Re: FreeBSD 9.1 fails to boot from CD on Notebook
Hi On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:56:12 +0200 Martin Siebel msie...@gmx.de wrote: Any ideas about BIOS settings I may change? find out how how the CD drive is connected and then play with the settings fir this interface Erich I burnt the CD twice by the way, with different burning software, to avoid damaged or incomplete disc. Thanks in advance! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: routing issues to freebsd.org
Hi, On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:01:09 -0400 staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: On doing some updates this morning, am seeing a routing issue beyond bgp1-ext.ysv.freebsd.org... Updating Index fetch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-9.bz2: No route to host www.freebsd.org.513 IN CNAME wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org. wfe0.ysv.freebsd.org. 1690IN A 8.8.178.110 Perhaps an issue on your end (probably on the reverse route)? it was the same story in Indonesia. Erich Traces look fine from multiple networks: http://sprunge.us/JFeS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: swap partition leads to instability?
Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) M. V. bored_to_deat...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a long time now. But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap partition for my server, and having swap partition could make my server unstable. this was so strange for me, and I searched a lot but couldn't find a reason for this claim. because it is a false claim. I never ever have had any system with working hard, that gave a problem because of the swap space. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: swap partition leads to instability?
Hi, sorry for my English. Here is what I wanted to say. On Sun, 26 May 2013 16:09:06 +0700 Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) M. V. bored_to_deat...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a long time now. But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap partition for my server, and having swap partition could make my server unstable. this was so strange for me, and I searched a lot but couldn't find a reason for this claim. because it is a false claim. I never ever have had any system with working hard, that gave a problem because of the swap space. I never ever have had any system which was working hard that gave problems because of the swaps space. Erich Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo
Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600 Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Step1: Make a new user:: root@localhost# pw useradd foo -m -s /bin/tcsh -h 0 password for user foo: (secret) Step 2: Does sendmail know them:: root@modunix# sendmail -bv foo@localhost foo@localhost... deliverable: mailer local, user foo # Good... Step 3: Make a new user with uppercase 'B':: root@localhost# pw useradd Bar -m -s /bin/tcsh -h 0 password for user Bar: (secret) Step 4: Does sendmail know them:: root@modunix# sendmail -bv Bar@localhost Bar@localhost... User unknown Curious, why? I know usernames are case-sensitive, I thought emails were too. Without fighting an epic battle with with the sendmail configs, is there a simple way to make this work? The obvious answer is probably, usernames should be lowercase! and for new users I'll enforce that policy. For existing users however, who may already have lots of case-sensitive usernames in various config files, etc this isn't a real option. By just altering their usernames I'm afraid I'd break the whole damn universe. How can I enable mail for them? have you read this? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/sendmail-unable-to-find-users-22290/ Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HP 2570p installation
Hi, it might be a good idea to tell us from where you booted. The internal disk, an USB stick, a USB drive ... And of course, what was on that media. Erich On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:37 +0200 (CEST) Ludovit Koren ludovit.ko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I bought HP Elitebook 2570p(B6Q08EA). I checked everything, if it is compatible, before I bought it. Unfortunately, I cannot install 9.1 RELEASE, nor 10.0 CURRENT. I get the following: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS 631kB/523264kB available memory FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (r...@snap.freebsd.org, Mon May 13 00:38:05 UTC 2013) | and the system beeps and freezes. I added hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to the file /boot/loader.conf with no effect. Please, could you point me how to find out what causes the problem - even the way of debugging? Thank you very much. regards, lk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: List Spam Filtering
Hi, On Thu, 16 May 2013 23:05:33 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. There have been some discussions about this in the past. freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid people who may be unfamiliar with mailing lists being put off posting to it. we running in a circle here. I noticed that on other FreeBSD lists, a moderator enables later mails which are sent from an unregistered address. Why can't this be done here? Get a group of volunteers in different time zones to handle this and off we go. Of course, I could be one of them in the Eastern World. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: List Spam Filtering
Hi, On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: some lists are like this anyway. Why are not all like this? I notice that my postings get delayed and obviously check when I use by accident my real e-mail address. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Witness on FreeBSD 10.*
Hi, On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:43:51 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, Is there a way of turning off the witness feature on the FreeBSD Current 10.* I want to use a stripped down version as a test firewall with pf. you must take this out of your kernel configuration: options WITNESS # Enable checks to detect deadlocks and cycles options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN# Don't run witness on spinlocks for speed Ok, the formatting is different in the configuration file. Erich Thanks for any help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SMP boot differences between 8.4 and 9.1?
Hi, On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:29:04 -0700 Dennis Glatting free...@pki2.com wrote: I have two four socket Opteron 6200 motherboards with populated 16-core Opteron 6200 series processors. Onw is Tyan (below) and the other Supermicro. nice machines. When booted under 8.4 only two sockets are recognized but four under 9.1. Is this expected behavior? they are recognised but disabled. Is this the generic kernel? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading from 7.4 to 9.1
Hi, On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:32:53 +0200 b...@todoo.biz b...@todoo.biz wrote: Hi, I wanted to know if you would consider updating from 7.4 to 9.1 directly ? you might will face the same problem I face when trying to upgrade 7.x to 8.x on old hardware. The USB controller was not supported anymore. I have had to keep the machine on 7 until it got hit by a lightning. Has anyone tried that with success ? I plan to use the freebsd-update method. I never did this. I always use custom kernels. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RSync exclusion
Hi, On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:30:45 +0200 Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net wrote: I have a local folder called /files/ In my daily backup event I create as per day a backkup folder that contains this /files folder including all its sub folders --- cut --- rsync -avrz -e ssh /files/ backupr@x.x.x.x:/vol1/FreeBSD/$DATE/ In this /files folder, amongst others, I have another folder called photos: /files/photos What I now would like to do is sync the /files folder with an exclusion on the /files/photos folder I use the following option: --exclude '/data/Mail/*' /data/Mail is rooted in the directory I want to copy. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Availability of downloads
Hi, On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:20:41 -0400 Lynn Steven Killingsworth quiet.rainbows@gmail.com wrote: Hi FreeBSD - Since PCBSD takes care of all these details this is not actually a complaint. When I was using FreeBSD the only server I could get packages from was in Japan which did so every time although the packages seemed rarely changed. I discovered the FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT a few days past and since I have 2 machines I thought it would be interesting. I pointed the ports repository to the ports file in the 10.0-CURRENT but when I try to fetch there are always missing packages which causes the machine not to download any packages at all. If I just had gotten the Xorg metapackage and KDE metapackage. The kicker of course is that I told several ladies what to do and they are still downloading after an hour. ;~) could it be that you fell victim to the switch from CVS to SVN? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gpart
Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:06:24 -0500 Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/31/2013 8:54 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: I have had only one problem with this description. I could not boot from a GPT setup on my machine done as described there. But I have a disk done with PCBSD based on 9.0 which booted well. I cannot tell you if this is a problem caused by a later chance on the side of FreeBSD. Did you make sure to install the gpt bootloader instead of the standard bootloader? I believe I have the gptzfsboot, so I have no UFS partitions and everything's partitioned with GPT. There's no guarantee it will fix it, bios quirks happens. it is a real weird thing. As I installed a PCBSD on that disk originally, I have had a running system. It stopped working after some FreeBSD update. As this is an external disk, I do not boot often from it. I use it mainly for backup purpose. I stopped working on this problem for some time but I will have to go back soon after other work is finished. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gpart
Hi, On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 09:20:21 -0400 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: I am currently running 8.0 and am in need of many of the ports to be upgraded, and have never had much luck doing the upgrade thing with the base system and ports, preferring instead to completely rebuild in restore user data. I do upgrades via portupgrade since 6.x days. Can I assume that the versions of the ports shown on the freebsd.orgéports site will be available in 8.3 and 9.1é Ports do not use a version. So, what ever FreeBSD version you have does not matter. If you updated your ports tree, you will always get the current port version. erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: use of the kernel and licensing
Hi, On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:26:15 -0400 Joe fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: snip How do you explain all the forks of UNIX each claiming their own copyright. They all provide the same concept, use the same names for their commands, use the same programming language, have a filesystem as their base. Just where is the line drawn between a fork and a rewrite? just go back in history and find out why the ATT code in BSD was rewritten. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gpart
Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:28:40 -0400 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: I am in the midst of setting up the framework for new servers using FreeBSD 9.1. I used the bsdinstall and Manual`` option when setting up the disk geometry using GPT - graphical setup. The idea will be to eventually dump the 4 file systems, (/, /usr /var and /home) and restore them on other servers when the time comes. using a separated home is a very good idea. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html I have had only one problem with this description. I could not boot from a GPT setup on my machine done as described there. But I have a disk done with PCBSD based on 9.0 which booted well. I cannot tell you if this is a problem caused by a later chance on the side of FreeBSD. Which worked well. But as yet I do not have dumps to test with. If all worked well for you, I do not see any problems coming for you then. I was wondering in anyone sees any issues creating the drive geometry using this method, with the intent of restoring dumped filesystems to to, including the root filesystem. I have some drives which partitioning I did according to this. The only problem I have is booting. The rest is all working perfectly. I am yet to use 9.1 to do so, so any tips would be appreciated. If you want this for serious servers, you might even consider 8.3, if your hardware is supported. Nothing beats the robustness of the older FreeBSD versions. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: EOL
