Re: Disable cdrom open/close buttons
OpenBlanchy skrev: My wife's dog keeps bumping into my file server and ejecting either one of the two cdrom trays. My concern is she will snap the trays off or steal/eat a cd inside the tray. My initial fix of getting rid of the dog was rejected so I'm coming here for a software solution. Basically, I was wondering if there's a setting, script, or even a program that will make it so the drive will only eject if I tell it to and the physical buttons are of no use. Mount the cd. I run FreeBSD 6.2 without a gui. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?)
Thank you Manikandan Balachandran JPMC IB TO - Jupiter STS Tel: +44 1202-325271 Cell: +44 7891649680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- JPMorgan Chase, 18 Christchurch Road Floor 1, Bournemouth, BH1 3BA , UK Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/12/2007 02:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Customized FreeBSD CD (was: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop withdual boot?) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your immediate response Yes, I spend two days and found out there are lot of tips in your documentation thanks? After compiling the Free BSD Kernel and making some changes on my system then how do I make the installable CD/DVD from my source (My Free BSD) to distribute to others? One more question: Can I use ZFS on Free BSD? Cheers, B.Manikandan Bournemouth, UK Please do not top post. There are couple of ways to create a custom FreeBSD CD and you will find them by simply googling. I have not tried any, but this one looks promising: http://livecd.sourceforge.net/documentos.php It is available in the ports collection too: /usr/ports/sysutils/livecd ZFS will be available on FreeBSD 7. - This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to UK legal entities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: portaudit in periodic [SOLVED]
Cristian KLEIN ha scritto: But have you tried running these commands from the shell? It is very important to check the scripts with the above SHELL PATH environment. If the above works from the shell, I'm pretty much out of ideas too. Yes, and it did work. In the end I realized the problem was that I have to use a proxy: from the shell portaudit picked up HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY from the environment, while it didn't when launched from cron. Obiously setting up portaudit.conf was the solution. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading firefox 1.5 to 2.0
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD v6.2. It comes with FireFox 1.5 and I want to upgrade it to version 2.0. I've updated my ports collection with pkg_version -v. But I don't see the FireFox 2.0 in my ports. However I see a port for FireFox 2 in the ports collection in the web site of FreeBSD. Isn't supposed that it must appear in my ports collection once I've updated it? Then I try with portupgrade –R firefox and I get the following message: Stale dependency: firefox-1.5.0.8,1 -- perl-5.8.8_1 – manually run 'pkgdb –F' to fix (-0 disallowed when –R is given). Can someone help me? Thanks, -- Robe. En el verdadero amor, el alma oculta al cuerpo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mount ntfs-3g
Hi, I'm trying to mount an ntfs-3g partition but get an error when using mount. mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/ad6s1 /win mount: /dev/ad6s1 : Operation not supported by device if i use mount_ntfs-3g ... it works fine but that won't help me with respect to mounting during boot. Is there anything special that needs to be done to get a non standard mount_* command to work via mount? I read somewhere to add a symlink to mount_ntfs-3g to /sbin/ but that did not seem to do anything. Thanks, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading firefox 1.5 to 2.0
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 09:00:04AM -0500, Robe wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD v6.2. It comes with FireFox 1.5 and I want to upgrade it to version 2.0. I've updated my ports collection with pkg_version -v. But I don't see the FireFox 2.0 in my ports. However I see a port for FireFox 2 in the ports collection in the web site of FreeBSD. Isn't supposed that it must appear in my ports collection once I've updated it? Then I try with portupgrade ?R firefox and I get the following message: Stale dependency: firefox-1.5.0.8,1 -- perl-5.8.8_1 ? manually run 'pkgdb ?F' to fix (-0 disallowed when ?R is given). Can someone help me? Look in man at following commands - update your ports portsnap fetch update - verify outdated installed ports portversion -l - upgrade port portupgrade -R port - update your pkgdb with new dependancies pkgdb -F Hope this helps Thanks, -- Robe. En el verdadero amor, el alma oculta al cuerpo. ___ 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]
remote x session
i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: FreeBSD 6.3 or 7.0 Release?
