Re: EOL
Am 29.03.2013 16:19, schrieb David Thurber: I have 5 XP machines on my node that are used to crunch data 24/7. So, I'm looking for an OS platform that has a 10 year EOL to replace XP/3. RHEL: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/1/red-hat-enterprise-linux-stability-drives-demand-for-more-flexibility-in-long-term-operating-system-deployments If you don't need/want support, there is CentOS (a RHEL clone): http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d And another RHEL clone: https://www.scientificlinux.org/ cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bash instead of csh (completely)
Am 04.06.2010 20:56, schrieb Stefan Miklosovic: title says it, i would like completely remove csh and install bash instead. As far I know, csh is build in system, could I remove it manually and install bash (of course, in reverse order :D) What do you want to achieve with this? Installing shells/bash from ports followed by a chsh or vipw is not sufficient? If you really want a system without csh please have a look at src.conf(5) which has the knob you want: WITHOUT_TCSH Set to not build and install /bin/csh (which is tcsh(1)). If you add WITHOUT_TCSH=YES to your /etc/src.conf you probably can get rid of csh after the next buildworld with the commands make delete-old; make delete-old-libs Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: upgrading squeezeboxserver
Am 30.05.2010 20:46, schrieb Vincent Zee: I recently upgraded to the newest version of audio/squeezeboxserver. After the update the server is unable to rescan my music collection. Does anyone else encountered this problem? Yes, same problem here. I tried different versions of perl (5.8 and 5.10 both with or without threading) and gave up after several reinstalls due to lack of time. How can I revert to the previous version of squeezeboxserver (I'm using Portmaster to upgrade my ports)? There's a tool for this in ports-mgmt/portdowngrade. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Support for Asus MicroATX Boards
Am 08.01.2010 16:43, schrieb Anselm Strauss: chips. I can't find real evidence on the supported hardware list whether the following chipsets are really working with FreeBSD 8.0 or not. Maybe I have an Asus M4A785TD-M EVO running with RELENG_8 and it works fine. There is/was a race condition in FreeBSD 7.2/8.0 that forces you to switch off the firewire device in the BIOS: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg221493.html Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd for children
Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making animations, or maybe music? I never tested it myself but I heard/read about it: http://www.squeak.org/ It's in the ports: lang/squeak (i386 only) Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?
Pierre-Luc Drouin schrieb: an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get? NVidia will release an official driver for FreeBSD/amd64 in the near future: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545page=37 If you can't wait, and I guess that's the case, you culd try the free nv alternative named nouveau. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Default cannot install 8.0 rc2 in mobo P5QL-EM Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: sti
vuthecuong schrieb: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config and then 120, 180 etc. Anyone know whats wrong? thanks If there is a firewire port on your board you could try to disable firewire in the BIOS settings. This is a known problem. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Multiple PostgreSQL 8.4 instances in FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Jails
Sam Fourman Jr. schrieb: I want to setup 5 postgreSQL 8.4 servers in separate jails on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 machine while searching the web for someone that has done this before I found this: my question is this... is this still relevant on FreeBSD 8.0 RC2(amd64) and postgreSQL 8.4 There seems to be a problem if postgres is running with the same user id in all jails. Dan Langille got it running a while ago. Please have a look at his (great) site: http://www.freebsddiary.org/jail-multiple.php Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: migrating users from one machine to another machine
Daniel Bye schrieb: Or copy /etc/passwd from the old machine to the new one, and run pwd_mkdb, which is essentially what vipw does anyway. This would not work, the file that contains the passwords and that should be copied is /etc/master.passwd. pwd_mkdb generates the /etc/passwd from this file. /etc/passwd dows not contain the encrypted passwords. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't install FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and 8.0-BETA4
Am 13.09.2009 14:11, schrieb Zbigniew Komarnicki: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xpt_config panic: run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks: waited too long cpuid=0 KDB: enter: panic [thread pid 0 tid 10] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3d: movq $0,0x68d1e0(%rip) db and thats all. Is maybe also someone also have such problem? Yes, several people reported this problem. There is a workaround that might help: disable the firewire device (IEEE 1394) in the BIOS of your machine and try again. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD based microBSD?
Michelle Konzack schrieb: Can someone recomment a RECENT microBSD Distribution based on FreebBSD? http://www.de.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/article.html Gruss, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Disabling ssh timeouts?
