Re: zoneedit.com
Hi, I had a similar issue about my emails not getting forwarded by Zoneedit. Now I am using the Google SMTP server to collect the emails for my domain. Maybe I should also switch the DNS to another service. I need my router to be able to update the DNS information for my dynamic IP address though... On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: On 2/3/2013 at 3:04 PM Fbsd8 wrote: | [snip] | |After reviewing zoneedit new website looks like they are no longer free |and there now in the domain register business = Zoneedit was purchased by Dotster a while ago (few months? couple of years?) If you look at an legacy zoneedit page, you'll see at the bottom: (http://legacy.zoneedit.com/contact.html) Zone Edit, LLC is a Dotster, Inc.-owned company. I have noticed zoneedit's quality of service declining since the purchase. I switched to tunnelbroker.net's FreeDNS serivce and haven't looked back. The registration company I used, 000domains.com, was also purchased by Dotster, and I had to leave 000doamins.com due to customer service issues after the purchase. I went to namecheap.com, and have been very satisfied. YMMV. ___ 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 ___ 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: zoneedit.com
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:48:06 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin articulated: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: On 2/3/2013 at 3:04 PM Fbsd8 wrote: | [snip] | |After reviewing zoneedit new website looks like they are no longer free |and there now in the domain register business = Zoneedit was purchased by Dotster a while ago (few months? couple of years?) If you look at an legacy zoneedit page, you'll see at the bottom: (http://legacy.zoneedit.com/contact.html) Zone Edit, LLC is a Dotster, Inc.-owned company. I have noticed zoneedit's quality of service declining since the purchase. I switched to tunnelbroker.net's FreeDNS serivce and haven't looked back. The registration company I used, 000domains.com, was also purchased by Dotster, and I had to leave 000doamins.com due to customer service issues after the purchase. I went to namecheap.com, and have been very satisfied. I had a similar issue about my emails not getting forwarded by Zoneedit. Now I am using the Google SMTP server to collect the emails for my domain. Maybe I should also switch the DNS to another service. I need my router to be able to update the DNS information for my dynamic IP address though... http://dyn.com/dns/; can do that and ddclient needed to update the DNS is available in the ports system. I have set up several PC's with just this system and they work quite well. -- Jerry ♔ Thanks, I will take a look. I got Zoneedit for free though.. ___ 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: portsnap Generating a Bad file descriptor Error Message
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad file descriptor message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine: Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Fetching snapshot generated at Mon Sep 3 20:04:44 EDT 2012: 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb949 0% of 67 MB0 Bps fetch: http://portsnap5.freebsd.org/s/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz: Bad file descriptor fetch: 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz: Bad file descriptor I tried fsck -y the /var, /tmp and /usr partitions and everything seems fine. What could the problem be? Thanks! Hi, Anyone has an idea about what could be causing this problem? Thank you! ___ 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
ftp2.ca.freebsd.org out of date?
Hi, it seems that the ftp2.ca.freebsd.org mirror has not been updating since August 3rd. At least this is the case for the files in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/src-9 ___ 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: portsnap Generating a Bad file descriptor Error Message
Hi, Yes, files are written to the /var filesystem. I have tried fetching the file manually and I have even tried to newfs the partition again and to copy the files back. I also tried to delete the portsnap directory completely. None of this fixed the error. Note that I access the web through a proxy, but I tried untaring the file 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgzhttp://portsnap5.freebsd.org/s/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgzand I did not get any error from tar, so I guess the file I got is not corrupted. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:56:29 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad file descriptor message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine: Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Fetching snapshot generated at Mon Sep 3 20:04:44 EDT 2012: 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb949 0% of 67 MB0 Bps fetch: http://portsnap5.freebsd.org/s/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz : Bad file descriptor fetch: 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz: Bad file descriptor I tried fsck -y the /var, /tmp and /usr partitions and everything seems fine. What could the problem be? Thanks! Hi, Anyone has an idea about what could be causing this problem? I'm not familiar enough with portsnap (I use CVS) so I can just throw some guesses around: The message Bad file descriptor is issued by fetch and seems to be for _your_ side of the connection, and I assume it is regarding the place where the requested file will be fetched to. I don't exactly know _where_ that is. It could be in the ports tree or in a temporary location (from where the results are then written to /usr/ports). The manpage mentions a default workdir of /var/db/portsnap which is on the /var partition. You checked that, no errors. Just check what /var/db/portsnap contains. In worst case, remove portsnap/ and recreate that directory. I have no idea what it is supposed to contain, maybe make a copy of it. You could also try to manually create the file, e. g. by issuing # touch /var/db/portsnap/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz Look if the file is there. Use # stat /var/db/portsnap/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz to check if everything is okay. You could also try to manually fetch the file using fetch or maybe even wget, just to see if it can be downloaded and written properly, to a different location, e. g. # cd /tmp # fetch http://portsnap5.freebsd.org/s/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz or # cd /tmp # wget http://portsnap5.freebsd.org/s/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz That should be _no_ problem (with the correct file name of course). Again, Bad file descriptor is often seen in relation to file system trouble. I've seen that in the past myself. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
portsnap Generating a Bad file descriptor Error Message
Hi, so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad file descriptor message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine: Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Fetching snapshot generated at Mon Sep 3 20:04:44 EDT 2012: 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb949 0% of 67 MB0 Bps fetch: http://portsnap5.freebsd.org/s/86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz: Bad file descriptor fetch: 86abb3c6f24b24e7fdadda42805f9ae38f487177dcb9493f5e0cb4f792490b2f.tgz: Bad file descriptor I tried fsck -y the /var, /tmp and /usr partitions and everything seems fine. What could the problem be? Thanks! ___ 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: newfs on a SSD
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:01:33AM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: After years of waiting for a decent price on one of these I finally got one. The questions is, which options should I use on a SSD that will be / on my system. I see that newfs supports TRIM, so that will be turned on, but should I use journaling? gjournal? softupdates? soft updates journaling? I'm confused :) Enabling TRIM with the '-t' option for newfs sounds like a good idea. Assuming the underlaying device supports it. You can check that with the 'camcontrol identify' command, assuming you're using the ada(4) driver. OCZ has a page with tips for Linux. Some would apply to FreeBSD as well; http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?54379-Linux-Tips-tweaks-and-alignmenthighlight=linux Aligning the partitions with the Erase Block Size is important. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives One thing to keep in mind is to mount the filesystems you make on the SSD with the noatime option. This to avoid a lot of unnecessary writes. Some of the newfs parameters like blocks per cilinder group don't seem to make much sense for an SSD. Since the controller of the SSD already does all kinds of things to emulate a harddisk, I'm not sure if it makes much sense to tune the filesystem's parameters much. As for softupdates (journaled of not): try it and let us know if you see differences, especially in write performance. :-) The FreeBSD foundation has awarded a grant to port a special Flash filesystem and tools to FreeBSD: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-project-nand-flash-support.html It might be worthwhile to keep that in mind for the future. What I would certainly recommend is that you make a daily automated backup (may I suggest calling rsync from cron at night?) of the SSD's filesystem to an actual HDD, just to be sure. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) Is there a tool in FreeBSD, similar to fstrim in Linux, that allows to perform trimming through a cronjob as opposed to perform it every time data is deleted? It supposedly results into a significant gain in performance... Thanks! ___ 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: Which compiler compiled system?
If Java is broken, then you know FreeBSD was compiled with clang... On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM, kalth...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to determine whether a FreeBSD-system was compiled with gcc or clang? I thought of some libs or so that might significantly differ. Regards, kaltheat ___ 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 ___ 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 with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update most of my ports, but the binary java ports, such as diablo-jdk16, are now installing broken binary files. Even if I put an entry such as libz.so.4 libz.so.6 in /etc/libmap.conf libmap (or symlinking) only works for libraries that have a compatible ABI. The version number of libz was bumped precisely because the ABI changed :) Install the misc/compat8x port to get libz.so.5 back until you can replace diablo-jdk16 with openjdk6. