Re: Upgrade 6.1 to 7.1 remotely?
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a remote system with no access to boot info. I can get someone to reset, look at screen, etc. The server is 6.1-RELEASE-p15 and wondering if there is a path to upgrade to 7.1 remotely. Would it be possible to do something like this for getting the box to 6.4... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-11-26-freebsd-6.1-to-6.2-binary-upgrade.html And then another freebsd-update to 7.1? Seems that box will not let me portupgrade clamav anymore due to a change from 6.1 :( ../libclamav/.libs/libclamav.so: undefined reference to `gethostbyname_r' *** Error code 1 http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade 6.1 to 7.1 remotely?
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Thanks, perfect. One of the first things it says to do is a 'portupgrade -a', which I already know clamav is going to fail. Is this going to cause problems? And if other packages fail to upgrade, I assume I should investigate each? However, I don't expect anything else because we only have mail filtering type packages on this server and all other packages we installed have upgraded fine and at their latest versions now. We're also running our own kernel with quota option. Also, from reading this doc, I'll get the GENERIC kernel with the upgrade and then I'll just need to rebuild for quotas You can try to do the steps and ignore clamav failing, then upgrade the port after the new kernel is in place. I guess there is some chance it might fail to build after the upgrade for entirely different reasons so use that info at your own risk Making a backup first might be a good idea. Once the new GENERIC is installed you can edit and rebuild to suit your taste, just like you would with a normal kernel change. ___ freebsd-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 tell what $var assigned PORTVERSION equals.
How does one find out the PORTVERSION of a port when it's in a format like such: PORTVERSION=${KDE4_VERSION} All the docs/examples I can find easily show PORTVERSION assigned a number, not variable. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?
Yavuz wrote: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they is enough. is there any way to increase disk performance without causing any problem ? sysctl vfs.read_max=32 can help read performance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
insert new line in files
I want to insert a new line of text at a certain position in certain files recursively under a directory. More specifically, I want text like this: include('/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php'); to be put into file X at line 37 where file X appears in ./subdir1, .subdir2 etc. There are many subdirs or I'd just do it by hand. I've done stuff like this before with the rpl script and it works well as long as there aren't any special characters in the strings. So I assumed I finally hit the point where I'm forced to learn something like sed or awk and tried some examples with sed but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I get results like this: sed '5i\test' test.txt sed: 1: 5i\test: extra characters after \ at the end of i command Is sed the right tool for this? If so, any good primers for BSD sed? ___ freebsd-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: insert new line in files
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 06), Adam Vande More said: I want to insert a new line of text at a certain position in certain files recursively under a directory. More specifically, I want text like this: include('/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php'); to be put into file X at line 37 where file X appears in ./subdir1, .subdir2 etc. There are many subdirs or I'd just do it by hand. I've done stuff like this before with the rpl script and it works well as long as there aren't any special characters in the strings. So I assumed I finally hit the point where I'm forced to learn something like sed or awk and tried some examples with sed but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I get results like this: sed '5i\test' test.txt sed: 1: 5i\test: extra characters after \ at the end of i command You want: sed -e '5i\ test' test.txt i.e. a linebreak after the backslash. I had actually tried that too: sed -e '5i\ ? test' text.txt sed: 1: 5i test : command i expects \ followed by text ___ freebsd-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: insert new line in files
Dan Nelson wrote: I had actually tried that too: sed -e '5i\ ? test' text.txt sed: 1: 5i test : command i expects \ followed by text I don't see a backslash in the error message, which means something ate it. Are you running this command from something other than the commandline or a plain sh script? If you're calling this from another scripting language (via system() or popen() or something similar), you probably have to double the backslash so whatever's parsing it out passes one through to sed. This is being executed from stock tcsh Progress is being made as it works in the test now with the \\ however I'm running into more things I don't understand in regards to what I need to escape in my input string. sed -e '5i\\ include(\'/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php\');' test.txt Unmatched '. I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail. ___ freebsd-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: insert new line in files
Adam Vande More wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: I had actually tried that too: sed -e '5i\ ? test' text.txt sed: 1: 5i test : command i expects \ followed by text I don't see a backslash in the error message, which means something ate it. Are you running this command from something other than the commandline or a plain sh script? If you're calling this from another scripting language (via system() or popen() or something similar), you probably have to double the backslash so whatever's parsing it out passes one through to sed. This is being executed from stock tcsh Progress is being made as it works in the test now with the \\ however I'm running into more things I don't understand in regards to what I need to escape in my input string. sed -e '5i\\ include(\'/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php\');' test.txt Unmatched '. I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail. nevermind I see I have to \\ that as well. Okay now I'm going to try to find a way to do this with find and xargs ___ freebsd-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: insert new line in files
Steve Bertrand wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail. nevermind I see I have to \\ that as well. Okay now I'm going to try to find a way to do this with find and xargs IMHO, this has become a job for Perl :) Steve Thanks for help everyone. My final command was this: skynet1# find . -name 'filename.php' | xargs sed -i.old -e '37a\\ include(/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php);' I used double quotes because I couldn't finger out how to the single quote. Good enough for me. ___ freebsd-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: Strange and weird, probably simple, aim DL
Basically it does the same thing. I used the pkg_add as I said, and once I finished, I did the rehash thing, and then logging in and out doesn't seem to change it. Is there a chance the package itself is messy? I was told to try whereis and did so, and it said /usr/ports/net-im/aim and when I typed the direct path, it said permission denied, so I tried su to root, and ran it again, and it said the same thing...Which is a little strange being root. If it says something like this: whereis aim aim: /usr/ports/net-im/aim aim is not installed. an installed pkg will look something like this: whereis pidgin pidgin: /usr/local/bin/pidgin /usr/local/man/man1/pidgin.1.gz /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin ___ freebsd-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: Strange and weird, probably simple, aim DL
Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net wrote: Basically it does the same thing. I used the pkg_add as I said, and once I finished, I did the rehash thing, and then logging in and out doesn't seem to change it. Is there a chance the package itself is messy? It's possible. I was told to try whereis and did so, and it said /usr/ports/net-im/aim and when I typed the direct path, it said permission denied, so I tried su to root, and ran it again, and it said the same thing...Which is a little strange being root. You were told the wrong command. Try `which aim'. Also, try executing with the full path: /usr/local/bin/aim Is your ports tree up to date? man portsnap man whereis :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?
Yuri wrote: Quoting Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: wlandebug(8) for general 802.11 debuging ath driver have it's own debug options ... documented in source code Thanks! In the debug log I see the line: ath0: ieee80211_scan_update: no scanner suppport for mode 8 From source code I see that mode 8 is IEEE80211_M_MONITOR. As I understand in 'monitor' mode no packets are being sent or received. When I try to turn it off with 'ifconfig ath0 -monotor' interface still seems to stay in monitor mode. Why wouldn't -monitor turn monitor mode off? Yuri Perhaps it is just a typo but shouldn't it be 'ifconfig ath0 -monitor' instead of 'ifconfig ath0 -monotor' ___ freebsd-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: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. Ya, that was the easiest problems to search on google and get fixed :) I'm going to try downgrading to xorg 7.3 ... I'm having headaches with fonts (Location bar in firefox3 is unreadable, although all pages are fine ... mail messagesin mulberry are unreadable, although the message index is *just* readable, etc) ... someone mentioned some changes in 7.4 concerning fonts, and I figure, my luck, this might be something that is trickling into other areas :( FWIW, I run both KDE and KDE4 w/ nvidia driver dual head on xorg 7.4. Following UPDATING resolved the issues I had going from 7.3 7.4. midco# uname -a FreeBSD midco.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #5: Tue Jan 13 13:35:17 CST 2009 a...@midco.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DOMINATOR i386 midco# pkg_info | grep nvidia nvidia-driver-177.80 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren nvidia-settings-180.17 Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver xorg-7.4X.Org complete distribution metaport ___ freebsd-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: Wordpress Port Question
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have a question regarding Wordpress and Wordpress-mu ports. I want to install wordpress on my personal webserver (apache2, mysql, etc). I have several virtual hosts all with legitimate individual domain names. IE, www.mydomain.com, www.anotherdomain.com, www.yetanotherdomain.com. Do I need to install Wordpress or Wordpress-mu on my server ? The server has a clean install of Freebsd7 on it. I googled for my answer, but the comparisons between the two did not make it clear. Thanks for any guidance, -Darryl The other two respones suggesting referral and sessions are correct as well as the warnings on each. Referrals are notoriously inaccurate and adding in sessions/cookie support retroactively can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. Depends on how important it is to you, but I think most people are satisfied with the vistors metric offered by a package like Webalizer or google analytics, although they also have shortcomings. If you only need a ballpark figure, I'd go about it that way. ___ freebsd-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: tab-delimited to csv
John Almberg wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to convert a tab-delimited file to csv using standard unix utilities? I could whip up a Ruby script to do it, but I hate to reinvent the wheel. Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org if you just dealing with a few files, you could use thing like vi or and editor w/ regex capbilites to search and replace tabs w/ comma's. perl -pe ’s/\t/,/g’ table.tsv table.csv ___ freebsd-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: tab-delimited to csv
