Re: can i split a pdf file?
Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 From: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: 497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam ( http://www.pdfsam.org/ ) does both splits and merges of pdf files, but it doesn't seem to be in the FreeBSD ports system. There is a pdfmerge in /usr/ports/print, but no pdfsplit. It's a very junky way to do it (but the only way I know), use pdf2ps to convert the pdf to postscript, then you stand at least a good chance of doing the split, which many utilities allow. You could even do it graphically via gv. The problem with this (and the reason it might well fail anyhow) is because some things that pdfs do aren't implemented in any standard postscript level I ever heard of. It depends how many of the more recent extensions to pdf are being used. I've done this, *sometimes*. Because the pdf spec is fully published, it might one day allow someone to write a splitter, but because the spec is SO enormous, maybe they won't, either. Actually, that's a really good notion ... I need to give it some thought. It's not quite the same thing, but pdfnup from the /usr/ports/print/pdfjam package allows page selections from the contributing pdfs. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam Andrew -- Charlie ___ 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl9D/MACgkQz62J6PPcoOnxIQCgg+Suf4NpK8TXTNbYZIW0BCrR fKYAn3ljinZw9s1fPG39IMpblVNg0H+N =mGhJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ___ 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
New files in setuid.today
Hi everyone, I have some new file names in my /var/log/setuid.today file. There are things on an external drive, pdfs, html documents, etc. The only common factor that I can see is that all of them are 's' in the group permissions. An example is: 1766558 -rw-r-sr-- 1 andrewr andrewr 8076 Jul 24 19:38:17 2005 /home/andrewr/0.svn/0.infrastructure/www_public/andrewpr.JPG Just checking the names of the files, I know what each one of them is (or is supposed to be!) and none of them are supposed to bne executable. Can anyone tell me how this might happen, and what I should do to clean it up? Thanks! Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD
Hi Marlon, This thread may (or may not) prove useful to you: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011012.html Good luck! Andrew From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Hello. I have an Acer Aspire 1600 laptop with a RealTek 8139 integrated network card. The card is not identified at all in neither FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE nor in FreeBSD 5-STABLE, not even in DragonFlyBSD (which is a fork of FreeBSD 5 IIRC). pciconf -lv does not report back any information on the card at all. Linux and Windows however can identify the card as RealTek 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' at 0x1800-0x18ff, Memory: EC005000-EC0050FF, IRQ 19. Since FreeBSD is a lot better for my computing needs, is there a way I can get the above card to work correctly (or even work at all) in FreeBSD? Thanks in advance. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Burying your head in the sand is a common method used by stupid people that have no answer to the truth. I don't blame you; you guys don't want your employers to know that you've wasted man 1000s of their dollars because you don't know the performance characteristics of the hardware you've recommended. It must be thoroughly embarrassing. [snip] I do agree with Danial that most USERS on this list are burying their heads in the sand on this issue. But I will point out that there isn't really any reason they shouldn't be. What the market wants is features, not speed. And that is what the FreeBSD developers are working on. Writing as a USER on this list - I think that the Total Cost of Ownership is also an important consideration. I run FreeBSD because the user-machine combination is more efficient, even if the OS itself is slower - and I don't know about that. I escaped from Windows via Linux and settled here just when 5.0 came out. I really like the tools and the organization of the OS. More features is nice, more speed is nice, but I just like the way that it works. Warm kudos to the developers for that. Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot upgrade TCL port
I found that the easiest way to fix this problem is to edit the
Makefile. Comment out the following two lines and it should run.
From:
.if ${BLACKHOLE} != '' ${BLACKHOLE} != 0
#
# net.inet.tcp.blackhole is non-zero. Some http-tests
# will appear to hang and then fail. Do not be alarmed.
# The socket.test would hang, so it is disabled:
${MV} ${WRKSRC:H}/tests/socket.test ${WRKSRC:H}/tests/socket.test.dis;
#
.endif
To:
#.if ${BLACKHOLE} != '' ${BLACKHOLE} != 0
#
# net.inet.tcp.blackhole is non-zero. Some http-tests
# will appear to hang and then fail. Do not be alarmed.
# The socket.test would hang, so it is disabled:
${MV} ${WRKSRC:H}/tests/socket.test ${WRKSRC:H}/tests/socket.test.dis;
#
#.endif
Good luck!
