Re: Installation difficulties
On 12/11/11 16:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version installer, which it did on an Intel 64 bit processor. The 64 bit version is marked 'AMD64'. I would have gotten a laptop with AMD but this particular seller (Linux Certified) did not have one available when I was ready to buy. So now I am at it because the warrantee on the laptop has expired. So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. I also tried MySQL. The first time it also failed to install. But did sysinstall and tried a different version than originally selected, and it did install. Since I wanted the GUI, I ran xinit when I got a shell prompt and xwindows failed to load and run, the error is failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist). Perhaps this is not an issue that can be addressed practically, here, which is alright with me. But short of getting another DVD and trying to install from that is there a way to deal, at least with the fbdev complaint? My experience with FreeBSD goes back to 6.0, setting up and running servers, specifically web servers. This is going to be a development server, as it had been when it had Ubuntu Linux. Thank you for time and attention; JK I'd download at least 8.2 (amd64 if you like, but you can stick to i386), and do a basic install (no ports or packages- yet). Once running execute freebsd-update fetch install as root, then portsnap fetch extract. With that done, then go into ports and install what you want from there by entering the directory of the port you want to install (say www/apache22) and running make install clean. You'll have options to select and away you go. If you can wait a few weeks (9.0-Release guys: back me up :) ), install the disk you have there and install in the same way so you have something to play around with and get your feet wet until 9. Or try 9.0-RC3, you can get release using freebsd-update. And above all: to do that you are going to become very good friends with the FreeBSD Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ HTH ___ 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: Installation difficulties
On 11/12/2011 06:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version. Unless you've got all your necessary packages on your DVD you aren't going to have much luck there. I also tried MySQL. The first time it also failed to install. But did sysinstall and tried a different version than originally selected, and it did install. Verb. Sap. sysinstall(8) as a system management tool is like those dinky little training wheels kids get on their first bikes. Best to learn how to use pkg_add(1) from the command line; it will give you much better results in the end, and be a lot less frustrating to debug if it goes wrong. Since I wanted the GUI, I ran xinit when I got a shell prompt and xwindows failed to load and run, the error is failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist). That can optionally be installed from the x11-drives/xorg-drivers port, but it's not enabled by default, so you won't find it in a precompiled package. You'll need to install a copy of the ports tree and use it to compile from source, selecting the fbdev option in that port. However, first I'd recommend updating your system to the latest available (given it is a new install of FreeBSD). There are several possible ways of doing that -- peruse the Handbook for details -- but probably the path of least effort would be to download a new DVD or USB stick installer image and start again with that. It's free, apart from the cost of media, bandwidth and your time. Also, if you want a quick start into a desktop based system, PC-BSD is probably worth a look. That's FreeBSD underneath, but with a lot of GUI-ness layered on top as part of their standard system. You should be able to run mysql and other servers on it just as if you were on a vanilla FreeBSD setup. 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: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.
On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you not go to the development website to get the program anyway? Uninvitedly adding toolbars, changing web browser home page and default search engine are - in my opinion - malicious acts, so the term malware may be correct here. Maybe the term spyware is also appropriate, depending on what the additions actually do behind the curtain. Note an important thing: When careless users will notice the change, they will maybe blame the authors of the original software, not the distributor. This could do damage to F/O products, at least in Windows land. Luckily, those who build from source or use precompiled packages from a trustworthy vendor don't have to care for that stuff. :-) So, wait, Firefox is Malware? Did you notice that with FF4 they changed it so that you didn't get prompted on launch it overrides your default but instead it's a checkbox inside the installer? I've never installed something in Windows so my opinion has limited fact-backup here. I don't even see from your post _what_ they changed in FF4 - the default browser? The home page? Additional toolbars? Some advertising? Hmmm… You no longer are prompted on first load of the program to change your default browser. That's done for you on the installation program. Which is *EXACTLY WHAT I SAID* ___ 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
bridging
hello everybody i have a problem in bridging my interfaces. i want to bridge my 4 interfaces and make switching in freebsd box but in doesn't work. with two interfaces the bridge works well and pass the traffic but for four interfaces in doesn't what is expected. you know i want to have a freebsd sysytem to do switching between four systems which are connected to. somebody know what's wrong? and how i can bridge my four interfaces and have switching? thanks motlagh ___ 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
pxebooting different versions/variants of FreeBSD
