Re: DNS: querying route DNS
Matthew Seaman wrote: If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive DNS lookups for you. (And caching -- but that's a given for any sort of DNS server). If you (or anyone) is interested I'll be happy to post a HowTo to the list. Hello Matthew! I'm sure it won't be difficult for anyone to find a named(8) how-to, but I'd be very glad to see your post, please. I currently use djbdns, but I'm not very happy with it and I'd like to try something else. Thanx in advance! Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS: querying route DNS
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Sure. Assuming you're using 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-STABLE or better, then
setting up a recursive-only nameserver is really very simple.
The system comes with BIND-9.3.0 as standard, and it has all of the
chroot-ing functionality available just by default. All you need do is
add the following to /etc/rc.conf:
named_enable=YES
There are several other variables you can use to tweak the named startup
via /etc/rc.conf, but basically the default values are good for what I
want to do here:
named_program=/usr/sbin/named # path to named, if you want a different
one.
named_flags=-u bind # Flags for named
named_pidfile=/var/run/named/pid # Must set this in named.conf as well
named_chrootdir=/var/named# Chroot directory (or not to
auto-chroot it)
named_chroot_autoupdate=YES # Automatically install/update chrooted
# components of named. See /etc/rc.d/named.
named_symlink_enable=YES # Symlink the chrooted pid file
g
You need to do three more things to configure named. The first is to
generate the keys that allow rndc(8) to communicate with and control the
name server:
# rndc-confgen /etc/named/rndc.conf
The file consists of two parts: the stuff rndc needs to read, followed
by the equivalent stuff, but commented out, to go into named.conf:
# Start of rndc.conf
key rndc-key {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret XX==;
};
options {
default-key rndc-key;
default-server 127.0.0.1;
default-port 953;
};
# End of rndc.conf
# Use with the following in named.conf, adjusting the allow list as needed:
# key rndc-key {
# algorithm hmac-md5;
# secret XX==;
# };
#
# controls {
# inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
# allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { rndc-key; };
# };
# End of named.conf
All of those X's will be replaced by a random password hash.
The second thing is to generate the zone files for the localhost and the
IPv6 and IPv4 loopback addresses, which you do by running the provided
script:
# cd /etc/namedb
# ./make-localhost
This will write two files into /etc/namedb/master: localhost.rev, and
localhost-v6.rev which let you resolve the IP numbers 127.0.0.1 and ::1
respectively as mapping to the hostname 'localhost.' Once you've
generated those once, you never need to touch them again. Nb. Although
we're setting up a recursive nameserver, it will hold these localhost
domains authoritatively; a slight exception to the usual rule of not
mixing recursive and authoritative functions in the same nameserver
instance. Pretty much every nameserver in operation provides the
localhost reverse domain.
The third and final step is to generate a named.conf -- details of the
configuration file syntax are available in
file:///usr/share/doc/bind9/arm/Bv9ARM.html
but something based on the attached example is what you need. This will
provide a recursive nameservice including both IPv4 and IPv6. Use
named-confcheck to syntax check the file:
% named-checkconf named.conf echo Configuration OK
BIND v9 is in general very picky about the syntax of the configuration
file, and if it finds an error (usually a missing semi-colon) it will
silently (except for messages to the system log) refuse to start up.
At last you're ready to fire up named for the first time:
# /etc/rc.d/named start
This will result in the contents of /etc/namedb being copied into
/var/named/etc/namedb and a sym-link being created in /etc. Various
other necessary bits will be created under /var/named and as a security
measure, the named daemon will be chroot'ed there when it starts up.
Any time you work on named's config or zone files, always check the
system log to confirm that named is still happy:
Jan 14 09:08:40 gravitas named[371]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -u bind -t
/var/named
Jan 14 09:08:41 gravitas named[371]: command channel listening on
127.0.0.1#953
Jan 14 09:08:41 gravitas named[371]: command channel listening on ::1#953
Use rndc(8) to control named during normal use -- it's interesting to
dump the cache after a day or so's operation to see what weird and
wonderful places your system has been looking up.
Thanks much! I actually thought that BIND configuration was a lot
more difficult, but it appears to be a matter of 20 minutes. I also
need to serve some local zones, but I'll figure that out on my own.
Will try to switch to BIND this weekend.
Best wishes,
Andrew P.
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Re: different behaviour between 4.x and 5.x (ping response/disk io) [was Re: ]
stheg wrote: P.S. (to the list in general) Why do all of the questions about FBSD performance, especially 4.x vs 5.x, come from people posting from Windows boxes? Theories? Cuz if you have freebsd on your desktop, you don't give a damn about its performance. It's just too great. And don't look at me, I'm still waiting for SPDIF support in ALC658 driver to dump my last running Windows for good :-) Very best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I only want stable software
Pat Maddox wrote: I used CVSUP to keep my system up to date. How do I know that it's not installing unstable software? I want to keep my software stable, but not in the version branching sense. I just don't want it crashing my server at all. Is there any way to ensure that I only install high quality stable software? You should use RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_5_3 tags to have cvsup download security patches only. It's probably the most reliable way to keep your system as stable as it gets. Just use the following line in your cvsup supfile: src-all tag=RELENG_5_3 You could use tag=. for doc-all, and you should use it for ports-all. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Concealing short disconnects
Hello guys! I have a few machines behind my FreeBSD box. The box connects to ISP via ppp (PPPoE protocol). It's all working very nicely, but the ISP is a pain - it disconnects every 24 hours. I can reconnect in just a moment - so the diconnect is usually less than a second long, but many applications, like ICQ/MSN and games feel the disconnect. The matter is that these applications can handle fairly large packet loss (e.g. Counter-Strike can cope with at least 15-second long 100% packet loss), but AFAIK it's in the nature of the TCP/UDP that a disconnect is a disconnect. As I know that FreeBSD is full of magic, is there any way to conceal these reconnects as short moments of 100% packet loss? I am ashamed to know very little about protocols' technicalities, but I'll look into any sources you advise. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Concealing short disconnects
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 12), Andrew P. said: I have a few machines behind my FreeBSD box. The box connects to ISP via ppp (PPPoE protocol). It's all working very nicely, but the ISP is a pain - it disconnects every 24 hours. I can reconnect in just a moment - so the diconnect is usually less than a second long, but many applications, like ICQ/MSN and games feel the disconnect. The matter is that these applications can handle fairly large packet loss (e.g. Counter-Strike can cope with at least 15-second long 100% packet loss), but AFAIK it's in the nature of the TCP/UDP that a disconnect is a disconnect. As I know that FreeBSD is full of magic, is there any way to conceal these reconnects as short moments of 100% packet loss? I am ashamed to know very little about protocols' technicalities, but I'll look into any sources you advise. Check to see if your IP number changes when you reconnect. If it does, there's nothing you really can do; the remote system you were talking to knew you only by your old IP, and those packets coming to them from this other IP are unrelated. It changes only once in about a week. Let's say it doesn't change at all. What then? Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Concealing short disconnects
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 12), Andrew P. said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 12), Andrew P. said: I have a few machines behind my FreeBSD box. The box connects to ISP via ppp (PPPoE protocol). It's all working very nicely, but the ISP is a pain - it disconnects every 24 hours. I can reconnect in just a moment - so the diconnect is usually less than a second long, but many applications, like ICQ/MSN and games feel the disconnect. The matter is that these applications can handle fairly large packet loss (e.g. Counter-Strike can cope with at least 15-second long 100% packet loss), but AFAIK it's in the nature of the TCP/UDP that a disconnect is a disconnect. As I know that FreeBSD is full of magic, is there any way to conceal these reconnects as short moments of 100% packet loss? I am ashamed to know very little about protocols' technicalities, but I'll look into any sources you advise. Check to see if your IP number changes when you reconnect. If it does, there's nothing you really can do; the remote system you were talking to knew you only by your old IP, and those packets coming to them from this other IP are unrelated. It changes only once in about a week. Let's say it doesn't change at all. What then? I'm still suspicious :) The two most common causes for connection resets are IP address changes and NAT resets. /usr/sbin/ppp keeps its NAT table across disconnects as long as the process itself stays running, so I don't think that's the cause. If you have root access to a remote system, try running tcpdump on it and your local machine while running something like top over ssh, and watch what happens when your connection drops and reconnects. No, there's really nothing to be suspicious about :) The IP doesn't change (well, in the process of IPCP it virtually does, first to 10.0.0.1/0 and then back to the assigned one - but that doesn't count, does it), the ppp process stays, but TCP/UDP streams are somehow interrupted. Don't worry anyway. Disconnects happen in 5-6 in the morning, when all the users are sleeping and the only one sleepless surfer is unlucky me, trying to seamlessly upgrade self-made internet connection sharing box from 4.10 to 5.3. BTW, if only anyone happens to know: I asked list before, but got no reply. When ISP actually assigns new IP address, I occasionally get double IPs on the tun0 interface (the old one and the new one simultaneously). Everything's working fine, but the dyndns updater can't recognize the IP change. Is there a way to fix this glitch/ feature? I've really manned and googled for it - without succes. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DHCP and PPP - dns/routes mess
Hello! I wrote about this months ago, and now I had some free time to look into the problem - only to find that it's too complicated for me to fix it on my own. The problem is my machine is configured via DHCP, but I need to use ppp from time to time. PPP adjusts resolv.conf and some routes for internet to work correctly. But dhclient-script messes it all up right on its next invocation (within seconds). This script should probably be fixed, but when I think about the right way of doing it (checking whether ppp is running and whether it has got any relevant dns addresses/routes and whether they should really be taken into account). I'd probably forget it and continue killing dhclient every time I need to use ppp, but it all works so nicely in Windows. Please, people, help me fix it :) Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spare local IP address - not physical alias
Hello! I have people connecting to my server via ppp. When they establish connection the server gets 172.18.0.1 and they get 172.18.0.x. A dns server is running on 172.18.0.1. The problem is that sometimes there are no ppp connections, and the server does not have the 172.18.0.1 address. But I want applications to be able to query this very address and get answers. Is there a totally secure way to set up a permanent address? Thanks! Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-release-p5 pptp stoped working
Géczi Szabolcs wrote: after I made a cvsup and buildworld my pptp doesn't work well. the clients can authenticate succesfully but they cannot reach subnet except the tunnel's endpoint ip which is 192.168.1.1. naturally my ppp/pptp configuration are unchanged. any idea? It's just that you didn't mention it: did you update your kernel after updating world? Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mount a tar archive?