Steve Kargl schrieb: Is there anyway to disable sshd from timing out a connection? I've tried setting ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval and TCPKeepAlive in sshd.conf, but no combination that I've tried has worked. Possibly it's not ssh that closes the connection. Are there any routers between your machine and the remote one? If this is the case it could be one of the routers that has a low timeout for recognizing a connection as alive. This happens especially if NAT is used, because the router has to keep a table of ip:port pairs for each connection. This should happen only if there is no traffic on the connection within this timeout limit. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Feedback on FreeBSD 7.1/fiber channel into EMC SAN?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:57:39PM +0100, Len Conrad wrote: I would appreciate any comments from experience with this config. I don't have any experience with EMC-SANs, but... Which specific fiber channel card have you had success? ...a card with QLogic-Chipset should work (HP FC1243 with QLogic 2422 chip for example (PCI-X)). Please have a look at isp(4) for more information. There seem to be more possible cards that are handled by mpt(4), but I have never seen one of those. You probably also want to have a look at gmultipath(8). disclaimer: I don't run FreeBSD in our SAN at this time, so I can't really say anything about production use of FreeBSD in FC-ЅANs. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
Chris Rees schrieb: Do you really mean sticky? Or do you mean sgid? Sgid directories are I mean the setgid bit (octal 2000). You are right, sticky is something different. :) For some reason I don't remember anymore I got used to using the term sticky for this. mea culpa! Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS
Bobby Walker schrieb: So, today while brainstorming, I thought why not run FreeBSD as a guest OS on the box. Any suggestions for the best way of doing this? If it has to run on top of W2K3 server I would suggest VMware server 2.0 which can be used for free (as in free beer). Don't expect it to deliver high performance, but it should be fine for a small duty server. Another option would be VirtualBox (free for private use) but there have been serious problems with freebsd guests in the past. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: I realize I can fix this by setting the permissions on the /home/shannon directory to 700. *However* then Apache (running as user www) won't display the documents in /home/shannon/public_html from http://ip-address/~shannon/;, instead returning a 403 Forbidden error. I did not see a correct answer to your question so far, so here you are: - set the permissions to the users homedir to 0700 - run chmod o+x on the homedir this sets the permissions to drwx-x which is exactly what you want: others can switch to this directory but _not_ read its contents - change the permissions to public_html to whatever you need for apache (0755 probably) done. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:39:18AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: Thanks so much, this solution works really well! It doesn't lock users out of the entire system, but it does ensure that users can't view other user's files via SFTP/SSH, which is fantastic. This solution enforces the switch of all user directories to group www, which also means that any member of the group www gets access to these directories. This would be even more dangerous if your webserver runs with gid www and contains a php-module or something similar with a long tradition of security problems. Sorry, but you really, really should not do it this way. The sticky bit for group www on the public_html directories can be a good idea, though. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: Your other proposed solution results in the same situation, correct? No No, it doesn't. Let's assume shannon is in the login group users, her home directory would look like this: drwx-x 2 shannon users 512 Feb 12 17:19 shannon This ensures that apache can enter /home/shannon which is necessary because that's where public_html is. It is not possible for apache to read the contents of /home/shannon because 'r' is missing. This would achieve the goal that other users including apache can not read the contents of the home dir. Ok, now apache needs read only access to public_html, so I would set permissions this way (2750 shannon:www): drwxr-s--- 2 shannon www512 Feb 12 17:30 public_html All directories under public_html should also have these permissions, all files should have 0640 or 0644. This would achieve the goal that apache can read everything it needs to but nothing more. matter what, Apache needs read-access to any and all files, so no matter what PHP will have access to read any user's files. There's no way around that for a shared hosting situation that I know of... Sure there is: this way apache can not read any other files outside public_html. Your solution doesn't work because the user keith could still do a ls /home/shannon/public_html/ and get the directory listing (shannon's public_html directory is 0755, per your suggestion). Unless I'm missing something...? You don't have to set it to 0755. If you set it to 2750 keith can no longer see the files in shannon/public_html as long as he isn't member of group www. And even if their homedirs contain a folder that belongs to group www, they don't have to be members of www themselves. I don't now your environment, but there other ways of getting things more secure, such as the use of jails, restricting shell access or forcing the use of a restricted shell and so on. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:39:33PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 Sorry, do you really run FreeBSD with xorg on this machine? This laptop must be at least 10 years old, right? laptop, I get no device found at X -configure stage. It worked fine with 7.3. The graphics device is Chips and Technologies. When I use vesa driver Do you have [x] CHIPS enabled when you run make config in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers? I guess this should install the right driver for your Armada. instead I get to the graphics screen, but still no mouse or keyboard. Did you follow the hints in /usr/ports/UPDATING? Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CUPS, initial PATH environment
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using the command line interface... I could rename /usr/bin/lp, lpr, lpq, lprm to e.g. lp.origfreebsd, etc.. forcing the use of the /usr/local/bin versions but this would oblige me to do that again after every FreeSBD upgrade. There is a flag for cups that should disable the commands in the base system. Before installing cups you can add the following line to your /etc/make.conf: CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=YES And to prevent reinstallation during a system upgrade you can add the following line to /etc/src.conf: WITHOUT_LPR=YES bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:34:46PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: Thanks, but how do I reverse back to gdm 2.20? Is this possible with the portupgrade tools? You could use ports-mgmt/portdowngrade for this or you could download http://www.laverenz.de/gdm-2.20.tar.gz and extract in in the /usr/ports/x11 directory. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb: That's a really thin client and it seems to work (for me - I can logon to my wifes Debian machine). Yes, this works because Debian still uses GDM 2.20. :) The new GDM 2.24 is broken on _both_ sides (local and remote): - there is no XDMCP-Chooser anymore on the local side (rewritten ;)) - GDM does not listen to XDMCP requests on the remote side (this is a bug I think, not rewritten) Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: I tried to remove the directories that was not removed by deinstall manually, and then installed again, now no complaints about not being able to uninstall I can now start gdm again, with out any complaints, but when I run sockstat I cannot see gdm-binary active nor any listen on udp 177. Any suggestions? GDM 2.24 ist broken, not only on FreeBSD but also on other systems like Fedora. My personal workaround ist to keep using 2.20 for now, which seems to be the last working version that came from the gnome team. There is a thread about this at the freebsd-gnome mailing list. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?
Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb: gdm-2.24.1_5 is not broken, else I couldn't have logged onto my gnome-desktop some minutes ago. But there are some feature-regressions Sorry, do you mean you logged into a _remote_ machine (via XDMCP) that is running GDM 2.24 and listens to UDP 177? Because this is the thing that doesn't work for us. When I said broken, I meant that XDMCP does not work anymore (and a few other things that users were comfortable with). compared to 2.20 - developers say they have rewritten important parts of the code. Rewritten? Yes, that's what they call it these days when they remove features without getting the new stuff working. :-( Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ddclient broken after portupgrade
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:46:05PM +0100, Joris Lammers wrote: I can't get ddclient to work. A make deinstall; make reinstall does not work. Currently I am trying portupgrade -a -f --batch to try and rebuild every port on my system. What could have been the original problem with git and how can I get out of this nasty situation? Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING before starting portupgrade? As ddclient depends on several perl-modules I guess you didn't run perl-after-upgrade -f after upgrading perl. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptop suggestions, but wait there's more...
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:04:37AM -0700, Modulok wrote: Does anyone know of a laptop, preferably an older model so it's inexpensive, (It doesn't have to be very fast.), that is: 1) FreeBSD friendly. 2) Isn't a portable skillet? 3) Is physically sturdy. Not bulletproof, but not creaking, sagging plastic. I would also recommend the IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42 (not T43p). bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed 3D. Who is most freebsd users? I agree that there are more important things to worry about than nvidia/amd64 support, but: if you want to buy a computer these days and want to use it as a desktop/workstation with our favourite operating system, you have a serious problem to find a graphics card that is both useable and buyable. so simply don't use nvidia/ati Ok, what else then? Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows
Wojciech Puchar schrieb: it's faster on that benchmark. but i think low MAXPHYS may be a problem. i changed it to 1MB everywhere. I've found that increasing vfs.read_max increases read performance quite a bit in bonnie++ benchmarks. sysctl vfs.read_max=32 Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
Frank Bonnet schrieb: I am on the way to setup a brand new Samba server with OpenLDAP backend I am very interrested by feedback of real world samba admins running it with FreeBSD or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeBSD so good arguments are welcome ( my boss is a smart guy , if I give enough litterature that says FreeBSD is better, he will be OK ) In the dark ages of FreeBSD 5.x ;) we've used Linux (Debian, RedHat) but nowadays I would certainly prefer FreeBSD again, because: - The software in the ports is close to what comes from upstream, Linux-Distros often keep old versions or inhouse modifications which can lead to disasters like e.g. the Debian OpenSSL bug or unuseable LDAP-servers that are delivered with RedHat. - Linux-Distros are conservative in updating software versions or fixing bugs in their so called stable releases. In most cases (RedHat, Debian) the fixes are backported to older versions, in other cases (Ubuntu) fixes may break your system or bugs are simply ignored. If you need a newer version of a certain software, you will very soon find yourself using backports from foreign repositories or start rolling your own packages. But if you have to leave the package management system of your distro anyway, why not use the comfort of FreeBSD ports? - Once you are familiar with it, FreeBSD is easier to manage IMHO, it's clean and mostly well documented. - FreeBSD has jails. :) More seriously I'm also searching for eventuals benchmarks that compare those two configurations. I don't think that there are great performance differences nowadays. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:31:19PM -0400, Jeff Wheelhouse wrote: - the free license has some major restrictions about what you can do with it. Sorry, but I have to ask: could you please tell us what restrictions you mean? AFAIK there aren't any restrictions that keep you from using ESXi in production. thanks, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7
Eric Masson schrieb: http://vmware.com/products/esxi/ ESXi seems to be free, but not the entreprise administration tools. ESXi is free and can be administrated with the Virtual Infrastructure Client (also free and included in ESXi). You don't have to pay for a license to run ESXi or your virtual machines on it. You only need to buy a license if you want to integrate ESXi into a VCenter. So the only restrictions for ESXi are: - you have to register to get a serial number - you have to buy ESX(i)-compatible hardware bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gantt/pert chart in ports ?
Anton Shterenlikht schrieb: Can anybody recommend a simple Gantt or PERT chart program from ports? /usr/ports/deskutils/ganttproject Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error message when starting smartd: FAILURE - SMART status=51 ...
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:38:25PM +1200, Steven Samuel Cole wrote: Also, the disks are SATA300, the controller supports SATA150 only; there is a jumper on the disks that limits them to SATA150 which I removed. Could that be relevant ? Yes, it could be relevant. Several controllers have shown problems without this jumper in the past (VIA, 3ware...). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP Authentication questions...