Hi I'm planning to setup a machine wich should provide several versions of FreeBSD and their respective amd64 and x86 variants. Addtionally the user should have the option to install the selected os(es) locally. Currently I'm using pxelinux.0 from syslinux to create a text-based menu for the user to select the desired option like this: 1. diskless boot FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 2. Install FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 locally 3. diskless FreeBSD 8.0 x86 4. Install FreeBSD 8.0 x86 locally 5. Recovery System In fact I'm planning to provide some more FreeBSD versions and some linux distros too, but there is no problem with that currently and the above example is the one I'm using for testing now. gpxelinux chains the regular /boot/pxeboot and gives it control to do the rest wich works fine and I'm able to boot into a testbed installation of FreeBSD. Unfortunately for me, pxeboot relies on the dhcp-option root-path to be set to know where to find where the rootfs sits. As the user should be able to select the version to install freely, I can't preconfigure this on a machine basis (by using the mac address as identifier). Is there a way to circumvent the need need of the dhcp option root-path and set it instead manually via a config file or as parameter? If not: How can I achieve my goal of pxebooting the different versions of FreeBSD? with kind regards, Sven ___ 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: bridging
On 12/11/11 23:31, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello everybody i have a problem in bridging my interfaces. i want to bridge my 4 interfaces and make switching in freebsd box but in doesn't work. with two interfaces the bridge works well and pass the traffic but for four interfaces in doesn't what is expected. you know i want to have a freebsd sysytem to do switching between four systems which are connected to. somebody know what's wrong? and how i can bridge my four interfaces and have switching? thanks motlagh Can you supply information on what devices you are using for your switches? Ifconfig, pciconf -lv Which version are you using? uname -a What commands are you using to setup switching? What diagnostics have you done? How do you know it doesn't work? Good luck. I'm sure someone can help if you provide that information, although they may need 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: Entropy Key for FreeBSD?
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote: Hi, Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key http://www.entropykey.com/ for use with FreeBSD? As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better skills already did? FWIW MirBSD seems to have a port of the keyd. Thanks! I'm curious if you or anyone else pursued this topic? Does anyone know what would be required to get this particular USB RNG to work with FreeBSD 9.0 and whether it's worth the money in situations where a good source of entropy is required? - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pxebooting different versions/variants of FreeBSD
On 11/12/2011 13:18, Dura Zell wrote: Is there a way to circumvent the need need of the dhcp option root-path and set it instead manually via a config file or as parameter? If not: How can I achieve my goal of pxebooting the different versions of FreeBSD? Hi: No. The only thing you can do is to set root-path for each host with host declarations in your dhcpd.conf. This is useful if you know the mac of each computer and that for example certain macs correspond to 64bit systems while others to 32bit. However, in the installer you can choose the version to install if you want a different. BR, Erik -- M: +34 666 334 818 T: +34 915 211 157 ___ 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: blender - python32
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:35:17PM -0600, ajtiM wrote: H! I have fresh installed 9.0-RC3 FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 #0 and I use KDE 4. I like to install Blender 2.6 but: Required To Build: lang/python32 Required To Run: lang/python32 Installed Python on the system is 2.7. I don't like to update on 32 because some problems (py27-numpy for example). Is it possible to run both versions and don't have problems, please? You can run them side-by-side without problems. And the current numpy whould work with 3.2 as well, although I haven't tried that yet. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpXiAG7Bfj9C.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:32:00AM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: So, wait, Firefox is Malware? Did you notice that with FF4 they changed it so that you didn't get prompted on launch it overrides your default but instead it's a checkbox inside the installer? I've never installed something in Windows so my opinion has limited fact-backup here. I don't even see from your post _what_ they changed in FF4 - the default browser? The home page? Additional toolbars? Some advertising? Hmmm… You no longer are prompted on first load of the program to change your default browser. That's done for you on the installation program. Which is *EXACTLY WHAT I SAID* I understand your point, but what you said exactly was only that it overrides your default, and not what default was overridden. ___ 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
ath0 + wlan0 + spa + Apple Airport Extreme = No Joy
Good day,
I'm trying to get FreeBSD going on a soekris box with an atheros based D-Link
PCI wifi card. I intend to use this combination to bridge a difficult network
back to ethernet but right now I'm just trying to get the soekris associated to
the network. The network is managed by an Apple Airport Extreme. Note that this
combination connects just fine to my MiFi 4082. I only have a problem
connecting to the Airport.
The soekris box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE built from source about
11/15/2011.