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Hi, sorry I tried to install compat8x but it did not solve the problem, as that package does not install libz.so.5 Thanks Sorry it did install libz.so.5, but diablo-jdk16 is still crashing for some reason... Ok, so I installed linux-sun-jdk16 that does not seem to get broken by FreeBSD 9, then I hacked the port Makefile for openjdk16 to bootstrap itself with linux-sun-jdk16 and so far it seems to be compiling fine... That solution did ont work either because jni_md.h is missing with linux-sun-jdk16. So now I am trying to compile gcj by hand and use it to bootstrap openjdk. This chicken and egg problem is getting really annoying... So I discovered that openjdk cannot be bootstrapped with gcj, but then I discovered that there was an openjdk6 package available for FreeBSD 9 (generated on January 15th). I installed it, but event that one does not work. I am wondering if the problem is not with vsnprintf instead of libz: --- T H R E A D --- Current thread (0x2863d800): JavaThread Unknown thread [_thread_in_vm, id=100896, stack(0xbf9af000,0xbf9ff000)] siginfo:si_signo=SIGBUS: si_errno=0, si_code=3 (BUS_OBJERR), si_addr=0x2812718c Registers: EAX=0xbf9fddb0, EBX=0x281de884, ECX=0x28c77737, EDX=0xbf9fe5a0 ESP=0xbf9fdc48, EBP=0xbf9fdd50, ESI=0xbf9fe738, EDI=0x07d0 EIP=0x2812718c, EFLAGS=0x00010206 Top of Stack: (sp=0xbf9fdc48) 0xbf9fdc48: bf9fdf44 bf9fe76c bf9fe0f0 2889545e 0xbf9fdc58: bf9fe76c 0001 0003 28cd92d4 0xbf9fdc68: bf9fe76c bf9fe0f0 28bd5b19 0xbf9fdc78: bf9fe76c 00e1 28cd6108 28cd6208 0xbf9fdc88: b7f9 fff8 0001 0xbf9fdc98: bf9fdefc bf9fdd70 bf9fdd4c 28cd92d4 0xbf9fdca8: 28427284 28427270 bf9fdcc0 28c35c73 0xbf9fdcb8: 28cd92d4 bf9fdee0 bf9fdcf0 2896d834 Instructions: (pc=0x2812718c) 0x2812716c: 90 90 90 90 55 89 e5 53 57 56 81 ec fc 00 00 00 0x2812717c: e8 00 00 00 00 5b 81 c3 03 77 0b 00 66 0f ef c0 0x2812718c: 0f 29 45 d8 0f 29 45 c8 0f 29 45 b8 0f 29 45 a8 0x2812719c: 0f 29 45 98 0f 29 45 88 0f 29 85 78 ff ff ff 0f Register to memory mapping: EAX=0xbf9fddb0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 EBX=0x281de884: __nsdefaultsrc+0xd38 in /lib/libc.so.7 at 0x280da000 ECX=0x28c77737: _ZTV18AdaptiveSizePolicy+0x1b7 in /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so at 0x2880 EDX=0xbf9fe5a0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 ESP=0xbf9fdc48 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 EBP=0xbf9fdd50 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 ESI=0xbf9fe738 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 EDI=0x07d0 is an unknown value Stack: [0xbf9af000,0xbf9ff000], sp=0xbf9fdc48, free space=315k Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code) C [libc.so.7+0x4d18c] vsnprintf+0x1c I compiled FreeBSD (world+kernel) with clang. Is that possible that the clang compilation of FreeBSD makes any native JDK (jdk16, openjdk6, etc) unusable? Thanks! So it seems that vsnprintf is indeed broken on FreeBSD 9 when it is built with clang. I submitted a problem report... ___ 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 with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update most of my ports, but the binary java ports, such as diablo-jdk16, are now installing broken binary files. Even if I put an entry such as libz.so.4 libz.so.6 in /etc/libmap.conf libmap (or symlinking) only works for libraries that have a compatible ABI. The version number of libz was bumped precisely because the ABI changed :) Install the misc/compat8x port to get libz.so.5 back until you can replace diablo-jdk16 with openjdk6. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Hi, sorry I tried to install compat8x but it did not solve the problem, as that package does not install libz.so.5 Thanks ___ 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 with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update most of my ports, but the binary java ports, such as diablo-jdk16, are now installing broken binary files. Even if I put an entry such as libz.so.4 libz.so.6 in /etc/libmap.conf libmap (or symlinking) only works for libraries that have a compatible ABI. The version number of libz was bumped precisely because the ABI changed :) Install the misc/compat8x port to get libz.so.5 back until you can replace diablo-jdk16 with openjdk6. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Hi, sorry I tried to install compat8x but it did not solve the problem, as that package does not install libz.so.5 Thanks Sorry it did install libz.so.5, but diablo-jdk16 is still crashing for some reason... ___ 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 with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update most of my ports, but the binary java ports, such as diablo-jdk16, are now installing broken binary files. Even if I put an entry such as libz.so.4 libz.so.6 in /etc/libmap.conf libmap (or symlinking) only works for libraries that have a compatible ABI. The version number of libz was bumped precisely because the ABI changed :) Install the misc/compat8x port to get libz.so.5 back until you can replace diablo-jdk16 with openjdk6. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Hi, sorry I tried to install compat8x but it did not solve the problem, as that package does not install libz.so.5 Thanks Sorry it did install libz.so.5, but diablo-jdk16 is still crashing for some reason... Ok, so I installed linux-sun-jdk16 that does not seem to get broken by FreeBSD 9, then I hacked the port Makefile for openjdk16 to bootstrap itself with linux-sun-jdk16 and so far it seems to be compiling fine... ___ 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 with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update most of my ports, but the binary java ports, such as diablo-jdk16, are now installing broken binary files. Even if I put an entry such as libz.so.4 libz.so.6 in /etc/libmap.conf libmap (or symlinking) only works for libraries that have a compatible ABI. The version number of libz was bumped precisely because the ABI changed :) Install the misc/compat8x port to get libz.so.5 back until you can replace diablo-jdk16 with openjdk6. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Hi, sorry I tried to install compat8x but it did not solve the problem, as that package does not install libz.so.5 Thanks Sorry it did install libz.so.5, but diablo-jdk16 is still crashing for some reason... Ok, so I installed linux-sun-jdk16 that does not seem to get broken by FreeBSD 9, then I hacked the port Makefile for openjdk16 to bootstrap itself with linux-sun-jdk16 and so far it seems to be compiling fine... That solution did ont work either because jni_md.h is missing with linux-sun-jdk16. So now I am trying to compile gcj by hand and use it to bootstrap openjdk. This chicken and egg problem is getting really annoying... ___ 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 with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update most of my ports, but the binary java ports, such as diablo-jdk16, are now installing broken binary files. Even if I put an entry such as libz.so.4 libz.so.6 in /etc/libmap.conf libmap (or symlinking) only works for libraries that have a compatible ABI. The version number of libz was bumped precisely because the ABI changed :) Install the misc/compat8x port to get libz.so.5 back until you can replace diablo-jdk16 with openjdk6. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Hi, sorry I tried to install compat8x but it did not solve the problem, as that package does not install libz.so.5 Thanks Sorry it did install libz.so.5, but diablo-jdk16 is still crashing for some reason... Ok, so I installed linux-sun-jdk16 that does not seem to get broken by FreeBSD 9, then I hacked the port Makefile for openjdk16 to bootstrap itself with linux-sun-jdk16 and so far it seems to be compiling fine... That solution did ont work either because jni_md.h is missing with linux-sun-jdk16. So now I am trying to compile gcj by hand and use it to bootstrap openjdk. This chicken and egg problem is getting really annoying... So I discovered that openjdk cannot be bootstrapped with gcj, but then I discovered that there was an openjdk6 package available for FreeBSD 9 (generated on January 15th). I installed it, but event that one does not work. I am wondering if the problem is not with vsnprintf instead of libz: --- T H R E A D --- Current thread (0x2863d800): JavaThread Unknown thread [_thread_in_vm, id=100896, stack(0xbf9af000,0xbf9ff000)] siginfo:si_signo=SIGBUS: si_errno=0, si_code=3 (BUS_OBJERR), si_addr=0x2812718c Registers: EAX=0xbf9fddb0, EBX=0x281de884, ECX=0x28c77737, EDX=0xbf9fe5a0 ESP=0xbf9fdc48, EBP=0xbf9fdd50, ESI=0xbf9fe738, EDI=0x07d0 EIP=0x2812718c, EFLAGS=0x00010206 Top of Stack: (sp=0xbf9fdc48) 0xbf9fdc48: bf9fdf44 bf9fe76c bf9fe0f0 2889545e 0xbf9fdc58: bf9fe76c 0001 0003 28cd92d4 0xbf9fdc68: bf9fe76c bf9fe0f0 28bd5b19 0xbf9fdc78: bf9fe76c 00e1 28cd6108 28cd6208 0xbf9fdc88: b7f9 fff8 0001 0xbf9fdc98: bf9fdefc bf9fdd70 bf9fdd4c 28cd92d4 0xbf9fdca8: 28427284 28427270 bf9fdcc0 28c35c73 0xbf9fdcb8: 28cd92d4 bf9fdee0 bf9fdcf0 2896d834 Instructions: (pc=0x2812718c) 0x2812716c: 90 90 90 90 55 89 e5 53 57 56 81 ec fc 00 00 00 0x2812717c: e8 00 00 00 00 5b 81 c3 03 77 0b 00 66 0f ef c0 0x2812718c: 0f 29 45 d8 0f 29 45 c8 0f 29 45 b8 0f 29 45 a8 0x2812719c: 0f 29 45 98 0f 29 45 88 0f 29 85 78 ff ff ff 0f Register to memory mapping: EAX=0xbf9fddb0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 EBX=0x281de884: __nsdefaultsrc+0xd38 in /lib/libc.so.7 at 0x280da000 ECX=0x28c77737: _ZTV18AdaptiveSizePolicy+0x1b7 in /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so at 0x2880 EDX=0xbf9fe5a0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 ESP=0xbf9fdc48 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 EBP=0xbf9fdd50 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 ESI=0xbf9fe738 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x2863d800 EDI=0x07d0 is an unknown value Stack: [0xbf9af000,0xbf9ff000], sp=0xbf9fdc48, free space=315k Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code) C [libc.so.7+0x4d18c] vsnprintf+0x1c I compiled FreeBSD (world+kernel) with clang. Is that possible that the clang compilation of FreeBSD makes any native JDK (jdk16, openjdk6, etc) unusable? Thanks! ___ 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
Using non-gcc linker?
Hi, I just made world and kernel using clang, but I noticed that ld is still using the GNU ld. The page http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClangmentions using a different linker that supports LTO optimisation. Is that non-GNU linker part of FreeBSD 9? Thanks! ___ 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: Installing free bsd
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it. Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup. Need support.. Is the windows format on disk causing problems? Well, the .iso files you get from the FreeBSD distribution are ISO image files that need to be burned directly to a disk. There is no other processing or formatting that may be done. I do not know what you mean by 'unzipped to a cd rom'. I have never done anything that sounded like that. You should just download the .iso file and burn in to a fresh cd and fixate it. Then boot it. jerry Yeah, there is nothing to unzip. You need to simply burn the ISO image on a CD/DVD. Once it is burned you should look at the content of the CD/DVD and you should see the files that are part of the ISO image... ___ 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: Which Lenovo Laptop?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is working almost perfectly once you enforce it in BIOS, but occasionally (3 times in last 2.5 months) the screen starts displaying a strange block pattern after some time and renders the display unusable until I restart X (logging in via SSH works, as does the power button == ACPI shutdown). Haven't been able track the cause down yet. - Suspend seems to be unreliable, so I stopped trying (back on BETA2). - acpi_ibm.ko works once you patch sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c, line 338, and replace IBM0068 with LEN0068, which makes most of the multimedia keys usable. - Wireless is working (iwn), but I'm not using it that frequently so YMMV. - I cannot comment on bluetooth, camera or SD card reader, since I never use those. But there is one annoying problem I did not manage to fix yet: The screen brightness control does not work at all, i.e. it's always at maximum (hw.acpi.video sysctls seem to have no effect). All in all, this laptop is a nice desktop replacement, just don't expect the battery to last too long. Best regards When you say that suspending seems unreliable, do you mean that it sometimes work? Did you try unloading kernel modules before putting it in sleep mode to see if it makes a difference? About screen brightness, I thought there was a setting in xorg.conf that made it to work? Cheers ___ 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: Which Lenovo Laptop?
