Re: Firefox only runs as root--help!

2007-03-06 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

On 3/2/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


This is a resend of something i sent to the freebsd-gnome list a few days
ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real problem, so i hope
no one minds.

I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed Gnome 2.16 and other
things, including Firefox 2.0, from Ports.

Firefox only runs as root. Every time. I Googled and saw that in an early
version there was a problem that it had to be run the _first_ time as root
but after that it was OK, but thats not the problem here--it ONLY runs as
root all the time. If I type firefox on the command line it
just immediately returns to the command line, no error messages
of any sort, nothing in /var/log/messages.



I had the same issue when I first made firefox,
probability is the your $HOME/.mozilla directory is owned by root with only
or no read permissions to other users.

firefox read. creates all of its data in that directory by default, so you
may want to login as root
and do

find / -name .mozilla -type d  -exec ls -ld {} \;

That will show all the directories  that are .mozilla once you figured
which your $HOME's .mozilla

you can issue chown user:group .mozilla directory and then  your firefox may
start normally

Best regards
DAK




When run as root it seems to be fine. The binary has execute

permissions for everyone.

What do i need to be doing?

Thanks!

Jen


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Re: FDISK output question -- OT

2007-02-28 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

On 2/28/07, Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:09 am, DAK GHATIKACHALAM wrote:
 Hi Freebsd

 Question about FDISK

 Do you have an idea what does that  '+' means in  Blocks
 columns

 as seen below it is 419425019+

 Does it signify anything  , because for certain disks I do not
 see that '+' as the end of blocks?

I believe you are posting to the wrong list. This list is about
FreeBSD which is a form of BSD unix -- not Linux.



I never believed that Linux( for the reasons there are just around for past
12 years only ) community would be  as technically savvy as  bsd unix
community.
so I never subscribed to any linux community. But we cant control the whole
world,
In professional world we always happened to work in cross platforms ( like
me personally my laptop is on freebsd, but my work place is using Linux,
Windows and Solaris only) ,  I thought it  would not really hurt to ask here
anyway.

The extraneous '+' is a characteristic of the Linux version of

fdisk. I believe it indicates that the indicated 52216 units do
not exactly correspond to the 419425019 blocks (but I'm not a
Linux expert). I believe there is also an option to show more
detail.



Thanks a lot Malcolm for that input I am going  try tomorrow.
Thanks
Dak

Switch to expert mode with 'x' before the 'p' enquiry.


Malcolm

 Thanks
 Dak

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk /dev/sdk

 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 52216.
 There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than
 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with:
 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of
 LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

 Command (m for help): p

 Disk /dev/sdk: 429.4 GB, 429496729600 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 52216 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
 /dev/sdk1 1 52216 419425019+  83  Linux

 Command (m for help):


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Re: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-27 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

On 2/27/07, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On 2/24/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I wonder  why these fraudulent scam artists/spammers abusing  our
 freebsd
 lists.

 They are in wrong place with wrong people.

 I am not buying  your  idea anyway. dude, you chose a wrong person.

 Thanks
 Dak

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: wale qazim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Feb 24, 2007 2:48 PM
 Subject: Re: Wireless card not being detected
 To: DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Hello,



 I want to know if you can sent a Message by Bank Coded Fax or MT Series
 Swift. I am desperate in need of it as soon as possible, you can as well

 link me with someone who can do it..



 In case you can, please send me mail through [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 Thank you



 Regards,



 Julio Munento


 - Original Message 
 From: DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
 Sent: Monday, 19 February, 2007 3:56:56 AM
 Subject: Wireless card not being detected

 Hi Freebsd


 I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd,


 on /var/log/messages I get


 Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0: unknown card
 (manufacturer=0x0192,
 produc
 t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0
 Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0:CIS info: Sierra Wireless,
 AC860, 3G
 Net
 work Adapter, R1


 For some reason  I dont understand why I get unknown card error

 Does any one has idea


 Thanks
 Dak
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I think that I've exhausted my expertise in the area. You may wish to try
a more specific list, like 
freebsd-mobilehttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile,
freebsd-hardwarehttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware,
or 
freebsd-drivershttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-driversfor 
more specific help. There are likely a number of people on those lists
who don't subscribe to -hackers, and they may have more experience in the
problem.



Thanks a lot Coleman.

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FDISK output question

2007-02-26 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

Hi Freebsd

Question about FDISK

Do you have an idea what does that  '+' means in  Blocks columns

as seen below it is 419425019+

Does it signify anything  , because for certain disks I do not see that '+'
as the end of blocks?

Thanks
Dak

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk /dev/sdk

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 52216.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdk: 429.4 GB, 429496729600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 52216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
/dev/sdk1 1 52216 419425019+  83  Linux

Command (m for help):
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Fwd: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-24 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

I wonder  why these fraudulent scam artists/spammers abusing  our freebsd
lists.

They are in wrong place with wrong people.

I am not buying  your  idea anyway. dude, you chose a wrong person.

Thanks
Dak

-- Forwarded message --
From: wale qazim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Feb 24, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless card not being detected
To: DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hello,



I want to know if you can sent a Message by Bank Coded Fax or MT Series
Swift. I am desperate in need of it as soon as possible, you can as well
link me with someone who can do it..



In case you can, please send me mail through [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Thank you



Regards,



Julio Munento


- Original Message 
From: DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Sent: Monday, 19 February, 2007 3:56:56 AM
Subject: Wireless card not being detected

Hi Freebsd


I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd,


on /var/log/messages I get


Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0: unknown card (manufacturer=0x0192,
produc
t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0
Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0:CIS info: Sierra Wireless, AC860, 3G
Net
work Adapter, R1


For some reason  I dont understand why I get unknown card error

Does any one has idea


Thanks
Dak
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card Allocation failure, what could be the reason

2007-02-22 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

What could be the reason fo this issue

I have made changes to /usr/src/sys/dev/pccard/pccard_quirks.c  file added a
static struct

static struct pccard_function pccard_sierra_860_func0 = {
   6,  /* function number */
   PCCARD_FUNCTION_SERIAL,
   0x0006, /* last cfe number */
   0x00,   /* ccr_base */
   0x07,   /* ccr_mask */
};

static struct pccard_config_entry pccard_sierra_860_func0_cfe0 = {
   0x0006, /* cfe number */
   PCCARD_CFE_IO8 | PCCARD_CFE_IRQLEVEL,
   PCCARD_IFTYPE_IO,
   1,  /* num_iospace */
   3,  /* iomask */
   { { 0x3e8 , 0x3ee } },  /* iospace */
   0x3fbc, /* irqmask */
   0,  /* num_memspace */
   { },/* memspace */
   0,  /* maxtwins */
};

and as well /usr/src/sys/dev/pccard/pccarddevs file

vendor SIERRA   0x0192  Sierra Wireless
/* Sierra Wireless */
product SIERRA WIRELESS 0x0710 Sierra Wireless Card

I added these  the pccard device driver detects my card but

PCCARDDEVS definition are absolutely right.

on the detection of the card while booting the laptop  on the console I get

Feb 22 22:51:12 DAK kernel: pccard0: Allocation failed for cfe 6
Feb 22 22:51:12 DAK kernel: pccard0: No config entry could be allocated.

Do you have idea why  I am getting there errors


Thanks
Dak
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Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-18 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

Hi Freebsd


I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd,


on /var/log/messages I get


Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0: unknown card (manufacturer=0x0192,
produc
t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0
Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0:CIS info: Sierra Wireless, AC860, 3G
Net
work Adapter, R1


For some reason  I dont understand why I get unknown card error

Does any one has idea


Thanks
Dak
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Re: CUPS printing problem

2007-02-18 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM

On 2/19/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




-- Forwarded message --
From: AN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Feb 18, 2007 5:04 PM
Subject: CUPS printing problem
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

I am having a problem printing from CUPS.  I did a fresh install on 6.2
release and cups-1.2.7.  I am trying to configure for an HP1022.  The
install was successful, and I can manage the printer from the web
interface.  But, when I try to print a test page, the light on the printer
starts flashing but nothing gets printed.  The printer admin page shows
the following:
Description: HP1022
Location: office
Make and Model: HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5 CUPS v1.2
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: socket://10.0.1.222:9100
ID  NameUserSizePages   State   Control State
HP1022-1Test Page   root18k Unknown stopped

So, it appears that after I send the job the printer goes into Stopped
state.
I checked the logs, and there is something I don't understand.  It says:
cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided
What does this mean?  Where do you set authentication?  Is this the cause
of the problem, or a symptom of something else?



The problem would  be that  you did not give the access to those users who
wants to print
in KDE you invoke system settings/printer manager and there  you add the
users.

Choose the printer in question and click properties tab and on there would
be box like , general, interface etc, scroll down to the bottom most there
you will find users, once you choose those box you will see change on
properties box

Click change and choose allowed users  and add that user in question.

This may resolve this issue


Best regards

Dak


Log files attached.

Any help would be really appreciated!

TIA
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Re: Ksh Shell script security question.( SOLVED)

2007-02-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/15/07, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


In the last episode (Feb 15), Thomas Dickey said:
 On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:57:12PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
  In the last episode (Feb 14), Dak Ghatikachalam said:
   I am am puzzled how to secure this code when this shell script is
   being executed.
  
   ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s  EOF | tee -a  ${RESTOREFILE}
[...]
   EOF
  
   When I run this code from shell script in /tmp directory it spews
   file called /tmp/sh03400.000 in that I have this entire code
   visible.
 
  I bet if you check the permissions you'll find the file has mode
  0600, which means only the user running the script can read the
  file (at least that's what a test using the pdksh port does on my
  system).  ksh93 does have a problem, though: it opens a file and
  immediately unlinks it, but the file is world-readable for a short
  time.

 Doesn't it (ksh93, etc) pay attention to umask?
 If it does, the script should use that feature.

