gnucash crash
Hello, I installed gnucash from port,and run, after a long time ,i got error info: $ gnucash Backtrace: In unknown file: ?: 49* [save-module-excursion #procedure #f ()] ?: 50 (let (# #) (dynamic-wind # thunk #)) ?: 51 [dynamic-wind #procedure #f () #procedure #f () #procedure #f ()] ?: 52* [#procedure #f ()] ?: 53* [primitive-load /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/repo$ In /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/account-piecharts.scm: 460: 54* [for-each #procedure #f (l) (# # # #)] In unknown file: ?: 55 (if (null? rest) (letrec ((lp #)) (lp list1)) ...) ... ?: 56 (begin (f (car l)) (lp (cdr l))) ?: 57* [#procedure #f (l) (Income Accounts (income) #t ...)] In /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/account-piecharts.scm: 462: 58 (let ((tip-and-rev (cr l))) (gnc:define-report (quote version) 1 ...)) In /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/scm/report.scm: ... 94: 59 (let (#) (if # # #)) 94: 60* [args-to-defn #f (version 1 name ...)] 83: 61 (let ((report-rec #)) (if (null? args) in-report-rec (let # # #))) 83: 62* (if in-report-rec in-report-rec (blank-report)) 85: 63 [blank-report] 67: 64 ((record-constructor report-template) #f #f #f #f #f #f #t #f ...) 67: 65* [rec-constructor #record-type report-template] In /usr/local/share/slib/record.scm: 131: 66* (if (not #) (slib:error # illegal rtd argument. rtd)) 132: 67 [error record-constructor illegal rtd argument. ...] In unknown file: ... ?: 68 [scm-error misc-error #f ...] unnamed port: In procedure scm-error in expression (scm-error (quote misc-error) #f ...): unnamed port: record-constructor illegal rtd argument. #record-type report-template What happened? Thanks peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade failure [solved]
Ok, I found a solution. I had the same problem as described below. I am using portsnap so : # portsnap fetch # portsnap update # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade # make deinstall; make install clean This will install version portupgrade-2.2.2_2,2 which corrects the bug. Sincerly yours. Le 1 févr. 07 à 07:37, FreeBSD MailingLists a écrit : I am having the same problem. I have tried the make fetchindex approach but it doesn't solve it for me. you mentioned something about /usr/ports/UPDATING, but was unable to find a relevant entry. can you please tell me the entry date that helped you with this problem? Thank you, Tomoki Taniguchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$portupgrade -rRviy f-prot clamav mail/mailscanner --- Session started at: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:04:14 +0900 [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 173 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done] ** No such installed package: mail/mailscanner [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16413 port entries found . 1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000. 7000.8000.9000.1.11000.120 00.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! --- Session ended at: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:04:33 +0900 (consumed 00:00:18) /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': database file error (PortsDB::DBError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in `all_depends_list' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing 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]
Automatically detach screen after given amount of time ? / Authpf in background ?
A couple days ago I set up authpf on my FreeBSD gateway for authentication of my wifi network. Everything works great, the only thing that is/was bothering me was that I had to keep open a terminal on my laptop for the ssh session. I quickly thought of using screen to fix that problem. The thing is I want to see the confirmation authpf gives when starting the ssh transfer ( The 'welcome username you are authenticated from ip' message ). After that it should just send the ssh session to the background. So I came up with this script : [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /home/scripts/root/seescreen #!/bin/sh script to log in to connect to screen for only a set amount of time ## Settings to use: rtime=3 ## time to wait before calling screen's reatach dtime=4 ## time to wait before calling screen's detach # if called with '-reatach' if [ $1 = -reatach ] ; then sleep $rtime seescreen -detach screen -r fi # if called with '-detach' if [ $1 = -detach ] ; then sleep $dtime screen -d fi now I could start my authentication session with 'screen -wipe; sudo wlan ; seescreen -reatach ; screen -d -m ssh -l wifi wlanserver'. ( where wlan is an other script to set up my wlan connection '. I made an alias in my bashrc file to prevent typing all this. The weird thing is that the first times I ran my script during testruns I could set the rtime to 1 but then it seemed that wasn't enouth time so I had to make 2 of it and everything worked again. But then it didn't work with 2 either and I had to set it to 3 and now even 3 doesn't seem enough to reconnect to my screen session. It shouldn't take that long to start the 'screen -d -m command' does it ? So my question was: Am I missing something resulting in the need of a longer rtime ? If there is nothing wrong with it what would be a good value ? Or is there some other way I could run my ssh session in the background ? Regards, -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone used ndis successfully?
Hi, I am trying to convert a ZTE pcmcia card .sys and .inf file to be used with my IBM T60 notebook, but I hit a segfault in ndiscvt. There are two problems infact: 1. ndisgen remains in a tight loop, telling me that my .INF file format is invalid. Upon investigation, I see that there is a default condition for this in the ndisgen program, so I am not sure how to break out of it. It might be a bug, I need to investigate it more before I file a PR for it. 2. I bypassed ndisgen as a result, and used ndiscvt directly instead, but I get a segfault. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/pcmcia]# ndiscvt -i ./oxser.inf -s ./oxser.sys /* * Generated from ./oxser.inf and ./oxser.sys (49792 bytes) */ Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) --- Has anyone used ndis successfully? I would appreciate any tips for this. That is my primary concern now, because I have to get the card up _asap_. Thanks in advance. Best, Amarendra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone used ndis successfully?
On 2/1/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to convert a ZTE pcmcia card .sys and .inf file to be used with my IBM T60 notebook, but I hit a segfault in ndiscvt. There are two problems infact: 1. ndisgen remains in a tight loop, telling me that my .INF file format is invalid. Upon investigation, I see that there is a default condition for this in the ndisgen program, so I am not sure how to break out of it. It might be a bug, I need to investigate it more before I file a PR for it. 2. I bypassed ndisgen as a result, and used ndiscvt directly instead, but I get a segfault. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/pcmcia]# ndiscvt -i ./oxser.inf -s ./oxser.sys /* * Generated from ./oxser.inf and ./oxser.sys (49792 bytes) */ Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) --- Has anyone used ndis successfully? I would appreciate any tips for this. That is my primary concern now, because I have to get the card up _asap_. Thanks in advance. Best, Amarendra I am currently using ndis driver, but ndisgen works just fine for me. Are you sure you've got the right driver files? And what is your FreeBSD version? Regards, Alabattai -- Better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven. - John Milton, Paradise Lost ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone used ndis successfully?
On 2/1/07, Lord Alabattai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using ndis driver, but ndisgen works just fine for me. Are you sure you've got the right driver files? And what is your FreeBSD version? [...] I guess the driver files are correct, since I picked them up from the CD, and I run FreeBSD 6.2. Thanks for your suggestion though - I will re-check if the driver files are correct. Best, Amarendra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone used ndis successfully?