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:18:17 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is working almost perfectly once you enforce it in BIOS, but occasionally (3 times in last 2.5 months) the screen starts displaying a strange block pattern after some time and renders the display unusable until I restart X (logging in via SSH works, as does the power button == ACPI shutdown). Haven't been able track the cause down yet. - Suspend seems to be unreliable, so I stopped trying (back on BETA2). - acpi_ibm.ko works once you patch sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c, line 338, and replace IBM0068 with LEN0068, which makes most of the multimedia keys usable. - Wireless is working (iwn), but I'm not using it that frequently so YMMV. - I cannot comment on bluetooth, camera or SD card reader, since I never use those. But there is one annoying problem I did not manage to fix yet: The screen brightness control does not work at all, i.e. it's always at maximum (hw.acpi.video sysctls seem to have no effect). All in all, this laptop is a nice desktop replacement, just don't expect the battery to last too long. Best regards When you say that suspending seems unreliable, do you mean that it sometimes work? Did you try unloading kernel modules before putting it in sleep mode to see if it makes a difference? About screen brightness, I thought there was a setting in xorg.conf that made it to work? Cheers Suspending the laptop seemed to work when I was not using X and running GENERIC. I tried again just now, first without unloading, then removing a few kernel modules, but it did not help. If I find time, I'll investigate further. If there is a setting to xorg.conf that does work for setting the screen brightness, please tell me. Everything I tried so far turned out negative, but maybe there's something I overlooked. cheers ___ 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
Which Lenovo Laptop?
Hi, so which current 14 Lenovo laptop is the best for FreeBSD compatibility right now? Is it the T420 with the Nvidia card (Nvidia card forced in the BIOS)? Sleep modes work with the T420, right? And I guess Intel Wi-Fi cards are the most supported ones, right? Thanks! ___ 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: 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing when running Gnome and Firefox
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jukka A. Ukkonen j...@iki.fi wrote: Greetings, Has anybody else seen FreeBSD 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing totally when using X11, Gnome, and Firefox? Usually it does not happen immediately after starting firefox but instead everything might be just fine for about 1/2h, maybe even 1h or so. Then, when it hits, it just hits without any warning. Neither does the system log anything nor does it panic in a controlled manner. It just stops reacting to anything at all. The keyboard falls dead. The network connections freeze. All disk activity stops. It will not even respond to a ping. The system is a 12 core AMD64 environment. The last kernel I have tried is now roughly 2 days old or so (compiled Nov 29th), but as far as I can tell in 2 days there have been no patches to the system which could have an obvious positive effect to this sort of a problem. Cheers, // jau .--- ..- -.- -.- .- .- .-.-.- ..- -.- -.- --- -. . -. / Jukka A. Ukkonen, Oxit Ltd, Finland /__ M.Sc. (sw-eng cs) (Phone) +358-500-606-671 / Internet: Jukka.Ukkonen(a)Oxit.Fi / Internet: jau(a)iki.fi v .--- .- ..- ...-.- .. -.- .. .-.-.- ..-. .. + + + + My opinions are mine and mine alone, not my employers. + + + + ___ 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 Just a guess... Do you happen to use the nvidia driver? If you do, have you recompiled it, unloaded and reloaded it after updating your kernel and/or X.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: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?
On 09/05/2011 08:31 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:47:03 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that allows to configure services (I guess HTTP, PHP, MySQL and web content) and do the OS maintenance (OS package updates, firewall configuration) without having to touch a shell. I was wondering if something like PC-BSD + CPanel would be the way to go. Would there be other BSD-based alternatives? I always do upgrades and configure services through the shell and I am not aware too much about the GUI alternatives... There are webbased configuration tools that run on common service combinations (like Apache + MySQL + PHP) that can be installed. However _installing_ them requires a skilled person who is able to administrate a server, which in turn traditionally implies the ability to use the command line, even if it's just for that abstraction job. Well, this part is not an issue, as he will not be the one doing the initial install of the system FreeBSD can be the OS running such a combination. PC-BSD primarily aims at desktop usage, so for example it defaults to KDE, office applications, multimedia stuff and all the things you traditionally won't want on a server. But all these can be removed quite easily I guess... Software solutions that come to mind are CPanel or WebMin. Maybe there are others? I'm not sure as I void those mostly inflexible, error-prone, overcomplicated and dangerous piles of bloat whenever possible. :-) How much security risk do these represent compared to using a Windows server? For managing installed applications (ports), there are KDE tools for that (at least _have been_ in the past, not sure if they are still being maintained). Do the PC-BSD package management tools still require KDE? I though they were removing this dependency? The system cannot be updated by a GUI tool (why should it?), but it should be a job of max. 30 minutes to create a Tcl/Tk GUI wrapper for those things. Can PC-BSD OS be updated through a gui? And firewall configuration: I'm quite sure PC-BSD has something for that, except that it probably won't give you the flexibility to automatically change firewall rules depending on different kinds of attacks the server will encounter. Please keep in mind: If you're running a web server, you're part of the target group of thousands of villains across the Internet who will happily exploit any weakness you are presenting to them, depending on the services and software you run. What's possible to run will also depend on what kind of server you have. For example if you run a server without any GPU, but PC-BSD depends on hardware-accellerated 3D graphics for managing the firewall, then... you know. :-) There still is a question that your friend should give an answer to himself: Wouldn't it be worth investing in basic UNIX skills and command line operations to gain knowledge and experience to professionally administer a server instead of relying on abstracted layers of abstracted abstractions that GUIs provide here, maybe paying with speed and security loss? Well, I know that. I can try convincing him... Thanks! ___ 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: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?
I just took a look at PBDir and the choice of PBIs for server-related softwares seems to be rather limited. They have a PBI for Apache, but I could not even find one for PHP... To me it seems that if not all the required softwares are available through PBI, it would be better to drop the whole PBI idea all together and fall back to the FreeBSD port/package system. But to go with the FreeBSD route, I will need to convince my friend of using the command line at least to update the packages and the OS. I am not sure if he will enjoy the usage of tools such as mergemaster, given that this requires to have a good idea of what is going on in the config files. This might make an OS like Ubuntu easier to use for my friend, although this is probably not the most stable and secure OS for a server. It might be a necessary compromise in this case though... ___ 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: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?
How well does it work to use binary packages only to maintain a FreeBSD web server in general (I am thinking of package availability, but also and in particular as a quasi-automated updating tool)? I noticed that in the past few years, updating softwares through ports has been requiring more user intervention, due to the way some dependencies are being updated from one version to the next. Would using binary packages allow to avoid more such user intervention? Thanks ___ 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
Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?
Hi, so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that allows to configure services (I guess HTTP, PHP, MySQL and web content) and do the OS maintenance (OS package updates, firewall configuration) without having to touch a shell. I was wondering if something like PC-BSD + CPanel would be the way to go. Would there be other BSD-based alternatives? I always do upgrades and configure services through the shell and I am not aware too much about the GUI alternatives... Thanks! ___ 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: random generated password
If the purpose is to make login unusable, starring the password is the only 100% safe way... On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet. Probably doesn't matter if the purpose is to make login unusable. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Michael == Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes: Michael dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c [:alnum:] Michael '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z' Michael will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example. I prefer openssl rand -base64 6 to get an 8-char password from a fairly large set of sensible characters. Each multiple of 3 results in 4 characters in the output. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion ___ 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 ___ 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: FreeBSD WIFI USB adapter
Isn't the Intel 3000 AGN supported by FreeBSD? I thought it was? On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:27:29 - b...@taiotoshi.org articulated: Folks: I have a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a broadcom wifi adapter built in. I've had no luck trying to compile in the BWI option into the kernel to get it to work and think that buying a cheap usb WIFI adapter is the quickest way to make wireless 802.11 b/g work. Realizing that some chip sets are better supported than others, I was hoping some list subscribers might be able to identify currently offered USB WIFI adapters that they know to work. I will then purchase one that has a good track record. Any suggestions/comments on adapters that work would be greatly appreciated. Basically, stay away form any N devices. Even the cheapest WIFI's offer N today, so be sure to purchase one that doesn't support it or else in all probability you will not be able to secure a driver for it. I know that sucks; however, it is what it is. It is also the reason I totally gave up attempting to use FreeBSD on any modern Laptop. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ 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 ___ 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: How to use gui
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sudhakar K featu...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use gui desktop. Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new to freebsd. Hi. Welcome to FreeBSD! By default FreeBSD takes the minimalistic approach of not installing possibly unneeded dependencies, so this is why there is no X server and window manager by default. To install some, you should read the FreeBSD handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/) and particularly the Chapters 4 and 5. Or you could always install PC-BSD, which is based on FreeBSD and which installs and configure X and a window manager by default. -- %-- *Sudhakar K* --% http://www.featuriz.com If you think, you can. ___ 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 ___ 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
What is going on with the DNS for the Canadian FreeBSD Mirrors?
Hi, does someone know why the hostnames for the Canadian FreeBSD mirrors can no longer be resolved? Thanks! ___ 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: Alternative windowmanagers
For me fluxbox is the way to go, since it is very light, has good key binding configuration and can be configured very easily. The only thing that I miss is the true transparency feature of Compiz, which can be quite useful sometimes, for example to quickly compare plots. Xfce is next on my list, since it got lots of features without being too heavy... On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Christian Barthel b...@nyx.user-mode.org wrote: Hello, I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big mistake. And there are also rumors that Gnome will be Linux only. Maybe, we will never see Gnome3 under FreeBSD, but this is not a tragedy :) I am not very interested in eyecandy: I want a stable and fast wm (less memory and cpu, quick access to important places), different workspaces, and it should be configurable with ordinary files. Of course, It must run under FreeBSD. I sniffed into AfterStep, fvwm2 and fluxbox (I don't want to use KDE). I think, fluxbox is a nice wm and for my future, it will be the default wm for me. It's also very fast and easy to configure. Are there any other window manager worth looking? What is your window manager? -- Christian Barthel Public-Key: http://bc.user-mode.org/bc.asc Mail: b...@nyx.user-mode.org Web: http://bc.user-mode.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 ___ 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: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
Hi, I would install CUPS and use the PPD file recommended on openprinting.org (http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1030D). Cheers, Pierre-Luc On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get text printed using eg # lptest 20 5 | lpr -Plp If I try to print the postscript program given in the handbook %!PS 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke 310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont (Is this thing working?) show showpage # cat ps-file |lpr -Plp I get the whole text of the file not just Is this thing working?. The printer has various emulations, it is set to PCL 6 and I can't change it (not my printer) Printing from OpenOffice just produces screeds of garbage, starting with %!PS so I presume the text of the postscript that OO has produced. The bit I'm stuck on is in section 9.4.1.3 Simulating PostScript on Non PostScript Printers (which I presume is what I need), specifically setting the device. gs -h doesn't show this printer or any Kyocera printer. So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I'm using 8.1-RELEASE, openoffice.org-3.2.1, ghostscript8-8.71_6 thanks Chris ___ 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 ___ 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
List of Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates...