John Almberg wrote: On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:55:50AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to convert a tab-delimited file to csv using standard unix utilities? I could whip up a Ruby script to do it, but As long as the files don't contain commas themselves, Right, that's the tricky bit. I could use tr otherwise. I hate to reinvent the wheel. I'd whip up that script. There is a shareware tab2csv utility for windows for $49.95: http://www.download32.com/info-pack-com-tab2csv-i31827.html I'm working on it, right now. I also saw that windows utility, but doesn't help me much. OTOH, if you have a spreadsheet program like Gnumeric or OpenOffice installed, you might be able to script those to import from tab-delimited and export to CSV. Admittedly that is like using a nuke to kill a fly. Actually, the problem arises because I have a client who is exporting a 'database' file from Excel 2000 (don't ask), to .csv, and Excel is so stupid that it is not putting quotes around a field that contains commas. Duh. Excel seems to export to tab-delimited format without making any fatal errors, but I need a real .csv file for import. Thus my need to convert from tab to (real) csv. -- John There is this: http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/arb/psion/ Have no idea if it complies or works as you want. But if you're dealing with just one so called database from Excel I would go with either checking the settings on the Excel export(in OO.org you can specify w/ or w/out quotes) as they may have missed the option. Or simply get the original file, open it in OO.org and do it from there as was basically suggested earlier. I would have thought something like would exist as it's certainly useful like dos2unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
proftpd and sftp
I've got proftpd running on my server and on a whim tried an sftp connection for a website I was working on. To my amazment, transfer speeds increase exponentially. Getting a directory of about 300 files totaling around 5M takes around 10 minutes using default proftpd.conf in passive mode. Same directory takes under 2 using sftp. These options are in proftpd.conf UseReverseDNS off IdentLookups off Why is proftpd so much slower than sftp and any pointers on increasing my proftpd performance? -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ freebsd-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: proftpd and sftp
Adam Vande More wrote: I've got proftpd running on my server and on a whim tried an sftp connection for a website I was working on. To my amazment, transfer speeds increase exponentially. Getting a directory of about 300 files totaling around 5M takes around 10 minutes using default proftpd.conf in passive mode. Same directory takes under 2 using sftp. These options are in proftpd.conf UseReverseDNS off IdentLookups off Why is proftpd so much slower than sftp and any pointers on increasing my proftpd performance? I didn't receive a response on this so just reposting in hopes I do. ___ freebsd-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: Ports on Macbook
Charles Oppermann wrote: That depends on where you are domiciled. Under certain scenarios, simply open the box, or installing the software constitutes acceptance of the EULA. Yes I'm aware of that, but that kind of agreement isn't valid in Sweden. That would be tantamount to allowing software piracy in Sweden. The Mac OS X license agreements are contained in a PDF file here: http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx105.pdf There is a Swedish language agreement for sales in Sweden. Using on-line translation tools, it appears to be similar to what's already been stated; use of the software consistutes acceptance of the agreement. If you do not agree, you are requested to return the software. Presumably, the retail materials contain this agreement, and I'm sure there is digital copy that is presented and must be agreed to before use. I'm sure that Apple has very good lawyers who drafted the license agreements and are aware of Swedish law. While what you are doing may or may not be in violation of any licenses, your position that clicking yes or no is not a handshake or oral agreement acording to Swedish law seems dubious and ill-advised. Consider what you're suggesting: If EULA's and license agreements simply weren't valid in Sweden, then what would prevent massive piracy from occuring? I would assume that if license agreements in Sweden weren't enforcable, someone would be setting up their own software copying business. ...and if that happened, I would expect software companies to change their license agreements in order to prevent it. If you are under 18 you can't make any legally binding agreements without your legal guardians permission. This list is great for many reasons. This thread is not one of them. Trying to convince people to use Hackintosh is about as ridiculous as using on-line translation tool to deliver a rendition on Swedish law. Surely there is a better forum to debate this? Like off-list... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Hi, I am not sure but as per some internet guide, I have configured the bridge on Freebsd(7) Machine with two LAN cards on it I have compiled my KERNEL with (device if_bridge) and then added code to rc.conf cloned_interfaces=bridge0 ifconfig_bridge0=addm sk0 addm sk1 up ifconfig_sk0=up ifconfig_sk1=up I connected two linux PCs with these two interfaces (sk0 and sk1) and tried to ping between them but didnt get any success.configuration seems to be ok, but still no traffice is being passed. Can any one give any sugestion ? Regards! What does ifconfig show? ___ freebsd-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-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th To: faiz...@hotmail.com CC: fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; fb...@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Hi, Are you using properly crossed cables? Isnt it enough check for the that two linux can ping each other.. Yes and no. You must used crossed Ethernet cable between your FreeBSD bridge and each of your Linux boxes. Frankly i am not sure about the cables type but they works PC to PC connectivity. As someone suggested, what is ifconfig saying on the FreeBSD box? You should see that both sk0 and sk1 have a status: active. Else it means you have a cable problem. sk0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 00:0a:5e:1a:69:25 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2) status: active sk1: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 00:0a:5e:1a:67:ee media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2) status: active here is the ifconfig output for the bridge interface: bridge0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 0a:54:d7:7e:aa:66 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priortiy 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 I think ifconfig bridge0 should list member interfaces. Did you add them? ___ freebsd-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-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:48:40 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th To: faiz...@hotmail.com CC: fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; fb...@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Hi, Are you using properly crossed cables? Isnt it enough check for the that two linux can ping each other.. Yes and no. You must used crossed Ethernet cable between your FreeBSD bridge and each of your Linux boxes. Frankly i am not sure about the cables type but they works PC to PC connectivity. As someone suggested, what is ifconfig saying on the FreeBSD box? You should see that both sk0 and sk1 have a status: active. Else it means you have a cable problem. sk0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 00:0a:5e:1a:69:25 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2) status: active sk1: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 00:0a:5e:1a:67:ee media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2) status: active here is the ifconfig output for the bridge interface: bridge0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 0a:54:d7:7e:aa:66 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priortiy 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 I think ifconfig bridge0 should list member interfaces. Did you add them? ifconfig bridge0 addm sk0 addm sk1 up ifconfig sk0 up ifconfig sk1 up this configuration exists in rc.conf if ifconfig doesn't print out something like this: bridge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 4a:be:26:65:75:06 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 member: sk0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200 member: sk1 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20 Then you need to add the member interfaces. ___ freebsd-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-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:05:09 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:48:40 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th To: faiz...@hotmail.com CC: fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; fb...@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Hi, Are you using properly crossed cables? Isnt it enough check for the that two linux can ping each other.. Yes and no. You must used crossed Ethernet cable between your FreeBSD bridge and each of your Linux boxes. Frankly i am not sure about the cables type but they works PC to PC connectivity. As someone suggested, what is ifconfig saying on the FreeBSD box? You should see that both sk0 and sk1 have a status: active. Else it means you have a cable problem. sk0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 00:0a:5e:1a:69:25 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2) status: active sk1: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 00:0a:5e:1a:67:ee media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2) status: active here is the ifconfig output for the bridge interface: bridge0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU ether 0a:54:d7:7e:aa:66 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priortiy 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 I think ifconfig bridge0 should list member interfaces. Did you add them? ifconfig bridge0 addm sk0 addm sk1 up ifconfig sk0 up ifconfig sk1 up this configuration exists in rc.conf if ifconfig doesn't print out something like this: bridge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 4a:be:26:65:75:06 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 member: sk0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200 member: sk1 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20 Then you need to add the member interfaces. i noted that, following information is missing member: sk0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200 member: sk1 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20 Now i need to know how to add the interfaces..? Any command do u knw and can help me..? Regards!!! http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009 ifconfig bridge0 addm sk0 addm sk1 up ifconfig sk0 up ifconfig sk1 up ___ freebsd-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-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: i noted that, following information is missing member: sk0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200 member: sk1 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 20 Now i need to know how to add the interfaces..? Any command do u knw and can help me..? Regards!!! http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009 ifconfig bridge0 addm sk0 addm sk1 up ifconfig sk0 up ifconfig sk1 up Thanks a lot dear.. it worked. but i m still confused that i have the alternative configuration in rc.conf as per guideline here on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-bridging.html it should have worked, but it did not. and here with these commands, it is working.. I am able to get reply to ping Make sure you got the full config in there adjusted to your settings: cloned_interfaces=bridge0 ifconfig_bridge0=addm fxp0 addm fxp1 up ifconfig_fxp0=up ifconfig_fxp1=up And that you've rebooted. Assuming you've done those steps correctly, it should work. Generally issue's like that are rooted in typo's and misconfigurations. As your typo count gets incremented, you will learn humility. ;) Least that's how it was for me. Another good rule of thumb is if you're following the handbook and it's still doesn't work then you're not following the handbook. Glad it works for you. ___ freebsd-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: Linux Compatability
rasz wrote: hi i have 2 distinct questions, and first is, i installed a linux app (binaries) and it failed when run complaining that it needs a CPU with SSE instuctions enabled. does anyone know what this is and related too? i am running 7.2-prerelease i386 with linux_base-fc4. the only setting i have is fallback_elf_brand=3 (no osrelease) has anyone ever come across this? 2nd question, is the freebsd base (usr/src) documented anywhere, as to the programs it entirely contains? i thought developers handbook, but all i found is description of the directories in usr/src/ (unless i missed it elsewhere). besides that, is there any kind of database app in the base system no matter how compact/basic? if not, what would be the *closest* in ports? thanks in advance for any info ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org berkley db, sqlite, qdbm are in ports if you need more of a filesystems type db. Nothing exists in the base system AFAIK. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ freebsd-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: portupdate xorg-server
RW wrote: IMO this doesn't make any sense. If portupgrade is failing on a port where manual make install works, then portupgrade simply has a bug. Any port upgrading tool belongs in a port, because it's more important that it responds to changes in the ports system than changes in the base system. As to upgrading piecemeal rather than with -a, I don't see how that helps, and it may actually make things worse by not building in dependency order. ___ As to the first part of your msg, what you said doesn't make any sense to me either. Never did I claim portupgrade fails where a normal make install would succeed. I would appreciate it if you could take my example as I state it instead adding stuff to make it sound implausible. Thanks. When you're doing a massive update, and you run into to depedancy issues, you'll know what I'm talking. Also after you get some experience in ports, you'll be able to understand that you can't depend on it compiling all the time. Want an example? Try compiling misc/wanpipe w/ misc/zaptel right now and tell me how far you get. Doing a portupgrade -a on system w/ 1000+ packages installed and there's a pretty good chance you'll run into more than one issue with something like that or it's lesser cousin. Upgrading in smaller chunks is easier. It's actually a fairly common principle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_conquer_algorithm One practical example is xorg 1.4 -- 1.5 a lot of us had issues with a couple months ago or whenever it was. Many users wrote in after doing something like a portupgrade -a and blaming their display problem from xorg on whatever WM they happened to be using. Had they done it in smaller segments, they would easily be able to identify source. And no, it doesn't bring you into dependency hell, it brings you out of it easier. Hope that clears up the confusion for you. ___ freebsd-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: Encoding Movies to DVD
Warren Liddell wrote: Adam Vandemore wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: Im chasing an application that basically does the same thing Windows Nero Vision does but naturally on FreeBSD .. is there such an application or is it something thats command line based ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org For those of us who aren't familar with Windows Nero Vision, what does it do? It lets you add verious move files into a list and then converts them into DVD format able to be then played by a standard DVD player(non computer) as well as adds title menus Okay, well someone already mentioned mencoder, ffmpeg, and dvdstyler so what I would add to that is mencoder is more powerful ffmpeg although you can use them for many of the things including most of what you mention. They can create video in dvd-compat mpeg2 format then you use dvdstyler to create menus etc. dvdstyler is a frontend to dvdauthor which is cli based. Another gui video editor/conversion tool is avidemux2 which is pretty good. ___ freebsd-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: csup vs freebsd-update
Andrei Brezan wrote: Hi all, I have a strange problem with csup and freebsd-update. I'm using 7.0-RELEASE-p11. If i do: # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 7.0-RELEASE-p11. All seems ok, i'm up to date. But if i do: # csup -L 2 ./standard-supfile Parsing supfile ./standard-supfile Connecting to cvsup.hu.FreeBSD.org Connected to 193.6.222.7 Server software version: SNAP_16_1h Negotiating file attribute support Exchanging collection information Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection Running Updating collection src-all/cvs Checkout src/contrib/lukemftpd/src/ftpd.c Checkout src/contrib/telnet/telnetd/sys_term.c Checkout src/libexec/ftpd/extern.h Checkout src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y Checkout src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c Checkout src/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S Checkout src/sys/conf/newvers.sh Checkout src/sys/dev/random/randomdev.c Checkout src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c Checkout src/sys/kern/kern_environment.c Checkout src/sys/kern/kern_time.c Checkout src/sys/kern/uipc_domain.c Checkout src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Checkout src/sys/netinet/tcp.h Checkout src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c Checkout src/sys/netinet6/icmp6.c Checkout src/sys/netinet6/in6.h Checkout src/sys/netinet6/in6_proto.c Checkout src/sys/netinet6/nd6.h Checkout src/sys/netinet6/nd6_nbr.c Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully ./standard supfile is: *default host=cvsup.hu.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_0 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all If i do again a freebsd-update i get: # freebsd-update fetch install Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.0-RELEASE-p11: /usr/src/contrib/lukemftpd/src/ftpd.c /usr/src/contrib/telnet/telnetd/sys_term.c /usr/src/libexec/ftpd/extern.h /usr/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y /usr/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh /usr/src/sys/dev/random/randomdev.c /usr/src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_environment.c /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_time.c /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_domain.c /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp.h /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c /usr/src/sys/netinet6/icmp6.c /usr/src/sys/netinet6/in6.h /usr/src/sys/netinet6/in6_proto.c /usr/src/sys/netinet6/nd6.h /usr/src/sys/netinet6/nd6_nbr.c Installing updates... done. I know freebs-update is getting the correct files for release 7.0, but i don't understand where i go wrong with csup. If anyone can point the obvious that i can't see here please do. Thank you, I'm not entirely clear what you're trying to do, but freebsd-update is a binary upgrade utility and cvsup is source based. perhaps csup is borking w/ how freebsd-update is verifying the files to update. however, you should use one or the other not both. I only use csup when doing a major upgrade eg 7.0 - 7.1 and doing a buildworld. freebsd-update keeps me up to date on latest patchset. ___ freebsd-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: sorta newb help compiling samba
Karl Vogel wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:06 -0500, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com said: A How do you handle major builds that use FBSD specific patches A asterisk for example? Fortunately I haven't had to build asterisk or anything else that large. If I did, I'd probably try building under Solaris first, and when installing under FBSD, I'd examine any patches and put them in by hand. My only experience with a major ports build was attempting to upgrade Firefox; 20 minutes after starting, I was left with a literally unbootable system. I had to yank the drive, give it to a buddy to verify that my files were still present, do a complete installation with a more recent FBSD version on a clean drive, and restore my stuff from the original system. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I botched something in the Firefox upgrade, but I've also run into problems installing anything that remotely depends on perl. I use the same version on all my servers, and I got tired of seeing unable to find perl-5.8.whatever; configure scripts test for capability rather than version number to avoid this problem. Some of my servers are not allowed to have any network access, which means no chasing dependencies; I put in a CD with some source and run a build script. A shot in dark at the problem is upgrading firefox also upgraded perl from 5.8.8 to 5.8.9(possibility w/ threaded perl). If some other of your apps expected perl 5.8.8 on boot and didn't find then that could cause an issue similar to your description. Since perl is such a huge part of the ports collection, when perl is updated, all of it's dependencies should be rebuilt against the new version. That's relatively easy to accomplish using something like portupgrade or portmaster. I've had to take steps like you describe before, but I try to keep the things I maintain separately to an absolute minimum as in addition to the time consumption aspect of it, I tend to forget things which then blow in my face so I find it easier to use more conventional means. Also a good idea to keep on top of /usr/ports/UPDATING as well which will give you a heads up on such a thing. The entry referencing the perl upgrade: 20090113: AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.8 AUTHOR: s...@freebsd.org lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.9. You should update everything depending on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.8. Please see its manual page for details. ___ freebsd-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: the 'make' command in the ports tree
dede wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make). I found this, interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some interogations persist. I search a command that list all availables variables that afect program installation, and all arguments I can give to the /usr/port/Makefile (I know about 'make search key= and name=' is there another?). Could anyone give me some cool addresses to learn on the subject? Not sure if I understand your question fully, but this is a great place to learn about different options available when manipulating ports. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: from very early this morning...
(But if a dual or a quad sucks up too many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my footprint. Newer cpu's(multicore vs single) are pretty efficient, here's an article so you don't have to take my word for it. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-cpu-power-consumption,1750-11.html also in general if you want lower power consumption look for cpu's w/ smaller fab eg in term of power consumption and size 90 65 45 gary ___ freebsd-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: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
Keith Seyffarth wrote: Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that you're having. OK. Thanks. I guess. I was kind of hoping that figuring that out might be the fix... Do you have the startup script: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd ? yes If so, what is the output of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd status? currently it's: cupsd is running as pid 721. but I did start cups manually since my last reboot. Cupsd was started automatically on reboot by the script. So that part is working fine. after rebooting the machine, it's: cupsd is not running. config info snipped This seems to me to be area to focus on. Have you tried starting if from cli and seeing if any errors show. Also check logs etc recompile cups w/ debugging info if applicable. I suspect it's not so you may have to increase the verbosity in a config file somewhere. It's been awhile since I printed from FreeBSD, but my last experience was positive and not nearly as much issue as you're having. Anyways I suspect following cupsd not starting to it's end will result in either solving the issue or at least getting to a point where it's easy to resolve. You can also try to trace back /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd to see where it's failing. ___ freebsd-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: Disk usage analysis
Christopher Chambers wrote: Is there an easy way to analyze disk usage to determine which files and folders are taking up the most space? du -hd 1 | sort -n http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=duapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mail server/webmail
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also lets me grab the mail with a mail client (Outlook Express). I'd like to be able to sync the mail with outlook express also. Like if I send a mail over webmail, that sent mail will also go into the sent box in outlook express, or conversly, perhaps store all the mail on the server and have outlook express just show the folders and contents stored on the server. But i'd have to somehow upload all of the mail currently in my outlook express. I'll also need some kind of spam functionality as I get a sizable amount of spam. Currently I use K9 for spam and I quite like it. I guess you could start to look in the area of: - /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail (to fetch/store the mail) - /usr/ports/mail/dovecot (for access to the mail via imap) - /usr/ports/mail/squirremail or roundcube (webmail w/ imap) - /usr/ports/www/apache22 for the webmail As you're then using IMAP, any client that connects to dovecot will get the same set of mailfolders (sync). -- Frederique I've not used roundcube, but horde imp is a also an IMAP webmail client, and I find to be be a much better client than squirrelmail. ___ freebsd-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: kernel panic on SATA drive
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: = Any progress for bellow? I have the same problem with PCI SATA Controller ST-Lab A-173 Sil3512 It's not RAID, but when copying to HDD: LOG--- ad6:FAILURE - device detached g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=38007275520, length=131072)]error = 6 /usr: got error 6 while accessing filesystem panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: unrecovered I/O error cpuid = 0 Uptime: 2m18s Physical memory: 243 MB Dumping 58 MB:unknown: timeout waiting to issue command unknown: error issuing WRITE_DMA command ** DUMP FAILED (ERROR 5) ** Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press any key on the console to abort ---END LOG- Brgrds, Alex I just had a drive do the same, it was dying. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Packages vs Ports
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.comwrote: I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an error that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M slice for a machine with 256M RAM. Anyway, when I used to recompile Firefox it would take over 8 hours. So I figured that I would just delete it and download the new compiled version in a package. But, the package is still not updated yet, and it's been over a week. How long does it usually take for packages to catch up to ports? P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G harddrive. pkg's are created at the time of release eg 7.2. They are never updated for that release. You can easily create your own with make package or pkg_create but that requires a successful recompile -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Packages vs Ports
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.comwrote: I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an error that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M slice for a machine with 256M RAM. Anyway, when I used to recompile Firefox it would take over 8 hours. So I figured that I would just delete it and download the new compiled version in a package. But, the package is still not updated yet, and it's been over a week. How long does it usually take for packages to catch up to ports? P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G harddrive. Also as a temp work around you could create a file backed swap. Even slower, but it would work. You sys isn't really a compiling machine though. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com wrote: Hi guys, first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much mileage with the OS as of yet! Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas and New Year also since we are in that period :-) I will start with my GUI question as I believe that it is something simple: I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx command (read the documentation through fully beforehand) but I didn't manage to get the mouse or keyboard to even work let alone starting the Gnome2 interface. Now I don't have that particular machine with me now as it's in another country but just wanted to know a few possible causes for the issue. I am guessing it's probably tied into not having the xorg.conf file but I will install a VM of it soon and be more specific with logs etc as I am used to Linux and Sun Solaris I know this is really ad-hoc and frowned upon way of asking which will probably earn me minus brownie points but just wanted a quick idea of what maybe so when the time comes I can investigate further! Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html The second and main question that I wish to ask is more to do with peoples opinions or experienced BSD users advice: I am looking to setup a small file server which I will use as DNS and NTP server also. The reason for selecting FreeBSD is that the system I about to install onto doesn't have much memory (not sure how much but probably in the region of 300-500MB perhaps) and although Linux would definitely suite this kind of system as Solaris needs round 2GB or so for OpenSolaris, I am quite interested to learn FreeBSD but also take advantage of the ZFS file system which is standard now in version 8. I won't be installing a GUI on this machine since it is going to be a server so I would like to know if BSD has a small footprint memory and CPU wise for me to run on the machine in question which is a PIV? Also just to make sure: NFS, Samba, NTPd, and ISC's Bind are all supported on FreeBSD aren't they?? I know this is a bit of an RTFM issue here but for example the Solaris implementation of NTP and even SNMP are slightly different from the GNU or GPL based ones in Linux so therefor I have to ask :-) If you're concerned about system resources, at least from a minimalist perspective, then ZFS is not for you. Solaris can't help you with that either, ZFS is hungry. ZFS is also not standard, but considered production ready. UFS is still the standard, and the only filesystem supported by the installer without resorting to tricks. All the other services work well on FreeBSD. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote: I know how strong UFS v.1 is as I use it with Solaris 9, but how about UFS v.2 which is what FreeBSD runs?? When compared with ext3 from a performance/reliability perspective which one comes on top? I would say ufs2 easily wins, but remember this is the freebsd-questions list ;) There are some differences though, ufs2 uses softupdates, not journaling(journaling is available and easy to implement via gjournal). Softupdates I believe are a little faster than journaling, but it's drawback is long disk checking after a dirty shutdown. I've never had a ufs specific issue in hundreds if not thousands of deployments, but nothing is guaranteed. ufs does have a great track records and bunch of service hours logged. Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by device ID. Example after a dirty shutdown: fsck -y In fact I am only really after ZFS for its self healing properties as I don't mind going with any file system as long as it's stable. Ext3 although easily repairable is quite unstable on my systems anyway! That's actually a bit disconcerting, do you have hardware instability? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What port contains libxcb.so.2, and hoow could I figure this out?
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:08 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2. This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the software on this machine, so I figured I'd just rebuild the port that provides this library, but I can't figure out how to determine which on that would be. I have the feeling that I should be able to use pkg_info for this, but I can't seem to figure out how to accomplish this. Is this the right tool? If so, how do I use it for this, if not, what is the correct tool? Thanks. it# pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 was installed by package libxcb-1.5 -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Blocking a slow-burning SSH bruteforce
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:56 AM, David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net wrote: I tend to think there's not much I can do about this, but I'll ask anyway. I've implemented sshguard to block the normal bruteforce attacks - which seems to be working reasonably well. However now I have the following: Jan 1 17:42:52 timeserver sshd[1755]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user but from 190.146.246.36 Jan 1 17:55:09 timeserver sshd[1788]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user byung from 212.243.41.9 Jan 1 18:07:38 timeserver sshd[1809]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user cac from 148.233.140.193 Jan 1 18:20:06 timeserver sshd[1832]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user cachou from 121.52.215.180 Jan 1 18:32:21 timeserver sshd[1851]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user calla from 212.243.41.9 Jan 1 18:44:35 timeserver sshd[1884]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user calube from 83.211.160.211 Jan 1 19:09:12 timeserver sshd[1923]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user cancy from 194.51.12.238 Jan 1 19:21:35 timeserver sshd[1946]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user candice from 82.106.226.77 Jan 1 19:46:12 timeserver sshd[1997]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user candyw from 116.55.226.131 Now this seems to me to be a dictionary attack on timeserver, and I'd guess that it's a botnet behind it. It's rather sophisticated since it's only attempting 1 user and password combination per source - so it's far too little to trigger the sshguard rules. Even if it did trigger, it wouldn't prevent the attacks. Apart from switching away from user authentication to private/public keys ... is there anything I can do to mitigate these attacks? Any advice welcome. Dave. If your passwords are complex, those attacks could come for a million years on localhost and not get anywhere let alone over a latent network. Worrying about that stuff with complex password is akin to devising a plan for repelling a Godzilla attack. Another point is these attacks typically try common passwords, it's a distributed common password attack, not a brute force. If you are concerned about this for other reasons, eg you have local users on the system and you don't enforce a password policy. there are several utilities for dealing with this. I'm not familar with sshguard, but these types of attacks are blocked quite well with denyhosts, since the ip's are recycled through eventually and you can configure the parameters for blocking. Denyhosts also has the ability to download to, and upload from a shared blocklist. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox and bridged interface.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.orgwrote: Hi, Happy new year. (FreeBSD 8/i386 - latest test version of VB) Is there someone able to make VirtualBox working with a bridged interface? I've got : My gateway/access point on 192.168.1.1/24 The host on 192.168.1.20/24 via wifi (wlan0) The guest on 192.168.1.25/24 bridged with wlan0 From the guest I can ping the host without problem and vice versa. But the guest is not able to reach my gateway. With Wireshark listening on wlan0, I can see that the guest is doing some ARP requests to get the mac address of the gateway. But there is no reply. No firewall, net.inet.ip_forwarding=1 (not sure if this is mandatory) Any idea? Thanks! Regards. Bridged networking doesn't work on wireless interfaces. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: I just noticed that openoffice (openoffice.org-3.1.1) is not checking my spelling. The spell checker on my system is aspell-0.60.6_2. gtkspell-2.0.15_1 is also installed. Before sending this email I tried installing ispell-3.3.02_4. No improvement. How do I get Ooo to check my spelling? == What did you do? the man holding the flashlight asked. I put down a spider, he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. So it could get away. There is an OO plugin you need to install for this functionality. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox and bridged interface.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.orgwrote: Le Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:36:30 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com a écrit : Is there someone able to make VirtualBox working with a bridged interface? I've got : My gateway/access point on 192.168.1.1/24 The host on 192.168.1.20/24 via wifi (wlan0) The guest on 192.168.1.25/24 bridged with wlan0 ... Bridged networking doesn't work on wireless interfaces. Ah ok :( I would be happy to know why, briefly. Is it a limitation in the wireless connection or a limitation in the operating system (FreeBSD)? I've used some bridged guests on Mac OS X and vmware fusion but I don't remember if I used the ethernet or the wireless interface. To J.D.Bronson: no mac authentication here, thanks for the shot in the dark anyway. So I will try to setup a vpn between the host and the guest. Thanks, Regards All the info I have, http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:00:28PM -0800, Neil Short wrote: --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell To: Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 7:27 PM On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: An extension? Mine is called American English Spell Checking 1.0 -- Adam Vande More Does it include a thesaurus? I found a spell checking extension; but it doesn't include a thesaurus. There are some thesaurus dictionaries; but they include crummy instructions on how to install them. Weird that in previous installations all this stuff was automatically configured by the ports tree. Thank you for your communications. -Neil The main reason I upgraded to OOo-311 was to have a functional spellchecker. I can't find any, even tho but clicking around I found ``en_US.oxt'' which is a zip file. The HElp file does not jibe with what's there in the File - Wizards ... . Anyway, Adam, the extension you listed turns out to be the file I downloaded. How-to install the thing and get it working!? gary Tools Extension Manager Add -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: This could be a wild goose chase but ...
