Re: How can I manually turn off the HDD?
At about the time of 2/13/2007 10:58 AM, Chuck Swiger stated the following: On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I turn off the HDD? .. and leave the buffers in the memory, until the RAM is full .. then spin up the drive, write out the data, then it turn off again. ENOTSUPPORTED, at least with FreeBSD. Note that Apple has done a lot of work to facilitate drive spindown for power-saving reasons for their laptops, so MacOS X will make a reasonable attempt to spindown the drives until really needed There is a port called ataidle that you may want to look at. It programs the HDD to spin down after a specified timeout. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?
At about the time of 2/13/2007 12:07 PM, pete wright stated the following: On 2/13/07, Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 01:42:23 (PM) pete wright wrote: how would you define correct? have all systems boot with a SMP kernel by default so that machines with multiple processors automatically detect all available CPU's? then what about all the users that are using uni-proc systems? i think the current state of building a system w/o SMP enabled is great. it's not that hard to do a: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=SMP make installkernel KERNCONF=SMP reboot this is all covered in the FreeBSD handbook, which all new admin's/users should be reading and following closely anyway ;) It is also a hugh waste of time. Doing the initial system installation, there should be an option at the very least to enable SMP. Installing a system, then having to rebuilt and and reinstall it again if counter productive. The market is moving toward multiple CPUs. The FBSD installation routine should embrace that reality and afford it the proper consideration that it deserves. hmm...didn't realize that not loading a SMP kernel by default would turn people away from running FreeBSD. building a kernel is much different from reinstalling a system though... OT, but - I know a fair amount of locations will have a custom kernel, and most large sites will script sysinstall to load a custom kernel as well. yet, for junior admins maybe a boot time option allow one to load a SMP kernel during the install phase (which would also be the kernel the system boot's from after installation) may be helpfull. There are currently options to disable ACPI (granted that's a .ko) but perhaps there is precedent to do this. anyway, sounds like a good PR :) -pete Interesting. I have a computer here that's a AMD 64 3700 and it's not dual core, but the board is capable of using a X2 processor, so loads a SMP kernel anyways. It seems to work just fine with the single core, single CPU. The thing is though is that it refers to the CPU as cpu0. Doing it this way just might be the future... Oh, and I didn't tell it to use the SMP kernel. Sysinstall did that itself. So based on this behavior, if the bios reports SMP capable (the bios shows CPU 0 during the post), then sysinstall loads a SMP kernel? I have to turn acpi off though otherwise I get dead lock up problems. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: That Drive Geometry Bug
At about the time of 12/26/2005 5:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated the following: I am trying to back up the drive I have been using (which is now full) onto a 60GB Seagate IDE drive - ST360020A. After a bunch of failures at configuring the disk, I did some searching on the web and found some info on the drive geometry bug. I followed the directions I found there - essentially, go into my BIOS at boot time, write down the drive geometry that the BIOS thinks I have and then plug those numbers into FreeBSD fdisk at the beginning of installation. What happened: 1. FreeBSD complained that the drive geometry it was seeing was wrong, and was using its own best guess: 7297/255/63. 2. I hit G and edited the C/H/S to that which the BIOS reported: 28733/16/255. 3. I hit Enter; the installer said `Nope, you're wrong! I'm going to use my best guess instead!' No matter how many times I try to enter the info, it changes it back to whatever it thinks is more correct. I tried switching the head and sector info (trying 28733/255/16). but no joy. Is there a way to coax the installer into cooperating? Thanks - -- paz. I just recently ran into this problem myself. Just use FreeBSD's best guess and it will work fine. If you set the BIOS to LBA mode, you will find that matches FreeBSD's best guess. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I know if my internal PCI modem works on FreeBSD?
At about the time of 12/4/2005 7:46 PM, Foo Ji-Haw stated the following: Thanks for the good feedback. Is there a particular modem chipset which if it is spotted on the card, it is confirmed that it's more than a WinModem? There are various chipsets by both Lucent and Conextent (Formerly known as Rockwell). It seems that most of the hardware modems that I have come across use Conextent chipsets, but that can be hit and miss. Every Lucent one that I have seen is a Winmodem. 90 pecent of the time, if it's a PCI modem, then it's a Winmodem. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: schedule a script at system startup
At about the time of 12/3/2005 5:18 PM, Ian Lord stated the following: Hi, I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... is there a way to do it with cron ? or otherwise is there another way ? I guess there might be a way to put a script in /etc/rd.d/ but I don't know how to run it under a specifid uid Any help would be appreciated Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] @reboot username command The @reboot is a BSD extension. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I know if my internal PCI modem works on FreeBSD?
