RE: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 3:30 PM To: Billy Newsom Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I do a COLD Reboot on FreeBSD? On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Billy Newsom wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, I guess I completely do not understand what you are asking. From anything I can get from what you write here, its behavior is normal and expected. What is the problem and what are you trying to fix or to get it to do? A cold boot - which is what you ask about in your original post - is a boot all the way up from a powered off machine as far as I know. So, all I did was explain how to get what you asked for in the post. No, I said a cold reboot. That's the term for a reboot which runs the entire POST, counts memory, etc. The screen looks identical to a cold start or cold boot. We all know what the warm reboot means -- that's when many parts of the POST are skipped. Windows uses a cold reboot, for example, when you click Restart on the Shutdown menu. FreeBSD does a warm reboot using the reboot command. The warm reboot may save thirty to sixty seconds over the cold reboot. A warm reboot typically skips the memory check and does a cursory check of hard drive parameters, etc. to save time. If you use a PC DOCTOR disk and tell it to reboot, it will do a cold reboot. When you flash your BIOS from DOS, it will usually do a cold reboot when it exits. When you save changes and reboot from the BIOS setup screen, it will do a cold reboot. Many other examples are possible. What I tried to explain is that this PC crashes on the subsequent boot if a warm reboot is performed by FreeBSD. But if I could perform a cold reboot every time, this would solve the issue. A cold reboot is not the act of shutting the power off and turning it back on. That is called a power cycle and it is obviously manual. A cold reboot is done by a special software command. I was always told a cold reboot comes from powering down the system; minimal power to the logic board and wiping any and all traces possible (short of unplugging it) of random crap in the capacitors and memory. Literally cold boot because usually it happened after powering it down and it would cool off until the user came back to work on their computer for awhile. Warm boots basically just cycle the computer to restart the OS. It's just restarting it, and power to the components has been maintained the whole time so as far as the computer hardware is concerned nothing really happened, just a chunk of memory access and the processor mode getting kicked around a bit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, you're all mostly correct. For more info, see this page: http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/subjects/int11ct/2004/L17/lecture.htm l Now, as for how to get FreeBSD to set this area in memory (:0472h) set with the something other than 1234h, I'd imagine a simple assembler job could do it. Seems right up assemblers alley. It's been a while since I've done anything outside of C, but I'll see what I can whip up. - Niy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sendmail: host name lookup failure
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kraft Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure Paul A. Hoadley wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: I am told it's running Windows 2000 DNS Server. Presumably that's Microsoft's own DNS implementation built into Windows 2000. (By 'sometimes' I don't mean it's non-deterministic. Every time sendmail asks for the record of an unqualified hostname, the nameserver responds with SERVFAIL.) The consequence of this is that sendmail repeatedly defers delivery until the mail expires. Curiously, sendmail's WorkAroundBroken option did not help, and I don't know why. Daryl Tester suggested using a mailertable entry, and this worked. I still don't know why WorkAroundBroken isn't working in this case. I'm running into the exact same problem. My dns is a Win2k server, the mail server is FBSD5.3 called kara.home.local. The dig to kara.home.local works fine, but to kara fails. have you found out any more about why it's not working? I'm also curious about the entry in mailertable because my feeble attempt didn't work. I appreciate any info you can pass on. Thanks, Joe. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a quick thought, I had a similar problem on my LAN. I set up /etc/hosts files, and that did the trick for me. I could then dig both the fqdn and the host name just fine. For example, for a machine on my internal lan with the fqdn of empathy.whatever.net, I set up on the machines that had to reach it: 192.168.0.10empathy empathy In the /etc/hosts file. Man hosts for more info. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NIC failover
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Khavkine Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:09 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIC failover Hi Folks. Is there a way to configure 2 NIC's in a failover fasion connected to 2 different switches with FreeBSD 5.3R ? Thanx Paul Paul Khavkine Networks/Systems Planning and Engineering DISTRIBUTEL Communications. 740 Notre Dame West, Suite 1135 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3X6 +1-514-877-5505 x 263 http://www.distributel.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could set up a script to check the connection of nic0, and if no connection, ifconfig nic1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: USB Bidirectional printer
My printer works fine on USB, in both 4.10 and 5.3. I have an HP Photosmart 1215, but a lot of HPs will work, along with many other printers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of regis rampnoux Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:15 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: USB Bidirectional printer Hi, Could you confirm that the use of bidirectional printer feature is not yet implemented? Now I need it because the new printers have no parallel port! -- regis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:37 AM To: Stijn Hoop; Dave Horsfall; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice? On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:58, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:46:48PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops do we have to jump through? You really do not want to compile OpenOffice if you're not willing to jump through hoops. It is the biggest beast in the ports tree afaik. That said, there is a WITHOUT_JAVA knob for it. Try that and see if you need to jump through this particular hoop again. Try it, but I suspect it wont help. jdk is optional for running OO, but I think building it requires a java-based build tool. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was able to build Open Office just fine without java. Can't recall for the live of me how I did it, but I did, so it's doable. ;) - Tim (Just as a side note, if you try to type OOO with the trailing 'O' lowercase in Outlook, it will change the middle 'O' to lower case as well. Just.. Weird.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: USB Bidirectional printer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of regis rampnoux Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:55 PM To: Niy Subject: RE: USB Bidirectional printer Thanks for your reply, On 04-Jan-2005 Niy wrote: My printer works fine on USB, in both 4.10 and 5.3. I have an HP Photosmart 1215, but a lot of HPs will work, along with many other printers. |But do you read on the USB port?The problem is for utilities, not for printing. |I don't know what is the software for HP but escputil does not work. It should be used to clean the head, identify the model, make head alignement, |reports ink levels ... | | |-- |regis To be honest, I've never tried. I'm not even sure if there is a utility for HP printers that will do that. I'll do a little research and try tonight, and let you know. - Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with dual head in X.