Hi, I am working on a network which uses a http/ftp proxy that prompts by default for user permission before downloading any file. In order to be able to keep my system up-to-date (FreeBSD and ports), I have to white list the FreeBSD servers and directories that need to be accessible, because otherwise I can only download files through a web browser, which is obviously extremely painful. Also only the HTTP and FTP protocols are allowed on my network, so CVSUP is not allowed. So my current plan is to update FreeBSD using the following tools: 1-Port directory update through portsnap 2-FreeBSD src update through CTM 3-Port updates through distfiles and/or packages I think 1- and 2- are quite straightforward. To allow 1- I need to white list the whole content of http://portsnap.freebsd.org/ . To allow 2- I need to white list the content of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/ . That should be sufficient, right? The main issue I have though is with 3-. MASTER_SITE_BACKUP and MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE variables are no longer recognized in /etc/make.conf, right? How can I force FreeBSD to pull distfiles and packages from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports ? Also what is the difference between ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles and ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles ? I guess one of the directories is aliased to point to the other, right? Thanks! ___ 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
Required HTTP/FTP Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates?
Hi, I am working on a network which uses a http/ftp proxy that prompts by default for user permission before downloading any file. In order to be able to keep my system up-to-date (FreeBSD and ports), I have to white list the FreeBSD servers and directories that need to be accessible, because otherwise I can only download files through a web browser, which is obviously extremely painful. Also only the HTTP and FTP protocols are allowed on my network, so CVSUP is not allowed. So my current plan is to update FreeBSD using the following tools: 1-Port directory update through portsnap 2-FreeBSD src update through CTM 3-Port updates through distfiles and/or packages I think 1- and 2- are quite straightforward. To allow 1- I need to white list the whole content of http://portsnap.freebsd.org/ . To allow 2- I need to white list the content of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/ . That should be sufficient, right? The main issue I have though is with 3-. MASTER_SITE_BACKUP and MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE variables are no longer recognized in /etc/make.conf, right? How can I force FreeBSD to pull distfiles and packages from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports ? Also what is the difference between ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles and ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles ? I guess one of the directories is aliased to point to the other, right? Thanks! ___ 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: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200 Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org пишет: Hi, I've got a new box running 8.2-stable with amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver. Quite often when watching video on youtube the box freeze (no panic). Are there some known problems with this kind of configuration on amd64? (Works fine on my old laptop using 8.2/i386) I don't know where is problem, but one time the machine crashed just after a pkill of npviewer.bin (they were in the futex state), so it could be the linuxulator? I have encountered in the system exactly the same problem uname -a FreeBSD nonamehost 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r221598: Sat May 7 17:28:18 EEST 2011 ivan@nonamehost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mk9 amd64 pciconf -lv|grep Ge device = 'Geforce 8400M GS (unknown)' pkg_info|grep nvidi nvidia-driver-270.41.06 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren dmesg|grep NVRM NVRM: Xid (:01:00): 13, 000a 8297 19d0 003c 0100 they were observed for nearly all nvidia drivers for amd64... I tried to change the different options: setenv VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1 - ~/.cshrc Option Xinerama False and Option Xinerama 0 - /etc/X11/xorg.conf cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg OverrideGPUValidation=false AutoUpdateDisable=true EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0 FullScreenDisable=false and it seems to me it helped for flashplayer... but the situation as a whole wants the best, because these problems continue with using VDPAU so I'm leaning that cause these problems in drivers... sorry for my english... ___ 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 I have had the same problem as well in the past when I tried killing npviewer.bin . Also using an NVidia card on amd64... Thanks ___ 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: kernel and buildworld questions
Hi, If you initially compiled your ports using the -p option of portupgrade, then using the -P option of portupgrade will install the ports using the package files that you have generated rather than fetching them from the server. If you want to fetch the binaries rather than recompile it on your system, make sure to delete any package from /usr/ports/packages/All before using portupgrade -afkP On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: Hello, I just arrived to FreeBSD soon after I met silent data corruption on one of my software raid mirrors and went looking ZFS capable OS. So far I like it, I suppose I will migrate, however some issues appeared already. First of all, I think this manual doesn't work anymore: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition I did it very precise multiple times and I tried the other version too (create zroot /dev/ad0s3a vs. create zroot /dev/ad0s3). After googling a while I think the MBR bootloader just doesn't work for pool version 15+. It hangs on boot. I tried with 8.2 installer, snapshot and PC-BSD too. I ended up UFS boot + ZFS with PCBSD install disk (but FreeBSD install). Later I will try GPT manually. My question is that does the FreeBSD kernel and its loader use some kind of checksuming? Initially my move to FreeBSD was inspired by the fear of bit rot. Maybe it seems to be paranoid but I would like to be sure that everything loads in perfect condition. Even the kernel image. Is it checked somehow in case of UFS boot? After installing the system I upgraded it to the current release by the manual. Upgraded zpool to v28. I installed Xorg, KDE and E17 from ports. Everything was fine and working. Then I played with /etc/make.conf and accidentally set incorrect CPU type (I missed my laptop with my desktop). I set athlon64 instead of core2. After some installation and testing I realized that cvsup stops with signal 4. So does 'rvm install 1.9.2' (ruby userspace installer). Other things like Xorg and KDE were still working. I decided to repair the system instead of reinstalling. Not because I have anything valuable on it. Just because I would like to learn FreeBSD fast and I think that fixing errors helps more than blind reinstall with a GUI. In my dmesg I see this: pid 2780 (cvsup), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) pid 8865 (cvsup), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) pid 27368 (miniruby), uid 1001: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) pid 34725 (cvsup), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) Other commands don't do signal 4 (gcc, make, and related things work) it doesn't look really bad for me. First I thought the signal 4 is because some ports were compiled with bad cflags. Deinstalling and reinstalling didn't help. After some failed attempts I finally ran: portupgrade -afkP I think this replaced all my ports to binary packages. However I still got signal 4 for 'rvm install' and 'cvsup' both. I fixed my make.conf to 'core2' cpu and removed everthing else (cflags), and made: cd /usr/obj rm -rf * cd /usr/src make cleandir make cleandir make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot make installworld reboot And this didn't help. After this I was not sure even core2 is fine in make.conf (yes I have core2), I changed it to 'CPUTYPE?=native', without defining any cflags I rebuilt the world and the kernel and I still get signal 4. It does frustrate me. I should be able to fix it. Actually I am recompiling the world without any make.conf, but it takes hours. How should I repair my test system? What did I miss? Thank you. Mage ___ 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 ___ 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: kernel and buildworld questions
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: On 05/10/2011 08:10 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, If you initially compiled your ports using the -p option of portupgrade, then using the -P option of portupgrade will install the ports using the package files that you have generated rather than fetching them from the server. If you want to fetch the binaries rather than recompile it on your system, make sure to delete any package from /usr/ports/packages/All before using portupgrade -afkP That folder was empty for sure. When I have been running portupgrade -afkP I also ran ran 'ls -l | wc' in that folder to see how many packages I fetched. To check the progress. I had about 344 packages, all installed from ports and I ended up having 360 packages after the portupgrade command. All were downloaded except one or two (maybe xterm) which was installed from ports as the remote package was not the latest version. I also ran portsclean -C before switching to binary packages. I still have some history on console: [root@eden /usr/ports/packages/All]# ls -l total 156160 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel169882 Apr 27 22:18 aalib-1.4.r5_5.tbz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel630601 Apr 27 22:11 autoconf-2.68.tbz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3641 Apr 27 21:30 autoconf-wrapper-20101119.tbz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3509 Apr 27 21:30 automake-wrapper-20101119.tbz They are dated Apr 27. I installed this system 3-4 days ago. Also 'rvm install 1.9.2' drops signal 4. I think it only uses make and gcc. However, make buildworld and buildkernel finishes successfully. I wouldn't like to give up. Mage ___ 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 By the way you don't really need to use the cvsup package anymore, as there is now the csup command that is part of FreeBSD. Regarding the core dumps, maybe you should tried running portsclean -PLD to remove old packages, libraries and distfiles from your system.If you can reproduce easily the core dumps, maybe you can find which libraries causes the processes to crash using gdb ___ 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: kernel and buildworld questions
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: On 05/10/2011 08:35 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: By the way you don't really need to use the cvsup package anymore, as there is now the csup command that is part of FreeBSD. Regarding the core dumps, maybe you should tried running portsclean -PLD to remove old packages, libraries and distfiles from your system.If you can reproduce easily the core dumps, maybe you can find which libraries causes the processes to crash using gdb Thank you for helping. I tried: [root@eden ~]# cvsup sup_standard Connected to cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org Updating collection src-all/cvs Edit src/bin/sh/expand.c Illegal instruction: 4 (core dumped) [root@eden ~]# portsclean -PLD Detecting unreferenced distfiles... no unreferenced distfiles found. Cleaning out /usr/ports/packages... Delete /usr/ports/packages/All/ezm3-1.1_2.tbz [root@eden ~]# cvsup sup_standard Connected to cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org Updating collection src-all/cvs Edit src/bin/sh/expand.c Illegal instruction: 4 (core dumped) All my packages must be binary now as this system didn't exist in April: [mage@eden ~]$ cd /usr/ports/packages/All/ [mage@eden /usr/ports/packages/All]$ ls -l | grep Apr | wc 3513159 24777 [mage@eden /usr/ports/packages/All]$ ls -l | grep May | wc 0 0 0 Any of them would have date from May if built from ports. Where can I see the core dump? In dmesg I see only this: pid 12239 (cvsup), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) (Or 'miniruby' when I try to build ruby 1.9.2) Mage ___ 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 Since it core dumps with Illegal instruction, it looks like there cvsup is still using some of the ports you compiled with the wrong flags. I would try the following: 1) Rename your file /etc/make.conf such that the system stops using it (just in case there is still something wrong with it 2) run pkg_deinstall -Rf cvsup (or cvsup-without-gui, depending on what you installed exactly) 3) cd /usr/ports/cvsup (or cvsup-without-gui) 4) make clean install 5) Try cvsup again ___ 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: kernel and buildworld questions