Hello! I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? Read-only would suffice. Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount a tar archive?
Danny Howard wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Hello! I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? Read-only would suffice. Andrew, Short of that solution, why not tar -t to get a list of files in the archive, then you can tar -x the files you actually want. You ought to be able to: tar -t foo.tar list.txt edit list.txt cat list.txt | xargs tar -x foo.tar -danny The archive is actually part of my music collection on a headless fileserver. I would like to share it with samba. It's a pity that FreeBSD doesn't have linuxish arcfs or tarmount, but that sort of thing is not really needed very often. Thanks to all for your kind help! Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA II NCQ Sil3124 AMD64 NForce4 Ultra Support?
EvilTwinkie wrote: Question is what's the status of the driver support for the NForce4 Ultra Chipset? I am planning on purchasing the below setup, and would like to use a raid1 config. Any other issues?? Here's the setup. Maxtor 6B250S0 250GB SATA150 7200rpm 16MB Hard Drive x2 Microstar K8N Neo4 Platinum Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 SATA 1.0 Sil3114, Sil3124-1 SATA 2.0 Sil3124-2 Hello, AFAIK, So/ren is still waiting for SATA II docs/equipments from different manufacturers to arrive. And nForce chipsets seem to have always been supported a little worse than VIA, not to say anything about Intel. Consider sticking to what is supported best. Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: From Rumiancev Alexander
rumiancev-psu wrote: Hello! I have a problem! I have the FreeBSD 5.3. And some day ago, when I wrote command make the output was ... ! , , . : ) www.opennet.ru ) -. , freebsd-questions . , Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?
Hello! I know this has been brought up a number of times and I doubt that it is the right place to post to or even a right subject to raise, but still. It seems we lack some update system in FreeBSD. I have only 2 freebsd boxes, one serving as an internet gateway for the other. And whenever I want to update the latter one, I think about all the traffic that I'm gonna waste and CPU time to build and my own time to get some distros from one machine to another. I dream about a server running on my main machine, which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that want to be updated. The server negotiates with each client and acts as requested: 1.1) fetches a binary package, or 1.2) fetches a source package, or 1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and 2) builds a package if needed, and 3) gives binary/source to the client Is that so difficult? C'mon guys, just one step forward to perfection :) Very best wishes, Andrew P. P.S.: M$ SUS 1.x sucks so hard that I can't even find the right words to describe it. Sorry :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:57 am, Andrew P. wrote: Hello! I know this has been brought up a number of times and I doubt that it is the right place to post to or even a right subject to raise, but still. It seems we lack some update system in FreeBSD. I have only 2 freebsd boxes, one serving as an internet gateway for the other. And whenever I want to update the latter one, I think about all the traffic that I'm gonna waste and CPU time to build and my own time to get some distros from one machine to another. I dream about a server running on my main machine, which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that want to be updated. The server negotiates with each client and acts as requested: 1.1) fetches a binary package, or 1.2) fetches a source package, or 1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and 2) builds a package if needed, and 3) gives binary/source to the client Is that so difficult? C'mon guys, just one step forward to perfection :) Very best wishes, Andrew P. Its doable, providing both boxes have identical CPU's and the port build options on both have the same options. If the CPU's are not identical are you willing to build every thing to the lowest common denominator such as CPUTYPE?=i486 ? If this is the case then really all you have to do is make sure you have a /usr/ports/packages dir on one machine then upgrade portmanager -u. This will put a package for everything upgraded into /usr/ports/packages/All. nfs share /usr/ports/packages/All directory with the other machine and on that one upgrade with something like portupgrade -aP. -Mike Thanks, I'll try to do this via ftp. What about the system itself? Is there an easy way to copy all the binaries from one box to another? Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?
Fabian Keil wrote: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dream about a server running on my main machine, which gets queries from intranet freebsd boxes that want to be updated. The server negotiates with each client and acts as requested: 1.1) fetches a binary package, or 1.2) fetches a source package, or 1.3) finds a binary/source in its cache, and 2) builds a package if needed, and 3) gives binary/source to the client Its doable, providing both boxes have identical CPU's and the port build options on both have the same options. If the CPU's are not identical are you willing to build every thing to the lowest common denominator such as CPUTYPE?=i486 ? If this is the case then really all you have to do is make sure you have a /usr/ports/packages dir on one machine then upgrade portmanager -u. This will put a package for everything upgraded into /usr/ports/packages/All. nfs share /usr/ports/packages/All directory with the other machine and on that one upgrade with something like portupgrade -aP. Thanks, I'll try to do this via ftp. What about the system itself? Is there an easy way to copy all the binaries from one box to another? Your building machine can share /usr/src/ via nfs. You can then do a make buildworld on the server and make installworld on every machine. If the kernels are the same, you can use the same build on every machine as well. As Michael has already mentioned, you have to keep /etc/make.conf general. So basically, to substantially facilitate the update process all we have to do is to share /usr/src and /usr/ports folders? Will it be ok to share them read-only if I do all the building on the server? Is it a serious security issue to give recursive read-access to these folders to maliscious parties? (I mean besides of letting them know versions of all your server software). Thanks, Andrew P. P.S. Still, IMHO a nicely-designed port would be great. I mean we do have portupgrade for crying out loud. If we have something for a network of freebsd boxes, we could start talking enterprise-level management. P.P.S. What a pity that we don't have tarfs/ftpfs. Okay, that's just a sidenote. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?
Chris wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Thanks, Andrew P. P.S. Still, IMHO a nicely-designed port would be great. I mean we do have portupgrade for crying out loud. If we have something for a network of freebsd boxes, we could start talking enterprise-level management. P.P.S. What a pity that we don't have tarfs/ftpfs. Okay, that's just a sidenote. ... are you volunteering?! Well, I just might be able to write a dirty perl script that would add to thousands of useless ports. However, if there a busy soul with much knowledge and an ability to guide, I think I'll be able to produce some nice code with little of his help :) I'm now thinking learning ruby and examining portupgrade's code carefully. 6-9 months at least. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some kind of intranet update system for FreeBSD?
Richard Caley wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fabian Keil (fk) writes: fk If the kernels are the same, you can use the same build fk on every machine as well. If they aren't it works to set KERNCONF to the whole list on the build machine KENRCONF=Macine1 Macine2 Machine3 It builds them all, but instals teh first one on this machine. Would it build all the modules three time, I wonder? Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64 optimization on FreeBSD 5.4 i386
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 04 Apr Bachelier Vincent wrote: Does I compile with march=k8 under cflags ? for example: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS Well, what do you think ? could I optimize more than CPUTYPE=k8 ? Don't have an answer to /your/ question, but mine is related (I think). Is it still advisable to have -O -pipe in /etc/make.conf? I have a duron 800. Does the -O2 flag give more errors or is it better than using the -O? To quote the Handbook: ``The optimization -O2 is much slower, and the optimization difference between -O and -O2 is normally negligible.'' The only reason one would want to use -O2 would be perfectionism, I think :) Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exec make buildworld
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:16:14AM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 6:07 AM, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to do a ssh conection then do exec make buildworld on the remote system close the conection and do a conection again later and get the output from make buildworld again ? Doh i forgot the important part again, without using screen :) # make buildworld log.file # logout It's kinda strange, but it didn't work for me yesterday. The build stopped as soon as I logged out, I used Ctrl-D instead of logout though. What I find more comfortable is # at + 1 minute make buildworld Ctrl-D Some time after I have new mail, containing all the output (stdout and stderr) from the task. That's cute. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd disc 1
Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) Come to think about it, I kinda miss this option, too. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?
Gareth Bailey wrote: I just got a Sempron 754, will it run under FreeBSD 4.11 i386? Yes, sure I don't have time to reinstall the OS, so if the 754 doesn't run on i386 i'll swop the chip for a socket A. ... or will the 754 be substantially quicker that the equivalent speed Socket A? Not really, no The machine is being used as a development server. Thanks for your advice Gareth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: arplookup failed
Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a system running 5.3-p6, and am getting this error every 20 minutes or so: kernel: arplookup 69.61.54.33 failed: host is not on local network I get that the host isn't on the network, but I don't have any idea where the message is coming from. It's in /var/log/messages, shows up about every 20 minutes. Any ideas? Maybe a direct route to that host is specified in your routing table. Provide the output of `netstat -rn` please. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?
Gareth Bailey wrote: Thanks. Can anyone else comment on the following points?: The 754 Sempron: - Will run in FreeBSD 4.11 i386? - Will not be faster than Sempron socket A? Thanks Gareth I think you forgot to cc this message to freebsd-questions. Anyways, to further comment on these issues: Sempron cores are identical in Socket A and Socket 754 versions. Both support only 32-bit instruction sets (i686 in terms of CPUTYPE and i386 in terms of MACHINE). Any x86 OS will run on Sempron/754 smoothly. Personally, I think it's a much better choice than Celeron D. Sempron/754 might be a little faster than it's Socket A version - but that's _only_ because of the chipsets for Socket 754 are more advanced than Socket A ones. I would generally recommend using Sempron/754, as you could upgrade to Athlon 64 later and FreeBSD/x64 then. On the other hand, s754 will be deprecated in a few years in favour of s939. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 3:33 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gareth Bailey wrote: Thanks. Can anyone else comment on the following points?: The 754 Sempron: - Will run in FreeBSD 4.11 i386? - Will not be faster than Sempron socket A? Sempron cores are identical in Socket A and Socket 754 versions. Both support only 32-bit Are you sure? The s754 versions have an on die memory controller and a K8 core (although with disabled 64-bit mode), which should make it significantly faster then the K7 based Sempron on sA. Yeah, it appears I got a wrong idea from some poor article. As a matter of fact, Sempron/sA is based on Barton core, while Sempron/s754 is a K8 sister. The latter has an on-chip memory controller and SSE2 instruction set supported. They are pretty same in all other aspects though, and I still suppose the perfomance margin is negligible. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_11599_11604,00.html Sempron/754 might be a little faster than it's Socket A version - but that's _only_ because of the chipsets for Socket 754 are more advanced than Socket A ones. I would generally recommend using Sempron/754, as you could upgrade to Athlon 64 later and FreeBSD/x64 then. On the other hand, s754 will be deprecated in a few years in favour of s939. Even for Sempron? Yeah, it has been announced a few times, that Sempron/s939 will be available somewhen in 2005 as market requires: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_608,00.html Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Sempron 754 run with FreeBSD i386?
