FreeBSD 6.2 + Subversion - cannot connect...
Hi All, I'm trying to set up a subversion server on a miniITX box running a freebsd server (no X) and vanilla subversion - no appache, either straight svn or svn+ssh. followed the basics from 2 howtos on the net - OnLamp and another (I can't recall off the top of my head) I can svn import, svn commit and svn checkout using the file method from either the svn user or other users using the file:/// method. I cannot svn to the repository using tortoise SVN from the windows XP box on the same network. any suggestions welcome for where to start looking - I'm all out. -- Dr Paul van den Bergen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386 - how to check RAM
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:02:27 -0500, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabrielle Harrison Paul van den Bergen wrote: OK, thanks for the info... now for the solution... I have more than 16 MB of ram available but it does nto seem to play well together or there is a problem with some of the chips. How do I trouble shoot my RAM chips? for instance, if I swap the 2 SIMMs I have in there atm it does not want to do the POST. is POST success sufficient to conclude that the chips are OK? is there a BSD utility to check or diagnose RAM condition or errors? (ahhh the joys of old hardware...) *g*, Yeah. I've got piles of it. Some of them are my primary DNS/web machines, :-p As to the question -- Hmm, what should I say? yeah... which turned out to be my saviour... I dug out an old pile of MBs... which still had there mem chips intact, now have 98 MB in the machine, loading happily as I typo... (1st, a parenthetical observation --- the FBSD list doesn't like top posting much, and you forgot to cc: the list: many people request that you keep all this discussion _on_ the list for a couple of reasons. However, you're probably new to all this; consider forgiveness extended, but try to play nicer next time? Nothing personal, you understand ... just a heads up for the future) No problems, thanks for the headsup... Not intentional, just used to lists that do auto-reply-to as default... :-) but I guess this is flame war material here... personally I have found top posting more useable as I tend to scan the email top first to see if I want to read... I can see the point though, in-line or bottom post presumably being prefered for some reason ;-) guess it's a style thing, one that I'm not fussed by, so I'll tow the line... The standard answer for RAM issues is to download the program memtest86, which is available for most any computing platform. (e.g., it's OS independent once you create the floppy disk). Running this program will create a bootable floppy disk that you stick in the box, boot into, and it runs tests all day long until you shut it down. I believe you want http://www.memtest.org IIRC, you may be able to get a log/report from it, so you don't have to sit there through $n iterations of the test and watch the screen for errors, but YMMV. As for mixing chips, it's been a long, long time, and I was more like a hobbyist then (maybe still am), but I do seem to remember it was a no no to mix EDO and FP chips, or some such, blah blah HTH, Kevin Kinsey ta! that looks just what I want... Knowing the hardware is fine goes a long way to solving bugs ;-) -- ## Paul van den Bergen, # Gabrielle Harrison # # # Anja van den Bergen # # 848 High Street Rd ## Glen Waverley VIC 3150 Australia # ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # ph: +613 9886 3160 # mob: 042 886 3160 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
difficulty installing 5.3-R i386
Hi all, I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat dubious ram... I have 5.3R CDs 1 and 2 I have 3 seemingly working floppies (after writing to 6 disks... ofcourse!) boot goes like this... boot disk. kern1 kern2 boot boot screen with about 8 options, none of which seem to be the installation option... then reboots back to floppy... I do not seem to have a way of getting to sysinstall!!! -- ## Paul van den Bergen, # Gabrielle Harrison # # # Anja van den Bergen # # 848 High Street Rd ## Glen Waverley VIC 3150 Australia # ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # ph: +613 9886 3160 # mob: 042 886 3160 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hardware testing - e.g. memory - on old hardware
Like most geeks[1] I have a pile of roting hardware at home... Someone yesterday mentioned (vaguely) about utilities for testing hardware - especially RAM - but presumably this could be extended to other hardware - that would 1) tell you if it is OK. 2) isolate and by some mechanism make unusable sections of memory perminantly damaged. I figured this would be quite usefull for redundant hardware (where age and lack of replacement parts might tempt one to hold onto hardware as long as possible) anyone have any idea if there is such a beasty? [1] I have a theory about geeks there are geek-wannabes, geeks, ubergeeks and Gnurus... and the process is progressive and non-linear -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR
