Re: Advanced Format Drive ?
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Starting sector 2048 is definitely a multiple of 4KB, so I am assuming that all I really need to do here in order to use this new drive as extra stroage for a FreeBSD system (assuming that I am happy with good old fashioned MBR style partitioning, which I am) is just: newfs -U /dev/da1s1 You should also change the partition type to freebsd or freebsd-ufs. Offhand I'd guess they're both 0xa5, but have not looked. Use 'gpart modify'. ___ 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 correct portsnap corruption
Hi, I was running "portsnap fetch" on a remote terminal when my connection failed. After connecting running portsnap again, it appeared to complete correctly. However, when I run "portsnap extract" I get the following error: casper# portsnap extract /usr/ports/.cvsignore /usr/ports/CHANGES /usr/ports/COPYRIGHT /usr/ports/GIDs /usr/ports/KNOBS /usr/ports/LASTCOMMIT.txt files/bfd9e7e5d0fff1e0c601614c35085494c8de06eb100b2fe025a6c9a226ec0e09.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt. casper# How can I recover from this without losing any app configs I have in the ports tree? (i.e. make config) Thanks, Dale ___ 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: Advanced Format Drive ?
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I can't help but note that both this one and also my new Seagate 2.5" portable external 1TB drive are pre-partitioned with one partition that in both cases starts at sector 2048. I suppose that it is no coincidence that 2048 * 512B == 1 megabyte, exactly. Told ya. ___ 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"
Everything get slower with 8.3
Hi, Few weeks ago I upgraded many systems from 7.4 to 8.3 and since I feel that everyting has got much slower: - connecting a new shell takes 5 secnds between the password and the first promt; - imap got slower to the point imp/horde times out - amanda back-up will not complete - etc. I don;t know what to look for to correct this. TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
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Advanced Format Drive ?
I just wanted to add another data point... in case anybody is interested... uring my recent spending binge, I also acquired a Hatachi portable external 2.5 inch "Touro Moble" 500GB drive. Righ out of the box, this is what fdisk tells me about this one: == *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=60801 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=60801 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 2048, size 976766976 (476937 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 32/ sector 33; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: == I can't help but note that both this one and also my new Seagate 2.5" portable external 1TB drive are pre-partitioned with one partition that in both cases starts at sector 2048. I suppose that it is no coincidence that 2048 * 512B == 1 megabyte, exactly. ___ 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"
Advanced Format Drive ?
Just a brief follow-up on my questions here (about 2 weeks ago) regarding so-called "Advanced Format" (4KB block) drives... I just got myself a shiny new Seagate 2.5" portable external 1TB hard drive. fdisk is telling me this about it: === *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=121601 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=121601 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 2048, size 1953519616 (953867 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 32/ sector 33; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: === Starting sector 2048 is definitely a multiple of 4KB, so I am assuming that all I really need to do here in order to use this new drive as extra stroage for a FreeBSD system (assuming that I am happy with good old fashioned MBR style partitioning, which I am) is just: newfs -U /dev/da1s1 Right? Last question: How could I even tell if this thing is or isn't "Advanced Format"? Is there some tool I could run that would tell me that? ___ 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: Anyone using squid and pf?
26.11.2012 20:40, Leslie Jensen:
Rules from pf.conf
# macros
ext_if="xl0"
int_if="bge0"
tcp_services="{ 22, 993, 5910:5917 }"
tcp_priv_services="{ 389, 443 }"
proxy_services = "{ 21, 80 }"
icmp_types="{ echoreq unreach squench timex }"
internal_net = "172.18.0.0/16"
proxy = "172.18.0.1"
proxyport="8021"
# tables
table persist
table persist
# options
set block-policy return # ports are closed but can be seen
set loginterface $ext_if
set skip on lo0
# scrub
scrub in
rdr pass proto tcp from any to any port ftp -> 127.0.0.1 port 8021
# redirect www trafic to proxy
rdr on $int_if inet proto tcp from $internal_net to any port
$proxy_services -> $proxy port 8080
I could be wrong here but I think you have a loop. You are redirecting
from local interface to local interface i.e. the result of redirect is
still subject for redirect. Could you try one of the following:
1. Make this a `rdr in on $int_if`.
2. Make this a `rdr pass ... -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080`. I prefer this way
so port for transparent forwarding is unreachable except when explicitly
redirecting to it.
Personally I newer allow such ambiguity in my configs.
