend a manual install for openwebmail instead of ports so you can follow and know how things work. You can install spamassassin from ports, and follow the instructions. -Marwan Sultan Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:19:19 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jbiq...@icsmx.com Subject: Anti virus, anti spam step guide. Hello all. I am looking documentation for implementing, the easiest way anti virus and anti spam configuration for non tech users and out of the box after installing FreeBSD (actually using 7.3 Release). I have been working with it for some years but I am not an expert at all. I need to help some non-profit organizations that received some 2 year old computers as donation and they will use it for email services. They have not tech people, so the idea is that I can help them to implement that solution the easiest way so maybe one of the teacher there can try to replicate the solution. UNtil now I always have used Sendmail as it is installed, no filters besided the spamcop ones but that was enough for my personal use. I know some of you will tell that change to postfix or another MTA and that instead using POP3 that I have to use another tool (courier, fetchail, imap (any) etc etc). I ca do it for sur and I do not want to star a war , again, under what MTA is the best. I just would like to have the best and easiest solution for them. Once installed they only will be creating new accounts, changing paswords, deleting accounts. Nothing else. Ah, another thing if possible is to implement a webmail but that will be an extra gem if possible. Any resources? Any suggestions based in experience? (I have one machine of them that I will use for testing the solution). Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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 ___ 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: SoundBlaster Problem with 8.1R (NO ONE ?)
No one ? Hello list, A strange sound problem with FreeBSD 8.1R sound card is : Creative Sound Blaster, Audigy When pciconf output is follow no...@pci0:5:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 chip=0x00071102 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Creative Technology LTD.' device = 'Device ID same for both, but Subsystem ID = 0x1012 - Extreme Audio, 0x100A - Audigy SE 7.1 (C6SB0410515017656A)' class = multimedia subclass = audio Means recognizing the sound? cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) Installed devices: # rc.conf # Enable sound-support snddetect_enable=YES mixer_enable=YES /boot/loader.conf snd_emu10kx_load=YES sound_load=YES snd_uaudio_load=YES I tried to load all drivers. but same issue. its PCBSD system 8.1 Please note sound was working with FreeBSD and PCBSD 7 with no problems. uname -a FreeBSD pcbsd-2738 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Any ideas? Thanks -Marwan ___ 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: zfs question
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and webserver mostly. Instead of using two ZFS mirrors I could also go for gmirror (I'm not familiar with it, but it's been around for quite some time so it should be very stable). I don't get the data integrity that way, but my files would be safe, no? Also, using gmirror I could use normal BSD UFS filesystems and normal swap files devided across all disks? Or am I wrong, thinking this way. I'm not into fancy stuff; it has to be robust, fast and safe. You do not *need* amd64, however it would the best choice. I wouldn't even mess around with gmirror. It's great and I love it, but it has some serious drawback's compared to zfs mirroring. One is there is no integrity checking, and two is a full resyc is required on an unclean disconnect. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror -- 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: virtualbox
Quoth Adam Vande More on Sunday, 08 August 2010: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote: Just to follow up, as part of my Bugathon participation I created a VM with 8.1-RELEASE as a guest for testing. The i386 version is running like a champ. I couldn't get the amd64 iso to boot under VirtualBox, though. It just appeared to hang after loading most of the system -- sorry, I don't have a log. I have a number of freebsd amd64 guests working fine, are you sure ostype is set correctly? You can get symptoms like yours if you're trying to boot amd64 when the vbox cpu is set to 32. -- Adam Vande More Doh! That was it -- thanks. I now have both 32-bit and a 64-bit guest FreeBSD systems. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpa5tmwQ0JMZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
Polytropon, Yes. According to man bash, section INVOCATION, mentiones other file names: Bash reads and executes ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile (in that order), so you can add the line [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx (short form is completely okay and valid) at the end of ~/.bash_login - or also .profile, but it makes more sense in putting it into something related to login rather than a profile, but that's debatable semantics. :-) The line [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx is correct C shell, sh (Bourne) and bash syntax. It does not work. When I try to login I see: -bash: [ !: command not found I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it returns same error. 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 grullahighschool.local grullahighschool 127.0.0.1 grullahighschool.local. should work if hostname=grullahighschool.local is given. Don't forget to assign an IP for localhost, too (can be the same). See man host for details. will change the /etc/hosts file to ::1 grullalhighschool.rgccisd.org grullahighschool 127.0.0.1 grullahighschool.rgccisd.org grullahighschool 127.0.0.1 localhost and see if I don't see the error. -- Thank you very much for your help and advice. Regards, Antonio ___ 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: Gnus issue in FreeBSD (was: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?)
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: [...] Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. I use same .gnus in both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD and keep the mailboxen on the $HOME of both boxen sync-ed with each other, and works great for me. I posted that in another thread and replied later when I discovered the problem. It appears that I had somehow put gnus-agent in offline mode, so it worked once I realized that and put it back online. How do you sync the mailboxes together? That sounds like something that could be useful for my configuration. Actually I am trying to move my old mail from Linux to FreeBSD, but syncing might be an easier way to handle moving it. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: zfs question
On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and webserver mostly. Instead of using two ZFS mirrors I could also go for gmirror (I'm not familiar with it, but it's been around for quite some time so it should be very stable). I don't get the data integrity that way, but my files would be safe, no? Also, using gmirror I could use normal BSD UFS filesystems and normal swap files devided across all disks? Or am I wrong, thinking this way. I'm not into fancy stuff; it has to be robust, fast and safe. You do not *need* amd64, however it would the best choice. I wouldn't even mess around with gmirror. It's great and I love it, but it has some serious drawback's compared to zfs mirroring. One is there is no integrity checking, and two is a full resyc is required on an unclean disconnect. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror -- 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 you could add a gjournal layer in there as well for better data integratity. I think you can do softupdates + journal as well now although I have never used 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: File System Performance on FreeBSD
On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 Kind of hard to do much with that benchmark First off: * Does the author even know what he's doing? All that article does is display the charts, then tell you what the chart says. The author shows no understanding of what's going on. * He's running the tests on a laptop. * He had a single disk/partition, which was the same disk/partition that he was running the OS off. The difference in speed might have been the result of different software being installed on the different OS that was competing for disk usage. * All of his tests involve tiny amounts of data and/or extremely quick run times (less than 30s). On a system with 4G of ram, the different caching policies on the different FS can have a huge difference on the results. While it's interesting to study those caching differences, it's not anywhere indicative of overall FS performance. Let him run one of those tests for 5 mins and see if the results are still the same. But, most importantly, his benchmarks are useless for any productive use. He doesn't describe the tests he's doing with enough detail for anyone else to attempt to reproduce them and attempt to address the problem. What does he mean by gzip test? Can I see the command line parameters involved? How many runs of each test did he do? What other programs were accessing the disk at the time? What other programs were _running_? There's nothing wrong with PC-BSD, but it installs a lot of stuff at install time -- there may be programs running that are hurting the results that aren't running on Ubuntu. Since that was a laptop, what is the powersave policy for the disks in each case? Did he do a single run of each test? That produces the most unreliable results ever. Overall, it's just sloppy reporting if you ask me. For all I know, he actually did a really good job of making sure that everything was set up to be fair, but the article doesn't say that. It's pretty typical of most reporting, not enough depth or care to be useful. I'm sure there are Linux people who will be shouting about this all over the place. But to the casual observer, all this tells you is that Linux's filesystems _may_ be faster for short, bursty work. To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results with an eye toward fixing them, it's useless. -- Bill Moran ___ 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: File System Performance on FreeBSD
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:13:46 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results with an eye toward fixing them, it's useless. Anyone can download the Phoronix Test Suite though, so it should be fairly easy to check if the results are valid at least. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: It does not work. When I try to login I see: -bash: [ !: command not found I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it returns same error. Very strange; I've checked that in bash's dialog mode, and it seems to work properly. If it really doesn't work, you can use the test program instead of [. if test ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi I've checked this in bash's dialog mode, it works. -- 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: File System Performance on FreeBSD
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.comwrote: On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 I'm sure there are Linux people who will be shouting about this all over the place. But to the casual observer, all this tells you is that Linux's filesystems _may_ be faster for short, bursty work. Here's a more detailed explanation. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-June/032031.html -- 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: File System Performance on FreeBSD