Andrew
Message: 3
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:27:41 +0200
From: Nagy L?szl? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cannot upgrade TCL port
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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My system is FreeBSD 6.0. After running
portupgrade -aP
it start upgrading Tcl. After compilation, it starts making tests like
the one below. Each test times out after some minutes. It would take a
day to run all the tests. Why they are failing? How can I disable the
tests? The main problem is that there are other packages depending on
TCL, and portupgrade won't upgrade them because TCL fails to upgrade.
Please help.
Laszlo
fileName.test
fileSystem.test
for-old.test
for.test
foreach.test
format.test
get.test
history.test
http.test
http-3.3 http::geturl FAILED
Contents of test case:
set token [http::geturl $url]
http::data $token
Test generated error; Return code was: 1
Return code should have been one of: 0 2
errorInfo: couldn't open socket: connection timed out
while executing
http::geturl $url
invoked from within
set token [http::geturl $url]
(uplevel body line 2)
invoked from within
uplevel 1 $script
errorCode: NONE
http-3.3 FAILED
** Command failed [exit code 2]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portupgrade47538.0 env PORT_UPGRADE=yes make PORT_UPGRADE=yes
** Fix the problem and try again.
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mbmom and xmbmon - how to compile WITHOUT_SMB?
Hi everyone, I'm trying to run mbmon, with SMB enabled, but it fails to work. So, I want to compile it without smb, as it seems that some people have had success with this option. All I know is that I have to set WITHOUT_SMB somewhere, somehow. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to do that. I've deinstalled the package and reinstalled it via portinstall, but I no longer get the option to deselect SMB. Can anyone provide a clue? Thanks Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing/running acroread 7: libBIB.so
Ok, thanks! That solved the library problems (there were several
more, as I'm sure you can imagine). Now I'm trying to run the program
and I get:
$ /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/bin/acroread
The OS named FreeBSD version 6.1-PRERELEASE is currently not
installed.
Try running on an installed platform and connecting to your display.
Installed platform(s) include the following:
Intel/Linux
and when I try
$ /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
I get
/usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread must be
executed from the startup script.
The archives tell me that I need to just run the usual script, per
usr/ports/UPDATING:
Check /usr/ports/UPDATING
It says:
The command filename is ${PREFIX}/bin/acroread as before...
But when Ido that I get acroread5. So I've tried to deinstall that
but I'm having problems:
$ sudo pkg_deinstall acroread5
Password:
** No matching package found.
$ cd /usr/ports/print/acroread5
$ sudo make deinstall
make: don't know how to make deinstall. Stop
So, I suspect that I need to deinstall acroread5, and then probably
figure out how to point to acroread7. Any suggestions for the first
step will be warmly apprecaited.
Thanks very much for the assistance already!
Best wishes
Andrew
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 09:45:07 +0400
From: ??? ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems installing/running acroread 7: libBIB.so
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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try to move it library to /lib
2006/5/6, Andrew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi everyone,
I'm having trouble with the acroread 7 port.I seem to have
installed
it just fine, but it fails to run, citing the following error:
/usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread:
error
while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
Now, I know that I have this library:
$ locate libBIB.so
/usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so
/usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so.1.1
/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so
/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so.1.1
so I'm a little confused as to what the error is telling me and what
I
can do to fix it.Any suggestions will be welcomed!