It does honor umask, but I think temp files should be created mode 0600
in all cases.  A person may have a umask of 022 to allow normal files
to be read by group members but still not want them to see
here-document contents.  They may not even realize that their shell is
using tempfiles.  Some shells use pipes (bash and ash do; zsh uses an
0600 tempfile that it immediately unlinks; Solaris sh uses an 0600
tempfile).

  Both ksh variants honor the TMPDIR variable, though, so if you create
a
  ~/tmp directory, chmod it so only you can access it, then set
  TMPDIR=~/tmp , you will be secure even if you're using ksh93.

 relatively (it's not a given that people haven't opened up ~/tmp)

I think if someone has gone to the trouble of creating a private ~/tmp
directory, they probably know what they're doing and know the
consequences of opening it up.




I appreciate all your response.

Thanks a lot for  insight  on unix fundementals

The issue I had is solved by doing  umask 077  at the start  of the script,
so what it did was it created the temporary files with  read+write  for
owner of the file , and in my process I also create directories while RMAN
backup is being run, so that umask 077 for directory gave  rwx for
directories while creation

This problem I had is solved now, it is secure

Thanks
Dak


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Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/15/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool  that I can use
to
 perform the   encryption/decryption for flat files.

 We have a requirement to encrypt 15 flat files and be dumped on tape and
be
 stored in remote site  facility for later business resumption.

 or in the crash/fire/emergency situation for the recovery purposes.

 For consistency I am planning to use the same tool across our Solaris,
Linux
 and Freebsd OS oracle database environments.

Check out SysAdmin magazine's article Backup Encryption from the
March 2007 issue. It looks like exactly what you're looking for:

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=10118/sam0703b/0703b.htm



Thanks a lot this is great article discussing and covering all in one place

Thanks
Dak

HTH,


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Re: NEED HELP

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/14/07, Ata ur Rehman Alvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


HELLO

I NEED YOUR HELP REGARDING INSTALLING FREE BSD ON MY NEWLY BOUGHT PC. MY
PC
SPECS ARE





P4 D  3.4GHZ, 1024MB DDR2 667 RAM, GIGABYTE MOTHER BOARD 945PL-S3,

NX7300GT-TD256EH VIDEO CARD, SATA 250GB, 7200 RPM ( I DONT KNOW ITS SATA
OR
SATA II, CAUZ I DONT KNOW HOW TO CHECK, CAN U PLZ TELL ME.).

I WANT TO INSTALL 6.2-RELEASE-i386-. ON MY PC. I AM TRYING TO READ AND
UNDERSTAND INSTALLATION NOTES. I HAVE DOWNLOADED FOLLOWING ITEMS FROM THIS
LINK   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ 


Jan 12 2007 14:51 25444352 6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso







ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso

Jan 12 2007 14:53601229312 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

Jan 12 2007 14:55670107648 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso



Burn these 2 images into cdrom and boot with disk 1, that will boot up the
cdrom, of course you need to  alter the boot sequence in Bios to it boots
via cdrom.

Even before doing anything there refer  to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

By the way avoid using  full capital letters or upper case letters on
emails, that just means you are shouting  or yelling or screaming at people
for responses in email.


regards
Dak
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RAID 10-LUN Question

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd


We have DELL/EMC CX-300 storage array hardware , Navisphere. , which consist
of  15 Disks 320GB, I am planning to use this for Oracle( Linux) + SQL
server(M$) purpose.

We need to get that redundancy using RAID 10 and  striple for the best
performance.

My thoughts are  take most even number of possible disks( leaving private
system partition area) and create the raid groups and kick a separate LUNS
for MSSQL purpose.

With this hardware config, Do you have any suggestion on getting the best
performance and redundancy in place

Thanks
Dak
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Ksh Shell script security question.

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd

I am am puzzled how to secure this code when this shell script is being
executed.

${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s  EOF | tee -a  ${RESTOREFILE}
   connect system/ugo8990d
   set heading off
   set feedback off
   set pagesize 500
   select 'SCN_TO_USE | '||max(next_change#)   from V\$LOG_HISTORY;
   quit
EOF


When I run this code from shell script in /tmp directory it spews file
called /tmp/sh03400.000
in that  I have this entire code visible.

connect system/ugo8990d
set heading off
   set feedback off
   set pagesize 500
   select 'SCN_TO_USE | '||max(next_change#)   from V\$LOG_HISTORY;
   quit

How do I secure that part of code, between
those EOF start and end.

It is just terrible to see the password all shown by the temporary  file the
shell creates,just for security reasons  I dont want any other users in
the system to view my code which contains the password.

If I have long running sql or large program anything I put in between EOF is
shown by these /tmp/sh*  files

Any idea how to secure this

Thanks
Dak
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Re: Any way to probe snd card?

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/14/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



I'm pretty stunned at how well gnome2 works on my
antique 400MHz backup system.  [[ gnome2-lite wouldn't go, for
some reason [?] ]]  Anyway, I do have a sound card in this
one, but which *.ko I load or compile is the question.  If
memory serves, I think this has  a Matrox card.  I've tried
adding a few sound [snd_*.ko] files, but no sound.  The OSS
dialogs open, but the tests produce no sound..  Would the sound
card show up in dmesg if there were a sound card hiding?

Any help out there?  This old box is an HP Kayak XU/XW.



I solved most of my sound problems by taking actions reading

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

regards
Dak

   thanks,


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Re: RAID 10-LUN Question

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

At 02:54 PM 2/14/2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:

Hi Freebsd


We have DELL/EMC CX-300 storage array hardware , Navisphere. , which consist
of  15 Disks 320GB, I am planning to use this for Oracle( Linux) + SQL
server(M$) purpose.

We need to get that redundancy using RAID 10 and  striple for the best
performance.

My thoughts are  take most even number of possible disks( leaving private
system partition area) and create the raid groups and kick a separate LUNS
for MSSQL purpose.

With this hardware config, Do you have any suggestion on getting the best
performance and redundancy in place

Thanks
Dak



On 2/14/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 RAID 10 uses even numbered drive sets, usually in 4's, so 4 drives, 8
drives, 12 drives, etc.  Depending on how 24/7 self-managed you want the
array, you should plan for at least 2 hot spare drives for fail over.

So in your setup you could have one logical array made up of 12 drives,
with 2 spares, and one left for the OS.  One consideration in striping is
the stripe size.  Stripe size effects performance but also storage
efficiency.  So you want to balance those factors in choosing a stripe size.



How to determine the stripe size  Dell recommends the OS striped across 5
disks and calls itself system private paritition
How to determine the optimal stripe size, will I be able to ditch  the
current navisphere the Storage Array OS( which is now windows based I t  and
stick Freebsd  in its place. We have got nice GEOM ability now.

Thanks
Dak



One last issue, is make sure you have enough cache on the RAID controller.


-Derek


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Re: Poll: What's the best audio player

2007-02-13 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/13/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


What is the best audio (MP3/OGG/Etc) to use under Gnome?




I felt that the mplayer is best it has so much of options, that works in
KDE, may be GNOME too, and command line for sure.

Regards
Dak


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Best regards,
Chris





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Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/6/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On 2/6/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...snip!...]

 Thanks a lot  , but we are on Oracle9i  database, the Oracle secure
backup
 they are talking would be nice on 10G onwards

Well, not according to the FAQ. Here is what it says:

-- What Oracle database versions does Oracle Secure Backup support?
Oracle Secure Backup installs with a native integration of Oracle
Database's via Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), which supports Oracle9i
forward.

So if you're running 9i, you should be alrgiht.



Here is the exception  with Oracle9i  I was not able to encrypt the RMAN
backups, I tried  by best
it does not have an option of encryption

you will see below I have catalog as 10G database , so I registered itself
as target

Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue Feb 6 18:52:34 2007


Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

connected to target database: CAT10GR2 (DBID=845501569)
connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN show all;

RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP OFF; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; #
default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO
'/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2/dbs/snapcf_cat10gr2.f'; # default

RMAN

You can see that encryption for db and alogorithm option there but you will
not see in Oracle9i


Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.7.0 - 64bit Production

Copyright (c) 1995, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

connected to target database: RCVCAT (DBID=2859160142)
connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN show all;

RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP OFF; # default
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; #
default
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1; # default
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO
'/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.7/dbs/snapcf_rcvcat.f'; # default

my impression about the FAQ on secure-backup what oracle talks about ,
encryption, archivelog deletion policy is  that in simply focuses on 10g
database and above.


yes i went thru th claims of secure of 9i , but  the command of set
enryption on identified by password  or CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE
on identified by password is the command of 10G not sure if that would
would work on 9i database even we were to use the secure - backup with 9i.


You can get your hands on the FAQ at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/secure-backup/pdf/FAQ.pdf

HTH,

David
--
David Robillard
UNIX systems administrator  Oracle DBA
CISSP, RHCE  Sun Certified Security Administrator
Montreal: +1 514 966 0122


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OT: Your comments about this web site is appreciated, if you got few minutes.

2007-02-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi All

http://www.domesticonservation.kk5.org/

A buddy of mine who did is in his 9th grade, this is his school project
along with 2 others

Please leave your honest opinion on this web site, content, presentation etc
whatever you think is relevant.

Please click on the message board and click leave a message and click new
post.
Will appreciate your comments before this Friday,  as it gives them points
towards their  grade. Thanks

Dak
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Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/6/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Thanks a lot, Our current backup system is veritas netbackup,  and
changing
 that to entire bacula is best thing for me,

May I ask why you would prefer Bacula over NetBackup? I'm just
curious, because having worked with both, I personally prefer
NetBackup.


 so they wanted me encrypt these files,  that is on the backup location
 before the netbackup scheduler picks up these files.

 Database is getting backed up to a disk location and from there
netbackup
 agent picks up and writes it into the tape , but we have these 13 flat
files
 that go into offsite which really needs encryption and decryption logic
in
 place upon   after restore back to disk .

If those databases are all Oracle instances, then you might want to
take a look at Oracle Secure Backup. It does exactly what you need.

