Re: Problems with the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard
I did check the whole dmesg output, but nothing. I also tried to recompile the kernel, but I found no acceptable non-included nic drivers, so I just backed off. Now I have Ubuntu installed, but that does not mean that I am too happy about it... The manufacturer of the nic is realtek, by the way... Matevž ___ 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 to fix bad superblock on UFS2?
Try to use tools/tools/find-sb to locate superblocks. -- Maxim Konovalov ___ 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: Problems with the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 08:24 +0200, Matevž Markovič wrote: Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard Did you try the re driver? The chipset is Realtek 8111e. This is supported by 8-stable, I think. Did you look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-June/062886.html tomdean ___ 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: high performance open source DHCP solution?
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:55 -0300, Rogelio wrote: R The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. R handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I R was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions R that could scale much better? 1. May be it is possible to decrease load of DHCP server by increasing lease time. If address pool is the limit, adaptive-lease-time-threshold option in ISC dhcpd may be useful. 2. Which dhcpd version is used? According to changelog 4.2 has some performance improvements. -- Anton Yuzhaninov ___ 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 to fix bad superblock on UFS2?
On 20 Jul 2011 , Maxim Konovalov entreated about Re: How to fix bad superblock on UFS2?: Try to use tools/tools/find-sb to locate superblocks. Thankyou Maxim I may yet need to use that on another partition, but last night I achieved some success by hacking fsck_ffs to display what it is doing. By doing this I found that it considers the 'first alternate' superblock to be the one in the LAST cylinder group. So, by using dd to copy a working superblock to block 128 and to the last one listed by 'newfs -N', fsck_ffs could then actually recover some files. Since I probably broke more things on this partition than were broken by the 'disk smoke event', I was not surprised when only about half the drives files showed up in lost+found and the primary folder is now empty (the whole drive is a Samba share with quotas, so I create a folder to share so that users cannot mess with the quota.* files). Not a problem for this partition as I have a full level 0 dump. I now have 2 more partitions to resurrect both report 'Cannot find file system superblock' though 'newfs -N' shows a sensible list of them, so I have hope. But, further thanks to you for pointing out find-sb, because in googling for that I found various other very useful things, including http://www.chakraborty.ch/tag/raid-filesystem-partition-recovery-ufs- freebsd/ which at the least, points out things to avoid doing (-: thanks -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25
On 07/19/11 09:31, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700 From: ssgriffonuserssgriffonu...@gmail.com Subject: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 Hi all, I'm having difficulty getting sendmail set up on my server. I can send and receive to localhost and I can send to external networks but I can not receive from external networks (I receive a 550: Address rejected). What does the sendmail LOG FILE show? Netstat says sendmail is listening on port 25 but I cannot telnet to it. Netstat just says something has port 25 open on 'any' address -- this may, or may *not* be the sendmail instance you think is running. It probably *IS*, but you need to be sure. When I do a port scan of the server, nmap does not show anything on port 25 but does show smtp on 587. May I recommend 'lsof'? The command-line lsof -n -P |grep IPv will show exactly what processes have have what ports, on what addresses, open. As far as configuration goes, I added my hostname to /etc/mail/local-host-names and created a /etc/host/virtusertable that looks like: ad...@host.comshane sh...@host.comshane then I ran 'make all install restart' . *Unless* you modified the .mc file, I believe 'virtusertable' should be in /etc/mail, not /etc/host. what does 'grep Kvirtuser /etc/mail/sendmail.cf' show? Lastly, you need to run 'makemap hash virtusertable' in the directory where the virtusertable file lives. First of all, thanks everybody for the help and suggestions. Let me just clarify that the problem is: I cannot submit mail to my sendmail server (i.e sending mail from gmail to my server). Answers to the questions that were presented are below. *sendmail_enable and sendmail_submit_enable are set to YES in my rc.conf. *ISP is not blocking port 25. *The sendmail log file doesn't show anything useful which makes me believe that the connections are not getting to sendmail. *lsof shows that sendmail is listening on port 25. *The virtusertable file is in /etc/mail and not /etc/host. That was a typo. *'grep Kvirtuser /etc/mail/sendmail.cf': Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable *The correct files (i.e access.db, virtusertable.db, aliases.db and sendmail.cf) are being generated before sendmail is started. *I noticed the following line in /etc/defaults/rc.conf: sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost # Flags for localhost-only MTA That line seems to describe the problem I am having, however when I move that line to /etc/rc.conf and change the address from localhost to gatanova.com I still can't telnet in from an external network. Some relevant files are shown below: /etc/rc.conf: hostname=gatanova.com ifconfig_re0=DHCP apache22_enable=YES apache22_http_accept_enable=YES mysql_enable=YES sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_submit_enable=YES sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=gatanova.com /etc/hosts: ::1 localhost localhost.gatanova.com 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.gatanova.com 10.12.32.90 rootbsdinternal /etc/mail/local-host-names: gatanova.com gatanova /etc/mail/virtusertable: ad...@gatanova.com shane sh...@gatanova.com shane @gatanova.com shane /etc/mail/access: #Empty, everything is commented out Sorry for the long winded email, I wanted to make sure that enough information was available. ___ 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: printer - broadband router
I am so sorry it was my mistake: the printer is HP Business inkjet 3000. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ajtiM wrote: My system: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #0m I use KDE 4.6.5 CUPS and HPLIP are installed. I have an old broadband router D-604 (dlink), cable Internet and my computer with FreeBSD and the other one with Windows are connected to the router. I got HP bussiness inkjet 5000 which was connected to the network (my work). And the last one: I never had printer on my computer with FreeBSD and looks like is not so easy to setup. I just run HP Device Manager and it didn't find anything but light where is printer connected blink. Setting up printers on FreeBSD generally isn't that hard. Difficulties come from cheap printers that have oddball page description languages or host-based printers which expect bitmaps only, and in a specific format. Some of these printers require a firmware download before they can do anything. openprinting.org doesn't list a Business Inkjet 5000, so I can't tell what PDLs it understands. ___ 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
