Re: newby needing help
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:11:01PM +, neal wrote: > I've checked out all the main functions I want from FreeBSD and had them > all working (hehe, but since broke some) so I'm happy it will do the things > I want so far. > > First question, what is recommended regarding doing updates. Is it best to > just do all of them? It depends. If the update of the base system concerns something that you use, I would definitely install it. The best way to keep the base system up-to-date is using csup (which is still referenced in the Handbook in §20.3 as cvsup). For updating the ports tree I can recommend portsnap. For updating the ports themselves I use portmaster. > I have always had problems doing this e.g. with > Mandrake and other Linuxs and so am reluctant, but if it is usual I'll give > it a try. The upgrade tools on FreeBSD work quite well. But if you're rebuilding your own ports it can take quite some time depending on your machine. > (I'm also reluctant as I assume a full update will update xorg to > 7.3 and I have 7.2 installed with the latest nvidia 9# driver and it works > beautifully so would rather stay with that. There is a new beta driver available. > I have read the Handbook, but still have a problem understanding how to map > my ext2 and ext3 partitions to the UFS notation. e.g. The notation is a BSD thing, it has nothing to do with UFS. > I have a drive hda, > it has a swap an unused space and four partitions one of which is my home > partition hda7. How do I refer to this home partition using ad0??? > notation If you do 'ls ad0*' you'll see what is available. Remember that what DOS and Linux calls partitions are called slices in FreeBSD. Partitions in FreeBSD are subdivisions of a slice. E.g. ad0s1a is partition a of slice 1 of ad0. Customarily, slice b is used for swap, and slice c is unused. You can see this with the 'bsdlabel' command. > (as this is what I understand I need to do, if not please enlighten). I > have installed the ext2fs utilities/drivers and can mount an ext2 fs > written on dvd without problems. I would recommend converting the disk to native UFS2 filesystems. I'm not sure if mounting an ext2 slice read/write is such a good idea. Make (in Linux, e.g. Knoppix) a tarball of your data and seve it to another disk or CD,DVD. Reslice and format the disk with sysinstall, and restore your backup. You might find §16.3 of the Handbook enlightening. > I intend to do a completely fresh install and would like to compile for my > specific pc kit. Would I be best doing this following installation and > initial setting up? Yes. Read Chapter 4 of the Handbook about ports. My FreeBSD page has some tips about setting port variables in make.conf; http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpkHoPrDm16I.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: newby needing help
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:39:50PM +, neal wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:11:01PM +, neal wrote: >>> I've checked out all the main functions I want from FreeBSD and had them >>> all working (hehe, but since broke some) so I'm happy it will do the >>> things I want so far. >>> >>> First question, what is recommended regarding doing updates. Is it best >>> to just do all of them? >> It depends. If the update of the base system concerns something that you >> use, I would definitely install it. > > That's the problem though, same with linux, there are obvious things that I > would update but there are likely items that I would never have a clue if I > needed them or not. As I'm going to do a completely fresh install on a > clean system I might just try doing all upgrades right from the start and > see how it goes from there. There are different branches that you can follow. You could go for 6.2-RELEASE with (security patches). You won't have to update this often. Or if you need drivers or features that are not in RELEASE yet, you can follow 6-STABLE. 7-CURRENT is for those feeling adventurous. I'd recommend starting with 6.2-RELEASE with patches. >> The best way to keep the base system up-to-date is using csup (which is >> still referenced in the Handbook in §20.3 as cvsup). >> For updating the ports tree I can recommend portsnap. For updating the >> ports themselves I use portmaster. >>> I have always had problems doing this e.g. with Mandrake and other Linuxs >>> and so am reluctant, but if it is usual I'll give it a try. >> The upgrade tools on FreeBSD work quite well. But if you're rebuilding >> your own ports it can take quite some time depending on your machine. > > I've been using the Package Manager so far but will look into using a > command prompt at some later time. I've never used "Package Manager". I didn't even know FreeBSD had one. :-) >>> I have a drive hda, it has a swap an unused space and four partitions one >>> of which is my home partition hda7. How do I refer to this home partition >>> using ad0??? >>> notation >> If you do 'ls ad0*' you'll see what is available. Remember that what DOS >> and Linux calls partitions are called slices in FreeBSD. Partitions in >> FreeBSD are subdivisions of a slice. E.g. ad0s1a is partition a of slice >> 1 of ad0. Customarily, slice b is used for swap, and slice c is >> unused. You can see this with the 'bsdlabel' command. > > OK, I've done that. > > this is the result for the drive currently being used by linux. > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/pineal]$ ls /dev/ad0* > /dev/ad0/dev/ad0s2 /dev/ad0s6 /dev/ad0s8 > /dev/ad0s1 /dev/ad0s5 /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s9 > - > > The number of apparent slices (those with a ad0s[n] designation) seen by > BSD is one more than the number of linux partitions I actually have. No I > haven't miss-counted. > > I have 1 swapfile partition and five partitions hda5-9 used by linux. Try mounting slices 5-9 with mount_ext2fs (as root). > btw I tried to run the bsdlabel command but it returns "no valid label > found" for both ad0 and ad1. My bad. That only works with BSD partitions. > Maybe I didn't make myself clear here. I have an existing in-use Linux > system. I want to be able to access the /home partition as it contains all > my personal data that I will need to move over to FreeBSD when I do the new > install. I would still recommend moving the data to a UFS2 filesystem. >> You might find §16.3 of the Handbook enlightening. > > did you mean from Ch 16 "3. Why will chmod not change the permissions on > symlinks?" I mean chapter 16, section 3; "Adding Disks" (on my 6-STABLE system). The HTML version lives at file:///usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpDe3i2IgxrZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: want to install free bsd
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:20:14AM -0700, Brian Guest wrote: > Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like to install freebsd 6.2 or 6.0 on my pentium three PC > computer. At this moment my pentium three computer has XP installed > on it i do not know which files from the freebsd website to download > and write to a CDRW orCDR could you direct me to the wright files > and walk me through the process of installing free bsd You'll need the files 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso. You can find them on FreeBSD mirror sites; [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html] If you don't have any experience, I would recommend that you 1) Read chapter 2 of the handbook; [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html] 2) Install FreeBSD on a virtual machine first, to practice. A nice free virtual machine is qemu [www.qemu.org]. You can download windows binaries from [http://www1.interq.or.jp/~t-takeda/qemu/]. 3) Install FreeBSD on your PC. I've set up a page with some tips you might find usefull [http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html]. HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpRXTDXbhnhN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Joe in MPLS wrote: > I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw & horde for > mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird & PDAs) for > primary spam control (especially because our PDAs don't do any). AV > scanning would be a plus too. I've been using bogofilter for some years now, and it works very well once you've trained it properly. I'm calling it from procmail just before the mail is delivered, but that's because my desktop has just a single local user. Bogofilter comes with a 'integrating-with-postfix' document that shows you how to call it from postfix directly. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp9up46A8KoQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Configuring FBSD to use HP Photosmart C6180
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:12:55PM -0700, White Hat wrote: > I just purchased a HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One > printer. It is connected to my network via a wireless > network. The FBSD PC is hardwired to the router. The > printer works flawlessly from the WinXP machines on > the network. > > I installed the 'hplip' port without any difficulties. > I tried "snmpwalk" and it worked fine. The problem is > that I do not know how to configure FBSD to use the > printer to print with. According to http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PhotoSmart_C6180 it should work. You might find the rest of the OpenPrinting site informative as well. What I would recommend is that you install CUPS, with CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=true set in /etc/make.conf. After installing CUPS and activating it in /etc/rc.conf, start it and surf to http://localhost:631/ Press the "Add Printer" button and follow the instructions. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpWFfEvwXdy5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Spam Filtering
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:54:22PM -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: > > My setup is basically everything gets pumped though procmail and ends up in > an Courier imap directories. > > I'm thinking of going with something like SpamBouncer (procmail filter). > Anyone use that before? Any other spam filtering that might work better > with this setup? Bogofilter works fine called from procmail. It is a Bayesian spam filter, so you have to train it. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp6m9YLFZ7F2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:30:54PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote:
>
> The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users
> by rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file,
> removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is
> to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't a
> problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new
> account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge:
>
> -ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc.
>
> If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
> ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
>
> -rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
> .jjvc.pop
>
> Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
> that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
Since rmuser is a shell-script, you could easily change it to suit your
needs. Look at the function rm_mail (lines 79-95), and change
'${login}.pop' to '.${login}.pop' in line 89,90 and line 92.
A more elegant approach would be to duplicate lines 89-93 and add the
dot before the login in the second instance, changeing " pop3" to "
qpopper" as well.
If you make this change, do not forget to re-apply it after doing a
installworld. :-)
Roland
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Re: avr-libc port problem
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 07:43:23PM +0300, Ivan Dimitrov wrote: > Dear list. > > I found a problem with the port named avr-libc. The reason is ... there is > one line of code in the Makefile with the following content: > BROKEN= Does not build > what can be the reason to checkin an intentionally broken makefile, It is a warning that building this port doesn't currently work. The build cluster probably detected this, so it was marked broken. It's up to the port maintainer or any other interested person to fix it. > and how can I use this port again? - read the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook - remove the BROKEN line from the port's makefile - try to build it and see where it breaks - make it work again. - submit a PR with the changes Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpRrOltTfzwY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0100, James Jeffery wrote: > Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). > > Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this > a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge > of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the basics. I'd say that C++ isn't the easiest way to learn programming. I'd suggest starting with Perl, Ruby or Python. > Im using Borland C++ compiler on XP and was wondering what compilers > there are for FreeBSD that would allow me to compile and execute some > of the examples i will practise from the book. FreeBSD comes with the GNU C++ and C compilers installed. There are others available (Intel) or in progress (OpenWatcom). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpmAAMiPPYvn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse from Logitech
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:05:20PM +0800, williamkow wrote: > Can anyboby advice me whether the Marble_Mouse from Logitech, > be used and recognized by FreeBSD6.2-Release ? I've used this trackball without problems with Xorg. Here's the relevant part of my xorg.conf; Section "InputDevice" Identifier "MarbleMouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "Device""/dev/psm0" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "ButtonMapping" "3 2 1 6 7" Option "CorePointer" "on" EndSection Note that this is for a left-handed person. For right-handed use, you need to swap 3 and 1 in the ButtonMapping, IIRC. Note that I _don't_ use moused(8). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp65KyPFwAeA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Memory ignored
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:09:17PM +0800, TAJUL AZHAR Mohd Tajul Ariffin wrote: > Hi all, > i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD > 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory > in my server. Can somebody tell me what is happening and give me some > idea so that i can maximize my memory usage. My total memory is 8GB. FreeBSD i386 (32 bits) can normally only address 4GB. So you can either; - use the PAE extension (but see §8.4.1 in the FreeBSD Handbook) - switch to the amd64 architecture. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpFySNyvdphu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:33:12AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > In the Unix world (such as with FreeBSD), I'd recommend C before C++, > too -- though probably long after Ruby or Perl. Too right. But it should be noted that both C and C++ give you enough rope to hang yourself with. My preference for doing things is; 1) Can it be done with a shell-script? (esp. one-time hacks) 2) Else use Perl, Octave, Ruby, but 3) If speed is key, use C. :-) > > > Im using Borland C++ compiler on XP and was wondering what compilers > > > there are for FreeBSD that would allow me to compile and execute some > > > of the examples i will practise from the book. > > > > FreeBSD comes with the GNU C++ and C compilers installed. There are > > others available (Intel) or in progress (OpenWatcom). > > Also in progress is the TenDRA compiler, though FreeBSD support is part > of what's "in progress". Both OpenBSD and NetBSD (pkgsrc) have recently imported Anders Magnusson's BSD-licensed pcc compiler. At this time it is i386 en C only. In time this might be a faster (as in compile-time) alternative to gcc. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpjHpQLuYAaY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Flashplayer?
