Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:51:18AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:56:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:29:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > is there a way i can be sure that my

old flopy drive on parallel port

2008-12-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've just thrown away an very old laptop which was running FreeBSD 2.2.5 in the mid of the 90's; this have had an external 3.5 inch floppy drive, connected through a cable to the parallel port and this way fully supported, even for the basic installation of FreeBSD which was based on makin

Re: OSX mount UFS

2008-12-27 Thread Martin Smith
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I apologize for this diversion of topic. I format a external HD by BSD and move files to it. When trying to read it on OSX, it wouldn't recognize. Googling it didn't help much. I wonder if people here and lend a hand. Thanks!! Well, how is it formatted, ufs?, msdos?

Re: OSX mount UFS

2008-12-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I apologize for this diversion of topic. I format a external HD by BSD and move files to it. When trying to read it on OSX, it wouldn't recognize. Googling it didn't help much. I wonder if people here and lend a hand. Thanks!! Well, how is it formatted, ufs?, msdos? When you attach it to you

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > howdy, > > in a word, YES, /usr/bin/cmp saved the save before i unlinked the > oldfile. here is the strangeness. maybe you know, giorgos, or > somebody else on-list. At first--before i got smart and used your > snprintf to simply /bin/cp a

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Christian Laursen
Noah writes: > I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh > tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this > more compactly on one line? > > > ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.com > ssh -p 12345 localhost 'chown -R noah:noah /shares/in

Would you like to trade links?

2008-12-27 Thread Annie Simanski
Hi, I visited your site www.freebsd.org and I'm interested in swapping links with you. I can add your link to a category specific page on our site ibrain.org, in exchange for a link back from the home or internal page of your site. If you're interested, please reply to this email with your li

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Noah writes: > I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh > tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this > more compactly on one line? > > > ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.com > ssh -p 12345 localhost 'chown -R noah:noah /shares/in

Re: SMP and ACPI problem ??

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Alain G. Fabry" writes (in *extremely* long lines, which I wrapped for him): > To make a long story shorteverything worked fine on my system > (7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD). Last night I was updating stuff on my windoswXP > guess (under qemu) and performed a clean shutdown. > > This morning, after

Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
af300...@gmail.com writes: > For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my > board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and > although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: > > NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU

Re: nat and ipfw, port forwarding

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Richard Yang" writes: > i have a ssh machine behind a freebsd firewall with nat and ipfw. > how do i make port forwarding so internet can access the ssh machine? Use 'redirect_port' with natd(8). This is extensively documented in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/networ

Re: EOIP Tunnels

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Marcel Grandemange" writes: > Does FreeBSD support EOIP tunnels? The kernel used to, and the code seems to still be around, but it may not be used much any more. There are netgraph nodes that you should be able to build it out of as well. > If so where can I find more info? I'd look at the m

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Noah writes: I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this more compactly on one line? ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.com ssh -p 12345 localhost 'chown -R noah:no

Re: strange fsck results

2008-12-27 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:37 PM 12/26/2008, re...@adeptscience.com wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.3 as a VMware virtual server and am getting some strange results when I run fsck. When I run it in multi-user mode I get quite a few UNREF FILE errors but when I switch to single user mode fsck does not find any errors.

Re: nat and ipfw, port forwarding

2008-12-27 Thread usleepless
Hi Ricard, On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Richard Yang wrote: > hi, > i have a ssh machine behind a freebsd firewall with nat and ipfw. > how do i make port forwarding so internet can access the ssh machine? > thanx > i think you need to configure /etc/ipnat.conf ( read 'man ipnat' ). this is

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: > Failing that, the > Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Yes it is a half bad unit. If you make changes to routing or firewall rules, you need to unplug everything, power cycle it, say a prayer and hope it works. I never got it workin

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Corey Chandler
Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless rout

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 10:22:34 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > All: > > I've got a fun problem ... > > I'm having trouble tracking down where the default list of exported > variables is set for sh(1). > > I've got a piece of PHP code that runs on GNU/Linux but not FreeBSD > because (I think) $HO

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Corey Chandler
Mel wrote: On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: Failing that, the Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. Yes it is a half bad unit. Absolutely-- if you're running out of the box firmware. I use DD-WRT or Tomato specifically to get around the issues you describ

Re: 3ware array access lock up on 7.1-RC

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
On Friday 26 December 2008 08:12:49 Artem Kuchin wrote: > I am not even sure that it is related to freebsd, but maybe someone could > point out the problem. > > We wanted to upgrade our hosting server from > FreeBSD 6.2, 3ware 8506-4LP SATA RAID, raid 5 > to > FreeBSD 7.1 (RC for now), 9550SXU-4LP,

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:27:56 -0800 Corey Chandler wrote: > Mel wrote: > > On Monday 22 December 2008 14:48:52 Corey Chandler wrote: > > > >> Failing that, the > >> Linksys WRT54GL isn't a half bad unit. > >> > > > > Yes it is a half bad unit. > > Absolutely-- if you're running out of th

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Roger Olofsson
Corey Chandler skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 03:27:19 Jerry wrote: > Since it does seem to work quite well under Linux, I was wondering > if there was some fundamental flaw in FBSD that prevented it from > working correctly here. Even so, failing to get a major project like > Perl running properly in over a year

Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-27 Thread Michael Powell
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > af300...@gmail.com writes: > >> For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my >> board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and >> although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: >> >> NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on

Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Mitar
Hi! I discovered that open syscall with only O_APPEND fails with "permission denied" if an user does not have rights to write to a file (what is normal) even if it is root (what is a surprise). For example, if I have a file owned by www:www and with 644 permissions root cannot do open("testfile",

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Noah
Christian Laursen wrote: Noah writes: I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this more compactly on one line? ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.com ssh -p 12345 localhost 'chown -R noah

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Noah
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Noah writes: I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this more compactly on one line? ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.com ssh -p 12345 localhost 'chown -R noah:no

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Noah
Matthew Seaman wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Noah writes: I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this more compactly on one line? ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.com ssh -p 12345 loca

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:58:06PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > howdy, > > > > in a word, YES, /usr/bin/cmp saved the save before i unlinked the > > oldfile. here is the strangeness. maybe you know, giorgos, or > > somebody else on-l

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Christian Laursen
Noah writes: > Christian Laursen wrote: >> Noah writes: >> >>> I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh >>> tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this >>> more compactly on one line? >>> >>> >>> ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:35:51 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:58:06PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >> > howdy, >> > >> > in a word, YES, /usr/bin/cmp saved the save before i unlinked the >> > oldfile. here is the st

Re: ports-mgmt/portmaster question

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 03:35:07 Matthew Seaman wrote: > B. Cook wrote: > > Is there a way to pass make args (other than -m) for each port? > > ... > If you want options that only apply to specific ports, then you can use > a construct like this: > > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/databases/mysql*} > WIT

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-12-07 - 2008-12-27

2008-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
On Saturday 27 December 2008 11:46:03 Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > I discovered that open syscall with only O_APPEND fails with > "permission denied" if an user does not have rights to write to a file > (what is normal) even if it is root (what is a surprise). For example, > if I have a file owned by www

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 27 December 2008 16:49:54 Roger Olofsson wrote: > Corey Chandler skrev: > > Roger Olofsson wrote: > >> Corey Chandler skrev: > >>> Nerius Landys wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me > over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wir

Re: nat and ipfw, port forwarding

2008-12-27 Thread Richard Yang
thank you, usleep (nice name)i somehow made it work by 1. add "redirect_port udp 10.0.0.200:5 5" in natd.conf 2. allow all traffic and diversion in ipfw.rules i tried to limit the traffic by modifying the rules in ipfw.rules, but unsuccessfully. so i just leave it be at this moment. i am v

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:58:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:35:51 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:58:06PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:40:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > [[ save the electrons!]

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > I also have some very simple and efficient string-matching > functions [[ for SHORT lines!! ]] and other thing we do very often. > It was (is?) throw-away code. Does it made sense to have a place > on the web where you can get these kind of

cdrom restatus

2008-12-27 Thread edmund jones
Hello Happy Holidays! Hope you had a great new years. Im just writing cause I have a little problem. I must have made an adjustment while trying to round out the compatibility of the jdk. I guess to the parameter node of fstab and or /dev. Now when I try to load the cdrom from any where I ge

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:06:28AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > I also have some very simple and efficient string-matching > > functions [[ for SHORT lines!! ]] and other thing we do very often. > > It was (is?) throw-away code. Does

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Mel wrote: >15 fd = open(fname, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND); Try only with O_APPEND, without O_WRONLY. I have just found a bug report about that: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45923 But the question remains: why this fails? It work

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:16:41AM +0100, Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Mel > wrote: > >15 fd = open(fname, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND); > > Try only with O_APPEND, without O_WRONLY. > > I have just found a bug report about that: > > https://issues.apache.org/bugz

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > Just a thought, but have you figured out what the value of > that OR is? then check the 6.x and 7.x src. You mean O_RDONLY? Is not that 0? So that O_RDONLY | O_APPEND is the same as O_APPEND? (That is why I am writing about O_APPEND flag a

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Mel
On Saturday 27 December 2008 18:16:41 Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Mel > > wrote: > >15 fd = open(fname, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND); > > Try only with O_APPEND, without O_WRONLY. Why would you? open(2) will succeed but write(2) will fail with EBADF as documented (a

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Mel wrote: > open(2) will succeed but write(2) will fail with EBADF as documented (and I > verified this behavior). Still no EACCES as you and the bugreporter are > seeing. Where is documented that write would fail if file is opened only with O_APPEND? Just O

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 05:03:59AM +0100, Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Just a thought, but have you figured out what the value of > > that OR is? then check the 6.x and 7.x src. > > You mean O_RDONLY? Is not that 0? So that O_RDONLY | O_APPEND is

Re: Open with O_APPEND fails

2008-12-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 05:46:39AM +0100, Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Mel > wrote: > > open(2) will succeed but write(2) will fail with EBADF as documented (and I > > verified this behavior). Still no EACCES as you and the bugreporter are > > seeing. > > Where is docu

*.ko.symbols files in /boot/kernel

2008-12-27 Thread Sergey Kovalev
I've decided to upgrade from 6.4-p1 to 7.1-RC2 on my home desktop pc. Somewhat during this procedure triggered building and installing of *.ko.symbols and kernel.symbols files. Here are my upgrade commands cd /usr/src env -i make buildworld env -i make buildkernel KERNCONF=KOCA env -i make insta

Re[2]: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-27 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 25 декабря 2008 г., 20:13:32: M> On Tuesday 23 December 2008 13:50:59 KES wrote: >> Здравствуйте, KES. >> >> Вы писали 21 декабря 2008 г., 13:49:04: >> >> K> Здравствуйте, Mel. >> >> K> Вы писали 21 декабря 2008 г., 13:10:47: >> >> M>> On Thursday 18 December 2008 09: