I have a UPS with a USB interface. There isn't a specific UPS driver in
FreeBSD beyond uhid. If I were to connect the UPS's interface port
without having a driver attached, is it still possible to talk to the
device in some way? I ask because I'm helping get nut (sysutils/nut)
working for USB
I'm trying to uuencode some data, but uuencode doesn't seem to work
properly. I'm using FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p22. Here are some examples:
$ date | uuencode
usage: uuencode [-m] [-o outfile] [infile] remotefile
b64encode [-o outfile] [infile] remotefile
$ cat /etc/rc.conf | uuencode
usage:
From: Bernd Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:22:54PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I have a UPS with a USB interface. There isn't a specific UPS driver in
FreeBSD beyond uhid. If I were to connect the UPS's interface port
without having a driver attached
I have a desktop running 5.1+KDE. Building a port (finance/gnucash)
failed when the install of a fresh gettext build failed due to there
being an older version already present. To fix this, I cd into
devel/gettext, run make deinstall make reinstall.
But now I have programs and other libs
Andrew wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Asker wrote:
The modem can be configured to use PPPoE or PPTP protocol for making the
connection with my Internet Servise Provider.
Well if the modem does PPPoE itself (and preusmably NAT) then you need no
speical support from the OS. From its poitn of view
When I run ldd on a given program, does ldd check the dependencies of
the libaries as well?
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Darren Pilgrim wrote:
When I run ldd on a given program, does ldd check the dependencies of
the libaries as well?
Nevermind, I found the answer myself (it does). I don't know why I
missed it on the man page.
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I have a USB hub that's built into my Viewsonic PT775 monitor. The hub
works fine, and has worked fine for years in Windows, Linux, and
FreeBSD. The USB hub is only attached to the rest of the USB bus when
the monitor is on, so turning the monitor on or off produces the
expected uhub
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I'm going to try a few more things, like plugging and unplugging the hub
with the monitor on, as well as plugging and unplugging devices from
both the root hub and the hub in the monitor to see if it's more
general, or if it's just something wrong with the uhub detach
I have an RCA cable modem provided to me by ATT Broadband and out of the
same curiosity clinically proven lethal to the average domestic feline, I
was wondering if I can use the USB interface with FreeBSD. ugen picks up
the device as, Thomson Consumer Electronics Thomson RCM245 Cable Modem,
Mike Meyer wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
I have an RCA cable modem provided to me by ATT Broadband and out of the
same curiosity clinically proven lethal to the average domestic feline, I
was wondering if I can use the USB interface with FreeBSD. ugen
For performance reasons, I have a filesystem mounted with the async
option. The FS isn't used for anything I really value, just assorted
object files and other temp data. My question, though, is, how do I
safely unmount an active async filesystem? Does the unmount process
automatically
I'm currently facing a problem of having used Netscape (now Mozilla) for
years in Windows and now trying to find something I can regularly use in
FreeBSD without losing Mozilla in Windows.
I was thinking of something involving IMAP and NFS. I already have
Courier-IMAP running, so I can use
I'm currently facing a problem of having used Netscape (now Mozilla) for
years in Windows and now trying to find something I can regularly use in
FreeBSD without losing Mozilla in Windows.
I've mostly settled on IMAP (courier) with procmail filters, but that
raises the issue of filesystem
Craig Reyenga wrote:
- Original Message - From: Darren Pilgrim To: Sent: Friday,
January 24, 2003 07:13 Subject: Filesystem tuning for lots of small
files (a Maildir)?
I'm currently facing a problem of having used Netscape (now
Mozilla) for years in Windows and now trying to find
Why isn't there a /dev/one device to provide an infinite number of
all-ones bytes?
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2003-01-30 00:25, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
Why isn't there a /dev/one device to provide an infinite number of
all-ones bytes?
Because it's easy to get any sequence of equal bytes by using just
/dev/zero and tr(1). Try this command and check the output of hd(1
There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD:
Procedure 1 is the old way: config, make depend, make, make install.