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 6:13 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure? The s754 versions have an on die memory controller and a K8 core (although with disabled 64-bit mode), which should make it significantly faster then the K7 based Sempron on sA. Yeah, it appears I got a wrong idea from some poor article. As a matter of fact, Sempron/sA is based on Barton core, while Sempron/s754 is a K8 sister. The latter has an on-chip memory controller and SSE2 instruction set supported. They are pretty same in all other aspects though, and I still suppose the perfomance margin is negligible. Why do you expect so much performance to be lost compared to the Athlon 64 s754? The Athlon 64 s754 is significantly faster than the Athlon XP. I haven't seen any tests, yet I've seen Sempron/Socket-A in action and it was impressive. I also have Athlon 64 and Athlon XP pc's at home and I don't think K8 is so superior. In non-sse2 non-very-memory-intensive applications it performs better, but not turbo-charged. Besides, AMD is pricing Socket-A Semprons even higher than s754 versions. Considering the fact that s754 is clocked lower than sA of the same PR, it can be hard to determine the speed difference. Anyway, I really think there's nothing for us to argue about :) Gareth is staying with s754 and we should be glad for him :) Very best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: arplookup failed
Pat Maddox wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 5:48 AM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a system running 5.3-p6, and am getting this error every 20 minutes or so: kernel: arplookup 69.61.54.33 failed: host is not on local network I get that the host isn't on the network, but I don't have any idea where the message is coming from. It's in /var/log/messages, shows up about every 20 minutes. Any ideas? Maybe a direct route to that host is specified in your routing table. Provide the output of `netstat -rn` please. DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif default69.61.54.161 UGS 0 838rl0 69.61.54.160/29link#1 UC 00rl0 69.61.54.161 00:02:85:0d:7c:80 UHLW10rl0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 00lo0 Hmm, according to this table every packet with 69.61.54.33 destination would be sent to 69.61.54.161 gateway, arplookup would not be performed for the 33 address. What comes to my mind is that some broken router might be messing your routing table via ICMP (or do you use a routing protocol like RIP or OSPF?) You might need to run 'route monitor route_changes.log ' for a few hours and post the log, for us to see what's happening. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Outgoing port 113 connections
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My firewall keeps reporting that it denies outgoing 113 port connections. Why would I allow port 113 outgoing connections? I don't seem to have any problems at the moment. Also, how would I identify which program is trying to connect to 113 port? 113 - netbios session, . , , ?FreeBSD, ,, . smbfs smbclient ( samba). Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd disc 1
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) Come to think about it, I kinda miss this option, too. Alrighdy thats 2 votes already :) I say we go to the california and go run in circles holding a cvsup pannel :) BTW, I'd also vote for /etc/rc.d/ftpd script Wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvsup, mirrors and data integrity
So I have a cvsup mirror, set up with net/cvsup-mirror port. It was ok until the server crashed (all my fault, really) and fsck came up with all that soft-updates related stuff and what not. Anyway, cvsup-mirror seems to not have noticed the crash at all, but some clients cvsupping from this mirror report unexpected syntax errors during buildworld. They cease to do so once cvsupped from another mirror, but only if I remove src completely before it. Cvsupping the broken sources against the good ones doesn't find a mistake at all. My question is: what mechanisms do cvsup and cvsupd have to deal with data corruption? I know about the -s switch, but it doesn't help to disable it in my situation. How do I repair broken sources or repo, using a good cvsup repo. How do I prevent this from happening again without disabling soft- updates? Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Learning to write FreeBSD Device Drivers
On 10/21/05, Peter Clutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, hope this isn't too off topic. I'm a sysadmin who taught myself programming (and have worked as a PHP ad MYSQL developer) and really want to develop my FreeBSD skills, and hopefully one day be able to give something back to FreeBSD. I want to start writing device drivers, and would love any pointers to resources and tips from anyone. At the moment I'm reading a good C primer, along with The Design and Implementation of The FreeBSD Operating System ( a great book), and browsing the relevant sections in the Handbook and the source code. I'm wondering what else i could look at to help join the ends if you know what i mean. I know there is a comprehensive book on writing device drivers for Linux, would it help conceptually, or at all (i know the system calls are different) to read this as a beginning? Would looking at two drivers for the same hardware, for Linux and FreeBSD, looking at the difference, and maybe first try porting a new one be a good idea? Are there any other good resources anyone could point me to? I hope you don't think I'm too focused on linux resources, if I wanted to take the easy way, I'd be interested in it, but i much prefer FreeBSD. Any tips or pointers to resources would be much appreciated!! Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] First of all, I haven't developed any serious thing for any OS. As a matter of fact, I haven't written anything in C/C++ in five years. But in the absence of a better reply - this is my response. I think that the best way to get involved into the FreeBSD project is to install the OS on your desktop, use it on your servers, help others on mailing lists, write some ports (as an active user you'll have to do that sooner or later), preen through pr-database trying to find solutions, submit many patches, become a committer - and there you are: involved. There's a lot of reading on writing good code. Drivers are quite a narrow field, but you can't begin to write them without understanding how almost everything else works. Writing a driver demands a more comprehensive understanding of OS intrinsics than most of other aspects. You'll definitely want to work on other parts of kernel code before going on to drivers. Looking at the source of drivers for other systems actually helps very very much. It's much easier to port a driver, say, from OpenBSD than it is from Linux, but you don't have to port anything. I bet that reading a driver written for Solaris, HP-UX or any other system will provide you with some nice ideas that can be used in FreeBSD. You can read as many books as you like, but nothing will do you more good than reading and understanding thoroughly a few existing drivers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity
On 10/22/05, Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, cvsup is an application that deals with giving people files. It is the job of fsck to check and clear the FS. Check /etc/defaults/rc.conf and add the following variables to your rc.conf fsck_y_enable=YES background_fsck=NO It has been discussed zilion of times and it works. I recommend also wiping your repository and syncing from scratch from the master servers. HTH -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525 Well, what if I already had those lines in my rc.conf, what if fsck fixed everyting it found and what if it doesn't work. I'm quite sure that wiping and resyncing the whole repo will help, it's that I don't want to do that every time a partiotion was not unmounted properly. Any ideas at all? Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity
On 10/22/05, Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'll have to escalate the importance of this machine being shutdown correctly and stop all cvsup processes before doing something risky. Yup - try putting the CVSUP under DJB daemontools or something like this. If that doesn't help, I'll make a separate partition for the repo with soft-updates turned off. With 95% of reading against 5% of writing, I'm sure there won't be a measurable performance impact. Are you on SCSI or IDE/SATA? Regards -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525 I don't like the style of djb, sorry. The box has 1 ide and 4 scsi disks. But I had to remove scsi cables and can't find a replacement at the moment, so it's on ide for now. Squid is also on the server. So I guess, when scsi disks are back online, I'll dedicate 2 to squid, and 2 in a vinum mirroring array with softupdates disabled for more important things, like cvs repos, distfiles, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity
On 10/23/05, Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't like the style of djb, sorry. I know, but his tools work and are great for such things. There have been occasions on which the bgp blinks/ntpd decides to go play and after a while the box goes disfunct and I have to start/stop manually. I guess that's why we let cisco handle bgp (and ntp, by the way). The box has 1 ide and 4 scsi disks. But I had to remove scsi cables and can't find a replacement at the moment, so it's on ide for now. Squid is also on the server. So I guess, when scsi disks are back online, I'll dedicate 2 to squid, and 2 in a vinum mirroring array with softupdates disabled for more important things, like cvs repos, distfiles, etc. Try setting up a md through which to buffer the read/write operations for cvsupd For CVS there is a hint in the hubs article /dev/da0s1b /anoncvstmp mfs rw,-s=786432,-b=4096,-f=512,-i=560,-c=3,-m=0,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /etc/inetd.conf cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f -l -R -T /anoncvstmp --allow-root=/home/ncvs pserver I suppose if you play a bit, you can come with a similar solution for CVSUP. Btw, have you extended an existing stripe with growfs? I have to extend my stripe on which ftp+rsync repo lies with 0,5TB and would like to preserve data if possible. All the best -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525 It doesn't really seem that disk performance is a bottle-neck. CPU is saturated much more quickly. It's a dual P3 box, 5-6 cvsup sessions with compression turned on is as much as it is gonna take without major slowdowns. I guess there's no way to make a new IDE disk lag behind over a 100Mbit link. But I'm thinking about gigabit - and cvs instead of cvsup. That's where your recommendations will come into play. No, I haven't been growing any stripes in my garden lately :-) Thanks, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bind question
On 10/23/05, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a FreeBSD machine runing Bind 9.3 that needs to zone transfers from a Solaris 8 machine running Bind 8.3.3 I'm getting errors about failed transfers. This is showing up in the logs on the Solaris machine: Oct 21 14:30:33 cor-day-dns4 named[140]: denied AXFR from [170.85.113.8].1044 for 10.in-addr.arpa IN (acl) I suspect that there is some option I need to set to disallow something thet the Solaris machine is not allowing. Can anyone clarify this error message for me? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has nothing to do with FreeBSD, right? BTW, transfers between BIND8 and BIND9 are now compromised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup, mirrors and data integrity
On 10/23/05, Dimitar Vasilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that's why we let cisco handle bgp (and ntp, by the way). Thanks, I will have it in mind next time if I'm to setup these two services. The bottleneck is insufficient memory for BGP. In a week or so there will be another chip. BTW, the network admins of the institution, where the project machine I coadmin is collocated, do not like T*tsco, because it is exploitable and breaks easily under the volume of traffic passing through there.I agree with them to some extend. As the project is fully voluntary and it is backed by the admins and FreeBSD users, it is normal to have such a setup. I'm now used to the signs of dying ntpd and can react in acceptable time. Happy weekend! -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525 Yeah, Cisco sucks - in that I totally agree with you. Haven't tried bgp on FreeBSD, but I'm sure the ntpd problem can be alleviated by daily something like /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start /etc/rc.d/ntpd start, can't it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1
On 10/24/05, Nick J. Date [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya! I've just upgraded my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with FreeBSD, so I was using the free version of the Open Sound System (www.opensound.com) drivers. On installing 6.0-RC1, I didn't want to take any chances so I downloaded the OSS drivers again (selecting 6.0-RC1 as my operating system this time). The installation and sound tests completed fine and I could hear music being played. However, although the driver now loads on startup, it doesn't load any sort of mixer support and the device /dev/mixer doesn't exist. Even attempting to load OSS's own mixer software reports that /dev/mixer is non-existant. A re-install doesn't help and I can't find any option in the set up program that might make the mixer work. Has anyone else had a similar problem, and if so does anyone know of a solution? Anyway, if anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right direction it would be highly appreciated. Kind regards, Nick. -- Nick Date Bath, England, UK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=560 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Sound System on FreeBSD 6 RC1
On 10/24/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/05, Nick J. Date [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya! I've just upgraded my FreeBSD installation from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.0-RC1. With 5.4 I learnt that my sound card (SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit) wasn't supported by the drivers that come with FreeBSD, so I was using the free version of the Open Sound System (www.opensound.com) drivers. On installing 6.0-RC1, I didn't want to take any chances so I downloaded the OSS drivers again (selecting 6.0-RC1 as my operating system this time). The installation and sound tests completed fine and I could hear music being played. However, although the driver now loads on startup, it doesn't load any sort of mixer support and the device /dev/mixer doesn't exist. Even attempting to load OSS's own mixer software reports that /dev/mixer is non-existant. A re-install doesn't help and I can't find any option in the set up program that might make the mixer work. Has anyone else had a similar problem, and if so does anyone know of a solution? Anyway, if anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right direction it would be highly appreciated. Kind regards, Nick. -- Nick Date Bath, England, UK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=560 Actually, apart from editing devfs.conf as per my advice in the topic, I've got a startup script, /root/oss.sh, containing these: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/soundon /etc/rc.d/devfs restart and a line in /etc/crontab: @reboot rootsleep 30 /root/oss.sh I am thinking about writing a port, but still only thinking. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ?
