Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
Zach Leslie xaque...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.fossil-scm.org/ l I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its web gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well. I would argue that git bails on that as well, but that's a different discussion. Whether or not fossil does one thing depends on which one thing you pick. If the one thing is version control, you're right. However version control is just one aspect of a larger task that does't have a common name. But if you look at systems designed for managing projects with source, you'll see they universally provide web uis, issue trackers, and wikis. Due you trash IDE's because they provide tools that are useful for doing software development instead of limiting themselves to being text editors? That fossil provides all of those things in a single relatively small program is a major win - at least for small projects (which is the fossil target). On the other hand, the fossil project does stay focused on the core task. They will reject a change proposal because it's not part of that task. That said, much as I like fossil (it's my goto VCS) I don't think it would be a good choice for FreeBSD. We're not a small project - we have people who are willing to devote time to things like an external wiki and isse tracker. Nuts, we have (had?) repos in four different VCSs! Those features in fossil are purposely kept simple since they're meant for doing one thing, not as general-purpose tools for lots of things. The issue tracker doesn't support branching issues, which is liable to cause problems in a large project. The FreeBSD wiki's are used for lots of things other than just project documents. The web ui - well, that's probably useable as is. But that one thing isn't a deal maker. -- Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my swyping. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problems mounting nfs from freebsd to Mac.
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:58:21 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Sep 25 03:29:33 2010 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:01:18 -0400 From: Mike Meyer mike.w.me...@gmail.com To: questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Problems mounting nfs from freebsd to Mac. I've got an nfs server that's refusing to mount one client - via one route - and it's driving me crazy. First question, are you _SURE_ that it's a server-side problem? I under- stand that things are failing in one situation and not others, but there are about -five- possible causations, only one of which is a server-side NFS configuration. No, I'm not sure. The question is more what server tools can I use figure out what's wrong than how do I fix the server. That the FreeBSD community is the most helpful one involved might have some bearing on which question I chose to ask here. As far as I know, there are only three reasons for an NFS server to refuse a mount request: 1) The exports file is borked somehow, 2) The server insists that the client use a privileged port, or 3) The IP address the request is coming from is disallowed. There _are_ others, depending on how access controls are specified in the exports file. Those are pretty much what I meant by the exports file is borked somehow. The file systems are all zfs, all exported by zfs, and mostly all inherited from the parent file system. For the record, that's: /export -maproot 0 -network 192.xx.yy.0/25 #1 isn't it - the file systems mount fine on other boxes. And they mount fine on the problem box via Wifi. #2 shouldn't be it - I'm running the server with -n turned on, and the mount works via wifi. #3 seems logical, but I only have one network enabled, and it's a *.0/25. The working addresses include .96, and .106, while the failing address is .105. So I'm not sure what's going on here. Running mountd with a -d flag generates no output at all when the request is denied. This makes me think I'm not looking in the right place. First thing, what does 'showmount -a', run on the misbehaving client show? And are there differences, depending on being on the wired vs wireless link? Just All mounts on localhost: and then an empty list, whether they are mounted or not. Check how the client resolves the server hostname on both the wireless and wired links. It's the same. That's expected - the WRT610N is providing both dns dhcp services, and they both resolve through it. make sure the _server_ name (in the form used in the nfs mount) is resolving in the same way -- to the same address -- when the client is on thee wireless and wired links. (an 'unqualified' hostname, and a lack of a default domain in the wired setup _could_ cause what you are seeing. Yup, both connections resolve to the same address. Yes, I use an unqualified hostname, but the dhcp server provides a default domain. Check to make sure you've got network connectivity both ways on both the wired and wireless links. Does traceroute work in both directions on both links? does it show the _same_names_? Yes, and yes. You've say you've got a WRT610N in the middle of things. Is it actually playing _router_ on all ports, or switch/hub on the lan side with routing on the external interface. The latter, and it's bridging the wireless network into the LAN side as well. If it's actually -routing- on all ports, check _both_ the client and server routing tables to make sure they're pointing in the right plac, when the client is connected on both paths. Also double-check the router itself for any access-control and/or filtering rules. Those all look right to me. In particular, the client routing tables are identical (module different interface names ip addresses) when it's on the wireless and wired connection. If nothing has shown up so far, an obvious next step is to look at the data 'on the wire' between the machines. e.g., tcpdump/etherfind/netshark etc. I was hoping for something a little bit higher level than that, but I guess that's what's next. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Problems mounting nfs from freebsd to Mac.
I've got an nfs server that's refusing to mount one client - via one route - and it's driving me crazy. The server is running 8.1-RELEASE, exporting a collection of zfs file systems. All the file systems are exported with the exact same flags. The clients are either FreeBSD or OSX boxes. Most of them work fine. One OSX box - updated to the latest snow leopard while trying to fix this - gets permission denied when it tries to mount the interesting fie systems. But only when using it's wired connection. If it connects via wifi to the same router (a cisco WRT610N running dd-wrt) everything works fine. As far as I know, there are only three reasons for an NFS server to refuse a mount request: 1) The exports file is borked somehow, 2) The server insists that the client use a privileged port, or 3) The IP address the request is coming from is disallowed. #1 isn't it - the file systems mount fine on other boxes. And they mount fine on the problem box via Wifi. #2 shouldn't be it - I'm running the server with -n turned on, and the mount works via wifi. #3 seems logical, but I only have one network enabled, and it's a *.0/25. The working addresses include .96, and .106, while the failing address is .105. So I'm not sure what's going on here. Running mountd with a -d flag generates no output at all when the request is denied. This makes me think I'm not looking in the right place. Relevant entries from rc.conf (nothing really fancy): nfs_server_enable=yes nfs_server_flags=-u -t -n 4 -h $MY_IP mountd_enable=yes mountd_flags=-r -n -h $MY_IP rpcbind_enable=YES rpcbind_flags=-h $MY_IP rpc_lockd_enable=YES rpc_lockd_flags=-h $MY_IP rpc_statd_enable=YES rpc_statd_flags=-h $MY_IP So, questions: if mountd isn't the issue (though it's issuing the denied messages), what is? Is there some reason I've overlooked for the permissions to be denied? Anything I can do to get more information out of mountd (or whatever is causing the problem)? Any other things I might try? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: weird restarts when compiling
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:09:09 +0300
Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all the list, i 've been using FreeBSD for almost a month ,and i
have this weird problem. Sometimes when i try to compile a program the
computer will hard-reset itself, like someone pulled of the plug...
For example yesterday i was trying to install jdk1.6 + eclipse, and
while i was compiling eclipse {more precisely -if i remember
correctly- the diablo-jdk needed for eclipse} the computer rebooted
itself.
The load of the computer was: 2-3xterms, 1 Konversation irc client
,several opera9.51 windows, 1-2 konqueror windows, and 1-2 Firefox
widows. I have a dual core box with 2GB of memory and i use freebsd7
32bit. The computer was online for 8hours with almost the same load
{minus the compilation-procedure}.
* Has anyone had problems like this?
Yes. It's always turned out to be flaky hardware for me.
* What can i do to investigate a bit more what was the situation
before the restart?
Look through /var/log/messages.
* Is there anyway to solve this problem.
Well, you really can't solve it, so much as troubleshoot it. Make up
a list of possible causes, and then start checking each possible
cause. You haven't given any real information about the system or the
problem, so we can't eliminate anything. My top suspects would be the
PSU (old or inadequate) and CPU (overheating or overclocked). Memory
and the I/O subsystem would be next, but they tend to cause
random process failure rather than system shutdowns when they go
flaky, so I'd try them last.
mike
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Re: network/multithreaded programming on FreeBSD
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:25:06 +0200 Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael S wrote: Good day all, I am not sure this is the correct list for my question, I am still going to ask though. I am a 3rd year computer science student and in the fall I am going to be taking courses in network and system programming (with pthread). As a lot of universities do, mine also teaches these courses on Linux. I was wondering if there was a lot of difference in socket and multi-threaded programming between Linux and FreeBSD? Thanks in advance, Michael Hi Michael, I think @hackers might be better place to ask programming questions (added to CC). It certainly liable to get a better answer, because it has a higher density of programmers hanging out there. I'm not sure it's a better place to ask programming questions, as it's meant for discussing the development of FreeBSD, as opposed to development on FreeBSD. On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be a list for the latter on the list of freebsd mail lists. The answer depends on what your goal is. If you want to write portable code, both strive to be Posix systems, so if you follow the Posix guidelines, you'll be ok. Since I develop on several different Unix platforms including FreeBSD for clients running GNU/Linux (among other things), that's what I do, and it generally works. However, if you start straying outside Posix, you'll find differences. My experience is that Linux tends to be missing features, but more lenient about transgressions of the standard, than FreeBSD. On the other hand, my sample set is sufficiently small that this may not be a good indication of what it's like for others. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: For instance, is rebuilding world between point releases (e.g. 5.4 to 5.5) an okay idea, compared to across major releases (e.g. 5.5 to 6.2)? For the record, I do a rebuild between point releases - actually, I track -stable on those systems, but do the wipe reinstall across major releases. I run a number of FreeBSD servers and what I do is simply keep them patched with security updates. Every once in a while a security hole will be discovered in a non-core program and if it's serious enough I'll go into the port and do a make deinstall followed by downloading and compiling the program the old fashioned way I shoot for a min of 3 years on the OS before even thinking about updating, and when it's time to update the hardware has generally reached the old rag stage anyway. This works great for servers, that don't have any real users on them, and is pretty much how I do things. I'll try updating the ports tree and installing from that rather than building the old fashioned way, because that works a surprising percentage of the time. On desktop and development systems, the users tend to get pissed if I let things get that old. So I do upgrade them more often. There are a couple of things you can do to make reinstalling to a clean disk a bit less painfull. 