Procedure 2 is the make kernel sequence from makeworld.
Section 9.3 of the Handbook says I should use procedure 1 if I haven't
updated my source tree.
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD:
Procedure 1 is the old way: config, make depend, make, make
install. Procedure 2 is the make kernel sequence from makeworld.
Section 9.3 of the Handbook says
I have a zip drive (afd0). At boot, the only afd0* device is afd0, which makes
it rather difficult to mount MSDOS formatted disks. I can get the device
entries to appear by issuing `mount /dev/afd0 /mnt`, but it's annoying to have
to do this. Is there a way to cause this update automatically,
I have a machine that multi-boots with separate ata disks for each OS.
I'd like to have FreeBSD (5.1) spin down the other disk to reduce heat
and noise, since it doesn't use it at all. I haven't been able to find
anything in the apm, ata, or acpi documentation I could find. How do I
accomplish
I need to create a secure connection over the inter between my workstation at
home and a server I have elsewhere. My workstation is running RELENG_5_0 and
the server runs RELENG_4_8, both up to date. I need the secure connection to
occasionally access swat and VNC remotely. You can assume all
I want to setup VNC on some Windows machines so I can access them over
the internet, but I need to secure the connection in a way that will
work with NAT'ing firewalls on both ends of the connection. How can I
do this? I was thinking of setting up a tunnel between the two
firewalls. On the
Doug Poland wrote:
Darren Pilgrim said:
I want to setup VNC on some Windows machines so I can access them
over the internet, but I need to secure the connection in a way
that will work with NAT'ing firewalls on both ends of the
connection. How can I do this? I was thinking of setting up
port on gateway1.
Assuming local can reach the faked port on gateway1 and gateway2 can
reach the actual port on remote, do the IP addresses used even matter?
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
Doug Poland wrote:
Darren Pilgrim said:
I want to setup VNC on some Windows machines so I can access them
over
I'm in need of a program that can show me just a list of packets as they
pass through a given interface. The only information I need are the
transport protocol (TCP, UDP, etc) and the source and destination
addresses and ports. I don't want to know any other information for
various
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Can anybody explain what has happened here? My machine seems to be
functioning normally.
ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded
done
This is almost always the sign of a bad cable, but
Tenebrae wrote:
BTW, the dead drive is an IBM Deskstar 75GXP (DTLA-307060). I miss it. I
wish there was some way to recover it. 30GB of data gone. Maybe I'll try
putting it in the freezer and drop it into a different machine and see if
I can mount it...
Funny, I had *exactly* the same thing
Vladislav V. Zhuk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:34:09AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
This is almost always the sign of a bad cable, but it can also be
the logic board on the drive dying (though much rarer). Check your
cables. Better yet, go to your local hardware store and buy a new
ATA
Laszlo Vagner wrote:
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S207 notebook. According to the
(limited) information I can find on this machine, I believe the audio
hardware is integrated into the ALi CyberALADDiN-T M1535 chipset. The
only thing I could find was the t4dwave
Matthew Emmerton wrote:
Thus spake Daxbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The inspiration for this email was from a thread in
-questions: Re: fsck takes very long after crash/reset
Is anybody currently working on or does there exist
a JFS for FreeBSD?
Various people (including myself and Hiten Pandya)
Terry Lambert wrote:
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
Not really. A properly laid-out filesystem hierarchy will result in no
writes to / (except for installworld/kernel). That removes the problem
that journalling addresses, and is probably why softupdates is disabled
by default for /. For large, active
David Schultz wrote:
Thus spake Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
David Schultz wrote:
The easy way to fix this is to insert a new dependency for the
completion of the allocation. Basically, this would put in a
stall barrier that would cause the outstanding I/O to drain before
the new I/O was
I have a Logitech Quickcam Express USB with the STV0602-AA chip. I know it's a
piece of crap, but it was a free piece of crap. Is there any support for it?