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:26:17AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Anyone give me a heads up on what needs to be done to watch YouTube > videos using Firefox and FreeBSD 6.2? Not with firefox, but I use www/youtube_dl and multimedia/mplayer. You can also try graphics/gnash, which can work as a firefox plugin, but it's still in alpha. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpv2WNBIRvzv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse/TrackMan Wheel from Logitech
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:16AM +0800, williamkow wrote: > >Tahnk you for your reply, may I ask if I to purchase TrackMan Wheel >Mouse (Logitech), does it also work and compatible in FreeBSD? Please >advise, Thank you. >[1]http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/ >166&cl=my,en I think it will. I haven't tried it since I'm left-handed. :-) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpamJY1z8kGC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bind configuration in FreeBSD
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:29:39PM +0500, Narek Gharibyan wrote: > Hi, Please don't top-post. > I as know default version (without port upgrading) is Bind 9.3.3 in Freebsd > 6.2. You can see the version, executing named -v command. Do a > ps -ax | grep named > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhaneshk k > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 5:09 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Bind configuration in FreeBSD > > Hi friends , > > I have a FreeBSD fresh installation in a new server machine. > >Here I wants to run my DNS server , by default I found the in > /etc/namedb dir, named.conf file & master dir etc in the m/c after > OS installation , so I configured my DNS entries(I mean named.conf and > zone file for my domain I configured ) , and after that I tried to start > /etc/rc.d/named start > but no message that it is starting or not . I think that you made a small mistake. If you want to start a daemon, you have to enable it in /etc/rc.conf, otherwise it won't start (every rc script sources /etc/rc.conf with the line 'load_rc_config'). Try adding named_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, and try again. If you look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and search for 'named', you can see that it is disabled by default. You can also see there the rest of the options you can set for named. Hope this helps, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgphjyH0ZdKS9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi all, > > I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI > encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt separate slices. There is no need to encrypt stuff like / or /usr; what is there that needs to be kept secret? > All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be > entered correctly upon boot. I have tried everything I have found on the > web (including disabling 'kbdmux' in the kernel) to no avail. With a normal AT keyboard I can enter the passphrase without problems, for a non-root partition. > Does anyone have a suggestion for a workaround? Put all the data that really needs to be encrypted on a separate slice, and encrypt that. Leave the rest unencrypted, especially /boot. As a rule of thumb; don't bother encrypting anything that you can just download from the internet. :-) Here's how it looks on my machine; Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a496M126M330M28%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ar0s1g.eli120G 82G 28G75%/home /dev/ar0s1e496M 16K456M 0%/tmp /dev/ar0s1f 19G4.7G 13G26%/usr /dev/ar0s1d1.9G152M1.6G 8%/var As you can see only /home is encrypted because the rest doesn't hold data worth encrypting. If you encrypted / and /usr, you might actually make the system more vulnerable to a known-plaintext attack, because there are a lot of files with well-known contents there. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp8756KQUjO9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:34:16PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > Put all the data that really needs to be encrypted on a separate slice, > > and encrypt that. Leave the rest unencrypted, especially /boot. As a > > rule of thumb; don't bother encrypting anything that you can just > > download from the internet. :-) > > Fair enough, this makes sense. Thank you. > > > As you can see only /home is encrypted because the rest doesn't hold > > data worth encrypting. > > Well, on mine it will. I was talking about my system. Yours will of course be different. :-) > > If you encrypted / and /usr, you might actually make the system more > > vulnerable to a known-plaintext attack, because there are a lot of files > > with well-known contents there. > > I can get away with not having / encrypted, but I need /var encrypted > for databases and logs etc, /tmp so any temporary files are secured and > the swap file (swap very rarely gets used). You can even encrypt /tmp with a one-time key (see 'geli onetime'). Also have a look at the geli_* variables in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > So, I will test it as you suggested, however, would it be possible to > still house my key on a removable USB stick, and after the slices are > mounted into the file system successfully to then unmount and remove the > USB drive and have the box remain in operation, or does the key need to > be accessed throughout all disk reads/writes? It only needs to be present during creation of the GELI devices (geli attach). The rc scripts know they have to load GELI and attach the devices if they see an .eli device in /etc/fstab. Geli will ask for the passphrase(s) during boot-up if you're using them. You can specify which key-file to use in the geli_[devicename]_flags variable in /etc/rc.conf However using a USB device presents it's own problems. If you plug-in a USB stick there's no telling which device node it ends up with, depending on how many other USB devices are on the bus. To make device recognition easier, you should use a GEOM label on the USB stick, so you'll know which /dev/label/* device node it gets. And you'd probably have to hack an rc script to mount the USB stick _before_ the system tries to attach the GELI device(s). > Essentially, I'd like it so that if the box reboots while I am gone, or > if I want to reboot it remotely there is theoretically no way for > someone at the console to re-mount the encrypted slices? Well, if you don't know the passphrase during boot-up (you get 3 tries), the geli devices will not be created and mounting the slices depending on them will fail. so you don't _need_ a keyfile for that. And remember that this USB stick is another thing you have to back-up and store in a safe place. It would be bad if you lost your data because your USB stick died or got lost. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpzTSDTZjJCa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:18:38PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > > > I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI > > > encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. > > > > You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt separate > > slices. There is no need to encrypt stuff like / or /usr; what is there > > that needs to be kept secret? > > Encryption isn't only useful for private data, > it also reduces the risk of third parties replacing > your binaries with Trojans while your away. If that someone can replace binaries on a running system, you're box has been h4x0red and you're screwed anyway. Doubly so if your encrypted filesystem was mounted at the time. :-) Disk encryption is mostly a defense against data-loss in case of the machine or disk being stolen. It's easy enough to make a list of SHA256 checksums of all binaries and store that on the encrypted partition, so you can check the binaries any time you want. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpumPH70Xyal.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Mel wrote: > > > > > > Encryption isn't only useful for private data, > > > it also reduces the risk of third parties replacing > > > your binaries with Trojans while your away. > > > > If that someone can replace binaries on a running system, you're box has > > been h4x0red and you're screwed anyway. Doubly so if your encrypted > > filesystem was mounted at the time. :-) > > I think the case he's describing, is that one can remove the harddisk, mount > it as secondary drive, replace system binaries with keylogging enabled > binaries and then put it back. You won't notice this till you read daily > security report in a default system. That's a heck of a lot of trouble to go to, considering someone would have to steal your drive, alter it and put it back without you knowing it! If the intruder has physical access to the machine, it would be much easier to put a keylogger device between the keyboard and the machine. > It's questionable though, whether you should leave your computer in an > environment where this can happen undetected and probably better solved by > increasing real life security. An important point that too many people forget. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpwUiArodJxb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: batch conversion of TeX
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:44:44AM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Those who have followed my openoffice to TeX conversion know I am brand
> new to TeX and want to know how to do the following conversions
> (hopefully via some non-interactive process [eg. Make files]):
>
> TeX-->plain text
detex
> TeX-->HTML
tex4ht
> TeX-->PDF
pdftex
> TeX-->PS
tex + dvips
All these programs come with a modern TeX distribution (I use texlive).
How to use these in a makefile depends on what you have. For a simple
document, processing with the command in question suffices.
But if you use footnotes and references, you need multiple passes to
sort everything out. If your document has an index and a bibliography,
you'll need to use makeindex and bibtex.
Here's an example of a Makefile for a long document of mine;
DOCSRC = logboek_RFS_II.tex
DOCPDF = $(DOCSRC:.tex=.pdf)
SUBDIR = grafieken figuren raytrace lam calc
$(DOCPDF): ${SUBDIR} $(DOCSRC) lbref.bib
@echo -n "Regenerating the logbook... "
@! pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode -file-line-error $*.tex | grep -A
1 '^l\.'
@makeindex -c -s myindex.ist $*.idx 2>/dev/null
@bibtex $* >/dev/null
@pdflatex --interaction batchmode -file-line-error $*.tex >/dev/null
@makeindex -c -s myindex.ist $*.idx 2>/dev/null
@pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode -file-line-error $*.tex >/dev/null
@! pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode -file-line-error $*.tex |grep
Warning
@rm -f $*.lo* $*.aux $*.ilg $*.ind $*.toc $*.bbl $*.blg
@echo "Done."
${SUBDIR}::
@cd ${.TARGET}; make ${.TARGETS}
clean: ${SUBDIR}
@rm -f *.lo* *.aux *.ilg *.ind *.toc *.bbl *.blg
@rm -f $(DOCPDF)
This Makefile also runs make in several subdirectories.
Roland
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Re: Logitech G15
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:16:31AM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > Hi > > I own a Logitech G15 keyboard and although the standard keys work, none of > the multimedia or 'G' keys do. I've googled a lot on the matter and although > there is a linux kernel driver, nothing exists for FreeBSD. I'm using > 6.2STABLE RC2 and Xorg > 7.3. Has anyone got any ideas? Even ways to go about writing a driver myself > would be helpful. When in X, launch xev(1) and give it the input focus. Now press the special keys and see which keysyms they generate. Once you know what the keysyms are, you could use them to tell the window manager to e.g. launch a program when they are pressed. How that is done depends on the window manager, of course. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpirfqXh8PoG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Logitech G15
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:11:30PM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > > > It doesn't generate keysyms...hence the problem. Thanks, should've mentioned > that. Anyone got any ideas how to map keys that don't generate keysyms? Or > how to make them make keysyms rather? Does they generate KeyPress and KeyRelease events, with a keycode? If the buttons don't generate events, I think there isn't anything you can do with those keys. :-) But if they do, you can assign them a keysym in ~/.Xmodmap. See xmodmap(1). A list of keysyms is available in /usr/local/include/X11/keysymdef.h. You should remove the 'XK_' prefix from each keysym, though. I suggest you pick a couple of unused ones instead of defining your own. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpoUrsge3iFh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Logitech G15
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:56:11PM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > No, it does absolutely nothing. I've mapped keysyms for a multimedia > keyboard with xmodmap before, so I know what I'm doing there. There's a > linux driver program ( http://g15tools.sourceforge.net/) which allows you to > use everything, including the LCD screen on the keyboard. Unfortunately it > requires linux kernel support to work, which obviously I can't give it in > FreeBSD...any ideas? Really keen to just be able to use the extra keys, dont > care about the LCD :-P > Let me just add to that: I've compiled g15tools and g15daemon and installed > them in FreeBSD...when I run the g15daemon program i get: > An Error Occured - 2 : ( Unable to initialize keyboard ) received > Which I think is because it tries to load itself into the linux kernel at > that point... AFAICT, g15daemon isn't a linux kernel module, so it can't load itself into the kernel. From a cursory inspection of the g15daemon source code, it does try to access Linux specific devices, which is where I assume it fails. If you plug the keyboard in, does it show up as a uhid device, or as ugen? There are two things you could do, I think. - Port the libg15 and g15daemon to FreeBSD - Add support for the g15 to the existing uhid(4) driver. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpi3D6Y6BCFe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cdrao broken on amd64?