After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the system reverted to a 4.8 kernel... Not sure why, but gave up at this point... On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: Hi... snip... I stuffed up... # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp # mkdir /bootfloppy # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ ^ does not work... try simply # mount /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR
Yes, I am familiar with that upgrade path... Part of my motivation was ... well, lazyness :-) using someone elses worked out example, part a desire to blow away a rather mixed and heavily tweeked system (read I've been experimenting on it for so long I'm not sure what I've done anymore)... and a small part the thrill of tackling an interesting problem... (mode = evil willow Bored Now! /mode) In particular I wanted to completely remove a whole bunch of pkg_adds I'd done manually without doing pkg_delete or whatever... given there was nothing I needed to keep, I figured it was easier to reinstall from scratch (4.9-RELEASE), with or without cvsup'ing to 4.9 stable. On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:56 am, Minnesota Slinky wrote: There's actually a very simple process to use to upgrade, providing you have a broadband connection: 1) cvsup your sources to the newer sources. For more information read about cvsup or checkout the handbook! 2) once you have new sources, cd to /usr/src and type make world; this could take an hour or more 3) if this completes OK, cd to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (on 386-based processor systems) and type: # config GENERIC (or whatever your kernel config file is) 4) type: # cd ../../compile/GENERIC (or name of kernel config file) # make; make depend; make install 5) if this completes OK, type: # shutdown -r now 6) once rebooted, login, and check uname -a. You will see stats for a 4.9-x kernel! HTH Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paul van den bergen Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 6:42 PM To: FreeBSD-questions Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the system reverted to a 4.8 kernel... Not sure why, but gave up at this point... On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: Hi... snip... I stuffed up... # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp # mkdir /bootfloppy # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ ^ does not work... try simply # mount /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy?
Hi... on freebsd-hackers, Alfred Perlstein posted a method that allows boot-disk-less installation... but it requires mdconfig, a 5.1 utility... is there a method to do this under 4.8? it seems to me that the job performed by md0 could be done with vn0 e.g. do # ls /dev/vn* if empty do # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV vn0 # ./MAKEDEV vn1 # vnconfig vn0 /path/to/freebsd/4.9.iso # mount_cd9660 /dev/vn0c /path/to/freebsd4.9 or however you access the freebsd install iso disk the point being to get access to the /floppies/boot.flp image on the cdrom # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp # mkdir /bootfloppy # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ # cp /bootfloppy/kernel.gz /ikernel.gz # cp /bootfloppy/mfsroot.gz /mfsroot.gz then reboot as described... I am about to try this out... wish me luck! On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 07:18 pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I have a mini-HOWTO here that possibly be automated. Basically we're going to install FreeBSD over FreeBSD without a floppy, cdrom or pxe. This depends on a loader that's compatible with your kernel so if really weird lockups happen, you might not be compatible. Anyhow, here we go: Download the boot.flp from the release you want to install. Mount it like so: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f boot.flp # should output something like 'md0' mkdir -p /mnt mount /dev/md0 /mnt Copy the yummy bits from the install image to your root: cp /mnt/kernel.gz /ikernel.gz cp /mnt/mfsroot.gz /mfsroot.gz Now reboot and interrupt the loader when it counts down the boot. Then type these commands into the loader: unload kernel load /ikernel load -t mfs_root /mfsroot set vfs.root.mountfrom boot Now cross your fingers once you wipe the partitions out to reinstall... It would be cool if this could be automated[1], perhaps by setting the boot partition to the swap partition and setting it up temporarily as a ufs filesystem and then... oh... well... [1] http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity1426.html -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: Hi... snip... I stuffed up... # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp # mkdir /bootfloppy # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ ^ does not work... try simply # mount /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SLIP connection to Cisco CONSOLE...
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:33 pm, Olaf Hoyer wrote: Then use a standard terminal program like cu, tip, minicom or kermit to connect at 9600 8N1 to the cisco. we find we need to turn flow control to none also... *shrug* -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
general updating and staying current questions...