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:18:17PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: configured services like ssh. Now, shouldn't it eventually fail over to my secondary LDAP server? I've even tried adding timelimit 10 to the ldap.conf file to set a timeout, to no avail. IIRC you have to change the parameter bind_timelimit to get what you want. The default is 30 seconds, which is too high. This is documented in the pam_ldap manpage. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware timekeeping
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:23:41PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote: option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. This shouldn't be necessary in FreeBSD = 6.2. I used to have kern.hz=100 in loader.conf, but that caused the guest to gain time even faster. 100 is ok, I'm using this value on all virtual machines. Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config? Is it possible to upgrade your ESX from 3.0.2 to 3.5x? If not, there is another setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD or Linux guests): change Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod from 400 to 100 (this is default on ESX 3.5x). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:52:27PM +1100, Terry Sposato wrote: Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. I don't know if somebody is actually preparing an official port of http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ but I don't think it's too difficult to compile and run them on FreeBSD 7.0. I hope I'll find the time to test this soon but I wouldn't be able to roll a port without some help. :) As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. If you're using FreeBSD 6.x, you can use the vmware-tools that come with VMware server 1.04. I tested them with 6.2/amd64 and 6.3/amd64 and they work fine (vmmemctl.ko and vmware-guestd), including VMotion. It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not No, it's not a licensing issue, since vmware-tools are released as open source now. I guess it's simply lack of interest and that there aren't many ESX users who are using FreeBSD as a platform. FreeBSD is not an enterprise system, you know... :-/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:44:12PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: - The only thing that VMWare tools are useful (on FreeBSD) is to get GUI features like clipboard sharing and automatic mouse focus grab in X.Org. You're right, normally you don't need vmware-tools for running FreeBSD as a guest, but: if your host is an ESX server, you need vmmemctl and the vmware-guestd for the livemigration of your virtual machine from one ESX host to another. A while ago, VMware decided to release vmware-tools as open source, maybe someone wants to take a look at it: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ VMWare tools on Linux seem to include a driver that does something with memory management, but it's not available for FreeBSD. You don't need It is available, it's included in VMware server and also in open-vm-tools (see link above). bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: esx 3.0.2 Update 1 and BTX halted
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:39:51PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Has anyone in this list installed fbsd 6.2 or 6.3 to esx 3.0.2 update 1 ?(I have also tried esx 3.0.2 without update 1 and has taken the same error message). If yes have you done anything special for this system ? Yes, I have installed 6.2/amd64 and 6.3/amd64 on esx 3.0.x and esx 3.5, no special adjustments needed. As guest operating system I choose Other (64bit). On esx 3.0.2 I manually change Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod from 400 to 100 (default on 3.5) and set kern.hz=100 on the guest machines. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Duplicate existing FreeBSD Server in VM
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:46:09PM +1100, Terry Sposato wrote: I have just installed a machine and have it setup running a web based CRM solution. I want to have an exact duplicate of this machine running as a VM for redundancy reasons. The best and easiest way I know of is using /usr/ports/net/rsync for this task. I often used it to move BSD or Linux systems to new hardware or transfer them into a VM. I usually make sure that the kernel supports all important hardware on the target machine and that /etc/fstab is correct. After that I start to transfer filesystem after filesystem with e.g.: # rsync -avxH --delete --exclude /etc/fstab / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ You might want to exclude other files (e.g. /etc/rc.conf) from being overwritten, I guess. The nice thing with rsync is that only diffs are transferred, so it would be easy and fast to keep your VM in sync with the source machine. Uwe P.S.: Yesterday I moved a FreeBSD 4.5 system from a Proliant 3000 (~7 years old) to a VMware Server VM using rsync. All I had to take care of was the use of a GENERIC kernel, a new /etc/fstab and a changed ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WPA
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:06:35AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: having trouble to get the wi0 interface up with WPA. below is the relevant information. can somebeody explain what the problem is? thanks... I think I can. device = 'PRISM 2.5 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless Controller' Your wireless card probably does not support WPA, maybe you can solve this with a newer firmware. If not you would have to stick with WEP encryption or buy a new card. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solution
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:40:52AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote: I will be very grateful for suggestions or ways people have tackled this kind of problem in a production environment. I'd use a separate machine with a set of cheap SATA disks and connect my tape drives to this machine. Then I would mirror the data from the virtual machines to this backup server with rsync and write them to tape. This would be a quick solution and has worked well for me in the past. If you need more features and have some spare time you should have a look at amanda or bacula. http://www.amanda.org/ http://www.bacula.org/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:30:49PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Does 6.2 still have that time- and ACPI issue in ESX3? No. - disable ACPI in the VM This is not necessary with ESX 3 and FreeBSD 6.2 at least. - kernel frequency at 100 hz This is recommended, I'm not sure if it's really necessary. There is one more setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD or Linux guests): change Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod from 400 to 100. With timing problems I mean the guests system clock running too fast/slow here. I had this problem with RHEL4 guests, this setting fixed it for me. - the vmxnet-driver (even the one from workstation 6) crashes freebsd, but IIRC this driver can be replaced with e1000 in esx3. I've never bothered with vmxnet, I use le(4) on i386 guests and em(4) on amd64 guests. The only kernel module I found helpful is vmmemctl.ko. The good news is that VMware releases VMware Tools as open source, I hope this will improve the support for FreeBSD guests. http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:23:49AM -0500, Bret J. Esquivel wrote: Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I Yes, I have successfully installed FreeBSD i386 and amd64 on ESX 3.x. The only problem I know of is that SMP only works with FreeBSD/amd64. to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow an install. When creating a new virtual machine I always choose Other or Other(64-bit) as guest OS. The virtual SCSI Controller is LSI Logic, FreeBSD is version 6.x. Once the virtual system is running, I install the VMware Tools from VMware Server 1.x. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good RSS Feed Aggregator / Reader ...