--
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Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
Hello, We at SmartServ Hosting, http://www.smart-serv.net/, have been offering VPS containers supporting FreeBSD for over a year and previously ran all our services from FreeBSD on bare metal before moving into our virtualization environment where we continue to use FreeBSD for our core services. We have hosts available in US and France currently. On 11/25/2012 02:08 PM, Jim Flowers wrote: I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many problems. Now, however, it looks like there are quite a number of mature VPS hosting services that are FreeBSD-centric at very attractive prices. Most offer KVM or VPS-instance access to allow rebooting and reinstallation. Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Fairly modest duty - spam filtering, mailboxes, websites, storage, reverse proxy and the like. Oh yeah, some development. 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" ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On 26/11/2012 19:17, Warren Block wrote: > It can be downloaded with 'make fetchindex', or built in place with > 'make index' (slow--I think Mr. Seaman has a Perl version that's > probably much faster). That's Dr Seaman if you're going to insist on being formal. Most people call me Matthew. And, yes I do have some perl code for index building. It's only faster on average because it understands how to do incremental updates. Just building an index from scratch is actually a bit slower than 'make index' Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
Tim Daneliuk tundraware.com> writes: > ... > One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date might not be > simpler, and perhaps, more reliable ... As managed by portsnap: $ du -hs /usr/ports/ 850M/usr/ports/ As managed by svn (it took much longer to checkout/download it by comparison): $ du -hs /usr/local/ports/ 1.4G/usr/local/ports/ $ du -hs /usr/local/ports/.svn/ 702M/usr/local/ports/.svn/ One thing about svn is that it is a developer's tool, with its own commands set (that should never be mixed with UNIX commands w/r to dir/file manipulation), and that should not be expected to be learned by non-devs. For that reasons alone the portsnap-managed ports repo is more generic, flexible to be handled by user and add-on apps/utilities, looks like more efficient without that svn overhead resulting from its requirements and characteristics as a source control system. But, svn offers to a user a unique view into ports repo, e.g. history, logs, info, attributes, etc. jb ___ 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"
cdrecord not working in 9.1-RC1
Subject was incorrect. I keep getting this error msg from cdrecord. Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. This is the console command I am using that generates the above error msg running on a 9.1-RC1 system. cdrecord -v -eject /usr/FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-diwsc1.iso When I was running 9.0 os the above command worked fine to write 9.1-RC1 to cd. ___ 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"
cdrecord not working in 9.0-rc1
I keep getting this error msg from cdrecord. Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. This is the console command I am using that generates the above error msg/ cdrecord -v -eject /usr/FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-i386-diwsc1.iso When I was running 9.0 os the above command worked fine to write 9.1-RC1 to cd. ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/26/2012 11:37 AM, jb wrote: jb gmail.com> writes: >... > > ># portsnap fetch extract > > ># ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 One detail. The size of /usr/ports/INDEX-9 is 26744834. One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date might not be simpler, and perhaps, more reliable ... Yes, but the index file is not part of the svn repository. Normally it is built periodically on the server, but something seems to be holding that up, at least for INDEX-9.bz2. It can be downloaded with 'make fetchindex', or built in place with 'make index' (slow--I think Mr. Seaman has a Perl version that's probably much faster). portsnap appears to be getting an updated version, but fetchindex is not. INDEX-7 and INDEX-8 are leftovers from previous versions of the operating system. More specifically, from when that ports tree was running on an earlier OS version on that system. They can be deleted. ___ 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: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
Robison, Dave writes: > On 11/25/2012 13:08, Jim Flowers wrote: > > > Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of > > having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? > > Bad? Indifferent? > > > > I've been using ARP networks for a couple of years now and I'm quite happy. > > http://www.arpnetworks.com/ > I'll second that. I have a smaller and a larger VPS at ARP, they've been great. g. ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On 11/26/2012 11:37 AM, jb wrote: jb gmail.com> writes: >... > > ># portsnap fetch extract > > ># ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 One detail. The size of /usr/ports/INDEX-9 is 26744834. One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date might not be simpler, and perhaps, more reliable ... -- --- Tim Daneliuk ___ 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: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
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Re: Anyone using squid and pf?
Volodymyr Kostyrko skrev 2012-11-26 10:38:
24.11.2012 17:39, Leslie Jensen:
I've upgraded squid from 3.1 to 3.2. Starting squid 3.2 with the same
configuration file now gives me errors in cache.log when one tries to
access any site, and of course no access!
2012/11/24 16:24:56 kid1| WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for:
Reverting back to 3.1 works.
I know there are some changes in 3.2 that does this
+ 3.2 intercept port receiving forward-proxy requests will reject them
due to NAT failure/lies.