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:03:32PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > c++ -DDRIVER_TABLE_FILE=\"/usr/local/share/cdrdao/drivers\" -O2 > -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=nocona -o cdrdao main.o ./libdao.a > ../paranoia/libcdda_paranoia.a ../trackdb/libtrackdb.a > -L../scsilib/export -lscg -lschily -L/usr/local/lib -lmad -lm > -L/usr/local/lib -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -lm -logg -pthread > -L/usr/local/lib -lao Hmm, looks like '-lcam' is missing here. > ../scsilib/export/libscg.a(scsihack.o)(.text+0x274): In function > `scgo_close': > : undefined reference to `cam_close_device' > ../scsilib/export/libscg.a(scsihack.o)(.text+0x32b): In function > `scgo_open': > : undefined reference to `cam_open_btl' > ../scsilib/export/libscg.a(scsihack.o)(.text+0x5e2): In function > `scgo_open': > : undefined reference to `cam_open_pass' > ../scsilib/export/libscg.a(scsihack.o)(.text+0x60d): In function > `scgo_open': > : undefined reference to `cam_errbuf' > ../scsilib/export/libscg.a(scsihack.o)(.text+0x899): In function > `scgo_send': > : undefined reference to `cam_send_ccb' It should link to libcam, but it doesn't. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpkhcI5hibzq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to make a patch
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:10:57PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I found and fixed a bug in one of the ports how do I make a patch file > (I only changed one line in one file) and who do I send it to? First, you must have saved a copy of the original file before you changed it; cp file file.orig Then you edit the file. Next you crate the patch; diff -u file.orig file >youredits.diff Then you start the send-pr script, and import the contents of the diff file in the 'Fix' section. See the send-pr manual. Be sure to use the 'ports' category, and add the word '[PATCH]' to the begin of the desription line. Check if your e-mail address if correct, otherwise you won't receive replies and follow-ups. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpWSy9I9kFB5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest > mga driver is installed. > So I did another X -configure, moved the file to > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new > xf86-video-mga-1.9.100.. The screen is much brighter at the > resolution is good, but the brightness is still very dingy > compared to the "vesa" driver. There is nothing wrong with my > CRT; on the other KVM connections (and/or) with the vesa driver > at 800x600, the screen is completely bright. Is there some other > "ati" driver yet to finish? The ati driver is for ATI chips like the Radeon. You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpLwGXJn2dGM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:46:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is > > running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set > > this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. > > > Or should I ask somebbody to put back in the Radeon card? (i > think that was the card i thought was "going bad"... ) Otherwise, > I'll try the "Gamma" entry in my Monitor section with my G450. > What value should I use? Or if it is boolen, do I try settting > it to "on"?? The default setting for gamma is 1. Try e.g. 2. See also xorg.conf(5). Alternatively you can try to change it while X is running by typing 'xgamma -gamma 2' in a terminal. This does require that the VidModeExtension is active, i.e. the ServerFlags option DisableVidModeExtension should _not_ be set. > PS: to you, or to any other driver wizards::: is this mga driver > still being hacked-on? The screen is only "dingy grey" not > black. (*mumble*) It looks like it is still in development; http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mga/ BTW, I was assuming you have tried adjusting the brightness and contrast settings of the monitor? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpcJZmwqdKYc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD support for Jetway J7F4
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:14:29PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I have searched around to verify that everything works fine for this > motherboard with integrated CPU: Jetway J7F4. I understand it has a CN700 > north bridge and a VT8237R or VT8237RP south bridge, and Realtek RLT8110SC > dual LAN. > > I have found reports that FreeBSD hangs when doing ifconfig re1 up, has > this been solved? Does it work if only one NIC is used? No experience with the RLT8110S, but the two Realtek RT8139 in my machine work OK. > I understand from wikipedia that autonegotiate of SATA speed with VT8237R > fails, but what about VT8237RP? Not a huge problem though, I plan to get a > disk that accepts speed setting by a jumper. > > Does RAID work with this south bridge? I've got RAID1 working with this chip: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:0: class=0x010400 card=0x80ed1043 chip=0x31491106 rev=0x80 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8237 VT6410 SATA RAID Controller' class = mass storage subclass = RAID HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp0p6AVLz9fe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:36:09AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > The default setting for gamma is 1. Try e.g. 2. See also xorg.conf(5). > > I'll try your xgamma -gamma 2 suggestion, below. Thanks for the > data-point. I read [[ skimmed-thru ]] xorg.conf. This is another > man page that you've got to prrint out, go into a corner, and read > ... very slowly :-| The good news is that the autodetection of Xorg has improved a lot. In a lot of cases you can run 7.3 without xorg.conf. > Ja. In fact, only when everything is maxed out (brightness && > contrast) does the screen approach "dingy grey". Otherwise, it's > something like "light mud" ... and I'm not trying to be funny. You should make sure that this is not a hardware problem. Try using another monitor or another VGA cable. If you can get your hands on another graphics card (maybe built-in graphics on the mobo?) try that as well. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpq1u2GDs7di.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GELI and shutdown
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:45:06PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > A quick question: > > Is it necessary or even advisable to unmount and/or detach GELI > partitions prior to performing a halt or shutdown? This will be done automatically. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpnKGQDbOgxr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:02:29PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without > rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I > know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine) Have you tried qemu? You might need to replace its bios file by a newer one that supports EFI. (google for 'qemu vista'). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpMWqBxRaq7g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Remote root access is denied by default because of safety concerns. Log in as a normal user and then go root with su. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgprAW05s9l3U.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Per-port options in make.conf?
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:32:39PM +0100, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> Is there any way to specify options in make.conf on a per-port basis?
>
> For example, if I want Vim built without X11, I can specify the WITHOUT_X11
> flag, but putting that in make.conf will affect every port.
Use .if and .CURDIR;
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/editors/vim}
WITHOUT_X11=yes
.endif
Note that this only works for the vim port. If you want to use it for
say vim5 and vim6, you have to add an extra star at the end:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/editors/vim*}
WITHOUT_X11=yes
.endif
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Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there > any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it > is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular > which has been written which would be useful to read? I have used Linux for almost 10 years before switching to FreeBSD. A lot of the things that I leared while making the switch are documented on my FreeBSD webpage; http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ Some highlights; - services must be enabled in /etc/rc.conf (foo_enable="YES") - devices permissions are set in /etc/devfs.conf and /etc/devfs.rules - build third party applications from ports, it'll save you a lot of trouble - mounting filesystems as a non-root user has certain requirements; * the sysctl(8) vfs.usermount must be set to 1. * the user or a group that he belongs to must have read/write permission on the device * the user must _own_ the mount point HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpt3ggPoGl7m.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Q: general LaTeX mailing list
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:43:28PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Hi there, > > Who knows a good general LaTeX mailing list? Ah yes, here is also good > mailing list for the question. However, I want to give specific and > professional advice about LaTeX. Unfortunately, Google disappointed my > desire ;; Most local TeX User Groups have mailing-lists populated with knowledgeable people. See e.g. http://www.ktug.or.kr/ There is also a good TeX related group on Usenet; comp.text.tex. There are also people who do consulting for (La)TeX; http://www.tug.org/consultants.html Hope this helps. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpQmDyLS20fK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:01:02AM +0200, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD (streamingserver and > encoder or either). > > I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder quite a lot, but I > try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question would be, is there a > streaming server and possibly an encoder available for FreeBSD that will > stream live video that is compatible with most mediaplayers (for Windows, > Mac and Linux desktops)? /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos to many different formats, including wmv9 and H.264. /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming server, IIRC. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpSQGqUgXtB7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something like > that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial port, > which, alas, isn't wired to the outside of the case). Looking at ucom(4): FILES /dev/cuaU? See if that exists. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpGwot6d1Idk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Buying new sound card
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 21 October 2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: > >> Anyone who can confirm that a Creative SB Audigy SE PCI works with FreeBSD? > > It doesn't work, unless you install the oss driver from > > http://www.4front-tech.com > > That is not too hard ;-) > > > Note that in my opinion the native FreeBSD drivers are a lot better. > > What drivers? The ones that don't exist for the card? > > In my opinion the SB Audigy is a very common card that should have > been supported long ago. On the other hand, the OSS drivers are very good. The command 'apropos Audigy' gives: snd_emu10k1(4) I quote: The snd_emu10k1 driver supports the following sound cards: o Creative SoundBlaster Live! (EMU10K1 Chipset) o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (EMU10K2 Chipset) o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K2 Chipset) o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K3 Chipset) I'm not sure if this is the right one, because I can't find the type of chip used in the SE on the Creative site. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp3Ak1zQmIuG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > > I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something > > > like that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial > > > port, which, alas, isn't wired to the outside of the case). > > > > Looking at ucom(4): > > > > FILES > > /dev/cuaU? > > > > See if that exists. > > No such luck I'm afraid. There's only cuaU0, which belongs to the > onboard serial port too. Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and /dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU. Do you have the correct driver for the converter loaded next to ucom? The ucom manual page gives a list of them. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpxD3nYXTpZk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hello.. about motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with chip VT8237A
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:39:16AM +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: > Hello.. > Anyone know if motherboard MSI P4M900M2-L with the chip VT8237A works > with FreeBSD 6.2 amd64? > Do all the stuff works like p-ata/s-ata controller and network card work? > > im going to build a small server with that motherboard. > Need to know if it works with FreeBSD before i buy it :) I've got this on my mobo; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:0: class=0x010400 card=0x80ed1043 chip=0x31491106 rev=0x80 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8237 VT6410 SATA RAID Controller' class = mass storage subclass = RAID It works perfectly. I'm running it in RAID1 on amd64. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:17:5: class=0x040100 card=0x812a1043 chip=0x30591106 rev=0x60 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8233/33A/8235/8237 AC97 Enhanced Audio Controller' class = multimedia subclass = audio Sound works fine as well. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpnAuAvc4Iwa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, > > the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and > > /dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU. > > No, that one's a standard serial port, driven by sio as well, and > creates /dev/cuad0, /dev/cuaU0, maybe some /dev/tty* as well, I don't know. How do you know that cuaU0 belongs to the sio driver? It should belong to ucom. According to the manual, sio(4) devices only create ttyd and cuad devices. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgphtsum9H1Mv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:23:48PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > On 2007-10-24 17:15, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > > > Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC, > > > > the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and > > > > /dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU. > > > > > > No, that one's a standard serial port, driven by sio as well, and > > > creates /dev/cuad0, /dev/cuaU0, maybe some /dev/tty* as well, I don't > > > know. > > > > How do you know that cuaU0 belongs to the sio driver? It should belong > > to ucom. > > > > According to the manual, sio(4) devices only create ttyd and cuad devices. > > I'm guessing based on its timestamp pointing to the last system boot, > when the USB adapter wasn't connected, based on the device persisting > when I unplug the USB adapter. Is ucom loaded as a module? If so, try unloading and re-loading it and uplcom. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp9tLW0SulGe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > > sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to > > work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 > > Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl command does work. when the system > is mostly idle, It outputs '198' and when I put a high cpu load on it, > it outputs '397'. I'm not exactly sure what this means as I'm hoping > it doesn't refer to the MHz. I'm afraid it does; $ sysctl -d dev.cpu.0.freq dev.cpu.0.freq: Current CPU frequency When I see a CPU speed of 1 GHz in conky, I get: $ sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq dev.cpu.0.freq: 1000 (on my athlon64) What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpKR4KFp3cyJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > > What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the > > available CPU frequencies. > > > I get: > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 > > Is this something I should be reporting to stable? It's not explicitly > mentioned in the hardware notes so I'm not sure if my processor is > actually supported in 6.2. Is it possible that I've been shipped the > wrong processor? If so, how would I be able to tell short of ripping > off the giant heatsink and looking? Have a look at the dmesg output with 'dmesg |head -n 24'. There should be some info about the CPU in there. Post those lines here. And have a look at the bios. It could have some settings to regulate the CPU speed. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpPdjsPyuFMi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LaTeX oder teTeX
