Re: i have questions
Are you crazy ? you are bastard .!$%$#@@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@%#^%#% On 3/20/08, Paul A. Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lawyer Q8 wrote: Hello, Please i have FreeBSD 6.3 RELEASE i want to upgrade to 7.0 stable if upgrade stable my files is lose and removed or not ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you follow /usr/src/UPDATING you should be ok. However keep in mind it's HIGHLY suggested you `dump` your files first! ~Paul ___ 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: python ports
On fre, 2008-03-21 at 05:24 +0100, Nikola Lečić wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:40:26 +0100 Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. # portversion -vL= py24-tkinter-2.4.4_2 needs updating (port has 2.5.2_2) python24-2.4.4_2 needs updating (port has 2.4.5) python25-2.5.1_1 needs updating (port has 2.5.2_1) If I upgrade py24-tkinter, will there be a new port installed instead, py25-tkinter? Will all dependencies work? No, it will remain py24 unless you want otherwise. As for real moving to python25 and/or keeping py24 versions around, you should read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry 20070730) and set PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION. Can I safely deinstall python24 or will it automatically get installed again when I decide to upgrade zope for example? Yes, you can: the same as above. Ok. I removed python25 and portupgraded -o python24 to 25 and then made upgrade-site-packages. Worked perfectly. Thanks! -- Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i have questions
Ko Htoo wrote: Are you crazy ? you are bastard .!$%$#@@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@%#^%#% dump is the command to backup. If not sure, please ask, instead of flaming a guy for his good advice! Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Realtek 811B LAN card on FreeBSD 7.0
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Mars Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:51 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Realtek 811B LAN card on FreeBSD 7.0 A few months ago, I posted asking about how good support the Realtek 8111B PCI Express LAN chipset is. The conclusion was that its behavior was rather flaky on FreeBSD 7.0 Anyway, I got the motherboard with the chip integrated because the MOBO otherwise did what I needed. After installation of FreeBSD/i386 the chip was detected and the re driver attached but DHCP configuration wouldn't work. After searching on the internet, I found some patches at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2007-December/010545.html http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_re.c http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/re/if_re.c http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_rlreg.h http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/re/if_rlreg.h and applied them. After rebuilding the kernel, everything worked. Shortly after I decided I was going to run the FreeBSD/amd64 version instead. I had not kept the patches that worked on i386, so I downloaded from the same URL again. However, this time, applying the patch resulted in no change: DHCP configuration still wouldn't work. Now, I'm not sure what variable is responsible for this, the change to amd64 or whether there was another version of the patch. Interestingly, in the thread where I found those links, people were running amd64 and had their problems resolved. I noticed that the version of if_re.c file was 107 the second time whereas the post said it was 101. I'm guessing the file was updated at the URL and this resulted in a regression. The problem is, I'm not in a position to say exactly which version worked. Is there anyone on the list close to this work and would have an idea of what happened? I am currently using a PCI lan card that works with the rl driver but it would be nice to have the integrated chip work too. This sad story is an excellent example of why patches like this need to be run through the standard development using the PR system, not someone's personal website. If they had been you could use cvs to see what was changed. E-mail the person who created the patches. If your lucky he can help you. And for God's sake, once you get a running system, submit a PR with the patches if the person who created them isn't willing to do so. Ted ___ 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: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nejc Škoberne Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:51 AM To: User Questions Subject: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...) Sorry, but OpenOffice is more featureless than MS Office 2007. There are things which you can do with MS Office so MUCH easily than with OpenOffice. For feature comparison see: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=480 Not to mention performance issues with OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/product/docs/ms2007vsooo2.pdf The interface in Office 2007 is completely different than Office 2003 and most people in business that I know are not running Office 2007 and have no plans to upgrade. Even when they buy brand new systems. Office 2003 runs great on Vista so why change? Since the interface is different, any business that does change is going to suffer a huge cut in productivity for a long time while their accountants and secretaries and such all retrain. The reports of Office 2007 sales are grossly inflated because most businesses are on a yearly Microsoft site license that they pay a lot to maintain, and that license gives them free upgrades to the new software - so after MS released Office 2007 every time a business anniversary renewal came up MS counted those as sales, even though for most companies don't load the new Office. The reason a lot of companies are looking at OpenOffice right now is they are looking into dropping MS Office completely from their site licenses due to the cost savings. Since OpenOffice is compatible with all their Office 2003 Word and Excel documents it's a good time to look at switching. want to use things nicely. For example, let's look at the mail system. You could put a Postfix+amavisd-new+spamassassin+Horde+postfixadmin+ ... bla bla stuff on your FreeBSD server (I actually run this on many servers). But in that webmail, you are not able to manage your spam quarantine for example - you have to logout of Horde and login to Maia Mailguard (before you have to install that too), which is complicated for users. Not true. All you need do is install spamassassin, and have it tag mail and forward it to the user. Then setup procmail as the LDA and sort the tagged mail into a SPAM folder in the users home directory. From IMP or OpenWebmail you have access to local mail folders on the server and you just instruct your users that the SPAM folder is their quarentine. Microsoft usually (!) provides that (naturally, because it produces all those pieces). Microsoft does no more integration than most others. For an example of a really integrated product look at Lotus Notes. But, most users dislike it because it puts a huge amount of control over their work into the hands of the company. You don't walk into a Notes shop and see the adminstrative assistants working on e-mails to their boyfriends, the way that you do in a MS Office shop. Probably you use it more than I do, I really run FreeBSD servers mostly. And I have problems with providing nice-packaged, easy-to-use, all-in-one software to users who are used to that. I use FreeBSD/OS mostly because it is free of charge and because it is quite costumisable. If MS products would be free of charge, I would probably switch to them in most cases. Never gonna happen. There's a fundamental difference here between free open source and commercial software. Commercial software mostly caters to what subgroups of users within the market want. Take MS Word for example. Most people never use more than a 10th of it's features. But, most people don't all use the same 10th. In order to keep selling Word, MS has to put all these small fringe demands of the subgroups into Word. Open source mostly caters to what the majority of users agree is needed. That is why you won't ever find an open source package that is all things to all people. If your a user who has all your needs met it's a great thing. But if your a user who has one specific need that the open source packages don't have, then even though all of the rest of your needs could be met by open source, you likely will not switch over. I just don't agree with the statement, that Windows servers are completely inferior to FreeBSD and you could replace all of them with FreeBSD boxen. If that would be possible, I would do it already. I really am a FreeBSD guy, I run it for more than 6 years now and I like it a lot. But I learned to be reasonable and not to say that it is in every way superior to everything else in the world. Nothing out there is in every way superior to everything else in the world. Even Microsoft software, you said it yourself, simply has nothing to offer to people who don't have much more money than what it costs to purchase the computer hardware itself. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
RE: Jittery PS/2 Mouse in 7.0-RELEASE