+ 3.2 Host header validation *will* reject if forward traffic is
validated as being intercepted.
I would appreciate suggestions for changes to squid.conf so that squid
will work for me with version 3.2.
When switching to 3.2 I had to split listening ports - one for
transparency and one for the local machine. However this doesn't looks
like your case.
Can you please provide relevant parts of pf.conf and full log output,
not just the first line?
Just to clarify. I'm running pf and squid on the same machine.
Yes I've also split the listening ports.
http_port 172.18.0.1:8080 intercept
http_port 127.0.0.1:8080
Output from cache.log:
2012/11/24 14:10:09 kid1| WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for:
GET /Artwork/SN.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.squid-cache.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Accept: image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: sv-se,sv;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Referer: http://www.aftonbladet.se/
Via: 1.1 "FQDN machine name" (squid/3.2.3)
X-Forwarded-For: 172.18.0.100
Cache-Control: max-age=259200
Connection: keep-alive
Rules from pf.conf
# macros
ext_if="xl0"
int_if="bge0"
tcp_services="{ 22, 993, 5910:5917 }"
tcp_priv_services="{ 389, 443 }"
proxy_services = "{ 21, 80 }"
icmp_types="{ echoreq unreach squench timex }"
internal_net = "172.18.0.0/16"
proxy = "172.18.0.1"
proxyport="8021"
# tables
table persist
table persist
# options
set block-policy return # ports are closed but can be seen
set loginterface $ext_if
set skip on lo0
# scrub
scrub in
rdr pass proto tcp from any to any port ftp -> 127.0.0.1 port 8021
# redirect www trafic to proxy
rdr on $int_if inet proto tcp from $internal_net to any port
$proxy_services -> $proxy port 8080
# ext_if IP address could be dynamic, hence ($ext_if)
nat on $ext_if from !($ext_if) to any -> ($ext_if)
# filter rules
block in log on $ext_if all
block drop in log quick inet6 all
block drop out log quick inet6 all
block in log quick on $ext_if from label "ssh bruteforce"
# Allow traffic through SQUID
pass in log on $int_if inet proto tcp from $internal_net to $proxy port
8080 keep state
pass out log on $ext_if inet proto tcp from $proxy to any port
$proxy_services keep state
# pass out
pass out log
# ICMP answers (traffic) needs to be passed:
pass in inet proto icmp all icmp-type $icmp_types keep state
# traffic must be passed to and from the internal network
pass in log quick on $int_if
#
Thanks
/Leslie
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Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
jb gmail.com> writes: > ... > > > # portsnap fetch extract > > > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 One detail. The size of /usr/ports/INDEX-9 is 26744834. > > > # rm -rf /usr/ports/ > > > # portsnap extract > > > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744800 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 The size of /usr/ports/INDEX-9 is 26744800. > > > # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' > > > /tmp/d-78227-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1615 kB 176 kBps > > > 00m00s > > > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26665016 Nov 26 16:12 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 The size of /usr/ports/INDEX-9 is 26665016. All other INDEX-* files have the same sizes. > > > Ports tree is already up to date. The ports repo as seen thru INDEX-9 should have been identical at all times. But it was not. jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
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Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
For those looking for non-US based servers, we (http://hub.org) have been proudly offering FreeBSD since '95 … On 2012-11-26, at 2:18 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 11/25/12 22:07, Michael Sierchio wrote: >> Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin >> Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version >> of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition >> running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to share an AMI >> with you, but you should try Colin's stuff. >> >> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jim Flowers wrote: >>> I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing >>> services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server >>> services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At >>> the time VPS looked like too many problems. > > FreeBSD is now officially supported by Amazon (but still supplied by Colin) > as well as Colin's "defenestrated" FreeBSD AMIs. > > http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-marketplace-additional-operating-system-support.html > > https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK/ref=sp_mpg_product_title?ie=UTF8&sr=0-2 > > However, these are only on the new 3rd generation of EC2 instances, which are > heavy duty systems. For many uses micro instances are enough, but you still > have to pay the "Windows tax" on those. I don't know whether Colin is working > to change that, or if there are technical reasons why it's impossible. > > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ > ___ > 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
Fleuriot Damien my.gd> writes: > > I don't get what you're trying to show here. > > What commands you've run indicate that: > > 1/ you have an up to date ports tree > 2/ one of the installed ports needs to be updated Follow me below. > > ... > > # portsnap fetch extract > > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 > > # portsnap fetch update > > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. > > Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. > > Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. > > No updates needed. > > Ports tree is already up to date. > > # > > > > This fixed it. When I said this fixed it, I meant the all three entries # portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' showed the same output: ===>>> New version available: java-zoneinfo-2012.j ===>>> New version available: liberation-fonts-ttf-2.00.1,1 ===>>> New version available: libxul-10.0.11 ===>>> New version available: firefox-17.0,1 ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 ===>>> New version available: vigra-1.9.0 ===>>> 545 total installed ports ===>>> 6 have new versions available # This is the same /usr/ports repo arrived at via two methods that are valid. Do you follow me ? > > > > But, let's see what happens with this test: > > > > # rm -rf /usr/ports/ > > # portsnap extract > > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744800 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > > # portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' > >===>>> New version available: java-zoneinfo-2012.j > >===>>> New version available: liberation-fonts-ttf-2.00.1,1 > >===>>> New version available: libxul-10.0.11 > >===>>> New version available: firefox-17.0,1 > >===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 > >===>>> New version available: vigra-1.9.0 > > ===>>> 545 total installed ports > >===>>> 6 have new versions available > > # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' > > /tmp/d-78227-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1615 kB 176 kBps > > 00m00s > >===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 > > ===>>> 545 total installed ports > >===>>> 1 has a new version available > > # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' > >===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 > > ===>>> 545 total installed ports > >===>>> 1 has a new version available > > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26665016 Nov 26 16:12 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 > > # portsnap update > > Ports tree is already up to date. > > # > > > > Well, what do you say about this ? > > jb jb ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On 11/26/12 15:38, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/11/2012 15:13, Michael Powell wrote: As a result of the security incident I switched away from csup and am now using portsnap for ports, and svn for source. The only disconcerting item I noticed is the 500-some MB .svn directory now under /usr/src/. SVN keeps a 2nd pristine copy of everything you check out in that .svn directory. It's necessary when you use it for development work, but otherwise, as you say, a waste of space. Can using freebsd-update for source update(s) eliminate the need for this 500MB waste of space? Or is there some switch for svn which could accomplish same? freebsd-update will have some overhead -- it downloads changesets to somewhere under /var before expanding them onto the system. I haven't measured how much this amounts to compared to SVN, but I'd assume if you limit yourself to updating just the system sources with freebsd-update then it should use up less space than using SVN. Normally freebsd-update would have updates to compiled programs as well, which could move the goalposts significantly. I use freebsd-update just to fetch src rather than do binary updates and I have: fileserver# du -sh /var/db/freebsd-update/ 460k/var/db/freebsd-update/ ___ 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: vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?
>> If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where >> do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? > > Search for vidcontrol(1) in rc.conf(5) manual. Thanks! I ended up with just:: allscreens_flags="grey black" In /etc/rc.conf and it works :) -Modulok- ___ 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: error message
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, emmanuel ilunga wrote: Every time I reboot, I get: machine0# Nov26 04:37:03 machine0 ntpd_initrest[2008]:host name not found: 0.freebsd.pool.org Either you typed the name wrong, or copied the error wrong. The actual entry in the example /etc/ntp.conf is 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org (note the "ntp"). ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On 26/11/2012 15:13, Michael Powell wrote: > As a result of the security incident I switched away from csup and am now > using portsnap for ports, and svn for source. The only disconcerting item I > noticed is the 500-some MB .svn directory now under /usr/src/. SVN keeps a 2nd pristine copy of everything you check out in that .svn directory. It's necessary when you use it for development work, but otherwise, as you say, a waste of space. > Can using freebsd-update for source update(s) eliminate the need for this > 500MB waste of space? Or is there some switch for svn which could accomplish > same? freebsd-update will have some overhead -- it downloads changesets to somewhere under /var before expanding them onto the system. I haven't measured how much this amounts to compared to SVN, but I'd assume if you limit yourself to updating just the system sources with freebsd-update then it should use up less space than using SVN. Normally freebsd-update would have updates to compiled programs as well, which could move the goalposts significantly. Cheers, Matthew ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
Warren Block schreef op : On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:08:52PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Secondly, for the sake of the servers, please don't run 'portsnap fetch' from a cron job. You're not the only person to think of doing that, and most people who do have the job run at the top of the hour. This is bad. The servers really don't like it when several thousand cronjobs all fire off simultaneously and the system load goes through the roof. Which is why 'portsnap cron' exists -- it does exactly the same as fetch, except it waits for a random amount of time before pulling down any data. More generally, a cron job can be run with a random delay added before the real job kicks off. Just prefix the command you want cron to run like so: sleep $(jot -r 1 1 900) && command to run If you like, replace 900 with some other number to change the upper bound on the number of seconds to delay. portsnap has a "cron" command that does this. If I recall correctly portsnap refuses to run the "fetch"-command when not in an interactive shell, thereby forcing you to use the "cron"-command. (As does freebsd-update.) ___ 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: vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?