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +, Christian Walther wrote: > > a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason > stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and > teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is. > According to the teTeX website there will be no further development (at > least not from its original author Thomas Esser). Is LaTeX a better > candidate? It looks like the LaTeX in ports is even older than teTeX. The best TeX distribution for UNIX these days is TeXLive. It is a very complete TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt distribution. You can download an iso image here: http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html You'll have to build the binaries yourself, because the pre-built FreeBSD binaries are for 4.x, i.e. out of date. But it's not that difficult. > There should be some support for (or by) LyX, because I would like to > use LyX to get start. I know that TeX has a steep learning curve and I > hope to reduce it with LyX so that I can dive into TeX while working on > my projects. If you're relatively new to the TeX world, start with the ConTeXt macro package for TeX, because it is very actively developed. And it's easier than plain TeX. If you want something easier, and you don't care if it doesn't look quite as nice as (La)TeX try OpenOffice or Koffice. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpfsnOMn5aq4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:34:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell > > y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum > > update/upgrade. > > . . . except when they break something. It's a lot easier to fix broken > software on FreeBSD than with a binary packaged based Linux distribution, > in my (recent) experience. I rarely see port breakage. If I do it's usually a case of PEBKAC, :-) Having said that, switching between major versions of FreeBSD can be a hassle with ports. > > I used to love spending my Friday nights updating my FreeBSD ports - > > then, as you are finding out - it's just getting tedious. > > I've never found updating the software on a system "fun". That's part of > the reason I find I prefer FreeBSD: it doesn't break shit as often, and > thus doesn't make it even *more* un-fun. In my experience it is much easier to keep ports updated every other week or so than to to it after a couple of months. Only when switching between major versions of FreeBSD it is time for drastic measures. I usually delete and reinstall all ports after making such a switch. It is the best way to keep the amount of old cruft on the system to a minimum. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpK2OTBKccag.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LaTeX oder teTeX
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:21:49PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I gave up after encountering problems with older fonts in ported version of > teTeX and decided that it is better to wait for guys to port TeXLive than > to waist the time trying to resolve dependency issues teTeX vs powerdot. > In the mean time I use live DVD with TeX Live which is perfectly OK > solution with me as I do not want 3.7Gb of all TeXLive junk (font for > languages I have never heard or some exotic features) on my hard-drive > anyway. It is also really made for Linux and hard-disk installation will do > quite a few thinks that we do not allow in FreeBSD (like using /etc file > for non system applications) The TeXLive installer allows you to choose what stuff you want to install or not. You don't have to install the whole lot. I've installed TeXLive 2007 to use /usr/local/texlive/2007 as its prefix and data directory, and that works fine. Everything is contained within that tree. It does not put things in /etc or /usr/local/etc if you do this. What you do need to do after building the binaries is add /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/-unknown-freebsd to the path in /etc/login.conf. Compiling the binaries isn't difficult. I've configured them to use system libraries as much as possible, but if you don't do that the binaries will have few dependancies beyond the base system libraries. I've noticed that Omega wouldn't compile on my amd64 system, so I hacked the makefile a little to fix that. If anybody wants to know how, drop me a line. Omega will be supplanted by LuaTeX anyway. This is how I configured the binaries on my amd64 system; ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/texlive/2007 \ --datadir=/usr/local/texlive/2007 --without-dvi2tty \ --without-musixflx --without-omega --enable-ipc --with-system-ncurses \ --with-ncurses-libdir=/usr/lib --with-ncurses-include=/usr/include \ --with-system-pnglib --with-pnglib-libdir=/usr/local/lib \ --with-pnglib-include=/usr/local/include/libpng \ --with-system-t1lib --with-t1lib-libdir=/usr/local/lib \ --with-t1lib-include=/usr/local/include \ --with-system-zlib --with-zlib-libdir=/usr/lib \ --with-zlib-include=/usr/include \ --with-system-gd --with-gd-libdir= /usr/local/lib \ --with-gd-include=/usr/local/include \ --with-system-freetype2 --with-freetype2-libdir=/usr/local/lib \ --with-freetype2-include=/usr/local/include --without-cjkutils \ --without-dvidvi --with-x11 --with-system-icu \ --with-icu-libdir=/usr/local/lib --with-icu-include=/usr/local/include Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpW3dcRl44ov.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: slight emergency here...
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > > I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. > Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair > the damage. Oops. If fsck can't fix it, that's not good. Have you tried running fsck by hand, i.e. without -p? If you run it from the console it can fix a bit more than when running in preen mode, but this may result in data loss. > At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to > elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy > everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command. Make sure that the hardware isn't broken. If you have (S)ATA disks, use 'smartctl -a /dev/'. The canonical way to make backups is to use dump(8). Unmount /var and use 'dump -0 -a -f '. But if the filesystem is really hosed, it might not be possible to copy everything. In that case make a copy with dd of the partition that /var is on so you can try to save any data that has not been backed up. Probably the safest way to go is to newfs the filesystem that /var is on and restore your latest backup. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpsymmTSMPlK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LaTeX oder teTeX
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:46:20AM +0100, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've installed TeXLive 2007 to use /usr/local/texlive/2007 as its prefix > > and data directory, and that works fine. Everything is contained > > within that tree. It does not put things in /etc or /usr/local/etc if > > you do this. What you do need to do after building the binaries is add > > /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/-unknown-freebsd to the path > > in /etc/login.conf. > > I am considering giving a try to TeXlive these days. I take the > opportunity of this thread to ask you about your strategy to make the > TeXlive system cohabit with ports that wants teTeX. For the moment I just remove the teTeX dependencies from those ports before I build them. I've thought about whipping up a fake teTeX port, but I was not sure if I could pull that off. > The second question is about ports that install TeX related stuff > (such as macro packages, like NOWEB do). I guess you edited texmf.cnf > to let /usr/local/share/texmf-local appear in TEXMF trees. Am I right, > and was this enough to let things run well? TeXLive is so complete that I didn't really have to install any stuff from ports. I have a $HOME/texmf tree where I can stick the odd style file. The standard texmf.cnf uses $HOME/texmf be default. > To consider more FreeBSD specific issues, I have read elsethread that > some people are working on porting TeXlive to FreeBSD. When this > (awesome) work will be done, FreeBSD users will have two options to > install a TeX system from the ports: teTeX and TeXlive. These two > systems provide similar service. In such a situation, how are managed > the dependencies? How would a porter say ``This port run-depends on a > TeX system, no matter which one it is''? No idea. Maybe there will be a generic TeX dependency that can be fullfilled by either TeXLive or teTeX. But in the long run I expect that TeXLive will replace teTeX. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpC1kPGeoLi3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:50:40PM +, Stephen Allen wrote: > It's been drawn to my attention not to use bash from the ports collection, > because if one of it's dependencies (gettext or libiconv) fails or is > updated significantly, it could break, and prevent login. The suggested > solution was to use a base shell (such as sh) and append 'bash -l' to .shrc > to automatically enter bash. This is only a problem for root. If you want to use bash as root you should compile it statically. See below. > Would it be a better idea to use the pre-compiled binary for bash? And if > I did so, could I be alerted to updates as easy as using 'pkg_version -v' > when checking if any ports need updating? You can define WITH_STATIC_BASH when you're building bash, so the binary is self-contained. But if you're starting in single user mode, only / will be mounted. So if you have /usr or /usr/local on a separate partition, you'd be screwed. That is why root should only use a shell that's in the / partition. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpsNmMLeqBVg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:39:24AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen that recently on the mailing list there has been a discussion on > running i386 FreeBSD binaries under an amd64 system. As far as I have been > able to read there does not appear to be anyway of achieving this except > though either a chroot/jail or vitalization. I think this is a short fall > of FreeBSD currently as there are still proprietary i386 programs for > FreeBSD that people may want to use under FreeBSD. Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to "nice to play with" :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. And it's not a given that amd64 will be faster than i386. It depends on the workload. If your workload is IO-bound (i.e. constantly waiting for the disk to finish reading/writing) the CPU doesn't really matter. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpBrNf9QlGRi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:22:24PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. > > Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of > problems I can't figure out. > > I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. > > The main reason I'm trying out FreeBSD is because I want to set up my own > web server, and the Ports seemed liked a way to do it that manages conflicts > & dependencies better even that Linux systems. Not being much of a program > guy, that sounds good to me! > > When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors > out with > > IGNORED > Unknown Berkeley DB version It builds fine on my machine (7.0-BETA1, amd64). Which version of FreeBSD are you running? Did you update your ports tree before building apache? (run 'portsnap fetch extract' once. Later use 'portsnap fetch update' to keep the tree up-to-date.) Did you set or unset any options? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpqxQe8srwJR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:27:32AM +, Stephen Allen wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: >> Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to "nice to play >> with" :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. > > What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would you have to use > amd64 then? You could use PAE (Physical Address Extensions) on i386. That gives the CPU access to 64 GB. But that does not mean all that address space is available for programs. It does not influence the standard limits on process sizes though. See /sys//include/vmparam.h and /sys/conf/NOTES. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp7JqDPsxdAW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Core dump
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:32:10PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > A program that I use has started giving me this error message when I try > to load it: > > Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) This means that the program has either tried to read from a part of the memory that it isn't allowed to access, or it has tried to write to a memory page that is marked read-only. > Can someone give me a heads up on what's going on here. I've done a > reinstall to no avail. It is a bug in the program. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpgQTPsLfEjo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: can you help script about rename directory
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:20:13AM +0800, adrian kok wrote: > Hi all > > how can I have script to rename the following > directory pattern from > > > > from > > dir-192.168.30.0 > dir-192.168.30.144 > dir-192.168.30.184 > > > To: > > dir-10.0.30.0 > dir-10.0.30.144 > dir-10.0.30.184 > > thank you for f in dir-192*; do mv $f `echo $f|sed s/192\.168/10\.0/`; done Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpFyruwWUsjV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Set perms on attach of USB umass disk
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:53:00AM -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: > I've been trying (and failing) to figure out how to adjust ownership > or permissions of a USB memory stick on device attach. > [snip] > I've tried altering devfs.conf but this appears to only work for > devices that are attached at startup of devfs. [snip] As a matter of fact, this is documented in the devfs.conf manual page. This will also tell you where to look; > What's the right way to handle this? You'll have to use devfs.rules. See 'man devfs.rules' The fact that there are two configuration files is a bit confusing. But that is because of the way removable devices are handled. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpVKJDhKsvLT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fsck gave up on me!