The chip is the typical cheap component put into a lot of cheap electronics
meant for Windows. I didn't see a specific USB camera module
[Note: cross-post removed. -questions is the appropriate place for this.]
As your rc.conf contents show, you have the same block of addresses assigned
to both interfaces. This is a broken configuration. You need to renumber
one of these networks into non-overlapping space. I would change the
I use postfix for my mail servers, rather than sendmail. Postfix installs
the sendmail-replacement programs under /usr/local. The programs from
contrib/sendmail are under /usr, so you end up with two copies of these
programs when postfix is installed. To avoid prevent security issues and
other
From: freebsder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Dave,
I've changed the rc.conf as per you suggestion see
below.
Do I also need to change the
natd_flags=redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:80 80
to
natd_flags=redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.0:80 80
??
See below. You need to correctly renumber
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:57:21AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
/usr/bin/mail tries to run /usr/sbin/sendmail directly.
This probably isn't
a good idea, since IIRC sendmail can now be package-ized
and removed from
the base system
From: freebsder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Everyone ... thanks for your help thus far. I've
made some changes below. [I have Not made all the
changes that you've kindly suggested but enough that I
am able to ping back and forth ... if I have ignored
your suggestion and you still see
I have a number of machines onto which I want to install a custom-built
world, kernel and set of packages, all of which have been built on another
machine. The target machines presently have no OS on them and can only be
booted by CD.
Installing a minimal FreeBSD and then mounting /usr/src and
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From: 3BSD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:21:09 -0700, Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a number of machines onto which I want to install a custom-built
world, kernel and set of packages, all of which have been
From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 19 July 2004 03:32 pm, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
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From: 3BSD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:21:09 -0700, Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a number
From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:09AM -0700,
Darren Pilgrim probably wrote:
What do I need to us to accomplish the above?
man release.
Is there a way to skip the build portions of `make release` and just create
the distributions and ISOs
From: Chris Vance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
From: Sergey Zaharchenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:21:09AM -0700,
Darren Pilgrim probably wrote:
What do I need to us to accomplish the above?
man release.
Is there a way to skip
Yesterday I was upgrading the disk in one of my workstations. Since I was
planning on growing the filesystems for my FreeBSD install at the same time,
I needed to manually create a new disklabel. I used sysinstall for this,
but ran into a problem: sysinstall doesn't allocate the partition
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I manually specify or change the partition letter to use?
Don't use sysinstall(8). sysinstall is like the training wheels
children use when learning to ride a bike: essential in the beginning,
but once they've achieved some
On a machine running RELENG_4_8, I have two parititions, ad0s1d and
ad4s1e, configured as a mirror using vinum. I need to move one of the
drives to another controller, resulting in ad4 changing to ad2. I read
through the vinum man page, saw the move command, then read elsewhere
that vinum's
I'm looking at getting a 3ware Escalade 7006. Can FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x
boot from a RAID on this controller?
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I'm looking at getting a 3ware Escalade 7006 or 8006 RAID controller for
one of my servers. The machine presently runs RELENG_4_8. The twe man
page for that version doesn't list the 7000 or 8000 series controllers.
However, 3ware lists 4.8 as the supported version of FreeBSD for both.
Which is
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Can anybody recommend a good mouse? My criteria are:
- Middle button easy to use. The current crop of mice has the middle
button integrated with the roller, and that makes the middle button
either heavy or easy to confuse with the roller.
- Preferably
I don't like (let alone want) ntpd binding to every IP address on the host.
The man pages don't say anything about specifying a binding address for
ntpd. A search of the sources and Google also failed to reveal anything
useful.
So how to I tell ntpd to bind to a specific IP address?
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I don't like (let alone want) ntpd binding to every IP address on
the host. The man pages don't say anything about specifying a
binding address for ntpd. A search of the sources and Google
also failed to reveal
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From: S.I
How Can I set ipprecedence flag on FreeBSD?