Hi, I heard that Linux filesystems were not reliable because of some bad way of doing caching or something like that. For a study on Linux FS reliability see [1] by Toshiba guys. It seems Linux was upset on this about one year ago [2]. Quoting: Torvalds, for one, didn't seem too excited about the delayed synchronization. He writes on the mailing list, Doesn't at least ext4 default to the insane model of 'data is less important than metadata, and it doesn't get journalled'? And ext3 with 'data=writeback' does the same, no? Both of which are -- as far as I can tell -- total brain damage. I don't mind if a filesystem is very fast: I want it to be reliable first. I wonder if that Phoronix test suite checks for reliability first or not. Cheers, Antonio [1] elinux.org/images/2/26/Evaluation_of_Data_Reliability-ELC2010.pdf [2] http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linus-Torvalds-Upset-over-Ext3-and-Ext4 On 08/08/2010 19:22, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:13:46 -0400 Bill Moranwmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results with an eye toward fixing them, it's useless. Anyone can download the Phoronix Test Suite though, so it should be fairly easy to check if the results are valid at least. ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: It does not work. When I try to login I see: -bash: [ !: command not found I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it returns same error. Very strange; I've checked that in bash's dialog mode, and it seems to work properly. If it really doesn't work, you can use the test program instead of [. if test ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi I've checked this in bash's dialog mode, it works. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... Have changed it, now when I start machine I am logged in as root grullahighschool# I wonder what I did /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure /etc/ttys autologin:\ :al=olivares:ht:np:sp#115200: Might it be that there were two lines in /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure and I removed the top one with Pc and left the one below? Thank you for your help/advice, I am almost there. Regards, Antonio ___ 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
Connection Bandwidth Metering?
I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) and was wondering what is the most straightforward to meter my own connection? I would like to email notices to myself of excessive bandwidth usage as well as take steps that limit a DOS attack or Slashdot effect on the webserver. I would also like the metering to be persistent as possible across reboots. Not really looking for full logging or to do graphs yet, just want the current metered bandwidth. 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On 8/8/10, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: It does not work. When I try to login I see: -bash: [ !: command not found I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it returns same error. Very strange; I've checked that in bash's dialog mode, and it seems to work properly. If it really doesn't work, you can use the test program instead of [. if test ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi I've checked this in bash's dialog mode, it works. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... Have changed it, now when I start machine I am logged in as root grullahighschool# I wonder what I did /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure /etc/ttys autologin:\ :al=olivares:ht:np:sp#115200: Might it be that there were two lines in /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure and I removed the top one with Pc and left the one below? Thank you for your help/advice, I am almost there. Regards, Antonio Update: I modified the top line to contain : ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and at the very end added one with ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure and sadlyI get Aug 8 12:07:58 grullahighschool init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0, sleeping 30 secs Then I get login prompt :( again. What could be going wrong ? Regards, Antonio ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:02:48 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Have changed it, now when I start machine I am logged in as root grullahighschool# I wonder what I did So that's REALLY strange... /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure Change autologin to something else; near the file's end there is already such a name - just to avoid interferences. Make sure you have /etc/gettytab in the following format (tested, and working): # File header # ... default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\ :if=/etc/issue: autologin:\ :al=olivares:tc=Pc: # # Fixed speed entries # file continues here . In this case, olivares is both the name of the user to log in automatically AND the name of the autologin-purpose profile. The user has to exist, of course. Might it be that there were two lines in /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure and I removed the top one with Pc and left the one below? Seems to be interfering... In /etc/ttys, use this format: ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty olivares cons25 on secure Make sure the line regarding X is off: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure -- 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:10:01 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Update: I modified the top line to contain : ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and at the very end added one with ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure and sadlyI get Aug 8 12:07:58 grullahighschool init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0, sleeping 30 secs Then I get login prompt :( again. What could be going wrong ? You have TWO definitions for ttyv0 now, you only need ONE. ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure is the line you want. Just comment out the other one. And make sure the xdm line is set to off. -- 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: Connection Bandwidth Metering?
On 08/08/2010 19:04:18, Chris Telting wrote:
I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) and was wondering what is the
most straightforward to meter my own connection?
It depends on exactly what type of VPS you have. If it's a Xen domU
host, or running under VMWare or VirtualBox, then it should be fairly
simple to access the byte counters kept by the network interfaces --
SNMP is the obvious way to do it -- or you can use firewall rules to
match various different types of traffic and keep counters that way.
Then you'll need to run a cron job that grabs this data and saves it
away at regular intervals -- every 5 minutes is fairly typical.