em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
Hi, I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigabit network, no errors showing. It looks a lot like kern/152828, but it seems that nobody's looking at that. As per suggestions from the archives, I've tried disabling TSO. No change. Anyone else experiencing this, or have any suggestions? At the moment, the boss is complaining that his Windows Home Server is doing better than this machine, and that's a technological direction I really don't want to go in. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ Latest book: Network Flow Analysis http://www.networkflowanalysis.com/ mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org, Twitter @mwlauthor ___ 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: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
At 18:04 20/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigabit network, no errors showing. It looks a lot like kern/152828, but it seems that nobody's looking at that. Don't know about that, but perhaps the nic is not working at full gigabit. Can you post the output of ifconfig? #ifconfig em0 If it's not connected at 1 gigabit or not full duplex you can force it with ifconfig. If there are too much errors check the cable. As per suggestions from the archives, I've tried disabling TSO. No change. Anyone else experiencing this, or have any suggestions? At the moment, the boss is complaining that his Windows Home Server is doing better than this machine, and that's a technological direction I really don't want to go in. Thanks, ==ml ___ 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
Horde-4
Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything google horde.org has to offer but I find no solution to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, IMP app for an IMAP mail service. The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple designated as admins. If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same login as I assUme? Thanks for any ideas (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american ___ 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 to add sio to 8.2 ?
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com writes: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep traps? It might work, but it would certainly be bad for performance on multiprocessor systems. I think the Giant lock is still around, just not used. If it's actually been excised from the code, then you have no chance at all. ___ 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: printer - broadband router
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Franci Nabalanci wrote: I am so sorry it was my mistake: the printer is HP Business inkjet 3000. That printer supports PCL and maybe even PostScript. Make sure it has DNS. Entries in /etc/hosts should be adequate. Set it with a fixed IP address or through DHCP. The rest is CUPS, which I don't use. ___ 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
Why not add ZFS support on bsdinstaller? (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/RELEASE)
The question... or maybe I'm wrong and will be included. Greets! ___ 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
I do not believe that these phones or tablets will replace desktop but there is a lot of room for these two types of devices basically to communicate, giving people access to their data and environment from both. The reason I dont see the desktop going anywhere is that, basically people dont want to work on a spreadsheet, play a game, write a letter or do many other things on a 3 screen. Students wont want to use them to do their reports, etc. Phones and tablets are handy when on the go due to the portability, but their portability makes them impractical for use at home when a larger screen is more desirable. The growth of tablets is due to there simply not being the market there before and more people buying them for mobile use. But desktops will remain popular for home and work use. Also users want upgradeability, they dont want to be stuck with the same amount of hard disk space and may want to add a new camera to the system, a capture device, scanner, etc. Desktop systems provide much more upgrade flexibility. Linking the desktop to the tablet will be an important thing so people can access data and so on from their tablet. Problems with Linux and BSD user share relate to the lack of useability. One of the useability issues relates to hardware driver issues. I am convinced the only way to make Linux or BSD user friendly is to acknowledge that we need to make it so that 3rd party hardware provider drivers can be used easily on these operating systems and there is backwards compatability, allowing the drivers for an older version of the kernel to be continued to be used. Its not that I love the idea of 3rd party binary drivers, but that by putting up with the necessary evil we can greatly increase usage of BSD by greatly improving hardware compatability by getting hardware vendors to write drivers for their hardware. This of course still means open source drivers can be developed and then used instead of the hardware provider drivers, however, the hardware provider drivers would be avialable for many devices where open source drivers may not be available for months or years, if ever. Increasing available of hardware drivers for FreeBSD will also mean increasing numbers of FreeBSD/PCBSD users and that would mean more potential sources of donations, which could be requested by a pop up after installation. It is clear that hardware companies can provide hardware drivers more quickly and better tested and implemented for the hardware than kernel developers can. For instance, they can port their Windows drivers. People do not want to wait years for their hardware to be supported or having to not be able to use many kinds of hardware just so they can use BSD or LInux. People want to use hardware, and also they do not want a huge hassle with getting hardware to work. Basically users need to be able to plug in the device, throw the CD in the drive, and the hardware driver should install itself and work. Users are not going to use an OS that wont support hardware when Windows will. They are not going to wait months when hardware will work on windows right away. They wont give up on being able to use some hardware because it wont work on BSD, they will just use Windows. Hardware companies are not going to always provide open source drivers, but are willng to provide binary ones. And as well, Hardware companies need to have a well documented API, so they dont have to spend months trying to figure an undocumented API in the BSD kernel to figure out how to write a driver, and a stable ABI so they can release one copy of the driver and have it continue to work with many different versions of the kernel well into the future. The User may buy a printer that has a driver CD in it, this may be sitting on a store shelf for months or a year, and as well, the user may need to use this CD for years down the road to use their printer. The OS needs to support that binary driver for years following. We need hardware manufacturers to develop drivers and support their own drivers. The case with drivers developed by BSD people is the drivers may take months to appear, or for lesser known or more exotic software, might not be available ever. By putting up with a few pieces of binary 3rd party driver modules the deployment and popularity of BSD can be increased as it will begin to be useable with far more hardware. I think the hardware support problem is really the stumbling block now. Hardware support has to be avialable for hardware immediately. Users having a BSD OS install process bomb because their hardware is not supported is not acceptable, things have to work out of the box. Here BSD has advantages over Linux. There is no legal question that binary drivers can be used with BSD, there is no legal ambiguity here. BSD does have a potential really to compete with Windows for hardware support. provided, we make it easy for companies to develop drivers by providing for good documentation and facilities for quick, rapid
Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
On Wed, July 20, 2011 1:52 pm, David Jackson wrote: I do not believe that these phones or tablets will replace desktop but there is a lot of room for these two types of devices basically to communicate, giving people access to their data and environment from both. The reason I dont see the desktop going anywhere is that, basically people dont want to work on a spreadsheet, play a game, write a letter or do many other things on a 3 screen. Students wont want to use them to do their reports, etc. Phones and tablets are handy when on the go due to the portability, but their portability makes them impractical for use at home when a larger screen is more desirable. The growth of tablets is due to there simply not being the market there before and more people buying them for mobile use. But desktops will remain popular for home and work use. Also users want upgradeability, they dont want to be stuck with the same amount of hard disk space and may want to add a new camera to the system, a capture device, scanner, etc. Desktop systems provide much more upgrade flexibility. Linking the desktop to the tablet will be an important thing so people can access data and so on from their tablet. I'll disagree, somewhat: I know several people who are using a tablet as a desktop-replacement laptop. They have a Bluetooth keyboard, and can use the tablet as a full computer or not. Most *consumers,* in my experience, also don't typically care about upgradablity. Either the machine works when they get it, or it doesn't (which is a warranty issue), and after that if it breaks in few years, well, time to get a new one. A few will add RAM or a HD when they get it, but that's about it. Other additions, if any, are done as USB/Bluetooth, etc, and can be done on a tablet just as easily as a desktop. As for binary drivers... They work ok *if* and *while* the company wants to support the hardware/OS. Once they decide they don't want to, that's it. This tends to cause problems down the road. Also, they may do no more than the minimum necessary to support a certain version of the OS, unless that OS is a major source for their customers. So while they *can* make better drivers than the core team, they often *don't.* Best is an open driver by the manufacturer. Second is open docs, third is binary blob. My opinion. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ 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: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Obviously, it is _not_ unlawful to 'even open' a file that is 'labelled as private'. Herr Ghost subsequently clarified that he meant 'opened by a person' -- which, if _that_ is an accurate description of the law in question, means that a purely mechanical process, such as a loop running file(1) on all files, and logging a filtered subset of that output would _not_ qualify as 'opening' under the law, either. That's Frau Ghost, if you please. Look, the problem isn't running some analyzer on the files, it's the subsequent evaluation and interpretation of its output by a human operator. That's the exact point in time where the law applies (the law doesn't care about apparatus, it cares about human behavior). Over here, you can run as many filters on the files in an automated fashion, but that won't do you any good when you're not allowed to interpret the results (or even to merely *look* at them), and *act* accordingly. To wit: If you're building on _my_ property, I _do_ have the right to demand proof that you are doing it 'legally'. Please acknowledge that different jurisdictions also do have different philosophies... and especially different priorities w.r.t. the rights they are supposed to uphold. If I understand what you're saying, it means that in your place, private property rights rank higher than privacy protection obligations. That's okay, and not something to criticize, but it's not the case everywhere else in the world. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: printer - broadband router
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:55:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Franci Nabalanci wrote: I am so sorry it was my mistake: the printer is HP Business inkjet 3000. That printer supports PCL and maybe even PostScript. Make sure it has DNS. Entries in /etc/hosts should be adequate. Set it with a fixed IP address or through DHCP. The rest is CUPS, which I don't use. You don't even have to use CUPS. PS is the default output for printing of _any_ application. In worst case, use gs as a simple filter that outputs PCL. Entry in /etc/printcap done. (But also CUPS can generate PCL and direct it to a printer name that refers to the IP of the printer.) -- 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: Horde-4
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 12:47:33 PM, Jack wrote: Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything google horde.org has to offer but I find no solution to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, IMP app for an IMAP mail service. The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple designated as admins. If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same login as I assUme? Thanks for any ideas Installed fine via ports from /usr/ports/mail/horde4-webmail/ FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2, MySQL 5.1.58, Postfix v2.8.3 It took less than 15 minutes to have it configured and running. -- Best regards, Duanemailto:du...@duanemail.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: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: For example, if it is part of the _terms_of_emplyment_ -- which one *agreed* to, by going to work there --that you (the employeee) give permission for the company, or it's agents, to examine any file you store on the system. It depends on the jurisdiction. For example, in Germany, you as an employee CAN'T waive some basic rights by law, and every waiver you've signed with your employer is automatically null and void, at least the provisions that affect those specific rights. Do you mean to suggest that an employee _cannot_ give permission to *anyone* (whether it is the employer, or just a friend) to look at any file that is categorized as 'private' ?? If they can give permission for 'someone' to look at a particular file, what prevents them from giving that someone permission to look at _every_ such file? We're getting to the point where only lawyers should give binding advice, according to a particular jurisdiction, so I obviously won't offer any such advice here. The point though, is /roughly/ this: yes, an individual CAN give permission for others to inspect his/her files (usually in his presence). BUT a company CANNOT require or compel the user to give this permission as a prerequisite for entering an agreement. Or, in other words, a company couldn't simply state in their TOS: user is giving permission to company to inspect all files he stores in his private area. Such a language would be null and void under most circumstance. That is at least the situation here. Again, jurisdictions vary widely. We here in Europe are at the farthest spectrum in terms of privacy protection of workers (students etc..) in the workplace (school etc...). Educational institutions here _are_ subject to somewhat differnet rules than corporates. True, most (i.e. all but a very few private Universities) are public institutions here. We're effectively and de jure part of the State infrastructure, and as such subject to a different set of rules. However, privacy protection applies just as much to corporations, if not even more so. Or, to sum up this thread (if you please): original poster, and every other sysadmin and IT head should check with their lawyer(s) before even considering or attempting to invade their users' privacy for whatever reason. The slippery when wet warning applies. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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 not add ZFS support on bsdinstaller? (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/RELEASE)
use pcbsd installer or mfsbsd On 20 July 2011 18:55, Alvaro Castillo gobl...@gmail.com wrote: The question... or maybe I'm wrong and will be included. Greets! ___ 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: Horde-4
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 1:45:57 PM, I wrote: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 12:47:33 PM, Jack wrote: Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything google horde.org has to offer but I find no solution to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, IMP app for an IMAP mail service. The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple designated as admins. If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same login as I assUme? Thanks for any ideas Installed fine via ports from /usr/ports/mail/horde4-webmail/ FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2, MySQL 5.1.58, Postfix v2.8.3 It took less than 15 minutes to have it configured and running. Forgot to mention I am using Dovecot v2.0.13. -- Best regards, Duanemailto:du...@duanemail.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: Why not add ZFS support on bsdinstaller? (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/RELEASE)
Alvaro == Alvaro Castillo gobl...@gmail.com writes: Alvaro The question... or maybe I'm wrong and will be included. There *is* ZFS support in the PC-BSD 8.2 installer. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion ___ 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: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )
You cannot generate a hash without at a certain automated level opening the file. If you can do that, couldn't you generate a hash of the first four bytes to match with hashes of known magic numbers? If you can look at the whole file, surely you can look at just the first four bytes. not true these days. If you run zfs (or probably btrfs, yuk) you can just pull the file hashes used by the fs (zdb). Therefore your not actually reading the file. ___ 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: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:12:27PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: At 18:04 20/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigabit network, no errors showing. It looks a lot like kern/152828, but it seems that nobody's looking at that. Don't know about that, but perhaps the nic is not working at full gigabit. Can you post the output of ifconfig? #ifconfig em0 It's at gigabit: em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC ether 00:15:17:31:c8:fe inet xxx media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active Thanks, ==ml If it's not connected at 1 gigabit or not full duplex you can force it with ifconfig. If there are too much errors check the cable. As per suggestions from the archives, I've tried disabling TSO. No change. Anyone else experiencing this, or have any suggestions? At the moment, the boss is complaining that his Windows Home Server is doing better than this machine, and that's a technological direction I really don't want to go in. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ Latest book: Network Flow Analysis http://www.networkflowanalysis.com/ mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org, Twitter @mwlauthor ___ 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: Horde-4
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 09:47:33 Jack L. Stone wrote: Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything google horde.org has to offer but I find no solution to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, IMP app for an IMAP mail service. All of the horde4 ports including webmail and groupware have been rewritten and comitted. AFAIK everything is working properly. You may be missing some libs or modules, so I would suggest a reinstall. The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple designated as admins. If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same login as I assUme? Not necessarily. It all depends on your auth backend configs for both horde and the apps. If you're using IMAP auth, you should be able to login to imp as any regular user on the mail account. It's common to use IMAP auth as your general auth backend, that way your users will end up in the right account. You also need either SASL auth or Dovecot auth setup along with your auth backend. IMAP SSL is required, imp will NOT work with IMAP plain login unless you hack the configs by hand (bad idea). Finally, uncheck the disable horde test script box on the main horde configs under the general tab, save your configs and navigate to horde/test.php, there is a section near the bottom for testing your IMAP login. If that isn't successful, you're not going to get much further. If the option doesn't exist at all, you don't have all the modules you need. It will also give you an idea about the state of everything else. Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction :-) Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
At 21:16 20/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: It's at gigabit: em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC ether 00:15:17:31:c8:fe inet xxx media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active All seems to be ok, try a netstat -I em0 -d (it's a capital 'i') to get statistics. If too much packets are dropped recheck cables. Other options: a) 30 MB/s looks very strange, do you have pf or similar with a filter rule? b) Have you checked your disk i/o performance? c) If you generate the data dinamically, may be your producer app is the problem. About the em specific problem under 8.2 you cite, others can guide better than me. HTH Thanks, ==ml ___ 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: Horde-4