This is likely alredy answered elsewhere... but... what methods are there for keeping up to date with BSD-STABLE? OK, I get using cvsup for ports, how about for the source tree? same deal? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linksys WPC11 ver4 troubles
try changing the pccard memmory block. for more info see man pccardc e.g. pccardc pccardmem 0xd4000 default = 0xd choices are 0xd4000, 0xd8000, 0xdc000 don't ask me why... On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:07 am, Eric F Crist wrote: pccard: card inserted, slot 0 Nov 17 18:06:30 nomad pccardd[51]: No card in database for (null)((null)) Now, after reading the howto for this network card at http://lists.bawug.org/pipermail/wireless/2001-May/001083.html, I have to enter the (null)((null)) in the /etc/pccard.conf file with the appropriate settings. Tried this, it doesn't work. Someone please help me! Getting this to show up in my ifconfig would really make my day. Thanks, -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6
Hi all, given how clearly you-all answered my query about 'hostname' (thanks folks) I thought I'd chance my luck. so, let me get this straight... in the IPv4 world there is this thing called DNS and domain names... I can buy my self a name off a name vendor - eg. bergen.org... I then get to own that name... so, Question 1) where does the DNS record for that name reside? with my ISP? with the name vendor? lets say I have a network and wish to name the boxen depending on the OS running on them thus... microsoft.bergen.org SCO.bergen.org Sun.bergen.org Question 2) where do those DNSrecord reside? Question3) surely I'm breaking copyright or trademark laws here? whats to stop me being sued? for that matter, whats to stop vexatious litigation? and what about the name brokers? do they have legal responsibilities? and if I run DNS server on my network am I then a name provider for myself and have to worry about litigation? Question4) or to put it another way, what is the relationship between trademark control institutions and name brokers? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting windows FS questions
Hi all, I have a dual boot machine Win2k + BSD... obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD. can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows? I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda dubious. why is this? is it possible to work around this? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6
Ooops... I forgot the most important part of my question... IPv6 how does this all work under IPv6? is the IPv6 domain name allocation as fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6? what are the likely gottchas? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6
as usual, there has been a bit of a misunderstanding... being a loosely typed language, Engliosh is difficult to communicate in :-0 Names, addresses and DNS are obviously different things. I understand where IPv6 addresses come from (sort of). I understand (sort of) how IPv6 works for DNS records relating names to IPv6 addresses what I was really asking is: in the IPv4 world, name brokers sell names that are then related to IPv4 addresses. Legality of the name choice etc. is generally owner onus... Is there a similar sort of (or coincident) naming authority for IPv6 based names? example. if I operate a network, boxen1.example.org, boxen2.example.org, etc., as an IPv4 address space and a second coincident network, boxen1.example6.org, boxen2.example6.org, etc., as an IPv6 based address space, where does the authority to allocate the IPv6-network based names reside? the technical side of it is clear... someone somewhere needs to keep a track of the names... anyway, this is straying somewhat from the core subject matter of this list... On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:30 am, Cordula's Web wrote: how does this all work under IPv6? is the IPv6 domain name allocation as fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6? what are the likely gottchas? I don't know for sure here, so please take this with a grain of salt: IPv6 addresses are represented by instead of A records in DNS nameservers. Right now, I think that you can only point .org (and other [cc]TLD) nameservers to nameservers residing on an IPv4 address [anyone correct me if I'm wrong here]. But you could always configure your nameservers (let's say ns1.bergen.org, ns2.bergen.org) to return IPv6 addresses to some names, by adding records to them. But since IPv6 names are not (yet) globally routed on the Internet, this will have local meaning only (e.g. on an intranet). Generally speaking: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are _never_ allocated by name brokers or DNS systems. They reside at a much lower level, which has nothing to do with _names_. If you connect to the Internet, your upstream provider(s) will assign to you IPv4 address blocks automatically. You would normally not be able to influence this, because it is deeply intertwined with the routing protocols that all network operators use to transmit data on the Internet. You may ask how network operators get their IP address blocks. Check out IANA: http://www.iana.org/ especially: http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hardware ITX for firewalls etc.
