Re: Software Update
On 11/27/2010 07:01 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:36:09 -0500 Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: My fbsd desktop is popping up with Software Update. My question is weather this pulls updates from packages or ports. There are a few applications, such as opera, that can phone home and check for newer versions. Typically they can't upgrade because they lack privileges. Perhaps you could be a little less vague. Software Update is provided by gnome-packagekit (or the kde equivalent) and will nag if updated packages are available. To the op, according to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-September/057056.html PackageKit was given support for ports using portupgrade or portaudit. ___ 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: ZFS License and Future
On 11/5/10 5:19 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Precisely. This is Larry Ellison's position on Open Source: quote If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. [...] So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all – you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. [...] We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source. /quote Source: Financial Times interview, 18-Apr-2006 http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041820061306424713 It sounds like he's probably a big fan of the BSD license. I do not see how this is a bad thing, other than he uses potentially inflammatory words like exploit. The basics of what he says are exactly what Red Hat has done from the beginning, and Apple with OS X. Note he says take it for nothing, he is not referring to buying companies but the practice of including/distributing this software and providing support for the entirety. the technology, etc. Look at what happened to Android for choosing Java. Supposedly, it was Open Source and there you have it: it's open source if and only if... For example, WyTF do I have to login to Oracle to access the error message information? Android uses the Java language, but this is not what that suit is about. Oracle claims the Dalvik VM infringes on their patents. If Android was using the Java VM there would be no lawsuit. Sun was able to successfully sue Microsoft for similar reasons in 1997 (incomplete implementation of the Java standard). Somehow people continued using Java, despite this. ___ 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: ZFS License and Future
On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people who aren't paying for ZFS or who are using it on platforms other than Solaris from using it? Whether you think concerns like these will prove reasonable in the long run, they make a lot more sense than assuming that Alejandro just wonders if the CDDL is dangerous somehow. I would be surprised. Oracle (real Oracle, not Sun) is still the primary developer of btrfs on Linux. They are pretty much going for feature parity with ZFS and want people to actually use it. If they start suing over ZFS patents which are certainly applicable to btrfs, it will have repercussions on that side. ___ 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: Is this bunk.
Garry wrote: Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in), they do give a little back to BSDs, but have made sure that BSDs can't get much off of them, but they can get a lot out of BSD. Also, Windows uses (or used to use) a BSD stack for networking for instance. The Darwin core is a hybrid of Mach/BSD (xnu). The Darwin core is open source, and you can download the open source tools they use (and in cases such as CUPS, own and develop) from http://www.apple.com/opensource/ or http://www.opensource.apple.com/. To say they have given nothing back is untrue, they make their changes available which is not required, but that doesn't mean they're actually being used by the community. Their graphical system on top of Darwin is proprietary, but it is possible to build Darwin using the source code provided by Apple. There is only vendor lock in if you choose to use applications which only work in their graphical environment, but for most things that would cause vendor lock-in, they are either open source or available on multiple platforms. It's interesting you mention how Apple doesn't give back, as it has also been the case with Linux and related projects borrowing code from BSD and then not giving back by proving changes under an incompatible license. This has been discussed at length on the lists of some BSD project with an outspoken leader... Also, Linux and GPL software is not immune from the Apple treatment. Android uses the Dalvik VM for all of the software, and Dalvik is under the Apache license which allows for proprietary uses. You should notice this is definitely used to the fullest by cell phone vendors as they release source code for the kernel only. How is it Apple releases more code than is available for your typical Android device? This does not mean to say that I have a problem with the quality of the code in BSD, I just feel that the license is counter productive. The productive hope is that good code will be used, and people will not write bad code instead due to overly restrictive licenses preventing them from using said good code. ___ 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: firefox install problem
On 08/09/10 22:17, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hello, I have installed FreeBSD-8.0 from the CD and have it running ok. I have installed several packages including thunderbird using pkg_add -r package_name. When I try to install firefox I get a file unavailable error. The web site shows firefox-3.6.8,1 is available (i386). What can I do to install firefox? You can manually download the package from a mirror and then install it with pkg_add (pkg_add firefox-3.6.8,1.tbz). ___ 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: forwarding ssh