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 11:22:44 Beech Rintoul wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 09:47:33 Jack L. Stone wrote: Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything google horde.org has to offer but I find no solution to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, IMP app for an IMAP mail service. All of the horde4 ports including webmail and groupware have been rewritten and comitted. AFAIK everything is working properly. You may be missing some libs or modules, so I would suggest a reinstall. The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple designated as admins. If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same login as I assUme? Not necessarily. It all depends on your auth backend configs for both horde and the apps. If you're using IMAP auth, you should be able to login to imp as any regular user on the mail account. It's common to use IMAP auth as your general auth backend, that way your users will end up in the right account. You also need either SASL auth or Dovecot auth setup along with your auth backend. IMAP SSL is required, imp will NOT work with IMAP plain login unless you hack the configs by hand (bad idea). Finally, uncheck the disable horde test script box on the main horde configs under the general tab, save your configs and navigate to horde/test.php, there is a section near the bottom for testing your IMAP login. If that isn't successful, you're not going to get much further. If the option doesn't exist at all, you don't have all the modules you need. It will also give you an idea about the state of everything else. Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction :-) Beech I forgot to say use SASL or Dovecot auth if you also want to access and remotely use your sendmail system outside of your horde portal. Horde imp shouldn't have any problems out of the box if your IMAP is otherwise working properly. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Horde-4
At 11:38 AM 7/20/2011 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 11:22:44 Beech Rintoul wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 09:47:33 Jack L. Stone wrote: Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything google horde.org has to offer but I find no solution to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, IMP app for an IMAP mail service. All of the horde4 ports including webmail and groupware have been rewritten and comitted. AFAIK everything is working properly. You may be missing some libs or modules, so I would suggest a reinstall. The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple designated as admins. If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same login as I assUme? Not necessarily. It all depends on your auth backend configs for both horde and the apps. If you're using IMAP auth, you should be able to login to imp as any regular user on the mail account. It's common to use IMAP auth as your general auth backend, that way your users will end up in the right account. You also need either SASL auth or Dovecot auth setup along with your auth backend. IMAP SSL is required, imp will NOT work with IMAP plain login unless you hack the configs by hand (bad idea). Finally, uncheck the disable horde test script box on the main horde configs under the general tab, save your configs and navigate to horde/test.php, there is a section near the bottom for testing your IMAP login. If that isn't successful, you're not going to get much further. If the option doesn't exist at all, you don't have all the modules you need. It will also give you an idea about the state of everything else. Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction :-) Beech I forgot to say use SASL or Dovecot auth if you also want to access and remotely use your sendmail system outside of your horde portal. Horde imp shouldn't have any problems out of the box if your IMAP is otherwise working properly. Beech -- Good help! Should I use Dovecot or Dovecot2 ?? Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american ___ 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: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:55:29AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:21:31 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: This is where we find a dividing line between users who want different things. Yes, you turn on your Win7 laptop (or wake it up) in a coffee shop, and it connects automagically -- in fact, you probably don't even realize it has connected. Hopefully it connected to the coffee shop's network, and not one of those occasional skimming networks that masquerade as coffe shop networks and exist to harvest login data and the like. The dividing line between two schools of thought on the matter in this example should be obvious. You do realize that all of that is configurable; ie, auto connect, preferred network, etcetera. If you have not taken the time to read the documentation and properly configure the wireless app correctly then why bitch? I am not implying that it is perfect; however, given the grave limitations that FreeBSD places on wireless connections; specifically lack of drivers, and the inordinate amount of manual intervention to accomplish what Microsoft and other OSs, (does the name Ubuntu sound familiar) have achieved, it is readily apparent that the FreeBSD implementation is trailing the pack. If you turn off the automation that connects you to networks you do not want, you turn off the advantage you suggest FreeBSD needs. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpIjoR9Hoiqg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
On 7/20/2011 12:04 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigabit network, no errors showing. what does sysctl -a dev.em show ? What kind of switch is the box plugged into ? Can you show the output of the switch interface showing how its connected e.g. flow control, duplex, interface counters etc. ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.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: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:03:56PM -0600, Sam George wrote: Having come to BSD from Linux less than a month ago, I find it interesting that the very thing, which Mr. Pottering is encouraging in Linux development, is what has lead me to search for other options besides Linux. Of late Linux has been loosing the 'plays well with others award'. First they cut the .AppleDouble support from the appletalk drivers, then they refused to let the ReiserFS code into the kernel, and I suppose their lack of implementing ZFS is possibly same motivation (given that they _do_ have the man power to port the code). Actually, as I understand it, the reason the Linux community has had trouble integrating ZFS is licensing. That's a major downside of copyleft licensing: most copyleft licenses (GPL, CDDL, et cetera) are mutually incompatible. Because the FreeBSD kernel is BSD licensed, and the Linux kernel is GPLed, it is easier to get ZFS working legally with the BSD kernel in a distributable form than with the Linux kernel. I'm a little iffy on the details, though. I have not looked into the matter in any depth, and may have misstated myself a bit. If Kerningham and Richie were focused on staying 'professionally relevant' UNIX would never have /existed/, and as its decedents, neither would have BSD or Linux. Is BSD relevant? Looks like it's /essential/ given the context of the question. In general, I think you make good points, and like this wrap-up of yours. I just wanted to point out a little-recognized detail of the benefit of BSD Unix systems over GPLed systems, once you (sorta inadvertently) brought up one of the effects of that difference. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEN2KjrKINz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
