Re: Inode numbering
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D). It contains a file F with its inode number i(F). May I state that i(D) i(F)? In general, no. It might work in the special case where nothing on the filesystem is ever moved or removed, and no hard links are ever added. As a simple example, suppose I have directories foo and foo/bar, and file foo/baz, with i(foo) == 15, i(foo/baz) == 20, and i(foo/bar) == 25, satisfying your criterion. If I do mv foo/baz foo/bar (so baz is now foo/bar/baz), I will have i(foo/bar) == 25 and i(foo/bar/baz) == 20. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inode numbering
Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It will force me to do what I originally intended to do: Iterate from 2 up to the maximal number and then check the availability, and, if given, trace back the .. chain to an existing directory entry point - or re-create one, if it is missing, too. Will be a lot of work, but I think I can learn much from this. You may be able to reuse some code from dump(8). When doing an incremental dump, it reads through the inodes, makes a list of those which are newer than the previous dump, then recursively locates all parent directories of selected inodes and adds them to the list. (When doing a level 0 dump, it does the same thing but by definition every inode is selected.) Having done all that, it dumps all the selected directories followed by the rest of the selected inodes. Dump's purpose is to ensure that the dump will be complete in the sense of containing the full path to any file that is on the tape, and your purpose is different, but I suspect much of the find parent logic may be reusable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sudo multiple commands at once without shell script
How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami ) Badly placed ()'s. Supposing sudo spawns a shell, something like ~ sudo whoami \; whoami or ~ sudo whoami; whoami should work. If not, maybe try explicitly running a shell: ~ sudo sh -c whoami; whoami ___ 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 FreeBSD
I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: #### # # Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2 # #### # If I run a ssh for Linux1 to FreeBSD, my connection freeze when the return of some command is a big text. Example: I make a ssh connection in the from the Linux1 to FreeBSD server, then, I execute some commands, like: 'pwd', 'whoami', 'ls /'... this work perfectly. But, if I run some command that return a big text, like as: 'ls /dev/', or top, my connection freeze. ... If I try to access the Linux2, throught FreeBSD (redirect port on natd or redirect port with rinetd), the same thing happens. Is this a problem with FreeBSD? Someone know how I can fix it? Some sysctl? One possible cause of this behavior is an MTU problem. If something in the Linux1 == FreeBSD path is dropping packets larger than X (where X is something lower than the endpoints are expecting) you'll see exactly this sort of symptom. While the real solution is to fix whatever is dropping the packets, it may be easier to restrict the MTU. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? 'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people. For Americans also, due to f and r being adjacent on a US-English keyboard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. i have a friend that do offset printing. he have to use windoze and photoshop for only one reason - gimp doesn't support editing CMYK images If all else fails, one could try running the Windows versions of Photoshop and Illustrator under wine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop image of Beastie
I picked up this jpg of Beastie over 10 years ago. Tried using it for a gdm logon screen background, but it's really light. http://www.a1poweruser.com/beastie.JPG Does any one know where i can get a darker version of this image? You're right, that's extremely faint, more like a watermark than an attraction in its own right. How about this one? http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/beastie.png ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root /etc/csh
... Why doesn't FreeBSD ship bash and other shells besides the `sh' linked statically is beyond me. It wouldn't break ports, would it? It does break ports. Very, very badly. I know because I've personally attempted replacing /bin/sh with bash as a I have a weekend to spare project. You misunderstand. I do not suggest replacing the standard shell with bash, I suggest that the shells available in FreeBSD, even through ports to be linked statically so they can be used for rescue and recovery. If the default make instructions told to compile statically, it wouldn't break the ports. You're right -- I'm still not understanding. So let me cover the bases here: 1) The entire ports and FreeBSD build system (see: world) rely heavily on /bin/sh-isms and do not work with bash. bash being compiled statically will not solve these problems. If this is accurate, it should be reported to the bash maintainers as a bug. Bash claims complete Posix compatibility (plus extensions). In any event, it is irrelevant to the OP's point. 2) Changing the root users' shell is not recommended. There are a lot of reasons for this, but as mentioned, the main one is single-user scenarios (where /usr hasn't been mounted yet, thus /usr/local/bin/bash is not available -- and if it's installed as /bin/bash, the libraries /bin/bash link to are not available). This, of course, being the whole point of the OP's suggestion to link port shells statically. 3) You can build bash statically; make WITH_STATIC_BASH=true. I do not know the true reason why the port is not built statically by default, but I can give you a damn good reason why it shouldn't be: complete and total wasted memory. Take into consideration environments where there are hundreds (or at my place of work, thousands) of users logged into a machine at once. Many of those are going to have /usr/local/bin/bash as their shell. A statically-linked version of bash would waste significant amounts of memory, while a dynamically-linked/shared version would ease that pain. The same applies for any static vs. dynamic program. How so? Wouldn't a single in-memory instance of the bash text segment be shared among all bash processes, across all users? Granted, there is, in effect, *one* extra instance of the part of libc that gets linked into the static bash. A better reason is that security updates to shared libs often update only the .so files, expecting the binaries that use them to automatically pick up the new versions. Any static executable should be rebuilt any time there is a security update to a shared lib that it would be using were it linked dynamically. That said, perhaps it would be reasonable for shell ports to build both a dynamically-linked instance to be installed in /usr/local/bin, and a statically-linked instance to be installed in, say, /usr/local/static. Those who want to use bash as the root shell could copy it from there to /bin or /sbin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] printing question
So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather expensive ... I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's something like a year ago; granted that was a sale price, dunno regular. It speaks PostScript and lpd, so no need to bother with drivers or CUPS; all it needs is a printcap entry. (BTW it also works seamlessly from MacOS X.) One small caution: there is also an ML-2571 without the N -- it may have a different letter -- which is not networked, dunno if that one handles PostScript. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shell scripting problems
In the shell script, i have a pkg_info -qLx ^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$ also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x). sh keeps erroring out saying various $ isn't a valid variable name ... Both sh and csh will try to treat $ inside of as a variable reference. Does it work any better if you enclose the $ in '' instead? If you need the first $ to be a variable reference and the second to be used literally, you may need to do something like ^$PKG-[0-9,._]+'$' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...