More info here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/secure-backup/index.html

Cheers,



Thanks a lot  , but we are on Oracle9i  database, the Oracle secure backup
they are talking would be nice on 10G onwards
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Re: Question:encryption tool

2007-02-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/5/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:21:18 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

Thanks a lot, Our current backup system is veritas netbackup,  and
changing
that to entire bacula is best thing for me,

But the making the decision about switching to bacula was above my pay
grade. I hardly see that happen  anytime soon.

so they wanted me encrypt these files,  that is on the backup location
before the netbackup scheduler picks up these files.

If you just want to encrypt the files with a password, openssl works
well and can be found pretty well on any platform.

[cage]% echo this is a test | openssl enc -aes-128-cbc -base64 -k
pass
U2FsdGVkX1+gkWRJo5W7PGBLpilZmlEx3+cKML+32to=
[cage]%
[cage]%
[cage]% echo U2FsdGVkX1+gkWRJo5W7PGBLpilZmlEx3+cKML+32to= | openssl
aes-128-cbc -d -base64 -k pass
this is a test
[cage]%

But you really want to take a look at /usr/ports/security/gnupg.  It
seems all a bit confusing at first, but its a much better way to
encrypt data and manage who has access to decode files without having
to use a common passphrase.

It as well will work across multiple platforms

Thanks a lot Mike

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Re: Question:encryption tool

2007-02-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/6/07, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Roland Smith writes:

   I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool that
I can use to perform the encryption/decryption for flat files.

  You can encrypt files with AES using ccrypt.
  http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

Both ccrypt and ncrypt are available as ports.


Thanks a lot for  all the response, I have gone with openssl as posted by

Mike T,
which was already there in all our environment OS installed and ready to be
used. I am going to review these packages again.
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Question:encryption tool

2007-02-05 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi freebsd ers

I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool  that I can use to
perform the   encryption/decryption for flat files.

We have a requirement to encrypt 15 flat files and be dumped on tape and be
stored in remote site  facility for later business resumption.

or in the crash/fire/emergency situation for the recovery purposes.

For consistency I am planning to use the same tool across our Solaris, Linux
and Freebsd OS oracle database environments.

Thanks
Dak
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Re: Question:encryption tool

2007-02-05 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/5/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


In response to Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hi freebsd ers

 I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool  that I can use
to
 perform the   encryption/decryption for flat files.

 We have a requirement to encrypt 15 flat files and be dumped on tape and
be
 stored in remote site  facility for later business resumption.

 or in the crash/fire/emergency situation for the recovery purposes.

 For consistency I am planning to use the same tool across our Solaris,
Linux
 and Freebsd OS oracle database environments.

If you deploy Bacula as your backup system, it includes support for
encrypted backups:
http://www.bacula.org



Thanks a lot, Our current backup system is veritas netbackup,  and changing
that to entire bacula is best thing for me,

But the making the decision about switching to bacula was above my pay
grade. I hardly see that happen  anytime soon.

so they wanted me encrypt these files,  that is on the backup location
before the netbackup scheduler picks up these files.

Database is getting backed up to a disk location and from there netbackup
agent picks up and writes it into the tape , but we have these 13 flat files
that go into offsite which really needs encryption and decryption logic in
place upon   after restore back to disk .

Thanks
Dak
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Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/31/07, kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great

No problem. I should add that if this is to be part of a long running
script, you should close the co-process (the while-loop running cat),
with something like:

exec 5p
exec 5-




I did not really understand this part of the email

Did you mean that I should

{ while cat /tmp/availdest.$$; do false; done } |
exec 5p

{ while cat file1.txt; do false; done } |

cat file2.txt |
while read file_b
do
   read -p file_a
   echo $file_b $file_a
done file3.txt

exec 5-

should I do something like this?  will this work ?


-

WHen I put this code in large part of the code,  several times it speews out
error like coprocess already exists

here is excerpts of the code.

{ while cat /tmp/availdest.$$; do false; done } |

cat  ${RESTORELINKDIR}/rman_restore_dir/${RESTORENAM}|awk '/DATAFILE/ {
print $0
}'|tr -d ' '|
while read file_b
do
   read -p file_a
   echo $file_b | $file_a
done /tmp/dataf.$$

prev_used=none;
typeset -i initial_cntr=0;
rm -rf /tmp/spaceiss.$$ /tmp/reprocesses.$$ /tmp/availspace.$$
for dbfilerec in `cat  /tmp/dataf.$$|awk '/DATAFILE/ { print $0 }'|tr -d ' '
`
do
   dest_tst=`echo $dbfilerec|awk -F| '{print $5}'`
   DISK_MB=`df -k ${dest_tst} | tail -1|awk '{print
int($4/1024)}'`
   echo Available Disk space = ${DISK_MB} MB
   Fil_size=`echo $dbfilerec |awk -F| '{print int($4)}'`
   echo Filesize needed  = ${Fil_size} MB

if [ ${DISK_MB} -gt ${Fil_size} ]
FIL_NO=`echo $dbfilerec |awk -F| '{print int($2)}'`
   TARGET_DIR=`echo
$dest_tst/$DEST_ORA_SID|tr -d ' '`
   mkdir -p  ${TARGET_DIR}
   if [ $? != 0 ]
   then
   SendNotification For Database
${ORACLE_SID} RMAN backup $RESTOREPRCSLOGDIR Could not be created for
backup
   fi
   strip_dir=`echo $dbfilerec |awk -F|
'{print $3}'`
   TARGET_FILE=`basename $strip_dir|tr -d ' '`
   perform_actual_restore;
   prev_used=`echo $dest_tst`

   fi
if [ ${DISK_MB} -le ${Fil_size} ]
then
   echo $dbfilerec|awk -F| '{print $5}'

/tmp/spaceiss.$$

   echo $dbfilerec|awk -F|  '/DATAFILE/ {OFS
= |;$5=; print}'   /tmp/reprocesses.$$
fi
done

if [ -s /tmp/reprocesses.$$ ]
then
   diff /tmp/availdest.$$ /tmp/spaceiss.$$|awk -F '{print $2}'|awk
NF|tr -d ' '/tmp/availspace.$$
fi
if [ -s /tmp/availspace.$$ ]
then



but one thing I noticed  was that
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Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/31/07, kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great

No problem. I should add that if this is to be part of a long running
script, you should close the co-process (the while-loop running cat),
with something like:

exec 5p
exec 5-
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Kris, Thanks  again

I got that right after more digging in man ksh and baby trying for a long
night.

My code worked well after putting like  you said, which I did not understand
initially, but now it is clear.

the code turned out something like


{ while cat /tmp/availspace.$$; do false; done } |
exec 5p
cat  /tmp/reprocesses.$$|awk '/DATAFILE/ { print $0 }'|tr -d ' '|
while read file_b
do
   read -u5 file_a
   echo $file_b $file_a
done /tmp/reprocessrecset.$$

exec 5-

this what you meant ?


Thanks
Dak
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Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/2/07, Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
{ while cat /tmp/availspace.$$; do false; done } |
exec 5p
cat  /tmp/reprocesses.$$|awk '/DATAFILE/ { print $0 }'|tr -d ' '|
while read file_b
do
read -u5 file_a
echo $file_b $file_a
done /tmp/reprocessrecset.$$

exec 5-

this what you meant ?

It doesn't matter where you put the redirects, so long as they're in
order and you wind up closing the coprocess's standard output so that it
exits. It's more a matter of style and taste than anything. Here are
some more options if you're interested:

As long as you haven't started any other background jobs, this would
work in place of the final 'exec 5-':
kill -INT %+

Or, after you start the coprocess, you can store its PID, and kill that
later:
copid=$!
...
kill -INT $copid

Again, it's a matter of style and taste. If it's not to be part of a
long running script, though, don't even worry about it.



Kris,

That is great , Thanks  a lot for your  input and insight.

It just amazes me how powerful a korn shell script in general  any Unix
shell, process handling  can be.

Thanks
Dak
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Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-02-01 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/27/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:


 On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
 
 
  On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 
  Halid Faith wrote:
   I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to
 Freebsd6.2
  without any problem?
   Could you advise a useful site about that ?
   After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system
 be ?
  
  
  people seem to like my instruction set:
 
  http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos
 
 
  no issues reported yet! =)
 
 
 
  I could not access ?
 
 
Permission Denied
 
  Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. Perhaps you
 forgot to
  login?
 
 
 
 
 
 sorry about that, give it a whirl now


 Hi

 I browsed the page understood most part  , I happened  to read
 theupgrade chapter  in release notes, but I remember someone on this
 list also mentioned to read from handbook, could not find that

 BTW: Does this upgrade procedure apply and can it be used   to go from
 6.1 to 6.2 freeBSD  too ?

 Thanks
 DAk
yes, it will work from any version of 6 and up. It should work fine in 7
unless the technique changes for some reason.

Hope it helps you! =)

Eric



This worked great  but  on mergemaster -cv in single user , at  one point it
asked me these questions , I got nervous and puzzled

Use 'd' to delete the temporary .x
 Use 'i' to install the temporary .x
 Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions
 Use 'v' to view the diff results again

# xxx refers to path for config files,  I running on default freebsd mode
and did not made any change

I just presses ENTER key the default ( because it advised to be left for
later consideration

DO I just not bother any more.

Thanks
Dak
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Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-02-01 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 2/1/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




On 1/27/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
 
 
  On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
  
  
   On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  
   Halid Faith wrote:
I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to
  Freebsd6.2
   without any problem?
Could you advise a useful site about that ?
After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system
  be ?
   
   
   people seem to like my instruction set:
  
   http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos
  
  
   no issues reported yet! =)
  
  
  
   I could not access ?
  
  
 Permission Denied
  
   Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. Perhaps you
  forgot to
   login?
  
  
  
  
  
  sorry about that, give it a whirl now
 
 
  Hi
 
  I browsed the page understood most part  , I happened  to read
  theupgrade chapter  in release notes, but I remember someone on this
  list also mentioned to read from handbook, could not find that
 
  BTW: Does this upgrade procedure apply and can it be used   to go from

  6.1 to 6.2 freeBSD  too ?
 