upgradability is not just about about ram and hard drives. But i would beg to differ that people dont want to add hard drives considering how fast they can be filled with movies, or they wouldnt want to use their old hard drives on a newer system considering how much data is on the older hard drive. but you also have scanners, cameras, joysticks, capture devices for video, and so on that many common users love to use. A lot of people use computers for writing, home and office business work, and gaming, and given the choice between a 3 screen and a 20 screen, you want a 20 screen. Even facebook is better on a 20 screen. I stand by what i said, mobile is great for use on a subway, but when you get home, you really want a nice 20 screen to work on, and the bigger hard drive and faster CPU. I do want FreeBSD on both my handheld and the desktop. Now, notice its very difficult to near impossible to change the operating system on handhelds. Thats one reason I dont like most handhelds made today. They are designed to control you. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: On Wed, July 20, 2011 1:52 pm, David Jackson wrote: I do not believe that these phones or tablets will replace desktop but there is a lot of room for these two types of devices basically to communicate, giving people access to their data and environment from both. The reason I dont see the desktop going anywhere is that, basically people dont want to work on a spreadsheet, play a game, write a letter or do many other things on a 3 screen. Students wont want to use them to do their reports, etc. Phones and tablets are handy when on the go due to the portability, but their portability makes them impractical for use at home when a larger screen is more desirable. The growth of tablets is due to there simply not being the market there before and more people buying them for mobile use. But desktops will remain popular for home and work use. Also users want upgradeability, they dont want to be stuck with the same amount of hard disk space and may want to add a new camera to the system, a capture device, scanner, etc. Desktop systems provide much more upgrade flexibility. Linking the desktop to the tablet will be an important thing so people can access data and so on from their tablet. I'll disagree, somewhat: I know several people who are using a tablet as a desktop-replacement laptop. They have a Bluetooth keyboard, and can use the tablet as a full computer or not. Most *consumers,* in my experience, also don't typically care about upgradablity. Either the machine works when they get it, or it doesn't (which is a warranty issue), and after that if it breaks in few years, well, time to get a new one. A few will add RAM or a HD when they get it, but that's about it. Other additions, if any, are done as USB/Bluetooth, etc, and can be done on a tablet just as easily as a desktop. As for binary drivers... They work ok *if* and *while* the company wants to support the hardware/OS. Once they decide they don't want to, that's it. This tends to cause problems down the road. Also, they may do no more than the minimum necessary to support a certain version of the OS, unless that OS is a major source for their customers. So while they *can* make better drivers than the core team, they often *don't.* Best is an open driver by the manufacturer. Second is open docs, third is binary blob. My opinion. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:45 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.comwrote: I stand by what i said, mobile is great for use on a subway, but when you get home, you really want a nice 20 screen to work on, and the bigger hard drive and faster CPU. While I agree with your points, can please stop top posting? It's difficult to follow and violates list convention. Thanks, -- 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: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:29:41 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: If you turn off the automation that connects you to networks you do not want, you turn off the advantage you suggest FreeBSD needs. Maybe its a language thing; however, I am not comprehending what you are trying got say. You would, or at least I would, limit the networks I want to automatically connect to. That can be as few as one, or none if you simply disable it entirely. FreeBSD suffers from unneeded user intervention in order to configure the device, assuming (and that is a large assumption) that a driver is available for said device. In the case of N protocol devices, the chances of one being available ate moot to none. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
snip Regarding drivers / hardware support... I'm not a huge fan of abstraction layers, in fact I hate them, BUT - does there exist or could an AL (HAL) be developed to hide the OS from the driver so hardware manufacturers can more easily write drivers? For example, can a HAL be developed that runs on BSD that emulates Winblow$ such that any driver written for Winblow$ will work on *BSD? Granted it may not be as efficient as a native driver but perhaps it would have these benefits: 1.) Would work good enough for most people in most circumstances. Perhaps it's slightly slower (insert metric of choice) than a native driver, but all but the most demanding users (top 10%?) won't care. The most demanding users will probably take the time / effort to acquire supported hardware and have the technical skills to accomplish what they need to. 2.) Would give BSD developers a starting place for reverse engineering / engineering a native driver. Instead of making the hardware people write drivers for BSD, they write for Winblow$ - but provide the source? The *BSD dudes (dudettes) can take that and tweak as necessary. The hope is no one would have to do 100% of the work, especially reverse engineering without much doc / etc - that must suck! Something in the back of my head says there was / is something along this line already available or in the works, but I can't recall for sure. Anyway... I think someone else mentioned dividing up the donations such that one could select which development area receives ones funds. I think this would be a good idea... If I'm more interested in ZFS than wireless NIC drivers - I can contribute to the filesystem/ZFS area. Perhaps this would also yield more donations - if one feels there funds will be going to support their specific needs... G font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font ___ 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
Hi On 7/19/11, Konrad Heuer kheu...@gwdg.de wrote: To my mind we'll have to face a rapid change within the next years, and operating systems of the future might be Android or IOS or Windows Mobile or something similar which my base on Linux or BSD but are something different. For 2020 year here is nice sugesstions make HTML5/JS based DE for FreeBSD and Co: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=141286#post141286 ;) ___ 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: Horde-4