1) Intelligent file system layout. I put all the things that aren't installed from the FreeBSD disks on their own partitions (/home and /local). I can then wipe and reinstall /, /var and /usr without clobbering the non-system data. 2) Mirrored disks. Disks for consumer systems are cheap. Throwing a second one in a system and mirroring the system disk is a cheap way to improve the reliability of the system. When it's time to upgrade, take a drive out of the mirror, and install to that drive. You can reboot to the old system if you need to interrupt the process and run the old system for some reason. With a file system layout as per #1, you can even mount the users files under both versions of the OS. When you're happy with the new system, mirror the new system drive to the old one. Neither of these is an excuse for not backing up your data before you start the process. Given the above, the backups are for disaster recovery, so you don't need full level 0 dumps, just up-to-date incrementals. So if you're running daily backups, this should be easy: drop into single user, and run an incremental since the last daily, which typically takes me a few minutes. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cy Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer writes: Generally, more processors means things will go faster until you run out of threads. However, if there's some shared resource that is the bottleneck for your load, and the resource doesn't support simultaneous access by all the cores, more cores can slow things down. Of course, it's not really that simple. Some shared resources can be managed so as to make things improve under most loads, even if they don't support simultaneous access. Generally speaking the performance increase is not linear. At some point there is no benefit to adding more processors. When some other resources becomes the bottleneck. Which resource depends on the workload. In some cases, adding processors will slow things down. To add another dimension to this discussion, hyperthreading uses spare cycles in a single processor to pretend there are two processors, increasing performance for some apps and reducing performance for other apps. I think hyperthreading gets a bad rap. It shares lots of resources - like the computing units - so there are lots of workloads that cause things to get worse when you add a processor. But the general case should still be that it gets faster. Generally speaking, dual core is an inexpensive way to get SMP into the hands of people who could not normally afford SMP technology as it was. Gee, I thought it was a reaction to losing the clock rate war. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Nicole Harrington wrote: Using FreeBSD, what is really the difference, besides power and ability to shove in more memory, between having the two seperate CPUS's? Dual core or Quad Core CPUs performance are far better compared to more socket CPUs since they get shared access to memory cache and reduce memory latency/probing over AMDs hypertransport bus. Of course, it's not really that simple. For one thing, the intel quad core CPUS are two dual core chips in one package, and the two chips don't share internal resources - like cache. So any data in cache is only available to two of the four cpus; if the one of the other two cpus needs that data it'll have to go to the external bus. The AMD quad core package is similar - except they don't put the two chips in the same package, but provide a proprietary high-speed interconnect between them. Also, shared access to the memory cache means - well shared access to the memory cache and the memory behind it. Shared access raises the possibility of contention, which will slow things down. If all four CPUs get a cache miss for different data at the same time, one of them is in for a long wait. Yeah, this isn't very likely under most loads. How likely is it under yours? Generally, more processors means things will go faster until you run out of threads. However, if there's some shared resource that is the bottleneck for your load, and the resource doesn't support simultaneous access by all the cores, more cores can slow things down. Of course, it's not really that simple. Some shared resources can be managed so as to make things improve under most loads, even if they don't support simultaneous access. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'd say this is a mistake. You should probably install the fpc port in /usr/ports/lang/fpc. There may be reasons to install your own version instead of a port, but you haven't presented any. As per the Lazarus docs/INSTALL, compiling Lazarus requires the FPC source tree, A binary install of FPC won't do. It's *really* unusual for a port to install a binary tarball if the source is available. Most ports that install binaries are for commercial products for which source isn't available. Again, you should probably have used the ports version, in editors/fpc-ide. That's the text-mode IDE, not the GUI one, called Lazarus. That port doesn't say very much about what it is, other than it's an fpc-ide. Sorry for the mistake. So, all that is needed is to apply the patches I mentioned in my OP, get the proper gdk-pixbuf installed from ports, and it is as good as gold. Now, how can I create a port for Lazarus, now that I have it compiled and running? You'll probably want to start by creating an fpc port that builds from source. A lazarus port could fetch the source files itself and use them, but if I were using them, I'd like to know that the fpc I was using was built from the sources the ide used. A port is basically a Makefile plus at least some text files. The ports tree includes a lot of make machinery to fetch/extract/patch/build/etc. based on that. See the porters handbook at URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html for details. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I have been involved in a parallel discussion on the fpc-devel list, and have discovered a few facts which will impact the manufacture of a freepascal Lazarus port. In fact, what I have learned will impact the usability of FPC on freepascal itself. The problem which initiated this thread was the wrong naming of some libraries. Well, it turns out that this renaming was done mid-stream by the freebsd development team, and not by the freepascal folks. It seems that from freebsd 6.0 to freebsd 6.1 (the one I am using) library names were arbitrarily changed. The ones I ran into were libgdk, libgtk, and libglib. In all previous versions (prior to 6.1) of freebsd, the lib versions 1.2 were named libgdk12, libgtk12, and libglib12 they were changed in 6.1 to libgdk-12, libgtk-12, and libglib-12 respectively. I wonder how many more library names were changed? This is a real blow to any third party software developer, who's software will likely start to bomb on freebsd6.1, where it ran just fine on 6.0 I can't help with this. I have no idea why it was done - it certainly wasn't discussed on -hackers. BIG problem! If I compile a program on my 6.1 system, which makes any dynamic calls to these libraries (and possibly others as yet unknown), that executable will ONLY run on freebsd 6.1, and bomb on all prior versions. My fix of patching the freepascal 2.0.2, or your method of sym-linking, while fixing the local problem of compiling Lazarus, breaks all portability to previous freebsd installs. This is a bad thing the freebsd folks have done! Well, one solution is to distribute sources - which works especially well if you provide a port. See below for more on that. If you want to distribute binaries, you could simply include the correct libraries in your tarball, and only install them if they aren't installed. There are some dirty work-arounds, and according to the fpc developers, they will be implementing some new tools to deal with this in fpc-2.0.4, who's rc2 has just been released. I can see making these kinds of changes from a 5.x version to a 6.x version, as bad as even that would be, but to make such a change from within the 6.x branch is pretty inconsiderate IMHO. Given the above, it would be senseless to create a port of lazarus, which would require a port of the patched fpc sources, (as a dependency), and then have a development system which was tied to a particular version of freebsd. No, it's not senseless. You can *ask* the various libraries what they need, by runnig gdk-pixbuf-config --libs, for example. However, you shouldn't need to do that. Adding something like USE_GNOME=gdkpixbuf to your port Makefile will cause the Makefile to add all the appropriate dependencies to CFLAGS. Except you may not use CFLAGS, and may have to go back to gdk-pixbuf-config to get the data you need. You may even need to tweak the output to make it accpetable to fpc. Basically, this change is only really painfull if you want to distribute binaries. In that case, you could, as mentioned above,distribute binaries of the libraries as well. Or you could not support anything prior to 6.1 (actually, that's not correct - my 5.5 system has the new library naming). Or - since this change is in the ports system, not FreeBSD proper, and the ports tree can be updated independently of the base system, require that 6.0 users update their ports tree and the libraries in question. Please note, I'm not trying to defend or justify this change - you pointing it out is the first I'd heard of it. I'm just trying to point out some ways you can deal with it. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LinkLib Issues In freebsd Lazarus
This is really more appropriate for -questions, so I've redirected it
there.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Hi Folks:
I believe this is a hacker issue, at least any possible solution is.
I recently moved from Linux to FreeBSD as my primary work environment.
My development system of choice is FreePascal. I installed FPC-2.0.2
from the official FreePascal distribution tar ball
I'd say this is a mistake. You should probably install the fpc port in
/usr/ports/lang/fpc. There may be reasons to install your own version
instead of a port, but you haven't presented any.
My next step was to install Lazarus, the FPC IDE, and here is where I
have run into troubles.
Again, you should probably have used the ports version, in
editors/fpc-ide.
A tar-ball install ran well until Lazarus was being Linked. The errors were:
the following libraries were not found by ld: glib12, gdk12, and gtk12.
Where did you get these from? And what versions are they?
a grep -r in the FPC-2.0.2 source tree revealed the problems, in every
case of:
packages/extra/ glib, gtk, and gdk the linklib statements were wrong thus:
{$ifdef FreeBSD}
gtkdll='gtk12';
{$linklib gtk12}
So, I created a patch to fix the above constructs to:
{$ifdef FreeBSD}
gtkdll='gtk-12';
{$linklib gtk-12}
For all three libraries; since freebsd names these libraries with a -
I recompiled and reinstalled FPC-2.0.2 with the patches applied,
re-tested the compiler; all OK!
I went back to the Lazarus source tree gmake clean; gmake and received
the following error:
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.2 [2006/07/14] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2005 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: FreeBSD/ELF for i386
Compiling lazarus.pp
Linking ../lazarus
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdk_pixbuf
lazarus.pp(113,1) Error: Error while linking
a locate gdk_pixbuf finds: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0
So, at this point I just sym-linked my libgdk_pixbuf-2.0 to
libgdk_pixbuf: ln -s libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.a libgdk_pixbuf.a
This is almost certainly a mistake, as a major version number change
indicates that the interface changed.
and ran gmake again, only to produce:
Linking ../lazarus
/usr/home/bob/lazarus/lcl/units/i386-freebsd/gtk/gtkint.o(.text+0x6f65):
In function `DATASOURCEINITIALIZE':
gtkobject.inc:2309: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable'
Many many more undefined reference to something missing in gdk_pixbuf.
Well, yeah - you're linking against *the wrong library*. My system has
a /usr/X11R6/lib/libgdk_pixbuf.a, installed from the
graphics/gdk-pixbuf port. That does have the function you're looking
for.
so: freebsd's stock-installed gdk_pixbuf does not contain the functions
needed!
No, FreeBSD's stock-installed gdk_pixbuf-2.0 does not contain the
functions you need from gdk_pixbuf. This should not be surprising.
So, I went to ports and found ruby18-gdk_pixbuf2-0.14.1 a make
install provided gdk_pixbuf2.so but no gdk_pixbuf2.a !! I find it
odd that no provision is provided to link to this lib!
Again, you *don't want* gdk_pixbuf2. And that port doesn't provide
gdk_pixbuf2, but almost certainly requires it, so it'll install the
port to provide that library if it isn't there. But that doesn't help
you at all.
Funny! I moved away from Linux mainly because of Library-Hell issues :-)
Shared library versioning hell is platform-independent. In general,
FreeBSD's port/package system is older than Linux package
managers. This means they got to learn from it, and are in some ways
better. On the other hand, it also means that the freebsd ports system
has features that those systems may not have yet.
In particular, you can use the sysutils/portupdate port to update
ports, and it will move old versions of shared librarys out of the way
so they don't confuse new builds, but will still be found by older
packages that depend on them.
You can also use the sysutils/portsearch port to find files that the
ports will install for you.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. I seem to have run
out of things to try here. Surely someone has successfully compiled
Lazarus on freebsd
I'd install the fpc and fpc-ide ports. If you want to continue the way
you started, delete your bogus symlink, and install the
graphics/gdk-pixbuf port to get the library you need.
mike
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Re: What's up with 6.1 and ATA????