Hi, On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:19:02 -0600 David Thurber dav...@thurber.org wrote: I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. if you do not count the service packs and updates, your XP installation is EOL since 2001. If you count service packs and patches, FreeBSD has no defined EOL. All you have to do, is to introduce an update and patch strategy and do it at predefined times. What I got from your website appears to be a year or two at most on freebsd 8.3, and we really don't want to repeat the travails of the transition from 98SE to XP/3 after this one because the research team will be mostly mid 80's early 90s by then. It's a lot of data fetched over the web so we need security updates to keep the OS secure with minimal interaction. If you would like to stick with x86, I would say that FreeBSD has the smoothest update and upgrade path. If you want something better, you would have to move to AIX or Solaris. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts
Hi, On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09:29 +0100 Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. To answer the inevitable followup why would anyone need such a long line in /etc/hosts: With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: 127.0.0.1localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... My version of that line has gotten rather long :) AFAIK you can have multiple lines. yes, I have hundreds or even thousands of lines and never ran into any problems. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: can not use intel GPU, no /dev/dri/card0
Hi, On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:14:28 + uki uka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm getting the folowing error when I try to start X using intel drivers: [ 8669.844] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 8669.844] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 8669.844] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri! 2: No such file or directory [ 8669.844] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2: No such file or directory [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) [ 8669.844] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2: No such file or directory [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: Open failed I assume I overlooked something while configuring the system (I dual boot stable and release, this is on stable, release works fine). Please help. my make.conf has: WITH_NEW_XORG=YES WITH_KMS=YES my kernconf: device agp device dpms options X86BIOS device drm device i915drm device radeondrm you should not need the last line. Delete it and see what happens. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: can not use intel GPU, no /dev/dri/card0
Hi, On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:48 + uki uka...@gmail.com wrote: That was not it (tried), the reason was my kernconf was wrong (didn't yet figure out the details), because the GENERIC works flawlessly. I have an i7 and use no drm in the kernel. Just load the modules when you need them. Erich Cheers, Łukasz Gruner 2013/3/24 Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com: Hi, On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:14:28 + uki uka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm getting the folowing error when I try to start X using intel drivers: [ 8669.844] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 8669.844] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 8669.844] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri! 2: No such file or directory [ 8669.844] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2: No such file or directory [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) [ 8669.844] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2: No such file or directory [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory) [ 8669.844] drmOpenDevice: Open failed I assume I overlooked something while configuring the system (I dual boot stable and release, this is on stable, release works fine). Please help. my make.conf has: WITH_NEW_XORG=YES WITH_KMS=YES my kernconf: device agp device dpms options X86BIOS device drm device i915drm device radeondrm you should not need the last line. Delete it and see what happens. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive
Hi, On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several good morning, people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the this is good to hear. boot loader. The handbook says to run this command, boot0cfg -B ad0. When I run this command, I get the following error message: Unable to get providername for ad0. What is a provider name? How do I determine the provider name for ad0? How do I communicate that information to boot0cfg? I know that this problem has something to do with the geom command, but the man geom goes on for many pages. While I think the answer may be in there somewhere, I could not find it. Any and all comments will be appreciated. Sincerely, Newby Lee ad0? This sounds like that it would overwrite the loader from your Windows installation. Did you read man gpart? gpart should be able to show you the current layout of the disk. It is also able to install the boot code you need. If I remember, you want to have Windows and FreeBSD on the same disk. So, you should have some kind of boot manager which will give you the choice between them. Of course, you can use whatever boot manager you want. The one which comes with FreeBSD is a bit simple but does its job. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR
Hi, On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an error message. I wanted one for / and one for swap. How do I create the two slices? I would recommend gpart. You can find out more here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsd lost partition recovery
Hi, On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: *here's the question:* how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?! restore it from a backup? *and here's what has happened to me:* i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main HD attached to may system as well.. all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main HD's bsd partition instead!!! If you want to read the data from that partition it will depend very much on how far the Windows installation really went. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsd lost partition recovery
Hi, On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:50:57 +0330 takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your reply.. you are welcome. On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: *here's the question:* how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?! restore it from a backup? no, from the formatted hard drive.. if only i had a backup.. You did it the hard way. *and here's what has happened to me:* i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main HD attached to may system as well.. all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main HD's bsd partition instead!!! If you want to read the data from that partition it will depend very much on how far the Windows installation really went. i just deleted the partition and then found out what i just did, then i stopped the installation process and start looking ways for recovery.. till now, somewhere in the web i saw that R-Studio supports ufs recovery but it's a windows application.. i'm preparing a system for checking it right now.. Just try it. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot resolve localhost
Hi, On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:35:12 +0100 Martin Pola martin.p...@kottnet.net wrote: I'm trying to get my FreeBSD system to resolve localhost into 127.0.0.1, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It appears the resolver is never reading from /etc/hosts, where I have this line: 127.0.0.1 localhost Here's a sample output of what I get when I try to resolve the name: $ nslookup localhost ;; Got recursion not available from 91.90.24.250, trying next server Server: 8.8.8.8 Address:8.8.8.8#53 you have a problem but I do not know which one. ** server can't find localhost: NXDOMAIN What am I missing? nslookup queries a name server. It does not check your /etc/hosts. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world build from ports?
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribió: In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. I find it very interesting. This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. A lot of files and directories in the systems This is what I am doubting. Shouldn't an installation of the world solve this problem? Or are the current owners of a directory ignored when the world is reinstalled? filesystem, in / /var /usr, have dedicated owner to allow certain processes which does not run as 'root' to do their correct work there, for exmample 'mail'; i.e. you can not do just a complete chown -R root and expect that the system still works; It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust FreeBSD is in case of failures. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world build from ports?
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:57:30 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:55 +0100, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust FreeBSD is in case of failures. Indeed. Linux users ask me why I play with FreeBSD. I already could make a list with drawbacks and advantages of both OS. Some of my guesses might be wrong, since I'm a FreeBSD novice, so this list wouldn't be absolutely correct. Regarding to the annoyance, I won't switch the thread regarding to this issue anymore. I'll continue with this thread Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world build from ports? if this should be ok for the list, if not I can be quiet, no hard feelings. The thread could easily be filtered by most MUAs. just continue. erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
creating bootable disk with gpart
Hi, I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html to create bootable disks with GPT. As you know from my former post, I tried to boot via USB from a GPT disk and failed. I inserted the disk into the notebook and bootin also failed. Irony is that inserting the MBR disk into the USB case results also in a failure but much later. Booting from the GPT disk fails already at BIOS level. The BIOS does not find the loader and returns to the selection menu of available boot devices when using the GPT disk. I know that I could boot via USB. But I do not know anymore if I booted from the GPT or from the MBR disk. I can exclude an error with the USB adapter as booting from a thumb drive via USB also fails. The BIOS of my X220 did not get any updates since I purchased it. So, nothing should have changed. I am bit irritated at the moment as you can imagine. If somebody has an idea what is wrong or what I am doing wrong, please tell me. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: creating bootable disk with gpart
Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html to create bootable disks with GPT. As you know from my former post, I tried to boot via USB from a GPT disk and failed. I inserted the disk into the notebook and bootin also failed. Irony is that inserting the MBR disk into the USB case results also in a failure but much later. What failure? 'GEOM_PART integrity check failed (da0 MBR)' It is obviously not a problem with the disk as the disk worked again after being put back into the notebook. I did another test with a fresh FreeBSD 9.0 installation on an USB disk. It is the same story. The loader is not found and the system does not boot. It seems to me that my notebook is not able to boot on the combination out of USB and GPT. I will do later some more testing. It all would work for me if the machine boots with MBR. The only thing which irritates me is the fact that it started last year from the GPT formatted disk in the USB case. Of course, it also started from this disk when it was in the notebook. It still could be that I have overwritten something which comes after the loader but I cannot imagine that I have changed the loader by chance. But - as we all know - things happen. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how do I restart lagg0 properly?