On 07/20/11 22:07, Jack L. Stone wrote: At 11:38 AM 7/20/2011 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 11:22:44 Beech Rintoul wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 09:47:33 Jack L. Stone wrote: Am running FBSD-7.x and IMAP WU + sendmail-8.4.x + MySQL-5.0.x Sorry to bother the list with this but have searched and read everything google horde.org has to offer but I find no solution to an important issue I'm having with the installation of horde4. Although the port maintainer won't have the broken port for horde4, I have successfully installed Horde4 plus several common apps including, IMP app for an IMAP mail service. All of the horde4 ports including webmail and groupware have been rewritten and comitted. AFAIK everything is working properly. You may be missing some libs or modules, so I would suggest a reinstall. The problem is while I have a good install with the Horde4 base frame and the apps, I can login to HORDE just fine, but when going to the IMAP app, my login fails. From what I understand, the same Horde login should work for the IMP. Reading the login scripts indicates that as well. I'm using MySQL (SQL) as the backend for everything that needs a backend so I may be able to handle a large number of users. I've installed Washington Uni (WU) Imap server and it's listening on the expected port 143. I've worked on this issue over days and weeks, including reinstalls but cannot login to IMP for the mail services. In Horde, I can add users just fine and they appear in the MySQL horde database properly. I have a couple designated as admins. If anyone on this list uses horde and maybe knows what I have missed I would appreciate any possible tips to check on. Does IMP not use the same login as I assUme? Not necessarily. It all depends on your auth backend configs for both horde and the apps. If you're using IMAP auth, you should be able to login to imp as any regular user on the mail account. It's common to use IMAP auth as your general auth backend, that way your users will end up in the right account. You also need either SASL auth or Dovecot auth setup along with your auth backend. IMAP SSL is required, imp will NOT work with IMAP plain login unless you hack the configs by hand (bad idea). Finally, uncheck the disable horde test script box on the main horde configs under the general tab, save your configs and navigate to horde/test.php, there is a section near the bottom for testing your IMAP login. If that isn't successful, you're not going to get much further. If the option doesn't exist at all, you don't have all the modules you need. It will also give you an idea about the state of everything else. Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction :-) Beech I forgot to say use SASL or Dovecot auth if you also want to access and remotely use your sendmail system outside of your horde portal. Horde imp shouldn't have any problems out of the box if your IMAP is otherwise working properly. Beech -- Good help! Should I use Dovecot or Dovecot2 ?? We're using Cyrus-IMAP so I cannot help you with that, but did you configure your imapserver in /usr/local/www/horde4/imp/config/backends.php ? Specifically the line 'hordeauth' = This file itself has a lot of useful information on imap settings. I assume you checked the imap server log files? While on the Horde4 subject, we are running a test installation and find the perfermance of H4 to be considerably slower the its predecessor. Did anyone here experience this? 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
--As of July 20, 2011 5:45:49 PM -0400, David Jackson is alleged to have said: but you also have scanners, cameras, joysticks, capture devices for video, and so on that many common users love to use. A lot of people use computers for writing, home and office business work, and gaming, and given the choice between a 3 screen and a 20 screen, you want a 20 screen. Even facebook is better on a 20 screen. I stand by what i said, mobile is great for use on a subway, but when you get home, you really want a nice 20 screen to work on, and the bigger hard drive and faster CPU. --As for the rest, it is mine. *All* of which can be connected to a tablet just as easily as a desktop. (Well, except for a faster CPU.) I know people who do so. Current tablets have USB, Bluetooth, and HDMI/Displayport. Can you do everything on a tablet that you can on a dedicated desktop? No. But you can do most of it, especially if the people writing the software and designing the add-ons know that's the market they have to work with. I don't think everyone will go to tablets. But I think it's going to be a larger market than you think, and I think they *will* displace some desktops and laptops. The perfect computing device would fit in a pocket, have a screen the size of your wall, have a full (and full-sized) keyboard, and your choice of pointing devices. It would be able to play any game you wanted to play, hold every movie and song ever recorded along with your entire lifetime's collection of documents, and be able to access the Internet from anywhere. It would only need to be recharged as often as you sleep. (And would be able to recharge anywhere.) Today, a tablet is closer to that then a desktop is. It's short on CPU and storage, and it doesn't have the battery life. It's also a little too big and not quite mobile enough. Several of those constraints can be worked around with a docking station/case. Smartphones have the mobility and Internet access, and nearly the charging/battery life, but are even more constrained on other issues. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ 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
scrpt help neded...
Y'all, Not sure where it was the calendar or something else that suddenly made my tying go South. maybe both. --oh, yes, i still need to buy a new clicky kybd. but that won't help with the script i need. back hen i worked from cray reseach in WI, a shell /bin/sh wizard cooked up what i wanted in minutes. i have lost in in the 20+ years so maybe some shell or perl guru can help me. I'm looking for a script that takes on arg and lets me vi/vim into the r esults. Let's say that I'm looking for the string 201107 in a slew of files. the script find it with grep---not grep -w, just grep. collect es the filenames and lines (grep -n) and saves then temporarily, then points vim or vi at each file+linenumbr and execs it for me. the fewer keystrokes, the better. can anybody help me? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.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: printer - broadband router
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:55:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Franci Nabalanci wrote: I am so sorry it was my mistake: the printer is HP Business inkjet 3000. That printer supports PCL and maybe even PostScript. Make sure it has DNS. Entries in /etc/hosts should be adequate. Set it with a fixed IP address or through DHCP. The rest is CUPS, which I don't use. You don't even have to use CUPS. Yes, but OP had already installed it. If CUPS is not a requirement, lpr/lpd work very well: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Question about regular expressions
Hi, I have a config file below: $user= 'root'; // This is the username if $user is found, I want to display root. Anyone knows how to programming in C or some other language? thank you. Regards, Dave. ___ 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: The perfect computing device would fit in a pocket, have a screen the size of your wall, have a full (and full-sized) keyboard, and your choice of pointing devices. It would be able to play any game you wanted to play, hold every movie and song ever recorded along with your entire lifetime's collection of documents, and be able to access the Internet from anywhere. It would only need to be recharged as often as you sleep. (And would be able to recharge anywhere.) It would also be fully encrypted and keyed to your fingerprint or retinal scan, so that no thief would be able to extract anything from it, and the encrypted files would be backed up automatically whenever it was recharged to guard against data loss in case of loss, theft, damage, malfunction, etc. ___ 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: scrpt help neded...