I believe if you run the mouse daemon and use /dev/sysmouse in xorg it will work a lot better. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alexander Dunn Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:12 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Jittery PS/2 Mouse in 7.0-RELEASE I have a PS/2, wired, optical mouse that I have been using flawlessly with Windows and several Linux distributions for years now. I would like to switch to Free BSD, but the mouse becomes very jittery within FreeBSD. I have tried the mouse with both moused and X controlling the mouse, but in both cases the result is the same. The cursor on the screen tracks properly when I move my mouse in a wide arc, but when I move the mouse in small increments the cursor does not follow the mouse at all. This makes it very difficult to click on small targets such as an OK button. Relevant Information: uname -a output: FreeBSD kienjakenobi 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #3: Sun Mar 16 15:45:08 EDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 dmesg mouse output: psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol PS/2 Option Device /dev/psm0 Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection This does not seem to be a problem with X for several reasons. First, I use this version of X.org with Linux with the same config that is shown above without this problem. Second, when I give control of the mouse over to moused, the problem does not change. It is visible even in the console when using moused. I am using a custom kernel, but this problem does not change even when I am using the GENERIC kernel. Based on this information I think I have crossed out most potentional porblem locations, but I hope I missed something. ___ 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]
Process in lockf with apache/php
Hi. I use Apache 1.3 and PHP5 in module. I have a timeout of 30 seconds for my PHP scripts. When a process is out of this timeout, I have this message in my error.log: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/data/test.php on line 10 Ok, this is normal. In a top, I see the process is in lockf state. The process is not killed. But when I do a ps aux, I don't see the lockf state. How show lockf states in ps command? I don't find it in ps manpage. What's a lockf state precisely? Why Apache/PHP does not kill this process? I must kill them manually? Is a bug number of lockf processes is important? Thanks. - Nicolas. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop advice
I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices? -- Joe Demeny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Removing aliases removes primary IP
Thanks Pietro! Somehow the man-page for ifconfig is confusing In the examples: quote Add the IPv6 address 2001:DB8:DBDB::123/48 to the interface em0: # ifconfig em0 inet6 2001:db8:bdbd::123 prefixlen 48 alias Note that lower case hexadecimal IPv6 addresses are acceptable. Remove the IPv6 address added in the above example, using the / character as shorthand for the network prefix, and using delete as a synonym for the canonical form of the option -alias: # ifconfig em0 inet6 2001:db8:bdbd::123/48 delete /quote Lesson for me is that you should have only one 'command' per invocation where I had 2. alias is not an atribute/option of the setting I was trying to do Kind regards, Spil. On 20/03/2008, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pietro Cerutti wrote: | 2) you remove an alias which the 'delete' argument. Since you don't | specify which alias to be removed, the lowest IP number is removed. In | your case, the lowest IP number happens to be your primary :-) Maybe someone with a doc@ commit bit could commit the following patch, since this behavior is not documented in ifconfig(8). - --- ifconfig.8.orig 2008-03-20 15:34:17.0 +0100 +++ ifconfig.8 2008-03-20 15:34:43.0 +0100 @@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ ~ .Li 0x ~ is most appropriate. ~ .It Fl alias - -Remove the network address specified. +Remove the network address specified, or the one with the lowest +value if none is specified. ~ This would be used if you incorrectly specified an alias, or it ~ was no longer needed. ~ If you have incorrectly set an NS address having the side effect - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkfidl0ACgkQwMJqmJVx9456FgCaAlczsQ9UauMWPz690OtFc17H oM4AnjiOmr/jykJciNsC7i8d6Hzbcm8t =DBmc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
start/stop network services on a Laptop
Hello, First, my question: Is there a standard way to boot without network services and then to start them all later ? Second, the situation: I've got a laptop running FreeBSD 7 fine. By default it boots without enabling network interface, later I manually run /etc/rc.d/netif start ath0 and /etc/rc.d/routing start if needed. I've got this lines in /etc/rc.conf: # network_interfaces=lo0 ifconfig_ath0=inet 192.168.X.Y netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid thessid # sshd_enable=YES ntpdate_enable=YES ntpdate_flags=-4 -b ntpdate_hosts=ntpd-server There's two problems with this configuration: - At boot time ntpdate try to contact the ntpd-server but naturaly it fails (no network). - sshd always runs even if there's no network. So must I re-invent the wheel or is there a better way to do it. Thanks in advance for any help. Michel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
instalation problem - unable to find device node
hi , I'm newbie to FreeBSD, I tried to install it month ago and everything was OK, freeBSD was the only system running, later, I've installed windows and gentoo, and I've left space for FreBSD, now during the instalation I got this error after configuring my disk partitions, unable to find device node for /dev/x in /dev! and instalation won't continue what can be the reason pls? thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ports / easiest way to install older version when new is marked as ignored?
Hello, The subject says it all - I have a port which is marked as ignored and I am wondering how I can proceed with installing an older version of it? Thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
java plugin for Firefox on AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.3
Hi folks, I'm lost at finding a solution for getting the java plugin to work in Firefox 2.11 on my AMD64 system running FreeBSD 6.3. I've upgraded my ports and the diablo-jdk version is: pkg_info | grep diablo diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.01 The handbook said I needed the JRE so I installed that as well: pkg_info | grep diablo diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.01 diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0_07.01 But now I need to do this in order to see the java plugin activated when I press about:plugins: # ln -s /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ But I don't have a plugin directory in the /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0 directory, so I won't have that file libjavaplugin_oji.so either. So what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advanced, Dino - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop advice
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Joe Demeny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 Read the user comments carefully. For this laptop, you'll find, for example: --- Cons: RTL8187B wireless chipset. If you want to use a wireless connection under Linux this will give you problems. Tried several distros with no success. Was finally able to get it to work *intermittently* with Windows 98 drivers under Ndiswrapper - XP drivers would not work. --- If you plan on using wireless lan, you'll need to read the fine print very carefully to determine whether there is BSD support for the given chipset. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: using arts noatun
Hello, I just updated(actually re-installed) my system from 6-STABLE to 7-STABLE. I spent two days choosing and compilling this and that, and now it seems that it's usable again. But, I have trouble with arts or maybe noatun. It skips audio, no matter what. Zero load and it skips. I tried to use multiple mplayer instances in parallel and the outcome was fine as expected; no skips at all. As I want to use noatun from time to time, is there something I can do? Does anybody else have different or similar experience? Thanks, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE
At 11:24 PM 3/20/2008, Peter Boosten wrote: Novembre wrote: I've read UPDATING before doing anything, but I assumed that portupgrade -faP also covers that part about gnutls as well. Isn't it true? Unless portupgrade did upgrade samba first and then gnutls, which means it's not smart enough! Am I wrong? Probably not :-) In my experience portupgrade -fa isn't always that smart. Peter I followed all the UPDATING instructions, and still had many issues because of old libraries. So the: portupgrade -faP didn't work well for me. I ended up rebuilding all the ports, which of course fixed everything. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop advice
At 04:56 AM 3/21/2008, Joe Demeny wrote: I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 Does anyone have experience with these? Any suggestions for other comparable choices? I would choose the Toshiba, much better quality and support. You may want to look at Lenovo's too. In a laptop I would look at the graphics if you plan to run X. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot
I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have
figured it out quickly without the help from the list.
It seems that FreeBSD defaults to a chroot of bind with
the tree owned by root. You can run bind in a sandbox as the
documentation says and have it chroot but if you do, and heres's
the confusion, you had better disable FreeBSD's attempt to make
sure the /var/named tree is always owned by root which would be
fine if named ran as root.
When you run it in a sandbox with a lower-priority UID,
you must make sure that at least one more little line appears in
rc.conf.local.
named_chrootdir= # Chroot directory (or not to auto-chroot it)
That's the key right there. If you use lines from rc.conf.local
from an older system such as pre-FreeBSD5, you don't need that
line and things work fine. If you don't have it on a FreeBSD5 or
newer system,
/etc/defaults/rc.conf supplies the default version of that line
which reads:
named_chrootdir=/var/named# Chroot directory (or not to auto-chroot it)
and one is seriously messed up from there on during the booting
process.