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:51:29PM -0430, Julian Bolivar wrote: Hi everyone, Mi question is because checking the FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 Release schedule, I note that version 6.3 is upcoming and few days later 7.0 will be releaced, anyone know if this schedule is updated or is in time? or only one of both will be released? Yhe are not scheduled dates but rather are estimates made based on how it appears things are progressing. You might call them 'best guesses'. FreeBSD does not make release schedules per se. I am guessing from discussion that was posted a couple of weeks ago, that the actual releases will be a couple of weeks or so past those estimates, but it sounds like things are getting pretty close. jerry Thanks and Regards, --- Julian Bolivar ___ 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: BIND9 won't start
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 11:45:58PM +0100, QADMOS wrote: Gelsema, P (Patrick) a écrit : On Sun, December 23, 2007 23:04, QADMOS wrote: Jonathan Horne a écrit : On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:52:43 pm QADMOS wrote: Hi everyone, i'm having a hard time with bind9. I'm trying to set up an authoritative dns server. Unfortunately when i try to launch it with an 'rndc start' i get this error message : rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused I've reviewed my conf files but frankly i couldn't see what was wrong. I've actually rewritten them from scratch several times to really check that nothing was missing and couldn't see anything was wrong. The localhost.rev file is configured correctly. I've also tried to regenerate new rndc.keys and edit named.conf accordingly but to no avail. I've also considered a possible file permissions in /etc/namedb and in /var/run/named issue but that didn't yield much either. Finally the biggest trouble is that nothing is logged in any log file ! nothing in /var/log/messages nothing in /var/log/all.log nothing anywhere so i'm really confused here about what direction to investigate. Has anyone ever encountered such an issue ? Thx in advance for any help. do you get same problem with: /etc/rc.d/named start ? Well i've also tried that actually and when i do that : 1/ nothing is logged 2/ nothing is launched either Do you have the following in rc.conf? hulk# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep named named_enable=YES To me it seems your problem lies in the fact that named is not starting, so rndc can not control anything. Rgds, Patrick there's just no error message despite that the named is not running (checked with ps waux | grep named ) Well Patrick i followed your suggestion and rebooted (it didn't do much after just editing rc.conf) the box and now /etc/rc.d/named start works fine annd named is running, 'rndc' still has the same problem though (???) I'm a bit befuddled though, because i don't understand why it's necessary to use the named_enable directive to have named running ? I understand this is necessary if you want the daemon to run at boot time but why is this necessary if you want to run it manually once the box is on ? Well, if you use the rc script or any of the other scripts that might be supplied with it to start it, then that script checks that variable - namely 'named_enable' and if it is not set, the script exits without doing anything. jerry In any case thx a lot for your help :) ___ 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: remote x session
On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for? thanks, j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote x session
On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote: On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for? thanks, j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i did finally get ssh to forwared X, but it only worked with ssh -Y [host] im not sure yet why ssh -X doesnt work, but ive not yet finished reading about the ins and outs of what security settings im overriding with the -Y. i was able to start xclock as a test. but what i would really like to be able to accomplish, would be to get the entire 'startx' to work over an ssh session, and have it open as another window on my desktop. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: how to compile and install a new driver
On Nov 27, 2007 3:11 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:48:28PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Hi,
I found this thread
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027445.html
to a driver I need for my system.
(1) The file extension
(http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/ucp-0.01.diff.gz) is .diff, not .c, so
what exactly do I do with it to compile it?
First, use gunzip to extract it. This will leave a file ucp-0.01.diff.
Next, su to root and cd to /usr/src/sys.
To apply the patch, do 'patch /location/of/ucp-0.01.diff'
Note that the patch doesn't apply cleanly (/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs)
on 7.0-BETA2. If that's also the case on the version you're using,
you'll have to look at /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs.orig and
/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs.rej to fix it manually.
Next, build and install a kernel according to the handbook. ('make
kernel' in /usr/src)
(2) Assuming I can get it to compile, which I've never done, what do I
do with the object/driver file?
The 'make kernel' command will install the module automagically.
On the next boot, you should be able to load the ucp driver module with
kldload(8).
This driver is long overdue, the part has been in usb devices for
several years, and support is in OpenBSD and Linux already (so I'm
told by google). I'll happily document the process if someone holds
my hand.
If it works, submit a PR.