... I'm trying to remember why I did not like pkg_add -r. IIRC, one issue with pkg_add -r is that it insists on doing everything from the remote repository, and will not bother looking for any packages (incl. dependencies) locally first. This makes sense for a brand-new installation where you know there's no local repository to search -- which is probably the use case that the author had in mind -- but can be inefficient otherwise. I started hacking on it a while back, but have not had much time lately. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS partitioning
Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ... AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: QT4.5 packages
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have or know of where to download the pkg files for the various Qt4.5 ports as using pkg_add is the only way im able to add them atm. You can find many packages for several releases under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
after reading all these posts, i've still come up with this answer after looking .. freebsd - the power to serve Might one reasonably surmise that the power to serve implies doing a good job of running server software? Like mail servers, FTP servers, web servers, file servers, database servers, ssh servers, even - gasp - X11 servers? ___ 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
Unfortunately, anything covered by a patent, as I hinted above, is verboten. Er, doesn't it depend on what is patented? If the h/w itself is patented, but its software-visible interface is not, there should be no problem writing a driver for that h/w. OTOH if the algorithms used in the driver are patented it would be an infringement to reproduce them. But if I remember my legal and ethics course correctly if you can arrive at a conclusion through your own research then your reasonably clear. Not under patent, at least in the US, last I heard. (IANAL) A patent is infringed by any reproduction of the technology involved, even entirely independently. Someone described the justification as avoiding a situation in which it would pay to be ignorant of what others had done. For example, the drivers are closed source but the hardware itself is an entirely separate issue. So if you can create your own drivers by your own research into how the hardware is setup then the drivers created could licensed under your own terms- open source or otherwise. At least in the US, that works for copyright but not for patent. The drivers and hardware may operate together but are separate items of creativity, therefore do not operate under the same patent. Again, it depends on exactly what is patented (strictly speaking, what the patent's claims are.) ___ 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: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.
As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos), I get the error Permission denied. Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that directory? To remove anything that is located in /home, including a directory such as /home/my_repos, user svn would need write permission in the /home directory. Probably only root has write permission there. ___ 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: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?
The only other thing being in group operator lets you run,
apart from what you've added into /etc/devfs.{conf,rules} is
/sbin/mksnap_ffs ..
In a default devfs config, it grants read permission to
the disk devices (presumably to enable running dump(8)).
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vpnc connects, but does not work
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the tun0 interface nor anything beyond it. The symptom seems to resemble what is described in the Routing section of http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~flemej/fbsd-cisco-vpn.pdf, but since that is using a completely different setup on the FreeBSD side I have no idea whether the remedy described there is applicable (nor, if it is, how to determine the addresses to use in this case). Does this look at all familiar, or does anyone have any ideas for how to go about debugging it? I didn't find anything that seemed applicable in recent ports@ or questions@ archives, and an earlier inquiry on ports@ did not produce a solution. (I have XX'd out potentially-sensitive material in the following.) # /usr/local/sbin/vpnc Enter password for x...@xxx.xxx.com: Connect Banner: | *** XXX, Inc. Authorized Use Only *** add host YYY.YYY.127.228: gateway 192.168.200.254 add net ZZZ.ZZZ.0.0: gateway ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 snipped 56 other add net lines, all with the same gateway address, none to any ZZZ.ZZZ address until: add net ZZZ.ZZZ.57.128: gateway ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 add net ZZZ.ZZZ.57.133: gateway ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 VPNC started in background (pid: 24776)... The addresses in those last two add net lines seem to be the nameservers: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf #...@vpnc_generated@ -- this file is generated by vpnc # and will be overwritten by vpnc # as long as the above mark is intact nameserver ZZZ.ZZZ.57.128 nameserver ZZZ.ZZZ.57.133 search XXX.com which leads me to wonder whether they really ought to be add host -- for that matter it's not clear they're needed at all since they should be covered by the add net ZZZ.ZZZ.0.0 -- but I guess that may not make much difference when I can't even ping my own gateway (tun0) address :( $ ping ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 PING ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 (ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42): 56 data bytes ^C --- ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss $ ping ZZZ.ZZZ.57.128 PING ZZZ.ZZZ.57.128 (ZZZ.ZZZ.57.128): 56 data bytes ^C --- ZZZ.ZZZ.57.128 ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss $ ping ZZZ.ZZZ.57.133 PING ZZZ.ZZZ.57.133 (ZZZ.ZZZ.57.133): 56 data bytes ^C --- ZZZ.ZZZ.57.133 ping statistics --- 27 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss $ ifconfig -a xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe28:ad4f%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.200.61 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.200.255 ether 00:b0:d0:28:ad:4f media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1412 inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe28:ad4f%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 -- ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 netmask 0x Opened by PID 24635 Meanwhile I _can_ ping YYY.YYY.127.228, which I guess is the concentrator's public IP address: $ ping YYY.YYY.127.228 PING YYY.YYY.127.228 (YYY.YYY.127.228): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from YYY.YYY.127.228: icmp_seq=0 ttl=116 time=53.226 ms 64 bytes from YYY.YYY.127.228: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=52.982 ms 64 bytes from YYY.YYY.127.228: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=53.130 ms ^C --- YYY.YYY.127.228 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 52.982/53.113/53.226/0.100 ms Traceroute to YYY.YYY.127.228 produces the same 14-hop result whether connected or disconnected (modulo the need to use traceroute -n while connected: since vpnc has replaced /etc/resolv.conf with one specifying only the corporate nameservers, and I can't reach them because the link doesn't work, there is no name service while connected). Just like ping, traceroute to the tun0 IP address, while connected, produced nothing: $ traceroute -n ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 traceroute to ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42 (ZZZ.ZZZ.233.42), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * ^C What seems truly bizarre is that, as noted above, I couldn't ping the tun0 interface while connected even though ifconfig reported it as up. Shouldn't a local interface, reported as up, *always* respond to a ping of its own IP address? $ netstat -r -n Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default192.168.200.254UGS 0 2209723xl0 snip lines corresponding to snipped add net lines above 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...
Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. ... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is asking which directory needs to be added. asfiles is a port which installs into /usr/local, so I'd expect the executable to be in /usr/local/bin. If not, find /usr/local -name asfiles -print should find it. ___ 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: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: 1U=4.5cm Approximately :) At least in the US, 1U = 1.75 inches = 4.445 cm, so an 18cm case will not quite fit into 4U. Perhaps metric racks are different. ___ 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: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case
If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position. After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may cause difficulty in reading of already recorded data . This point should be considered . Sun, at least, used to warn about this back in the MFM/ESDI days, recommending that a disk should be reformatted if its orientation were changed, but those drives used all their heads for data and depended on reproduceable mechanical positioning to align the heads at the selected cylinder. I'm not sure it still applies to drives that dedicate one head to fine-tuning track position by reading factory-recorded servo patterns. (Quick check, if actual geometry is known: a drive with an odd number of heads most likely has a dedicated servo surface.) BTW most drives of that era, while OK on either side as well as right side up, were *not* supposed to be run upside down -- the bearings were not designed for that. ___ 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
FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ... It turned out the only problem was the absence of NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp in vpnc.conf. (Presumably not all configurations of the Cisco 3000 will need that, else it would be the default, but it seems to be correct for the one involved here.) I never did figure out why that kept the interface from responding to a ping of its own address :( ___ 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: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work
I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: Appears to connect and authenticate successfully to my office's VPN concentrator Once (apparently) connected, I can't access any resources on the company network (mail / servers, etc), nor can I ping anything.., Including the IP address of your tun0 interface? (If you can ping that, but nothing beyond, you have a different problem than I had.) Wondering if you can point me to where you found the info on the various options I can try to continue debugging this problem, please. That line came from the output of vpnc --long-help. Other things to look at are the vpnc(8) manpage, the /usr/local/share/doc/vpnc/README file, and the TODO file in /usr/ports/security/vpnc/work/vpnc-0.4.0. There's more detail of what I think is going on in this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-January/020638.html By the time you get it working again, you will probably have learned more about the workings of vpnc than you really cared to know :) The FW guys at the office aren't exactly forthcoming where non-MS windows is concerned, you see.., Not surprising :( Too many security types act as if obscurity helped security, not realizing that it inconveniences only their customers and not their enemies. Any chance they would be willing to say what config change they made on their end about the time it stopped working, without reference to what is running on your end? Another thing to check is whether your ISP changed something. ___ 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: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
mojo fms fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that should be fine, it was just mounted under /mnt normally and used for backups. My problem is that I installed 7.1 and was careful not to erase any data on that drive, but my only options for a partition to mount is /dev/ad2s1. When I try to mount that it gives me mount: /dev/ad2s1 : Operation not permitted, what can I do to get the data off of it? I only really care about my /etc information but it would be nice to get all of the information off of it. Supposing ad2s1 is in fact the slice containing the filesystem in question, and the filesystem was originally made directly on that slice without partitioning it, it should be possible to run dump(8) against it and pipe the output to restore(8). This should work if the slice is readable, even if it cannot be mounted. ___ 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: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work
... I do have a Linux OS that I have access to that strangely does use vpnc successfully. That may help quite a bit. You can use something like tcpdump or wireshark on the FreeBSD system to monitor the traffic between the Linux system and the Cisco while connecting and doing something simple like pinging the inside nameserver, then reverse roles and use the Linux system to monitor the traffic between FreeBSD and the Cisco while connecting and attempting to do the same simple thing. You won't be able to see what's inside the IPSEC-encrypted packets, but you can at least see how many of what size are sent in each direction. This may provide some clues as to what is going wrong. ___ 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: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an empty filesystem or loading an incremental on top of such a full restore. If the destination (current directory) is not the root of an empty filesystem, you want restore -x or restore -i instead. ___ 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: NFS fstab style
Can someone confirm that these two lines are the same -or- if one is preferred over the other ? Code: 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,-b,-i 0 0 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,bg,intr 0 0 I've never seen the style of line 1 before, no idea whether it would work or not. ___ 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 on reliable home fileserver hardware?
there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. Last I knew Drobo supported only Samba, not NFS -- but that was some time ago. Have they come out with an upgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible to burn an existing .iso by something like dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b ___ 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: Registry corrupt?
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: describe something more. and what you mean rehash? Rehashing forces the shell to reinitialise (for want of a better term) so that it rechecks the path and can sometimes discover new programs installed if they don't seem to work ... ok you mean shell rehashing. so PATH is missing something Or an executable was added to one of the PATH directories since the last time PATH was set or the rehash command was issued, e.g. when a port was installed or upgraded. See tcsh(1) for details. ___ 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: Comfortable dd bs= parameters for different media
I'd like to ask which sizes are comfortable to use for reading from different media using the dd utility ... In case anyone still cares, I have long used bs=120b for floppy disks. ___ 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: remove kerberos 5 from FreeBSD
... bsd.own.mk can be ahead of the man page. Perhaps the OP would consider writing a sed script to generate /usr/share/examples/etc/src.conf from /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.
I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD
(6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64).
What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines,
but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture.
I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as fast as possible.
Right now, I simply exports(5) /usr/ports via NFSv3 ...
...
The following 2 lines on each machine in /etc/make.conf should
fix those problems:
PACKAGES=${PORTSDIR}/packages/${ARCH}
INDEXFILE=INDEX-${ARCH}-${OSVERSION:C/([0-9]).*/\1/}
To speed up building, it may also be useful to set WRKDIRPREFIX
to something like /var/ports or /var/tmp/ports, so that the work
directories are local rather than having to be accessed via NFS.
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Re: Tool to uncat file
before starting to code on my own, I'd like to ask if there's already a tool to uncat files, defining the file separation position as a string of bytes, usually given in hexadecimal form. An example could be this: % uncat -p 0x12,0x52,0xf1,0x09 file_orig It creates file_1 file_2 file_3. And, of course, % cat file_1 file_2 file_3 file_orig would re-create the original file. The bytes 0x12,0x52,0xf1,0x09 tell the file starting pattern (-p), where a new file begins. I cannot use dd due to the fact that the files concatenated are of a different size ... csplit(1) csplit would cover the case where the input file is text, to be split on line boundaries based on patterns found within the lines; but the example given looks like a binary pattern and my reading of the inquiry is that the split should occur at the pattern rather than at a nearby newline. Grepping the ports INDEX for split yields the following candidates which might bear examination, to see if any of them will work: misc/granulate sysutils/gfslicer sysutils/hoz sysutils/lxsplit ___ 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: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots
I'm searching for monkeys or intruders ... Brief power outage, perhaps? Some BIOS have a selection of what to do when power is restored from an outage, typical choices being to start up, remain off, or return to the state before power was lost. Others may offer only the first two, or be hardwired to one of them with no opportunity to choose a different behavior. ___ 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: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size
1755708928*1024/512 = 3511417856 blocks. This number is larger than 2^31, which techinically isn't a problem because the NFSv2 spec says that the filesystem size is unsigned. FreeBSD treats it as signed, though, so it can display negative free space when root starts using its 8% reserve, so your unsigned 3511417856 gets printed as a signed -783549440, which messes everything up. ... you could rebuild df to print its numbers as unsigned instead of signed. Just watch out if your local filesystems start eating into their 8% reserve, since they'll start reporting huge values. Or patch df to print local filesystem sizes as signed -- so that the reserve reporting still works -- and NFS as unsigned to match the spec. ___ 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: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots
Brief power outage, perhaps? ... note: the box is a laptop; I hit the power-off button and pulled out the 220V power cable of the power-supply from the outlet (that's why later the laptop after 2h uptime failed with battery empty) ... So much for the power-bounce theory. Perhaps you have a poltergeist? :) ___ 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: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size
you could rebuild df to print its numbers as unsigned instead of signed. Just watch out if your local filesystems start eating into their 8% reserve, since they'll start reporting huge values. Or patch df to print local filesystem sizes as signed -- so that the reserve reporting still works -- and NFS as unsigned to match the spec. That works as long as you don't NFS-mount other FreeBSD systems with overfull drives :) Looking at this a little more closely, it appears that the struct statfs returned by statfs(2) and friends tells the whole story, using 64-bit values most of which are defined as unsigned. (Only f_bavail and f_ffree -- the number of blocks and inodes available to non-superusers -- are defined as signed.) The code that converts from the 32-bit NFSv2 to the 64-bit struct statfs values seems more likely to be somewhere in NFS than in df(1). ___ 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: OT: SVN checkout checksumming
I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update periodically to a specific branch of the repository. The problem is that I need to be sure the files where not corrupted during the transfer. So, I'm planning to generate the hash (SHA or MD5, doesn't really matters) of every file downloaded by SVN on the client. For this to work, I need to compare the hashes with their server-side equivalent ... Do you need to mirror the entire branch, or only distribute the latest version? If the latter, ports/net/rsync may be what you're looking for. ___ 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: disk recovery problem II
huff@ newfs /dev/da3a /dev/da3a: 78167.2MB (160086512 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 426 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976, ... 159949760 cg 0: bad magic number Bad drive, perhaps? What do sysutils/smartmontools say? ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes enough through various tunnels I have established that this would be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs) ... System on CD, reading config from floppy? ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Tim Judd gmail.com!taj...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes enough through various tunnels I have established that this would be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs) ... System on CD, reading config from floppy? I've tried this, in my own mix due to rcorder, an external /etc filesystem is not read NOR mounted in time to be read. When I did it and tried to bring it up ASAP, the system failed to read hostname variable in the external /etc filesystem. I haven't yet, and probably won't try -- to rewrite the /etc/rc startup to allow it. And I think it's because /etc/rc sources /etc/rc.conf even before it runs So how can I start rc and get the external /etc/rc.conf read before rc starts? I'd like to know, if it's possible. There's no way to mount /etc AFAIK, because parts of it are needed too soon: /etc/fstab if nothing else. However, I had gotten the impression that the only frequently-changing part of the config in question involved vtund. Rather than trying to do the mount early, I was thinking of starting vtund later than usual -- perhaps by making it depend on the completion of mount -a -- and having it read its config from a file on the mounted floppy. If vtund has to start sooner than that, an alternate approach might be to have vtund read its config from the /dev/fd0 device itself, rather than from a filesystem mounted on /dev/fd0 (having prepared the floppy ahead of time by something like dd if=/path/to/vtund/config/file of=/dev/fd0). Yet another approach would be to have boot and root (and thus /etc) on floppy, but /usr on CD. Tweaking things so that /usr can be read-only dates back at least as far as SunOS 4.0. ___ 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: hi
You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports ... let me know and I'll write a short mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. This sounds as if it would make a good Handbook section. ___ 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: new hardware platform?? :-)
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Robert Huff wrote: Has any one seen more on this? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp They claim only Linux support for the brick, but the blurb on the 88F6281 system-on-chip processor claims BSD support (for the SOC, not necessarily for this board, and it didn't say which BSD). BTW it's an ARM processor. Wojciech Puchar wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl!woj...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: i don't see monitor connector? :) It's presumably intended to be used as a headless server, accessed primarily via the GB Ethernet; however that slot on the top side has several useful connections including serial and JTAG. (Their debug board converts those to USB, but nothing requires you to plug in the debug board :) One disappointment is that they apparently did not bring out the chip's SATA and PCI-E connections. The PCI-E is only x1, so not all that great for high-performance video, but burying it inside the box does seem like an unnecessary limitation. ___ 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: disk/drive-bay problem
g_vfs_done():da4s1d[READ(offset=261868847104, length=16384)]error = 5 ... 1. This only happens on drive-bay 4. If I swap the 300 Gig drives around, they are all happy in any drive-bay but number 4 ... 2. The old 145Gig drives work perfectly in any bay, including bay 4. ... Why would one (proven good) drive fail in that slot, while the other (also proven good) drive succeeds. The only difference is the size and speed (145 vs 300, 10k vs 15k). Any chance bay 4 has a minor wiring problem, like a broken ground or three, causing an impedance bump? Such things might just barely work at 10k, but fail at higher transfer speeds. ___ 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: Ports on Macbook
Chris Rees googlemail.com!utis...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: That passage says that any agreement with the knowledge of the relationship in good faith is valid. Where does it mention the difference between a click-through licence and an oral agreement? With apologies to a certain former U.S. President, that may depend on the definitions of the terms. Does someone who simply clicks yes, without actually reading the license first, have knowledge of the relationship? Does someone who clicks yes, while having no intention to comply with the terms, act in good faith? For that matter, does Apple -- having never met the clicker in person or even on line -- have knowledge of the relationship? Though a test case would be nice. Has anyone been lunatic enough to try taking it to court? Given the nature of the situation, I'd think the only party likely to take it to court would be Apple. You seem to be saying that they would be crazy to do so. I suspect the OP would agree :) Otherwise a clicked Yes counts as an agreement made in good faith. Are you qualified to give legal advice concerning Swedish law? I am not, but I would guess that you could well be right *if* Sweden has adopted something similar to DMCA; otherwise I am not so sure. (I don't suppose the U.S. would have adopted DMCA unless it had been thought to produce substantially different results than the previous copyright law.) ___ 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: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?
Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2009 23:06:10 Fbsd1 wrote: I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the package system instead of the port system. Is there such am application available? Not (yet). Without /usr/ports it's impossible to find out what software needs updating, or you'd have to download and trust the INDEX-7 on the FreeBSD package servers. ... which may not be much of a stretch for those who are prepared to download and trust the packages themselves, from the same place. portupgrade -PP manages somehow. BTW, the OP may not realize that the package system is a subset of the port system, rather than an alternative. Packages are generated using the port system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install
If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy images. Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is NFS Locking Reliable?