I was confused and thought this would all help me keep
ownership of /var/named belonging to bind when, in fact, it does
just the opposite.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
Chuck Swiger writes:
/var/named is owned by root on all of my newer (5.x and later)
systems; I found an old 4.11 box with it owned by bind, though. If
you're using named chroot'ed (as recommended), it will want /var/named/
var/{dump/log/run/stats} writable by bind.
--
-Chuck
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FreeBSD compatiblity
FreeBSD 7 stable If you have these options in your kernel: options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options COMPAT_FREEBSD6 # Compatible with FreeBSD6 you don't need to enable them in /etc/rc.conf, am I correct? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot
At 08:54 AM 3/21/2008, Martin McCormick wrote: I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have figured it out quickly without the help from the list. It seems that FreeBSD defaults to a chroot of bind with the tree owned by root. You can run bind in a sandbox as the documentation says and have it chroot but if you do, and heres's the confusion, you had better disable FreeBSD's attempt to make sure the /var/named tree is always owned by root which would be fine if named ran as root. When you run it in a sandbox with a lower-priority UID, you must make sure that at least one more little line appears in rc.conf.local. named_chrootdir= # Chroot directory (or not to auto-chroot it) That's the key right there. If you use lines from rc.conf.local from an older system such as pre-FreeBSD5, you don't need that line and things work fine. If you don't have it on a FreeBSD5 or newer system, /etc/defaults/rc.conf supplies the default version of that line which reads: named_chrootdir=/var/named# Chroot directory (or not to auto-chroot it) and one is seriously messed up from there on during the booting process. I was confused and thought this would all help me keep ownership of /var/named belonging to bind when, in fact, it does just the opposite. Yes it is confusing. It is more confusing if you upgrade as the chroot'ing behavior wasn't the default behavior in older versions. So often an upgraded system won't run named until you fix these settings. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Various X errors (difficult to see)
Hi, I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any errors, glx is correctly loaded etc.. My system starts without X and then I use startx to start X server and KDE3.5 (if I'm not wrong about the version). Some errors are written on the console and I'm not able to see them! To see them I have to stop X (with ctrl+ bkspc) and use scroll lock to see what's there. I found the console full of X error: bad window parameter (and some numbers and parameters which I can't remember) Then I find a lots of warnings about kde problems (about loading arts daemons). Except for these errors that I wouldn't be seeing if logging in directly in a graphical environment everything seems to work fine. So I have some questions: is this way of reporting errors correct? Can this be the related to the fact that when I try to use compiz-fusion it starts but it's way too slow and uses a lot of cpu? Should I worry about these errors? How can I solve them?? (They seem really too generic) Thank you! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i have questions
--On Thursday, March 20, 2008 21:50:20 -0800 Ko Htoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you crazy ? man (8) dump -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powerpc port
Hi there, On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:13 PM, K. Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed 7.0-RELEASE on an old Mac G4. I have cvs'ed the latest sources (using the RELENG_7 tag) in order to track 7.0-STABLE. ...snip... Yeah, the information about FreeBSD seems rather biased toward i386/amd64/IA64 and maybe the Alpha. At any rate the PowerPC is officially a tier-2 platform so there isn't as much support available. What you can do, though, is to get basic information like device node names and such from NetBSD. I got NetBSD 3.0 running on my PowerMac G4/533 more than a year ago, and it ran just about flawlessly (it had some problems shutting down, i.e. froze, but other than that there was nothing I could complain about). Some of the setup information, particularly with regards to how OpenFirmware interacts with the boot loader and boot devices, may be relevant. At any rate, NetBSD has had considerable experience porting the OS to the PowerPC platform so it's worth a try. Check out this (huge!) how-to at: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1/macppc/INSTALL.html Good luck, SC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd aliasing question
Vince wrote: DAve wrote: I've looked but found no examples to give me confidence. While I have lots of servers running alias IPs the IPs are all on the same network. I've have been informed by my network admin that we will need to change the IPs of our legacy name servers (we are just dragging them along for a time, new name servers are up and domains are being moved to them). Currently the IP of ns2 is 208.252.191.2, this needs to change to 65.123.104.25. The network admin is telling me he will have the router for that NOC cage handle both IPs no problems. However I need to continue answering the old IP until clients can get their equipment reconfigured. This will work fine. Can I alias 208.252.191.2 once I change the NIC's IP to 65.123.104.25 with a default route of 65.123.104.1? yes, What netmask would use for the alias line? Whatever you currently use for those IPs. Well whaddaya know. Seems non intuitive to me but I'll give it a shot and use 0x same as any other alias. This seems not possible to me, but you can learn something new everyday... I've been supporting servers for about 10 years and I'm still learning :) Thats why its still fun. I don't know about fun, interesting for certain ;^) Thanks, DAve -- Google finally, after 7 years, provided a logo for veterans. Thank you Google. What to do with my signature now? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Various X errors (difficult to see)
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0100, Luca Presotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any errors, glx is correctly loaded etc.. My system starts without X and then I use startx to start X server and KDE3.5 (if I'm not wrong about the version). Some errors are written on the console and I'm not able to see them! To see them I have to stop X (with ctrl+ bkspc) and use scroll lock to see what's there. You can grab most of the errors by redirecting both standard `output' and standard `error' to a file, i.e.: bash$ startx 21 | tee logfile Then, after you exit X11, keep a copy of `logfile' around, and see if you can make more sense of the errors :) - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i have questions
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:50:20PM -0800, Ko Htoo wrote: Are you crazy ? you are bastard .!$%$#@@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] $!%$^%$[EMAIL PROTECTED]@%#^%#% This kind of stupid and obnoxious message is not acceptable on this list. If you want help on a question, ask it. If you do not understand a response, then say so. But, do not use foul language or call people names.Quality people do not speak that way. jerry On 3/20/08, Paul A. Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lawyer Q8 wrote: Hello, Please i have FreeBSD 6.3 RELEASE i want to upgrade to 7.0 stable if upgrade stable my files is lose and removed or not ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you follow /usr/src/UPDATING you should be ok. However keep in mind it's HIGHLY suggested you `dump` your files first! ~Paul ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removable devices auto umounting
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come unstuck. I have some barely literates on my systems, so I do need to work this out. Is it possible to use a forced umount to do this? What are the options here? In KDE (same for GNOME and such I figure), removable devices like usb keys, cameras, cd/dvd are automounted and appear on the desktop. Using the right-click popup menu you can Safely remove or Eject them. For this to work, you need to have sysutils/hal installed and configure x11/kdebase3 to enable hal support (this is the default). Then you need to give users permission to access necessary devices. It's best to create a separate group for that like plugdev and then add users to this group. To give a plugdev group access to devices create/edit the file /etc/devfs.rules to contain: --- begin /etc/devfs.rules --- [local_ruleset=10] #allow plugdev to access the CAM subsystem (required for cd/dvd burning and usb mass storage) add path xpt0 user root group plugdev mode 0660 add path 'pass*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 #only allow root for specific fixed SCSI drives if any #add path pass0 user root group operator mode 0660 #add path pass1 user root group operator mode 0660 #... #allow plugdev to access the cdrom add path cd0 user root group plugdev mode 0660 #allow plugdev to access usb mass storage add path 'da*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 #only allow root for specific fixed SCSI drives if any #add path 'da0*' user root group operator mode 0660 #add path 'da1*' user root group operator mode 0660 #... #allow plugdev to access generic usb devices (cameras/mp3 players using libusb) add path 'usb*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 add path 'ugen*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 --- end /etc/devfs.rules --- (You don't need anything special in /etc/devfs.conf. If you've put stuff there to get cd burning working for normal users, you can remove it. (permission for cd,xpt,pass devices)) In /etc/rc.conf then make sure you have these lines: dbus_enable=YES devfs_system_ruleset=local_ruleset hald_enable=YES polkitd_enable=YES And finally, give plugdev access to hal by editing /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf At the end of that file it says: !