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:05:54PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Um, someone want to tell me what happened to the ATA drivers in 6.1-RELEASE? I tried to upgrade my desktop box from 5.4 to 6.1-RELEASE, only to have the CDROM fail to find the SATA drive. I wind up upgrading to 5-STABLE from CVS instead, which works fine. Today, I tried upgrading an old appliance from 4.X to 6.1. Same thing - the 6.1 CDROM boots, then fails to find the drive. Have the ATA drivers been mangled in some way? Or is this a problem with the CDROM, and if I install 5.X and then upgrade via CVS to 6.1, it'll work? I know you're upset, but try to avoid being emotional when reporting bugs. Actually, I'm not upset, as nothing critical is busted. I'm just a little frustrated - two failed installs in one day does that to me. I'm sorry you felt I was being emotional. I certainy wasn't feeling that way, and rereading what you quoted makes me wonder what caused you to think that I was. But I apologize for whatever gave you that impression in any case. You also forgot to give any details of your hardware, which is surely the most important fact. Yup. I was trying to find out if I was just plain unlucky enough to see a double failure, or if there was a general problem with ATA in 6.1, similar to the one that showed up with 5.2. I haven't done anything with the box that's now running 5.5-PRERELEASE. That upgrade fixed the problem I was having, so upgrading it is on hold while I figure out what's wrong with the other system. Here's the dmesg from it: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE #14: Tue May 16 15:42:03 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/BHUDA Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2992.70-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 536543232 (511 MB) avail memory = 515473408 (491 MB) ACPI APIC Table: A M I OEMAPIC ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: A M I OEMRSDT on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: SiS 964 UDMA133 controller port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 2.5 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 pcm0: SiS 7012 port 0xec00-0xec7f,0xe800-0xe8ff irq 18 at device 2.7 on pci0 pcm0: Avance Logic ALC655 AC97 Codec ohci0: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xdfff8000-0xdfff8fff irq 20 at device 3.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci1: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xdfff9000-0xdfff9fff irq 21 at device 3.1 on pci0 usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci2: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xdfffa000-0xdfffafff irq 22 at device 3.2 on pci0 usb2: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb2: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 3.3 (no driver attached) atapci1: SiS 964 UDMA133 controller port 0xef90-0xef9f,0xefe0-0xefe3,0xefa8-0xefaf,0xefe4-0xefe7,0xeff0-0xeff7 irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci1 ata3: channel #1 on atapci1 ahc0: Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdfff7000-0xdfff7fff irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci0 aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.35 port 0xef00-0xef3f mem 0xdffa-0xdffb,0xdffc-0xdffd irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci0 em0: Ethernet address: 00:07:e9:0f:53:d0 rl0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX port 0xee00-0xeeff mem 0xdfff6c00-0xdfff6cff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on rl0 rlphy0: RealTek internal media interface on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
What's up with 6.1 and ATA????
Um, someone want to tell me what happened to the ATA drivers in 6.1-RELEASE? I tried to upgrade my desktop box from 5.4 to 6.1-RELEASE, only to have the CDROM fail to find the SATA drive. I wind up upgrading to 5-STABLE from CVS instead, which works fine. Today, I tried upgrading an old appliance from 4.X to 6.1. Same thing - the 6.1 CDROM boots, then fails to find the drive. Have the ATA drivers been mangled in some way? Or is this a problem with the CDROM, and if I install 5.X and then upgrade via CVS to 6.1, it'll work? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
video playback not working
I moved a bunch of mpegs (and other video formats) to a 5.4 box running on a P4 from a 5.3 box running on a Thunderbird of some flavor or another. On the 5.3 box, they worked just fine. On the 5.4 box, they don't display any video. Instead, they display a black and red checkerboard. I get the same behavior from xine and plaympeg, so I presume that there is some common library they use that is causing this problem, but the only video stuff that the two ports have in common according to make all-depends-list is X. Both systems running X.org. The 5.3 system had an old nvidea card in it (Diamond 550, I think). The 5.4 system has on-board SiS video. Searching google, the FreeBSD bugs database - for bugs with xine and plaympeg - and the FreeBSD web site all turned up nothing. I'm sort of at a loss as to how to go about debugging this problem. Any clues on things to try to figure out what's busted would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems building OO
I'm trying to build openoffice-1.1, setting WITHOUT_MOZILLA since I don't have (or want) mozilla installed. It's failing in the build process with: rm -f ../../unxfbsd.pro/bin/odk645/examples/OLE/delphi/InsertTables/SampleUI.dfm /dev/null tr -d \015 ../../examples/OLE/delphi/InsertTables/SampleUI.dfm ../../unxfbsd.pro/bin/odk645/examples/OLE/delphi/InsertTables/SampleUI.dfm tr: Illegal byte sequence dmake: Error code 1, while making '../../unxfbsd.pro/bin/odk645/examples/OLE/delphi/InsertTables/SampleUI.dfm' dmake: '../../unxfbsd.pro/bin/odk645/examples/OLE/delphi/InsertTables/SampleUI.dfm' removed. ---* RULES.MK *--- ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /adtmp/ports/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/odk/examples/OLE dmake: Error code 1, while making 'build_all' ---* TG_SLO.MK *--- *** Error code 255 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1. The real error seems to be an Illegal byte sequence while using tr to build unxfbsd.ptr. Can anyone spare a clue on what I need to do to get this to build? I know OO takes a lot of space to build. It used to say 5 gig in the makefile, but doesn't any more. I've got 5.9gig free on the partition that the build is happening on. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Finding a wireless lan card
I recently asked for help finding a wireless lan card. I got a couple of solid suggestions, some suggestions on buying a wireless ethernet bridge, and a wireless lan master list for Linux systems. Since my solution was none of the above, I wanted to post it so it would show up in the search engines. The Linux wireless lan master list was rather long, and turned out to be pretty useless. Some of the chipsets listed don't have FreeBSD drivers; some of the drivers FreeBSD has aren't on that list. Further, as others noted here, sonme some of the manufacturers rev chipsets - or even change chipsets completely(!) without changing the product identification. What I wound up doing was buying a Wireless Access Point from Linksys, which could be set to bridge mode. Turns out it only bridges to products from the same company. It does, however, have an AP client mode that doesn't have that restriction. That lets me survey the local wireless networks, chose one, and connect to it. Worked like a charm. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sudden need for a wireless card for 5.3
I suddenly find myself in need of a wireless card for a 5.3 desktop box. Anyone want to recommend something? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with command line scratch files in zsh
Since going to 5.x with devfd, I've noticed that some of the shell constructs used by zsh (and other shells - I know zsh didn't invent this) quit working. To wit: guru% wc (cat /etc/motd) wc: /dev/fd/11: open: No such file or directory The (...) construct runs the pipe in (), and replaces the (...) with the name of the /dev/fd/ entry for the output of that pipe. The file exists for the shell process doing all this. But when the comm process tries to open the file to read the data, the file doesn't exist. This is pretty nasty. Anyone got any suggestions on how to fix this? A bug report with a patch, maybe (I couldn't find any such bug report)? Workarounds? Maybe this should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with command line scratch files in zsh
[Format recovered from top posting.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 03:31 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Since going to 5.x with devfd, I've noticed that some of the shell constructs used by zsh (and other shells - I know zsh didn't invent this) quit working. To wit: guru% wc (cat /etc/motd) wc: /dev/fd/11: open: No such file or directory The (...) construct runs the pipe in (), and replaces the (...) with the name of the /dev/fd/ entry for the output of that pipe. The file exists for the shell process doing all this. But when the comm process tries to open the file to read the data, the file doesn't exist. This is pretty nasty. Anyone got any suggestions on how to fix this? A bug report with a patch, maybe (I couldn't find any such bug report)? Workarounds? Maybe this should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not just 'cat /etc/motd | wc' ? Because I used a trivial example designed to illustrate the problem. A less trivial example would be: comm -12 (sort file_one) (sort file_two) Of course, this can also be rewritten using temp files instead of pipes. But that will be longer, slower, and uglier. This worked on 4.X. It ought to work on 5.X. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with command line scratch files in zsh
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: * Mike Meyer wrote [2005-06-12 03:31 -0500] guru% wc (cat /etc/motd) wc: /dev/fd/11: open: No such file or directory Did you mount the fdescfs filesystem? I have this in my /etc/fstab: fdesc/dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0 That indeed was the problem. Such wasn't required for 4.X. I couldn't find anything about this searching the FreeBSD web site, or checking /usr/src/UPDATING. Maybe there's somewhere else I should have looked? If not, this change should be mentioned in one of those places. thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with command line scratch files in zsh
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In the last episode (Jun 12), Mike Meyer said: [Format recovered from top posting.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 03:31 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Since going to 5.x with devfd, I've noticed that some of the shell constructs used by zsh (and other shells - I know zsh didn't invent this) quit working. To wit: guru% wc (cat /etc/motd) wc: /dev/fd/11: open: No such file or directory The (...) construct runs the pipe in (), and replaces the (...) with the name of the /dev/fd/ entry for the output of that pipe. The file exists for the shell process doing all this. But when the comm process tries to open the file to read the data, the file doesn't exist. This is pretty nasty. Anyone got any suggestions on how to fix this? A bug report with a patch, maybe (I couldn't find any such bug report)? Workarounds? Maybe this should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not just 'cat /etc/motd | wc' ? Because I used a trivial example designed to illustrate the problem. A less trivial example would be: comm -12 (sort file_one) (sort file_two) Of course, this can also be rewritten using temp files instead of pipes. But that will be longer, slower, and uglier. This worked on 4.X. It ought to work on 5.X. If you want a tempfile, you should probably use the =() syntax, which will always use a tempfile. () and () will attempt to use /dev/fd. It probably worked on 4.* because 4.* creates 64 /dev/fd/* device nodes on install. If for some reason zsh had more than 64 files open already, it would have failed even on 4.*. But I don't want temp files, I want pipes. That's why I used (). mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with compat3x libraries.
Two problems, actually. Since these appear to be compressed shared object files, there's not much I can do to fix them. So I'm hoping someone here can enlighten me on how to deal with my issues, or point me at someone who can help. 1) libm doesn't exist in compat3x. I actually worked around this by installing compat4x, as the version from it seems to work. 2) getpwuid_r seems to no longer be in libc. In any case, the application in question worked fine with 3.x emulation on 4.x, but now complains about missing getpwuid_r on 5.3. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't compile kernel...