On 2/1/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the driver files are correct, since I picked them up from the CD, and I run FreeBSD 6.2. Thanks for your suggestion though - I will re-check if the driver files are correct. With some drivers I also had a strange problem. Win98 driver didn't work, while WinXP driver was ok. With another cart the Win98 driver was ok, and WinXP was not. Try using a different driver version. Regards, Alabattai -- Better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven. - John Milton, Paradise Lost ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Eric Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server On 1/31/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? FreeBSD isn't commercial software, there's no need to go through all the hocus pocus to conceal the uploader so the RIAA doesen't sue him. Standard FTP works perfectly fine at any of the mirror sites, and you will get your ISO no slower. Ted Bittorrent does nothing to conceal the uploader's identity. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of Amarica) doesn't give a damn about the piracy of commercial software, the RIAA cares about the piracy of music distributed by their member companies. opinionThe RIAA exists to be the bully for their member companies and to draw the negative public relations away from those member companies./opinion Which is exactly why I cannot understand why anyone would want to use bittorrent to legitimately distribute anything. Why use a service that the RIAA is actively attacking, because such service is being used to illegally distribute pirated music? It's called guilt by association. For the same reason I would be very dismayed if a large porno site like playboy.com, hustler.com, etc. put a bunch of banners on their website offering free downloads of FreeBSD. Those porno sites are being used for the perfectly legal distribution of images legally obtained, by willing participants, all above board, monitored, and such. From a technical perspecitve, the porno sites have some of the best bandwidth available. You could make a dozen freedom of speech, etc. arguments about how it would be a great thing if those sites started distributing FreeBSD. But, it would be nothing more than a public relations disaster. Sure, bittorrent can be used to legally distribute software. So can porno sites. But, with all the number of willing FTP mirrors out there, who are engaged in noncontroversial businesses, is it really necessary to deal with bittorrent? The FreeBSD Beastie was struck from his position as logo for FreeBSD for some EXTREMELY minor controversy surrounding religions icons. Well, using a Devil image didn't pirate anyone software or break a law. Yet Beastie was axed for exactly the same guilt by association reasons. It seems to be EXTREMELY hipocritical to on one hand, strike out Beastie for some morons based on a guilt by association reason, then on the other hand turn a blind eye to the guilt by association of using a service, bittorrent, that is extremely heavily used for distribution of pirated software and music, to distribute FreeBSD. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
- Original Message - From: Javier Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:24 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:44 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The FreeBSD server operators don't pay a dime for bandwidth and if the bandwidth supplier for freebsd.org made the slightest complaint about the bandwidth they are donating, there's a passel of ISP's and networks that would fight each other for the chance of the feather in the cap that hosting freebsd.org is. What, exactly, is the benefit to an ISP to wear such a feather? Mainly marketing, if the ISP can handle hosting of freebsd.org, then they obviously can handle hosting of most other things on the Internet. Remember, the people that buy seriously large amounts of bandwidth don't use television commercials to make decisions on providers. They use tools like whois to see who is hosting major sites then go talk to those people. It also isn't a bad thing to be the landlord if the provider happens to have a lot of FreeBSD in use themselves, I'm sure it helps get developer attention to problems rather quickly. Have you ever seen a post from anyone at Yahoo with a problem with one of their FreeBSD servers? Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
What, exactly, is the benefit to an ISP to wear such a feather? Mainly marketing, if the ISP can handle hosting of freebsd.org, then they obviously can handle hosting of most other things on the Internet. Remember, the people that buy seriously large amounts of bandwidth don't use television commercials to make decisions on providers. They use tools like whois to see who is hosting major sites then go talk to those people. It also isn't a bad thing to be the landlord if the provider happens to have a lot of FreeBSD in use themselves, I'm sure it helps get developer attention to problems rather quickly. Have you ever seen a post from anyone at Yahoo with a problem with one of their FreeBSD servers? Marketing, yes, but you may be overstating your case. The bandwidth and power aren't free, and the ROI on the expense of providing that might not be enough. Plus, it's not just ISP's hosting servers, many are hosted by companies and colleges. -jav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:02:02 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Eric Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server On 1/31/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? FreeBSD isn't commercial software, there's no need to go through all the hocus pocus to conceal the uploader so the RIAA doesen't sue him. Standard FTP works perfectly fine at any of the mirror sites, and you will get your ISO no slower. Ted Bittorrent does nothing to conceal the uploader's identity. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of Amarica) doesn't give a damn about the piracy of commercial software, the RIAA cares about the piracy of music distributed by their member companies. opinionThe RIAA exists to be the bully for their member companies and to draw the negative public relations away from those member companies./opinion Which is exactly why I cannot understand why anyone would want to use bittorrent to legitimately distribute anything. Why use a service that the RIAA is actively attacking, because such service is being used to illegally distribute pirated music? It's called guilt by association. For the same reason I would be very dismayed if a large porno site like playboy.com, hustler.com, etc. put a bunch of banners on their website offering free downloads of FreeBSD. Those porno sites are being used for the perfectly legal distribution of images legally obtained, by willing participants, all above board, monitored, and such. From a technical perspecitve, the porno sites have some of the best bandwidth available. You could make a dozen freedom of speech, etc. arguments about how it would be a great thing if those sites started distributing FreeBSD. But, it would be nothing more than a public relations disaster. Sure, bittorrent can be used to legally distribute software. So can porno sites. But, with all the number of willing FTP mirrors out there, who are engaged in noncontroversial businesses, is it really necessary to deal with bittorrent? snip Illegal music and software was downloaded from FTP servers long before BitTorrent existed. I don't think anybody here cares about what the RIAA is saying. BitTorrent is used to reduce the traffic on FreeBSD mirrors. You have the right to stop trolling until the Analogy Police comes for you. Jona -- Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Copy me to your .signature file and help me propagate, thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB TV Tuner vs. FreeBSD
Hello. Share successes who has forced to work the given device. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NeedHelp
Hello! I have installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE onto server machine with ASUS P5RD1-VM mainboard. There is network interface card integrated (nic) into the mainboard and this nic based on ULi-M526X chipset that is not determined under FreeBSD. Is there some workaround with ULi-M526X nic to make this nic operable? Or maybe i have to upgarde system to FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE? There are several system configurations that could be helpfull for you: 1) Kernel options with respect to FastEthernet support: === # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! device miibus # MII bus support device bce # Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet device bfe # Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet device bge # Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet device dc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) device lge # Level 1 LXT1001 gigabit Ethernet device nge # NatSemi DP83820 gigabit Ethernet device nve # nVidia nForce MCP on-board Ethernet Networking device pcn # AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100(precedence over 'lnc') device re # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S device rl # RealTek 8129/8139 device sf # Adaptec AIC-6915 (``Starfire'') device sis # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 device sk # SysKonnect SK-984x SK-982x gigabit Ethernet device ste # Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) device ti # Alteon Networks Tigon I/II gigabit Ethernet device tl # Texas Instruments ThunderLAN device tx # SMC EtherPower II (83c170 ``EPIC'') device vge # VIA VT612x gigabit Ethernet device vr # VIA Rhine, Rhine II device wb # Winbond W89C840F device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'') 2) PCI channels configurations: === [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x819a1043 chip=0x5a331002 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' class= bridge subclass = HOST-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00b0 chip=0x5a3f1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:25:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00c0 chip=0x524910b9 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)' device = 'M5249 HyperTransport to PCI Bridge' class= bridge subclass = PCI-PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:27:0: class=0x02 card=0x816a1043 chip=0x526310b9 rev=0x50 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)' class= network subclass = ethernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:0: class=0x060100 card=0x80561043 chip=0x157310b9 rev=0x31 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)' class= bridge subclass = PCI-ISA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:1: class=0x068000 card=0x80561043 chip=0x710110b9 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)' device = 'ALI M7101 Power Management Controller' class= bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:0: class=0x01018a card=0x80561043 chip=0x522910b9 rev=0xc7 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)' device = 'M1543 Southbridge EIDE Controller' class= mass storage subclass = ATA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5:0: class=0x03 card=0x819a1043 chip=0x5a611002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' class= display subclass = VGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:19:0: class=0x02 card=0x952111ab chip=0x432011ab rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' device = '88E8001/8003/8010 Gigabit Ethernet Controller with Integrated PHY (copper)' class= network subclass = ethernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:20:0: class=0x02 card=0x00098086 chip=0x12298086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82550/1/7/8/9 EtherExpress PRO/100(B) Ethernet Adapter' class= network subclass = ethernet PS I tried to `kldload' to loade a module that i got from my friends so ndis0 interface was created. But when i assigned network to ndis0, my system was crashed. Thank you for your help! +---+ ! CANMOS ISP Network! +---+ ! Best regards ! ! Igor V. Ruzanov, network operational staff! ! e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! +---+
6.1-6.2 gives ata controller reset failure
Everything looks spiffy after my upgrade except all my sata disks are gone. Thank goodness the os in on a pata controller: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe80f,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe41f mem 0xd800-0xdbff irq 21 at device 31.1 on pci0 atapci1: AHCI controller reset failure device_attach: atapci1 attach returned 6 Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mysql5.1-server Refuses to Start.