  Thanks
  DAk
 yes, it will work from any version of 6 and up. It should work fine in 7
 unless the technique changes for some reason.

 Hope it helps you! =)

 Eric


This worked great  but  on mergemaster -cv in single user , at  one point
it asked me these questions , I got nervous and puzzled

Use 'd' to delete the temporary .x
  Use 'i' to install the temporary .x
  Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions
  Use 'v' to view the diff results again

# xxx refers to path for config files,  I running on default freebsd mode
and did not made any change

I just presses ENTER key the default ( because it advised to be left for
later consideration

DO I just not bother any more.



Please also advise if you have anything like this to perform complete update
in /usr/ports, I think I may have to use portupgrade or portinstall command

Thanks

Dak



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Korn shell script Question

2007-01-31 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Dear Freebsd'ers


I have a an issue  to address.

in Korn Shell

I have  file_1 containing

1
2
3
4


and I have another file_2 containing

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I

I have use these file_1 and file_2 and generate a file file_3 containing.

A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
E 1
F 2
G 3
H 4
I  1


I tried with  several looping for some reason I dont seem to get in right in
Korn shell

Any ideas on Ksh would be great, You can use any standard unix utilities to
achieve this.


Thanks
DAk
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Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-01-31 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/31/07, Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:43:28PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
I tried with  several looping for some reason I dont seem to get in right
in
Korn shell

Any ideas on Ksh would be great, You can use any standard unix utilities
to
achieve this.

Something to this effect should suffice, though I'm not convinced
there's not a simpler way.

#!/usr/local/bin/ksh

{ while cat file1.txt; do false; done } |

cat file2.txt |
while read file_b
do
read -p file_a
echo $file_b $file_a
done file3.txt
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Hi Kris

Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great

Thanks
Dak
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Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-28 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/28/07, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, FreeBSD WickerBill wrote:

 How about it now?

 http://www.freshports.org/www/linuxpluginwrapper/

 Just installed the new linuxpluginwrapper and cp'd the new libmap.confto
 /etc and everything works as before.

That is, for me it shows up a Flash movie and I can play it, but no
sound at all.

/andreas



I  had followd the thread in full, none  of the patch procedure or symlinks
etc, nothing works ,  I am running out of all ideas one thing I noticed was
that the mplayer which I installed with simple make install clean  all have
gotten just right and I can see them all in  and it works each and everytime

This is output of my about:plugins.

I am really about to give up on this flash player or shockwave flash

I tried performing all the steps discussed with both flash 7 and flash 9,
wrapper etc whatever with just no succcess


=== Help for installing plug-ins is available from
plugindoc.mozdev.org.
--
Windows Media Player Plugin
File name: mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mplayerplug-inhttp://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
streams using MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu/
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled  application/asx Media Files * Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes  video/x-msvideo AVI avi,* Yes
video/msvideo AVI avi,* Yes  application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes
application/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv,* Yes  video/x-ms-asf Media
Files asf,asx,* Yes  video/x-ms-wm Media Files wm,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Microsoft
WMV video wmv,* Yes  audio/x-ms-wmv Windows Media wmv,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmp Windows
Media wmp,* Yes  video/x-ms-wvx Windows Media wvx,* Yes  audio/x-ms-wax Windows
Media wax,* Yes  audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media wma,* Yes
application/x-drm-v2 Windows Media asx,* Yes  audio/wav Microsoft wave file
wav,* Yes  audio/x-wav Microsoft wave file wav,* Yes DivX Browser Plug-In
File name: mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
mplayerplug-inhttp://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
streams using MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu/
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled  video/divx DivX Media Format divx
Yes  video/vnd.divx DivX Media Format divx Yes Google VLC multimedia plugin
1.0
File name: mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
mplayerplug-inhttp://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
streams using MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu/
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled  application/x-google-vlc-plugin Google
Video
Yes QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7
File name: mplayerplug-in-qt.so
mplayerplug-inhttp://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
streams using MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu/
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled  video/quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
video/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes  image/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
video/quicktime Quicktime mp4 Yes  video/quicktime Quicktime - Session
Description Protocol sdp Yes  application/x-quicktimeplayer Quicktime mov
Yes  application/smil SMIL smil Yes RealPlayer 9
File name: mplayerplug-in-rm.so
mplayerplug-inhttp://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
streams using MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu/
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled  audio/x-pn-realaudio RealAudio
ram,rm Yes  application/vnd.rn-realmedia RealMedia rm Yes
application/vnd.rn-realaudio RealAudio ra,ram Yes  video/vnd.rn-realvideo
RealVideo rv Yes  audio/x-realaudio RealAudio ra Yes
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealAudio rpm Yes  application/smil SMIL smil
Yes mplayerplug-in 3.31
File name: mplayerplug-in.so
mplayerplug-inhttp://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
streams using MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu/
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled  video/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes  video/x-mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes  video/x-mpeg2
MPEG2 mpv2,mp2ve Yes  audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes  audio/x-mpeg MPEG
mpg,mpeg Yes  audio/mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2 Yes  audio/x-mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2
Yes  video/mp4 MPEG 4 Video mp4 Yes  audio/mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes
audio/x-mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes  audio/x-mpegurl MPEG url m3u Yes
audio/mp3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes  application/x-ogg Ogg Vorbis Media ogg Yes
audio/ogg Ogg Vorbis Audio ogg Yes  application/ogg Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Theora
ogg Yes  video/fli FLI animation fli,flc Yes  video/x-fli FLI animation
fli,flc Yes  video/vnd.vivo VivoActive viv,vivo Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3 Nullsoft Streaming 

OT: Function not recognized while calling a function from awk

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Dear Freebsd


I have something strange problem happening any input would be great

for some reason the Korn shell is not detecting  the function that I am
calling from awk

Actual code excerpt is

function dogdied
{
   echo Why the hell did you die in $1
}

export dogdied

RESTORE_LOCATION=/u03/oradata,/u01/app/oracle/oradata/,/u02/oradata

echo $RESTORE_LOCATION |
awk -F, '{
for (i=1; i=NF ;i++)
{ system (dogdied $i)
print $i
}
}
'



Output looks like below

-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oraclefunction dogdied

{
echo Why the hell did you die in $1
}

[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oracle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oracleexport dogdied
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oracle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oracle/oradata/,/u02/oradata

[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oracle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oracleecho $RESTORE_LOCATION |

awk -F, '{
for (i=1; i=NF ;i++)
{ system (dogdied $i)
print $i
 }
}
 '

sh: line 1: dogdied: command not found
/u03/oradata
sh: line 1: dogdied: command not found
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/
sh: line 1: dogdied: command not found
/u02/oradata
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/u01/app/oracle


Any idea

Thanks
Dak
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Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/26/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Halid Faith wrote:
 I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without
any problem?
 Could you advise a useful site about that ?
 After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ?


people seem to like my instruction set:

http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos


no issues reported yet! =)




I could not access ?
Permission Denied

Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. Perhaps you forgot to
login?
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Re: firefox performance on Freebsd

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
 Hi All


 I am noticing singnificant performance degradation  in firefox in
 Freebsd ,
 I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I
 run XP.


 for comparison purpose

 I notice the same page  when I load on Freebsd partition it is slow on
 Windows XP it loads real quick.

 Is this link

 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650

 Good place to start the tuning of firefox.

 Is there something more than this I could do to speed up the
 performace of
 firefox in Freebsd ?

 Thanks
 Dak
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On 1/17/07, nicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Have you disabled the IPv6?

in about:config set 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to true.

Greetz.



I have  the output of ifconfig -a Does it say that I am running  ipv4 or
ipv6

and my current  network.dns.disableIPv6 is false

$ ifconfig -a
fwe0: flags=108802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 1500
   options=8VLAN_MTU
   ether 06:e4:0a:19:50:37
   ch 1 dma -1
rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
   options=8VLAN_MTU
   inet6 fe80::20a:e4ff:fed7:bb00%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
   inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
   ether 00:0a:e4:d7:bb:00
   media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
   status: active
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::20a:e4ff:fed7:bb00%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
   inet 10.40.1.100 -- 10.40.1.100 netmask 0x
   Opened by PID 784
$
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Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/26/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:


 On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Halid Faith wrote:
  I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2
 without any problem?
  Could you advise a useful site about that ?
  After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ?
 
 
 people seem to like my instruction set:

 http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos


 no issues reported yet! =)



 I could not access ?


   Permission Denied

 Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. Perhaps you forgot to
 login?





sorry about that, give it a whirl now



Hi

I browsed the page understood most part  , I happened  to read theupgrade
chapter  in release notes, but I remember someone on this list also
mentioned to read from handbook, could not find that

BTW: Does this upgrade procedure apply and can it be used   to go from 6.1to
6.2 freeBSD  too ?

Thanks
DAk
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Firefox and flash

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi

Has anyone had success in making work the flash and firefox,  I downloaded
and install the linux flashplugin 9

Even then flash does not seem to work,
Apart from  make install of this flash 9 , Are there any configuration stuff
that we need to perform on firefox for the firefox to detect  the newly
installed flash9
in the process of install , it forced me to  eliminated the old flash 7
using pkg_delete command.

still no success on my laptop.

total 1836
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   0 Nov 30 01:51 .firefox.keep
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  42 Jan  6 16:24 flashplayer.xpt -
../npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  44 Jan  6 16:24 libflashplayer.so -
../npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel 981 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  281704 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel 981 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  281608 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel 981 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  280552 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel 981 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  280520 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel 981 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  280424 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel 981 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  280296 Jan  6 23:04 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
#

DOes any one has idea if in PC-BSD  the flash and firefox works well. ?


Thanks
DAK
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cvsup file info needed please advise

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi world

I am working on performing the kernel upgrade using cvsup ,

my file cvsup-standard file is looking like


*default host=cvsup2.us.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*.default compress
src-all


I wanted to go from 6.1 to 6,2 latest and greatest .