-- You can change this to a more suitable user, or make per-group -- policy group=operator allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement/ allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel/ allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume/ allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto/ /policy On the second line above, change operator to plugdev. Then make sure you have a /var/media directory and /media linking to it and nothing related to removable devices in /etc/fstab (including cdrom). Reboot your system and if I didn't miss anything, any user in the plugdev group should be able to use removable devices quite easily. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some problems after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:46:34 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed all the UPDATING instructions, and still had many issues because of old libraries. So the: portupgrade -faP didn't work well for me. I ended up rebuilding all the ports, which of course fixed everything. You could have used: portmanager -u -f -y to achieve the same goal, assuming that you had it installed. -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes. Stanley Kubrick signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Various X errors (difficult to see)
At 09:18 AM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: Hi, I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any errors, glx is correctly loaded etc.. My system starts without X and then I use startx to start X server and KDE3.5 (if I'm not wrong about the version). Some errors are written on the console and I'm not able to see them! To see them I have to stop X (with ctrl+ bkspc) and use scroll lock to see what's there. I found the console full of X error: bad window parameter (and some numbers and parameters which I can't remember) Then I find a lots of warnings about kde problems (about loading arts daemons). Except for these errors that I wouldn't be seeing if logging in directly in a graphical environment everything seems to work fine. So I have some questions: is this way of reporting errors correct? Can this be the related to the fact that when I try to use compiz-fusion it starts but it's way too slow and uses a lot of cpu? Should I worry about these errors? How can I solve them?? (They seem really too generic) Thank you! You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: startx /tmp/somexerrorlogfile 21 -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java plugin for Firefox on AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.3
On Friday 21 March 2008 08:46 am, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm lost at finding a solution for getting the java plugin to work in Firefox 2.11 on my AMD64 system running FreeBSD 6.3. I've upgraded my ports and the diablo-jdk version is: pkg_info | grep diablo diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.01 The handbook said I needed the JRE so I installed that as well: pkg_info | grep diablo diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.01 diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0_07.01 But now I need to do this in order to see the java plugin activated when I press about:plugins: # ln -s /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ But I don't have a plugin directory in the /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0 directory, so I won't have that file libjavaplugin_oji.so either. diablo-jdk/-jre does not have Mozilla plugin for amd64. You have to build *JDK* from ports with plugin support, i.e., ports/java/jdk15 or ports/java/jdk16. Jung-uk Kim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)
You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: startx /tmp/somexerrorlogfile 21 Done that! Here-s the first error(s): DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. kbuildsycoca running... DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket kbuildsycoca running... DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Reusing existing ksycoca Is it something wrong in /etc/hosts?? Then I get lots of line(130!) like : kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/zip' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-7z' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/themus-theme-applier.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-gnome-theme-installed' Then finally: DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Launched ok, pid = 1283 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 1222, errno = 0 There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active... Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running). If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files: /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_SoundServerV2 /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_SoundServer /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_SimpleSoundServer /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_PlayObjectFactory /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_AudioManager Then, every time I launch a program that open a new window I get: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x66 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)
At 11:14 AM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: startx /tmp/somexerrorlogfile 21 Done that! Here-s the first error(s): DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. kbuildsycoca running... DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket kbuildsycoca running... DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Reusing existing ksycoca Is it something wrong in /etc/hosts?? It could be your /etc/hosts or /etc/hosts.allow or you may need to add: -listen_tcp to your startx commandline. Then I get lots of line(130!) like : kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/zip' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-7z' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/themus-theme-applier.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-gnome-theme-installed' These messages are errors telling you the window manager cannot manage these mimetypes. Did you remove any ports for handling these types of archive files? Then finally: DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Launched ok, pid = 1283 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 1222, errno = 0 There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active... Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running). If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files: /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_SoundServerV2 /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_SoundServer /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_SimpleSoundServer /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_PlayObjectFactory /tmp/ksocket-Luca/Arts_AudioManager This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: ps -ax|grep -i art and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to force it to start. Then, every time I launch a program that open a new window I get: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x66 When you say every time you launch a program how exactly are you trying to launch a program? The error is complaining about passing a bad parameter, so if you are launching the program just through your window manager, you must have a bad configuration file. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help for a wounded disk drive...
I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R: Various X errors (difficult to see)
Is it something wrong in /etc/hosts?? It could be your /etc/hosts or /etc/hosts.allow or you may need to add: -listen_tcp to your startx commandline. I supposed the problem was there! I'll look at -listen_tcp and at hosts.allow. I have doubts about setting hosts. X used to give me errors about not being able to connect (but still worked!). Then I tried to set up hosts correctly and now here's the new problem. I've read man hosts, read the handbook and googled around but it's not very clear what I should write in this file. My hostname is lucy. It's a laptot that eventually connects to the nearest available network. So it isn't part of a domain or something like that. In the end I set up the concerned hosts lines to: ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain lucy 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain lucy Is it correct? Why should I leave localhost.my.domain ? These messages are errors telling you the window manager cannot manage these mimetypes. Did you remove any ports for handling these types of archive files? No, I didn't remove anything! But I copied just 3 warnings. There were 130 of them related not only to archive files handling but almost to everything. This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: ps -ax|grep -i art and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to force it to start. I'll try that later! When you say every time you launch a program how exactly are you trying to launch a program? Either with the kde launch program, either launching the file in a xterm, either when firefox opens a new popupAnd I think those are pretty much all the possible ways I explored! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)