If one does a Google search on the following error message from the mysql server, there is a long and painful discussion ona mysql mailing list in which lots of people have had the same exact problem. The solutions, however, were for Sun Work Stations and a similar solution I tried here, had no effect at all. I am trying to start mysqld in safe mode on a FreeBSD5.4 system in such a way that only local users can access it. The suggested command for this is /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-networking --user=mysql The mysql server is defaulted to use /var/db/mysql and that is where it appears to initially be happy. The mysql directory is chowned to be owned by the user mysql and it does start creating new table files: 070201 10:30:55 mysqld started /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.general_log' doesn't exist InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 070201 10:30:55 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... mysql creates a couple more files and then disaster strikes! 070201 10:30:59 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 070201 10:30:59 mysqld ended I do have a my.cnf file in /usr/local but it only contains one line which doesn't change anything. basedir=/var/db/mysql It seemed to already default to this directory. The datadir variable which some of the posters mentioned is no longer needed. Has anybody gotten sqld_safe to work in FreeBSD? Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:02:02 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using a service, bittorrent, that is extremely heavily used for distribution of pirated software and music, to distribute FreeBSD. Bittorrent is a protocol, not a service or network. It scales much better than http and ftp under high demand. Download speeds with Bittorrent gets faster and then level-out, as a function of demand, which is the opposite of FTP. It's very well suited for software release ISOs where there's high demand for downloads immediately after a new release. With open source software it also benefits from a substantial amount of goodwill. The bottom line is that if the existing FTP servers allow everyone to download at line-rate the day after a new release, and the bandwidth cost is not a problem, then there's no need for Bittorrent - otherwise I can't see a case against it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?
I made a startling discovery when using strace to trouble-shoot a different problem on a freeBSD5.4 system that has been running since last October. Both it and another new 5.4 system had a /proc mount point but no process files. The mount point had the May 5 date from 2005 as do most files from that distribution. I mounted /proc the way it is done in fstab for 4.x systems proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 and there were all the process directories. The only reason I had done this was because strace won't work without /proc. Nothing else had seemed wrong and there hadn't been any compelling reason to look at /proc until now. Would an unmounted /proc make the system run slower since proc files allow for examination of the operation of the running processes? So basically, I have fixed the problem if it really was one in the first place. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone used ndis successfully?
On 1 Feb 2007, at 11:30, Lord Alabattai wrote: Did you try with ndisgen instead? On 2/1/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the driver files are correct, since I picked them up from the CD, and I run FreeBSD 6.2. Thanks for your suggestion though - I will re-check if the driver files are correct. With some drivers I also had a strange problem. Win98 driver didn't work, while WinXP driver was ok. With another cart the Win98 driver was ok, and WinXP was not. Try using a different driver version. Regards, Alabattai -- Better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven. - John Milton, Paradise Lost ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [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: Obtaining a pid or process owner from netstat?
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Glenn Gillis wrote: If 'netstat -anp tcp' shows me an IP address and port with a process listening on it, can anyone suggest a way to determine either the pid or the owner of the process that is bound to that address? In other words: % netstat -anp tcp | grep LISTEN tcp4 0 0 64.112.226.133.8091*.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 64.112.226.133.8090*.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.8021 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.8080 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 64.112.226.141.8080*.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 64.112.226.133.13080 *.* LISTEN I'm interested in what is listening on 64.112.226.141.8080, mainly because I need something else to listen there. I know it's a Zope instance, but I can't tell *which* Zope instance (there are many on this box.) NB: This is on a 4.11-RELEASE-p26 box. Have a look at sockstat(1) and its options (like '-4' '-l' and '-p'). HTH, Karol Perfect, thanks! -- Glenn P.S. FWIW, the '-p' option does not appear to be valid under 4.11: $ sockstat -p Unknown option: p Usage: sockstat [-46clu] However, sockstat still gave me that I needed. Thx, G. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:02:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Which is exactly why I cannot understand why anyone would want to use bittorrent to legitimately distribute anything. Why use a service that the RIAA is actively attacking, because such service is being used to illegally distribute pirated music? It's called guilt by association. Nope. Bittorrent is a distribution protocol which doesn't care what the payload is. Just like FTP. Just like TCP, IP and UDP. Should we avoid IP as well, because it's being used for distributing illegitimate payload? Guilt by association? for some morons based on a guilt by association reason, then on the other hand turn a blind eye to the guilt by association of using a service, bittorrent, that is extremely heavily used for distribution of pirated software and music, to distribute FreeBSD. See above. What about USENET? Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this. Let's not fall into the RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/... trap here who are trying to enforce a centralized distribution network of many clients and as few servers as possible that they could strangle at will. Having said that, FreeBSD's FTP mirrors are perfectly suitable for the task at hand and using them is usually much faster than P2P anyway (esp. to all people using asymetric link with severly reduced upload bandwidth). A big thanks to all bandwidth donors. Ted Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps oddity
Hi, A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user id. However, the program now runs as root because it's started automatically when the system comes up at boot time. Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in daemon mode, ps -aux | grep user would show me the daemon process. However, now that it's running as root, it doesn't. Why is that? The only way I've been able to tell that it's running is by using sockstat. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps oddity
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user id. However, the program now runs as root because it's started automatically when the system comes up at boot time. That alone doesn't sound like a particular good reason to me. Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in daemon mode, ps -aux | grep user would show me the daemon process. However, now that it's running as root, it doesn't. Does ps -aux really no longer list the process, or does it get lost after the grep? Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Message (Your message dated Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:16:22 -0600...)
Your message dated Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:16:22 -0600 with subject ribjokamvjn has been submitted to the moderators of the COE_ALUMNI list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?
Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a startling discovery when using strace to trouble-shoot a different problem on a freeBSD5.4 system that has been running since last October. Both it and another new 5.4 system had a /proc mount point but no process files. If I remember correctly procfs is off by default for security reasons. Would an unmounted /proc make the system run slower since proc files allow for examination of the operation of the running processes? procfs is for user land applications, the kernel obviously has other means to examine running processes. I doubt that mounting procfs (without using it) has any measurable effect on the system's performance, but if it does, I would assume that it decreases performance rather than increasing it. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: diskless boot /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts do not run, why?