You can then calculate the average bandwidth usage for a 5 minute
sampling period by working out the difference between two adjacent
samples (ie. no of bytes sent/received during that 5 minutes) and then
multiply by 8 / (5 * 60) to get the result in bits/s
You'll have to work out how to deal with missing samples, with the
counters rolling over and with counters being set to zero at reboot,
puls storing a reasonable number of samples for doing your calculations
in an efficient way; all of which suggests that simply using one of the
available graphing programs would probably save you a deal of effort.
If your VPS is more like a FreeBSD jail, then you may need the
cooperation of whoever controls the host system to produce appropriate
stats.
I would like to email notices to myself of excessive bandwidth usage as
well as take steps that limit a DOS attack or Slashdot effect on the
webserver. I would also like the metering to be persistent as possible
across reboots. Not really looking for full logging or to do graphs
yet, just want the current metered bandwidth.
What counts as 'excessive'? Bandwidth usage tends by it's nature to be
pretty bursty. A common billing method is to calculate the 95%
percentile rate over a month -- ie. order the per-5minute bandwidth
samples from largest to smallest, discard the top 5% and then charge you
for the next highest value. Use 1Mb/s for 4.999% of the time, and
20kb/s the rest, and you'll only be charged for 20kb/s. Use 1Mb/s for
5.001% of the time, and you'll be charged for 1Mb/s for the whole month.
Very tricky to put together an alerting system that behaves
intelligently under such conditions, and that doesn't send you hundreds
of false alarms
However, you can use QoS bandwidth shaping to prevent your ever using up
too much bandwidth. See dummynet(4) {use with ipfw} or altq(4) {use
with pf}. These work to some extent by delaying traffic so that
instantaneous bandwidth usage stays within some preset bounds. You can
also arrange to reserve bandwidth for other services than your
webserver, which helps with the Slashdot effect.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD
Carl Johnson writes:
[...]
How do you sync the mailboxes together? That sounds like something
that could be useful for my configuration. Actually I am trying to
move my old mail from Linux to FreeBSD, but syncing might be an easier
way to handle moving it.
I use following sh script to synchronize my mailbox stuff which includes
Maildirs, Gnus configuration, procmail configuration, mairix db, etc.
#v+
#!/bin/sh
cwd=$(pwd)
cd
for i in .newsrc .newsrc.eld .newsrc~ .newsrc.eld~ .newsrc-dribble~ .gnus
.gnus.elc .procmailrc mail/ .maildir/ .mutt/ Mail/ News/ .mairix/; do
if [ -d ${i} ]; then cd ${i} ; fi
rsync -rvzdlt --delete /disks/bsd-home/${USER}/${i} .
if [ -d $HOME/${i} ]; then cd ; fi
done
cd ${cwd}
#v-
HTH
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Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
Carl Johnson writes: Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no mail. It did work one time with a couple of test messages, but I have never gotten it to repeat since then. I tried sending a couple of messages and they show up in my system mailbox. I also tried reading my system mail with the command line mail program and emacs rmail to verify that the system is handling mail properly. I also tried using a blank .gnus file and there was no change. I verified with my 7.3 system that gnus will at least read mail with a blank .gnus file. Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? nnmaildir? I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the backend, but that is the same for my other test and normal systems. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. So, Gnus is not able to read from mail spool, i.e. /var/mail/$USER, right ? Can you post your .gnus ? HTH -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” (Lord Kelvin, 1895) pgpokwghcCR1w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd
Paul eb30...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Oliver I can just get the i386 vmware version and should install and run. Last question is there a x86_64 bit Linux module? No, unfortunately x86_64 linux binaries are not supported. Is one I'm development? I'm afraid I don't know. I suggest you try asking in the freebsd-emulat...@freebsd.org mailing list. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd anyone new to programming should be kept as far from C++ as possible; actually showing the stuff should be considered a criminal offence -- Jacek Generowicz ___ 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: File System Performance on FreeBSD