At about the time of 12/3/2005 7:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar stated the following: Basically, it all depends on how much you spent for the modem. A $15-20 modem is more than likely a WinModem (software modem) which FreeBSD does *NOT* support without a third party driver. If the modem cost $70-100, and it is recongized as a serial port by the sio driver, then it probably will work. externally connected modems (by serial) costs less than $100 anyway and do work for sure. many external modems does connect by USB port and can be cheaper, but check for hayes compatible label (or similar) as some USB modems are winmodems too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, some USB modems are winmodems now? I was not aware of that. Besides, who wants a USB modem anyways? I didn't mention the external modems because the OP was asking specifically about his internal PCI modem. A good internal PCI hardware (controller based) modem is the Zoom 2920. They run about $80 or so at Fry's...If you can find them. Or talk to Zoom directly at http://www.zoom.com. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I know if my internal PCI modem works on FreeBSD?
At about the time of 11/30/2005 10:50 PM, Foo Ji-Haw stated the following: Hello there, I'm thinking of plugging in a Motorola PCI modem into my FreeBSD box to act as a fax server (using HylaFax). I tried to look for documentation on the installation or support of such a modem on FreeBSD (Google, the Handbook), but found none. Can anyone point me in the right direction, or better still: tell me if my modem will work in FBSD 5.4? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please wrap your lines properly. Basically, it all depends on how much you spent for the modem. A $15-20 modem is more than likely a WinModem (software modem) which FreeBSD does *NOT* support without a third party driver. If the modem cost $70-100, and it is recongized as a serial port by the sio driver, then it probably will work. The reason why I threw the cost of the equipment into the mix was because the cheap modems don't have the controller, DSP, data pump, or other required hardware. All the functions of those components is emulated in the software of the host system. This is why that are known as software modems. A hardware modem costs much more, but it also has all the required hardware such as the controller, DSP, data pump, etc. so it can function independantly of the host system software. You can also generally tell by looking at the modem itself. Usually, if you see a chip that has what looks like version numbers on it, as well as one or more large square chips and lots of circutry, then you probably have a hardware modem. The best way is lookup the model number on the manufacturer's web site and see what it is. If it says it's only compatible with Windows, then more than likely it's a software modem. -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spash screen will not come up
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. The problem that I have is that the splash screen will not come up. I have made sure that the bmp is 256 colors. I have tried uncompressed and RLE compressed bmps. The RLE compressed versions worked in 4.x. I have also added the approperiate lines to /boot/loader.conf. It seems that ever since I upgraded to 5.x, I have not been able to get a splash screen. Upon further examination, I see this in the dmsg when the system boots: module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (splash_bmp, 0xc06e4810, 0) error 2 Any ideas as to why I am getting this error? /boot/loader.conf: strata:/home/dr2867 1026 $$$ -more /boot/loader.conf # Verbose output from loader # verbose_loading=YES # Set to YES for verbose loader output # Show Splash Graphic splash_bmp_load=YES # Set this to YES for bmp splash screen! bmp_load=YES # Load bitmap bitmap_name=/boot/splash.bmp # Set this to the name of the bmp or pcx file # Boot Menus and Delay autoboot_delay=5 # Delay in seconds before autobooting beastie_disable=NO# Turn the beastie boot menu on and off # Panic crashdumps go here dumpdev=ad0s1b# Set swap device for crash dumps -- Daniel Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spash screen will not come up
--- David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/05, Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. The problem that I have is that the splash screen will not come up. I have made sure that the bmp is 256 colors. I have tried uncompressed and RLE compressed bmps. The RLE compressed versions worked in 4.x. I have also added the approperiate lines to /boot/loader.conf. It seems that ever since I upgraded to 5.x, I have not been able to get a splash screen. Upon further examination, I see this in the dmsg when the system boots: module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (splash_bmp, 0xc06e4810, 0) error 2 I believe error 2 in this context means No such file or directory. Maybe it's expecting the bmp to be somewhere else? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's interesting because I have specified the absolute path of the bitmap file in /boot/loader.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot
Somewhere around the time of 12/02/2003 00:12, the world stopped and listened as Rob contributed this to humanity: I haven't used ppp(8) - I prefer pppd(8) - so I'm not familiar with ppp.linkdown.sh. If this is a shell script, there's a couple of things that I've seen cause strange script behaviour: lack of default environment and lack of TTY. This usually shows up in scripts that work fine at the command line, but fail under other circumstances (such as crontabs). Does it take more than 2 minutes at the command line? Have you tried adding set -x at the start to see where it's failing? If it's called by rc.shutdown the output should be to the console, but I'm not sure what ppp(8) does with script output. The script is called by ppp on a link down event. That is a link down for ANY reason, including a shutdown. The problem is that ppp doesn't differentiate on why the link went down, just that it went down. Now, when rc.shutdown executes, it writes a stop file to /tmp that ppp.linkdown.sh checks for. If it finds that file, then I have it do something alittle different. Does it take long to execute? Nope, it runs quite fast, which may be part of the problem. Because this is called from ppp and not rc.shutdown, init is killing it before it finishes because init thinks that it is not part of the system shutdown sequence. -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Controlling init on shutdown/reboot
Hello, How does one allocate more time for /etc/rc.shutdown? It seems that some of my scripts are not being executed when the system shuts down or reboots. -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot
Somewhere around the time of 12/01/2003 03:32, the world stopped and listened as Rob contributed this to humanity: From line 99 of /usr/src/sbin/init/init.c, #define DEATH_SCRIPT 120 /* wait for 2min for /etc/rc.shutdown */ and on line 1576 it looks like you can change this with the sysctl 'kern.shutdown_timeout'. But 2 minutes is a long time for a shell script - are you sure that everything is working correctly? The problem is that a ppp.linkdown.sh script needs to do something and it's not doing it. Works fine if I execute the script normally from the command line though using the approperiate parameters that ppp would send it. It seems that init is killing the script before the script can finish, which is the problem. BTW, that oid, kern.shutdown_timeout does not exist. I'm running 4.9-RELEASE. - Original Message - From: Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot Hello, How does one allocate more time for /etc/rc.shutdown? It seems that some of my scripts are not being executed when the system shuts down or reboots. -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP modem init string
Hello, How do I get PPP to send an init string to my modem? I'm using different PPP profiles in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, and each one has a different requirement for the configuration of the modem such as outbound ISP and incoming. Thanks. -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP modem init string
Somewhere around the time of 09/24/2003 12:31, the world stopped and listened as fbsd_user contributed this to humanity: The (set dial) option sends Hayes 'AT' commands to the modem only for dial out. Totally different situation for dial in to FBSD. In that case you have to use the Hayes 'AT' commands to setup and save your modem configuration in the modem's nvram. You have to tell the modem to go into answer mode when the modem is powered on. That's the only way to get it to pick up the inbound call. Check the questions archives, this question has been answered many times before and there are detailed instructions on how to setup you modem and PPP to do this. Search for key works 'PPP dial in' or 'FBSD answering modem' or 'inbound calls' -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Rudy Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PPP modem init string Hello, How do I get PPP to send an init string to my modem? I'm using different PPP profiles in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, and each one has a different requirement for the configuration of the modem such as outbound ISP and incoming. Thanks. -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that the mail archive search engine is broken. No matter what I try for a search query, it never finds anything. -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding your dynamic external IP
Somewhere around the time of 08/03/2003 15:13, the world stopped and
listened as David S. Jackson spoke these words of wisdom...:
If your external IP number changes, as with DHCP, is there a way
to find out what it currently is? I was thinking you could keep
BitchX logged into a chat channel and script a /dns yournick and
email yourself the results from time to time.
How would you do it?
If you know what interface you are running on, then you can do this to
get the IP address:
ifconfig interface | head -2 | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}'
to get the IP address. Then if you want to mail it to yourself, then
you can do the following:
/usr/bin/printf Current IP address: `ifconfig interface | head -2 |
tail -1 | awk '{print $2}'`\n | /usr/bin/mail -s IP Address
Assignment root
To update your Dynamic DNS, use the following:
ddclient -use=if -if=interface
This will run ddclient in daemon mode so that anytime the IP address
changes on interface it will update the DDNS provider's servers.
--
Daniel Rudy
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