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 09:40:33AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Is anyone using a better reader, that will 'filter out' duplica coming from the same feed source? I think net/liferea does what you want. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:46:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... If you want a professional and well supported system, but don't need commercial support, CentOS is the way to go: http://www.centos.org CentOS is a free version of Redhat's Enterprise Linux and is available for several platforms, including amd64. Everything that is certified for RHEL will run without problems on CentOS. The current version is 4.4 but a new version of RHEL is expected to be released during the next weeks (which will be followed by a new version of CentOS). If you want an entirely free system with a large software repository and don't care for certifications from software or hardware vendors, I'd strongly recommend Debian Etch (will be the stable release in a short while). Commercial support is available from Hewlett Packard IIRC. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:03:20AM -0700, Mark Edwards wrote: So, how about it? Is the concept of running this off of Ubuntu being easier than FreeBSD just a pipe-dream? I have messed with Debian and Ubuntu, but never tried to run a server off of either. I would love to hear from people who have been down both roads, whether there is some sense to it, or if I should just stick with FreeBSD. A good way to make the right decision would be intensive testing of the systems you don't know (Debian/Ubuntu). Install them, read about them, see how they fit your needs. From my experience, running a server using a Debian-based system is a lot easier and safer (as long as you choose one of their stable releases). You get a well-tested set of software that does not change if you don't want it. Installing the latest security fixes is as easy as typing apt-get update followed by an apt-get upgrade. The downside with running stable is that after a while the software will be somewhat outdated. This is not a problem for servers, but many people don't like old software on their desktops (Debian-Stable aka Sarge comes with Gnome 2.8, for example). This is one of the problems that Ubuntu tries to solve: they try to get a new release done twice a year. A quite common answer to the question which distribution? is: Debian-Stable for servers, Ubuntu for workstations. hth, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting nfs share
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:24:47PM +0500, Imran Imtiaz wrote: what is the command to mount NFS share? # mount -t nfs server:/path/on/server /path/local Please have a look at the man page: man mount_nfs and the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pear problem
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:25:12PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: On a FreeBSD 5.4-p8 I've a problem to install pear ports. Do you use nss-ldap/pam-ldap on this machine? the ports install stop with core dump (php.core). Anyone have this problem ? Several people have reported problems like this, all of them use nss-ldap. I could get around the problem when I disabled 2 php4-modules: imagick and xslt (just commented them out in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No openGL, glxgears, glxinfo - libm.so.3 not found
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:07:46PM -0800, Joseph Vella wrote: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.3 not found, required by libGL.so.1 You have to install misc/compat5x from ports and add compat5x_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf. bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP junk pointer error with imagick.so
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:11:22AM -0800, Justin Meyer wrote: Has anyone else encountered this issue? Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might resolve it? I have similar problems with imagick and also with xslt. These two modules make php segfault e.g. when installing pear-ports. The problem seems to exist only on machines with ldap-setup (nss_ldap, pam_ldap). Do you run your machine with nss_ldap? I know of two other users who reported similar problems, both with nss_ldap. Solutions? I have mailed the php-maintainer about the problem but got no response. I don't think it would help to additionally make a PR, so for me there are 2 possible ways to solve this: 1) don't use imagick or xslt 2) don't use FreeBSD for PHP-development Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6, WPA-PSK, wpa_supplicant and a IBM a31p
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:04:03PM -0700, Daniel Hanson wrote: Thoughts, ideas? directions. From my reading of the man pages, ap_scan Yes, probably WPA-encryption is simply not supported by your wireless card/chipset. AFAIK there is no way to use WPA with a wi-card. You either stick to WEP-encryption or buy a newer wireless card (ath or iwi would do WPA-PSK). Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing devel/pear
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:29:06PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Uwe, I've seen the thread on the ports@ mailing list but there doesn't seem to It seems nobody else has this problem and nobody else cares. be any mention of a solution there yet. Have you managed to fix the problem on your machines yet? Sorry, I've no solution so far. I get devel/pear installed with brute force, when I install it before php4-extensions: # pkg_delete php4-* pecl-* pear-* # portinstall lang/php4 # portinstall devel/pear # cd /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions # make rmconfig # portinstall lang/php4-extensions But this does not really help, because as soon as I start to install other pear-ports (pear-File_Passwd, pear-Auth...), I get: === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/File_Passwd. install ok: channel://pear.php.net/File_Passwd-1.1.5 Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 I've wasted several hours now, I give up. :-( Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing devel/pear
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:12:24PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Stop in /ports/devel/pear. Can someone please tell me how to fix this? I have the same problem on two machines and I don't have a solution for this, but there's a thread about this in the @ports mailing list. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there /etc/groups limits?
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:57:55PM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: For example, is there a limit which would stop apache to work because the www user is member of 1 groups? Apache wouldn't stop working, but there is a limit of 16 groups that a user can be member of. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nssswitch - anyone using nss_X ? nss/freebsd complete?
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: avail have I found any definitive answer as to if nssswitch works correctly and completely under FreeBSD. I use nss_ldap (and pam_ldap), it is supported since 5.1_RELEASE. At this time only passwd and group can be used via nsswitch. It works without problems. Personal interest being drawn from my own issues using, configuring, and updating/compiling nss_ldap. Issues in the code, issues with making new I never tried to compile them on my own, I always use nss_ldap and pam_ldap from the ports. Sparing one problem, current version from FreeBSD/ports/current seems to work correctly, but problem is quite an issue and potential security risk - Do you have an URL about this security risk? Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba or something more lightweight ...