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: Since it core dumps with Illegal instruction, it looks like there cvsup is still using some of the ports you compiled with the wrong flags. I would try the following: 1) Rename your file /etc/make.conf such that the system stops using it (just in case there is still something wrong with it 2) run pkg_deinstall -Rf cvsup (or cvsup-without-gui, depending on what you installed exactly) 3) cd /usr/ports/cvsup (or cvsup-without-gui) 4) make clean install 5) Try cvsup again I did these steps yesterday. The only difference was that I used pkg_cutleaves instead of pkg_deinstall (in several times to remove dependencies too). Removing the UTC zoneinfo file helped with cvsup singal 4. I have no idea why. I still can't compile ruby with rvm and gcc46: gcc46 -O3 -g -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long -fPIC -L. -rdynamic main.o dmydln.o dmyencoding.o dmyversion.o miniprelude.o array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o complex.o dir.o dln_find.o enum.o enumerator.o error.o eval.o load.o proc.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o node.o numeric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o random.o range.o rational.o re.o regcomp.o regenc.o regerror.o regexec.o regparse.o regsyntax.o ruby.o safe.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o strftime.o string.o struct.o time.o transcode.o util.o variable.o compile.o debug.o iseq.o vm.o vm_dump.o thread.o cont.o ascii.o us_ascii.o unicode.o utf_8.o newline.o close.o dmyext.o -lthr -lrt -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby *** Signal 4 I have libmap.conf as mentioned in the manual. Mage ___ 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 If the -O3 argument in the command above comes from your make.conf, it is possible that this level of optimisation causes gcc46 to crash for these particular input files... You can try lowering the level of optimisation as a whole when building ruby, or to reduce the optimisation level only when linking miniruby ___ 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: kernel and buildworld questions
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: On 05/10/2011 09:55 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: If the -O3 argument in the command above comes from your make.conf, it is possible that this level of optimisation causes gcc46 to crash for these particular input files... You can try lowering the level of optimisation as a whole when building ruby, or to reduce the optimisation level only when linking miniruby gcc46 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=native -fPIC -L. -rdynamic main.o dmydln.o dmyencoding.o dmyversion.o miniprelude.o array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o complex.o dir.o dln_find.o enum.o enumerator.o error.o eval.o load.o proc.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o node.o numeric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o random.o range.o rational.o re.o regcomp.o regenc.o regerror.o regexec.o regparse.o regsyntax.o ruby.o safe.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o strftime.o string.o struct.o time.o transcode.o util.o variable.o compile.o debug.o iseq.o vm.o vm_dump.o thread.o cont.o ascii.o us_ascii.o unicode.o utf_8.o newline.o close.o dmyext.o -lthr -lrt -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby *** Signal 4 gcc46 -O1 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=native -fPIC -L. -rdynamic main.o dmydln.o dmyencoding.o dmyversion.o miniprelude.o array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o complex.o dir.o dln_find.o enum.o enumerator.o error.o eval.o load.o proc.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o node.o numeric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o random.o range.o rational.o re.o regcomp.o regenc.o regerror.o regexec.o regparse.o regsyntax.o ruby.o safe.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o strftime.o string.o struct.o time.o transcode.o util.o variable.o compile.o debug.o iseq.o vm.o vm_dump.o thread.o cont.o ascii.o us_ascii.o unicode.o utf_8.o newline.o close.o dmyext.o -lthr -lrt -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby *** Signal 4 I the meanwhile I made a new world, I will try that too. ___ 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 It is not necessarily the -O. It can also be the -march=native ... ___ 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: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2011 15:21:07 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200 Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org пишет: Hi, I've got a new box running 8.2-stable with amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver. Quite often when watching video on youtube the box freeze (no panic). Are there some known problems with this kind of configuration on amd64? (Works fine on my old laptop using 8.2/i386) I don't know where is problem, but one time the machine crashed just after a pkill of npviewer.bin (they were in the futex state), so it could be the linuxulator? I have encountered in the system exactly the same problem uname -a FreeBSD nonamehost 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r221598: Sat May 7 17:28:18 EEST 2011 ivan@nonamehost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mk9 amd64 pciconf -lv|grep Ge device = 'Geforce 8400M GS (unknown)' pkg_info|grep nvidi nvidia-driver-270.41.06 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren dmesg|grep NVRM NVRM: Xid (:01:00): 13, 000a 8297 19d0 003c 0100 they were observed for nearly all nvidia drivers for amd64... I tried to change the different options: setenv VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1 - ~/.cshrc Option Xinerama False and Option Xinerama 0 - /etc/X11/xorg.conf cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg OverrideGPUValidation=false AutoUpdateDisable=true EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0 FullScreenDisable=false and it seems to me it helped for flashplayer... but the situation as a whole wants the best, because these problems continue with using VDPAU so I'm leaning that cause these problems in drivers... sorry for my english... ___ 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 I have had the same problem as well in the past when I tried killing npviewer.bin . Also using an NVidia card on amd64... Thanks ___ 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 Are you guys using nspluginwrapper-devel? Since I started using it I have no more freezes in firefox and no more dangling npviewer.bin processes. YouTube plays fine for as many videos as I want. By the way, I never experienced system freezes even when I was using a non-devel wrapper. Only firefox froze with watching flash videos. All I had to do was to kill it and kill the npviewer.bins. My system: FreeBSD Papi 8.2-STABLE Tue May 3 13:17:39 BRT 2011 amd64 NVIDIA Driver Version: 270.41.06 device = 'NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (G92)' -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) I am using the non-devel version of nspluginwrapper. On my system, flash causes firefox to hang for maybe 10-20 seconds sometimes, but this resolves by itself... I think the problem that was originally identified and that I am also experiencing is not necessarily the same as what you are describing, although it is nice to know that the hanging problems might be gone with nspluginwrapper-devel. Usually when I kill npviewer.bin though, it is to prevent it from generating CPU load... Thanks ___ 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: Options for Secondary DNS Service?
Donating is an option yes. Any suggestion for a reliable free service? Thanks! On 04/11/2011 12:15 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: whats the org ? could consider domating On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net mailto:pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: Hi, I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion? It is not for a non-profit organisation so I am not necessarily looking for a free solution, but I am wondering if there are reliable solutions for less than what dyndns charges ($40 /year/zone). Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailto: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 mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.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: Options for Secondary DNS Service?
I was more looking for a slave server, since it would prefer to keep my primary server... Thanks! On 04/11/2011 06:10 AM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: Hi, I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion? It is not for a non-profit organisation so I am not necessarily looking for a free solution, but I am wondering if there are reliable solutions for less than what dyndns charges ($40 /year/zone). Thanks! If you're able/willing to transfer your domain to gandi.net, they offer free secondary dns service. It is enabled by adding ns6.gandi.net as one of the nameservers. I've been using it without any issues for a few years with djbdns as primary server. - Max ___ 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
Options for Secondary DNS Service?
Hi, I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion? It is not for a non-profit organisation so I am not necessarily looking for a free solution, but I am wondering if there are reliable solutions for less than what dyndns charges ($40 /year/zone). Thanks! ___ 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: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux
I guess part of it must have something to do with how the devices are identified by the FreeBSD kernel vs linux. I know also that when using a ZFS boot partition, it takes a lot longer to my system to boot compared to UFS... On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my laptop and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster than FreeBSD. I don't talk about the init/rc script but only kernel initialisation. For linux kernel it's around 5-6 seconds vs 15-18 seconds for FreeBSD. Why FreeBSD is so slower than Linux to boot the kernel? Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ 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 ___ 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: [[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Foundation Announces New Project]
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote: - Forwarded message from Deb Goodkin d...@freebsdfoundation.org - Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:35:23 -0700 From: Deb Goodkin d...@freebsdfoundation.org To: freebsd-annou...@freebsd.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Foundation Announces New Project The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Konstantin Belousov has been awarded a grant to implement support of GEM, KMS, and DRI for Intel Drivers. This project is being co-sponsored by iXsystems. snip W00t! Konstantin, please let me know if I can be of any help. I have 8-STABLE on an Intel i3 M 350 with integrated HD graphics that I'll gladly move to 9-CURRENT if I can help this effort in any way. Thanks to the Foundation for funding this! Time to go contribute again. Yes a big thumbs up for working on this issue!! -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com ___ 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: wine questions
Linux emulation on FreeBSD is not really emulation, in the sense that it does not create virtual hardware. Some linux softwares run even faster on FreeBSD than Linux... My worry would be more to make sure that USB communication works through the emulation layers... On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jarrod Slick jarrod...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/27/11 11:48 AM, Fred wrote: Hello, I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a PC through USB. Unfortunately, the user software that make it go only runs on Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the Earth excuse for an OS which I do not use. Is it likely to work ok using wine? What type of programs do not work well with wine? There is a supported, commercial version of wine that runs on Linux. Would I be better off buying that and running it on the FBSD Linux emulation? Best regards, Fred ___ 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 Chaining emulators just sounds like a bad idea; I would guess that your risk of complications increases exponentially when doing this, and I would bet anything that your performance decreases exponentially as well. Also, I doubt the company that sells the commercial version of wine would support their software when running on untested platforms (e.g., FBSD w/ Linux Emulation). Further, that company probably has a list of supported software and won't vouch for their product's ability to run anything outside of that list. If you absolutely must run it under a *nix, I would go with Linux for this project. If you'd set dogma aside, though, you would probably see that Windows is your best bet for this project. A close second (if you had all the time in the world) would be writing drivers yourself for your desired platform. ___ 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 ___ 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: zoneedit.com
The legacy platform seems to still work for me: http://legacy.zoneedit.com I had sent some money though to have free service for my existing domains forever. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: I have used zoneedit.com's DNS zone service for about 9 years and it handles a number of static IPs for my companies. Now, suddenly they have created a new platform and migrating accounts from the legacy platform to the new. The legacy site doen't work anymore, just confirms account and redirects to the new site. Are there any members here using zoneedit.com and having trouble with their login? I cannot get my login to work and they won't solve the problem. They say they have reset my password but it doesn't work. The legacy web site says my account has been migrated, yet the login doesn't work. The legacy site responds to my normal email address used for the entire 9 years, but the new platform only responds with an error that the email doesn't exist. The service still works, but no access to manage my zones. (Yes, I copy/paste the login so no typos.) I've sent numerous request for help since Jan 12th but only get the robot response with the same information about responding in 24 hours -- but, they never respond. Now, here I sit without access to numerous domain zones I need to edit with any way to access them. This is hurting my biz. So, anyone with this issue out there or know of an alternative company to replace zoneedit? Thanks for any response (no robots pls -- heh, heh) (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american ___ 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 ___ 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: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?