Modulok wrote: > List, > > If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where > do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? Search for vidcontrol(1) in rc.conf(5) manual. -- regards, Maciej Suszko. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
> > So is "portsnap cron update" and "portsnap fetch update" doing the same > thing? > Whichever way, it sounds like I need an initial run of portsnap extract before > putting this in crontab. >From scratch, you need to "portsnap fetch extract" to establish your ports directory. After that you either use "portsnap fetch update" to interactively update or use "portsnap cron update" for a cron script. "Fetch" and "Cron" are identical except "Cron" adds a randomized time delay so as not to fire off EXACTLY at the time you set. This helps prevent everyone and their brother nailing the update server exactly at midnight every night, but rather spread it out a few minutes. Do NOT use a randomizer on your cron timer with "portsnap cron" or you will be double randomizing and wondering why it seems to never be updating sometimes. ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:08:52PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Secondly, for the sake of the servers, please don't run 'portsnap fetch' from a cron job. You're not the only person to think of doing that, and most people who do have the job run at the top of the hour. This is bad. The servers really don't like it when several thousand cronjobs all fire off simultaneously and the system load goes through the roof. Which is why 'portsnap cron' exists -- it does exactly the same as fetch, except it waits for a random amount of time before pulling down any data. More generally, a cron job can be run with a random delay added before the real job kicks off. Just prefix the command you want cron to run like so: sleep $(jot -r 1 1 900) && command to run If you like, replace 900 with some other number to change the upper bound on the number of seconds to delay. portsnap has a "cron" command that does this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
I don't get what you're trying to show here. What commands you've run indicate that: 1/ you have an up to date ports tree 2/ one of the installed ports needs to be updated So what ? Just run # portmaster libreoffice I think you might be confused, "new version available" means that you have version 1.2.3 installed and that 1.2.4 is available *from the local ports tree*. It does not indicate that there is a newer version of a package available remotely and that you should update your ports tree. Hope this helps. On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:21 PM, jb wrote: > Stas Verberkt legolasweb.nl> writes: > >> >> jb schreef op : >>> Tim Daneliuk tundraware.com> writes: >>> ... > I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. >>> >>> Well, not quite ... >>> >> I think, after the security incident, you had to obtain a fresh >> snapshot of the ports tree, >> i.e. you had to do "portsnap fetch extract" before usual service >> continued. >> May this be your problem? > > # portsnap fetch extract > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 > # portsnap fetch update > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. > Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. > Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. > No updates needed. > Ports tree is already up to date. > # > > This fixed it. > > But, let's see what happens with this test: > > # rm -rf /usr/ports/ > # portsnap extract > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744800 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > # portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' >===>>> New version available: java-zoneinfo-2012.j >===>>> New version available: liberation-fonts-ttf-2.00.1,1 >===>>> New version available: libxul-10.0.11 >===>>> New version available: firefox-17.0,1 >===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 >===>>> New version available: vigra-1.9.0 > ===>>> 545 total installed ports >===>>> 6 have new versions available > # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' > /tmp/d-78227-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1615 kB 176 kBps 00m00s >===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 > ===>>> 545 total installed ports >===>>> 1 has a new version available > # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' >===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 > ===>>> 545 total installed ports >===>>> 1 has a new version available > # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26665016 Nov 26 16:12 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 > # portsnap update > Ports tree is already up to date. > # > > Well, what do you say about this ? > jb > > > ___ > 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
Stas Verberkt legolasweb.nl> writes: > > jb schreef op : > > Tim Daneliuk tundraware.com> writes: > > > >> ... > >> > I use portsnap fetch update and it works... > >> > >> Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. > > > > Well, not quite ... > > > I think, after the security incident, you had to obtain a fresh > snapshot of the ports tree, > i.e. you had to do "portsnap fetch extract" before usual service > continued. > May this be your problem? # portsnap fetch extract # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879597 Nov 26 15:37 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763600 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744834 Nov 26 15:38 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up to date. # This fixed it. But, let's see what happens with this test: # rm -rf /usr/ports/ # portsnap extract # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26744800 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 # portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' ===>>> New version available: java-zoneinfo-2012.j ===>>> New version available: liberation-fonts-ttf-2.00.1,1 ===>>> New version available: libxul-10.0.11 ===>>> New version available: firefox-17.0,1 ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 ===>>> New version available: vigra-1.9.0 ===>>> 545 total installed ports ===>>> 6 have new versions available # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' /tmp/d-78227-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1615 kB 176 kBps 00m00s ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 ===>>> 545 total installed ports ===>>> 1 has a new version available # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 ===>>> 545 total installed ports ===>>> 1 has a new version available # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879563 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763566 Nov 26 16:07 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26665016 Nov 26 16:12 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 # portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. # Well, what do you say about this ? jb ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