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:03:10PM -, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hi I have been trying for a day or two to get /usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake to install on 8.0-Release AMD64, the port just stops bleating about wanting i386, I did some googling and found a supposed patch to cure this so it would install but that does not seem to make any difference as the patch does not apply correctly. Has anyone managed to get this going on AMD64 or am I just chasing the proverbial wild goose ? Have you looked at alternatives like mencoder, of ffmpeg2theora. They work just fine on amd64. They use much the same libraries. Mencoder does H.264 encoding very well, But ffmpeg2theora gives _much_ smaller files with good quality. It's weakness is that it cannot handle AC3 (dolby digital) very well. So I like to resample the audio first with mencoder, and then convert to theora video with ogg audio. For a wide-screen (16:9) DVD movie; mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.mpg mencoder -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -idx -o movie.avi movie.mpg ffmpeg2theora --sync --aspect 24:10 --croptop 72, --cropbottom 72 \ -v 7 -c 2 movie.avi File sizes, to give you an idea: movie.mpg 6500 MiB movie.avi 5800 MiB movie.ovg 1750 MiB avidemux2 also works well, least it did last time I tried it. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p5 and kernel panic with mpt driver
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Colin Waring free...@southportcomputers.co.uk wrote: My supfile uses the tag *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2 The docs on stable say to use RELENG_7 for which I assumed was out of date with the docs not always being updated frequently. Is there a different tag for 7.2 Stable or am I not understanding the different versions? Thanks, Colin. Your understanding is incorrect. RELENG_7 is stable, RELENG_7_0, RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7_2 are snapshots of RELENG_7. RELENG_X will always be more current than RELENG_X_Y. Trust the docs unless you explicitly know differently. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 ipw WPA
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:27:55 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Finishing a complete new install of 8-stable on a Thinkpad T42. This model came with the Intel PRO/wireless 2100. So far, it has almost but not quite been able to connect using WPA on FreeBSD. Same here when trying to set up wireless LAN on a T41 with an Intel PRO/wireless 2100. rc.conf: wlans_ipw0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP loader.conf: legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 if_ipw_load=YES That's what I did too. No joy. ifconfig wlan0 scan sees all the nearby access points, including mine. Here too. wpa_supplicant can't quite attach, but doesn't give up trying. /var/log/messages: Jan 3 14:49:40 paddy wpa_supplicant[392]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Jan 3 14:49:40 paddy wpa_supplicant[392]: Trying to associate with 00:14:bf:cd:a2:0b (SSID='myssid' freq=2412 MHz) Jan 3 14:49:50 paddy wpa_supplicant[392]: Authentication with 00:14:bf:cd:a2:0b timed out. Appart from that I got the following in /var/log/messages: kernel: ipw0: need multicast update callback Since the same setup worked fine on FreeBSD 7.2, maybe this infomation regarding ipw is correct after all: http://wiki.freebsd.org/8.0TODO#head-637d4dd09847005583f360ebb430cf32b64a4d8b Yeah I think it was mentioned in one of the beta announcements, but can't seem to find it now. Anyways, my laptop is stuck on 7-STABLE due to this. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fsck failed to sync inodes
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi gurus: I booted the system into single user mode and tried to clean up one of my corrupted file system: fsck -y /dev/ad1s1f but in the end, the file system is still dirty. anything else I can do to salvage the data? Thanks in Advance Run it again, fsck can require multiple runs to fix the issues. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: /etc/hosts.deniedssh
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:39 PM, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.netwrote: Examples from hosts.deniedssh I seem to be on the receiving end of a concerted series of unsuccessful break in attacks on one of our systems. One small part of the attack has resulted in over 2000 entries in our hosts.deniedssh file in less than 1 hour. I would be interested in any comments on the small example shown below and any advice. Thanks in advance David r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy mail.munisanmiguel.gob.pe port-83-236-241-198.static.qsc.de pd95b50ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de v32641.1blu.de dubovik.net r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy mail.munisanmiguel.gob.pe port-83-236-241-198.static.qsc.de pd95b50ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de v32641.1blu.de dubovik.net r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy mail.munisanmiguel.gob.pe port-83-236-241-198.static.qsc.de pd95b50ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de v32641.1blu.de dubovik.net r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy mail.munisanmiguel.gob.pe port-83-236-241-198.static.qsc.de pd95b50ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de v32641.1blu.de dubovik.net r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy mail.munisanmiguel.gob.pe port-83-236-241-198.static.qsc.de pd95b50ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de v32641.1blu.de dubovik.net r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy mail.munisanmiguel.gob.pe port-83-236-241-198.static.qsc.de pd95b50ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de v32641.1blu.de dubovik.net r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy mail.munisanmiguel.gob.pe port-83-236-241-198.static.qsc.de pd95b50ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de v32641.1blu.de dubovik.net r200-40-132-245.static.adinet.com.uy Looks like your conf could use some love. Why are you resolving ip's? Thresholds can be lowered. Are you syncing with remote list? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Chris Peiffer bsdli...@cabstand.comwrote: I'm looking for a simple program I can use to forward incoming TCP connections to several other addr:port pairs. (including one on the machine itself.) Holding the connections open and passing the data back and forth until both parties close their ends. I need a solution that doesn't fork. One way to do it is just fork ad-hoc netcat pipes with inetd, but I'm trying to avoid the process overhead. An ssh tunnel is another option, but the crypto involves too much cpu overhead. I've investigaged ipnat rdr rules, but ipnat seems like it's too low-level, it wants to divert the packet directly w/o rewriting the from addr. This means that the return packet is a mismatch unless I make the machine running the forwarder into the router. I found a simple program called balance floating around out there, but unfortunately it uses an extremely naive fork-after-accept method that results in the same process overhead. Is there a simple kq-driven tcp forwarder out there? Is there a pure-TCP forwarding module for lighttpd? (or some other single-threaded app server?) Or is there a good way to do it in the kernel that I'm missing, and can someone direct me to an ipnat ruleset that creates new connections, so the TCP forwarding machine doesn't also need to be a router? Thanks very much for your help. A few lines in python should do what you're looking for, see socket lib, twisted if you have high performance needs. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Raw sockets in jails
2010/1/24 Nathan Butcher n-butc...@fusiongol.com I'm just curious as to whether FreeBSD8.0 can support raw sockets on some jails and not on others. I'm trying to find the jail flags to allow this to happen. Not having much luck. Any ideas? http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-j...@freebsd.org/msg00978.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Iv Ray po...@verysmall.org wrote: We are getting a new web server - Singe Dual Core Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM It will have - 2 x 250 GB SATA gmirror RAID 1 We will run - - Apache 2.x - PHP 5.x - PostgreSQL 8.x - Postfix 2.x We have a couple of questions- If we are more interested in stability than in features and performance - a) Is FreeBSD 8.0 the right for us, or shall we rather go for FreeBSD 7.x? b) Is i386 or amd64 the right way? Thanks! Iv 8.0, amd64 if there's chance you'll ever put more ram in the system. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How do you manage your jails?
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: So you have installed a FreeBSD server and setup several jails on your system. They run the services they need and everything works smoothly. But how do manage all of them? What do you do if you want to run a command on all jails? Do you run cfengine/puppy? How do you setup sendmail? Do you have sendmail on all jails? Do you share ports to all jails? How do you keep ports up to date on them? Do you have a set of scripts that you want to share? On http://antarctica.no/stuff/UNIX/FreeBSD/jails/ you'll find what I use. I'm preparing a talk for BLUG (the local Linux/BSD group) and I want to know how YOU manage your jails, there sure are more than one way do it. you should check out /usr/ports/sysutils/ezjail -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gjournal on compact flash
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.comwrote: Hi, I am using a 40MB journal on a 500MB compact flash. Would that be sane, or I am causing more harm than good? My concerns are: 1) wear leveling. The journal is on specific part of the disk writing again and again. That should be handled by the CF itself. Though I am not sure it does a good job??? 2) I do care about ungraceful power cycles and I've seen posts on the net, mentioning: More, If you interrupt power at arbitrary times while the device is writing, you can lose the integrity of the file system being modified. The loss is not limited to the 512 byte sector being modified, as it generally is with rotating disks; you can lose an entire erase block, maybe 64K at once. I guess the above comment renders the use of a journaling filesystem useless. But, doing some naive tests, power cycling the machine while writing and checksumming the data after fsck in preen mode, revealed no error. Thanks in advance for any insights, Nikos Soft Updates seem more appropriate for a 500MB CF drive than gjournal. AFAIK, they are a wash in terms of reliability, and gjournal needs to write all data twice meaning it's slower, and increases the wear on the drive. The big drawback to soft updates is the fsck times after an unclean shutdown which really shouldn't be an issue on a 500MB drive. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM, James Smallacombe u...@3.am wrote: To follow up on this: Noticed the issue again this morning, which also was accompanied by latency so high that I could not connect (some pings got through at very high latency). I emailed the provider and they told me that they had my port on their Ether switch set to 10Mbs. They switched it to 100Mbs and only time will tell if that fixes it. Does this sound like it could be the entire cause? I ask because I've maxed out pipes before, but never seen it shut all traffic down this much. One key difference that I forgot to mention is that this server is running TWO instances of named, on two different IPs (for different domains), each running a few hundred zones. Bottom line: Would congestion cause this issue, or would this issue cause congestion? I would guess no, but that guess could easily be wrong. Have you tried turning up the logging to verbosity to get a better idea of what's happening? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: UDP flooding / Ethernet issues? WAS Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:51 AM, James Smallacombe u...@3.am wrote: Some updates that may confuse more than inform: I caught this while it was happening yesterday and was able to do a tcpdump. I saw a ton of UDP traffic outbound to one IP that turned out to be a colocated server in Chicago. I put that IP in my ipfw rules and once I blocked any to that IP, it seemed to stop. Since then however, the logs have show the same issue again and there have been a few brief service disruptions. Today's security run output showed this: +(RULE NUMBER) 16054161 131965203420 deny ip from any to (blocked IP) and more alarmingly, this: kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.BErFHSS3 2010-01-29 03:09:32.0 -0500 +re0: link state changed to DOWN +re0: link state changed to UP +re0: promiscuous mode enabled +re0: promiscuous mode disabled +re0: promiscuous mode enabled +re0: promiscuous mode disabled +re0: promiscuous mode enabled +re0: promiscuous mode disabled re0 obviously being the Realtek Ethernet driver. The server itself never went down during this time, but the Ethernet did. Is there any DOS type of event that could cause this, or could the root of the problem be an Ethernet hardware or driver issue? Again, it is not clear to me which is the cause and which is the effect. Last bit of info: I just did a: 'tcpdump -n | grep -i udp' and saw a bunch of these, coming up a couple of times per second: promiscuous mode entries are caused by tcpdump -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gjournal on compact flash