On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in the ipfw man page on my 5.4-RELEASE system. Is this something that only exists in IPFW2 ? Does ipfw2 even exist anymore ? Can someone clarify for me what is going on with regard to what used to be called IPFW2, FreeBSD 5.x, and per-user traffic counting ? thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipfw2 replaced ipfw in 5.x Read the manpage more carefully, please. Search for uid option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more)
On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/25/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in the ipfw man page on my 5.4-RELEASE system. Is this something that only exists in IPFW2 ? Does ipfw2 even exist anymore ? Can someone clarify for me what is going on with regard to what used to be called IPFW2, FreeBSD 5.x, and per-user traffic counting ? thanks. ipfw2 replaced ipfw in 5.x Read the manpage more carefully, please. Search for uid option. Thanks - I was searching for username and getting nowhere. Also, thank you for the clarification regarding ipfw2/ipfw and their current state. I notice that the traffic accounting per uid only applies to traffic initiated by that user, and initiated from the local machine. If I scp a file away from the machine (as user X) the traffic does not get incremented, and if I scp a file to the local machine (as user X) it also does not get incremented - even though those are non-anonymous actions that occur under the auspices of a particular username. Doe anyone have any suggestions for traffic accounting (of particularly ssh traffic) on a per user basis, for _all_ traffic that occurs under the auspices of that username, and not just what _they themselves_ initiate, personally, in their own login shell ? Thank you. ipfw looks at the owner of a process, sshd in your case. If you really need to account the not-locally- initiated ssh traffic, start another sshd running as the user (on another port), and connect to that port [you can easily allow a user to connect only to a selected server by editing sshd_config's]. Anyway, try thinking logically. How ipfw could ever know what user traffic belongs to if all authentication is handled by sshd internally. Otherwise, it would be a security whole (though some actions can certainly be logged to limited- access log files). Hassle-free solutions, i.e. complex accounting systems, come for money. Though, whatever problem you might have, I'm sure somehow that there's another way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEC DVD_RW - file read problems.
On 10/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have the following problem: OS: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. DVD RW: acd0: DVD-R _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG at ata1-master UDMA33 I use DVD R's primary for data backup. The backup data is archived and splitted on files ~500Mb size, which was written on DVD-R's. I have also store the MD5 sums of those files in small checksum file. The problem is: sometimes then i check content on DVD the checksum is differs. Where is no read errors on console, and several attempts to calculate checksum return different results. bash-2.05b# grep 1 /cdrom/md5.sums acc8b491f03bfa01e341808773a6f94f depot.147.tar.1 bash-2.05b# md5 /cdrom/depot.147.tar.1 MD5 (/cdrom/depot.147.tar.1) = d821bd902c4b0e9c12510f302c10ee71 # File seems cached in RAM bash-2.05b# md5 /cdrom/depot.147.tar.1 MD5 (/cdrom/depot.147.tar.1) = d821bd902c4b0e9c12510f302c10ee71 bash-2.05b# umount /cdrom # After unmounting and mounting again - different (correct) checksum. bash-2.05b# !mou mount /cdrom bash-2.05b# md5 /cdrom/depot.147.tar.1 MD5 (/cdrom/depot.147.tar.1) = acc8b491f03bfa01e341808773a6f94f # Now the checksum is OK. It seems for me that sometimes device correct soft read errors on media, and sometimes - does not. Does anybody have the same expirience (i.e. checksum differs without read errors) ? Best Regards, Alexander Derevyanko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Проверь память. Поставь на ночь memtest или docmemory. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I name my network interface?
On 10/25/05, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Lun 24 Oct 2005 18:17, Teo De Las Heras escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0: class=0x02 card=0x100a15bd chip=0x432011ab rev=0x13 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' device = '88E8001 Gigabit 32-bit Ethernet Controller with Integrated PHY' class = network subclass = ethernet This is the only ethernet card found in your motherboard and it has the driver skc attached. maps ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 2nd interface may not enabled in the BIOS or it might be a CSA adapter (not supported, but I thought only Intel manufactured this shit). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?
On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.2 How would I connect to a nameserver and talk to it so I can know it is working? I get as far as connecting to the port, but I don't know how to make it send back anything meaningful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't you read the netcat manpage for starters? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?
On 10/25/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.2 How would I connect to a nameserver and talk to it so I can know it is working? I get as far as connecting to the port, but I don't know how to make it send back anything meaningful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't you read the netcat manpage for starters? Oh, I'm mighty sorry. I was sure the exact example was there, but I reread now - and there is none. I will post a link here as soon as I find it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions without COMPAT* in the kernel? One can always carefully examine the output of ldd, readelf and other such tools, but that requires much knowledge and a small lab with all kinds of BSD's set up. Is there a better way? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
On 10/26/05, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:24:54AM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions without COMPAT* in the kernel? file (1) I don't mean to push it, but how file would ever help me to know subj? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: optical mouse problem
On 10/25/05, Zsolt Kúti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I've got a Samsung PS/2 (SMOP5000WX) mouse that does not work. While the pointer appears, it hectically wanders around the screen and suddenly produces false keystroke-like actions. Applying hint.psm.0.flags=0x0200 makes it a plain PS/2 mouse, that works fine (no wheel then, of course). Without that flag, configuration is OK with another PS/2 mouse, wheel working. The optical mouse is recognized (4D+ Mouse). moused.c contains code that in priciple handles this type, in practice not. I tried various moused parameters, even serial types (I know, it against what it is recommended in man) , NORESET as hint, none of them helped. What could I try to get it operate normally? Or better leave it alone and go for a new one? Thanks! Zsolt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yup, a cheap Logitech will be your saviour. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
On 10/26/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:01, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/26/05, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:24:54AM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions without COMPAT* in the kernel? file (1) I don't mean to push it, but how file would ever help me to know subj? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is an example: file /usr/bin/man on my machine outputs: /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4-CURRENT (rev 3), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped -Mike Oh, it's just that file hasn't leared anything about FreeBSD 6 yet, so it doesn't display version info when run against my binaries. Sorry and thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Speed question
On 10/26/05, Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On 26. oktober 2005 9:46 +0200 Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have on my LAN a server FBSD 5.4 on DMZ. The router is made of linux (yes I'll change it to FBSD ASAP) with 3 NIC: eth0 (inet), eth1 (LAN), eth2 (DMZ). Strange thing is that when server is on DMZ and I access it from the LAN with ftp client my transfer speed is 30 Mbit/s. The network itself is 100 Mbit. BUT if I move server from LAN to DMZ I have the max speed arround 100 Mbit/s. BTW: server in DMZ is connected directly to the NIC on router and on the LAN side I have all users connected on one switch which is connected to the router. Is this normall for all kinds of routers (linux, bsd, etc.) with setup like mine to behave like this or is it just my router setup? Regards, Sasa Made a mistake in the post: BUT if I move server from LAN to DMZ... should be BUT if I move server from DMZ to LAN...# Sasa If you mean that bandwidth between 2 boxes on one switch is higher than that between 2 boxes connected to different NICs on some server, then that's absolutely normal and expected. No server can match the speed of a Cisco, and no Cisco can match the speed of a cheap unmanaged switch. If you mean that ftp client and ftp server are connected to different NICs on the router in both cases (30Mbit and 100Mbit transfers), it is explainable, because traffic from DMZ to LAN usually gets a closer look than that from LAN to LAN. You might or might not get better performance with FreeBSD as the router. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
On 10/26/05, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. writes: file /usr/bin/man on my machine outputs: /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4-CURRENT (rev 3), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Oh, it's just that file hasn't leared anything about FreeBSD 6 yet, so it doesn't display version info when run against my binaries. Curious. huff@ file /usr/bin/man /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 7.0 (73), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped huff@ Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried both versions of file (base system and ports) on 6.0 RC1, none showed any info about that /usr/bin/man (or any other system binary I tried). On my firewall (5.4) it works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade stale dependencies
On 10/27/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip... After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the ultimate problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3. After I ran 'pkgdb -F' and fixed this dependency to point to apache2.1, but I still had trouble installing ports. 'portsdb -Uu' would not run, so I ran 'make fetchindex' and 'portupdate -a'. From what I've read, this _should_ create an index and update all out-of-date ports and their dependencies, but it never has worked for me. I just tried this combination again, and it (again) punts during portupdate. This time, 38 ports were skipped and 7 failed, the first failure being a strange compiler error in updating from apache-2.0.48. I've been fighting with ports for long enough now to have become a bit frustrated with them. If you have any thoughts or suggestions on how to troubleshoot them, please pass them on. Thanks, ~John Do not fix dependencies if you're not sure that they are really broken. Don't use apache21 unless 2.0 is absolutely inappropriate. The proper way to change dependencies from apache1 to apache2 is to add WITH_APACHE2=true to /etc/make.conf (or to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, but that's an advanced topic). If you have portsdb utility, don't use make fetchindex, just add -F to portsdb: portsdb -uUF will work fine. You cann add -k to portupgrade, so that it doesn't skip ports (but it won't fix the failed ones). John, you'll have to spend a few hours reading ports documentation before you find them really great (which they really are). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
On 10/27/05, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 26 Oct 05 09:18, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/05, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. writes: file /usr/bin/man on my machine outputs: /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4-CURRENT (rev 3), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Oh, it's just that file hasn't leared anything about FreeBSD 6 yet, so it doesn't display version info when run against my binaries. Curious. huff@ file /usr/bin/man /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 7.0 (73), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped huff@ I tried both versions of file (base system and ports) on 6.0 RC1, none showed any info about that /usr/bin/man (or any other system binary I tried). On my firewall (5.4) it works. That's odd. Am on 6.0-RC1: # uname -a FreeBSD smogmonster.local 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Thu Oct 20 14:41:23 MDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL60 i386 % file /usr/bin/xargs /usr/bin/xargs: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped % file /usr/bin/man /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped % file /bin/echo /bin/echo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped I know I built valgrind just a few days ago: % file /usr/local/bin/valgrind /usr/local/bin/valgrind: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), statically linked, stripped vim, too: % file /usr/local/bin/vim /usr/local/bin/vim: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped I'm not sure what it means when this information isn't accessible, but I'd say it's symptomatic of another issue, and most likely it's not good. If you built from source, did you follow the procedure described in the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html Not sure, but are you installing kernel after building world, and then installing world in single user? I've seen strange things happen if you don't do this procedure the right way. Of course, I'm just guessing, as I'm not at all sure what could be causing this problem or what your exact circumstances are. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat64% uname -a FreeBSD sat64.net17 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #2: Fri Oct 14 22:57:08 MSD 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATCUR32 i386 sat64% file /usr/bin/xargs /usr/bin/xargs: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dyn amically linked (uses shared libs), stripped sat64% file /usr/bin/man /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynam ically linked (uses shared libs), stripped sat64% file /bin/echo /bin/echo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamica lly linked (uses shared libs), stripped sat64% file /usr/local/bin/waveplay /usr/local/bin/waveplay: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (Free BSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped sat64% file /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped sat64% /usr/local/bin/file /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Maybe you're right. I never go to single-user when upgrading. But then, I'm the only user and there are not many processes. I'm not gonna worry anyway, hope it's not a rootkit :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: finding the correct man page ???
On 10/27/05, ke.han [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I am working on configuring a new system and have run across maillist comments such as: The comment in GENERIC is not accurate, the bge driver supports 5721 based cards for a couple of month now (the manpage in RELENG_5 is correct). The problem is, which man page? There are so many man pages, I rarely know how to find what I'm looking for. The whatis command does no good for this sort of search. Since I'm still pretty new to things, is there some searching mechanism or naming structure I'm not clued into? thanks, ke han ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat64% man -k 5721 bge(4) - Broadcom BCM570x/5714/5721/ 5750/5751/5789 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from 5.3 to 6.0 (was: no subject)
On 10/27/05, George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello , Since the actual 6.0 Release is taking too long , would you suggest me installing 6.0 RC-1 and then then 6.0 is out , can I just apply some patches , or I should Re-makeworld everything?... And another question , I'm on a PIII 550 with 256MB ram . I have 5.3 and some broken libs .Would you suggest me doing a fresh install , or a make world ? Consider I don't have the experience the second procedure takes , but I've heard both opinions. Should I do a portupgrade -a after the makeworld ?... Thank you George ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, you can try 6.0RC1, it's pretty stable. Read the Handbook and stick to the advice: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html You shouldn't have any trouble. You should do portupgrade -fa (recompile all your ports) after the upgrade is finished, but it's not an urgent matter. You can as well wait a few weeks and recompile them all then - thanks to binary compatibility they will work until then. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost in nowhere land on 5.2.1
On 10/27/05, Brian Howick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up a copy of 5.2.1 RELEASE a few years back and I am trying to upgrade it. The problem is I set it up over the net and not from a CD.. so when I try to upgrade I am told that whatever FTP server I connect to does not have the files... What can I do? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cvsup and make world If you run into trouble, try upgrading to 5.3 or 5.4 first and than to 6.0. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Donation?
On 10/27/05, Darren Sessions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if the FreeBSD project is in need of any server hardware. If so, I would like to make a donation. Thanks, - Darren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html http://www.freebsd.org/donations/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: increasing mount size
On 10/27/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My /var mount has no more space left. I was wondering if there is some way to increase the size of it without loosing anything? Thanks Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD default layout is very smart. What takes up so much in your /var? # du -s /var/* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade stale dependencies
On 10/28/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:49, Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:32 PM, John DeStefano wrote: On 10/27/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/27/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After clearing out the ports, updating ports (with portsnap) and source, and rebuilding the system and kernel... it seemed the ultimate problem was actually a dependency of the package to apache1.3. After I ran 'pkgdb -F' and fixed this dependency to point to apache2.1, but I still had trouble installing ports. At this point, what usually works for me is to: #cd /usr rm -rf ./ports #mkdir ./ports cvsup /root/ports-supfile The above will delete your ENTIRE ports tree, provided it's kept in / usr/ports and as long as you use cvsup (and your ports supfile is / root/ports-supfile as mine is). When a whole bunch of ports stop working, I find this is the easiest thing to do. The other thing I do is run a cron job every week that updates, via cvsup, the ports tree. About once a year I perform the above, mostly to clean out the crap. Re-downloading your entire ports tree will be quicker if you don't use the ports-all tag and actually define which port segments you are interested in. For example, there's no real reason to download all the x11/kde/gnome crap if you're doing this on a headless server that isn't going to serve X. HTH Replacing /usr/ports won't fix his problems, they reside in /var/db/pkg. I may be a bit biased but I reaaly think John D. should try running portmanager -u (ports/sysutils/portmanager). Stale dependencies is a non issue for portmanager. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think that stale dependencies are an issue for portupgrade as well, just add -O to the command- line. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
On 10/28/05, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 10/27/05, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must be -- some flag produces unique bits in the executables. I'm a little surprised there isn't (AFAICT) anything descriptive in file(1)'s manpage or /u/s/mi/magic that would explain the discrepancy. Didn't see anything in quick looks through gcc(1) or make(1), either. Weird. It doesn't look like it's done in the magic file. Rather, it's something built in to file itself. Check out around line 400 of 'readelf.c'. This doesn't explain how it gets in to the binaries built, though. Here's some more to think about. I have a simple cpp program I used to test something a while back. Running file on that executable returns: trisha% file floatpoint floatpoint: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.3.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped I just now recompiled with c++ floatpoint.cpp and now: trisha% file a.out a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped And compiled with same commandline on the working machine: alexis% file a.out a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped I looked at my env, but I do not see /any/ compiler related variables set. Is there something up with the compiler itself? My processor? (Athlon64 in i386 mode) Later, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clearly, something has changed in the compiler suite. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: portupgrade stale dependencies
On 10/28/05, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I feel that portmanager does a much better job of updating without the problems that seem to crop up so often using portupgrade. I've always been scared off by the comparatively young age of portmanager. Besides, portupgrade comes with a set of useful tools, like cvsweb browser. But the fat ruby dependency and some other things make me want something else. I'd be glad to see a perl-based ports management system. Maybe I'll write one some day :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPFW - Counter
On 10/28/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is is possible, to make a single rule counter, or, a multiple rule counter (maybe that pies to 1 single counter), so one can track inclomming and outgoing bandwidth? I would like to say: 01 count from any to any via 1.2.3.4 or 01 count 1.2.3.4 To have the same effect as: 01 count from any to 1.2.3.4 in via fxp0 02 count from 1.2.3.4 to and out via fxp0 but somehow I don't think they will work :-) -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can try using pipes for some kind of consolidation (they are not meant for it, of course). You can also use skips like this: skipto 1000 type-a skipto 1000 type-b ... skipto 1500 ip from any to any And have rule number 1001 that counts all the types you have defined. Or you can try telling us precisely what you want, we might come up with some rules. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?