This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: ps -ax|grep -i art and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to force it to start. I'll try that later! If I do ps -ax etc... I get: 1185 ?? S 0:00.03 kdeinit: kdeinit: klauncher --new-startup (kdeinit) 1187 ?? S 0:00.28 kdeinit: kdeinit: kded --new-startup (kdeinit) 1206 ?? S 0:00.49 /usr/local/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f 1106 v0 I+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/startx 1131 v0 I 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/startkde 1328 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep -i art I think that 1206 is the right daemon and is correctly running. Correct? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
samba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I have a FreeBSD box i set up long ago as a file server has worked great till I had to get a better laptop with gfx card to keep up with my SecondLife Addiction. and now can't get the installed Vista Os to connect to it. Help would be appreciated, running 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 on the box Thanks in advance, Wolf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFH4/grLYy55nbmwbwRAo4gAJ90NYqAIE9Mgxevh9SIlLdFv93BzACeOGQt crK8s0gUSNtkI4w6Tbv4dGk= =0BQG -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba
Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I have a FreeBSD box i set up long ago as a file server has worked great till I had to get a better laptop with gfx card to keep up with my SecondLife Addiction. and now can't get the installed Vista Os to connect to it. Help would be appreciated, running 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 on the box Thanks in advance, Wolf Don't know much about samba but placing your samba configuration file would help many. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I add search paths to gcc
My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include for libraries and hearders and I added the paths /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc file: set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib /usr/local/include $HOME/bin) but I still have to use gcc with -I and -L switch for a program to compile or else it will fail. I'm using tcsh. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add search paths to gcc
--- Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include for libraries and hearders and I added the paths /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc file: set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib /usr/local/include $HOME/bin) PATH in the environment is where your shell searches for programs to run from the command line, system(), etc. This allows you to type, say, `sh` instead of having to type out `/bin/sh` or risking having `/home/somekiddie/sh` run instead when you type it. but I still have to use gcc with -I and -L switch for a program to compile or else it will fail. I'm using tcsh. There are two ways to set up alternate places to find libraries. The first is ldconfig, and you can see ports run this when you install a port containing shared libraries for example. The other is to use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to set alternate paths at run-time. The 'ldconfig(1)' man page has more info for you. Take care, mdh Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java plugin for Firefox on AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.3
Jung-uk Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 March 2008 08:46 am, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm lost at finding a solution for getting the java plugin to work in Firefox 2.11 on my AMD64 system running FreeBSD 6.3. I've upgraded my ports and the diablo-jdk version is: pkg_info | grep diablo diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.01 The handbook said I needed the JRE so I installed that as well: pkg_info | grep diablo diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Development Kit 1.5.0_07.01 diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_9 Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0_07.01 But now I need to do this in order to see the java plugin activated when I press about:plugins: # ln -s /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ But I don't have a plugin directory in the /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0 directory, so I won't have that file libjavaplugin_oji.so either. diablo-jdk/-jre does not have Mozilla plugin for amd64. You have to build *JDK* from ports with plugin support, i.e., ports/java/jdk15 or ports/java/jdk16. Jung-uk Kim Works Perfect:-) I've installed jdk15 and the plugin worked immediately. Thanks a lot, because this means I can continue using my FreeBSD desktop iso switching to a linux pc whenever I needed to work at home. Ciao Dino - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
At 12:39 PM 3/21/2008, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... If the mechanics and other workings are good, try testdisk at: www.testdisk.org -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mtree
I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is described? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mtree
Robert Huff wrote: I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is described? Start with the manpage, I guess ;) There are also examples in /etc/mtree. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mtree
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is described? I figured out everything I wanted to know from the manual page. It's a pretty good manual -- the reason it gives people trouble is just that there are so *many* different things it can do. In the EXAMPLES section of its manual, there is a formula for how to create an /etc/mtree style BSD.*.dist file which is the first half of what you want. Offhand, I think mtree -U is enough to mash everything back to the way the original specification described. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Various X errors (difficult to see)
At 01:07 PM 3/21/2008, Luca Presotto wrote: This error refers to the artsd daemon already running, or the system thinks this daemon is running. You should open a terminal window and do: ps -ax|grep -i art and see if the artsd daemon is running or not. If it is not, you may need to force it to start. I'll try that later! If I do ps -ax etc... I get: 1185 ?? S 0:00.03 kdeinit: kdeinit: klauncher --new-startup (kdeinit) 1187 ?? S 0:00.28 kdeinit: kdeinit: kded --new-startup (kdeinit) 1206 ?? S 0:00.49 /usr/local/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f 1106 v0 I+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/startx 1131 v0 I 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/startkde 1328 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep -i art I think that 1206 is the right daemon and is correctly running. Correct? Looks like the right daemon. I wonder if your config files are trying to start it twice. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:50PM -0400, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Depends a little on what actually happened to it. If you just smotched the boot sector, it should be recoverable as a data disk. First, you need to find out as much as you can about the condition of the disk. For that, you will need to run fdisk(8) and then maybe bsdlabel(8) to get information. Presuming the system recognizes the drive as /dev/ad1 do: fdisk ad1 Look at what it tells you. Most of it is just boilerplace verbiage, but mixed in there should be some valuable information. What you want to find is how many slices are actually configured. There can be up to 4, numberes 1..4 If a slice is being used, it should have information about it, including size in sectors, what type, if it is bootable and if it is marked active for booting. Ignore the cylinders/tracks/sectors stuff. Just look at the slice size in sectors/blocks. The type will tell you if it is FreeBSD formatted slice or Messy Dos. FreeBSD is type 165 if I remember correctly. If you can get this kind of information, then there should be enough left to get more with bsdlabel and possibly even read data. I don't remember how far back FreeBSD switched from disklabel to bsdlabel. They are functionally the same, so use whichever your FreeBSD version has. If you find, for example a slice 2 that appears to be a FreeBSD slice, then run bsdlabel as: baslabel ad1s2 and pay attention to how it is divided up into partitions in the table. Ignore all the disk identifier stuff above that. Just pay attention to the stuff below the line that says '8 partitions' where it names a partition and gives size and offset. If that gives some decent information, such as a partition 'a' with some reasonable looking size and (hopefully) an offset of 0 and maybe some other reasonable looking partitions and offsets (do not muck with partitin c), then try running fsck on the partitions you find. fsck /dev/ad1s2a for example. It should come up with some complaints, but be able to fix them. If so, create a mount point - something like: mkdir /rootfix or whatever and try to mount it mount /dev/ad1s2a /rootfix If, after the fsck, this works, cd to it and look around. Then try this for any other slices+partitions you find that claim to be FreeBSD type. If this doesn't work, then you are in for a more difficult task. jerry Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: help for a wounded disk drive...
On Friday 21 March 2008 1:39 pm, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's just a matter of grabbing data off this drive, would a live rescue CD such as Reci=overy Is Possible be of help to you? Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it into a ms windows box. Then I used a free proggy called ffsdrv which i found on sourceforge. Snipit -- It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on Windows 2000/XP/2003. http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Managed to get all data off this way. Ezat William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: help for a wounded disk drive...