Precendence bits are part of the ip_tos bits in FreeBSD inet sockets. The
ip(4) man page gives an example of using setsockopt(2) to set the ToS bits.
See src/sys/netinet/ip.h (v1.29) lines 76 to 99
[ Note to Roman: Please adjust your mail client to wrap lines at more
acceptable range of 72-76 characters. Thanks. ]
From: Roman Kurakin
I've seen this before 5.0 release and made some investigation of this
proble. I didn't look this thread carefully so excuse me if information
I give to
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On Tue, October 26, 2004 12:50 pm, Siavash EDRISI said:
Hi!
I have been reading the text Setting Up the Sound Card at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
in order to find and install the right driver for the sound card in
From: Matt Navarre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:55, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
The first step is to provide copies of the outputs of the
commands `uname -a`, `dmesg` and `kldstat`.
Also the output of cat /dev/sndstat would help.
Did you first try loading snd.ko (4
From: Matthias Buelow
Lefteris Tsintjelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not sure if I do something wrong here or it is suppose
to work that way but the async option doesn't seem to work
for partitions that have soft-updates turned on. Can someone
please clarify the difference and if the
archives that discuss puc(4) not attaching to this device, but none
provide any conclusive answers.
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Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I have the following PCI, 4-port serial card:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0: class=0x070002 card=0x00041000 chip=0x98459710 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'MosChip Semiconductors (Was: Netmos Technology)'
device = 'Nm9845 Parallel/Serial Port Adapter'
class
I have a laptop with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 (a/b/g) mini-pci card. The
card is seen during boot, but no driver is attached. I haven't had much
luck finding reference to it in any manual pages, src/sys/conf/NOTES,
src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES, the mailing list archive or Google. Blindly
stabbing
I'm removing sendmail entirely from an installed system. I had
WITHOUT_SENDMAIL in /etc/src.conf when I updated to RELENG_8_3, but that
left an old version of sendmail rotting away on disk. This is the list
I have so far:
/etc/mail/* (excluding mailer.conf)
/etc/rc.d/sendmail
I'm unable to unmount an idle filesystem (or even drop it to
read-only):
# mount
/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, noatime)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/da0s1d on /var (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s1fp1 on /usr/obj (ufs,
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I'm unable to unmount an idle filesystem (or even drop it to
read-only):
# mount
/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, noatime)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/da0s1d on /var (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, noatime, soft
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I'm unable to unmount an idle filesystem (or even drop it to
read-only):
# mount
/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, noatime)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/da0s1d on /var (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, noatime, soft
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
softdep_waitidle: Failed to flush worklist for 0xc66e5298
A quick check and that message gets spit out whenever I issue
any of the following commands:
# mount -uo ro /usr/ports # umount /usr/ports # umount -f
/usr/ports
As luck would have it I ran
I have some periodic scripts from ports that I need to run before
periodic scripts in /etc/periodic; but I can't see how to make it so.
Periodic always processes /etc/periodic before $local_periodic. If I
move /etc/periodic/*/999.local file to 000.local and set:
local_periodic=
I'm running 9.1. I run a local recursive resolver, so my
/etc/resolv.conf needs to remain static. I have DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and VPN
clients running which all want to modify /etc/resolv.conf. I have set
in /etc/resolvconf.conf:
search_domains=example.com. example.net.
name_servers=2001:db8::53
On 2013-06-13 05:02, Loic Capdeville wrote:
You can configure it in your dhclient.conf file.
Use the supersede keyword.
For example, in your case add:
supersede domain-search example.com example.net
supersede domain-name-servers 2001:db8::53
That only addresses the DHCPv4
On 2013-06-12 17:46, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
How do I tell resolvconf to always use a static configuration or, better
yet, to not muck with /etc/resolv.conf at all?
According to the project developer, the answer is to have resolvconf not
touch /etc/resolv.conf by put the following in /etc
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