email 1 On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:22 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: You can also get CF and similar solid stat memory chips to IDE connection adaptors for around AU$30... URL? Sounds like an interesting option for a Firewall I need to do myself very soon. and email 2 On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:30 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: I have a bunch of these (8000s actually) for a testbed network. work like a treat... go fanless if you can... Where did you get them from? How much? I did have some hassles with the onboard via network connection not coping with long vlan tagged packets. It seems most of these mini ITX network cards have issues with FreeBSD. As long as I can get two PCI slots I should be fine. reply to email 1: I'll have to dig up the specs from a friend... but it's probably cheaper to do the google thing... or one of the ITX mini board sites... miniitx.com??? there are some awesome casemods out there... we want to get some Commador 64s for our desktop machines... :-) reply to email 2: we got VIA EPIA mini ITX boards of a local supplier... (Melbourne Australia) I can give the details if helpful (i.e. of list and if you are local) but since we are a University, it is likely you will not get the same price we did :-( on the other hand, check out the swapmeets (see green guide or computertrader.com.au (URLspelling?) for details) they were around AU$220 each... the fanless is (was - this is 6 months ago or more) 600 MHz and the fan'd ones are 850 MHz or so... I expect they would be similar price for faster now... with more options... people on melbourne.wireless.org have been talking about the impending release of a board with on-board PCMCIA and etc... but not sure of the SotA... the vlan tag thing and some other bugs with the vr0 supported hardware have been around for a while... I suspect mostly they are fixed or well known for FreeBSD nowadays... the vlantag thing is a buffer size or otherwise a hardware support issue (i.e. not driver - as the man pages states, the vlan stuff can be done in software, but I have absolutely no idea what this involves anyone want to enlighten us? ditto the dual PCI splitter - no idea where to get it just know it exists... also rumour (one mention of suspicion... that counts as a rumour, right?) that there are issues with the dual pci thing... not sure what though... still, they're cheap... sub au$50?? maybe? I imagine a quick check of some of the mod-sites will show some interesting board configs... I suspect you can get dual PCI slot versions too. OK, here is my bookmark collection on hardware mods etc... pc104, review sites and itx sites... http://www.tri-m.com/ http://accpc.com/submicropc.htm http://www.littlepc.com/ http://www.viavpsd.com/product/index.jsp http://www.mini-itx.com/ http://www.tomshardware.com http://www.dansdata.com/ http://www.motherboards.org/ http://www.routerboard.com/ http://www.kontron.com/products/pdproductdetail.cfm?keyProduct=32980 http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/index.html http://www.freeswan.org/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ there are likely others, but that's what I have atm... :-) the last few are Open Source router/AP/firewall thingies... there are also sites around with FreeBSD (well, BSD) based implementations that are similarly compact cheap and reliable :-) good luck... and remember google is your friend... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hostnames and interfaces
hey all, I first encountered networking in CISCO land... where IP addresses and host names seem to be associated... what is the freeBSD way? AFAICS, a machine has a defined name regardless of howmany interfaces it has. if one splits the world up into hosts (one interface) and routers (multiple interfaces) can one define multiple hostnames? to expand on this, there is a potential many to many relationship here between host names and IP addresses (strickly speaking that is what dns etc sees?) how dose BSD define this? how does one define this using BSD? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....
Hi All, I'm tempted to upgrade some machines in my test network to 4.9 from 4.8 (since the new KAME snap kits are configured to 4.9 over 4.8 now and if I want to be fashionable and bleedy, I'd better keep updated) and so I am wondering what the best way to do this is and anypitfalls... OK, here is what I think I should do... cvsup the source tree to 4.9 make world cvsup the ports tree um... and that's where I come unstuck... is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? I guess there is a gap in my knowledge here about how the freebsd software state changes... e.g. how does one avoid clashes and incompatabilities in a large complex collection of software that is continually changing? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mini atx for firewall
I have a bunch of these (8000s actually) for a testbed network. work like a treat... go fanless if you can... I did have some hassles with the onboard via network connection not coping with long vlan tagged packets... Not sure if this is still an issue, but the vlan man page lists compatible devices if this is an issue for you. also you can get PCI doublers... no idea how well they work, but! anyone had experience of them? On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:24 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: Anyone used a mini ATX machine with FreeBSD? Have a client that has a space limitation and a mini atx machine like http://shentech.com/shutspacskvi.html Would be perfect for him. My primary concern is the network card. Since these small machines only have one PCI slot I will add one card for the internal network and then would need the onboard card to connect to the outside world. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:43 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : Hi all, : : I'm hoping to use an old laptop for a dialup firewall. I'd like to : leave it : always on as part of the network, but I don't want it to have the HD : running : all the time. If possible, I'd like it to work almost completely : without the drive. : : How could I do this? : : NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. : : jm : : #man picobsd Exactly what I needed! Thanks! You can also get CF and similar solid stat memory chips to IDE connection adaptors for around AU$30... so you could have the boot image etc. on a disk with no moving parts... also USB minidisk stuff too... quieter, no moving parts for use in conjunction with picobsd, etc -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:24 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? Not quite sure I fully understand, but you might want to take a look at portupgrade (portupgrade -a -f ;). It's in ports/sysutils. Best wishes, -lewiz. Ta... I'll give it ago... in clarification if I upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9, will I also have to upgrade (by whatever method) the applications running on the box? I.e. those that are not part of the src tree? for that matter, am I likely to encounter any issues with configuration files? /etc/... and /usr/local/etc/... ??? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mouse configuration + Xwindows + KDE