It doesn't. From the directory structure and filenames, ucp appears
to be nearly identical to ucom, and the src/sys/modules/ucp/Makefile
is identical to the one for ucom (except it points to ucp.c instead of
ucom.c, of course), but I still get:
cd /usr/src/sys/modules;
MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC/modules
KMODDIR=/boot/kernel MODULES_OVERRIDE=ucp DEBUG_FLAGS=-g
MACHINE=amd64 KERNBUILDDIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC make depend
/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk, line 84: warning: duplicate script
for target files ignored
/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk, line 84: warning: duplicate script
for target includes ignored
@ - /usr/src/sys
machine - /usr/src/sys/amd64/include
make: don't know how to make ucp.c. Stop
*** Error code 2
Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
Thanks,
Steve
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Re: remote x session
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote: On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you forward X through ssh? Or is that not what you are looking for? thanks, j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i did finally get ssh to forwared X, but it only worked with ssh -Y [host] im not sure yet why ssh -X doesnt work, but ive not yet finished reading about the ins and outs of what security settings im overriding with the -Y. i was able to start xclock as a test. but what i would really like to be able to accomplish, would be to get the entire 'startx' to work over an ssh session, and have it open as another window on my desktop. cheers, Is vnc not an option then ? -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4GB memory and more
I have a couple of Supermicro servers and upgraded both with more memory. I upgraded our ESMTP server from 1GB to 4GB and our MX server from 2GB to 5GB. Below are the dmesg memory findings and, yes, I get the memory over 4GB ignored when booting up. The ESMTP even says that about 130MB is ignored. I was reading about building into the kernel PAE options for using above 4GB of memory, but in the dmesg I see PAE in the Features. Does this mean the support is there and I just need some BIOS tweaking? esmtp# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #1: Tue Dec 13 16:00:53 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/WEBTENT Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2399.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf25 Stepping = 5 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 4160225280 (3967 MB) avail memory = 4073279488 (3884 MB) snip mx1# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sat Jun 2 11:11:40 EDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEBTENT Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (3000.12-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x641dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 3220635648 (3071 MB) avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB) snip Thanks in advance. -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4GB memory and more
Am Montag, 24. Dezember 2007 23:21:32 schrieb Robert Fitzpatrick: I have a couple of Supermicro servers and upgraded both with more memory. I upgraded our ESMTP server from 1GB to 4GB and our MX server from 2GB to 5GB. Below are the dmesg memory findings and, yes, I get the memory over 4GB ignored when booting up. The ESMTP even says that about 130MB is ignored. I was reading about building into the kernel PAE options for using above 4GB of memory, but in the dmesg I see PAE in the Features. Does this mean the support is there and I just need some BIOS tweaking? Nope. This means that your CPU supports PAE, but says nothing about the operating system itself (whether it uses PAE or not). When you want a PAE-enabled kernel (i.e., one that uses PAE to see the extra memory), see the PAE kernel configuration in the sys/i386/conf directory of your sources tree, and build your own kernel with (for example, if you don't want to customize the kernel configuration): make kernconf=PAE buildworld buildkernel installkernel This builds a kernel which actually uses that interface to see the extra memory and allows you to access it in standard i386 mode. Generally, it's considered better practise to use the AMD64 architecture to access the high memory (because of performance considerations and driver compatability), but I don't know whether your CPUs actually support the x64 operating mode, so you may be stuck with using PAE. YMMV. -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating ports
I don't understand this statement. I have killed portupgrade on numerous occasions, both locally and remotely, and have never had a problem restarting later. If you mean portupgrade doesn't restart where it left off, then yes, that's true, but only in the sense that it goes through all the ports checking for upgrades before returning to the build you left off at. Actually I was wrong because portupgrade doesn't do what I want at all to begin with, so because nothing was ever started correctly, there is nothing to resume correctly. The intended situation was: Mini-port tree contains: A B C D depends on C Now, C is updated in the tree. You issue: portupgrade -r C If all goes well, C is rebuilt followed by D. But if interrupted after C, D won't get upgraded on a subsequent run because portupgrade does not know C was upgraded. Of course, this is based on portupgrading doing that to begin with and AFAIK this is not the case. I am not sure if any such logic is possible at all in fact. portupgrade -rf C works of course, ***IF*** you know that C was upgraded. What I lack is a portupgrade -a --force-if-dep-was-upgraded, and even if that existed, the re-start problem would remain unless the fundamental approach was changed. (I have been meaning to fix this with my own package manager, but the project has been