I have this in my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid=Vindaloo
psk=
}
network={
ssid=Vindaloo-Mobile
psk=**
}
If I read the wireless setup document right I need this in my /etc/rc.conf:
wlans_ath0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0=ssid Vindaloo WPA DHCP
This box appears to associate with the network just fine but then it doesn't
receive anything except broadcast traffic.
Chris Hilton e: chris /at/ vindaloo /dot/ com
All I was doing was trying to get home from work!
-- Rosa Parks
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Re: blender - python32
On Sunday 11 December 2011 12:31:07 Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:35:17PM -0600, ajtiM wrote: H! I have fresh installed 9.0-RC3 FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 #0 and I use KDE 4. I like to install Blender 2.6 but: Required To Build: lang/python32 Required To Run: lang/python32 Installed Python on the system is 2.7. I don't like to update on 32 because some problems (py27-numpy for example). Is it possible to run both versions and don't have problems, please? You can run them side-by-side without problems. And the current numpy whould work with 3.2 as well, although I haven't tried that yet. Roland Thank you very muh. I will give a try. I was not sure with numpy because it needs pythn 2.7 tou build and run as I red on freshports. Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to boot new kernel
Hi Freebsd-questions. In system two disks now: # kenv | grep dev currdev=disk1s1a: loaddev=disk1s1a: loader_conf_files=/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf.local vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad8s1a kern.devalias.ada0=ad4 kern.devalias.ada1=ad8 one was with installed FreeBSD (ad4) and second is empty (ad8) I install new system to ad8 and add to (ad4) /boot/loader.conf next line: vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad8s1a so next time I booted from second hdd. But now I have problem. How to boot kernel from second device instead of first one. BIOS starts to run loader from first device (ad4) and kernel is booted from it but all other is mounted from (ad8) # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad8s1a 1G117M809M13%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad8s1e 1G267M660M29%/tmp /dev/ad8s1f 39G 23G 13G64%/usr /dev/ad8s1d5.8G3.9G1.5G72%/var procfs 4.0k4.0k 0B 100%/proc devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/var/named/dev so in memory I have old kenel uname -a shows that #0: Sat Nov 12 20:17:02 EET 2011 (I have compiled new kenel on 2011 12 03 ) but on disk all is new: kernel and world. How to force to load kernel from second drive (without access to machine directly)? ___ 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: Installation difficulties
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version ... What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the -release package sets? 8.1 _is_ still supported (until sometime in 2012 IIRC), but ftp.freebsd.org seems to contain only 8.2-release and 8-stable. ___ 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: 9.0 install and journaling
On 11/12/2011 6:21 AM, Robison, Dave wrote: I prefer having separate partitions because it's more in line with traditional unix systems, and in particular, I don't like letting users have unlimited access to /tmp. Pardon the noob question: will using Disk Quotas work to limit the damage http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/quotas.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
difference between cvsup and csup?
Hello guys, I notice FreeBSD is now using (and probably has been for a while) csup instead of cvsup. The parameters looking identical - at least from the no-gui perspective. Can anyone advise what the difference is, and perhaps educate me on how this came to be? 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
pkg_add vs portmaster
Hello, why is that pkg_add -r x11/kde4 could not install kde4 (404 not found) but portmaster -P x11/kde4 did, however portmaster -P xorg didn't install xorg (it just reinstalled some modules) then pkg_add -r xorg installed it. I am a bit confused with these. I was reading this: http://freebsd.kde.org/ and this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html First I installed kde4 then xorg. My ports are up to date. Mage ___ 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: 9.0 install and journaling
On 12/12/11 12:05, Foo JH wrote: On 11/12/2011 6:21 AM, Robison, Dave wrote: I prefer having separate partitions because it's more in line with traditional unix systems, and in particular, I don't like letting users have unlimited access to /tmp. Pardon the noob question: will using Disk Quotas work to limit the damage http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/quotas.html No, thats a very astute observation. Although its a lot harder to break limits when its an actual partition and everything shows exactly what there is to work with. So I'd personally still use partitioning myself. Quotas could work though, but its an added layer of admin as well. ___ 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: difference between cvsup and csup?