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:09:36 +0100 markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote: I've tried to setup link aggregation to allow networking through WLAN and ethernet on my laptop, see: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248605.html (this thread contains my network setup information) The lack of replies may indicate that it is not possible to set up lagg in a way which allows to setup networking either via WLAN or via ethernet, whichever is accessible during boot. In any case I figured I have used this configuration with success: ifconfig_em0=up ifconfig_iwn0=ether MAC address of em0 wlans_iwn0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA cloned_interfaces=lagg0 ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport wlan0 Your IP address This configuration switched automatically between the available connections prefering em0. There are no routing problems, nothing of this sort at all. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: creating bootable disk with gpart
Hi Warren, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html to create bootable disks with GPT. As you know from my former post, I tried to boot via USB from a GPT disk and failed. I inserted the disk into the notebook and bootin also failed. Irony is that inserting the MBR disk into the USB case results also in a failure but much later. What failure? it is all getting really confusing for me. When I try now your example, it also fails: [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart destroy -F da0 da0 destroyed [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 gpart: No such geom: da0. [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart create -s mbr da0 da0 created [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 - free - (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr da0 bootcode written to da0 [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 - free - (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart add -t freebsd da0 da0s1 added [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 3125817451 freebsd (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart set -a active -i 1 da0 active set on da0s1 [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 3125817451 freebsd [active] (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart create -s bsd da0s1 gpart: geom 'da0s1': File exists [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 3125817451 freebsd [active] (149G) Of course, there was a da0s1 before on the disk. Shouldn't gpart destroy -F da0 have destroyed it all? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: creating bootable disk with gpart
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:08:19 +0700 Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: Hi Warren, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html to create bootable disks with GPT. As you know from my former post, I tried to boot via USB from a GPT disk and failed. I inserted the disk into the notebook and bootin also failed. Irony is that inserting the MBR disk into the USB case results also in a failure but much later. What failure? it is all getting really confusing for me. When I try now your example, it also fails: [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart destroy -F da0 da0 destroyed [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 gpart: No such geom: da0. [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart create -s mbr da0 da0 created [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 - free - (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr da0 bootcode written to da0 [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 - free - (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart add -t freebsd da0 da0s1 added [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 3125817451 freebsd (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart set -a active -i 1 da0 active set on da0s1 [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 3125817451 freebsd [active] (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart create -s bsd da0s1 gpart: geom 'da0s1': File exists [X220]/home/erich (root) gpart show da0 = 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 3125817451 freebsd [active] (149G) Of course, there was a da0s1 before on the disk. Shouldn't gpart destroy -F da0 have destroyed it all? even using the image to install FreeBSD 9.0 from a thumbdrive gives the same result. It seems that old partitions re-appear after a deleted slice is created again. I then installed FreeBSD 9.0 from that thumbdrive onto that USB disk using a MBR schema. Of course, this booted after editing /etc/fstab. My problem are still the re-appearin partitions. I would like to have a script which flattens a media and creates new partitions and puts a new file system on each partition. There are now two options I have. Looking at the source (would be the ideal one) or do a hack deleting partitions which might not exist. The original problem of a GPT device not booting would still be there. I will go back to my normal work now. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Good morning, ood morning? The sun is settling soon! if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a single question, at least not for dbus. # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 377744 Jan 18 22:44 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon # cd /usr/ports/devel/dbus ; make deinstall reinstall # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 377744 Jan 27 08:55 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon Is there a command to deinstall and reinstall all ports or an idea for a script to do it? Check portupgrade or one of other utilities to handle ports. There is one option to force an upgrade even if it would be a downgrade. Do I have to reboot into single user mode and then to run make installworld only to reinstall world? No, you just run it as root. It should work afterword except for currently running programs. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:58:06 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:38:38 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Good morning, ood morning? The sun is settling soon! The sun of the planet of the ood? Or the former Sun of one of the microsystems? :-) both Suns are gone now. Only one will return tomorrow morning. if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a single question, at least not for dbus. # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 377744 Jan 18 22:44 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon # cd /usr/ports/devel/dbus ; make deinstall reinstall # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 377744 Jan 27 08:55 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon Is there a command to deinstall and reinstall all ports or an idea for a script to do it? Check portupgrade or one of other utilities to handle ports. There is one option to force an upgrade even if it would be a downgrade. With tools like portmaster, this task can easily be automated. If you only will have to handle a few ports, using the bare ports method (make) is probably the easiest way (in case everything else stays definitely consistent). I would say that - especially in his case - he will get a working system as he does not want to upgrade a single port. Do I have to reboot into single user mode and then to run make installworld only to reinstall world? No, you just run it as root. It should work afterword except for currently running programs. The comment header of /usr/src/Makefile suggests installing the world in single user mode (steps 5 - 11). I think that installing it in multi-user mode without other users having things running, will work in 99.% of the cases. In his special case, it will work 100% as only the permissions should et changed. # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # [steps 3. 4. can be combined by using the kernel target] # 5. `reboot'(in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt). # 6. `mergemaster -p' # 7. `make installworld' # 8. `make delete-old' # 9. `mergemaster'(you may wish to use -i, along with -U or -F). # 10. `reboot' # 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) This should be the safest method. Isn't it the overkill in his situation? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # [steps 3. 4. can be combined by using the kernel target] # 5. `reboot'(in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt). # 6. `mergemaster -p' # 7. `make installworld' # 8. `make delete-old' # 9. `mergemaster'(you may wish to use -i, along with -U or -F). # 10. `reboot' # 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) What source tree? I only checked out the kernel source using svn and yeah, what source tree? It seems that you do not have one. # freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade This is very much a binary upgrade. You might have a source tree for 8.3 which is not very helpful now. I do not know if this program is able to fix your problem. I wanted to run it tonight, but since I don't know where my source tree is, I can't continue. I think that you simply do not have one. At least not a current one. Read the handbook how you can get the source tree and then download and compile it. I believe that all other options will end in a re-installation. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi,
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:05:51 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote:
after running '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb
-d /etc /etc/master.passwd' (FWIW there were no messages)
I can now log in to a user X session by GDM.
this sounds so much better.
The user can't become root using Xfce Terminal Emulator or by ttyv1
(Ctrl
+ Alt + F2). This was possible before I switched the uid.
What happens on a normal TTY?
Ctrl + Alt + F2
So, you can switch to them. Can you try a su here?
'# ppp -ddial alice' does work
'# find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \;' no messages
'# find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \;' no messages
Ctrl + Alt + F9
Without success I again read some important messages of this thread
in the archive and googled regarding to the suid issue.
Der Wald und die Baeume ...
Erich
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Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi Ralf, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:07 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: What happens on a normal TTY? Ctrl + Alt + F2 So, you can switch to them. Can you try a su here? Ctrl + Alt + F* will open a ttyv* I can log in as root, but if I log in as user, I can't run su successfully. It all seems that Polytropon's idea is right. The owner of all system files must be root. Try to set this back. Der Wald und die Baeume ... Quite possibly that I miss the forest for the trees ;). Yeah, the old problem if IT. Regards, Ralf PS: Btw. thank you all for your patience and effort. Do not worry. This is the main advantage of FreeBSD over many other operating systems. The chances are very, verhy high that you will find help when needed. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lagg problems (or lack of understanding?)
Hi, On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:55:59 +0100 markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html Specifically, I use the rc.conf entries mentioned in the box at the very bottom on the page, except that my ethernet interface is re0 instead of bge0. The lagg module is loaded during boot using an appropriate entry in /boot/loader.conf. if you could post your settings here? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0 9.1-RELEASE and HP Proliant DL 360 G3
Hi, On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:50:30 +0100 Peter Hunčár hu...@hunci.sk wrote: usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 ugen0.1: 0x1166 at usbus0 uhub0: 0x1166 OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usbus0 so, it hangs here? Should be the probing for the CD drive next? I would check the settings for USB in the BIOS and I would take the CD drive out. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi,
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:11:27 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote:
Hi all, hi Joshua,
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \;
find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \;
I made one mistake, when I run find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000
'{}' \; for the fist time, I did it without the :. Later I run it
without the typo.
