Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???
George Vanev wrote: If you really want to copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc every 30 min you don't need a startup script. Just add the following line in /etc/crontab: */30 * * * * rootcp /root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf I don't know what exactly are you trying to do, but this is not quite a good decision. Agreed-- it's a bad idea. However, if you still want to do it, throw a -f flag after the cp just to make sure it forcibly overwrites the resolv.conf. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Atilla the Hub ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???
linux quest wrote: Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes at start up - This is because I don't wanna manually type in cp /root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=106902 The suggested script allows you to set your nameservers in rc.conf. I seriously doubt you need to do that every 30 minutes. It should be enought to write it on startup, so give it a try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: if_nfe on nVidia chipset
Hello, Is there any way I can help to try and fix this? Regards, Palle --On torsdag, december 21, 2006 19.04.17 +0100 Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On torsdag, december 21, 2006 00.29.10 +0900 Shigeaki Tagashira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Palle Girgensohn wrote: --On söndag, december 17, 2006 01.06.24 +0900 Shigeaki Tagashira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same one. And if_nfe works well on it, in both FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and 7-CURRENT. Please try to initialize if_nfe using ifconfig command; # ifconfig nfe1 down; ifconfig nfe1 up --- S. Tagashira Hi Tagashira-san, Tried a lot of stuff, up and down and also debug flag, but nothing helps. ifconfig says media: Ethernet autoselect (none) I can ping the interface itself, but nothing else. Any ideas? Hi, I updated my web site for FreeBSD nfe driver. Please try the lastest nfe driver and e1000phy patch provided on the web site. These codes were modified to detect link media more correctly. Hello, Sorry, there's no change, it still acts the same way. media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: active and the network does not work. No mediaopts work. Regards, Palle --- S. Tagashira Regards, Palle Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi! Sorry for the cross post, I'd love to know if I can get this working or not. Regards, Palle -- Forwarded Message -- Date: tisdag, december 12, 2006 18.52.35 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: if_nfe on Asus M2N-SLI deluxe? Hi! Does anybody know if if_nfe should work on the above motherboard? I snached the patch for FreeBSD-6.2 from http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html and tried it. The kernel and ifconfig seems happy, but it does not work; ifconfig reports active but ifconfig reports: nfe0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING ether 00:17:31:86:aa:31 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier nfe1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet6 fe80::217:31ff:fe86:b4c6%nfe1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.1.191 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:17:31:86:b4:c6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 The media part of nfe1 looks bad, eh? Is it supposed to work? How can I help to get it working? FreeBSD 6.2-stable, around RC1. Enclosed is a dmesg. Anything else needed? /Palle -- End Forwarded Message -- -- -- Subject: if_nfe on Asus M2N-SLI deluxe? From: Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:52:35 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! Does anybody know if if_nfe should work on the above motherboard? I snached the patch for FreeBSD-6.2 from http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html and tried it. The kernel and ifconfig seems happy, but it does not work; ifconfig reports active but ifconfig reports: nfe0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING ether 00:17:31:86:aa:31 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier nfe1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet6 fe80::217:31ff:fe86:b4c6%nfe1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.1.191 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:17:31:86:b4:c6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 The media part of nfe1 looks bad, eh? Is it supposed to work? How can I help to get it working? FreeBSD 6.2-stable, around RC1. Enclosed is a dmesg. Anything else needed? /Palle -- -- Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Nov 29 11:57:06 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/.a/banan/usr/src/sys/WORKSTA TI ON Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2210.20-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x40ff2 Stepping = 2 Features=0x78bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR, PG E,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2
Re: DNS Resolver Problem
On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Bob McIsaac wrote: linux quest wrote: Dear Jay The FreeBSD Communities, Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I did manage to stop the resolv.conf from being overwritten after the PC reboot. However, when I ping 192.168.52.1 or 192.168.52.2, the error msg says that there is no route to both of the IP. Even after I add the default route by using command line ... I am still unable to ping google.com. Then, I undo everything by using VMWare... (including undo the DHCP configuration in rc.conf) so that I am able to ping google.com again. Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes at start up - This is because I don't wanna manually type in cp / root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes. Hope somebody can share with me the simple coding. Thanks :) Regards, Linux Quest Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't top-post. linux quest wrote: Dear Jay, Actually, I am running FreeBSD Unix on a VMWare machine (Host OS: Win2003, Guest OS: FreeBSD). Any ideas how I can disable / ignore the routing from the VMnet8? Below are the only VMWare NAT configuration that I have access to. No DHCP enable / disable option. Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.2 When I install FreeBSD, I remember I did select some option to enable DHCP. Perhaps, I should disable the DHCP service in FreeBSD (Guest OS) - if so, any idea how do I do it? Thanks :) Regards, Linux Quest Simple enough, then. Edit /etc/rc.conf, and remove the line relating to the dhcp client. Then add: defaultrouter=192.168.51.2 hostname=boxname! ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.52.WHATEVERYOUWANT netmask 255.255.255.0 Hi: DHCP intends that everything works easily. However, if the DHCP lease is unsatisfactory, you can change it after doing man dhclient.conf. Can you post /var/db/ dhclient.leases? Also, in one shell type tcpdump -v -c 20 and in another do ping or click a web page. Finally, netstat -r regards, -Bob- defaultrouter should match the gateway IP address for the virtual interface you're using in FreeBSD under vmware; defaultrouter is an alias for the default route use by the kernel for directing packets (this can be viewed by looking at netstat -nr and looking for the default route, or route show default--more verbose output). The subnet/IP should match something similar to what's provided with DHCP--just in static form (which /etc/rc.conf will provide). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???
On Jan 16, 2007, at 12:36 AM, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: linux quest wrote: Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes at start up - This is because I don't wanna manually type in cp /root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=106902 The suggested script allows you to set your nameservers in rc.conf. I seriously doubt you need to do that every 30 minutes. It should be enought to write it on startup, so give it a try. Better idea would be a PR to the docs folks about highlighting the resolv.conf file section in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-configfiles.html. I had to get the single file HTML and search it a bit before I found the reference shown above (even though I basically knew about it already). So if you skip over that section of the handbook you won't see the relevant note to read the manpage for dhclient(8) unless you ask someone or find another referring manpage. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I tell if my sio0 port is broken?
On Monday 15 January 2007 11:43, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello List. I guess my sio0 port is broken on my Thinkpad, OS is FreeBSD-6.1. Reason: 1) I have tested a null-modem serial cable is working by using it on a dumb-terminal and a headless server. With the same cable and same headless server, but replace dumb-terminal with my thinkpad, run $ tip com1 connected Then, whatever key I press, nothing happens. Usually I should see login prompt after I pressed Enter key. Test was done with FreeBSD Generic kernel. 2) I have plugged a modem (with ordinary serial cable, not the null-modem one) on it and run minicom. If I type 'at' I should get 'OK' as prompt, but I didn't. The same modem and same cable work for another Linux box. 3) I go to BIOS and do a serial port test, test result is OK, but I think bios have no knowledge if a port is broken when it's not connected to anything at all. So, I think next morning I should go and check if there are PCMCIA card that can provide an extra COM port, but before that I think I should write this letter to the list to see what you guys would do in this case: do you also think this looks like COM1 port is broken? Thank you very much for advices. Zhang Weiwu Did you enable the tty in /etc/ttys? For instance: ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 xterm on secure See man ttys for more info. - Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install from CVS?
On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there. Sure, it's possible. You'd have to build a working system from the sources on a FreeBSD system, and then install them to the target disk somehow (perhaps temporarily install the drive in the working FreeBSD system long enough to do the install). In practice, people normally install from a CD image they've burned, and perform source-based updates after that. ---Chuck Crikey, that'd be a pain in the arse. Gotcha, install from ISO... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones You do need a target system/setup, but someone recently suggested setting up a /usr share via NFS (look back in the archives about 2~3 days), where if you switched the symlinks to several files and ran make install with the /usr/obj mounted (or the relevant sharename setup under /etc/rc.conf), you could install to another PC from an NFS share. What your asking (or similar things) is not impossible, but just a little more difficult to setup at first, and eventually should get easier. You can also make CDs with your distro files setup, and then configure everything on the fly essentially. In regards to that, there was another answer posted recently about making bootable CDs (look back in the archives ~2 weeks) that linked to the relevant freebsd.org article on how to accomplish that. Also, you can install from NFS shares, which may be helpful if you have an NFS server setup with a repository ;). However, NFS shares with FreeBSD servers can be a pain in the arse sometimes, as I discovered when I tried to reinstall from an NFS repository recently. However, your experience (hopefully) will not be as bad as mine and maybe setting up / mapping root properly will solve your issues :). Cheers and best of luck, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using fn-Key of IBM Thinkpads in X?