Cheers
Andrew
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Problems installing/running acroread 7: libBIB.so
Hi everyone, I'm having trouble with the acroread 7 port. I seem to have installed it just fine, but it fails to run, citing the following error: /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libBIB.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Now, I know that I have this library: $ locate libBIB.so /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so.1.1 /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/lib/libBIB.so.1.1 so I'm a little confused as to what the error is telling me and what I can do to fix it. Any suggestions will be welcomed! Cheers Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection NIC undetected, FreeBSD 5.4
Dear list, I am using an Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection with FreeBSD 5.4 Release. The card does not seem to be detected. The page at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET lists it among the cards that should be supported by fxp. My kernel shows that fxp is included: device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) The relevant output of dmesg is: pci5: network, ethernet at device 8.0 (no driver attached) ifconfig says: lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 The relevant output of pciconf -lv is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x02 card=0x01a71028 chip=0x27dc8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class= network subclass = ethernet In WinXP the physical device is identified as Intel 82562 ET 100 Base-TX PHY Does anyone have any suggestions? Very best wishes, Andrew Andrew Robinson Senior Lecturer in Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 Department of Mathematics and StatisticsFax: +61-3-8344 4599 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Website: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NIC won't DHCP or configure
Hello FreeBSD community, I'm trying to get my network card working under 5.3 Release. It won't DHCP. Configuring it using ifconfig doesn't permit any connection. (I also tried the February Stable, with no change as far as I can tell). WinXP identifies the NIC as Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC. Knoppix and WinXP both provide drivers that seem to work. Knoppix autodetects it without any (seeming) problem. My FreeBSD kernel is generic, and both the following lines are uncommented: device miibus # MII bus support device re # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S The output from ifconfig is: fwe0: flags=108802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 02:90:f5:40:24:d8 ch 1 dma -1 plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 and what I think is the relevant part of dmesg is: firewire0: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci0 fwe0: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:90:f5:40:24:d8 fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:90:f5:40:24:d8 fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant It makes me wonder if FreeBSD is identifying the card as something different than it is. Is that possible? What next steps might be useful for me to take? Thanks much! Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure
Hi Kevin, It's not recognizing it at all. If (as I assume you do) have X installed could you supply the output of 'scanpci'. It will provide more information. Here it is: ### pci bus 0x cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2580 Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2581 Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1b function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2668 Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2658 Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2659 Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x265a Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x03: vendor 0x8086 device 0x265b Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1d function 0x07: vendor 0x8086 device 0x265c Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1e function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x244e Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1f function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2640 Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1f function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x266f Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1f function 0x03: vendor 0x8086 device 0x266a Intel Corp. Device unknown pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x00c8 nVidia Corporation Device unknown pci bus 0x000a cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x104c device 0xac50 Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller pci bus 0x000a cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x104c device 0x8023 Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) pci bus 0x000a cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x105a device 0x3373 Promise Technology, Inc. Device unknown pci bus 0x000a cardnum 0x03 function 0x00: vendor 0x10ec device 0x8169 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 pci bus 0x000a cardnum 0x05 function 0x00: vendor 0x1814 device 0x0201 Device unknown I would appreciate any thoughts - thanks! Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure
Hi Chuck, Thanks for the suggestion - that's beyond my exerptise, but here is the (hopefully relevant) output of pciconf ### [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:0: class=0x02 card=0x09001558 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter' class= network subclass = ethernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x68331462 chip=0x02011814 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ralink Technology Corp' class= network ### I would appreciate any further advice or assistance, Andrew - Original Message - From: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:12 am Subject: Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure Hi, Andrew-- On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote: It makes me wonder if FreeBSD is identifying the card as something different than it is. Is that possible? What next steps might be useful for me to take? Take a look at the output of pciconf -v -l. The odds are that it lists a PCI ID for your NIC that the FreeBSD driver doesn't know about. Use that information to update /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h and /usr/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c, and see whether that gets you a working driver. If you're not sure how to do this, post the pciconf info for just your NIC so that others can try to update the code and get you a working driver... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Increasing system message buffer size
Hello FreeBSD Commmunity (again!) I'm working on a problem that would benefit from verbose logging of the boot process. Unfortunately my logging is SO verbose that it fills up the available system buffer. I'm trying to figure out how to change the buffer size. I'm on 5.3 Stable. It looks like one way to do it might be to recompile the kernel, with options MSGBUF_SIZE=65536 set. Is that the best way? If so, what is the default size of the buffer? I checked NOTES in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf but couldn't find any reference to it. I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks! Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Increasing system message buffer size
Thanks Dan! Andrew - Original Message - From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 21, 2005 3:56 pm Subject: Re: Increasing system message buffer size In the last episode (Mar 21), Andrew Robinson said: I'm working on a problem that would benefit from verbose logging of the boot process. Unfortunately my logging is SO verbose that it fills up the available system buffer. I'm trying to figure out how to change the buffer size. I'm on 5.3 Stable. It looks like one way to do it might be to recompile the kernel, with options MSGBUF_SIZE=65536 set. Is that the best way? If so, what is the default size of the buffer? I checked NOTES in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf but couldn't find any reference to it. Yes, that's the only way to do it. It might be possible to convert it into a tunable (which would let you set it in /boot/loader.conf), but I don't know how early in the boot process tunables are available. The default is 32768 (see /sys/sys/msbguf.h). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Post screw-up recovery - invisible ports?