Matthew Seaman wrote: [snip] >> >> And now I need to find an alternative to handle the src updates using svn >> or something... > > SVN works, but isn't amazingly quick. If you're on a release branch you > can get the src (and just the src) using freebsd-update(8), which should > be pretty speedy and which I think is going to be the officially blessed > method for non-developers to keep up to date. Although anyone will > still be able to use SVN if they want to. > > You'll need to tweak /etc/freebsd-update.conf slightly to get just the > system sources. It's pretty obvious what to do. > As a result of the security incident I switched away from csup and am now using portsnap for ports, and svn for source. The only disconcerting item I noticed is the 500-some MB .svn directory now under /usr/src/. Can using freebsd-update for source update(s) eliminate the need for this 500MB waste of space? Or is there some switch for svn which could accomplish same? Thanks - 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"
vidcontrol - How do I make these persist?
List, If I edit things via vidcontrol, e.g: `vidcontrol grey black` where do I put this to make it persist across reboots on all terminals? Cheers! -Modulok- ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2012 13:49:05 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I > > replaced my csup cron entry with the following: > > > > portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update > > "portsnap fetch" should only be used interactively; for non-interactive > use, > you should use "portsnap cron" > > "portsnap extract" is only needed for initialising your portsnap-maintained > ports tree. > > So, after your initial portsnap run, what you need in your cron file is > just "portsnap fetch update" > > So is "portsnap cron update" and "portsnap fetch update" doing the same thing? Whichever way, it sounds like I need an initial run of portsnap extract before putting this in crontab. @Matthew, I do not need all ports (astro, hungarian, etc...) but you appear to suggest I need everything, right? My portsnap.conf contains: *REFUSE all arabic astro benchmarks biology cad chinese finance french games german hebrew REFUSE hungarian japanese korean palm polish portuguese russian science ukranian vietnamese* Is that a misnomer? Then coming to freebsd-update (I never thought I'd have to use it one day!), I am a little confused with what to tinker. There are these two lines: *# Components of the base system which should be kept updated. Components src world kernel # Example for updating the userland and the kernel source code only: # Components src/base src/sys world* I always did csup to get my src then manually did the buildworld, make kernel, reboot, installworld, then mergemaster. >From the above lines, I am not sure what I need, but think the "Components src world" is what I need. How it comes to build my custom kernel is still not clear to me. My mergemaster.rc contained: *IGNORE_FILES="/etc/crontab /etc/fstab /etc/group /etc/hosts /etc/inetd.conf /etc/make.conf /etc/master.passwd /etc/motd /etc/newsyslog.conf /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.drift /etc/profile /etc/rc.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/services /etc/shells /etc/syslog.conf /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub /etc/passwd /etc/rc.conf.local /etc/zfs/exports /etc//namedb/named.conf /etc/periodic.conf /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts /etc/pf.conf /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/make.conf /etc/src.conf /etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/mailer.conf /etc/remote"* How now do I deal with this? Hopefully you can explain to someone who has been keeping off freebsd-update. I know there are many like me who are in this situation now that csup is getting deprecated. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
jb schreef op : Tim Daneliuk tundraware.com> writes: ... > I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Well, not quite ... I think, after the security incident, you had to obtain a fresh snapshot of the ports tree, i.e. you had to do "portsnap fetch extract" before usual service continued. May this be your problem? ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On Monday 26 November 2012 13:49:05 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I > replaced my csup cron entry with the following: > > portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update "portsnap fetch" should only be used interactively; for non-interactive use, you should use "portsnap cron" "portsnap extract" is only needed for initialising your portsnap-maintained ports tree. So, after your initial portsnap run, what you need in your cron file is just "portsnap fetch update" -- Mike Clarke ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On 26/11/2012 13:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I > replaced my csup cron entry with the following: > > portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update You definitely don't want to do this. Most importantly, 'extract' and 'update' aren't compatible. 'extract' says 'take all the data you downloaded, synthesize a *complete* ports tree from it, and overwrite /usr/ports with that, never mind what might have been there before'. 