Ok, I'm an old hand at building BSD kernels. Been doing it since BSD 4.2, and FreeBSD 3.0. But the code for 5-STABLE fails to compile for me. I've tried 5.3 from the CD-ROM, RELENG_5_3_0, RELENG_5_3, and RELENG_5. They all fail to build with this error: cc -c -O -pipe -march=athlon -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../../.. -I../../../contrib/dev/acpica -I../../../contrib/altq -I../../../contrib/ipfilter -I../../../contrib/pf -I../../../contrib/dev/ath -I../../../contrib/dev/ath/freebsd -I../../../contrib/ngatm -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -fno-common -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -ffreestanding -Werror ../../../dev/fb/vga.c ../../../dev/fb/vga.c:1346: warning: 'filll_io' defined but not used ../../../dev/fb/vga.c:1336: warning: 'fill' defined but not used I've included [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the mail, as he was the last person to touch this file on those branches. I'll attach the kernel config file as that's almost certainly relevant. Any help in getting this kernel to build would be greatly appreciated. Thanx, mike GURU Description: config file -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release
I'm running 5.3-release, and seeing *very* strange behavior on startup. If I reboot the system, I get the following errors in /var/log/console.log: Dec 13 17:38:59 guru kernel: Starting sshd. Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: illegal option -- L Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -fsender ] [ -Fname ] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg ... ] I'm getting those errors because sendmail is set to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Since I'm running qmail, sendmail should be run *at all* at startup. The really strange thing is that if I shutdown and then restart the system, without a reboot, I don't see these error messages. I've traced this down to the sendmail_msp_queue_enable variable in /etc/rc.conf. If set to yes, that invokes sendmail with the -L option. There don't appear to be any currently filed bugs related to this issue, and google didn't turn up anything relevant. I'm running the GENERIC kernel. I've attached my /etc/rc.conf in case something there is pertinent. Any hints as to what would cause this - especially with the two different behaviors - would be greatly appreciated. Thankx, mike rc.conf Description: /etc/rc.conf -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cross-compiling Linux binaries
Anyone ever tried building Linux rpm's on freebsd? If so, any hints for someone thinking of trying it? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: to make or add a package
[Text formatting corrected.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm very impressed with the ports collection. [Pat jkh on the back, though it's a long reach from here.] I have found there are two was to install a port, through pkg_add or the make. I was wondering that if a port were a make, if the compiler would do any optimizations on the final executable, therefore giving me a faster/smaller/whatever application. Maybe there would be no significant difference. But, if I have the time to wait, is it worth it? You can set CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf, and those optimizations/machine types will be used at build time. Whether that makes a difference to you is up to you. You can also set build options to change the location where the executables live - though that tends to cause some ports to fail - or specify what parts of the package you do/don't want built. Personally, I always build from ports. If nothing else, having the source handy is worth a little extra time. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_upgrade ?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I do have cvsup installed, and can run cvsup to update my ports collection. My question is if I already have a package installed, running cvsup, the make install again for a preexisting port will mess up the pkg-data base right? Wrong. If you are installing a port a second time, make install will refuse to install the port because it's already installed. If you are installing an updated port, then the pkg-data will be in a different place because the port has a different name. The latter case may leave parts of the first port laying around unused, and deinstalling it will probably break the second port. So, if I only want to upgrade a single port, is the recommended way 1) pkg_deinstall 2) cvsup ports collection 3) pkg_install again (or make install) This seems rather poor as I don't want to have all the downtime between deinstalling and installing again. Try this: 1) cvsup ports collection 2) make 3) pkg_deinstall 4) make install If I cvsup ports and then make install, is there a fix to update the pkg data base? It's not needed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_upgrade ?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Of course, this method does not work if there are any packages/ports depending on the port you are upggrading. The pkg_deinstall will fail because of the dependencies. I believe a pkg_deinstall -f will forcibly remove the package anyway. Unfortunately, I still sometimes find the dependent ports need to be recompiled for the new version of the port you are installing. Yup. That's what portupgrade is for. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: As to the issue of BIOSes disliking DD modes, there have been a few different reasons suggested. I had a dual xeon BIOS that had anti-virus code. If the boot block didn't have the write MBR on it, it rewrote the first 63 sectors, clobbering my DD (type B) disklabel. It could be turned off in the BIOS, but caused me (not the kernel) to panic the first time it happened. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike, I'll pay back your effort in replying to this long thing by working up a patch for the disklabel manpage (at least) and, if you want, I'll CC you so you can veto things you don't like. I do worry (B) Dedicated format created by sysinstall start of slice 1 start of 'a' partition sector 0: boot1 and the DOS slice table, where the slice table contains one slice (slice 1) covering the entire disk, including sector 0. sector 1: disklabel sector 2-15:boot2 sectors 16-31: 'a' partition filesystem superblock In this case, there is no boot0, and boot1 serves as the boot loader that is invoked by the BIOS. Here, all of the boot code is contained within the first slice and also within the first partition. Again, the 8k reserved at the start of every ffs filesystem protects the boot code. Sysinstall sets up fstab to refer to the partitions as e.g. /dev/ad0s1a (I think). This can also be referred to as /dev/ad0a, like your C case. I personally prefer that because it lets you know that the disk is DD. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message marking of same
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], DH [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm reposting this because I've not rec'd a response from the freebsd-fs mailing list yet and I need an answer fairly quickly. Thanks be any who can help out! The correct place to send this is freebsd-questions. I've added that to the list, and pointed replies there as well. I've begun rec'ing these error messages: ad0s1a: hard error reading fsbn 141935 of 70848 - 71103 (ad0s1 bn 141935; cn 8 tn 212 sn 59 ) status=59 error=40 Got about 7 of these with varying values. I ran Seagate's diag utility and it reported only 1 bad sector (# 71099 ). Unfortunately ad0s1a happens to my / dir so allowing the utility to write zeros to that block hasn't sat well with me. Sooo - if some one could explain the exact meaning of my error message point me in the right direction to use these values to fix my disk problem I'd greatly appreciate it (with many many many thanks in advance :) ) Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. By the time you've got blocks going bad that the OS sees, the drive is in really sad shape. You should replace it with a new drive ASAP. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xpdf help
For some reason, xpdf (version 3.00, as installed on FreeBSD 4.9 by the ports system) can't find the Courier, Times, Helvetica and Symbol fonts that are built into it. Using xfontsel to try the selectors listed in xpdfrc finds the fonts just fine. Clues? Hints? Anything? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xpdf help
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:58:43AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: For some reason, xpdf (version 3.00, as installed on FreeBSD 4.9 by the ports system) can't find the Courier, Times, Helvetica and Symbol fonts that are built into it. Using xfontsel to try the selectors listed in xpdfrc finds the fonts just fine. Clues? Hints? Anything? You need to install ghostscript-gnu for the fonts. I've asked the maintainer to put a note into the port about this, but he's not listening.. Ghostscript-gnu is installed. Unfortunately, LOCALBASE is /usr/opt, and the port apparently doesn't change the default locations that it looks for fonts to include LOCALBASE/share/fonts. I fixed this problem - well, mostly - by adding a fontDir line top ~/.xpdfdir that points to a collection of commercial fonts that include the 14 base fonts. xpdf complains about not being able to find the fonts, but renders pages properly anyway. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No networking on 4.9-PRERELEASE
I updated (via source) to 4.9-prerelease. No, I *tried* to update to 4.9-prerelease as of Sep 13th. The problem is that networking seems to be failing in the 4.9-prerelease kernel. I build on one system and test on a second system, installing via nfs. Following the nsame steps I always follow to install a new kernel and world fails when I try and install the world running the new kernel, as the nfs mount never happens. Trying to ping the build system results in Host is down messages. I can ping localhost and the ip address of the test machine with no problems; those both use the loopback network. The interface that's failing is xl0. Does anyone have an xl that's working with 4.9-prerelease? How about anyone else having network problems with 4.9-prelease. A solution would be best of all, of course. Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Printer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I found the proper documentation at http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/hpijs/hpijs_readme.html. But when I tried to test it, I got an error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/konrad # enscript -p /etc/motd | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- -sDEVICE=ijs -sljsServer=hpijs -dljsUseOutputFD Are these right ^ ^ Do you really specify l and not i for the server and UseOutputFD? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: paths - a newbie question
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: After installing a port using pkg_add -r util, the only way I know to be able to type util at the command prompt to have it execute is either to reboot, or to make an alias for it by hand. Surely there's a better way. Is there a way to make the OS make a link auto-majically? Thanks. This is your shell, not the OS. Without knowing which shell you are using, I can't say for sure, but you might try the rehash command. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Re: [Directoryadmin-list] compile trouble
/local/include/glib12 -I/usr/local/include - -I/usr/X11R6 /include -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -c `test -f 'md5.c' || echo './'`md5.c source='users.c' object='users.o' libtool=no depfile='.deps/users.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/users.TPo' depmode=gcc3 /bin/bash ../depcomp gcc - -DHAVE_CONFIG_H - -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/X11R6/include/gnome-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include - -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/X11R6/lib/gnome-libs/include - -I/usr/local/include/glib12 -I/us r/local/include/orbit-1.0 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/gtk12 - -I/usr/X11R6/include/gtk12 -I/usr/local/include/glib12 -I/usr/local/include - -I/u sr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -c `test -f 'users.c' || echo './'`users.c users.c:30:19: crypt.h: No such file or directory users.c: In function `diradmin_user_set_password': users.c:357: warning: implicit declaration of function `mklmhash' users.c:358: warning: implicit declaration of function `to_hexstr' users.c:361: warning: implicit declaration of function `mknthash' users.c:370: warning: long int format, int arg (arg 4) users.c:370: warning: long int format, int arg (arg 4) users.c: In function `diradmin_user_new_from_ldap': users.c:491: warning: implicit declaration of function `diradmin_user_dump' users.c: At top level: users.c:699: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit declaration users.c:491: warning: previous implicit declaration of `diradmin_user_dump' users.c:699: warning: `diradmin_user_dump' was previously implicitly declared to return `int' users.c: In function `create_user_struct_from_dialogbox': users.c:1051: warning: long int format, int arg (arg 4) users.c:1051: warning: long int format, int arg (arg 4) *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/download/directory_administrator-1.3.5/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/download/directory_administrator-1.3.5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/download/directory_administrator-1.3.5. ~~ Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 123472 AIM/Y!: AHinMaine [full headers for details] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBPo8ZT1PEkLgodAWVAQElswP/ebTFa/jEJMfa14wyG8CLvd0LKcw8tfQl LUcJOmlibuhlHxLL3vLUA8DNlJQ9zg9zdg0mVIykyV98xRt0O4KwfzK0qGKUHukC ZIrh7bdMePZBoaxigC8RcwOw5T7+WNValdzWa62LAoptT/0+h/11blrM3zqQ/Leo PLSK4QJ81RU= =D/xe -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ___ Directoryadmin-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/directoryadmin-list - --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ___ Directoryadmin-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/directoryadmin-list - --End of forwarded message- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBPo810FPEkLgodAWVAQHSPAP8DZpRQR/fYZWkZYMUECelUc/sk92YlctW FIivhh4wWhCORRz4InOmgQmmURn31lvcnxX2vj8tbfpMjMetho2JzLvZ9AxVpklr y4rcwqiSrvJ/CthMWv3tgirqn/C6lfK2GeCROdNUKYIWAC5kGmIzdJTnWkLLqrVy Td9b6HvJMDY= =OCkg -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to list installed ports that have no dependant ports
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:20, Mike Meyer wrote: Since you want to delete them, why don't you just use pkg_delete on them. If they something depends on them, they won't be deleted. I do use pkg_delete, but the idea here is to effectively FIND the ports that have no ports dependent on them .. I've got 500+ installed ports to go through here .. Trying pkg_delete on all of them would take too long .. I need to narrow my search space considerably in order to do this effectively .. Here's a simple python script for you. You'll need python 2.2 if you haven't got it already. Feed it the output of pkg_info -a -R on standard in, and it'll output the package names of all packages that aren't required by other packages. Don't forget that you may have packages which are only required by packages that you don't want, so you need to iterate over the deletion process multiple times. mike find-unrequired-ports.py Description: Python program to find ports with no dependents. -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uninstalling dependencies