On 08/07/10 16:23, David Banning wrote: I presently am using Putty and X-Win32 and I am connecting to a remote machine successfully. I now need to connect using SSH over the internet -through- one machine, but have my SSH with a second machine on the same site - something like so; ssh-site1 --(internet)--- site2-(also 192.168.1.1)-- loc2-(192.168.1.50) I need to bridge the connection from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.50 so I've tried in ipnat; If I hear you right, you're trying to connect to site2 over the internet, and also connect to loc2 through the connection on site2. SSH can create a tunnel itself. You could use something like: 'ssh -L 2200:loc2:22 u...@site2' This would connect you to a shell on site2. Then on your machine open another terminal and type: 'ssh -p 2200 u...@localhost' which would connect to loc2 port 22 using the connection on site2. If you try to close the connection to site2, it won't work since you're still connected to loc2. ssh also supports forwarding a port on the remote server using -R, but I'm led to believe you are trying to limit the connections that get through the site2 to loc2 and -L requires you (or someone else) to be on local system. In putty this same feature is configured under Connection SSH Tunnels. ___ 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: Firewire RAM access
On 07/27/10 07:38, EforeZZ wrote: Hi, I was playing around with fwcontrol and its -m switch. I connected my FreeBSD 7.2 notebook to Win7 PC Via firewire and attempted to access Win7's RAM through the /dev/fwmem interface. I failed. snip The question is.. Should this always work? As far as I know I should be able to access other PC's RAM through the firewire connection without any support from the connected PC's OS, right? Best regards, EforeZZ According to this page for the Linux mem1394 driver, the host can set up a filter to block it, and Windows appears to do so (http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/mem1394). -Steve ___ 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: Upgrade from FreeBsd 6.3 to 6.4 freebsd-update
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Renat wrote: Yes. I try . But not worked!! - webarchive# freebsd-update -r 6.4-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... failed. I probe you solution change change server from update.freebsd.org to update1.freebsd.org Not worked((( What's is is the Bug on the FreeBSD servers? Nothing wrong on the FreeBSD servers, AFAIK. I remotely upgraded two 6.3 servers to 6.4 just yesterday There must be something on your end or your ISP that causes this. Most likely something is blocking dns SRV requests (which is what FreeBSD-update uses to find the mirrors). I used to have this problem due to a misconfigured dnsmasq install. I fixed it but my problem is the reason that update.freebsd.org has an A record of its own now. Because of this it should not cause an impact on the update process, and you shouldn't need to change update to update1 anymore. It would not surprise me if your problems are related to using the addon freebsd-update rather than the built-in, which you apparently overwrote with the addon one (the original is in the sources, or on the CVS). It could be unrelated, but it is an easily identifiable misstep. If you cannot get freebsd-update working, you could update using a 6.4 cd. Also, there is nothing wrong with the FreeBSD servers, as I just updated a few seconds ago: athlon# freebsd-update -r 6.4-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/smp world/base The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin world/catpages world/dict world/doc world/games world/info world/manpages world/proflibs Does this look reasonable (y/n)? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: doubt about contribution
manjunath reddy wrote: derar sir , I have downloaded freebsd code and I have made some modifications to it. But now feeling difficulty in sending that code to cvs. can u please give me the instructions to upload code to CVS archieve. I am also intrested in knowing the development process of freebsd, can u please give more information about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a few people have commit access to the tree, things go through them. For a general overview of how to contribute read through http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Installation
Niyi Christ wrote: Hi, I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel does not come up. Instead, I got this bunch of digits just scrolling down my screen indefinitely. The laptop came with a windows XP OS and I am trying to dual boot. I want to use the recovery partition for my FreeBSD. I'll appreciate your help as soon as possible. Thanks in anticipation. Yours, Niyi NiyiChrist Are you using the network install disc? I've had a similar issue on a few machines. It was fixed by using Disc 1 instead. -Steve signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Official FreeBSD Forums
cpghost wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote: You can register and start using our new service here: http://forums.FreeBSD.org How about setting up a bidirectional Forum - Mailing List bridge? Perhaps to freebsd-questions@ or (not as good) to a special new list, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ideally, freebsd-questions@ could be bidirectionally mirrored to the forums, so we won't lose all those helpful people from freebsd-questions@ to the forums! Another advantage is that each of us subscribers could still automatically get a copy of posts, so we can archive them locally, as we do now with the mailing lists. Please give it a thought. Thanks, -cpghost. I think this would likely cause a riot, at least with freebsd-questions. I think it is a better idea to leave them separate. A few things like resolving categories alone could end up being a problem. Do you not allow people to start new threads? If you do, where do they end up on the forum? Steve signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: re changing from vista