Our NFS servers for user home directories are on FreeBSD (6.4), MacOSX (10.5), Linux (still 2.4 kernel) and Tru64-UNIX boxes; NFS clients are mostly Linux (2.6 kernel) and FreeBSD (6.4, 7.0, but w/o kernel lockd) systems. I have seen problems with NFS locking even in completely homogeneous environments. With a mix like that, I would not trust it as far as I could throw a Cray :) There are periods of several days without problems, but from time to time, on one, two, or several (but not all) clients application processes which use locking suddenly hang in kernel mode - namely firefox, opera, pine. Lockups are probably the least of your concerns, at least where pine is involved. Dunno what sort of data firefox and opera are protecting from race conditions, but I suppose pine is being used for email. Cases will arise wherein mail mysteriously disappears, because the client and the delivery agent were both updating the inbox at the same time. Often there will be no noticeable symptoms, except for users wondering what happened to that important message they were supposed to have gotten (and which the MTA log shows was in fact delivered). Never export an inbox read/write if reliability of mail delivery is needed. Use IMAP instead. It seems to be no specific operating system problem - all combinations of clients and servers are involved. I suspect the reason NFS locking is so troublesome is that it presents problems which are fundamentally incomputable. Prior to restoration of communication, how can any automaton possibly distinguish between * a temporary loss of the communication link (but the peer is still running and the link will eventually be re-established), and * the peer has crashed, and will eventually reboot? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: utility that scans lan for client?
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Monday 23 March 2009 19:59:36 John Almberg wrote: What I'm looking for is a utility that can scan a LAN for attached clients... i.e., computers that are attached to the LAN. I have one box (an appliance that I have no access to), that is on the LAN but I don't know what IP address it's using. I'd like to complete my network map, and that is the one empty box on my chart. security/nmap If the box pings, you can simply scan your LAN like: $ nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24 Or, with no ports needed: $ ping -n -t 5 -i 10 192.168.200.255 Granted you need to know the broadcast address. If you know the interface name, you can get the broadcast address from ifconfig: $ ping -n -t 5 -i 10 ` ifconfig xl0 | sed -n -e 's/^.* broadcast //p' ` BTW both ping and ifconfig are in /sbin, which is perhaps somewhat less likely to be in PATH than /bin and /usr/bin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to configure xbiff
Polytropon edvax.de!free...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:39:38 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: From a terminal window command line xbiff -geometry 50x50-5+5 puts it in my upper right corner, [...] Do you use -5 to get rid of a window border added by KDE's window manager? IIRC that construct would place xbiff in the upper right corner of the screen. (Negative X coordinate = distance from right edge.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: installing freebsd on windows
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: If the connection is down, I am probably NOT using the PC. Hell, if the power is out for more than 30 minutes, my UPS is dead so I am most definitely not using the machine. So you never experience connectivity problems for any reason other than a local power failure? Astonishing! ___ 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
Heller-Johnson syndrome (Re: installing freebsd on windows)
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization. Author unknown: If someone *does* know what is going on in the organization, that person must be fired. ___ 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: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools?
O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
I need to fetch a whole directory tree from a public remote site.
The top level directory and its subdirectories are accessible via
ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch, but fetch does only retrieve
data on file basis and does not copy a whole directory tree
recursively. The remote site does not offer sftp/sshd for that
purpose.
There's at least one ftp server (wuftpd) that will do it for you
on the server end. All you have to do is get {dirname}.tar.
(The .tar file won't appear in the directory listing, because
it's created on the fly.)
It might be worth a try, to see if the server of interest happens
to be set up this way.
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Re: going from cvs to svnq
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I have not tried it.) ___ 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: new package system proposal
Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part of this package system and compile a typical desktop set of ports ... Isn't this exactly what is currently done as part of a release? The ports tree is tagged so that a snapshot can be retrieved using csup, and packages are built for publication on (for example) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/ Granted this includes all package-distributable ports rather than a typical desktop subset. Modify pkg_add so that it can be told to use this 'snapshot' including downloading the fixed ports tree that was used. AFAIK pkg_add currently does not download the ports tree at all -- that is done using csup or portsnap -- but it can be directed to a release set or other remote package repository via the -r flag. My only issue with that approach is that, last I knew, there was no way to specify a mix of local and remote repositories (to deal with the case where I have already downloded some subset of what I end up needing, so I want pkg_add to search locally first and use the remote repository only for packages that it can't find locally). ___ 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: going from cvs to svnq
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I have not tried it.) Huh. From reading the port's description file, it seems to be a svn lookalike, but with a differing feature list. Supposely uses the same filesystem layout as subversion ... I got the impression from the 2nd and 3rd non-quote paragraphs here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-November/026898.html that what you want is a full svk mirror, and since it was being advocated I presumed that it could be set up by a reasonably simple, if initially time/bandwidth intensive, mechanism. This, from earlier in the same thread, may be useful: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer Again, I have not gotten around to trying any of this. ___ 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
USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1
Trying here, after no answer on usb@ When I plug in the reader, I get (on the console): umass0: SDMMC M121 USB 2.0 SD/MMC READER, rev 2.00/2.01, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 SD/MMC Reader \001\000\000? Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 1962MB (4019200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 250C) So far, so good, and it appears -- based on this excerpt from the mtoolstest output -- that mtools is configured to read /dev/da0 as b: drive B: #fn=1 mode=0 defined in /usr/local/etc/mtools.conf file=/dev/da0 fat_bits=0 tracks=0 heads=0 sectors=0 hidden=0 offset=0x0 partition=0 However, when I try to read it with mtools: $ mdir -a b: init B: non DOS media Cannot initialize 'B:' When I try to investigate using file: $ file -s /dev/da0 I get a very long pause, during which this appears on the console: umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x4, scsi status == 0x0 umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT and the file command reports /dev/da0: ERROR: cannot read `/dev/da0' (Input/output error) Is there anything that can be done in the way of configuration adjustments, or is this reader just not usable on 6.1? USB part of dmesg.boot: uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port 0xcce0-0xccff irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ___ 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: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Are you sure that the drive isn't partitioned? In other words, if you plug in the drive, and you give the command 'ls /dev/da0*', do you only get /dev/da0 or perhaps also /dev/da0s1? If it is partitioned, try /dev/da0s? instead. It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be partitioned; but yes, it is: $ ls -l /dev/da0* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 245 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0s1 Second, does the user running mtools have read and write access to the device? Read-only, which should be sufficient for mdir. The card is, deliberately, write-protected. After reconfiguring mtools to read from /dev/da0s1, I started getting those umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT messages again, but I can read it a sector at a time using dd: $ dd if=/dev/da0 of=~/sd bs=1b That's been running for something like 45 minutes now, and based on the size of the output file it has read about a tenth of the card. It looks as if the problem arises only when attempting to read larger blocks. (I haven't tried to find out how much larger.) Have you tried just mounting the card reader? No, because I'd expect to panic the system if it is not in fact a valid (and readable) FAT filesystem. Mtools seems much safer. ___ 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: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:47:23PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be partitioned; but yes, it is: $ ls -l /dev/da0* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 245 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0s1 That would suggest that there is a filesystem on there, doesn't it? It would certainly suggest there is a DOS partition table aka BSD slice table. I don't think it says anything about what the slice contains, however. $ dd if=/dev/da0 of=~/sd bs=1b That's been running for something like 45 minutes now, and based on the size of the output file it has read about a tenth of the card. Reading one byte at a time is bound to be slow. dd bs=1b is one block (512 bytes), not one byte. At least it seems to be working. I *would* anticipate problems if trying to read a umass device in units not a multiple of its native blocksize. It could be that this USB chipset needs some quirks to work correctly. like Don't attempt to read more than 32768 bytes at a time -- subsequent testing shows it to be OK up to bs=64b, but bs=126b fails -- or is there maybe a way to set that sort of limit in mtools? ___ 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: USB SD-card reader recognized, but not working, on 6.1