'update' says 'just add the changed bits since the last time you ran portsnap' ie. you only need to run 'extract' *once*, then you keep up to date by running 'update' at intervals. Secondly, for the sake of the servers, please don't run 'portsnap fetch' from a cron job. You're not the only person to think of doing that, and most people who do have the job run at the top of the hour. This is bad. The servers really don't like it when several thousand cronjobs all fire off simultaneously and the system load goes through the roof. Which is why 'portsnap cron' exists -- it does exactly the same as fetch, except it waits for a random amount of time before pulling down any data. Thirdly, you can tell portsnap several commands at once. So change your cron invocation to just: portsnap cron update and you should be happy. > Initially I just had `csup -z -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/9.x-ports` > where 9.x-ports was an edited version of ports-supfile. > > Now I have an /etc/portsnap.con with the equivalent edits from my 9.x-ports > > Is this how best to do it? No. You almost never need to modify the default portsnap.conf at all. portsnap works best if you use it to maintain a complete ports tree. It also automatically uses a geographically close server for best performance. > > And now I need to find an alternative to handle the src updates using svn > or something... SVN works, but isn't amazingly quick. If you're on a release branch you can get the src (and just the src) using freebsd-update(8), which should be pretty speedy and which I think is going to be the officially blessed method for non-developers to keep up to date. Although anyone will still be able to use SVN if they want to. You'll need to tweak /etc/freebsd-update.conf slightly to get just the system sources. It's pretty obvious what to do. Cheers, Matthew ___ 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"
bge driver for BCM5719 not working (9.1-RC3)
Hi, I'm having a hard time getting FreeBSD 9.1 RC3 running on a HP Proliant 385p G8. Installation runs so far, however I can't get any network interfaces up and running. The output of dmesg "... link states coalesced" messages and correspondigly in /var/log/messages I have numerous messages like "bge0: link state changed to UP", followed by "bge0: link state changed to DOWN". I've already ruled out the following: o) Wiring - OK (even changed cable) o) different switchport o) Check for latest firmware on machine including iLO - already got that The problem is that I can't connect to the network in any way, so I'm stuck with my installation off the ISO-image with no way of updating my system :-( Interestingly enough the MAC-address of the machine in question shows up on the switch, so the server does have a link to the switch - without being able to communicate though. Digging around I came across the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=171121 So here are my questions: o) Is there any chance this will be fixed in the 9.1-release? (the PR mentions that the patch has been committed to -CURRENT) o) How do I go about updating my system without network connectivity? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 11/26/2012 01:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >>> I use portsnap fetch update and it works... >>> >>> Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. >>> >>> >> Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been >> running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received >> any updates to your ports tree, ever. >> >> This is all explained quite clearly in the portsnap(8) man page. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> >> > I just switched from csup last week and am still learning the ropes. > > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I replaced my csup cron entry with the following: portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update Initially I just had `csup -z -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/9.x-ports` where 9.x-ports was an edited version of ports-supfile. Now I have an /etc/portsnap.con with the equivalent edits from my 9.x-ports Is this how best to do it? And now I need to find an alternative to handle the src updates using svn or something... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. ___ 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: error message
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:44:57 -0700, emmanuel ilunga wrote: > Hello, > > By ignorance, I named the host: "machine0.example.com" (just following what > I saw.) Even though this has nothing to do with the error message you got, the name "example.com" is intended for _examples_ and not for actual use. It will usually be found in documentation and has the meaning of "change this to what applies in _your_ case if you follow this example". Typical suggestions could be "machine0.local" or "fbsd9.localdomain". If _may_ be possible that your ISP requires you do enter a specific host and domain name, or your setting requires this. There might be rules you have to follow. Besides, _you_ will decide about the name. You can change this information easily in /etc/rc.conf, it's the following setting: hostname="." You could also provide corresponding entries in /etc/hosts. > Every time I reboot, I get: machine0# Nov26 04:37:03 machine0 > ntpd_initrest[2008]:host name not found: 0.freebsd.pool.org The error message indicates that the name of the "time server" (for NTP), called 0.freebsd.pool.org, cannot be resolved to an IP. You should check your Internet connection and the setting for the resolver in /etc/resolv.conf. Can you access other machines on the Internet? This is what you should be able to do: % host 0.freebsd.pool.org 0.freebsd.pool.org has address 64.99.80.30 > I get this error, unless I enter my login info; and after I had entered my > login info, if I don't do anything else right away, this error message > comes back. That's normal as NTP tries to make a connection to the specified server as long as it's running. You'll find the NTP related settings (ntpdate, ntpd) in /etc/rc.conf, plus examples and explanations in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > And the time is wrong too. Of course the time is wrong: It could