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I *do* want to see a discussion of the FreeBSD project's goals, as part of the answer the OP's question about which platform to use instead of Windows. The more people understand what FreeBSD's design goals are, the better they'll be able to decide if it also meets their goals. they can read it on webpage. Wojciech, you seem to be saying that accommodating Windoze users is not and should not be a goal for FreeBSD. I respect that opinion. I just want to know if it's shared by the project leaders. me to. it's important. i'd like to plan ahead. if their opinion is opposite, FreeBSD will turn into crap within 2-3 years as every other project. there are no exceptions to that rule. I do not believe there needs to be an actual *effort* to accommodate Windows users, there are other projects with that as one of their goals which are doing quite well. If accommodating a Windows user is simply allowing for a usable desktop system, then FreeBSD works fine. One man's crap is another man's favorite operating system. I do think there does *not* need to be effort to run off Windows users who may consider switching to FreeBSD. There is nothing wrong with them using FreeBSD, and if they don't like it they can choose something else. It doesn't matter if they have previous experience with a *nix operating system, if they are able to figure it out then it is just as good as figuring out something else. I find it a bit disheartening that at least one side of this topic has begun to resemble Scott Adams' Unix quote, which I do think is a misrepresentation of the community as a whole. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: High Noonn DVD??
Gary Kline wrote: Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98, and the DVD just now. I'm not that nutty to waste a DVD-R on it; I'm just wondering my none of my players won't play it. thanks, gary I would wager it has something to do with a copy protection mechanism. Are you able to play other copy-protected DVDs fine? Steve signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Creating network interface in VM?
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 in a virtual machine in VirtualBox, running on a Linux (Debian) host. [...] I tried to set this up on the FreeBSD side, but I am unable to even create the vbox0 interface: --- # ifconfig vbox0 create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument --- I'm not sure, but I think what you're searching for would be to have VB create a NIC substitute for the FreeBSD guest OS. When you said, you could reach network from out of the FreeBSD VB, a virtual network adapter. Which interface did you use from within FreeBSD? As far as I know, there's no vbox (pseudo)interface driver in FreeBSD, that's why the ifconfig create command returned an error. The guest machine is always going to use the virtual driver provided by virtualbox, which is configured through the virtualbox gui control before you start the machine. I suggest trying to configure that interface, not vbox0. vbox0 is an interface on the host OS. This howto from Ubuntu may help you out; notice that everything is configured on the host machine, the guest machine has no real differences: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#Networking signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: re changing from vista
Wojciech Puchar wrote: opinion But why are we interested in converting people? That borders on religious, which an operating system should not be. exactly. it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already using some flavor of unix. One can be converted from Solaris to FreeBSD, from NetBSD to OpenBSD, and (sometimes) from linux to FreeBSD. But not from Windows. I disagree strongly. If someone has the interest and ability (if only to read docs), they could certainly change from Windows to FreeBSD. The point from your quoted post appears to be that it is not a religion to be converted to from anything, rather a tool that some will use if they want to, or won't. There's nothing wrong with that. Depending on what someone is hoping to accomplish, I would certainly suggest FreeBSD as a suitable tool. It is no sweat off my back if they use something different though. To the OP if you're still reading; read through the handbook beforehand. At least, see if it's really what you want to get into. There are BSD-based desktop systems that may suit you better if you're looking for a more familiar experience. There are also many newbie-friendly Linux distributions that could suit you also. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Question about entry in auth.log
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I run several FreeBSD servers. Today I noticed an entry in the auth.log on one of them that concerns me. The entry is this: Nov 12 15:44:29 mail sshd[30160]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for michael from 89.123.165.3 po rt 55185 ssh2 There is a user michael on the system, but whoever was doing this was not him. I am assuming someone tried to break in using a valid username (michael) but with an incorrect password. So I just conducted an experiment to see if I could replicate that log entry using another valid username: mandy. I ssh'ed into the server, gave mandy as the username with an incorrect password. The auth.log entry for that attempt is this: Nov 14 19:44:54 mail sshd[96194]: Failed password for mandy from 72.155.127.223 port 51919 ssh2 and when I used something called keyboard interactive as the primary authentication method in my ssh client, I get this: sshd[96348]: error: PAM: authentication error for mandy from 72.155.127.223 Nothing about Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam. What does Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam mean? Also, in my ssh client, for authentication methods I have a choice of password, publickey or keyboard interactive. I've always used password, and never even noticed that keyboard interactive before. What is that? Thanks, Lisa Casey Keyboard-interactive includes when the server sends requests such as Password: to which the connector responds by typing their password. This is different from entering the password in your client before connecting. Example: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Try doing similar with the correct password and I bet you will see the Accepted/keyboard-interactive, it may be possible that michael's password is no longer secure. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Messenger servers