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 07:42:59AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have been using FreeBSD 6.2 for a couple of months now with no major >> snags. Until now. I did a portupgrade this morning and afterwards, >> when I logged in as a user into Gnome, my desktop was missing most of >> the programs (Accessories, System Tools, etc.). >> I rebooted the machine and "that other" terminal screen came up >> (Single User?) and I was prompted to "run fsck manually" so I did so. >> Well, fsck gave up on me. I have no idea what happened or why. Can >> anyone help me understand what is going on with my machine and any >> possible actions I can take to resolve this? >> >> >> Script started on Fri Nov 2 17:13:22 2007 >> You have mail. >> root# fscd[Kk >> ** /dev/ad1s1a (NO WRITE) >> ** Last Mounted on / >> ** Root file system >> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes >> CANNOT READ BLK: 524544 >> CONTINUE? [yn] y >> THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 524544, > > That looks like a hard drive going bad. Best make a backup if you still can. Install the sysutils/smartmontools port. Then use smartctl(8) with the -a option on /dev/ad1. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpF3rYhpoqzZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Which version with a Xeon X3210
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:31:33AM +, Chris Hastie wrote: > I've just ordered a new server based on the Intel Xeon X3210. This is a > quad core processor supporting the Intel 64 (formerly known as Intel® > EM64T, according to the flyer) instruction set. > > I plan to install FreeBSD 6.2 on it, but I'm not clear whether I should > be using the AMD64 version or the x86 version. If you routinely run out of address space on i386 with your workload, you should use amd64. It is possible for amd64 to be faster than i386 (more registers, among other things), but it depends on the workload (an IO-bound workload will see little difference, I suspect). You'll have to test that. If you depend on binary and/or i386-only ports (e.g. nv driver, wine, flash plugin) you should probably go with i386. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpARDxzq14QS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help Failing Disk Problem
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:16:46PM +, James wrote: > > rsync is too high-level, and may not do exactly the right thing with > > links or sparse files or who knows what. > > rsync -cav takes cares of symlinks and all that just right. It's a > beautiful thing. > > Checksumming, too. Ah, bliss. It doesn't necessarily do the right thing with flags, acls and other extended attributes, > > dd is too low-level--you get > > the same partition table/bsdlabel and the exact same slice/partition > > sizes. That's okay on an identical hard drive, but a pain on one that's > > larger. > > dump, on the other hand, is just right. > If the file names on the drive change during the dump, corruption can > occur. At least on linux. I remember Torvalds ranting about it on a > mailing list. I imagine FreeBSD suffers the same issue, though, as it's > a pretty generic problem. For starters, you should _never_ dump a live filesystem. What you can do is dump a snapshot of a live filesystem, using dumps '-L' option, because a snapshot is like a frozen image of the filesystem; it doesn't change. Dump & restore is the best way to move data and all attributes to a larger disk. See §9.2 of the FAQ. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpQI3Oof6eue.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help Failing Disk Problem
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote:
> Roland,
>
> The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention.
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option?
>
> I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any mention of it.
> Can you point me in the right direction?
It's in dump(8);
-L This option is to notify dump that it is dumping a live file sys-
tem. To obtain a consistent dump image, dump takes a snapshot of
the file system in the .snap directory in the root of the file
system being dumped and then does a dump of the snapshot. The
snapshot is unlinked as soon as the dump starts, and is thus
removed when the dump is complete. This option is ignored for
unmounted or read-only file systems. If the .snap directory does
not exist in the root of the file system being dumped, a warning
will be issued and the dump will revert to the standard behavior.
This problem can be corrected by creating a .snap directory in
the root of the file system to be dumped; its owner should be
``root'', its group should be ``operator'', and its mode should
be ``0770''.
I use dump with the following options (e.g. for /usr);
dump -0 -B 4589560 -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -P \
'cat - >usr-0-20071106-vol${DUMP_VOLUME}.dump' /usr
This splits dump output in DVD-R sized chunks.
Roland
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Re: make buildworld ....gcc bug
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:01:21PM +0200, tethys ocean wrote: > When I am rebuilding world FreeBSD 6.2 I have take error that is > shown below. What can I do!? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# make buildworld > In function `yylex': > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/../../../../contrib/binutils/ld/ldlex.l:579: > internal compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11 Check your hardware, especially your memory. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpyz076I8bDV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:58:39AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: > I then proceeded to the mergebase.sh script, ran that and when I was > satisfied that all was done as expected, I rebooted my machine. Well, > that's when X failed to start. So, how would I go about correcting this > problem? Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what exactly is the problem. While you're busy solving the problem, it is best to log into a shell instead of xdm. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpbX0Ni1sAUy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:48:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > Concerning this, I've "cvsuping" to 6-CURRENT on a dual-core desktop. The > system is running well, but I'd really like to move up to 7. Can it be done > through cvsup from 6.2-STABLE to 7-CURRENT or is it "wiser" to install from > scratch? any upgrade gotchas/procedure ? It _can_ be done. (I've done it). First, make a list of all your ports (portmaster -L works fine for that). Then csup to RELENG_7. Then follow the instructions from /usr/src/Makefile (the bit about 'upgrade their source'). I've outlined the process below, with my own additions marked with lowercase letters a. Make backups b. Read /usr/src/UPDATING 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' 10. `reboot' c. `pkg_delete -a' (delete all your ports) 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) d. Reinstall all root and leaf ports. Dependencies will then be installed automatically. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpxV3veaiHhN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:27:58PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > a. Make backups > > b. Read /usr/src/UPDATING > > 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' > > 10. `reboot' > > c. `pkg_delete -a' (delete all your ports) > > 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) > > d. Reinstall all root and leaf ports. Dependencies will then be > > installed automatically. > > I went through this process myself in pretty much the order you > describe. Due to bitter experience, I'd say that reinstalling > all ports should be done before 'make delete-old-libs' -- by > killing all the old 6.x shlibs you make it hard to run most > software previously installed under 6.x including such things as > 'portupgrade'... > > You don't need to delete all the ports in one go and then reinstall > them in another: running 'portupgrade -fa' will do the job. Port upgrade tools are not guaranteed to work perfectly in this situation. I tried doing an update with portmanager and ended up with some binaries linked against both libc.so.6 and libc.so.7! Some ports didn't even compile. That's why I would recommend doing a clean sweep when updating to another major version. > That can take several days to complete if you've got a machine with > OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Java, KDE, Gnome, X Windows > etc. installed. If you're careful you can still keep various services > running during that time, restarting them one by one as the various > applications get upgraded. It took me about a day and a night to reinstall everything (415 ports), mostly un-attended. But then I don't use OpenOffice nor java and fvwm2 instead of Gnome/KDE. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpWQ7N1MwQz4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:32:22PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> You don't need to delete all the ports in one go and then reinstall >>> them in another: running 'portupgrade -fa' will do the job. >> Port upgrade tools are not guaranteed to work perfectly in this >> situation. I tried doing an update with portmanager and ended up with >> some binaries linked against both libc.so.6 and libc.so.7! Some ports >> didn't even compile. > > portmanager isn't recommended for use since it became abandonware a long > time ago and never reached maturity. If you (correctly ;) use portupgrade > (e.g. -fa or -faP) then you will not have this problem. Dang, I meant portmaster, not portmanager. My bad. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpBmmmvL2GnO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:40:27PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > Wow ! Thanks, Roland !! Just what I needed. > One last question. > You said "csup to RELENG_7". I use cvsup so should my tag be 7-RELENG ? You don't need the cvsup port anymore. A rewrite in C called 'csup' is part of the base system in 6.x. The tag should be RELENG_7, since the syntax of the supfiles hasn't changed. The release level will be 7.0-BETA2 at this time, which will become 7-STABLE once 7.0 is released. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpNmc31vjJ1V.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:16:38PM +0100, John Smith wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 6:59 PM, Yuri Pankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > May be not entirely correct, but close: > > > > ldd binary | grep libc.so > > > > Yes, that helps somewhat. At least I now know that it's FreeBSD 4.x. > And before I again forget something I forgot to mention earlier on: I > also have a file called 'kernel'. Could that somehow give somewhat > more detailed information about exactly which 4.x kernel it is, and if > so, how would I go about doing that ? The command 'strings kernel | grep "^@(#)FreeBSD"' should do the trick. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpv32tvv1jVK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:14:13PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: > Be careful if you not using standard shell becauseif you using a shell > come from ports Root should _never_ use a shell from ports. You can use the 'toor' account for that. > > 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) > > d. Reinstall all root and leaf ports. Dependencies will then be > > installed automatically. > > Wellwhat's the difference between what you say and make a new > installation ? If you re-install, you're stuck with a GENERIC kernel, unless you recompile that afterwards which is extra work. > I've do this sometime ago because I don't have 7.0-Beta CD-rom, and I've > install a 6.2 and make what you say...but for me rebuild all ports it's > same thing to make a new-installation. After a major version update you'll have to rebuild all ports anyway. But it seems that portupgrade is up to the task as well. I would go for a new install if I wanted to change the relative sizes of my partitions. Otherwise I'd stick with the source upgrade, because it is not as much work IMHO. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpBfyooXO3MM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cups-base problem