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:47:23 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: It's an SD card, not a drive, so I had not expected it to be partitioned; but yes, it is: $ ls -l /dev/da0* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 245 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0s1 Why don't you expect this? As far as I know, if something is msdosfs-formatted (read: any Windows readable file system, FAT), it always involves a slice device. I never found a situation where access to /dev/da0 would work. My experience is exactly the reverse. I've never before seen a removable-media device (floppy, Zip-drive, JAZ drive) that *did* have a DOS partition table aka BSD slice table. Surely you would not expect a USB floppy to show up as /dev/da0s1? AFAIK the reason for creating slices is to identify sections of the device for use by different OS -- something often needed for multi-boot from a hard drive but seldom on removable media. I sure wasn't planning to use part of this SD card for my camera to store pictures on, and the rest for FreeBSD backups :) ___ 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: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)
Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: I could also distribute the ports tree ... I wonder if it's necessary to distribute the entire ports tree. Perhaps it would suffice to distribute a timestamp for csup/cvsup to retrieve the appropriate version. ___ 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: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: ... [svn] needs python26, perl and tcl - all the three of them ... It seems you may have discovered the significance of the name: it subverts the sysadmin's sanity. Maybe it can find practical use as a meta-port for scripting languages, if someone cares to add ruby to the mix ;) ___ 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: PCIe audio cards: what is tob be preferred with FreeBSD 8.0/9-CURRENT?
O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: At this very moment I utilise a M-Audio 5.1 PCI-audio board with which I'm really satisfied. My next box doesn't have PCI slots at all ... I look for the Soundblaster X-Fi range of PCIe cards, It's possible to get an adapter that plugs into a PCIe slot and provides a PCI slot, which might enable you to continue using your current card. I've never actually seen one, so don't know about the mechanics; it could turn out that it can only be used by leaving the cover off of the box :( ___ 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: backup terminal title
I wish to use the \033]0;%s\007 sequence in a shell-script to set the title of a terminal. But only if I am able to undo it. My requirement is that this must be done without using anything outside the base system. There is an escape sequence which will cause the terminal to echo back its current title, but it's a bit tricky to use given only base-system tools because the echo ends with, IIRC, \007 rather than \n. It may be possible in some shells to temporarily set the line-end character to \007. You probably also want to (somehow) cover problematic cases like terminals that don't reply to the inquiry even though TERMCAP implies that they should. ___ 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: Howto run privileged commands on login/logout
Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run privileged commands when a user logins or logs out: - on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can mount /home) Or, better yet, use an automounter. - on logout a system reboot to clean up any temporary files left from the session. I'm not aware of any existing, simple method to handle this part. It might not be all that difficult to hack something into getty(8) or init(8). Another possibility would be to clean /tmp and /var/tmp in the .logout script, which should not require any special privs. ___ 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: backup terminal title
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: What's the sequence for reading the terminal title? If I remembered it I'd have included it :) The first 3 results from Googling xterm escape sequences are rtfm.etla.org/xterm/ctlseq.html www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html www.kitebird.com/csh-tcsh-book/ctlseqs.pdf I'd expect it to be in at least one of them. (#4 may be a miss, but the next 5 also look promising.) ___ 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: display and manipulate math symbols?
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of math symbols and arrange them on-screen ... pre-drawn symbols that could be moused around? If not for the WYSIWYG requirement I'd suggest some variant of TeX. Based entirely on reputation, I'd think PowerPoint could do this fairly easily, provided the symbols you need are in one of the installed fonts. Have you tried the corresponding OpenOffice tool? (I think it may be called present or some such.) If I were going to do something like this, and didn't want to take time to learn a new tool, I'd try using Visio -- one of only two apps which I've found useful enough to get me to voluntarily put up with Windoze. Dunno (yet) how well it will run under wine; this is one of several things I intend to try if I can ever find the time to get a newer FreeBSD system set up. (Wine is reputed to not work at all well on 6.1.) Ports/graphics/dia is somewhat similar to Visio, I think more limited, but perhaps sufficient depending on just what you need to do. ___ 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: setting default directory ACLs using xargs
Doug Sampson do...@dawnsign.com wrote: I need to do this at the command prompt for all directories: ... r...@aries:/data/Products# getfacl . | setfacl -d -b -n -M - . Now, I have thousands of subdirectories that I want to apply this to. When I attempt to use the xarg command with the above command modified to work with xargs, I end up with an error message ... Two possibilities come to mind: * Try using the -L 1 switch to cause xargs to run a separate command instance for each input value. * You may have run into one of the rare situations where find ... | xargs is not the best tool for the job. It may work better to set up a 3-line shell script along the lines of #!/bin/sh cd $1 getfacl . | setfacl -d -b -n -M - . and then use find -type d -exec to run it for each directory. ___ 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: Flash viewer for FBSD
Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: * Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote: When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild *all* ports. ... Some people only use console, they should rebuild all ports relating to their work. They do not have to rebuild KDE or GNOME, for example. Instructions like rebuild *all* ports mean rebuild *all* ports that you have installed on your system. No one expects you to build every port in the tree, unless your system is pointyhat :) ___ 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 install from floppy
Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: ... I really cannot understand why nobody can change just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at all, much less a bootable one. I sure hope they don't start applying the same reasoning to drivers for old-ish devices. Some of us do not rush out and acquire the latest/greatest whiz-giz every few months just because it's available. ___ 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: Non-maskable interrupt trap
Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote: Fot the first time in years I had a kernel panic in FreeBSD (8.0-ST). While playing a flash movie in Firefox (3.6), everything just locked up and only resetting helped. After the reboot it wrote a corefile in /var/crash/ which is unfortunately too big to read by any text editor. Corefiles are binary, not usefully readable with anything text oriented. See the Handbook section on Kernel Debugging for how to get a backtrace from it. ... Hope that someone has an idea what has caused this. I just can't imagine that a flash plugin is able to crash FreeBSD. One possible cause is a driver bug in some obscure corner case that the flash player tried to use. ___ 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: [OT] ssh security
Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange. These algorithms can defeat any attempts on eavesdropping, but cannot defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. To defeat them, some pre-shared information is needed - key fingerprint. What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret). What stops the server and client from establishing a Diffie-Hellman session and using it to perform the key exchange? ___ 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: [OT] ssh security
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret) ... I am not expert in cryptography ... Nor am I but logic tends to tell me that is I have no prior knowledge about the person I am about to talk to, anybody (MIM) could pretend to be that person. The pre-shared information need not to be secret ... but there is need for pre-shared trusted information. Er, if the pre-shared information is not secret, how can I be sure that the person presenting it is in fact my intended correspondent and not a MIM? My impression is that Diffie-Hellman (somehow) solves this sort of problem. ___ 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: Objective-C 2.0 on FreeBSD; garbage collection, anyone?
Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: If your program never frees any memory, then there is never any garbage to collect. Last I knew, garbage collection refers to tracking down and reclaiming allocated memory to which no valid references exist. The particular example given here is sufficiently trivial not to actually need GC -- it could easily free() before losing the (only) reference -- but keeping track can become extremely tricky in complex systems (hence the considerable effort that has been expended in designing and implementing GC systems). ___ 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: Very suspicious stack trace
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: what would lead malloc() into calling abort()? Everything seems to be in order. Something may have trashed its internal data structures. I'd suggest a close look for things like buffer overflows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about expr
Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: When you execute a script ... the aliases are ignored. Is there some way to fix this ... Search for expand_aliases in the bash manpage. ___ 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, postfix and push email
Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/10, Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push notifications to an iPhone ... I know it can be done with Exchange and ActiveSync, but I don't want to run any kind of exchange server. Wouldn't push email be a function of your POP3 or IMAP server? FreeBSD and Postfix are neither of those. Er, no. POP3 and IMAP are pull services, wherein the client polls the server periodically for any newly-arrived messages. A client-level push service would need to operate similarly to biff(1)/comsat(8). ___ 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, postfix and push email
Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: For ActiveSync at least, the phone has to keep a TCP connection to the server open 24/7, and the server sends a notification when a new mail arrives. MobileMe probably works the same way. The IMAP protocol supports a similar notify on new mail option, but for some reason Apple doesn't use it in their client. Sigh. It's hardly the first time a major software company insisted on improving a standard protocol instead of maintaining compatibility/interoperability with the rest of the world. ___ 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: Sendmail Five Second Greeting Delay
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Ident queries like this will cause a delay if the other side doesn't respond respond to the ident query ... I consider it polite for firewalls to actively refuse to open the connection (TCP reset) rather than just dropping the request, though. There's really no downside to doing so. Other than giving port-scanners an affirmative indication that there is a device of some sort at the IP address involved. Some firewalls even drop pings for exactly this reason. If the request comes from an address to which I've recently* initiated a connection -- so he already knows that my address is currently alive -- I ought to either respond per protocol or reset. If it comes from who-knows-where, it may be safer to drop it. The ident protocol is useful for the purpose for which it was designed: to pass whom to blame info between servers which have reason to trust one another's identity (based on, e.g., stable IP addresses) and administration. Granted the circumstances in which these conditions are met are a lot less prevalent than they once were. * for some resonable definition of recently ___ 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: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: One fairly well-known super computer class architecture from the mid 1960s ran without *any* error checking in the CPU *or* main memory. Dr. Seymour Cray analyzed things and concluded the significant extra component count for just doing 'parity' checking, let alone ECC made for a net _reduction_ in overall system reliability, *IF* the machine was run under very tightly controlled operating conditions -- the big ones being extremely stable power and a very limited temperature range. So, he specified the design to tight tolerances, and ran truely 'naked' hardward. Scary, but true. And, it worked. CDC-6600 and/or 7600, I presume? The flaw in that reasoning is that, while an unchecked machine may indeed be faster and/or have a somewhat better MTBF, the symptom of a failure may well be silently incorrect results. If reliable production results are what's valued, as opposed to time between detected failures while running diagnostics*, a checked or corrected design wins hands down. This was also a machine where, at any given moment, a fair part of the data in the CPU was 'in the wires' (in transit from one part of the CPU to another), and significant parts of the wiring harness had to be of _just_the_right_length_ (speed-of-light considerations) for the box to work. Second- (or third?) hand war story from the manufacturing dept: Occasionally the instructions would call for pin so-and-so to be connected to pin thus-and-such with, say, a 6 wire -- when the pins in question were 8 apart! The source of the story claimed that the standard practice in such cases was to use the shortest wire that would reach, and let the QA dept worry about the fallout. * A diagnostic is a program that runs when the hardware is malfunctioning -- R. F. Rosin. ___ 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 customized can an mfsroot be?