Da Rock wrote: I haven't checked the list for around a week- I'm still catching up! :) I'm trying to sort out a messenger server for work purposes, and although I've found a few I'm hoping some input from sysadmins who have deployed these might help our decision. I've found Gale, Jabberd2, OpenFire, and SJECS (Sun Java Communication Suite). Our requirements are for collaboration (multiple users simultaneous chatting together- with audio/video if possible), realtime audio/video (with a preference for audio; ergo video can go to the dogs to maintain audio quality, although a means to adjust this- on the fly if possible- would be useful), and chat. Tall order, eh? Ease of admin would be good, but my main concern is stability and reliability (I'll make up a software solution to administrate if needs be). Thanks guys. I would avoid OpenFire, some pretty gnarly vulnerabilities were announced today, and the vendor doesn't seem to be in a hurry to fix them. http://www.andreas-kurtz.de/advisories/AKADV2008-001-v1.0.txt Good luck! -Steve signature.asc Description: PGP signature signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release
joeb wrote: When I am in xorg/xfce and do Ctrl+Alt+Fx it does in fact open the selected virtual console. But I can not find any way to return to the xorg/xfce desktop running in the virtual console I left from. Alt+Fx does take me to the virtual console where x11/xfce is suppose to be, but puts me in command line mode. The command ps ax shows xorg/xfce is still running. How do I get back to the xorg/xfce desktop running in the virtual console I left from? You should be able to get back into Xorg with Alt F7 or F8. Does this not work? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems
(-K JohnNy wrote: Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from discs. Don't know if there is a tool for this, but the usual way is to make a RELENG-7 supfile, csup the 7-STABLE sources and build them. More on this subject in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Thanks for your patience!! Regards, Alasdair This is correct. The tool freebsd-update may be used to update between releases (and release candidates) with binaries, but not between the development trees. -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. All of this is well documented on the FreeBSD website (www.freebsd.org) For informatino on the mailing lists, go to: http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html or http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo and look around. The version setup in FreeBSD can be a little confusing for newcomers because the terms stable and current are used in very specific ways - formally defined rather than in the more loose general conversation way we often use them. Current is the bleeding edge of development work - nothing is guaranteed and stable is the development branch that is actually intended to eventually become the next new version -- rather than current being the official present version out or stable being the most reliable version as one might guess from just the words before studying the documentation.. Check this part of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html If you are a FreeBSD beginning, what you want is a RELEASE version. The latest at the moment are 6.3 and 7.0In the present form of the web page, the latest RELEASEs plus the next two are listed right there on the first page. Other information on upcoming releases can be found on the Release Engineering page: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html By the way, releng stands for Release Engineering here and when you track a version for security updates you track a RELENG version. So, if you installed FreeBSD 7.1, then in your csupfile you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7_1 That would get you the security updates for FreeBSD 7.1 If you wanted to jump up to stable you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7 and that would be the stable version of the FreeBSD 7 branch. But, the funny thing about it is that the STABLE line is not mean that it is actually stable. They try to assure that it compiles and builds. And, usually it is pretty good. But it hasn't gone through all the official builds and been run against all the known problem sets as has a RELEASE when it is 'released'. So, for now, just install a RELEASE - probably 7.1 if you can wait or 7.0 right now and track the security fixes by csup-ing to RELENG_7_1 or RELENG_7_0 Have fun, jerry If using a release, can he not use freebsd-update to keep current on fixes rather than rebuilding everything? On a slow system, the more binary the better. -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release
The Ghost wrote: Hello, I migrated to freensd-7.0-release and noticed that I can't switch to the virtual consoles by pressing Alt+Fx once I've started X ! I guess the key combination has changed in the nre version of Xorg implemented in FreeBSD 7.0, so I took a look at the online handbook, but I haven't found anything about the new way to switch to the virtual consoles... Could anyone please point me at what do I miss?.. The Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+Fx? Alt alone has never gone to a virtual console from X for me, on any system. -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd-update can't find update.FreeBSD.org