On Sunday 08 August 2010 20:55:40 Antonio Vieiro wrote: I don't mind if a filesystem is very fast: I want it to be reliable first. I wonder if that Phoronix test suite checks for reliability first or not. https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Barriers_on_by_default Since it has been declared stable, the performance of ext4 has dropped due to various reliability fixes, culminating with the making of write barriers a default. More info here: http://lwn.net/Articles/283161/ -- Mihai Donțu ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:10:01 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Update: I modified the top line to contain : ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and at the very end added one with ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure and sadlyI get Aug 8 12:07:58 grullahighschool init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0, sleeping 30 secs Then I get login prompt :( again. What could be going wrong ? You have TWO definitions for ttyv0 now, you only need ONE. ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure is the line you want. Just comment out the other one. And make sure the xdm line is set to off. -- Polytropon, Thank you for your patience and your help. I deleted the last line instead of commenting it out and changed autologin to test, and voila, it worked. The suggestions for the hostname also worked beautifully :) The following changes made it work: /* In /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty test cons25 on secure and removed the other line that had the same execpt for test/autologin(had Pc) In /etc/ttys test:\ :al=olivares:ht:np:sp#115200: changed that word autologin to test and it made the difference. I cannot thank you enough for helping me with this issue. You made the difference between a *frustrated FreeBSD* to a *Happy and enjoying FreeBSD user :) Now, I have more than one machine running FreeBSD successfully and with different desktops. Polytropon, thanks a million for your help. Regards, Antonio ___ 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
helping
installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to download by failed and when I go back to the configuration of the Internet in sysinstall is a ip address 255.255.255.0 and disappears and it is still several times reinstalled FreeBSD Zainstalowałem freeBSD na VirtualPC ale mam problem z skonfigurowaniem internetu dhpc normalnie pobiera adres ip i adres routera ale gdy wprowadzam Komendę portsnap fetch do pobrania plików nie chce mi pobierać pisze failed i gdy wchodzę znów do konfiguracji internetu w sysinstall to adres ip i 255.255.255.0 znika i to ciągle przeinstalowałem freeBSD kilka razy ___ 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: mercurial port broken?
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 13:51:29 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Looks the same to me. A message went out on freebsd-ports@ that the port is broken and will be fixed in a couple of days: There is a preliminary patch with which you can experiment until the port is fixed in the tree: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2010-August/200063.html -- Sahil Tandon sa...@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: helping
Kamil Nowacki wrote: installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to download by failed and when I go back to the configuration of the Internet in sysinstall is a ip address 255.255.255.0 and disappears and it is still several times reinstalled FreeBSD [snip] I do not know anything about VirtualPC, but I have used VirtualBox for some time and if the two are similar enough what works with VBox may also apply, with minor variations. The nominal default install of VirtualBox provides a virtual NAT and DHCP services to the guest OS. The virtual network card that it is simulating needs to be known, so the correct network card driver can be selected. In VirtualBox the default is AMD PCNet FAST III, but one may also select a variant of Intel PRo/1000 as well. This is the NIC that the guest OS will be using. Since the driver (em) is included already in the default FreeBSD kernel a good choice would be the Intel PRO/1000 MT which is simulating an 82540. In any event, you will need to discover the virtual network card being presented to the guest OS. The command dmesg may help. An example based on the above Intel adapter would look like this: In your /etc/rc.conf file place the following: ifconfig_em0=DHCP That is all you need to do. Replace the em part with the driver that corresponds to the driver required for whichever network interface VirtualPC is presenting to the guest OS. For example, a very common Realtek 10/100 might look like: ifconfig_rl0=DHCP - rl is the name of the driver needed for the Realtek 8139-based family of adapters. When you boot the guest, it should initialize the adapter via DHCP. What I do not know is if VirtualPC is providing these NAT and DHCP services to the guest OS in a manner similar to VirtualBox. If it does this info will work. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd
Oliver,
I was well on my way of installing VMware-Player for i386 linux on FreeBSD
until I encountered these error messages.
Aug 8 20:44:09 BRSINC-VM02 kernel: linux: pid 12889 (dd): ioctl fd=0,
cmd=0x6d02 ('m',2) is not implemented
Aug 8 20:44:09 BRSINC-VM02 kernel: linux: pid 12896 (dd): ioctl fd=0,
cmd=0x6d02 ('m',2) is not implemented
The install script extracted the installer and began installing the rpms. I
have attached the verbose output file.
At this point should this be considered a linux emulator bug and reported as
such?
Paul
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.dewrote:
Paul eb30...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Oliver
I can just get the i386 vmware version and should install and run.
Last question is there a x86_64 bit Linux module?
No, unfortunately x86_64 linux binaries are not supported.
Is one I'm development?
I'm afraid I don't know. I suggest you try asking in the
freebsd-emulat...@freebsd.org mailing list.