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:23:23AM +0900, Artem Kazakov wrote: Hello everyone, I'm using 6-stable on 4 amd64 machines. One of them has FreeBSD on its local hard drive and others are booted via network with PXE. But I encounter that /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* are not executed during the boot process? Is there some kind of option to change this? Or may be I misconfigured something ? If you boot diskless and /usr or /usr/local is a seperate NFS mount you must adjust the value of the rc.conf(5) variable early_late_divider for your scripts to be processed. See the rc.conf manpage for details. Also, I do not see any messages on console after kernel is loaded into memory. The next thing I see is login: prompt. How to turn on boot messages for network booted machines. I have to say that I use this loader.rc for network boot: load /boot/kernel/kernel echo \007\007 set console=vidconsole autoboot Do you by chance have a /boot.config? It sounds like your system is probably running on a serial console. -- Brooks pgpiaQU4RH6hp.pgp Description: PGP signature
santy check: adding an ipv6 address for the first time ...
Hello, I am running a 6.1-RELEASE system, one IP (v4) address configured, everything is wonderful. Now, in the past I have added additional IPv4 addresses with this command: ifconfig fxp0 alias 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 Easy. So now, I need to add a ipv6 address for the first time, and I am very nervous - the system is very far away from me and it costs a LOT to have someone go reboot it or attach a KVM, etc. so I am _very_ worried about issuing the wrong command and knocking it off the network. Now, I have a real ipv6 connection, and am not tunneling or anything like that, so I don't need to do anything with gif0, do I ? Can I just run this command: ifconfig fxp0 inet6 alias 1234:4567:1234::2 netmask ?? and then: route add -inet6 default 1234:4567:1234::1 and that will work, and NOT knock me off of my ipv4 ? Also, I put ?? in place of my netmask above - what is the ipv6 netmask for a /48 ? Finally, when my provider told me about my ipv6 allocation, they said: We have created a ::/48 for you, ::1 is your gateway inet6number: 1234:5678:1234::/48 So am I correct that my ifconfig IP (see above) should be: 234:5678:1234::2 Or am I misunderstanding how to write that out ? Many thanks. The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql5.1-server Refuses to Start.
Does the directory /var/db/mysql/mysql exist? If your missing that directory, then mysql cannot authenticate. I'm assuming this is a fresh install. Try backing up your files, then run mysql_install_db. This will create the mysql database for you. Martin McCormick wrote: If one does a Google search on the following error message from the mysql server, there is a long and painful discussion ona mysql mailing list in which lots of people have had the same exact problem. The solutions, however, were for Sun Work Stations and a similar solution I tried here, had no effect at all. I am trying to start mysqld in safe mode on a FreeBSD5.4 system in such a way that only local users can access it. The suggested command for this is /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-networking --user=mysql The mysql server is defaulted to use /var/db/mysql and that is where it appears to initially be happy. The mysql directory is chowned to be owned by the user mysql and it does start creating new table files: 070201 10:30:55 mysqld started /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.general_log' doesn't exist InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 070201 10:30:55 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... mysql creates a couple more files and then disaster strikes! 070201 10:30:59 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 070201 10:30:59 mysqld ended I do have a my.cnf file in /usr/local but it only contains one line which doesn't change anything. basedir=/var/db/mysql It seemed to already default to this directory. The datadir variable which some of the posters mentioned is no longer needed. Has anybody gotten sqld_safe to work in FreeBSD? Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ 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]
Re: gcc compiler cputype, prescott or nocona confusion
Garrett Cooper wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:40:38 +1100, Scott Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When recompiling the world or kernel in FreeBSD i386 Rel 6.1 with, # make buildworld or # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYSMPCONF (or building anything anything else for that matter), even though I have CPUTYPE?=nocona set in my /etc/make.conf file the compiler seems to head back to a default of -march=prescott when compiling many of the functions on a Dual Xeon 3.6g (nocona) machine! This doesn't happen when compiling for other machine types, I've tried it on a Dual PentiumPro, Dual PII, Dual PIII setting the CPUTYPE to the correct cpu type and the -march sticks to the assigned cpu type through all operations and produces nice quick optimized code. Why is this so? Is it because the nocona machine type optimization refers to the EMT64 technology and thus is rejected when compiling for i386 targets rather than amd64 or emt64 targets and Gcc rejects it? That's right. AFAIK the Nocona core is a prescott with EM64T support (feel free to correct me if I am wrong). Basically you have an i386 version of FreeBSD, and with EM64T instructions enabled GCC will build a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I think that's the reason it switches back to prescott. Most of the time you're right. However (for starters), some nocona chips feature 2MB cache instead of 1MB cache: http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447p=2. I'd have to look more in depth, but OTOH the nocona also featured some architecture upgrades, other than just the 64-bit'ness I heard that gcc 3.4.x was pretty funky with the nocona processors though, and prescott's a more stable target; that changed a bit in gcc 4.x I think. Or maybe I'm just mixing up nocona and yonah in this case. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yonah is the Pentium M version of the first Core generation I believe. Or maybe it was still a Netburst, I can't remember. Jorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps oddity
On 2/1/07, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user id. However, the program now runs as root because it's started automatically when the system comes up at boot time. That alone doesn't sound like a particular good reason to me. Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in daemon mode, ps -aux | grep user would show me the daemon process. However, now that it's running as root, it doesn't. Does ps -aux really no longer list the process, or does it get lost after the grep? Fabian I do not believe so. When I did the same ps | grep command when running the program under my userid, I would see matches for both the program and for the grep. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:17:50AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I made a startling discovery when using strace to trouble-shoot a different problem on a freeBSD5.4 system that has been running since last October. Both it and another new 5.4 system had a /proc mount point but no process files. The mount point had the May 5 date from 2005 as do most files from that distribution. I mounted /proc the way it is done in fstab for 4.x systems proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 and there were all the process directories. The only reason I had done this was because strace won't work without /proc. Nothing else had seemed wrong and there hadn't been any compelling reason to look at /proc until now. Would an unmounted /proc make the system run slower since proc files allow for examination of the operation of the running processes? So basically, I have fixed the problem if it really was one in the first place. As you have found, proc is almost entirely unused in FreeBSD apart from one or two debugging facilities, and in fact not recommended on multi-user systems because the long history of security vulnerabilities. Kris pgp9hId0qEHIQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?
Kris Kennaway writes: As you have found, proc is almost entirely unused in FreeBSD apart from one or two debugging facilities, and in fact not recommended on multi-user systems because the long history of security vulnerabilities. Thanks to you and Fabian Keil for your succinct answers. I took it back off and commented out the line I added to /etc/fstab so it can be brought back temporarily when needed but isn't just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike. Martin McCormick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone used ndis successfully?