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
I'm looking for a script that takes on arg and lets me vi/vim
into the r esults. Let's say that I'm looking for the string
201107 in a slew of files. the script find it with grep---not
grep -w, just grep. collect es the filenames and lines (grep -n)
and saves then temporarily, then points vim or vi at each
file+linenumbr and execs it for me. the fewer keystrokes, the
better.
To edit each file that contains 201107:
$ vi ` grep -l 201107 {files to be searched} `
That won't pre-position within the files, but since it's a single
invocation of vi, with each subsequent file being loaded by :n, a
search pattern will persist (unless/until you replace it by entering
a different search pattern). At the top of the first file, you enter
/201107
to find the first instance, n to find the second, etc. After :n
-- at the top of the second file -- n alone will find the first
instance.
OTOH if you want to bring up an xterm containing _the results of
the grep_ you can pipe it into the attached script. There is no
manpage, but the comments and the (straightforward) parameter
decoding should provide a start. (There are a few magic numbers,
which ideally should be tweaked for your X11 installation's font
dimensions, but nothing horrible will happen if they are slightly
off.)
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
# The maxl and maxw calculations involve magic numbers, which ideally
# ought to be extracted from xterm and window-manager settings rather
# than being hard-coded. Good luck figuring out a way to do that.
#
# The xterm font is 6w x 13h
#
# visible title bar height incl top frame = 29 pixels
# + xterm margin inside frame = 1 pixel
# + bottom frame margin = 8 pixels (same as frame widths below)
# + window-manager shadow = 1 pixel
# = height available for text = screen height - 39 pixels
#
maxl=`(xwininfo -root | sed -n -e 's/ Height: //p' ; echo 39 - 13 / p) | dc`
#
# visible frame width = 7 pixels
# + xterm margin inside frame = 1 pixel
# * 2 sides = total width of side frames = 16 pixels
# + window-manager shadow = 1 pixel
# = width available for text = screen width - 17 pixels
#
maxw=`(xwininfo -root | sed -n -e 's/ Width: //p' ; echo 17 - 6 / p) | dc`
# maxw should be used in conjunction with the max line length found in the
# file to automatically set the width (as is already being done for the length).
# Set defaults
w=80
l=0
n=stdin
flags=
n_is_default=1
w_is_default=1
# Handle flag params
while [[ $1 == -?* ]] ; do
case $1 in
-w )
shift
w=$1
w_is_default=0
;;
-w* )
w=${1#-w}
w_is_default=0
;;
-l )
shift
l=$1
;;
-l* )
l=${1#-l}
;;
-n )
shift
n=$1
n_is_default=0
;;
-n* )
n=${1#-n}
n_is_default=0
;;
* )
flags=$flags $1
esac
shift
done
# Check for no params = stdin, or 1st param of - (explicit stdin), and
# if so copy stdin to a file since there seems no way to get it passed to
# the less which will be running in the xterm. Note that - will not
# work as any but the first non-flag parameter.
if [ x$1 == x -o $1 == - ] ; then
cat /tmp/xless$$
shift
if [ $l == 0 ] ; then
l=`(head -$maxl /tmp/xless$$ | fold -w$w | wc -l ; echo \1 + d [$maxl p
q] sa $maxl a p q\) | dc`
fi
xterm -geometry ${w}x$l +sb -sl 0 -title $n - `pwd` -n $n $flags -e sh
-c less /tmp/xless$$ $* ; rm /tmp/xless$$
else
[ $n_is_default == 1 ] n=`basename $1`
if [[ $w_is_default == 1 $1 == *.w=* ]] ; then
w=`echo $1 | sed -e 's/^.*\.w=//'`
[ $n_is_default == 1 ] n=`echo $n | sed -e 's/\.w=.*$//'`
fi
if [ $l == 0 ] ; then
l=`(head -$maxl $1 | fold -w$w | wc -l ; echo \1 + d [$maxl p q] sa
$maxl a p q\) | dc`
fi
xterm -geometry ${w}x$l +sb -sl 0 -title $1 - `pwd` -n $n $flags -e
less $*
fi
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Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?
Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com wrote: If it's not connected at 1 gigabit or not full duplex you can force it with ifconfig. If there are too much errors check the cable. Last I heard, this does _not_ work with gigabit unless you can force-configure both ends of the link. The negotiation protocol is such that force-configuring just one end _guarantees_ a mismatch. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: ... can a HAL be developed that runs on BSD that emulates Winblow$ such that any driver written for Winblow$ will work on *BSD? ... Something in the back of my head says there was / is something along this line already available or in the works, but I can't recall for sure. I _think_ we may already have something along these lines for NDIS (network) drivers, but I don't know how well it works. ___ 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