Foo JH wrote: Hello guys, I notice FreeBSD is now using (and probably has been for a while) csup instead of cvsup. The parameters looking identical - at least from the no-gui perspective. Can anyone advise what the difference is, and perhaps educate me on how this came to be? I'm certainly not any kind of expert, but please note by examining the dependencies you will notice cvsup requires ezm3. This is a portable version of Modula-3 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3 ), upon which cvsup is designed. Csup is a rewrite of cvsup in the C language, and as such can be included as part of the base operating system. It is only linked against a few system libraries. This also means it can be built using the same tools and system compiler whenever the system itself is updated. Csup is faster, built-in, and has no third party dependencies. Theoretically it should have less potential for problems. Cvsup is a third party port, which itself depends on other third party ports. -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: difference between cvsup and csup?
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:54:25AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hello guys, I notice FreeBSD is now using (and probably has been for a while) csup instead of cvsup. The parameters looking identical - at least from the no-gui perspective. Can anyone advise what the difference is, and perhaps educate me on how this came to be? csup is a re-write of cvsup that's written in C, so it can be included in the base system without requiring installation of Modula3 (the language cvsup was written in). There may also be licensing diffs? (I'm not sure about that off the top of my head). Hope this helps. Kevin Kinsey ___ 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
Certain users can't start python
Hello, I am ... stuck. I've been trying to setup mercurials web frontend with apache, but apache won't start python. Not as cgi-script, not with mod_python. Investigating, I found this not only to be a problem with apache. Situation now: Users michael and root can run python. All others can't: Could not find platform independent libraries prefix Could not find platform dependent libraries exec_prefix Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to prefix[:exec_prefix] ImportError: No module named site For troubleshooting, I cloned michael to an new user dummy, i. e. I created the user, copied all .dotfiles from michael over, adjusted permissions. dummy can't start python either. Changing accounts with su does not help: dummy$ su -l michael dummy$ su -m michael *both* can run python, michael$ su -l dummy michael$ su -m dummy *both* can not run python. Setting PYTHONHOME does not help -- the libraries are found (probably, the error messages disappear), the ImportError remains. It's been a couple of long days and maybe I'm missing something obvious? Any input would be greatly appreciated. 8.2 stable, python 2.7.2. As for python, I tried reinstalling. No change. TIA Michael ___ 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: difference between cvsup and csup?
Michael Powell writes: Csup is a rewrite of cvsup in the C language, and as such can be included as part of the base operating system. It is only linked against a few system libraries. This also means it can be built using the same tools and system compiler whenever the system itself is updated. Csup is faster, built-in, and has no third party dependencies. Theoretically it should have less potential for problems. Cvsup is a third party port, which itself depends on other third party ports. I believe there are a couple of obscure functionalities that cvsup has that csup does not. If you're asking this question, you (probably) don't have to worry about them. For the general user, csup is a drop-in replacement. My expereince - as a general user - supports this. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bridging
my freebsd is 8.2 and i have four interfaces which two of them are gbeth and two others are igb. i think the interfaces are ok beacuse when i bridge two interfaces, it works fine. i use the below command to create my bridge: ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 addm gbeth0 addm igb0 addm igb1 addm gbeth1 up what is wrong here? it's so necessary for me to doing this:( On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 12/11/11 23:31, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello everybody i have a problem in bridging my interfaces. i want to bridge my 4 interfaces and make switching in freebsd box but in doesn't work. with two interfaces the bridge works well and pass the traffic but for four interfaces in doesn't what is expected. you know i want to have a freebsd sysytem to do switching between four systems which are connected to. somebody know what's wrong? and how i can bridge my four interfaces and have switching? thanks motlagh Can you supply information on what devices you are using for your switches? Ifconfig, pciconf -lv Which version are you using? uname -a What commands are you using to setup switching? What diagnostics have you done? How do you know it doesn't work? Good luck. I'm sure someone can help if you provide that information, although they may need more. __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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: Thank you for bsdstats!