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.comwrote: fsck time in my case is not an issue. What concerns me mostly is a situation where user intervention is required. The CF filesystem will be used in a embedded system and should work without user intervention. I too feel that geom journaling is not the best solution for my needs, but softupdates need more attention than gjournal. Perhaps, I should wait for SUJ, which will be in the tree soon. Nikos There is an rc flags to automatically do a full fsck instead of backgroud, but I am unsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:34 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed, and I can't start the server. Not only can I not start the server, but it's not giving me a clue. I can't find anything anywhere. Not in /var/log/messages, not anywhere. When I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysqlserver start it says Starting mysql., pauses for several seconds (I don't see anything go by in top) and then the script exits. At that point, one would expect, there's no /tmp/mysql.sock, there's nothing in messages or anywhere else. With nothing to go on, well, I don't know where to start. Any suggestions? -- John Lind j...@starfire.mn.orghttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions I completely switched to postgresql long ago, but maybe I remember enough to provide a clue, actually this a really application agnostic. 1. edit the config file to increase verbosity. 2. start the binary from the commandline, don't run the start-up scripts as they sometimes mask errors. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.comwrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in 'sata1' or 'pata0', on the next boot, I have no ad0, but ad4 and ad6? This seems to be the case with every mobo I've owned in the last 2 years from a variety of mfr's. Is there a way around this? I don't care what it comes out as, as long as it stays put... Since I have the only fbsd system at work, I tend to format alot of funky drives for people, and it gets anoying having to swap fstab's every time... Steve Use glabel, then you can used the same fstab across disk swaps/machinces -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded on my desktop. /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. I don't have either of those issues. I've come across a couple of players that don't work, but all the standard ones like youtube, pbs, bbc all work perfectly for me. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on 8.0-RELEASE-p2, some flash videos work but many fail. For example BBC iplayer always comes up with a message This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later superimposed over a still image of the start of the video. YouTube videos play but without any sound. I don't have either of those issues. I've come across a couple of players that don't work, but all the standard ones like youtube, pbs, bbc all work perfectly for me. I would like to amemd that statement by saying they work perfectly for me except for an occasional temporary browser freeze. This occur when entering or leaving a page at which point the entire browser will hang for maybe 30 seconds then recover and perform as usual. This a random event, but probably occurs at least daily. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: autogen gcc makefile.def error Postfix 2.5.6
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Danny Edge nocmon...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't used FreeBSD in eight years and haven't installed Postfix since then. Can someone please help with the GCC error below? Thanks. You'll need to include a lot more info than that. You can review this page to get the best experience here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/article.html Since you've been away so long a review of the handbook would be helpful for you as well. The best guess I can make given the info you provided is that you're trying to built a port without being root. That isn't going to work, you need appropriate permissions. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:12:25PM -0500, Derek Buttineau wrote: On 2010-02-08, at 2:58 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I hadn't heard that FreeBSD was moving to Clang. Here's last year's status report where they talk about it: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-May/049873.html This one looks a little more definitive, but it still uses the term 'exploring' rather than saying it is decided.So, keep listening. jerry http://www.freebsdnews.net/2009/10/15/clang-llvm-support-on-freebsd/ It's also been talked about on other lists eg current with growing frequency. I seem to remember hearing they hoped for it to be ready as an option for 9.0, although my memory may not be correct on that. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating packages in Jails
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Richard L. Houston rhous...@rlhc.netwrote: Hi everyone, First off I am new to FreeBSD. I use Linux professorially and really looking forward to getting some FreeBSD boxes in production as well. My apologies if my questions are noobish and I have tried Googling for some of them but with limited results so I figure I would ask for help from the Alpha dogs of FreeBSD on this list. So with hat in had I humbly request help in managing jails. I have set up a FreeBSD 8.0 install and patched it with freebsd-update. I then created a jail based on the instructions from the latest BSDMagazine. It seems to work great. Now my issue come in once I try to update the Jail with Freebsd-update. FYI, I installed the jail from sysinstall using the minimal distribution option. when I run Freebsd-update I was getting: Installing updates...chflags: ///libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Operation not permitted but after restarting the jail I now get Cannot identify running kernel The Apache server running on the jail seems to be working fine as is the ssh server. Any thought on this issue? Is there a preferred way to update the jail env? Remember, noob here, please go easy on me. :) Also is there issues with mixing the install of ports from source and via pkg_add? Good / bad to mix or no big deal. This is more of a general knowledge question, not implying I would be mixing the two types :) Thanks all and look forward to being a part of the FreeBSD community. Use this as a starting point http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html Anyways, host and jail need to run the exact same kernel. Normally I'll build my kernel and install it into the base as well as each individual jail so everything is consistent. Also check out /usr/ports/sysutils/ezjail -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating packages in Jails
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: Use this as a starting point http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html Anyways, host and jail need to run the exact same kernel. Normally I'll build my kernel and install it into the base as well as each individual jail so everything is consistent. Why do they need to run the exact same kernel? I didn't see that anywhere in the document, unless I missed it. thanks They aren't a full form of visualization in terms of having a hypervisor, as it is dependent the system calls coming from a jail being the same calls that are present in the host kernel. Mismatched kernel version could break that mapping. Which is also why jails are a faster form of virtualization because all the call mappings are 1:1. At least that's my understanding. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem building GCC - Postfix install from ports failed
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Danny Edge nocmon...@gmail.com wrote: I was advised to try this again. New install FreeBSD 7.2 R, installing Postfix from cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix make install clean I receive the following error near the end of the install: checking whether -fkeep-inline-functions is supported... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile === Building for gcc-4.2.5_20090325 cd ./..//gcc-4.2-20090325 autogen Makefile.def autogen: not found gmake: *** [..//gcc-4.2-20090325/Makefile.in] Error 127 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc42. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/addresses. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail. mx# I guess gcc42 requires /usr/ports/devel/autogen Looks like the port is missing a dependency for some reason. Try installing that port, and resume your gcc build. If it works you could file a bug report. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Need help troubleshooting NIC
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Mike Galvez gal...@virginia.edu wrote: Over the weekend one my servers went down due to extended power failure. The file system reports clean, but something has gone sideways with networking. The server is a Dell 2950 running 7.0 release, and it's been working fine for well over a year. It uses the BCE driver. Ifconfig shows it to be up and active and configured with the correct IP, mask and gateway, but I can't ping anything. I've tested the ethernet connection with a nearby machine and it works. I also booted the 2950 from an Ubuntu live CD and the NIC worked, so i don't think it's a hardware issue. Is there a way I can rebuild the driver without having to rebuild the kernel? What does netstat -r show? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Tiv gti...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi there --- I'm writing this to tell you how much FreeBSD has gone downhill since version 5.3... I don't know who's bright idea it was to remove the xorgcfg and the xorgconfig programs, but they should be beaten sensless with an IBM AT keyboard. Also if you REQUIRE that dbus and hald be enabled for so called auto-configuration, put it in the dam rc.conf file. After an hour of dicking around with the X configuration, and it still doesn't work I install something else this is 2010 fer cryin' out load... Linux doesn't have this problem. thanks for making freebsd a pain in the ass, Gary Reading the documentation to hard for you? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
python script to backup installed packages
Sometimes you have need to backup installed packages. I realize most port management tools do this automatically, but if you're on a system with a lot of packages installed and one port management tool fails and you use another to fix it, /usr/ports/packages can become jumbled. Anyways, I've written a simple python script which will create a fresh snapshot of all installed packages. These are convenient for backups or installing on a new system. For anyone interested: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE import os s = Popen('pkg_info -a | grep : | grep Information',shell=True,stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] pkg_location = '/data/packages' packages = [] for line in s.split('\n'): info = line.replace('Information for ', '').replace(':','') packages.append(info) os.chdir(pkg_location) for package in packages: s = Popen('pkg_create -b ' + package,shell=True,stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: python script to backup installed packages
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: My own version groks an os.environ['EXTRA_PKG_CREATE_ARGS'] option too and inserts the extra options before the [-b, package] arguments of pkg_create, so that I can run the script for example with: env EXTRA_PKG_CREATE_ARGS='-Rvn' ./savepkg.py This way package dependencies are saved too (-R option), the output of the `pkg_create -b' command is slightly more verbose, and saving the same package multiple times doesn't overwrite existing packages of the same version (-n option). Thanks for the tips, I may add some of your functionality to my own. I think I might add a couple more features like accepting a backup path from the command line and an auto create for the dir if it doesn't exist. One other thing that might be useful is for it to automatically create an install script for the backed up packages which takes into account dependencies. Almost have a package management system like some other unnamed OS's then. ;) -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PASSWORD LOST!!