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:18:19AM +0100, zbigniew szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Aryeh M. Friedman pisze: >> > I am not sure I understand the message about remote execution of >> > arbitrary code. >> That is just saying that if the security issue is a problem for you >> don't upgrade (i.e. go ahead if you don't care). >> > Thanks but I think I now understand even less :) > If a security issue is a problem, don't upgrade??? Apparently there is a bug in this port that would allow an attacker from outside to make cupsd execute his malicious code. Therefore installation of this port is forbidden as a precaution until a fix is available. But if you have a firewall that rejects incomming connections or if you have cupsd set up to deny all connections but local ones this bug presumably cannot affect you. > Not sure also how one could go ahead? There is no option to continue. The > message appears and that's all. I am not given any option. Upgrade the port once it is fixed. In the meantime block incoming connections either in cupsd.conf or with your firewall. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp0xktlq0rfD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: > I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is > a newbie supposed to know the differenced Both nanobsd and picobsd have manual pages. Try 'man nanobsd' and 'man picobsd'. Picobsd has been superseded by nanobsd, whose primary is building system images for embadded systems. This is definitely not a newbie subject. > and how can I test this if I don't have a spare machine? Use a virtual machine, like Qemu or vmware. > My question was more out of interest. This mailing list is called > FreeBSD-Questions, so why can't I asked a reasonable question and > expect a reasonable reply...? You're supposed to look for answers yourself first. A quick googling of tinybsd, nanobsd and picobsd would have given you these links: http://www.tinybsd.org/tinybsd http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/howto.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoBSD Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpDcGV52NrWX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PPD files vs printer drivers also LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:39:29PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I am trying to understand little bit better Unix printing. I am terribly > confused about > the real meaning of PPD files and printer drivers. > > According to this > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description > > PPD files are post script description files that act as a drivers for post > script printers. This seems clear to me but I have never had a post > script printer in my life. They are not really drivers but more files that describe the capabilities of the printer. > According to same page CUPS-PPD are used by CUPS to do post-script printing > on non-postscript printers by directing files through > CUPS-filter. Could somebody explain this things better to me. Every time I > used CUPS the PPD files where enough to enable me printing. > Did I really use some other drivers beside these PPD files or did CUPS > communicate with my printers with some generic driver and just > uses PPD files to do filtering. The latter. Cups uses the ghostscript program to translate postscript into something that the non-postscript printer can understand. > What is the simplest way to send ps file to the printer that doesn't speak > ps? If I could do that everything else is peace of cake. I read very > carefully printing form the handbook but I want to learn more. Use ghostscript. This is what both apsfilter and cups do. They've just made it a lot easier than doing it yourself. And as you can see from the size of both cups and apsfilter 'everything else' is a substantial piece of cake. > Could anybody explain me if there are some strong reasons for choosing LPD > over CUPS or LPRng system (seems just GUI added on the top of LPD) > It would logical to me that LPD is safer (CUPS port has some security > warnings) and maybe more reliable. In any case it is included in the base > system and I prefer to use something included in the base system In the past, lpd had a lot of security issues as well. I'm not sure if they're all solved. Both apsfilter and cups do more than standard lpd, which is only a printer spooler. Both cups and apsfilter look at what you're trying to print and try to convert it to a form suitable for printing. Standard lpr only understands a couple of ancient formats (ditroff, dvi, cif, plot) next to plain text. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpCHd5TdzjCt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cups-base problem
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:41:43PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > Reko Turja wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Today I saw a security notice: >> ..snip... >>> cat distinfo >>> MD5 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = d4911e68b6979d16bc7a55f68d16cc53 >>> SHA256 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = >>> 5e9e5670777055293e309cb0cbb2758df9c1275bf648df70478b7389c2d804de >>> SIZE (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = 4077262 >> Update your ports and INDEX file as it seems that you are installing a >> vulnerable version of cups-base. The VuXML report says: >> Affects: >> cups-base <1.3.4 >> so the cups-1.3.3 still has the vulnerability mentioned in the report. > > Actually, I think the worst security problem I've seen is one I don't > personally care to fix right now, but I guess I will soon. It's the fact > that postscript is actually a language, one that's more general purpose in > limitations than many people realize. Isn't that true? I think this means > that my postscript interpreter (which is, for me, and I think for most, is > ghostscript) should have some security controls on it, to limit > postscript's direct access to local machine capabilities. When using ghostscript you should always call it with the -dSAFER option, so it can only open files read-only. Or you could buy a postscript capable printer. > I think that the options in gs for security are too little. It'd be pretty > easy to write a really nasty worm. I remember laughing at my Windows > friends, back when that Philappines worm hit, but we could get pretty > easily hit on gs, or am I all wet? It's not as easy as it seems. It would be possible to write a postscript program that mails itself to other addresses. But no UNIX mail client that I know of automatically opens and renders postscript code, let alone with root privileges, which you need to do _real_ damage instead of just annoy people. So you'd need user intervention to spread the virus. And gathering addresses isn't straightforward either. Every mail program has it's own file for storing those. And there are usually multiple places where mail can be stored, and that can be in at least two formats (mbox and maildir). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgprpEWz35YP8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 7.0 install
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:04:52AM -0600, Chad Albert wrote: > I have downloaded the 7.0 beta 2 ISO file for i386. I am trying to install > it on an ASUS G1S laptop. 6.2 works very nicely all except support for the > WIFI card (Intel 4965AGN). When I insert the Install CD and start going > through the steps, it seems as if every key I press sends a ctrl key with > it. If you have trouble with the installer, and you already have 6.2 on it, why don't you do a source upgrade as covered in the handbook? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp7Cq6qv2nJR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:34:26PM -0600, J. Porter Clark wrote: > Is there any way to keep certain files out of the reach of > mergemaster? I understand the need for carefully merging the > old and the new, but I really shouldn't ever have to for files > like these: > > /etc/aliases > /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.allow > /etc/manpath.config > ... and many others. Set the system immutable and undeletable flags (as root); chflags schg,sunlnk /etc/aliases /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.allow \ /etc/manpath.config > Mergemaster has so many options that I'm fairly certain that > there must be some way to do this. There is an option you can set in /etc/mergemaster.rc to ignore /etc/motd, and the -P option to preserve replaced files. Of course you can always hack it to ignore some files. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpqOhnPK3OpK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 02:13:19PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Okay, I've set vfs.usermount=1, but both totem and kmplayer > refuse to play my audio-CD. You don't mount audio CDs. They don't carry a cd9660 filesystem. Try something like this with a CD in the drive; mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/acd0 cdda://1 Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp4MQ3EwQHzG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unexpected shutdown
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:12:34PM +0100, n j wrote: > I know there are many possibilities out there, but I am pondering this > for the whole day and ruled out everything that came to mind. So, any > other ideas - even humorous - are welcome. Since it was a regular shutdown as opposed to a panic, something must have triggered that shutdown. UPS drivers can shut the system down, but you seemed to have ruled that out? It could be triggered by the acpi_thermal driver. Check system temperatures with sysctl or mbmon. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpJlRpgjnpZG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unexpected shutdown
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:55:42AM +0100, n j wrote: > Hello Randy, Roland, Gary, > > > UPS drivers can shut the system down, but you seemed to have ruled > > that out? > > The UPS is present, but I never set up and configured anything (no > snmp or any other agents) that would give the UPS the permission to > shutdown the machine and besides there are more machines on the same > UPS that continued to work just fine, so I guess that UPS is ruled > out, yes. > > > It could be triggered by the acpi_thermal driver. Check system > > temperatures with sysctl or mbmon. > > This is actually what I was looking for, even if it turns out it is > not the solution: a pointer to a useful port plus pointer to reading > the temperatures with sysctl. That kind of things makes the -questions > an invaluable resource. :-) > That remark led me to discover the following: > > - kldstat shows acpi.ko loaded > - sysctl has no acpi thermal variables whatsoever! It depends on the mobo and the acpi tables if it works. It works on my laptop but not on my destop for instance. > which further led me to check for acpi thermal variables on another > FreeBSD 6.2 (non-Dell) server and sure they were there. So it seems > that acpi thermal is not working (is perhaps "blacklisted", a term I > noticed in the man page) on Dell Poweredge (in this case PE 1750 as > well as PE 750) servers. Anyone can verify this? Well, if it's not the ups nor a thermal overload, I guess the obvious solution is that some joker gave a shutdown command with a 3am time. :-) According to shutdown(8) there should be a message in the log stating when the system went down, who did it and why. Or maybe there is a script that calls shutdown under some circumstances? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp6k4JhetSVW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: can any sound wzards help me set this right?
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:04:20AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Saturday,, following the adviice of this group plus things I > found of the web, I put together this list of mods to make to > /boot/loader.con, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/devfs.conf Still, > after rebooting/doing-hard-resets 5 or 6times, things hung if or > if I did NOT have an audio CD in my top burner. > > Anybody see what's wrong with the following 37 lines of > notes? > > ++ boot/loader.conf > atapicam_load="YES" Atapicam is needed if you want to use cdrecord and growisofs (dvd+rw-tools). > hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 Mine says (note the quotes); hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" > vfs.usermount=1 This should be in /etc/sysctl.conf Don't forget that this is not sufficient you mount stuff as a normal user; - you need read/write permissions to the device - and you need to _own_ the mount point. > == > > ++ /etc/rc.conf > devd_enable=YES By default, devd doesn't do anything usefull with CD/DVD devices, AFAICT. I'm not sure what you need this for. > ++ /etc/devfs.conf > > link acd0 cdrom > perm /dev/acd0 0666 Looks OK. I've got the following in devfs.conf, to use the CD/DVD burner as a pseudo SCSI device (atapicam in kernel, but not atapicd); # Give members of group cdrom access to the CD/DVD-ROM and DVD+RW via the # SCSI interface own xpt0root:cdrom permxpt00660 own cd0 root:cdrom permcd0 0660 own cd1 root:cdrom permcd1 0660 linkcd0 cdrom linkcd0 dvd The following is in /etc/devfs.rules; add path 'pass*' mode 0660 group cdrom IIRC I did this because pass devices are created as needed. My kernel config has the following devices (among others); device ata device atadisk # ATA disk srives device ataraid # RAID drives device atapicam# Emulate ATAPI devices as SCSI via CAM options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device cd # Compact Disc device da # Direct Access (disks) device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgprta5ZnLcDv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: snd_ich skipping playback
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:50:05PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > I updated to RELENG_7 yesterday, but I'm noticing that the snd_ich driver > quite often skips playback for a short period of time at some points. > Especially when doing mysql queries. Anyone else having problems with > snd_ich ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a > FreeBSD FStaals.net 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #2: Mon Nov 19 19:50:46 CET > 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PFSERVERKERNEL amd64 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pciconf -lv > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:4:0:class=0x040100 card=0x71851462 > chip=0x005910de > rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 >vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' >device = 'Realtek ALC850 Realtek AC'97 Audio' >class = multimedia >subclass = audio > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dmesg | grep pcm > pcm0: port 0xea00-0xeaff,0xee00-0xeeff mem > 0xfe02d000-0xfe02dfff irq 23 at device 4.0 on pci0 > pcm0: [ITHREAD] > pcm0: I've had trouble with skipping sound some time ago on machines with another chipset; $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0xd800 irq 22 [MPSAFE] (5p:4v/1r:1v channels duplex default) I put the following in /boot/device.hints # Larger DMA buffer for the soundcard, for better sound quality. hint.pcm.0.buffersize="16384" This fixed the problem for me. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpfb0AF32HNn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio?