Best regards
Oliver
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BRSINC-VM02# /compat/linux/bin/bash -vx VMware-Player-3.1.0-261024.i386.bundle
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# VMware Installer Launcher
#
# This is the executable stub to check if the VMware Installer Service
# is installed and if so, launch it. If it is not installed, the
# attached payload is extracted, the VMIS is installed, and the VMIS
# is launched to install the bundle as normal.
# Architecture this bundle was built for (x86 or x64)
ARCH=x86
+ ARCH=x86
if [ -z $BASH ]; then
# $- expands to the current options so things like -x get passed through
if [ ! -z $- ]; then
opts=-$-
fi
# dash flips out of $opts is quoted, so don't.
exec /usr/bin/env bash $opts $0 $@
echo Unable to restart with bash shell
exit 1
fi
+ '[' -z /compat/linux/bin/bash ']'
set -e
+ set -e
ETCDIR=/etc/vmware-installer
+ ETCDIR=/etc/vmware-installer
OLDETCDIR=/etc/vmware
+ OLDETCDIR=/etc/vmware
### Offsets ###
# These are offsets that are later used relative to EOF.
FOOTER_SIZE=52
+ FOOTER_SIZE=52
# This won't work with non-GNU stat.
FILE_SIZE=`stat --format %s $0`
stat --format %s $0
++ stat --format %s VMware-Player-3.1.0-261024.i386.bundle
+ FILE_SIZE=106519865
offset=$(($FILE_SIZE - 4))
+ offset=106519861
MAGIC_OFFSET=$offset
+ MAGIC_OFFSET=106519861
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519857
CHECKSUM_OFFSET=$offset
+ CHECKSUM_OFFSET=106519857
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519853
VERSION_OFFSET=$offset
+ VERSION_OFFSET=106519853
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519849
PREPAYLOAD_OFFSET=$offset
+ PREPAYLOAD_OFFSET=106519849
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519845
PREPAYLOAD_SIZE_OFFSET=$offset
+ PREPAYLOAD_SIZE_OFFSET=106519845
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519841
LAUNCHER_SIZE_OFFSET=$offset
+ LAUNCHER_SIZE_OFFSET=106519841
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519837
PAYLOAD_OFFSET=$offset
+ PAYLOAD_OFFSET=106519837
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519833
PAYLOAD_SIZE_OFFSET=$offset
+ PAYLOAD_SIZE_OFFSET=106519833
offset=$(($offset - 4))
+ offset=106519829
# Rest of the offsets ommitted
### End offsets ###
# Short name (ie, vmware-workstation). This isn't technically correct
# since there could be multiple product components in a bundle.
PRODUCT_NAME=vmware-player
+ PRODUCT_NAME=vmware-player
# Called when the script exits
#
# Arguments:
#None
#
# Side effects:
#- VMIS_TEMP and PREPAYLOAD is removed unless VMIS_KEEP_TEMP is set
on_exit() {
if [ -e $VMIS_TEMP -a -z $VMIS_KEEP_TEMP ]; then
rm -rf $VMIS_TEMP
fi
if [ -e $PREPAYLOAD -a -z $VMIS_KEEP_TEMP ]; then
rm -rf $PREPAYLOAD
fi
}
trap on_exit EXIT
+ trap on_exit EXIT
trap USR1
+ trap '' USR1
# Retrives and sets the various lengths that are extracted from the
# footer of the file.
#
# Arguments:
#$1 = bundle to get the lengths from
#
# Side effects:
#- MAGIC_NUMBER, LAUNCHER_SIZE, and PAYLOAD_SIZE are set.
#
# Returns:
#0 if successful, else 1
set_lengths() {
local file=$1
if [ ! -s $file ]; then
echo $file does not exist
exit 1
fi
# XXX: put extraction in its own function
MAGIC_NUMBER=`od -An -t u4 -N 4 -j $MAGIC_OFFSET $file | tr -d ' '`
if [ $MAGIC_NUMBER != 907380241 ]; then
echo magic number does not match
exit 1
fi
LAUNCHER_SIZE=`od -An -t u4 -N 4 -j $LAUNCHER_SIZE_OFFSET $file | tr -d '
'`
PAYLOAD_SIZE=`od -An -t u4 -N 4 -j $PAYLOAD_SIZE_OFFSET $file | tr -d ' '`
Re: Typical Network Performance
Seems like someone else got their question answered, but I was able to make use of the tips that were provided. win-win. Thanks for the pointers. By process of elimination (swap cables, swap ports, try different host pairs) I was able to discover that a single server on my home LAN was getting about 1.6% performance compared to other servers getting 94% performance using the 'dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1 | nc servername 2000' technique. netstat -I on the errant server reports no errors. What would be the next step to figuring out why this host's network performance is slow? Regards, Jason C. Wells ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: ... I use following sh script to synchronize my mailbox stuff which includes Maildirs, Gnus configuration, procmail configuration, mairix db, etc. ... Thanks, I'll have to think about that. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: ... Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? nnmaildir? I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the backend, but that is the same for my other test and normal systems. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. So, Gnus is not able to read from mail spool, i.e. /var/mail/$USER, right ? Can you post your .gnus ? The problem was that I somehow got into the agent unplugged mode, but everything started working when I figured that out. I previously posted a little more information as a response to my original post, so that should be in the archives. Thanks for your reply. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
Backing up video DVDs?