What is the correct tag name I should use

Thanks
DAk
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Re: cvsup file info needed please advise

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/27/07, Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
 Hi world

 I am working on performing the kernel upgrade using cvsup ,

 my file cvsup-standard file is looking like

 
 *default host=cvsup2.us.FreeBSD.org
 *default base=/var/db
 *default prefix=/usr
 *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1
 *default delete use-rel-suffix
 *.default compress
 src-all
 

 I wanted to go from 6.1 to 6,2 latest and greatest .

 What is the correct tag name I should use

RELENG_6_2



Thanks a lot, let me see how it goes
Dak
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Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

I write shells script extensively , I have noticed

~  - gets a subsitution for $HOME
~userid   - gets you the $HOME for that user

meaning if  you have  have logged in as root and  if you want to run some
script on oracle home even though you logged in as root  you can simplly

~oracle/runme.sh  --  will run the runme.sh in Oracle home directory

Regards
Dak

On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello again,
 I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix
commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I can
substitute the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I can see
with this is an improper configuration with sudo (ran into some problems
with $HOME in the past using sudo on Gentoo), but I'm pretty sure that
sudo's setup on the machine cluster properly.
TIA,
-Garrett

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Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/26/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I write shells script extensively , I have noticed

~  - gets a subsitution for $HOME
~userid   - gets you the $HOME for that user

meaning if  you have  have logged in as root and  if you want to run some
script on oracle home even though you logged in as root  you can simplly

~oracle/runme.sh  --  will run the runme.sh in Oracle home directory

Regards
Dak

On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello again,
  I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix
 commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I can
 substitute the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I can see
 with this is an improper configuration with sudo (ran into some problems
 with $HOME in the past using sudo on Gentoo), but I'm pretty sure that
 sudo's setup on the machine cluster properly.
 TIA,
 -Garrett

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Oops sorry for top posting , I sent that mail  accidentally  at the rush of
the blood.
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Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/26/07, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
I write shells script extensively , I have noticed

~  - gets a subsitution for $HOME
~userid   - gets you the $HOME for that user

meaning if  you have  have logged in as root and  if you want to run some
script on oracle home even though you logged in as root  you can simplly

~oracle/runme.sh  --  will run the runme.sh in Oracle home directory

While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it
doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer
5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with Bell Labs ancestors).

It's a Good Idea(tm) when writing scripts that may be used on
many systems to program defensively, for the lowest common
denominator to avoid pitfalls like this.

I kinda disagree with that because if you want to exploit capabilities of

any given shell we should really stick to those shell
For example , I doubt  that we can expect  Bourne Shell code  to run in CSH
given as such, if it is small piece of code, we just need to stick with  its
common capabilities . But then when you are writing fully functional script
such as complete RMAN backup or restore  and if you want to automate ,  you
will need to exploit  all capabilities of that give shell for the script to
be fully functional.
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Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :).

One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all
shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and
(t)csh constructs.



Yes Ksh is very flexible and has been around for long time,   You can really
code in Ksh as we speak in English language. I learnt  right off the scratch
completely from man ksh .

It provides good debug capability with set -x option, it prints the commands
as it does and y
o u  can view the stdout, stdin and stder

regards
Dak




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Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-24 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/24/07, Grzegorz Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi.
Id like to asj you guys if you used any remote desktops with freebsd?
Which
client/server would you recommend, and why? Witch wich desktop env have
you
been using it?

Cheers,
GregZX


I am made vpnc( to connect into VPN ntwork of my workplace) and rdesktop

which were in /usr/ports , Works real fast no frills,  All that I need to
quick response  it does that
I connect to Windows server/Workstations with rdesktop

rdesktop is simple and very functional you will be able to transfer between
rdesktop windows and freebsd session.

REgards
Dak
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What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting ,

What do we mean by top-posting

do I pickup the last thread from that email thread and reply ? is that right
?

What if someone is emailing from a thread while I am replying at the same
time, would  that
not happen ? Would I be getting complains again that I am top-posting

Thanks
Dak
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Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

SO  This is TOP-POSTING -- Actually   this is normal behavior of  my
google mail


On 1/17/07, Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:

 I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting ,

 What do we mean by top-posting

Top-posting is when you put your reply above the orginal message. The
problem is evident when you get many people responding to each other; it
rapidly becomes difficult to determine who said what, and well-nigh
impossible to follow the flow of the discussion.

--
Chris Hill   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
** [ Busy Expunging | ]





So this correct place to POST back the reply , interesting .

Thanks a lot

Dak
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Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/17/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting ,

 What do we mean by top-posting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting





Thanks a lot Wiki information Rocks, Wow I learnt more about top posting,
bottom posting, inline replying and Double quoting.
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Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/17/07, Michael M. Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the
 java plugin to work with it?

.
I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java
plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around:

cd /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/plugins
ln -s /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2
/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

...should do it. Of course your libjavaplugin might be in a different
location than mine.





Did I screw up my firefox  big time, I see flash player plugins files
everywhere.

# find / -name flashplayer.xpt -exec ls -lrt {} \;
-r--r--r--  1 500  100  856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  42 Jan  6 16:24
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/flashplayer.xpt -
../npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox-devel/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock-devel/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-mozilla/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-nvu/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera-devel/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey-devel/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird-devel/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7/work/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 500  100  856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/X11R6/lib/plugins/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54 Jan  6 16:20
/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt -
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r--  1 oracle  wheel  856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/home/oracle/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
#


what a mess

Is it best to delete/unistall everything fire firefox using pkg_delete and
start clean slate ? But then I went and tampered into /usr/local/lib, ran
that patch , hack.dif so many times.

Thanks
Dak
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Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

On 1/17/07, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:48, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
 I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting ,

 What do we mean by top-posting

 do I pickup the last thread from that email thread and reply ? is that
 right ?

 What if someone is emailing from a thread while I am replying at the
same
 time, would  that
 not happen ? Would I be getting complains again that I am top-posting

 Thanks
 Dak

You might want to look at the following:

http://www.lemis.com/questions.html

It's a very comprehensive guide for posting to these lists.

Beech

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Wow, That link above made a world of difference, Thanks  a lot. I have
learnt more.
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firefox performance on Freebsd

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi All


I am noticing singnificant performance degradation  in firefox in Freebsd ,
I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I run XP.


for comparison purpose

I notice the same page  when I load on Freebsd partition it is slow on
Windows XP it loads real quick.

Is this link

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650

Good place to start the tuning of firefox.

Is there something more than this I could do to speed up the performace of
firefox in Freebsd ?

Thanks
Dak
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Re: Problem upgrading from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

I would like to perform the same update , but I would like to know  how to
rollback if this has failed as it happened here.

We should be able to rollback to exact current state. Do you have an idea

Thanks
Dak


On 1/17/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

I run 6.1-RELEASE, and am trying to upgrade it to 6.2-RELEASE using
the freebsd-update.sh script, and the instructions provided here:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-11-26-freebsd-6.1-to-6.2-binary-upgrade.html
,
without success!

The script hits sporadic problems fetching files. For eg., for quiet
sometime now this happens:
---
dexter# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -d /usr/upgrade -r
6.2-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 6.1-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... failed.
dexter#
---

In a previous try, it went through a great deal ahead, upto fetching
the patches and all, and then failed.

Is this because of a connectivity issue on my end, or some issue with
update1.freebsd.org? I don't see any connectivity issues from my side
though. Thanks in advance.

Best,
Amarendra
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Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd


My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins,

I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well.

Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave
plugins


I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in

http://www.erata.net/weblog/freebsd/2006/10/16/flash-plugin-on-freebsd/

after doing this the firefox is crashing left and right.

Any idea what we can do for this issue


Thanks
Dak
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Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

It really amazes me  how this FreeBSD is turning out tide in the Chinese
market , which shuns W and L.

The major OS  that Chinese market  is based on is Freebsd based. there is
going to be 1.3 billion population out there going to be in FreeBSD

On 1/16/07, Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Tuesday, January 16, 2007, at 09:55AM, Joe Arcaro 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple
even given credit to any form of BSD !

You must have missed it:

http://developer.apple.com/opensource/
*** QUOTE ***
With its open-source core based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Mach 3.0
microkernel, Mac OS X is the best Macintosh operating system ever
for UNIX users. With built-in support for the X Window System, IPv6,
Kerberos integration, and added POSIX, Linux, and System V API
support, Mac OS X easily runs your favorite UNIX software. With a
CUPS-based print and fax engine, plus a suite of command-line
and Python interfaces to Apple's Quartz graphics, it is easy to
develop full-featured PDF workflows. Mac OS X even automounts
Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX file servers directly in the Finder.
*** END QUOTE ***

Its in the first sentence on their page.
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Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1

I have these files in


$ pwd
/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins
$ ls -lrt
total 2132
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2158864 Oct 27 16:42 libflashplayer.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  856 Oct 27 16:42 flashplayer.xpt
drwxr-xr-x  2 500   100512 Dec  4 19:09 install_flash_player_7_linux
$


I need to try  the Warren's method  to see if that is going to help me,
first of all I need to read man portupgrade to perform the upgrade from 6.1to
6.2 , as i am new into this freebsd world.

Thanks for your input

Dak


On 1/16/07, FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On 1/16/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:

  My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins,
 
  I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well.
 
  Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave
  plugins
 
  I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in
 
   that procedure is outdated, so I'm not going to repeat the link 
 
  after doing this the firefox is crashing left and right.