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:55:48AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > Long-short-short, at least two Gnome-type players work: > sound-juicer and gnome-cd. But KsCD gives no audio. > > I am logged in as root while doing this initial testing, > after Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, noted that my > mountpoints had to be chown'd to [username]. Playing music usually* has nothing to do with mountpoints. Mountpoints are only needed when you want to use a data CD with a filesystem on it. > I do want to use > tools like K3B so the cc to the kde-freebsd list.But still > wondering, even tho I can get the KDE CD play to display, and to > act as tho it is working---the digits count, the slider moves: > nothing from the speakers. When I bring up gnome-cd, I have > audio. > > Suggestions from KDE-land, please? I'm not a KDE user, but check which audio device or output plugin the KDE player is trying to use. If the display works (displays artist and track info etc.) it is usually a sign that the data is being read OK. So I would ssupect the output in this case. Roland * I seem to recall at least one pseudo filesystem driver for Linux that represented an audio CD as a bunch of WAV files. -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpDiIMiArAVd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Basically: why such troubles with KDE audio?
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:00:11PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Playing music usually* has nothing to do with > > mountpoints. Mountpoints are only needed when you want to use a data > > CD with a filesystem on it. > > Ah, thanks for the clarification. I might not want to get sloppy > with data/filesystems on a CDROM... . > > > > > I do want to use > > > tools like K3B so the cc to the kde-freebsd list.But still > > > wondering, even tho I can get the KDE CD play to display, and to > > > act as tho it is working---the digits count, the slider moves: > > > nothing from the speakers. When I bring up gnome-cd, I have > > > audio. > > > > > > Suggestions from KDE-land, please? > > > > I'm not a KDE user, but check which audio device or output plugin the > > KDE player is trying to use. If the display works (displays artist and > > track info etc.) it is usually a sign that the data is being read OK. So > > I would ssupect the output in this case. > > it --kscd--displays the numerals, counts--up,etc. just no audio. > how can i determine what output this program m is trying to use? > AND do so without messing up my kttsd and other such kde toys? > > I've used the "configure" option, but see nothing. Look here: http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdemultimedia/kscd/kscd-options-tab.html What you're looking for should be 'Select audio backend' of 'Select audio device'. If you are using the 'arts' backend (KDE's default audio system, I think?), it may have a configuration dialog of its own somewhere? (Not a KDE user, so I can't really help you there.) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpMy6DOzwldx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: arbitrary build can't find libs - right way to do this?
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:34:29PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > I'm trying to compile a non-port application for the first time ever. > The associated library built and installed just fine - I can see them > right in /usr/local/lib and usr/local/include/libnamefoo.h However, > when I run ./configure for the application, it clearly can't find the > libs. So my question is, should I be changing my path, is there a > standard variable I need to export, or what? Obviously for ports this > just works, so I've never had to do it. I'm sure there's a standard > way, so I thought I'd get in the habit of doing that right from the > start... The best way would be to write a port makefile and submit it. That way you only have to figure it out once. Especially if the app needs patches to work correctly on FreeBSD. And in case of a free software app, others can use it as well, _and_ help you with bugfixing. :-) For closed source stuff submitting a port would probably be useless. Usually configure scripts have options that allow you to tell it where to look for header files and libraries. You can also use the environment variables CPATH (for include files) and LIBRARY_PATH that tell gcc where to look. After installing a shared library, you need to run ldconfig so the system can find it at runtime. Usually this is done by make install, but it can't hurt to make sure. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp1tOzAZTHQX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:07:32PM +, Chris wrote: > Interesting so I learnt 2 things here csup exists so no need to > install cvsup and I should run 'make delete-old-libs' . Basically I > have done the following. Well, you don't _have_ to (nobody is forcing you to do it). But if you don't, old stuff piles up in your system. > 1 - upgraded world and kernel, mergemaster etc. > 2 - reinstalled all ports portupgrade -af > 3 - installed compat6x > > I have not ran 'make delete-old-libs' It doesn't run automatically, AFAIK. But maybe installing the compat6x package had some effect? (I never bother to use compat packages). > I thought the old libs were removed because after I booted up into the > 7.0 world alot of ports didnt work as libs they linked to were missing > so had to be recompiled anyway to even run. My experience is that port upgrade tools cannot do everything. A major upgrade is a good time to scrub your ports as well, again to get rid of old stuff. > Do I run 'make delete-old-libs' in /usr/src ? Yes. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpqQiXSXrWuF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: is this IT or not/
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:49:52PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > I did have a "vfs." entry in the wong file; that has seemed to > make a big difference. On my Ubuntu server most of these > utilities Just-Work. I would like to burn CD's and maybe a > DvD or two. But k3b seems way too far. Do you--or anyone > else on-List--know if the gnome burner (*Baker) works out of > the box? ---I realize that our speciality is as-servers. > With stability. But since I'm building a new main machine > that is not my DNS/web/server, I'd rather stick with FBSD. All those graphical programs are just front-ends for - cdrecord (CDs) - growisofs (fro DVDs, from the dvd+rw-tools package) So try and get those to work from the command-line first. Then install k3b or baker or whatever. My usual invocation for cdrecord for data disks is: cdrecord -v -eject -dao speed=8 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,1,0 -pad \ -data file.iso You'll have to adjust the dev part by looking at the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Cdrecord requires atapicam or a SCSI burner, btw. For burning music, use -audio instead of -data, and feed it a bunch of WAV files. See cdrecord(1). The growisofs(1m) manual has examples on how to use it. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp6PiNoWzaVs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: is this IT or not/
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:17:36PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > My usual invocation for cdrecord for data disks is: > > cdrecord -v -eject -dao speed=8 driveropts=burnfree dev=1,1,0 -pad \ > > -data file.iso > > > > You'll have to adjust the dev part by looking at the output of > > 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Cdrecord requires atapicam or a SCSI burner, btw. > > > (And to think that for years I was SCSI-*only*. Darn!) > What is "aptapicam" exactly? If I add it to my kernel GENERIC > will other things blow up, [:-)]? It is a driver that allows ATAPI devices like CD-RW and DVD drives to be accessed through the SCSI subsystem. My kernel is configured as follows; device atapicam# Emulate ATAPI devices as SCSI via CAM # No atapicd driver! # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device cd # Compact Disc device da # Direct Access (disks) [for umass devices] device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) This will give you cdX devices, instead of acdX. Next you'll have to configure devfs to grant access to the relevant devices; /etc/devfs.conf: # Give members of group cdrom access to the CD/DVD-ROM and DVD+RW via the # SCSI interface own xpt0root:cdrom permxpt00660 own cd0 root:cdrom permcd0 0660 own cd1 root:cdrom permcd1 0660 # cdparanoia uses the cdrom link. linkcd0 cdrom linkcd0 dvd /etc/devfs.rules: [slackbox_usb=10] add path 'da*' mode 0660 group usb add path 'pass*' mode 0660 group cdrom /etc/rc.conf: # Set the default devfs ruleset. devfs_system_ruleset="slackbox_usb" My freebsd webpage covers this in some more detail: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html > The handbook has examples of how-to copy audio CD's doing the > reads with dd. I posted something yesteerday to see if that > part could be done with a script. Don't use dd for copying audio discs, because it doesn't do any error correction whatsoever. Use cdparanoia instead; 'cdparanoia -B "1-"' to rip the whole disk. Then burn the resulting wav files with cdrecord. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpjHbsQbMkpN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Fwd: Upgrading X11 port
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:22:36PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: > Hi > > With regards to the following post, I just wanted to clarify this. > > I am going to do this now. Get the ports tree, using > > portsnap fetch > > and > > portsnap extract > > and then > > portsnap update > > Then, when I install xorg, would that be the 7.3 version? or would it > still be 6.9, and I would have to update it using the guideliness > given in UPDATING? If you install xorg from a fresh ports tree now, you'll get 7.3. As the name implies, the UPDATING file is about updating already installed ports. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpL9QSPqrJMt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help with a new port?
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:01:36PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: > I must confess I haven't. I'll look into it and see what comes up. > Currently trying to figure out how to get ports upgraded in a sane fashion > as well, as I've noticed some of the packages are quite behind in comparison > to the ports they're based on. First of all, if you look into the ports directories on the FreeBSD FTP servers, you'll see different versions of the packages, e.g. packages-5-stable, packages-6-stable, packages-6.2-release, packages-7-current, etc. Depending on which version you installed, 'pkg_add -r' picks the packages from one of those directories. So if you installed 6.2-RELEASE, you'll probably get packages from packages-6.2-release. That packages tree is based on the ports tree at the moment that 6.2 was released. So the best way to keep your ports current is to build them yourself. First, update your ports tree with portsnap (from the base system). Then install one of the ports management tools like portmaster or portupgrade, and use that to upgrade the ports. Do read /usr/ports/UPDATING so that you are aware of any issues. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask on the list, but have a look through the list archives as well, if you can access them. If you have trouble navigating the FreeBSD website, you should contact the website maintainers mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck! Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp2azUCvG5I2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Having problems burning a DVD
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:42:59AM +0100, Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > >> > > I think you are probably missing > > > > permxpt00666 > > permpass0 0666 > > Which file are these to be set in? > > > # Misc other devices > > > > permcdrom 0666 > > permdvd 0666 > > permrdvd0666 > > permcd0 0666 > > permacd0 0666 > > permxpt00666 > > permpass0 0666 > > ..and where to set these? > > Are all to be set in devfs.conf? Looking at the format, I'd say yes. On my own system, I put the pass devices in devfs.rules, because they can be generated at runtime; add path 'pass*' mode 0666 group wheel Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpHaDQ1miQPW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Personalised patches in ports
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:52:31AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > > > How can I incorporate my patch into the portupgrade system, so that an > > > upgrade of Xpdf will apply my patch? If I download the bzip file, > > > apply the patch, re-bzip the sources, and then try to force an > > > upgrade, the checksum fails (as expected). > > > > > > How does one do thes properly? > > > > It's actually much easier than in Linux, since the ports system already > > has to do this. Each port has a files directory into which you can put > > patches, which will get applied automatically each time you build. See > > the porter's handbook for details: > > But wouldn't that personnal patch file be erased by next cvsup of the > ports? Not if you 'chflags schg,sunlnk' it. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpXZaicgH11p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HP Deskjet 9800 with hpijs driver
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:05:50AM -0800, Erin McNew wrote: > Ok. Let's see what other information I can provide. > > I was printing from the gimp. I looked at the printer setup, and it said > that it was using lpr. > As for the PCL, the first line was pretty short, and the second line did > start indented. I don't recall if it started where the first ended, but if > not, it was close to that. I couldn't see any further lines, but apparently > there were more, as the printer kept spitting out pages... The standard printer spooler (lpr) only recognizes a couple of ancient file types (dvi, ditroff etc). It dumps the input that it gets to a printer, without formatting it for a certain printer. That is the job of a spooler. I would suggest that you install the "cups" printer spooler in combination with the "gutenprint" printer driver. If you have those installed correctly, you should be able to select your printer from the gimp, and it should Just Work. You might also need the 'ppd' file for your printer from http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_9800. This file tells gutenprint what the capabilities of the printer are. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpO0tS08N06S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Personalised patches in ports
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:06:45AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Not if you 'chflags schg,sunlnk' it. > > If you add another file into a ports' files directory that cvsup knows > nothing about, then cvsup will refuse to touch it. No need for chflags > in that case. If you need to make local modifications to a file already > in that directory, then yes, cvsup will replace it with the canonical > version next time you update. > > 'portsnap extract' or 'portsnap update' will however blow away local > additions in the part of the ports tree it is operating on -- there are > clear warnings to that effect in the man page. chflags will preserve > your changes in this case, but my guess is that portsnap might well > abort in the middle of what it's doing if it runs into an immutable file. It hasn't aborted on me yet. But these days I tend to keep my own patches separately, and re-apply them if necessary after a portsnap. Just to make sure I don't screw things up. :-/ Having said that, I usually try to get changes accepted into the official ports tree if possible. Saves a lot of hassle. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpKoMN65TzDp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Am I back? Re: kernel fault trying to add atapicam...