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 at 08:47 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it into a ms windows box. Then I used a free proggy called ffsdrv which i found on sourceforge. Snipit -- It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on Windows 2000/XP/2003. http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Managed to get all data off this way. This is just what I was looking for to mount an FBSD drive on XP. Thanks! I was able to completely transfer all data from the drive just now. _| |_| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add search paths to gcc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mdh wrote: --- Eduardo Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gcc is only looking in /usr/lib and /usr/include for libraries and hearders and I added the paths /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include to my .cshrc file: set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib /usr/local/include $HOME/bin) PATH in the environment is where your shell searches for programs to run from the command line, system(), etc. This allows you to type, say, `sh` instead of having to type out `/bin/sh` or risking having `/home/somekiddie/sh` run instead when you type it. but I still have to use gcc with -I and -L switch for a program to compile or else it will fail. I'm using tcsh. There are two ways to set up alternate places to find libraries. The first is ldconfig, and you can see ports run this when you install a port containing shared libraries for example. The other is to use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to set alternate paths at run-time. Well, that might be taken as confusing, even though your info is technically quite correct. Both those methods WILL get those added dirs searched for loading the libraries at run time, BUT it will NOT get your compiler to find the new paths, when linking the program during the build. I'm fairly sure that's what the person wanted, don't you think so? Because, if I'm wrong, you can delete this email right here and now, read no more. BUT you were quite correct, there are definitely *at least* two methods to set up your *compiler* library search paths. In fact, I think I can show you 3 methods right now. First, you can list the full path of the library on the command line, when you use your compiler to link your program. ] Second, you can (as the person suggested himself) you can use the -l/-L options to bring in libraries paths. The -L should come first, it adds the path, and the -l afterwards adds the specific library. The 3rd method is the use the variables LDFLAGS and LDADD. These variables are NOT 100% reliable to use, although they are fairly reliable on BSD systems. The LDFLAGS is where you put your -LExtraPath and the LDADD is where you stick the -lExtraLibrary, like this (from a Makefile example): LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/local LDFLAGS+=-lgtk If you are using the BSD make util, the you use += to add to your variables, instead of replacing them, in case they had some values in them to begin with. Make automatically adds in the obvious spaces, so your definitions don't have a train wreck for you. The 'ldconfig(1)' man page has more info for you. Take care, mdh Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH5Ddaz62J6PPcoOkRAheZAKCFZGYrN4rx4GvuCUvvAeIIR5lvjQCeMfy/ rlsk+UF3+WKwh1676scYGOI= =MMpk -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba
Thanks for pointing that out So attaching the smb.conf file from the /usr/local/etc directory uname -a FreeBSD server.ZOO 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 smbstatus Samba version 2.2.12 Service uid gid pid machine -- public nobody nobody 58932 jennifer (192.168.42.34) Fri Mar 21 18:00:24 2008 No locked files Later Werewolf6851 [EMAIL PROTECTED] === GPG key 76E6C1BC with following fingerprint D508 2C9D B3A9 2F0E E472 95A8 2D8C B9E6 76E6 C1BC === Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just...you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely. --Episode #1, Serenity Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I have a FreeBSD box i set up long ago as a file server has worked great till I had to get a better laptop with gfx card to keep up with my SecondLife Addiction. and now can't get the installed Vista Os to connect to it. Help would be appreciated, running 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 on the box Thanks in advance, Wolf Don't know much about samba but placing your samba configuration file would help many. # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too # many!) most of which are not shown in this example # # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a # # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you # may wish to enable # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command testparm # to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors. # #=== Global Settings = [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: REDHAT4 workgroup = ZOO # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = %h Samba Server # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which are on your local network. The # following example restricts access to two C class networks and # the loopback interface. For more examples of the syntax see # the smb.conf man page #hosts allow = 192.168.242. 127.0.0.1 hosts allow = 192.168.42. 127.0.0.1 # If you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this ; load printers = yes # you may wish to override the location of the printcap file ; printcap name = /etc/printcap # on SystemV system setting printcap name to lpstat should allow # you to automatically obtain a printer list from the SystemV spool # system ; printcap name = lpstat # It should not be necessary to specify the print system type unless # it is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx ; printing = bsd # Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to /etc/passwd # otherwise the user nobody is used ; guest account = pcguest # this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/log.%m # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 50 # Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See # security_level.txt for details. security = user # Use password server option only with security = server # The argument list may include: # password server = My_PDC_Name [My_BDC_Name] [My_Next_BDC_Name] # or to auto-locate the domain controller/s # password server = * ; password server = NT-Server-Name # Note: Do NOT use the now deprecated option of domain controller # This option is no longer implemented. # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents ; encrypt passwords = yes encrypt passwords = yes # Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration # on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name # of the machine that is connecting ; include = /usr/local/etc/smb.conf.%m # Most people will find that this option gives better performance. # See speed.txt and the manual pages for details # You may want to add the following on a Linux system: # SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 socket options = TCP_NODELAY # Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces # If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them # here. See the man page for details. ; interfaces = 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24 # Browser Control Options: # set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master # browser on your network.
Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:40:53AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:32:08PM -0800, Donald Laniohan wrote: My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my best friend, which I have. i remember building my first whitebox, it was a 386 with windows 3.1. I remember when I built my 486 and stole a copy of windows 95. I thought I was a savage. BSD, however, has showed me how juvenile I have been. If I do not master BSD my brother is going to keep me as a desktop support for his windows clients and I want to progress past this. So he's giving me a 1u, and said to put BSD on it and make it do something, im just so stuck in my windows comfort zone I can't think of what I would need a unix server to that I couldn't make windows do for me. I know this is trivial but if somebody could offer any suggestion or resource I, and my career, would greatly appreciate it Good for your brother. First thing to do is get on the FreeBSD website: http://www.freebsd.org/ and start reading.Especially read the handbook and things about installing and setting up FreeBSD. Then put some stuff on it, such as browser (Firefox, probably), web server (Apache), office tools (OpenOffice) and maybe a few games from /usr/ports and learn to use those. You might want to add database (MySQL), interpreter (Perl, PHP) and other stuff as needed. Considering the purpose here is to build a server, I doubt Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and games would really be appropriate at this time. Have fun. I second the motion. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:29:09PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, 2008/3/20, Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You could make it a video game server. That's why I set up a FreeBSD server. I run games/iourbanterror, but there are other games you could run. And could FreeBSD be used to become a streaming internet radio station? Has anyone been doing something like that? I am very interested to hear and hopefully it is still within the topic here... Technically speaking: Easily. Legally speaking: That depends on who's going to be listening to it. Of course, the same is true of any other OS that could server as a streaming internet radio station. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mtree
Lowell Gilbert writes: In the EXAMPLES section of its manual, there is a formula for how to create an /etc/mtree style BSD.*.dist file which is the first half of what you want. I saw that ... Offhand, I think mtree -U is enough to mash everything back to the way the original specification described. ... but somehow missed this. (*WHAP*) Thanks to Lowell and Kris. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing Windows with FreeBSD (was: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...)