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:39:33PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: Do I need to install Samba or is there another more lightweight alternative? There still is /usr/ports/net/sharity-light, but I'm not sure if it still works, it seems to be quite outdated. More Information: http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/index.html Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFig and more?
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: (For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or something?) Gnuplot maybe? http://www.gnuplot.info/ It's in the ports: /usr/ports/math/gnuplot bye, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pccard, wi0, wep and DHCP
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:34:55PM +0200, Maarten Sanders wrote:
'ifconfig_wi0=DHCP' this works and brings up wi0. Since my town is
crowded with wardrivers I would like to use wep. Because my wife often
It's better than nothing, but WEP wouldn't stop a serious wardriver
these days. :)
/etc/start_if.wi0 is not interpretted and the WEP key is not set so
dhclient fails.
You could add something like this to your /etc/dhclient.conf:
interface wi0 {
media ssid SSID wepmode on wepkey WEPKEY;
}
Uwe
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Re: Problem with irq and printing system
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:19PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source What is the meaning of this message?. Have this problem a solution?. This is a very annoying feature in FreeBSD: printing causes a high rate of interrupts and the kernel tries to reduce this. AFAIK there are two possible ways to solve this: 1. To increase the threshold for this interrupt storm detection just add the following line to your /etc/sysctl.conf: hw.intr_storm_threshold=4096 2. Let the parallel port run via polling instead of interrupts (this causes high loads), add the following line to your /boot/devices.hints: hint.ppc.0.flags=0x28 HTH, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:11:38PM -0600, Tom Vilot wrote: I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer laptops and what might be recommended. I can recommend the IBM Thinkpad R51, especially the models with Ati 7500 or 9000 graphics, because these chips are supported by the free drivers that come with Xorg. I run FreeBSD 5.4 on my R51 and I am very happy with it. I have also heard positive statements about the Samsung X20 XVM 1600. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with postfix ldap
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:53:55PM +0200, fire67 wrote: Anyone have a solution ? Postfix has to be built and configured for the use of LDAP, pam+nss ist not enough. Please have a look at: http://www.postfix.org/LDAP_README.html Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Products
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:30:17PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: This Cross-Platform works wonderfully. However I was wondering if anyone had any successs with an open source backup product that would be able to control 2 tape librarys on the same scsi chain, with each tape having a bar code, and be able to backup and restore the systems above. I don't think that there is a free solution for your special setup, but you could have a look at http://www.bacula.org. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:18:09AM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: passwd: files ldap group: files ldap This is correct and sufficient for local files + ldap. On my 5.4-Release system, the default nsswitch.conf is: AFAIK there never was a default nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I always had to create a new one from scratch. group: compat group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: compat passwd_compat: nis shells: files Nope, delete this. Using the 'compat ldap' version, I get errors in /var/log/messages: May 13 22:42:26 daemon -csh: NSSWITCH(nsparser): /etc/nsswitch.conf line 1: 'compat' used with other sources May 13 22:42:26 daemon -csh: NSSWITCH(nsparser): /etc/nsswitch.conf line 5: 'compat' used with other sources man nsswitch.conf cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netgroups and LDAP?
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:59:24PM -0500, Ben Hockenhull wrote: I only want certain (large, broad) groups of people to be able to login to a given server, and I believe I'm looking to implement netgroups to do that, but I haven't been able to find any documentation on how to do that with FreeBSD. You can't use netgroups with FreeBSD/ldap, only passwd and group databases can be used with ldap AFAIK. Any pointers (to config examples, ldif-format schemas that incorporate netgroups, etc) or other ideas would be greatly appreciated. If there's another way to limit logins via LDAP, I'd be interested in hearing about that, too. If your users have objectClass: account there is an attribute host that can be used for limiting access to certain machines. You need the entry pam_check_host_attr yes in your ldap.conf for pam and perhaps some modifications of the files in /etc/pam.d. I have never used or tested this but it is a standard feature of pam-ldap and I guess it should work. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:17:50PM +, Jason Henson wrote: Here is an interview with ati. The sad part is they give a solid no to bsd support. Oh, that's not a problem, their drivers suck anyway. At least I wouldn't like to have them on one of my machines. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD PNP OS = NO in system bios configuration?
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:17:04PM -, John Conover wrote: Should PNP OS = NO in the PC system bios configuration be used for freeBSD? Yes, it should be set to NO for any operating system. The only exception is Windows 95/98. How about assigning IRQs of the PCI devices in system bios? This should not be necessary. You could try to load setup defaults in your BIOS and use FreeBSD 5.3 instead of 5.2.1. Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 06:51:49PM -0500, Sean wrote: Well that is a real problem!! Recommend any alternative office packages? The Gnome-Stuff: Abiword, Gnumeric... Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 03:09:14AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: When I try it with Linux it worked, in fact, here is a patch for kernel 2.6.7: https://kilobyte.dyndns.info/linux/armada_1700_dsdt_linux-2.6.7.diff.bz2 Ok, I will test this on my 1750 right after christmas, as soon as I find the time. merry christmas! Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:25:05AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Any help would be appreciated on ether fixing this problem or a way to use ACPI but disable the thermal monitoring so the system can control the fan? I might be wrong, but I think on the 1750 you should use APM instead of ACPI. I had a 1750 running with FreeBSD 4.x and APM and it worked very well. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
Dave Horsfall wrote: So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3? You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is quite necessary on a notebook. cu, Uwe (running 5.3 on a TP A31) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?