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:35:46PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks (to the whole list, but esp'ly Messes Smith [NL & AU], > > I'll believe that my ISDN link is working when/if I see this > echoed from the -questions list. I was busy rebuilding my 6.2 > GENERIC kernel after having added > > ^device atapicam > Lest I stray *too* far OT, I'll share the results of my 3rd > kernel rebuild on this Dell. It crapped out; it hung after > printing out the sio0 line. I had to powercycle and went in by > typing "8" (??) and by hand booting /boot/kernel.old. I tried > twice more by removing part of the additions to GENERIC. Same; > the new kernel still hung. > Here are the sizes of the new kernel (with atapicam) and > the old. > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7206901 Nov 23 21:00 kernel > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4001279 Apr 9 2007 kernel > > I realize that drivers can require a lot of space, but not > over 1.2 megs. Att any rate, the newer kernel hangs. > > I will upgrade to the newest 6.2 and try to get the audio > toys functioning. But does anybody know where I fouled up? Can you post or mail your kernel config? I can sed you mine if that helps. > Could it be as simple as Not having done a make clean > before doing a make buildkernel? It is recommended to clean out /usr/obj before starting a new build. > I don't burn // copy audio > discs that often and haven't ever copied a DVD; I just want these > new utilities to work. You could try burncd, which doesn't require the speudo-SCSI stuff. But I've heard a lot of grumbling about it on the list over the years. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpNHWuOL0r6B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to compile and install a new driver
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:48:28PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > Hi, > > I found this thread > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027445.html > to a driver I need for my system. > > (1) The file extension > (http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/ucp-0.01.diff.gz) is .diff, not .c, so > what exactly do I do with it to compile it? First, use gunzip to extract it. This will leave a file ucp-0.01.diff. Next, su to root and cd to /usr/src/sys. To apply the patch, do 'patch (2) Assuming I can get it to compile, which I've never done, what do I > do with the object/driver file? The 'make kernel' command will install the module automagically. On the next boot, you should be able to load the ucp driver module with kldload(8). > This driver is long overdue, the part has been in usb devices for > several years, and support is in OpenBSD and Linux already (so I'm > told by google). I'll happily document the process if someone holds > my hand. If it works, submit a PR. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpDlIWTrEH8f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to compile and install a new driver
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:28:53PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > The 'make kernel' command will install the module automagically. > > On the next boot, you should be able to load the ucp driver module with > > kldload(8). > > > > So is the kernel the collection of all .ko modules then? A lot (but not all) of the device drivers and sybsystems are available as modules. If you look into the example kernel configuration files (GENERIC, NOTES), everything that starts with 'options' has to be compiled into the kernel. Lines starting with 'device' in GENERIC are built into the kernel. All other drivers are by default available as modules. (but you can disable them from building, if you want) > I always > thought it was some monolithic binary somewhere. That depends on your definition of monolithic. The FreeBSD kernel is modular but not a microkernel. > If not, is it > possible to build just usbdevs alone? Yes, it should be possible. But I've never done it. It is not advised to build stuff in the source tree. The 'make kernel' process builds a shadow tree for the object files under /usr/obj, but I don't know how to do that for a single module. > I'm a little skittish about fubaring the kernel on my family's main > server. Well, if you're using the GENERIC kernel now, and you build a new GENERIC kernel, it should Just Work. Life can get interesting when you start building your own kernel config. :-) But when I switched from 6-STABLE to 7-BETA, I got decent warnings to adapt my kernel config instead of a broken kernel, so that's ok. And FYI, the previous kernel is saved in /boot/kernel.old/kernel. So you can always boot that. > My name will be mud if I bring it down for a significant > period, and it's my only BSD box at the moment - our data is backed > up, but I don't have a tape drive I can just pull / and /usr off in 5 > minutes if I kill it. First and foremost: get level 0 dumps of all important partitions before you start your adventure! I cannot stress this enough! USB external harddisks are great for that purpose. > I know this is not relavant to the discussion, > but my point is, I don't know enough to know what's relatively safe > and what isn't. Read the Handbook and /usr/src/UPDATING. Ask around here if there's something you don't get. > > > This driver is long overdue, the part has been in usb devices for > > > several years, and support is in OpenBSD and Linux already (so I'm > > > told by google). I'll happily document the process if someone holds > > > my hand. > > > > If it works, submit a PR. > > A url/handbook page for that, perhaps? I understand the concept of a > PR, but not fbsd's specific system (or where to find it). man send-pr Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpog2nJG9kR6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PF firewall
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 06:20:37AM -0600, ajtiM wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am a new FreeBSD 7.0 beta3 user and I have standalone computer connected to
> the internet (cable). I use both, console and KDE desktop. I tried to setup
> PF firewall for the standalone computer but I have a problem with internal
> messages (mail) which are blocked if firewall running.
> This is from /var/log/mail:
> "sm-msp-queue[15113]: lB493C1i007320: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0),
> delay=1+21:37:55, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri
> =2552408, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation not
> permitted"
>
> My pf.conf looks like:
>
> pass out quick inet from (sk0) to any keep state label "RULE 0 -- ACCEPT "
> block drop in quick inet all label "RULE 1 -- DROP "
> block drop out quick inet all label "RULE 1 -- DROP "
> block drop in quick inet all label "RULE 1 -- DROP "
> block drop out quick inet all label "RULE 1 -- DROP "
You're dropping all incoming traffic, also on the local interface!
Try adding:
set skip on lo
furthermore, your ruleset has duplicates, especially since you use the
quick keyword.
Below is a commented example a pf.conf for a workstation (mine :-)
/etc/pf.conf -
# /etc/pf.conf
# Macros: define common values, so they can be referenced and changed easily.
ext_if = "rl0"
int_if = "rl1"
# Addresses that can't be routed externally.
# See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt
# (10.0.0.138 is my router, so it should be reachable!)
table const { 0.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, !10.0.0.138, 127.0.0.0/8, \
169.254.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.0.2.0/24, 192.168.0.0/16, 240.0.0.0/4 }
# Options: tune the behavior of pf.
set optimization normal
set block-policy drop
set loginterface $ext_if
set skip on lo
# Normalization: reassemble fragments etc.
scrub in all
# Translate outgoing packets' source addresses (any protocol).
# In this case, any address but the gateway's external address is mapped.
# The sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding should be set for this to work.
# Alternatively, set gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
nat pass on $ext_if inet from $int_if:network to any -> $ext_if
# Filtering
antispoof quick for $int_if
# Nobody gets in from the outside!
block in log quick on $ext_if all label "inblock"
# Block packets to unroutable addresses
block out log quick on $ext_if from any to label "unroutable"
# Block by default.
block out log on $ext_if all label "outblock"
# Internal "network" is trusted.
pass in on $int_if all
# Let outgoing traffic through, and keep state
# 'modulate state' only works with TCP!
pass out on $ext_if inet proto tcp all flags S/SA modulate state
pass out on $ext_if inet proto udp all keep state
# Let pings through.
pass out on $ext_if inet proto icmp all icmp-type 8 code 0 keep state
/etc/pf.conf -
HTH,
Roland
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Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave > youtube-dl: No match. > > eg > > %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA > youtube-dl: No match. You have to quote the argument to youtube-dl, otherwise the shell will mess it up, because '?' is a special character for the shell. So use: youtube-dl 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA' Tested and works fine here. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp38Cmlqx9bh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Version 5.4
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 02:21:50PM -0600, Ham, Jason B. [C] wrote: > I have a question as to whether there is support for the free bsd > version 5.4. Please advise. Officially, 5.4 isn't supported by the FreeBSD project anymore. See http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html#freeze Having said that, if you ask a question on this mailing list you will probably get an answer. But if your problem is solved in a later (and supported) version, the advice will probably be to upgrade. There will probably be little interest from the maintainers in applying fixes to the RELENG_5_4 branch. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpMJBFu4GzEQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive > and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. > I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on > the fat32 partition. Now the question is how to lay it out so that: > > 1. The home dir for my account of FreeBSD = Vista account's root dir In FreeBSD you can mount the fat32 partition on /home/$USER. How to handle this in vista you'd have to ask somewhere else, I think. The FAT "filesystem" doesn't handle a lot of things (like file and directory permissions) that UFS2 does. So this doesn't strike me as a really good idea. > 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic) Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X window manager that could do something usefull with it, but I doubt it. And the icons and stuff would point to windows programs/drives anyway. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpID6Ss3cc2s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >> 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is > >> automatic) > > > > Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for > > FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X window manager that could do something > > usefull with it, but I doubt it. And the icons and stuff would > > point to windows programs/drives anyway. > > Every x desktop manager calls it ~/Desktop What doe you mean by "desktop manager"? If you mean window manager, it is definitely not true. For instance, fvwm2 uses ~/.fvwm/config. If you mean desktop environments, it is also not true. According to their respective documentations, KDE uses ~/.kde be default, and Gnome uses ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2 and ~/.local/share. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp35vZOmxRLO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD Wacom driver
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 11:00:11PM +0100, Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > Hi, > >Having just aquired a usb wacom tablet and discovering the linuxwacom > project, I was wondering why only serial tablets are supported on FBSD?? Doesn't it work with uhid(4)? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgprOuCmeozOQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