Hi all, I expect this is a kde question more than an xwindows or mouse question... how does one get autofocus configured on the mouse (e.g. so that hovering over a window for 'n' ms (~200 ms) brings it into focus /or the top... frustratingly I saw this option but a week ago while doing other stuff... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mouse configuration + Xwindows + KDE
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:26 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: Hi all, I expect this is a kde question more than an xwindows or mouse question... how does one get autofocus configured on the mouse (e.g. so that hovering over a window for 'n' ms (~200 ms) brings it into focus /or the top... frustratingly I saw this option but a week ago while doing other stuff... thanks all, fixed -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:24 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 11/12/03 09:36 PM, Lucas Holt sat at the `puter and typed: On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Marty Leisner wrote: BTW -- I've been doing object oriented stuff in C for years -- its harder, but its doable. You have a much simpler language to deal with. marty Am I missing something here? When does C have OO capability? Structs don't count. What about inheritance and polymorphism? That's in the implementation AND application. Just because you CAN access part of a lowly struct, doesn't mean you have to. It's object oriented if you OBSERVE the restricted accesses defined by OO. Whether or not they're there is completely irrelevant. Of course C has OO capability, it just doesn't have its restrictions :) don't confuse the language with the philosophy... programming styles - OO, procedural, functional, whatever, are methods or even rulesets. some languages suit one or the other better or worse. One could write functionally in C++ if one had to... but *ouch* ditto C wrt OO. the thing is that modular C programming is scalable in ways similar to OO. that's sort of part way to OO. the rest of it - inheretance, etc. when automated in C++ v's C make C++ more suitable to OO programming. IMHO, ofcourse. -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another Newbie Question: C or C++
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:54 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Wow, that's a fairly complete list. Agree completely on the C/C++ application/philosophical differences. The book list missed one very useful C++ book by Josutis, The C++ Standard I think. Don't have it handy. I agree with all said so far but would add that IMHO, you can't really can't go past o'reilly for pretty much any topic on computing... to paraphrase, there are plenty of bad computer books but I would guess few of them are O'reilly books :-) except maybe UML in a nutshell *shudder* You know, everyone's been telling me to give up C and just start working with C++. I've been resisting pretty strongly, and now I realize why. C is a geeks language. It gives you more control than C++. I like C for one primary reason: I like to be in control. I know that many of the C++ constructs, member functions, etc. are slow in comparison to home grown vanilla construct in C that only do what they are needed for. The standard template classes use table lookups just to figure out what its contents look like. If you create the construct from scratch, it knows whether it's holding an int, char*, or struct. Like someone said, it depends what you want to do. IMHO, C is much better for small, embedded or system level programming and C++ of large 'enterprise level programming. It is no wonder that C is the basis for most OSOSs... and because someone mentioned Java, I thought i'd mention Forth... :-) -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C / C++
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:15 pm, Alex Kelly wrote: Whoever mentioned the holy war may have been on to something. ;-) Except they are all violently agreeing with one another... I'd involke Godwin's Law if it wasn't for Quirk's Exception -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnuplot, libtool, pdflib install hassles under FreeBSD 4.8
Hi all, if you look at the end of my wits, you will see me... In a vain attempt to get further away from windows I decided to install gnuplot... running freebsd 4.8 compiled from the ports collection, can't find pdflib-4.0.3.tar.gz... OK, I go looking, no longer exists, now v5.0.1... cvsup the ports collection now looks for PDFlib-5.0.1 etc... still no luck, go looking there are various confusing varieties... download freebsd versions for regular, Lite and the Unix Lite src all to no avail. (the file ports wants does not seem to have any instrutcions about how to manually or otherwise construct a working library.) OK, finally locate the right file, get it all in place, run it compiles the pdf library... sort of, then I get libtool version clash... libtool: ltconfig version `1.3.4-freebsd-ports' does not match ltmain.sh version `1.3.5-freebsd-ports' Gah! OK, compile PDFlib-Lite from the source... following the readme instructions (the usual ./configure, make, make install), all seems fine... back to gnuplot still does not work... seems the pdflib has not registered... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/math/gnuplot# make === gnuplot-3.7.3_2 depends on shared library: png.5 - found === gnuplot-3.7.3_2 depends on shared library: pdf.5 - not found ===Verifying install for pdf.5 in /usr/ports/print/pdflib === Building for pdflib-5.0.1 then it starts with the libtool message above again... (small voice) Help! -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made. Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make in ports versus pkg_add
Hi all, dumb q warning it seems to me that doing an install from /usr/ports/... is fine and all, but how do you do an uninstall? ok, with pkg_remove or pkg_delete, this is not a problem... but how does pkg know??? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 would somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