There's a serious problem now, rocketmouse still is 1001.
.login_conf was '1000 1001', after I chown 1001 it, to start X as
user, it became 'rocketmouse 1001', the user rocketmouse still can't
run a X session anymore.
After rebooting this is the output I get:
# id rocketmouse
uid=1001(rocketmouse) gid=1001 groups=1001,0(wheel)
# ls -hAl /home/ | grep rocketmouse
drwxr-xr-x 28 1000 rocketmouse 1.5k Jan 24 18:14 rocketmouse
# grep 100 /etc/group
rocketmouse:*:1000:
musicpd:*:1002:
# grep 100 /etc/passwd
rocketmouse:*:1000:1000:Ralf:/home/rocketmouse:/bin/sh
musicpd:*:1002:1002:Music Player
Daemon:/home/musicpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
# grep 100 /etc/master.passwd
rocketmouse:$1$3mMkzcfl
$VuryrlzFZ92LmaC6cUOa/.:1000:1000::0:0:Ralf:/home/rocketmouse:/bin/sh
musicpd:*LOCKED**:1002:1002:daemon:0:0:Music Player
Daemon:/home/musicpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
I repeated both find-chown several times and rebooted, nothing
changed, it doesn't list any files anymore.
did you run something like?
/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -d/etc /etc/master.passwd
erich
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Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt drwxrwx--- 21 1000 1000 4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump it seems that you do not have a user with the id 1000 on this machine. Create one and that user will be able to access it. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hallo Ralf, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:53:52 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 07:31 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt drwxrwx--- 21 1000 1000 4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump it seems that you do not have a user with the id 1000 on this machine. Create one and that user will be able to access it. Hallo Erich :) correct, as already mentioned, the uid of the FreeBSD user is 1001. Why doesn't change chown the user and group, why do I get ---? I'll try it again, perhaps it was voodoo ;). Assumed it wasn't voodoo, is there no way to get consistent rwx permissions for others or to get a consistent group wheel instead of 1000? Why do I get those permissions, owner and group automatically? And why does it differ to what I get for /dump? root and wheel have the ID 0. All other IDs are more or less randomly used. I use scripts on my systems to have always the same IDs. I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing FreeBSD would be without owner. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing FreeBSD would be without owner. The current user is: rocketmouse The uid is : 1001 Isn't it possible to change the uid to 1000? This would cause that the owner wouldn't be rocketmouse anymore, but still 1001. I then could run chown -R for /home/rocketmouse to switch from 1001 to back to rocketmouse = new uid 1000. Or another idea would be to create a new user with the uid 1000 and then to add rocketmouse to the group of this user. I guess this is what you already recommended. yes, this is what I would do. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?
Hi, On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:59:07 -0600 Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 07:25:09AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? I would use a hex editor. Of course, try it out on another disk before working on that disk. You can even copy the data with dd from the other disk after you are sure it will work. Of course, the size must match or must be made matching. Ok, it is not a safe way but it is a working way. Have to say I was hoping that there was some programatic way to do this. Certainly if I go down this path I'll have to practice on a disk that doesn't contain data that I care about. Getting the size right as this is the only disk of this size I have. (Actually, it's an Areca RAID 5 Volume Set.) this does not make it easier. What really helps is to copy first the first the data you want to edit to a file and work then with the copy of the file. This enables you to copy the original back as often as you need. Just make sure that you do not lose this copy. This will be the most important file of all your files. I used a normal thumb drive to play around before I went once to a hard disk. Ok, there is a bit of sweat on your fingers, but the rest will be ok. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?
Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? I would use a hex editor. Of course, try it out on another disk before working on that disk. You can even copy the data with dd from the other disk after you are sure it will work. Of course, the size must match or must be made matching. Ok, it is not a safe way but it is a working way. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SSH on FreeBSD
Hi, On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:10:16 + Mannase Nyathi mann...@cipherwave.co.za wrote: CipherWave Fibre Broadband with FREE installation from only R8840/month Good day, I have just configured FreeBSD on my server. I would like to find out how can I be able to login to it via ssh? Looking forward to hear from you soon. Thank you you must enable ssh in /etc/inetd.conf and then read man ssh If you could tell us more what you really want, we could give you a better answer. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gpart, glabel and newfs -- what am I doing wrong
Hi, On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:36:21 -0500 kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:09:00AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: For what is glabel then still good? It is still useful for partition schemes that don't have labels (eg, MBR) AND the filesystem used doesn't support labels itself AND the end of the partition does not get touched by the filesystem. Note that UFS in FreeBSD does support labels. I believe it is the '-L' option to newfs. ZFS does not in this sense, and ZFS touches the end of the partition. That's a long list of conditions. So, really, glabel should typically be avoided. thanks for the explaination. I am not able to use the labels outside gpart but if they work for me - as it currently looks like - I will stick with them. I will later report in more detail when I have finished my scripts. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gpart, glabel and newfs -- what am I doing wrong
Hi, in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error. I try to do it in the following way: # gpart destroy -F da0 # gpart create -s GPT da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 64k da0 # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 512m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2boot da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2root da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2swap da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2var da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2tmp da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2usr da0 Label the partitions: # glabel label Toshiba16GB2boot /dev/da0p2 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2root /dev/da0p3 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2swap /dev/da0p4 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2var /dev/da0p5 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2tmp /dev/da0p6 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2usr /dev/da0p7 And put a file system onto the partitions. # newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2boo # newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2roo # newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2var # newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2tmp # newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2usr But newfs on the first partition results in this: Filesystem size 15 minimum size of 48 When I ran the newfs directly on the device, I get this: [X220]/home/erich (root) newfs /dev/da0p2 /dev/da0p2: 512.0MB (1048576 sectors) block size 32768, fragment size 4096 using 4 cylinder groups of 128.03MB, 4097 blks, 16512 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 192, 262400, 524608, 786816 Of course, this is what I expect. I believe that it is something simple but I am not able to see my mistake. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gpart, glabel and newfs -- what am I doing wrong
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:56:39 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error. I try to do it in the following way: # gpart destroy -F da0 # gpart create -s GPT da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 64k da0 # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 512m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2boot da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2root da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2swap da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2var da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2tmp da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2usr da0 Label the partitions: # glabel label Toshiba16GB2boot /dev/da0p2 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2root /dev/da0p3 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2swap /dev/da0p4 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2var /dev/da0p5 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2tmp /dev/da0p6 # glabel label Toshiba16GB2usr /dev/da0p7 There is no need for all this. You already created GPT labels with 'gpt -l' above. And those labels don't need extra metadata at the end of the partition. For what is glabel then still good? And consider using -U with newfs. Do not worry, this was just for the test. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier
Hi,
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:58:31 -0800
Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote:
FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012.
I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter.
I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router.
cat rc.conf
...
ifconfig_wlan0=WPA SYNCDHCP
you must add here the ssid to be used.
wlans_bwn0=wlan0
...
cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
ssid=tddhome
psk=
}
# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ddt
...
0: the correct router ssid='' wpa_ie_len=22 ...
skip - SSID mismatch
...
The interface is seeing the correct router
ifconfig -v wlan0 list scan
...
SSIDtddhome ... WPAv1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-PSK ...
What am I doing wrong?
You must tell ifconfig which ssid to use.