stalled for a while.) I *really* don't understand this. I can count on one hand the number of times that I've run into dependency problems with portupgrade, and all of those were addressed in /usr/port/UPDATING or by simply deinstalling and reinstalling the port in question. I would love to hear what I am doing wrong. I have just never ever had good experience with it. Everywhere you read on mailinglists or wherever, you have people recommending various versions (portupgrade -a, portupgrade -arR, etc) but none of it ever works over time for me. Firstly,there are these stale dependencies that are never explained anywhere as far as I can tell. I am also suspicious of the methology used that causes any kind of database / dependency inconsistencies as a matter of expected procedure. The job of the tool is to get my installed packages in synch with the ports tree; there is no possibilities for stale dependencies here as far as I can tell, except in some very specific cases. But everywhere I look in online resources these stale dependencies seem to be treated like some kind of unexplained-yet-necessary fact of life that nobody understands but that everyone seem to have a vague sense about. (I do realize upgrading is difficult in several fundamental ways; I wrote pkgmanager to do in-place upgrading for pkgsrc in a manner similar to portmanager - so I do have some experience with this. The re-write of pkgmanager to also support ports is what I refer to above. But with all the kinks of pkgmanager, the fundamental approach worked very well in practice, modulo some issues that have to do with lack of implementing particular cases, or fundamental problems in the underlying package management system.) Secondly there are various magic failures that start happening as a result of some dependency X being upgraded (or NOT upgraded) such that the other package Y depending on X breaks. This typically gets resolved by concluding that ok, it's all borked, I'll portupgrade -rf Y (or portupgrade -Rf X, depending)). Generally, these failures can be characterized as being such that they do not occurr if you 'make install' on a clean system with a consistent ports tree, but only occurr as a side-effect of problems with the upgrading procedure directly, or indirectly because packages are tested on fresh trees and do not stress dependency edge cases. Note that all this is specific to wanting to synch ALL packages. I never go around sniping at particular packages since i consider that to be a fundamentally broken approach in most situations. I just want to have everything upgraded to their latest versions (with security fixes), not have to micro-manage individual packages. Also, I do pay attention to /usr/ports/UPGRADING, but issues accounted for there definitely to not cover all the problems. Actually. Is there anyone heavly involved with ports that might be interested in discussing some of the issues having to do with upgrading? I have my own private little vision of what I want to see from ports/pkgsrc itself to enable package managers to support seamless upgrading. If there could be some cooperation going in terms fo enabling upgrading tools to work better, I might be more motivated to finally resume work on that pkgmanager rewrite. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD
On Sun 23 Dec 2007 19:12, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I'm switching to UTF-8, and everything seems to work flawlessly, except for Opera. If I type one of the norwegian letters ��� into a text input box all I get is a square box. If I type backspace over it, it gets converted to a questionmark on the first stroke of backspace, and deleted on the second. If I copy the square box into another program, the propper letter is paced. The problem is that the font you're using doesn't support the character(s) you want to type. You'll have to change the font in the opera preferences dialog, I think the bitstream family supports most UTF-8 fonts. This site may be useful in testing: http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/ Regards, Martin Tournoij ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD
On Monday 24 December 2007 07:59:00 pm Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sun 23 Dec 2007 19:12, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I'm switching to UTF-8, and everything seems to work flawlessly, except for Opera. If I type one of the norwegian letters ��� into a text input box all I get is a square box. If I type backspace over it, it gets converted to a questionmark on the first stroke of backspace, and deleted on the second. If I copy the square box into another program, the propper letter is paced. The problem is that the font you're using doesn't support the character(s) you want to type. You'll have to change the font in the opera preferences dialog, I think the bitstream family supports most UTF-8 fonts. This site may be useful in testing: http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/ The DejaVu font set is based on BitstreamVera and supports an even wider range of Unicode characters. /usr/ports/x11-fonts/dejavu David -- This message is a stern warning of things to come. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem setting up DNS
Hello, im using FBSD 6.2
I got 2 domains registered in the local nic and I could get one working
but the second one doesnt :-/
This is my first attemp to set up a real DNS, so im pretty sure i did
something wrong, i copy/pasted here all the info i think can be usefull,
i can add more data if necesary.
BTW, sorry for my english, it is not my main language.
Thanks for any help.
Sdav
Info:
I got this in named.conf:
(...)
zone unhost.com.ar {
type master;
file master/unhost.com.ar;
allow-transfer {
202.157.182.142;
};
};
zone sacrarium.com.ar {
type master;
file master/sacrarium.com.ar;
allow-transfer {
202.157.182.142;
};
};
(...)
The first one is working the second one is not.