Hi everyone, after a botched upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3, which became a reinstallation, I have the following dilemma. I have about 300 ports installed, but only a few of them are identified by my port maintenance apparatus. For example, if I do portversion, it finds the objects in /var/db/pkg but I can run programs that are not there. Presumably the ones there are those that I have installed since my upgrade. Is there any easy way around this problem? I suppose that what I'm asking is, is there any other location in which installed ports are identified? I assume that I ought to reinstall them anyway. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem regarding dhcp and FreeBSD 4.10 on a laptop
When I've had a problem like this it's usually my firewall. Are you running a firewall at all? Also, can you ssh in to the BSD box from inside the network? Andrew Scott Key wrote: I have a Toshiba Satellite that used to run Win 98 until I got fed up and +installed FreeBSD. This is my first FreeBSD installation, though I received +help from a few people more knowledgable than I. The problem I am having is +this: I have comcast broadband internet on a Linksys Wireless-G Gateway +Modem/Router. I have two other computers that run windows, both of which have +no problem using dhcp to obtain their IP addresses. For reasons that I have +been unable to figure out after days of searching the internet, DHCP will +assign a proper IP when pccard_ifconfig is set to use it in the rc.conf. The +problem is that I am unable to get past the network. I can ping within the +network to my hearts content, and if pinging my router and other computers was +entertaining for more than five seconds, I'd be dandy. I have tried setting +static IP's, I've tried manually adding the route's needed into the routing +table, but NOTHING thus far has allowed be get outside the network. I contacte d my cable company, who dutifully reported to me that they have no idea what +FreeBSD is, anything other than Windows or Mac, and they are useless. In any +event, I hope that some help can be provided in this matter. Everything else +with FreeBSD works wonderfully, but for some reason, it simply will not allow +me access the internet. Just to clarify, the PCcard is being recognized by +FreeBSD, I added it in, it works fine. I have configured rc.conf to include a +pccard_ifconfig (currently it's set to DHCP, which seems to be setting the +appropriate ip address). Any help that could be offered would be most +appreciated. -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organizing the output of make etc.
Hi everyone, I'm administering my own little hobby system. Great fun. I notice that when I make targets, usually through portupgrade, a great deal of text flies by. Some of it is of obvious immediate use, such as this advice from Subversion: Make sure that: * all your svn users are members of a common group * this group is the group id of the db/ and locks/ subdirectories of your repository * the above subdirectories are writable by this group and some of it is not, unless the upgrade or installation fails, eg, the output from each compilation. What I'd like to know is: how do you more experienced types cope with this information flow? I'd like to use a little script that winnows out the useful advice from the recover-from-catastrophe-maybe advice, and then emails selections to root, with appropriate subject line, etc. Does anyone have a similar script,? If not I'll have a bash at writing one. If so, I'd love to use it. Thanks for any ideas! Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I seem to have broken mozilla
Hi everyone, I was trying to upgrade Mozilla using portupgrade. I got to the point of a curses-style dialog box asking what components I would like to install, and I made the fatal error of asking for the Calendar without the Mail and News modules. It refused to do so, and flagged the port as broken. Now I can't upgrade it even if I ask nicely. How can I unflag the port, and start the procedure again? Thanks! Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I seem to have broken mozilla
Hi everyone, I was trying to upgrade Mozilla using portupgrade. I got to the point of a curses-style dialog box asking what components I would like to install, and I made the fatal error of asking for the Calendar without the Mail and News modules. It refused to do so, and flagged the port as broken. Now I can't upgrade it even if I ask nicely. How can I unflag the port, and start the procedure again? Thanks! Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*BSD is dying
I can assure you that this clown posts exactly this post to /. on a regular basis ... except that half the time, it's BSD that's dying, and the other half it's Windows Server, and the other half (ahem) it's Linux ... Andrew http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70502cid=6404771 It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead. Fact: *BSD is dead ___ -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading 5.0 - 5.1
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out what options I have for upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1. Can I just use csvup to change my local copy of the source code, and recompile? Ie do the same steps that I've done to upgrade after security announcements? Would that just entail editing my standard-supfile to replace *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_0 with *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_1 and running csvsup, then compiling a new kernel? I'd appreciate confirmation, cautions, or tips. Thanks! Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gFTP says: Cannot set socket to non-blocking
Hello, I'm trying to set up gFTP on Release 5.0. I can ssh to the target machines from the command line, but when I try to connect from FreeBSD, I get an error: Cannot set socket to non-blocking: Resource temporarily unavailable It doesn't happen with gFTP on other platforms. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thank-you! Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Ph: 208 885 7115 Department of Forest Resources Fa: 208 885 6226 University of Idaho E : [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 441133W : http://www.uidaho.edu/~andrewr Moscow ID 83843 Or: http://www.biometrics.uidaho.edu No statement above necessarily represents my employer's opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