Hi, I'm currently using the latest FreeBSD 6.1 patchlevel on an IBM Thinkpad T23, and so far I'm quite happy with it. (I'll have an issue with my ath-based WLAN-NIC, but I've to address this later.) One thing I'm wondering about is if it is possible to use the fn-Key as another special key in X, e.g. like Control or Alt. I'm using ion3 as a window manager, and I found know hotkey configuration that wouldn't affect the usage of hotkeys in applications. Using fn+something else with X/ion3 would be nice. But I don't know if fn sends a scan code like the other keys do, and how I could map this key in X. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling mtr without GUI
On Saturday 13 January 2007 15:03, Christian Baer wrote: Hi there Peeps! Somehow the mtr-port is bugging me a little. I want to install mtr on a machine with no keyboard and no monitor and thus no X - and I'd like to keep it that way. Since I couldn't find a package of mtr without the GUI, I guess, I'm stuck with the port. I've looked at the makefile and found the variable WITHOUT_X11. However, a 'make -D WITHOUT_X11' and a 'make WITHOUT_X11=1' both[1] result in X.org being downloaded and built. Now I am no real expert on makefiles but AFAIK in this case it shouldn't matter, what value WITHOUT_X11 has, as long as it is set at all. Am I too thick to be getting the point here or have I missed something not all that obvious? Don't think it matters but the Plattform is SPARC64 and the Version is 6.1-RELEASE (no cvsup run yet). Regards Chris [1] Both should actually do the same thing. Make sure you run 'make clean' in the port's dir before trying to rebuild the port after changing make.conf and/or make variables. Otherwise you'll end up building the port with stale data. - Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:32:13PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. A good question, which I've taken the liberty of researching. montreal# cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr montreal# make pretty-print-run-depends-list This port requires package(s) ImageMagick-6.2.9.8 curl-7.16.0_1 expat-2.0.0_1 fontconfig-2.3.2_6,1 freetype2-2.2.1_1 gettext-0.14.5_2 ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15 gnupg-1.4.6_3 gocr-0.43 gsfonts-8.11_2 jasper-1.701.0_1 jbigkit-1.6 jpeg-6b_4 lcms-1.16,1 libdrm-2.0.2 libfpx-1.2.0.12 libiconv-1.9.2_2 libltdl-1.5.22 libungif-4.1.4_2 libxml2-2.6.26 mpeg2codec-1.2_1 netpbm-10.26.37 p5-Archive-Tar-1.30 p5-Authen-SASL-2.10_1 p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.003 p5-Compress-Zlib-2.002 p5-Digest-1.15 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.36 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.11 p5-GSSAPI-0.23 p5-HTML-Parser-3.55 p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.003 p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.002 p5-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51_1 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.02 p5-IO-String-1.08 p5-IO-Zlib-1.04_1 p5-MIME-Base64-3.07 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7_3 p5-Mail-Tools-1.74 p5-Math-BigInt-1.77 p5-Net-1.19,1 p5-Net-DNS-0.59 p5-Net-IP-1.25 p5-Net-SSLeay-1.30_1 p5-PathTools-3.24 p5-Scalar-List-Utils-1.19,1 p5-Socket6-0.19 p5-String-Approx-3.26 p5-URI-1.35 p5-libwww-5.805 perl-5.8.8 pkg-config-0.21 png-1.2.14 tcl-8.4.13_1,1 tiff-3.8.2_1 tk-8.4.13,2 xorg-libraries-6.9.0 to run. montreal# pretty-print-build-depends-list pretty-print-build-depends-list: Command not found. montreal# make pretty-print-build-depends-list This port requires package(s) perl-5.8.8 to build. montreal# Kinda crappy looking. You can also 'make readmes to generate HTML readme files, but I don't believe it recurses. Anyone else want to chime in? Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. A dollowup question, if I might? Are all the various make targets for the ports tree documented anywhere? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:36:59PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 15), stan said: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. cd into the port's directory and run make all-depends-list. Also try build-depends-list, package-depends-list, and run-depends-list, depending on what you're looking for. Thanks, this is very useful. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)
Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I need to do? I have researched and google this for the entire week, but I still can't find the solution. For example in Windows, all I need to do is to type nmap 192.168.1.2 and save it in a text file with the extension .bat - and everything will be taken care of. I hope someone can share with me the simple coding to solve this problem. Thank you so much, guys :) Regards, Linux Quest Regards, Linux Quest - No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling mtr without GUI
On 1/13/07, Christian Baer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Peeps! Somehow the mtr-port is bugging me a little. I want to install mtr on a machine with no keyboard and no monitor and thus no X - and I'd like to keep it that way. Since I couldn't find a package of mtr without the GUI, I guess, I'm stuck with the port. I've looked at the makefile and found the variable WITHOUT_X11. However, a 'make -D WITHOUT_X11' and a 'make WITHOUT_X11=1' both[1] result in X.org being downloaded and built. Now I am no real expert on makefiles but AFAIK in this case it shouldn't matter, what value WITHOUT_X11 has, as long as it is set at all. Am I too thick to be getting the point here or have I missed something not all that obvious? Don't think it matters but the Plattform is SPARC64 and the Version is 6.1-RELEASE (no cvsup run yet). Regards Chris I'm not entierly sure, but i think you have to provide -DWITHOUT_X11, no space between D and the rest. That's how i specify make options anyway. AS others suggested, if you never intend to run a X11-server, setting WITHOUT_X11=yes in make.conf is propablyu better, then you don't have to worry at all about X being installed if there is a option not to. HTH! //Niclas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?
On 1/16/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:32:13PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. A good question, which I've taken the liberty of researching. montreal# cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr montreal# make pretty-print-run-depends-list This port requires package(s) ImageMagick-6.2.9.8 curl-7.16.0_1 expat-2.0.0_1 fontconfig-2.3.2_6,1 freetype2-2.2.1_1 gettext-0.14.5_2 ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15 gnupg-1.4.6_3 gocr-0.43 gsfonts-8.11_2 jasper-1.701.0_1 jbigkit-1.6 jpeg-6b_4 lcms-1.16,1 libdrm-2.0.2 libfpx-1.2.0.12 libiconv-1.9.2_2 libltdl-1.5.22 libungif-4.1.4_2 libxml2-2.6.26 mpeg2codec-1.2_1 netpbm-10.26.37 p5-Archive-Tar-1.30 p5-Authen-SASL-2.10_1 p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.003 p5-Compress-Zlib-2.002 p5-Digest-1.15 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.36 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.11 p5-GSSAPI-0.23 p5-HTML-Parser-3.55 p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.003 p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.002 p5-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51_1 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.02 p5-IO-String-1.08 p5-IO-Zlib-1.04_1 p5-MIME-Base64-3.07 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7_3 p5-Mail-Tools-1.74 p5-Math-BigInt-1.77 p5-Net-1.19,1 p5-Net-DNS-0.59 p5-Net-IP-1.25 p5-Net-SSLeay-1.30_1 p5-PathTools-3.24 p5-Scalar-List-Utils-1.19,1 p5-Socket6-0.19 p5-String-Approx-3.26 p5-URI-1.35 p5-libwww-5.805 perl-5.8.8 pkg-config-0.21 png-1.2.14 tcl-8.4.13_1,1 tiff-3.8.2_1 tk-8.4.13,2 xorg-libraries-6.9.0 to run. montreal# pretty-print-build-depends-list pretty-print-build-depends-list: Command not found. montreal# make pretty-print-build-depends-list This port requires package(s) perl-5.8.8 to build. montreal# Kinda crappy looking. You can also 'make readmes to generate HTML readme files, but I don't believe it recurses. Anyone else want to chime in? Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. A dollowup question, if I might? Are all the various make targets for the ports tree documented anywhere? Most of them are documented in the ports(7) manpage, at least the targets regarding ports. make(4) might have some info as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)
I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but your questions are pretty silly for this mailing list. I suspect I am not the first that have told you this. Anyway... I think I saw someone answer you this question - how to make the perl script. Obviously you have to install perl. The easiest way is to create a shell script for this. Try reading a little documentation, before ask such questions. On 1/16/07, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I need to do? I have researched and google this for the entire week, but I still can't find the solution. For example in Windows, all I need to do is to type nmap 192.168.1.2 and save it in a text file with the extension .bat - and everything will be taken care of. I hope someone can share with me the simple coding to solve this problem. Thank you so much, guys :) Regards, Linux Quest Regards, Linux Quest - No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- George Vanev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)
On 1/16/07, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I need to do? I have researched and google this for the entire week, but I still can't find the solution. For example in Windows, all I need to do is to type nmap 192.168.1.2 and save it in a text file with the extension .bat - and everything will be taken care of. I hope someone can share with me the simple coding to solve this problem. Considering the question a subtle joke or something, let me take the bait and help you. File extensions do not matter much in Unix. File permissions do. If you want to make an executable script, you'll have to state in its first line what kind of script it is, or, more precisely, what program should interpret it. The line is usually called shebang because it starts with #!. After that an interpreter must be specified. For shell scripts (you want to start with them!) use #!/bin/sh (without the quotes) in the first line. After that line just add more lines with commands. nmap 1.2.3.4 is a perfectly valid command, you can just place it on a separate line. After all that you need to change permissions of this new file you've just created to allow execution. Just do: # chmod a+x file You can then try to execute the file either by calling it by full path or by changing into its directory and typing ./file Good luck! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I'm getting the message when I try to load a KLD in Sysinstall, even though I KNOW my floppy drive works. In fact, I can load the KLD from the loader prompt just fine. Is there a difference/advantage to one way of doing this over the other? -Dan Mahoney -- Hitler, Satan, those Hanson kids, anything. Just not the curious anteater. -Peter Scolari, as Wayne Szalinki in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids--The Series Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)
On 1/16/07, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I need to do? I have researched and google this for the entire week, but I still can't find the solution. For example in Windows, all I need to do is to type nmap 192.168.1.2 and save it in a text file with the extension .bat - and everything will be taken care of. I hope someone can share with me the simple coding to solve this problem. Thank you so much, guys :) I think you're better of with a sh shell script for these simple kinds of task. Perl might be a bit of overkill. Somethink like this might do the trick: #!/bin/sh nmap 192.168.1.2 You can add | mail [yourmail] if you want the output mailed somewhere (if you have mail set up properly on your machine) or just redirect the output to a file if you like. Otherwise the output of the script (i.e. nmap) will end up on stdout. Save the file with a .sh extention, chmod u+x file to make it executable, and run it. sh(1) has more info on how the sh shell works and how to write scripts in it. It's far more sofisticated than the windows .bat-thingie ;) HTH! //Niclas -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ethernet not recognized
Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I missing here? I'm new at unix or linux, I've only used windows and I like to learn something outside windows, but I didn't know it would be such a headache. The motherboard is a PC CHIPS P23G or something like that. I also tried to compile the X11 but it display an error trying to connect to freebsd.org, obviously because of the Ethernet card not recognized. Can someone help me with this??? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet not recognized
If I'm not wrong your lan card must be VIA VT6103L. In this case FreeBSD must support it. Post your dmesg please. Did you make any changes to the kernel? On 1/16/07, Juan Marrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I missing here? I'm new at unix or linux, I've only used windows and I like to learn something outside windows, but I didn't know it would be such a headache. The motherboard is a PC CHIPS P23G or something like that. I also tried to compile the X11 but it display an error trying to connect to freebsd.org, obviously because of the Ethernet card not recognized. Can someone help me with this??? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- George Vanev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem
It seems something strange with squid-2.6.6 on my FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE box. After running 'usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' (and therefore during system shutdown on 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' or ACPI power button pushing) I see the following: Stopping squid. Waiting for PIDS: 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564. In case of shutdown /etc/rc.shutdown initiates watchdog timer. I think it isn't normal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet not recognized
George Vanev wrote: If I'm not wrong your lan card must be VIA VT6103L. In this case FreeBSD must support it. Post your dmesg please. Did you make any changes to the kernel? On 1/16/07, Juan Marrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I missing here? I'm new at unix or linux, I've only used windows and I like to learn something outside windows, but I didn't know it would be such a headache. The motherboard is a PC CHIPS P23G or something like that. I also tried to compile the X11 but it display an error trying to connect to freebsd.org, obviously because of the Ethernet card not recognized. Can someone help me with this??? ___ please dont top post. you might want to get version 6.2 as it was just finalized yesterday. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ethernet not recognized
Juan Marrero writes: Can someone help me with this??? Can we see the hardware boot probe? You'll find it in /var/log/messages, it looks like: Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz (2266.7 6-MHz 686-class CPU) Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: Features=0x3febfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE ,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2 ,SS,HTT,TM Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: real memory = 536854528 (511 MB) Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: avail memory = 515874816 (491 MB) Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: acpi0: ASUS P4S533 on motherboard Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz q uality 1000 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz por t 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: acpi_throttle0: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: agp0: SiS 645DX host to AGP bridge on hostb0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 Please post all of it. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:32:13 -0800 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. A good question, which I've taken the liberty of researching. montreal# cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr montreal# make pretty-print-run-depends-list ... Kinda crappy looking. You can also 'make readmes to generate HTML readme files, but I don't believe it recurses. It shows the recursive dependencies, but doesn't display any hierarchical information. sysutils/pkg_tree may be of some use for installed packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?
Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits instantly with a segfault. I didn't get any replies from the STABLE list, but I got a few ideas from a German newsgroup. On of these ideas was that Firefox may not run at all unter FreeBSD SPARC64. The reason given was that outside of the common plattforms (i386, AMD64 and maybe alpha) much of the ports world is untestet. To be honest, I find that a little hard to believe for Firefox. If we were talking about some application that is rarely used at all, sure. But Firefox should be quite common - one would think anyway. Well, just to rule out this possibility, I tought I'd just ask around if anyone got Firefox to run on FreeBSD 6.1 SPARC64. Hit me with answers! :-) Regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: if_nfe on nVidia chipset
Hi, I don't know why it doesn't detect the link media type. I have the same motherboard(M2N-SLI deluxe) and it works fine. Could you try to directly connect nfe0 to nfe1? If the link media type cannot be detected correctly in the case, thia seems to be the problem of cable or network hub. How about specifying the link media type with ifconfig? Regards, Shigeaki Tagashira Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hello, Is there any way I can help to try and fix this? Regards, Palle --On torsdag, december 21, 2006 19.04.17 +0100 Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On torsdag, december 21, 2006 00.29.10 +0900 Shigeaki Tagashira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Palle Girgensohn wrote: --On söndag, december 17, 2006 01.06.24 +0900 Shigeaki Tagashira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same one. And if_nfe works well on it, in both FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and 7-CURRENT. Please try to initialize if_nfe using ifconfig command; # ifconfig nfe1 down; ifconfig nfe1 up --- S. Tagashira Hi Tagashira-san, Tried a lot of stuff, up and down and also debug flag, but nothing helps. ifconfig says media: Ethernet autoselect (none) I can ping the interface itself, but nothing else. Any ideas? Hi, I updated my web site for FreeBSD nfe driver. Please try the lastest nfe driver and e1000phy patch provided on the web site. These codes were modified to detect link media more correctly. Hello, Sorry, there's no change, it still acts the same way. media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: active and the network does not work. No mediaopts work. Regards, Palle --- S. Tagashira Regards, Palle Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi! Sorry for the cross post, I'd love to know if I can get this working or not. Regards, Palle -- Forwarded Message -- Date: tisdag, december 12, 2006 18.52.35 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: if_nfe on Asus M2N-SLI deluxe? Hi! Does anybody know if if_nfe should work on the above motherboard? I snached the patch for FreeBSD-6.2 from http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html and tried it. The kernel and ifconfig seems happy, but it does not work; ifconfig reports active but ifconfig reports: nfe0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING ether 00:17:31:86:aa:31 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier nfe1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet6 fe80::217:31ff:fe86:b4c6%nfe1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.1.191 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:17:31:86:b4:c6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 The media part of nfe1 looks bad, eh? Is it supposed to work? How can I help to get it working? FreeBSD 6.2-stable, around RC1. Enclosed is a dmesg. Anything else needed? /Palle -- End Forwarded Message -- -- -- Subject: if_nfe on Asus M2N-SLI deluxe? From: Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:52:35 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! Does anybody know if if_nfe should work on the above motherboard? I snached the patch for FreeBSD-6.2 from http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html and tried it. The kernel and ifconfig seems happy, but it does not work; ifconfig reports active but ifconfig reports: nfe0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING ether 00:17:31:86:aa:31 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier nfe1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet6 fe80::217:31ff:fe86:b4c6%nfe1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.1.191 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:17:31:86:b4:c6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 The media part of nfe1 looks bad, eh? Is it supposed to work? How can I help to get it working? FreeBSD 6.2-stable, around RC1. Enclosed is a dmesg. Anything else needed? /Palle -- -- Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:32:58 -0500 Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: This is not exactly a question rather it is wrapup for a series of questions. I had a tricky, confusing problem getting FreeBSD on the net but I was able to solve it with help from this list.. Ian Smith in particular. The DHCP lease from my ISP set the nameserver address as being 192.168.1.254, the IP of some box which connects me to to net. Correct me if wrong, but whois would not reveal a nameserver IP in this form for a net host. Linux accepted this but FreeBSD-6.1 had 10 second delays in TCP connects for mail and web pages. This does not imply a problem with BSD. It probably implies that Linux is more tolerant of loosely configured web services. But in the world of security it's casual configuration considered harmful. No, you have misunderstood the problem. 192.168.1.254 is presumably the address of your NAT router. It's using its own DHCP server to give you its own address as a nameserver because it's running a DNS proxy. My D-Link ADSL-router has a similar problem, its DNS proxy was very unreliable with FreeBSD, much worse than 10 second delays, many lookups didn't resolve at all. Disabling IPv6 did help speed things up, but didn't cure the problem entirely. I spent many hours reading and testing before hitting on a solution in dhclient.conf. If you have a fixed location (i.e. it's not a laptop that connects elsewhere), it's probably better and easier to avoid DHCP altogether, since you are not getting any dynamic configuration from it. I setup my desktop PC like this: ifconfig_vr0=inet 192.168.1.201 netmask 255.255.255.0 this gives me a fixed private ip address, instead of one that depends on what else is plugged into the router. The address is reserved in the router. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcpd update doesn't restart service
Hello, I ran portupgrade on a 6.1 box. One of the ports needing updating was isc-dhcpd it was v3.0.4 now at 3.0.5. I ran this update on two boxes, one went fine, but on the other the service was not restarted. In my pkgtools.conf file i do have the line needed to restart services after an update. I was wondering how to set up a service so that if it died it would be restarted? I know about inetd, but i didn't think dhcpd could run out of it. Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:08:07AM -0500, Dave wrote: - Original Message - From: Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:37 PM Subject: Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster I have just built and installed world on a 6.1-STABLE i386 machine and run mergemaster. For the jails, I have run: root# ezjail-admin update -i and it performed an installworld. Cool so far. What about mergemaster on the jails? Do I need to run mergemaster on the basejail and each jail instance? root# mergemaster -D /usr/jails/basejail root# mergemaster -D /usr/jails/jail-01 root# mergemaster -D /usr/jails/jail-99 Or just mergemaster on basejail? If I do just run mergemaster on basejail, how do the config file changes make it into the individual jails? Ezjail is a great utility but running mergemaster on every jail instance seems daunting, not to mention the potential problems with end-user modified config files. Hello, It's been a while since i checked my email, but did you ever get any responses on this question? I'm not at the point of needing to update any of my ezjails, but when 6.2 comes out or i deide to update to it whichever, i will at that point. No, I didn't get any responses. After more analysis, I reasoned that one must run mergemaster on the basejail and on each individual jail. It's a lot of work, but it appears that's the only way. On a separate subject do you have ports in any of your jails as in the ports tree? If so how did you pull that off? Thanks. I use portupgrade so I needed to add the following to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf + ENV['PACKAGES'] ||= '/var/ports/packages' + ENV['PKG_PATH'] ||= '/var/ports/packages/All' + ENV['PKG_BACKUP_DIR'] ||= '/var/tmp/pkg_backup' + ENV['PORTS_INDEX'] ||= '/var/ports/INDEX' HTH -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Very Poor Raid Card Performance
Hello, I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I followed the instructions in the handbook for tuning disks and I have set dma on. Being new to unix, I have no idea what to try or get system information too continue troubleshooting. If anyone could point me in the right direction or to appropriate documentation it would be much appreciated. Steve... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://folding.stanford.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem
In the last episode (Jan 16), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It seems something strange with squid-2.6.6 on my FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE box. After running 'usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' (and therefore during system shutdown on 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' or ACPI power button pushing) I see the following: Stopping squid. Waiting for PIDS: 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564. In case of shutdown /etc/rc.shutdown initiates watchdog timer. I think it isn't normal. Try shutting squid down manually from a shell prompt, then switch to another window/vty and take a look at /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log . My guess is it's waiting for an active client connection to exit. The default for shutdown_lifetime in squid.conf is 30 seconds. I set it to 5 on my systems. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems something strange with squid-2.6.6 on my FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE box. After running 'usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' (and therefore during system shutdown on 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' or ACPI power button pushing) I see the following: Stopping squid. Waiting for PIDS: 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564, 553 564. In case of shutdown /etc/rc.shutdown initiates watchdog timer. I think it isn't normal. On my system the shutdown time of squid is also very long, but it's done before the watchdog kills it. I suppose squid is doing some kind of cleaning up, maybe try to use a smaller cache and check weather that affects the shutdown period. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 07:56, Christian Baer wrote: Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits instantly with a segfault. I didn't get any replies from the STABLE list, but I got a few ideas from a German newsgroup. On of these ideas was that Firefox may not run at all unter FreeBSD SPARC64. The reason given was that outside of the common plattforms (i386, AMD64 and maybe alpha) much of the ports world is untestet. To be honest, I find that a little hard to believe for Firefox. If we were talking about some application that is rarely used at all, sure. But Firefox should be quite common - one would think anyway. Well, just to rule out this possibility, I tought I'd just ask around if anyone got Firefox to run on FreeBSD 6.1 SPARC64. I installed FreeBSD on an Ultra 5 sometime last year and I had Firefox (probably 1.5 or earlier) working just fine. I don't have the machine up right now to tinker with, though. Are you running the latest -stable on the box? If you don't get enough help on this list, you could also try the sparc64 list. It's true that some things in the sparc64 port don't get tested as much as they do in other ports of FreeBSD, but there are enough users that common programs such as Firefox should be expected to work. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: advice on compiling a new kernel upgrading to the latest sources
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:24:56 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-14 15:35, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [copious snippage] 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so you should *SAVE a copy* of your favorite kernel config file outside of the source tree and *copy* it into `/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf' after CVSup finishes updates the sources. Really? What have I been doing wrong? I've been keeping custom kernel configs for years and cvsup has never deleted any of them. That's what the ``*default delete use-rel-suffix'' option does, AFAIK. The default supfile examples in `/usr/share/examples/cvsup' have this option enabled, and cvsup(1) says about it: delete The presence of this keyword gives cvsup permission to delete files. If it is missing, no files will be deleted. The presence of the delete keyword puts cvsup into so-called exact mode. In exact mode, CVSup does its best to make the client's files correspond to those on the server. This includes deleting individual deltas and symbolic tags from RCS files, as well as deleting entire files. In exact mode, CVSup verifies every edited file with a checksum, to ensure that the edits have produced a file identical to the master copy on the server. If the checksum test fails for a file, then CVSup falls back upon transferring the entire file. In general, CVSup deletes only files which are known to the server. Extra files present in the client's tree are left alone, even in exact mode. More precisely, CVSup is willing to delete two classes of files: o Files that were previously created or updated by CVSup itself. o Checked-out versions of files which are marked as dead on the server. If the option doesn't work this way, then I stand corrected. Note the sentence: Extra files present in the client's tree are left alone, even in exact mode If a file has *never* been under CVS it's left alone. Having said that I still prefer to symlink because I like to be able to delete directories maintained by cvsup without losing anything. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1