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:01:35AM +0800, Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote: On Fri, March 21, 2008 00:39, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nejc Å koberne wrote: So you are saying that merely setting up an OpenLDAP server with proper DNS configuration and Kerberos authentication could replace Microsoft AD controller? How about a group of controllers with all the failover features? Group policies? Are you sure you could do that just with a bit of tweaking? If there are Microsoft specific features, than FreeBSD can't do anything Windows server does and more. I am really skeptic about joining a Vista into such a domain. I would really love to see ONE guy who achieves that. To _completely_ replace Windows server with all its features with FreeBSD Anyone? Full AD parity is expected with the release of Samba 4: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035-6053709.html WINS capability is already available in ports with the samba4wins port, by the way. WINS is required mostly for Browsing networks, Master browser selection and Netbios connections (the infamous 13x ports). However Microsoft is really trying to get rid of Netbios connections and only have made it available for backwards compatibility. If I aint mistaken port used for file connections is somewhere in the 400 range. It is definitely not required for a full Windows Domain and for file-sharing. True. I'm just not sure how that's particularly relevant to what I said. In addition to that, as I pointed out in another email, FreeBSD can *easily* provide all the same functionality -- though MS Windows clients may not support all the necessary protocols and client applications needed to take full advantage of that functionality in some cases. In fact, FreeBSD supports software that does a far better job of being a server or client in an MS Windows network than MS Windows does of being a server or client in a BSD Unix network. snap/snap I'm sorry . . . does that mean anything? You've lost me. The most important thing: we are talking about ordinary users not a bunch of math professors who want to run every application from a shell. And those users want to use things nicely. For example, let's look at the mail system. You could put a Postfix+amavisd-new+spamassassin+Horde+postfixadmin+ ... bla bla stuff on your FreeBSD server (I actually run this on many servers). But in that webmail, you are not able to manage your spam quarantine for example - you have to logout of Horde and login to Maia Mailguard (before you have to install that too), which is complicated for users. The problem of mail is then cut to so many little pieces that it may affect user efficiency. The problem with concatenating so many opensource products is that it is hard to make them work together like a charm. Microsoft usually (!) provides that (naturally, because it produces all those pieces). You don't have to run everything from a shell with FreeBSD. What do you think this is -- 1994? Even manpages can be accessed with a GUI application. Microsoft does *not* provide everything people need. When someone uses a piece of software that isn't produced by Microsoft, chances are good that any MS software will have been designed specifically to make it difficult to interoperate. Meanwhile, a lot of open source software interoperates very well. Sure, if you limit yourself to nothing but MS software, you might get really good integration -- but that's at the cost of reduced security (thanks to lack of privilege separation and the ubiquitous use of IE's rendering engine for pretty much every single application Microsoft produces) and refusing to use a lot of software that Microsoft doesn't offer. I find it really hard to change, finetune settings on windows. Changing default ports eg. The standard tools provided are limited and there is no default. THink about netsh and net commands. Funny . . . I don't seem to have these problems. Have you asked for help here? Also security wise. You need to give more permissions to an account to do something than you should on Freebsd. Chrooted applications for instance. Say what? . . . as opposed to MS Windows, where about 50% of what someone needs to do on a given day requires escalation to administrative permissions? I really am a FreeBSD guy, I run it for more than 6 years now and I like it a lot. But I learned to be reasonable and not to say that it is in every way superior to everything else in the world. When did anyone say that FreeBSD was in every way superior to everything else in the world? You must be reading a different discussion than the one I've been reading. My point exactly. . . . You lost me again. Still just talking, not fighting. I'm just offering a perspective and asking
Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:57:01AM -0700, mdh wrote: It's been my experience that finding drivers for hardware created for open source operating systems by developers within the communities is quite easy, while such community doesn't exist for windows and you are 100% reliant on the vendor to supply working drivers. If they supply crap drivers, go out of business and stop providing any, etc, you are simply out of luck, while with an open source model it is likely that someone will have kept development going if the vendor ever even did produce drivers for those systems. There's very little in the way of modern hardware that isn't supported by FreeBSD. The one time I ever ran into unsupported hardware, a quick update of -STABLE brought the necessary support in the driver. The fact is that political BS aside, for 90% of workers, FreeBSD/KDE/openoffice/firefox will meet their needs just as well as windows, and in fact if you start with something like PC-BSD I think 90% is pessimistic, actually. It's probably closer to 98%. By the way, please don't top-post. The freebsd-questions list is one of those where I get to enjoy a no top-posting rule, and seeing unnecessary top-posting kinda harshes my mellow here. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uscanner and ugen drivers questions
Dear All, I was playing with various scanners and all-in-one devices on FreeBSD (probably 6-7 different scanners and all-in-one devices) and I noticed that the range of scanners supported on FreeBSD is far smaller than that of sane-backends. This is due to the fact that there is no standard device class for USB scanners. Therefore for instance uscanner driver will only recognise devices whose USB IDs are explicitly listed in the table in the driver itself. Parallel port scanners and all-in-one devices are even in worse shape due to the limitation of lpt driver but they can be considered semi-obsolete so I didn't even bother to play with them. I was wondering if anybody has tried manually to add the device and the vendor ID to uscanner.c and recompile the kernel. Will that work. In particular last night I played little bit with Epscon CX3810 all-in-one which I got for $5. The device is recognized as /dev/ulpt0 and is usable as a printer with the Gutenprint driver. If I remove ulpt and umass driver from the kernel the device is seen as ulpt but sane-find-scanner list it as Unknown device. I tried to edit /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf and add the vendor name and the product ID but the scanner is not responsive. The CX3810 is fully supported by Epson and Epson2 backend and works out of box on Ubuntu. Did anybody play with these things at all or people are using just a few usable devices ( I have couple of working scanners on FreeBSD for instance)? Another question. Is it possible to unload driver from the kernel without recompiling it like on OpenBSD with config utility. Cheers, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smbfs CIFS
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't SMB and CIFS the same? Superficially, although there are differences in the protocols. CIFS descended from the original SMB specification and adds to it. Hence, why e.g. in Linux you find separate module support for cifs and smbfs. -- Darren Spruell [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: removable devices auto umounting
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 16:21 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come unstuck. I have some barely literates on my systems, so I do need to work this out. Is it possible to use a forced umount to do this? What are the options here? In KDE (same for GNOME and such I figure), removable devices like usb keys, cameras, cd/dvd are automounted and appear on the desktop. Using the right-click popup menu you can Safely remove or Eject them. For this to work, you need to have sysutils/hal installed and configure x11/kdebase3 to enable hal support (this is the default). Then you need to give users permission to access necessary devices. It's best to create a separate group for that like plugdev and then add users to this group. To give a plugdev group access to devices create/edit the file /etc/devfs.rules to contain: --- begin /etc/devfs.rules --- [local_ruleset=10] #allow plugdev to access the CAM subsystem (required for cd/dvd burning and usb mass storage) add path xpt0 user root group plugdev mode 0660 add path 'pass*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 #only allow root for specific fixed SCSI drives if any #add path pass0 user root group operator mode 0660 #add path pass1 user root group operator mode 0660 #... #allow plugdev to access the cdrom add path cd0 user root group plugdev mode 0660 #allow plugdev to access usb mass storage add path 'da*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 #only allow root for specific fixed SCSI drives if any #add path 'da0*' user root group operator mode 0660 #add path 'da1*' user root group operator mode 0660 #... #allow plugdev to access generic usb devices (cameras/mp3 players using libusb) add path 'usb*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 add path 'ugen*' user root group plugdev mode 0660 --- end /etc/devfs.rules --- (You don't need anything special in /etc/devfs.conf. If you've put stuff there to get cd burning working for normal users, you can remove it. (permission for cd,xpt,pass devices)) In /etc/rc.conf then make sure you have these lines: dbus_enable=YES devfs_system_ruleset=local_ruleset hald_enable=YES polkitd_enable=YES And finally, give plugdev access to hal by editing /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf At the end of that file it says: !-- You can change this to a more suitable user, or make per-group -- policy group=operator allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement/ allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel/ allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume/ allow send_interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto/ /policy On the second line above, change operator to plugdev. Then make sure you have a /var/media directory and /media linking to it and nothing related to removable devices in /etc/fstab (including cdrom). Reboot your system and if I didn't miss anything, any user in the plugdev group should be able to use removable devices quite easily. Thanks for that- I was just looking into that from the Project Utopia article. Just a couple of things- 1. You still have to click eject before removing the device. Is there a way to skip this and just remove the device? 2. The D-Bus system only works with an X wm doesn't it? I know it seems contrary, but is there a way I can set this up so that it will work from a standard tty? The amd system appears to allow this, but it does have its faults as well. Consider this theory: IF the X windows system is running- D-Bus and all- can other background daemons use this system? I guess they wouldn't need to concern themselves with this problem as the X windows will be taking care of it automatically. Another thought: do all wm's use the D-Bus? Or is it only kde and gnome? Thanks for being a sounding board guys. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
List replies
This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Curious... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Card readers
I have mentioned this before in other threads, but it appears it requires a thread of its own. I have a laptop with a card reader built in which I have never been able to get to work. Everything I have looked up regarding these has to do with usb versions, and other than the laptops my card readers are usb so this shouldn't be a problem. In the laptops I have a texas instruments PCI card reader though, which gives me a real headache. I can't seem to get them to operate at all, so I'm left wondering about drivers and such. These are the specs: Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller 02:09.4 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller I'm currently running Fedora (which seems to work), but I'd like to move over to FreeBSD as soon as I can get all the features needed on these. I seem to be making headway on most of these, so here's hoping. The card reader is capable of reading nearly all format cards, including xD which is a main reason why I'd like to get it to work. Any links and info would be very appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Console Random Text
Hello everyone, I am having a very strange problem. My sever stopped responding in SSH. At the time, a co-worker said he was importing a MySQL database from a USB drive mounted as ext2fs. I went back to check on the console, and it was scrolling *EXTREMELY* quickly with apparently random text (it could have said something, but it was too fast to read). I could not switch to another virtual console. It would not respond to any keyboard input. Oddly enough, the machine was still responding to ICMP. Does anyone have ANY clues as to what this could be? This is a server that an entire Company runs on, so it's really important that I find out what is causing this. Thanks in advance! This FreeBSD community is the friendliest one I've found yet. -Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to uninstall a flash port.