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: How can I uninstall all dependencies of a port? Install the portupgrade port, and use pkg_deinstall -r. Alternatively, # pkg_delete -f $(pkg_info -R portname | sed 1,/Required/d) should do the trick. But this doesn't handle dependencies of the dependencies. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to list installed ports that have no dependant ports
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: So, what I'd like to do is list all the ports installed on my box that have nothing dependant on them. In this way, I could start removing things that I don't need anymore. Is there any clever way to do this? I've toyed around with a few ideas, but haven't been able to come up with anything that works nicely. Since you want to delete them, why don't you just use pkg_delete on them. If they something depends on them, they won't be deleted. So the recommended methodology is: Put a sorted list of ports you know you want to keep in keeps. Generate a list of things to try and delete by (cd /var/db/pkg; ls | sort) | comm -23 - keeps | xargs pkg_delete and keep doing that as long as things are vanishing from /var/db/pkg. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Daily Run Output error
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Jon Reynolds wrote: I am getting this error in my daily run output: Mail in local queue: mailq: execing /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail: No such file or directory I have qmail installed and have done the 'make disable-sendmail' and the 'make enable-qmail' on the machine and it is working fine as a mail server. Anyone seen this before and have a fix for it? I think you will want to look at /etc/mail/mailer.conf In particular, you want a line like: mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread Alternatively, you can add daily_status_mailq_enable=NO to /etc/periodic.conf. You probably want to add daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO to /etc/periodic.conf in either case. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Read-only /usr/ports (problem with fontconfig)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cory Bajus [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Is a read-only /usr/ports directory supported? Yes, it is. You're supposed to be able to build ports off of a CDROM. I received the following error message during installation of x11-fonts/fontconfig (as part of a build of x11/XFree86-4): install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./fontconfig.pc /usr/X11R6/libdata/pkgconfig /fontconfig.pc gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/work/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontc onfig-2.1.92' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/work/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/work/fontc onfig-2.1.92' === Generating temporary packing list cannot create /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig/pkg-install: read-only file system *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. My /usr/ports directory is NFS mounted (read-only) from another system. I have the following entries in /etc/make.conf to allow multiple clients to share the same /usr/ports tree: WRKDIRPREFIX= /usr/work (local directory) DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles (NFS mounted read-write) Is it normal for a port to try to write into /usr/ports when WRKDIRPREFIX is defined like this? No, it isn't. I've been using a setup similar to yours for years, and have never had a problem. I could swear I saw a note in the porter's handbook that scratch files were supposed to be built in $(WRKDIR), which is in $(WRKDIRPREFIX). I'd contact the maintainer of the of the fontconfig port about this - it seems like it's touching something it shouldn't. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: #!sh grep and move files
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Bettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I am trying to find the best way to search through several thousand files and move some to a different directory. The files are all prefixed with LB. Like, LBX99.DAT141683. 1~TA~ (standing for timeand attendance labor transactions) I've tried #!/usr/bin/sh for x in `find /dir -type f -exec grep '1~TA' [] \;` do mv $x /newdir done Assuming there are few enough matching files that you don't run out of arguments, try: cd /dir; mv $(grep -lr 1-TA- .) /newdir will do the trick. If you have to man files for arguments, then you can use xargs: $ cd /dir $ grep -lr 1-TA- . | xargs -J % mv % /newdir mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Printer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Install enscript so you can generate postscript files. Then read the ijs documentation to figure out what flags to feed it to make produce output for your printer. You can test this by doing something like: Where can I find its documentation? I tried `man ijs` and `man -k ijs`, but got nothing. I'm not sure. Try pkg_info -L ghostscript\* to get a list of files, and look for a README or something on it. Alternatively, try googling for ijs documentation. Also, please leave freebsd-questions on the mail. Someone out there may have just found the ijs documentation, and would be able to tell you where it is. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Printer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Whichever one you want. They should all work. you probably don't need the x11 port, so one of the two -nox11 versions. One is licensed with GNU, one with an open source license that permits commercial reuse if you pay a licensing fee. Ok, I've installed both ghostscript and magicfilter. How should I proceed now? Install enscript so you can generate postscript files. Then read the ijs documentation to figure out what flags to feed it to make produce output for your printer. You can test this by doing something like: enscript -p - /etc/motd | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- [ijs options] /dev/ulpt0 If things are done right, you should get a copy of /etc/motd on the printer. After that, you need to set up a filter file and printcap. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I damaged a disklabel
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eduardo Viruena [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I just blew the label of my disk. I do not know how I did it but you know that we can make amazing things without even be aware of what we are doing. I have a paper on my desk where I write down the sizes of my partitions. Is there a way of fixing it? If you have the starting sector for each partition as well, you can fix it. You need to use disklabel to set those two numbers. See the disklabel man page for details. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata0-slave: ATA identify failed
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Florin Betivoiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello. I am a beginner with FreeBSD (I have 5.0 DP2) and I Two generic comments. First, that's an old version of a not-suitable-for-production system - see URL: http://www.mired.org:8080/5.0-not-production.html for more information. Updating to -current may help you. Second, please put newlines in your mail messages. It makes them easier to read in mailers that follow the standards. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rebuild one module
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi ! I was wondering if it was possible to just rebuild one module in FreeBSD. Indeed, I'm trying several patches on the emu10k1 module and each time I apply the patch I have to recompile all the kernel+modules to use the new module. I am sure there's a way to only compile the emu10k1 module, but I don't know how. Well, what are you doing now to build the kernel? You should be able to use the classic kernel build method, except you don't have to repeat any of the steps but make. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rebuild one module
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 20:23, Mike Meyer wrote: Well, what are you doing now to build the kernel? You should be able to use the classic kernel build method, except you don't have to repeat any of the steps but make. What I am doing is $ cd /usr/src $ make buildkernel KERNCONF=MY_CONF $ make installkernel KERNCONF=MY_CONF Then I reboot the machine. But I don't want to rebuild the kernel each time I change one line in the emu10k1... I want to be able to just rebuild the module itself. That's the way to rebuild new sources. Try: $ cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf $ config MY_CONF $ cd ../../compile/MY_CONF $ make depend $ make $ make install The first time, that will rebuild everything. From then on out, just do the last two make's to rebuild and install what changed. Actually, just make install may do the trick, but I'm not sure about that. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VNC and blackbox
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm trying vnc to excess my fbsd machine from a windows machine but I can only get X running twm with vnc, is there a way to get blackbox in vnc instead of twm? vnc runs the script ~/.vnc/xstartup to start the desktop. If it doesn't exist, you get an xterm in twm. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Printer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: What did you try sending to /dev/ulpt0 that caused things to lock up? Anything I tried caused the system to lock up. Here are some examples [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/konrad # lptest /dev/ulpt0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/konrad # ls /dev/ulpt0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/konrad # cat /etc/cvsupfile /dev/ulpt0 And how do I know whether my printer is a winprinter or not? The standard way is by sending it flat ascii text, and seeing if it prints that. If it prints the text you sent, it's not a winprinter. If it does nothing, or prints gibberish, it's probably a winprinter. So it means that my printer is a winprinter? Ok, I misinterpreted system locked up to mean your FreeBSD system froze. From the looks of things, that's not the case - the sending program just locks up. It's probably a winprinter. You can use those on FreeBSD if there's a driver for it for ghostscript. The ijs driver should support the 656C. From there, you can either install apsfilter - which will install an a2ps port to print ascii, or install magicfilter and then use your favorite ascii to postscript printing tool to print straight text. I prefer enscript for that. Either one will detect various graphics formats and automatically translate them to postscript to be printed via ghostscript. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Printer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: It's probably a winprinter. You can use those on FreeBSD if there's a driver for it for ghostscript. The ijs driver should support the 656C. There are 5 ghostscriptlike ports in /usr/ports/print: ghostscript-afpl-nox11, ghostscript-gnu-commfont, ghostscript-gnu, ghostscript-afpl and ghostscript-gnu-nox11. Whichever one you want. They should all work. you probably don't need the x11 port, so one of the two -nox11 versions. One is licensed with GNU, one with an open source license that permits commercial reuse if you pay a licensing fee. How did this -questions get dropped from this? I've put it back. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Printer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Konrad Scorciapino [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: How can I configure a USB Printer on FreeBSD? Actually I have a Deskjet 656c from HP and I've tried to send something to /dev/ulpt0, but the system simply locked up. if ulpt0 is showing up in dmesg, then you have the printer configured. What to do next depends on what you want to do with the printer - and whether or not the deskjet is a winprinter. ulpt0 is showing and it detects my printer type. Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ dmesg | grep ulpt0 ulpt0: HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 656C, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 2, iclass 7/1 What did you try sending to /dev/ulpt0 that caused things to lock up? I want to be able to print all popular kinds of files. How can I proceed? You need to install a printer filter program. The most popular one is apsfilter, because it handles all the details of the setup. The downside is that it's a honking big shell script that treats all printers as if they were winprinters. I prefer magicfilter, which is a C program that interprets filter files to control things, and will handle flat ascii or even PCL reasonably. The downside of it is that you have to set up your printcap and the filter file by hand. I'll be glad to help you with that if you want to go that way. Both magicfilter and apsfilter are available as ports. And how do I know whether my printer is a winprinter or not? The standard way is by sending it flat ascii text, and seeing if it prints that. If it prints the text you sent, it's not a winprinter. If it does nothing, or prints gibberish, it's probably a winprinter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamassassin tools
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-24 08:37:04 +0100: I installed the spamassassin port, but I believe somewhere there should be a tools directory for various utility programs. I can find no trace of it ? Anyone a clue ? Have you had a look in the ports plist? grep -v ^@ /var/db/pkg/portname/+CONTENTS pkg_info -L portname does the same thing. Using zsh you even get completikon of the portname against /var/db/pkg. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio question
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I am looking to capture audio input into a file (from a microphone). I looked through the ports but did see anything applicable. Is there a package available that I can use to capture audio input to a file that I can later output it? There are lots. audio/sox includes both play and rec commands. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I rescan the scsi-bus in freebsd?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eveline [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'd like to know how to rescan the scsi bus in FreeBSD 4.7. I have an external scsi harddisk that I only switch on when needed. I would like to be able to mount the hd as soon as I've switched it on, without having to reboot my FreeBSD machine. Camcontrol takes a rescan command. camcontrol rescan all is the simple way, but see the camcontrol man page for details on how to specify what to rescan. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: general email question