freebsd-update fetch fails if the default ServerName update.FreeBSD.org is not changed to ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org in /etc/freebsd-update.conf. This happens on at least 6.3, I believe it is also the case in later versions but am unsure (7-RELEASE and later kill my networking card due to a kernel regression). I am wanting input before writing up a PR, to see if in fact I am just some isolated case, or if it has been fixed already in newer versions. uname -a: FreeBSD thinkpad.lan 6.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 05:34:19 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Nonfunctional: thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update.FreeBSD.org/6.3-RELEASE/i386/latest.ssl: No address record failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. With update1: thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... latest.ssl100% of 512 B 123 kBps done. Fetching metadata index... 344cfb64472cacb781688b5de744795f140233e84105c4100% of 225 B 52 kBps done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update can't find update.FreeBSD.org
matt donovan wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: freebsd-update fetch fails if the default ServerName update.FreeBSD.org http://update.FreeBSD.org is not changed to ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org http://update1.FreeBSD.org in /etc/freebsd-update.conf. This happens on at least 6.3, I believe it is also the case in later versions but am unsure (7-RELEASE and later kill my networking card due to a kernel regression). I am wanting input before writing up a PR, to see if in fact I am just some isolated case, or if it has been fixed already in newer versions. uname -a: FreeBSD thinkpad.lan 6.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 05:34:19 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Nonfunctional: thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org http://update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update.FreeBSD.org/6.3-RELEASE/i386/latest.ssl: No address record failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. With update1: thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org http://update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... latest.ssl 100% of 512 B 123 kBps done. Fetching metadata index... 344cfb64472cacb781688b5de744795f140233e84105c4100% of 225 B 52 kBps done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. update.freebsd.org should work Considering that update1.freebsd.org is a mirror for update.freebsd.org. it works fine here for update.freebsd.org ever since I updated to 7.x from 6.2(tested freebsd-update on 6.2) update.freebsd.org does not have a DNS entry associated with it, could that be part of the problem I'm having? (just-ping.com gets Unknown Host from 34 systems around the world) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update can't find update.FreeBSD.org
andrew clarke wrote: On Wed 2008-10-29 13:37:11 UTC-0600, Steven Susbauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: freebsd-update fetch fails if the default ServerName update.FreeBSD.org is not changed to ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org in /etc/freebsd-update.conf. thinkpad# freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. May be related to this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-October/183886.html Yes it certainly was, my router dnsmasq.conf included filterwin2k, which apparently blocks SRV requests. Will remember to keep that off in the future. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update can't find update.FreeBSD.org
Colin Percival wrote: RW wrote: With portsnap the default server is itself one of the servers on the SRV list, so portsnap should fall-back to a working server even when DNS is unavailable (behind a proxy) or screwed-up by a router etc. I dont see a reason why update.FreeBSD.org shouldn't have the same A-record as update1.FreeBSD.org, so that it just works. With portsnap, I asked for the A record to be created not as a fallback for people with broken DNS, but instead as a backwards compatibility mechanism for people who were running old versions of portsnap which didn't do SRV lookups. To be honest, I didn't realize that there were so many people with broken DNS resolution. I'll ask the FreeBSD DNS admins to add an A record for update.freebsd.org. Colin Percival I had up until now been transparently benefiting from that non-fallback legacy A record for portsnap as well. Thanks for looking into this. I am personally amazed that an issue caused by a misconfiguration on my end could result in changes on the FreeBSD DNS servers to avoid similar issues for others. Kudos to FreeBSD support! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question about pkg_add
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) although I know that py-network does exist in /usr/ports. Actually I could go to /usr/ports/math/py-networkx and make install using ports means. Then I could learn from this that there are softwares that could be install from ports while not able to be added from package system? Am I right? Correct -- not every port has a package. ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does. By running portinstall -P pkgname, it will install a port and dependencies with packages if available, otherwise they are built from source. portsman and portmanager are some other frontend tools that can help with package administration, it's really up to your own tastes. -Steve ___ 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 restore a lost root password...