On 10/28/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/05 21:28 Paul Hamilton said the following: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.11 running nicely on a HP DL-140 (80GB Parallel ATA HD), but is anyone running FreeBSD on a HP DL-140 *G2* (80GB SATA HD)? works with the HP ML110 G2 with the ICH7 SATA RAID controller. i've had to patch sys/dev/ata-pci.c to get it to recognize it but it's a short and simple patch. -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, 6.0 handles ICH7 in a much better way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports manager vs. portupgrade
On 10/29/05, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, October 28, 2005 8:33:50 PM, Elliot Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ports manager vs. portupgrade Wrote these words of wisdom: pros and cons anyone? I've always used portupgrade and it works pretty well, but I'm curious as to how ports manager compares. Elliot * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: This is only my own opinion, but I find it does a better, more complete job, without the hassle of creating Indexes, etc. Portmanager does not use the indexes that portupgrade does, and therefore is not hampered by them if they become corrupt, etc. -- A: Because it reverses the natural flow of a dialog. Q: Why is top posting undesirable when replying? TOPIC: Posting Etiquet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Portmanager is based on a very good idea, but it still lacks many features of PU, and at times it is a bit slower. I'm sure, as it matures, it will become a very handy tool, hopefully a lot faster. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade stale dependencies
On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to automate database and index maintenance? cvsup or portsnap, then portsdb -uUF. Work under any circumstances, leave you with updated ports tree and indexes. You can also try portupgrade -aF (prefetches needed files to speed up manual upgrade at a later time) and portsclean -DP (removes sources and packages which become outdated due to ports tree updates). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.4 CD and floppies enter boot loop
On 10/28/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got an older, as of june/july 5.4-release official disk. Whenever i try to boot a box with it the system enters a boot loop, creating floppies also gives me this behavior. This is on a pair of p3 733 mhz systems. I've tried new floppies and downloading the bootonly iso same behavior. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's hard to diagnose a problem if we don't know anythinf except that your machine restarts during boot. Provide additional info about your hardware. Try to watch the screen and spot the moment when the box reboots. Also, you might want to try a 6.0 bootable CD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable
On 10/30/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a box that has died. The data on it is rather important and a reinstall is not feasible. I put the hard drive in a test box, mounted all the partitions of the previous drive under /mnt then did a chroot /mnt and compiled a generic kernel. The processor on this board is different so i felt i had to. The compilation and installation of the chrooted kernel went fine, putting the drive in the new system yields an unbootable drive. I've checked the data and kernel are there. Any ideas why this procedure didn't give me a bootable drive? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any more info, please? What exactly has died? Has any data been lost? Why did you have to recompile the kernel? Did you recompile the world, too? How different are the processors on the dead system, the one you've recompiled on and the new one? You can always run a fresh install without formatting your drives and thus losing only some system configuration files. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?
On 10/30/05, Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much memory and causes the pager to run out of swap space and start shooting down processes to rectify the situation. Sometimes, the process chosen for demolition happens to be `screen.' Since this process sorta manages a whole lot of others and, on being zapped out of existence, leaves many of them running but inaccessible, I find this choice decidedly inconvenient. Is there a way for me to force FreeBSD to leave `screen' (or any other process) alone when selecting something to kill to free memory? Please Cc me any answers. Thanks much. -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.dlee.org SSB + BART Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on to say, `Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?' --Marcus Aurelius ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know how to do that, but by all means you shouldn't allow that to happen. It's not windoze, where everything is meant to be swapped. Read limits(1) manpage to know how to prevent a user from messing with other processes in such an unfriendly way. Last time I ran into a problem alike was upgrading from fedora core 3 to FC4. Yum requested about 4000GB (4 Terabytes) of RAM. The machine became inaccessible (as in showing no signs of life whatsoever) for 5 hours, but in the end something coredumped and I could login :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation failure
On 10/30/05, some one [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install FreeBsd 5.0 on i386 and it hangs in the middle of installation process with a ata0: resetting devices.. I thought it was a graphic card, i put a diff one, same error I changed alot of stuff in the BIOS setup trying to make it work .. nothing All help would be appreciated - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5.0 is unsupported. Please try 5.4 or 6.0RC1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable
On 10/30/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. I've not lost any data yet doing a reinstall would not be possible at this point. It's a matter of time which i don't have a lot of. As i said i've not lost data, on the drive, just the motherboard died, i think it overheated. The board that went was a pentium i think 2 or 3 600 mhz, the new system is a p4 2.4 ghz, both intel not one being amd they're both the same processor make. I thought i could just put the new board in, plug everything in, and go, i got an error that the processor type wasn't supported, What was that error? P4's features are a strict superset to those of P2 or P3. This error might have to do with something completely different like faulty hardware or damaged data. It was unnecessary to chroot, I think. Try the DESTDIR option: cd /usr/src make world DESTDIR=/path/to/mnt cd /usr/src make kernel DESTDIR=/path/to/mnt mergemaster -D /path/to/mnt You'll also need to set the disk active. Try something like fdisk -a /dev/ad1, but I'm not experienced in this wizardry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Buildworld and Security advisories.
On 10/31/05, Grigory O. Ptashko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list. I am new to FreeBSD source upgrading/patching source tree system. After reading the following chapters from the handbook: 14.14 FreeBSD Security Advisories 20 The Cutting Edge (about rebuilding world) I have some questions. 1) If I install a FreeBSD RELEASE on a machine what do I have to do to patch all those bugs listed in FreeBSD Security Advisories? Is it enough to synchronize my source tree with the STABLE branch or do I have to get all patches and apply them manualy? And if I must patch the source tree manualy do I have to do this after synchronizing the source tree with STABLE or before? Or it doesn't matter? In two words what are the relations between patching the bugs listed in Advisories and the process of synchronizing the source tree of the RELEASE with the STABLE? 2) How often should I synchronize sources with the STABLE? Currently I am working with 4.11 RELEASE. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get all security fixes for your OS, you should do _one_ of the following: * patch manually and recompile - as stated in the SA * syncronize to the security branch, i.e. RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_5_4, and rebuild world/kernel * syncronize to the stable branch, i.e. RELENG_4, RELENG_5 or RELENG_6, and rebuild world/kernel * perform a binary upgrade You can use either way each time a SA is published, no matter what way you have used last time. For example you can perform a binary upgrade from RELEASE to 5.4-p1, then patch manually and recompile to 5.4-p2 then sync to stable, then sync to security branch and so on. Sometimes binary and manual upgrades leave uname output old, but they always fix a security hole. Often, users manually patch systems where a reboot is very undesirable, sync to security branch on all mission-critical servers, where a reboot is possible, sync to stable on all other servers and use binary upgrades on systems that are very slow, or limited in other ways. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acd0 Hardware error
On 10/31/05, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Friends. Every time i use my DVD player unit, i get on the kernel messages console, repeated many times, this: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x03 error=0 What is the mean of this line?. With others Operating Systems, in the same machine, i don't have nothing like this... This is the line about the DVD player unit in dmesg: acd0: DVDROM Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0122/E1.22 at ata1-master UDMA66 Any help is very apreciated. Thanks you very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- http://www.lordofunix.org Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories. You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It might be some copy protection and it might be not. Please, read ata(4) and atacontrol(8) manpages to learn how to tweak different options of ata driver. If that doesn't help at all, try compiling a custom kernel with device atapicam (make sure SCSI support is also present). This will give you an alternative interface to your drive. Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade stale dependencies
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to automate database and index maintenance? cvsup or portsnap, then portsdb -uUF. Work under any circumstances, leave you with updated ports tree and indexes. If I were to continue to use portsnap, which arguments can I safely add to /etc/crontab? I know portsnap cron should be safe, but if I want to completely automate the update process (not for installing packages, but for keeping the ports tree, database, and indexes current), should I also add an entry for portsnap update and portsdb -uUF? You can also try portupgrade -aF (prefetches needed files to speed up manual upgrade at a later time) and portsclean -DP (removes sources and packages which become outdated due to ports tree updates). Would you also recommend cron entries for these two commands? I used to use a cron job to run cvsup, and I'd like to implement a better, more complete automated solution, so I don't tangle up my system's packages and dependencies again. I think the best way is to create a shell script, like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portsnap cron \ /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update \ /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -uUF \ /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aF \ /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -DP and run it at an hour, when you're most unlikely to perform any kind of port upgrading. As portsnap manpage warns, if both portsnap (in the process of update) and portupgrade ever happen to access the same directory at once, it might ruin your ports tree. You'll have to do portsnap extract after that. You can leave out portsclean and run it manually, because it can create some load (which is not desirable on a production server). I run this script daily at 8-9 in the morning (I usually start messing with servers after 11). It never failed, and it always keeps everything up-to-date. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade stale dependencies
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to automate database and index maintenance? cvsup or portsnap, then portsdb -uUF. Work under any circumstances, leave you with updated ports tree and indexes. If I were to continue to use portsnap, which arguments can I safely add to /etc/crontab? I know portsnap cron should be safe, but if I want to completely automate the update process (not for installing packages, but for keeping the ports tree, database, and indexes current), should I also add an entry for portsnap update and portsdb -uUF? You can also try portupgrade -aF (prefetches needed files to speed up manual upgrade at a later time) and portsclean -DP (removes sources and packages which become outdated due to ports tree updates). Would you also recommend cron entries for these two commands? I used to use a cron job to run cvsup, and I'd like to implement a better, more complete automated solution, so I don't tangle up my system's packages and dependencies again. I think the best way is to create a shell script, like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portsnap cron \ /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update \ /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -uUF \ /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aF \ /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -DP Perfect... I had everything but the conditionals... thanks! and run it at an hour, when you're most unlikely to perform any kind of port upgrading. As portsnap manpage warns, if both portsnap (in the process of update) and portupgrade ever happen to access the same directory at once, it might ruin your ports tree. You'll have to do portsnap extract after that. You can leave out portsclean and run it manually, because it can create some load (which is not desirable on a production server). I run this script daily at 8-9 in the morning (I usually start messing with servers after 11). It never failed, and it always keeps everything up-to-date. My server is not production, as it's just my personal web/database server; I'm the only one who would be running any updates. So I should be okay with this procedure, and I'll manually update any ports of note. Just one problem I saw thus far, with portsclean I think... Cleaning out /usr/ports/packages... cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/packages/All find: /usr/ports/packages: No such file or directory Would this be related to one of the advanced topics you mentioned earlier about pkgtools.conf? ;) Do I need to define some variables? I would guess the directory error to have been caused by a combination of the variables PORTSDIR (which looks okay at /usr/ports) and PACKAGES (which seems to need a /packages dir beneath PORTSDIR ?). Thanks, ~John No, it's not advanced at all :-) You just don't have the directory. Create it, if you want to. When you run make package or portupgrade -p something, a package is created in your current directory, unless /usr/ports/packages exists. If it does, the package is created there, and some hierarchy is kept, too. So it's convenient to have that dir, if you ever use packages. Of course, /usr/ports/packages is just the default. You can change PACKAGES to whatever you like. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make.conf - question
On 10/31/05, Vladimir Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, where can I found ALL parameters suited for /etc/make.conf ? For example, I wanted install some software from ports without X11, but man 5 make.conf doesn`t include WITHOUT_X11 option. Fortunatelly I found this page http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5topic=make.conf and included some necessary parameters into my make.conf. Ok, I found this --- man make.conf --- The purpose of make.conf is not to run commands or perform compilation actions directly. Instead, it is included by the various makefiles in /usr/src, /usr/ports and /usr/doc which conditionalize their internal actions according to the settings found there. --- cut --- in man page, but im not sure where exactly should I look ? (OS: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE ) Thank you, Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can only find *most* of parameters by reading system mk files carefully. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File system check fails on boot
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY. Automatic file system check failed; help! Oct. 30 20:14:53 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode When I run fsck, I get the folllowing : ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY CLEAR? [yn] ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames DUP/BAD I=2900154 OWNER=root MODE=100644 SIZE=93 MTIME=Mar 25 04:13 2004 FILE=/usr/ports/net/ldapbrowser/distinfo UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY REMOVE? [yn] ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts LINK COUNT DIR I=2 OWNER=root MODE=40755 SIZE=512 MTIME=Oct 30 17:20 2005 COUNT 21 SHOULD BE 20 ADJUST? [yn] UNREF FILE I=471058 OWNER=root MODE=100644 SIZE=72 MTIME=Oct 30 19:03 2005 RECONNECT? [yn] CLEAR? [yn] I then get similar messages for a dozen files, then : ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD SALVAGE? [yn] BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS SALVAGE? [yn] FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK SALVAGE? [yn] And so on... Should I just answer yes to all questions and hope for the best, or is there a better way of saving the day ? Needless to say, my whole system is on /dev/ad0s3a. Also, what could have caused the problem ? I recently updated my kernel to include HFS support. Could it be linked ? Thanks all, Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have no idea, what's happened and what's damaged, I'm afraid, you'll have to run fsck -y (or place fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf to always dangerously agree to everything) - and hope for the best. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?