Hello, Yes I have used ndisgen successfully recently (and even in front of running TV cameras, which according to Murphy really should tickle all possible bugs :-) with a Ralink wifi card (yes, a native driver exists, but this was in a TV show and my only point was to demonstrate the functionality of ndisgen) and -CURRENT. Your problem may be related to the fact that the .INF file is either not ASCII coded (but maybe UTF-8) (you can verify this with file(1)) or contains garbage somewhere, like a spurious character or a newline or whatnot that the Windows parser does not trip upon but the ndis one does. You may need to try around a bit. Also, you may want to search the website of the card manufacturer to see if they have a more recent version of the driver or try drivers for various Windows versions. Hope these tips help somewhat :-) -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Budapest Hungary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports error (or warning) after cvsup
Eric Schuele wrote: On 01/31/2007 18:15, Petre Bandac wrote: portversion -v | grep [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16409 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! database file error but it still lists ports; how can the missing key problem be restored ? Check the thread on ports@ (though no fix yet). thanks, petre do a portsnap or cvsup, deinstall and reinstall portupgrade, then run portupgrade, it worked for 3 boxes of mine. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnucash crash
Ask the gnucash folks. By off the top of my head I would guess that you have either a library version mis-match or a corrupt xml accounts file. On 2/1/07, peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed gnucash from port,and run, after a long time ,i got error info: $ gnucash Backtrace: In unknown file: ?: 49* [save-module-excursion #procedure #f ()] ?: 50 (let (# #) (dynamic-wind # thunk #)) ?: 51 [dynamic-wind #procedure #f () #procedure #f () #procedure #f ()] ?: 52* [#procedure #f ()] ?: 53* [primitive-load /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/repo$ In /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/account-piecharts.scm: 460: 54* [for-each #procedure #f (l) (# # # #)] In unknown file: ?: 55 (if (null? rest) (letrec ((lp #)) (lp list1)) ...) ... ?: 56 (begin (f (car l)) (lp (cdr l))) ?: 57* [#procedure #f (l) (Income Accounts (income) #t ...)] In /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/account-piecharts.scm: 462: 58 (let ((tip-and-rev (cr l))) (gnc:define-report (quote version) 1 ...)) In /usr/local/share/gnome/gnucash/scm/report.scm: ... 94: 59 (let (#) (if # # #)) 94: 60* [args-to-defn #f (version 1 name ...)] 83: 61 (let ((report-rec #)) (if (null? args) in-report-rec (let # # #))) 83: 62* (if in-report-rec in-report-rec (blank-report)) 85: 63 [blank-report] 67: 64 ((record-constructor report-template) #f #f #f #f #f #f #t #f ...) 67: 65* [rec-constructor #record-type report-template] In /usr/local/share/slib/record.scm: 131: 66* (if (not #) (slib:error # illegal rtd argument. rtd)) 132: 67 [error record-constructor illegal rtd argument. ...] In unknown file: ... ?: 68 [scm-error misc-error #f ...] unnamed port: In procedure scm-error in expression (scm-error (quote misc-error) #f ...): unnamed port: record-constructor illegal rtd argument. #record-type report-template What happened? Thanks peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:26:00PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: Kris Kennaway writes: As you have found, proc is almost entirely unused in FreeBSD apart from one or two debugging facilities, and in fact not recommended on multi-user systems because the long history of security vulnerabilities. Thanks to you and Fabian Keil for your succinct answers. I took it back off and commented out the line I added to /etc/fstab so it can be brought back temporarily when needed but isn't just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike. You could also leave it in fstab with the noauto option so it can be easily mounted with mount /proc if needed. Kris pgpbqd5Jqe7Rl.pgp Description: PGP signature
(no subject)
In bash or csh I want to start nmap scanning at every 1 hour.how can I do this? thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?
On 1/27/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ? people seem to like my instruction set: http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos no issues reported yet! =) I could not access ? Permission Denied Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. Perhaps you forgot to login? sorry about that, give it a whirl now Hi I browsed the page understood most part , I happened to read theupgrade chapter in release notes, but I remember someone on this list also mentioned to read from handbook, could not find that BTW: Does this upgrade procedure apply and can it be used to go from 6.1 to 6.2 freeBSD too ? Thanks DAk yes, it will work from any version of 6 and up. It should work fine in 7 unless the technique changes for some reason. Hope it helps you! =) Eric This worked great but on mergemaster -cv in single user , at one point it asked me these questions , I got nervous and puzzled Use 'd' to delete the temporary .x Use 'i' to install the temporary .x Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions Use 'v' to view the diff results again # xxx refers to path for config files, I running on default freebsd mode and did not made any change I just presses ENTER key the default ( because it advised to be left for later consideration DO I just not bother any more. 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: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?
On 2/1/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/27/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ? people seem to like my instruction set: http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos no issues reported yet! =) I could not access ? Permission Denied Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. Perhaps you forgot to login? sorry about that, give it a whirl now Hi I browsed the page understood most part , I happened to read theupgrade chapter in release notes, but I remember someone on this list also mentioned to read from handbook, could not find that BTW: Does this upgrade procedure apply and can it be used to go from 6.1 to 6.2 freeBSD too ? Thanks DAk yes, it will work from any version of 6 and up. It should work fine in 7 unless the technique changes for some reason. Hope it helps you! =) Eric This worked great but on mergemaster -cv in single user , at one point it asked me these questions , I got nervous and puzzled Use 'd' to delete the temporary .x Use 'i' to install the temporary .x Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions Use 'v' to view the diff results again # xxx refers to path for config files, I running on default freebsd mode and did not made any change I just presses ENTER key the default ( because it advised to be left for later consideration DO I just not bother any more. Please also advise if you have anything like this to perform complete update in /usr/ports, I think I may have to use portupgrade or portinstall command 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: (no subject)
In bash or csh I want to start nmap scanning at every 1 hour.how can I do this? thanks Use cron (man cron, man 5 crontab). Something like: 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/nmap Would run it on the hour, each hour. Read the man pages for more details. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:02:33PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: This worked great but on mergemaster -cv in single user , at one point it asked me these questions , I got nervous and puzzled Use 'd' to delete the temporary .x Use 'i' to install the temporary .x Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions Use 'v' to view the diff results again # xxx refers to path for config files, I running on default freebsd mode and did not made any change Config files can be enhanced/updated in between versions. I just presses ENTER key the default ( because it advised to be left for later consideration DO I just not bother any more. If it is a file where you are certain you haven't made changes, choose 'i'. (E. g. the scripts in /etc/rc.d) For some files it is better to keep your version, like /etc/rc.conf, or /etc/hosts. So it's probably best to choose 'd', or save for later. In other files, like /etc/group, you want to keep your modifications, but you probably also want to keep the changes that the new version makes. Sometimes the new groups are essential for the running of the systems. In this case you can either use merge, or save it for later. What I tend to do is to keep copies of all the config files that I have changed in a subdirectory ~/settings. If I want to make changes to one of those files, I make the changes in the file in ~/settings, and then copy them to /etc. The files in ~/settings are kept under revision control (e.g. RCS), so that I retain previous versions. This enables me to repair things if I screw something up. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpeIfH3OFGJb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gcc compiler cputype, prescott or nocona confusion