I have 100+ physical DVDs that I would copy to disk (for fast easy access and backup purposes). Is there any software in ports that will make a good copy of the dvd? ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 322, Issue 16, Message: 14 On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:44:36 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:33:30 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh. There is a file called .login in my home directory /home/olivares/.login which has: $ $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login,v 1.17.2.1.5.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06 kensmith Exp % # # .login - csh login script, read by login shell after '.cshrc' at login. # # see also csh(1), environ(7), # if (-x /usr/games/fortune ) /usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips if [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ]; then /usr/local/bin/startx fi Hi, I don't know if Antonio is still using that syntax in later versions but the '[' (test) command requires a space between '[' and arguments, ie in either csh, sh or bash (though I only tend to use csh interactively) the syntax '[!' doesn't work .. perhaps that's what produces the message: -bash: [ !: command not found mentioned in later messages? Some tests: smithi on sola% sh -c '[ ! -f /etc/hosts ] echo hosts not found || echo hosts found' hosts found smithi on sola% sh -c '[! -f /etc/hosts ] echo hosts not found || echo hosts found' [!: not found hosts found smithi on sola% bash -c '[ ! -f /etc/hosts ] echo hosts not found || echo hosts found' hosts found smithi on sola% bash -c '[! -f /etc/hosts ] echo hosts not found || echo hosts found' bash: [!: command not found hosts found Of course 'hosts found' is a misleading response for the '[!' tests; it just means that the test command failed. With a non-existing file: smithi on sola% sh -c '[ ! -f /etc/boo ] echo boo not found || echo boo found' boo not found smithi on sola% sh -c '[! -f /etc/boo ] echo boo not found || echo boo found' [!: not found boo found smithi on sola% bash -c '[ ! -f /etc/boo ] echo boo not found || echo boo found' boo not found smithi on sola% bash -c '[! -f /etc/boo ] echo boo not found || echo boo found' bash: [!: command not found boo found Again 'boo found' just means the '[' (test) command failed; '[!' is bad. and it clearly says that is for 'csh login', so I would need something else? Yes. According to man bash, section INVOCATION, mentiones other file names: Bash reads and executes ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile (in that order), so you can add the line [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx (short form is completely okay and valid) at the end of ~/.bash_login - or also .profile, but it makes more sense in putting it into something related to login rather than a profile, but that's debatable semantics. :-) I'm not really sure about that; even at the very end of ~/.bash_profile running startx (a script that doesn't exit till you quit X) might be a bit dodgy, ie does bash expect sourcing ~/.bash_profile to return immediately? I guess Antonio might have to see which of those work. The debian system I look after doesn't have any .bash_login files; apart from the system-wide files in /etc (best untouched) most of the business is done in ~/.bashrc, invoked for interactive shells by ~/.bash_profile, but I'm unsure whether the login shell (that doesn't use ~/.bashrc) then invokes an interactive shell (that does) or what .. man bash is awful :) The line [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx is correct C shell, sh (Bourne) and bash syntax. It is - but only with that space after '[' - and of course before ']' HTH, Ian ___ 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: Typical Network Performance
Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: By process of elimination (swap cables, swap ports, try different host pairs) I was able to discover that a single server on my home LAN was getting about 1.6% performance compared to other servers getting 94% ... What would be the next step to figuring out why this host's network performance is slow? My next step would be to check whether this host and its hub/switch port agree on speed and duplex -- occasionally some combination of netcard phy and switch type gets the negotiation wrong. Duplex mismatch, in particular, can have huge performance impact. ___ 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