I am interested to use CUDA as well for a scientific environment. What about CUDA 64bit on FreeBSD? Is it excluded completely because of the lack of support for Linux 64bit emulation? Thanks! 2010/11/10 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com App Deb wrote: 2010/11/10 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux facility to ensure having the software and tools I need for my work. I'm looking for a Linux distribution that is similar handled like FreeBSD, where I'm able to rebuild the whole system from sources, not even the the Linux kernel, also the GNU tools and the packages. Maybe there are some people out here having already taken this step. Any suggestion is appreciated, The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux compatibilty. So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. Have you tested this first hand? Is there 32bit Fermi? (Sorry, but I don't think the HPC world can really live off 32bit applications) There's 2 types of code in a cuda application there's host code produced by the native compiler (gcc/intel/pathscale.. etc) and the device code.. produced by nvidia's toolchain.. I would make a pretty nice bet that the nvidia userland toolchain will not compile code on freebsd right now.. (not be negative here, but I'm intimately familiar with it..) Worse case you'd be copying code built on linux over and also the runtime libs.. (not to mention debugger, profiler. etc) Anyway.. as mentioned before we'll have a native working solution before the years end and anyone interested to help alpha/beta test is welcome to contact me offlist.. ./C ___ 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 ___ 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: Too many binary packages are missing
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 10:51, Frank Shute wrote: gcc is in base as cc(1). There are a metric ton of qt4 ports and they are not basic in that they are not required if you don't use KDE or its applications. Base has 4.2.1 and not updating (waiting for LLVM conversion maybe). So many ports require various gcc versions to be installed. Mostly to build them at buildtime, and libraries at runtime. And turns out that binaries for these extra gcc packages are missing for some reason. And QT is one of the major graphics toolkits. Various random packages use them as well as KDE. Pretty basic thing. It's a case of having space on the servers IIRC. Also some require too many options to be set at build time (probably the problem with qt). I know it's the reason why OO.o is not packaged - too many languages other options. I am not sure how Debian packages handle this. They seem to support all the same options and are always in binaries. I think it would be nice if at least one binary package was available with the most typical dependencies. For example, I am not a native English speaker, but I would not mind using the English version OO if I could download it as a binary package... Just my $0.02... Yuri ___ 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 ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for CUDA), but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and netbooks. If I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't really see the point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to use FreeBSD on my laptops/netbooks but these problems always made me fall back to Linux... I still use FreeBSD as the only OS on my desktop computers though... On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there are others, precludes me from seriously thinking about installing FreeBSD on a new laptop. The one PC that I have FreeBSD installed on is connected via Ethernet cable to my LAN. Once that PC is replaced by year's end with a more powerful, and wireless enabled unit, I am afraid my experiment with FreeBSD will come to a close. At present it certainly will not support the wireless card installed, and I am not even sure if it will support all of the other hardware either. I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play the blame the manufacturers whine. If that were factually correct, then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. The bottom line is that FreeBSD, if it is to continue to be considered a viable alternative operating system, must stay current in today's market. Many posts that I have viewed on other forums seem to feel that FreeBSD is sadly, whether do to bad choices such as those related to GPL licenses, or failure to properly gage today's market trends, is slipping into an abyss. So. What's the connection between freebsd.u...@seibercom.net, carmel...@hotmail.com and ges...@yahoo.com, who all post through scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need to keep adding them one at a time? Jonathan ___ 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 ___ 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: GUI Suggested?
I love Fluxbox too for its lightweightness and configurability. If you find it too minimalistic, I think that XFCE can be a good compromise also since it runs quite fast compared to KDE and Gnome while having most of their functionalities. XFCE is also compatible with Compiz... On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:39 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what path to follow? KDE? any other? Using fluxbox here for ages (used olvwm, ctwm, and fvwm[2] before. It's low overhead, very low cpu/disk/memory footprint, very fast and reasonabley easy to configure and customize. IMHO, KDE Gnome are too heavyweight, but that's really a matter of taste (and adequate hardware). Jorge Biquez Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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 ___ 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
Help needed : FreeBSD 8.1 / xorg / xf86-video-intel / dell400
Hello, I've a dell d400 laptop quite old but still usefull. I've upgraded to 8.1-RC2 which seem ok. It was perfectly functionnal with FreeBSD 8.0 and the freebsd-8.0-release packages. My usual way to upgrade packages is to pkg_delete -a pkg_add -r a list of my usual softwares which come from ports/i386/i386/packages-8.1-release/ which contain xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 xorg-7.5 It's impossible to have a graphical output (1) Using video-intel the system hang immediately without any message I've also tried to add : Option DRI off # [bool] Option NoAccel on # [bool] in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf Device section : still hang I've try to patch i830_display.c:i830_crtc_load_lut as suggested in another thread, the system does not hang but has a black screen (2) Using video-vesa X fail with a message : (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. I've put all the possible information here : http://henripierre.charles.free.fr/Xorg-Intel/ - pciconf -lv - xorg.conf - Xorg.0.log for intel driver, intel patched driver, vesa driver . I've tried to modify my initial xorg.conf without any success. Is there a solution, (even with a not accelerated solution) or am I obliged to downgrade to 8.0 to keep FreeBSD or install a modern ubuntu (troll inside :-) ? Any idea or clue ? Cheers -- HPC http://ticetmensonges.blog.free.fr ___ 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
No sounds with OpenOffice 3.1.1_1 slide shows...
Hi, I have compiled OpenOffice 3.1.1_1 using the port on FreeBSD i386 8.0-RELEASE, and there is no sound with slide shows. The sound works fine with vlc and with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 . What could be missing? I tested with another box running FreeBSD amd64 8.0-STABLE and I have the same problem... Thanks! ___ 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
Memory disk a la mfsroot?
Hi, I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the file to the memory disk, but I am looking for a solution that can be configured via fstab. Thanks! ___ 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: Memory disk a la mfsroot?
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the file to the memory disk, but I am looking for a solution that can be configured via fstab. Yes. See mdconfig(8) -- there are examples in there of exactly what you want to do. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkt0HlYACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyprwCfQj9DwqHtLoDx2ZWCrhglFDfH dR4AoIEw3CyS2zPajdi4PLGC7aLHj5aI =Xr7U -END PGP SIGNATURE- I might be missing something in the mdconfig man page, but in the examples I see they always allow modifications to the backing file. As I said I am looking for a solution where the backing file is only read, but I want to mount the memory disk in read-write mode. Also, I want only the modifications to be kept in the RAM, not the initial files. Thanks! ___ 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: Memory disk a la mfsroot?
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 15:39, RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the file to the memory disk, but I am looking for a solution that can be configured via fstab. Yes. See mdconfig(8) -- there are examples in there of exactly what you want to do. I don't think covers what he is asking for. I think you would need a union filsystem that overlays a swap-backed filesystem on top of a file-backed filesystem - if that's possible. Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only because it's read-only. You could mount a FFS image read-only in exactly the same way -- I think there's a 'last mounted on' field in the backing file image that will be updated if the it is writable (even if the fs itself is mounted ro) but that's not the right answer either. Basically, you're going to have to mount and initialise as two separate operations as far as I can see. By this do you mean that I would need to copy the whole content of the read-only filesystem to the memory disk? I looked at the man page for mount_unionfs and there is a big warning saying that it is a bad idea to use it, so I guess I will pass on this solution... What I am trying to do basically is to mount a filesystem from a CD but I want to use a memory disk to allow write operations. I would basically want the filesystem to behave like a regular read-write filesystem, but not have to copy everything into a memory disk. What does mfs_root do exactly in the official FreeBSD boot CDs? Does it copy the content of mfsroot.gz into a memory disk? That filesystem is so small that I guess it can be copied without any problem... Thanks! Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkt0KDsACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxZaACcCIsHKNBckWDFzRWDJqEH/vVC Pd4AnRp74n7+Jl+z28VwBEYqpfQmNVJ0 =lxug -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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 ___ 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: Memory disk a la mfsroot?
Matthew Seaman wrote:
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On 11/02/2010 17:10, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a
cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only
because it's read-only. You could mount a FFS image read-only in
exactly the same way -- I think there's a 'last mounted on' field in the
backing file image that will be updated if the it is writable (even if
the fs itself is mounted ro) but that's not the right answer either.
Basically, you're going to have to mount and initialise as two separate
operations as far as I can see.
By this do you mean that I would need to copy the whole content of the
read-only filesystem to the memory disk?
Yes.
I looked at the man page for mount_unionfs and there is a big warning
saying that it is a bad idea to use it, so I guess I will pass on this
solution...
Ah -- that warning is probably a bit more alarming than it really
needs to be nowadays. unionfs can be used pretty effectively for many
purposes. Try it and see what happens is the best policy.
What I am trying to do basically is to mount a filesystem from a CD but
I want to use a memory disk to allow write operations. I would basically
want the filesystem to behave like a regular read-write filesystem, but
not have to copy everything into a memory disk. What does mfs_root do
exactly in the official FreeBSD boot CDs? Does it copy the content of
mfsroot.gz into a memory disk? That filesystem is so small that I guess
it can be copied without any problem...
mfs_root does exactly that: it creates a memory based filesystem and
then expands a tarball of the system into it.
One approach you might consider is mounting your CD image read-only as
per usual, but creating memory-based /tmp and /var partitions[*]. Most
of the usual root and /usr filesystems don't need to be read-write at
all. There are only a few special locations that do and those will need
special handling. You will need to initialise your memory-backed /var
partiton by expanding a skeleton structure into it, but that's going to
be pretty small really. You will also need to make provision for editing
various files under /etc -- you might be able to create a /var/etc and
replace the real files in /etc with symlinks to copies in /var/etc.
Possibly. Or you could just have /var/etc nullfs mounted on top of /etc.
I've read reports from people setting up such things -- a while back
now, but as far as I recall they were on the whole successful.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] There are already scripts to do this sort of thing within the base
system, although primarily aimed at diskless systems.
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Thanks,
so I think I will do the following:
1-Create a mfsroot.gz with empty /usr, /var, /boot/kernel and
/boot/modules directories and have it mounted through loader.conf
2-Create a rc.d script that is called immediately after rc.d/conf and
that does the following:
-Mount /usr using mdmfs and an independent backing file on the CD (so
this way the whole content of /usr would not be loaded into RAM)
-Create a 500MB memory disk and mount it in /memdisk
-Create /memdisk/{var,tmp,root,home,usr}
-mount_nullfs /memdisk/var and /memdisk/tmp on /var and /tmp respectively
-copy the content of /root and /home (i.e. just a few config files) to
their respective directories in /memdisk
-mount_nulls /memdisk/root and /memdisk/home on /root and /home
respectively
-mount_unionfs /memdisk/usr over /usr
3-use populate_var=YES in rc.conf to automatically populate the /var
directory
So using this I would have a read-write file system without loading the
whole content of /usr into RAM, I would minimize memory usage by
regrouping all the writable directories into a single memory disk and I
would also minimize the amount of data that is copied from the CD to the
memory. Does it sound like a good plan?
I read something about a limit of 45MB for mfsroot.gz to prevent kernel
crashing. Have you ever heard about this?