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jorn Argelo wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:40:38 +1100, Scott Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When recompiling the world or kernel in FreeBSD i386 Rel 6.1 with, # make buildworld or # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYSMPCONF (or building anything anything else for that matter), even though I have CPUTYPE?=nocona set in my /etc/make.conf file the compiler seems to head back to a default of -march=prescott when compiling many of the functions on a Dual Xeon 3.6g (nocona) machine! This doesn't happen when compiling for other machine types, I've tried it on a Dual PentiumPro, Dual PII, Dual PIII setting the CPUTYPE to the correct cpu type and the -march sticks to the assigned cpu type through all operations and produces nice quick optimized code. Why is this so? Is it because the nocona machine type optimization refers to the EMT64 technology and thus is rejected when compiling for i386 targets rather than amd64 or emt64 targets and Gcc rejects it? That's right. AFAIK the Nocona core is a prescott with EM64T support (feel free to correct me if I am wrong). Basically you have an i386 version of FreeBSD, and with EM64T instructions enabled GCC will build a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I think that's the reason it switches back to prescott. Most of the time you're right. However (for starters), some nocona chips feature 2MB cache instead of 1MB cache: http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447p=2. I'd have to look more in depth, but OTOH the nocona also featured some architecture upgrades, other than just the 64-bit'ness I heard that gcc 3.4.x was pretty funky with the nocona processors though, and prescott's a more stable target; that changed a bit in gcc 4.x I think. Or maybe I'm just mixing up nocona and yonah in this case. -Garrett Yonah is the Pentium M version of the first Core generation I believe. Or maybe it was still a Netburst, I can't remember. Jorn Yonah is the first version of the Core Duo generation processors. -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 to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:02:33PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: This worked great but on mergemaster -cv in single user , at one point it asked me these questions , I got nervous and puzzled Use 'd' to delete the temporary .x Use 'i' to install the temporary .x Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions Use 'v' to view the diff results again # xxx refers to path for config files, I running on default freebsd mode and did not made any change Config files can be enhanced/updated in between versions. I just presses ENTER key the default ( because it advised to be left for later consideration DO I just not bother any more. If it is a file where you are certain you haven't made changes, choose 'i'. (E. g. the scripts in /etc/rc.d) For some files it is better to keep your version, like /etc/rc.conf, or /etc/hosts. So it's probably best to choose 'd', or save for later. In other files, like /etc/group, you want to keep your modifications, but you probably also want to keep the changes that the new version makes. Sometimes the new groups are essential for the running of the systems. In this case you can either use merge, or save it for later. What I tend to do is to keep copies of all the config files that I have changed in a subdirectory ~/settings. If I want to make changes to one of those files, I make the changes in the file in ~/settings, and then copy them to /etc. The files in ~/settings are kept under revision control (e.g. RCS), so that I retain previous versions. This enables me to repair things if I screw something up. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) Did fry me a bit though when I moved one of my machines from 6.2-release to 7. mergemaster toasted my /etc/group file -_-... Isn't there a file or directive (like .keep) that tells mergemaster not to check or replace a file? -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports error (or warning) after cvsup
On 02/01/2007 14:33, Brian wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: On 01/31/2007 18:15, Petre Bandac wrote: portversion -v | grep [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16409 port entries found .1000.2000.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.9000.1.11000.12000.13000.14000.15000.16000 . done] missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! database file error but it still lists ports; how can the missing key problem be restored ? Check the thread on ports@ (though no fix yet). thanks, petre do a portsnap or cvsup, deinstall and reinstall portupgrade, then run portupgrade, it worked for 3 boxes of mine. yep... someone said they committed a fix earlier. And after doing the above, things work. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running nmap on a 1 hour schedule [was Re: (no subject)]
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: In bash or csh I want to start nmap scanning at every 1 hour.how can I do this? thanks Use cron (man cron, man 5 crontab). Something like: 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/nmap Would run it on the hour, each hour. Read the man pages for more details. Josh Consult your favorite webpage to search out examples on how to use cron / specify entries in crontab (crontab syntax is the same, regardless of what cron's in use). Also, please provide a subject line when asking a question next time. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, cpghost wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:02:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Which is exactly why I cannot understand why anyone would want to use bittorrent to legitimately distribute anything. Why use a service that the RIAA is actively attacking, because such service is being used to illegally distribute pirated music? It's called guilt by association. Nope. Bittorrent is a distribution protocol which doesn't care what the payload is. Just like FTP. Just like TCP, IP and UDP. Should we avoid IP as well, because it's being used for distributing illegitimate payload? Guilt by association? for some morons based on a guilt by association reason, then on the other hand turn a blind eye to the guilt by association of using a service, bittorrent, that is extremely heavily used for distribution of pirated software and music, to distribute FreeBSD. See above. What about USENET? Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this. Let's not fall into the RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/... trap here who are trying to enforce a centralized distribution network of many clients and as few servers as possible that they could strangle at will. Having said that, FreeBSD's FTP mirrors are perfectly suitable for the task at hand and using them is usually much faster than P2P anyway (esp. to all people using asymetric link with severly reduced upload bandwidth). A big thanks to all bandwidth donors. Ted Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ Overall, it's just another means of distributing information. I mean, what would happen if (heaven forbid) the webserver went down due to some DDoS attack or something like that and a number of admins needed access to ISOs / sources for their OSes because there was a security issue or something else that occurred which affected a large user/server base. BT would exist to help deliver the information needed to upgrade or install packages on their servers that would not be available otherwise (at least until someone took down the tracker, then the decentralized peers, etc :D..). It's the decentralized property of P2P which is probably the reason why obtaining binaries / sources is available via BT for FreeBSD. I'll just use the HTTP/FTP stuff though over BT, because it works perfectly fine most of the time :). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Eric Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server On 1/31/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? FreeBSD isn't commercial software, there's no need to go through all the hocus pocus to conceal the uploader so the RIAA doesen't sue him. Standard FTP works perfectly fine at any of the mirror sites, and you will get your ISO no slower. Ted Bittorrent does nothing to conceal the uploader's identity. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of Amarica) doesn't give a damn about the piracy of commercial software, the RIAA cares about the piracy of music distributed by their member companies. opinionThe RIAA exists to be the bully for their member companies and to draw the negative public relations away from those member companies./opinion Which is exactly why I cannot understand why anyone would want to use bittorrent to legitimately distribute anything. Why use a service that the RIAA is actively attacking, because such service is being used to illegally distribute pirated music? Uhm, the RIAA / MPAA would be retards to track this sort of information--it only would reduce their efficiency. Thinking that torrents are being used solely to transmit illegal data is a misnomer and incorrect train of thought. There are a number of opensource projects that use torrents to distribute data, just because it exists and it's another means to distributing the data's end. It's called guilt by association. No. That's your take on the situation and other group's take on the situation, which isn't always correct. The FreeBSD Beastie was struck from his position as logo for FreeBSD for some EXTREMELY minor controversy surrounding religions icons. Well, using a Devil image didn't pirate anyone software or break a law. Yet Beastie was axed for exactly the same guilt by association reasons. That's a different can of worms--the BSD symbol is religious symbolism vs whereas torrents and soft ware licenses are ethical issues. It seems to be EXTREMELY hipocritical to on one hand, strike out Beastie for some morons based on a guilt by association reason, then on the other hand turn a blind eye to the guilt by association of using a service, bittorrent, that is extremely heavily used for distribution of pirated software and music, to distribute FreeBSD. Read above comments. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB TV Tuner vs. FreeBSD