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:05 AM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: People, people - be careful that we are not creating a formula to break into FreeBSD servers around the world... The only acceptable solution is for someone in Eric's organization to secure physical access to the server. It may be in a co-lo situation, but if that's true, they must have a contract open and, if nothing else, they terminate the contract and get the machine back, though more likely, the contract allows them supervised access. Machines are not perfect - even without losing the root password, they break and need maintenance - this is a MAINTENANCE event and should be treated as such, just like a hard drive failure or a NIC failure. Creating a scheme for someone to break into FreeBSD systems remotely or to publicize schemes people have created to remotely manage their systems in ways that could be used to compromise them is foolishness! Regardless of the purity of his intention, Eric is asking us to tell him how to break into our homes or steal our cars. ;) Security through obscurity is no security, hence it is a good exercise. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: More on strange 8.0 issues
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Chuck Bacon c...@cape.com wrote: I have two CD-DVD drives, one PATA and one SATA. Neither can burn a CD, returning either busy or error. I had to burn the 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso CD on my old iBook! And yes, I also replaced the ATA drive with one from another box. It's really extremely difficult to assist you with the amout of information you provide. Why would you not include the specific commands you've tried and their error messages? Have you tried the burning a cd instructions presented in the handbook? Take note of the cdrtools section as that may be more useful than burncd depending on you situtation. Final issue, probably no answer. I installed a ubuntu distro on my /dev/ad0s2, with -s1 and -s3 remaining FreeBSD (no -s4). My boot loader shows F1 FreeBSD (an older 8.0-RELEASE, GENERIC) F2 Linux (new ubuntu) F3 FreeBSD (/backup) F5 Drive 1 (a couple more 8.0-RELEASEs :-) When I hit F2, I get the the first FreeBSD. Linux is bypassed. When I installed ubuntu from the CD I didn't rewrite the boot. Could I have boot FreeBSD if I had installed grub? Yes grub can boot freebsd. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Perl upgrade problem...
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Peter Harrison peter.piggy...@virgin.netwrote: Up till now I've kept Perl on my machine at 5.8.9. I now see from UPDATING that upgrading to 5.10 is recommended. However, when I follow the instructions, I get the following error: laptop# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8.9_3 if you're referring to this: 20090911: AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.10 AUTHOR: s...@freebsd.org lang/perl5.10 has been updated to 5.10.1. You should update everything that depends on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.10. Please see its manual page for details. If you want switch to lang/perl5.10 from lang/perl5.8 please follow instructions in the entry 20090328 in this file. Then you have misunderstood what it's saying. That only applies to folks already running 5.10 and if you have no need for that then do nothing further. If you really believe you need to run 5.10 then you should follow the complete instructions from the entry. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Perl upgrade problem...
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@black-earth.co.ukwrote: Err... he's following the right instructions. ports/UPDATING does not recommend to upgrade. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Perl upgrade problem...
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@black-earth.co.uk wrote: Err... he's following the right instructions. ports/UPDATING does not recommend to upgrade. I mean does not recommend going from 5.8 to 5.10 as the op has done. You are correctly in the previous entry containing incorrect instructions. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Perl upgrade problem...
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Peter Harrison peter.piggy...@virgin.netwrote: I don't need 5.10, but I was prompted to think about upgrading from 20100205. I was trying to follow 20090328, I ran pkgdb -Ff (no problem) then portupgrade -o lang/per5.10 -f perl-5.8.9 which generated the error given. Peter Harrison. i see, my port tree was out of date, sorry. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: netcat (/usr/bin/nc) buffer size too small - alternate utilities?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm communicating with a server that uses UDP packets. The server receives a UDP packet, and responds with a UDP packet by sending one to the initial sender. The request packets are always very small in size, but the response UDP packets can be up to 9216 bytes in size. I am using netcat like so: echo $REQUEST_BODY | /usr/bin/nc -w 1 -u $PLAYERDB_HOST $PLAYERDB_PORT The response always gets truncated to 1024 bytes using netcat. I wrote my own silly version of netcat specifically suited to my needs over UDP, in Java. I then call it like so: echo $REQUEST_BODY | /usr/local/bin/java SendUDP $PLAYERDB_HOST $PLAYERDB_PORT (Source code at the end of this message.) With my Java program, I'm able to get up to 9216 bytes in my UDP response packet; the response won't be truncated to 1024 bytes like in netcat. Now I've read the netcat manpage and it says nothing about any buffer size or ways to increase it. I don't really want to use my Java program because starting up a JVM for each server query is very expensive. Any ideas of any other tools like netcat that will enable me to receive UDP packets up to 9216 bytes in size? You can try raising OS's UDP buff size: sysctl kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=8388608 or write an equivalent app in python... -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unable to build kdelibs3
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am still having a problem getting kdelibs3 to build on my FreeBSD-7.2 system. I believe I have followed all of the directions in the UPDATING file. Unfortunately, the build always ends like this: Making all in dnssd gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.5.10/dnssd' ../kdecore/kconfig_compiler/kconfig_compiler ./kcm_kdnssd.kcfg ./settings.kcfgc; ret=$?; \ if test $ret != 0; then rm -f settings.h ; exit $ret ; fi /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libjpeg.so.10 not found, required by libkdefx.so.6 gmake[2]: *** [settings.h] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.5.10/dnssd' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.5.10' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3. I hope you find a better solution, but mine was to pkg_delete * and rebuild. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unable to build kdelibs3
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: That is the same advice I have been given on other forums also. I will probably follow the same avenue that a colleague of mine did and abandon FBSD until version 8.1 is released and then simply dump the entire system and install the newer version. Then again, maybe I will just wait until the updated version of KDE is released so as to eliminate the hassle of updating a vast number of libraries, etc and again experiencing another system failure. I have all ready invested way too much time on this problem. This was the worst update I have experienced in seven years with FBSD. FWIW, the last libjpeg update was no peach for me either, but for all the pains I still think the ports system is superior to other OS's sw management. Sometimes the debian respository is a large WTF, and that's the good one. Also I posted a script a few days ago that will create a backup of all currently installed packages. Useful in a situation like yours so you could revert to known good set of pkg's until you have time to deal with the full upgrade. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mouse not working on virtual box VM
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu wrote: I've successfully got X Windows up and running on a Virtual Box VM on FreeBSD 8, however it isn't detecting my mouse. Any idea on how I can make that happen? As far as I know, there are no guest addition for virtual box for FreeBSD..of course that's assuming that would even help. It might not. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Mouse for freebsd guest works fine here. There is a guest additions for a freebsd guest, see the docs. http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox You also need to setup the guest as you would a dedicated host if you wanted the physical host to have mouse support. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-post.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Options for redundant storage cluster?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: Hi, hopefully I'm not too far out posting this question here. It takes in a lot of areas so I was unsure where to post it. If it belongs on another ML please advise and I will re-post it there. I am researching options for a two node failover storage cluster. This is primarily to provide shared storage (either iSCSI or NFS) for XenServer VMs. I am looking to get the best bang for the buck and wondering if FreeBSD might be a good choice? Hardware-wise we have available two identical supermicro chassis each with 16 x SAS bays and a choice of AMD or latest Xeon 5500 CPUs, together with as many gigabit cards as we need but the budget won't stretch to faster networking. It would be nice to take advantage of ZFS and use two or three 8-port SAS HBAs in each server rather than expensive hardware RAID cards. We don't need to store more than around 2TB but we would like to comfortably service around a 75 - 100 VM instances (the VMs on average, are not too I/O heavy). Thin provisioning and snapshots would be nice, too. My initial thoughts were that we might be able to use ZFS, cheap LSI 8 port SAS HBAs together with a dozen or so SATA II drives and a couple of Intel X25E SSDs to help things along. It would be great if these boxen could network boot, so we can use all the drive bays for storage. I have no idea what options exist for clustering NFS/redundancy. I would be very grateful for any advice - especially from anyone who has experience in the same scenario. Thanks in advance, Matt. I'd say right now ggated/ggatec + heartbeat is sort of roughly equivalent of DRBD and heartbeat. I think many of us are waiting for HAST though. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-October/001279.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
Of course I did forget to install www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 BUT, it doesn't matter that I forgot it. [r...@heaven]make install clean === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42. = Attempting to fetch from http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/. fetch: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz : size mismatch: expected 4050308, actual 4050435 = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this = port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42 and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10. [r...@heaven] Using Filezilla I ftp'd in and tried to retrieve it manually but ftp.freebsd.org/usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/ is an empty directory Anybody have this port in their local distfiles that I could download? Better yet, update your ports tree and install the current version -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but that errors out, too. You have to run portsnap fetch update (assuming you've run a portsnap extract earlier) freebsd-update will do you no go here. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kde4/python26 and pth help.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: On a freshly installed 8-STABLE box (4 days old) and up to date ports, KDE4 will not install for me, always the same errors. I've even removed all ports and reinstalled from scratch and hit the same errors. I have no /etc/make.conf. I'm at a loss here, I have no idea why this is happening. I even did a portupgrade -fRru python26 and tried portmaster, and plain old make in the ports that fail. My script to install from a clean install is portsnap fetch update cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster make install clean rehash portmaster -d x11-servers/xorg-server x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard x11-drivers/{YOUR VIDEO DRIVER PORT} echo 'dbus_enable=YES\nhald_enable=YES\n' /etc/rc.conf then you'll have to do whatever is necessary for video driver install eg kldload nvidia and make it permanent /boot/loader.conf Once your driver is live, you create xorg.conf file by Xorg -config xorg.conf.new cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf then I manually add in this line to /etc/ttys ttyv8 /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure and comment ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure Provided you don't have to do anything special for say the nvidia driver, all's that's do this the hal guys maybe didn't do such a back job after all As for you error, I don't know what happened. I used to see those happen on a massive upgrade when using portupgrade. I recommend portmaster. Somehow python didn't get installed correctly because /usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h should exist if python is correctly installed. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kde4/python26 and pth help.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/24/10 23:28, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com mailto:jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: On a freshly installed 8-STABLE box (4 days old) and up to date ports, KDE4 will not install for me, always the same errors. I've even removed all ports and reinstalled from scratch and hit the same errors. I have no /etc/make.conf. I'm at a loss here, I have no idea why this is happening. I even did a portupgrade -fRru python26 and tried portmaster, and plain old make in the ports that fail. My script to install from a clean install is portsnap fetch update cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster make install clean rehash portmaster -d x11-servers/xorg-server x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard x11-drivers/{YOUR VIDEO DRIVER PORT} echo 'dbus_enable=YES\nhald_enable=YES\n' /etc/rc.conf then you'll have to do whatever is necessary for video driver install eg kldload nvidia and make it permanent /boot/loader.conf Once your driver is live, you create xorg.conf file by Xorg -config xorg.conf.new cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf then I manually add in this line to /etc/ttys ttyv8 /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure and comment ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure Provided you don't have to do anything special for say the nvidia driver, all's that's do this the hal guys maybe didn't do such a back job after all As for you error, I don't know what happened. I used to see those happen on a massive upgrade when using portupgrade. I recommend portmaster. Somehow python didn't get installed correctly because /usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h should exist if python is correctly installed. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for the reply, Haven't got around to testing X yet, but on 7.2-STABLE it works fine, so I'm not too worried about that. It's the python and pth errors that are killing me. /usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h is there, seems correctly installed. Even installing with portmaster and plain old make install it _still_ hits those errors of not finding the headers. checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 version... 2.6 checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 platform... freebsd8 checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2. 6/site-packages checking for /usr/local/bin/python2.6 extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages checking for headers required to compile python extensions... not found configure: error: Python headers not found As well as /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpth it would be looking for /usr/ports/devel/pth. Is it installed? if not, then there would appear to with a dependency issue. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Where can I find port configuration options?
n Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Xihong Yin x...@gmx.com wrote: I know you can set your options when you build a port. But where can I find these options for a port? For example, how can I build Firefox with the option to disable anti-aliasing font? Wel the shortterm answer to you problems is somethine like this: make config but for long term you should read man ports and at least the ports section in the handbook. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.comwrote: I've upgraded to Perl 5.10, but when I tried to install a few things that depended on perl, the package installed perl5.8, because that must be what it was compiled with. How do I tell the ports system that perl5.8 should *never* be used, and rather than install a package that needs it, I can fall back to a port build? I'm using portsnap to update things, so I don't think i can just delete the 5.8 port, because it will likely just get reinstalled. See /usr/ports/UPDATING and /etc/make.conf -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.comwrote: Adam == Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: Adam See /usr/ports/UPDATING and /etc/make.conf Doesn't help. Packages that are compiled against 5.8 still want to install 5.8. I want this to fatal out, so I know to build from port, not use package. portinstall -Pc MUMBLE is just too damn easy to give up the -P. If it completed successly it has to help. What are the result of each step so we can isolate the problem. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?
It completes by installing 5.8. I'd like to prevent that. I'd like the entire portage system to consider 5.8 to be dead, both for building from ports, and for installing packages that say they depend on that. How do I get there? Can you attach your make.conf? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: One can almost but not quite remotely build a FreeBSD system using mfsbsd. The problem is that in order to install the mfsboot.img data on the main boot drive, it is necessary to use dd to write it there and a working system already has mounted all partitions in the main drive. The systems I will be upgrading have 1 or more gigabytes of RAM available so a memory disk could conceivably hold the roughly 40-meg image that must be written to the boot sector of the main drive. For this to work, one must unmount all main drive partitions and still be able to do something like: dd if=mfsboot.img of=/dev/ad0 After that, the reboot will launch mfsbsd and the rest appears to be manageable. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Adam Vande More writes: This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. It is exactly the right idea. Funny thing, I actually did turn swap off and the image is now sitting there because I thought this might be useful. Is there any way to tell the existing system to boot from /dev/ad0s1b next time? That would solve the problem completely. Never tried it but this might work: bsdlabel -B diskslice -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Adam Vande More writes: This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. It is exactly the right idea. Funny thing, I actually did turn swap off and the image is now sitting there because I thought this might be useful. Is there any way to tell the existing system to boot from /dev/ad0s1b next time? That would solve the problem completely. Never tried it but this might work: bsdlabel -B diskslice Since you need to specify a partition other than a, I think you may need to use boot.config http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bootsektion=8apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: As far as I know, there isn't an official way to do this. What you want sounds like a useful addition to the base system to me. You could do it in a fairly gross hacky way, like the following. This is entirly untested, might not work at all and will certainly be at the cost of some alarming error messages: # mkdir -p /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.9_3 # touch /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.9_3/+IGNOREME # chflags -R noschg /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.9_3 Hopefully it chucks a spanner in the works before the package system actually installs anything. Of course, you'll have to update that if the perl5.8 port has any sort of version bump[*]. On second thoughts, writing a small wrapper around pkg_add(1) that greps through the @pkgdep lines in the +CONTENTS file from the package tarball and bails if it finds the wrong version of perl would be a much cleaner approach. The -M (--master) and -S (--slave) flags to pkg_add look interesting in this context. There is already enough dependency information available to portupgrade to know this. portupgrade simply doesn't act on it. However, as I already informed Mr. Schwartz, portmaster -P does work. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gnome install: stuck
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: Laptop with Freebsd 8.0, with gnome installed and gdm_enable=YES gnome_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf, no changes to /etc/ttys (that is: ttyv8 ... xdm off) After reboot, system starts in gnome, gives a greenish background, a taskbar at the bottom, with only date/time, a button for 'Universal access preferences' and an icon for the battery. In the desktop a grey window with 2 buttons labeled 'Restart' and 'Shutdown'. Clicking either of them makes them be blueish for the time the mouse button in pressed, but nothing happens. I am stuck in Gnome. Why and how to solve it ? (I can only do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the command prompt, but even that I have to do twice: the first time it gives a flickering almost entirely black screen with at the top some half line of flickering ascii characters (can't read), doing a Ctrl-Alt-F9 (back to gnome) and again Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a stable login: prompt.) Sounds like you are in GDM, not gnome. There's probably a login button somewhere, you need to authenticate with the system then you'll be logged into the desktop. Also, it's just Alt-F9 to return to the graphical display, ctrl not needed there. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, oscar Seo oscar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home address in my school. I got error message from this [ /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: ] so that I returned, I decided to edit /etc/rc.conf using vi. But freebsd didn't find vi, less any other application. I can't modify even if read /etc/rc.conf. fortunately I can use cat so I found my fault sting from /etc/rc.conf but I can't modify any files cause the system changed into read only file system. How can I repair /etc/rc.conf file with fault statements using any editor? Thanks in advanced. Oscar The are multiple ways to do this, easiest is to type in at the sh prompt: mount -a You would then have access to /usr, vi is in /usr/bin/vi -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: tao suddenly died
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Aloha Al and thanks for responding. {god this has been a long day... . } Well, long-story-short, the most unepect thing happened: a power surge. I did not realize that my printer was also off until hours later. A friend helped me trace the problem and reset my surgge-protector. ---It is worth noting that BEFORE I got my battery [UPS], when things were dead or suddenly went dead, i knew right away to check the surge-protector. nutshell: things are almost back. it'll be only an hour before everything is back. still, this is a warning to get back on the ball and start looking for a new desktop. i would be much obliged for ideas on what kind of dell to buy next. i say 'dell' because i would like to make life simple and eventually have one kind of box. (i have three tower computers: one is my DNS/mail/web server; one is my pfSense firewall; one is my laptop. i COULD use the server as a desktop, but that would be too much of a risk! so:: should i be looking for a dual or quad? i am biased toward intel because i think the AMD requires more juice. [[my only linux server --long dead-- seemed to suck 100w to 107w as a minimum.]] suggestions? I don't really think much of Dell consumer level products or support. While they aren't the worst out there, it still doesn't make it very compelling for me. Depending on your resources(money) you might consider something like this: http://www.ixsystems.com/apollo While more money than you'd probably spend with dell, here's a couple reasons to consider it further. 1. Out the Box compatibility 2. Great hardware support/warranty service 3. Vendor backing of your OS 4. Long term upgradability, this will serve you better than any emachine. 5. ixsystems is a large supporter of FreeBSD I believe the TCO of something like that is lower than most alternatives. One further thought is I don't see a lot sense in the requirement must be a dell, cause the other ones I have are dell given the amount of machines you run. To me, it would make more sense to standardize on something like cpu, so that you could run one as a build system/package repository. I know that settling on one vendor generally means you only need one source for warranty work, but with stickers on cases and online accounts this isn't such an issue anymore. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: can't ping localhost
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.ukwrote: # uname -a FreeBSD mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Mar 9 14:35:40 GMT 2010 me...@mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QOF sparc64 I believe -current has a issue where you can not ping localhost atm all my machines are current, but some are more current than others.. Well, the ping issue is just an example. My real problem is that sendmail can't send anything locally: # tail /var/log/maillog Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2B0irgd029426: to=mexas, ctladdr=mexas (1001/1001), delay=01:32:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=480031, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2B0hbGe029358: to=mexas, ctladdr=mexas (1001/1001), delay=01:33:21, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=570028, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A87g4K005078: to=root, delay=18:09:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3721559, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A87g4L005078: to=root, delay=18:09:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3725184, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A77d4L004977: to=root, delay=19:09:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3903061, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A77d4K004977: to=root, delay=19:09:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3903122, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A3bvPl004242: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=22:39:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4530195, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A3c9wG004609: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=22:38:49, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4533820, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A340iF002543: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:12:58, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4711758, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A33vXB002495: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:13:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4801697, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host # many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht If you run CURRENT, you would do well to follow the mailing list. http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/2ab13c4b31228c88/15dab18a9066e9a2?lnk=raot -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problems w/ touching all files?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. As a result, I get a lot of failures when trying to install from ports. I can get around it by temporarily setting the date, building the port, then resetting the date, but it is still inconvenient. I would rather not do a clean install at this point, but am wondering if touching all of the files on my system would solve this problem WITHOUT creating any new ones? If it would, what might those new complications be? As I say, it is not mission-critical at this point, but it would be helpful to fix this. Thanks for any help. maybe try a portnsnap fetch extract, touch -m should help on /usr/ports/distfiles/ -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org