On 10/31/05, George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy if some screenshots could be added to the freebsd.org/ports database] I'm making install the port to check it out. Some times , I decided that I don't like it . So my first though is to get rid of it , cause I don't want ''trash'' on my system. I'm making deinstall [or pkg_delete] to remove it. Everything ok so far , but what about the one zillion dependant pkg's the app made? You can say , do a pkg_delete -r . Yes but this will may delete also pkgs that are Needed by other ports/apps.. Is there any good plan solution for this ?... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just take it easy :-) Most ports try to behave, so unless you're very short of disk space, just let them be there. Once in a while, you can install a tool that deals with leafs (there are a few in ports collection). Leafs are ports that are not needed by anything, so you can safely delete them. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Teamspeak Server
On 10/31/05, Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently tried running the Teamspeak linux server on a 4.7ish something box with linux compat installed but all I got was daemon failed to start or a message similar to that with no reason or errors.. Has anyone had any success running the linux binary on FreeBSD? Would upgrading perhaps help? There is no source for it that I'm aware of, so kinda relying on the compat stuff.. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The port is marked broken. Try running it on a newer FreeBSD version, like 4.11, 5.4 or 6.0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAP R/3 ISO images
On 10/31/05, Vishal Ballabh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have seen the document regarding installation of SAP R/3 on FreeBSD. I am interested in installaing a stand alone system for learning purporse. I am unable to find the SAP ISO images that you have mentioned in the document. It would be great if you can guide me to a location where I can find it. Thanks, Vishal - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! To get SAP you must contact their sales office: http://www.sap.com/contactsap/directory/index.epx I think the nearest one to you is in New Delhi: SAP India Pvt. Ltd. - New Delhi Hotel Crowne Plaza Surya Business Center O level, Office Floor New Friends Colony New Delhi -110 065 India Phone: +91/11/516-57700 Fax: +91/11/516-28919 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade stale dependencies
On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to automate database and index maintenance? cvsup or portsnap, then portsdb -uUF. Work under any circumstances, leave you with updated ports tree and indexes. If I were to continue to use portsnap, which arguments can I safely add to /etc/crontab? I know portsnap cron should be safe, but if I want to completely automate the update process (not for installing packages, but for keeping the ports tree, database, and indexes current), should I also add an entry for portsnap update and portsdb -uUF? You can also try portupgrade -aF (prefetches needed files to speed up manual upgrade at a later time) and portsclean -DP (removes sources and packages which become outdated due to ports tree updates). Would you also recommend cron entries for these two commands? I used to use a cron job to run cvsup, and I'd like to implement a better, more complete automated solution, so I don't tangle up my system's packages and dependencies again. I think the best way is to create a shell script, like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portsnap cron \ /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update \ /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -uUF \ /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aF \ /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -DP Perfect... I had everything but the conditionals... thanks! and run it at an hour, when you're most unlikely to perform any kind of port upgrading. As portsnap manpage warns, if both portsnap (in the process of update) and portupgrade ever happen to access the same directory at once, it might ruin your ports tree. You'll have to do portsnap extract after that. You can leave out portsclean and run it manually, because it can create some load (which is not desirable on a production server). I run this script daily at 8-9 in the morning (I usually start messing with servers after 11). It never failed, and it always keeps everything up-to-date. My server is not production, as it's just my personal web/database server; I'm the only one who would be running any updates. So I should be okay with this procedure, and I'll manually update any ports of note. Just one problem I saw thus far, with portsclean I think... Cleaning out /usr/ports/packages... cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/packages/All find: /usr/ports/packages: No such file or directory Would this be related to one of the advanced topics you mentioned earlier about pkgtools.conf? ;) Do I need to define some variables? I would guess the directory error to have been caused by a combination of the variables PORTSDIR (which looks okay at /usr/ports) and PACKAGES (which seems to need a /packages dir beneath PORTSDIR ?). Thanks, ~John No, it's not advanced at all :-) You just don't have the directory. Create it, if you want to. When you run make package or portupgrade -p something, a package is created in your current directory, unless /usr/ports/packages exists. If it does, the package is created there, and some hierarchy is kept, too. So it's convenient to have that dir, if you ever use packages. Of course, /usr/ports/packages is just the default. You can change PACKAGES to whatever you like. Thanks Andrew. You're right: that's not advanced, even for me! If that dir needs to have a specific set of permissions, please let me know; otherwise, I think I'm all set, aside from asking where I might read more about the ports/packages system that what's in the handbook and man pages. Thanks again for your help. ~John The default (755) permissions should be ok. The ultimate (more or less) ports/packages documentation consists of: ports(7) make(1) pkg_add(1) pkg_create(1) pkg_delete(1) pkg_info(1) pkg_version(1) /usr/ports/Mk/* The Porter's Handbook The FreeBSD Handbook (Packages and Ports) pib(1), portaudit(1), portcheckout(1), portlint(1) portupgrade(1), etc - depending on what tools you have installed. ports@ mailing list archives and various makefiles throughout the system are also valuable sources of documentation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL
Re: Covert m4p to mp3 (in FreeBSD ?)
On 10/31/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Family, Does anyone know how to convert a .m4p file to a .mp3 file? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try running hymn on FreeBSD. http://www.hymn-project.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Login Max Chr?
On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight characters. It would also work well for email addresses on the server. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought it was 16 characters: sat64# cat /etc/passwd | grep 123 1234567890123456:*:1005:1005:123:/home/1234567890123456:/bin/sh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Login Max Chr?
On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. wrote: On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more characters? The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. However some last names are longer than eight characters. It would also work well for email addresses on the server. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought it was 16 characters: sat64# cat /etc/passwd | grep 123 1234567890123456:*:1005:1005:123:/home/1234567890123456:/bin/sh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there any problems with using 16 characters with any applications or do the applications don't care the login name length for example That depends solely on the applications. Most newer ones will not show any problems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC_by_default
On 01 Nov 2005 07:16:06 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Максим Голунов [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello my friends.I want to SORRY from my English. I'm from Russian. I happy that I'm using FreeBSD. And I've got some questions. I know where is setupping MAC-policy by default. This is /etc/mac.conf (I need mls and biba policy). But I don't know where setup security-level for MAC-policy by default. Do you mean setting kern_securelevel in rc.conf(5)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I think he means security levels of particular MAC-policies (high/medium/low). That's a pretty advanced topic, I couldn't find a solution within 10 minutes of googling. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WiFi Nintendo-DS and FreeBSD
On 11/1/05, Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In november my DS goes WiFi (in Holland). Naturaly I want to play games that support this feature. (MarioKart-DS i.e.) at home ;-) The FreeBSD related question is: My main server runs 4.11-stable, some other machines run 5.4 What do I have to do to give this DS wireless access to the net? What is the best approach? Only my main server is 24/7 connected (without a hardware router;-) Do I put a wireless card in this machine? Is this possible or do I have to upgrade FreeBSD to 6.0 to have WiFi? It's all new to me (this wireless stuff). All my machines are wired. So I can use some tips, reading points or suggestions from you. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6.0 brings some major improvements in wireless functionality, so you should really give it a thought. AFAIK from /. TCP/IP is still to be implemented. When/if it is, you should be able to put a WiFi card into your FreeBSD box and set everything up. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd 5.4 smp on amd64
On 11/1/05, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I compiled my kernel using options SMP it seems to work, I now see 4 cpus on my server (2 xeon with HTT) so It seems fine. Following the documentation I tried to use either device apic or options APIC_IO both are refused by /usr/sbin/config are they mandatory or does the documentation needs updating ? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] apic is an integral part of amd64 architecture, so there's no option for it. We're proud that the docs are always in need of updating - it shows how prolific the developers really are. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cloning machines with 5.4-REL
On 11/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've setup one notebook with 5.4-REL and used the ports collection to pick up what I wanted (KDE and all other stuff); this took some time, of course but run without big trouble; now I want to setup a second notebook with the same installation and my idea is: - just install the base system on the 2nd notebook, - NFS-mount the /usr/ports from the 1st - remove all the files /usr/ports/.../work/.install_done - and just say make install on the new toy Comments? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g / D-82041 Oberhaching Fon: ++49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile ++49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can safely omit the third step (removing those files). Just run make install - and you're done. A neater way would be to install portupgrade on both machines, create /usr/ports/packages dir on the first one, run something like portupgrade -wWpaf, NFS mount /usr/ports on the 2nd one and use portupgrade -P whatever. [Basically, it will create packages on the 1st machine and then install ports from packages on the 2nd one]. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wrkdirprefix default?