Since this may by of interest to others, including those maintaining ports, I've just created a dump of the history data for ports and versions reported in … not the reporting ports is optional, there appears to only be about 10% of the hosts that report in port information … The dump is available at http://www.bsdstats.org/ports.raw.sql.bz2 it contains a postgresql dump of three tables: ports, where id == system id (anonymous data, but let's you group data) catid == link to port_category (ie. net, www) sw_id == link to port_software (ie. apache, perl) the data goes back to '07, so a fair amount of history to look at … For those unaware of what BSDstats is, check out http://www.bsdstats.org *or* /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats … short summary: An OptIn only site that accumulates statistics on *BSD related usage … as the #s show when you go to the site, it is by no means close to the # of sites using *BSD ... We are averaging over 6k hosts reporting in each month, for 7 different variants of *BSD: PC-BSD, FreeBSD, DesktopBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and MidnightBSD To participate is a simple 'make install' in /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats … at a minimum, just make sure you enable it to run monthly out of periodic … The data collected and stored is done so totally anonymously … we collect no IP *or* hostname information … each participate gets an Id that is stored in a token file that is used for reporting, which also allows the system to work through proxy / nat, since the individual ID is generated the first time you connect to the system, and used going forward … On 2011-12-10, at 11:06 PM, Alex Libman wrote: Dear BSD Stats Team, I just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for bsdstats. I run it on my *BSD installations whenever it is feasible. I am also wondering if it would be possible to access the aggregate data in a raw format. I am particularly curious about the ports usage data... Best regards, Alex Libman ___ 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: bridging
On 12/12/11 15:49, saeedeh motlagh wrote: my freebsd is 8.2 and i have four interfaces which two of them are gbeth and two others are igb. i think the interfaces are ok beacuse when i bridge two interfaces, it works fine. i use the below command to create my bridge: ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 addm gbeth0 addm igb0 addm igb1 addm gbeth1 up what is wrong here? it's so necessary for me to doing this:( Is it any 2 interfaces? What command do you use to get the 2 interfaces working? On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 12/11/11 23:31, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello everybody i have a problem in bridging my interfaces. i want to bridge my 4 interfaces and make switching in freebsd box but in doesn't work. with two interfaces the bridge works well and pass the traffic but for four interfaces in doesn't what is expected. you know i want to have a freebsd sysytem to do switching between four systems which are connected to. somebody know what's wrong? and how i can bridge my four interfaces and have switching? thanks motlagh Can you supply information on what devices you are using for your switches? Ifconfig, pciconf -lv Which version are you using? uname -a What commands are you using to setup switching? What diagnostics have you done? How do you know it doesn't work? Good luck. I'm sure someone can help if you provide that information, although they may need more. __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.orgfreebsd-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: difference between cvsup and csup?
On 12/12/2011 7:39 πμ, Robert Huff wrote: Michael Powell writes: Csup is a rewrite of cvsup in the C language, and as such can be included as part of the base operating system. It is only linked against a few system libraries. This also means it can be built using the same tools and system compiler whenever the system itself is updated. Csup is faster, built-in, and has no third party dependencies. Theoretically it should have less potential for problems. Cvsup is a third party port, which itself depends on other third party ports. I believe there are a couple of obscure functionalities that cvsup has that csup does not. If you're asking this question, you (probably) don't have to worry about them. For the general user, csup is a drop-in replacement. My expereince - as a general user - supports this. Robert Huff It used to be (some versions ago) that csup only handled checkout mode and not CVS mode (that is, a mode of operation that allows you to mirror a complete CVS repository which in effect allows you to checkout and commit locally to your copy). This was for me the only reason to keep cvsup around. But csup has caught up with this functionality eliminating the need to install and use cvsup, esp. since csup is part of the base system. ___ 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[2]: How to boot new kernel
HI, krad. How I can figure out the correspondence of bios drive number and freebsd numbering? Have a look at boot.config file you should be able to do something there On Dec 11, 2011 8:57 PM, Kon'kov Evgenij [1]kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi Freebsd-questions. In system two disks now: # kenv | grep dev currdev=disk1s1a: loaddev=disk1s1a: loader_conf_files=/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf.local vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad8s1a kern.devalias.ada0=ad4 kern.devalias.ada1=ad8 one was with installed FreeBSD (ad4) and second is empty (ad8) I install new system to ad8 and add to (ad4) /boot/loader.conf next line: vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad8s1a so next time I booted from second hdd. But now I have problem. How to boot kernel from second device instead of first one. BIOS starts to run loader from first device (ad4) and kernel is booted from it but all other is mounted from (ad8) # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad8s1a 1G117M809M13%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad8s1e 1G267M660M29%/tmp /dev/ad8s1f 39G 23G 13G64%/usr /dev/ad8s1d5.8G3.9G1.5G72%/var procfs 4.0k4.0k 0B 100%/proc devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/var/named/dev so in memory I have old kenel uname -a shows that #0: Sat Nov 12 20:17:02 EET 2011 (I have compiled new kenel on 2011 12 03 ) but on disk all is new: kernel and world. How to force to load kernel from second drive (without access to machine directly)? -- S uvazheniem, Kon'kov [2]mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru References 1. mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru 2. mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ 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