Hi Freebsd My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave plugins I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in http://www.erata.net/weblog/freebsd/2006/10/16/flash-plugin-on-freebsd/ after doing this the firefox is crashing left and right. Any idea what we can do for this issue Thanks Dak ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting up to 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting up to 9MB/s. I followed the instructions in the handbook for tuning disks and I have set dma on. Being new to unix, I have no idea what to try or get system information too continue troubleshooting. If anyone could point me in the right direction or to appropriate documentation it would be much appreciated. You should provide the details of how you arrived at those numbers. Please provide details of your testing methodology. While it's impossible to compare apples to apples when pitting Windows against FreeBSD, you at least want to be comparing two fruits -- not apples and buffalo steaks or something like that. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd
I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they can keep their OS). Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated detrius on ntfs volumes to migrate. I see there is some good r/w ports for ntfs, so I'm willing to evaluate that to see if it's stable (shoestring budget here obviously - this is my personal stuff only). Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two. Now I praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem. I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup for the money. Is this normal? Am I going to break my mirror if I mount a single disk? If so, how do I mount a mirror? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd
I suppose a couple of other details are in order: 1. FreeBSD is installed on a completely different disk. 2. I checked, and the motherboard still thinks they are mirrored. Steve On 1/16/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they can keep their OS). Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated detrius on ntfs volumes to migrate. I see there is some good r/w ports for ntfs, so I'm willing to evaluate that to see if it's stable (shoestring budget here obviously - this is my personal stuff only). Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two. Now I praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem. I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup for the money. Is this normal? Am I going to break my mirror if I mount a single disk? If so, how do I mount a mirror? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What have you done for me lately !!!
Hi, Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... I was just curious, does it not bother any of the BSD developers that Apple inc (TM) has based its entire business model on open source software, and yet seems to have given little if any thing back in return. I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! Is this all just acceptable, have I missed the whole point of open source (Give something back when you can) or have I not read the fine print. anyhow... Cheers to all the developers at Freebsd, I am an admirer of BSD and the open source community -- Joe Arcaro. Technical Manager. Splitting Image Colour Studios. There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand Binary. And those who don't... Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What have you done for me lately !!!
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:06:58AM +1100, Joe Arcaro wrote: Hi, Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... I was just curious, does it not bother any of the BSD developers that Apple inc (TM) has based its entire business model on open source software, and yet seems to have given little if any thing back in return. I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! Is this all just acceptable, have I missed the whole point of open source (Give something back when you can) or have I not read the fine print. anyhow... Cheers to all the developers at Freebsd, I am an admirer of BSD and the open source community Yeah, you did miss the point. The BSD license does not require this, and we BSD developers work on BSD software because we acknowledge and even like that aspect of it: we are developing quality software that can be used for any purposes with effectively no strings attached. Besides, apple has and does contribute code back to FreeBSD. Kris pgpX23Ch6Zii4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What have you done for me lately !!!
On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:06:58AM +1100, Joe Arcaro wrote: Hi, Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... I was just curious, does it not bother any of the BSD developers that Apple inc (TM) has based its entire business model on open source software, and yet seems to have given little if any thing back in return. I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! Is this all just acceptable, have I missed the whole point of open source (Give something back when you can) or have I not read the fine print. anyhow... Cheers to all the developers at Freebsd, I am an admirer of BSD and the open source community Yeah, you did miss the point. The BSD license does not require this, and we BSD developers work on BSD software because we acknowledge and even like that aspect of it: we are developing quality software that can be used for any purposes with effectively no strings attached. Besides, apple has and does contribute code back to FreeBSD. Kris Regarding this, refer to the many threads in the past 3 months regarding this subject. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What have you done for me lately !!!
On Tuesday, January 16, 2007, at 09:55AM, Joe Arcaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! You must have missed it: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ *** QUOTE *** With its open-source core based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Mach 3.0 microkernel, Mac OS X is the best Macintosh operating system ever for UNIX users. With built-in support for the X Window System, IPv6, Kerberos integration, and added POSIX, Linux, and System V API support, Mac OS X easily runs your favorite UNIX software. With a CUPS-based print and fax engine, plus a suite of command-line and Python interfaces to Apple's Quartz graphics, it is easy to develop full-featured PDF workflows. Mac OS X even automounts Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX file servers directly in the Finder. *** END QUOTE *** Its in the first sentence on their page. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:00 AM, linux quest wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I need to do? I have researched and google this for the entire week, but I still can't find the solution. For example in Windows, all I need to do is to type nmap 192.168.1.2 and save it in a text file with the extension .bat - and everything will be taken care of. I hope someone can share with me the simple coding to solve this problem. Thank you so much, guys :) Regards, Linux Quest Regards, Linux Quest If you just want to see if a host is up.. #!/bin/sh # /usr/bin/ping -c 1 192.168.1.2 ..would suffice. Substitute /usr/bin/ping -c 1 for whatever command and arguments you want to run. Google beginner bash manual (note that it's for bash--the bourne again shell, not bourne shell--sh), but many of the same semantics in bash applying to sh. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet not recognized
Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. -Derek At 07:43 AM 1/16/2007, Juan Marrero wrote: Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I missing here? I'm new at unix or linux, I've only used windows and I like to learn something outside windows, but I didn't know it would be such a headache. The motherboard is a PC CHIPS P23G or something like that. I also tried to compile the X11 but it display an error trying to connect to freebsd.org, obviously because of the Ethernet card not recognized. Can someone help me with this??? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
With FreeBSD you can manage RAID in the OS or in your hardware (assuming hardware RAID support.) If you setup the RAID in the hardware, FreeBSD just sees the array as a large disk you can then partition. The advantage of doing the RAID in hardware is usually performance, but also you can dual-boot. -Derek At 10:25 AM 1/16/2007, Steven Lowry wrote: Hello, I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I followed the instructions in the handbook for tuning disks and I have set dma on. Being new to unix, I have no idea what to try or get system information too continue troubleshooting. If anyone could point me in the right direction or to appropriate documentation it would be much appreciated. Steve... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://folding.stanford.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting up to 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting up to 9MB/s. I followed the instructions in the handbook for tuning disks and I have set dma on. Being new to unix, I have no idea what to try or get system information too continue troubleshooting. If anyone could point me in the right direction or to appropriate documentation it would be much appreciated. You should provide the details of how you arrived at those numbers. Please provide details of your testing methodology. While it's impossible to compare apples to apples when pitting Windows against FreeBSD, you at least want to be comparing two fruits -- not apples and buffalo steaks or something like that. Thanks for your reply, I repeatedly copied a 700MB file from one harddrive to the Raid 5 Drive, a different file every time so caching won't be a large factor and consistantly got 8-9MB/s. Copying such large files is something I do on a daily basis. Hardly scientific, more of a real use scenario. Transfer was done via KDE. Here is the dmesg output for the controller; amr0: LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53 mem 0xfa2f-0xfa2f,0xfe80-0xfe8f irq 30 at device 14.0 on pci5 amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller amr0: LSILogic LSI MegaRAID SATA300-8X PCI-X Firmware 814D, BIOS H431, 128MB RAM amrd0: LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive on amr0 amrd0: 712392MB (1458978816 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) Not sure what is meant by the delete line. Motherboard is an Iwill DK8N, Nforce3 Chipset, AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge. The nvidia raid is populated by two WD raptors in a raid 1, this holds FBSD, the LSI is for data storage. Any other information I could supply? Steve... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://folding.stanford.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. I've found the floppy works okay when I escape to the bootloader, so I can load my KLD at that time. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. I'll be sure to try that, thanks. Any idea why it's not found initially, tho? I mean, the CONTROLLER is found, so... Is this the type of thing I should send-pr over? -Dan -- Be happy. Try not to hurt each other. Hope you fall in love. --Mallory, Family Ties Finale (on the meaning of life) Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet not recognized
Derek Ragona wrote: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. -Derek At 07:43 AM 1/16/2007, Juan Marrero wrote: Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I missing here? I'm new at unix or linux, I've only used windows and I like to learn something outside windows, but I didn't know it would be such a headache. The motherboard is a PC CHIPS P23G or something like that. I also tried to compile the X11 but it display an error trying to connect to freebsd.org, obviously because of the Ethernet card not recognized. Can someone help me with this??? dmesg should reveal something like the following for VIA chip sets. Note that there is a bus interface which might be supported by a driver separate from the VIA support. vr0: VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfdffe000-0xfdffe0ff irq 10 at device 18.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on vr0 ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:e6:41:ba ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting up to 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting up to 9MB/s. I followed the instructions in the handbook for tuning disks and I have set dma on. Being new to unix, I have no idea what to try or get system information too continue troubleshooting. If anyone could point me in the right direction or to appropriate documentation it would be much appreciated. You should provide the details of how you arrived at those numbers. Please provide details of your testing methodology. While it's impossible to compare apples to apples when pitting Windows against FreeBSD, you at least want to be comparing two fruits -- not apples and buffalo steaks or something like that. Thanks for your reply, I repeatedly copied a 700MB file from one harddrive to the Raid 5 Drive, a different file every time so caching won't be a large factor and consistantly got 8-9MB/s. Copying such large files is something I do on a daily basis. Hardly scientific, more of a real use scenario. Transfer was done via KDE. And this translated in to MB/s how? Timed with a stopwatch? Keep in mind that by simply copying, you are testing the speed of the OS cache, the speed of the filesystem, and the speed of the driver all at once. We're going to have to narrow it down to isolate the problem. I can give you advice in FreeBSD, but I don't know how to do it in Windows. Additionally, if the first hard drive performs badly under FreeBSD for some reason, that would color your results. Here is the dmesg output for the controller; amr0: LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53 mem 0xfa2f-0xfa2f,0xfe80-0xfe8f irq 30 at device 14.0 on pci5 amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller amr0: LSILogic LSI MegaRAID SATA300-8X PCI-X Firmware 814D, BIOS H431, 128MB RAM amrd0: LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive on amr0 amrd0: 712392MB (1458978816 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) Not sure what is meant by the delete line. It means the driver/hardware supports the optional delete logical drives feature. Motherboard is an Iwill DK8N, Nforce3 Chipset, AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge. The nvidia raid is populated by two WD raptors in a raid 1, this holds FBSD, the LSI is for data storage. Any other information I could supply? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:51:08 +0500, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try shutting squid down manually from a shell prompt, then switch to another window/vty and take a look at /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log . My guess is it's waiting for an active client connection to exit. The default for shutdown_lifetime in squid.conf is 30 seconds. I set it to 5 on my systems. You was right. There was 'Waiting 30 seconds for active connections to finish' in cache.log. I've made 'shutdown_lifetime 5 seconds' in squid.conf too. Squid is shutting down faster now. Thanks a lot! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What have you done for me lately !!!