David Gerard wrote: Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop? I'm sure there are laptops, where sound might be a problem, but in general it simply works. I never had a problem with FreeBSD's sound support on a laptop. I even have an old Compaq Armada 1750 here, where only NetBSD and FreeBSD 4.x support the soundcard without too much tweaking (options PNPBIOS necessary). I had so much trouble with FreeBSD on a laptop (an old Thinkpad 560X) that I ended up resorting to Debian. Which works well. Debian isn't too bad either. :) cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php4-extensions
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:12:48AM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: I searched the google and i found something about libmagic and to reinstall it. But i cannot find such a package/port . Anyone bump IIRC libmagic is included in /usr/ports/sysutils/file . cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla and courier-imap
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:52:39PM -0700, Reza Muhammad wrote: When i'm using imap with mozilla mail, everytime i sent email, mozilla mail idle with progrees tool bar Copy message to sent item is there any idea ? Please check your Mozilla-settings: Edit-Mail Newsgroups Account Settings-Copies Folders. Does Sent point to an existing folder? If not, create the default folders or point Mozilla to different folders. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla and courier-imap
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: I'm using the most recent ports for mozilla and courier-imap on an up-to-date FreeBSD-stable. Very often I will not see new messages in a folder until I restart mozilla. I was convinced it was mozilla that was What do you mean with a folder? If you mean the normal INBOX, just increase the value of MAXPERIP in /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd. This value must be increased for use with mozilla (16 should be fine). If you mean any folder, you have to tell Mozilla to monitor this folder for new incoming mails (right-click on the folder...). Generally Courier-Imap works perfectly with Mozilla: I have several servers running it with many users of Mozilla-Mail. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vim 6.3 pthread errors?
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:58:34PM +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: objects/os_unix.o: In function `get_stack_limit': objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x3d2): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_init' objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x3e6): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_get_np' objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x3fc): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_getstacksize' objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x40f): undefined reference to `pthread_attr_destroy' *** Error code 1 Yes, same error here on several 5.2.1p9-machines. The build works fine without GTK2. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem in Linux-emulation and may be in NVidia drivers
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:08:19AM +0400, Roman Vasiliev wrote: First run glxgears shows ~2000 fps but second ~10 fps. And whole OpenGL application lags. Problem solves in changing on NVidia mx 4400. All works fine. I have the same problem with a GF4-Ti/4200: first run is fast, second is slow. An older GF2 works perfectly. I guess the only solution is to wait for the release of new NVidia drivers, which are said to be released fairly soon. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem found, not solved (was: NVidia vs. KT600)
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: Same problem here on FreeBSD 5.2 (recent -current), I have the same nvidia card with an Asus A7M-266 board (AMD chipset). I haven't observed it on 4.10 (yet?). Ok, I've been trying to find out the reason for this problem, I changed the hardware between several computers, tested older FreeBSD-versions and upgraded to Xorg. Finally I removed the GF4 and tested with an old GF2-pro, which works without problems in all tested systems. I still have no explanation, but I guess this must be another NVidia-bug?! I think we have to wait for a new release from NVidia. :-/ cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mini-itx (ME6000), buildworld fails
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Richard Kaestner wrote: I suspect settings in /etc/make.conf, but I have no idea where to start! (CPUTYPE=i686 commented out - but didn't help) The VIA CPUs are not completely i686 compatible, so in your Kernel-Config you should have an I586_CPU entry: machine i386 cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU ident ME6000 ... ME6000 /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE=i586 CPUTYPE=i686 The second entry overwrites the first one. I wouldn't set this variable at all on a VIA Epia/Eden, but it should work if you delete the i686 and keep the i586. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NVidia vs. KT600
Hi, I have a strange problem with the NVidia drivers on my machines: when I start a glx-application (glxgears, quake2...) the performance is normal. If I make another attempt a few minutes later, the performance is ridiculous slow. Example: glxgears, 1st run: 6400 FPS glxgears, 2nd run: 17 FPS FreeBSD-versions: 5.2.1-p9 and 4.10-STABLE Nvidia-cards: GF4-Ti/4200 Boards: Asus A7V-600 (Athlon XP) If have tried several combinations of AGP-Support (FreeBSD vs. NVidia), nvidia-sysctls, XF86Configs ... without success. The next strange thing: if I wait several minutes, the performance is normal again, but only for 1 attempt, the next one ist slow again. This makes playing Quake2 impossible, because connecting a server includes a vid_restart (- slw). I guess that something gets locked somehow. The next thing I want to try is an older 4.x version. Could this be a problem with the VIA KT600 chipset? Does anybody else experience this problem or am I the only lamer playing Quake on FreeBSD? ;) thank you for any help, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User Accounts across multiple machines
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:46:57PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Were you able to make this work well with 4.x machines? It's been a while since I tried, but I had problems with nss turning UIDs back into names. This would still be a problem, because there is no support for nss_ldap in FreeBSD 4.x. To get LDAP working with 4.x, you would need a workaround that translates user information into NIS or something that creates user-entries in the local passwd file. Support for nss_ldap/nsswitch.conf is available in FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE or newer. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient with reconfigured SSID
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 06:51:03PM +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
Will this lock the ssid during reboots as well ? If not, that actually
is what I am looking for.