Mauricio López wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote: I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the how to i get a message to input the root password or Ctrl-D to enter in multiuser mode. What happened to just booting into single-user mode and issuing passwd? The OP made a point of letting us know that he has marked his console `insecure' in /etc/ttys. In order to even get a shell in single user, he needs the root password. As far as I know, from my previous Linux experience, you just need a LiveCD in order to boot the PC, mount the / partition, edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow and change the hash for one that correspond to one we know. Perhaps you can make it in every UNIX. Mauricio López wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote: I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the how to i get a message to input the root password or Ctrl-D to enter in multiuser mode. What happened to just booting into single-user mode and issuing passwd? The OP made a point of letting us know that he has marked his console `insecure' in /etc/ttys. In order to even get a shell in single user, he needs the root password. As far as I know, from my previous Linux experience, you just need a LiveCD in order to boot the PC, mount the / partition, edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow and change the hash for one that correspond to one we know. Perhaps you can make it in every UNIX. This is similar to what Matthew Seaman was mentioning. I am curious though, might it be possible to boot from something like Freesbie (or a fixit disc), mount the drive, chroot to the actual install and run passwd like normal to change the password? Does root on FreeBSD ask to verify the old password when trying to change its own? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso
Jerry McAllister wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3 CDs from installation if I have a high-speed permanent Internet connection. So wouldn't just 1 DVD-RW do? Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to things to know that FreeBSD has done it that way from the beginning (or almost that far back).I have never done a complete install from a CD or DVD, but just acquired the first disk, booted the install program and then done the install over the net. I've been doing that for more than 10 years and am far from being an early adopter. Others have done so much longer. But, some people are [still] not in the positition to be able to do installs over the net. Their service is inadequate or, in some cases they are not even connected, so the whole system is made available to them on disk as well. Actually, I believe, if you are doing just the FreeBSD install, and not at the same time installing some of the ports, it is still layed out to need only the first CD even if you are not installing over the net. But, I haven't checked recent versions. The other CDs contain the sources for various ports and some special case things. jerry This is still the behavior. You can install any of the base distributions for that release with only disc 1, as well as some of the ports. I have had issues booting the netinstall cds for some reason, and installing the distribution from the cd goes faster anyway. -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SOLVED] Xircom 10/100 cardbus w/ 7-RELEASE
Steven Susbauer wrote: I have read a few places of people having issues with the Xircom cardbus networking adapter with -CURRENT and, I guess, with release 7. My card is an IBM EtherFast 10/100. This card works fine in 6.3. In 7 I get dc0: No station address in CIS! - same driver This problem appears to be mentioned in http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2006-10/msg00226.html Any ideas on how to fix this issue? I do not have networking on the release cds nor through freebsd-upgrade with the 7-GENERIC kernel. I have to roll back the upgrade to get back online. Thanks I've since solved this problem with some help, but I'm hoping this will get up on Google if someone finds my original message. The fix is in a kernel patch at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2007-December/027280.html - The problem has not been fixed in the -STABLE/-CURRENT sources as of today. Since the misbehaving file has not been changed in any of them the patch still works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Excuse me- just testing...
Da Rock wrote: Been having trouble posting with a new mail server (only to your server mind)- just trying sort it out. Cheers Please consider sending these to the freebsd-test mailing list, as it is made for test posts. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD reference installations?
Nejc Skoberne wrote: Hello, is there any list of FreeBSD reference installations? Like a list of big companies that use FreeBSD as their core servers? Thanks, Nejc ___ You may have some luck looking around and/or contacting the FreeBSD Advocacy Project - http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/ They also have their own mailing list. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xircom 10/100 cardbus w/ 7-RELEASE
I have read a few places of people having issues with the Xircom cardbus networking adapter with -CURRENT and, I guess, with release 7. My card is an IBM EtherFast 10/100. This card works fine in 6.3. In 7 I get dc0: No station address in CIS! - same driver This problem appears to be mentioned in http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2006-10/msg00226.html Any ideas on how to fix this issue? I do not have networking on the release cds nor through freebsd-upgrade with the 7-GENERIC kernel. I have to roll back the upgrade to get back online. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