On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Joe Arcaro wrote: Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. Actually, I think you've graduated beyond just ranting to full- fledged trolling. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... Enjoy yourself. If you ever get tired of watching Apple, for your next trick, you could try looking into a mirror. I was just curious, does it not bother any of the BSD developers that Apple inc (TM) has based its entire business model on open source software, and yet seems to have given little if any thing back in return. To your knowledge, anyway. Oddly enough, Apple employs several BSD developers (mainly in the Core OS, networking, or devtools groups), in much the same fashion that OSDL employs Linus Torvalds and companies like IBM, RedHat, Novell, Debian, and so forth employ other Linux developers. I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! While you could go to www.apple.com and enter BSD into the little search bar, those tricky people at Apple might fool you by returning relevant links. So instead, go try searching for Apple BSD at Google or Yahoo. The first two hits are: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ Oops, nevermind-- those links are relevant, too. Is this all just acceptable, have I missed the whole point of open source (Give something back when you can) or have I not read the fine print. Why yes, Apple using parts of the FreeBSD source code (and NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and even a bit of GPL'ed software from the Free Software Foundation) is acceptable. That's what the BSD license was designed to encourage and more generally is what OSI Open Source Software is supposed to be about. It's about making better software available for everyone to use. However, I'd be curious to see what software you've written under an Open Source license, if any? Of course, Joe, you don't actually have to contribute anything to other people, and you are welcome to use FreeBSD, or Apple's Darwin, or Linux without giving anything back. But it's funny how often people criticize others for not contributing anything back in return when that statement applies equally as well to the speaker... -- -Chuck PS: This email might be coming from a 17/8 IP address, but I don't speak for Apple. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What have you done for me lately !!!
It really amazes me how this FreeBSD is turning out tide in the Chinese market , which shuns W and L. The major OS that Chinese market is based on is Freebsd based. there is going to be 1.3 billion population out there going to be in FreeBSD On 1/16/07, Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, January 16, 2007, at 09:55AM, Joe Arcaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! You must have missed it: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ *** QUOTE *** With its open-source core based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Mach 3.0 microkernel, Mac OS X is the best Macintosh operating system ever for UNIX users. With built-in support for the X Window System, IPv6, Kerberos integration, and added POSIX, Linux, and System V API support, Mac OS X easily runs your favorite UNIX software. With a CUPS-based print and fax engine, plus a suite of command-line and Python interfaces to Apple's Quartz graphics, it is easy to develop full-featured PDF workflows. Mac OS X even automounts Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX file servers directly in the Finder. *** END QUOTE *** Its in the first sentence on their page. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11
This came down from above?! Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November). What patch levels do I need to be at for my 4.7 and 6.1 systems to be daylight savings 2007 ready? Currently: 4.11-RELEASE-p25 Currently: 6.1-RELEASE-p10 hal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins,
I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well.
Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave
plugins
I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in
that procedure is outdated, so I'm not going to repeat the link
after doing this the firefox is crashing left and right.
Here's my checklist. This works on 6.2-Release and 6.2-Stable as of
16 Jan 2007 with Firefox 2.0.0.1:
Install the dlsym patch:
Note: a new version of rtld.c came out in stable on 16 Jan 2007. If you
don't run 6-Stable, fetch the patch file like this:
# cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/
# fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
Here's an updated patch file I made for rtld.c v 1.106.2.4:
--- rtld.c.orig Tue Jan 16 06:50:53 2007
+++ rtld.c Tue Jan 16 06:54:15 2007
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
static void unref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
static void ref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
+void *_dlsym(void *, const char *);
void r_debug_state(struct r_debug *, struct link_map *);
/*
@@ -182,6 +183,7 @@
(func_ptr_type) dlclose,
(func_ptr_type) dlerror,
(func_ptr_type) dlopen,
+(func_ptr_type) _dlsym,
(func_ptr_type) dlsym,
(func_ptr_type) dladdr,
(func_ptr_type) dllockinit,
@@ -1762,6 +1764,12 @@
trace_loaded_objects(obj);
wlock_release(rtld_bind_lock, lockstate);
exit(0);
+}
+
+void *
+_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name)
+{
+return dlsym(handle, name);
}
void *
--cut here
# patch rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
# make
# make install
Link the library:
cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so .
ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt .
In /etc/libmap.conf:
# [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
[/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2
libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
libz.so.1 libz.so.3
libm.so.6 libm.so.4
libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: Ethernet not recognized
Derek Ragona writes: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. Also check whether the network card is enabled in the BIOS. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dummynet with vlans
Hey all, Note: I'm cc'ing Luigi Rizzo because, well, he's authoritative. This is NOT the same issue I asked about a couple years ago (which related to vlans, and bridging -- there is no bridge in play here). Anyway... We have a machine playing vlan aggregator. Gigabit nics (intels). em0 is the uplink to the core router. Straight gigabit link over copper to a 6500-series cisco switch (speaks OSPF using quagga). em1 is the downlink (over fiber) to the switch, and has no interface on it, but it IS a parent interface to 48 vlan entries, numbered vlan101 through vlan148 (where each is relative to a switch port). This setup works fine. Each vlan entry has it's own /29 IP address. That said, what is the proper syntax for adding dummynet rules to this? For example, to constrain one of those ports to (say) 50 megabits. I'm using pipe 440 config bw 50mbit/s pipe 441 config bw 50mbit/s add 44000 pipe 440 ip from any to any recv vlan144 in add 44001 pipe 441 ip from any to any xmit vlan144 out But this seems not to work. Do I need to define queues as well? The manpage cites examples similar to this, but I can't find any definitive reference. Should I just not use the vlan interfaces, and instead go by IP on the outside interface? -Dan -- It's buttery kettle ASS corn! -Dan Mahoney, Ezzi Computers, 10/22/03, 2AM Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11
In the last episode (Jan 16), hal said: Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November). What patch levels do I need to be at for my 4.7 and 6.1 systems to be daylight savings 2007 ready? Currently: 4.11-RELEASE-p25 Currently: 6.1-RELEASE-p10 Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), you would have them, though. Quickest fix would be to install the misc/zoneinfo port, which doesn't care what release you're running. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
READ_DMA48 error interpretation
I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are having problems. But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what? And what do I do about it? umount and fsck everything a lot? swap cards/drives around until it stops? Ignore it and pray? All the content is already copied to a second box, plus on CD, and none of it is crucial data, so if I lose a LITTLE data by ignoring this, I'm okay. If the whole thing wipes out, that would be bad. These drives are often spun down, as they are not accessed very often -- it's the roll-over fall-back audio server in a cobbled-together system I won't describe, as you'll just laugh at me. :-) Is it possible that these are just from the drives spinning up too slowly? +ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=404955007 +ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=404955007 +g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset=207336931328, length=16384)]error = 5 +ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=106507715 +ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=324791875 +ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=324791875 +g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset=166293407744, length=2048)]error = 5 +ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=325168415 +ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=325168415 +g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset=166486196224, length=16384)]error = 5 +ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=400062279 +ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=400062279 +g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset=204831854592, length=4096)]error = 5 +ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=387991903 +ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=387991903 +g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset=198651822080, length=16384)]error = 5 +ad3: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=287 -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet not recognized
Robert Huff wrote: Derek Ragona writes: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. Also check whether the network card is enabled in the BIOS. Robert Huff On a similar note, some chipsets (SIS in my experience) with onboard NICs disable the onboard NIC if you have another PCI card. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are having problems. But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what? If you have current backups, it's a yellow alert. Otherwise... And what do I do about it? umount and fsck everything a lot? swap cards/drives around until it stops? Ignore it and pray? Try installing the sysutils/smartmontools port and run a drive self- test. That will give you a much better assessment of the state of the drive and whether it is likely to completely fail in the next 24 hours... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1
On 1/16/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins,
I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well.
Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave
plugins
I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in
that procedure is outdated, so I'm not going to repeat the link
after doing this the firefox is crashing left and right.
Here's my checklist. This works on 6.2-Release and 6.2-Stable as of
16 Jan 2007 with Firefox 2.0.0.1:
Install the dlsym patch:
Note: a new version of rtld.c came out in stable on 16 Jan 2007. If you
don't run 6-Stable, fetch the patch file like this:
# cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/
# fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
Here's an updated patch file I made for rtld.c v 1.106.2.4:
--- rtld.c.orig Tue Jan 16 06:50:53 2007
+++ rtld.c Tue Jan 16 06:54:15 2007
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
static void unref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
static void ref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
+void *_dlsym(void *, const char *);
void r_debug_state(struct r_debug *, struct link_map *);
/*
@@ -182,6 +183,7 @@
(func_ptr_type) dlclose,
(func_ptr_type) dlerror,
(func_ptr_type) dlopen,
+(func_ptr_type) _dlsym,
(func_ptr_type) dlsym,
(func_ptr_type) dladdr,
(func_ptr_type) dllockinit,
@@ -1762,6 +1764,12 @@
trace_loaded_objects(obj);
wlock_release(rtld_bind_lock, lockstate);
exit(0);
+}
+
+void *
+_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name)
+{
+return dlsym(handle, name);
}
void *
--cut here
# patch rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
# make
# make install
Link the library:
cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so .
ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt .
In /etc/libmap.conf:
# [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
[/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2
libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
libz.so.1 libz.so.3
libm.so.6 libm.so.4
libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
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Re: What have you done for me lately !!!
Thanks For the reply Chuck, I didn't imagine I'd get such an emotive response, But nonetheless you're right, I haven't checked the developer website, As for trolling, I am not intentionally trying to start a heated debate. I was just curious as to how much credit people think should be given to Open source development. I support a network of Macs, (30+ and counting...) And can say with some authority that of the 20+ operators on those Macs. Not one has heard of BSD ... Thanks again. Joe. Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Joe Arcaro wrote: Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. Actually, I think you've graduated beyond just ranting to full-fledged trolling. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... Enjoy yourself. If you ever get tired of watching Apple, for your next trick, you could try looking into a mirror. I was just curious, does it not bother any of the BSD developers that Apple inc (TM) has based its entire business model on open source software, and yet seems to have given little if any thing back in return. To your knowledge, anyway. Oddly enough, Apple employs several BSD developers (mainly in the Core OS, networking, or devtools groups), in much the same fashion that OSDL employs Linus Torvalds and companies like IBM, RedHat, Novell, Debian, and so forth employ other Linux developers. I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! While you could go to www.apple.com and enter BSD into the little search bar, those tricky people at Apple might fool you by returning relevant links. So instead, go try searching for Apple BSD at Google or Yahoo. The first two hits are: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ Oops, nevermind-- those links are relevant, too. Is this all just acceptable, have I missed the whole point of open source (Give something back when you can) or have I not read the fine print. Why yes, Apple using parts of the FreeBSD source code (and NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and even a bit of GPL'ed software from the Free Software Foundation) is acceptable. That's what the BSD license was designed to encourage and more generally is what OSI Open Source Software is supposed to be about. It's about making better software available for everyone to use. However, I'd be curious to see what software you've written under an Open Source license, if any? Of course, Joe, you don't actually have to contribute anything to other people, and you are welcome to use FreeBSD, or Apple's Darwin, or Linux without giving anything back. But it's funny how often people criticize others for not contributing anything back in return when that statement applies equally as well to the speaker... ---Chuck PS: This email might be coming from a 17/8 IP address, but I don't speak for Apple. -- Joe Arcaro. Technical Manager. Splitting Image Colour Studios. There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand Binary. And those who don't... Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd
Steve Franks wrote: I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup for the money. I don't know about the chipset or the controller, but judging from the symptoms it's highly likely you actually have a soft-RAID controller, and the actual RAID stuff was done by your Windows driver. **IF** the driver was benign enough, you could *maybe* reconstitute a mirrored volume with FreeBSD's software RAID driver, gmirror. See the man page for details, but a command like gmirror label mydisk /dev/ad4 /dev/ad5 will create mirrored device /dev/mirror/mydisk which you can then try to mount (actually if it works you'll see individual partitions like /dev/mirror/mydisks1, etc.). BUT! 1. The above command will overwrite the last sectors on both drives with its data (which you'll have to clean if you don't want the mirror anymore). Usually they are unused but maybe the Windows driver used them so you won't be able to use them under Windows. 2. Be very very careful - if this doesn't result in a valid mirrored drive or the Windows driver did something unusual or nasty, you might destroy the data by writing to the mirrored drive (just reading it will not cause any damage). Mount the drive read-only first, and check you can see valid data. Be absolutely sure before mounting it read/write (and be careful about mounting NTFS read-write anyway - it's not risk-free). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
Steven Lowry wrote: The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I followed the instructions in the handbook for tuning disks and I have set dma on. Being new to unix, I have no idea what to try or get system information too continue troubleshooting. If anyone could point me in the right direction or to appropriate documentation it would be much appreciated. First, you could try asking the question at performance/at/freebsd.org mailing list - you could get more help there. This reminds me of something I've seen on a box that's also equipped with LSI Megaraid but since disk I/O wasn't important for it, I didn't dig further and forgot about it. Maybe the driver has a problem and people on the performance list can help you. Here's a general checklist of what information to gather before sending it to performance list: * dmesg snippet (like you sent) * copy with cp in console, not with KDE and see if it changes anything * run 'iostat' while copying and send results * install and run bonnie++ (disk I/O benchmark) and send results signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
FreeBSD 6.2 stable crasches when running dump on mounted snapshot.
Hi there, When I run dump on a mounted snapshot, my machine panics with the error that says the following: Fatal double fault Panic: double fault I can run games in Windows fine and I run setiathome/boinc most of the time in Windows when my computer is locked and I'm at work. No problem there. It s no problem to make buildkernel and make buildworld with -j2. It has never crashed because of load as I can remember. Im running RAID-1 on this machine the hard disc are ad8xy and ad10xy and I do mount everything via the RAID array called ar0xy. My motherboard is an Asus A8N5X and I'm using the on board S-ATA controller for my hard discs. I have tried and changed my /etc/fstab so that they mount it from either ad8xy or ad10xy instead ( root usr var etc..) But that does not still help me with the problem. I would be happy to provide more info if you want to, so please let me know it I'm missing some crucial information. Or perhaps if I should try another mailing list then this one. Below here is my kernel config and make.conf. KERNEL: machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident BARABO # To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hints GENERIC.hints # Default places to look for devices. #makeoptionsDEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption options INET# InterNETworking options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS# Pseudo-filesystem framework options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI device apic# I/O APIC # Bus support. device pci # Floppy drives device fdc # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device ataraid # ATA RAID drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device ch # SCSI media changers device da # Direct Access (disks) device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) #device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE) # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller device atkbd # AT keyboard device psm # PS/2 mouse device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer device vga # VGA video card driver # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc device agp # support several AGP chipsets # Serial (COM) ports device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports # Parallel port device ppc device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device miibus # MII bus support device nve # nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking # Pseudo devices. device loop# Network loopback device random # Entropy device device ether # Ethernet support device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) device md # Memory disks # The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! # Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP. device bpf # Berkeley packet filter # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device ehci# EHCI PCI-USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) device ugen#
Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card)
On 1/7/07, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-07 08:54, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies on not hitting the list. Alyays forget to reply-all. No problem. I just didn't copy the list because I wasn't sure I should. So, I figured I'd try to fix the safe-mode end of things on my own, and I found a post several years old (looked like it even could have been yours) about safemode, which doesn't show up anywhere on the freebsd site. So I did what it said and grep'd boot/beastie.4th for safemode, which came up with this suprisingly total solution: add apic.0.disabled=1 to boot/device.hints. Not only does my system come up in regular boot mode, but, as you suspected, the pccard works too, so all appears well. Excellent news! Thanks for sharing the answer :) So my final question, what in all the land is an apic, Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. This is the part of your system which assigns priorities to interrupt lines of a device. The full details are probably too technical for some percentage of our user base, but more details can be found at the following pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programmable_Interrupt_Controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_Interrupt_Controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8259 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_APIC_Architecture and why isn't apic or safemode mentioned in the handbook, manpages, or even on the freebsd site? IIRC it is mentioned in the Developer's Handbook, but you are right that it should be in the main Handbook too. Further, I'd like to write a handbook page on freebsd and laptops, because we're on my third one here now, and I'm starting to get the drift of what could usefully be added to the handbook, namely a thourough discussion of booting and device.hints. That would be great! If you can help writing such a section for the Handbook, a lot of users will be highly indebted to you, for sure :) I presume someone 'peer-reviews' handbook submissions for correctness and format? I recall reading somewhere about contributing, but I get the impression you are involved enough to tell me whether it's a bad idea or not. Yes, you are right. We have peer reviews. A lot of the documentation changes are filtered through the freebsd-doc mailing list, where documentation people hang out. Patches are mailed back and forth; edited; fixed for technical accuracy, syntax and grammar correctness; adapted to our writing style; expanded as necessary; and eventually committed to our documentation source code. You can definitely contribute as much as you feel, whenever you feel you have the time, and in any way you consider appropriate. We have a short article which describes how you can contribute to the FreeBSD Project, in general: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ Most of it applies directly to documentation too. Please skim through this article; it should be a good start. About your last question now... Yes, it's a good idea. Not just a good idea, though. It's an *excellent* idea. One of the chicken and egg problems documentation writing usually has to face is that: * New users don't know enough about the system, so they frequently pose good questions. These questions would result in higher quality documentation if properly channeled through experienced documentation writers, but you have to convince the new users that they can actually *help* by not knowing it all. * Once new users step over the thin line between being newcomers to the system and being experienced in some area, we have lost all the insight they can provide about how a new user thinks. As a result, it's easier to write documentation if we are targetting a very experienced, very technical audience. But, IMHO, the contributions of new users -- in the form of interesting questions -- are at least as valuable, if not more :) Regards, Giorgos So, this is what I have so for. It was a bit late at night, so I appologise if my tone is a bit silly at times...where do we go from here? Steve So, you've burned the latest FreeBSD .iso file, pop it in your drive, anticipation rising, and *freeze*!! Hopes Dreams go tricking away...what next? Well, the first thing is to realize that alot of people have worked very hard in their spare time to get things to the point where they are. Unfortunately, new hardware is always one step ahead. All FreeBSD drivers are written by the users - not the paid engineers of the hardware companies, so some delay at times is inevitable - there are many exceptions, however! Just compare the sata raid support in FreeBSD to that in Windows XP. But back to moving forward: one of those new or imcompatible pieces of hardware (in most cases) has just frozen up your fresh install - what to do? First, restart the computer, and choose 3 - safe mode from the FreeBSD logo boot-menu. If your
Re: NEED HELP
On 1/16/07, Ata ur Rehman Alvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELLO I AM A NEWBIE FOR UNIX PLATEFORM, AND I DONT KNOW ABOUT FTP DOWNLOADING IDEA. WOULD U TELL ME HOW TO DOWNLOAD FREE BSD UNIX AND HOW TO INSTALL, I AM HAVING NO RESPONSE WHEN I TRY TO DOWNLOAD. AND IN DOCUMENTATION I CANT FIND MUCH HELP Hi! FreeBSD is not very popular in Saudi Arabia, but there's an increasing amount of interest in the Arab world. There used to be a mirror close to you (ftp://ftp.isu.net.sa/), but FreeBSD is not available from there at the moment. You can download FreeBSD over http from a number of places: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Just select any mirror with http written next to it, for example this one is in Turkey: http://ftp.tr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Unfortunately, there's not much documentation on FreeBSD in Arabic, so you'll have to read through our English handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html If you have major difficulty, maybe you should start with FreeBSD-based distributions like PC-BSD or DesktopBSD. They are easier to install for newcomers: http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.desktopbsd.net/ http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pcbsd/1.3/PCBSD-1.3.01-x86-CD1.iso http://62.141.59.55/DesktopBSD/DesktopBSD-1.0-x86-CD.iso My father is very fluent in Arabic, but I'm just starting to convert him from Windows to Unix, so you'll have to wait a few years before he can provide support I guess :-) Good luck! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras Sent: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 7:04 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance Steven Lowry wrote: The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I followed the I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0 was fast (70MB/s+). Were you doing these tests a few hours after initializing the array, by any chance? If so, then the poor performance could be because the array was `in build' while you were using it, and therefore you'd get very poor performance. Regards, Russell Wood DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11
On Jan 16, 2007, at Tuesday, Jan16, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), you would have them, though. Quickest fix would be to install the misc/zoneinfo port, which doesn't care what release you're running. Whoa there?! Are you telling me that when I use cvsup with the following supfile I am only getting security fixes? *default tag=RELENG_6_1 *default host=cvsup14.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix hal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?