Erich
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Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:39:09 -0800 Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On 01/12/13 17:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: cat /etc/rc.conf ... ifconfig_wlan0=SYNCDHCP WPA ssid tddhome mode 11b wlan0_bwn0=wlan0 ... I found another email that said the device did not support mode 11n. But, this does not seem to have changed anything. leave the mode away. It should then use a mode which both bwn and the device will support. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sound issue: play interrupt timeout, channel dead
Hi, On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:02:08 +0100 Stephan Schindel s...@tp1.rub.de wrote: after upgrading to 9.1 I have got a problem with my sound card. Sry I am not sure what sound card I have (onboard chipset by NVidia), but it uses the snd_hda module for sure. Sometimes my sound goes completely away and I found this message in the logs: pcm0: chn_write(): pcm0:play:dsp0.p1: play interrupt timeout, channel dead I have this problem on another machine since 7.x or 8.0. It got better over time and I did not notice it anymore since I upgraded it to 10,0 I can not reproduce this, it sometimes happens when watching youtube and sometimes when listen to music via VLC. It happened to me at least 5-6 times until now. I need to reboot my machine in order to reset the driver which is pretty annoying. It was the same story for me. Try 10.0 and see what happens there. I came to 10 for other reasons. I got stuck with 10 after I saw that it solved my problem on that machine. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: suggestions wanted.... {OT}
Hi, On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:52:16 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: note that this question is =OT=. sorry if this is a re-request for clues. I =did= ask a very similar question a year or three ago; I'm just not sure where. Ah, I remember. Wans't it when the Newton was released? I'm looking for a small and portable tablet [or whatever] device to use on the once-every-75-years when I do get out. I am not looking for a cell phone. the one I have works fine for auto- dialing whoever. instead, im thinking of something with a small screen and somekind of keyboard. it has to have a speaker. some version of 'unix' is essential. have you looked at Samsung. They have a quiet interesting range from hand phones to tablets. I do not know the size up to which they can be used as hand phones but some pretty large models have this function built-in. My daughter has one I would still call a hand phone. She is very happy with it. The keyboard has to be an external one in all cases. I do not know it this works on all models. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0 vs 9.1
Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600 Scott Eberl rayzrs...@gmail.com wrote: OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It takes forever and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer is to. Early today I installed irssi which I had to do with make clean install because just doing pkg_add -r irssi complains about not being able to find the url of it. there was a security problem some time back. It seems that this is the reason why no packages are available for 9.1 at the moment. Should I just reinstall 9.0 and not upgrade, will ports work correctly then? You mean packages? Ports work correctly. If you really need packages, go back to 8.3 as you will then still enjoy security fixes and current packages. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: which version of FBSD should i install?
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:16:58 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:55:49PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:55:04 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ms well use my 2005 Thinkpad. it is reasonably fast at 3.06GHz. should clue me in on how much stuff I need to compile to test. You should be able to run anything from 7.4, 8.3, 9.1 to 10.0. I mention 7.4 here for a simple reason. It could be that your old machine uses some USB hardware, which is not supported from 8.0 onwards. I would say, if it works, use 9.1. If not check out 7.4. If this then works, you could check 10 out. 8.3 is the version which is the most robust one as the new stuff did not arrive there yet. Erich Thanks for this. VBC uses no USB hardware... well, AFAIK. I =believe= it should work on anything unix. That is: Unix, BSD, Linux, Android. VBC doe require a keyboard since the disabled user needs to type what he wants to have spoken. If there are and USB issues there, I have no idea. if the keyboard is connected via USB, you have lost if the controller is not supported. I would not expect this to be the case on a notebook. Anyway, it is most likely that you will be happy with any version. As the ports are the same for all versions. Have fun testing. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: keyboard and mouse problem
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:53:04 -0800 (PST) Jack Mc Lauren jack.mclau...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a freeBSD 8.2 amd64 on my system and I'm using gnome environment. But after a few seconds my USB keyboard and PS/2 mouse hang up !!! when did you setup the system? Did this happen after an update? What should I do ? Can you test without mouse? To be honest, I was not able to get a system up with a PS/2 mouse or keyboard since years. I blamed it on the old hardware and got me a new keyboard and a new mouse with USB. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: which version of FBSD should i install?
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:55:04 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ms well use my 2005 Thinkpad. it is reasonably fast at 3.06GHz. should clue me in on how much stuff I need to compile to test. You should be able to run anything from 7.4, 8.3, 9.1 to 10.0. I mention 7.4 here for a simple reason. It could be that your old machine uses some USB hardware, which is not supported from 8.0 onwards. I would say, if it works, use 9.1. If not check out 7.4. If this then works, you could check 10 out. 8.3 is the version which is the most robust one as the new stuff did not arrive there yet. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Trying to update from 9.0 to 9.1 via svn
Hi, On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 02:40:13 + (UTC) Helmut Schneider jumpe...@gmx.de wrote: Trond Endrestøl wrote: BTW, do you nuke the contents of /usr/obj prior to recompiling the system? The command rm -Rf /usr/obj/* should accomplish this rather well. That might have been the issue, yes. Works now. Thanks. doesn't this indicate an error in the make file? Shouldn't sources be compiled when their date is newer then the date of the object file? Or was the last compilation done after the affected file got updated at the server? Shouldn't there be a system in place which automatically deletes all object files automatically? Either a process is automated 100% or not at all is what I would say. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: utility to compare 2 dir trees
Hi, On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:45:39 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I want to compare 2 different directory trees to each other to locate any differences in directories and files contained there in. Any suggestions? mtree(8) From the man page I don't see how to code mtree to compare 2 different directory trees against each other. you can compare a directory tree which is rooted in your current directory and a specified one. From man: The mtree utility compares the file hierarchy rooted in the current directory against a specification read from the standard input. Messages are written to the standard output for any files whose characteristics do not match the specifications, or which are missing from either the file hierarchy or the specification. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64
Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:39 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: ok, so FreeBSD release is the version of the kernel and not a labelling for the collection of all the software. yes. It is even so that the ports work on all 'current' FreeBSD versions but not the packages. With other words, you will download always the same source files for 7.4, 8.3, 9.0, 9.1 and 10.0 but compile it then for your version. For Linux major distros there usually is a labelling for the collection of the software, independent of the kernel version. On Linux I usually install binaries for the base system and desktop environment, but for important software, in my case it's audio, compiling from source is very important. This does not really matter here. It is only that you might do not have the options compiled in you will need when using the binary. The author of the snd_hdspe driver for FreeBSD seems to need testers. I never have heard of this driver. It seems to be that nobody ever tested if ADAT is working and I'll test it. OTOH I suspect bug fixes for the driver have to be added by recompiling the kernel or at least the driver for the kernel, so I still could use binaries for the applications. Using sources for the kernel is then the way to go. Binaries could work if the required options are compiled in. You can mix binaries and source within the applications. I do this all the while. I install very often the binary and compile later from sources. Since audio on FreeBSD seems to be a niche, I wonder if it's more promising, to go the source or to go the binary rout. Source is the more promissing route here as niches are not supported by default. There are some rare cases in which options exclude each other. So, if you have strange hardware, source is the only route. I suspect if it's impossible or at least less good to mix binaries and from source build software for FreeBSD, I should chose to build from source. You can mix. If it works, it works. If not, it is most likely an option not compiled in you would need. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64
Hi, On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:09:16 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 10:14 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: You may also use at your discretion the portmaster tool? It works very well and a nice example is given by W. Block: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html Thank you Antonio :) because I can't install FreeBSD by the 9.0 DVD, for what reason ever this doesn't work, I installed it by the 8.3 DVD and will now make a release upgrade. IIUC a release upgrade will rebuild everything, hence one way was already shown to you. The other route would lead you via the sources. I prefer the sources over the binary upgrade. If the new kernel will not boot, you can boot the old kernel which will then be under kernel.old. there should be no dependency issues. My FreeBSD 8.3 is a fresh Dependencies come in when it comes to ports. I would like to suggest the you first make a decision whether you want the ports as binaries or via source. Both routes work. Only the sources allow you to specify options. I would also recommend to download first the sources or the binaries and start the upgrade only after all files are downloaded. As you already know, portupgrade is the tool of choice here. If you have problems with 9.1, you might consider a move to 10. I have done this too for the same reason when I got a new machine which has had problems with 9.0. 10.0 is not recommended for production. Me and many other still do this. You might will run occassionally into problems. So, think twice before doing this. install, I only set up PPPoE, anything else is default. IIUC I need to take care about it to keep dependencies up to date, when I don't upgrade the complete release, but just upgrade some software. So, can I upgrade from 8.3 to 9.0, without taking care about dependencies and take care about the link, when 9.0 is installed, instead of doing it right now? FreeBSD and the ports have 'nothing' to do with each other. You have to upgrade FreeBSD first and then upgrade the ports. Most likely, all applications will continue to work without upgrade. If I remember right, even after an upgrade from 8.3 to 10.0 on one of my machines, all applications continued to work. I still upgraded them as fast as possible. My apologize for the terrible English, I'm in a hurry, but wanted to rely immediately and this makes broken English not better ;). Do not worry about this here. I think, while you have been pretty clear on the rest, the last line does not make real sense to me. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i386 vs. amd64