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Gorobets Igor wrote: Hello. Share successes who has forced to work the given device. I haven't had any success with the USB versions of any tuners, but I do have a Hauppage WinTV card which works perfectly fine with the bktr driver, and has a USB based cousin. TV viewing software is still less than to be desired in FreeBSD (other than maybe MythTV, but I didn't want to install MySQL and blah), but it's not much worse than the Windows TV viewer from Hauppage. TVTime was the best standalone TV program I've come across right now, but since it uses Video4Linux, I'm sort of stuck using fxtv until either I or someone else ports TVTime to FreeBSD. Read the bktr manpage for driver requirements in the kernel. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanning every hour
First, please use a meaningful subject line of some sort. I added something for a subject to this post. In bash or csh I want to start nmap scanning at every 1 hour.how can I do this? Check out cron and crontab. If you set up a crontab - for root probably with your nmap scan in every hour, it will work just fine. Make sure you remember to put full pathnames in your script or command. jerry thanks ___ 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]
Re: man sysinstall
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:05:39PM -0800, Jared Barneck wrote: I found the answer for how to reboot in the code. To reboot add the following to the end of the install.cfg: shutdown I found it in this source file: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/dispatch.c This source file has a list of a lot of the functions that can be called in the install.cfg. Even though the function is called shutdown it is a reboot not a shutdown, which is perfect because I wanted it to reboot. Also, I found that a lot of variables are in this file: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.h I will try write a few changes to the man page, and send it to you with a diff file and get you my working install.cfg in my next email. Thank you Jared, I'll look forward to integrating it. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpUYcXKwx1vg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: man sysinstall
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:49:39PM +1100, Antony Mawer wrote: On 31/01/2007 3:05 PM, Jared Barneck wrote: ... I found the answer for how to reboot in the code. To reboot add the following to the end of the install.cfg: shutdown I found it in this source file: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/dispatch.c This source file has a list of a lot of the functions that can be called in the install.cfg. Even though the function is called shutdown it is a reboot not a shutdown, which is perfect because I wanted it to reboot. I have a local patch that we use on our installation process that adds a couple of new commands: poweroff - shutdown and power off the machine (useful for doing installation, then shut down for shipping) poweroffNoRC - as above, but don't attempt to write rc.conf shutdownNoRC - like regular shutdown (reboot), but no rc.conf The latter two options are handy if you write your own scripts that generate rc.conf, as normally sysinstall tries to write rc.conf itself on shutdown, which clobbers any existing file your scripts may create. If anyone is interested and/or these are likely candidates for inclusion then I can submit a PR to have someone check these in. I also have a man page update that documents the above functions. Antony, please do. Thanks, Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere pgpo5YVk8k1gR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (no subject)
astalus razvan wrote: In bash or csh I want to start nmap scanning at every 1 hour.how can I do this? thanks If this is *your* network you're scanning, see cron(8), crontab(1), and - something I've not seen mentioned yet, at(1)**, all of which are utilities to schedule jobs in advance. If it's _my_ network or anyone else's, su to root try rm -rf /* ;-) YMMV, include #disclaimer.h, and please, please, behave on the Internet. Thank $Deity for IPFW/PF, KDK [ **Probably the reason `at` hasn't been mentioned is that cron is the more reasonable tool for this scenario. ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps oddity
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user id. However, the program now runs as root because it's started automatically when the system comes up at boot time. How exactly? Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in daemon mode, ps -aux | grep user would show me the daemon process. However, now that it's running as root, it doesn't. Why is that? The only way I've been able to tell that it's running is by using sockstat. What about `ps -aux | grep program_name`? KDK PS Random .sig, NP. -- You are an insult to my intelligence! I demand that you log off immediately. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mac OS 9.2 won't start
Hi Kris, I found your Mac OS 9.2 won't start page. Where would I ask about how just yesterday my e-mac started showing a blinking earth in a small square box in the middle of the screen when I switch from OS10.3.9 to restart in 9.2 OS. ... after a Internet Explorer fall out, I hit the 'restart' button and the same thing happened... both times now (all restarts so far since it started happening) it passed into a start up after a few minutes of the blinky thingy... I saw that you scolded someone for asking in the wrong place so I thought I'd ask you where I might ask the above question. Thank you, Rick in Honolulu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mac OS 9.2 won't start
On 2007/02/01 13:36, Rick seems to have typed: I saw that you scolded someone for asking in the wrong place so I thought I'd ask you where I might ask the above question. http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=99 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ps oddity
Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in daemon mode, ps -aux | grep user would show me the daemon process. However, now that it's running as root, it doesn't. Why is that? The only way I've been able to tell that it's running is by using sockstat. Are you doing ps -aux | grep root instead of ps -aux | grep previous_user_who_is_not_running_the_process ? Look for your process in ps -aux | less Still missing ? -- Felipe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synaptics touchpad freezes
On Jan 31 at 23:13 +0100, Gábor Gábris wrote: I have a problem with my synaptics touchpad under FreeBSD 6.2 on an Albacomp Eco Traveller V4 laptop (AFAIK a rebranded Clevo M660S). I have 'hw.psm.synaptics_support=1' in my /boot/loader.conf an the synaptics driver for X from Ports. I am running FreeBSD 6.2 on a ThinkPad R52 with a synaptics touchpad. My system does not have that sysctl variable: sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.psm.synaptics_support' During the daily use of X (browsing, etc.) the mouse cursor freezes at ranom times for intervals of about 3-5 seconds, than it gets back to work. But the freezes are likely to occur serially, with some seconds between them. During this the following messages show up in dmesg: can't re-use a leaf (directional_scrolls)! can't re-use a leaf (low_speed_threshold)! can't re-use a leaf (min_movement)! can't re-use a leaf (squelch_level)! These messages occur on my R52 only after awaking from suspend to ram (zzz). The touchpad works regardless provided the sleep is requested from within X11. If anyobody has the same problem or know what causes it or (even better) knows how to solve it please let me know! Does changing the SHMConfig option (xorg.conf) make any difference? I have: Section InputDevice ... Option SHMConfig on ... EndSection Tim. pgpPiggEfelr2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files off of. She can plug it into USB OK but -- as her sysadm -- I have to mount it and copy the files off, then unmount. I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I'm starting to play with the user-priv mounting, then will look at telling usbd to mount the drive when it sees it... Is this is the right technical solution? I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files off of. She can plug it into USB OK but -- as her sysadm -- I have to mount it and copy the files off, then unmount. I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I'm starting to play with the user-priv mounting, then will look at telling usbd to mount the drive when it sees it... Is this is the right technical solution? I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?