hi list i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? and how much space does it need? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11
On Jan 16, 2007, at Tuesday, Jan16, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), you would have them, though. Quickest fix would be to install the misc/zoneinfo port, which doesn't care what release you're running. Whoa there?! Are you telling me that when I use cvsup with the following supfile I am only getting security fixes? *default tag=RELENG_6_1 *default host=cvsup14.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html: RELENG_6_1 The release branch for FreeBSD-6.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes I'm sure a case could be made with regard to updated timezone information being critical -- but since a port exists for timezone information, there is less of a need to push this into the release branch. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?
lveax wrote: hi list i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? and how much space does it need? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a related note, I already have the freebsd-update port installed. Should I uninstall it and use the one that's part of the OS, or keep going as I've been doing? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Internet exceeded Luser level, please wait until a luser logs off before attempting to log back on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 stable crasches when running dump on mounted snapshot.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:47:47PM +0100, Mattias Bj?rk wrote: Hi there, When I run dump on a mounted snapshot, my machine panics with the error that says the following: Fatal double fault Panic: double fault You forgot to mention/obtain the important bits of the error ;) See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers handbook, then follow up to stable@ and/or file a PR. Kris pgpxYfOXvA18I.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?
Jay Chandler wrote: lveax wrote: i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? The FreeBSD Update client does that automatically, using DNS SRV magic. and how much space does it need? That depends upon how many security updates are issued. Hopefully not much space. :-) More seriously, the /var/db/freebsd-update/ directory holds the new and old versions of any files which are updated, in order to allow you to rollback security updates (not that I ever expect this to be necessary). As a wild guess, I'm going to say that this is likely to add up to about 20MB/year. On a related note, I already have the freebsd-update port installed. Should I uninstall it and use the one that's part of the OS, or keep going as I've been doing? Uninstall the port. The new FreeBSD Update code in the base system is much better. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
Wood, Russell wrote: I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0 was fast (70MB/s+). Mine was RAID5. Hmm, oops, it wasn't LSI but HP/Compaq CISS, battery backed, SATA on SAS. da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 135.168MB/s transfers da0: 476886MB (976662896 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C) Were you doing these tests a few hours after initializing the array, by any chance? If so, then the poor performance could be because the array was `in build' while you were using it, and therefore you'd get very poor performance. Yes, I observed BIOS status. Here's a typical run of bonnie++: Version 1.93c --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP xxx.com 2500M 358 99 13446 4 7068 2 559 96 97548 23 300.0 10 Latency 23236us 848ms 488ms 191ms 214ms 175ms My reading of iostat during 'dd' is that writes perform good until the on-controller cache gets filled, then it slows down: tty da0pass0 cpu tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id ... 0 60 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 100 1 64 127.93 217 27.08 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 5 0 95 0 61 125.92 400 49.14 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 1 98 0 61 128.00 107 13.36 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 0 98 0 61 128.00 107 13.36 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 0 98 0 61 128.00 104 12.99 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 0 98 Cache size is 128MB, 75% dedicated to write caching. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
On 1/17/07, Wood, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0 was fast (70MB/s+). Interesting. On my single SATA drive box I see: $ sudo dd if=/dev/ad8s1d of=/dev/zero bs=1m 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 15.552259 secs (69040891 bytes/sec) DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. So... why send it to a public mailing list? -- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using fn-Key of IBM Thinkpads in X?
On Jan 16 at 11:28 +0100, Christian Walther wrote: I'm currently using the latest FreeBSD 6.1 patchlevel on an IBM Thinkpad T23, and so far I'm quite happy with it. (I'll have an issue with my ath-based WLAN-NIC, but I've to address this later.) One thing I'm wondering about is if it is possible to use the fn-Key as another special key in X, e.g. like Control or Alt. I'm using ion3 as a window manager, and I found know hotkey configuration that wouldn't affect the usage of hotkeys in applications. Using fn+something else with X/ion3 would be nice. But I don't know if fn sends a scan code like the other keys do, and how I could map this key in X. The deskutils/tpb port provides some functionality. You could try running xev to find the keycode of Fn, and then xmodmap to map it as a modifier key. My experience (on a TP R52) is that Fn has a keycode, but that it cannot be usefully combined with other keys. I would be happy to discover otherwise for reasons similar to yours. Tim. pgpb6ZytltV1j.pgp Description: PGP signature
regexp [. .]
I need to use regular expressions with a sequence of characters as a collating element. From re_format(7): Within a bracket expression, a collating element (a character, a multi- character sequence that collates as if it were a single character, or a collating-sequence name for either) enclosed in `[.' and `.]' stands for the sequence of characters of that collating element. The sequence is a single element of the bracket expression's list. A bracket expression containing a multi-character collating element can thus match more than one character, e.g. if the collating sequence includes a `ch' collating element, then the RE `[[.ch.]]*c' matches the first five characters of `chchcc'. But grep (and other programs using regexp) writes on echo somepattern | grep -Ee 'some[^[.pattern.]]': Invalid collation character. What's wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with mail Forwarding
Hi All, I was hoping someone might throw me a few pointers on the following ; I have FreeBSD 6.1 setup, running Apache / PHP / MySQL etc In aliases I specify my most used ISP pop address and all mail for root gets sent there from Charlie - this works great. I am testing an osc cart and the two option for mail from the cart are SMTP and mail() - guessing php mailer here. I get absolutely nowhere with the SMTP method with mailing causing Jan 16 22:13:24 rackserver sm-mta[82321]: l0GMDOII082321: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to Daemon0 however with the mail() method I can see mail for admin (specified in osc cart) appearing in /var/mail/admin (editted this line in my /usr/local/etc/php.ini ; sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i) and can read it and it contains what I expect however in my /home/admin I have a .forward file (theres also an mbox) specifying the same most used ISP pop address but mail never makes it there? If I log into to console as admin I can read the mail and it gets saved to mbox but my .forward is ignored. Where am I going wrong ? Thanks !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adjusting NGROUPS_MAX constant
I am running into trouble with users who are in more then 16 groups. I fail to ssh in with the following message: sshd[96785]: initgroups(username,1002): Invalid argument sysctl -a kern.ngroups kern.ngroups: 16 Is there any reason why I should not raise NGROUPS_MAX in the following two files? /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h What could I accidentally break.. Or should I say, is there a good reason why the number 16 is hard coded in there? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
duo core question
hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. thans!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: duo core question
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. thans!! TFC Answer: depends on what you're doing. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcpd update doesn't restart service
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:02:54AM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I ran portupgrade on a 6.1 box. One of the ports needing updating was isc-dhcpd it was v3.0.4 now at 3.0.5. I ran this update on two boxes, one went fine, but on the other the service was not restarted. In my pkgtools.conf file i do have the line needed to restart services after an update. I was wondering how to set up a service so that if it died it would be restarted? I know about inetd, but i didn't think dhcpd could run out of it. Thanks. Dave. There a script for it in /etc/rc.d/ ? If so, try: # /etc/rc.d/script restart Cheers, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1
6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1
I have these files in
$ pwd
/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins
$ ls -lrt
total 2132
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2158864 Oct 27 16:42 libflashplayer.so
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42 flashplayer.xpt
drwxr-xr-x 2 500 100512 Dec 4 19:09 install_flash_player_7_linux
$
I need to try the Warren's method to see if that is going to help me,
first of all I need to read man portupgrade to perform the upgrade from 6.1to
6.2 , as i am new into this freebsd world.