Thanks!
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How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?
Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? Thanks! ___ 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: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?
Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? Thanks! You just use the boot/cdboot file from the official CD/DVD, like this (to write to a DVD) growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -speed 16 -J -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -iso-level 3 path-to-your-files or use mkisofs with similar options to write an iso image, i.e. mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -iso-level 3 -o /path/to/your.iso path-to-your-files ___ 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: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?
I just realized that cdboot does not contain the kernel as boot.flp used to, so I guess /boot/kernel has to be there... So it does not seem to work with mkisofs. I did mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b ./cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom -o custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i386_cd.iso custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i386_cd and it throws: mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image './cdboot' I tried with the absolute path for cdboot and it does not help either. From the mkisofs man page it says that -no-emul-boot has to be added if the size of the image file is not 1200, 1440, or 2880 kB. I noticed that the cdboot file is only 1.2 kB, so I guess -no-emul-boot is required... Do you have an idea what could be wrong? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? Thanks! You just use the boot/cdboot file from the official CD/DVD, like this (to write to a DVD) growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -speed 16 -J -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -iso-level 3 path-to-your-files or use mkisofs with similar options to write an iso image, i.e. mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -iso-level 3 -o /path/to/your.iso path-to-your-files ___ 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: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?
What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 minus the fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs part . I just set up rc.conf to configure the ethernet interface with DHCP and load sshd then I am now creating an iso image with the boot image. So at the root of the CD I will have the boot directory containing the kernel subdirectory. I figured out about the boot image error from mkisofs. I had to copy cdboot into the actual boot directory for the image and the path specified by the -b option is relative to the root directory of the CD... So should this work according to you? Thanks! Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:39 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? How exactly are you creating your image? The basic directories in a FreeBSD install iso are 'boot' (containing the kernel that will be used for the CD boot) and a directory with the name of the release e.g. 7.2-RELEASE. If you wish to include packages they should be in a 'packages' directory on the root of the CD. If live functionality is required (FreeBSD livefs CD) there are more directories, essentially resembling the structure of an installed base system. ___ 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: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?
Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 minus the fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs part . I just set up rc.conf to configure the ethernet interface with DHCP and load sshd then I am now creating an iso image with the boot image. So at the root of the CD I will have the boot directory containing the kernel subdirectory. I figured out about the boot image error from mkisofs. I had to copy cdboot into the actual boot directory for the image and the path specified by the -b option is relative to the root directory of the CD... So should this work according to you? Thanks! It is going to be an interesting experiment. The official install CD/DVDs boot from boot/kernel on the CD but the root filesystem used is actually in an mfs (memory disk). Also it executes sysinstall instead of init at the end of the boot sequence. I suppose you can mount the root filesystem from CD as read-only but you will have to handle things like /var and /usr and you will probably need some writing capability. I am sure this can be done in more than a few ways though I've never researched this myself. yes I did some checks and it seems that sysinstall is loaded via the mfsroot instruction in loader.conf that somehow loads /stand/boot_crunch in the mfsroot image. If I change the content of loader.conf I think it should behave like a regular installation (?). I have also written a special fstab: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/iso9660/FreeBSD_Custom / cd9660 ro,noatime 0 0 md /etc_tmpmfs rw,-s4M,nosuid,noatime 0 0 /etc_tmp/etcnullfs rw 0 0 md /tmpmfs rw,-s16M,nosuid,noatime 0 0 md /var/runmfs rw,-s4M,nosuid,noatime 0 0 md /var/logmfs rw,-s16M,nosuid,noatime 0 0 /proc /proc procfs rw,noauto 0 0 /tmp/var/tmpnullfs rw 0 0 As you can see I do not have any hardcoded device name. I use the CD label, which is used by geom_label to create a device file in /dev/iso9660/. So in order to have geom_label loaded as early as possible I have added geom_label_load=YES in loader.conf. I hope this will work... ___ 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: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?
So I just tested the CD and it works perfectly. It boots, automatically configure the interface and launches the SSH daemon. For me this is the perfect tool to perform remote installations/fixing of FreeBSD. I just send the compressed 100 MB ISO image to someone, have him to boot the machine using the CD and then I log on the machine with SSH and do whatever I want. The only thing I had to do in addition to what I mentioned in my previous emails is to create a script in rc.d that runs just after root and that does the following: mount /etc_tmp #Mount memory disk to /etc_tmp cd /etc_tmp tar -cp -C /etc -f - ./ | tar -xpf - #Copy content of /etc to /etc_tmp mount /etc #nullfs mount /etc_tmp over /etc Obviously I have also changed the root password and created a user that is a member of the wheel group. Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 minus the fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs part . I just set up rc.conf to configure the ethernet interface with DHCP and load sshd then I am now creating an iso image with the boot image. So at the root of the CD I will have the boot directory containing the kernel subdirectory. I figured out about the boot image error from mkisofs. I had to copy cdboot into the actual boot directory for the image and the path specified by the -b option is relative to the root directory of the CD... So should this work according to you? Thanks! It is going to be an interesting experiment. The official install CD/DVDs boot from boot/kernel on the CD but the root filesystem used is actually in an mfs (memory disk). Also it executes sysinstall instead of init at the end of the boot sequence. I suppose you can mount the root filesystem from CD as read-only but you will have to handle things like /var and /usr and you will probably need some writing capability. I am sure this can be done in more than a few ways though I've never researched this myself. ___ 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
[FR]Lien mort sur install-pre (floppies)
Bonjour, Sur http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr/books/handbook/install-pre.html , un lien indiqué ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/) est mort. Cordialement, Pierre-Yves Le Borgne ___ 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: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?
Awesome! I have been waiting for years for this driver, so a few more months won't make a difference. This was the major factor preventing me from fully enjoy FreeBSD for workstation usage. Uwe Laverenz wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin schrieb: an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get? NVidia will release an official driver for FreeBSD/amd64 in the near future: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545page=37 If you can't wait, and I guess that's the case, you culd try the free nv alternative named nouveau. Uwe ___ 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 ___ 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: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?
Thanks well this won't work on amd64 until Nvidia releases a driver. I was waiting for the amd64 driver to buy a new video card... Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:28:19 -0500 From: pldro...@pldrouin.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be? Hi, I am using the nv xorg driver on 8.0 amd64 with a GeForce 6600 (CPU is an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get? the default nv driver with xorg does not fully utilize the nvidia GPU. install one of the nvidia drivers from /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver* make sure you pick the one that still has support for your card in it as they cull older cards from the newer drivers. judging by nvidia.coms driver lookup, the highest driver that supports the GeForce 6 series was 191.07 also make sure to follow the extra instructions that you get after installing the driver if i remember correctly, theres a line you add to /boot/loader.conf and you change the xorg.conf file driver from nv to nvidia -Sean ___ 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 ___ 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
How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?
Hi, I am using the nv xorg driver on 8.0 amd64 with a GeForce 6600 (CPU is an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get? Thanks! ___ 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
How to display back trace automatically after seg fault?
Hi, How can I make FreeBSD to display automatically the backtrace of an executable after a segmentation fault (the same way Linux does it)? I prefer this option by default rather than a core dump. Thanks! ___ 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: Netbooks good for FreeBSD?
Hi, So far I have been able to get WiFi working on most netbooks I got, but honestly, FreeBSD is not the best for laptops. WiFi drivers are often a bit buggy (connection is dropping because of driver problems) and ACPI sleep modes never worked on my laptops. WiFi, ACPI sleep modes and graphic card support are the weakest points of FreeBSD for non-server usage according to me... Yuri wrote: I am thinking about buying a netbook. But I am afraid that WiFi wouldn't be supported. And all my previous attempts to make NDIS to work on FreeBD failed. Anybody has good experiences making netbooks work? Or better is there a hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD? Yuri ___ 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 ___ 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: Demande de renseignements
Bonjour, je crois bien que c'est possible. La license BSD est beaucoup plus permittive que la license GPL. En pratique je crois que la seule restriction est de ne pas alterer la notice. Il n'est pas obligatiore de rendre disponible le code source comme avec la license GPL. Le copyright complet est dans le fichier COPYRIGHT dans le dossier racine de FreeBSD. Pierre-Luc Drouin Jérémy SALMERON wrote: Bonsoir , Je souhaiterai distribuer une version modifiée de FreeBSD : non alteration du code source mais avec modification d'ordre graphique . Je souhaiterai la distribuer en bundle avec un périphérique nomade . Puis-je utiliser librement le système d'exploitation et le distribuer de cette manière ? Le cas échéant , quelles sont les obligations que je dois respecter afin de ne pas être en contradiction avec le copyright ? Je ne trouve pas de réponses sur le net , je m'en remets à vous . Cordialement Jérémy Salmeron I would like to sell a customized version of FreeBSD : no alteration but only a template modification . I would like to sell this product on a netbook. Could i use the OS and distribute like this way ? What are the rules that i must respect to be OK with the copyright ? I'm seeking on the net without finding answers I need your point Best Regards Jeremy Salmeron ___ 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 ___ 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
STOP state in top + segmentation fault and core dump?
Hi, When I run many heavily multi-threaded (1000+ threads/process) and memory intensive (1800 MB+/process) processes on FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, some of them get in STOP state in top and then seg fault and core dump. Are stop states in top caused by seg faults or it is the OS that stops the processes because they exceed some limit? I do not see any message about any limit being exceeded. The machine has 12GB of memory so it should be able to sustain 4 processes using 1800MB each of memory I guess (I have 12 GB of swap space anyway but it stays unused). Everything runs fine if I run a single process and I have never encountered such problems when running these on Linux. Anyone has an idea? I am using the default limits right now: limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize 33554432 kbytes stacksize524288 kbytes coredumpsize unlimited memoryuseunlimited vmemoryuse unlimited descriptors 11095 memorylocked unlimited maxproc 5547 sbsize unlimited swapsize unlimited Thank you! ___ 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
When is it worth enabling hyperthreading?