 Here's my checklist.  This works on 6.2-Release and 6.2-Stable as of
 16 Jan 2007 with Firefox 2.0.0.1:

 Install the dlsym patch:

 Note: a new version of rtld.c came out in stable on 16 Jan 2007.  If you
 don't run 6-Stable, fetch the patch file like this:

 # cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/
 # fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff

 Here's an updated patch file I made for rtld.c v 1.106.2.4:

 --- rtld.c.orig Tue Jan 16 06:50:53 2007
 +++ rtld.c  Tue Jan 16 06:54:15 2007
 @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
   static void unref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
   static void ref_dag(Obj_Entry *);

 +void *_dlsym(void *, const char *);
   void r_debug_state(struct r_debug *, struct link_map *);

   /*
 @@ -182,6 +183,7 @@
   (func_ptr_type) dlclose,
   (func_ptr_type) dlerror,
   (func_ptr_type) dlopen,
 +(func_ptr_type) _dlsym,
   (func_ptr_type) dlsym,
   (func_ptr_type) dladdr,
   (func_ptr_type) dllockinit,
 @@ -1762,6 +1764,12 @@
   trace_loaded_objects(obj);
   wlock_release(rtld_bind_lock, lockstate);
   exit(0);
 +}
 +
 +void *
 +_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name)
 +{
 +return dlsym(handle, name);
   }

   void *
 --cut here

 # patch  rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
 # make
 # make install

 Link the library:

 cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
 ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so .
 ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt .

 In /etc/libmap.conf:

 # [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
 [/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so]
 libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2
 libdl.so.2  pluginwrapper/flash7.so
 libz.so.1   libz.so.3
 libm.so.6   libm.so.4
 libc.so.6   pluginwrapper/flash7.so

 -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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or, look in  /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/ and make sure the plugin or a
symlink exists.
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Is it possible to have Diskless workstation in freebsd

2007-01-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd

I have a need to setup 3 workstations to boot remotely without any ( OS) on
local disks,

What are ways to go about achieving that,

I want the users to have all their utilities and files stores all back
stored in the remote server.

But confusion how the OS going to detect the correct local Hardware
resources for it to run  right drivers, example being the VGA driver, local
keyboard and mouse.


Please advise


Thanks
Dak
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Re: Is it possible to have Diskless workstation in freebsd

2007-01-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

wow, this is great place to start,

I will update again later
Thanks a lot


Dak
On 1/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:18:21 +0500, Dak Ghatikachalam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have a need to setup 3 workstations to boot remotely without any ( OS)
 on
 local disks,

 What are ways to go about achieving that,

 I want the users to have all their utilities and files stores all back
 stored in the remote server.

 But confusion how the OS going to detect the correct local Hardware
 resources for it to run  right drivers, example being the VGA driver,
 local
 keyboard and mouse.

There is a 27.6 Diskless Operation paragraph in FreeBSD Handbook
(
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html
)
and article Diskless X Server: a how to guide
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/index.html
).
Maybe it helps.
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kernel messages question

2007-01-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd

When there is messages in /var/log/messages as seen below

# bzip2 -d -c messages.0.bz2|grep sio4
Jan 12 22:32:42 DAK kernel: sio4: Sierra Wireless AC860 at port
0x3e8-0x3ee irq 22 function 0 config 32 on pccard0
Jan 12 22:32:42 DAK kernel: sio4: type 8250 or not responding
Jan 12 22:32:42 DAK kernel: sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode
- using normal mode


Does that mean that pccard0 is the device driver for thsi Sierra Wireless
card ? If yes  how can I probe that to make sure it responds with hat
driver.


Thanks
DAk
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Re: Sound Card Problem

2007-01-13 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Derrick

For most of  the sound problems, I have got fixed reading the handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html


may give you enough insigt to fix most problems

Best regards
DAk

On 1/13/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


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Hash: SHA1

Derrick Edwards wrote:
   All,
 I upgraded to the lastest version of RELENG_6 and now my onboard sound
does
 not work. It worked on earlier versions of RELENG_6(3 Months Ago). Did
 something change that I should be aware of. I rebuilt system again just
to
 verify. I am using an SOYO SY-P4I 845PE motherboard. It does not seem to
see
 it now. Please help and thanks for your assistance.

 v/r
 Derrick

 FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Jan 13 15:35:05 EST 2007

 focus# pciconf -lv
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:  class=0x06 card=0x25608086 chip=0x25608086 
rev=0x02
 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82845G/GL/GV/GE/PE DRAM Controller / Host-Hub I/F
Bridge'
 class= bridge
 subclass = HOST-PCI
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x chip=0x25618086 rev=0x02
 hdr=0x01
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82845G/GL/GV/GE/PE Brookdale Host to AGP Bridge'
 class= bridge
 subclass = PCI-PCI
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:0:class=0x0c0300 card=0x24c28086 chip=0x24c28086
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI
Controller'
 class= serial bus
 subclass = USB
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:1:class=0x0c0300 card=0x24c28086 chip=0x24c48086
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI
Controller'
 class= serial bus
 subclass = USB
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:2:class=0x0c0300 card=0x24c28086 chip=0x24c78086
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI
Controller'
 class= serial bus
 subclass = USB
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29:7:class=0x0c0320 card=0x24cd8086 chip=0x24cd8086
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI
Controller'
 class= serial bus
 subclass = USB
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:0:class=0x060400 card=0x chip=0x244e8086
 rev=0x82 hdr=0x01
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801BA/CA/DB/DBL/EB/ER/FB (ICH2/3/4/4/5/5/6), 6300ESB
Hub
 Interface to PCI Bridge'
 class= bridge
 subclass = PCI-PCI
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:0:class=0x060100 card=0x chip=0x24c08086
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge'
 class= bridge
 subclass = PCI-ISA
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:1:  class=0x01018a card=0x24c28086 chip=0x24cb8086
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA/100 EIDE Controller'
 class= mass storage
 subclass = ATA
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:3:class=0x0c0500 card=0x24c28086 chip=0x24c38086
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
 device   = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller'
 class= serial bus
 subclass = SMBus
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:   class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x032210de
 rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
 device   = 'GeForce FX 5200 [NV34.3]'
 class= display
 subclass = VGA
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:6:0:   class=0x010400 card=0x00011103 chip=0x00071103
 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'HighPoint Technologies Inc'
 device   = 'HPT371/N UDMA/ATA133 EIDE Controller'
 class= mass storage
 subclass = RAID
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7:0:   class=0x02 card=0x82120291 chip=0x91021282 
rev=0x40
 hdr=0x00
 vendor   = 'Davicom Semiconductor Inc.'
 device   = 'DM9102/A/AF Dell 4300S - CNET Pro200WL Ethernet Adapter'
 class= network
 subclass = ethernet

Did you read /usr/src/UPDATING yet?
- -Garrett
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Re: vpnc problem

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

I am successfully using vpnc that came with freebsd 6.1able to connect
into cisco 3000 concentrator

all i had was vpnc.conf file

On 1/11/07, Jeremie Le Hen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi Vishal,

First of all you should avoid cross-posting.  Additionaly, I don't
think this is a question for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:50:26PM -0500, Vishal Patil wrote:
 I have found the answer to this question. I basically had to edit the
 vpnc-script and replace the body of the function get_default_gw with

 netstat -r -n | sed 's/default/0.0.0.0/' | grep '^0.0.0.0' | awk '{print
 $2}'

 So now I have vpnc-0.3.3 working on FreeBSD.

The port stands in security/vpnc, you should use it.  It guess the
maintainer has tried it before updating the port and pushed the
appropriate patch into the ports tree.

Regards
--
Jeremie Le Hen
 jeremie at le-hen dot org  ttz at chchile dot org 
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Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

this is a funny thread.

On 1/10/07, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi

How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

--
Thanks!

BR / vj
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Re: help

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

just your devices attached for power management module is not responding,

this may not bring down anything.

On 1/11/07, lekshmanan prabhakaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


hi
my name is lekshman i did a fresh installation of FreeBSD 6.1 on my
Travelmate laptop 2420, the installation was fine but i am getting these
errors on TTY0 console .

---
kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_TZ_.TZSV._TMP]
(Node 0xc214b020), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned
AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE

These two errors happens in the same minute and every few minutes:
May 31 00:07:52 Scarface kernel: ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for
[EmbeddedControl] returned AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
May 31 00:07:52 Scarface kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution
failed [\_TZ_.TZSV._TMP] (Node 0xc214b020), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
May 31 00:08:12 Scarface kernel: ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for
[EmbeddedControl] returned AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
May 31 00:08:12 Scarface kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution
failed [\_TZ_.TZS0._TMP] (Node 0xc214b020)AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
May 31 00:08:22 Scarface kernel: ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for
[EmbeddedControl] returned AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
May 31 00:08:22 Scarface kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution
failed [\_TZ_.TZS1._TMP] (Node 0xc214b020), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE

---
This is keep on repeating but there is no problem with other consoles from
tty1 to tty8 and KDE GUI is working fine.Please help me with this ,is it
going to bring my computer down.

Thanking you

Lekshman
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Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

afaik, branching off for the minor changes would be thest way to go. so you
could merge back these changes into main line easily. that is the way normal
devel cycle

or you could establish minor and major and merge them upon completion.

On 1/11/07, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I have a medium sized application where the source is all in a CVS
repository.  Basically it works great as I am able to retrieve any
previous version of a module when needed.  Most of the changes to the
application are quickly resolved, CVS committed and the production
system updated in less than a day.  Recently, I made a fairly large
update to the application that took about 4 weeks to complete.
During that time I was not able to fix small problems as there was no
way to update the production system without incorporating a large
number of changes from the new update that were just not working
yet.  Basically all small corrections were made to the new system but
not incorporated into the production system until the new stuff was
completed.  There were no real problems from this, but it was not
really convenient.

Now I am going to be embarking on a revision that will take about 6
months to complete.  Obviously I will not be able to wait till the
completion to fix minor problems.  So I am going to need to do
something with branches.  I have dug through the man pages and
believe that is the best approach.  However, given that I need to
maintain the current version with a probably small number of fixes
during the development process what is the best approach?  Should I
branch off the production version as a new branch and keep the main
one for the new development or the other way around.  Will it be
easier to merge the fixes to the production branch back in to the new
system later or should those fixes be made to both branches at the
same time?  Any suggestions on these approaches will be appreciated.
Thanks,

-- Doug
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Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi FreeBSD

I am looking to know how to use perform the dialup using the chatscript for
the wireless card  Ac850.