Hi, wasn't the same question here a few days ago? On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:16:36 -0500 Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since 8.X (my system is now 9.1-RC3 [done via csup]) been using i386 with the following main ports: x11-wm/xfce4 yes. www/firefox Yes. www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 editors/libreoffice Yes. www/tomcat-7 www/apace22 Typo? Apache 2.2 runs. devel/aegis (I am the maintainer) devel/fhist devel/cook java/openjdk6 emulation/virtualbox-ose (and additions) print/cups Yes. The ones I did not answer, I do not have installed. I have avoided amd64 in the past due to some or not all them working, but want to switch if possible because PAE seems to be broken now on i386. It was a big jump forward when I switched during 8.0 or 8.1. So I have the following questions: 1. Will all the above ports (and their dependencies) work on amd64? I gave you the answer if I knew one. I general, I do not have problems which are linked to 32 or 64 bits. 2. Is there any way to do a in place switch to amd64 or do I need to rebuild the system from the ground up? To my knowledge, it is still a fresh installation. Just download an image and start from there. 3. In general is amd64 now as capable of handling ports and such as well as i386 does? I saw that some ports I used to use on i386 went 100% smooth on amd64. I believe that this has improved even further. Just make the jump. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: switching from i386 to amd64
Hi, On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500 Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook, devel/fhist, virtualbox-ose, nvidia-kmod are the minimal ones I need]) the main reason for asking is PAE seems to be broken now and virtualbox-ose refuses to let me install 64 bit OS's like Win 8. I did the switch 2010 and missed nothing but wine. Ok, flash is not realy working for me but I also do not miss it. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs
Hi, On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:21:50 +0100 Matthias Gamsjager mgamsja...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:52:04AM -0500, Anonymous wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project to meet its future release dates. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for 9.1-RELEASE to be finalized. I desperately want it as soon as possible for a laptop currently running such a piece of shit OS (Debian -- used to be good, but after half a dozen years away it went significantly downhill) that I'm about ready to pull out my hair. It needs hardware support not available with FreeBSD until now, and I want stable, -RELEASE software on it to suit my needs. Wouldn't stable/9 give you the same results as 9.1Release? I also do not understand this crying here. There are currently 7.4, 8.3 and 9.0 as a RELEASE out. Nobody will stop a user to install the current release candidate for 9.1 or even the 10.0. I would not bother to think a second but take what ever is out there which seems to fit to my hardware and install it. If nothing works, I would have a try with 10. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Questions not working again?
Hi, On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:32:40 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha FreeBSD mail list. This is the second month that it questions have stopped working to my mail box. All the other lists are fine that I subscribe to. My firewall spam wall has not been changed. what Do you mean? You could not post to it? You did not get any messages from it anymore? Erich Any way to fix this? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i am new with this
Hi, On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 22:41:06 + BOY RULES boyru...@live.com wrote: i want to run a server from home running open source software and easy to manage it like in 3 clicks and done the site is up and running three clicks? Not really. It is a bit more. if possible the developers to build a new freebsd and use skins like the plasma TV that type of black colour skins and all the freebsd be like that It is possible but do developers want this? and build one application like IIS 7 or mac admin tools for easy up and run sites The majority uses Apache for this purpose anyway. another application is one listview to add all the websites hostes on the server like add folder name to the disk disk www folder chat folder hosting folder business folder family listview details IP addressServerHost Domain Name date / timedirectory 123.023.02 localhost www.freebsd20.12.02 12h 23m www/videos At least my webserver does something like this. But I get a bit of more information. i hope you understand I hope so too. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?
Hi, On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid (which FBSD 4-8 have been). why would you like to break a running system? I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready I would stay with 8.x until the end of its support and move only then to a new branch. It could be then 9.x or 10.y. I would then - but only then - prefer the 10.y branch. I retired my 7.4 only because of lightning strike this spring. Robustness is my main goal here. Any change which brings only the risk is avoided. Irony is now that I am writing you this on a 10.0 machine. Only 10 has had the support I needed for my new toy. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: /usr/sbin/ppp doubling connections on tun0
Hi, On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:49:39 +1100 andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: I'm using /usr/sbin/ppp for PPPoE over an ADSL modem in bridged mode: # ifconfig tun0 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 options=8LINKSTATE inet 203.217.27.170 -- 203.215.15.252 netmask 0x inet 203.214.46.107 -- 203.215.7.251 netmask 0x Opened by PID 49158 I noticed the same behaviour in wlan0 recently. I upgraded last night. After checking just now, wlan0 has only one IP address. I do not know if this is linked. I am running 10.0. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd 9 Startx
Hi, On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:28:13 + Hooman Oroojeni orooj...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I would like to use GUI in Freebsd 9, but I face with following error. I think that you have mist a paste command here. Anyway, what graphics adaptor are you using? Intel? It it is Intel, read about Intel KMS. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: well, try here first...
Hi, On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:58:14 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, ja vohl. futher dhclient is there. I'll go back to you wanted to say 'jawohl'? Jawohl mein Herr! :-) What, no comma!? what the Playboy did to the German language ... Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no comma in the tag line. do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag line? Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht Ouch. Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not leave much space for individual preferences. :-) In the above example, Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht or better using a hyphen Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page in a correct manner. I have had to open playboy.de again. Just for the comma. I think that it is a bit more complicated. Especially as Playboy is here the brand 'Alles, was Maennern Spass macht' is the tag line and needs a comma after alles. Playboy does it now properly in the header of their site but wrongly in the title. Your second line with the hyphen is there the best option if there would be the comma after alles. I never would have believed that Playboy becomes part of a serious discussion which started with an sshd problem. Ok, the world knows now the importance of Playboy for the IT world. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: well, try here first...
Hi,
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is
installed; the box is on my internal IP net. I can ssh
*out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
back in.
doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114 OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused. if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
string like Connnection closed. can any of you network wizards
or setup wizards clue me in. {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
OpenBSD.}
Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
ja vohl. futher dhclient is there. I'll go back to
you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
Erich
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Re: high performance server design approach
Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:23:38 -0200 Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: 0) To have a single process accepting incoming connection on port 80 and send the new socket fd to one of the http server in a round-roubin manner, or if you have N cores, create N - X processes or threads for handling the requests. Leave at least one core for the OS, so, have X = 2. I would not fork at all. Have the threads ready when the requests are coming. At least this is what I did several years ago achieving the highest performance. Make X a variable to be able to tune a bit. You also should have a memory pool available to avoid calls to malloc and free. You must have a limit for the memory pool. Free the memory in the pool time to time so others can make use of the memory too. The first approach leads to n+1 process. The second to exactly n process. You need at least one core for handling the tasks of the OS. If I remember right, I took 10% of the cores plus one which I did not use and I took at least one core. This is all from memory. So, please consider that I could have missed something out. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1
Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0100 Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: I just read in another post about disklayout _ According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't play so well with 4k drives. I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running 8.3 systems. I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding all ports according to man portmaster. Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling? Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation? let me phrase it this way: I upgrade always via source but I am prepared to hit a wall between. The number of walls are very low meanwhile. The advantage of a normal upgrade via sources are so many that I always risk it. But I make sure that I have the option of re-installation at hand. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: well, try here first...
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is
installed; the box is on my internal IP net. I can
ssh *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I
cant ssh back in.
doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114 OR ssh tao gives me an
instant Connection refused. if I try an ssh -X tao I get
a string like Connnection closed. can any of you network
wizards or setup wizards clue me in. {FWIW:: the ssh stuff
is from OpenBSD.}
Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
ja vohl. futher dhclient is there. I'll go back to
you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
What, no comma!?
what the Playboy did to the German language ...
Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a
mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no
comma in the tag line.
You know, while in other countries man could say that they read Playboy
only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy only to check
on the comma.
Erich
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Re: well, try here first...
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
ja vohl. futher dhclient is there. I'll go back to
you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
What, no comma!?
what the Playboy did to the German language ...
Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after
decades of no comma in the tag line.
do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag
line?
Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht
Playboy corrected this meanwhile as you can see on www.playboy.de.
Just on the side. Does playboy.com still mirror FreeBSD as they did
many years ago?
Erich
You know, while in other countries man could say that they read
Playboy only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy
only to check on the comma.