Greets! I've been having a problem running either XFree86 (4.3 or 4.4) or X.org (6.7 or 6.8), in a dual head configuration. I have used a total of four different video cards in different combinations on these varying versions of X, and the problem is always the same. I've used FBSD 5.2.1 and FBSD 5.3, as well. What happens: I get X configured fine, and am able to run X a few times, with both video cards working fine. After a day or so, or a reboot or three, X stops launching. I don't use X to log into, I run it from console. It gets to a certain point (I believe it's where it loads the video card drivers), and just hangs. I have to cold boot, I can't reboot out of it. I can't ssh into the machine when it hangs, I can't change virtual terminals.. can't Ctrl-C. All of the video cards are listed as being supported by X.org and XFree86. Also, nothing shows up in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file... It's just blank. Any ideas? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNS Cache Server
Noticed the tread on a caching DNS server, and that brought up a couple of questions I had. I have a DNS server set up in my home. I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box acting as my gateway, running ipfw and natd. It routes my one static IP address from my DSL provider to a set of internal, unroutable IPs. That part is working fine. Also on that box is a caching DNS server. The internal IP for the gateway is 192.168.0.1. My problems are two fold, and may or may not be related. 1) I cannot, from either the gateway or any of the internal machines, get DNS query responses from 192.168.0.1. I can get query responses from 127.0.0.1 and the external IP address from the gateway, and I can get query responses from the external IP from any of the internal machines (well, partially. See below). 2) When I do set up my FBSD 5.3 box inside the network with the external IP of the gateway in resolv.conf, I can ping and nslookup DNS names just fine. However, when I go to use Mozilla (Or any browser for that matter), they hang on Resolving host:. nslookup tells me it is using my gateway as the DNS server, and never tells me it's switching to another server for queries. Any ideas? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Cache Server
On 11/9/2004 4:01 PM NiY wrote: Noticed the tread on a caching DNS server, and that brought up a couple of questions I had. I have a DNS server set up in my home. I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box acting as my gateway, running ipfw and natd. It routes my one static IP address from my DSL provider to a set of internal, unroutable IPs. That part is working fine. Also on that box is a caching DNS server. The internal IP for the gateway is 192.168.0.1. My problems are two fold, and may or may not be related. 1) I cannot, from either the gateway or any of the internal machines, get DNS query responses from 192.168.0.1. I can get query responses from 127.0.0.1 and the external IP address from the gateway, and I can get query responses from the external IP from any of the internal machines (well, partially. See below). 2) When I do set up my FBSD 5.3 box inside the network with the external IP of the gateway in resolv.conf, I can ping and nslookup DNS names just fine. However, when I go to use Mozilla (Or any browser for that matter), they hang on Resolving host:. nslookup tells me it is using my gateway as the DNS server, and never tells me it's switching to another server for queries. Any ideas? Are you running some sort of packet filter? If you are, I'd try turning it off and then see if you still have problems. If you do, then you know that you need to modify your rules to allow the traffic through the internal interface. HTH, -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- I am using ipfw, and am not deying anything on the internal network. I do some filtering on traffic coming into the gateway from the external IP, but nothing on any of the internal IPs. What I'm denying inbound shouldn't have anything to do with DNS, either. Just to be sure, I did set the default type to open and used a blank ipfw config, but that didn't help any. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using dd to clone windows XP drives
Has anyone succesfully cloned a windows XP hard drive with dd? I heard there were problems specifically with XP drives, that they required a drive ID number to be changed or something silly like that. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATI, OpenGl, and the like.
Greetings! I've been a FreeBSD user for a few years now, off and on. After my last harddrive dumped on me, I decided to stick with FreeBSD as my main OS. I work as an PC/Net technician/admin and know the console and server ends of FreeBSD rather well at this point. I've never been much into graphics and games, but a little while ago I stumbled, through happenstance, upon an ATI AIW Raden 9600 w/ 128 Megs ram. I sold my old graphics card for cigarrette and pizza money, so going back to it is no longer an option. My first thought was to get the dual head function working under X11. No go. I googled the hell out of it, tried all the stuff I could find, wouldn't work for me. Not a big deal, I'll pic up an old pci video card at some point and give it another shot. If anyone happens to have an XF86Config or Xorg.conf file with this setup running, however, please feel free to send it my way. In my travels around the web I found a lot of irate FreeBSD users with ATI graphics cards, specifically dealing with getting OpenGL to work. I am running X.org 6.8.1 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have dual P3 1.0Ghzs and 512 megs RAM. Should be more than enough to play a silly little game on. The game in question is Cube. It looks nice, figured it might help me kill some time between on call rotations. Problem is, the darn thing runs slow enough to pace mollasses in january. I get 10 fps average. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? How can I tell if OpenGL is running properly? Where can I find info on configuring OpenGL for my card? I've tried setting the FPS range in the game, doesn't help. Oh, and if anyone knows what the deal is with these graphics cards and FreeBSD (well, I guess X on FreeBSD more specifically) is.. status of drivers and what not, point me in the right direction. Nothing major, just a little frustrating. All in all, I love FreeBSD. If this card isn't going to work for me, can anyone recommend a dual head video card that runs decently with OpenGL and has a built in TV tuner? Preferably a tv tuner that will actually work? (still holding my breath for the Gatos team to catch up some day.) If you need any of my config information, lemme know. Sorry for the message length, wasn't quite sure how to trim it down. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