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: In my read-only CD-ROM boot case, /var is created as a MFS device automatically and populated, but a basic directory layout only is used. Nothing from the CD-ROM /var is copied into the MFS /var that is created. I cannot figure out how BSD can do this automagically, so I'll have to have a duplicate copy of /var on the CD and populate it from that. What I've tried that works well is when I'm about to run mkisofs to create the .iso from, I rename my /var to /var2 and create an empty /var. When the iso is booted, a default MFS based /var is created with a specific collection of directories. I have a startup script that copies my /var2 contents into /var and that does the trick. You might be able to reduce the iso size some by making a tarball of /var (using tar -y or tar -z) instead of keeping /var2 as a tree. Granted you would then need to have tar(1) in the iso, which may cancel out much of the savings if you would not otherwise have needed it. ___ 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: USB Powered Speakers
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: ... they are only attached for power purposes ... Input power: DC 5V 500mA Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports on your FreeBSD box are 1.x? I don't remember the USB power spec offhand, but 2.5W may exceed what a USB 1.x port can supply -- a limit that applies regardless of the system's overall power provisioning. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Kernel Config for NAT
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html rant This is absolutely the worst section of an otherwise great handbook ... Nothing short of a rewrite from scratch could fix it ... As always, I'm sure a patch -- to provide that rewrite -- would be welcome. ___ 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: USB Powered Speakers
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... If speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins doesn't work, you might want to try a power adapter that has a USB host connector. (I've seen such at Fry's, intended for devices like iPods that were designed to recharge their internal batteries from a USB port.) This would effectively convert your current set to wall-powered, which might be less costly than a new set. WRT the suggestion to hack something together, I wouldn't suggest attempting it unless you're quite sure of what would be involved. It wouldn't be exactly difficult, but getting something backwards -- or connecting to the +12 instead of the +5 supply -- would at least let all the magic blue smoke out of the speakers :) ___ 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: [SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Has anyone (everyone?) else been receiving these DSNs a week or so after having posted to freebsd-questions@ ? Since around early April? I've had four such in the last three days ... If it's 'just me' I can block their source, but if more widespread I'll ask our esteemed postmaster (cc'd) to try hunting the errant recipient. cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- snip headers Your message: To: twelc...@mobileemail.vodafonesa.co.za Subject: Re: reliable rs-232 Sent Date: 25:05 + has not been delivered to the recipient's BlackBerry Handheld. Now that you mention it, yes. A posting to freebsd-questions@ about 01:00 (US Pacific) on Apr 06 did not get one of those, but one about 01:10 on Apr 08 and three (one about 01:00, two about 19:10) on Apr 09 did. The first notice turned up at 20:16 Apr 16, and the other three between 20:13 and 20:15 on Apr 17. All four specify the same recipient address as yours. ___ 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: [SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: One bounce is bad enough if it goes back to the whole list -- but that could be excused as a momentary aberration. Any more than that is grounds for reporting the message to postmas...@freebsd.org and having the sender blacklisted: anyone that configures a mail server to send error notifications to an entire mailing list needs a) to spend some quality time studying the SMTP RFCs and b) to step away from the keyboard /now/ as they are clearly not competent to run a mail server on the Internet. I've seen no indications of the bounces going to the list, only to the sender (i.e. I posted 4 messages to freebsd-questions@ and got back 4 bounces; I didn't get bounces that seemed related to anyone else's posts). However, it does look as if someone needs to teach that mailserver about the Errors-To: header. Thoroughly recommend using relaydb(1) to teach your mail system where you've received spam from in the past and make sure it doesn't happen again ... I let my uucp(!) upstream's Red Condor spam filter deal with that sort of problem :) ___ 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: Network laser printcap
Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote: Could anyone using a network laser printer post their working /etc/printcap entry? Having mixed results getting a Kyocera FS-1010 working consistently on both ascii ps These entries work here on 6.1: lp|Samsung ML-2571N PostScript network printer:\ :sh:\ :rm=ml2571n:sd=/var/spool/output/ml2571n:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: xerox|Xerox Phaser 6130 Color PostScript network printer:\ :sh:\ :rm=xp6130:sd=/var/spool/output/xp6130:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: ___ 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: Wpoison?????
John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: There are better systems that have a pure honeypot which actually accepts mail (and add the IPs that send mail to a blacklist) OK - where do we find one of THOSE? Unfortunately, THOSE may be a bit too simplistic :( Someone forges an email appearing to come from one of your honeypot addresses, and sends it to a bogus (or on-vacation) address at a legitimate site. The bounce (or vacation response) comes to your honeypot address, causing you to blacklist the legitimate site. No, I am not making this up. More than once I've discovered one of my employer's mail servers on the Spamcop blacklist, causing my home upstream to bounce (as presumed spam) messages I tried to send from office to home. This seemed to have been the mechanism involved. ___ 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: Wpoison?????
John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: I wouldn't need to create a new e-mail account, I've already got lots of them that seem to be pure spam magnates, including man (the manual pages psuedo-user) which are getting stuff sent to them all the time. I'm pretty sure that anyone sending to m...@starfire.mn.org is a spammer... Another favorite, at least here, seems to be old Message-Id's that have been harvested and used as email addresses :( I haven't seen anything to man yet, however. ___ 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: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_, down-time for replacement if/when it fails. Not if it is gmirrored and hot-pluggable. ___ 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: Backtick versus $()
Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.org wrote: tcsh is not a shell ... http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ If you are _that_ strongly opposed to (t)csh, sir, I submit that you are wasting your time reading and posting to a FreeBSD mailing list. ___ 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: Bit order == byte order??
Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:26:12AM -0500, Frank Solensky wrote: In sys/netinet/ip.h, the first octet of the ip header structure tests the byte ordering to determine the ordering of the header length (ip_hl) and version (ip_v) fields. My question: that always works? While my reading of the language specification document leaves both the ordering of the bits within a byte and the bytes within a longer field as implementation choices, the two are independent of each other. I haven't run into a CPU where this assumption was proven incorrect ... Unless you have a CPU where memory is addressed bit-by-bit rather than byte-by-byte the ordering of bits within a byte is not only completely irrelevant, it is also pretty much impossible to determine programatically. Agreed it is at least difficult to determine programatically, however it is quite important when dealing with hardware that converts between a sequence of bytes and a bitstream, e.g. serial ports, network interfaces, SATA ports. Driver writers had _better_ know which bit of the byte, as well as which byte of a word/longword/quadword, is going on the wire first. The O.P. is absolutely correct that bit order within a byte and byte order within a multibyte field need not, in principle, be the same. ___ 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: grep: write error: Broken pipe
?? avs...@mail.ru wrote: ... how best can I repay you all? IMO, by paying it forward: as you become more familiar with/ knowledgeable of FreeBSD, continue to read freebsd-questions@ and assist when able. Everyone here was new to Unix and/or to FreeBSD at one time. Some of us still are :) ___ 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: Firefox printing
ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net wrote: With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. ... have included test-bad.ps to illustrate the difference, The mailing list strips attachments. Based only on the description, I suspect Firefox is using different fonts on the two systems. That's about as far as I can go with my limited knowledge of Firefox text rendering, but others may have suggestions re how to go about fixing this. ___ 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: Server not booting
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: The motherboard doesn't recognize a USB stick for booting unfortunately. The motherboard manual is dated 2006 so I think its just too old for that. This http://www.plop.at/ can be loaded off just about any device the system _can_ boot from, and stands a good chance of booting from a USB stick. (Works for me on an old Dell, loaded from floppy and booting a FreeBSD memstick image.) ___ 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: Unable to umount
John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy ... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. I that case, shouldn't lsof(8) have reported something? ___ 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: Unable to umount
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: lsof reports nothing open on either the mountpoint or the device. fstat blames gam_server: % fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/ USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME wblock gam_server 1409 776 /usr/home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage 244864 drwx--4096 r /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/ Does this show a bug in lsof(8), or an intentional difference between it and fstat? ___ 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
logging to dmesg from userland
I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help in relating kernel printf messages to the userland operations which provoked them. (Yes, I am aware of the potential DoS implications: the capability should be restricted to root, or at least to the operator group. I expect to use it only in single-user mode.) Is there a program, or a system call, which can do this? logger(1) seemed a likely prospect, but either it doesn't have this capability or I haven't found the formula. ___ 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: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes
Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: ... these deviations should be noted in the man page to help eliminate such surprises. A single sentence would have sufficed in this case. As always, I'm sure patches would be welcome :) ___ 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