:-) funny. I, of course, =always= read playboy for the
articles, just like every other guy. {that line goes back to the
early 1970s. at least.}
A brother-in-law does this for another professional reason. He does or
did those days plastic surgery and has had to see the results of other
people's work. Of course, he was also interested in the articles.
Listening to his comments was more fun than reading the humour page of
Playboy.
Erich
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Re: well, try here first...
Hi,
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get
you do not allow us some fun?
ssh working from an outside computer into my brand new tao that is
running a flavor of linux. I just got my quad i5 box to replace the
old, broken tao. this was the box with the busted USB. [!] Anyway,
linux is installed; the box is on my internal IP net. I can ssh
*out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back
in.
doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114 OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused. if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string
like Connnection closed. can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in. {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
anybody know what im NOT doing?
Proper setup?
Firewall?
inetd?
It sounds like something very, very obvious. But I know how it feels if
one cannot see the tiny thing.
Erich
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Re: ata controller problem
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:22:01 +0200 Gerhard Schmidt schm...@ze.tum.de wrote: hint.ada.3.at=scbus3 hint.ada.4.at=scbus4 hint.ada.5.at=scbus5 See CAM(4) man page (read it, don't skim!) for full details. Just please for the love of god do not use labels to solve this. Sorry this doesn't work because the numbering of the ahci change with the occupancy of the Hot-Swap Bays. And that is my Problem. This i have tried first. Any idea how i can fix which controller gets which number. just you labels. Chose the labelling method which fits best your file system. gpt seems to fit most scenarios. Labels came up to solve your problem. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ata controller problem
Hi, On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:25:41 +0200 Gerhard Schmidt schm...@ze.tum.de wrote: On 26.10.2012 18:00, Polytropon wrote: = I'm not sure if this can be done, but using labels should make the question go away, and the problem causing it. :-) Labels are good for naming Drives but how does it help me if the root filesystem changing device ids. I don't think the boot loader is able to use the label for the root Filesystem. put a root file system on all drives and make it bootable. I use this trick also. You do not need that much space there to get the system up compared to the size of current media. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD help require for DellpowerEdge R620
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:54:39 +0100 Md Samadul Sarker s.sar...@switch2link.com wrote: I have got DELL PowerEdge R620 which raid controller is H710. Can anyone help me that is there any chance to install FreeBSD on this and how? Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. just check this and you should be able to get some FreeBSD running. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD help require for DellpowerEdge R620
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:56:49 -0400 Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Md Samadul Sarker s.sar...@switch2link.com wrote: I have got DELL PowerEdge R620 which raid controller is H710. Can anyone help me that is there any chance to install FreeBSD on this and how? Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. I have a couple blog posts related to running FreeBSD on the R620. You may want to read through them. http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/05/22/freebsd-on-dell-poweredge-12g-servers/ http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/06/30/freebsd-dell-12g-x520-da2-10g-nic/ As far as I am aware, the mfi driver needed to support the H710 RAID controller is only in stable/8 and stable/9 right now. I believe it should be in 9.1-RELEASE, but I could be wrong. If/when 8.4-RELEASE is dropped, it should be in there too. oh, I just saw that I have forgotten the links in my former e-mail. As they would have been the same, I do not have to repeat them here. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ata controller problem
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:33:38 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: Regarding this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-October/245862.html No no NO *NO*! YES, YES, YES, YES! The proper way to solve this problem is to user /boot/loader.conf How does this help when media is moved between machines? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kernel config
Hi, On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:41:44 + (UTC) jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, what controls how parts of kernel are built, that is, built-in or modular ? For example, I want to: - build a kernel that has eveything built in this is normally not possible as some thing conflict which each other. But most things work together. - build a kernel that has everything possible (what controls the impossible ?) built as modules All modules are build anyway. - build a kernel that has mixed support, e.g. support for cd9660 fs built-in and ext2fs as module Just check how a custom kernel is build. You can then build three versions of it. One with nothing, one with the modules you want and one with the non-conflicting modules build-in. Just read the handbook regarding custom kernels. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kernel config
Hi, On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:26:27 + (UTC) jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com writes: ... Just check how a custom kernel is build. You can then build three versions of it. One with nothing, one with the modules you want and one with the non-conflicting modules build-in. Just read the handbook regarding custom kernels. ... I have already read all docs :-) The problem is I still do not get it ... ok, the I hope that I will get what you want. I understand that files sys/conf/NOTES and sys/arch/conf/NOTES contain directive lines like 'device', 'options', 'machine', 'ident', 'maxusers', 'makeoptions' etc that the user may place in the kernel configuration that she will run config(8) with. Yes, taken them as examples. What is the specific mechanism (directive in GENERIC file, or You copy GENERIC into a new file i.e. ALLOPTIONS and set then is this file the options you want. You would need three files like this. ALLOPTIONS, NOOPTIONS and MYOPTIONS as an example. NOOPTIONS would then contain all options removed which you do not want. Be careful here as you might get a kernel which will not boot anymore. MYOPTIONS will contain then the options you would like to have in your kernel. Of course, you can use any other names you want to use. something else in GENERIC file or elsewhere) that says build support for cd9660 fs as built-in and ext2fs as module, or entire kernel as The modules are always build, at least to my knowledge. So, you do not need any options for this. You just need to load them later. built-in, or entire kernel as modular (except things that must be built-in, but then what things and where is this specified) ? Did you get what I wrote up there or was this not what you want to do? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: rc.conf and loader.conf
Hi, On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:47:29 +0330 Ashkan Rahmani ashkan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, what is the best order of items in rc.conf and loader.conf? actually items order is important? as you know already, the order does not matter at all. But there some modules which cannot coexist. I prefer to build a custom kernel over loading modules. Of course, as this does not always lead to a perfect solution, I still have some kernel modules which are loaded at boot time or even after the system is up and running via a script I start manually. With other words, FreeBSD gives you all the freedom you need to get the best solution for your needs. Erich Best regards, Ashkan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: way way off topic
Hi, On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:23:17 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:39:55 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:05 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: if/when I ever find that v short exercise, THIS time, il'l remember to 'splain stuff in /* * comments */ your programs are not self-explanatory? That's not modern today anymore. :-) /* * this function is void, * it takes no args, * one of them is not a nickel, * adds minus 1 to the result * and then branches to register #14 */ setpicardcolor(); /* 4 lights! */ this is so Seventies! Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: way way off topic
Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:05 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: if/when I ever find that v short exercise, THIS time, il'l remember to 'splain stuff in /* * comments */ your programs are not self-explanatory? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: license
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:01:03 -0500 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Again me Last time I try to make some T-shirts which I have on my redbubble page. It is not a big nmoney, I didn't sell anything just one card :) but I like to make a T-shirt design with Beastie on it too. Do I need a permission for using Beastie or it is free or I cannot use. you can find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon Marshall Kirk McKusick is the copyright holder. Just address him directly. Erich Thank you. Mitja http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:15 +0900 Rei Okamoto okam...@mix-net.co.jp wrote: Hi Adam, Olivier, Erich, and the rest, Thank you for your replies. It sounds like the best thing to do is to migrate the contents to a server with new versions of all softwares. this is the ideal solution. But do not forget that it could be possible to run a supported FreeBSD version on the current hardware. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: way way off topic
Hi,
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:20:07 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C
program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet
my last cent that I had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that
either.
here is the problem as best I can remember it.
let's say that john is 8 and his older friend, jim, is 22.
how much older is exact percentage terms is jim?
to find the answer I had to find the relative difference {22 - 8} and
then do something with the difference. this isn't any kind of trick
or advanced-cognition; I just thought it was clever [and exact].
it obviously works for finding the abs() results in subtraction.
it's something I found on the web and swipes and save the prose
discussion. BZZT: Lost, :-(
It seems that I am also lost. What should abs() do here?
I would multiply the age of john and the difference with 100 and then
divide the result to get the percentage.
Or did I get lost here?
if this seems dumb, I plead guilty!
im asking here because -questions is the sharpest list on the net.
Are you sure?