not be adjusted because the required Internet connection to obtain the current time could not be made. You can manually set the time using the "date" command. See "man date" for details. > Also, I received 4 installer discs: 2 installers and 2 important packages > (2 for amd64 and 2 for i386), how do I read the appropriate Important > Packages disc in? According to what architecture you're using (i386 _or_ amd64), you would probably use bsdinstall to deal with those discs (at least the older installer, sysinstall, could be used to install packages from the CDs or DVDs, so I assume this functionality would also be part of bsdinstall). The discs contain precompiled binary packages that you _can_ install (there is basically no need that forces you to install all of them!) by using the system's package management command, pkg_add (resp. pkg add). Simply mount the disc and install what you need. Those discs are typically provided for offline use when you cannot download software from the Internet. I assume you're using FreeBSD 9 already. In this case, refering to The FreeBSD Handbook about the steps of installation might be a good idea: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall.html I've got no deeper experience with bsdinstall so far, that's why I can't be more specific, sorry. -- 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On 11/26/2012 01:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received any updates to your ports tree, ever. This is all explained quite clearly in the portsnap(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew I just switched from csup last week and am still learning the ropes. -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
On 11/25/2012 11:17 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox & Thunderbird against the new libraries and ... they're broken, marked as security hazards... It's been being updated normally since near enough a week ago. "Normally" means subject to the pre-9.1-RELEASE restrictions on sweeping changes as is usual at this point in a release cycle. FireFox 17 and Thunderbird 17 updates were committed to ports on 20th November. Hmm. Is the index file being rebuilt? With FF16 installed, and 17 in the port directory, portsdb -Fu && portversion -vl'<' shows nothing to update. After 'make index', it does show. The problem was that I was missing the 'fetch' verb in my portsnap command. -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ 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: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
Tim Daneliuk tundraware.com> writes: > ... > > I use portsnap fetch update and it works... > > Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Well, not quite ... # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. Ports tree hasn't changed since last snapshot. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up to date. # ls -al /usr/ports/IN* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26879548 Nov 26 11:50 /usr/ports/INDEX-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26763551 Nov 26 11:50 /usr/ports/INDEX-8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26665016 Nov 26 11:53 /usr/ports/INDEX-9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1654048 Nov 11 11:45 /usr/ports/INDEX-9.bz2 # portmaster -L | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'===>>> New version available: java-zoneinfo-2012.j ===>>> New version available: liberation-fonts-ttf-2.00.1,1 ===>>> New version available: libxul-10.0.11 ===>>> New version available: firefox-17.0,1 ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 ===>>> New version available: vigra-1.9.0 ===>>> 545 total installed ports ===>>> 6 have new versions available # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 ===>>> 545 total installed ports ===>>> 1 has a new version available # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install' ===>>> New version available: libreoffice-3.5.7 ===>>> 545 total installed ports ===>>> 1 has a new version 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: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
On 11/25/12 22:07, Michael Sierchio wrote: Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to share an AMI with you, but you should try Colin's stuff. On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jim Flowers wrote: I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many problems. FreeBSD is now officially supported by Amazon (but still supplied by Colin) as well as Colin's "defenestrated" FreeBSD AMIs. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-marketplace-additional-operating-system-support.html https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK/ref=sp_mpg_product_title?ie=UTF8&sr=0-2 However, these are only on the new 3rd generation of EC2 instances, which are heavy duty systems. For many uses micro instances are enough, but you still have to pay the "Windows tax" on those. I don't know whether Colin is working to change that, or if there are technical reasons why it's impossible. http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ ___ 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: Anyone using squid and pf?
24.11.2012 17:39, Leslie Jensen: I've upgraded squid from 3.1 to 3.2. Starting squid 3.2 with the same configuration file now gives me errors in cache.log when one tries to access any site, and of course no access! 2012/11/24 16:24:56 kid1| WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for: Reverting back to 3.1 works. I know there are some changes in 3.2 that does this + 3.2 intercept port receiving forward-proxy requests will reject them due to NAT failure/lies. + 3.2 Host header validation *will* reject if forward traffic is validated as being intercepted. I would appreciate suggestions for changes to squid.conf so that squid will work for me with version 3.2. When switching to 3.2 I had to split listening ports - one for transparency and one for the local machine. However this doesn't looks like your case. Can you please provide relevant parts of pf.conf and full log output, not just the first line? -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ 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"