On 10/30/05, Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
Sometime back, I posted a message mentioning that I planned on
installing OpenOffice once it reached 2.0 status on my FreeBSD
machine using a nonstandard wrkdirprefix path (original email is
shown via the below link).
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=184696+187981+/usr/local/
www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050918.freebsd-questions
One reply was that I can use
env WRKDIRPREFIX=/myotherlocation make install
This is fine for installing it, but I was wondering was there a good
way of modifying WRKDIRPREFIX to always point to this location only
for OpenOffice.org, that way I can use portupgrade in the future and
not have to worry about it? I am assuming the best way of dealing
with this is with the file /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. assume that
I could put it inside of the MAKE_ARGS section. What is the most
optimal way of modifying this file for what I have mentioned above? I
have read the pkgtools.conf and ports manpages (and am still slightly
confused) and am running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE.
If the only way to do this is by modifying the variable on the whole
so everything is built elsewhere, I suppose that is alright as well.
If this is the only way, what is the preferred way of handling this?
Thank you all for your assistance.
-Anthony
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Yes, pkgtools.conf is one of the best ways to do this,
MAKE_ARGS = {
'openoffice*' = 'WRKDIRPREFIX=/mydir',
}
You can also read make manpage and test
.CURDIR in /etc/make.conf, but that's not so neat.
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Re: Removing kernel options and devices in today's world
On 10/29/05, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been using FreeBSD since 2.1.5 and have dutifully tweaked my kernels to include devices I need, and remove unwanted things. This made a big difference on 486's with 16MB of memory. Over the years I've developed a procedure for keeping track of changes in GENERIC and reducing the amount of time it takes to build a custom kernel for a given box. Fast-forward to 2005, PCI, SMP, gigabytes of RAM, kernel loadable modules and FreeBSD 6.x. As I begin preparing some boxes for updating to 6, I'm wondering if it's really worth the effort to tweak a kernel? And by this I mean removing devices and options. It's trivial to have an include for the devices/options I need to add to every kernel. But the list of things to take out keeps getting bigger and bigger and the chance for errors in editing increase. I'm thinking of just running GENERIC with necessary additions. Most of my boxes are workstations or department-sized servers supporting basic web, email, and file/print services. Architecture is all 32-bit Intel ranging from modest PIII to 4-way Xeon P4. I can come up with several arguments for both cases (running GENERIC vs. trimming all unneeded fat from a kernel). Has anyone else wrestled with this issue and come up with interesting conclusions? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I leave almost everything on my desktop machines, but who needs usb, firewire and wifi on a production DB server? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: M audio 24/96 driver
On 11/2/05, Makisupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone successfully got a Maudio Delta 24/96 soundcard working in 6.0 or 5.4 for that matter? If so, what sound driver or kernel parameters where used? Help is much appreciated...i think this is the only thing holding me back from moving my workstation to FreeBSD (currently running linux). Google only yields people asking the same questions. THanks, Mak ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drivers from www.opensound.com support some M Audio cards, you should give it a try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Script help for updating routine
On 11/2/05, Denny White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a script, pasted in below, which does various things on a daily basis, like cvsup src, docs, ports, portsdb, portversion, portupgrade, so on. I finally figured out how to do the if/then/else thing with the portversion-portupgrade part of the script, but I can't figure out what to do to bypass the docs install part if there are no new docs. Thanks for any help I can get on it. Script follows: #!/bin/sh # echo Cvsup latest src and doc cvsup -g -L 2 /root/srcdoc-supfile # # THIS THE PART IN QUESTION, THAT DOES # DOES THE DOCS. CUSTOM MAKEFILE IS FOR # ENGLISH ONLY. #G #send copious output to the bit bucket echo Updating docs echo cd /usr/doc cp Makefile.custom Makefile make install #make install /dev/null # cd /root echo Portsnap fetching and updating ports echo portsnap fetch portsnap update # echo Updating INDEX in /usr/ports echo cd /usr/ports #make fetchindex portsdb -uUF # echo Portaudit checking for vulnerabilities in installed ports echo Results in file /root/vulnerable echo portaudit -Fda /root/vulnerable # echo Portversion checking if any ports need upgrading echo Results in file /root/need2upgrade echo portversion -l /root/need2upgrade if grep '' /root/need2upgrade; then echo Portupgrade upgrading out-of-date ports portupgrade -arR; else echo Ports already up to date 12 exit 1 fi echo Finished at `/bin/date`. exit GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDaQ7Ny0Ty5RZE55oRAjYhAKCyDOKGhu86oAVu6Ml2ANf2Rt3vXwCfcs52 2V388qkRXw8Kiun8iR7rbiY= =Wscs -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. You can limit docs to custom languages in make.conf, that's a better way 2. You can affor to copy extra 60Mb once a day, can't you? 3. You can grep cvsup output against something like doc/ 4. Never run portsnap fetch from cron, even if you chose a very odd time, use portsnap cron 5. etc :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
On 11/3/05, Aggelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] con is the name of a device in windoze. Is this really funny? There are lots of other legacy names, like prn, lpt, etc... Let's laugh at each and every one of them. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC
On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation process. With the 'whereis wine' command, I get: /usr/ports/emulators/wine Then when I type pkg_add wine, I get 'can't stat package file wine' Could someone tell me what I could be doing wrong? Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wine does not run on anything but x86 yet. Sorry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL port not d/loading
On 11/2/05, tim cle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to install MySQL via ports but its not d/loading. I know my system should do this, because I just finished installing apache via ports, and it d/loaded fine. So, is anyone having problems d/loading the MySQL port(s) - i tried 4.0 and 4.1 and 5.0 - none of them transfer successfully. Or is my system just annoying me for fun (j/k) Regards, Tim. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] = mysql-4.1.15.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.easynet.be/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/. mysql-4.1.15.tar.gz 100% of 16 MB 770 kBps 00m00s 4.0 and 5.0 are also fetchable right now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OPen Office 2.0 via packages
On 11/4/05, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! For the sake of a continuing happy marriage ! I really need to install OPenOffice 2 on a machine at home - soon to be running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) :-) I can't build the port because the hard drive is too small - just enough spare space for the compiling. Is it possible to do this via packages? Can anyone give me pointers as to what packages I need, what bits of Java are necessary for a pre-compiled package? Is it possible to do this via packages at all? Thanks in advance atb Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.0/ Just try to pkg_add it. OO doesn't require Java to run, only to build. There are some run-dependencies, you can see them here: http://www.freshports.org/editors/openoffice.org-2.0/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL port not d/loading
On 11/4/05, tim cle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, I have successfully installed MySQL - but the mirror system still doesnt seem right - it went through all the mirrors, and wouldn't d/l from them - then it finally worked from the main bsd ftp site - I've put the output underneath - note this is what I got when I did another test run after already d/l it - it has been like this for at least a day now. Regards, Tim. Note that it does finally succeed from the last site (main ftp for bsd) so the fetch/ftp is working ok - just not with the other sites. It seems to be a purely networking issue. I haven't heard of any major outages in Australia lately, but with US Tier-1 ISP's fighting and all - it kinda doesn't come as a surprise. Start with ensuring that your Internet connection is OK, then try accessing the sites that failed - and if they fail again, call your ISP support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port status
On 11/4/05, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Im wondering if there is a status page that show work on ports/pkg's? Much like freshports, but for instance if I wanted to see the current work on kde 3.4.3 for example - would there be a place where I could get such info? The ports system is really great too! Thanks Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://freebsd.kde.org/ Most ports require only a few hours of work, so there's no dedicated pages of course. Big ports like KDE have pages accessible via google (freebsd portname). http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/ can also be of interest. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fast diff command for large files?
On 11/4/05, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 10:22, Chuck Swiger wrote: Multigigabyte? Find another approach to solving the problem, a text-base diff is going to require excessive resources and time. A 64-bit platform with 2 GB of RAM 3GB of swap requires ~1000 seconds to diff ~400MB. There really aren't many options. For the patient, here's what's happening: Our legacy application runs on FoxPro. Our web application runs on a PostgreSQL database that's a mirror of the FoxPro tables. We do the mirroring by running a program that dumps the FoxPro tables out as tab-delimited files. Thus far, we'd been using PostgreSQL's copy from command to read those files into the database. In reality, though, a very, very small percentage of rows in those tables actually change. So, I wrote a program that takes the output of diff and converts it into a series of delete and insert commands; benchmarking shows that this is roughly 300 times faster in our use. And that's why I need a fast diff. Even if it takes as long as the database bulk loads, we can run it on another server and use 20 seconds of CPU for PostgreSQL instead of 45 minutes. The practical upshot is that the database will never get sluggish, even if the other diff server is loaded to the gills. -- Kirk Strauser Does the overall order of lines change every time you dump the tables? If not, is there any inexpensive way to sort them (not alphabetically, but just that the order stays the same)? If it does/can, then there's a trivial solution (a few lines in perl, or a hundred lines in C) that'll make the speed roughly similar to that of I/O. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.11 release-p13. Just to be sure.
On 11/5/05, Grigory O. Ptashko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list. I've just now cvsup'd my 4.11-RELEASE source tree with the tag RELENG_4_11. From 4.11 RELEASE it became 4.11 RELEASE-p13. Just to be sure - do I have to apply any other security patches that are announced in freebsd security advisories? I'm not considering third-party patches, only the official from the freebsd team. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The latest SA (linked from the FreeBSD home page, http://www.freebsd.org/) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl.asc lists 4.11-p13 in Corrected. So, you can be sure. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ULE or 4BSD
On 11/5/05, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi anybody All is in the subject...on FreeBSD 6.0 i've see the default generic kernel is compiled with SCHED_4BSD and SCHED_ULE is in comment. Can'I use SCHED_ULE on 6.0 ? Is he stable now ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Sat Nov 5 10:05:36 CET 2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not yet, no, sorry. It's pretty stable now that 6.0 is out, but you'll have to conduct extensive testing (yourself) before you put it in production, where it might give you a noticable performance boost. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