In nic.ar both point to ns1.unhost.com.ar and 202.157.182.142
(twisted4life free secondary)
the Zone files are:
master/unhost.com.ar:
$TTL 86400; 1 day
unhost.com.ar.IN SOA ns1.unhost.com.ar. admin.unhost.com.ar. (
2007102801 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600; Retry
604800 ; Expire
86400 ; Minimum TTL
)
; DNS Servers
IN NS ns1.unhost.com.ar.
; MX Records
IN MX 10 mx.unhost.com.ar.
IN A 190.2.50.197
; Machine Names
ns1 IN A 190.2.50.197
mx IN A 190.2.50.197
ftp IN A 190.2.50.197
; Aliases
www IN CNAME @
and master/sacrarium.com.ar say:
$TTL 86400; 1 day
sacrarium.com.ar.IN SOA ns1.unhost.com.ar.
admin.unhost.com.ar. (
2007102801 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh
3600; Retry
604800 ; Expire
86400 ; Minimum TTL
)
; MX Records
IN MX 10 mx.unhost.com.ar.
; Machine Names
www IN A 190.2.50.197
When i do:
nslookup www.unhost.com.ar
Server: 200.69.193.1
Address:200.69.193.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
www.unhost.com.ar canonical name = unhost.com.ar.
Name: unhost.com.ar
Address: 190.2.50.197
nslookup www.sacrarium.com.ar
Server: 200.69.193.1
Address:200.69.193.1#53
** server can't find www.sacrarium.com.ar: SERVFAIL
when dig:
dig @unhost.com.ar www
; DiG 9.3.3 @unhost.com.ar www
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 38338
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 10437 IN SOA a.root-servers.net.
nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2007122401 1800 900 604800 86400
;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 190.2.50.197#53(190.2.50.197)
;; WHEN: Tue Dec 25 03:34:23 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 96
dig @unhost.com.ar sacrarium.com.ar
; DiG 9.3.3 @unhost.com.ar sacrarium.com.ar
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 17321
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sacrarium.com.ar. IN A
;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 190.2.50.197#53(190.2.50.197)
;; WHEN: Tue Dec 25 03:34:40 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 34
dig sacrarium.com.ar
; DiG 9.3.3 sacrarium.com.ar
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 62816
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sacrarium.com.ar. IN A
;; Query time: 451 msec
;; SERVER: 200.69.193.1#53(200.69.193.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Dec 25 03:35:01 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 34
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Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files
Hi guys, Just curious if anyone has tried regular expressions to handle ads and banners. We have a small network of about 10 users. We use SafeSquid as proxy and content filter. It supports the use of regex for defining rules. The URL Filter section has 2 default rules for blocking ads and banners - Hosts: (^ad(|s|v|server)\.|adtag\.|targetsearches.com|webconnect.net|imgis.com|atwola.com|fastclick.net|abz.com|tribalfusion.com|advertising.com|atdmt.com|sp inbox\.(com|net)|linkexchange.com|hitbox.com|doubleclick.net|valueclick.com|click2net.com|mediaplex.com|247media.com|clickagents.com|adbutler.com|qkim g.net|realmedia.com|us.a1.yimg.com|clickheretofind.com|images.cybereps.com|adbureau.net|sfads.osdn.com|adflow.com|adprofs.com|zedo.com|digitalmedianet .com|ad-flow.com|/adsync/|adtech.de|netdirect.nl|rcm-images.amazon.com|pamedia.com|msads.net|valuead.com|smartadserver.com|thisbanner.com|aaddzz.com|s cripps.com|ru4.com|adtrix.net|falkag.net) File: (/adimages/|/banner(|s)/|/ad(|s|v|(|_)banner(|s))/|/adx/|/sponsors/|/advert(ising|s|)/|/adcycle/|/track/|/promo/|/adspace/|/admentor/|/image\.ng/|/ajr otator/|/adview.php|/clickthru|/affiliates|banmat(\.cgi|.\.cgi)|/adproof/|/bannerfarm/|/BannerAds/|/banner_|sponsorid|/servfu.pl|/RealMedia/|/adsync/| _ad_|/adceptdelivery.cgi) I am not a very technical person, but the first rule, I think, is a regex that defines hosts that serve ads; while the second rule is a regex for words that the file part of a url may contain. These rules very efficiently block ads and banners at the gateway, saving b/w and improving surfing experience. Just thought I should mention this. Cheers! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/performance-impact-of-large--etc-hosts-files-tp14267018p14493715.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