You can put it into /etc/dhclient.conf, e.g.:
interface wi0 {
media ssid SSID wepmode on wepkey WEPKEY;
}
cu,
Uwe
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Re: FreeBSD ISDN Modem Support
Michael Hollmann wrote: does freebsd support this isdn-modem? ELSA MicroLink ISDN/TLV34 Yes, of course it will work, because it is an external modem/TA that is connected to a serial port. There is no need for a special hardware support. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New work on installer? - Checked by AntiVir DEMO version -
Gary Kline wrote: I think we (theBSD's) are losing a lot of serious brain brainpower (and certainly lots of latent high-end talent) by not having a less-headbanging install. I've done it literally dozens of times; I still get flummoxed now and then. I've been using sysinstall for many years and quite often I think. I never thought that sysinstall or the installation of FreeBSD is a problem in any way. In my opinion, installing FreeBSD is easy and fast. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best *nix OS for a laptop?
Eric F Crist wrote: Could some of you please send me an email telling me what OS you utilize on your laptop, and why? I'm not looking for anyone bashing any other OS, just why you use what you do. I run FreeBSD 5.2.1 (RELENG_5_2) on my IBM A31 now and everything works well for me. Before I was able to run FreeBSD on this machine, I used to run RedHat, Fedora and Debian GNU/Linux on that machine for a while (I really liked RedHat/Fedora). The problem is, that all Linux-Distributions have their issues, technically or politically... cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Use LDAP auth at 5.2.1 ?
Frank Bonnet wrote: Is there some howto to use nss_ldap and pam_ldap at FreeBSD 5.2.1 ? http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/FreeBSD/docs/Quick_and_dirty_FreeBSD_5_x_and_nss_ldap_mini-HOWTO.html cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Well... it works great under 5.2. After reading all the answers to my mail, I downloaded the 5.2.1-RC2-mini and started another attempt: you're right, the NVidia drivers work with 5.2.1-RC2. Thank you! Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia
Eduardo Fernandes wrote: how install nvidia drivers in freebsd 5.2? AFAIK the nvidia drivers don't work with FreeBSD 5.2 anymore. Last time I tried was 2 weeks ago with -CURRENT and it did not work. I switched back to RELENG_4. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD support
fbsd_user wrote: This boot error message general means that your floppy drive is broken. Not necessarily, this can also be a FreeBSD bug. I have several boards where this error occurs when ACPI is enabled. It's not a hardware problem. The floppy drives work with other systems, but not with FreeBSD+ACPI (4.9 - 5.1). cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba Change Password from Windows using ctrl-alt-delete
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: asked for help. Password sync is broken under FreeBSD with samba-2.x, and this is not a configuration issue. Ok, I have to apologize, you are right and I was wrong. There really is a problem with FreeBSD and Samba 2.2.8a. Sorry! cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openoffice
Aaron Sloan wrote: Am I correct in saying the 2 ports are broken because of the checksum problem? I'm not really interested in using NO_CHECKSUM=YES I also removed /usr/ports/editors/openoffice and openoffice-devel and ran CVS again with the same results. Was my troubleshooting ok? You get this message when downloaded files/archives are corrupt. I had the same problem with Openoffice, so I installed rsync from the ports and repaired the corrupt file with: rsync -cv rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/openoffice.org/stable/1.0.3/OOo_1.0.3_source.tar.bz2 /usr/ports/distfiles/openoffice1.0/OOo_1.0.3_source.tar.bz2 (put in one single line or use backslashes) cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with pam_ldap - ssh and file attributes
Dan Nelson wrote: /bin/ls is linked statically, which means it only knows about compat, files, nis, and dns; you can build a dynamic one, or step up and write Ahh, thank you for this explanation. :-) There are other strange things with -CURRENT and LDAP-setup: I have jdk13 running on the machine (Hotspot enabled) and any User from the LDAP-directory could start java only once, all further attempts fail. For local users there is no such problem. cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba Change Password from Windows using ctrl-alt-delete
Clay wrote: There doesn't seem to be anyone out there with a solution. I guess the moral of the story is don't run Samba 2.x on FreeBSD if you want your Sorry, I've just entered this mailing list and haven't read the other mails in this thread, but it should not be a problem at all to get this password sync to work. We use LDAP, so our config wouldn't help you, but a quick google-search leads to this example: FreeBSD 4 passwd chat for smb.conf: passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new**password* %n\n *password*has*been*changed* This has to be a single line of course. Put it into the [global] section of your smb.conf, together with a unix password sync = yes. Please read the smb.conf man page, it's all there. And please, don't let me see statements like don't run Samba 2.x on FreeBSD again, because I've been doing this for many years. Thank you... ;) cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with pam_ldap - ssh and file attributes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless the problem with file attributes persists. I have the same problem here. I guess that 'ls' doesn't care about nsswitch?! cu, Uwe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