Is t this right place to ask this question.


Wow this is longest thread I have seen in my entire life about 73 people
replying about same topic and nearly he the same email. over and over.

Thanks
Dak


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http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions
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Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause


http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/07/gentoo-freebsd-license-problems-requires-a-development-pause

The big license mess, part 2


http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/07/the-big-license-mess-part-2
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Re: Sierra Wireless Card AC860 or any Sierra Wireless card ! Any help there?

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd


I have been trying to get this card working,  reading at the ppp log out
put appears my card and ports are responding and the carrier is established,
appears I am not dialing it with right chat scripts,




I need some help how to write use and  execute the chat scripts

Do we need device driver for this SIerra Wireless card AC860 ?



When I called Cingular they said me to use

Tel# to dial : *99***1
username: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
password: CINGULAR1


Please advise if anyone had success in similar card, it should be about
the same when it comes to chat scripts.


Thanks
Dak




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Re: Sierra Wireless Card AC860 or any Sierra Wireless card ! Any help there?

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi

Asking this over and over because I am really tired of Bicrosoft Windoze
crashing on me in BaMicromacrosoft Wokred and Extecel, I want move all and
in complete to FreeBSD

I want to wean myself off from that piece of junk.

Thanks
Dak

On 1/10/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




Hi Freebsd

 I have been trying to get this card working,  reading at the ppp log out
 put appears my card and ports are responding and the carrier is established,
 appears I am not dialing it with right chat scripts,



I need some help how to write use and  execute the chat scripts

Do we need device driver for this SIerra Wireless card AC860 ?


 When I called Cingular they said me to use

 Tel# to dial : *99***1
 username: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 password: CINGULAR1


 Please advise if anyone had success in similar card, it should be about
 the same when it comes to chat scripts.


 Thanks
 Dak





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Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

How about running top.

do

sysctl -a|grep shm or grep sem or  all memory related  configs

and look into /etc/sysctl.conf

may be something in configs is stealing  away  your 4G

Apologies if you already knew this and if I am stating the obvious.
regards
Dak



On 1/10/07, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server.
It's configured with 4 gigs of ram.

However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG

786432k above 4GB ignored

Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this

real memory  = 3489300480 (3327 MB)
avail memory = 3414659072 (3256 MB)

Soo I'm at a bit of a loss.

Jeff.

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Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

if you calculate the 32bit addressing capability

2^32 -1  = 4294967296 - 1   = 4GB -1 you could counter I/O space, IRQ space
for all the devices attached.

I have heard something like parity interleave(I may be misspelling that
word, but sounds close), you can knock off some more memory for this, and
something like memory hole,  you should knock off some more memory
for this.,  sometimes video card also steal  memory for acceleration, how
much of it all depends.

regards
Dak

On 1/10/07, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:42:59PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote:
 Jeff MacDonald wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server.
 It's configured with 4 gigs of ram.
 
 However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG
 
 786432k above 4GB ignored
 
 Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this
 
 real memory  = 3489300480 (3327 MB)
 avail memory = 3414659072 (3256 MB)
 
 Soo I'm at a bit of a loss.
 
 Jeff.
 
 Same platform, same error.  Anyone else have a clue for me?


Part of the 32-bit address space is reserved for various
I/O-devices.  This means that a 32-bit OS will not be
able to use all 4 GB of RAM but only a smaller amount (usually
around 3.5 GB.)

If you were to use a 64-bit OS it would probably be able to access
all of the RAM if some of it is remapped to above the 4 GB
line. (There is usually an option in the BIOS to do this remapping.)


(This information is provided by most motherboard manufacturers
and many computer manufacturers (including Dell) in some FAQ. )



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Re: Porting Acrobat 9 to FBSD Mozilla / Opera and OT: installer promotion (was Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?)

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

I think it is about time that FREEBSD OS gets the act together  by
integrating  all the plugins for firefox.

I have been trying to make these plugins work,

not sure what more we need  countering all plugins for firefox

which could make work all, right now I could only view the video in cnn.com.

Others like ABC news, google video, youtube, msnbc.ocm,  and so many other
news networks, in general anything   the videos from web browser are not
working

either it is expecting the flash player ( I configured this but does not
seem to work) or shockwave player

I found this  linux tutorial giving some insight
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMozillaConfiguration.html#PLUGINS

This is such a big deal, that we could not view any videos in firefox,

I have compiled the mplayer, but that makes he cnn.com work not sure the
same mplayer can be used in the place of  all those plugins out here.

and then there is that big discussion I see in freebsd last month

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-December.txt.gz


regards
Dak




On 1/10/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


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 On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:32:41PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
 Scott and Nikolas,
  I'll try to get the linuxplugin-wrapper port to work with Flash9
 for Linux and then I'll submit the change upstream to the maintainer. I
 too am tired of the fact that Flash is so ubiquitous, but don't have
 much choice but to get it working.
  Aw well.. when in Rome, one must do as the Romans do.. even if
 it involves hideous plugins/content :).

 Garrett,

 That would be cool - I've not tried anything newer than Flash 7,
although I
 guess there wasn't anything newer until recently, for Linux
anyway.  Would
 be great if you could get it to work.

 I've just noticed that there's a www/opera-linuxplugins port that
appears
 to install Opera 9.10 with the necessary configuration tweaks to use
Linux
 plugins.  It should just be a matter of installing that, then adding the
 install dirs of the various plugins to Opera's plugin path...

 Cheers,

   Scott

Yup, I know. I'll take a look into the opera linuxplugin wrapper port
too so I can get both Mozilla and Opera sync'ed. I should start work
sometime this weekend because I need to finish off another project
(Javascript / HTML-based installer and package updater for work) before
I move to California.

Speaking of which, any Windows admins on this list want me to post the
source for the installer / updater / package manager on sourceforge? It
may come in handy. I don't expect anyone to use it for Unix since
scripting in Unix is excellent already, but I'm going to automatically
add in Windows support and maybe Mac OSX support as well, but that's
iffy.. I'm only going to working for my IT firm for a while, so support
would be beer-based funding, if anyone's interested :D.

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Re: Shell recommendations

2007-01-09 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Thanks everyone for the great input and  Feedback,
I read some great capabilities about Zsh( completion capabilities) and pdksh

For now I have compiled and made pdksh and I will try this to see how  that
works. so far it works great did not dump the core,

Thanks
DAk



On 1/9/07, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On 09/01/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Freebsd

 I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell
 each and everytime

 I do set -o vi

 and perform some commands

 it simply dumps ksh93.core
  file and crashed whole terminal session,

 I have been having this problem everrsince I changed my login shell from
 /bin/sh to /bin/ksh which is symbolic link of ksh93 executable I
compiled
 off the freebsd /usr/ports/

 I wonder if anyone has similar issues with this ksh or am I doing
something
 stupid
[...]
It doesn't matter what you do with your shell, it simply shouldn't crash.
if you like it, and you would like continue using it, I suggest you
try to get a working binary. ksh93 hasn't changed since 20060214
(according to freshports.org), so I guess you're working with the most
recent version already.
What you should try is to rebuild this port without any optimization
set in /etc/make.conf.
Please comment any CFLAGS= and CPUTYPE= and do a make reinstall.
This should result in a i386 binary without any optimization. Try
using it, maybe the core dump is gone. There are several ports out
there that don't like being built with optimization.

HTH
Christian


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Sierra Wireless Card AC860 how to get the working in freebsd.

2007-01-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd

I have been breaking my head intermittently over this for months, so far I
had no success  getting this Sierra Wireless card ,  to Cingular ISP

This card is 3G card  works on my other winXP partition,  I have become very
uneasy to continue to use this only in windows

because of reliability/security  concerns I want this card working in my
Freebsd OS, I wanted to wean away from windows XP as soon as possible. which
I using  now to access just to connect while travelling, which is too much
pain.

My buddy Paul Pathiakis told to post this issue here as someone of you may
have been in same situation.

I added the quircks  for the kernel  and had rebuild the kernal
successfully,  looking as /var/log/messages, makes sense it is detecting the
card.
now I am puzzled how to get this dialled and get it working. he also said we
may need a device driver.

When I called Cingular they said me to use

Tel# to dial : *99***1
username: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
password: CINGULAR1

As you see below I tried putting them up these entries in ppp.conf file.

default:
set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)

# Ensure that device references the correct serial port
# for your modem. (cuad0 = COM1, cuad1 = COM2)
#
#set device /dev/cuad1
set device /dev/cuad4

set speed 115200
set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
  \\ AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT
set timeout 180# 3 minute idle timer (the default)
#enable dns# request DNS info (for resolv.conf)

cingular:
#
# edit the next three lines and replace the items in caps with
# the values which have been assigned by your ISP.
#
set phone *99***1#
set authname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set authkey CINGULAR1
set login TIMEOUT 10  gin:--gin: \\U [EMAIL PROTECTED]: \\P
col:
CINGULAR1
set timeout 300

#APN:ISP.CINGULAR
#set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.255
add default HISADDR# Add a (sticky) default route


---

kernel log /var/log/messages

Jan  8 19:28:04 DAK kernel: sio4: Sierra Wireless AC860 at port
0x3e8-0x3ee ir
q 22 function 0 config 32 on pccard0
Jan  8 19:28:04 DAK kernel: sio4: type 8250 or not responding
Jan  8 19:28:04 DAK kernel: sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode
- us
ing normal mode