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], DJ Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I need help. I have done quite a bit of reading but it is all just beating around the bush.. or maybe I am missing something. I have one ISP POP3 account (maildrop) with 5 aliases. I need to collect all mail onto the local fbsd server mail server and sort it according to the To: field so LAN users can collect mail from that server. I also want users to be able to send mail to the LAN mail server and then the server has to relay that mail to the ISP's SMTP. all this has to be done over a Dial-up link. the dial-up is up and running OK. as far as I understand I need fetchmail, sendmail, procmail, and some mail server. am I right? Not quite. You don't need procmail, but it's handy to have around. You need a pop mail server. Sendmail will be your smtp mail server. could someone point me to the right documentation or examples on the internet OR if possible to explain to me what comes first and how all the above components (fetchmail, sendmail, etc) come together and possibly suggest what combination of software packages I should use. Personally, I don't use sendmail - it's massive overkill for job of being an smtp server. But it's very popular, already installed on FreeBSD, and you shouldn't have trouble getting help with it. Basically, the flow goes: mail arrives at your ISP's smtp server, which puts it where your POP server can get it. fetchmail picks up mail from the the pop server, and hands it to your local delivery agent. Procmail can do that for you, or Sendmail can do it. That needs to put the mail where your local POP mail server can find it. There are a lots of choices for that - just check out /usr/ports/mail/*pop*. I use qmail-pop3d, which comes in the qmail port, which is what I use instead of sendmail. Outbound is even simpler. Your users will tell their clients to deliver outgoing mail to your local SMTP server. Since you have(?) to use your ISP's SMTP server, you'll configure your sendmail to use that as a SMARTER_HOST. There were details on that here in the last couple of weeks. That will cause all outgoing mail to be sent to your ISP's SMTP server to be forwarded to the actual destination. I'd advise doing one direction at a time. Set up sendmail for local delivery by setting sendmail_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf. Check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for other sendmail flags you may want to set up. Then install the fetchmail port, and set that up to read mail from your ISP's POP server and deliver it to sendmail. Finally, choose a pop mail server and install that so you can read mail locally. If you have any questions about the individual steps, ask back here after you've checked the ports documentation and the handbook. Once that's done, all that's left is tweaking your sendmail config for to set the SMARTER_HOST stuff up. Check the archives of this list for information on how to do that. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Printer
In 200303301644.13393.Konrad Scorciapino , Konrad Scorciapino typed: How can I configure a USB Printer on FreeBSD? Actually I have a Deskjet 656c from HP and I've tried to send something to /dev/ulpt0, but the system simply locked up. if ulpt0 is showing up in dmesg, then you have the printer configured. What to do next depends on what you want to do with the printer - and whether or not the deskjet is a winprinter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching IDE controllers
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], kirt [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: i've checked the handbook, man pages, web, etc. for info regarding this and i'm still not entirely sure as to how i should go about it. Yes you are. i want to take ad4, which is where FreeBSD is installed and all of my main partitions are (/ , /var , /tmp , /usr , and the swap), and move it to the on-board controller. the other 3 drives are nothing but data for samba shares. i've gathered that i will have to change the mount points in /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive location (ad0), but past that i am unsure as to what all needs to be done to have the machine boot correctly. That should do it. You may have to tweak the BIOS boot settings so it boots from the new ad0. I don't have the hardware you do, so I can't check that. While you're adding new drives, I'd recommend adding a second swap partition. Letting the kernel interleave paging across two drives improves paging performance. If you're not paging, it doesn't matter. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts.alias / fonts.scale
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], /* jsha */ [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I've got a directory filled with Type1 fonts (.afm, .inf, .pfa, .pfb and .pfm accompanying each font release) which I'm trying to install on X11. However, in order to make mkfontdir work I seem to need a fonts.alias and/or fonts.scale in advance. See URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/x141.html for instructions on adding fonts to fonts.dir and fonts.scale. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wanna have a freebsd partition on extended partition
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Benjamin Groß [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: but every time - every, i try to compile openoffice from the ports (which needs up to 4gig space) my system crashes (FreeBSD 5-current - i know it's not stable...). so is there another way to use these 6 gig on the end of the extended partition, most likely with ufs/ufs2? Unmount it, newfs it, and then mount it. The Freebsd disk tools handle extended partitions just fine, with a couple of exception. You shouldn't have problems with the exceptions for your application. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'origin not recorded' error upon attempt to use pkg_add
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello! Upon attempts to use 'pkg_add' utility, I get a string of error messages such as the following: pkg_add: package wterm-6.2.7a1 has no origin recorded pkg_add: package wmtime-1.0b2 has no origin recorded [...] 2) Theories about what causes this condition. (Least important) That's easy - the packages are old enough that they didn't record their origin. 1) The methodology by which I can correct this error condition. (Most important) Installing newer versions of the packages is the obvious way. You can also go into /var/db/pkg/wterm-6.2.7a1/+CONTENTS and add a line that says @comment ORIGIN:x11/wterm after the @name line. There may be other magic required as well, but this worked for the one I did it to. What's odd is that this shouldn't make pkg_add fail. Is it possible that you're getting another error message in amongst these complaints? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: db2
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: is there a port for db2 for freebsd? make search key=db2 in /usr/ports turns up: Port: db-2.7.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/db2 Info: The Berkeley DB package, revision 2 mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows X as Partition name
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Siegbert Baude [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: With a maximum of four slices on PCs you can create up to 28 partitions, which should be sufficient for a disk. You can put FreeBSD partitions in extended slices, so the upper limit is significantly higher than 28. I once tried to use (in DOS-terms) logical partitions within an extended partition. This is possible, if you do the math and creation of partition tables by hand, but is not supported by the FreBSD tools. No, you don't need to do anything by hand. Just disklabel /dev/amr0s5 and so on, and create the partitions in it. I will note that on 5.0-RELEASE, the extended slice devices didn't get created for me. Of course, one has to wonder why anyone needs as many as seven partitions on a single disk. It's far more common to want to go the other way, and have multiple disks in a single partition. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows X as Partition name
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Siegbert Baude [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I once tried to use (in DOS-terms) logical partitions within an extended partition. This is possible, if you do the math and creation of partition tables by hand, but is not supported by the FreBSD tools. No, you don't need to do anything by hand. Just disklabel /dev/amr0s5 and so on, and create the partitions in it. I will note that on 5.0-RELEASE, the extended slice devices didn't get created for me. Yes, disklabel worked o.k., I talked about potential problems with (DOS-term) partition tables, aka slice tables. It's about two years ago, that I experimented with FBSD and extended/logical slices, but at least fdisk and /stand/sysinstall didn't support those then. Did this change? At the moment I don't have a spare system to experiment and check this myself. Ah, I understand you this time. The FreeBSD tools for manipulating slices don't grok extended slices. I forget what I used to do this - possibly Linux fdisk - but it wasn't the FreeBSD tools. The alternative on FreeBSD is to do the calculation by hand, as you said. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows X as Partition name
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Mike Meyer wrote: [..snip..] Of course, one has to wonder why anyone needs as many as seven partitions on a single disk. It's far more common to want to go the other way, and have multiple disks in a single partition. Separating the 350Gb up into smaller chunks makes dividing the space for different projects much easier. Also, this is a RAID 50, so I've got the multiple disk in a single partition taken care of. Different projects is what directories are for - unless there are reasons to have a space firewall between them. In general, the reasons for creating partitions these days are administrative. Otherwise, you're just creating things that will run out of space quicker than having one big one. Have you thought about dividing the disks up into different RAID devices to mimic your administrative needs? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to produce debugging symbols?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In the last episode (Mar 26), taxman said: On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:11 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: If it's your program, recompile and link with the -g commandline switch added. If it's a base FreeBSD program (or port), edit the Makefile and add a line reading DEBUG_FLAGS=-g (this will compile with -g and also no strip the debugging symbols when the binary gets installed). Does this work for the kernel? I'd read that the kernel strips symbols anyway. If i put makeoptions DEBUG=-g in my kernel config (as shown in LINT) will I still get the symbols? Thats for 4.x, what about 5.0 is that different? It still works in 5.0. What ends up happenning is a debugging kernel gets built as kernel.debug, but the stripped version is still installed into /boot/kernel/ (most likely to conserve space on /). When you panic and coredump, copy kernel.debug out of the source tree into /var/crash and use that to debug. That's the difficult way to do this. You can debug the core and kernel dumps in /sys/crash, and use the gdb symbol-file command to load the symbols from kernel.debug. This is all documented in the kernel debugging section of the developer's handbook link at URL: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html . mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Py22-Qt port problems...
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Akins [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm having a bit of a problem with the PyQT port...any help would be appreciated. First of all, the port itself doesn't download the correct files, because they don't seem to be available...PyQt-x11-gpl-3.4.tar.gz has been replaced by a newer version, PyQt-x11-gpl-3.5.tar.gz. Assuing that usingthe newer one might not be such a good idea, I searched the web and found a PyQt-x11-gpl-3.4.tar.gz on the Gentoo Linux distfiles site. When I installed it into /usr/ports/distfiles, the md5 passed and the install proceeded. Ok, you've got the right version of PyQT for the port. The question is, do you have the right version of Qt? QTabletEvent::QTabletEvent(const QTabletEvent ) sip/qevent.sip: In function `struct PyObject * sipSubClass_QEvent(const QEvent *)': sip/qevent.sip:504: `Tablet' is not a member of type `QEvent' sipqtQEvent.cpp: At top level: sipqtQEvent.cpp:378: `Tablet' is not a member of type `QEvent' *** Error code 1 I know the Qt library was updated recently, as the Qt port tracked that. From the looks of things, you're trying to install the a PyQt meant for the previous version of Qt, and that isn't working. Has anyone had any luck installing Py-QT from ports? Am I doing something incorrectly? Yes, I installed it from ports. However, that was using the old version of the Qt library. Trying to build it with the new version of the Qt library results in sip failing without generating much in the way of error messages. First, make sure you've got the latest version of the PyQt port. It's possible it has been updated for the new version of PyQt. If you've got the latest version, nudge the maintainer of the port to see if he'll update it. Actually, the port maintainer is usually the right person to contanct when port builds fail. As a workaround, since there are no patch files in the port, you might try building the 3.5 version of PyQt with the port. The pkg-plist may be wrong in this case, so it may not uninstall cleanly. However, once the PyQt port gets updated, installing that should fix the pkg-plist to use the right thing. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail timeout
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Hammerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Sendmail times out when mailing to addresses outside my ISP. /var/log/maillog shows the mail received by localhost and then it times out sending to the domain of the recipient. It keeps trying to send intermittently. It goes fine if I send to an address that's hosted at my ISP. How could I diagnose the problem? I'd try telnetting to port 25 on one of the domains that is failing. I'd expect it to fail, as it smells like your ISP is blocking port 25 at the perimeter. The workaround is to route mail through your ISPs smtp server. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: It appears that a symlink solved the problem. I did try someone else's symlink suggestion but it didn't point to the /usr/lib directory like Dmitry's did. A brief conversation with Dmitry Morozovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the pgsql-admin list produced the following: DM So, possibly, quick hack like 'ln -s DM /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so /usr/lib' may DM help you. Right. That's a good symlink to do. The question is, why did ports think you should have /usr/lib/libcrypto.so when you didn't have one? Either you didn't install the crypto distribution, or you didn't build it when you upgarded to a system that had it. He brings up a good point. I'm running something that's over a year behind and I think it would benefit me to be at 4.8 or at least 4.7. Can you point me to a concise document that discusses the upgrade procedure? I don't know of one. Upgrading a binary distribution is straightforward, though. Boot the 4.8 CDROM, and select ugprade. That will give you a long warning about how dangerous all this is - which you should ignore, because you've backed up your system prior to doing this. Go through the upgrade procedure, then use the copy of your config files that it saved - I forget where - to modify the new versions that were installed so your config files are up to date. Alternatively for that last step, you can copy the your version back, and run /usr/sbin/mergemaster to merge in the config file changes from 4.8. But getting your config files up to date is the only part that's not simple. If you want to do a source upgrade, the handbook covers that in the cutting edge. But the sequence is: # cvsup # to get new sources. # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make kernel KERNCONF=whatever # use your kernel config file name here # shutdown -r # reboot new kernel in single user mode. Then, in single user mode # fsck -p # mount -a # cd /usr/src # make installworld # /usr/sbin/mergemaster And again, it should all just work, except for the mergemaster step. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: -Original Message- From: Mike Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:50 AM To: Tamir Halperin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation Right. That's a good symlink to do. The question is, why did ports think you should have /usr/lib/libcrypto.so when you didn't have one? Either you didn't install the crypto distribution, or you didn't build it when you upgarded to a system that had it. 1a. As I proceed with the full upgrade how do I confirm that crypto is installed and running properly so that I can remove the symlink and get the system into a configuration that is more supportable and relying more on default settings? Make sure you select any cryptography distributions that show up. 1b. How do I get rid of the symlink? I looked at man ln and it wasn't very clear. I have so much to learn :( Just rm /usr/lib/libcrypto.so. 2. I do not know how to do a back up. I hope there's some program in the system that will allow me to simply back up only the system related config files since those are the only thinga that aren't application specific that I've modified from time to time. The upgrade process will back up the system related config files for you. Like I said, I'm not sure where it backs them up to, as I haven't done a binary upgrade in a while. I can easily get burn those on to a cd as well or copy them as a backup volume to my other machine for later restoration. Alternatively for that last step, you can copy the your version back, and run /usr/sbin/mergemaster to merge in the config file changes from 4.8. But getting your config files up to date is the only part that's not simple. 3a. An interestingly sounding alternative but I'm not sure what you mean by copy your version back. 3b. What does my version pertain to? The upgrade process copies all your old system config files to a safe place before it installs the new ones. That's your version of them. Are you limiting that term to my version of the config files in the sense that I restore them back to their original locations and a program called mergmaster automagically updates them all with 4.8 settings where appropriate? Sort of. Mergemaster isn't completely automatic. It will ask you if you want to udpate files, and gives you the option to examine both files and then merge them under your control. If you haven't modified very many of the files, it might be easier to do this the other way around. If you want to do a source upgrade, the handbook covers that in the cutting edge. But the sequence is: # cvsup # to get new sources. # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make kernel KERNCONF=whatever # use your kernel 4a. Where will I find the file that needs to be referenced in place of the word whatever? If you know the directory the KERNCONF file is stored in, great. But some hints as to the name will go a long way as well if you don't. config file name here 4b. This one eludes me as well. Those are the same thing. If you haven't configured a custom kernel, then you can just do make kernel and leave off the KERNCONF= stuff. If you have configured a custom kernel, you should know the name of the kernels config file, and that's the whatever to use. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I did do a custom kernel only it wasn't me and the person that did this for me is no longer available to refer the question to. I remember clearly that he was interested in shrinking down the size of the kernel for the sake of saving memory but I don't remember the details of how he achieved this. What are some typical things to look for and where when trying to hunt down a config file for a custom kernel. /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. That should have GENERIC and LINT in it. Anything else there is a custom kernel, and can be used as the value of the KERNCONF= parameter to make kernel. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm not able to install PostgreSQL 7.3.2 from ports because I get the following error after having just installed openssl-0.9.7a_2. openssl shows up in /var/db/pkg. When I try to make in /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7 I get the following error: This port requires the OpenSSL library, which is part of the FreeBSD crypto distribution but not installed on your machine. Please see the OpenSSL section in the handbook (at ...) for instructions on how to obtain and install the FreeBSD OpenSSL distribution. *** Error code 1 Stop. You get that message if you are building a port that needs SSL on a recent enough version of FreeBSD, and don't have a /usr/lib/libcrypto.so. The version number doesn't matter. Assuming you don't have libcrypto.so, did you try the handbook and following the directions there for installing the OpenSSL distribution? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: crashdumping on massive amounts of RAM
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Anarcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I am fortunate enough to have a box with a lot (by my standards) of RAM: real memory = 1207877632 (1151 MB) avail memory = 1166782464 (1112 MB) Now the problem I have is I'd like to debug the panic()s I'm seeing now and then on this box, since I'm running 5.0. :) But it seems I need at least as much swap as I need RAM to do this. So I just want to make sure there is no other way to crashdump this RAM than making a gigantic 1GB swap area. The worst is that I really don't need 1GB of *swap*!! 1GB of RAM is fine. All processes run in main memory, but 1GB of swap? That would *suck*. ;) I have 250MB right now and I already think it's too much. Any brilliant ideas to work around this? Yes - enable the kernel debugging option (DDB) on the kernel, and debug the running system when it panics. As for your swap partition - the same thing happens when you run out of virtual memory either way: processes start dieing. Having a little swap lets you get a warning of that because you'll start paging things out which would otherwise live in memory. Unless you're planning on setting up a warning system that watches for paging activity and notifies you so you can do something about it, there's probably not much point in having 250MB of swap on a system with a gigabyte of ram. In your shoes, I'd seriously consider running without swap. On the other hand, disk space is so cheap that I always have lots of swap. Something about the days when I used to recompile LISP systems on memory-starved machines mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation
[Context lost to top posting.] In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: oops! I don't have an /etc/make.conf but rather an /etc/defaults/make.conf. Even though I don't think you'll find it very interesting, it is attached for your entertainment. It looks like you haven't modified anything in it. Which is good - you should never modify things in /etc/defaults. uname -a responds with: FreeBSD john.brobus.net 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 11 06:14:12 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 What do you have for /usr/lib/libcrypto*? mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: crashdumping on massive amounts of RAM
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Anarcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Mon Mar 24, 2003 at 11:59:50AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Anarcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I am fortunate enough to have a box with a lot (by my standards) of RAM: Any brilliant ideas to work around this? Yes - enable the kernel debugging option (DDB) on the kernel, and debug the running system when it panics. The only problem I see with that is with non-reproducable panics, if I don't debug *everything* properly the first time, I might not be able to get back all the data I need. Yup, it's not as handy as having a dump. But dumps happen to swap, so you have to have a first swap partition that's at least 64K bigger than main memory. As for your swap partition - the same thing happens when you run out of virtual memory either way: processes start dieing. Having a little swap lets you get a warning of that because you'll start paging things out which would otherwise live in memory. Unless you're planning on setting up a warning system that watches for paging activity and notifies you so you can do something about it, there's probably not much point in having 250MB of swap on a system with a gigabyte of ram. In your shoes, I'd seriously consider running without swap. I've considered it, but I found that I've been able to run over 1GB of mem, so the 250MB is handy to handle exceptional situations as the disk slows down allocation. If you've just run through a gigabyte of real ram, how long does an extra 250mb last you? On the other hand, disk space is so cheap that I always have lots of swap. Something about the days when I used to recompile LISP systems on memory-starved machines Eh. It's a 40GB disk and I really considered putting 1GB of it for swap. I've got a gigabyte of swap with only 20GB of real space. Of course, I use swap for /tmp with an mfs-backed file system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: OpenSSL obstacle to PostgreSQL Installation
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tamir Halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Thanks for responding to my request, Mike. I'll privately provide you an update offlist and please feel free to repond to me via the list for the benefit of others. This is a really bad idea - others on the list may have answers I don't. Also, someone later may have this problem, and be looking for the answer in the archives. I've taken this back to the list. TH I'm sure there's a solution to using postgresql 7.3.2 with openssl. I just don't have it. There is. Mine is built using libcrypt with no problems. Though it uses the old version of libcrypt for some reason. so you're basically caught up to date. The other approach I tried to take is to simply upgrade the entire system. I've never done this before and wading through all the documentation I'm told to go to is driving me insane. I simply don't even understand the terminology or concepts involved in the instructions for upgrading. I tried following whichever instructions I sort of understand in /usr/src/UPDATING but I'm not having much luck. I'm at the step where I'm supposed to execute 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' but I have no idea what to put instead of 'YOUR_KERNEL_HERE'. If you've updated the ports tree without updating the system, updating the system may be what you need to do. However, you shouldn't be running into that error unless you are running a version of postgresql late enough to use the old libcrypt. Let's not go down the road of updating everything until we've exhausted some other options. What version of freebsd are you running this on. Also, is there anything strange in your /etc/make.conf? It should be short enough to post the entire thing here. You officially have my plea! And you have mine - please hit carriage return every now and then! You're in danger of creating lines longer than the SMTP spec allows! mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: UML program
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Socketd [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In windows they have two programs for making UML class diagrams, Together and Rose, do we have anything like that in FreeBSD? make search in /usr/ports is your friend. Doing make search key=UML there turns up two things, one of which clearly isn't what you want. The other is /usr/ports/devel/umbrello, which is described as a UML diagrame programme for KDE. bwt please CC to me as I am _not_ on the list! That's SOP for this list. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: dd
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi again all, Are there any 'dd' experts out there who would be willig to talk of list. I'm pretty handy with dd. I'm not sure about talking off-list, though. What's the problem. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Stuck with pkg_info
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: It's been a bad week. Here's today's problem. I just tried running pkg_info after updating my ports collection and I get the error pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@ckmment MD5:e612f324240eea2f88d666ee1325ea7c' . I tried removing the pkgdb.db file in /var/db/pkg and rebuilding it using pkgdb -u, but that didn't fix it. Anyone have any other suggestions? pkgdb.db is created and maintated by the portupgrade tools. pkg_info isn't part of those, and doesn't use pkgdb.db. Your problem is that one or more packages has a typo in the +CONTENTS, saying @ckmment instead of @comment. You can find the this by doing: # cd /var/db/pkg # grep -l ckmment */+CONTENTS That will list the broken file. You can then fix it with ed, vi or your favorite editor. If lots of files have that problem, then you have a serious problem, because one or more of the tools you are using to install ports is probably corrupt. The fix to that is probably to upgrade your system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pkg_upgrade ?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I do have cvsup installed, and can run cvsup to update my ports collection. My question is if I already have a package installed, running cvsup, the make install again for a preexisting port will mess up the pkg-data base right? Wrong. If you are installing a port a second time, make install will refuse to install the port because it's already installed. If you are installing an updated port, then the pkg-data will be in a different place because the port has a different name. The latter case may leave parts of the first port laying around unused, and deinstalling it will probably break the second port. So, if I only want to upgrade a single port, is the recommended way 1) pkg_deinstall 2) cvsup ports collection 3) pkg_install again (or make install) This seems rather poor as I don't want to have all the downtime between deinstalling and installing again. Try this: 1) cvsup ports collection 2) make 3) pkg_deinstall 4) make install If I cvsup ports and then make install, is there a fix to update the pkg data base? It's not needed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pkg_upgrade ?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Of course, this method does not work if there are any packages/ports depending on the port you are upggrading. The pkg_deinstall will fail because of the dependencies. I believe a pkg_deinstall -f will forcibly remove the package anyway. Unfortunately, I still sometimes find the dependent ports need to be recompiled for the new version of the port you are installing. Yup. That's what portupgrade is for. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: getting device for umass?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm using a USB compact-flash card reader. When attached it is recognized, and umass(4) creates a device for it. On a SCSI-less system it is da0 but this is obviously not always true. It's not always true on a SCSI-less system, either. You can wire the device down to whatever point you want. On SCSI systems, umass devices are found and numbered before the real SCSI drives, so it tends to come up as da0 there. Some people - me, for instance - wire down things so that their SCSI devices show up first. How can I systematically identify the disk it is attached as? As you might guess, the point is to fire up a script from /etc/usbd.conf. However all I get from usbd is umass0 for DEVNAME. I poked around camcontrol but it didn't seem to give me enough information to come up with a robust script. Any ideas? If you're trying for a really general solution, you may be SOL. camcontrol devlist gives you the name of the device. I.e., mine is: HAGIWARA SmartMedia R/W 2.00 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass4,da3) Knowing that it's a HAGIWARA reader, I can look for that and pull the da3 out of the last bit of the card. The other alternative is to check dmesg for the umass-sim device. I.e., mine shows up as: da3 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 If you've got more than one attached, you'll have to figure out which one you're looking for. If the goal is to mount them, then you can check the output of mount and look for the one that's not there. One simple solution is to note that the device numbers for the umass devices seldom change, so you can fix them in usbd.conf for each system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Pushing commands to the background