Erich
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Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:31:36 +0900 Rei Okamoto okam...@mix-net.co.jp wrote: One of the clients is running the web site using FreeBSD 4.7. this is not a real fresh installation. Although it is surely the best to renew the server to newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so because of money. There is still the option to use a supported version of FreeBSD. You can have a try with 7.4. Some hardware support was taken out with 8. But if 8 works, take 8.3. as I try to install PHP4 with a following command, I doubt that you will get this anywhere anymore. Is there any suggestion on what I can do other than convincing the client to renew the server? (which I am doing but already been politely refused) Just try a newer FreeBSD version. 7.4 is currently still supported. Of course, it also could be that 9.1 is running on this hardware. This would be perfect. But I do not know if you can get the client's web sites running on a current PHP version. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Spam and more spam
Hi, could t be that everybody can post now on this list without being registered and without having administrator's approval? I remember that my messages got delayed when I used my work's e-mail address but when I just send an answer to a question intentional with my work's e-mail address, it worked. Should we move to a list where only registered users can write just to avoid the spam problem and not forcing a human to approve all e-mails from addresses which are not registered? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Spam and more spam.
Hi Gary, On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:03:49 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:49:34AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:13 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:27:30PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: im getting too aged [and achy and cranky:)] to sleep well, oh, do you have a Windows machine secretly running somewhere? I would not be able to sleep then either. ha! never, never have I bought even one dos/doze computer. my daughter was given an old [1998] w2k box that she played games on. it is long-gone:) you do not even know then what these people go through. Let me see what you got. yup, exactly. these sorry, pathetic guys see an easy way to spam and do it. ... . They have meet month's end. They needed the money ... Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Spam and more spam.
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:04:48 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 05:06:11PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:39:12 +1100 andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Wed 2012-10-10 10:16:35 UTC+0200, René Mercier (realmo.merc...@gmail.com) wrote: Bonjour, Je suis sous Debian, mais travaillant dans les réseaux, je souhaiterai passer sur FreeBsd pour sa stabilité et pour sa sécurité,, je vois qu'actuellement il y une 9 rc1, pourriez vous s'il vous plait me dire quelle la prochaine release à venir et sa date de sortie http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list. I wonder how many people did what I did an classified this as spam. Erich ___ Aloha Erich, I'm getting SPAM on the FreeBSD list for a couple of days now. In several languages including Chinese and French as well as English. Doesnt our list have a way to block so much of this? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol aloha al! I have been getting arabic, vchinese, french, and other spam in recent weeks. Ugh!! dont know how it is getting thru godaddy's filters, but it is. I took a look at one of the spam mails. The header looks like this: Return-Path: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53]) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q9AKN55i005588 for erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:23:06 -0600 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [8.8.178.136]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5BA203799; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:52:52 + (UTC) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [8.8.178.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0E2D06; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:52:44 + (UTC) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org) Delivered-To: freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2F6C67 for freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:52:32 + (UTC) (envelope-from bounce+freebsd-stable=freebsd@to.benaughty.com) Received: from me20.to.frindr.net (me20.to.frindr.net [70.33.212.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88788FC08 for freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:52:31 + (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by me20.to.frindr.net (Postfix) with QMQP id 4E1E7301038 for freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:52:23 + (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=benaughty.com; s=to; t=1349898743; bh=v8GVq7lXQBvGUXBVXF9xdjLIwxk=; h=MIME-Version:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:From:Reply-To:Subject: Content-Type:Message-ID:Date:To; b=Peb/n29Jvys2WqT4eslGuADZLrXVVj31xJRRUW/yHQVeNst8vwe8jR1/HR+yaEfca FtOdaor2xY2Q55emnfQWJQDwfhLJm9//ilbufZCm0oRqeOiX7688rdNXVJB/mDQxET BZ0sLGBVlnpZ+ZM1zDuaX85XynxsmU7hucJMWlug= MIME-Version: 1.0 Organization: Frindr Ltd X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Frindr X-Campaign-Id: 084693 X-Dating: 3b87203fdf6ba6b75457570b493fbc6fZnJlZWJzZC1zdGFibGVAZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= From: BeNaughty ad...@benaughty.com Subject: Get your 25% premium discount for FREE to contact 1.3 million girls! Message-ID: 084693.mbp0iy.b9g...@benaughty.com Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:52:10 +0100 To: freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: BeNaughty ad...@benaughty.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code freebsd-stable.freebsd.org List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-stable, mailto:freebsd-stable-requ...@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable List-Post: mailto:freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org List-Help: mailto:freebsd-stable-requ...@freebsd.org?subject=help List-Subscribe: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable, mailto:freebsd-stable-requ...@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org X-UIDL: 09H!!C*!!J26!!~f,#! while yours looks like this: Return-Path: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53]) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q9B67nvS032260 for erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:07:49 -0600 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org
Re: Spam and more spam.
Hi Gary,
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:13 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:27:30PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
hello erich and everyone,
im getting too aged [and achy and cranky:)] to sleep well,
oh, do you have a Windows machine secretly running somewhere? I would
not be able to sleep then either.
so I am not as patient as you, erich,--or others still
on-list. I have =not= read all the mail headers below. but at the
bottom of this email I will enclose an arabic [i think!] email. if
you can gleen anything from it, excellent. I get other *non*-8859
iso encoded email. {Note that I still use mutt as my mua.
until all this spam, I did not know that mutt could even render non-
Latin characters.
Let me see what you got.
for my appending the spam that I got from wherever. it
might have been sent from Anywhere.
It looks to me too like it came directly to you as there is no sign of
FreeBSD have been between.
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I get hundreds of them. All get handled properly on my system except
the one coming via FreeBSd.org as my system sees FreeBSD.org as a
serious sender. This might be the reason those people try it now that
way.
Erich
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freebsd
Re: Info 2 Release
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:39:12 +1100 andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Wed 2012-10-10 10:16:35 UTC+0200, René Mercier (realmo.merc...@gmail.com) wrote: Bonjour, Je suis sous Debian, mais travaillant dans les réseaux, je souhaiterai passer sur FreeBsd pour sa stabilité et pour sa sécurité,, je vois qu'actuellement il y une 9 rc1, pourriez vous s'il vous plait me dire quelle la prochaine release à venir et sa date de sortie http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list. I wonder how many people did what I did an classified this as spam. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Info 2 Release
Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:02:48 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: From: andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list. What's the problem? If there are non-english posts and non-english helpful replies, who suffers? I think that the original poster is the one who suffers most. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Spam and more spam.
Hi Al, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:06:11 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: I wonder how many people did what I did an classified this as spam. Aloha Erich, my wife loves you. This is for sure. Why? She loves your place. I'm getting SPAM on the FreeBSD list for a couple of days now. In several languages including Chinese and French as well as English. There are two kind of spams. One comes directly via the list and one comes only to the addresses used at the list. Doesnt our list have a way to block so much of this? If I use my other e-mail addresses which are not registered, I get an message that the mail needs approval. The person who approves should block the spam coming via the list. But I also get some spam from people who harvested my address there. It is still not enough to make me a special filter rule. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 Even for the fact that I do not have a reason to complain, your address sounds cool. Erich + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations
Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. xpdf can view the file, but not the annotations. Please suggest a pdf viewer from ports that might help. evince? Did you try it? I do not have it installed at the moment, so I am not able to tell you. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Port update hosed entire system
Hi, On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:20:45 -0400 Rod Person rodper...@rodperson.com wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:02:54 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:08:29 -0400, Rod Person wrote: Hi All, I was attempting to update ports that used libogg with the command portmaster -d -y -r libogg I went away and came back some hours later and some updates had failed. Now my shell segfaults on any command such as ls, clear or su I tried to login on another console as root and after giving the password it just goes back to login. I am at a loss as to what to do to fix this one. That sounds like a really weird problem. FreeBSD and the ports (which portmaster deals with) are separated systems, so even if you totally hose your ports, the OS should not be affected. I'm well aware of this, and is also why I no clue what could have happened. It would never have occured to me that updating a port that has to do with audio and video containers would totally leave me unable to login into my system or issue and shell commands without getting a segmentation fault. the ports did nothing of this sort. I did discover that my / file system had run out of space -131MB. Ah, all red lights are on now. I'm still able to issue sudo, so using sudo rm -r I was able to free up 25GB...but still, /bin/sh, ls, clear all seg fault and su doesn't work and switching consoles doesn't let me log in. You ave now 25GB free on /? More red lights are on now. I maybe be left with attempting a single user boot, but I'm still not that comfortable at attempting such as I don't want to have a totally useless box. What partitioning schema do you have? Could it be that you simply filled the file system and FreeBSD does not find any space even just for a restart? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