-
# ppp congular
congular: Configuration label not found
# ppp cingular
Working in interactive mode
Using interface: tun0
Warning: Add route failed: 0.0.0.0/0 already exists
ppp ON DAK connect cingular
Warning: connect: Invalid command
Warning: connect: Failed 1
ppp ON DAK ok connect
Warning: ok: Invalid command
Warning: ok: Failed 1
ppp ON DAK at
Warning: at: Invalid command
Warning: at: Failed 1
ppp ON DAK help
(o) = Optional context, (c) = Context required
accept(o)   : accept option request
add : add route
allow   : Allow ppp access
bg  : Run a background command
clear(o): Clear throughput statistics
clone(c): Clone a link
close(o): Close an FSM
delete  : delete route
deny(o) : Deny option request
dial(o) : Dial and login
disable(o)  : Disable option
down(o) : Generate a down event
enable(o)   : Enable option
ident(c): Set the link identity
iface   : interface control
link: Link specific commands
load(o) : Load settings
log(o)  : log information
nat : NAT control
open(o) : Open an FSM
quit: Quit PPP program
remove(c)   : Remove a link
rename(c)   : Rename a link
resolv  : Manipulate resolv.conf
save: Save settings
sendident(c): Transmit the link identity
set(o)  : Set parameters
shell   : Run a subshell
show(o) : Show status and stats
term(c) : Enter terminal mode
help: Display this message
ppp ON DAK show
Use ``show ?'' to get a list.
ppp ON DAK show ?
(o) = Optional context, (c) = Context required
bundle : bundle details ccp(o) : CCP status
compress   : VJ compression stats   escape(c)  : escape characters
filter : packet filters hdlc(c): HDLC errors
iface  : Interface status   ipcp   : IPCP status
ipv6cp : IPV6CP status  layers(o)  : Protocol layers
lcp(c) : LCP status link(c): (high-level) link info
links  : available link names   log: log levels
mem: mbuf allocations   ncp: NCP status
physical(c): (low-level) link info  mp : multilink setup
proto(o)   : protocol summary   route  : routing table
stopped(c) : STOPPED timeouttimers : alarm timers
version: version string who: client list
help   : Display this message
ppp ON DAK show link
Name: deflink
State:  closed
Peer name:  N/A
Discriminator:  Null Class

Defaults:
Phone List: *99***1
Dial 

Re: a bit OT - VPN+Windows

2007-01-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

I am using a vpnc  which came along with freebsd6.1  which is using IPSEC
and Xauth
I found using the vpnc along with rdesktop to access remote windows servers
is real fast.

vpnc is no frills, straight command line and just a single config file.

On 1/8/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


could You put me to some manual about configuring any king of VPN (with
encryption at least, preferable compression too) with windows machines as
clients and FreeBSD as servers.

i used VPN's many times but always with unix on both sides and used vtun
which works great. unfortunately there is no vtun for windows.

thanks
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Shell recommendations

2007-01-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Freebsd

I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell
each and everytime

I do set -o vi

and perform some commands

it simply dumps ksh93.core
file and crashed whole terminal session,

I have been having this problem everrsince I changed my login shell from
/bin/sh to /bin/ksh which is symbolic link of ksh93 executable I compiled
off the freebsd /usr/ports/

I wonder if anyone has similar issues with this ksh or am I doing something
stupid

I love using ksh due to the fact you can edit and scroll back and forth as
in vi commands,


if you have had this issue, what did you go about doing.


Any suggestion here would be great help

Thanks
Dak
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Re: Stuck on win32-codecs compilation.

2007-01-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Hi Bill,Juha , Josh and pabola

Thanks for all your feedback, It gave the best insight  and understanding.

This is what I did , because even after I had removed the quick time using
make config on win32-codecs directory

It was giving me some more errors it it could not find file while
downloading(when I issued make install in
/usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs),

so I went ahead and downloaded manually download win32-codecs.tar.gz  file
from ports directory http://freebsd.org/ports/multimedia website, replaced
with this new win32-codecs.

That made the rest of mplayer  successful.

Then I bumped into the issue  of sound /dev/dsp error I fixed with
reading the

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html(
this I felt is the good help for anyone having sound issues)

did that

# sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4
# sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4

took care of the sound issue.

(does anyone know how automatically download  the current specific port, I
know portupgrade -a runs, but it runs endlessly forever)

Thanks
Dak


On 1/4/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 1/4/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Dear Freebsd
 
  I was trying to make  mplayer and  it spat me on error,  win32
-codecs,
  and went on trying the clean up the win32-codecs and try to make the
codecs,
  it still errored out
 
  Has anyone faced the same issue,  Please share your thoughts.
 
  I am scratching my head, what I should doing about this.

 Waiting until the remote code execution security hole is plugged would
 seem to be a sensible thing:

 The Apple Security Team reports that there are multiple
 vulnerabilities within QuickTime (one of the plugins for
 win32-codecs). A remote attacker capable of creating a malicious SGI
 image, FlashPix, FLC movie, or a QuickTime movie can possibly lead to
 execution of arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service (application
 crash).

 Users who have QuickTime (/win32-codecs) as a browser plugin may be
 vulnerable to remote code execution by visiting a website containing a
 malicious SGI image, FlashPix, FLC movie or a QuickTime movie.

You can get mplayer installed safely by deselecting the quicktime codec
during the installation process.  To change it now, do the following:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs  make config
Then deselect quicktime from the menu and save your change.  Then go
back to building mplayer and it should succeed.

-Bill


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Re: How to reset /dev/dsp ?

2007-01-03 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

I am on same freebsd 6.1

I had the similar off kernel sound server , which it was pointing to null
device

I did this

# kldload snd_ich

and I had put the same entry /boot/loader.conf

snd_ich_load=YES

but I did not really compile the sound into the kernel,  it still worked for me.

I have to find out how to compile the sound server into the kernel.

If you are not certain about the right driver knock off everything in
the boot loaderr conf and

simply run

kldload snd_driver

that will  print the right quirks to use then use that alone in boot
loader.conf  and remove the rest.



Good luck.



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On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

 Luke Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I'm running FreeBSD 6.1.

 My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg:
 pcm0: Intel ICH5 (82801EB) port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem
 0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on
 pci0
 pcm0: primary codec not ready!
 pcm0: Avance Logic ALC658 AC97 Codec

 My sound driver is compiled into the kernel:
 device  sound
 device  snd_ich

 I've got a java application that I run through
 diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_1 that uses sound.  It's a game.  Partway
 through the game, the sound stops working.  The people who make the
 game have been aware of the problem for many months, but don't
 understand what to do about it.
 Okay, I can accept that.

 What I can't accept is that this java application breaks the sound in
 such a way that NOTHING can play sound anymore until I reboot the
 machine!

 If I attempt to play a movie with mplayer after the game has broken
 the sound, it says:
 [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file
 or directory

 However, the dsp device still exists in /dev:
 [0:/dev ll dsp*
 crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  -   0,  51 Dec 29 21:36 dsp0.0
 crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  -   0,  54 Dec 29 21:37 dsp0.1
 crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  -   0,  52 Dec 29 19:24 dspW0.0
 crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  -   0,  55 Dec 29 19:24 dspW0.1
 crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  -   0,  57 Dec 29 19:24 dspr0.1

 The sndstat device doesn't show any problem, if I'm reading the output
 right:
 [0:/dev cat /dev/sndstat
 FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
 Installed devices:
 pcm0: Intel ICH5 (82801EB) at io 0xfc001000, 0xfc002000 irq 17 bufsz
 16384  (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)

 Is there anything I can do short of rebooting the machine to get my
 sound working when this happens?  I thought maybe there was something
 I could do with devd or devctl to reset the device, but I can't figure
 out how to do that.  I'm not even sure how to see the problem except
 to attempt to play a sound.

 Well, it's hard to say, because the hardware could be misbehaving, in
 which case the software may not know what's going on.  It might be
 interesting to see whether fstat(1) sees anything holding the dsp
 devices.  You could also try using vchans, which would (in theory) let
 you access the hardware from another device node after the first one
 hangs.

fstat reveals that nothing is holding the dsp devices after the sound
breaks.
I read a bit about vchans, then set up a few with sysctl
hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4.  I had to reboot first, because once the sound
locks up, attempting to adjust this sysctl produces a device busy error.
This produced some new dsp devices in /dev.
I ran the java app again, broke the sound, and found that all of the
vchans produce the same device busy error when I use mplayer switches to
specify which vchan to use.  (I was using commands like mplayer -ao
oss:/dev/dsp0.1 blah.avi to test this.)

Whatever this java app is doing to break the sound breaks it for all
device nodes.

Thanks for the idea anyway.  I learned something.
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Stuck on win32-codecs compilation.

2007-01-03 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam

Dear Freebsd

I was trying to make  mplayer and  it spat me on error,  win32 -codecs,
and went on trying the clean up the win32-codecs and try to make the codecs,
it still errored out

Has anyone faced the same issue,  Please share your thoughts.

I am scratching my head, what I should doing about this.

--

===  win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 is forbidden: Remote code execution:
http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/24f6b1eb-43d5-11db-81e1-000e0c2e438a.html.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer.
# set -o vi
# make install
===  Installing for mplayer-0.99.10
===   mplayer-0.99.10 depends on file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins -
found
===   mplayer-0.99.10 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-
codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 - not found
===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1
in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs
===  win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 is forbidden: Remote code execution:
http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/24f6b1eb-43d5-11db-81e1-000e0c2e438a.html.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer.



--
so went ahead and tried to make  win32-codecs


# cd /usr/ports
# cd multimedia
# cd win32-codecs
# ls
Makefiledistinfopkg-descr   pkg-plist
# make
===  win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 is forbidden: Remote code execution:
http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/24f6b1eb-43d5-11db-81e1-000e0c2e438a.html.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.
# make clean
===  Cleaning for win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1
# make
===  win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 is forbidden: Remote code execution:
http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/24f6b1eb-43d5-11db-81e1-000e0c2e438a.html.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.
# pwd
/usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs
# ls
Makefiledistinfopkg-descr   pkg-plist
# make clean
===  Cleaning for win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1
# make install
===  win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 is forbidden: Remote code execution:
http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/24f6b1eb-43d5-11db-81e1-000e0c2e438a.html.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.

Thanks
Dak
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