Hi, Could someone explain me in which cases it is useful to enable hyperthreading on a machine running FreeBSD 8.0 and in which other cases it is not a good idea? Is that possible that hyperthreading is disadvantageous unless the number of active (non-sleeping) threads is really high? For example, if I have an i7 CPU with 4 physical cores and that I run some multi-threaded code that has only 4 threads, it will run almost always (twice) slower with hyperthreading enabled than when I disable it in the BIOS. If I understand correctly, hyperthreading has the advantage of being able to do CPU context switching faster than the OS, but it does this context switching systematically instead of only when requested, so it slows things down unless the number of running (non-sleeping) threads is greater or equal to let say the number of physical threads x 1.5-1.75. Thanks! ___ 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: IRQ storm when trying to burn a CD/DVD with JMicron JMB363 controller and PATA DVD burner
Hi, so does anybody know what could be wrong with this? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, My motherboard (EVGA X58 Classified) has a JMicron JMB363 SATA300/PATA controller and it seems to be working fine with FreeBSD as long as I don't try burning a DVD or a CD with my PATA DVD burner, which is the only device hooked to the controller. However, when I try burning a CD or a DVD with either cdrecord or growisofs, I get the following: interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source ... I have seen a few emails on the mailing lists from people having the exact same issue with this controller 2 years ago, but I could not find any helpful reply. Is there any workaround for this? Thanks! ___ 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
IRQ storm when trying to burn a CD/DVD with JMicron JMB363 controller and PATA DVD burner
Hi, My motherboard (EVGA X58 Classified) has a JMicron JMB363 SATA300/PATA controller and it seems to be working fine with FreeBSD as long as I don't try burning a DVD or a CD with my PATA DVD burner, which is the only device hooked to the controller. However, when I try burning a CD or a DVD with either cdrecord or growisofs, I get the following: interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on irq17:; throttling interrupt source ... I have seen a few emails on the mailing lists from people having the exact same issue with this controller 2 years ago, but I could not find any helpful reply. Is there any workaround for this? Thanks! ___ 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
Newbie question about ASYNC communication with FTDI-based device (via uftdi)
Hi, I'm trying to hack the code of tbancontrol, a linux tool used to control t-balancer fan controllers that use FTDI FT232BL chips. It seems to be working fine on linux, but when I try to use it on FreeBSD, I noticed that read calls fail with Interruted system call. It seems there is something wrong with the SIGIO signal since it is generated as soon as tcsetattr is called. I guess there must be something wrong with either the way the device is opened or (more likely) the way the descriptor is configured, but I have very little experience with serial communication... Here is the main lines of the code related to initialization: tban-port = open(/dev/ttyU0, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK); ... saio.sa_handler = tban_signal_handler_IO; result = sigemptyset(saio.sa_mask); saio.sa_flags = 0; result = sigaction(SIGIO, saio, NULL); result = fcntl(tban-port, F_SETFL, FASYNC); ... tcgetattr(tban-port, (tban-oldtio)); ... memcpy(newtio,tban-oldtio,sizeof(struct termios)); /*I added this line to avoid the error EINVAL when calling tcsetattr below. This is probably not enough to set all flags properly :S */ ... newtio.c_cflag = intToBaud(tban-baudrate) /*baudrate is 19200*/ | CRTSCTS | intToDataBits(tban-databits) /*databits is 8*/ | intToStopBits(tban-stopBits) /*stopBits is 0*/ | CLOCAL | CREAD; newtio.c_iflag = IGNPAR; newtio.c_oflag = 0; newtio.c_lflag = 0; newtio.c_cc[VMIN] = 1; newtio.c_cc[VTIME] = 0; ... result = tcsetattr(tban-port, TCSANOW, newtio); /*SIGIO is generated (?)*/ ... result = write(tban-port, sndBuf, cmdLen); /*request device status*/ ... /*Initialize data availability flag to false*/ /*sleep 1 second*/ /*SIGIO is generated */ bytesread = read(tban-port, local_buf, sizeof(local_buf)); /*bytesread is -1, EINTR is generated*/ So does anybody know what could be wrong in this code? Thanks a lot! ___ 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: Missing man pages: gnupg
gnupg's binary is gpg2, and man gpg2 exists. :) Daniel Underwood wrote: Coming from Linux, I'm accustomed to using gpg. I installed the gnupg port (which I assume is virtually the same as Linux gpg). Doing $ man gnupg returns nothing. Doing $ which gnupg reveals that the port (or at least the binary) is in fact installed. But where are the gnupg man pages? If truly not installed, how can I install them? In general, how does one deal with missing man pages? One reason I left Linux (*officially* yesterday) is fragmented documentation. So this is extremely important to me. TIA, Daniel ___ 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Secure apache with php
Just build www/apache22 with WITH_MPM=itk and you'll have it. :) Then add something like this in each vhost: IfModule mpm_itk_module AssignUserId my_user my_group /IfModule Nicolas Letellier wrote: Le Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:36:11 +0200, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be a écrit : When I tested php in cgi, performances were bad. That's why, php_mod is better (in my case != It's not CGI, it's FastCGI. There is no performance loss if you use an opcode cacher (like x-cache). And is anyboy use mpm-itk ? I'm interested more with this solution than another php fix (like safe_mode, open_basedir or cgi/fastcie). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
How to get the user time of another running process on FreeBSD?
Hi, I would like to know how I can get the user time of another running process on FreeBSD? Ideally I would like to find a solution that would work as well on other *nix systems. So far the solutions I have found are specific to a given OS (format of proc filesystem, lock_getcpuclockid)... Thank you! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ 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: the yes comand
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Kurt Buff wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:06, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote:
Well , I noticed that, but it's a bit odd now isn't it. I mean,
what's the
sense of having some darn letter printer out forever ? I found it
kind of
silly If you ask me.
But, incredibly useful if you actually write shell scripts - many
programs want a 'y' for input from the stdin, and this will do that
for you.
Here's an example. When upgrading FreeBSD, especially over a large delta
in version numbers, you will frequently need to delete old files etc. that
are no longer part of the base system. You are provided with a mechanism
to do that, viz:
# cd /usr/src
# make check-old {prints out all old files, directories and
libraries to be deleted}
# make delete-old
{prompts you to delete anything apart from shlibs which it won't
touch}
However 'make delete-old' will ask you whether you want to delete each
and every individual file, which is tedious. If you decide from your
inspection of the 'make check-old' output that you don't want any of the
old files, you can just run:
# yes | make delete-old
Job done.
Cheers,
Matthew
Or you can also do:
# make BATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES=YES delete-old
;)
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Re: How to debug hot key disfuntion (on asus eepc) ?
Hello, On 2/11/08, Henri-Pierre Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an asus eepc 701, FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 + patch for the ath wifi connection. It work quite well, but I'm unable to use ALT+F5 which is supposed to swicth between LCD and VGA port (with or without ACPI enabled). I answer for myself : * It's an acpi related problem, but I still don't know how to debug this * A turnaround is a script with xrand. Boot FreeBSD with a vga connection. Start X (I personnaly use startxfce4 WITHOUT any xorg.conf). In an xterm type xrandr : You get xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1280 VGA connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 59.9 1280x960 59.9 1152x864 75.0 74.8 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x62474.6 800x60072.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x48075.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x40070.1 LVDS connected 800x480+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 800x48060.0*+ 640x48085.0 72.8 75.0 59.9 720x40085.0 640x40085.1 640x35085.1 TV disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) You can activate/desactivate the vga port with : xrandr --output VGA --off xrandr --output VGA --auto Thanks for : http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD Follow all the steps except for xorg.conf Then pick some ideas from http://www.di2.nu/software/eeetweaks.htm (xorg.conf and vga-toggle) You are done with a pretty cool screen : screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (375x300 millimeters) resolution:87x87 dots per inch depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root window id:0x7d depth of root window:24 planes The only annoying point is the network interface which doesn't work. (the wireless is ok) Any idea ? -- HPC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: How to debug hot key disfuntion (on asus eepc) ?
Hello, I have an asus eepc 701, FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 + patch for the ath wifi connection. It work quite well, but I'm unable to use ALT+F5 which is supposed to swicth between LCD and VGA port (with or without ACPI enabled). Of course, it works on xandros which is pre-installed. What can be done to track this problem ? Is it related to ACPI ? All the laptops I had before (dell, hp) worked out of the box for this point.T Thanks for any idea -- HPC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to delete a file?
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:45:14PM +0100, Jack Raats wrote: Due to an error I made the following file - -rw-r--r-- 1 jos jos0 Nov 19 15:34 - - -rw-r--r-- 1 jos jos 767 Nov 19 15:39 .cshrc drwx-- 3 jos jos 512 Nov 19 15:40 .imap How to delete the - file rm - doesnot work (even with root access) Jack Hello Jack, rm -- ^^ (dont forget to add two of them) -- Jean-Pierre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
don't read it
test message -- Jean-Pierre Trophardy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: don't read it
Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine for sending test messages. Subscribe to it and use it for test message sending. As you guest it was just for test message sending to THIS ONE. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Jean-Pierre Trophardy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why this script does not work as expected ?
Hi,
I'm trying to send dump files between 2 FreeBSD hosts ( 6.1 to 6.2 )
with this script :
#!/bin/sh
set -evx
#
# Launch nc in listen mode to recept datas on remote s-backup server.
#
/usr/bin/ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] \
/usr/bin/nc -lv 24864 \/backup/2007/02/s9_vol1_datas_20070216.dump
if [ ${?} -gt 0 ]; then
exit 1
fi
#read _ignore
#
# Dumping and sending datas to s-backup
#
/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/nice -n 20 /sbin/dump -C 16 -0 -f- /vol1 | \
/usr/bin/nc -v s-backup 24864
This dump should be ~20 Gb, but the the remote file is only filled with
the first 1024 bytes !
Am I doing something wrong or missing something here ?
Thanks for any help !
--
pf
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Re: Why this script does not work as expected ?
Kirk Strauser a écrit : On Saturday 17 February 2007 12:36, Pierre-Francois LAURAND wrote: /usr/bin/time /usr/bin/nice -n 20 /sbin/dump -C 16 -0 -f- /vol1 | \ /usr/bin/nc -v s-backup 24864 Try the -a option to dump, which tells it to output until it receives a write error. Otherwise, it tries to chop up the dumps into tape-sized pieces (even when writing to stdout), and the default tape size seems to be tiny. dump does not seem to be involved : On client : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ if (/usr/bin/ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ /usr/bin/nc -lv 24864 \/tmp/file.1m ); then \ /bin/dd if=/dev/random bs=512k count=2 | \ /usr/bin/nc -v s-backup 24864; fi On remote, I only have a 1024 bytes file size: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -l -rw-r- 1 backup operator -1024 17 feb 22:52 file.1m But, if on s-backup : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ /usr/bin/nc -lv 24864 | /bin/dd of=/tmp/file.1m And on client : [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dd if=/dev/random bs=512k count=2 | \ /usr/bin/nc -v s-backup 24864 I get the expected result on s-backup: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -l -rw-r- 1 backup operator - 1048576 17 feb 22:54 file.1m So, I think that ssh is the one that break the transmission. -- pf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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