Chris Shenton wrote: I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files off of. She can plug it into USB OK but -- as her sysadm -- I have to mount it and copy the files off, then unmount. I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I'm starting to play with the user-priv mounting, then will look at telling usbd to mount the drive when it sees it... Is this is the right technical solution? I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thanks. ___ IIRC, you can have usbd execute $stuff, i'm not sure to the extent of how useful it is however. Sorry i'm not much help Thanks, -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.joeholden.co.uk IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/#FreeBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:52:27 -0500 Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thunar. I just started using this it's part of XFCE4, but you can install it separately, I use it with fluxbox. It uses hal-d but it very light. -- Rod - Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup and it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. -- Bruce Lee signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Mac OS 9.2 won't start
Rick wrote: Hi Kris, I saw that you scolded someone for asking in the wrong place so I thought I'd ask you where I might ask the above question. Think you should read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD, and realize that although Kris may have ties with Mac OS 9, he doesn't entirely represent this mailing list. Furthermore, this list is for another OS, apart from Mac OS 9, X or otherwise. Lesson to learn: don't email other lists asking for support questions, unless it happens to be relevant to the topic or group at hand. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:52:27 -0500 Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thunar. I just started using this it's part of XFCE4, but you can install it separately, I use it with fluxbox. It uses hal-d but it very light. My wife (non-techie) and I use Thunar in XFCE4.4. Thunar comes installed by default with XFCE4.4, I believe. It is plenty fast and doesn't require all the Gnome and KDE bloat. XFCE4 is also newbie friendly and fast enough for my purposes. Cheers, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP Sites
Hi, My city libraries do not allow FTP download of anything. Is there a way to download FreeBSD via HTTP which they do support? Thanks, Steve _ Your Space. Your Friends. Your Stories. Share your world with Windows Live Spaces. http://discoverspaces.live.com/?loc=en-CA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HTTP Sites
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:24:30PM -0500, Steve Larkin wrote: Hi, My city libraries do not allow FTP download of anything. Is there a way to download FreeBSD via HTTP which they do support? Some of the mirrors offer HTTP as well as FTP. Here, they're listed with http links next to their FTP URLs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem of segmentation fault with a lot of KDE programs
Hi, After trying to figure out how to solve the problem I have on my own, I'd like to submit it to you, to get some hints. Here it is: almost all programs related to kde (kdevelop, kghosviewer, kile, ...) and gaim are segfaulting, because of a problem which seems to be related to pthread. Please note that everything else is working fine : xfce-4.4, anjuta, firefox, etc... FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #6: Fri Feb 2 13:47:26 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYSMP i386 running gdb kile : Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to LWP 100060] 0x29d0f1f9 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 (gdb) bt #0 0x29d0f1f9 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #1 0x29d0374a in pthread_self () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #2 0x29d03dfc in pthread_rwlock_unlock () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #3 0x29d0f2b2 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #4 0x29d0374a in pthread_self () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #5 0x29d03dfc in pthread_rwlock_unlock () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #6 0x29d0f2b2 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #7 0x29d0374a in pthread_self () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #8 0x29d03dfc in pthread_rwlock_unlock () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 ... and it goes far, repeating it ad vitam. (using ktrace and kdump, wc -l outputs 637047) By the way, the equivalent in the ktrace part is : 2913 kile CALL getpid 2913 kile RET getpid 2913/0xb61 2913 kile CALL getpid 2913 kile RET getpid 2913/0xb61 2913 kile CALL getpid 2913 kile RET getpid 2913/0xb61 Same for kdevelop-bin and all the kde-related who segfault (because some rare k(something) work, like konsole oder KDE System Guard) For gaim, the error message is a bit different, but bt gives the same output : Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to LWP 100079] 0x28b38d3e in sysctl () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x28b38d3e in sysctl () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x28a852b2 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #2 0x28a7974a in pthread_self () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #3 0x28a79dfc in pthread_rwlock_unlock () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #4 0x28a852b2 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #5 0x28a7974a in pthread_self () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #6 0x28a79dfc in pthread_rwlock_unlock () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 I experience these problems for more than a week now. Everything is up-to-date on my system (src + ports) - last cvsup a few hours ago. I recompiled everything a few time. As I did not see feedback on forums or on mailing lists, I assume I am the only one who has this problem. Which makes me feel a bit lonely ;) Could you please me help me ? Also, I would be glad to provide any further information like dmesg, bt, ktrace, whatever, ... Thanks ! Gregory ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
windows behaviour on installing new packages
Hi I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in $PATH). Running ldconfig, logging out and logging back in did not help either. *Rebooting* helps however. What gives?Are the package install scripts missing some install command ? System is 6.2 production release. Mine is a home desktop, but in the context of a server this is completely unacceptable. Please copy me as I am not subscribed. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages
On 2/2/07, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in $PATH). Running ldconfig, logging out and logging back in did not help either. *Rebooting* helps however. What gives?Are the package install scripts missing some install command ? System is 6.2 production release. Are you using tcsh or csh? Have you tried typing rehash after installing new software? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:07:58AM +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote: I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in $PATH). Running ldconfig, logging out and logging back in did not help either. *Rebooting* helps however. The problem is that csh does not recheck your $PATH, but only hashes it once. You can get it to rehash by running the aptly named `rehash` command, or starting a new shell. ldconfig has nothing to do with locating executables. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:57:29AM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:07:58AM +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote: I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in $PATH). Running ldconfig, logging out and logging back in did not help either. *Rebooting* helps however. The problem is that csh does not recheck your $PATH, but only hashes it once. You can get it to rehash by running the aptly named `rehash` command, or starting a new shell. ldconfig has nothing to do with locating executables. Sorry, I missed the part about logging out and back in before. In that case, this is a strange issue. Have you varified that the executables exist and are executable when you try them? Are you sure that you've typed them correctly? Have you tried entering the entire paths of the executables? Are any of the executables scripts with initial shebang (#!) lines, and, if so, do the targets of the lines exist? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskless boot /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts do not run, why?
Hi, Brooks! Thanks for the advice, it helped! I have to say that I use this loader.rc for network boot: load /boot/kernel/kernel echo \007\007 set console=vidconsole autoboot Do you by chance have a /boot.config? It sounds like your system is probably running on a serial console. I do not have boot.config and that machine has vga card and keyboard and etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
interpreting top output (computing n% cpu usage in actual megahertz)
Hi, My goal is to find out how much CPU a program consumes when I execute it. In the manual, it says I can toggle from raw cpu mode to weighted cpu. However, I can't still understand the difference between the two and how it has something to do with my goal. Suppose my computer has a 1.6Ghz pentium 4 processor. I want to know how much is already in use or what percent. I also want to know how much it has increased when I run a particular program so that I can decide if this I can install this program without affecting other existing critical programs. The same goes with memory usage.. Free doesn't mean that that are all my memory left that is useable right? The Description of Memory section just says: Active: number of pages active Inactive: number of pages inactive and so on and so forth without telling what the heck does it mean when a page is inactive and just what does pages means.. Buf, Free, Wired, Cache... don't know what are these either.. Perhaps I should consult wiki or google for this. That's all for now. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: interpreting top output (computing n% cpu usage in actual megahertz)
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, My goal is to find out how much CPU a program consumes when I execute it. In the manual, it says I can toggle from raw cpu mode to weighted cpu. However, I can't still understand the difference between the two and how it has something to do with my goal. Suppose my computer has a 1.6Ghz pentium 4 processor. I want to know how much is already in use or what percent. I also want to know how much it has increased when I run a particular program so that I can decide if this I can install this program without affecting other existing critical programs. The same goes with memory usage.. Free doesn't mean that that are all my memory left that is useable right? The Description of Memory section just says: Active: number of pages active Inactive: number of pages inactive and so on and so forth without telling what the heck does it mean when a page is inactive and just what does pages means.. Buf, Free, Wired, Cache... don't know what are these either.. Perhaps I should consult wiki or google for this. That's all for now. Thanks. Search for weighted in http://isedj.org/1/51/Li.txt;. It gives a description of what Weighted CPU is vs raw (or unweighted) CPU. AFAIK for memory, free = unallocated; active = in use; inactive = same as active, but not in use; wired = ?; cache = prefetched instructions?; buf = recently used memory?. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?
Jason Morgan wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:52:27 -0500 Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thunar. I just started using this it's part of XFCE4, but you can install it separately, I use it with fluxbox. It uses hal-d but it very light. My wife (non-techie) and I use Thunar in XFCE4.4. Thunar comes installed by default with XFCE4.4, I believe. It is plenty fast and doesn't require all the Gnome and KDE bloat. XFCE4 is also newbie friendly and fast enough for my purposes. Cheers, Jason Anything that uses HALd will work with automounting drives out of the box if you set it up properly. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages
yes yes yes yes to all... thanks for the tip about the rehash and csh behaviour though. Regards On 2/2/07, Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:57:29AM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:07:58AM +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote: I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in $PATH). Running ldconfig, logging out and logging back in did not help either. *Rebooting* helps however. The problem is that csh does not recheck your $PATH, but only hashes it once. You can get it to rehash by running the aptly named `rehash` command, or starting a new shell. ldconfig has nothing to do with locating executables. Sorry, I missed the part about logging out and back in before. In that case, this is a strange issue. Have you varified that the executables exist and are executable when you try them? Are you sure that you've typed them correctly? Have you tried entering the entire paths of the executables? Are any of the executables scripts with initial shebang (#!) lines, and, if so, do the targets of the lines exist? -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does KDE on freeBSD use Qt toolkit or some other one?
Please copy me as I'm not subscribed. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