Thanks for your input
Dak
On 1/16/07, FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/16/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins,
I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well.
Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave
plugins
I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in
that procedure is outdated, so I'm not going to repeat the link
after doing this the firefox is crashing left and right.
Here's my checklist. This works on 6.2-Release and 6.2-Stable as of
16 Jan 2007 with Firefox 2.0.0.1:
Install the dlsym patch:
Note: a new version of rtld.c came out in stable on 16 Jan 2007. If you
don't run 6-Stable, fetch the patch file like this:
# cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/
# fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
Here's an updated patch file I made for rtld.c v 1.106.2.4:
--- rtld.c.orig Tue Jan 16 06:50:53 2007
+++ rtld.c Tue Jan 16 06:54:15 2007
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
static void unref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
static void ref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
+void *_dlsym(void *, const char *);
void r_debug_state(struct r_debug *, struct link_map *);
/*
@@ -182,6 +183,7 @@
(func_ptr_type) dlclose,
(func_ptr_type) dlerror,
(func_ptr_type) dlopen,
+(func_ptr_type) _dlsym,
(func_ptr_type) dlsym,
(func_ptr_type) dladdr,
(func_ptr_type) dllockinit,
@@ -1762,6 +1764,12 @@
trace_loaded_objects(obj);
wlock_release(rtld_bind_lock, lockstate);
exit(0);
+}
+
+void *
+_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name)
+{
+return dlsym(handle, name);
}
void *
--cut here
# patch rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
# make
# make install
Link the library:
cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so .
ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt .
In /etc/libmap.conf:
# [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
[/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2
libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
libz.so.1 libz.so.3
libm.so.6 libm.so.4
libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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symlink exists.
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Re: regexp [. .]
On 1/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use regular expressions with a sequence of characters as a collating element. From re_format(7): Within a bracket expression, a collating element (a character, a multi- character sequence that collates as if it were a single character, or a collating-sequence name for either) enclosed in `[.' and `.]' stands for the sequence of characters of that collating element. The sequence is a single element of the bracket expression's list. A bracket expression containing a multi-character collating element can thus match more than one character, e.g. if the collating sequence includes a `ch' collating element, then the RE `[[.ch.]]*c' matches the first five characters of `chchcc'. But grep (and other programs using regexp) writes on echo somepattern | grep -Ee 'some[^[.pattern.]]': Invalid collation character. What's wrong? After some searching around I found the following post (albeit for a different project): http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs/11462 An excerpt: I have to admit to having no experience with collating characters. That said, I'll convey my understanding of them. You cannot use [. and .] to group an arbitrary pair of characters together. Collating characters are defined by the locale in which you're running, and only those defined by the locale are available for use inside [. and .]. They usually have names, defined by the locale; the name may or may not be the actual sequence of characters, such [as] '[.ch.].' I'm not sure, myself, but I hope that helps and isn't far from the truth ;) If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. Is there a certain match you are trying to pattern? From the looks of it, [ch]* would match a similar set of characters, but it isn't as strict about which pattern they should be in. Sincerely, -Parker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adjusting NGROUPS_MAX constant
Hello Dan, On 1/16/07, Dan Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running into trouble with users who are in more then 16 groups. I fail to ssh in with the following message: sshd[96785]: initgroups(username,1002): Invalid argument sysctl -a kern.ngroups kern.ngroups: 16 Is there any reason why I should not raise NGROUPS_MAX in the following two files? /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h What could I accidentally break.. Or should I say, is there a good reason why the number 16 is hard coded in there? I found another post on this: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-05/1086.html The poster outlines 3 potential issues, including issues with NFS with an NGROUPS_MAX value above 16. I'm not sure if those are still issues (e.g. I don't use NFS), but that may be why the values have been set that way by default. I hope that thread helps! Sincerely, -Parker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: duo core question
On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. 1. You need to rebuild the kernel with SMP support. 2. The correct names are; Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core Solo, and Core 2 Solo. 3. Add this to /etc/make.conf: CPUTYPE?=pentium3 CFLAGS+= -mtune=prescott COPTFLAGS+= -mtune=prescott * Change prescott to nocona if you have a Core 2 chip, although it doesn't really matter, EM64T support is ignored with FreeBSD/i386 and it's on by default with FreeBSD/AMD64. Moreover it's only being used with -mtune which means it does not change the ABI or the set of available instructions Those two are set via CPUTYPE and -march=cpu-type... don't set CPUTYPE or -march higher then pentium3 because higher settings have been known to screw up stuff at compile time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: duo core question
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:11:20 -0500
Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when
running freebsd, nothing optimised..
How much faster than what
:)
ok, without being a smart-arse anymore. :) Not sure how much faster a duo
core version of the SAME single core CPU, on a SAME motherboard with SAME RAM,
HD, bus,etc would be but, FWIW, from the mouth of some Intel Exec in a
Virtualisation conf. in Sydney late last year, they say they achieved about 85%
increased speed with a duo core, using the same amount of power as for a single
core. If wanted to achieve double the speed, the power consumption would be SO
much bigger that it wouldn't be worth it. I found that interesting.
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Re: duo core question
thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-)
so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it??
TFC
On 1/16/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:11:20 -0500
Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when
running freebsd, nothing optimised..
How much faster than what
:)
ok, without being a smart-arse anymore. :) Not sure how much faster a duo
core version of the SAME single core CPU, on a SAME motherboard with SAME
RAM,
HD, bus,etc would be but, FWIW, from the mouth of some Intel Exec in a
Virtualisation conf. in Sydney late last year, they say they achieved about
85%
increased speed with a duo core, using the same amount of power as for a
single
core. If wanted to achieve double the speed, the power consumption would be
SO
much bigger that it wouldn't be worth it. I found that interesting.
HIH
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CRON Script not working right.
Anybody have any clues why a shell script run from root's CRON would act differently then when run directly from the command line? Specifically, I have a script that looks for files on a NFS mount point and copies them across and changes the ownership/perms. Here's the gist of the script: #!/bin/sh TDIR=`date +%m%d%y%s` mkdir /tmp/$TDIR mv /source/* /tmp/$TDIR/ chown user:group /tmp/$TDIR/* chmod 660 /tmp/$TDIR/* mv /tmp/$TDIR/* /destination/ When run from roots CRON it does everything but the chmod correctly, which is strange. When I run it from the command line as root it works fine as expected. I'm running 6.1-STABLE-200608. Any clues? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Origin of LINT?
I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no results, and because I'm curious: Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term lint for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin uses it as well (it's the command line argument to just regression-test everything). Merely curious, Dan Mahoney -- You recreate the stars in the sky with cows? -Furrball, March 7 2005, on Katamari Damacy Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CRON Script not working right.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Don O'Neil wrote: Anybody have any clues why a shell script run from root's CRON would act differently then when run directly from the command line? Most often this is because the environment in the cron job is different, either missing variables or having variables that aren't set to a reasonable value (e.g. TERM). The way I usually figure something like this out is to dump the envioronment from the cron job, then do the same thing from the command line, then compare the two. #!/bin/sh # this is the cron job env | sort /tmp/env.cron exit; Now from the command line ``env | sort /tmp/cron.cli''. Now run something like ``diff -u /tmp/env.cron /tmp/cron.cli'' to see what is different. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Origin of LINT?
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no results, and because I'm curious: Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term lint for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin uses it as well (it's the command line argument to just regression-test everything). I think the name came from removing the lint from a suit. It's designed to clean up code -- initially C. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. -- Lysander Spooner, Letter to Grover Cleveland 1886 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Origin of LINT?
On Tuesday, 16 January 2007 at 23:28:51 -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no results, and because I'm curious: Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term lint for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin uses it as well (it's the command line argument to just regression-test everything). From KR 1st edition (1978), page 3: This program is called lint, apparently because it picks bits of fluff from one's programs. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp0beDAQKZck.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: duo core question
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:35:45 -0500
Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it??
np - you are assuming i have experience with them ;)
you need to understand, it's like a dual CPU , NOT like HT (you can , I think ,
have HT as well as dual/quad core...maybe not.. ? ).
dont forget that there may be certain features of FreeBSD (such as support for
certain hardware , ACPI functionality,etc) which may not work (well/at all) with
dual core (or, more accurately, will conflict with certain kernel options if
you want to make use of the dual core). I am **NOT** sure if there actually is,
but i used to read issues about this...maybe it was only about HT ?
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(6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?
Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files... (question) (A) Would that mean to copy the files from both install disks into one common directory then export the directory via NFS? (B) Mount each ISO in a loopback then export the two loopbacked ISO's under each other in an exported parent directory? TIA # 2.13.6.1 Before Installing via NFS The NFS installation is fairly straight-forward. Simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files you want onto an NFS server and then point the NFS media selection at it. If this server supports only “privileged port” (as is generally the default for Sun workstations), you will need to set the option NFS Secure in the Options menu before installation can proceed. If you have a poor quality Ethernet card which suffers from very slow transfer rates, you may also wish to toggle the NFS Slow flag. In order for NFS installation to work, the server must support subdir mounts, for example, if your FreeBSD 6.1 distribution directory lives on: ziggy:/usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, then ziggy will have to allow the direct mounting of /usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, not just /usr or /usr/archive/stuff. In FreeBSD's /etc/exports file, this is controlled by the -alldirs options. Other NFS servers may have different conventions. If you are getting “permission denied” messages from the server, then it is likely that you do not have this enabled properly. # It seems to be written for the time when there was only a single ISO cd. -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com ~ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
md5sum is missing, but not entirely
Both the executable and the manpage for md5sum seem to be missing from this 6.1-RELEASE system, making it difficult to check the downloaded 6.2-RELEASE and FreeSBIE ISOs. Isn't md5sum supposed to be part of the base? Meanwhile, apropos md5 yields this line, among others gmd5sum(1), md5sum(1) - compute and check MD5 message digest but man md5sum says No manual entry for md5sum How did that line get into the apropos, when the corresponding manpage is (apparently) not installed? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 + CPUTYPE?=nocona broke my kernel
Hello, I recompiled my kernel with make.conf has CPUTYPE?=nocona with the latest src via cvsup. But that broke my kernel while I have Dual xeon EMT64. So I think it's not safe to use nocona or prescott with kernel, and I should stick to cpu i686 instead. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
