Third Party Patches that link to OpenSSL
Hello I've written an OpenSSL plugin for gaim that allows gaim to use the OpenSSL libraries that come installed with FreeBSD. Gaim is a GPL application, OpenSSL is BSD licensed, and apparently there are license issues to deal with as a result. http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 They've said that unless the gaim project sanctions the use of OpenSSL with their code, that I should not release the code. Apparently that would require contacting all of the prior developers to get their permission. Is this the case, or can I safely release a third party patch that gaim does not depend on to run or compile? The maintainer of gaim on FreeBSD is quite keen to use the patch. Matthew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Third Party Patches that link to OpenSSL
They've said that unless the gaim project sanctions the use of OpenSSL with their code, that I should not release the code. Apparently that would require contacting all of the prior developers to get their permission. Who is they? ChipX86, javabsp, a few others in #gaim Anyway, if there was a meaningful license conflict between Gaim and OpenSSL, the GPL (section 7) would forbid you from redistributing your modified version of Gaim+OpenSSL, but it would not forbid you from redistributing your patches by themselves. yes, i've come to that conclusion. i love gaim, i love freebsd, this makes using gaim on freebsd (and netbsd, for that matter, where there are gnutls issues) a lot better. shame that there is a tension http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=23172 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
serial consoles
Hi I'd like to be able to login using a null modem cable to a freebsd server, from a freebsd laptop. It doesn't need to display boot messages, just allow me to login after the system has booted. I've got a null modem cable connected to my freebsd server, and on the other end is a USB serial port on my laptop. On the server I've got: uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: [FILTER] in /etc/ttys on the server: ttyu0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 on secure and there is a getty running on that: $ ps xa| grep getty 1825 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyu0 On the laptop, I have: ugen1.2: FTDI at usbus1 uftdi0: USB to Serial Cable on usbus1 as well as cuaU0 and ttyU0 entries in /dev. However, when I use cu on the laptop: sudo cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -s 9600 I never get a login prompt. If I press enter, the cursor scrolls down. Likewise other characters echo back. I'm reasonably sure that I'm connected to the appropriate com port on the server because if I plug it into the other com port and press enter, nothing happens. It feels to me that I'm missing something basic. Can someone provide me with some clue? Note: I'm reasonably sure the null modem cable and USB device are fine, I've used them recently on an arm board (gateworks) running freebsd and it worked fine then. Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: serial consoles
On 12/25/11 04:45, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, Matthew Luckie wrote: However, when I use cu on the laptop: sudo cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -s 9600 I never get a login prompt. If I press enter, the cursor scrolls down. Likewise other characters echo back. I'm reasonably sure that I'm connected to the appropriate com port on the server because if I plug it into the other com port and press enter, nothing happens. Might there be something else on the server using/trying to use that com port at the same time, like apcupsd? Running cu on the server (after resetting the config) would allow manually typing characters to see if they come out of the right port. Thanks for your reply, Warren. I do run apcupsd, though it uses a usb port for communications with the UPS and is configured to do so. I turned apcupsd off in rc.conf, as well as commented out the getty line for the port, and rebooted the system. Then, I used cu on the server and found characters were sent both ways over the serial cable. I then added the /etc/ttys entry back and rebooted. When I used cu on the laptop it behaved as before -- i.e. no login prompt. If I tried using cu on the server, it timed out after about 10 seconds and said link down. Any further tips? I've put the server's apcupsd.conf, /etc/rc.conf, and dmesg.boot at http://www.wand.net.nz/~mluckie/apcupsd.conf http://www.wand.net.nz/~mluckie/rc.conf http://www.wand.net.nz/~mluckie/dmesg.boot Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: serial consoles
On 12/25/11 01:17, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Perhaps the following pages will be helpful : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serial.html#SERIAL-CABLES-PORTS http://www.freebsddiary.org/serial-console.php Thank you very much . I've read them while trying to get this going. Just a comment on the freebsd handbook pages: they seem to still talk about the sio driver which I understand is deprecated in freebsd8. One thing I have not done is touch /boot/loader.conf. I'm not worried about seeing the system boot messages, just the ability to login after the system has booted -- i.e. I did not do step 2 of 27.6.2. Should I have? Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: serial consoles
On 12/25/11 07:46, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Matthew Luckie m...@luckie.org.nz mailto:m...@luckie.org.nz wrote: One thing I have not done is touch /boot/loader.conf. I'm not worried about seeing the system boot messages, just the ability to login after the system has booted -- i.e. I did not do step 2 of 27.6.2. Should I have? Matthew I think , YES , because this statement will direct the output to serial port , please , also study the part $ cat /boot.config -D This was sufficient to get the setup I wanted -- the ability to login over a serial port should I want to. Sorry for the noise, this was all in the handbook. Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