Aloha Gurus, I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something? Thanks... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to uninstall a flash port.
Al Plant writes: I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? cd port directory made deinstall or use pkh_deinstall. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Console Random Text
I have been having the same problem with a 6.3 server but without random text. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. Well that certainly explains it, but it does surprise me. I thought you'd have to subscribe to post. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Console Random Text
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Christianson Sent: March 21, 2008 7:28 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Console Random Text Hello everyone, I am having a very strange problem. My sever stopped responding in SSH. At the time, a co-worker said he was importing a MySQL database from a USB drive mounted as ext2fs. I went back to check on the console, and it was scrolling *EXTREMELY* quickly with apparently random text (it could have said something, but it was too fast to read). I could not switch to another virtual console. It would not respond to any keyboard input. Oddly enough, the machine was still responding to ICMP. Does anyone have ANY clues as to what this could be? This is a server that an entire Company runs on, so it's really important that I find out what is causing this. -Andy If it looks like it is online, but no services respond then it could be a bad backplane or corrupted RAID. From personal experience. Tamouh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
Da Rock writes: Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. Well that certainly explains it, but it does surprise me. I thought you'd have to subscribe to post. I believe that has been considered and rejected, on the grounds this is the list most likely to be found by novices and it should present the only the absolutely necessary number of hoops. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to uninstall a flash port.
I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something? Thanks... If you are using the portupgrade tools you can use pkg_deinstall linux-flashplugin if not use make deinstall or pkg_delete but you have to specify the registered name in /var/db/pkg/ just run pkg_info pkg_info | grep linux-flashplugin and it should give you the registered name. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
--On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. Well that certainly explains it, but it does surprise me. I thought you'd have to subscribe to post. And *I* thought it was proper etiquette to only reply to the list. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
virtual machine software
I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:38 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. Well that certainly explains it, but it does surprise me. I thought you'd have to subscribe to post. And *I* thought it was proper etiquette to only reply to the list. Me too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: List replies]
---BeginMessage--- On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:24 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. Well that certainly explains it, but it does surprise me. I thought you'd have to subscribe to post. I believe that has been considered and rejected, on the grounds this is the list most likely to be found by novices and it should present the only the absolutely necessary number of hoops. Robert Huff Fair enough, but is it necessary on all the lists for freebsd? ---End Message--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual machine software
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:37 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? I'm not certain that it is ported yet, but you can build vmware - to get xp on vmware you'll need server though. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List replies
On Saturday 22 March 2008 06:33, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:38 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. Well that certainly explains it, but it does surprise me. I thought you'd have to subscribe to post. And *I* thought it was proper etiquette to only reply to the list. Me too. This discussion takes place regularly on every mailing list in existence. The main arguments against it seem to be that a) it might trash an existing reply-to header and make it impossible to send an individual reply; b) in the event of user error it fails safely - list reply ends up going to an individual - rather than the potentially catastrophic private-reply-to-publically-archived-mailing-list failure. Google for reply-to munging considered harmful for more argument on both sides. As regards copying the original recipients, this list specifically requests it: check the regular posting titled ``how to get best results from freebsd-questions'', particularly para VII.6. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mutex unlock failure when compiling KDE (upgrade from 6.x)
Hi,
I'm having the same troubles as Leslie Jensen when compiling KDE (or
anything that uses uic, e.g. amarok):
compile process stucks with the following message:
Mutex unlock failure: Operation not permitted
I found out that the problem was already being investigated here on
the list, but no solution has yet been proposed :(
If it helps, I performed the steps that Mel asked to perform and
here's the log file of Qt build process:
http://rcl.mine.nu/outbound/freebsd/qt-copy-3.3.8_6.log.tar.gz
The actual command that is used to link uic is:
c++ -fno-exceptions -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -pthread -o ../../../bin/uic
.obj/release-shared-mt/main.
o .obj/release-shared-mt/uic.o .obj/release-shared-mt/form.o
.obj/release-shared-mt/object.o .obj/release-shared-mt/subclassing
.o .obj/release-shared-mt/embed.o
.obj/release-shared-mt/widgetdatabase.o
.obj/release-shared-mt/domtool.o .obj/release-shared-
mt/parser.o-L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/lib
-L/usr/local/lib -lqt-mt -lmng -ljpeg -lp
ng -lz -lXi -lXrender -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXinerama -lXft -lfreetype
-lfontconfig -lXext -lX11 -lm -lSM -lICE
There's no file libpthread.* in /usr/local/lib. These are
libpthread.so/a files I have:
# ls -la `locate libpthread.{a,so}`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 19 Feb 29 13:57
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libpthread.so.0 - libpthread-2.3.6.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 18 Feb 29 13:57
/usr/compat/linux/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libpthread.so.0 -
libpthread-0.10.so
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Feb 29 12:21 /usr/lib/libpthread.a - libthr.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 136020 Feb 29 16:16
/usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 43284 Oct 17 00:52
/usr/local/lib/valgrind/libpthread.so
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Oct 17 00:52
/usr/local/lib/valgrind/libpthread.so.2 - libpthread.so
I upgraded the system nearly a month ago (On 29th Feb) and since then
I cannot build any KDE application (not even rebuild kde base/lib
ports themselves).
Upgrade procedure I used is described here:
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html
I hope the information provided will help further investigate the
problem. I don't want to reinstall the system, that feels like a
solution from Windows world :-)
Best regards,
Dmitry RCL Rekman
Mel wrote:
Nope. But I would be interested to see what the line is that compiles uic. And
what configure produces.
I still think there's something '6.x-ish' going on here, but without knowing
how uic gets built, it's anyone's guess.
Could you try the following:
cd /usr/ports/x11/qt33
make clean
mkdir /var/log/portbuilds
make build /var/log/portbuilds/`make -V PKGNAME`.log 21
make -V CONFIGURE_ARGS /var/log/portbuilds/`make -V PKGNAME`.log
cat `make -V WRKSRC`/config.log \
/var/log/portbuilds/`make -V PKGNAME`.log
Then put that log up somewhere if you have webspace, or try to find references
to '-pthread', 'libpthread', 'libthr' and the final link command that makes
uic.
It's probably some setting you have or some stray library that causes this and
until you get it resolved, you can't trust any threaded application you build
from ports. Or, it's specific for qt, but I highly doubt that.
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