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: hostname uptime ping -c 100 ftp.furrie.net traceroute ftp.furrie.net I'd like to push all the commands into the background be able to log off and let it do its business unattended. Unfortunately, with my lacking knowledge, so far I have managed this, (sad isn't it)... (ping -c 10 ftp.furrie.net /tmp/results cat /tmp/results | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Even with an at the end of this command, I do not get my prompt back :-( The easiest oneliner is: (hostname; uptime; ping -c 100 ftp.furrie.net; traceroute ftp.furrie.net) | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason your one-liner didn't come back fromm the background is that you didn't background the shell running the command, but backgrounded the commands the shell was waiting on. Putting a bunch of commands in parens separated by ; runs them one after the other in a subshell, with output going to standard output. Just send that output to mail and you're done. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: apsfilter - exasperation - willing to pay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I cannot for the life of me get aspfilter working. You might try magicfilter instead of apsfilter. It's not a shell script, so is less likely to break when the environment changes around it. However, it does require that you configure /etc/printcap yourself. Here's a sample entry: lj|lp|LaserJet 5MP:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lj/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lj/acct:\ :if=/usr/opt/libexec/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: If you can't find a magicfilter entry for your printer - which is likely, as it's old - you'll have to take one for a similar - meaning handles the same data formats - and modify it slightly. I'll be glad to help with that as well. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: usb printers
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Khairil Yusof [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Once connected would the device just be something like /dev/usb0 (on FreeBSD 5) or do you need a usb to parallel converter? There is no mention of usb printers in the handbook. If the device is recognized as a USB printer, it will show up as /dev/ulpt0. You just use that instead of /dev/lpt0 in the printcap file. No converter or any such thing is needed. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: a bit confused with new rc.d system in 5.0
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jorge Mario G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi there I just installed 5.0 the first thing I noticed is the new rc system yeah looks good but I'm totally lost! so what is the difference between /etc/rc.sendmail and /erc/rc.d/sendmail /etc/rc.d/sendmail integrates into the new rc system. I tried the handbook but there is no info about how to properly use this new system!. To properly use this system, just set the appropriate config variables in /etc/rc.conf. That hasn't changed. I like to integrate my scripts with the system so I would like to learn this new stuff Doing your own scripts works just like it used to. Either put things in /etc/rc.local - which is depreciated - or put scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The latter scripts need to end in .sh and be executable. They should accept an argument of start to start things, and stop to stop things. so please if anyone could point me to some kind of doc/info I'll appreciate it I don't know of any docs, and the info I'm using is the shell scripts proper. You might ask on -current if you want more information than I've provided. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Port that makes HTML from jpeg images?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Sorry for the ambiguity of the subject. I thought there's a port that can generate HTML pages (with hrefs) from a bunch of .jpeg images. I belive I came across something like this perusing the ports a few months ago but I'm unable to find anything searching the current ports for -STABLE. You probably want either www/WebMagick or www/thumbnail_index. make search key=thumbnail turned them both up. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: portupgrade mess
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daxbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, any idea how I could reduce the size of the /usr/ports slice - it's max is about 2Gb and there is about 1.7 in use. It seems a bit bloated and I certainly don't need all the stuff that is in there... Delete everything in /usr/ports/distfiles. And before you go to bed one night do a make clean from /usr/ports. It takes some time... Another option is to add the following to your make.conf ( 5.x: /etc/make.conf 4.x: /etc/defaults/make.conf ) No! 4.x is /etc/make.conf as well. It just doesn't have one by default, whereas 5.x does. You should *never* edit anything in /etc/defaults. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: portupgrade mess
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daxbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daxbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Quoting Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, any idea how I could reduce the size of the /usr/ports slice - it's max is about 2Gb and there is about 1.7 in use. It seems a bit bloated and I certainly don't need all the stuff that is in there... Delete everything in /usr/ports/distfiles. And before you go to bed one night do a make clean from /usr/ports. It takes some time... Another option is to add the following to your make.conf ( 5.x: /etc/make.conf 4.x: /etc/defaults/make.conf ) No! 4.x is /etc/make.conf as well. It just doesn't have one by default, whereas 5.x does. You should *never* edit anything in /etc/defaults. Ok... so why in 5.x does make.conf no longer live in /etc/defaults as well? The copy in /etc/defaults was never anything more than documentation on what could go there. It's been moved to /usr/share/examples/make.conf. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: bootloader configuration ?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lee S Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I can't find a good page that tells me how to configure the freeBSD bootloader. I have my system set to dual boot but there are partitions listed in the bootloader that are no described correctly or not actually bootable that I would like to change or remove from the list. Can you point me to the page that tells me how to do this? You can't configure the FreeBSD boot loader. The names are hardwired in depending on the partition type. All partitions that are recognized are listed. If you want more control, you need to install a boot loader from ports. Personally, I use grub when I need a multiboot system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: init and process restart
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi. Is it possible to use init to restart some user critical processes if they die. Has any work been done in this area. Please CC me. Yes, it's possible to have init start a process at system boot time, and restart the process if it dies. The single paragraph that describes this in the init man page is: The init utility can also be used to keep arbitrary daemons running, automatically restarting them if they die. In this case, the first field in the ttys(5) file must not reference the path to a configured device node and will be passed to the daemon as the final argument on its com- mand line. This is similar to the facility offered in the ATT System V UNIX /etc/inittab. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Possible drive failing??
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi all. I got this message in my daily reports and I've got a question. Does this signal possible disk troubles or potential failure? Here's the message. ad0s1g: hard error writing fsbn 13434039 of 5930556-5930559 (ad0s1 bn 13434039; cn 836 tn 58 sn 45) trying PIO mode ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode Is that something I can ignore, or should I keep an eye on this?? Well, there is some possibility that it's just a one-time hiccup. More likely, the drive has already exhuasted it's supply of replacement blocks, as modener drives do bad block remapping all by themselves. In the latter case, the drive is about to fail catastrophically. At the very least, I'd keep a very close eye on the drive, and double-check my backups if I saw that happen to one of my drives. Depending on how critical that system is, I may have a backup ready, or replace the drive under controlled conditions before things get worse. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Kernel Panic in 5.0-RELEASE
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: This past weekend I experienced a kernel panic in my 5.0-release running on a Dual Pentium Pro system. Is this the correct mailing list to write to and seek help from? (I've already posted in the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc group but nobody has responded thus far.) No, it isn't. 5.0-release is not a production system, it's a development system. The correct procedure when you are having problems is to upgrade your system to the lastest version of 5.0-CURRENT to see if the problem has already been fixed, then send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are still having problems. For dealing with panics, you should have a kernel with symbols built so you can provide a stack trace of the problem. Being able to identify the problem and provide a fix is strongly encouraged for -current users. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: portupgrade mess
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I just upgrade XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3 using portupgrade on 2 different machines. That statement doesn't make sense. Portupgrade upgrades pors, not the system. So you can't upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 with portupgrade. If you actually upgraded the system, how did you do it? Did you then use portupgrade to upgrade all the ports you had installed? If not, that may be part of the problem. Generally, when upgrading across a release, you want to deinstall the ports in large chunks - all of them is best - and then reinstall the ports from the new ports in the system. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ftp logging question
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris P [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Anyone know how ftp's get logged? I do a last -10 and see a user did a 2 hour ftp, yet he has no files in his home. So I am curious what he downloaded/uploaded. Uploading is easy to poke around and look as his access is limited as to where he can write to. Downloading on the other hand is an open book. He's a trusted user, but if others poke around w/ accounts, I'd like to be able to check what they are downloading. Oh, and nothing shows up in his home dir loggin (.history) I think .history only shows things when they are actually logged in via telnet/ssh. I've poked around /var/logs, and didnt see any ftp logging. Maybe its an option I missed? Maybe nothing is being logged? Dunno.. a little education would be appreciated! Thanks! Depends on which ftp daemon you are running. The one that comes with the system - /usr/libexec/ftpd - needs -ll - that's two els - to log each file transfer. With just one l, it only logs session information. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: why BIND and sendmail installed by default?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jorge Mario G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Now I from the sys admin point of view (mine): Do I need a DNS server??? YES, but I usually grab the lastest version, and the default install does not suit to our needs... But it suits a lot of peoples needs. Do I need mail server? YES, but I dont use sendmail, or I dont like the default install, it doesnt suit to our needs etc... But it suits a lot of peoples needs. Basically, these are things that have historically been part of BSD, and have people who are willing to support them in the distribution. Enough people need that functionality that there's not much point in ripping them out. Replacing sendmail is probably impossible because there's no consensus about what should replace it, and you need something do mail submission. Just turn off the build and forget it. Replacing BIND with a later version might be possible, but needs someone willing to do the work. If you're volunteering, great. If not, just keep on installing the newer version and ignore the one in the base system. BTW, they are both in 5.0-RELEASE. It's might be worth pointing out that some other things - like uucp - have moved to ports. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails toload
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Nah. It's not a good idea to use mount -a before fsck. The safest thing you can do if you haven't tinkered with the sizes and/or order of the partitions is to run: # fsck -p mount -u / mount -va I disagree. If the file systems were dismounted cleanly, then fsck -p just verifies that, and does nothing. If they haven't dismounted cleanly, then mount won't mount the file systems. Running fsck -p just insures that the file systems will mount - unless they are really badly damaged. You won't hurt anything if you skip the fsck -p, you just may have to run it then rerun the mount. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: your mail
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: True. But there is the suidperl binary to circumvent this. If your /usr/bin/suidperl is suid root (which it is not by default I believe), perl will honor the suid or sgid bits on your perlscripts. I'd still recommend sudo instead of suid perl scripts. While it's easier to write secure suid program in Perl than in C or the shell, it's still difficult enough that I'd prefer having one trusted program to writing a number of such scripts. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: send-pr(1) requires local mail daemon,breach of contract for Comcast users
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:09, Dan Nelson wrote: From the Comcast Acceptable Use Policy: This is all silly. send-pr should work without having a local SMTP server. What error are you getting when you run it - at least, I assume you are getting an error. If not, what behavior are you seeing other than it doesn't work. It's really hard to help diagnose a problem given no information whatsoever. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
